The Grand Crossover RP - Pathway to Origin [OOC/Apps Closed for Finale]

[Merci]

Awe, but we could've then done it all as one big post :(

Oh, good point. I just realized that since I said 'my next post will carry on the plot', we won't have much to go on for the battle between the two. Alright then, let's take it to PM~

[Admiral_Stalfos19]

Actually, I'm editing a slight amount of stuff for Sarah atm, but it won't be much.

[Phantom Roxas]

Even though the plot will be moving forward, Ophelia's spell to summon opponents will still be active, right? Because I feel that I should summon someone for Eria, plus a surprise character.

[Maeriberii Haan]

Might post several hours from now, still fixing some of the errors.

[Reinforce]

Well, in regards to the situation with the Colosseum, having Isamy find her way in might be the best solution, since I don't really want Ayame to die currently and by the sound of it, Shotaro doesn't want Ed to die either.

[Phantom Roxas]

Ed is Shotaro's only character anyway, and I think that he should team up with Nero to fight Xansvita.

 

By the way, for anyone who has more than one character, who do you think is your "main" character?

[Admiral_Stalfos19]

Don't have one now. Sarah's been around for the longest, but I'm considering having her die around this Arc. Haven't decided on the area of death or method of death yet.

[Phantom Roxas]

See, I was thinking that it was Sarah, although I guess it might have been LERNA prior to the boss fight?

[Kōsuke Ueki]

To be honest, I feel as though Tsunugai will be my main, for multiple reasons:

1. He was intentionally my replacement for Richard after Arc 1.
2. Because I have intentions for Richard to die, Tsunugai will become the most powerful out of the three remaining.
3. He is my own created character from a universe I created through trial and error.
4. Tsunugai has the most development ahead of him for this RP, which I will integrate somewhat into the RP of his source material.

So, to put it simply, the others are there to help further Tsunugai's growth up until the finale.

[Phantom Roxas]

Yeah, I figured as much.

 

So, we're going to lose Richard and Sarah this arc? Good lord. When it comes to characters killed in action as opposed to those marked as dead after their players drop from inactivity, the Counter Corps has suffered far more losses.

[Admiral_Stalfos19]

See, I was thinking that it was Sarah, although I guess it might have been LERNA prior to the boss fight?

 

LERNA was only seriously active during the boss fight though, so for me she doesn't count :I

[Maeriberii Haan]

Yet the CC have a lot more members compared to the Divines.

 

Err, I mean to Phantom Roxas's post.

[Phantom Roxas]

LERNA was only seriously active during the boss fight though, so for me she doesn't count :I

 

Good point.

 

Yet the CC have a lot more members compared to the Divines.

 

Err, I mean to Phantom Roxas's post.

Fair point.

[Love of Ghibli]

I refer to my characters as Team Dorian lol I think it's obvious that my center focus is Dorian. In fact I pretty much circulate my characters around making Dorian live longer lol and they all tend to be more powerful than him.

 

Also really the forest coming alive...sounds like a forest fire about to come forth. Lol

[Kingdom Xathers]

As far as whom I consider my "Main" character to be, it's pretty much a toss-up between Alexander and Alister; on the one hand, Alexander is the "good guy/protagonist" of the two, but on the other hand, I feel that Alister has gone through a bit more character development compared to Alex.  I'd say more, but I don't wish to spoil too much of what I have planned....

 

 

... oh, and sorry for the somewhat "incomplete" post I just made.  I procrastinated quite a bit lot during its typing, but I will try and get more into Sayer's actual battle, as well as start Team Abernathy's fight against Gorlag.  As for Alister, I will say that his "main" summoned adversary with be Tachyon, but he does have another "nuisance" to worry about, as well....

[Reinforce]

Ayame's probably my main, she's had more character development than Darcy up till now, and is also the only one of my current characters that I designed and created as well. Plus, Darcy's not really main character material, and Chandra hasn't been around long enough to have a chance at that spot.

[Phantom Roxas]

Dorian and Ayame as main characters don't really surprise me. However, Sam, I feel that you've done the most with Sayer. I agree that Alister has had more development from Alexander, but I still think Sayer has more relevance. Or maybe this is just from my perspective, given how MachGaogamon attacked him back at the Desert Seth, while Xansvita is now working with him. I think TFF might think Alexander is your main, given how Alexander knew Itsu.

