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Brace For Warfare

Hello, dear readers! *chuckle* Not that I actually expect many people to come here, but for those who do, welcome to my Last Man Standing project: Brace For Warfare! Let's move right into it, shall we?




Overview:

•The setting of this story is in the land of Jigomon, a wide, desert area filled with Humanoids, a race of humans with the ability to mechanize themselves via various means. Because of that, Jigomon sees a constant contrast between being a largely uncivilized, lawless place, and the place's inhabitants having access to enough resource to create various pieces of futuristic technology for their daily lives. Explorers of Jigomon are often called to go out in expeditions to discover what lies beyond the desert, catch criminals, or perform other missions – any type, provided that they’re paid in money, parts, or other valuable resources - whereas it is seen as valuable or not depends on the individual, so, negotiation is common.

•Certain companies specialize in certain types of activities, and among them stands the Ärmoni Works Company (pronounce it "air-mony"), or ÄWC for short. That organization specializes in sending its Chimeras – autonomous Humanoids closer to robots than humans who mechanize themselves with animal-looking parts – to perform the duties of explorers and bounty hunters. Though their attempts have been questionable, they are trying to make things easier for the Humanoids who die on the job, or are too old or wounded to continue.

•In Jigomon, people make tools with the little resources they had. Eventually, the Humanoids of the place set their sights underground to dig up everything they needed to create a roughly organized society until more organized companies began to create their own set of tools and services to respond to the needs and desires of all. The Ärmoni Works Company is one of those, and our story begins when Anj, the most recent creation of one of their employees, is completed and launched into the outside world for her very first adventure.



And that's pretty much it for the overview! I got a 26-page document on how everything works, so, I'll avoid copying and pasting everything to, y'know, not spoil you on some of the content I have in store for those who'll read through the project. So, I'll try to inform y'all on everything that's general, such as characters, nomenclature - super important for a name-giving freak like yours truly - and of course, the power system. The next post, m'dears, will be about the nomenclature!

Nomenclature:

Now, in case some of you don't know, nomenclature is the devising or choosing of names for things, especially in a science or other disciplines like, y'know, literature.
↑ Thank my dictionary for that one, though I think you could find that definition online. The point is, I don't give random names to my characters. I always fill them with meaning, purpose, to increase the immersion within a world, or simply, to make them "sound right" according to my own tastes, or my own style, if you will. Let's talk about the Chimeras, for example.

♦Chimeras:
Now, moving on to Humanoids!

♦Humanoids:

And finally, Jigomon itself:

♦The land of Jigomon:



So, there you go! That's the process behind my nomenclature. Again, it may not necessarily be important to many of you, but... names are super important to me, so, might as well explain how I come up with them, y'know?

Now, what's my schedule again... Ah, yes! The Power System. That'll be for next post!

Power System:

•The power system in Brace For Warfare is quite simple. The Humanoids are humans with mechanical enhancements that are either added to them externally, or born with them naturally. These enhancements could be anything, from a gun-like gauntlet that serves as one’s hand, from a leg-mounted flame-thrower to, for those who prefer cooking-related enhancements, a hand or arm that can naturally transform into the shape of a spatula or a knife. The gear depends on where you live, what you do, or what you need.
↑ Currently researching the topic.

•Now, Humanoids can naturally adapt their bodies to the type of tool they wish to gain, the process of which being shorter or longer depending on the individual. This means that, if they live near water, they can naturally develop body parts to properly swim, see well in water or not, y'know, rust away if they're covered in metal. Those with natural enhancements tend to be especially good at using tools, whereas those who add them to themselves as extensions of their bodies tend to be better at making them. These two features and differences aren’t mutually exclusive, but are reserved to those who lived for a long time, or have a lot of experience and/or talent.

•Then comes the users of the Cyber World. The Cyber World is similar to what we refer to as Internet today: it is a virtual realm that connects a place to another no matter where they are in the world, provided that they have access to each other via the right “Doors”, which are like servers. Information and data of the real world can be stored within the Cyber World, and entering through the right door allows the user to enter through the right type of information in order to gain knowledge on it.

•The most skillful Humanoids can use that feature to gain access to the Cyber World and materialize data from it into the real world. For example, if a Humanoid were to gain access to data related to, say, a nursery tool, the Humanoid would be able to materialize said data into the actual tool, from the Cyber World to the real one. It is a rare ability that not all Humanoids have access to, but they could should they be exposed to it enough. There are, too, a number of animals, plants and another mysterious type of beings created by the Humanoids of the Old World that have natural access to that ability.



Aaaand that about wraps up the Power System! Now I'll talk a bit about some of the characters. To avoid spoilers, i'll only mention their names, and use the nomenclature behind it to introduce what they're supposed to be, or what they're supposed to do - because, as you may know, that's bound to not reflect the entirety of who they actually are, thereby avoiding spoiling that surprise.

Characters:

♦Anj
Reference Pool:
Vile/VAVA (Megaman X series), Miyavi Valdios (Storybook character from Aether), Susie ( from Kirby: Planet Robobot), Kamikaz (from Muster Heroes, my previous LMS project)




♦Scarlett

Reference Pool: Scarlett (a never-published character of my dreams/experimental writings), J/Jolta (Muster Heroes), Inaho (Aldnoah Zero, main character), Dynamo (Megaman X5 & X6 ← Which would be surprising to you if you knew the guy)





♦Lyna Purprille
Reference Pool: Purprill the Mandroid (Megaman ZX), Miss Purprille (Storybook NPC for Aether), Mad Scientist Archetype (like, all of them)





♦Jion
Reference Pool: Omega Zero (Megaman Zero 3), O-Legion (Danball Senki), Lawrence Blood (Fatal Fury)
↑Yeeeah, there's a lot of Megaman in those, as I said there would be XD





♦Älma
Reference Pool: Max Profitt Hartmann (Kirby: Planet Robobot, and yes, YES that's his name), Colette (Tales Of Symphonia)





•Yurloy
Reference Pool: Gabriel YuLaw (The One, action movie starring Jet Li), Dr.Weil (Megaman Zero series)





Aaaand there you have it, folks! That's all I have to share. I'll be working on Jigomon's maps, cities and places of interest in the meantime. I'll probably share a few before LMS begins, but to be honest, I don't know for sure. Hope this has been both informative and entertaining for you readers! Catch y'all on the flipside, m'dears.