Perfect dream storyline for wish FFVII-2

[zacks_clone]

I'd like FFVII-2 to be a prequel rather than a sequel... The Story of a Hero... Sephiroth's story... his rise in Soldier to his fall in Nibelhiem, concentraiting mostly on the Wutai war and ShinRa's rise to power.

yes,yes yes,i think so too..

[Auron_Kotetsu]

Aaaaaand we're back!

I know i said i'd edit my additions in, but i decided just to post again... because i hate editing, and nobody ever looks at edited stuff... Well, i don't anyway. and we all know that I'M the only one that matters here.

First off, I'd like to apologize for the delay (if anyone cares.) They're beta-testing the new Diablo II patch, and i had to get in on that. i'm taking off valuable playing time right now. be grateful!

Second, i'd like to give a cookie to Silence for being totally on top of his sh*t. I'd forgotten about the whole Reeve saving Marlene thing. Oh, and Silence, me bucko, we're on the complete same page with this whole sequel thing. I liked where you went with your spiel. Bravo.

Now, before i continue with plottage, some hole-patching to repair your excellent points.

-I'm aware that dead people seem to be popping up like acne on a stockboy. However, these were all people that got SEVERELY effed with by Mako and the Planet. You can't do that and just expect to die. For instance:
Sephiroth's excuse (which i was too tired to elaborate on) is that the planet, upon sensing the arrival of his consciousness to the Lifestream, rejected his essence, which it deemed too evil for absorption, and basically spat him back out into the world of the living. He didn't survive, he basically just got kicked out of heaven AND hell.
Aeris wasn't human. She was Cetra. What were Cetra? How do we know that she couldn't have been netted by Holy? And anyway, her reappearance would be brief... lifeforce can only be held together for so long after it's been dissipated.
Hojo was a mishmash of God-only-knows what. Are we even sure that being blown apart would kill him? With the original Jenova, being chopped up and injected into people didn't stop her from coming back together.

I think those are the only ones i'm bringing back. And i don't think they're that far fetched. It's not like we ALL don't want more of Aeris, Seph, and Jenova. Hojo is to Jenova what a leash holder is to an attack doberman, so he's gotta come too, to speak for her.

About the whole Cloud being dead thing... He HAS to be dead. I'll find a better way to off him, but he needs to be dead. You'll see. Oh, and did i say Tifa just sits around and tends his tomb? Heavens no! She also goes to bingo and Thursday night bridge. (hee.) She's a bit down over his death. Broken-hearted for the life they might have shared, let's say.

I really don't care if my main character uses sock puppets as weapons. It just seemed to me like FF games have main characters that tend to use swords ('cept for Squall... and i maintain that that thing was at least 75% sword... and Zidane, but he sucked so he doesn't count.)

And... I hated Cait Sith. I refused to ever use him. So i want Reeve to be dead. Cait didn't make sense as a character. I made a thread about it a while ago. So, *mumble* i guess Reeve will be alive, leading from the rear like he always does. He works with Barret. Yeah. That's it. He's a janitor. Ass.

*does some quick write-ins, and returns to storyline*

SO...

The (sort of) heroes arrive at Danshai, now completely certain that they've been followed, but unable to catch their pursuer. They board a ship, ceratin that they'll lose whoever it is here. (I'll note here that Barret's first official act was to ban all use of Mako as an energy source. The only Mako now harvested comes from Lake Mideel and is used in the manufacture of Materia, which is now the only source of power under AVALANCHE's laws.) The party discovers a white Chocobo in the ship's hold, hidden behind some crates. Nearby, they find a young girl in ninja garb asleep, whom they recognize as Marlene. Marlene upon awakening, confesses that she is the tracker, and that she wanted to join the comrades but was unsure they'd be willing. She was trained by her Aunt Yuffie, who became good enough friends with Tifa that young Marlene frequently vacationed in the now sprawling empire of Wutai. Queen Yuffie has returned Wutai to its former glory, covering the entirety of the Western continent and dominating trade in that region, as well as being the leading manufacturer of ships in the world. Marlene was able to track so stealthily due to the fact that she was riding the white chocobo, which she got from the Chocobo Ranch near Kalm shortly after moving there.
In battle, Marlene uses claw weapons, and is a fairly capable magic user.

As the ship sails for Mideel, a Zolom attacks (Zoloms, when their swamp flooded, went out into the sea and encountered the shards of Emerald WEAPON, which merged with the giant snakes, driving them mad, and causing them to grow even larger and more dangerous. They look really cool now.) The ship begins to founder, and is rescued by a giant freighter bound for Southern Wutai. The party disembarks in the thriving port metropolis of South Wutai, which has sprung up in the five years since the last game. In the city, they hear tales of strange happenings outside the walls. People have been disappearing, going mad, and commiting horrible acts without reason. There is also talk of a mysterious vigilante that roams the mountains of Wutai by night. You leave the town, headed for North Wutai to see Marlene's aunt, Queen Yuffie.

