So, I still haven't written anything for this but I still find a great deal of entertainment in doing the world building to hang a story on. I'm trying to fill in some of Yosho's adventures over the centuries. As covered in the first post, I have him down for being directly involved in the Soul Calibur shenanigans and indirectly involved in InuYasha, due to various independent figures showing up at the shrine looking for Sacred Jewel shards.
Now, looking at Yosho, his approach to things seems to be sneaky and behind the scenes. I'm also assuming that at least some of Tenchi's knack for reaching out to people in pain and touching their hearts is also found in Yosho. So, I've been looking for characters who met sad ends or bad ends but could have been saved if some compasionate-yet-sneaky figure had either taken them under his wing or pulled off a stealth rescue while the main villain what preocupied with the main hero. To provide an example:
Mina Majikina (Samurai Shodown): Archer-exorcist from Okinawa in the late 1700's. Having grown up shunned and alone because of her abilites, she returned to the village from a demon-hunt to find that all the villagers had been slaughtered. She set out on a personal crusade to slay all demons, accompanied by a cute and seemingly harmless creature she found in the wreckage. In the end, she came to the conclusion that this creature that had become her only friend (perhaps ever) was responsible for the slaughter, and so she slew the creature and comitted suicide shortly thereafter. Or at least that's how things went in canon.
I'm plumbing the TV Tropes pages on Woobies, Driven to Suicide, etc. for characters like this and here I am fishing for suggestions as well. They don't have to be female and they don't have to be from Japan, but I'm looking for characters that can fit in the "real world" (to the extent that Street Figther, Sailor Moon, or Helsing fit in the "real world") from the 1400's through the 1970's.
Given what I laid out for pocket dimensions a few posts back, characters from generic fantasy or some kinds of sci-fi could work, but would be harder to fit in.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.
Now, looking at Yosho, his approach to things seems to be sneaky and behind the scenes. I'm also assuming that at least some of Tenchi's knack for reaching out to people in pain and touching their hearts is also found in Yosho. So, I've been looking for characters who met sad ends or bad ends but could have been saved if some compasionate-yet-sneaky figure had either taken them under his wing or pulled off a stealth rescue while the main villain what preocupied with the main hero. To provide an example:
Mina Majikina (Samurai Shodown): Archer-exorcist from Okinawa in the late 1700's. Having grown up shunned and alone because of her abilites, she returned to the village from a demon-hunt to find that all the villagers had been slaughtered. She set out on a personal crusade to slay all demons, accompanied by a cute and seemingly harmless creature she found in the wreckage. In the end, she came to the conclusion that this creature that had become her only friend (perhaps ever) was responsible for the slaughter, and so she slew the creature and comitted suicide shortly thereafter. Or at least that's how things went in canon.
I'm plumbing the TV Tropes pages on Woobies, Driven to Suicide, etc. for characters like this and here I am fishing for suggestions as well. They don't have to be female and they don't have to be from Japan, but I'm looking for characters that can fit in the "real world" (to the extent that Street Figther, Sailor Moon, or Helsing fit in the "real world") from the 1400's through the 1970's.
Given what I laid out for pocket dimensions a few posts back, characters from generic fantasy or some kinds of sci-fi could work, but would be harder to fit in.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.