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dreaminghiveThoughts on Ripping Off KH.
Topics to rip off:
- Meanings of friendship and ~bonds~ etc, possibly spin it in a more deconstructy direction.
--Interplay between the different characters on the Bad Guy faction as well as within the Good Guy team. Sympathetic villains, and good guys who have reasons to ally themselves with the wrong side.
- Identity questions.
- Memory and cognition. (Yeah, we can spin some P5 in here too, /shameless.)
- Some worldhopping and adventuring elements?
- Interestingly BS metaphysics and magic.
-Lean on the ‘fragmented worlds’ thing here. Once upon a time there was a world/cosmos that was connected and whole but then Insert Cataclysm Here tore it apart into smaller worldlets. These aren’t even whole planets. Somehow they still work and are relatively self sustaining, but there is something up… Some worldlets have really been left in a damaged state (I’ll pull on MtG’s Alara here for reference, where the one ‘plane’ was made of five smaller worlds that were each missing vital magical forces.) How long ago was the disaster?
-Following this, there are possibly artificial worlds being created for Reasons, or they have been created in the past. Possibly our Plucky Kid Squad or whatever heroes we have come from one of these?
-‘World shards’ and ‘star shards’ are a thing. Possibly they wind up inside special individuals in what worlds exist - maybe they mark our not!keybearers or not!princesses - maybe they’re just things that drift around and can be found either in worlds or in whatever mystic aether surrounds and separates them. Power sources; potentially keys to rebuild a world in your image if you wanted.
-There are replicas, because of course there are replicas. Not sure how they play into things, though. Could be related to the artificial worlds.
-So possible things that could be done in this cosmos:
--Bad guys collecting world/star shards to make a new world and not caring if it totally wrecks what’s out there already? Their boss is trying to make it out like it’ll be good for all of ‘em, but they’re kind of using the bad guy team for reasons that are probably not as convoluted as the nortspiracy but still.
--Worlds that are slowly dying regardless of badguy: their star is going out… the effect of Insert Cataclysm has caught up to them. Is there a way to save them?
--Will reconnecting the worlds bring them back to stability and health (Tales of thinkitwasSymphonia comes to mind?) or will it just cause too much trauma and damage…?
-Our Plucky Heroes lose their world - either by Bad Guy Plot reasons or because it’s decaying… Some possible concepts for them.
--Plucky Hero number one gets way too focused on ‘restore our world!’ to the point where they get pulled into the bad guys’ planning without realising what’s going on… Our Terra/Riku. A chosen one who… isn't.
--Plucky Hero number two is all up on ‘let’s see the worlds and explore!’ but it looks a bit like they might be hiding things in why they’re throwing themself at it all so hard… from themself or from other people. Our Sora? Though any sort of secret-keeping is Hella Not Sora. Heck, maybe I could pull from my old good!nort AU and have Learning Stuff About The Worlds transition more into saving them because saving them?
--Plucky Hero number three is basically our Kairi but they don’t get as screwed over by being ‘just there to be captured’. Might be more of a balance between the others? Or is this the secret-y one? Or the cheery goof?
-More potential Heroes? IDK...
-Don’t know if we have a Donald or Goofy figure here; maybe a Mickey behind the scenes. PHes might end up with Dream-Eatery buddies, but from where? What sorts of Bad Critters are out there? What are the PHes’ powers, vs. what are the bad guys’?
https://www.plurk.com/p/n6fxu2
Tempted to stick with the summon-as-a-main-'weapon' thing, but I don't know what form they should take... Possibly best of both worlds it and make the summons have a weapon form and a 'character/beast/buddy' form?
Would the critterweapons tie into the world shard divide business, though? (Native creatures of the domains between worlds, idk... friendly ones.)
(What are our Heartless, then. That's a big question. World corruption effects create them? Are they directly sourced from people or not?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GJ4FhPOwwLXTeCpwHsRnIisXrRDnHaMHrTtgCDTqE6c/edit?usp=sharing
Topics to rip off:
- Meanings of friendship and ~bonds~ etc, possibly spin it in a more deconstructy direction.
