KH Highschool AU Prequel, Persona 5 Elseworld plot bunnies
EvaUnit01
Kept you waiting, huh?
There are a few reasons I've decided to go ahead and make this thread a thing.
Partly so I can have a single place to put my notes and shit to come back to and find at a later date, partly becauseI'm vulnerable to peer pressure and my super-cool buddy with mad authoring skillz @Fraktal made one, and partly because I'm obnoxiously self-conscious about advertising for my stuff in other people's threads.
Even though doing it that way is usually more effective. Yes, my head makes no sense. Ancient history, that.
But for the time being, I'm going to hold off on talking about/referring to already-existing fics/quests that are already up -- I can get to some of those later -- but instead just focus on stuff I've mulled over, but not actually written yet.
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Now, for some inexplicable reason, I've noticed that a highly popular genre of fanfic is the "Highschool AU", where everyone is a normal student (or teacher) in a normal high school, with all of the slice-of-life drama (relationship or otherwise) that that may entail.
I've never been one for those kind of fics personally, but then - about a year or so ago - I had an idea on how I could do something like that, but would actually be a good and interesting story for me as well, and two ways in which I could go about it.
Basically, you'd start out with the typical "HSAU" type of setup. The protagonist is probably a new transfer student, and/or it's the first day of school. But as time goes on, strange and sometimes even frightening things are happening around campus.
Maybe, on a full moon, dreadful shrieks and screams are heard in the night, and people come out the next morning to find random shit outside having been completely destroyed -- and yet there's no trace of whatever may have caused it. Maybe some of the faculty are displaying inconsistent attitudes and behavior, as if they're operating on different sets of memories from one month to the next. Maybe some of the students, whom you only know a little bit, have begun disappearing, and everyone around you swears that no such person ever existed. Maybe you were sleepily through the halls one night, and saw something in the chem lab that you never should have, only to then wake up in your bed the next morning with only the foggiest of recollections of what you were witness to. Was the sports team captain always dating two girls at once, or did the one only just show up recently?
Whatever it is, something at this school is very. Clearly. Wrong.
Still, there really isn't much you can do about it, and after a period of peak paranoia, things finally calm down for a bit, and you start to wonder if any of that weird stuff ever really happened at all.
And then it happens. The world as you know it comes to an end, and you only have a handful of people you know to help you get through whatever comes next.
The main way of executing that kind of story, that I've thought up so far, would primarily focus on the Kingdom Hearts series... using variants of the plots of Coded, Chain of Memories, Birth By Sleep, and 358/2 Days for the actual high school story, before the Heartless abruptly show up, eat the World's Heart, and unsubtly segue into Kingdom Hearts.
Alternately, "it's less of a highschool AU, and more of a highschool PREQUEL".
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The other main idea I had that I'm interested in talking about, and that I'm slightly more likely to actually write, is a Persona 5 crossover fanfic.
Now, a majority of Persona crossovers (that I've seen, anyway) usually follow the plot of the original game, just replacing the game's protagonist with whatever crossover character (usually also a protagonist) the author has in mind, and from there everything's pretty much up to the individual author's creativity.
What I have in mind is a bit different. Every time you boot up Persona 5, one of the first things you get to is a question about the Thieves' Guild, to enable online communication with other players and what they've been doing.
So I thought, "A Thieves' Guild, huh? Why not go ahead and actually do something with that?"
And that's how we get the premise: that aside from the "original" troupe of Phantom Thieves in Tokyo, there are other groups of Phantom Thieves appearing all over the world, all of them stealing the hearts of the powerful corrupt within their reach and bring them to justice.
Our story in particular would focus on the second team of Phantoms to start gaining notoriety, based out of New York, starring cast members of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1: Phantom Blood and Rumble Roses, and featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series.
The driving question here isn't so much "what can possibly go wrong with that idea", because quite frankly there's a lot, and more to the effect of "what's going to go wrong first, how badly, and does the author have a chance to still make it entertaining anyway?"
