Infinite Stratos Character Creation and Fanfiction Discussion

[MeisterBabylon]

I was reminded of Erika's closet ero fantasizing habit acting up as she thinks aloud what could be happening behind locked doors. First would be Zero's idea. Riz then says its not possible, then it becomes yours. Both end in CENSORED. So she screams that line she read in an old manga about gondolas on mars.

Celeste: Objective failed. *summons Hand Sonic* I shall rectify my mistake.

Riz: Killing not allowed either!

And she cuts through the door...

...to find two sleeping children.

Riz: ...so she really was tired.

Celeste: Unexpected outcome. Intelligence was faulty.

Riz: It's a little late for that now... But now what are we going to do about this door? If Browning finds out-

Rachel: oh yes, what if Browning finds out~?

Riz: well that would be- eh?

EEEEEEH?!

[Eratas123]

@ Box - I still dislike Hero death endings unless they're heroic sacrifices or taking bullets. Granted, it's just my prejudice talking. Besides, this is a crack fic, if it was a dark fic with a downer ending I would read it. I read Via Dalarossa.

@ Meistah - How does Karon normally show she likes someone? Cling to them, act tsundere, be distant? I need to write it down for future drafts.

EDIT: Quick! Grab Maximillian and Ange! That'll distract her! Also, they call her by last name? Shouldn't they call her sensei? Maximillian is the same age group as them so I can understand being casual with him.

[StratoSpear]

@Zero & Eratas

Since Athena Sabre is going to be laid out on a timespan of at least 4 months, I'm going about chalking up a rough plotline of what happens during when.

Can I PM it over to you guys to take a look at it when I'm done?

(Anyone else who's decently familiar with the novels and wants to chip in, you can help out as well )

[Eratas123]

@ Stratos - Senpai isn't here now, but I'll be glad to help Why don't you just post it here instead of PMing it to us?

[StratoSpear]

Works for me! I'll get right on it!

[Eratas123]

@ Senpai - I posted a small continuation of the talk just after you left, can you read it and give any suggestions?

@ Stratos - Don't forget to spoiler tag.

[StratoSpear]

Ayup.

Also to anyone here who's familiar with the timeline, may I have a brief layout as to when does each LN takes place?

E.g Vol 4 - Early August

[ZeroXSEED]

Originally Posted by demino_hellsin

What is the highest temperature a human can survive?

70-80 degrees of several minutes exposure, tops.

Originally Posted by Eratas123

@ Senpai - Did Irish just get...nevermind.

@ Senpai and Meistah -

Spoiler:

So, what did you want to talk about?"

"Well, about last night...."

"You just did it in the spur of the moment, nothing more nothing less."

"That's not true!"

"Oh, come on. You expect me to believe you like the guy who dropped a power grid on you?"

"Wasn't that 400 pages ago?"

"...Don't break the 4th wall..."

"Anyway, it wasn't spur of the moment or anything."

"I've seen enough hentai manga's from Maximillian to know it is."

"It's not and I can prove it!"

"Oh yeah? How are you going to do - Hey! Why are you coming closer?"

"I'm going to prove it to you."

"Stop puckering your lips, I'm not going to-"

*Smooch*

"..."

"Told you it wasn't spur of the moment."

"I hate you so much right now..."

"Shut up~"

HELL YEAH! It's beyond my expectation!

Originally Posted by StratoSpear

And maybe some sort of support for me fic. I don't recall saying explicitly what is the Iwaki core is derived from aside from the blunt "Outdated IS Tech".

Lawl, my first intention is for the villains to use duplicate cores, but this would be SLIGHTLY more plausible.

Originally Posted by StratoSpear

Badass grandpas are always good since they're usually in for moral support and ocassionally combat support (And they tend to kick ass when they do).

Thumbs up.

They also tend to die/ missing after the hero fully 'matured' ( I look at you, Obi Wan). That said, Badass Grandpa always been awesome

Originally Posted by StratoSpear

@Zero & Eratas

Since Athena Sabre is going to be laid out on a timespan of at least 4 months, I'm going about chalking up a rough plotline of what happens during when.

Can I PM it over to you guys to take a look at it when I'm done?

(Anyone else who's decently familiar with the novels and wants to chip in, you can help out as well )

I just skim through Sabre, but I haven't finished Bouclier so I'll read it again properly if I have time. As for draft, just post here and see what i can do.

[Eratas123]

Volume 5 is unknown but it's most likely only a week or few from september since Ichika's birthday is coming up during Volume 6 and they say it's September 13 I think.

