in-progress
hnnnnnrghasdfkjasd;fjasd;fkjasd so I've been reluctant to post work-in-progress on any of the stuff I'm working on because it's all still in the fuzzy hazy beginnings stages (notes, sketches).
But I continue to operate under the hope that actually posting about it will help keep me/kick me into gear.
Above are some rough doodles for character design for the WK-reincarnation CLAMP-style project. Schuldig, Yohji, Ran, Nagi, Mamoru/Omi, Ken, Farfarello, Crawford, and the three elders of Eszett who also died in the tower.
Plans so far:
Story begins in media res. Everyone is compelled to reunite in Tokyo for Reasons to do with the ceremony/manifestation of the demon.
I've mostly paired them up--romantically or otherwise--with the opponent they were fighting at time of death; iirc Ran and Crawford were separated by Manx, but lemme know if I misremember. (Actually, it's too late, don't tell me, let me live in moronic bliss.)
All three* psychics had their powers enhanced through dying and reincarnating with aspects of the demon; the three have spent their childhoods coping with almost overwhelming power. In the year approaching the time for them to reunite, they slowly gain more and more clarity and more control over their powers. However, their powers are also increasing, and their control can't always keep up with that.
*(six, if we count Eszett. they're their own triad thing. I'll deal with them later.)
Each person who died fighting another is linked to that person. And if a member of Weiss was fighting a psychic when he died, the psychic inadvertently exerted a powerful force on their counterpart in the course of their reincarnation. (Did you ever see David Cronenberg's The Fly? Sorta like that.) Hence Schuldig and Yohji, and Nagi and Omi-Mamoru, are reborn physically similar to their counterpart with similar powers. (Yet Schuldig and Nagi are the far more powerful--and more susceptible to the demon--than their counterparts.)
Nagi and Omi-Mamoru:
Reincarnated in Japan under Kritiker's new psi program. Practically twins in a creepy CLAMP way. Both telekinetic. Nagi's power has become sporadically increasingly more powerful as the twenty-year mark approaches.
Backstory: Rosenkreuz/Eszett were aware (through prophecy, arcane knowledge, something something) of the pending reincarnations after everyone died at the failed raising of the demon. They sent envoys to Japan to seek those anticipated to be reborn there. However, there was a defection of the envoys from Rosenkreuz to Kritiker, resulting in the founding of Kritiker's powerful new psi program. And, eventually, the addition of Kritiker's two new infant telekinetics.
I'm thinking Omi-Mamoru was absorbed by the Takatori family... they possibly creepily named him Mamoru, I haven't decided. I also haven't decided if the Takatori adopted Nagi as well (reincarnated!Nagi and Mamoru are not biologically related), knowing how powerful he would be. If they did, they likely gave him some Takatori-appropriate name and rejected his past.
Nagi and Mamoru: Do you think they should already be in love, or is that a near-future event?
Schuldig and Yohji:
Schuldig (male) and Yohji (female) are twins (who are not romantically involved). Before the Rosenkreuz envoys made their trip to Japan to locate reincarnations, they gave up Yohji and Schuldig's German-Japanese mother to Rosenkreuz; Schuldig and Yohji were born and raised in Rosenkreuz.
Both Schuldig and Yohji are telepathic. Like Nagi (but unlike Crawford), due to the support of another soul entwined with his, Schuldig also has overwhelming power, but his mind has locked the worst of it down (until now).
They took on the more bloodthirsty aspects of the demon, and their bloodlust is increasing and feeding their power. Schuldig is becoming less codependent with Yohji as the 20-year anniversary approaches, even as his power grows greater. He has begun to seek out a certain unknown someone he feels is missing from his life. (Yeah this is a Crawford x Schuldig story.)
I have no idea what to name them yet, but a mean part of me wants to call them Zuerst and Zweite. (Although they are telepaths, Rosenkreuz has managed to keep them mostly in the dark about their purpose and their pasts. [Granted, they probably know sweet fuck-all about Yohji's past and don't care.])
