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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 2011-05-23 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
IT ALL SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. Random note, I haven't played the game but I've read the script and wikis like a million times to play Reno long ago, so I can also lend a hand where needby with explaining/universe shenanigans.

now brb Gamzee is going to go get high off of materia somehow.

[identity profile] bitchska.livejournal.com 2011-05-23 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
plotting for vriska here! any back story, encounters, what have you... IDK.

[identity profile] soberedup.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
honk.
HONK.

[personal profile] oftime 2011-07-07 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
But oh man it'd probably slowly start killing him and they'd have to find a cure or something while he's. Possibly sobered up to keep the effects from getting out of control.

[identity profile] soberedup.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
JOKERKIND, VERSION FINAL FANTASY, GO.

Jesus Christ he'd be fucking overkill everywhere. But if they maybe just. Put him in a Shinra facility and told him they had materia somewhere, maybe that would work...

[identity profile] ragesnake.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Oh I guess this is a place to plot with Karkat and/or Jade. Welp. ALSO SOMEONE HELP ME COME UP WITH A USERNAME FOR JADE? If I... need one. Idk if this is gonna be on LJ or not. Nerp.

[identity profile] soberedup.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
well gee motherfuckers.
I WAS ALL UP ON THE BELIEVING YOU ABOUT THAT MATERIA.
but what do i find in that facility?
NOTHING.
motherfucking nothing.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MAKES YOU?
do you?

[identity profile] soberedup.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
IT MAKES YOU MOTHERFUCKING LIARS.

[identity profile] ragesnake.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
I'll come up with something!! As far as preset CR, 'kat will probably be closer to Kanaya's age than Nepeta's, which leave s a lot of things pretty open. I am a rather rabid fan of Karkat and Kanaya as 'rails, if you're down for that, and I am also forever okay with Nepeta's adorable crush on 'kat should you choose to have that play in here.

Jade I'm still pretty /unsure about, but I'll figure something out for her.

[identity profile] l4dyjust1c3.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
casually waves, oh hi Anna linked me to this and is telling me to post something so hi I'm awkward and shy and this is a run-on sentence so let me just. There. In any case, uh would you awesome people be interested in a Terezi or Aradia in the future?

[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.

[personal profile] oftime 2011-07-07 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
all of my yesses to both

[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.

[identity profile] windychick.livejournal.com 2011-07-07 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, bitch get over here.

This is so not the right journal for this.

GUYS THIS IS ARI AND SHE IS MY AMAZING TEREZI FROM PORTUGAL AND WE ARE KEEPING HER OKAY? She's silly and shy but she has no reason to be♥ Be nice to her. :>

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