Alternative Backstory
In this challenge we want you to write an alternative backstory to an 07th character. Take their current backstory and throw it out in favor of your own that also explains their current personality and actions. And try to make it funny and make us laugh =P
The backstory should be only about 1-3 paragraphs long. Please don’t spoil actual backstory if possible. Tag spoilers if you must.
Scoring is, as per usual, 4 points for first, 3 for second, 2 for third and fourth, and 1 for late submissions.
Please submit the backstory by Friday, 11:30 am UTC . I wish you all the best of luck!
Team Goldenslaughterers’ submission:
When Goat-kun was a wee little kid, his Goat father told him to always love and respect the Goat King. The Goat King was the ruler of the Goat Kingdom, and he kept them prospering for many years to come. As Goat-Kun grew older, he gradually began to gain more responsibilities in the Goat Kingdom, before being handpicked to be one of a new group of servants to the Goat King. Goat-Kun was ecstatic at the prospect of getting to work with such an exemplary figure. However, the Goat King had a secret known to only a select few, and Goat-Kun found this out to his despair during his first day on the job. The Goat King was dying of heart issues.
Team SleepingVerborum and RKW Berris’ submission:
CAPTAIN KAWABATA:
Even though he just appears to be the faithful captain the Ushiromiya family chose to drive them to the island once per year, Kuwabata is a skilled man who has worked for Kinzo ever since he settled on Rokkenjima. As shown by his new upgraded high-speed boat he designed specifically for Battler’s return in 1986, he is quite the genius in mechanics and his experience in technology is far ahead of the current knowledge in the 80s. This is a fact only known by the rich people who can afford to employ him: he has to live under a new identity since he was arrested by some secret organization for having built a time machine, and so he stopped being officially an engineer to work as a boat captain. However, even though he knew it was dangerous, he could not prevent himself from creating new inventions and so he had to gain protection by working with the powerful and influential.
EP7 One of his best accomplishments for Kinzo is the device of the epitaph which opens up the room of the gold. Even though it may not look that way for those who are unaware of it, it is a really complex mechanism and one which reflects all of Kawabata’s genius. He has also helped the Ushiromiya household by creating them some furniture, hand-made robot servants. Genji, his first realization, did suffer from a lack of knowledge in how to mimic human emotions, but that was fixed later on with his incredible pair ‘Shannon and Kanon’ which can even put up on a fight with some fantasy-designed shield and blade. Of course, only Kinzo knows about their true nature, despite the fact that they are programmed to tell people about it.
After the Rokkenjima incident, some of this secrets where unraveled and it is heavily rumored that Kawabata is no stranger to the tragedy. Some people claim they have found goat-like remote-controlled robots in a secret lab and that this was a new model of furniture made for factory assembly line to be mass-produced. It is even said the time machine is still working hidden somewhere and has the ability to create a 48 hours time loop. As for Kawabata, he denies all suspicion and says all of this incredible past of his must have been dreamed up by some fanatic on the new sea of the Internet.
Team Goatdatricers’ submission:
Alternate backstory: Juuza Amakusa
Juuza Amakusa is an elite agent of the Brotherhood of Assassins who disguises his clandestine activities under the cover of being a mercenary. He and his handler, Okonogi, have participated in many dangerous combat operations designed to contain and eliminate Witch activity.
Okonogi initially brought Amakusa into the Ushiromiya group when Eva’s health started deteriorating. Knowing what a disaster the Rokkenjima incident had been, Okonogi wanted him on hand to eliminate the problem should Eva’s long illness and decline into madness start to go like Kinzo’s extended decline a decade earlier. When Eva passed away relatively without incident, Okonogi was reluctant to let his guard down, and thus had Amakusa placed as Ange’s bodyguard reasoning that any other magical incidents would probably be related to the last known Ushiromiya.
Amakusa was raised from birth to be the enemy of witches. Destroying magic and those who wield it so that humanity’s sanity can be preserved is the sacred calling his entire life has been dedicated to. He faces these witches not with hatred, but pity. He believes that all witches are born from pain and agony, and thus killing them is not so much murder as a mercy. To swiftly and efficiently eliminate all targets with a minimum of suffering for the sake of everyone is Amakusa’s Creed.
Alternative Backstory - Verdict
#3 goes to Team Goatdatricers (+2 points)
Kari: Hmm, wish it had been a little more humorous, ngl =P
#2 goes to Team Goldenslaughterers (+3 points)
Kari: I lost it when I realized where this was going. Incredible.
#1 goes to Team SleepingVerborum and RKW Berris (+4 points)
Kari: My god, this makes way more sense than it has any right to.
Thank you for participating. We look forward to your future submissions.