Between South Wutai and North Wutai you have to find Vincent, much like you have to find Yuffie in FFVII. You encounter him, and he sees Sephiroth and is shocked. You have to answer him properly and assuage his fears about Sephiroth. Answer wrong and he will attack. When he joins your party, he will explain that he is already hardly the hero he used to be. He spent months in Lucrecia's cave after everything transpired, after which he traveled to Lake Mideel, where he dove into the Lifestream, wishing to join Lucrecia. Instead, he emerged a mindless beast, ravaging the woods around Mideel, neither thinking nor feeling at all human.Finally, Barret led a group of AVALANCHE soldiers to capture his friend, and they were able to catch him and tranquilize him. The time he spent in monster form left him barely a shell of a man, and he was long in remembering even who he was. He spent two months in the Midgar hospital, before, one night, he leapt from his window onto a nearby building, and has roved ever since. He haunted the Shinra mansion in Nibelheim for three years, and then came to the Western continent to live in the mountain caves. He is still as goth and moody and angst-ridden as ever. Woot.

Dammit... it's getting late again... Well, i'll try to do some more tomorrow. I have work to wake up for. Do feel free to pick at it some more, though. Some parting stuff:

-The Turks are now a mercenary group. We'll be hearing from them later.

-Red XIII runs what is left of Cosmo Canyon. Cosmo Canyon was overrun by a Gi resurgence three years after Meteor. It is now a hotzone, and Red is a war leader.

I spose that's all i got. I'll be back later.

[one_winged_angel]

hey silence,
1. sry for the screw up in ff recitings
2. yes all dbz villains are like that
3. maybe the planet could transport all the good species to the 'real' promised land

[stealth_spider]

Oh man, so many good ideas floating around this place.

Auron_Kotetsu and Silence, i admire the amount of thought and careful planning you guys have put into the idea of a ff7-2 sequel. It is truly because of you guys, that I keep trying to come up with new ideas.

I as well believe that the main Villains should be Hojo, Jenova and Zach.

After Hojo got busted up in the first game, he pulled himself back together after a while. Realizing that he is not as powerful as he thought he was (after getting his ass handed to him by Cloud and Co.) he decided he needs to recruit himself some more Jenova cells to become more powerful, and he goes to the only place that still has some. Since Cloud is out of commision, Sephiroth had is Jenova cells destroyed by Cloud, all the test subjects in the black capes were executed by sephiroth, and Jenova herself was destroyed...the only place left is the Shinra Mansion.

In the basement in the locked room with the coffins, Vincent was not the only thing put to rest. There, Hojo uncovers Zach's coffin where he was laid after he was shot for trying to escape. After 25 years of rest, Zach's Jenova cells revived him and made him stronger than ever. Hoping to extract his Jenova cells, Hojo experiments with him only to wake him. In the confrontation between a rejuvinated Zach and recovering Hojo, Zach easily defeats Hojo and makes his escape.

In this brand new world, Zach only has memories of his past life of pain and suffering, betrayal and torture. He can recall only the sins of man kind. The war, the anger, the hate, the prejudice. The cruel things that they do to each other. The loss of Aeris, his parents and his old life are only fuel to his urge to cleanse the planet of such an impure race. Like Jenova who flows through his veins, he infects the creatures of this planet with Jenova cells, mutating them into organisms that he can control. By doing this, he can manipulte the consciousness of all beings to eliminate the pain and suffering in the world (kinda starting to sound like Seymour eh?). And mid-way though the game he has a revalation that his method is too slow, and that he should just directly infect the lifesteam to control the planet itself.

Hojo, on the other hand is like a kid in a candy factory because he is absorbing the Jenova cells from the people/animals/stuff that Zach infects. He is becoming stronger thanks to Zach.

I'm still having trouble trying to find a way to incorporate Jenova herself as the mastermind behind the whole plot.

Also, I have an idea for another character. A man who can summon, use magic and materia related skills/abilities with out the actual use of materia. His name is Trego Fitzgerald. His secret is that he is the child of the life stream, born once every thousand years, a legend that was rumored even to the cetra and died with them long ago. There are no modern records of the child of the life stream. It is an extension of the planet that posesses a living host. I'm not sure what kind of role he'll play yet, but who knows.

So, at 1:52am, survey says.......good?

[Auron_Kotetsu]

This isn't a story continuation, so you know. I just have to give stealth_spider two HOLY CRAP!'s

The first is that i was headed in mine to the point at which Jenova is intent on infecting and corrupting the Lifestream and killing the planet, just like you said with yours.

The second is that I was working towards introducing a "Materia-man" who could perform new abilities as he leveled, just like your Trego fella. I hint at it with the whole "interesting side to materia" in my first story post. So there you go.

Great minds, apparently, really DO think alike. I'll keep it up later. Now it's D2 beta-testing time... *scampers off*

[one_winged_angel]

hey someone post something i don't want this post to die out, i mean COME ON GUYS!