Ace Lightning
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Ace Lightning is a television based fandom.
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[edit] Introduction
Ace Lightning is a television show consisting of thirty-nine episodes. Extracanonical sources include a video game, short books, and emails from Rick Sigglekow, one of the creators. [1]
It chronicles the story of Mark Hollander, a young English boy whose family have recently moved to England. Cliched videogame characters materialise in the real world as he games during a thunderstorm, and he assists the game's hero to save the world. The show debunks the cliches to a certain extent, developing the animated characters as they learn to exist in the real world, and involves various rather questionable fanon pairing possibilities. Ace Lightning, the title character, is the programmed hero of the game, whose naivete and kindness show as he advances from creation to person. The fans tend to prefer the animated adult characters to the human teenagers; inventing backstories for their adventures in the Sixth Dimension is a common topic in fanfic.
[edit] Terminology
Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in this fan community.
See [2] (Terminology discussion topic)
- 6D: Sixth Dimension
- Acefic and art: Ace Lightning fanfic and fanart
- ALF: Ace Lightning Fan (used both in canon and to refer to fans)
- DRFN: Do right and fear not, the Lightning Knights' motto
- Fear: Common reference to Lord Fear
- EOs: Evil Overlords, used to refer to Lord Fear and Kilobyte
- Gameverse: the world of the Sixth Dimension
- H: the fan Hyperpsychomaniac
- KB: Kilobyte
- LF: Lord Fear. Also, the fan LightningFlash
- LI: Lady Illusion. Fanonically, her first name is Elspeth (or occasionally Cate).
- RW: Real World. 6DRW, 6D=RW and permutations thereof refer to the fanon theory that the Sixth Dimension is a world in its own right.
- SGoD: Super Glove of Doom; refers to Mark's wrist cannon in second season
- TT: Thunder Tower, Knight Headquarters
- WHO: White Hot Oblivion, Dimension Two
Pairings are generally expressed Firstname/Firstname, in no particular order (though usually the more canonically prominent character's name is first, such as in Ace/LI).
[edit] Fandom timeline
Below is a partial list of events that have taken place in this fandom.
[edit] 2004
- The first Ace Lightning messageboard was created in 2004. [3]
- On August 14, 2004, an article about the show was created on Wikipedia. [4]
- On September 2, 2004, Follow That Amulet! by hyperpsychomaniac was published on FanFiction.Net. [5] It is the first Ace Lightning story which appeared on the site at the date this article was written (November 2006), but shadowcat had written since deleted fics on Fanfiction.Net at a similar time.
- On October 30, 2004, the mailing list ace-lightning was created. [6]
- On December 15, 2004, the mailing list AceLightningStars was created. [7] by 2005, the list mostly contained spam.
[edit] 2005
- On April 24, 2005, the LiveJournal community ace_lightning was created. [8] It was dedicated to the show Ace Lightning.
- In May-June 2005, Ace Lightning character journals were created. They became the basis of a roleplay. [9] (links to all others in flist)
- In June 2005, the new Ace Lightning board began to be used after the old message board crashed and destroyed many posts. [10]
- In October-December 2005, the first Ace Lightning holiday exchange was held.
- On November 9, 2005, the mailing list acefanfic was created. [11] The list never really took off.
[edit] 2006
- On June 13, 2006, an Italian language article about the show was created on Wikipedia. [12]
- In September 2006, sarah-frost announced the second Ace Lightning holiday fic exchange. [13] [14]
- In November 2006, Bedwarmer by sarah-frost was published on AdultFanfiction.Net. [15] It was the first Ace Lightning story published on the site.
[edit] Kerfluffles
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There are very few "ship wars" in the Ace Lightning fandom due to obvious canon pairings, however there is some disagreement over the likelihood of possible pairings such as Random Virus/Sparx. Lord Fear/Sparx was a popular RP pairing.
[edit] Influential Stories
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[edit] Fandom size
There are 87 stories on FanFiction.Net as of October 10, 2006. There is one Ace Lightning story on The Wonderful World of Makebelieve as of November 20, 2006. [16] There are 89 stories on FanFiction.Net as of December 6, 2006. [17] Complete list of fanfiction.net fans: [18]
[edit] Fandom members
Below is a partial list of members of this fandom.
- allison lightning [19]
- areal-ravendark alias eclair [20] [21]
- scarab-dynasty alias dynasty-fic [22] [23] [24]
- feardantane [25]
- lightningflash8 [26] [27]
- moordryd-rules alias sparx [28] [29]
- rotgut alias wile e. coyote [30] [31]
- sapphiresilver alias shadowcat [32] [33]
- sarah-frost [34] [35]
- tech_head alias hyperpsychomaniac [36] [37]
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[edit] Sources
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