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More story ideas to be mentioned/discussed as I have time, but there is a closing question:
If you write a Heroman and My Hero Academia crossover and you call it JoJo's Bizarre Heroics when there is absolutely no JJBA anything to be had in the story, is the title a shout-out? Or a troll job?
Partly so I can have a single place to put my notes and shit to come back to and find at a later date, partly because
Even though doing it that way is usually more effective. Yes, my head makes no sense. Ancient history, that.
But for the time being, I'm going to hold off on talking about/referring to already-existing fics/quests that are already up -- I can get to some of those later -- but instead just focus on stuff I've mulled over, but not actually written yet.
______
Now, for some inexplicable reason, I've noticed that a highly popular genre of fanfic is the "Highschool AU", where everyone is a normal student (or teacher) in a normal high school, with all of the slice-of-life drama (relationship or otherwise) that that may entail.
I've never been one for those kind of fics personally, but then - about a year or so ago - I had an idea on how I could do something like that, but would actually be a good and interesting story for me as well, and two ways in which I could go about it.
Basically, you'd start out with the typical "HSAU" type of setup. The protagonist is probably a new transfer student, and/or it's the first day of school. But as time goes on, strange and sometimes even frightening things are happening around campus.
Maybe, on a full moon, dreadful shrieks and screams are heard in the night, and people come out the next morning to find random shit outside having been completely destroyed -- and yet there's no trace of whatever may have caused it. Maybe some of the faculty are displaying inconsistent attitudes and behavior, as if they're operating on different sets of memories from one month to the next. Maybe some of the students, whom you only know a little bit, have begun disappearing, and everyone around you swears that no such person ever existed. Maybe you were sleepily through the halls one night, and saw something in the chem lab that you never should have, only to then wake up in your bed the next morning with only the foggiest of recollections of what you were witness to. Was the sports team captain always dating two girls at once, or did the one only just show up recently?
Whatever it is, something at this school is very. Clearly. Wrong.
Still, there really isn't much you can do about it, and after a period of peak paranoia, things finally calm down for a bit, and you start to wonder if any of that weird stuff ever really happened at all.
And then it happens. The world as you know it comes to an end, and you only have a handful of people you know to help you get through whatever comes next.
The main way of executing that kind of story, that I've thought up so far, would primarily focus on the Kingdom Hearts series... using variants of the plots of Coded, Chain of Memories, Birth By Sleep, and 358/2 Days for the actual high school story, before the Heartless abruptly show up, eat the World's Heart, and unsubtly segue into Kingdom Hearts.
Alternately, "it's less of a highschool AU, and more of a highschool PREQUEL".
__________
The other main idea I had that I'm interested in talking about, and that I'm slightly more likely to actually write, is a Persona 5 crossover fanfic.
Now, a majority of Persona crossovers (that I've seen, anyway) usually follow the plot of the original game, just replacing the game's protagonist with whatever crossover character (usually also a protagonist) the author has in mind, and from there everything's pretty much up to the individual author's creativity.
What I have in mind is a bit different. Every time you boot up Persona 5, one of the first things you get to is a question about the Thieves' Guild, to enable online communication with other players and what they've been doing.
So I thought, "A Thieves' Guild, huh? Why not go ahead and actually do something with that?"
And that's how we get the premise: that aside from the "original" troupe of Phantom Thieves in Tokyo, there are other groups of Phantom Thieves appearing all over the world, all of them stealing the hearts of the powerful corrupt within their reach and bring them to justice.
Our story in particular would focus on the second team of Phantoms to start gaining notoriety, based out of New York, starring cast members of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1: Phantom Blood and Rumble Roses, and featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series.
The driving question here isn't so much "what can possibly go wrong with that idea", because quite frankly there's a lot, and more to the effect of "what's going to go wrong first, how badly, and does the author have a chance to still make it entertaining anyway?"
___________
More story ideas to be mentioned/discussed as I have time, but there is a closing question:
If you write a Heroman and My Hero Academia crossover and you call it JoJo's Bizarre Heroics when there is absolutely no JJBA anything to be had in the story, is the title a shout-out? Or a troll job?
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