#plot mechanics

People seem to forget Cloud was worried about Tifa and Barret. He literally stopped to watch the news about the reactor when he didn't after the last mission.

Or did people miss the news on as he's walking to the bar in chapter 3? Didn't even care. Didn't slow down. Didn't stop. The camera and Cloud stayed in our control until he saw Tifa. And then it became fixed. On her. And she was looking at him. And waving.

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I think the devs have said the core story stays the same and people need to start thinking around that core to figure out what's coming next. The party is alive at the end of the game, aside from Aerith. That means they'll still be alive.

Cloud's arc is obviously gonna be his breaking psyche and finding his true identity.

Tifa's would be fake Nibelheim, since nothing happens in it OG apart from some gaslighting and it'd be so damn awesome to get the whole town from her pov.

Aerith's is the overarching plot to save the planet, but now she's also gaining an intimate plot with Zack, which will likely come into focus in Gongaga.

Barret's is Corel and Shinra vs Avalanche political/environmental impact.

Red's is Cosmo Canyon, cultural stereotypes and how secrets can cause harmful misconceptions.

Yuffie's is Wutai, the effects of war and destruction of culture.

Vincent's is Lucretia and Deepground, the Turks, Shinra and gives a lot of background history to Gaia as a whole. He is our story's historian.

Cid's is Rocket Town and the destruction of dreams and how they can still be salvaged - I'm expecting a lot of meta messages from the devs here.

Tbf I update my theories on that the more times I replay lol

Theory crafting is more fluid than analysis because you're working on potential content, not actual content. I did a whole what if the whispers destruction undid the current choices we knew about and basically everyone ends up dead at some point or another lol

The whispers role was to force us exactly along the OG path. Part of that path is party switching and being given options in different locations depending on who we took with us.

I really don't see that happening anymore, not just from a plot pov, but from a budget pov (Aerith's hairstyles cost a lot of money) and the time redoing the same lines with different characters and it makes things less special when you've got the same response for different ones and then there's all the programming and testing and it really sounds more like an otome when you break it down and Remake isn't an otome. Not to mention the devs said they want a fairly quick production and all this extends that time frame.

So yeah, while I think there will be more choices, but also no, not the choices we think we'll get. It'll be more like Cloud and co have more choices and we have minor ones that have no impact on the narrative. It'll make a bigger distinction between the misconception that some people have of being Cloud as opposed to accompanying Cloud.

Like the gold saucer.

OG we have a choice who the date is because of the pt system. Actions taken in Midgar and beyond build those up.

Well. If there's no party switching or choices that gain pts, then the person going on the date is Cloud's choice, not ours.

Not that I think we'll get a date since we had the dating mechanism already with the resolutions, but it's an easy example to use.

... fun fact.

It's not considered "changing plot mechanics" if you are choosing not to hear the story?

If you don't wanna hear the story of the character, that's fine. I won't tell you.

But just because you chose not to hear about it, don't expect me to not play my characters how they were written.

It's how they were written and has not and will not change unless I say specifically that it's changed, which wouldn't matter at this point if no one chooses to hear the story anyway-- just saying though it's not a "you can't change plot mechanics on the fly, it's rude/bad writing/under development" etc kind of a moment.

No...

It's uh, "You just didn't know it cuz you chose not to hear about it" kind of moment.

So no I'm not "changing plot mechanics" when I'm writing my OCs. Unless I say specifically that something has changed, they are being portrayed EXACTLY as I've written them FOR YEARS, friendly reminder-- I am not a newbie here and neither are my OCs, I'm a Tumblr and Hazbin writer veteran and have been here doing so for years. My first Hazbin muse ever was Angel Dust with an original follow count of 200+ Vox was second with Original follow count of 180, the Arackniss with originsl follow count of 170 Then came Val with original follow count of 169-- even my OCs had original follow counts of 60-80.

Point is not the followers, that has nothing to do with it, the point I'm making by bringing it up is "I've been writing Hazbin shenanigans here for a very long time." Like longer even before the show was approved and anyone even had a VA-- aka, A WHILE lol 😆if anything it's most others that are newer to the RPC than I am 😅

And in all that time, nothing has changed. Except for what I have openedly stated and updated that has changed. (And the fact that each of my original blogs were DELETED and REMADE) But I updated that too and the OGs I wrote with before followed me again lol. But what I'm saying is-- just cuz you didn't know certain parts or events I write in a plot with my characters when we interact, because you said you didn't want to hear about it, doesn't mean that it was changed to spite you. It's been there for many moons. But when you choose not to hear about it,c which is a choice, I will not force you, but it WILL leave you with plot holes. And confusion. Which later seems to make people mad and they decide not to interact anymore because I'm "changing plot mechanics"

Sorry. But that's not what it is 😅

PSA over...