@Raddum
I don't know if we want to keep up this 'put our responses in hiders' thing, but I'll do it again and let you decide to do it or not depending on whether you've got responses to give after that.
I think there's two major issues with following too closely with how Dissidia handled things.
Firstly, from a role-play perspective I think being too heavily tied down to Dissidia's premise could actually significantly stifle creativity, which would subsequently make the role-play less interesting for everyone. Dissidia has more or less done everything it could explore with its concepts already, which is probably why the new Dissidia game is a reboot (to the best of my knowledge, Cosmos and Chaos aren't even a part of it yet and whatever plot the PS4 version has could have nothing to do with the rest of the series).
I always thought one of the best ideas about Dissidia was that it allowed characters and concepts from the various worlds to be played around with due to coming in contact with each other, but sadly they didn't seem to take enough advantage of that in the games. The Final Fantasy series has always had a multiverse (which is why I believe all my ideas are within the boundaries of the franchise's lore), with the fact that the Gilgamesh in every game so far is the same Gilgamesh each time being one example of this, so Dissidia seemed like the ideal place to explore that.
The reason I decided to register The Emperor first was to confirm how on board you were with interesting and creative ways of playing with the premise of Dissidia, to figure out how likely this role-play would be to continually hold my interest. All the characters I've registered so far (including Terra, who was more likely to show up than anyone else from FFVI despite me thinking @Ailyn Evensen would get more from role-playing her than I would -- not that I don't really like Terra, since I do, but my fiancΓ©'s personality is more in sync with her) - excluding Exdeath (who I had the idea of using, but didn't plan to use without a counterbalance character) - were planned to come over pretty much from the moment I decided to get involved. I went with The Emperor first to gauge how you felt about all of this.
Secondly, I'm actually rather sceptical about the notion that all the characters in the Dissidia series had lost their memories in the first place. Some of them, for sure, but there's a lot of contradictions and even paradoxes in those games. For example, virtually all of the villains have access to their 'godly' powers through the use of 'EX Mode', despite canonically most of them not having those powers until late into their games and subsequently implying these versions of them are from late into their timelines, or that these versions are completely different to the game incarnations.
Cecil and Golbez realize they're brothers; in fact, Golbez knowing Cecil is his brother is the entire reason he's not loyal to Chaos right from the beginning of the cycles presented in the games. The Emperor is stated to have been just 'a random soldier' throughout all cycles up until Duodecim, and then he basically got sick of being manipulated by Chaos (probably a hint about him being sick of just existing as Satan's puppet) and he started plotting to take over. It fits his character, but the backstory is inconsistent with the game timeline and doesn't simply seem to be a case of amnesia. These are just a few examples, of course.
If you want Kain to not have his memories, I don't see a problem with that since a lot of my characters (heroes in particular) have lost some of their memories. This could still be the same Kain from the universe my Cecil is from, but he simply doesn't remember the things that took place in the game before the cycle pulled them here.
Edit: I rushed my post, since I'd only just got back from shopping, so check the modifications.
I don't know if we want to keep up this 'put our responses in hiders' thing, but I'll do it again and let you decide to do it or not depending on whether you've got responses to give after that.
Well yeah, ideally I wanted everyone and Kain to have their memories gone like in Dissidia. I guess parallel universes it is then.
I think there's two major issues with following too closely with how Dissidia handled things.
Firstly, from a role-play perspective I think being too heavily tied down to Dissidia's premise could actually significantly stifle creativity, which would subsequently make the role-play less interesting for everyone. Dissidia has more or less done everything it could explore with its concepts already, which is probably why the new Dissidia game is a reboot (to the best of my knowledge, Cosmos and Chaos aren't even a part of it yet and whatever plot the PS4 version has could have nothing to do with the rest of the series).
I always thought one of the best ideas about Dissidia was that it allowed characters and concepts from the various worlds to be played around with due to coming in contact with each other, but sadly they didn't seem to take enough advantage of that in the games. The Final Fantasy series has always had a multiverse (which is why I believe all my ideas are within the boundaries of the franchise's lore), with the fact that the Gilgamesh in every game so far is the same Gilgamesh each time being one example of this, so Dissidia seemed like the ideal place to explore that.
The reason I decided to register The Emperor first was to confirm how on board you were with interesting and creative ways of playing with the premise of Dissidia, to figure out how likely this role-play would be to continually hold my interest. All the characters I've registered so far (including Terra, who was more likely to show up than anyone else from FFVI despite me thinking @Ailyn Evensen would get more from role-playing her than I would -- not that I don't really like Terra, since I do, but my fiancΓ©'s personality is more in sync with her) - excluding Exdeath (who I had the idea of using, but didn't plan to use without a counterbalance character) - were planned to come over pretty much from the moment I decided to get involved. I went with The Emperor first to gauge how you felt about all of this.
Secondly, I'm actually rather sceptical about the notion that all the characters in the Dissidia series had lost their memories in the first place. Some of them, for sure, but there's a lot of contradictions and even paradoxes in those games. For example, virtually all of the villains have access to their 'godly' powers through the use of 'EX Mode', despite canonically most of them not having those powers until late into their games and subsequently implying these versions of them are from late into their timelines, or that these versions are completely different to the game incarnations.
Cecil and Golbez realize they're brothers; in fact, Golbez knowing Cecil is his brother is the entire reason he's not loyal to Chaos right from the beginning of the cycles presented in the games. The Emperor is stated to have been just 'a random soldier' throughout all cycles up until Duodecim, and then he basically got sick of being manipulated by Chaos (probably a hint about him being sick of just existing as Satan's puppet) and he started plotting to take over. It fits his character, but the backstory is inconsistent with the game timeline and doesn't simply seem to be a case of amnesia. These are just a few examples, of course.
If you want Kain to not have his memories, I don't see a problem with that since a lot of my characters (heroes in particular) have lost some of their memories. This could still be the same Kain from the universe my Cecil is from, but he simply doesn't remember the things that took place in the game before the cycle pulled them here.
Edit: I rushed my post, since I'd only just got back from shopping, so check the modifications.
