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so that!! you know!!!! people reading dywc can have a general idea of What's Up since both of these AUs are so far removed from their respective canons lmfao

note this is just a quick and dirty basics post. like theoretically i could write Real Long Summaries like a goddamn wiki page but realistically i don't think the dywc fanbase is gonna get big enough to require that. i'm just out here paddling my little boat in a soup of self indulgence and y'all are here for the ride

(but if anyone... does? want wiki pages??? hmu) (ACTUALLY THE FTPCAST HAS WIKI PAGES I MADE ALREADY LMAO)

UPDATE: I MADE DYWC WIKI PAGES AS WELL. they're a work in progress, but ftpverse and ywkon characters are all finished

ftpverse wiki pages

ywkon wiki pages

and then lore etc under the cut

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ftpverse tldr

basic plot

ftpverse's basic plot is that repliku, after all-but dying towards the end of CoM (ftpverse started in 2010, so obviously, long before kh3 existed) is transported by Some Random Guy to a parallel universe where riku never existed so that repliku can get a second chance at life, where he can learn to exist as Just Himself

so that's the short of ftpverse! but that's not enough lore to cover things that'll come up in dywc sdlfkjsfj so

let's go character by character

characters

repliku: goes by riku because he started the series with amnesia and it was the only thing he could remember. hasn't found a reason to change his first name, though he adopted gainsborough as a last name after aerith adopted him. spent the entire series working through his trauma from CoM until he finally stopped having a skewed sense of self worth and started being comfortable with himself. lead a replica rebellion, briefly. that was a mess.

namine: replica created from riku's memories. still kind of figuring out What The Fuck she's doing. has a lot of trauma from the events of dead inside but they're wildly different trauma than canon namine has, of course.

sora: ftpverse was a roleswap of sorts, which featured sora falling to darkness in kh1 with riku as the "hero". so sora's got a past of dabbling in darkness, working with maleficent, being held captive by maleficent for months, and also his shadow. we'll talk about his shadow in a second, but know that by the time ftpverse has ended he's mostly gotten his darkness back under control. but i wouldn't rule out him succumbing to it again

kairi: not a keyblade weilder in this universe, because 1) she was born and raised on destiny islands 2) aqua deliberately passed the keyblade to sora. kairi's learned a lot of magic from tifa and rinoa, learned how to fight bare handed like tifa, and has a lot of bitterness in her over her friends abandoning her for three months. they've mostly patched it up since then but, still,

kano: aka shad, oc, manifestation of sora's darkness, his "shadow". sora's darkness split from him with the sole goal of dragging sora back into darkness but... accidentally developed his own personality and desires, developed a crush on sora, and eventually rebelled against his purpose (with Great Fuss). he and sora shared a body for a while, eventually got on better terms, and now they're dating. yeehaw.

joseph: oc, replica. vexen was dicking around with genetic slurry (well, taking data and making slurry of it, more technically) and producing a handful of replicas that were Entirely Unique. joseph is one of them. joseph is the only survivor of all of them. he's been a mainstay since dead inside, and serves the obnoxious little brother role to the main cast. (he really is good friends with all of them, though. probably the only friend riku had while otherwise isolated in castle oblivion, and he and namine spent months together too, so like) (there's a reason i waffle often between ftpverse main 5 and main 6, and that's becuase joseph is the 6th, even if he's not quite as close as the other five, but still very good friends with them all)

other ftpverse things of note

> the replica program was wildly successsful, and produced like 100 replicas, though there was a purge at somepoint that reduced the numbers to half. like five replicas are major characters (zexion alpha, marluxia amaryllis, vexens 7, 29, and 37, and larxene L)

> yes, there was a replica rebellion at one point. it didn't ... it wasnt very EFFECTIVE, but other than the casualties in the initial purge, it didn't go disastrously either. except for riku's psyche. it was horrible on that.

> aerith and leon are adopted siblings and were raised as such!!! i have to hawk that everywhere

> because sora was in riku's canon role, and ftp riku wasn't about to stab himself to free any hearts he wasn't harboring, sora has no nobodies!! roxas exists, but he's a replica. (xion also existed as a replica, but she died and... wasn't brought back) (maybe i'll fix that some day but i haven't written Any post ATR content outside of that oneshot where they play mario party so)

> the universe has two real somebody vexens outside of the replicas, becuase the vexen from riku's universe followed after him. he still goes by vexen. the one who's native to the universe goes by even.

