Post by detroittotadfield on Jun 15, 2013 17:06:48 GMT -5
This is going to be a long set of multiset of stuff starting with the bare basics and working from there. This can all be found through my tumblr and Red's tumblr, who isn't on here but has regulated sharing our BS with you all. Take note for the most part this takes place in our massive multifandom rp world set in the table top game series World of Darkness, so things will get kind of wibbly.
Between our standard headcanon for the series and our WoD schtick, there are some key timeline and setting differences, but how you make a Plant, or where they come from at least, are at base, the same.
In the beginning with Trigun: If it’s ever stated in the manga when the project to create Plants began or how it came to be, I have no idea. But for the time being, we’ll handwave the series’ whys and hows.
In the beginning with Wod!Trigun: Over 150s years ago, the original ShinRa family’s company struck out West with hopes of building a future. Though the family was not inherently of magic blood, they had enough connections on the inside of the Masquerade’s curtain to bring a team of Sons of Ether with them. California had been annexed from Mexico in 1848 and shortly after, while their main branch building was left along the California coast for shipping and resource purposes, they took a team and settled a ways out East from that in the desert, looking for a place they could practice and research without interruption.
In the beginning, the company’s founder was in fact interested in doing well for the world, especially in creating a means of unlimited resources in power so that the great expansions of the world would never have to cease. In this time, Project SEEDS was formed with intent of cultivating the arid and seemingly dead lands around them, giving the world another greener pasture to flock to and thrive in. Dr. William Conrad headed Project SEEDS and would until its end.
Hojo originally worked alongside the project as a consulting doctor and scientist, but later abandoned it for their ideals and his own works on the project which would later refine MAKO—a substance of immense power distilled from the earth magics in the hedge. Regardless, the team worked quickly, and their Magnum Opus became the creation of what they called PLANTS.
INTERMISSION: In standard canon, Plants are described as being inter-dimensional beings, created by man and tapped for their power. Now I don’t care who you are, scientist or mage, but you just don’t create something from nothing like that, not without wrecking havoc somewhere due to the vacuum formed from the potential shift in energy.
Instead what we have is a working theory that the Plants are in fact entities from another world/realm/whathaveyou. Fitting in nicely with both standard continuity and WoD!Trigun is that the earth scientists (or mages in the latter case) discovered them by accident and through their skills, gave shape to a form the Plants could exist in and survive in our dimension. As mankind is kind of big-headed, the Plants were given generally human forms to occupy, built from scratch. However, due to the volatility of their nature, in both continuities, Plants would not be able to exist for long without support tanks or bulbs to keep them.
They are amiable, naieve creatures, and so long as they are not treated with extreme cruelty, are generally accepting of what becomes of them. Hiveminded to their ‘sisters’, they speak to each other regularly—to those on either side of the dimensional rift. Humans and other creatures from this realm however, have no idea how to properly communicate with them, but at the least can monitor their condition and the state of their power flow.
At this same time, as Plants are growing in use—again, in either continuity—a groups that worships the Plants as beings of divinity begins to form. In the canon series, we see the eye of Michael. In WoD, things are a little more expanded…
Conflict arises in WoD!Trigun: Out in the American West, the great split occurs with the arrival of Tesla, the first Independent Plant. To understand her better, she is, in effect, murdered by a string of cruel experiments and vivisections at the hands of scientist and mage alike. The Plant worshippers who have been silent within the organization to this point, leave. The only to remain is Dr. Conrad, who has kept his involvement with the group hidden from executive eyes.
Outside of ShinRa, the group fragments into sects, each with a different purpose: the Eye of Michael, the Wings of Gabriel, the Hand of Raphael, and the Crown of Lucifer. Each has their separate function, but ultimately they serve to liberate the Plants.
When the births of Vash and Knives are discovered by Dr. Conrad, he remains close to Knives, outside the scope of their caretaker, Rem, and carefully leaves a breadcrumb trail of information that leads to the boys discovering the remains of Tesla and the logs surrounding her case. Both Vash and Knives react negatively, but in the end, it’s Knives’ trauma that triggers his Plant-based powers, and he vaporizes the entire compound. Free, he and Vash escape into the desert.
Conflict arises in Trigun: After Tesla’s discover, experimentation and murder, Vash and Knives are born and found by Rem, who cares for them. After their discovery of Tesla’s remains, Vash and Knives react in horror and begin to fear for their lives. While in this brief period following, Vash is reassured and comforted by Rem, Knives goes off the friggin deep end. This culminated in Knives’ sabotage of the SEED ships, which eventually crash to the planet Gunsmoke, and the death of Rem.
EPILOGUE: Together, the brother travel for some time, though some decades make their split, allowing Vash to experience humanity as he sees fit, while Knives dips further back into his seclusion. In Vash’s absence, Knives rediscovers Dr. Conrad.
