The GiantitpAnime Fans' Visual Novel (now planning settings and routes)

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An idea that initially started as a joke on my part, but now I'm having serious thoughts about writing something for this...

The characters: (Updated 9/15/09)

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Character Name: Furi Kasei

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The celebrated hero of our insane Visual Novel! The progenitor of this mad project, started when reason slept and begat monsters. It's his job to beat up bad guys and save the girl...or, at least, try to. The story will be told primarily from his eyes, and so we will see things as Furi does.

Furi Kasei is the rookie Primary Pilot of the brand new Imperial Tactical P.L.A.N.T. Giant.

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In all three routes, Furi begins as an optimistic and brash young man, and in Siela's route he remains this way, his fervor and courage saving the day on more than one occasion. In Kara's route, this zeal is tempered by the prudence and wisdom, and in Kamia's route it is utterly broken, and is forged into despair by pain and anguish. In short, the classic Idiot Hero...with, perhaps, a bit of a twist.

"Forget about outmaneuvering and flanking, it'll never work! Just believe in me, who believes in you, and CHAAAARGE!"

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Tengu

Character Name:Siela Tempo

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The heroine of the first, light & fluffy route--the great triumph of man (and woman!) over the unspeakable evils of the universe. Siela Tempo is a childhood friend of the hero (Furi), and despite being of poor physical health and somewhat of an airhead, she is quite the excellent mecha pilot. In her route, she serves as the ass-kicking Action Girl (despite her physical and mental frailties), while also doing much to fulfill the moe quota. Siela also gives Furi another thing to be all hot-blooded about.

In Kara's route, Siela ends up being mostly ignored, and later becomes Furi's Fridge-Stuffed Woman, pushing him further into a long, bitter conflict with Roag.

In Kamia's route, Furi's minor flirting with Siela results in the jealous Kamia being pushed into committing the first in a long string of gruesome murders.

Like the hero, Siela has a brother, Kyube, who is also not related to her by blood. And like Kamia, Kyube falls desperately in love with his step sister. What happens with this depends on which route the hero takes.

Siela Tempo is the Primary Pilot of the Imperial Tactical P.L.A.N.T. Titan.

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At heart, Siela is an inquisitive dreamer and a sweet, kind girl. All she ever wanted was the chance to defend the things most important to her.

Initially, she is unsure about her feelings for the hero—at first she struggles with the knowledge that she loves him, and tries to overcome self-doubt (for how could someone like him ever possibly fall in love with her?). In her route, she later gains more self-confidence about her piloting skills, something she needs to unleash her full potential.

In Kara Witte's route, however, she covers her growing despair over the war under her usual ditzy demeanor, and this time Furi is regrettably not there to help her overcome her self-esteem issues. By the time Furi can notice, she is already dead, caught in Roag's trap and killed.

Siela starts off much as she does in Kamia's route as she does in her own route--crushing on Furi yet unsure of her feelings. This time, however, Kamia notices, and before Siela gets much of a chance to do anything she falls victim to Kamia's schemes.

"Gosh, there’s so many enemies coming our way. It reminds me that one time I almost got run over by gophers…speaking of gophers, you ever wonder why some people call them ‘prarie dogs’? They don’t look anything like dogs. Maybe they’re talking about hot dogs? The one we had in Chicago were really good. You remember that, don’t you?"

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Nothingclever

Character Name: Kara Witte

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Long, straight black hair down to the hips, though she sometimes has it tied up.

Enjoys casual clothing (T-shirt + jeans).

Large bust.

Very slim and lithe, but with a toned and athletic body.

Pale skin.

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The heroine of the cynical, "eternal struggle against evil" route, where, no matter how hard the hero tries, he and the heroine (Kara Witte) can only temporarily stave off the coming evil, but nonetheless provide breathing space that humanity desperately needs. For those who like cold, sarcastic girls with voluptuous figures, Kara is there to fulfill your aesthetic needs.

She plays but a minor role in Siela's and Kamia's routes; Furi must bring her out of her shell for her to do much of anything significant.

In her own route, she serves not only as the heroine but also as a foil to Furi. Her calm, cool manner and cynical snark tempers Furi's zeal and brashness.

Kara Witte is the Primary Pilot of the Imperial Tactical P.L.A.N.T. Von Lohengramm.

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To quote Nothingclever himself on Kara's characterization...

