JQ Wants to Make an RPG! [Demo 1 in progress. I NEED A TITLE!]

[Genso]

We don't really know Reimu's and Marisa's official ages. They can be older than they appear despite their appearance. But If Kosuzu was born around Akyuu's birth, then yeah, she would be pretty young. That said, a time frame hasn't really been specified when she was born and when this game takes place.

Let's examine everything closely, Akyuu was born in the summer of 1994 and is 18 years old (as of the Gensokyo Calender, which is very much like our calender) Youmu is less than 60 years old. So if this game takes place in the time frame of 1970 (Youmu would be 18 if she was exactly 60 years old today) to somewhere around the early 1990s, then we can rule out some characters being present. Since Youmu is less than 60 years old, if she were born in 1976, then she would be around 18 the time Akyuu was born. So a few characters may be present but not grown up at this time. So it's still possible that Kosuzu, and other humans, could have been around albeit very young. This all depends on JQ1790's take on this, but here is a proof that some human characters MIGHT exist during the time of the game.

Anyway, I'm just rambling :derp:.

[Jq1790]

Rambling's good!  Provides things for me to think about when trying to come up with stuff to do, story-wise.  My thought wasn't to have this thing take place SUPER long ago, actually, but if it'd contradict what we know of canon than I might need to think harder about that, since my goal is to make a story that COULD actually have happened, given what has already been established.

Or, do you all think I should take some liberties on this? 

(By the way, got a new computer yesterday.  Gotta get my license of RMVX put on here again, but then I'll finally be able to work on getting back on this!  ...though I'll probably spend some time working out storyline details and such before I open the game back up, so I don't have to come up with things on the fly like I've been sometimes.)

[Hanzo K.]

Well, story-wise, you could do it as if she was telling a story at some unspecified time in the future, when she's in Youki's shoes as an Old Master.
Y'know, have it open with the classic "This story took place a long time ago, when I was still young. It was quite a different time, filled with more challenges than you young ones have these days."

As for the Reimu-Marisa-Kosuzu-Akyu thing, it's been shown/implied that they're all varying degrees of childhood friends. So it can thus be assumed that they knew each other from a young age.
Given how she speaks so casually with Akyu, that implies that she's known Akyu the longest, followed by Reimu, with Marisa bringing up the rear.

So if anything, you could do it when those four were still in the younger classes. Like, 4-8 years of age maybe?
Hell, you could have them be the kids that chime in with random comments and info in my previously-suggested idea.

[Genso]

I thought Reimu and Kosuzu were the closest friends since Reimu uses "-chan" when talking to her while Kosuzu respects Reimu like a dependable older sister/friend. As for Akyuu, they could be friends since they have similar interests. Though I agree that Marisa is the bottom.

Having them as children seems like a good idea, (child Marisa should be friends with Rinnousuke before he stopped his apprenticeship with her father). I can just imagine it.

[Hanzo K.]

Well, the fact that Kosuzu doesn't use honorifics when speaking with Akyu indicates that they've been friends long enough to not care about that.
Since Reimu seems to be older then, it's possible that Akyu and Kosuzu are the same age. Which would allow for about a year's difference between her and Reimu, which would in turn add credibility to the 'Dependable Older Sister/Friend' you mention.
So the age chart's probably like this.

Akyu/Kosuzu - Youngest
Reimu - Oldest
Marisa - Maybe the same as Reimu?

We'd have to analyze how Akyu refers to Marisa and Reimu as well to get the big picture.

[Genso]

Maybe waiting would be a better idea, basing this all on assumption seems to be getting us no further from the surface anyway. Still, it's an interesting topic. Wonder how they all know Kosuzu anyway...

[Jq1790]

Does seem interesting, but it's beyond the scope of this game, and given how new she'll be, Kosuzu probably won't be making an appearance in this game.  If it does happen, I'll cross that bridge then.

[Yugian]

You know what? How are you doing? i havent spoken to you in ages and im extremely curious about how this is going  :3

[Jq1790]

You know what? How are you doing? i havent spoken to you in ages and im extremely curious about how this is going  :3

Uh...yeah.  About that.  Kinda realized I had NO idea where I wanted the story to go, so I stopped until I can ether figure it out or get a writer to work with.  Also was lacking interest in working on it so I didn't really look into fixing those issues much.  I haven't forgotten about this, but I just need to get back into the swing of things and get my motivation back together before anything will happen.  I won't give any ideas for a date I'll resume since i myself have no clue when it'll be, but there's the update for now.  I apologize to anyone who'd been looking forward to this and such for the ridiculous delays, but until I have a better idea of what I want to DO with it I won't just slap stuff together for the sake of having things out there.  If I'm gonna do this, it's getting done right.

[Helepolis]

You know what? How are you doing? i havent spoken to you in ages and im extremely curious about how this is going  :3

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