Twenty years ago, the brother met up again and the city of July was lost in a blinding light and a terrible thunder…
Between our standard headcanon for the series and our WoD schtick, there are some key timeline and setting differences, but how you make a Plant, or where they come from at least, are at base, the same.
In the beginning with Trigun: If it’s ever stated in the manga when the project to create Plants began or how it came to be, I have no idea. But for the time being, we’ll handwave the series’ whys and hows.
In the beginning with Wod!Trigun: Over 150s years ago, the original ShinRa family’s company struck out West with hopes of building a future. Though the family was not inherently of magic blood, they had enough connections on the inside of the Masquerade’s curtain to bring a team of Sons of Ether with them. California had been annexed from Mexico in 1848 and shortly after, while their main branch building was left along the California coast for shipping and resource purposes, they took a team and settled a ways out East from that in the desert, looking for a place they could practice and research without interruption.
In the beginning, the company’s founder was in fact interested in doing well for the world, especially in creating a means of unlimited resources in power so that the great expansions of the world would never have to cease. In this time, Project SEEDS was formed with intent of cultivating the arid and seemingly dead lands around them, giving the world another greener pasture to flock to and thrive in. Dr. William Conrad headed Project SEEDS and would until its end.
Hojo originally worked alongside the project as a consulting doctor and scientist, but later abandoned it for their ideals and his own works on the project which would later refine MAKO—a substance of immense power distilled from the earth magics in the hedge. Regardless, the team worked quickly, and their Magnum Opus became the creation of what they called PLANTS.
INTERMISSION: In standard canon, Plants are described as being inter-dimensional beings, created by man and tapped for their power. Now I don’t care who you are, scientist or mage, but you just don’t create something from nothing like that, not without wrecking havoc somewhere due to the vacuum formed from the potential shift in energy.
Instead what we have is a working theory that the Plants are in fact entities from another world/realm/whathaveyou. Fitting in nicely with both standard continuity and WoD!Trigun is that the earth scientists (or mages in the latter case) discovered them by accident and through their skills, gave shape to a form the Plants could exist in and survive in our dimension. As mankind is kind of big-headed, the Plants were given generally human forms to occupy, built from scratch. However, due to the volatility of their nature, in both continuities, Plants would not be able to exist for long without support tanks or bulbs to keep them.
They are amiable, naieve creatures, and so long as they are not treated with extreme cruelty, are generally accepting of what becomes of them. Hiveminded to their ‘sisters’, they speak to each other regularly—to those on either side of the dimensional rift. Humans and other creatures from this realm however, have no idea how to properly communicate with them, but at the least can monitor their condition and the state of their power flow.
At this same time, as Plants are growing in use—again, in either continuity—a groups that worships the Plants as beings of divinity begins to form. In the canon series, we see the eye of Michael. In WoD, things are a little more expanded…
Conflict arises in WoD!Trigun: Out in the American West, the great split occurs with the arrival of Tesla, the first Independent Plant. To understand her better, she is, in effect, murdered by a string of cruel experiments and vivisections at the hands of scientist and mage alike. The Plant worshippers who have been silent within the organization to this point, leave. The only to remain is Dr. Conrad, who has kept his involvement with the group hidden from executive eyes.
Outside of ShinRa, the group fragments into sects, each with a different purpose: the Eye of Michael, the Wings of Gabriel, the Hand of Raphael, and the Crown of Lucifer. Each has their separate function, but ultimately they serve to liberate the Plants.
When the births of Vash and Knives are discovered by Dr. Conrad, he remains close to Knives, outside the scope of their caretaker, Rem, and carefully leaves a breadcrumb trail of information that leads to the boys discovering the remains of Tesla and the logs surrounding her case. Both Vash and Knives react negatively, but in the end, it’s Knives’ trauma that triggers his Plant-based powers, and he vaporizes the entire compound. Free, he and Vash escape into the desert.
Conflict arises in Trigun: After Tesla’s discover, experimentation and murder, Vash and Knives are born and found by Rem, who cares for them. After their discovery of Tesla’s remains, Vash and Knives react in horror and begin to fear for their lives. While in this brief period following, Vash is reassured and comforted by Rem, Knives goes off the friggin deep end. This culminated in Knives’ sabotage of the SEED ships, which eventually crash to the planet Gunsmoke, and the death of Rem.
EPILOGUE: Together, the brother travel for some time, though some decades make their split, allowing Vash to experience humanity as he sees fit, while Knives dips further back into his seclusion. In Vash’s absence, Knives rediscovers Dr. Conrad.
Twenty years ago, the brother met up again and the city of July was lost in a blinding light and a terrible thunder…