> technically its adjacent universe isn't even canon but rather my sister's fanfic which was an extrapolation of kh3 events based on the knowledge we had in 2012. did you know she predicted xehanort replicas before 3d even came out? fuckin wild. (that's part of why vexen left) (he was so mad about that)

> one last one: 29 is the vexen replica charged with looking over joseph and essentially his dad. 7 is the resident designated medic who has quietly adopted namine even though he's told no one about it, but he might come up a lot becuase namine keeps going to him considering the events of dead inside which involved massive fucking around with her base data, oops. 37 was a villain, along with L, they were partners in crime. alpha and amaryllis were leading the rebellion, using riku as their poster child and resident walking bomb. (yeah, it's no wonder he's fucked up after that)

key terms??

> replica: think magic androids. they're built from "data". there was no clone grown in a lab shit here. they run linux. they're, well. magic androids. (there's more in common between them and blades than you might think)

> data: the thing replicas are made out of. it's a concept given life. kh's magic rules do not necessarily disallow this, and even if they did, i wouldn't give a fuck

> sidenote: remember how i said replicas run linux? like, that was a joke, but also. you can just go in and fuck with a replica's base code and rewrite them. :)

> darkness protection protocols: darkness and data do NOT get along, so if a replica without these installed is exposed for too long to darkness, the darkness will just SHHLOORP them up. this may have happened to riku, at some point.

> shadow: (conlang sheto,) a creature born of a host's darkness who's sole purpose is built to dragging its host back into darkness. kano was one of these. unfortunately as we all know with kh, if a thing grows a heart when it wasn't supposed to, well, now it has free will, because hearts are fucky bastards

> also everyone has a phone and knows current memes because i said so. no they aren't gummiphones because ftpverse ended two years before kh3 even came out. fuck you.

> tba???

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ywkon tldr

basics

tos but i stole xc2's lore and ran. xc2 has this system of blades/drivers in which blades are Essentially Magical Slaves in the form of a cool video game power up. like blades are people. they're sentient. but they're bound to their drivers through ~magic~ and cannot exist unless in resonance with a driver. (a full lore doc on blades can be found here)

ywkon is a deconstruction of this system ft the tos cast.

ywkon ends with them rewriting the system so that blades can exist without a driver / outside of resonance, but somehow upon being transported into the dwyc shit that got broke and reverted so colette and mithos both need a driver or they'll have to be content existing As A Rock

kratos is fine becuase he's a flesh eater (god, xc2, i hate that term) which means when he was five minutes old some asshole humans cut him open and shoved a human heart in his chest. he doesn't need a driver anymore but also Oh God Does He Have Trauma

other blade notes: blades can't die unless the core crystal is shattered, if they die they just revert to the core crystal and can be reawakened later by a new driver. they lose their memories when they die, except 1) ywkon also fixed that when it ended 2) colette and mithos, who are both aegises, were an exception to the memory loss rule anyway

flesh eaters don't have the option to revert to their core crystal so if they die they just die

HOO okay so that's the basics of blade lore let's talk about

let's do key terms first instead of characters actually

key terms

blade: sentient race of magical (often) humanoid beings (there are exceptions) who can use ether artes (magic) while humans cannot. they need a driver to even exist in the world (except we fixed that) and blah blah the rest of the stuff. they run linux.

aegis: if a blade is a computer than an aegis is a network admin. super powerful blades that can fuck around and rewrite the network (and also monitor every blade on the network, recieving and storing/sorting information they send) and also like, rewrite the world they live in, if they wish, though it takes a lot of power and careful calculation, and can't necessarily be done on a whim. in ywkon, you need two aegises combined to rewrite anything. just one isn't enough

if i got into the exact differences between ywkon aegises and xc2 vanilla aegies (and, subsequently, how alvis is still yet different because You Know), we'd be here all day

but it's worth noting that colette and mithos aren't functioning as aegises in dywc! sure, they're still super powerful, and can calculate things faster than a regular blade can, but because they are away from their world and their network, they can't actually influence anything. just because they're admins doesn't mean they're admins of this network!!! here they're just regular ass users. (which is probably why they both need resonance. they were adopted into the xc2 "canon"'s blade system as blades+ and. well xc2’s blade system neVER FIXED ITS SHIT