@ Senpai - The first part of that may be either tom or thursday, depending on how much time I get and how many projects I need to do.

[Eratas123]

@ Senpai - If the girl initiates the kiss and the guy is somewhat unwilling, does that mean it counts as rape? Not a joke about rape, I'm just worried about Moral Dissonance.

[ZeroXSEED]

Originally Posted by Eratas123

@ Senpai - If the girl initiates the kiss and the guy is somewhat unwilling, does that mean it counts as rape? Not a joke about rape, I'm just worried about Moral Dissonance.

It does count by technicality, the double standard was rich as fuck though....and yes I'm a little annoyed but that's how society works, IRL and fiction.

This comes with the fact that for MOST guy (including me until sometime ago) a kiss is just another form of skinship, not romanticized or sacred, and of course it goes vice versa with the girls.

Of course there's guys that saw them as serious business (including me now) and the number of girls that forget/ dismiss the stigma of kissing is increasing.

Oh and as I said, August is pretty much vacant (V4 set in July-early August)

[MeisterBabylon]

Originally Posted by Eratas123

@ Meistah - Once again, the similarity to the venom suit is uncanny What does their power have to do with their idol life anyway?

Its pretty convoluted because what's happening is in fact the group is formed because of the Alaska Treaty.

When a country finds an ISper, they never share willingly. The vagueness and poor understanding of ISpers add to this sentiment. Yet the Alaska Treaty has bred a sense of entitlement amongst all the countries with regards to IS-related matters, and the US has made its case that ISpers are "IS-related technology" and must therefore be shared with the world... When the EU failed to fully disclose their eugenics program, the US and them became embroiled in a game of brinkmanship. This made any country with an ISper vulnerable to politicking from these two giants, and the world is sliding towards a long cold war.

Meanwhile, a company was intending to take the world by storm with a new idea. Kougami Corp's Kougami Productions (KG-P) was to reinvent itself by combining IS and idols together. Because of the security needed, KG-P's idol Tsubomi got to know Houki as both contracted the same firm. One thing led to another, and Tabane soon knew about them.

Approaching from another angle was the recovery of the Copernicus and the long decrypting of the Vandam I. While Karon and Vandam's meeting was not planned, the Foundation had been seeking ways to make sure their unique invention was not ripped out from under them. The only way was to get everything to the ISA, without the bigwigs noticing until it was too late.

Idols and IS however weren't new to the Foundation. The first Vandam Joaquim was piloted by a girl who became a wildly-popular idol within the Foundation, and KG-P was going down there to recruit. This is where Tabane intervened, drawing up an audacious plan which would not only get KG-P the idols they want, they'd centralize and protect ISpers from agencies abusing the Alaska Treaty, and yet calm the world by holding ISpers in a neutral authority and promising to share whatever they learnt with the world equally. By branding themselves as idols for world peace, it would give KG-P a potent product to sell.

But as we know, Tabane is no altruistic woman. As it turns out, Tabane herself was an ISper; A processor-type who can simulate reality using on-board computers, forming a marble of reality from which she could freely mould and create incomprehensible inventions before manufacturing for real. So as part of her redemption plan, Tabane's replacement as Houki's sister had to be not only an Idol, an IS pilot, but an ISper too. This was why she pushed so hard for ISpers to be gathered in KG-P.

So, who's the one with all of Tabane's strengths (spirited, relentless), and none of her sins (tore up Houki's dream of being an idol, ruined her family, lost her smile...) and flaws (being too smart, too callous, too false...)?

She is someone that Houki already connects with...

...Vandam Karon.

But what Tabane did not anticipate is how much [The Smallest IS] is going to change her plan...

So there you have it, a poorly-explained concept of how ST@RS came to be when this was supposed to have been explained slowly over several fics and the xmas special so that there's enough volume for people to make sense of it.

Originally Posted by Eratas123

EDIT: Quick! Grab Maximillian and Ange! That'll distract her! Also, they call her by last name? Shouldn't they call her sensei? Maximillian is the same age group as them so I can understand being casual with him.

This dwells into the characters actually. They all call Browning Sensei when she's in class, but outside some of them revert to nicknames. For Riz, a rich girl and artiste who is used to being top of the food chain, refers to Rachel on last name basis in the latter's absence.

Which makes things worse when she's found out with a sliced door.

