Talk:Restless Souls

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2024.01.21

Corona, Afghanistan, the Russian invasion, Israel and Gaza were quite some brain occupying, unpleasant intermezzi. Societal problems, disinformation, politics, geo politics, war. A lot of things to polish and keep in mind for WCG.

2019.12.01

There are myriads of roadblocks when trying to write this story. So many that Caged Birds became necessary as its own story with its own set of notes. And right now I'm worried about the Daodan origin story (the artificial immune cells Hasegawa invented) and the Bioc origin story. It's complicated matter creating believable fiction that is rooted in real world knowledge. There's this feeling that it doesn't turn out good enough. This lets the writing progress painfully slow. This kind of stress leads to creative burnout when it lasts over long time.

AMV-like ideas / music themes

Zack Hemsey makes some intense, atmospheric rap mixed with electronics/instrumental elements. Normally I don't listen to rap but this case I will make an exception. ^_^

Alphabetic order.

The Gard's family

So Silent

Vandret visiting the Gards. They wish to "escape" from WCG and Syndicate.

End of Griffin

Greeting The Menance

"A cunning and dogged leader, Griffin's enemies know that he will stop at nothing to maintain order and civil control."

Black season, due to Traton's PR campaign the citizen are totally sympathizing with the Syndicate.

Fall of WCG = payback time

Hasegawa

I Can Get It Back

Lose of Jamie and working insanely on the Daodan.

I see a ghost in a photograph I feel that wave come up under me I see myself in that other half I feel that pain pull me underneath I see the times that we'll never have I hear the sighs of content we'd breathe I feel the smile that I wish I had But all these moments are projections of the past Cuz a part of me died and a liveliness was lost when you passed And a light in me dimmed as a certainty was slipping through my grasp Now I'm picking up the pieces getting cut open by shards of broken glass Well how long can this last Missing is that purpose in my life but I can get it back This isn't gone I can get it back I see no soul in the mirror Only see signs of demise getting nearer "Time heals wounds" is absurd as a theorem But I can see above the sky's getting clearer And though despair of things before will never leave Although our past mistakes can never be retrieved Way out in the distance is a vessel on the seas And I'm a set a heading toward the sun, cuz I believe that I can get it back All that hope and that joy That trust and that care Those dreams of a boy, I can get it back All that love and that worth That touch of a flare That feel of the earth, I can get it back That drive to extreme That confidence to lead That willingness to bleed, I will get it back Reassembled when I'm done Depression on the run as I come beating on these drums This isn't gone I can get it back Battles with the mind and the timid stand off Slightest bit of pain and those tender folk scoff Choose the destination but that bridge must be crossed Guess the bottom line is we're cut from different cloths Borders they divide but I'm inclined to cut across Reach the outer limits then I cut away my loss Continue toward the goal in sight no matter what the cost Emboldened by this chance, I'm not afraid to get lost Cuz now I'm pushing forward and nobody dare oppose Now I'm moving faster while that ticking clock slows And now I'm climbing higher like the ground can't hold So I don't plan on stopping when this summit plateaus I'm that invasion of the body by the soul Sickened from the cold but soon a certified whole Never one to fight but I just hit it on the nose It took my spirit, but I got it back, case closed

Hasegawa looking at Jamie's photo. Camera pans to his face. Room gets slightly darker. Reflection on the photo (glass). Falling to the knees, holding his chest. Heavy breathing. Flowing images. Imaginations of happy moments. Lying together on wild, high, not to dense, sunny grass... Closed eyes. Smiling. Darkening clouds. Very dark. Jamie's grave situated at that lawn. Hasegawa's eyes in shadow. World around Hasegawa becomes almost pure grey colored. Picking up again Jamie's photo. Cuts his fingers. Standing alone in the room. Camera pans out. A mental image of Jamie in front of Hasegawa is fading away. A walk outside the city, a look into the clouded sky. Comes home again. Takes pen and note block. Starts sketching and writing. A stack. Black fade-out. Black fade-in. Stands in front of the mirror. Greying hair. Face and forehead wrinkles are clearly visible. Punches into the mirror. Outside again, windy and cloudy. Looking up again. Walks alongside the fence they once passed. Stops and looks through towards the ill vegetation. Resting on ground. Darkness. Imagine an oversized, glowing, constantly adapting cell. Eyes are widening. (Or he tries to grab it. One hand on the ground.) Time reversal of wound healing and skin hurting thorn. Family scene: Jamie, Hasegawa, and the children. Trip in a green wilderness. Joking with Muro. Eating sandwiches. Hasegawa grabs sun beams at a small forest glade. Sits on a mossy trunks. Slowly stoking the green surface. Hasegawa at a demonstration. Speaking to people of the demonstration. Rising fists. Getting hit by police clubs. Standing up again. Determined. In the lab throwing papers. Monitors shows "construction of Daodan Recombinatoric Universal Messenger failed". Students join. Kerr joins. Mukade joins. Pensatore joins. Avatara joins. Headaches. Arguments with the other scientists. Fist fight with Pensatore. Pensatore and Hasegawa lying at different corners of the room. Mukade and Pensatore also have an argument. Hasegawa screams. This night he sits in the cold winter night and stares into the darkness. Muro is introduced to the Syndicate HQ staff. Hasegawa watching this with jammed fist at the window. Hasegawa's head over a glowing screen. Pensatore leave the room. Pills. Fast motion but clock slows down. Avatara's simulation shows "faster than real-time", factor 1000. More data is seen. Screen shows: "Daodan adaption framework <<Oni>> completed" Collapsing satisfied on the chair. The other guys are seen in the lab checking the data. Cam pans out.