Crawford:
Due to his great power in his previous life, the addition of the demon's power in this incarnation has him pretty fucked. up. Probably overwhelmed by ability to see both past and future, and most possible realities. Likely spent most of his life struggling mentally, heavily medicated with shitty medication side effects. Is becoming rapidly more stable as the twenty-year anniversary approaches. (I can't fully comprehend an omnipotent character, so it could be his conscious mind is stifling the overwhelming information coming at him, and narrowing it to a manageable on-and-off trickle he can access with varying degrees of success.)
Crawford is likely American; I have coalescing ideas about a North American psi organization that has tended to him all these years and kept him concealed from the competing organizations seeking him.
Ken and Farfarello:
My moodboard for them is "nightmare," and I haven't decided what that entails, psychic-powers-wise. Perhaps they manipulate perceptions of reality, idk. Obviously I gotta get my head in the CLAMP game, because that could be nice and horrible. Their demonic power involves charisma, luxury, wealth. I haven't decided if they're celebrities; probably just random uberrich kids who gravitated toward each other due to destiny. They are longtime friends, not lovers (maybe fuckbuddies?). Ken is female, Farfarello is male. They are badass. Surely the plot will work out.
Ran:
This poor bastard is actually at peace right now. He's had a good, peaceful life. Now he's approaching 20, so let's blow up everything in his face: because it's Ran, that's his destiny.
Hazy on Ran's recently-manifesting powers. I think he might have transmogrifying powers. Anyway, of all the aspects of the demon bestowed amongst everyone, I think he finally caught a karmic break and got something like "luck" or "fortitude" or "cunning" or "widsom," something he didn't realize was in play all this time because of its subtle nature.
Other canon players: Sakura, Aya, Manx, maybe grandfather!Takatori, maybe reincarnated!Botan (no powers, just as a love interest for Ran, aww, but idk), Tot not ruled out.
So anyway, yeah. Currently working on a panel that depicts all eight (or eleven) in their current status. Some symbolism, some CLAMP-style prettiness and implied angst. Would like to do more, but this is my starting point (i.e., my goal for the end of the month).
Crossposted from my Dreamwidth account: http://indelicateink.dreamwidth.org/66886.html--please comment there instead. Comments:
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But I continue to operate under the hope that actually posting about it will help keep me/kick me into gear.
Above are some rough doodles for character design for the WK-reincarnation CLAMP-style project. Schuldig, Yohji, Ran, Nagi, Mamoru/Omi, Ken, Farfarello, Crawford, and the three elders of Eszett who also died in the tower.
Plans so far:
Story begins in media res. Everyone is compelled to reunite in Tokyo for Reasons to do with the ceremony/manifestation of the demon.
I've mostly paired them up--romantically or otherwise--with the opponent they were fighting at time of death; iirc Ran and Crawford were separated by Manx, but lemme know if I misremember. (Actually, it's too late, don't tell me, let me live in moronic bliss.)
All three* psychics had their powers enhanced through dying and reincarnating with aspects of the demon; the three have spent their childhoods coping with almost overwhelming power. In the year approaching the time for them to reunite, they slowly gain more and more clarity and more control over their powers. However, their powers are also increasing, and their control can't always keep up with that.
*(six, if we count Eszett. they're their own triad thing. I'll deal with them later.)
Each person who died fighting another is linked to that person. And if a member of Weiss was fighting a psychic when he died, the psychic inadvertently exerted a powerful force on their counterpart in the course of their reincarnation. (Did you ever see David Cronenberg's The Fly? Sorta like that.) Hence Schuldig and Yohji, and Nagi and Omi-Mamoru, are reborn physically similar to their counterpart with similar powers. (Yet Schuldig and Nagi are the far more powerful--and more susceptible to the demon--than their counterparts.)
Nagi and Omi-Mamoru:
Reincarnated in Japan under Kritiker's new psi program. Practically twins in a creepy CLAMP way. Both telekinetic. Nagi's power has become sporadically increasingly more powerful as the twenty-year mark approaches.
