EvaUnit01
Kept you waiting, huh?
All jokes aside, think the idea's a card worth holding onto?There are motorcycles in our hearts, and in the hearts of our cards.
Or ought I shuffle the deck and look for a new hand to play?
All jokes aside, think the idea's a card worth holding onto?There are motorcycles in our hearts, and in the hearts of our cards.
I'd follow it.All jokes aside, think the idea's a card worth holding onto?
Or ought I shuffle the deck and look for a new hand to play?
Just a quick interest/commentary check, not something I'm actually ready to start... anywhere in the immediate future.
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Hayate Yagami stared, almost dumbfounded.
Sure, she'd won big at a few regional tournaments over the last year or so, but to be invited to so high-profile of an event this early in her dueling career? Even though she was only...
[]thirteen, and still in a wheelchair?
[]fourteen, and only recently having regained the use of her legs?
It was really unbelievable, but there the letter sat, staring at Hayate from her lap; a formal invitation to the --
[]Duelist Kingdom Tournament, hosted by Industrial Illusions on Maximillion Pegasus's own private island.
[]Battle City Tournament, hosted by KaibaCorp in which the whole of Domino City becomes a dueling arena.
"But if I leave for an extended event like this," Hayate muttered, "then what'll happen to the house?"
Feeling a warm hand on her shoulder, Hayate looked up, to find a smiling Shamal. "We can take care of the house, Hayate. If you want to go for it, we'll support you all the way!"
"Vita and I will make sure she doesn't burn everything down," Signum said with a hint of humor, looking up from her book.
Zafira, rising up from the floor, nuzzled against his mistress's hand.
Bolstered by her family's support, Hayate nodded. "All right then, I'll accept the invitation!"
As she and her Knights began making preparations for the absence, Hayate resolved to tune up her deck, customized for --
[]stalling out a game and closing off the opponent's options while she accumulated her own power.
[]debilitating an opponent's hand, deck, and field with effects, hemorrhaging their cards and life points alike.
[]maximum power! Go big or go home!
You had me at "frightening" and just got me more and more interested.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".
I'll be certain to bear that in mind, and I'm glad to have piqued your interest.You had me at "frightening" and just got me more and more interested.
If you'd like to actually make this as a Quest or something (I think it'd be a very fun Quest), I'd be more than happy to help!
I'm always up for a good GX fanfic.
I actually thought of that a bit ago, and it really isn't too hard for DiZ to spin that in a way that works for his story.What about the "Thank Namine" note then? I feel like that would at least put a little snag in DiZ's narrative.
Hell, you could work it into the Dive into the Heart itself. Stained glass of the trio, visions of them that disappear when Roxas tries to interact with them, shit like that.As soon as Roxas finishes off the Twilight Thorn, cut to Sora, Donald, and Goofy waking up from their stasis pods and starting their new adventure. I place it that way to kind of heighten the "WTF?" factor on the abrupt change between Roxas and Sora as player characters, but in hindsight it likely wouldn't be a problem to have some scenes before or after Roxas's Dive into the Heart to establish him as being friends with Hayner, Pence, and Olette.
Well, you've got the KH numbering scheme down pat.
I'd just note here that it's a lot harder to control the narrative of a fight in that kind of video game, where you've got the player running around doing whatever bullshit and messing with your pacing.Rikuattacks Mulan without a word, gradually escalating as he pushes her to her absolute limits, even as Sora helps to fight him off (as Donald and Goofy are separated by a barrier again).
Or he just claims Namine wrote it herself. She clearly altered the journal by wiping it clean, so why wouldn't she stoop to forgery?I actually thought of that a bit ago, and it really isn't too hard for DiZ to spin that in a way that works for his story.
"Before you went into your recovery sleep, Namine must have mind-controlled Jiminy into making that note so that the lot of you would be inclined to trust her again, and make it easier for her to get control over you again."
Or something like that.
Because Jiminy Cricket is the one who writes in it and the writing is in scale to him, so it would be physically impossible for her to be actually able to write something that small let alone have it look exactly like Jiminy's handwriting at the same time.Or he just claims Namine wrote it herself. She clearly altered the journal by wiping it clean, so why wouldn't she stoop to forgery?
I like that idea, although come to think of it you'd expect Axel and Xion to have stained glass portrayals in his Dive too.Hell, you could work it into the Dive into the Heart itself. Stained glass of the trio, visions of them that disappear when Roxas tries to interact with them, shit like that.
