Hey, this is that Heavy Object-inspired thing I talked about in the Idea thread. Well it's either this or "My Teacher is a walking tactical nuke" and I think this one might be a winner so I am making this thread to talk about the concept a bit and get some suggestions to make it work better.
Basic Idea
A Yuuno and Chrono buddy cup series with them solving cases for the TSAB as part of a special investigation unit that focuses on Ruins and Archeology-related cases. Since it’s inspired by Heavy Object, all adventures starts with simple jobs that evolve into huge crisis that our duo have to solve while bantering and insulting each other. Even though the two have very antagonistic relationship with each other, their teamwork is top notch, making them one of the best duos when investigating ruins in the TSAB space.
While they enjoy helping people, their goal is to retire so they can go and focus on their life goals, but sadly central command has deemed them too useful to allow them to retire, and thus they get dragged from one crazy mission to the next.
Lost Ruin Special Investigation Unit [needs a better name]
Sponsored by the Cardinal appointed to the TSAB’s Board of Directors by the Belkan Church, this is a special unit designed to deal with the rising number of cases of illegal excavations of ruins both in the TSAB space and in the areas outside that belong to the Belkan Church (former destroyed holdings that were once part of the empire). Since the unit was created with heavy cooperation with the Church, most of the equipment and soldiers were provided by the church (much to the dismay of a certain Enfocer) while the TSAB provided technical assistance, supervision and key personnel like Admiral Harlaown. Thus is seen as a sigh of the growing formal cooperation between the Church and the TSAB in military matters.
The unit is centered around two members, the enforcer Chrono Harlaown and the archeologist (contract mage) Yuuno Scrya. Yuuno handles the investigation at the digs with his archeological know-how, while Chrono handles the investigation and apprehension of criminals. What makes this unit special is that they are specialized in solving crimes that happen inside ruins, as well as handling the standard crimes that involve Lost Logia, such as smuggling and illegal activation.
This unit would investigate not only sanctioned digs, but also bust clandestine sites and even excavate Lost Logias themselves if needed, which gives the unit more autonomy than most TSAB units. Originally the scope of unit operations was just restricted to investigating contraband cases regarding ancient ruins and Lost Logias, but seeing how effective they were, both the Church and the TSAB started pushing for them to get involved in more and more strange missions until they became a default special force unit that is called the predecessor of the infamous Riot Force 6.
Basic Plans
· Introduce a hunt for the Jewels Seeds arc where each seed is in a different planet and they have to constantly fight Fate? Fate is the ongoing antagonist for the first few arcs and ties different things together to lead to the hunt of each individual Jewel Seed in several worlds.
· So far I have in mind three adventures for the first arc which will be focused on the Jewel Seeds as the unifying plot, the first one being the case were Chrono and Yuuno first cross paths. The second one being basically the first mission of the Unit, and the third the one were things goes wrong and Nanoha is introduced as a character.
· Introduce Nanoha during the third adventure during the first arc with something similar to canon, like Yuuno crashing on Earth after a mission gone wrong and then joining the Lost Ruin Force.
· Introduce the Wolks in the second big arc as enemy ruin explorers while they go around completing the book?
· Find a way to work in the Gears of Destiny plot and the Materials? If I get so far.
Goals
· Use Heavy Object’s three act structure as the basis for each adventure.
· Focus more on side-characters to give them a chance to shine.
· Have a humorous buddy-cop vibe that is actually funny.
· A good Yuuno/Chrono Bromance
· Not base the story on Earth and just play around the TSAB space
· Bring cameos from stuff in Vivid/Strikers and maybe Force.
Stuff to work on?
· Work on jokes and appropriate banter between our two leads, sadly the jokes about girls won’t work with Yuuno unless we age him up a bit.
· Think of appropriate adventures for them to have in ancient ruins, and how they will blow up into big world-shaking crisis.
· Expand on Yuuno and Chrono’s backgrounds a bit.
· Expand on how the TSAB works so I can use it for different and fun stuff
· Make minor OC antagonists to have more room to do stuff.