[StratoSpear]

@Eratas & Zero

So far here's what I laid out for August-September:

Spoiler for Timeline:

==== August ====
Early August
- Tsurugi enrolls in the ISA.
- Inami goes through ISA’s “instructor exam”.
- Only Cecilia(out of the canon cast) knows about their roles in the ISA.
- Tsurugi’s parents’ introduction.

Mid August
- Mysterious drone attack in Fukushima, Inami goes to investigate.
- Golem attack occurs in the ISA concurrently, leaving Tsurugi to defend herself along with some schoolmates.
- Inami arrives in Fukushima, faces off against an experimental Praxidike drone replica of the Silver Gospel at Mt Nasu, Fukushima.
- Tsurugi resumes life in ISA after previous Golem attack.
- Inami returns, relays his findings to Tsurugi.
- Summer festival, Inami and Tsurugi meets up with canon cast.
- Post-festival, personal training resumes while canon cast goes about their summer vacation.

Late August
- RnR for Inami and Tsurugi, canon cast suspects their roles in the ISA.
- Introduction of Kirin Arakaki, Tsurugi’s classmate, depises men due to traumatic past.
- Cohesion of Inami and the Katami family.
- Tsurugi’s parents returns to work.
- Inami and Tsurugi returns to ISA.
- Canon cast discovers that Tsurugi is an ISA student, but has yet to learn about Inami’s instructor role.

==== September ====

Early September
- Phantom Task intro, Praxidike drones intercepts the Silent Zephyrs as M returns from her attack on Strategic Defense Point 16.
- Inami duels with Tsurugi in ISA Training Hall 7, Kirin misunderstands their actions and interferes.
- Kirin learns about Inami’s instructor role in the ISA, promptly engaging in a heated duel with him only to be stopped by Tsurugi.
- Tsurugi spends time with Kirin to understand her hatred for men, learns about Kirin’s past.
- Inami runs into Cecilia while self-training in Training Hall 7.
- Inami learns about Ichika’s birthday from Cecilia.

Mid September
- Tatenashi intro, duels against Inami upon suspecting that the Minerva Kai is a hostile drone. (Fire Vs Water)
- Canon cast discovers Inami’s instructor role in the ISA.
- Inami learns about Kirin’s past via Tsurugi, tries to talk to Kirin to come to an understanding to no avail.
- RnR moment for Kirin and Tsurugi in Odaiba. Runs into a group of unruly men, who turns out to be the cause of her traumatic past.
- Inami takes time off to visit Jinrai.
- Tsurugi attempts to talk Kirin out of her generalized hatred for men, causing tension between the two.
- M attacks the canon cast at the ISA, injuring Cecilia and later Tsurugi when she attempts to keep M away from Cecilia.
- Inami intercepts M as she retreats from the ISA attack.
- Praxidike superdrone intercepts Inami and M before they could duel. Quickly destroyed by their improvised teamwork.
- M heads back to Phantom Task. Inami returns to the ISA, relays his encounter to Tsurugi and the canon cast.

Late September
- Ichika’s birthday celebration.
- RnR for Inami, Cecilia and Tsurugi. Runs into Kirin as she faces off against the same men that she and Tsurugi met before.
- Inami, Cecilia and Tsurugi fends off the men alongside Kirin.
- Kirin chews out on Inami thinking that he was only putting on an act.
- Inami harshly snaps back at Kirin, telling her that her attitude of generalized hatred for the opposite gender reminds him of Gerald.
- Back in the ISA, Kirin learns about Inami’s past from Cecilia and Tsurugi, then begins to see Inami in a different light.
- RnR for Inami and Kirin, who seeks apology and advice as to how she should change. Begins to see him as brother figure, forming a platonic relationship with him.
- Kirin begins to address Inami as “Aniki”, mildly annoying Tsurugi and Cecilia.

How does it look?

[ZeroXSEED]

Originally Posted by StratoSpear

@Eratas & Zero

So far here's what I laid out for August-September:

Spoiler for Timeline:

==== August ====
Early August
- Tsurugi enrolls in the ISA.
- Inami goes through ISA’s “instructor exam”.
- Only Cecilia(out of the canon cast) knows about their roles in the ISA.
- Tsurugi’s parents’ introduction.

Mid August
- Mysterious drone attack in Fukushima, Inami goes to investigate.
- Golem attack occurs in the ISA concurrently, leaving Tsurugi to defend herself along with some schoolmates.
- Inami arrives in Fukushima, faces off against an experimental Praxidike drone replica of the Silver Gospel at Mt Nasu, Fukushima.
- Tsurugi resumes life in ISA after previous Golem attack.
- Inami returns, relays his findings to Tsurugi.
- Summer festival, Inami and Tsurugi meets up with canon cast.
- Post-festival, personal training resumes while canon cast goes about their summer vacation.