"rar are you saying dywc happens within the xeno universe??" well i'm not NOT saying that

anyway where were we

flesh eater: blade who's "eaten" a human heart, and has one now in their body even though a core crystal functions as a heart (and CPU so it processes ether and data) and anyway they run on blood and ether now and don't need drivers, but this sometimes has disastrous consequences on a blade. kratos just got lucky.

blade eater: human who's "eaten" part of a blade's core crystal. this can have varying positive or detrimental effects and is a pretty rare science/occurence. often you have blade donors who split their core crystal with their driver (which can save their driver from certain death if done fast enough) and the driver then gets more constant passive boosts that the blade's element grants and also can't get sick / doesn't age / so on and so forth. also a blade eater will share physical pain between their core crystal donor. okay nice.

more might come up later but now that we've gotten blade basics done twice over let's. fucking.

characters

colette: the only one here from ywkon vanilla (I'M LIVING MY BEST LIFE) - artificial aegis created by humanity's hands to recreate the original aegises power. over a hundred years old, spend most of those hundred years in captivity before she was fused with martel (one of the original aegises) and together they escaped / gained lloyd as their driver. eventually she and martel got separate bodies again and also she started dating lloyd. nice. considers zelos - the other artificial aegis - her brother. they're good siblings brent. (zelos is also dating lloyd. Lloyd's Aegises Love Him)

kratos: from wbywkon, which is an rp retelling of ywkon that kicks off ten years before ywkon because tos lloyd and sheena hopped universes and freed zelos and then Things Kept Going To Shit. rp's only halfway done (though it will still end with everyone rewriting the blade system to match ywkon vanilla's rewrites) but ANYWAY. kratos is a flesh eater who's 500 years old, drove the original aegises and stopped the first great war before fucking off to become a hermit with said aegises for hundreds of years, though martel dying sent both him and mithos into depression,,,,,, anna is the only human he trusts. i think that's everything specifically relevant to kratos? oh yeah except he's like 5x braver and a better person than tos kratos is, isn't a shitty dad (he did vanish on lloyd for five years but thought lloyd was dead, to be fair) (and unlike Some Assholes he's not going to leave the planet instead of sticking around to raise and live with his son) so imagine Kratos, But Less Shitty

anna: also from wbywkon, because wbywkon features everyone going on a roadtrip and actually means she and mithos have Chemistry and Know Each Other which is Fun. human, blade eater. her adoptive dad / blade is malos (IT'S FUN SEEING HIM HERE BUT HE'S AN AEGIS AND DEPRESSED) who donated half his core crystal because Anna Almost Died. (anna irving voice) "I THINK BLADES SHOULD VOTE" idk this is soupy she cares about blade rights and would throw hands over it. she did almost die again after getting blade eatered because her town was destroyed by an aegis cannon blast but miraculously malos got up a shield and they survived!!! She Didn't Tell Anyone, Though. ghosted on her family for 5 years (slightly better than the 15 in ywkon vanilla,) and though she and kratos have sorted that out there is some beef there, probably,

mithos: one of the original aegises. kratos' adoptive brother. has only been like alive for a little over 500 years and it being only 500 years since martel died means he hasn't quite resorted to Fucking Drastic Measures. mostly he's just been a hermit away from all the humans who wanted to use his powers again until Roadtrip Times. (he may have tried to kill anna once) (like, the aegis blast that destroyed her town was his fault) (he... really doesn't want anyone to know about this and holds a Lot of guilt, actually)

the architect: this asshole isn't in dwyc, except he is. see the architect is God Of The World, Created The World, And The Original Aegises, and all that bullshit. mithos considers him dad. here's the kicker: this asshole is also tos kratos because what does one lonely bastard do after floating around for 2000 years in space on a barren comet after running away from his son and the rest of his family? create a new world, i guess!!!!

colette's only dealing with the "ha ha he's god but he's also kratos? weird that we're all reflections of another world!" shit but anna and mithos and kratos are dealing with that And Also "we met your son dumbass and he fucking hates you now becuase you left so FUCK YOU for leaving and FUCK YOU for hurting lloyd we FUCKING HATE YOU"

honks airhorn

wbywkon brief summary here bc i dont think i really went over it well enough LMAO





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