The way I look at this, is that I'm not trying to change the story so much as expand on it. And a consequence of that is that DiZ, Namine, and Riku (and to a lesser extent, Organization XIII and Maleficent+Pete) are all doing a helluva lot more stuff onscreen than in the original game.So the idea with Roxas is basically to spread the getting to know him from the prologue across the game, and have the reveal that he sacrificed his existence for Sora be a late-game climax kind of thing? That could probably work, though honestly I liked the end of Roxas's story enough (poor kid) that I kind of automatically side-eye changes to it.
The "gameplay canon", if that's something we're going to go into, is that Sora and Ping have a boss fight with Black Coat Riku by themselves, with Donald and Goofy unable to help, and that BCR mysteriously disappears partway through.I'd just note here that it's a lot harder to control the narrative of a fight in that kind of video game, where you've got the player running around doing whatever bullshit and messing with your pacing.
This:Or he just claims Namine wrote it herself. She clearly altered the journal by wiping it clean, so why wouldn't she stoop to forgery?
Because Jiminy Cricket is the one who writes in it and the writing is in scale to him, so it would be physically impossible for her to be actually able to write something that small let alone have it look exactly like Jiminy's handwriting at the same time.
Not necessarily, but it would more likely fall under an umbrella weird feeling about DiZ in general, that shady SOB.@EvaUnit01 Would it be breaking too many rules if Sora just kind of had a weird feeling about DiZ's explanation in regards to the journal from the getgo? "That... doesn't sound right"
Sure, sure. I'm with you on the Disney filler and so forth, it's just that changing Roxas's prologue, even just what part of the game it shows up in, gets a kneejerk "if it ain't broke" reaction from me.The way I look at this, is that I'm not trying to change the story so much as expand on it. And a consequence of that is that DiZ, Namine, and Riku (and to a lesser extent, Organization XIII and Maleficent+Pete) are all doing a helluva lot more stuff onscreen than in the original game.
Like.... the main thing I'm trying to do is edit the Disney Worlds to that they do more to further the main plot of the game instead of being filler. As far as Roxas's story is concerned, he still has the same canon ending (and I agree with the "poor kid" sentiment), I'm mostly just spreading his story out and rearranging it somewhat.
Yep, pretty much.Sure, sure. I'm with you on the Disney filler and so forth, it's just that changing Roxas's prologue, even just what part of the game it shows up in, gets a kneejerk "if it ain't broke" reaction from me.
On reflection, however, I can definitely dig interweaving it with the main narrative like you're talking about. Because someone going in blind is generally going to expect the two narratives are happening concurrently, and maybe Roxas and Sora team up for the last world. And then comes the reveal that this blond kid you've been following is effectively dead, has been this whole time, and the whole game's worth of adventures Sora's had only happened because Roxas sacrificed his existence. Welp.
[]When Uryu uses the Hollow Bait in his initial dick-measuring contest with Ichigo: a Wild Adorable Arrancar Girl appears! (Nel pops up that early, and may or may not be
[]YuYu Hakusho crossover story, with the two works taking place in the same universe and starting at roughly the same time.
The main obstacle regarding the YYH option is that I need to actually re/watch a lot YYH to prep for it.
Honestly I just wanted the YYH one because I like YYH a lot. In fact, I flat out think it's a massively superior show to Bleach.The main obstacle regarding the YYH option is that I need to actually re/watch a lot YYH to prep for it.
In large part because I've seen most of the Dark Tournament arc, but I missed out on a lot of the early stuff except for Genkai's introductory arc.
Contrasting with the Early Nel option where I only have to re-familiarize myself with one series instead of two, but I have to go a lot further into it before I'd be able to start, where as for the crossover option I could start after doing the opening arcs of each.
Of course, I could combine the two options, but that feels just a bit shady....
I actually agree.Honestly I just wanted the YYH one because I like YYH a lot. In fact, I flat out think it's a massively superior show to Bleach.
Eh, I'mOn the other hand I'm not entirely sure Bleach and YYH would actually go well together as a single setting, so maybe the Nel thing is the smarter choice.
One of these two. Still need to watch YuYuHakusho.[]When Uryu uses the Hollow Bait in his initial dick-measuring contest with Ichigo: a Wild Adorable Arrancar Girl appears! (Nel pops up that early, and may or may not be the protagonist)
[]Ichigo first activates his Fullbring powers on the night he meets Rukia, before she resorts to giving him her Soul Reaper powers.
Not like you haven't had practice mushing together random settings.