Still working on that title.  Anyway...

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[center][h1][color=fff200][b]Welcome[/b][/color][/h1][/center]

Before you ask, it is important to note that if you have not played the Final Fantasy 7 Remake, this will contain spoilers regarding the events of the game.  More importantly, it is because of those spoilers that this RP exists.  That said, it is [i]also[/i] because of said spoilers that RP is not tied down by certain things either.  This is an alternative take on the world that lives both inside and outside the events that made it.  If you wish to proceed, I will explain below.  If you're not interested, though, no harm done.


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For those of you who either already know or don't care about the spoilers, this roleplay is here now because - in an unexpected decision - continuity was broken, deliberately broken, in the Remake.  The trope of Screw Destiny was invoked as part of the plot, with the battle against the cloaked figures, the Arbiters of Fate, in the game.  Not everyone liked this.  I'm a little more forgiving.  I can see WHY, and it's kept me interested, though I played the original game back in the late 90s and early 2000s.

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Because the main characters of this story broke the story wide open, they didn't just tear away a legion of entities that guide everything, they actually altered history.  They messed with time.  What that means for them, we don't know.  [b]THIS is a story where they have ceased to exist.[/b]  The main cast have created a world where their lives in the past still happened, but up to a certain point, they are gone and [i]no longer[/i] the ones who drive this plot forward.  Other people, [i]different[/i] people from different walks of life, will do so instead, changing story and the events that surround them.  Because the world was broken wide open, we are free to explore it as we wish.  Some things will remain, because it still has a history and an infrastructure, and therefore a plot, but there are no Arbiters here to push things this way and that.  Your actions will change what occurs, for better or for worse.

So, this leaves you with a fair amount of freedom to do things differently.  Dependent on the types of characters we get, as well as what they do, things could turn out better...or far worse.  This is a world that has retained a strong following to this day, arguably more-so than any of the other Final Fantasy games.  We've essentially been given the green light to mess about, not that that ever stopped anyone before.  This is all in effort to tell a story and to have fun in a world well-known.  If you grew up on this stuff, welcome.  If you're new to this game, still welcome.
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This roleplay is largely story-and-character driven, though I will be paying attention to equipment, resources, skills, etc. to an extent.  I don't want and do not care about stats, but what you have and what you do for a living will factor in.  When I ran a Fallout RP for a few years, we all joked about our SPECIAL stats in the profiles, but they didn't mean anything.  I didn't impose strict rules on ammo count, the money you had, or other little things like that.  Certain traits applied to situations there, and they will here too.  The most important thing to note is that I like a creative edge.  Some of your resources will be limited because you're not likely to have the best of the best, even if you're a First Class SOLDIER, but if I like an idea you're putting forth, I'll go with it.  My Fallout RP made popular a traveling undertaker, an Enclave Scout of America, and a delightful young girl mentally programmed to kill, among others.  And make no mistakes, I am open to the use of non-human Final Fantasy races existing on the world of Gaia.  All I ask is that you understand that people will treat you very differently for obvious reasons.

[center][b]This is the game.  Are there any takers?  Any questions?  Comments?  Death threats?

(Don't send death threats.  Questions answered will appear below this line.)

There is now a Discord link.  It is [url=https://discord.gg/zXyZKk]HERE.[/url]  If it expires, please ask for a new one.  The Role for those interested is Midgar Party.[/b][/center]


[i]-How will you be handling certain plot points relevant to the world (such as Shinra and the Ancients)?[/i]

The antagonists are still antagonizing.  To wit, Shinra and their plans for the Promised Land are still a thing, as is Sephiroth, which means that the chances of being sworded to death by a large Japanese blade are still there.  When I say that the infrastructure and past events still happened, I mean that Shinra still made Midgar and that there's at least one version of Avalanche at large.  Jenova still hit the planet and her headless body is still in a lab.  Sephiroth still went crazy and Nibelheim still burned (and the whole thing was subsequentally covered up after the fact).  The normal [i]protagonists[/i] are gone.  They didn't make it.  At some point in their lives, they died, or never existed.  Now, this raises the question: Wait, don't we need an Ancient for things to go forward?  Perhaps.  You can make a member of the Cetra if you want.  I'm going to say it won't be [i]entirely[/i] necessary, after a bit of thinking, and leave it at that.


[i]-Would you accept a adherent of the Rufus way of combat maybe? I'm just curious.[/i]

You mean like guns and hound dogs?  I got no problems.  This game featured main characters who wielded a BFS, had big guns mounted to their arm, used fist-fighting techniques, had magic staffs, were literally animalistic, was apparently a ninja, was a remote control toy, and of course used different guns.

Speaking of Cait Sith, since he's not a real boy, his controller is still here, but the creation has not been [i]created[/i].  Just clearing that up.

[b]The OOC exists.  It is [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/182522-final-fantasy-7-redone/ooc]HERE.[/url][/b]