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bigbroiswatching) wrote2013-02-14 08:58 pm
bigbroiswatching) wrote2013-02-14 08:58 pm
Fiddly Details
This is a post for me to keep track of all the fiddly details Kaitou brings up in conversation, because I like backstory and world-building. Making VK make sense is a wall I enjoy throwing myself against, apparently.
Backstory
Timeline of major events in Kaitou's life:
10 - Taito goes missing while on a mission. He's 19 at the time.
13 - Runs away from home and moves in with his master.
(During this period Kaitou accompanied his master on a couple hunts.)
15 - His master is seriously injured while on a hunt and Kaitou trains with Zero under Yagari for a summer. [NTS: check if this and everything before it matches Season of Transience.]
18 - Kaitou starts hunting solo.
(He maybe attends school for teaching on the side; he's supposed to have already been trained in it by the time he arrives at Cross Academy.) [NTS: check this.]
22 - Reassigned to Cross Academy as Zero's partner/caretaker/"insurance". This was done at Yagari's specific request, which Kaitou is probably aware of.
- Kaitou's master is a woman because I say so and Hino is terrible at showing female Hunters existing in a capacity that isn't DEAD. She's still active, but not in the Assocation HQ area, which is where Cross Academy is. She and Yagari are bros, hence why she entrusted Kaitou's training to him while she was out of commission with an injury. Whenever she's in town, she and Yagari will meet up for a couple beers in order to reminisce about old times and to grump about their respective students.
- Kaitou's current gun looks a lot like Zero's Bloody Rose, except it's a steely grey color and only has a serial number on it, no name or any other decoration. The techniques used to make it are more refined than those that were used to make Bloody Rose, so Kaitou's gun doesn't produce any fancy light show. On the flip side, it also doesn't have any fancy vine capabilities. It pretty much looks and functions like a normal gun, aside from its vampire-killing properties.
Also I'm calling it right now, the gun itself is the magic part, not the bullets, because the bullets being magic when there's a finite amount of parent metal would just be stupid. :|b
World-building
- The Association stores older models of weapons just in case. Not all of them, because the parent metal is (I assume) finite, but enough that they have a significant cache in case they need spare weapons. However, when the parent metal went berserk and started wrecking things, it got into the storerooms and absorbed a significant amount of those. Hence why the Association's down to that vague number of "under half" of the anti-vampire weapons they had before.
Backstory
Timeline of major events in Kaitou's life:
10 - Taito goes missing while on a mission. He's 19 at the time.
13 - Runs away from home and moves in with his master.
(During this period Kaitou accompanied his master on a couple hunts.)
15 - His master is seriously injured while on a hunt and Kaitou trains with Zero under Yagari for a summer. [NTS: check if this and everything before it matches Season of Transience.]
18 - Kaitou starts hunting solo.
(He maybe attends school for teaching on the side; he's supposed to have already been trained in it by the time he arrives at Cross Academy.) [NTS: check this.]
22 - Reassigned to Cross Academy as Zero's partner/caretaker/"insurance". This was done at Yagari's specific request, which Kaitou is probably aware of.
- Kaitou's master is a woman because I say so and Hino is terrible at showing female Hunters existing in a capacity that isn't DEAD. She's still active, but not in the Assocation HQ area, which is where Cross Academy is. She and Yagari are bros, hence why she entrusted Kaitou's training to him while she was out of commission with an injury. Whenever she's in town, she and Yagari will meet up for a couple beers in order to reminisce about old times and to grump about their respective students.
- Kaitou's current gun looks a lot like Zero's Bloody Rose, except it's a steely grey color and only has a serial number on it, no name or any other decoration. The techniques used to make it are more refined than those that were used to make Bloody Rose, so Kaitou's gun doesn't produce any fancy light show. On the flip side, it also doesn't have any fancy vine capabilities. It pretty much looks and functions like a normal gun, aside from its vampire-killing properties.
Also I'm calling it right now, the gun itself is the magic part, not the bullets, because the bullets being magic when there's a finite amount of parent metal would just be stupid. :|b
World-building
- The Association stores older models of weapons just in case. Not all of them, because the parent metal is (I assume) finite, but enough that they have a significant cache in case they need spare weapons. However, when the parent metal went berserk and started wrecking things, it got into the storerooms and absorbed a significant amount of those. Hence why the Association's down to that vague number of "under half" of the anti-vampire weapons they had before.