Something from the In Nomine fandom. O:>

A Full Metal Alchemist one?

FMA: Mmm, I am so glad I am getting the manga as well as the anime. The five year old is only now getting into the Tenchi series...


In Nomine: There is actually not a metaplot running in the core IN line. While there are hopefully going to be more "Cycles," metaplot-like adventure arcs, it's my intention to make them self-contained enough that you can mix and match. So if you don't want to do the Revelations Cycle, but you do want to do the Grigori Cycle, for instance, no problem, even if Rev did come first.

For a timeline of the history of In Nomine, the published one is in the Game Master's Guide. For an overview of people, you'd need the core rules (currently out of print!), GURPS In Nomine (serves same function), or perhaps In Nomine Anime, which has approximately one box of actual mechanics and some nice overviews of the people, especially in anime terms.

Or you can dig up the World Weavers links, or Harukami's links, which are more free. O:>

My Interesting Times stuff has armageddon in it; other people's fics have that as a sometime in the indefinite future thing, while the Rev Cycle has an attempt for someone to try to force it to happen.

Um, does that help?

Servitors are the angels who, well, serve an Archangel and seek to promote that particular worldview... And Word. A Word is... a concept which a Superior (Archangel, Demon Prince) is bound to -- the Archangel of the Wind has weather affinities and can be a bit flighty. The Archangel of the Sword is military, and views himself as a literal weapon of God -- and his people as his own weapons.

Meanwhile, the Prince of Lust has power over the flesh... and the needs of the flesh, at least in certain areas. And the Princess of Freedom has... well, both the irresponsibility of "whatever I want" and general "coercion harms my Word, my power, my self" attitudes.

Ayumu from Spiral!

Ah, don't say that! *refused to believe that Ayumu is completely straight*

Well, since you didn't know who Ayumu was, do you think I can name another character, hmm?

...Okay. Just as long as it's not definite that he's straight. he can't be entirely straight, with all the male characters popping around the series...

Um, um, um...how about...um...Yohji from Weiss Kreuz, since I see you did Brad already.

I'd totally poke you to say something about Brad Crawford >D

Barring that, I went on a bit of a rampage myself today:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/code_renegade/395403.html

These 2 boys, having played so often in my head, have taken a life of their own. Therefore, I give you my fanon version of the tale - Crawford at 8, Ken at 22 - both displaying behaviours that I see characteristic of them as I write/draw them. I've this huge Rozenkreuz backstory for Crawford and his boys, but I doubt it'd see the light of day XD;;

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Brad Crawford:

He's cold and aloof, preferring the comfortable silence over the touch of another human. But it was circumstantial, and it wasn't something he decided upon in a day, or any particular point in time. Maybe it began in his early years, the one that he preferred not to talk about. Always it started in the playgrounds - someone bigger, someone older, perhaps a mixture of both. He did not consider himself odd, but apparently the other boys didn't have that on their agenda. As long as he was smaller, as long as he was younger, Brad Crawford was open for all-season hunting. Sometimes he ran, and sometimes he stood his ground. But more often than not he took to the branches of an old walnut tree that had curled away from the wind. It lasted a good a few years before his favoured branch dropped under his weight and landed him right into the waiting ring of still-larger and still-older boys.

He had saw to it that any evidence of himself as a wet-nosed, doe-eyed child was destroyed on the same day; that very day in which he aimed to give better than he got. When he hit the broken concrete upon landing it was more calculated than forced, rolling as his back connected with the scruffed grey surface. When the base of his palm was thrust right at one boy's greasy nose, hearing a dull crunch that might have been as much his as it was the boy's, he saw fit to skid around and away from a fist-shaped bruise that formed on the boy's cheek a second later. When he struck, he aimed for a kill. When he saw those fleeting flashes of what was to come to pass, he tried to go with the flow.

He tried.

He didn't enter by the front door that day, or the back door for that matter. Instead he followed the drain pipe (at least this one held) up and into his open window, a grey curtain ruffling his hair as he trodded a mud print onto his sheets. He didn't open his door for a next 2 days, which was not an issue to begin with since Mother and Father were often away. When he finally left the confines of his room and chanced upon the hallway mirror, it occured to him that they looked wrong - those ugly cuts and purpling bruises. They had no place resting on his skin, marking him a savage, and one who could not stand his ground at that.

Next time, he muttered to himself, picturing or perhaps seeing the same pimpled face drooling blood into the cracks of his fist.

Next time he'd do better.


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jesusfeckingchrist. WOMAN! Why AREN'T you WRITING MORE Brad and Ken?! Together! Separate! Whichever, I'd be happy with both. (this is not a small hint to you to work on your wips, honest.)

I love how you depict Brad as centering on himself. Motives, actions, the need to do better. Everything is about how much he can control, how much he need to control, how much need to change in order to control. LOVE! Adore the way how so much Ken is about justifying his own actions as to not feel guilt. That what he's doing is right, but knowing nothing is ever that simple.

And absolutely fascinated how both are so delusional in their own different ways. Absolutely love.

P.S. Definite preference of fanon over canon. That's what I love about fanficiton, give depth to characters that never got the chance.