Board Thread:Fanon Canon/@comment-2089817-20180513110249/@comment-18812574-20180516214624

(Writing from Madrid so I'm not really "back" yet) but yeah: What Ash said. But once everyone throws their ideas out there we can import all the characters as a list to a forum or something, I guess...

Characters I want dead from canon:
 * Kenpachi
 * Mayuri
 * The Bitch Squad Quincies
 * Rose and Kensei (they were zombies anyway like what)

Characters I want alive:
 * Shuuhei Hisagi (yes Kenji please! (but also why ain't he captain yet damn it aNOTHER ten years and still nothing???)
 * Byakuya Kuchiki (sure he's boring but he's a staple of the series after all)
 * Yoruichi and Kisuke

Characters I don't care one way or the other:
 * Shunsui (although Sei, if you do replace him his death had better be a big event. Maybe it could be part of the prologue or something? Idk)
 * Rukia - unfortunately, because of how central she is to the main plot of Bleach, I'm not sure how she'd be integrated. It may be best if she's not there
 * Renji - same thing as Rukia. While a fan-favorite, he's also nakama and would therefore be difficult to incorporate into the FC. Maybe, idk, after the Kidou defection they eloped/retired or something, lol
 * What about the "main" main cast? Uryuu, Ichigo, Chad, and Orihime? For Uryuu it would be easy enough to set him as the off-screen Quincy leader guy, IF we want a Quincy organization (which at this point probably not, as there's not many left in the human world who weren't part of the Wandenreich). For Ichigo though... the last time we tried to integrate him into the FC it was ehm... Very shoe-horned, I'll say. He'd throw our power scale off for sure at this point. Anyway.

For my characters:
 * Hein Ueda as the glorious and short-sighted captain of the 7th accompanied by chicken Lord Pablo
 * Takashi Sakuma as Lt. of the Sixth (but the division can change if needed). This will be a MC.
 * Tetsuo Momohara. This will be a MC. My other Fullbringers such as Michiyo.
 * My as-of-yet to be decided Coven peeps, probably Rana
 * My Hueco Mundo/unaffiliated guy Kōan Sugita
 * My soon-to-be-affiliated-with-Coven Cang Du (SCB) (probable MC but he's an antagonist)

I think that's it for now.

Now for FC ideas/suggestions: 1. I think one major problem we had with the FC and also one that we could potentially have right now is that, everyone has all this energy and cohesion right now, but if we focus on a small number of participants we're going to lose steam and people will lose interest just sitting on their hands waiting for their "stage" in the FC. So while we've been saying that we need to "avoid complication," we need enough complication (or side-plots) to involve everyone at the same time. 2. Exploring other realms is all well and good, but it's well... realm creation is different than character creation, because with a fanon character you don't inherently change the "world" of Bleach, but with adding another realm to explore, while it might be cool, would have to be something that everyone agrees on. And if you agree on the fact that there's "heaven" out there, all your characters are suddenly morphed into that universe where that is "canon", and things can get wonky. Personally I'm a huge stickler for canon, and would not appreciate Angels and Demons existing alongside my Quincies and Arrancars, jus' saying (that's personal opinion though). Plus, I think our efforts should focus more on the actual story-telling because, if we start branching off into world-building while at the same time juggling a major plot, we'd get a shoddy setting like Guardians of the Galaxy and miss building on the world that's already been established (like the Rukongai). For setting I think it would be better if we had the mindset of "detailization" or "fleshing-out-ization" as opposed to "expansion"

Things I like about the FC:
 * Well things I like about this FC, if we follow the general sentiment/Saris' plot, would be a direct sequel of Bleach canon.
 * I really like the side-arcs where characters are able to interact.
 * The Soul Society is cool, but I think my heart will always be with the small-scale human world stuff, like Xstence. Xstence has been a staple of the past er, 1.5 FCs, and I feel like there is still a lot of un-tapped potential there, with both the Fullbringers and with Xstence's agency in the FC.

And I think that sums up my thoughts after reading through this GIANT ASS 50+ PINNED MESSAGE THREAD

Edit: As for when we were starting: Saris and I thought 10 years after the end of the QBW, like the last FC, for several reasons: First, the gap would allow enough time for the events of CFYOW to take place. Second, it would allow a believable amount of time for the insurrection to develop and/or occur (unless we want the insurrection as "on-screen" and not prologue, honestly on-screen might be better at this point but idk). Third, it would allow the Gotei to believably fill captain gaps without us having to cover a "recruitment-rush." People can just say they became captain/lt. whenever is natural as fitting the character. Those were our explanations.