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I have all of this write since October but I never liked it enough or wanted to do more with it or wanted to wait until I had all the designs before posting or...

The point I'm posting this now so I can't regret it, I'm going to update it some day...

Btw I don't play fighting games, that's exactly why I decided to make this little project about a fighting game so I learn more about them

Plot

all the au is inspired on Rival Schools so the plot is kinda similar. weird things start happening in the city, disappearances, crimes and a lot of insecurity in general, the idea of the arcade is go fighting around the city and trying to find what´s going on around, depending on what team you choose your motivations to go around learning about what is happening change and have different endings each one so the (hypothetical) player get interested in trying new teams to get every part of the story

mechanics

i want it to be a team based fighting game kinda like king of fighters or Rivals Schools, where you pick three characters as a team, i´m not so sure if adding a support mechanic like KOF or that you can choose between which member is going to start like RS

teams, characters, archetypes and motivations

-School´s sport team-

the idea is that this team are the protagonist so the characters are like the tutorial each one have mechanic/archetype defined so the player get familiar with the game. since they are kids the start of the history they think they are just playing and as it the story develops they realize this is not a game, maybe when Skid realizes that the cult is behind the things that are happening and relating it to thing from his childhood and end up meeting again his dad

Skid: Rushdown- Fast characters that specialize in close-range combat and combos/juggling. Purely offensive, sometimes with no projectiles, but even if they use some long-range attacks, they’re always on the offense.

Pump: Grappler- These characters are usually forced into defensive play because of their slow speed, large size and/or inferior jump, but make up for it with very powerful moves, and very little hit-stun. They essentially wait for their opponents to get in close to punish them for it.

Lucky: Zoner- They focus on controlling the stage, mostly with tools and projectiles, or melee attacks that outrange opponents. They sometimes lack speed and power to fight, focusing on wearing down opponents from distance.

-Hatzgang-

honestly i don´t have an general on them more like individual ideas on each of the characters. probably at the start of the story they are just defending themselves, maybe Roy´s parents looking for him or Susie making graffiti and the police found them

Ross: mid zoner- idk if the term is official but it will have mainly long range attacks but it also have close-range and it has more power in his attacks and his long range ones doesn´t have the range of a zoner

Roy: Half-grappler - fast characters that not only have many setups and combos from grabs, but also good variety of moves to mix up their play; they’re actually more offensive than defensive. While being quite agile, they lack the speed to be Rushdown characters, and the long-range to be All-Rounders or Mix-Up.

Robert: Hit n run- These are fast characters who excel at getting in and out of their opponent's range. While they might not have many powerful attacks, with the few they have requiring good precision, they are quick enough to keep their distance and approach as fast as they retreat, punishing the mistake of their opponents.

Susie: Trapper- those characters are utterly defensive, tending to avoid opponents (though not always) and lure them with traps that put a lot of pressure. They tend to have a lot of indirect options to constantly keep their opponents on their toes. They differ from Zoners in that they can attack while facing away and evading their opponents, and that they excel in multi-tasking, usually stringing combos with their traps and their close-range moves. They’re also much more difficult to use than Zoners as they rely heavily on keeping a lot of pressure and mind-games.

-Grown-ups team-

Unlike children, who have a more “youthful” aesthetic and way of fighting, for example with more rebellious aesthetics such as punk, grunge, or street wear, I want adults to have a vibe that says they used to be like that but have grown out of it, with a more “clean,” boring, and corporate aesthetic. I want their fighting methods and weapons to be related to their jobs because that's what they would have at hand.

Jaune: Footsies - These characters excel in close-range ground combat, as they have higher priority or speed in their attacks while on the ground. They tend to be less combo-oriented than Rushdowns.

Aaron: Glass-cannon - These characters have some of the most powerful attacks in the game, but at the cost of very low defensive capabilities. They can inflict damage very quickly and often have superior range. However, in addition to lower defenses, they also have some kind of highly exploitable weakness, such as slow attack speed or low priority.

Lila: Precision/swordfighter - These characters focus on mid-range play, aiming to hit with a sweet spot to do good damage, and if they attack with a sour spot, they do much less damage.

Carmen and Richard: Puppeteer - These characters are basically two entities in one form or another.

-Stodgy* Job team- (probably would change the name)

A middle ground between adults and children, the main thing is that they are young people who have “just” started working but are “stuck” in a dead-end job. I am very tempted to make them a Dan Hibiki team, but I should treat them seriously, at least for this stage of "development".

Kevin: Hit n run - These are fast characters who excel at getting in and out of their opponents' range. While they don't have many powerful attacks, as the few they do have require good accuracy, they are fast enough to keep their distance and close in as quickly as they retreat, thus punishing their opponents' mistakes.

