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Background and other notes
Sep. 21st, 2012 05:27 pmI will note here that some of this is less headcanon and more outlining threading things together. The first game doesn't really have much to base on, and some things from the anime seem game-timeline accurate while others aren't; so I'm patching in some of what would be first-game part of timeline with anime events that fit, and the rest is just sorting out the game timelines and which paths are "canon", and I'm still working on reconstructing it. For the second game I'm going with the cutscenes/situation of the beginning of the third game to guess which paths are "canon". His canon point is midway through his path of the third game, just after he's met with Ieyasu and agreed to work together.
There's also a few bits of background that are patched in from history. This isn't going to be a whole lot, and I will try to note where I'm referencing it, since the games are very much NOT historically based outside of names, some personalities, and a few generalities. This will not be historically accurate. At all. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter has more to do with history than his canon.
If your character is familiar with the actual history, then I happily encourage not only fourth-walling him on it, but confusing the ever-loving Hell out of him because it doesn't match. :>
(Entry is v. much unfinished!)
( Background )
Other Headcanon
* - Yes, he is multilingual. No, he's not necessarily GOOD at it. He can follow/understand English, Italian, and Chinese, although speaking any of them is accented at best and broken at worst. Dutch and French he'll recognize, but it'll be one or two words every few sentences that he catches, and for the love of God don't ask him to try to speak it.
* - I do work under the assumption that the schizotech exists for a reason, and this is an alternate timeline where there was a higher-tech period that got smacked down - so there's bits of remaining stuff that's well above what anyone should have, besides foreign things brought in from elsewhere.Yes this is how I explain Tadakatsu/the fucking Gundam, the Lightning Edge, and various other things that just shouldn't exist. As curious as Masamune is, he hasn't really been close to it that much, so he might have "this is like that stuff" but not much else on recognition for most technology. He IS familiar with a fairly broad spread of firearms and weaponry of that sort, mostly thanks to certain other parties he's crossed paths with. Magoichi where did you even GET an RPG launcher- No, he doesn't know how to handle a gun, but he wouldn't be above learning.
*- The above note does mean that he'll have random jags of recognizing things WAY out of period, but maybe not knowing how they work exactly, and will be completely unfamiliar with other things that're pretty basic. Most of what he's familiar with is random weaponry, with a couple of cases of "Mechanical living things! I have run into those!". He knows they're unfamiliar/advanced technology, but that's about the extent of it.
There's also a few bits of background that are patched in from history. This isn't going to be a whole lot, and I will try to note where I'm referencing it, since the games are very much NOT historically based outside of names, some personalities, and a few generalities. This will not be historically accurate. At all. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter has more to do with history than his canon.
If your character is familiar with the actual history, then I happily encourage not only fourth-walling him on it, but confusing the ever-loving Hell out of him because it doesn't match. :>
(Entry is v. much unfinished!)
( Background )
Other Headcanon
* - Yes, he is multilingual. No, he's not necessarily GOOD at it. He can follow/understand English, Italian, and Chinese, although speaking any of them is accented at best and broken at worst. Dutch and French he'll recognize, but it'll be one or two words every few sentences that he catches, and for the love of God don't ask him to try to speak it.
* - I do work under the assumption that the schizotech exists for a reason, and this is an alternate timeline where there was a higher-tech period that got smacked down - so there's bits of remaining stuff that's well above what anyone should have, besides foreign things brought in from elsewhere.
*- The above note does mean that he'll have random jags of recognizing things WAY out of period, but maybe not knowing how they work exactly, and will be completely unfamiliar with other things that're pretty basic. Most of what he's familiar with is random weaponry, with a couple of cases of "Mechanical living things! I have run into those!". He knows they're unfamiliar/advanced technology, but that's about the extent of it.