 

Don't worry about the length of your post, by the way. Probably for the best, because we don't want that much time to pass in every area now, given Ophelia's estimate. Given how the effect Sayer's attacks had on Relius and Hazama are ambiguous, I think you and I can leave them be until Merciful's next post.

[Dad]

Alright, I think I took it a bit far, but the soul came from Kratos' Claws.  Gonna have fun.

[Maeriberii Haan]

Didn't quite like the end result, but I guess my post was passable to close both fights.

 

Kazuya's fight pretty much embodied what you should do in the SMT games, that is negotiating with the opposition to make it either join your cause, give you goodies, or just leave you alone (this won't work for bosses usually, but thankfully the stars aligned well for this to actually work). Also, there's some quite vital error in my previous post of him, I'll fix it soon enough.

 

I realized that it might be a quite cheap ending to the fight, but it's kinda the only way left to defeat Michael without actually using deus ex machina. He was too strong for Kazuya's current party (pretty funny form of powercreep. Kazuya, with one of the best set-up for his game (and more), would not stand a chance against the Michael from the newest game.

Moving on.

 

Tenshi's second fight is, to be honest, unneedlessly long. The actual fight itself is actually a fight to control Tenshi's dreamscape, with Gengetsu controlling it at first until Tenshi broke her resolve.

The special effect-laden fight doesn't really mean anything. Just like the first fight with her shadow actually was a fight until Tenshi was able to accept herself. Only Tenshi's ego and stubborness that extended the fight to be that long.

 

Also, if anyone bothered to read the wiki entry of Gengetsu, it'll be revealed that I improvised Gengetsu's ability. That's pretty much necessary since her appearance was short and almost unremarkable in the source material.

 

Eh, I just hope this could end my angsty Tenshi posts that I didn't quite mean to set-up.

 

But ack, this still feels quite weird to me. Especially the ending part of both the fight and the post. I didn't feel like I have written her eleventh hour superpower well, and the part where she was guilt-ridden by her actions to Gengetsu was not giving the point well, without being too forced.

 

Speaking of forced, Tenshi's 'development' is kinda forced here, and I might regret making her start her development now soon, but only time will tell.

 

After this, I guess I'll focus on interacting with others, somehow. Still pretty unsure on how to make Tenshi interact with other Divines, which means that she'll probably try to barge in during a fight or something.

 

Kazuya's interaction are loads easier to make.

 

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As for Roxas's question, it's quite early for me to say that one of my character is my main. Though, style-wise, Tenshi fits that bill more, as she was an underdeveloped character at first. Kazuya is pretty much a complete-character, lore wise, so that only leaves a small room for development, compared to Tenshi. It can be said that Kazuya is close to the stereotypical mentor/senior character, while Tenshi is the hot-blooded newbie from shonen series.

 

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Fark, this had just became longer than I expected it to be. Oh well. Hopefully my next posts would be shorter and filled with interactions.

[The Warden]

Oh Tenshi, you lucky lucky girl. Hapshiel is going to pay you a house call.

[Maeriberii Haan]

On one hand, yay interaction!

 

But on the other hand, it's Hapshiel for heaven's sake.

 

Welp, this might be quite interesting.

[The Warden]

You forgot one thing, it's Hapshiel as controlled by me. That makes it even worse.

[Maeriberii Haan]

Aaah Merci, could I ask something?

 

I am curious about NPCs and/or supporting characters.

 

Anything that should be noted when including them?

[Kōsuke Ueki]

Hey, TFF, your post is missing something. It's starts with a G and ends with a Y. GET TO I- *shot*

 

Actually, maybe it's best we split the remainder of the battle into two parts, both of which we can discuss via PM. How's the sound?

[Phantom Roxas]

Oh no, Heaven forbid that someone doesn't post with every single character they control every time they make a post. Though I am curious where Yuki and Teslarc are.

 

Anyway, since neither Bailas or Christ actually noticed that Gogiga and Dirk were there, I'll post with them just to clear that issue up, but I don't want to just post with only NPCs. However, I refuse to post with Apocrypha again because FFR seriously needs to freaking post, otherwise I'm going to start thinking that the enemy Ophelia summoned for Nero is some invisible creature that sucked out all intelligence and/or motor capability from him. Then again, I could just put the Crest of Sloth on him so there would at least be a reason why Nero hasn't done anything beyond FFR not being online in the past two days.