I will come back to add give my outline for the first tentative arc when I finish it, but I think this is enough to start for now.
Basic Idea
A Yuuno and Chrono buddy cup series with them solving cases for the TSAB as part of a special investigation unit that focuses on Ruins and Archeology-related cases. Since it’s inspired by Heavy Object, all adventures starts with simple jobs that evolve into huge crisis that our duo have to solve while bantering and insulting each other. Even though the two have very antagonistic relationship with each other, their teamwork is top notch, making them one of the best duos when investigating ruins in the TSAB space.
While they enjoy helping people, their goal is to retire so they can go and focus on their life goals, but sadly central command has deemed them too useful to allow them to retire, and thus they get dragged from one crazy mission to the next.
Lost Ruin Special Investigation Unit [needs a better name]
Sponsored by the Cardinal appointed to the TSAB’s Board of Directors by the Belkan Church, this is a special unit designed to deal with the rising number of cases of illegal excavations of ruins both in the TSAB space and in the areas outside that belong to the Belkan Church (former destroyed holdings that were once part of the empire). Since the unit was created with heavy cooperation with the Church, most of the equipment and soldiers were provided by the church (much to the dismay of a certain Enfocer) while the TSAB provided technical assistance, supervision and key personnel like Admiral Harlaown. Thus is seen as a sigh of the growing formal cooperation between the Church and the TSAB in military matters.
The unit is centered around two members, the enforcer Chrono Harlaown and the archeologist (contract mage) Yuuno Scrya. Yuuno handles the investigation at the digs with his archeological know-how, while Chrono handles the investigation and apprehension of criminals. What makes this unit special is that they are specialized in solving crimes that happen inside ruins, as well as handling the standard crimes that involve Lost Logia, such as smuggling and illegal activation.
This unit would investigate not only sanctioned digs, but also bust clandestine sites and even excavate Lost Logias themselves if needed, which gives the unit more autonomy than most TSAB units. Originally the scope of unit operations was just restricted to investigating contraband cases regarding ancient ruins and Lost Logias, but seeing how effective they were, both the Church and the TSAB started pushing for them to get involved in more and more strange missions until they became a default special force unit that is called the predecessor of the infamous Riot Force 6.
Basic Plans
· Introduce a hunt for the Jewels Seeds arc where each seed is in a different planet and they have to constantly fight Fate? Fate is the ongoing antagonist for the first few arcs and ties different things together to lead to the hunt of each individual Jewel Seed in several worlds.
· So far I have in mind three adventures for the first arc which will be focused on the Jewel Seeds as the unifying plot, the first one being the case were Chrono and Yuuno first cross paths. The second one being basically the first mission of the Unit, and the third the one were things goes wrong and Nanoha is introduced as a character.
· Introduce Nanoha during the third adventure during the first arc with something similar to canon, like Yuuno crashing on Earth after a mission gone wrong and then joining the Lost Ruin Force.
· Introduce the Wolks in the second big arc as enemy ruin explorers while they go around completing the book?
· Find a way to work in the Gears of Destiny plot and the Materials? If I get so far.
Goals
· Use Heavy Object’s three act structure as the basis for each adventure.
· Focus more on side-characters to give them a chance to shine.
· Have a humorous buddy-cop vibe that is actually funny.
· A good Yuuno/Chrono Bromance
· Not base the story on Earth and just play around the TSAB space
· Bring cameos from stuff in Vivid/Strikers and maybe Force.
Stuff to work on?
· Work on jokes and appropriate banter between our two leads, sadly the jokes about girls won’t work with Yuuno unless we age him up a bit.
· Think of appropriate adventures for them to have in ancient ruins, and how they will blow up into big world-shaking crisis.
· Expand on Yuuno and Chrono’s backgrounds a bit.
· Expand on how the TSAB works so I can use it for different and fun stuff
· Make minor OC antagonists to have more room to do stuff.
I will come back to add give my outline for the first tentative arc when I finish it, but I think this is enough to start for now.