PLOT BUNNY POST

[willnotdespair]

Also going to be known as the 'LET'S PLOT ALL THE THINGS' post.

Anyways, I told Steph/Emil-Mun that I would make this so here it is! Just a forewarning I absolutely fail at these sort of things so sorry if this is a big mess!

Basically let's all talk about the possibly plots/plans that we currently have and sort them out and everything. This way we can get everyone involved in them and we can also sort them out so we don't completely screw things over with our characters since we have some that we don't want to completely break (Emil and Mithos for example).

As far as I know here are the basic rundowns of the current ideas we currently have:

- Mithos finding out something happens to Martel (not her death) and Lloyd and his friends are to blame. Still need to figure out how exactly Mithos is going to come to this conclusion but Yuan's ring that Lloyd oh so happens to have with him will be a part of it! And.. Mithos is going to find out about Kratos being a traitor somewhere along the lines too because we are horrible people.

- Lloyd and Kratos finding out that they're related. Kaito/Lloyd-Mun and Olga/Kratos-Mun can explain the details much more than me obviously but it has something to do with Zelos saying it and Kratos disappearing for a week (with this + what happens with Mithos on top of it*)

* Basically Kratos has become our cast's punching bag. WE LOVE YOU KRATOS

- ALL THE FLUFF TIMES AFTER ALL THE HORRIBLE THINGS WE DO.

Of course, we need to incorporate a few things into these (such as the rest of our lovely cast!) and obviously more plot things are more than welcome to happen! Such as Lloyd and Colette accidentally getting together which is so so much fluffier than the drama I've listed above! Also there are more details with the plots above but uh... I'll put them somewhere (probably edit this post with everything along the way for organization purposes).

So gogogogo! Let us plot to our heart's content!

Comments

[willnotdespair]

I'm probably going to hold off after this post and wait for someone else to say something because ahh I might be getting everything wrong/thinking too hard. But anyways, Lloyd being contradicted make sense. Mithos is pretty sagacious though so any minor contradictions he'll be able to pinpoint them and draw them out (which is why I think it might help to discuss this more when it gets closer to when he's being told this so I know exactly all he knows so we can sort out any and all contradictions beforehand). I can see the thing with Ratatosk and Mithos working as well though... Mithos knows how spirits work so again: what Lloyd says will influence what he thinks of that.

I think it's more of a 'why does Lloyd have the ring and not Yuan' than Yuan having the ring (because for all we know the ring yuan have is Yuan's engagement ring. Think we'll be deciding whose it is later but I think we're leaning towards it being Yuan's? Lloyd is the one with the ring so Kaito can decide that! Also I don't think there will be any right answer for the ring since Mithos will probably just ask him 'where did you get this ring' and I.. don't actually remember whether or not Lloyd knows that it's Yuan. I think he.. might?

Also need to sort out the whole 'traitor' thing with Kratos if this were to happen. I'm sure it can be a whole 'oh he was just pretending' sort of like in canon but yeah. Wanna see what others say as well!

... As a side note I don't think Mithos likes the idea of Martel being a mother. Especially in which her child ends up being an orphan. xD;

[boredallready]

At this point I've been thinking that Lloyd's going to end up telling Mithos an abridged version of how they met him, i.e. trying to leave out Cruxis and the angels. I doubt he'll have time to prepare and he's the sort to start talking about it before realizing that the details ruin stuff. Plus for all he knows Mithos really is from Ozette. If we need to work things a certain way we can obviously figure that out!

And with the ring, I think it would make sense if we had it be either Martel's or Yuan's. My headcanon has been that it's Yuan's, but if it needs to be hers for plot reasons that won't be a problem.

[ninjainviolet]

Yeah, Sheena's already avoided the whole Cruxis/Angel thing with Mithos, so that should be fairly easy. And unless we get a Raine or Genis here from the same time as Sheena, Lloyd could always be as shocked as Mithos about being a spirit, since we all know what a good student Lloyd is. *cough*nap time*cough*

LOL Lloyd's slacking in class, and Sheena's lack of education just might work to their advantage.

As for Mithos focusing on that one contradiction, Sheena could just blurt out that he's dead--giving the reason why she was trying to avoid telling him so much. They could also come up with the key being the Summon Spirits, but it took another 3900 years for a summoner to show up. Kratos and Yuan figured out that the planets needed to be whole for the seed to germinate, but there was no one else available to make the pacts so Origin couldn't be brought out to fix things.

As for the ring...well...hmmm...I've always thought it was Martel's. That she gave it to Yuan when she died, hoping he'd find someone else. Because, seriously, that would be something she'd do and want.

