I really want to do another fairy tale what_if but set in some stereotypical fairy tale kinda world, idk. Just like pick an archetype or actual fairytale character and ascribe it to your character? Nick is a motherfucking pirate, but that's all I know for sure so far. Anyway if nobody else wants to do it, that's cool, this is just my life and choices rn.

Background: Basing this loosely on Once Upon a Time, but there's maybe a lot of different 'kingdoms' of various stories/mythology so your character doesn't necessarily have to be from some Grimm classic fairy tale. The main kingdom setting could be the usual castles, kings queens, dark forests, magic~

We haven't done a high school what_if in a while. This was pointed out to be by Harleigh, we agree that's tragic. There are far too many melodramatic teen shenanigans yet to happen. Not to mention teen characters yet to be realized and Mr. Banner has not fallen into this madness yet!

UNACCEPTABLE GANG!

So here's a link to our old planning post right hurr!

And hurr too

Options:
We can keep it simple and do another slice of day to day
Or we can try again for a dance. (I promise homecoming is a thing!)

My only big question is: Who graduated? If no one we can carry on like normal. :)

Deep in dark city of New York there is a community of outcasts. Of course they blend in outside of their small community. But within the community they were something more;they were legends. They were princes,princesses,kings,queens,witches,knights and sorcerers. The mortals read stories about them to their children all the while not knowing how close these characters were or how much power they possessed.
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Okay, so, this is our Pacific Rim What_If plotting a post. A few things- the film took place over the course of ten years. If everything's cool with it, we're upping that to twenty. That way kids had to grow up in this world and adults had more time and adults who've lived through it had more time to be bitter. So as of now we're in 2030, fifteen years after the first Jaeger was created. We'd be at the point kind of where the pilots are still ~rockstars and they're not shutting down the program yet, but Kaiju are appearing with more frequency and getting harder to manage. Also, thread out scenes from everybody's pasts if you want.

Here's a short timeline:

-August, 2013: First attack on San Francisco known as K-DAY
-2014: Pan Pacific Defense Corps formed
-2015: First Jaeger launched
-[Whatever our characters are doing]
-2030: Present day

Facts to know:
-We don't have powers in this 'verse but if you want to make your Jaeger or personality reflect abilities somehow, go for it
-Shatterdomes, the PPDC headquarters where Jaegers are built and repaired and stored and where everyone stays and trains, are set up along the Pacific even though it would make more sense if they just built one in the ocean near the rift, but whatever. The US West Coast Shatterdome is in Los Angeles.
-The training academy is up at Kodiak Island, Alaska
-Pilot's "rank" in the PPDC is ranger
-There's other stuff to "be" at the Shatterdomes like trainers, engineers, awesome science guys, people in charge of creating piloting simulations, people who work the LOCCENT Mission Control while pilots are out battling (like bad ass bow tie guy), just in case not everybody wants to be a ranger.
-At this point there are an assload of Jaegers, so pilots make up your own or use one that already exist.

OKAY. Well. Now that this novel is finished, go forth and write out your character histories and describe your Jaegers.

It has been brought to my attention ladies (and absent gentlemen), that we have apparently not done an Old West what_if. What, what, what are we doing? I love the old west and cowboys and giant spiders (lol jk), I hope you do, too. This is what we're doin' for our anniversary.

So anyway I was thinking options are we could just be a regular old west town, or we could be an old west town where suddenly we all have our powers or whatever, oooor we can be a particular town where all the mutants and magics and metahumans of the world settle out in the old west. I am good with any of these options. Let's plan the world and plan our characters and yeah. Happy almost fourth birtday y'all.


I am excited

FACTS:
-It is 1870 in Marvelous Nevada, located in the southern region that will someday be Area 51
-Marvelous was a town out in the middle of nowhere, founded thirty years ago by a group of people with strange powers who wanted a safe haven away from societies that shunned them. They welcome anyone to live and work in Marvelous, as long as everybody's willing to accept the strange happenings and people who inhabit the town.
-Marvelous has done a good job keeping to itself and so has become a kind of legend, sometimes people come just to see if it exists, and outcasts always seem to find their way here. Nobody's tried attacking the settlement. They'd be fools to try.

Oh my god, it's been a while. Too long.

This was where we were June of last year:

Grade 9: Alex
Grade 10: Jan, Bobbi, Kitty, Anna Marie, Jasper, Remy, Wicked, Pietro, Loki
Grade 11: Pepper, Valentina, Calvin, Cassie, Kurt
Grade 12: Justin, Happy, Kate

Principal: Nick Fury
Vice Principal: Phil Coulson
French: Wanda Maximoff
History: Erik Magnus
Coach: Clint Barton
Math/Science: Tony Stark
Art: Steve Rogers
English/Music: Colleen Wing
Autoshop: Misty Knight
Librarian: Jessica Drew
Guidance Counselor: Raven Darkholme

Ex Guidance Counselor: Frank Castle


Tell me what newer characters are doing. Tell me what your old characters have done in the interim.