I picture my character as being the person that helps the hero save the day only because she likes him. She doesn't care about actually helping anyone. If the hero decided to become a villain she'd still fully support him because she doesn't care either way how he chooses to act as long as she isn't mistreated. If the hero feels he may need to do something horrible to save the day she'd volunteer to do the deed for him so he wouldn't feel so bad about it. If she notices someone being bullied while she's with the hero she might ask him if he wants to help the victim but only because she doesn't want to look too cold in front of him. She'd have no qualms killing the bad guy regardless of the circumstances but she'd ask the protagonist what he wants to do before delivering the finishing blow again to avoid looking bad in front of him. If the protagonist tried to flirt with her she might be willing to take him up on whatever offers he makes but only as long as he realizes what they do doesn't mean anything to her until they develop a real relationship.

Furi must, of course, first get Kara to open up to him enough for the above personality traits to come into light. Much of her character development will come from her learning to empathize despite the horrific realities of life, war, and the elder evils.

"Your mission to destroy the great evils is as foolish as your lustful advances. Nonetheless...I will assist you however I can. Is this what they call love?"

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Quirks: Speaks her mind against annoying things, though she usually holds it in for a while initially. Kara isn't afraid of using a little violence if she thinks it'll be decisive.

Favorite foods: Unknown.

Hobbies: Martial arts, various music, dark comedy, exercise.

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Kamikasei

Character Name: Kamia Kasei

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Long light purple hair tied into bunches.

Flat as an ironing board.

Average height, quite thin.

Large blue eyes.

Grade S Zettai Ryouiki.

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The heroine of the "darker and edgier" route, where the hero and his younger "sister" (Kamia Kasei) initially gain great victories against the forces of evil, but eventually their minds succumb to the corruption that inevitably comes from fighting monsters. Kamia's role with respect to Furi in her route, as opposed to Siela who inspires and Kara who tempers, is that of the corrupter. Her mad love for her brother leads him down a spiral of first pain, then despair, culminating in insanity and bloodlust.

In short, the classic Yandere.

Her role is lessened in Siela's route, but it is in Kara's route the player finds out the true relationship between Furi and Kamia. Luckily for Furi, in this case there is only a subtle yet dramatic tension between Kara, who is just opening up to Furi, and Kamia, who has recently come to terms with her feelings and wishes to make her brother hers.

Kamia Kasei is the Primary Pilot of the Imperial Tactical P.L.A.N.T. Colossus.

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Kamia is emotionally stunted. She doesn't so much feel emotions as much as she's aware of them, acts as though she has them, and believes that she has them. In truth, the only real emotion she has is a strong attachment she has for her brother--everything else is a delusion she unconsciously created for herself.

Because she's devoid of most emotions, she's also strongly lacking in any real empathy for others. As a result, when pushed she can be quite the sociopath. Mix this with her obsession with her brother and you've got yourself quite the Yandere.

"Onii-chan, wake up. We have to report in by 0900 hours. And I'll be with you the whole way, and after that...by the way, there was some girl that kept bothering me about wanting to see you. She was eyesore, so I put her away."

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Quirks: Exhibits the most emotion only when Furi is around, which isn't a whole lot. Loves to snark, especially when people are arguing.

Favorite foods: Unknown.

Hobbies: Unknown.

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Lord of Rapture
Character Name: Dominic L. Rapture

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Think G-Man from Half-Life 2. Or; black hair, tan-brown skin color, and always wears a clean, well-tailored white suit and holds a strange square object in his hand (a portable computer that fits snugly into a briefcase, actually).

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A mysterious man who is a master of an equally mysterious place where fallen heroes go after they die or utterly fail. Dominic mocks these would-be saviors without mercy, lecturing with thinly veiled contempt to the hero how he could have done this or that to avoid the situation where he is now. Thanks to his time-manipulating powers, Dominic is able to send these heroes back to a certain point in the timeline before everything went to hell--however, if the hero was exceptionally negligent or unlucky, he may send them much further back into the time stream than they wish, or even to a time period after the hero made his damning choices. In any of these cases, the Dominic always sends off the hero with scathing remarks about the hero's stupidity, negligence, and questionable parentage.

If you're familiar with Nasuverse visual novels, you should be able to guess what Dominic's meta role is.

If not...well, in Visual Novels, it's possible to pick the wrong choice and end up in a highly unpleasant situation. At that point, certain Visual Novels ferry you to a scene that breaks the fourth wall, and basically gives you advice on how to avoid this sort of fate (usually by giving you hints on what choices not to make)--in this case, it's Dominic's job to berate players who end up guiding Furi to his untimely death or worse.

