Post by Kenichi Ichidai on Dec 28, 2016 19:19:54 GMT -5
Okay, I get that this is an AU forum and that some things will be different from canon. But I've come across a few situations where other members talk about certain aspects of "site canon" as if they were common knowledge. However, despite searching high and low I couldn't find any page or group of threads where key differences between bleach canon and site canon are laid out.
Going through this all, I've come to believe that this site is in dire need of a lore guide that breaks down some of the key features where the site lore, universal mechanics/laws/rules, and time line differ from canon. Here are a few examples of some of the things I've seen people state that I feel should have been available somewhere for me to read:
-Hueco Mundo is "cancer" to quincy
-Hueco Mundo is "basically made of hollows" apparently
-Simply touching a hollow is "toxic" for a quincy and vice versa
-When a Plus Soul is sent to soul society via Konso(soul burial) they lose all their memories
-Gotei 5 as opposed to Gotei 13
-Large portion of rukongai was destroyed at some point and rebuilding is going on.
-Zanpakutou are "different" here, although I've honestly yet to see anyone explain how or why
I'm sure there are plenty of other details that I just haven't ran into yet. But I would have been saved a lot of grief if there was a thread I could have read upon joining the site that laid out the broad strokes of what to expect. It especially would have been helpful prior to planning out my character. The losing memories thing is a huge blow to my plot. While I've been told I can retain some memories and stretch that enough to keep my plot together, I built my character around the premise that he is fresh from his life prior to being a soul and was still heavily influenced by that. Now my character's personality and motivations seem "strange" because supposedly he should have forgotten everything. I'm glad I wasn't forced to make changes regarding my app despite this, but it's still very frustrating for me to be tip toeing the edge of a limitation I didn't even know existed.
I know a guide like this would be tedious to make, so I do have a suggestion for how it could be handled~
After staff puts down a few of the most important differences, add a template to the bottom of the post which other players can fill out to submit other lore changes from canon. Staff can judge the importance and validity of these submissions and then just add them to the original post. This way the community helps do some of the heavy lifting of actually writing this stuff out and staff just needs to worry about weeding out stuff that is more "head canon" than "site canon" in the process.
Going through this all, I've come to believe that this site is in dire need of a lore guide that breaks down some of the key features where the site lore, universal mechanics/laws/rules, and time line differ from canon. Here are a few examples of some of the things I've seen people state that I feel should have been available somewhere for me to read:
-Hueco Mundo is "cancer" to quincy
-Hueco Mundo is "basically made of hollows" apparently
-Simply touching a hollow is "toxic" for a quincy and vice versa
-When a Plus Soul is sent to soul society via Konso(soul burial) they lose all their memories
-Gotei 5 as opposed to Gotei 13
-Large portion of rukongai was destroyed at some point and rebuilding is going on.
-Zanpakutou are "different" here, although I've honestly yet to see anyone explain how or why
I'm sure there are plenty of other details that I just haven't ran into yet. But I would have been saved a lot of grief if there was a thread I could have read upon joining the site that laid out the broad strokes of what to expect. It especially would have been helpful prior to planning out my character. The losing memories thing is a huge blow to my plot. While I've been told I can retain some memories and stretch that enough to keep my plot together, I built my character around the premise that he is fresh from his life prior to being a soul and was still heavily influenced by that. Now my character's personality and motivations seem "strange" because supposedly he should have forgotten everything. I'm glad I wasn't forced to make changes regarding my app despite this, but it's still very frustrating for me to be tip toeing the edge of a limitation I didn't even know existed.
I know a guide like this would be tedious to make, so I do have a suggestion for how it could be handled~
After staff puts down a few of the most important differences, add a template to the bottom of the post which other players can fill out to submit other lore changes from canon. Staff can judge the importance and validity of these submissions and then just add them to the original post. This way the community helps do some of the heavy lifting of actually writing this stuff out and staff just needs to worry about weeding out stuff that is more "head canon" than "site canon" in the process.
