Kingdom Hearts Adjacent Interest Check

[Olive Fontaine]

This is something that I've been wanting to put together for a long time, but I want to put out some feelers to see if there's any actual interest.

The basic pitch is that this will a multiversal setting, with characters hailing from different worlds. Instead of being heroes of light traveling around to save the day, however, we will be broken souls trying to pick up the pieces. Our characters already failed once in the struggle against darkness; they lost both their world and their heart. But something of them yet remained, and they were reborn as incomplete people with incomplete memories (a similar set-up to Organization XIII and the nobodies.) A small community of intelligent nobodies has arisen, but it's nothing like a pleasant society. Their members travel the worlds of darkness to recover memories and fragments of light. Finding one's own memory is like regaining a cherished treasure - it restores power and solidity to a nobody. The other memories are brought back to home base to be used as part of the higher ups' plans. They're working on creating a simulated world from the fragments of memory; one that would be permanently sealed off from the power of darkness.

So most of the roleplay will involve traveling through ruined worlds, fighting off the powers of darkness, and reminiscing about better days. There will be a good amount of action due to the danger of the setting and the power of our characters (which will be definitely fantastical but not superhero level). Occasionally we may pop into worlds of light, but we are not to align ourselves with the heroes of light. And for a specific reason - the heroes of light open the pathways between worlds as they travel and gain power from it. But having the pathways open is the very condition which leads to a world's total consumption by the infinite armies of darkness.

I'm looking for characters that have interesting and thematic powers. It's also a requirement for your character to have a certain amount of angst, whether from traumatic memories, or feelings of loss related to the destruction of his home world, or even from the diminishment of his sense of self. Eventually I'd like to pin down some specific things that each of us has forgotten about, and some important things that we do remember. It will bring the narrative together more organically.

I will control the worlds and enemies, and play a character as well. But this will be a collaborative experience - if you have some good ideas I'd be happy to try and work them in if I think they fit. I'm okay with players having a few other minor characters that they can control, but just don't let it mess up our atmosphere of loneliness.

Let me know what you think!

[Letter Bee]

I might - might - be interested, but I might not have the time.

[Olive Fontaine]

Understandable. Are there any character ideas or powers you’re interested in discussing?

[Letter Bee]

Understandable. Are there any character ideas or powers you’re interested in discussing?

@Olive Fontaine

A character with the power of 'Hope Manifestation', which allows him to use his own hope and other people's hope to create constructs of hard light, heal people, protect himself with energy shields, and fly.

Is that all right?

Edit: Also, are our OCs the villains, antagonists, or anti-heroes?

[Olive Fontaine]

That sounds pretty interesting. It does seem like it could be a bit strong to start off with. Flying is considered something of a special ability in KH, so I don't know about that. But jumping really high and other acrobatic stunts are very doable. Maybe just focus on the constructs and shielding to begin with, and we can think of other powers to unlock later.

I think it's a good idea to have a special focus or weapon as well. We're not necessarily going with keyblades but each character would probably have a unique weapon based on their past life.

As to whether we are villains or heroes, we're positioned in a fun way to be somewhere in the middle. We're definitely opposed to the darkness after losing everything to it. On the other hand we spend most of our new lives in the worlds of darkness, and we're well-suited to it compared to regular humans. Having no heart makes us less vulnerable to darkness, and less appealing targets for mindless heartless. But we also oppose the warriors of light. We see them as naïve and tragic fools. In trying to save their worlds, they doom them to destruction (like we did.)

Our guild of nobodies is trying to carve out a third position in the grand conflict between light and darkness.

[ANYM]

Might be interested, so long as I don't have to delve too deep into KH lore again. I don't even want to guess how the Master of Masters would tie into this. One question though. Are we playing strictly younger characters? Or can we play adults?

[Olive Fontaine]

You need not bother delving into the game lore. This rp was inspired by KH but it's not deeply integrated into the games or anything like that. The borrowed ideas are all drawn from the early games - nothing really past KH2. Mostly just basic concepts like hearts, heartless, nobodies, light, darkness, worlds, keyblades, etc. So there is no Master of Masters to worry about.

