Thread:AFlowerMustNotBeUnsightly/@comment-25565419-20140430171140/@comment-24158566-20140430190855

I know what you meant. ^_^ Yes, in my roleswap Gumina commits Lust, like yours, and yes, you wrote this before me.

However our concepts are fundamentally different. My story uses the same Gumina as the sinner while yours creates a new character more similar to Cherubim who is named Gumina. If I remember correctly from reading your AU after I conceived of mine, Maylis is the assassin and is having an affair with a male Marlon prince. In mine, Mikulia, Maylis, and Elluka all collaborate, Mikulia wishing to save her older brother figure, Maylis her unrequited love, and Elluka trying to just do her job. In short, your universe acts as a mirror to the original one while mine is more of a thought experiment using a roleswap as the synopsis. The use of Gumina was because she seemed the most likely to govern Asmodean due to her engagement to Sateriasis, she seemed like a character who would fit, and because she was Cherubim's childhood friend who shared a similar past to him.

As for Gast committing Sloth, I clearly explained my thought process regarding that in my post. I also was unaware of your idea at the time, in fact, up until now. I am not plagiarizing you in either respect, but if you still want to discuss this, I am open to opinions.

Personally, what I aspired to when creating the roleswap was originality in the sense of making sure the characters stayed the same and IC during the course of the story, which I am struggling with. That is the entire purpose of the roleswap at this level, a mass character exercise, so I do not want to abandon it. The only similarity I remember is using a Gumi as Lust and a Gackpo as Sloth, which I think is plenty original when done correctly. There are multiple reverse SoE due to the video, but they are not all ripping it off nor ripping off each other.

Of course, there may be similarities I am unaware of, but you are also welcome to inform me of those.