A World Of My Own

Even though there is no 100% way to tell if someone is stronger than someone else, there is a system I created to put people in different leagues. Again, it doesn't say everyone's strength in relation to everyone else's, because there can be a rock-paper-scissors relationship with people of different leagues. But anyway, there are actually two versions of this system. The first one is from year 0, which I'll explain more of in the timeline post. And the second one is the one that's currently used in the present.

First Strength System - Year 0

C Class - This ranges from the very beginners to almost intermediate levels of mastery of the person's powers.

B Class - This ranges from intermediate to almost advanced levels of mastery of the person's powers.

A Class - This ranges from advanced to almost professional levels of mastery of the person's powers.

Master Class - This class isn't a closed interval. A degree of professionalism is required to qualify, but after a certain point, only people who've made it that far can decide how far the range can go.

This first system is very simple, but the problem I had with it was that the ranges were very broad and it takes a while for someone to go up to the next class.

Current Strength System - Present Day

C Class - This ranges from very beginner levels to basic control/realization of one's powers.

B Class - This ranges within the first half of the intermediate level. The person is strong enough to join/lead a minor level team.

A Class - This ranges within the second half of the intermediate level and the brink of the advanced level. The person should have a good amount of experience in combat to join/lead a regular/somewhat formidable team.

S1 Class - This ranges within the beginning of the advanced level. The person should be able to join/lead a pretty well known team and can be a threat by themselves.

S2 Class - This ranges within the heart of the advanced level. The person is capable in many battle scenarios and can be seen as formidable by many.

S3 Class - This ranges within the top of the advanced level and delves into the master level a bit. A person in this class is never taken lightly by anyone.

Master Class - A professional with their powers. Just like in the previous system, the range can go as far as the people in this rank can go. These types of people can lead countries.

This group is actually somewhat of a recent idea. There really isn't a set outfit or design to set them apart from everyone else. It's kind of hard to explain how their power looks like, but think of like someone punching and having a firm, transparent colored aura appearing a few inches away from the person's fist. That's pretty much what the shape expanders are known for. The purpose for their power is to extend the range of their attacks. When they start out learning their powers, the shape of their power is always bowl-shaped. So when they punch and kick, think about half of the surface area of a sphere when it comes to the shape of their energy. Once they get to a certain level, however, their shape is customized to their personal fighting style. For example, from a bowl shape to a spiked shape or log shaped. It can even go beyond that and they can infuse it through weapons or expand/compress their energy as much as possible. One widely known technique/concept of the shape expanders' fighting style is that their punches from each arm is their standard power, but when they clasp their hands together, and combine both arms into an attack, their shape is expanded and power is increased a lot more.

The Beasts were thought of towards the beginning pretty much. To have an accurate description of them in their purest form, they are just like the jinchuuriki (sp) from Naruto. Their sizes can also differ. Some are kind of giant at their strongest form, and some are still pretty normal sized. They also have human forms and the main system I created recently is that they're not able to become their most purest form in the beginning because they can't control their power too well yet and therefore they start off in a human-like form. When they get stronger, they're able to unleash more of their purest form. The distinct characteristic to look out for to know if someone is a beast is that when they start getting serious in battle, their eyes will become a little different and they will also have an aura of energy starting to surround their body. The aura can have any color, but the way it moves is similar to the way Naruto's chakra moves around himself when he is starting to gain tails while fighting. Another way for someone to be a beast is for the scientists to implant a beast-like energy source into someone. As you can see, this group is heavily influenced by Naruto.

The name pretty much sums it up. Their skin is made of different types of steel and they're skin is colored light gray and are best known for their higher defense. They also have lots of exposure to advanced technology/weaponry. And just like other groups, they also have their fighting styles.

They live in Steel City and in the heart of the city, there is a huge dome where their leader, Titan, resides and enjoys watching battles between competitors and fighters. The inner parts of the city are where the more sophisticated and higher-ups generally live and the outskirts of the city is like a merchant's outlet and is a bit more run-down looking. Lots of people offer their machinery and continue to build what they can.

This isn't exactly a sub-group, but as the timeline was getting closer to the "present," I started having the idea of a small scientists group that's really close to the Steel Bodies and also generally reside in Steel City. The scientists are also "independents" that focus on their intelligence for their fighting skills. They are known for creating power-ups to strengthen themselves or their weapons and for creating poisons to weaken their opponents, which makes long battles dangerous for their enemies.

The concept for this idea actually stemmed from a long time ago, but I only used it for one character, but then I decided to make it a group much later and that was some time ago. Anyway, the idea is pretty simple, they're monkeys and apes that can talk and have human-like qualities. Of course their design is very different than the ones we know of. They come in all shapes and sizes and are most known for their strength and agile reflexes. They don't have that barbaric trait we see in real life, however. They are as controlled of themselves as any other person or character I create. Of course, when they get angry, they're angry and whatnot just like any other person.

