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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-05-06 07:00 pm

[ SECRET POST #2681 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2681 ⌋

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pantswarrior: Dear characters: I'm nicer to you than the canon. (author is nice)

Re: Fanfiction or original fiction -- advice ?

[personal profile] pantswarrior 2014-05-07 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I... sorta have a fic like this. It started out a Vagrant Story fic, but none of the characters in it are actually in the game. Some of their names and a few details about them are in the descriptions of certain magical artifacts, in most cases. The one character who even is mentioned in the game proper is Mullenkamp, the founder of the "cult" that serves as initial antagonists. And basically what we know about her is that the city of Lea Monde is known as her city (or her followers' city?), she lived ages ago, and she was a dancer and high priestess. We see her dancing in the opening FMV, and that's it.

And I have this elaborate headcanon involving her and some of the originators of those other magical relics, but... basically none of them are actually known characters, and they could just as easily be made into original characters.

But the whole plot is pretty much explaining the origins of the cult and why the city is what it is and why certain magical items exist, and if there's no connection to the actual canon, then why does anyone care about the origins of the cult or the reasons/methodology for turning Lea Monde into what it became and how those magical relics came to exist? Not to mention I'm blatantly leaning on those item descriptions and certain game mechanics as part of the worldbuilding.

So yeah, I'm in the same boat, and no advice here because I'm just as stumped.