I had an idea for an Shin Megami Tensei/Persona/Firefly crossover. While looking at the some of the antagonist organizations in SMT and Persona, I noticed some similarities. Often, they are secretive- their true goals or agenda is known only to a select few, and is concealed from the general public. In addition, this agenda is something that the majority of people would not agree with, assuming they were told all of it truthfully (guess how often that happens?) They also often have a great deal of resources and/or social influence, and are ideologically driven. And nine times out of ten, they're responsible for a lot of the plot's problems. The Alliance is ideologically driven, has a great deal of resources and the ability to control public opinion, and has a secretive sub group that does stuff like Miranda and psychic experiments and teenage girls. And given that Persona comes from the mind...you can see where this is going.
The whole theme of "a relatively small group of secretive, but powerful ideological extremists cause massive problems for everybody else" crops up a lot- most notably during the first 3 SMT games, and with Persona 2 and 3. It doesn't help that in SMT, all three demonic factions (Law, Chaos, Neutral) have no sense of moderation in their visions for the world at all. The Law faction (headed by YWVH) seems to think getting rid of stuff like individuality and free will is a good thing, Neutral tends toward total solipsism, and the goal of chaos seems best described as "Darwinian Nightmare". To accomplish these goals, their MO seems to be "wreck planet and start from scratch." Yeah.
So, the Alliance begins their experiments, and the forces of Law throw their influence behind them. In response, the forces of Chaos begin to brew a new Independent rebellion that isn't quite as noble as the first. Philemon, the incarnation of the better nature of mankind in the collective unconscious, starts weaving plots to bring together a rag-tag bunch of Persona users (or people will eventually become Persona users) to save mankind's collective rear. In a completely unrelated decision, Naoki aka the Demi-Fiend, decides that enough is freaking enough, and goes off to put an end to this entire mess so he doesn't have
to recreate the world again. And just to confuse matters further, all the protagonists, antagonists, and social links from the first four Persona games are running around, casually ignoring the fact that they're all supposed to be long dead. Dead People United all seem to be cooperating in pursuit of a mysterious agenda and making cryptic comments at every opportunity. And the crew of Serenity is (predictably) smack dab in the middle of it.
The whole theme of "a relatively small group of secretive, but powerful ideological extremists cause massive problems for everybody else" crops up a lot- most notably during the first 3 SMT games, and with Persona 2 and 3. It doesn't help that in SMT, all three demonic factions (Law, Chaos, Neutral) have no sense of moderation in their visions for the world at all. The Law faction (headed by YWVH) seems to think getting rid of stuff like individuality and free will is a good thing, Neutral tends toward total solipsism, and the goal of chaos seems best described as "Darwinian Nightmare". To accomplish these goals, their MO seems to be "wreck planet and start from scratch." Yeah.
So, the Alliance begins their experiments, and the forces of Law throw their influence behind them. In response, the forces of Chaos begin to brew a new Independent rebellion that isn't quite as noble as the first. Philemon, the incarnation of the better nature of mankind in the collective unconscious, starts weaving plots to bring together a rag-tag bunch of Persona users (or people will eventually become Persona users) to save mankind's collective rear. In a completely unrelated decision, Naoki aka the Demi-Fiend, decides that enough is freaking enough, and goes off to put an end to this entire mess so he doesn't have
to recreate the world again. And just to confuse matters further, all the protagonists, antagonists, and social links from the first four Persona games are running around, casually ignoring the fact that they're all supposed to be long dead. Dead People United all seem to be cooperating in pursuit of a mysterious agenda and making cryptic comments at every opportunity. And the crew of Serenity is (predictably) smack dab in the middle of it.