Hasegawa 2

Beast In Black: Crazy, Mad, Insane

I am crazy, mad, insane Out of my brain I am all the things you hate Crazy You built a kingdom of hypocrisy And then you dared to name it honesty I bear the burden of the blame That you poured on me I am crazy, mad, insane Out of my brain I am all the things you hate You hide your guilt And act like god damn saints Told me to stay away And fix my brain You twist the truth But that is only gonna feed the flame I am crazy, mad, insane Out of my brain I am all the things you hate Forced in to a puzzle Where I can not fit I won't be like you 'Cause you make me sick Rather a freak than eat the trash That you all say is true Fuck you! I am crazy, mad, insane Out of my brain I am all the things you hate I am crazy, mad, insane Out of my brain I am all the things you hate I am crazy, mad, insane Out of my brain I am all the things you hate

Hasegawa, the mad sci Renegade TCTF looking for many other sci, show Bertram Navarre? WCG Mercy kill of Jamie Wilderness Preserve Sector Banned from university Muro / Mai Daodan Spike Forced to work with the Syndicate / Kimura Sturmanderung

Konoko

The Way (Instrumental)

Black season: Konoko stands on destroyed streets (resembles Outro images)

NPU

Slave

Nishio and the other NPUs eventually turning against the "Syndicate accessories".

Mukade

Nice To Meet Me

Freed from Pensatore's grasp he participates in the Green Village battle. He finds a buried lab with one of GOP's creatures.

He copies himself and tells the copy to take over the creature (neural merging) to clean up the area of any combatants.

After erasing Hasegawa's memes, the war-weary Mukade returns to the States where he takes "his" place at Sakura's side.

An weak image of Hasegawa is show in the lab, fading out.

Mukade 2

Laser in my Head / Kouki Izumi

Boss battle at night.

Ryu

Don't Get In My Way

Former Syndicate child soldier with Japanese decent, kidnapped by Mukade.

He doesn't have a Daodan. He was raised to verify Muro's progress. They had a friendly rivalship.

While Muro's had the Daodan to his aid, Ryu had to train double to merely reach that level of strength.

He is 100% badass.

Saomi

Vengeance

Lose of Muro, burning flashbacks.

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Biocracy

Lost And Found

Tensions within the Magellan biocracy.

Gaia

Soothsayer

When Memehunter lands on planet Phyllion. Their Gaia AI is hopelessly outmatched.

Yorick

I'll Find A Way

A damaged avatar fuses with one of his damaged proxies. In the process he regains his humanity that was once burned away.

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Transition

No Man's Land

The lyrics start at 4:10.

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Convergent evolution in storytelling

Guardians of the galaxy Vol. 2

• in GotG V2; description of similarity; in Oni
• Sovereign (golden in appearance); genetic, maximal enhanced people; Daodan-Chrysalis hosts (χρυσός (chrysós) for gold)
• Ego; isolated brain; "the deadly brain"
• Ego; genius and father that killed his own wife; Hasegawa (later also known as "ego-hybrida")
• Ego; almost immortal super-intelligence that grew slowly; Avatara
• Ego; Gaia concept (living world); Gaia, bioc (~blue stuff shooting out of the ground~, "Whaaat?"), bioc quick sand, rising salt pillars ...
• Ego; actual mind resides in a much bigger environment but uses human avatar; Avatara
• Mantis; the useful tool and the empath; Shinatama
• Space suit (best seen with Drax); blue shield supported by a multitude of little generators; personal shields
• Rocket's forest land mines; blast shield; blast shield
• Nebula; cybernetic fighter losing an eye and often in pain situations; Daya
• Yondu; trade of children; Mukade (Ryu)
• Yondu; father figure ending up in exile; Traton (Muro)
• Yondu's arrow killed half of his crew and was later broken; code name "broken arrow"; weapon of mass destruction, GATC seek to acquire
• "Mary Poppins" (near Pac-Man scene); same movie ref; "Mary Poppins": AE game cheat
• Ravager community; organized (yet diverse) criminal, rivaling groups; Syndicate/GATC mercs

Bonus: at the end of GotG V1, Groot; orb tree protects other live within; orb tree in Green Village

Ideas? Comic strip: Oni characters cosplaying GotG? Or place some movie posters into the game.