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Title: Rebuilding Wutai
Who: Vincent Valentine [personal profile] bloodypast and Yuffie Kisaragi [personal profile] thegreatninja primarily. Most other NPCs and/or interactions'll come in as part of comments.
What: Post Advent Children/Dirge of Cerberus setting. Rebuilding of Wutai, continued healing of the planet, with focus on Wutai. Interpersonal relationships between Yuffie and Vincent.
Open/Closed: Closed
Additional Details: May eventually be a Yuffentine-ship-story-line. :) Ghosts? Yuffie being princess-like? Headcanon says that Vincent is Half-Wutainese through his mother.



This section may be updated as necessary.

Wutai

Wutai is in a state of rebuilding. It was spared most of the trouble and chaos that Deepground and Weiss brought about due to its remoteness from the rebuilt Midgar. Geostigma, before being healed, had infected some of the population as Wutai. Yuffie Kisaragi, despite being 'Princess', was blamed quietly for the infections, as she was the most prominent figure to be involved in affairs outside of Wutai itself.

Godo Kisaragi is getting on in years, and has called Yuffie back to start actually acting like a leader. He wants her to quell the rumors and prove herself as the leader Wutai needs, as its Princess. Godo would like her to charm the populace, or choose a suitable husband who can complement her and calm the people's concerns. In addition to seeing her married appropriately, Godo would like an heir--preferably several.

In addition to the economic and societal issues of a populace dealing with world crises, there is unrest due to the changing and dishonorable nature of the current role of Wutai in the world. The dishonor comes from the abandonment and (almost) purposeful-forgetting of its heritage as warriors. Wutai is changing in that it has become a tourist-trap, parodying what it used to be as a nation of beauty and harmony. Add to this trying to expand, and the whole village has an aura of 'unrest'.

Due to the harm done the Lifestream post-meteorfall, and the rest of the chaos the world has been under, ghosts of spirits past of Wutai have risen to plague the populace. Some are actively hostile samurai and ninja. Others are more passive, but stuck in repeating loops of how they died. These ghosts have also brought with them hostile spirits in general.

Metaphysically, Leviathan was the guardian of Wutai. His/Her Earthly-son who ascended to godhood is Da Chao, whose statue on the mountain stands guard even now.


Brief notes on the world at Large
Some of this includes headcanon/canon for our setting

The World Regenesis Organization (WRO) is a volunteer organization headed (and founded) by Reeve Tuesti. They primary objective is to help restore and protect the Planet after Meteorfall (and subsequent events) but also act as a transitional replacement for the Shinra Electric Power Company as a government and military.

It is heavily implied their private backer is Rufus Shinra, to help make amends for the problems his company caused the Planet. One of the divisions is headed by Barret Wallace, seeking to find a replacement for Mako Energy. They form a transitional government to keep stability, along with a volunteer army to help protect against any threats to the Planet.

Yuffie Kisaragi, up to and during the war with Deepground, was the head of the Intelligence-Gathering and Espionage division. Cid Highwind leads the WRO Air Division. While still primarily acting as private bodyguards (and Turks to the end) for Rufus Shinra, Tseng has taken an unofficial coordinating role in conjunction with Reeve in charge of the Military and Scientific Units.

Contracted-members of the WRO include Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockheart, Shelke Rui, and Vincent Valentine.

It is about a year out from the events of the war with Deepground, as the WRO attempts helping the world rebuild. Wutai has chosen to accept minimal aid, its leader Godo feeling his people must stand on their own once more.

What Yuffie has been up to.

Yuffie was happy enough working with the WRO, until Godo called her back. Relations between her and her father, and her and the people of Wutai have been strained despite her prominent role in preventing Meteorfall and subsequent destruction from Omega. She was directly blamed for bringing Geostigma to Wutai.

Godo has called her back because he is sick. Fearing it is terminal, as age and his health have both fallen thanks to the events the world has suffered in the last 5 years. Despite her reluctance, Yuffie has returned home to try and be the proper 'princess' and leader Wutai needs. How to return her home to its former glory, is another matter entirely though.

It is clear the world is suffering, and Wutai especially. There are many prominent businessman who wish to exploit and build further on Wutai's tourist-trap leanings, delving even more into its history to seek new angles to attract outside money. Older families with lineage resent this intrusion and cheapening of their proud traditions. Many call for blood against old remnants of Shinra and those towns that prospered during the mega-corporation's reign.

The young people of Wutai are disaffected at best, apathetic and leaving at worst. Many of them also hold an amalgam of views trying to combine Wutai moving into a new age as a leader in certain resources (water-wells and hydro-electricity), and a regaining of its heritage as a proud warrior people who will not back down.

In the midst of this, Godo Kisaragi has received 5 proposals for marriage for Yuffie. He has not told his daughter of this yet. All would be suitable matches, seem to be upstanding families, and would be beneficial for Wutai.

