The 16 Realms - A Final Fantasy Based Story (Interest Check)

[Nine of Hartz]

I originally posted this in the Roleplay Requests by Females but didn't get a lot of interest, so I decided that I would advertise my idea here and shift it to a group game. If you are interested in this idea, please post below with what character you would like to play and a tidbit about them. I will post an example below. I am looking for literate players that are interested in doing a more serious plot. I have nothing against characters having relationships with each other, but this story isn't smut focused. I plan on playing Yuna from FFX.

Now on to plot!​

I’ve been entertaining the thought of specific characters from the various FF games being transported to a different world where they are representatives of their “native” world, almost like Dissidia but with a few tweaks. Our characters, upon their death/sacrifice are faced with a vision beckoning them to fight for their world and save it.

There are a few ways that our characters would make their ways into this new realm:

• Tragic Death: They die before their time is up and are brought forward to the new realm when they are needed.
• Willing Sacrifice: Sensing that there is a greater purpose out there for them, the character willingly surrenders themselves to this unknown force and are transported to the new realm.

When they are transported to the new realm, they are reborn in the new realm and have reverted to adolescents or children. Their memories have been almost completely wiped clean, leaving them with faint memories from the realm they came from. What they all seem to have imprinted on their memories is that they must fight a new enemy in this realm they now exist in to protect the others that they came from. With this new world and new life, they start anew and form new bonds with the others that have come from other realms. After being brought to this new realm, they are paired off with other children that have come from the other realms and work together as teams. As they have grown up together throughout the years, their teamwork and bonds with each other will increase.

In this new world they live in, they are basically considered "messiahs" and have to bear the weight of saving the world they now live in, the world they originally came from, and the other worlds that their teammates came from. There are 10-15 worlds that are known to exist along with this new realm (thus why it's called the 16 Realms). The people that are brought forward from their realms (our characters) act as representatives from each realm. So if you wanted to play a character from FF7, they would be from the 7th Realm. Even though they don't have many memories of their previous lives, I'm thinking that they would have some sort of marker of where they are from on their clothing or possibly tattooed on their body (player choice). The 1st Realm would have a I on it, and a person from the 7th Realm would have a VII somewhere on their clothing.

I'm thinking that as "messiahs," they are alienated from regular society, which increases how much they have to rely on each other for companionship and friendship. They will live in a separate area from the rest of society, either an airship or a large building in the main capital city. The characters we play do not have to be 100% like who they were in the original games. When they are reborn in the new realm they'll emerge in either one of two ways: by natural birth OR through strange crystal pods that grow them new bodies once the soul comes to the new realm.

The children that are born or that come to this new realm are detected by one of the two organizations that are gathering them.

1. The protagonist group is led by the "Director" who leads them on missions to prevent the antagonist from seizing control of the realms. The group working under the Director are tasked with maintaining order within this new realm but also have to destroy sources of destruction/chaos caused by the antagonist's team. This could include facing off on any other players in the game (if they chose to play for the antagonist).
2. The other group that is led by the antagonist will strive to gain control of all the realms. At this point, the antagonist is unknown but I'm thinking that it would be something that is endangering all realms. Whoever/whatever this thing is will end up sending his soldiers into the new realm and into the subsequent 10-15 realms to try and destroy them. I'm willing to let the player decide the current state of their realm, whether it be destroyed or severely damaged from this force.

The children that are born or that come to this new realm are detected by whatever organization is gathering them, they're gathered before the bad guy gets them (so villain characters can come into this realm as well to be good or bad guys) and start training to be soldiers. My plan is that they are all grown up at this point and know of each other. They work solo or in teams and had designated "units". Anyone in the unit would have trained together from a young age and be closer. So our characters could be in the same unit (I'm thinking 2-5 characters per unit) or different ones growing up since they all work together for various missions.

I'm fine people playing more than one character but I want others to have the opportunity to claim them for their primary character first. I don't want anyone hogging characters. Also, please express who you would like to play in this thread and post your character profile in the thread for profiles:

Note: If there are people who would like to play different characters from the same game, I'm willing to let people do that but it will be discussed before the game starts.
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To post your character profile, please visit The 16 Realms Profile Thread.

 

[Phanatik]

I believe I am the only one who's currently an antagonist and being Vincent, I'm a pretty scary one.

 

[Nine of Hartz]

Sorry I was absent for awhile due to work (event where I had to work 12 hour days = no free time x.x) but I am back and will answer everything that has come up in my absence.

Answers for Peeps

Phanatik: If you would like to switch to Vincent that is more than alright by me. Just update your character thread (if you haven't already) and let us know when you've posted the new bio.

Dameon: If you would like to play Zach, that is also fine by me. I don't mind that there are two characters from each world and there shouldn't be too many conflicts between them from their "previous lives" because most of the crew has lost their memories of their previous lives. So feel free to put up a bio of your version of Zach on the bio thread. ^^

Broomhandle45 : Feel free to send me a PM of your ideas. I have an idea for one of the Antagonist minions (who will be below the "big bad guy" that shall remain nameless...) and would like to hear what you're thinking of.

Character Abilities FYI

It was my intention that the abilities your character had in their previous life do not necessarily carry over into this new world. Their souls were carried forward but not their bodies, so there will be many abilities that will be lost BUT there will be new ones to gain in this storyline. I want each of you to think of a summon creature (that could have appeared in the FF series or a different one - which you'll have to supply info/pictures for) because our crew will be using them to get around in the new world.

Okay, I'm off to tweak the character bio threads to add in the summon info. ^^

Edit: Okay, so I added in some info about the summons. You don't have to have one or can wait if you are undecided.

So I'm contemplating getting the ball rolling. I may draft up an intro post (or info on each location this story starts with) to get things out there so people can start writing their character introductions and where they're at throughout this realm. Sound good?​

 

[Nine of Hartz]

Okay so I wanted to post here so everyone knew that I am still looking for interested parties to participate in this game. If you check the profile section, you can see who is taken and which games still have open slots. I've also added quite a bit of supplemental information regarding the 16th Realm (Svyr) and the locations within it.

Please feel free to post questions or PM me.