Backstory: Rosenkreuz/Eszett were aware (through prophecy, arcane knowledge, something something) of the pending reincarnations after everyone died at the failed raising of the demon. They sent envoys to Japan to seek those anticipated to be reborn there. However, there was a defection of the envoys from Rosenkreuz to Kritiker, resulting in the founding of Kritiker's powerful new psi program. And, eventually, the addition of Kritiker's two new infant telekinetics.
I'm thinking Omi-Mamoru was absorbed by the Takatori family... they possibly creepily named him Mamoru, I haven't decided. I also haven't decided if the Takatori adopted Nagi as well (reincarnated!Nagi and Mamoru are not biologically related), knowing how powerful he would be. If they did, they likely gave him some Takatori-appropriate name and rejected his past.
Nagi and Mamoru: Do you think they should already be in love, or is that a near-future event?
Schuldig and Yohji:
Schuldig (male) and Yohji (female) are twins (who are not romantically involved). Before the Rosenkreuz envoys made their trip to Japan to locate reincarnations, they gave up Yohji and Schuldig's German-Japanese mother to Rosenkreuz; Schuldig and Yohji were born and raised in Rosenkreuz.
Both Schuldig and Yohji are telepathic. Like Nagi (but unlike Crawford), due to the support of another soul entwined with his, Schuldig also has overwhelming power, but his mind has locked the worst of it down (until now).
They took on the more bloodthirsty aspects of the demon, and their bloodlust is increasing and feeding their power. Schuldig is becoming less codependent with Yohji as the 20-year anniversary approaches, even as his power grows greater. He has begun to seek out a certain unknown someone he feels is missing from his life. (Yeah this is a Crawford x Schuldig story.)
I have no idea what to name them yet, but a mean part of me wants to call them Zuerst and Zweite. (Although they are telepaths, Rosenkreuz has managed to keep them mostly in the dark about their purpose and their pasts. [Granted, they probably know sweet fuck-all about Yohji's past and don't care.])
Crawford:
Due to his great power in his previous life, the addition of the demon's power in this incarnation has him pretty fucked. up. Probably overwhelmed by ability to see both past and future, and most possible realities. Likely spent most of his life struggling mentally, heavily medicated with shitty medication side effects. Is becoming rapidly more stable as the twenty-year anniversary approaches. (I can't fully comprehend an omnipotent character, so it could be his conscious mind is stifling the overwhelming information coming at him, and narrowing it to a manageable on-and-off trickle he can access with varying degrees of success.)
Crawford is likely American; I have coalescing ideas about a North American psi organization that has tended to him all these years and kept him concealed from the competing organizations seeking him.
Ken and Farfarello:
My moodboard for them is "nightmare," and I haven't decided what that entails, psychic-powers-wise. Perhaps they manipulate perceptions of reality, idk. Obviously I gotta get my head in the CLAMP game, because that could be nice and horrible. Their demonic power involves charisma, luxury, wealth. I haven't decided if they're celebrities; probably just random uberrich kids who gravitated toward each other due to destiny. They are longtime friends, not lovers (maybe fuckbuddies?). Ken is female, Farfarello is male. They are badass. Surely the plot will work out.
Ran:
This poor bastard is actually at peace right now. He's had a good, peaceful life. Now he's approaching 20, so let's blow up everything in his face: because it's Ran, that's his destiny.
Hazy on Ran's recently-manifesting powers. I think he might have transmogrifying powers. Anyway, of all the aspects of the demon bestowed amongst everyone, I think he finally caught a karmic break and got something like "luck" or "fortitude" or "cunning" or "widsom," something he didn't realize was in play all this time because of its subtle nature.
Other canon players: Sakura, Aya, Manx, maybe grandfather!Takatori, maybe reincarnated!Botan (no powers, just as a love interest for Ran, aww, but idk), Tot not ruled out.
So anyway, yeah. Currently working on a panel that depicts all eight (or eleven) in their current status. Some symbolism, some CLAMP-style prettiness and implied angst. Would like to do more, but this is my starting point (i.e., my goal for the end of the month).
Crossposted from my Dreamwidth account: http://indelicateink.dreamwidth.org/66886.html--please comment there instead. Comments:
. Find me on tumblr as indelicateink.