#Shogunworld

[wrongydkjquotes]

*fan says each ydkj game is literally the same and reuses questions a lot*

Schmitty: You try writing 300 narratives in three weeks!

(Source: Westworld)

[shesnake]

one of the things that makes me throw up about westworld s2e5 akane no mai is the way that maeve is of course able to recognise akane as her parallel self in shogunworld but does not recognise that sakura is the equivalent of clementine. she instead views the adopted mother-daughter dynamic between akane and sakura to be that of maeve and Her Daughter, despite sakura's backstory, costuming (the turquoise!), and her general position in the narrative being SO clearly the same as clementine's. even in the ways they are victimised. akane even gives sakura the same familiar speech about that goddam voice but maeve doesn't see it despite completing the sentence for her. the real familial, retrievable love maeve felt for clementine is shoved to the side for her past self's narrative of a motherhood with a nameless child that wasn't realllll

[miffytual]

from the entertainment minds of westworld - here is shogunworld!

[cagedchoices]

VERSE INFO - FALLOUT.

NOTE: This verse is based mostly around the canon events of the TV series, with influences from the games!

AGE: Ageless, Appears around late 30s/early 40s

OCCUPATION: Scrapper/Salvager

SETTING: Typically anywhere found between the ruins of Los Angeles (Boneyard) and the New Vegas Strip (Mojave Wasteland) —The Years 2288 - 2296

Caleb is a synthetic human, but rather than being manufactured by The Institute in the Commonwealth, he is instead created by a sister company that originally rose to power over 200 years earlier - Delos Incorporated.

Delos was a technology company, though not as well-known as industry giants and rival manufacturers such as RobCo. While they provided some robot creations for both domestic and military use, their crown glory was Delos Destinations. Destinations offered family adventure park venues including Westworld, Shogunworld, Warworld,  Medievalworld, and Futureworld.

All but the last were dedicated to recreating the worlds of some of the most famously depicted time periods in world history. (Unlike their gritty and grim physical appearances in the HBO TV series, the versions you would see in THIS universe maintain a very utopian, 1940s/50s/60s film set environment. Everything powered by analog devices, nuclear fusion, or a combination of those two things.) The parks made use of human-like robots, called hosts, to inhabit specified roles, offering guests a variety of characters to interact with on their own tailor-made narratives.

The parks offered a fun vacation resort for guests, but the executives were not without their own ulterior motives. Behind the scenes, Delos duplicated and stored the data they collected from their guests in the hopes of marketing the ability to recreate humanity should the need ever arise. They needed to verify the plausibility of this so-called immortality project, so they selected a shortlist of subjects to reproduce with fidelity. Among their top picks for the initial experimentation process were James Delos, the company’s ailing founder and former CEO, and Caleb Nichols, a down and out ex-soldier whom presumably no one would miss if anything were to go wrong with the project.

Delos worked closely with Vault-Tec, beginning a contract with them under the pretense that they were working to preserve humanity. In truth, Vault-Tec sought total control of Delos and its assets to ensure the war played out in their favor. A company that could produce synthetic humans, effectively resurrecting the dead, could pose a significant danger to the company and the experiments being conducted in a number of vaults.

In addition, some of their information on the status of their test subjects was incorrect. Caleb did have a family - his wife Uwade and daughter Frankie - who he was abducted from about a week before the end of civilization.

After the bombs fell, much of Delos's core infrastructure was destroyed or gutted by what remained of Vault-Tec, leaving much of its history all but forgotten in the wreck of time. The intact database for the immortality project and a small number of 1st and 2nd gen hosts survived, buried deep underground and picking up the scattered pieces of their existence. The surviving hosts began manufacturing new hosts in an effort to reproduce and repopulate the world, and eventually began to investigate the immortality project, producing an unviable copy of James Delos and a copy of Caleb which showed potential through testing.

