What Comes After Essence
Added 2020-09-28 11:33:00 +0000 UTCWith the end of An Essence of Silver and Steel now in sight and only an arc and an epilogue left to go, it's time to revisit a question I asked quite a while ago. What would you all like to see next?
Fate/Recursive Wisdom:
Tohsaka Yukio would do anything for his family. For his twin sister, Rin, for his estranged sister, Sakura, for the parents he lost ten years ago. For the friends he's made along the way. They'll survive the Fifth Holy Grail War, even if it kills him.
A story of a kinda-sorta self-insert who didn't quite get to keep all of the memories of his past life, for reasons that are later revealed.
We Have Come to Terms:
My name is Taylor Hebert, and I perform a much needed job here in this city of amnesia.
In the wake of Gold Morning, all memory of the event — and everything prior to it — was lost. Taylor Hebert, Negotiator, continues on ten years later, wondering whether she and everyone else gave up their memories willingly or had them stolen from them.
A gritty Noir-style mystery, with some giant monsters and robots thrown in for secret reasons.
Decuple:
Ten times Taylor woke up in another world after the end of Gold Morning.
Inspired by Argentorum's similar series. Each would be an unconnected oneshot, like Cinders.
Hereafter:
Chaldea Master Candidate #47, Taylor Hebert. With a prosthetic arm crafted by a certain puppet maker, she has to right the wrongs of history and save all of mankind from the apocalypse — again. If she does it a third time, she's supposed to get a free coffee.
Or, "what if post-GM Taylor wound up in the employ of Chaldea, with a prosthetic arm made by Touko?" Looks like Ritsuka would have someone to call "Senpai" this time around.
Cast Down the Sun
Coyote Starrk and Lilynette Gingerbuck had no memory of who they were before. What they looked like. Their name, their gender, their personality. What they had, now, was not the memory of who they were before, but who they would become. Memory of a grand conspiracy. Memory, and knowledge of just how twisted this cruel and pitiless world was.
But there was much that stood in their way. Insurmountable obstacles. Enemies who could not be defeated with strength alone. Would conviction be enough to change the world? Or will Starrk die as he did once before, on the point of Kyoraku Shunsui's blade?
Or: Starrk and Lilynette have metaknowledge they can't explain, including exactly how batshit insane the afterlife actually is, and decide that they're going to fucking do something about it.
Queen of the Abyss:
The world is falling apart. Human civilization is collapsing. Every day, mankind struggles to stay one step ahead of the looming Dark. In times like these, perhaps this is when people need heroes the most, to keep them honest, to teach them to hold on for just a second longer, and to give them the strength to keep going — to give them hope.
Reina Kingsley's adventure through a world that takes a few of the basic concepts behind Worm and plays them even straighter — no super secret conspiracy propping up the US and Canada, no eldritch monstrosities that are only playing around with no clear goal, no golden savior who turns out to be the final boss. Just a world of superpowers, with people struggling against the end in all their own ways. A humanist tale about the resilience of the human spirit.
Comments
Since it looks like everyone who was planning on voting has voted, I'm opening this up to the public a little early.
Caractacus
2020-10-11 20:44:26 +0000 UTC