However...is Dominic L. Rapture more than just a meta concept that berates the players? Certainly he appears in the storyline, in all three routes, and has a tendency to stand there, observing, right until you notice him...after which he simply disappears without a trace. Perhaps Furi is the only one who can see him.

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Abrasive. Mocking. Insufferably arrogant. Patronizing. Most of those who ever have the displeasure of meeting him have to hold back on punching him ni the face.

"Oh, look at the mighty hero. He thought he could simply ignore the girl and go off and save the world. But that's not how it works, is it? No. But then again, I suppose his failure is understandable, given how amusingly idiotic and short sighted he is. Especially that one time a few weeks back, when he could have asked to go shopping with him, but no, he didn't want to, he had to go train in the gym for 'the coming battles'. Pfft."

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Quirks: Has a tendency to be strangely cheerful and upbeat...unless he's talking to someone. Then, he's just a mean jerk who loves to mock people for their failures.

Favorite foods: Unknown.

Hobbies: Causing conflict, intellect.

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Lurkerintheplayground

Character Name: High Priestess Lurika Plei

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She is Raog's superior officer and the High Priestess to the elder evils she worships. In Siela's and Kara's route, she serves as the Big Bad...but in Kamia's route, she plays second fiddle to a much greater evil. Despite being one of the most politically important characters in the setting, she serves mostly as a far-off, distant enemy until the very end.

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Lurker is cold, calculating, and incredibly power hungry, and loves to wear very fancy dresses.

She loves to laugh contemptuously.

"Oooooo ho ho ho ho ho!"

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KnightDisciple

Character Name: Ritt Schueler

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Fairly tall (6').

185 pounds of sleek muscle.

Short, black, combed hair.

Brown eyes.

Clean-shaven.

Slightly pointed chin.

Usually wears casual T-shirt and jeans. Plugsuit is black with yellow highlights.

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Ritt serves as the hero's best friend since childhood, and his main purpose in life is to be constantly overshadowed by Furi's own great achievements. He plays a minor role in Kara's route, but is a major character in the two other routes--in Siela's route, his jealousy gets the better of him and is corrupted by evil, and ends up needing the hero's help in redemption, eventually sacrificing his life so that the hero may strike the final blow, while in Kamia's route he desperately tries to prevent the hero's descent into depression and madness and, once he discovers Kamia's mad lust for her brother, attempts to halt her advances, but Kamia's scheming leads to his gruesome death, and it is the lost of his oldest friend that causes the hero in this route to fall. In short, Ritt is the quintessential Lancer.

Ritt is the celebrated Primary Pilot of the Imperial Tactical P.L.A.N.T. Reaver.

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Like Furi, Ritt is brash and bold, but Ritt at least has the sense to be calm and professional in combat. He is also prone to mood swings--in one moment he'll be yelling and shouting with the hero, in the next he'll be sitting in the corner and brooding.

Despite his loud personality, Ritt is quite popular with the ladies, partly due to his handsome looks but also because of his deep sense of chivalry. His detractors call him old fashioned and even sexist, but at least a handful of his female classmates see in him an old-fashioned charm.

"...and once again, he gets all the credit. I guess he does deserve it, but still...it'd be nice to be noticed for once.

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Quirks: Likes old-fashioned weapons and enjoys collecting them. Has mood swings. Also likes chivalry and tries to behave in accordance when he can.

Favorite foods: Enjoys dark chocolate, sirloin steak (medium rare), and steamed white rice.

Hobbies: Collecting weapons, jogging (unless you meant something else by "casual runs" ), listening to old American country music, movies, fast cars, and shotputting (star of the school track team).

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Nerd-o-Rama

Character Name:Admiral Neridia Oa Rama

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In her late 20's or early 30's.

Tall and fairly curvy woman, though not to the degree of Terra or Kara.

Blue eyes with thin-framed glasses, long, wavy blue hair*, usually tied in a ponytail and under a captain's hat when on duty.

Uniform is mainly white, knockoff of a modern admiral's uniform but closely tailored and with a miniskirt and knee boots

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Every story about giant robots needs an exasperated mission-control based commander, and Neridia is that character. She spends most of her time in the story reprimanding the hero (who controls the giant robot) of his foolishness, brashness, impetuousness, and general lack of respect for strategy, tactics, and orders. Many of her CGs involve her in a face palm, sighing.

