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Nepeta Leijon ♌ arsenicCatnip ([personal profile] moirailcompass) wrote in [community profile] laography2011-05-22 08:48 pm

Recruitment/Plotting Post

SO. I'm kind of stupid in love with the city Midgar from Final Fantasy 7. I always thought that the very beginning of the game was the best part, and that Shinra was much more of any interesting villain that Sephiroth & Jenova.

This is actually a crossover I've been bouncing around in my head for a long time, but I've never really been able to give it much thought until now thanks to school. After seeing how [livejournal.com profile] skaiabound fared, I've learned it's better to begin this kind of thing in the summer, amongst a couple other things.

So essentially what I'm thinking of is HS chars put in this world, sans Seph/Jenova, with Shinra as the primary villain, and most if not all of it taking place in Midgar. If you are unfamiliar with FF7 that is okay! I will type up an explanation post of both the city and the company, and maybe link some Lets Play because you can seriously learn all you need to know in the first 20-30 minutes of the game. Sadly not much of it takes place in Midgar.

This is mostly just a tentative recruitment post where others can toss their ideas in and ask questions. So far characters taken are:


John: Jami
Rose:
Dave: Snow
Jade: Anna
Aradia: Ari
Tavros: Sky
Sollux: Jami
Karkat: Anna
Nepeta: Emely
Kanaya: Emely
Terezi: Ari
Vriska: Lassie
Equius:
Gamzee: Snow
Eridan:
Feferi:

I don't think we have to fill every single slot but those are currently the slots. We have temps for Karkat and Terezi but they are still open. Plotwise, this is what is going on so far.

Shinra: Shinra is a powerful, global conglomerate whose main source of income is through the creation of materia. Materia are gems that allow people to use various sorts of magic and summons, and they are made via mako energy. Mako energy, in short is the essence of Earth which they siphon from within it. This of course is slowly, but surely killing the planet but there are other repercussions. One of the biggest, is mako poisoning. These factories often end up poisoning the surrounding areas, mako is not something that people are suppose to be exposed to and if in great quantities it can mutate or even kill people.

Midgar: I will provide a post with more detail on the exact schematics, but Midgar is the largest and most industrialized city in this world. You can find images here. There are several levels to the city, the very bottom being the slums which are an incredibly dangerous and poverty-stricken area where many people are tossed down and left to fend for there own. The top is where only an elite few are able to live in the laps of luxury. Shinra headquarters are found here, and nearby are a good portion of their factories.

Trolls: Trolls in this world are humans, they are just humans who have been exposed to some degrees of mako poisoning, and thus mutated. Whether they've been like that from birth, or slowly changed over continued exposure is up to you. The more poisoning they've had, the more likely they are to have natural psychic/magical abilities, but this also means they have a higher chance of suffering other side effects of your choosing.

Avalanche: Though it will probably go by a different name, in the original game, Avalanche was a group of insurgents/terrorists who worked to bring Shinra down. When I first thought of this, I figured that would essentially be the goal of the kids---take down Shinra before it kills the planet. But I am open for all ideas! This is a plotting post and we'll need more than just that to keep the game going.

So have at it! Remember nothing here has to be permanent, it's more to just toss ideas around and figure out possible CR, how you're chars have changed, and since this is AU don't be afraid to go crazy.

[personal profile] oftime 2011-07-07 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Okay so I am not quite sure what I am doing with Dave (here) or Gamzee (both at [livejournal.com profile] soporedup and [livejournal.com profile] soberedup), save for the fact that Gamzee is going to be addicted to materia instead of sopor slime. It's going to have pretty damaging effects on him, making him constantly ill as it kind of eats away at him? And over time it's. Going to very much start killing him.

The only problem with him being "taken off" materia, if you would, is the fact that he's sober!Gamzee. So on one hand, super friendly chill bro who is being killed by the very thing that keeps him chill. On the other hand, homicidal juggalo with overkill abilities due to the materia.

I imagine he's probably a slum-child, like Nepeta, but closer in age to Kanaya.

Dave idk yet. Bro was probably an ex-SOLDIER or something that turned on Shinra. I'll get back to you on him later. As I continue to tell myself that no, we don't need all of the kids going through trollifying mako poisoning, shut up Snow that wouldn't be totally awesome.

[identity profile] windychick.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
...obv. Karkat ♠ Dave. Forever. Wry you make me ship this. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, JEGUS FUCK YES PLEASE KIDS GOING TROLL DUE TO MAKO? Jade would make the cutest troll. And I will not force you to ship them because I don't really ship them tbh.

What is this journal doing here.

[personal profile] oftime 2011-07-07 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Because no one can resist the Strider Swag, not even the angriest of trolls. ALSO HONESTLY I JUST KIND OF WANT AN EXCUSE TO USE MY TROLL!DAVE ICONS. ilu they can be the cutest rails together.

Being adorable.

[personal profile] oftime 2011-07-07 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
I will have another once I actually get around to iconing it.

I'm tempted to just say fuck it and max out Dave's icon packages. You have one for Nepeta. Is it worth it? :c?

[personal profile] oftime 2011-07-07 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
/needs to draw some art for Dave icons, too. including Purrmusk and Panthera Brosis shenanigans.

giohsaiohd god it is so very tempting, and I just. I don't want to get rid of any of his icons to make room for others...

[identity profile] windychick.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
yes, dave and jaderails. i am 0k with this.

[personal profile] oftime 2011-07-07 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Jade you'll give him advice on wooing John right. As he and John loom at anyone that dares try to hit on Jade.

[identity profile] ragesnake.livejournal.com 2011-07-08 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
oh jesus yes she will. "his favorite movie is con air, but you know that because he talks about it all the time!!!!! and he hates betty crocker and by extension all cakes, so don't try wooing him with sweets. cookies are sometimes okay! he loves pranks-- if you can pull a good joke on him you'll have him eating from the palm of your hand!!!!"

...she totally ships them.

[personal profile] oftime 2011-07-08 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
"ok so what about chocolate is that a thing that is ok or no. because that is limiting my edible presents a little bit. or, wait. how about ice cream? that's sort of difficult to get your hands on around here but would be worth it. pranks, pranks i can do."

She can put them on the shipping wall with Nepeta.

[identity profile] windychick.livejournal.com 2011-07-08 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
"chocolate is sometimes okay!! you can sort of gauge his mood about sweets. gushers are always awesome, but they're hard to get around here. i once stole a box of them for him for his birthday, i think he cried."

i love this shit already
Edited 2011-07-08 03:46 (UTC)

[personal profile] oftime 2011-07-08 03:54 am (UTC)(link)




Dave is so going to break into a candy factory to steal John some fucking Gushers.

[identity profile] windychick.livejournal.com 2011-07-08 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
hell fucking yes, jade will go with him.

[identity profile] thewindything.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
The question is. Have John and Dave known each other for ages or have the met recently for shenanigans

[personal profile] oftime 2011-07-07 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man that is an excellent question.

AND A DIFFICULT ONE TO ANSWER.

[identity profile] thewindything.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Depends on where they're from probably. I think John was originally whatever passes for middle class maybe? And was like. oh hell no and stays in the slums so he can run the avalanche group

[personal profile] oftime 2011-07-07 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
LOL I'm pretty sure Dave was probably upper-middle class when younger? But then Bro was like "Yeah no fuck you, Shinra" and they went to the slums? So they could've known each other for a while, then not see each other for an unknown period of time, then OH HEY.

[personal profile] oftime 2011-07-07 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
then we get

VIVA LA REVOLUTION.

[personal profile] oftime 2011-07-07 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
rofl just a group of street urchins running around and causing trouble.