#reimu may show up periodically anyway

[pokemonxhyperfixation]

Sorry for uh… bloating the oil fire tag with shit for a fan fic I only will PROBABLY start EVENTUALLY. But hey, I’m an indecisive fuck.

So, my idea for the fic is that Sanae is going through the gyms, and Tsukasa is just tagging along as emotional support. Given that the winning region as of now is Johto (and Johto is just the region I’m heavily leaning towards in general), I want to decide a rival to add more consistent conflict. So…

Before I explain the choices, I want to call out why Reimu is absent. It’s mostly because I want a Fire starter from ONE of the region choices (gen 1-4) to fit on their team. Problem being that I don’t think any of them fit on Reimu’s. Okay, explanations:

Silver is just a lazy-ish option, since a fire starter is easy to throw on one of their teams.

Marisa is in a Reimu adjacent role, but I think feels more fitting as a rival trainer. Marisa feels like a Charizard or Typhlosion kinda gal.

Mokou is here for just… Raw fire. She’s THE fire trainer choice lol. May end a bit too mono-typed tho. She’s strikes me as a Typhlosion or Blaziken type.

Biten is funny since it’s a character Sanae has shown synergy with, also easy Infernape addition. Easily the most friendly of the rival options.

[clarste]

Wily Beast and Weakest Creature plot summary time! Note that I may be wrong about some things because I haven’t read every single route yet, but the gist should be correct.

Long story short, it’s the exact same plot as LoLK.

Basically, the plot concerns this otherworld called the Beast World, where all the animal spirits come from. It’s described as a dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest kind of place, where the strong rule and the weak are eaten or enslaved.

Historically, it’s been ruled by numerous “gangs” (kumi) who compete with each other for resources and territory. The language used has a kind of yakuza connotation, so you can think of it as a turf war between rival gangs. In the Beast World, there are no laws but the laws of nature, as they like to say. There are three important gangs in this particular story (three of the four biggest ones) but there are more implied. Each of the three goasts (sic) you can choose belongs to one of these three gangs.

The most important one to the plot is the Kiketsugumi (”Oni Supremacy Group” or something along those lines). They represent the animals that like to ambush their prey, particularly from underwater or underground. The patient and cunning ones. Their goast is the Otter. Their leader is Yachie Kicchou, the stage 4 boss and a Kicchou. The Kicchou is a kind of dragon-turtle thing, which I guess makes her the first actual confirmed dragon you get to fight. She even gets to use “Dragon Sign” spellcards. A round of applause please. Yachie is described as “someone you can never go up against” and indeed her ability in her profile is to make her opponents lose the will to fight. Yachie pictured below.

The second most important gang is the Keigagumi (”the Fierce Fangs”), who represent the strongest and fastest of the animals. Pure muscle, and they’re proud of it. Their goast is the Wolf, and their leader is Saki Kurokoma, who is the extra boss and a Kurokoma (notice a pattern here?). The Kurokoma is a flying black horse that Prince Shotoku is said to have ridden, although ZUN is conflating her with the pegasus. She calls herself a Black Pegasus. She has a spellcard called “Muscle Explosion” and her “power” is to have the strongest legs ever. Saki:

The least important gang here is the Gouyaku Doumei (”Strong Greed Alliance”), representing the flying animals who see the world from the cold distance of a bird’s-eye view and look down on others. Their goast is the Eagle, and while their leader doesn’t show up in-game she’s mentioned in a conversation between the Eagle goast and Saki, in the extra stage. Saki describes her as real bad news, and you wouldn’t want to meet her. Yet another offscreen badass, I suppose.

Anyway, these gangs have been duking it out forever, but caught in the middle of all this animal spirit badassery are the poor, weak, “human spirits” who have the hands for delicate work but none of the muscle or cunning of the other animals. The “weakest creatures” if you will. While the human spirits have been slaves forever, at one point they managed to gather enough faith to summon Keiki Hanuyasushin (the final boss), a god with no purpose but to protect them. Keiki:

Keiki is a crafter god, with the power to create clay idols that absorb faith to come to life. She creates the idols, the human spirits pray to the idols, and the idols become soldier and servants to serve the human spirits. As these living statues have physical bodies in a world of spirits, they’re basically invincible to the animal spirits who can only attack spiritual things. Mayumi Joutougu (the stage 5 boss) is the leader of these soldiers, but as she’s never actually been threatened in combat it’s a fairly relaxing existence for her. Mayumi:

Keiki uses these clay soldiers to create a paradise for the human spirits known as Reichouen (lit. Spirit Leader Garden). The name is something of a pun, since Reichou often means “primate” in taxonomy, while Reien means “graveyard”. So it’s like the primate garden but also a graveyard? Anyway, supposedly it was originally lush and full of life, but Keiki turned it into a magical techno cyberpunk kinda place, which kind of pisses off the animal spirits. But they can’t do anything about it. The soldiers are also going out expanding their territory into the animal spirit lands. Also also the human spirits have become so dependent on the clay servants that they don’t do anything for themselves anymore, leaving everything up to Keiki.