In all the routes, as a shocking, unnecessary, and dramatic twist, it turns out that she's actually the long-lost older (blood-related) sister of the hero. In Siela’s route this simply leads to a heartwarming reunion scene with the hero; in Kara's route the poor timing of the revelation gives her a nervous breakdown; in Kamia's route, the news initially results in jubilation that quickly turns into tragedy when Kamia decides that the hero needs only one sister...

A popular rumor among the Echo Wind's bridge crew is that Neridia was once a PLANT pilot. She dismisses such rumors as pure fantasy--after all, if she were once one of the elite pilots in the navy, why would she ever give up such a prestigious career for a nerve-fraying, exasperating command position?

Recently, she has received a promotion to the position of Admiral of the highly prestigious 8th Fleet--as the oldest fleet in the Imperial Navy, it is nicknamed the "Endless 8th".

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Above all, Neridia is dedicated to professionalism and the safety of her crew, the people under her command, and the civilians she protects. Unfortunately, many PLANT Primary Pilots are youngsters, and this, combined with her lack of patience for fools and the immature, makes her easily frustrated and thus constantly grumpy.

Yet...she genuinely cares for all of her personnel--specially the mecha pilots, understanding that, in the end, they're just children thrust into the heart of a galaxy-spanning war against the ultimate evil. She's fiercely protective of them and in many ways regards them as her children.

"Pilot, return to base, I repeat, return to base--no, you may NOT charge the Horrors headlong, you are to RETREAT IMMEDIAT--pilot? Pilot! Goddammit."

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Rogue 7

Character Name: Roag Septimus, Admiral of the 7th Fleet

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Short, white hair.

Fit, well-toned body.

Fairly tall, on the leaner side.

Body is fashionably mutated (torso is covered in a sleek, black carapace that looks more like high-quality armor; half of face is covered in demonic scales, but makes Roag look more exotic and mysterious than ugly; has a set of bat-wings that looks more like a nice mantle when folded around him).

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Every mecha pilot hero needs an enemy to go, "Mwa ha ha ha ha!" into his face, and Roag plays that role admirably. Having been a minion to the dark forces of evil since childhood, massacring entire planets in a fashionable manner is a weekly occurrence for him, and it would have been a daily occurrence if it weren't for all the stern advisers demanding caution and self-restraint. Supremely confident of his skills as a commander, his initial defeat at the hero's hands leads to humiliated rage, and in Siela's route Roag attempts to avenge himself through a thorough firebombing of the hero's Doomed Hometown. But, due to Furi's foolish sense of honor, incredible skill, and sheer persistence, he eventually questions his own loyalty to the dark forces, and in time defects, sacrificing himself in the last battle by leading his severely damaged forces in a heroic last stand to buy the hero time.

In Kara's route, however, his initial defeat causes him to instead calmly rethink his strategy, and the new, unorthodox military tactics he brings to the next battles leads to a bitter, hateful enmity with the hero, and results in a bloody, protracted war of annihilation.

Finally, in Kamia's route, his lust after the hero's younger sister drives him to madness as well (everyone goes nuts in Kamia's route), then all-consuming rage, until his final confrontation with the hero involves Rogue on the bridge of an exploding battleship, holding Kamia hostage while screaming at the hero about how useless he is and how he will always lose to Rogue.

In Siela's and Kara's routes, he is in a relationship with Lurkerintheplayground.

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Roag is absolutely confident in his piloting and commanding skills, and has yet to lose a battle--unfortunately, he is somewhat by-the-books, and is supremely arrogant about his prowess. Not surprisingly, this makes him vulnerable to out-of-the-box thinking by those he deems to be "lesser".

"Him? That idiot? Ha! As if the magnificent I could ever lose to that lowborn amateur--wait, what? What do you mean he broke through our lines? That's...that's not possible! Intensify forward firepower!"

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Quirks:Power-hungry, arrogant, and by-the-book (though still a very good commander). Curiously, loves rock music and dreams about playing in a band (though he wouldn't caught dead doing so).

Favorite foods: Chicken Marsala. Favorite flavoring is the blood of his enemies and crushing victory. Also enjoys the occasional wine.

Hobbies: Unknown.

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Character Name: Kyube Tempo

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Siela's younger brother by a year. Like Kamia, he falls desperately in love with his step sibling, and like the purple-haired girl Kyube is ignorant about the true relationship between he and his sister. He all but worships Furi, awed by the fact that he's a PLANT pilot at the young age of 17.

