Some of you have no doubt played this game.
At 177 recruitable characters, each with a fairly defined personality and almost no history to speak of, this game offers much in the possibilities of fanfic.
And I have an idea.
What if(most ideas seem to start this way, huh) Jack had not faced Ridley in his first match?
The idea unfold slike so:
Jack faces Daniel in his first match instead, and defeats him. Ridley faces Star and obviously wins. Paul vs Giske, and Paul wins. And there's enough for a 4th match, but I don't remember right off hand who else was in the room.
Anyway, second round is Jack vs Paul, and Ridley vs the winner of the fourth 1st round match.
Jack wins again, as does Ridley.
Now, as the finalists, we have a Jack who realizes that Ridley is at least his equal, if not better.
And before the match begins, Jack has something to say.
"You're strong; I'm glad I get to fight you."
Then the match ends with a mutual knockout. I see it being Jack using a desperation move when Ridley uses Wild Pitch, and chucking his sword at her right before her axe knocks him out. Which, of course, flies true and cracks Ridley right in the forehead with the hilt. Mutual KO.
So, instead of Jack and Ridley having an antagonistic and bratty relationship, they have a more equal relationship.
This could lead to Jack and Ridley becoming close friends faster and probably deeper than canon , or it could be that without their constant antagonizing of the other, they fail to hit it off.
The Rose Cochon's first mission is the same... as is the second, with the same result of Jasne being stupid and forcing Larks to disband the Rose Cochon and discharge Jack and Ganz from the Knights.
After that, things would go differently. This Jack wouldn't be as idiotic as canon, but he wouldn't be a genius either... instead, his focus would have changed. Here, he'd be more about growing stronger instead of taking life as it comes along.
He'd not be on an uber recruitment drive, either. It works better if Jack gets to know people, but only manages to recruit a small number of people.
One major plot element to the game is obviously the choice to follow Ridley or go to the castle, which determines if you play the human side or the nonhuman side.
If Jack and Ridley are close friends, I could see Jack choosing to follow Ridley, which leads to the nonhuman side... which I don't like. I could also see Jack convincing Ridley that she's just had something of an upsetting shock and to give it some time for her to get her thoughts settled.
Which leads to Ridley NOT leaving, and the whole story going off on a completely new tangent.
Or, if Ridley and Jack aren't close, Jack doesn't follow Ridley(she probably never even comes to talk to him in the first place), and things go from there. You could have the story stick close to canon events, or veer it off in a completely new direction(the humans attack instead of waiting to get attacked, they choose to lay siege to the City of Flowers instead of killing the Wind Dragon, etc).
So, thoughts on this idea? Is it plausible?
At 177 recruitable characters, each with a fairly defined personality and almost no history to speak of, this game offers much in the possibilities of fanfic.
And I have an idea.
What if(most ideas seem to start this way, huh) Jack had not faced Ridley in his first match?
The idea unfold slike so:
Jack faces Daniel in his first match instead, and defeats him. Ridley faces Star and obviously wins. Paul vs Giske, and Paul wins. And there's enough for a 4th match, but I don't remember right off hand who else was in the room.
Anyway, second round is Jack vs Paul, and Ridley vs the winner of the fourth 1st round match.
Jack wins again, as does Ridley.
Now, as the finalists, we have a Jack who realizes that Ridley is at least his equal, if not better.
And before the match begins, Jack has something to say.
"You're strong; I'm glad I get to fight you."
Then the match ends with a mutual knockout. I see it being Jack using a desperation move when Ridley uses Wild Pitch, and chucking his sword at her right before her axe knocks him out. Which, of course, flies true and cracks Ridley right in the forehead with the hilt. Mutual KO.
So, instead of Jack and Ridley having an antagonistic and bratty relationship, they have a more equal relationship.
This could lead to Jack and Ridley becoming close friends faster and probably deeper than canon , or it could be that without their constant antagonizing of the other, they fail to hit it off.
The Rose Cochon's first mission is the same... as is the second, with the same result of Jasne being stupid and forcing Larks to disband the Rose Cochon and discharge Jack and Ganz from the Knights.
After that, things would go differently. This Jack wouldn't be as idiotic as canon, but he wouldn't be a genius either... instead, his focus would have changed. Here, he'd be more about growing stronger instead of taking life as it comes along.
He'd not be on an uber recruitment drive, either. It works better if Jack gets to know people, but only manages to recruit a small number of people.
One major plot element to the game is obviously the choice to follow Ridley or go to the castle, which determines if you play the human side or the nonhuman side.
If Jack and Ridley are close friends, I could see Jack choosing to follow Ridley, which leads to the nonhuman side... which I don't like. I could also see Jack convincing Ridley that she's just had something of an upsetting shock and to give it some time for her to get her thoughts settled.
Which leads to Ridley NOT leaving, and the whole story going off on a completely new tangent.
Or, if Ridley and Jack aren't close, Jack doesn't follow Ridley(she probably never even comes to talk to him in the first place), and things go from there. You could have the story stick close to canon events, or veer it off in a completely new direction(the humans attack instead of waiting to get attacked, they choose to lay siege to the City of Flowers instead of killing the Wind Dragon, etc).
So, thoughts on this idea? Is it plausible?