In the face of recent events, I propose a reboot, we're still very early so it isn't a big deal and it handles our situation very well. If we look at it, ours resembles many comics, which initially, were not written to be consistent but had to be so later, and as I'm sure many of you know what a comic reboot is. Essentially the entire series is undone and given a fresh start due to any variety of plot holes/complexities/cover-ups which the authors no longer wish to deal with. As such this fixes many of the problems (IMO)
1.) Lack of consistency- While it sounds very general the problem form which I find every other problem stems from is that the story is written in an "And then" fashion instead of "Therefore and But", what this means is events just happen in a sequence and we have multiple things happening but no clear reason or goal.
For example we have Saya, En and the whole Immortality conflict, but then we have this thing with the seeds too which correlate to the immortality and an alchemist and two parts. The problem is we have to use and a lot when we shouldn't have to.
Ex.) En wakes up with no memory and then bumps into Maybrie and then is taken back and meets Mara and then goes back to her house and has memory surges and then Clive stuff.
It's very hard to put therefore (otherwise reason for the next event) in our current plot, a better way would be.
Ex.) En wakes up with no memory therefore goes to find a place to recuperate and collect his thoughts therefore tries to find clues to what happened, but notices many other people wearing the same uniform as him therefore he stops a girl wearing the uniform and asks her about the school and such therefore she is confused as to why someone who has the uniform and presumably already goes to the school needs basic info and questions his character, but helps him out after his pleading.
A better way to describe it would be that while I was reading posts I felt I had missed a post or there was some gap in events (ex. King to En then to Mara meeting then to her house then back to school).
2.) Lore consistency- Simply, there is no need for both Saya and the seeds, having both plots based around immortality is redundant and they don't really work with each other very well, the former is close to suspense magic VILLAIN based plots like When Seagulls Cry where it's more about puzzles and wit.
The latter is a Magic OBJECT plot which lends itself to combat or shonen oriented plots like D.Gray Man.
In my opinion we can keep both but (and this goes back to the title) we need to make them work together and be part of a consistent lore/world.
3.) Location- Simple, we just need to pick a place, considering everything Japan would be the easiest and offers the least conflict with current workings.
So here's my reboot proposal:
In the world a few select are born with -DRIVES-, Drives function as boosted, seemingly magical abilities reflecting the person's will and inner mind. Only very recently discovered and thought to have not yet been applicable to humans (They found it in Pepe the Talking Chimpanzee), the Drive's power originates from the power of the enigmatic World Tree (I'm not spelling out that long name right now) where Pepe hails from.
The Tree is a cornerstone for the supernatural world which hides beneath the surface of the current one, and is traditionally guarded by a person who holds an Immortality based Drive. The current guardian though, Saya, has gone rouge, due to two reasons, The Seed of Life (Creation) and The Seed of Death (Apocalypse).
The two seeds are the few fruit born from the Tree, sometimes only coming once every few centuries, they forcibly activate dormant Drives and strengthen those Drives immensely when just one is consumed, hence why Saya wants both so bad. Knowing this her son, En, stole both and fled to prevent his mother from abusing such great power; on the run for years before finally being caught in a desperate struggle with his mother.
On the verge of defeat, he used the last part of his power to first cast away one seed to a place his mother could never reach, and then on his last breaths hide himself from his mother along with seed, suppressing its power along with his own in addition to his memory and age.
I think this works well because if we want more Durarara (Normal wit supernatural touches) we can limit who has Drives (aka Powers) and if we want D.Gray Man they can slowly be handed out, also we can adjust what we want it to be (combat vs. wit) using the same principle.
Characters:
En- Possess the Nidhogg Drive, it grants him immortality by feeding on the energy of others including himself, he holds the Seed of Death and has been deaged and had his memories suppressed following his previous confrontation with his mother.
Saya- Possess the Odin Drive, it grants her immortality and the ability of speech craft allowing her to control a variety of things with simply the power of her voice, seeks the seeds and their power.
Clive- Possess the Moon Drive which allows to change his appearance and age like the stages of the moon, seeks revenge on the immortals for an unknown grievance in the past, a master manipulator who drives the plot.
Thompson (Bar guy forgot name)- Holder of the extremely rare Luck Drive of which he has no control over, one of Clive's few companions and one of the few privy to the details of his intricate plans and the ability to understand them.
Maybrie- Mara's daughter who goes to the same school as En, seeks to live up to her mother's grand reputation and looks.
Mara- Once one of En's friends before he was deaged and the school nurse, she wonders if she should reveal En's past to him or let him try a normal life.
Bale- The school deadbeat janitor, composed of wasted potential, he infrequently interacts with Mara and the other faculty while drawn into the Immortal conflict.
Xylia- Holder of the dangerous Philosopher's Drive, it plagues her with a constant vision of numbers, equations, ans strange symbols in exchange for massive knowledge, which may include the secrets of the Tree, can pull literal MacGuyvers
Yamada- Delinquent, fights shit.
characters are subject to change pretty sure i got them all.
Umm...I can understand some of ur above complaints, both my biggest problem is wondering how we incorporate Japan into the mix? I mean ive seen a few shows with it, but I hav a feeling if I wrote in that location, it would end up sounding Anerican in Japanish
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