Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2089817-20180506050029/@comment-2089817-20180506182550

@Shonen -

The reason I suggested the page is because it would focus on very specific questions instead of all fan-curious questions. It's more or less our cheap attempt at luring people here with the most searched questions and then linking site content under those sections. Cheap but I think it'd be somewhat effective too.

I daresay Zangetsu would be the hardest one to write for because we already know so much about him, so there's little one could add that's a unique interpretation. This competition would be less about trying to write a Zanpakuto as close to its canon interpretation as possible, but one that has unique elements but still comes off as feeling like it could still work for a canon Zanpakuto. But we can still work that whole thing out if it seems like it won't work as-is.

That works well for now. I'll try to sit down and read the translations sometime this week, and I'll try to add in more detail as well.

Honestly, the only canon content I see us focusing on is the Light Novel summaries. Just because they appear to be a main topic of interest for Bleach fans, and the main wiki for english canon content isn't touching them, so it works as a perfect way to also lure people here as well, maybe even getting some new people interested in working here. It also helps us too, having something on-site to reference in terms of the new content.

I like that idea quite a lot, actually. I hated having for Kido user focus to be split between the Coven and Kido Corps (at least from my perspective) so that solves that problem quite well. It could also make for an interesting story, the only thing we'd have to figure out is if we still want to keep Nanja's Masked Man as its leader, or change it to some other person, perhaps even the defectee Kido Corps Commander.

I'll be sure to make a FC-centered thread sometime later this week as well so we can flesh that idea out, but it sounds really good to me.

@APS - Honestly, yeah, the problem usually lies in the fact that Kubo's Bleach, while carrying so much rich potential, is rather limiting and once we start to stray from it, we tend to stray from it so far that it sometimes feels like it's no longer Bleach anymore. So this is definitely something we'll need to keep in mind as we create the new FC premise.

@Kenji - The Light Novels seem to suggest that this might already be the case for the Four Noble Houses, given their "original sin" and all that. So maybe we can tie that into the overall story with the Kido Corps defecting, maybe even create a fourth noble house for the FC's own canon and the Kido Corps Commander hails from that house.

@Saris - I agree on the idea of a timeskip. I believe it was suggested we could do some sort of plague or something, perhaps we can say the plague was caused by Yhwach's residual reiatsu left floating around the Seireitei (like that small amount Mayuri detected ten years after the war), and go off with that. Maybe we can even pin it on the Kido Corps' defection, that they weaponized Yhwach's residual powers and used it to commit a mass genocide of a large pool of remaining Shinigami when they left. So the FC starts with the Gotei 13 just now starting to pick up the pieces of their fallen organization and now focusing on what to do about the Kido Corps. This way we can jump right into things instead of doing too much set-up and losing momentum as a result.

@Zetarion - That's never going to happen here, period. BFF is not turning into a sitewide fanon-canon. Over my dead body. The FC has always been an optional project and world building can always be done under the banner of an FC, it doesn't mean BFF itself has to become a sitewide FC. That's not happening.