We should embrace this. Recruit Christopher Robin. Gain his power.
Speaking honestly, the version in my omake was super heavily exaggerated to fit the various memes surrounding the game. It really wouldn't fit in the actual quest.
I did come up with something that might fit a bit better in the quest during the brainstorming process, but it was ultimately scrapped because memes and shonen and buff Dennis.
But considering some people were making noises about taking my omake and making it actually good (Please anyone, feel free. If my writing can inspire something actually good, I'll consider it a job well done), then I figure I might as well share some of my thoughts to hopefully help them in their own brainstorming process.
Alright, so, first: Actually serious Christopher Robin. If we're actually gonna try and take this at face value, we need to think about how the "Villain" Christopher Robin won, and what could result from that. Probably something like: by staying the reigning baseball champ of the Hundred Acre Woods, Christopher Robin found that he genuinely enjoyed the game. He grew up playing with various teams and eventually applied and earned a full ride scholarship to an America college. He moved from Britain to America because America has the larger baseball league (At least, that's what my ~five minutes of research tells me). Thus, he's a young adult with a job in the sports industry practically guaranteed by the time the quest rolls around. Also he lives in New York for reasons. (See Disney's live action Christopher Robin movies for him as an adult)
Of course, just a normal baseball player would be a bit boring for this Quest, so we spice him a bit with a hint of magic/superpowers/skills/etc. based on the various other characters from Home Run Derby. Xanatos totally knows about this because Xanatos, and he was the one to give Christopher the scholarship, because having a favor to burn and a good reputation with a relatively minor magic user/superpowered individual/whatever is worth more to Xanatos than what it would take to put Christopher Robin through college.
Anyway, brainstormed skills/powers/whatever:
- Rabbit's Stopwatch: Essentially Time Alter. Slow himself or a recently touched object down, speed them up, etc.
- Owl's Trickery: Small scale space manipulation. Move himself or a recently touched object a few feet in any direction. Maybe allow things to be thrown around corners?
- Tiger's Stripes: Short-term invisibility for himself or something he's recently touched.
- Kangaroo Hop: Wall jump, roof hopping, etc. Maybe some niche use in making various non-bouncing items bounce?
- Superhuman throwing: Not enough to be like, an actual superpower, but his pitches always go exactly where he wants them to (within reason) and he holds the record for world's fastest fastball.
- Gopher's Grounding: Maybe something like staying in a specific stance lets him ignore frontal attacks or something? based on the umpire for the game that's unseeable without looking at the files directly. I dunno, wasn't really happy with this one.
Anyway, if anyone wants to know how my actual omake evolved it was something like this:
- Hey, Disney's live action mecha vs kaiju show Mech X-4 was a thing that existed, and the main villain was an eco-terrorist! Sounds like a potentially good employee for Doofenshmirtz!
- Yo, what if the Season 1 Villain from the show abandoned the Season 2 villain from the show, and went to apply for DEI, given that we're both greevil and willing to handle eccentric individuals? And what if the point of divergence from canon was the Season 1 villain failing to prevent a brainwashed and crazy main character killing the protagonist's brother? That'd probably be enough to make him reconsider his life choices.
- Hmmm, I don't think I can write a good omake that's just a job interview.
- What if I just wrote one of the kaiju from that show attacking somewhere?
- What if it attacked a baseball game, and Christopher Robin was the pitcher, to reference another obscure Disney property?
- What if I just wrote Christopher Robin's Bizarre Adventures in New York?
- Am I really confident enough in my writing skill to actually write a serious omake in the setting that didn't touch upon our main cast at all?
- Yo someone mentioned shirtless Dennis, time to go full Jojo.
- Did I say full Jojo? I meant sinking to the absolute bottom of the meme cesspool with some random anime lines thrown in.
- What if we take out 90% of the anime and just leave a couple references because words are hard.
- End product.
So, I dunno. Figured I'd at least share what ideas I had so anybody could take something they liked and use or improve it.