Eventually Yachie (leader of the Kiketsugumi, stage 4 boss) has had enough of this, so she calls together the other two gangs and tells them her plan. They’ll send animal spirits to the human world to find an actual flesh-and-blood human who can physically smash the statue solders. However, you can’t just go straight from the Beast World to the Human World, so they have to go through Hell first. Conveniently, Hell is going through a period of chaos and unrest, so the borders aren’t being patrolled as strictly as usual. So she sends the Otter, the Eagle, and the Wolf to go find Reimu et al and the rest is history. Fly forward and arbitrarily beat up everyone you meet. Badda bing, badda boom.

When it’s all over and Keiki has been beaten, Saki (again, the leader of the Keigagumi and the extra boss) decides that with her biggest enemy gone she might as well conquer the world. As you do. And when she’s done with that, maybe she’ll conquer Hell and the Human World too. I mean, why not, right? Gotta keep your dreams big. So, uh, that’s why you fight her. She’s so impressed by Reimu that she both invites her to join the Keigagumi and decides to go visit the Human World herself. And they all lived happily ever after.

[never-changing-muses]

I think I had the most intriguing dream I’ve had in quite some time.

The majority of what I could remember started off in the store I work in were I was either working, or doing something. A few other things happened that I can barely remember but one bit had to do something with L*** while there was something else that was there but I can’t remember. Anyway, during this period I was tense and this woman who was apparently some highly trained martial artist or assassin had apparently sensed my plight and hugged me.

Some time after that exchange, all the power in the store was cut for a while, at least partially and I remember getting worried about L***  so I had contacted them, texted or called them, I forget and they told me they were stuck in some ind of accident while going out to get bread or something along those lines, and told me the address where they were trapped in. So I ended up leaving the store and rushing to find them and the address.

Here is where the interesting bits come in.

As I’m running, I notice that this power outage was not just limited to the store, but  the whole city as well. I become more worried for L***’s wellbeing, and something else I see makes this only grow. As I’m running, I’m seeing several automated (?) vehicles with machine guns that are mowing down everything they come across. I’m almost spotted by one but I manage avoid its detection as I keep moving.

This is particularly  interesting because in such a situation, I really would go out into danger to find and ensure they were alright despite the risk to myself due to their importance to me, though unlike in this dream, I wouldn’t have had the stamina to run like I did in this dream and would be far more nervous and prone to making errors.

But either way, this part of my segment ends in this dream and we cut to the organization that was attacking the unnamed city me and L*** apparently lived in in this universe. The next segment involves some organization with authoritarian principles were behind the attacks and that they were planning on taking the city for some nefarious plot. I can’t remember what it is, but some of its leaders are confronted by the most unexpected heroes, if that’s a right word, you would ever find.

Reimu Hakurei, Remilia Scarlet, and a few others from the Touhou franchise of all things shows up and this was an apparent cliffhanger as the next episode begun. Not much of it was seen, but in this “secondary episode” the Touhou girls begin to engage the militant organization and its leaders who are apparently powerful beings, but this is where the dream ends and I wake up.

Overall, a very strange, yet interesting dream that started off as a normal dream that involves me and this person I know, then devolves into the kind of insanity I would cook up for my projects like Sephira and a certain verse. This is the first time I’ve had such a dream where I was basically the protagonist of some ind of larger storyline, but this dream gave me some material I may use for something, dunno what in the future as well as insight as to how much a certain person is dear to me and that yes, I would probably charge into chaos to save them.

[yeonchi]

Kisekae Insights #3: Series Overview (Classic, New and 50th Anniversary Series)

For an imaginary project developed over at least a decade, there’s an ungodly number of series and episodes in it compared to the actual BBC Doctor Who. Even with Doctor Who alone, 17 series were broadcast over six years with 12 being broadcast over the space of three years. Let’s take a deep look into each series.

For the purposes of this project, my main focus is on the Fifth Doctor’s episodes, but I will talk briefly about the other four Doctors as well. In case you haven’t been following this series, everything I talk about will be in the context of this project. I’m bolding it because I don’t want to have to keep explaining this when asked.

Before the Fifth

1999 to 2007 was the classic era of this project’s Doctor Who, with episodes being 25 minutes long until November 2005; following that, they would be 45 minutes long (exceptions aside). Sometimes, we would have one episode per week, maybe two or even four.

The First Doctor had 190 episodes broadcast over 38 stories, covering six seasons and a pilot series. The first actor was in the pilot series and the first two seasons for a total of 73 episodes and 17 stories. The second actor took over thereafter for a total of 117 episodes and 21 stories.