ALSO: Here's links to the original stuff if anyone wants references.
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First
Second

Another planning post!

We've talked about this a lot, but for handy, cohesive organizing purposes, here's where we discuss being angels and demons and stuff like that there.
Some ground rules:
Being a 'good' or 'bad' guy doesn't preclude your soul's status
Which means that being angel doesn't mean you are a good or even kind person, and the opposite
I think dudes still have their powers, within reasonable confines of angelic or demonic powers

Which brings me to what those might be!
I'm just spitballing here so feel free to do what you do, but I'm thinking:
Angels have big, fluffy wings, colouring and other vanities up to you, maybe halos? Or they just glow a little bit? They can (usually?) fly, heal themselves and others, and then it depends on what kind of angel they are. Go buck wild there, idc.
Demons are a little more freeform because there's some of these in every culture, so you're going to have to figure out what they look like. Horns, tails, wings, scales, goat legs, pointy teeth, glowing eyes, who the hell knows. There's a millions types of demons to be, again, so, like, go all in.
In both cases, they have their relevant home turfs that the other can't go to, but Earth is a free for all. Humans (and your character can be a human, no one's stopping you) can't see any of their physical identifiers, so they can pass pretty easily on their quests to corrupt or save.
Because both of these types are immortal, I'm guessing, you can set your threads in any time period you feel like. Get creative, surprise me, surprise yourselves. If you don't say anything though, I think we're going to default to Present Day.
You don't only have to be one or the other for all of time. Shit happens. I'd commit some heavenly crimes if I had to put up with some of these characters all the time.

GO FORTH AND MEET ON THE BATTLEFIELD of shit that doesn't matter.
Describe your characters, their relationships to each other, their favourite sins, wing grooming tips, whatever.

I have a what_if proposal of the scandalous nature. >;) You may want to take a seat.

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How exactly this differs from Rome is negligible at best but you know...I'm doin' me.

Obviously, it is Egypt rather than Rome, and shortly before Roman rule? So those dudes are around and making a lot of noise, but they can go screw.
The mutant/human tension isn't really a thing here so if that bothered you about Rome, now is your chance to shine. Metahumans are pretty much just normal folk. Egyptians are an open minded people. You might be more likely to be recruited for armies and stuff, though. And/or be a super nifty slave, so watch yourself. On that note, sort of, you can be Egyptian or Roman or Israeli*, whatever you feel like, Egypt's not fussed. Get creative.

I'm not sure what else needs to be said. I'm gonna start this pretty high up and make Tony's blessed bloodline royal, so bow to your great Pharaoh Anzety. He has like eight wives and they're all super great. (This might be a good time to remind you that Egyptians didn't actually believe in polygamy and/or incest except between royals so cut it the fuck out, twins).

Because Tony-Anzety is Pharaoh, lucky citizens of Egypt (and probably mostly Memphis? Anyone know better than me?) live in a world of great industry and invention! And have sewage systems and like elevators or flying machines or something. Now you know how they built the pyramids. I'm not thinking about it too hard, just use your good judgement there and write about cool things.

Okay that's all GO FORTH, write about your characters, have ideas, make all of mine better, disregard mine and you do you.

Mentioning dolls for Dezi.

*If all ancient history blends together for you, 'shortly before Roman rule' is a few hundred years after that little upset with Moses.

This is the What If? MARVEL HIGH sketch post, since enough people seem into it. Or, well, one of them. Variations are welcome, but let's sort one out to start playing in.

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Edit: Due to vanity, we've been allowed to have alternate accounts for the What If! To keep it a little streamlined, Ash suggests all of these alternate accounts begin with 'if_'. So, Justin's What If account is if_0nly. You get it.

A helpful roster:
Grade 9: Alex, Noriko, Pietro, Wicked, Sebastian
Grade 10: Jan, Bobbi, Kitty, Cassie, Anna Marie
Grade 11: Li Hua, Pepper, Valentina, Calvin
Grade 12: Justin, Happy, Loki

Principal: Nick Fury
Vice Principal: Phil Coulson
French: Wanda Maximoff
History: Erik Magnus
Coach: Clint Barton
Math/Science: Tony Stark
Art: Steve Rogers
English/Music: Colleen Wing
Autoshop: Misty Knight
Librarian: Jessica Drew

Some missing, some made up. Keep me posted.