i had an ideaaaaa. it’s for Nana in mcd
anyway so remember how her magic involves animation and giving a life of sorts to inanimate objects? well i saw someone a while ago mention taking it a step further and making her a necromancer. now i LOVE that idea, i can’t for the life of me remember where i originally saw it, BUT!!
i’m gonna set the scene. Nana is in Tu’la, a region which I have drawn inspiration from Japan’s Sakoku period. to sum it up, this is basically a period in Japanese history where they essentially isolated themselves from the rest of the world trade wise and didn’t really develop the same way if that makes sense? anyway Japan came out of it in like the 1860s but they were behind the rest of the world because their strict isolation prevented the exchange of ideas and stuff like the Industrial Revolution didn’t really happen, but they ended up catching up quickly and basically in 1941 they displayed their sudden military prowess and development by bombing Pearl Harbor. this is significant because Japan had been isolated for about 200 years, and caught up with 200 years worth of development in about 80. (all of that is very simplified and the numbers might be off.) but back to mcd stuff
Tu’la is inspired by this period of time. it’s very cut off from the rest of the trading world and the military in the country is very highly regarded because of how well they’ve sort of “fended off” foreigners and the region has a military junta style government. i’ve worked a little bit on backstory and loosely decided that Tu’la has painted this picture of being abandoned by the rest of the world, so during their seclusion they’ve been planning an attack that is predicted to slowly suck everyone else dry. to do this they obviously need a strong military so they’re always on the lookout for great soldiers
so where does Nana come into this? well when she was a child she would use her animation magic to bring life to small stuff like rocks and sticks to make dolls and play with them. cities and towns are still guarded and watched by military, so a few men took note of this and began asking her questions about it. Nana answered them without much thought because it’s really a useless power (at least in her child eyes), but one day she gets told that whatever council is in charge wants to see her and she becomes the youngest military member for the sole purpose of her powers. the council figures if she trains enough, then she can give life back to deceased soldiers
so she kind of grows up learning that. she practices a lot and as a side effect notices that she’s kind of aging faster? she brushes it off and doesn’t ever think she’ll be able to bring someone back to life, but being in the military has helped her family so she stays and pretends. until she does actually reanimate a dead body and accidentally created the “perfect soldier” that can’t be killed or harmed or think for itself, and she decides she doesn’t actually want her power to be used to overtake the world. so, she plans to run away
she succeeds and as a result ends up in Ru’aun, however doing this makes her a fugitive in Tu’la and is the initial reason the region decides to break away from isolation earlier than planned, because they need to make sure their weapon doesn’t end up in the wrong hands. this is where i imagine she would change her name and end up traveling all over to avoid Tu’la
now HERE’S THE KICKER. me personally, i’m tired of magic having no limits or consequences. why can they do whatever they want and only end up feeling tired? now some good shit would be consequences AND SOOO
every time Nana gives something life, her own lifespan shortens. So she isn’t even really giving life she’s just letting that thing borrow hers. this isn’t something she really finds out until she realizes that she continues to age a little faster than normal, but she also comes across a sorcerer that gives her advice about it. now, how would this work into an adaptation of her maid cafe idea?
Nana knows she’s a fugitive and criminal of Tu’la. rumors start spreading of a meif’wa wirh the ability to raise the dead at her will in all regions of the world, which creates and deepens discrimination against them. people start turning Nana away when she asks for shelter and barely even acknowledge her in public. Nana is a social person, not to mention she just broke away from isolation, so to be isolated once again in a new world where that isn’t even mandatory? she hits a wall and creates companions out of dolls at the cost of her own life, and she decides that if she goes sooner because of it then she’s okay with that
i imagine after moving to Phoenix Drop or the way with Scaleswind and O’Khasis that she stops using her powers because she’s found something to live for. i still haven’t decided if any of this is something she even tells Dante, but that depends on varying levels of tension i want
anyway there’s my two cents on her hope you guys enjoyed :3