The Second Doctor had a TV movie, then 181 episodes broadcast over 53 stories, covering six seasons and a set of specials. The Third Doctor did have thirteen 45-minute episodes and three specials at the start of 2008 that were considered part of the Classic Series.

In the middle of the year, the show was transferred to another station and the Third Doctor was recasted. This would be the start of the first “New Series”. Each individual series consisted of thirteen 45-minute episodes, which would be the norm hereafter. Unlike his counterpart, the BBC Ninth Doctor, being in only one series, the Third Doctor was in four series. The original BBC Series 1 was split after The Long Game and the remaining episodes were broadcast at the end of the fourth series.

The Fourth Doctor was in three series and seven specials, with most of them being broadcast over a year. Not all the BBC Tenth Doctor’s episodes were adapted. For the remaining five specials, he was replaced by another actor, who also reprised that incarnation for one series while also playing the next incarnation. By that time, the show was transferred back to its original station, paving the way for another “New Series”.

The New Series

Broadcast 2012 and early 2013. Series 1-5 episodes were broadcast twice a week (with an exception during Series 3+4), then once a week thereafter.

Series 1: Based on BBC Series 5 with the exception of Amy’s Choice and with four additional episodes for a total of 16 episodes. Amy and Rory were replaced with Ritsu Tainaka and Kunikida (first name Doppo, not to be mistaken with the character from Bungo Stray Dogs). For the last four episodes, Kanade Tachibana and Yuzuru Otonashi were introduced as new companions. In the Easter Special, The Pony Doctor, the Doctor’s pony counterparts, Doctor Whooves and the Pony Doctor, are introduced.

Series 2: Based on BBC Series 6 with three additional episodes for a total of 16 episodes. Ritsu and Kunikida are the primary companions with Kanade and Yuzuru appearing in the final two episodes, including a crossover in the series finale, A Canterlot Wedding. An additional episode was broadcast following Day of the Moon, which introduced Nayu Hayama from Chu-Bra!! (voiced by Catherine Tate).

Series 3+4: Series are (mostly) original from this point. Kanade and Yuzuru become the main companions after the Doctor left Ritsu and Kunikida behind in the last season. The first five episodes of Series 3 are specials, the first being an adaptation of The Five Doctors (the special edition, FYI). Here’s where things get complicated. In the original version, Series 3 had 9 episodes and Series 4 had 5 episodes, with both series being followed by a special weeknight drama, consisting of 9 and 15 half-hour episodes respectively. Elements of the drama were based from the BBC Series 3 and 4 finales. The main villain of the series was the Kikuchi Clan, led by a renegade Time Lady named Ayaka Kikuchi. In the following years, both series went through a restructuring for home media releases and rerun broadcasts. The loose episodes and dramas (with a two-episode buffer) were condensed into what would respectively be the new Series 3 and 4. A couple of episodes were also replaced. This is how I will be addressing those series from here on out.

Series 5: Based on BBC Series 4, with the Doctor now taking on some of the Tenth Doctor’s character. The first three episodes were set in Equestria and circled around the events that led to My Little Dashie. Following a lone adventure, Nayu joined the Doctor as his main companion for the rest of the season. Don’t worry, her ending isn’t as tragic as Donna’s was. The series finale was a two-hour special and instead of Davros and Dalek Caan, it featured Antoni and Specter. Aside from the free-to-air broadcast version, there was a premium version that was broadcast on a satellite channel. It had an additional 23 episodes and featured more anime crossovers. Oh what the hell, this series was mostly anime crossovers anyway. I didn’t think about putting those episodes in when I made this series, but Kanade and Yuzuru do return in a three-episode arc adapted from the episodes that featured the return of Martha Jones.

Series 6: Based on BBC Series 7 Part 1. This series featured the departure of Ritsu and Kunikida. Following that, we have the return of Tsukasa Hiiragi and Squid Girl, having previously had adventures with the Fourth Doctor.

Series 7: Based on BBC Series 7 Part 2 with a split in the series. The first five episodes, which featured Tsukasa and Squid Girl as companions, were a part of an original story centred around the Salacian Time War and made up Part 1 of the series. Following that, six Christmas Specials were broadcast over the Christmas period before Part 2 resumed at the same time as its BBC counterpart. Part 2 featured Clara Oswald as companion.

The 50th Anniversary Series

Broadcast mid-late 2013. The original plan was for a singular special, but then I just kept adding preludes to it and called it a series instead. After that, I added more sequels and made the series even crazier than it already was. Linearly, there are a total of 46 episodes, along with an extra 26 episodes for the other Doctors and characters featured in November. Oh, don’t worry, I didn’t write those extra episodes. I only wrote like 33 of them. Most of the episodes are 60 minutes long. For most of the series, the Doctor is travelling with Clara, Squid Girl and Takeru Aizawa.