Radford: Keep away - These can be considered the Hit n Run of the defensive category, but with some traits of the Zoners. They excel at getting in and out of their opponent's space, not in damage, but they are very “annoying” as they keep opponents at bay without letting them act or react.

Frank: Brawler/tank(? - a mix between Rushdown and Grappler, I couldn't find a exact definition, but this sums it up well. Look at Bowser from SSB.

-Police team-

Not much to say, I had to add them for the plot :v

John: Setup - You play around your own strategy and then surprise your opponent, setting all the traps you can before they punish you for it.

Jack: Zoner—They focus on controlling the stage, mainly with tools and projectiles. They sometimes lack speed and power to fight, and focus on weakening their opponents from a distance.

Patty: Trickster—A character whose strength lies in a set of peculiar moves with many unpredictable options that can alter the battlefield.

-Cult-

main antagonists, they serve more as bosses for arcade modes. They would be playable in free mode, but I'm not sure if I should really make one for them since you lose a lot of the point of the story from their perspective. Maybe a non-canonical, humorous ending like the one for the chameleon in Bloody Roar.

Cultists: Marionette from Darkstalkers, a mirror character

Bob: Grappler - These characters are often forced to play defensively due to their low speed and large size, but they make up for it with very powerful moves and very little stun per hit. Basically, they wait for their opponents to get close to punish them.

Moloch: Glass-cannon - These characters have some of the most powerful attacks in the game, but at the cost of very low defensive capabilities. They can inflict damage very quickly and often have superior range. However, in addition to lower defenses, they also have some kind of highly exploitable weakness, such as slow attack speed or low priority.

Dexter: Zoner - They focus on controlling the stage, mainly with tools and projectiles. They sometimes lack the speed and power to fight, and focus on weakening their opponents from a distance.

“Leader” aka ‘Caelum’ aka “Skid's dad”: Dominating - These characters are similar to Rushdown and Pressure characters, but with very high power. They have formidable speed and damage that rivals even the most powerful characters. However, they tend to have very exploitable weaknesses, but differ from Glass Cannons in that they do not suffer from low defenses.

Some side quests I had below :v

side quest #1

giving more depth to some character and exploring relationships between them

Caelum Iris* aka “Skid”-

13-14 years old

Halloween fan who loves to play around cause problems with his friends

AuDhd

Part of the taekwondo “team”

Red belt or red belt with black tip

the original nickname was given to him by his classmates who didn't know how to pronounce his name, so they called him “the skeleton kid” because of the clothes, accessories, and costumes he likes to wear. His coach started calling him Skiddo, and together with Pump, he decided to shorten it to Skid.

Everyone in town calls him something different XD

He stopped wearing his costume all the time when he started to grow taller and had to change it more often, around the age of 9 or 10.

He started practicing taekwondo around that age. He started because Lila recommended that he take up a sport to tire him out a bit and make him less hyperactive (and so he wouldn't be alone at home or on the street between when he got home from school and she got home from work). Considering her son's flexibility, she chose to enroll him in taekwondo. (Spoiler alert: it didn't work. Now he's doing kicks all over the house XD)

The teacher don´t let him modify his uniform, so he has lots of accessories to decorate it.

The necklace he wears around his neck is the only accessory he never takes off. It's a necklace with one of the few intact photos of his father.

He has a matching bracelet with Pump. Pump also gave him a piece of fabric to show him how he wanted to make his uniform. He wears it only because he feels like it looks cool.

He tries to put skeletons everywhere he can.

His taekwondo uniform has a high-necked top with drawings of a rib cage with chlorine, protective gloves that resemble hand bones, the same with foot protection, and a skeleton mask.

In normal clothes (a skin? XD) a large jacket that resembles bones, the mask, and fingerles skeleton gloves.

William Wonder aka “Pump”

12-13 years old

Halloween fanatic who loves to cause trouble with his friends

ADHD

Part of the jiu jitsu team (he specifically practices Brazilian jiu jitsu)

Purple belt, not yet brown due to age restrictions

Skid gave him his nickname because of his love of pumpkins and his costume, although Skid originally called him Pumpy, but he shortened it to Pump

He initially started practicing taekwondo with Skid, but he's not very flexible and didn't like it, so he joined jj to pass the time and ended up staying.

Unlike Skid, the teacher allows him to modify his uniform however he wants.

The only accessory he wears is the matching bracelet that he has with Skid. He doesn't wear any other protection.

The pumpkin mask doesn't count as an accessory; it's part of his costume XD.

Lucky Desdemona*

15 years old

*karnak's voice * “this is the most unlucky boy in town”

He doesn't really care about Halloween, but his friends love it, so he goes along with it a little.

