Board Thread:Fanon Canon/@comment-2089817-20150315200628

Alright guys! So now that I've gotten your attention, it'll now be time to announce what we're going to see in the coming couple posts and stuff for the FC. First off, I'd like to apologize for my lack of activity, I got Xenoverse a week ago so... Yeah, that is self-explanatory. But now my character has the full Beerus outfit, so... Time well spent. Anyways, I don't want to turn this into a lot of reading, especially since it's Sunday and all, so I'm gonna try to make my stuff short and sweet as much as possible, so please pay close attention.

Now then. Right now, Rampant Rangers is going to end with Ichigo and Kraven's current brawl. This is a fight between me and Blank, so not a lot of contribution can be made right now from everybody. That is fine. Because there's no reason why we need to wait for that scene to finish to start the next scene. Why is that? Because the next scene is a standalone event isolated from the Ichigo fight right now. As you might have noticed, Ichigo arrived to see the devastated city of Osaka with two escorts who were following behind. Ichigo told them to go off to meet with the task force while he handled Kraven who had just showed up to confront the former hero.

What is the significance of these two escorts? Not much on their own. But rather, in the short interval between the two escorts leaving and the start of the next RP which will open with the task force heading to the headquarters that Kazuya mentioned in Rampant Rangers and the escorts eventually finding their location, the two escorts will have had a rather nasty run-in with a future antagonist. And the consequences of this will be seen very very soon, but I'd rather not spoil the surprise. At any rate, because nobody knows this mystery man, they will assume this new action was also made by Kraven and his Yokai bum chums.

What about Ichigo though? Well, me and Blank are still working out the exact specifics of Ichigo, but for right now, simply assume that Ichigo will not be joining up with the task force anytime soon and therefore should not be treated with any importance as of right now. After all, with all this shit going down, the orange-haired snowflake is the least of their concerns. I promised he would die in the first arc and I do plan to hold true to that promise, so just be patient, all you Ichigo haters! ...Which is, probably, the entire Bleach fan base right now. What remains of it, that is.

NOW THEN. When the "mystery event" occurs with the two escorts, clearly they have to be even more careful than they thought. "Kraven" can even get to Shinigami officers, albeit low-tier soldiers, they will think, so this can't be considered some small situation anymore. And so, one or two members of the task force will return to Soul Society to personally deliver news on what has happened, while the others remain in the material world to hopefully find a lead on Kraven and his subordinates. Which leads us back to Soul Society. I'd rather not put together ANOTHER Captain's council, since the last one dragged on far too much, and given the emergency, Kyoraku doesn't seem likely to deal with three days of waiting for all the Captains to bring their sorry asses to the first division hall. Therefore, I believe Kyoraku will want to bring in two more Captains to provide counsel, and they may or may not get involved. Does anybody volunteer themselves? I need two users who have Captains, but are NOT roleplaying the members of the task force that went to report to Soul Society. I just want to get as many people back into roleplaying on the FC as much as possible. So I'll accept nominations and/or volunteers below in the comments.

So this is stuff that will be happening in the next RP, which will be entitled... "Despairing Deserters". And this name holds a lot of meaning, believe it or not, because a long-time ally of Soul Society will also be making his "desertion" in this very RP. I promised you guys a "B plot", but rather than keeping it isolated, I've decided to involve it into the "A plot" and have them move together. Eventually, the "C plot" might also do the same, but we'll see on that. As Ten and I have talked about, Raian Getsueikirite will be returning to the world stage; this time as a big bad. The gist of this is that Raian has, quite honestly, had enough of the Quincy. Nine years ago, they almost destroyed the entire world and everybody, and now the same is threatening to happen; also because of a Quincy. And yet, he is intelligent enough to deduce that the hostility of the Quincy is due almost entirely to Soul Society's ignorance. They defend the flow of souls and maintain that as their primary responsibility, while completely forgoing individual lives. They only cater to the most dangerous of Hollows, leaving a majority of those beasts to eat up souls and kill people as they please, which is why the Quincy insisted on their activity in dealing with the Hollow problem themselves. Deal only with the biggest problem, the other "miniscule" problems can be ignored. A perfect example of this was seen in the fight in Rampant Rangers, when humans captured by the enemy to use as hostages were mercilessly burned away simply because ridding them as hostages for use by the enemy was the "lesser of two evils" rather than risk allowing the enemy to do as they pleased. And during the Blood War, Mayuri led a genocide of twenty-eight thousand souls in order to stabilize the balance; something like Yamamoto said he would've received permission to do, if he only asked. It is perspectives like this that make Raian sick to his stomach. And as such, he refuses to work together with Soul Society anymore. He plans to deal with the Quincy on his own terms - as a ryoka - and if the Gotei 13 get in his way, he will fight them too. Of course, leaving him to his own devices isn't particularly something Central 46 will let happen, so of course, Soul Society will issue an order for his capture and execution.

Here's the tricky part though. There may be Captains and other officers that believe in Raian's cause, as they too perhaps grow tired of Soul Society and the Central 46's disregard for life. So if there users that believe their characters would defect to join Raian's faction, I say you go for it. This can lead to another subplot involving a civil war between the Gotei 13 and Raian's rogue Gotei faction. But that's up to the lot of you. Make sure to talk with Ten about that stuff. Raian will make his debut into the Despairing Deserters RP probably right after the two task force members return to report to Kyoraku, so be sure to anticipate that. And we will move from there, I'll make another announcement around that time once we reach that part in Despairing Deserters. There will also be a "D plot" coming up soon, involving the Rukongai citizens and their own "rebellion" of sorts, but more on that on a later date.

So... Let's recap and capitalize on what to do right now.

1. Me and Blank are having an Ichigo vs. Kraven thing that will lead to another situation, but we can treat this as an isolated incident right now.

2. "Despairing Deserters" can be started ASAP. I ask that any user with a character on the task force to please start up the page, and have it start with their member of the task force making their way to the rendezvous location, but so we don't have a chaotic mess of edit conflicts, I want someone to volunteer on this thread to start it up and only do so after my sign off on it. If I am correct, I believe Kazuya said they were heading to the headquarters in Karakura Town where he will be instructing them in useful counterspells and charms. I think that's a good way to start it off, so perhaps it'll be best for Njalm to start off Despairing Deserters. I think it'll be best for the task force to have a training scene in the beginning of Despairing Deserters before the escorts show up, that should be fun, so make sure to follow Njalm's lead on that part.

3. I'll eventually make my post with the two escorts arriving. And from there, things will follow a natural transition that will eventually lead to two task force members going to report to Soul Society.

4. Ten will make his Raian debut sometime shortly after this.

5. And once we reach that part, which will take some time, then I'll make another forum thread like this one for what will follow afterwards.

As always, if anybody has any suggestions or questions, please make them below. 