What Vincent has been up to.
Vincent has been functioning as a contracted member of the WRO. It is not too far removed in activities from his life in the Turks (with less corruption) or his traveling with Avalanche. With Chaos removed from his body, he still holds Gallian Beast (the most prominent of the monsters within him) and his other shape-shifting forms. Most of his work involves monster-hunting and escort/personnel-protection, for the WRO.

In small ways, he is moving on with his life finally having found some peace with his past. There are scars and memories that will never leave him, given how they have shaped who he is. One such way is by helping to keep an eye on Shelke Rui, being certain she is treated well by the WRO as she helps their science division. His relationship with her is complicated, but overall friendly and cooperative.

He occasionally is contacted by, and works with, the modern-day former Turks. When working with them, or on WRO business that calls for a more uniform appearance than his usual clothing, he can be found in a long-black heavy canvas-duster that acts as very light armor. Beneath it he wears a dark red-long sleeved tunic-shirt with high collar, a shoulder holster for his gun and black clothing with high neck and black boots. Often his hair is pulled back into a loose-tail, although the crimson bandanna remains around his head to keep his bangs in check. The tarnished golden gauntlet with talons that covers his left arm, remains regardless of what he is wearing. When in his usual clothing of black leathers and red-mantle, his boots are covered by tarnished gold sabatons as armor, and Cerberus rests in a holster against his right hip.

(Visually, I see this outfit as being similar to Amon's from Witch Hunter Robin. It is enough of a 'uniform' to mark him as on business, while allowing freedom of movement. References here, here, and here. It also is a change from his usual attire, when appropriately called for.)

For the most part he has no set 'address' though he retains small apartments in Kalm and Nibelheim. He does carry a PHS at all times now however.


Date: 2016-07-08 08:55 pm (UTC)
bloodypast: (Side Profile-mouth)
From: [personal profile] bloodypast
"I am not sure sparring is the best solution." Not that he couldn't tell she was restless. "Perhaps a walk instead? I haven't been to Wutai on a simple visit in a long time." Maybe a walk wasn't the safest idea, but it might be enough.

Date: 2016-07-09 02:20 pm (UTC)
thegreatninja: (back)
From: [personal profile] thegreatninja
Yuffie exhales a slow breath before rolling her shoulders in a shrug. She saw what Vincent was doing but she was in no mood to argue. Arguing with him was always exhausting, it was that stupid cool wounded demeanor thing he had going on.

She rose to her feet in a swift elegant motion and then waved for Vincent to follow. She slipped on the bracer he'd offered her and slipped a few blades into her holster.

Just in case.

"Okay, let's go."

Date: 2016-07-09 11:08 pm (UTC)
bloodypast: (Side Profile-mouth)
From: [personal profile] bloodypast
"I shall meet you at the door then." Getting to his own feet, Vincent headed back to his adjoining room and re-armed himself. Just in case; and while he did not want to spar, a fight would not be amiss if it happened.

Shoulder holster with Cerberus, long coat, bracer with materia and gauntlet. Ready to head out, and meeting her at the door. "Would a hike up Mount Wutai be amiss, or would you rather we headed for the beach?"

Date: 2016-07-11 01:59 am (UTC)
thegreatninja: (back)
From: [personal profile] thegreatninja
Yuffie got ready very quickly. She was used to leaving on short notice so when he came out of his room her back is pressed against the wall. She looked over at him, her dark almond eyes watching as he took a position at her side.

"Beach. It sounds safer which I'm sure dad would want." She lifted herself from the wall and began to lead towards the front door.

Date: 2016-07-11 02:06 am (UTC)
bloodypast: (Side Profile-mouth)
From: [personal profile] bloodypast
Vincent kept any hint of amusement off of his face, but it was clear in his voice. "And what about what you'd like? This is hardly an official meeting we're off to." Well aware that while Yuffie did love her father and was doing her best to be a good princess and heir, this had to be hard for her. Especially as fidgety as she was.

Date: 2016-07-11 03:00 am (UTC)
thegreatninja: (calling)
From: [personal profile] thegreatninja
"I wouldn't suggest it if I didn't want to. Though what I want to do involves being very far away from here." She rolled her eyes though her back was to Vincent so he couldn't see.

"Anyway, it's still dark out so the beach will look awesome."

Date: 2016-07-14 02:18 am (UTC)
bloodypast: (Sad Truth)
From: [personal profile] bloodypast
Vincent knew her well enough to guess at the eyeroll just from her phrasing and tone. He'd ponder it later. "Have you been to the beach at night before?"

Date: 2016-07-14 11:37 am (UTC)
thegreatninja: (arms behind head)
From: [personal profile] thegreatninja
Yuffie released a short laugh, her dark eyes glancing up a Vincent for a moment before answering. "You know when I was young I kept running away from home right? Even when I met Cloud it'd been after years of leaving home for long stretches of time. I would sometimes sleep on the beach or where ever I could find."

So yes, she's been on the beach at night.

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