So anyway, a while ago I was toying with the question “how do you outdo cyberpunk dystopia surveillance state with social media gaslighting as a major plot point”
And somewhere I landed on “illegal cloning experiments and war of succession”
The idea was that some government (probably america let’s be real) thought to fight fire with fire, get ahold of DNA samples of the Lupin crew and use their DNA to create effectively super soldiers.
And it worked until it didn’t.
Cause they got scared that the new creations would be even more powerful and unable to be controlled, so measures were taken to prevent that.
Lupin’s DNA was mixed with Zenigata’s, to hopefully get the best of both of them (the best in zenigata’s case being his general by-the-book nature)
Jigen’s kid didn’t need any nerfs because due to fuckups at the lab he only grew one arm, so they turned him into a cyborg with a sick robot arm.
And then also taught him how to do his own maintenance as well as mechanics in general. Yanno, so he can take out all the tracking shit they put in it. In Hindsight, less than ideal move.
Goemon’s kid was a weird case, to prevent her from accessing the absurd destruction capabilities of her father they just destroyed that poor antique sword. Except matter is not created or destroyed, and they didn’t want to accidentally inbue multiple objects with whatever supernatural ability was present in that metal, so they just melted it down and tried to render it incapable of harming humans by inlaying the metal into a violin.
…so now there’s a violin haunted by six generations of really fucking angry samurai ghosts. Surely THATS gonna go well and not at all result in something even worse than a sword that can cut anything.
But at least they had the good sense to not teach her to play violin right?
Slow clap for the dumbass scientists everybody! They just created a living nightmare! Fucking magic ghost violin.
And even with all of that, the venture was pointless because the crew figured out what happened and yoinked the kids before anything bad could happen, and seeing what lengths people would go to take them down, subsequently went into hiding.
So now you have three super kids growing up in some long abandoned castle somewhere, with parents who are straight up gone like 90% of the time, and no idea what’s going on in the outside world until…
…some punk ass rich kid shows up claiming to be one of their’s half brother, and that their father has declared the competition for succession, first to track him down wins.
Each one starts with a book meant to be the first clue, and they have to dodge every law enforcement agency and private detective in the world hopping from clue to clue to hopefully find him first, and along the way discover the truth of their family’s past.
So this has been rolling around my brain as a daydream for like a year or two, And I might actually write it. I just re-designed the main character, Amity, for funsies and it looks REALLY good.
Trouble is I remember Lupin’s kids, Amity and Léon, but I can’t remember what I named the other two.
tangentwithtanner
amandla
discoholicmusic
jimmyeatworldofficial
pixelskylines
theartofmadeline
areudirty
stormborns