Sheena wouldn't say Martel being her mother in a way that was true--she just doesn't know her parents. It would be her way of saying, she's alive, but no one knows where she is.

[willnotdespair]

Wait.. who's dead? I'm not sure what contradiction you're trying to focus on because there are so many right now. I'll answer everything else later (when I can brain) but I can't... figure out whose dead. I'm guessing Mithos but I'm not sure which contradiction that's covering. Though for the most part I think we need Kratos' input in things since he's pieced a few things together and told Lloyd what he suspected. Also Kratos' plans and reactions of course.

Nah. I think we came to the conclusion that it's Yuan's (I spoke with my sister about it and ahahaha... the conversation killed me). To put it simply Martel's last words were about stopping discrimination to her brother so there wouldn't be any time for her to go 'oh hey Yuan take care of this ring for me' considering the circumstances. And... Yuan isn't a grave robber and doesn't go around stealing things from dead bodies.

Still putting in the fact that contradictions will have to be sorted out after the falling out since I'm certain all of this will be part of piecing everything back together. There are still things Mithos is to learn and so while all of this might sort out what he currently knows if he's told anything weird it's going to make this harder. Also I think there are actually details that I'm forgetting but I've been on a lack of sleep all day Why am I trying to plot SOB.

[knightofcourage]

Ninja-ing in to say GO TO SLEEP.

Yeah I'll go back to studying now. DISCRETE MATH HELP.

[willnotdespair]

I CAN'T. If I do now I'll either sleep until morning (which would be good) or wake up a few hours later and stay up all night.

I FAIL AT MATH I CAN'T. I'M LIKE... LLOYD.

[ninjainviolet]

Mithos would be the one dead. Sorry I wasn't clear on that.

[willnotdespair]

Which contradiction would that help? The way I'm thinking it would actually make things worse considering other than Colette (which is why this idea would be good if we can make everything clear. Colette knowing the legend + the 4000 year thing) all of Lloyd's other friends have said they have met him. Mithos wouldn't take it too well if he was then told 'oh you're dead' and some excuse to how/why they said they've met him before. He.. probably wouldn't trust any of them again as a result for being lied to that badly (and it'll be harder to fix than learning about Kratos' betrayal because he hasn't gotten to the point where he trusts any of them yet).

... in fact I think that just makes more contradictions than fixing them.

BUT AGAIN I'm probably thinking this out all wrong feel free to correct me!

[ninjainviolet]

Okay. Does Mithos want to be alive? Or does he want to be the Great Hero who sacrificed his life--able to manifest to others as the "Spirit of the Great Tree"?

It depends on which one you want him to be in the future, because he really can't be both, right?

[willnotdespair]

I AM SO SORRY. /sob. But we still make something work. He is naive to believe something if there... aren't any contradictions he can point out.

He already believes that he's the Hero that ends the war (because... he does) who ends up sacrificing his life for the seed. Naivety kicked in here because he believed it once Kratos said that it was the truth to the future. And... he was all right with it and guessed 'oh. I meet Lloyd and his friends a little after the war but before I sacrifice myself okay' and even though there are several contradictions (Colette and the several contradictions that arise from her) he was willing to take it as the truth.

But then the gap between the war ending and him meeting everyone else became bigger. XD;

As... far as I know these are the order of events if it helps:
Mithos thinks Lloyd did something terrible and blame him and his companions -> Mithos finds out Kratos betrays the group/gets told the "lie" that Kratos is probably going to tell him to fix the first problem -> Star Wars event. Kratos goes MIA for a week -> insert other possible things here -> FLUFF.

(On a side note: Guys if this seems like I'm taking over this too much please please tell me and I'll back down. ;; I'm starting to feel like I'm being a little overbearing on this orz )

[knightofcourage]

Totally not overbearing. GO ON.

I will go back to posting things of substance tomorrow I swear.

Edit: STILL NOTHING OF SUBSTANCE, but reading over this post again makes me think of this slide from my discrete math class, on writing good proofs:



Carry on, I will stare at this post again when I'm not watching the Avengers movie.

[willnotdespair]

.... That slide. It should not match this case as well as it does.

Also Avengers movie hnnnng so jealous. I want to see that so bad.

And here is me just adding to the posts with no substance pft.

I swear this should be the last edit. ;_;

[ninjainviolet]

Don't worry about it, and just plot along without me for right now. I'll go with whatever. I'm having some RL issues that won't let me think straight.

Just let me know what you want me to do (except die--I just got here. LOL). Several times in the past groups I've been in, people plotted things out but forgot to tell me I was involved, then everyone was yelling at me because the plot died because I didn't act. :(

And seriously, I apologize if I've been sounding snarky lately. RL hasn't been too nice to me lately.