See, as I browsed through each of the FanPro blogs, something was gnawing at me. Everyone seemed to be trying to assign each character a realistic life story, at least, for the characters that looked realistic.
However, if you place one character within a canon in a realistic, modern universe, one seemingly has to do the same with the others. Seeing designs like 0042, 0016, and 0027 made me realize that there is no way IN HELL that all these character would live in a world "like ours." Heck, I don't even think one of them looks even vaguely normal.
There was another thing I thought was missing: Plot. We had a ridiculous amount of characterization but no plot other than "0021 is an antagonist."
So I decided to go about this in a shounen style and adopted that sort of story structure and right now I have a crude base of a plot.
Mostly, my reasoning is this. With the shear number of characters FanPro will have, you're gonna want to divide them up into logical groupings if you want to remember them all. Secondly, divides in groups cause conflict, and without conflict there is no plot.
And thus, my fellow FanPro fans, I present to you: The Factions.
There are three big factions, and then smaller ones aligned to be either neutral or vaguely affiliated with one of the main three.
The Rangers [Commander: 0000] - The good guys
The Sorcerers [High Sorceress: 0017] - self-preservation focused
The Discarded [King: 0021] - Vengance-seekers, the chaotic evil group.
[The Lost - no affiliations]
Basically, every single one of them was a lab experiment, which is why they only have numbers to identify themselves. The Sorcerers were the most successful and powerful experiments and went on to be used as weapons in the Final War. Due to this, the Sorcerers have traumatic memories of battle and fighting and do not wish to ever be involved in such a struggle again. Their leader, 0017, was known among humans as "The Blue Death," because she would spread illness throughout the battlefield that would make one's throat swell up and those infected would suffocate, turning blue in the process. After all this suffering and pain, the Sorcerers become a society in the post-FW world, in which few humans survive and it's mostly just the experiments. The Sorcerers keep to themselves and only want to deal with themselves and their own self-preservation. Never again do they want to fall into another war and suffer again. Corrupt, but not evil.
The Rangers were the ones that were kept on the home-front and helped keep enemy troops away from the borders and basically didn't see battle too often. Many of them were accepted among normal society and some even lived with human surrogate families. When the bombs start hitting, many of these surrogate families perished, leaving many of the Rangers emotionally distressed and lonely. There is some in-fighting, as some of the Rangers -- especially those who lost their families -- resent 0000's rule, seeing as he was raised completely in the laboratory as a genius and scientist, and thus doesn't understand their troubles. In the wake of the FW, the Rangers go about trying to look for any sign of human life still out there, in the meantime looking for their lost siblings and fending off the Discarded.
The Discarded are simply that. Deemed useless, impractical, or too volatile, the Discarded were kept in storage, in the laboratory. Many of them resented the scientists for being kept in cages and being tossed aside. Their King, 0021, was the one to rally them after the laboratory was destroyed and they escaped. Many members of The Discarded, being mostly of a simple minded disposition, see 0021 as a Messiah figure and will even die for him. Unfortunately for them, 0021 has no problems with that. He took some of the more ridiculous designs and improved them, and he plans to eventually use them for world domination.
The Rangers:
0000
0001
0002
0004
0008
0009
0014
0023
0029
0032
0035 [He's second in command next to 0000. Yaoi shipping a possibilty]
0044
0045
0052
0060
0062
The Sorcerers:
0017
0003
0005
0006
0010
0011
0013
0015
0030
0034
0043
0047
0048 [Second in command. One of their deadliest warriors]