He's part of the soccer team, usually as goalkeeper.

He's like a wild card for his team because his bad luck doesn't just affect him, but also the opposing team, causing them to miss clear goals and every shot goes directly to him. That's precisely why they have him as goalkeeper, so it doesn't affect his own team too much.

He wears the full uniform with all the protective gear, which doesn't prevent him from getting hurt or injured, but it does lessen the damage a little.

He always has bandages, band-aids, etc. all over his body.

*Iris is a shade of purple, the idea is that is Lila's last name, i was between Iris, Indigo, and Lavender.

*Meaning of Desdemona: “The name derives from the Greek δυσ + δαίμων, which means ‘unfortunate, unhappy,’ that is, the antonym of Eudaimonia.” By the way, it sounds cool.

Kid's Designs (they are the only ones I have for now)

Ross Aegan Saffron**

17 years old

A very quiet guy, possibly the most streetwise member of Hatzgang.

Wears a beanie.

Carries a knife/knuckle duster (with a chain because it looks cool XD), mainly for self-defense.

the design vibe is a mix between Punk and Grunge, think Beat from TWEWY, all oversized clothes, and you can tell that fashion is not one of his priorities

he met the rest of the Hatzgang at school, he became friends with Robert because they hung out together, he met Roy through Robert, and he met Susie because she is Pump's sister

He often gets into trouble, but I wouldn't classify him as a problem child or a rebel. On the contrary, he's quite calm. It's more like he has a problem with authority, not because of himself but because of his friends (I'll elaborate more on each of the Hatzgang).

Since Jaune, Aaron, and Lila have been friends for quite some time, he grew up being something of an older brother to Skid. Skid's rebellious and oversized style comes from Ross's influence, although they don't talk to each other anymore.

when the kids were younger, they suffered a lot of bullying, not only for being weird but also for causing trouble. Although he regrets it now, he was one of them because he went along with Roy and justified his behavior. One day, when Roy and other boys who were bothering them things started to go too far, Skid tried to ask him for help, and when he found himself between his friend who was going trough some trouble at home And a weird kid (from his pov! Obviously it's deeper than that, but he's also just a kid) decided to support his friend, even though he had been one of those who bullied the kids. Still, Skid trusted that someone who was like his brother would defend him, and he left him by his own. Skid would never forget that moment.

Skid began to avoid him, and as a result, Lila stopped meeting up with her parents as often, which led to feelings of guilt, not towards Skid, but for “ruining” a long-standing friendship. (she didn't ruin anything, they're still friends, it's just that now they can't get together as often because Lila can't leave Skid alone while she goes out), although Skid never said what happened because it was obvious that he started avoiding Ross. When he grew up a little more, he learned about Skid's family lore (not everything, really, but neither Jaune nor Lila are going to tell him about the cult XD), how he wasn't neurotypical, his father's death, the complicated relationship between Lila and Skid's father (he doesn't know the details, just that it wasn't the happiest marriage), the subsequent death of his grandmother, who was the only family he had left apart from his mother, and that, combined with growing up and realizing how much that boy admired him at a time when he had nothing, increased his guilt about that moment more and more

sometimes he tries to talk to him again, but Skid just moved on with his life

No one is blaming Ross for anything he´s just a teen overthinking, I have to explain a lot more about the drama, but that's not Ross's problem XD

I left a lot more things out, but that changes with each person's perspective, and I would have to go on even more.

**Aegan is a shade of blue, and Saffron is a shade of yellow. I basically did the same thing I did with Lila's last name for Jaune and Aaron.

"side quest" #2

the rest of the ideas of the story/arcade mode of the rest of the themes, this could change when i actually get to decide what to do with these characters, most of them have "code" names bc i haven´t thought on a actual team name for them XD

the police is directly investigating the cult so i don´t have to think a lot about it

the adults history is a little more complicated and expands more the lore of the city since Lila was in the cult, it could start bc they think their kids are in danger so that´s why they start fighting

Carmen and Richard, idk if put them with the rest if the adults bc they are more individual characters but they are not bad either

idk what to do with the young adults bc i really like the idea of them being some kind of the store npc that sells you things but you actually can play with them if you want, maybe some kind of joke characters like Dan Hibiki

The enemies or antagonists would be the team of the Candy dealer and thiefs, the cultists and some individuals characters like Bob, Dexter, Moloch and Skid´s dad, i haven´t thought a lot bc well the motivations of them are literally the plot of the history, but some of them have different motivations but the cult is using them

side quest #3

pinterest boards (only for the two first teams)

https://pin.it/56OITleYI

side quest #3

family trees (I made this to give them all a last name)