QUESTIONS MEME

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THE QUESTIONS MEME

A first big 'n successful round of apps has concluded and the game is getting off to a roll - since there are always brains to be picked and new pals and acquaintances to be made, how's about we all play a little getting-to-know-you game?

HOW TO PLAY:
• Leave a comment below with your name and the characters who you play.
• Respond to others' comments with questions - they can be about their characters, their current in-game plans or things they'd like to play, their CR, RP in general, their canons and fandoms, or most anything else.
• Answer questions you've received! Keep it short or TL;DR to your heart's content, depending on how much you have or are in the mood to say!
• After each answer you give, ask a question back to the person who answered you. Keep the thread of questioning up for as long as both parties are game!
• Go for it - make friends, make new plans, make anything you like!

Comments

[chainlinks]

I don't know the fandom at all, so tell me more about it, and why is there a (G)?

[thedarkbond]

The (G) is sort of my way of noting that Ren is technically from Vanguard and the sequel series Vanguard G, but that makes a lot more sense if I explain the canon SO

Vanguard is that other card game anime nobody's heard of (and created by the writer of Yu-Gi-Oh R because of course it was created by a yugioh writer), and it's kind of set in Five Minutes Into The Future, Japan (around Tokyo mostly). The premise is basically that there's a card game that's gotten popular enough to pretty much be a spectator sport and the protagonists are generally guys who aren't super great with people stumbling across the game somehow and finding friends and ~adventure~ and themselves through it. The game lore says there's another planet called Cray that all the characters (units) on the cards come from, and for most people in-universe it's just a nice story behind the game but SPOILERS because this is card game anime it's actually real, and people keep trying to destroy Cray and Earth because they're linked together and it's terrible for everyone.

The first series, which is just called Cardfight!! Vanguard but all the seasons have separate dumb names of their own which makes things very confusing, is 196 episodes and focuses on a shy mid-teen named Aichi who Ren serves as a kind of mirror image to as the Season 1 villain and then as a rival/friend. Vanguard G is the sequel series and focuses on a different main cast, but because it's set a few years after the original, a bunch of the characters from the original series come back as the adults running the plot and organising stuff that needs people in high places and I find it's a super fun way to mesh the two casts without having anyone stepping on anyone's toes too much, plus we get to see the characters who we saw growing into themselves for the whole first series as Functional(...ish) Adults for much more than a last-minute flash forward/timeskip scene which is great.

I don't know a lot about P5 but I do know about the Great Name Discourse - any particular reason you went with Ren over Akira or is it like P4 where IIRC one name tended to be mainly used by fandom for the game version of the protag and the other was used for the anime version?

also edits because i kind of didn't answer the g question: the "g" in vanguard g stands for ~generation~ and it's a new type of unit that gets introduced in vanguard g that are basically potential futures of other units that are called on temporarily from the future or something along those lines