Late August
- RnR for Inami and Tsurugi, canon cast suspects their roles in the ISA.
- Introduction of Kirin Arakaki, Tsurugi’s classmate, depises men due to traumatic past.
- Cohesion of Inami and the Katami family.
- Tsurugi’s parents returns to work.
- Inami and Tsurugi returns to ISA.
- Canon cast discovers that Tsurugi is an ISA student, but has yet to learn about Inami’s instructor role.

==== September ====

Early September
- Phantom Task intro, Praxidike drones intercepts the Silent Zephyrs as M returns from her attack on Strategic Defense Point 16.
- Inami duels with Tsurugi in ISA Training Hall 7, Kirin misunderstands their actions and interferes.
- Kirin learns about Inami’s instructor role in the ISA, promptly engaging in a heated duel with him only to be stopped by Tsurugi.
- Tsurugi spends time with Kirin to understand her hatred for men, learns about Kirin’s past.
- Inami runs into Cecilia while self-training in Training Hall 7.
- Inami learns about Ichika’s birthday from Cecilia.

Mid September
- Tatenashi intro, duels against Inami upon suspecting that the Minerva Kai is a hostile drone. (Fire Vs Water)
- Canon cast discovers Inami’s instructor role in the ISA.
- Inami learns about Kirin’s past via Tsurugi, tries to talk to Kirin to come to an understanding to no avail.
- RnR moment for Kirin and Tsurugi in Odaiba. Runs into a group of unruly men, who turns out to be the cause of her traumatic past.
- Inami takes time off to visit Jinrai.
- Tsurugi attempts to talk Kirin out of her generalized hatred for men, causing tension between the two.
- M attacks the canon cast at the ISA, injuring Cecilia and later Tsurugi when she attempts to keep M away from Cecilia.
- Inami intercepts M as she retreats from the ISA attack.
- Praxidike superdrone intercepts Inami and M before they could duel. Quickly destroyed by their improvised teamwork.
- M heads back to Phantom Task. Inami returns to the ISA, relays his encounter to Tsurugi and the canon cast.

Late September
- Ichika’s birthday celebration.
- RnR for Inami, Cecilia and Tsurugi. Runs into Kirin as she faces off against the same men that she and Tsurugi met before.
- Inami, Cecilia and Tsurugi fends off the men alongside Kirin.
- Kirin chews out on Inami thinking that he was only putting on an act.
- Inami harshly snaps back at Kirin, telling her that her attitude of generalized hatred for the opposite gender reminds him of Gerald.
- Back in the ISA, Kirin learns about Inami’s past from Cecilia and Tsurugi, then begins to see Inami in a different light.
- RnR for Inami and Kirin, who seeks apology and advice as to how she should change. Begins to see him as brother figure, forming a platonic relationship with him.
- Kirin begins to address Inami as “Aniki”, mildly annoying Tsurugi and Cecilia.

How does it look?

That's about right and mesh with the Canon from my understanding, you may ask Box (Detective) if you want to be sure (he's the most novel-attentive)

[MeisterBabylon]

doesnt the school year begin in spring? Does this mean that canon occurs half a year later than I think?

[agetreme]

With special OC, the Antagonist need to be special too!

For every Super heroes, there are super villains, just like Joker to Batman!

Spoiler for saving space:

(Note: Harbinger's Drones looked like dragons. All of them are immune to EMP. The commander units are immune to hacking due to being part of the pilot's mind)

Harbinger's commander drones are controlled remotely mentally by the pilots though a special system. No pilots are in them...

Spoiler for spoiler:

except for Green Lich Dragon

Four Elite/Ace Pilots of Harbinger:

White Bow Dragon (All white humanoid dragon(not wyvern like its mook) drone armed with Hand mounted bow):
Mooks: High Speed white Wyverns.
Pilot: ?
Nobody know his/hers true identity, a terrifying pilot capable of insane high-speed maneuver deem impossible even with the use of IS. (Side note: since Harbinger are using Drone with weak to no energy shield and had to use mobility to make up for their weak defense, by high-speed for them I mean literally in blink of an eyes.). Thankfully, it is seldom seen.