Similarly to the LE's the DE's have fighting styles as well except they have a black aura that symbolizes their power. What makes their general fighting nature different, however, is that they don't focus so much on manipulation, but they focus more on the power of their fighting style. This group was also one that I pretty much thought of in the beginning.

The Dark Territory, where they mainly originate from, has a setting that is pretty similar to the settings and buildings that are used in Soul Eater. They have one leader, and I actually do have a name for him. Their current leader's name is The 7th Brother. I know that may sound strange at first, but I'll go into deeper detail in his character profile. The DE's outfits have a dark purple colored theme and those long robes with hoods are the most standard outfit they generally have. 

I also have a sub group for the DE's called the "rebels." There is really no difference at all as far as powers or anything really except their outfits have a black colored theme and their robes have a different design and fabric. This group originated from a "DE" who I will go into deeper detail in his profile. He was confused as to why he couldn't create or see any of his dark energy and that led to him being discriminated a bit and treated differently by other DE's. He came to the conclusion that he didn't want to be a part of the DE's and left the DT. He found a black colored outfit and the basis of his powers are from gear that he earned from the "ancients." He also wanted to oppose the current way of ruling in the DT so he made one of his goals to change it. There were other people with the same view and started to also wear the black themed clothing and then the group called the "rebels" was born. One reason why I explained the back story was to show that there really is no difference in the types of power between the group and sub-group, unlike the LE's and DLE's.

This group is one of the first ones I created a long time ago because it is kind of a common group type in shounen settings. Basically, they have various fighting styles and there is a white aura that symbolizes their power. For the light energy group specifically, they are particularly good at manipulation of their energy, where they can sort of "light-bend" in a sense and create shapes with their light energy. That's the general consensus of what their main powers are and I know it sounds really generic and stuff, but that's pretty much the importance of what I need to explain about this group.

The Light Kingdom, where they mostly reside in pretty much has a white colored theme and I don't really know how to describe the design of the buildings and architecture, but they are somewhat futuristic looking a little and have a classy texture. There are two leaders of the Light Kingdom, and I haven't come up with actual names for these characters, but I'll get to that when the time comes. But anyway, there's a leader in charge of the military and the defense forces of the kingdom while the other one is mainly in charge of the governing aspects. I will be doing character profiles for both of them eventually. There was a time interval where the Light Kingdom wasn't doing so well because they only had their governing leader, thus not having their defense forces up to their potential, but that will be explained in the timeline post.

The other main important aspect is that I created a sub-group of light energies called the "digital light-energies" and they basically are similar to the regular light energies except they have a more steampunk and a little bit of computerized outfit designs. A distinct characteristic of the DLE's is that they have blue digital information flowing through their outfits. It's kind of hard to explain through text, but think of like blue hologram patterns flowing in a loop and for example, I have a character who's part DLE and his character design/outfit has him wearing a bowtie, but the bowtie looks holographic and it kind of runs through a design in a loop.

So basically, this entire blog is pretty much a combination of influence from the traditional creation of a world in a shounen jump series and character profiles in general. For who knows how long, I've sort of created characters in my head and basically, like a shounen manga, they have powers and they fight against evil in this world I've thought up of kinda. The main purpose of this blog is just for me to explain in greater detail what I've just thought of and it's really for the sake of recording and being organized and finally putting it out there so that I can freely edit it as more developments happen and whatnot.

Now, the basic premises of this "world." There's really no big thing that makes it different from earth other than that, obviously, since it's in the shounen fashion, there are places that are fictitious. The main gimmick, I guess, is that there are kind of like races, somewhat, of different powers where it's kind of a hereditary thing and powers cannot be learned. These groups determine the base powers of characters and it's up to them how developed they want their powers to be.

I'm going to make separate posts to go into more detail about the different groups, but basically there are the "light energies," "dark energies," "monkey-people," "shape expanders," the "ancients," "chi controllers," "beasts," and the "steel-bodies." There can also be elemental powers and there really is no system that decides what elements I think a character should have. It's also common to have more than one element or to have no elemental attributes at all. There can be hybrids of these and just because someone is a dark energy or a light energy doesn't signify whether they're good or evil. I have characters who are good and dark as well as evil and light. Lastly, I do have a group called the "independents" where they basically have no power and they most closely relate to the "ancients." If they want to become fighters, they have to pretty much either train their body in strength/speed/etc., learn fighting styles w/o powers from other groups, or gain mastery of weapons/battle gear from a variety of sources, whether it be from a different group or that person is smart enough to make their own.