1 | ''Witches' Reign'' is a crossover roleplay hosted on Dreamwidth. It's premised on the characters from various worlds finding themselves in Balamb Garden twenty-one years after the events of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', as a side effect of Ultimecia's attempts to make time one single moment at the climax of that game. |
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3 | As either Cadets, Instructors, or [=SeeDs=], characters are expected to learn the rigors and rules of a top-notch mercenary organization and accordingly work with it until they can find a way back to their homeworlds. That, however, is much easier said than done. |
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5 | It is found [[http://witchesreign.dreamwidth.org/profile here,]] though the last update occurred in 2014. |
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7 | !!''Witches' Reign'' provides examples of: |
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9 | * AcademyOfAdventure: Even without the shenanigans of time compression, Garden teaches kids how to use magic and mystical forces as well as the usual SpySchool fare. |
10 | * AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: Subverted: Claire is mildly weirded out by the fact that this world's chocobos are not, unlike the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII XIII]] world's. |
11 | * AllElectionsAreSeriousBusiness: Grell threatens to kill people who don't vote for her for Homecoming Princess; Tom thinks something would have exploded if she or Sharpay hadn't won their respective titles. Subverted by all the other [=SeeD=] candidates, who didn't care about or want their titles. |
12 | * AmazonBrigade: The roleplay's roster consists of a disproportionate number of cute, friendly, capable girls. |
13 | * BagOfSharing: If the school has access to one canon Guardian Force, every character can junction it. |
14 | %%* BeachEpisode: Kiden throws together a weekend trip to the beach. IntoxicationEnsues. |
15 | * BigBrotherInstinct: [[ComicBook/SonicTheComic Espio]]. One reason not to mess with Tobias. |
16 | * ClassTrip: While Garden is on break in Esthar, students are invited to the presidential palace and to Odin's laboratory. |
17 | * CompetenceZone: Subverted. The minimum age for taking the [=SeeD=] field exam is 15, which many of the younger kids, heroes or deadly assassins in their own canons, are not impressed with. The maximum age for attaining [=SeeDship=] is 25, but the Headmaster seems to have turned a blind eye to several of the older characters, and some of the immortals are outright lying about their ages. |
18 | %%* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Barnaby considers Pinkie Pie one. %%Why? |
19 | * DullSurprise: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Seifer]]-mun's reaction towards everything. Including you. |
20 | * ElaborateUniversityHigh: Balamb Garden, reprising its role from its home series. |
21 | * EyepatchAfterTimeSkip: Tobias, though it's less a typical eyepatch and more of a medical one. |
22 | * FantasticRacism: Many of the natives of the [=VIII=] world do not look kindly on off-worlders, most notably an [=NPC=] GirlPosse. |
23 | %%* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: Played straight with [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Damian]]. |
24 | * FoodFight: During the superpowers event, fuelled by Zephyr's sudden ability to generate baked goods and Kiden's sudden invisibility. |
25 | * FundraiserCarnival: Subverted: The carnival was originally just part of homecoming, but then the Garden Festival Committee decided to give the funds to charity. |
26 | * GlobalAirship: Besides the Ragnarok, Espio has donated his own airship to Garden. On the other side, an old-school Final Fantasy style airship -- a literal ship with propellers instead of sails -- has fallen into the hands of a different faction. |
27 | * GuestFighter: |
28 | ** [[Creator/DCComics Impulse]] holds a superhero party, attended mostly by the DC and Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} casts, but also [[AlternateUniverse Miracle]] [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya Mikuru]], [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]], and [[Manga/DogsBulletsAndCarnage Luki]]. |
29 | ** Played with when ''enemies'' from other worlds start turning up and destroying things... including ComMons from Franchise/{{Pokemon}} in the tall grass. |
30 | %%* GymClassHell: Jecht's swimming class. |
31 | * HeroicBSOD: [[ComicBook/SonicTheComic Espio]] goes through one when he sees his home reality implode. |
32 | * HighSchoolDance: Valentine's and homecoming dances are added to the graduation ball returning from the original game. |
33 | * HumanityEnsues: Temporarily achievable via a potion invented by [[Literature/HarryPotter Professor Slughorn]]. |
34 | * HypocriticalHumor: Sharpay breaks curfew to have a New Year's countdown with Tom, and clears out the secret area to do so by telling everyone off for breaking curfew. |
35 | * IncrediblyLamePun: |
36 | ** This being a spooky jamjar game, there was an event that involved a [[http://witchesreign.dreamwidth.org/403803.html portal to the jam dimension]]. |
37 | ** No one was happy when the mod revealed [[http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/042/1/c/strangely_obsessed_with_tubs_of_jelly_by_perinigricon-d4pd5d1.png where the jam actually came from]]. |