Spoiler for Back Story:

Literally the Boss Mook of the Harbinger. The Pilot is actually an extremely advanced AI.

Red Sword Dragon: Humanoid version of eastern dragon wearing samurai armor (Just to keep in theme with his Katana-wielding mooks):
Mooks: by default, Resemble humanoid version of eastern dragons but can take form of anything which the Commander wanted. All wield katana.

Pilot: Mumeishi (Family name because nobody is close enough to him to call him by his given name) (codename: Kenryu (Sword dragon))
A Janitor at ISA (yes, evil version of Almighty Janitor). Cunning and will using his drone mooks to stir/provoke his opponents(for example: Using Drone in shape of Chifuyu in IS to provoke Ichika). Deathly in close-combat. The reason why he is working as a Janitor at ISA: He really need a job and Harbinger don't pay you beyond your meals. The information he collected are just mere bonus. The damages caused during his drones attack? He can demand extra bonus from his boss. Thankfully, he don't command his drone to attack that often...only when he really need that money)

Black Scale Dragon: (A Dragon with a giant scale on its back, walk on all four)
Mooks: Normal Harbinger's drones (Weaker than other commanders' but Cheaper to mass produce). Its nanomachines are specialized only offensive uses compared to Green Lich Dragon's defensive use.

Pilot: (Currently known by his codename: Beelzebub)
Currently in EBC terrorist group. Known to be a gluttony, always eating something (related to his back-story and motivation for joining Harbinger). Favor zerg rush tactic. The scale on the dragon's back is actually a nanomachine colony. He can control the nanomachines to attack his victims. Fortunately this unit is the weakest when compared to others due to the nature of the machine and the pilot had to focus when using the nanomachine (read: The Unit Stop moving when the Nanomachines are deployed) But don't underestimate him, every battle has to end quickly before one is overwhelmed by the nanomachines and his mooks..

Spoiler for Backstory:

Came from a third-world country, always starving without any food. Joined the Harbinger to punish the world for wasting and not sharing food with poorer countries.

Green Lich Dragon: (A skeletal serpent-like Dragon that wield a scythe, have arms but no legs)
In spite of having only four Mooks (unlike other commanders unit with more than 6 drones) assigned to it, and seems to move slower compared to other fast moving drones but make no mistake, this is Harbinger's most powerful unit.

In exchange for slower movement, it has the most devastating ability: The unit can function even when heavily damaged and keep repairing itself so long as its four cores(contain nanomachines) are not damaged. It can also revive other damaged drone unit and use them as its own.

Mooks: Only four of them with same skeletal design Don't have the same ability as the commander thankfully (2 single-swords wielding and 2 unit that has eight cannons on their back)
As well as other drones that had been repaired/revive by this unit (note: including defeated Commander units!!).

Pilot: No name, only known as Lich by other Harbingers and wanted only to be known by that.
You can visit his grave if you wanted to..... His family can even produce a death cert if you wanted to see it and his doctor can even swear on the pain of death that he is dead.

Spoiler for Dead man walking:

A Cyber ghost or rather a data of the mind of a once living person. Currently "living" inside Green Death Dragon).
He died due to cancer but is "revived" by Harbinger's technology (convert his mind into data), needless to say, he resented the world for spending so much effort in creating technology for war instead of putting those effort into saving lives. He don't really like fate for a good reason.

The reason why his drone has no leg is simple: He lost the use of his leg due to head injury after being involved in a traffic accident (it is during that time in hospital that he found out that he has terminal cancer)

Trivial information:
>Based on Four horsemen of Apocalypse.
>Go ahead and see how many references you can find in Green Lich Dragon and Black Scale Dragon.

[StratoSpear]

Originally Posted by ZeroXSEED

That's about right and mesh with the Canon from my understanding, you may ask Box (Detective) if you want to be sure (he's the most novel-attentive)

Noted.

@Detective
How does the timeline look, Detective-san? If it's good, I'll progress with planning for future months as well.

[Eratas123]

@ Stratos - Looks good Laura should be included in the intercepting of M though. Also, why does Tatenashi think he's a hostiile drone? She's shown to be smart enough in canon so she'd probably figure it wasn't.

[ZeroXSEED]

Originally Posted by MeisterBabylon

doesnt the school year begin in spring? Does this mean that canon occurs half a year later than I think?

The school started in March, indeed the start of spring season

[Eratas123]

@ Senpai - Just read your post about the kiss. So a girl initiating it doesn't seem that negative in todays society, but what about IS society? Would the implications just be ignored?