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

So with the merger successful, we can begin to work on new projects, and one of which is a revival of our site's Fanon Canon. This will be where we properly hash out ideas and suggestions for how to proceed, so before that, let me put down here what we've discussed so far.

The consensus appears to be that we all want to focus on Light Novel content for this FC; in particular, the content displayed in "Can't Fear Your Own World". A masterpost about information regarding post-Quincy war content from the LNs can be found here. Doing that means we have a fair amount of stuff to work with, and one of the biggest things that gives us room to play with is the idea that the Soul King's death had to be covered up to most people in Soul Society, and also that his death that caused those major earthquakes in the living world gave rise to several end-time religious groups.

We've also expressed a willingness to refocus on the Coven by leaning more toward an outright Kido Corps defection from Soul Society.

Now, we've also mentioned some of the problems that have plagued us since the previous FC renditions, so I believe what we need to do first is try to see how we can avoid running into those same problems.

First and foremost, as I mentioned on the new projects thread, I believe our first move needs to be to individually state what we all look for in a fun and compelling roleplay. This might seem rather pointless, but I think we all need to state what our goals are with this roleplay so as to pool together ideas that will contribute toward an overall pleasurable experience for as many as possible. The foundation of an FC should never be what "makes for a good story" but what "makes for a fun activity", we can never lose sight of that, otherwise it just becomes work and will eventually die like before. Of course, that doesn't mean we can't focus on making a good story, but it should never serve as our guiding principle.

Secondly, another issue that has been brought up is in the terms of power scaling. Before I get into that specifically, I want to hear everybody's thoughts on this. Some have brought up their thoughts on the other thread, but let's take this chance to really talk this through.

And after that, our third move, at least the way I see it, is for us to decide what key players we want involved in this. So, for instance, we know the Gotei 13 will be in it. And if we go ahead with the defectee Kido Corps, then that's another key player. There is the Espada, and based on the LN, the Quincy survivors are all residing in Hueco Mundo now. What sort of groups would we want in this? By piecing that together, we can think about what's driving them during this time of restoration and repair after all the shit thrown at them by the Wandenreich.

Beyond that, this is an open forum for everybody to discuss what stuff they want to see in this FC. I'll also make some suggestions of my own for stuff we can do as everybody is putting forth their own thoughts as well. 