In Siela's route, his hero-worship of the protagonist turns into jealous rage that Furi luckily gets him out of before he joins Ritt as a traitor. In Kara's route, he despairs at the loss of his sister and blames the hero entirely for it, betraying the cause and becoming Roag's minion (never knowing that it was Roag who killed his sister), redeeming himself only at the last moment. He plays only a minor role in Kamia's route, going insane with grief once he finds out that his sister was murdered and running amok on a wild rampage before being swiftly put down.

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Initially, he is a cheerful, energetic young man and is a wide-eyed idealist, looking highly up to the hero...in front of the hero, at least--in private, he is quiet, and rather gloomy. The coming battles, however, tests his ideals to the utmost.

"Hey, what's up! So, you're gonna go kick some more ass today? Man, I wish I could join you, but sis never lets me...

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Terraoblivion

Character Name: Terra Olvido

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Tall, slender, and quite pale.

Quite busty.

Long pink hair down to the middle of her back.

Narrow, rectangular glasses.

Typical dress consists of a nice blouse with long skirt--a bit nerdish, but still cute.

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Since Terra is a minor character, she does not play too large a role in any of the three routes, aside from contributing a bit to the plot. Technobabble is explained either by her or Mei Lia.

Her rivalry with Mei Lia Drascin leads to some comedic scenes.

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Terra is, above all else, passionate. A scientist and the head of the R&D department, as part of her research contract she also works as the school's physics teacher. Terra firmly believes that mecha are for the protection and the benefit of mankind, and as a result she often comes into conflict with some of the more militaristic admirers of huge robots, in particular Mei Lia (whom she nonetheless has to work with often).

She finds Siela's lackadaisical nature endearing, and Siela, in turn, admires the professor's determination and intellect.

"When I was little, my colony was attacked by bandits. My family and I would have been killed or worse if it wasn't for the robots that defended my town. It's because I believe in these machines that I'm here, not for money or prestige or because I want to kill people."

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Quirks: Very wordy and talkative when excited (amusingly, quite like her archnemesis Mei Lia). Fairly unaffected and laid-back about issues that don't hit too close to home, and quite optimistic. Prefers women over men, much to the dismay and grief of the school's male population. Clusmy.

Favorite foods: Tea, sweets, and curiously, spicy things.

Hobbies: Not a fan of sports, but loves reading about mecha (the non-violent stuff, of course--instead, the technical aspects fascinate her) and pop-culture literature. Enjoys cooking.

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Drascin

Character Name: Mei Lia Drascin

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Mei Lia is the Chief Mechanic for all of the BTSs in Taskforce Root of Spring, and as such it is her job to keep them all in tip-top condition. Her other main job is to provide comic relief, usually in the form of verbal sparring with Terra Olvido, and provide technical info about PLANT and BTS systems.

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Her detractors would say that fixing robots is the only thing she can really do, as she's not the most socially adept of people. She loves giant robots, and she also loves to talk about them, freely mixing in jargon and advanced concepts in conversations about, say, the weather. Mei Lia is airheaded, but not quite the same way Siela is--if Siela is too absentminded, then Mei Lia is too focused.

"...so the magnetic joint stabilizer needs Type-5 Lubricant to stay at optimal combat efficiency, and in order to do that it needs a Corzell Mk. IV Advanced Injector installed in horizontal Z angle sets and...hey, hey! Wait! I'm not done yet!"

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Prime32

Character Name: Illa Sanjuni

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Shoulder-length dark brown hair, usually tied into a ponytail.

Average height.

Modest figure, rather toned and athletic body.

Ice blue eyes that are normally set into a focused stare or a sharp glare.

Wears an all-black suit for piloting, with stiff pieces of cloth attached to make it look armored.

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Roag's right hand woman and his most skilled mecha pilot. When Furi's not beating on Roag, he's beating on Illa. A Dragon to the Dragon, if you would.

In Siela's route, it's also her job to demonstrate the moral superiority of Furi and his comrades by defecting to his side. In Kara's route, however, Illa's failed defection is used to demonstrate that even the redeemable bad guys don't always get a happy ending.

She gets killed off fairly early in Kamia's route.

"Sir, I understand that destroying the enemy's munitions plants was necessary, but did we really have to kill all the workers and their families as well?"

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Rutee
Character Name: Rudy Bamdan

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Originally the secondary hero for a planned 4th route, due to budget concerns, Rudy didn't quite make it into the game. He was supposed to be the game's alternate Yaoi option, and the player would have been able to make certain choices that would make Rudy either the Uke or the Semee. He has quite the fan following, but repeated promises of the Rudy Route has resulted in nothing. As a result, he is regarded with much pity.