--Interplay between the different characters on the Bad Guy faction as well as within the Good Guy team. Sympathetic villains, and good guys who have reasons to ally themselves with the wrong side.
- Identity questions.
- Memory and cognition. (Yeah, we can spin some P5 in here too, /shameless.)
- Some worldhopping and adventuring elements?
- Interestingly BS metaphysics and magic.
-Lean on the ‘fragmented worlds’ thing here. Once upon a time there was a world/cosmos that was connected and whole but then Insert Cataclysm Here tore it apart into smaller worldlets. These aren’t even whole planets. Somehow they still work and are relatively self sustaining, but there is something up… Some worldlets have really been left in a damaged state (I’ll pull on MtG’s Alara here for reference, where the one ‘plane’ was made of five smaller worlds that were each missing vital magical forces.) How long ago was the disaster?
-Following this, there are possibly artificial worlds being created for Reasons, or they have been created in the past. Possibly our Plucky Kid Squad or whatever heroes we have come from one of these?
-‘World shards’ and ‘star shards’ are a thing. Possibly they wind up inside special individuals in what worlds exist - maybe they mark our not!keybearers or not!princesses - maybe they’re just things that drift around and can be found either in worlds or in whatever mystic aether surrounds and separates them. Power sources; potentially keys to rebuild a world in your image if you wanted.
-There are replicas, because of course there are replicas. Not sure how they play into things, though. Could be related to the artificial worlds.
-So possible things that could be done in this cosmos:
--Bad guys collecting world/star shards to make a new world and not caring if it totally wrecks what’s out there already? Their boss is trying to make it out like it’ll be good for all of ‘em, but they’re kind of using the bad guy team for reasons that are probably not as convoluted as the nortspiracy but still.
--Worlds that are slowly dying regardless of badguy: their star is going out… the effect of Insert Cataclysm has caught up to them. Is there a way to save them?
--Will reconnecting the worlds bring them back to stability and health (Tales of thinkitwasSymphonia comes to mind?) or will it just cause too much trauma and damage…?
-Our Plucky Heroes lose their world - either by Bad Guy Plot reasons or because it’s decaying… Some possible concepts for them.
--Plucky Hero number one gets way too focused on ‘restore our world!’ to the point where they get pulled into the bad guys’ planning without realising what’s going on… Our Terra/Riku. A chosen one who… isn't.
--Plucky Hero number two is all up on ‘let’s see the worlds and explore!’ but it looks a bit like they might be hiding things in why they’re throwing themself at it all so hard… from themself or from other people. Our Sora? Though any sort of secret-keeping is Hella Not Sora. Heck, maybe I could pull from my old good!nort AU and have Learning Stuff About The Worlds transition more into saving them because saving them?
--Plucky Hero number three is basically our Kairi but they don’t get as screwed over by being ‘just there to be captured’. Might be more of a balance between the others? Or is this the secret-y one? Or the cheery goof?
-More potential Heroes? IDK...
-Don’t know if we have a Donald or Goofy figure here; maybe a Mickey behind the scenes. PHes might end up with Dream-Eatery buddies, but from where? What sorts of Bad Critters are out there? What are the PHes’ powers, vs. what are the bad guys’?
https://www.plurk.com/p/n6fxu2
Tempted to stick with the summon-as-a-main-'weapon' thing, but I don't know what form they should take... Possibly best of both worlds it and make the summons have a weapon form and a 'character/beast/buddy' form?
Would the critterweapons tie into the world shard divide business, though? (Native creatures of the domains between worlds, idk... friendly ones.)
(What are our Heartless, then. That's a big question. World corruption effects create them? Are they directly sourced from people or not?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GJ4FhPOwwLXTeCpwHsRnIisXrRDnHaMHrTtgCDTqE6c/edit?usp=sharing
