I've been writing a piece of
Inuyasha/original fiction for... years. I say
Inuyasha/original because it centers around a character who is only mentioned in the series, but never makes an appearance, so it's more of a prequel with a 90% original cast.
Basically, the idea was that, practically everything that happens in the
Inuyasha timeline proper is the result of either some artifact left behind by or a previous acquaintance of his father. Yet his father is dead the whole time and plays no active role in the story, but seems to have nevertheless been crazy-prepared and drove most of the main plot from beyond the grave. So naturally I had the curiosity to explore WTF was up with this guy.
Canon gives me scant few details to work with. No mention of personality. No mention of lifestyle. Hell, he doesn't even have a
name. So I had to cobble together all the various bits we do know about him and basically construct a character from scratch out of them. I wanted to stick to canon as much as possible, though, so instead of just making up a name for him, I wrote the entire thing in first-person to get around having to call him anything in the narration, and simply have other characters only address him as a title.
Unfortunately, the thing has basically turned into "The Life Story and Psychological Breakdown of Inuyasha's Dad" (aka "
Memoirs of a Daiyoukai"), and at currently 94 chapters, he's still only 14 years old. And he lived for hundreds of years. This... is gonna take a while. Each chapter also comes with an illustration, and at least my art has slowly improved over the years, too (though some still looks a bit derpy).