Instead, he serves as one of Neridia's many Bridge bunnies and is a minor character, there for the sake of humor and to flesh out Neridia's bridge crew a little more.

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He is sly and mischievous, and puts on an air of apathy and laziness when it comes to work. Neridia constantly berates him for this. He also has a bit of a thing for flat chested women.

"What're you talking about?! A flat chest is a status symbol! A rarity!"

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Poison_Fish
Character Name: Toksus Uwoh

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A comic relief character, and one of Neridia's bridge bunnies. Much of the humor on the INS Echo Wind comes from Toksus and Rudy throwing jokes at each other and generally being unprofessional.

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He's one of Furi's friends, and his loud, bombastic nature compliments our hero quite nicely. Like his colleague Rudy, he's a bit of a pain to his commander.

"Yeah! To hell with reason, charge them head on--ow! Okay, okay, calibrating shields..."

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Closet_Skeleton
Character Name: Armadia Osteus

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Short dark-green hair.

Yellow eyes.

Fairly tall: 5'10''.

Thin.

Likes earthy-tones of brown and green for clothing, aside from a crimson scarf for cold weather. Occasionally seen in a wide-brimmed straw hat and a poncho.

Though not often seen a skirt, she's a definite grade A+ Zettai Ryouiki when she is.

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Yet another one of Neridia's bridge bunnies, Armadia is the cold and professional one, obeying orders without question and performing her duties efficiently. She is the straight "man" against Rudy's mischief and Toksus' unruly manner.

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Although she seems emotionless, it's more that she shows emotion in bursts--as a result, every once in a while Armadia will spontaneously explode into a chaotic mess of feelings. Nonetheless, Admiral Neridia trusts Armadia the most among her subordinates.

"Aye, Admiral, setting coordinates to 15. 63. 09. Ensign Bantam, please stop singing on the bridge. It is unprofessional."

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Quirks: Dislikes skimpy clothing and stuff that mundane fashion shops stock. Also a bit squeamish about mass violence, but gets the job done regardless. Knows a fair bit of trivia, but not enough to carry out and "win" a deep, philosophical debate. Claims to dislike a lot of things.

Favorite foods: Red meat (aside from poultry), pasta, pizza, rice, and spicy stuff. Strong dislike of vegetables aside from carrots, broccoli, and potatoes. As for beverages, enjoys cider, fruit juices, and a soft drink known as Stl-Bru ("steel brew"), imported directly from New Edinburgh. Dislikes water and mint (and consequently dislikes brushing teeth, but does it anyway for the sake of professionalism).

Hobbies: Drawing, painting small plastic figurines, and writing (though she tends to start many projects and finishes few). Likes Old Earth English folk music, mid-20th century rock.

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Hanzo666
Character Name: Han Bodega

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Spiky white hair with electricity running through it.

White lab coat, goggles, other Mad Scientist^TM paraphernalia.

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The Diabolus Ex Machina: when something seems to be going someone's way, and all is perfect, it's Han Bodega's job to come in and trash it all. His special ability seems to be popping out of nowhere and screwing stuff up. Expect him to play a small, but decisive and crucial role, in all the routes.

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Take a cup of mad scientist, throw in a pinch of Blood Knight, and add liberal amounts of Huge Robot pilot. Hey, if you're going to run around screwing everyone's plans up, you might as well be a nutter, eh? He has few attachments and cares little for others.

"Who am I?! Your DOOM! DOOOOM! A HA HA HA HA HA!"

The robots: (Updated 9/19/09)

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Vehicle Info:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showp...&postcount=390

Piloting Mechanics:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showp...&postcount=391

Plasm:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showp...&postcount=389

Weapon Systems:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showp...&postcount=392

Superweapons:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showp...&postcount=393

[Fri]

...you're not kidding.

Oh what've my subcouncious done...

But I approve it

[13_CBS]

...you're not kidding.

No, I'm pretty interested, actually. Quite serious.

I can write a little bit, but to make a true visual novel you need:

1) Writers (for, you know, the actual text)
2) Artists (for CGs, general art)
3) Composers (for music)
4) Programmers (for the coding)

So...yeah. It'd be pretty cool if we could pull this off like the way 4chan did for Katawa Shoujo, but if not, oh well.

Oh what've my subcouncious done...

The sleep of reason begets monsters.