38 | * [[InformedJudaism Informed Islam]]: Subverted with [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Damian Razem]]. Although he seems like a Muslim who's more show than tell, his constant use of Arabic and subtle obedience towards his religion indicates that he's more than just talk. |
39 | * InstantFanClub: That same NPC GirlPosse happen to be Trepies, and also think [[HotTeacher Snow]] is quite good-looking. |
40 | * LeaningOnTheFurniture: If there is any furniture, it's [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Seifer]]'s now. |
41 | * MilitarySuperhero: Played straight for any of the characters from either the Franchise/DCUniverse or Franchise/MarvelUniverse, as they're superheroes who have graduated or will graduate and work for Garden as part of its mercenary force. |
42 | * MistakenForPregnant: Espio leaves his turnip stash in Marco's dorm room without telling him; Marco leaps to the conclusion that it is a message from Grell in vegetable language. |
43 | * TheNapoleon: [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Zim,]] since his classmates are mostly normal-human-sized... and he ran into [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Snow]] not long after enrolling. |
44 | * NextSundayAD: Despite being set twenty-one years after ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', it appears that science has not progressed. |
45 | * OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding: |
46 | ** Now that students are sponsored by outside groups, Garden has the money to quickly build an adults' lounge on a newcomer's request while they have the dorms renovated. |
47 | %%* PapaWolf: [[Manga/OnePiece Marco]]. Another reason you don't mess with Tobias. |
48 | * RealitySubtext: When the game moved to Dreamwidth, the characters received wireless-capable laptops and much of the world outside Garden also got a technological upgrade. |
49 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Characters applied as [=SeeDs=] have at least a year of handwaved history within the setting, and including CR in this handwave is an option. |
50 | * SchoolPlay: The drama classes put one on every quarter, having so far performed ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' set in the first Sorceress War '''WITH LASERS!''' and ''Theatre/{{Cats}}''. |
51 | * ShipperOnDeck: Did some characters talk to each other? Miss Tattler ships it now. |
52 | %%* StatusEffects: The subject of an entire event within the game. |
53 | %%* {{Subject 101}} |
54 | * SuperPowersForADay: The focus of a month-long event - some powerless characters received powers, some had new powers swapped for their old ones, some swapped powers with other people, and some unlucky sods were BroughtDownToNormal. Powers received include: |
55 | ** TheEmpath: Selphie absorbs the emotions of anyone she touches and [[PowerIncontinence can't turn it off]]. |
56 | ** {{Flight}}: Joe, Dick; Danny Masters gets Clark Kent's flight. |
57 | ** FriendToAllLivingThings: Squall and Sharpay, with the latter's friendliness extending to [[FriendToBugs bugs and monsters]]. Equius also receives Tavros' friendliness. |
58 | ** IntangibleMan: Clark Kent gets Danny's ghost powers in return. |
59 | ** {{Invisibility}}: Kiden, who also starts turning things she touches invisible. |
60 | ** PlayingWithFire: Rolo gets Zuko's Firebending; Espio also gets firepowers. |
61 | ** TimeStandsStill: Zuko gets [[BlessedWithSuck Rolo's Geass]], making people think this has happened. |
62 | ** WingedHumanoid: Rinoa gets stuck with the wings from her Angel Wing Limit Break ''all the time''. |
63 | %%** HealingHands: Tom. |
64 | %%** AnIcePerson: Riku. |
65 | %%** MindOverMatter: Cid Raines. |
66 | %%** PrehensileHair: Goose. |
67 | %%** SuperSpeed: Danny again. |
68 | %%** SuperStrength: Danny again; Tavros gets Equius'. |
69 | %%** XRayVision: Redglare. |
70 | * TeacherStudentRomance: Nothing has developed exclusively in the game, but [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Snow]] was the Martial Arts Instructor, and Serah was just a student. |
71 | %%* ThanksgivingEpisode: Danny invites people to celebrate it with him at the last minute. |
72 | * TimeyWimeyBall: Time compression is the cause of, and solution to, every issue that needs a handwaving. |
73 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: |
74 | ** Garden at large and baked goods. |
75 | ** Espio has an obsession with turnips. He'll eat them, hoard them, steal them, talk to them, threaten people with them and generally takes it to a ridiculous level. Even the Headmaster has noticed that he loves the things. |
76 | * WelcomeBackTraitor: |
77 | ** Seifer, after the entire events of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', had no trouble getting back into the Garden and resuming his classes. Not everyone has welcomed him, though. |
78 | ** Done again when Seifer takes TheSlowPath to returning, as a gunblade-smith rather than a student. |
79 | * YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Applies to practically half the cast, but special mention goes towards [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Zim]] for publicly asking for people's DNA samples on the BBS where the teachers could spot him... and Damian for hitting a weapon at Souless![[VideoGame/TalesofSymphonia Colette]] and getting attacked with freaking Judgment in retaliation. |
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