And adult characters are fine! Let me know if you have any concepts you want to run by me.

[ANYM]

Regarding concepts, I was thinking simply when it comes to powers and such. A former knight (largely inspired by characters like Garland, as that's the closest FF character I can think of atm) who failed to defend his world from the Heartless and watched it fall, becoming encased in his armor as a result, which has itself been twisted by the Darkness. An unending fuel for his unending hate towards it perhaps, although apparently Nobodies don't feel emotions due to their lack of a heart. I'm thinking he can control black flames ala a sort of corrupted version of Firaga, and can freeze enemies in place via Stop. Beyond that maybe he could have a barrier ability or--failing that--an ability like Terror.

[Olive Fontaine]

That sounds really cool! ^^ Stop is a traditional magic from the series and its fine to use, I would just expect it to be less effective against more powerful enemies. Using Dark Firaga would definitely be okay. Terror sounds fine too.

Also, nobodies totally can experience emotions. Otherwise there would be no reason to be sad about our loss. They're incomplete, but certainly not unfeeling.

[ANYM]

Well I'm glad to hear that in this case, cause the game's lore makes them all pretend as they chase after what they remember of their former emotions, which just adds another unnecessary detail to keep track of really. Especially when you consider that explaining it via them being incomplete is just so much simpler.

[Letter Bee]

That sounds pretty interesting. It does seem like it could be a bit strong to start off with. Flying is considered something of a special ability in KH, so I don't know about that. But jumping really high and other acrobatic stunts are very doable. Maybe just focus on the constructs and shielding to begin with, and we can think of other powers to unlock later.

I think it's a good idea to have a special focus or weapon as well. We're not necessarily going with keyblades but each character would probably have a unique weapon based on their past life.

As to whether we are villains or heroes, we're positioned in a fun way to be somewhere in the middle. We're definitely opposed to the darkness after losing everything to it. On the other hand we spend most of our new lives in the worlds of darkness, and we're well-suited to it compared to regular humans. Having no heart makes us less vulnerable to darkness, and less appealing targets for mindless heartless. But we also oppose the warriors of light. We see them as naïve and tragic fools. In trying to save their worlds, they doom them to destruction (like we did.)

Our guild of nobodies is trying to carve out a third position in the grand conflict between light and darkness.

@Olive Fontaine

I see. Might not join, then.

[Wayward]

I have been itching for some Kingdom Hearts in my RP itinerary.

Will we be playing as characters from the games or OCs?

[Double]

Also interested. Are we talking about Disney worlds or just made-up worlds in general?

[Olive Fontaine]

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I see. Might not join, then.

@Letter Bee

Fair enough. If you want to voice your concerns though maybe I can make it better for you.

I have been itching for some Kingdom Hearts in my RP itinerary.

Will we be playing as characters from the games or OCs?

@Wayward

Mostly OCs I think. But if you’re interested in a canon character just ask. Like I said though we’re not using much plot from the later games, so we might have to rework/simplify the backstory a bit.

Also interested. Are we talking about Disney worlds or just made-up worlds in general?

@Double

The worlds will mostly be custom creations, or based on anime/final fantasy worlds. There may be a little bit of Disney stuff but it will be way less prevalent. If you have any requests though I’ll think it over.

[Double]

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The worlds will mostly be custom creations, or based on anime/final fantasy worlds. There may be a little bit of Disney stuff but it will be way less prevalent. If you have any requests though I’ll think it over.

@Olive Fontaine

Got it. I dig the idea of being from a Western world so I might run with that in some form.

[Letter Bee]

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Fair enough. If you want to voice your concerns though maybe I can make it better for you.

@Olive Fontaine

It's more like I prefer to play Heroes.

[ANYM]

I am curious to know how we'll get to other worlds without Keyblades though. Will we be using Corridors of Darkness or something analogous to that?

[Olive Fontaine]

Yep, that's right! Our characters can use the corridors of darkness to travel between worlds. That being said, a keyblade isn't strictly forbidden if you want one as your special weapon.

[Wayward]

Just to be clear, we'd be playing as Nobodies?

[Olive Fontaine]

That's right!