[Fri]

Anyway, it's not like everyone must be an important character. Some of the cast can be supporting characters or bridge bunnies or something, right? I'll take closet skeleton for example (just for example). He (she?) can be the kuudere bridge bunny. I still want to see a cubey/tengu pairing though.

[13_CBS]

I still want to see a cubey/tengu pairing though.

Tengu = mission control, a la Misato Katsuragi (except less Bottle Fairy)

Cubey = the male, non-kuudere Bridge bunny

Problem solved. Throw in the devastatingly attractive female kuudere Bridge Bunny named Closet_Skeleton, and you've got drama on top of your pairing.

[Fri]

[columbo]And one more thing [/columbo]

Dont trap yourself into writing too many character. And don't let real life force you what to write. (The characterization doesn't fit real life? Who cares?)

edit: Of course Tengu isn't a bottle fairy. She's a lovecraftian abomination Cloudcuckoolander Willie Wonka.

[Lord of Rapture]

Besides, it's not like our online personaes are exactly like our real life personaes anyway.

In real life, I'm not nearly this tempermental and hard to please, nor am I a mad scientist with time control powers who constantly berates the player for dying stupidly.

[KnightDisciple]

This is awesome. Period. No argument.

[13_CBS]

Sadly, unless we can actually compile a proper Visual Novel team together, I may have to stick with writing an original fiction instead. Which means no berating the player for being stupid on LoR's part...On the bright side, in case you guys do end up making an actual Visual Novel, you'll have a something of a script to work with, at least.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Repo-stan

I'm Rin? I can live with that.

Although it would also make perfect sense for me to swap roles with Tengu.

[KnightDisciple]

Link here: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124102

I'm gonna start mulling over the characters tonight, and after that I'll get to working on the setting and such.

Don't expect too much hardness on the Sci Fi scale for this setting: space mecha requires liberties from hard physics, after all.

Edit: As for the characters...if you haven't noticed from the character summaries already, you'll notice that, unfortunately, I don't know you guys all THAT well. Thus, don't expect your avatars to behave as you do in either real life or on the forums.

If there's anything you feel might be critical to know about us, ask. Otherwise...*Shrugs* Fudging it can be fine.

[Lord of Rapture]

Even if we don't get to make a visual novel, it could be a kickass roleplay. You write out the story and send us our parts by PM, and then we get the rest of the board to play and make choices. That way, we can still get through all 3 routes, and I can still yell and demoralize people without having to make a visual novel.

[KnightDisciple]

Even if we don't get to make a visual novel, it could be a kickass roleplay. You write out the story and send us our parts by PM, and then we get the rest of the board to play and make choices. That way, we can still get through all 3 routes, and I can still yell and demoralize people without having to make a visual novel.

Hm. This sounds interesting as an alternate.

[Rogue 7]

Subscribed. It'd be nice to get into "villain mode", even if, in reality, I am nothing like that. However, if, as you did in my summary, you have my character quoting Star Wars at every possible moment, you will both accurately capture that aspect of me, and make me a happy, happy man.

And dude, even if you just write a script for this, it'd be awesome. Hell, I'd say do it in the style of a VN- complete with wrong choices, for the chance to have LOR rant.

[Fri]

*shifty eyes*And maybe, just maybe, if this work well, I might be interested to provide some, just some illustration, however inadequate my illustration might be.

Though, as I said my drawing isn't that good, especially for a visual novel style of illustration.

You can use stock photos and images as background, add some stock music, and I think that's enough for a visual novel of this caliber.

And you don't need programmer, just use renpy.

edit: and yeah, characterwise, swapping nerdo and tengu can also make sense, even with 'nerdo as the leader' stock of my dream. You're the writer tho.

[Lord of Rapture]

All right, I'll chip in my support as a writer... seeing as I can't do jack squat for any of the other parts.

As for Rogue 7, he buckles down and thinks in nothingclever's route simply because I get off my lazy *** and put my own piece into the game so that it never ends.

In Nerdo's route, I do nothing but sit back and watch, and cry helplessly as the heroes win and the conflict is over. Frustrated, I tell the player to go do the other two routes as well, so my entertainment doesn't end.

In kamikasei's route, the hero does so well at the beginning, I panic and put all my pieces onto the board, so things go horribly, horribly wrong for the hero until finally everyone snaps and breaks. I have a great time until everyone dies, and I'm left alone.