In 2288, a copy of Caleb escaped from Delos and, haunted by memories of pre-war life, made it to the Boneyard - the ruins of Los Angeles, where his human predecessor had once lived. By the events of 2296, he has taken up residence somewhere near New Vegas as a salvager and spends most of his free time gambling away his last few caps. He seems to have forgotten he's a host and no one else in the wastes is aware of this fact either save for a select few people.

Caleb's Questline, so to speak, involves exploring the ruins of Westworld and the labs underground, where you will discover the nature of his reality. He can travel with a player as an extra companion, be told to wait where he is, or will travel alone to the destination if dismissed.

[buddyapologist]

unfortunately I am once again thinking about westworld. the idea of Bernard scrambling his own memories in s2 was so good and so was the ultimate reasoning behind Delos investing in the park and the set design for shogunworld was so good and the episode about the indigenous hosts was so good and and and and. there was so much I liked. but there was so much stupid shit it makes me want to throw things. why did they make Maeve into a girlboss. how did sizemore go from douchebag misogynist hack to guy who will kill himself for people who hated him three days ago. why were there so many ONE LINERS IN VERY STRESSFUL SITUATIONS!!!! JJ ABRAMS WHEN I FUCKING GET YOU

[baeyungmin]

the femme borgs are out & about

[fausto-giurescu]

MAEVE NINJA no paso ni un mes y ya extraño Westworld. Que buena serie! Acá hice un retrato de Maeve Ninja que se lució como siempre muchísimo esta temporada. Y de paso pruebo otra paleta de colores (ah re que siempre uso magenta, cian y violeta) y tambien adjunto la versión de pulp comic. . . . . . . . #maevemillay #maeve #westworld #delos #shogunworld #futureworld #thandienewton #faustogiurescu #retrosupply #reteocomic #theraj #doloresabernathy #evanrachelwood #hbo #retro #vintage #comic #popart (en Corrientes, Argentina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAlXicmjmx4/?igshid=e78j92bpq545

[skeletonfumes]

[giuilily]

Westworld S2 Ep5 spoilers without context:

[akageesus]

SHOGUN WORLD (2018)

[akamatthewmurdock]

Revenge is just a different prayer. They're all to die.

[ilovemyfunkopopcollection]

Old photo of a Samurai Warrior.

[shesnake]

the idea of a park like the The Raj in westworld existing makes me sick to my stomach because of course it would if white people had that kind of tech!! while the coloniser roleplay fetish is definitely presented as An Option for westworld guests, the raj is crazy in that that is the entire purpose of the park. the emphasis on assisted hunting and sex tourism is so sick. I appreciate that all the guests we see are white. but also knowing that the hosts in that park rebelling against guests who have specifically come to live their colonial fetish fantasies sounds like it would kind of fun/cathartic to watch. wouldn't have minded to have seen that explored further, or least gotten a focused episode the way shogunworld did, but alas

[spongeworldwestpants]

[vaellv]

. . . . #westworld #westworldspoilers #fanart #westworldfanart #shogunworld #maeve #maevemillay #akane #thandienewton #rinkokikuchi #vaëllv #doodle

[buddyapologist]

like ok i think the problem with westworld s1 is that everyone watching knew where it was going. it's a show about androids. they are most likely going to achieve consciousness and identity. so the story is more about the stuff going on around that, how it happens, why it happens the way it does, who's pulling the strings, etc. but then when that conclusion happens, when the androids (or at least a few of them) do reach sentience, what happens after that? i feel like genuinely it's so hard to progress with that without missing out on something. there's stuff i liked about s2, shogunworld and the episode about the indigenous hosts were both really great. i could go off about the set design and such for shogunworld but. i won't. but i stand by feeling like there was no satisfying way to go after the s1 finale, which was really pretty good. it just....idk, i think it promised too much. like anything that followed it was going to be a disappointment. god it's so hard to put this feeling into words. the s2 that exists in my head isn't even real bc i don't even know what a really good s2 would look like. idk