Block 1: The first three episodes, written by me, were centred around the other protagonist and his girlfriend. The last three episodes, not written by me, featured Hackbot and Heavy Metal Monster, monsters from a game I used to play with friends as a child (I’ll explain later), and Reimu Hakurei (voiced by Mai Nakahara who also voiced her in Musou Kakyou: A Summer Day’s Dream), who also had adventures with the Fourth Doctor.

Block 2: Four episodes featuring the return of the Kikuchi Clan as villains. Some characters and themes from Koihime Musou and Ikki Tousen/Battle Vixens (who also appeared in the spinoff series The Kongming Adventures) are also featured.

Block 3: Six episodes written by different writers and featuring different Doctors (including both Third Doctors). They revolve around Kumiko Hayashi and her “mother” as they go on strange and successive adventures with the Doctors. Kumiko accidentally gets an instantaneous MTF sex change near the end of this; from that point on, the name “Kumiko” becomes her real name instead of an assumed name. I also introduce a group of Impossible Girl-esque characters that are explained in Block 6.

Block 4: Four episodes revolved around the other protagonist’s friends thinking that it would be a good to forcibly marry him with another autistic classmate of his. That was also the plot of the first half of Series 4 and I should point out that the classmate has Asperger’s (that’s not why he doesn’t want to marry her btw, it’s because they don’t have feelings for each other).

Block 5: Four episodes of separate adventures (with one written by Steven Moffat). One of the episodes signifies a changing of an era as we see Fifi Forget-me-not pass away (based off a fanfic from EmmaKoeni) and Akari preparing for her wedding. It should be noted that by this point, the protag had already parted with Fifi long before that episode happened. He came back and stayed with her for a day as she passed on, so I dunno if others would consider that cheating.

Block 6: The big one to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who. This is where the extra 26 episodes are set; everyone is in the same episode for the start and end, but they have their own adventures inbetween. The entire thing would have taken up 16 channels (my list has separate feeds for channels because at the time, I was going with what Japan was doing for their digital TV) unless you put them back-to-back or something. I also adapted The Name of the Doctor for the protag; basically, he would make a contract with Kyubey to become a magical boy, then scatter himself throughout his timeline, creating the Impossible Girl-esque characters from Block 3.

Block 7: Two episodes broadcast back-to-back as an experimental format. The first episode just revealed mysteries (most of them didn’t matter after that) while the second features segments with the prototypes and their partners.

Block 8: Five episodes of random stuff circling around the protagonist as he has adventures both with the Doctor and by himself. I took quite a few ideas from other episodes.

Block 9: Another big one with five Christmas Specials. The prologue features the wedding of the soon-to-be Hiroki and Akari Ichigo and the departure of Clara, Squid Girl and Takeru. The next three episodes go full-on as Girl Power teams up with the Daleks, Antoni and the Master in a war unlike any other. There is also a Dalek civil war arc going on with the bronze and gold Time War Daleks going up against the red and multicoloured New Paradigm Daleks (I don’t know why they were so hated, I personally think the BBC should have used them more). The epilogue is Hiroki Ichigo’s first adventure before he officially coins the name by the start of the next series.

Spinoffs

I had little to no involvement in these, but these are the spinoffs that spawned in the two years of my time writing Doctor Who:

The Fourth Doctor Adventures: As I stated before, this series is an extension of the Fourth Doctor’s adventures. Some episodes lay the groundwork for the animes and cartoons that are still featured in the series.

Doctor Whooves/Doctor Who Equestria: Adaptations of Doctor Who featuring Doctor Whooves and the Pony Doctor respectively.

MLP:FiM: Storm Dasher Series: A webcast series featuring new adventures for Storm Dasher. I think it may have been cut short because the last 12-13 episodes are the same as some of my own episodes in the main Doctor Who series.

Torchwood: Basically what it says on the tin. I wrote two episodes for that, then realised that most of it is also the same as the main Doctor Who series. This is getting stupid, honestly.

The Kongming Adventures: Adaptation of The Sarah Jane Adventures, but with Zhuge Liang instead of Sarah Jane.

Pobol y Dinas/EastEnders: I don’t know what the hell I was doing with that one, because these are two unrelated soap operas that came as spinoffs from a sci-fi series. The name Pobol y Dinas is “People of the City” in Welsh and I got the name from the actual S4/C soap opera, Pobol y Cwm.

Puella Magi Takumi Magica: Details Takumi Kamijō’s adventures following his regeneration and the establishment of Torchwood Pleiades, an organisation dedicated to bringing together magical girls around Mitakihara and beyond.

Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb: Different to the actual series of the same name, this details Kumiko Hayashi’s adventures of living as a girl in a boy’s body due to the circumstances she was placed in following his regeneration.

Well, that took a bit of work to get through. We’ll continue this in the next instalment.