But most of all, don't copy Nasu's style of writing. He's great, I admit, and his works never fail at making me cry, but he's a certified graduate of Hideo Kojima's never-use-one-word-when-one-million-will-suffice school of writing, and I doubt we'll need so much exposition anyway, considering how light-hearted the visual novel's likely going to be.

[kamikasei]

Well this is horrifying yet also strangely awesome. I'm just wondering how much of each route is for sheer comedic value and how much is actually based off our personas.

Sadly, unless we can actually compile a proper Visual Novel team together, I may have to stick with writing an original fiction instead. Which means no berating the player for being stupid on LoR's part...

You could have little inserts between chapters where LoR either berates you as if you took the other path, or hints that everything's going to go horribly wrong anyway.

[Rogue 7]

Actually, LoR's idea of a sort of freeform PbP-type game sounds like a lot of fun, especially if we plan it all out in advance what's going to happen, and offer the selected victim player various choices, particularly if they come into this blind. Would be a lot less work than a full VN anyways.

[Fri]

Incidentally, I've helped in some amateur VN making. Well... if this is going to be a real vn, here's what you can do to help. Help finding compatible pictures for background for various scenes and bgm for the scenes. At least each character's leitmotif.

edit: I wonder how quick the fridge logic will hit us all like a bullet train and make us realize how creepy/disturbing/taking time all of this. That's why we should've just take this for fun and not waiting for anything.

[nothingclever]

This is pretty interesting to me simply because I've already been included in it without actually saying anything. I'm sure I could help make whatever we're making somehow. I could try writing my character's lines.

[Hermit]

Sadly, unless we can actually compile a proper Visual Novel team together, I may have to stick with writing an original fiction instead.

World's first visual novel containing 100% text? It's like Zork with more descriptions about giant robots.

[Echowinds]

I don't mind colouring/drawing some stuff, if you don't mind stuff being too amateurish. Seems hilarious.

[The Evil Thing]

Would you like an editor? It'll be a nice diversion from back-and-forthing with translators.

[Fri]

World's first visual novel containing 100% text? It's like Zork with more descriptions about giant robots.

This. It's not that strange nor the first actually, there're some amateur VN with limited illustration out there.

What we need now is just finding stock images and songs to put as background and bgm.

Not even stock! As this might fall into parody, we may be able to use non stock footages!

And even then, we already got two somewhat artist here.

[Drascin]

World's first visual novel containing 100% text? It's like Zork with more descriptions about giant robots.

...and I'd be okay with this.

Anyway, you obviously have my support here. I can write, and I might be willing to get Renpy and learn a bit about it to code the text into the novel itself, if nobody else is willing to.

[The Evil Thing]

This. It's not that strange nor the first actually, there're some amateur VN with limited illustration out there.

What we need now is just finding stock images and songs to put as background and bgm.

Not even stock! As this might fall into parody, we may be able to use non stock footages!

I wouldn't risk it, and public domain stuff would be naff. But hey, isn't this GiantITP? What art style is this site famous for? Use that.

[Echowinds]

Really, you only need about 7 backgrounds (classroom, home, park, street, school grounds, and two from the usual beach/snowy mountain/hot spring/roof/hill with tree/etc) to get enough backgrounds. Then, you only need to have a picture of each character in the portrait. If we decide to be fancy, we can have happy/sad/angry/neutral face for each, which can be done by just editing the face, which is incredibly easy.

[kamikasei]

I wouldn't risk it, and public domain stuff would be naff. But hey, isn't this GiantITP? What art style is this site famous for? Use that.

I cannot in good conscience support the concept of a stick figure VN unless we all sign, in blood, a pledge to make no jokes about "wood".

If we decide to be fancy, we can have happy/sad/angry/neutral face for each, which can be done by just editing the face, which is incredibly easy.

At least one character needs the full tsuntsun<->deredere spectrum, which means body language too.

[Fri]

Echowind, you talk like a true designer. We do that.

You guys with free time can comb newgrounds (the mp3, not the flash part) for good music for our project. Something like a good leitmotif for each characters, a calming song, love song, song for the headquarters, etc.

edit: and I found a free soundtrack stock music site. There might be a lot more out there.

http://www.freesoundtrackmusic.com/

[Echowinds]

At least one character needs the full tsuntsun<->deredere spectrum, which means body language too.

Indeed. However, you will need to have about 3 variations for each main character (3 main heroines, the lancer, the villain) then, which will take some work.

Of course, if we want to be REALLY fancy, we can have cut scene CGs! Which is of course a lot of work but really really awesome.