CHAPTER 3: HOMECOMING (weight of the game: 25%)
A year has gone by, all of Nylon's predictions have come to pass, tens of thousands of people sleeping on that faithful day have fallen into a coma, countless died in their sleep and the death toll continues to increase with people who had sleep paralysis that night going insane and committing murders & suicides. On top of that, Nightmares have managed to escape inbetween the influx that White Tail/Despair created upon his arrival to Grandeur.
the world does what it can to survive in such times, the CDF fight to the best of their abilities but don't have the man power to survive much longer, Nylon & Zale have gone into hiding, preparing themselves. Zale knows "Despair" better than anyone, and knows that on the day he left to Grandeur that he would come back to where it all started: Capital. Although they haven't seen "Despair" in a year, the news makes it obvious where he's been, being that his existence itself causes natural disasters, wherever volcano's erupt unexpectedly, earthquakes become frequent, hurricanes mass & Nightmares gather is most likely the place Despair was last, and after a year of following the patterns, Nylon could assess that Despair, now disguised in a Huma form, would be arriving in a month's time.
[*THIS WOULD BE THE STAR OCEAN PORTION OF THE GAME: remember when Claude and the members where getting ready to fight the 12 gods and the game gave you a in-game level boost of about 10 levels and you have the option to stay in the coliseum and fight more monsters to level more? That's what would happen here, Zale would get a 10 level boost and Nylon would give the option to keep training until you feel ready.*]
Nylon mentions how Zale has been using drugs to cause insomnia for the last year, sleeping for no more than 1 hour a day, and while his over abundance of sleep for the last 7 years has made it manageable, the amount of sleep depravation will get to him sooner or later. Unwearied, Zale desires nothing more than to make up for his failure to stop Despair and do something about it this time as a way to repent for the world that's now in turmoil, although Nylon is well aware that what Zale wants most is his friend back.
After calamities grow larger in Capital, Zale & Nylon know Despair isn't far away, and they decide to go to the most appropriate place to find him: the area they fought and stopped Reynolds together. After fighting several nightmares on the way to the rendezvous point, Despair, appearing as a Huma in a cloaked robe greets Zale & Nylon, after a brief exchange Despair admits this is not what he wanted, and that the world he was once so eager to travel is in shambles due to his mistakes as the influx destroyed every place he visited this past year, but he's come too far to turn back with REM now gone and wishes to rebuild the world together with Zale again.
Zale painfully refuses knowing that Despair's mere existence is denying Grandeur itself and too much more of this will cause even more irreversible damage. Feeling denied once again, Despair prompts Zale and Nylon to meet him at a specific location for a final showdown, the fight deciding who Grandeur desires to be its savior:
Zale, the Huma who wishes to salvage whats left of the world, killing his best friend in the process and starting a long road to recovery
or
Despair, who wishes to rebuild the world fresh and return to being seen as a savior and guardian, although the casualties will continue to mount in the process until some sort of solution for the influx can be found.....
**THAT'S IT, I haven't decided who would win the fight, I wanted it to be a shocker but not too naruto-ish with like a double kill or something, I already got the idea of naming him "Despair" from the whole "Pain" thing
I just wanted a story that wasn't all "bad guy wants to take over the world-ish", and I didn't want the player to hate the villain at all, he takes the Sephiroth role in basically being a hero turned mightiest villain but for varying different reasons and like I said the idea just popped in my head, I fleshed it out this much just during the typing. I also wanted the weight of the world to be on the protagonist's shoulders and he still fails because that never happens in games, usually when they fail its something salvageable, I wanted it to be world crushing failure.
Also the game would have 2 phases, you'd have missions where you would fight nightmares in the world of REM alongside a hologram Nylon & White tail, as well as against normal monsters in the world of grandeur with the assist of hologram Nylon.
Character inspiration:
Zale - Zack (FF7)
Nylon - (I watched half of the 1st episode of stein's gate last night, so after coming up with this story this morning I decided to have Nylon be loosely based off him as fragile scientist)
Reynolds - (EVERY CRAZY MOFO IN EVERY ANIME THAT WANNA RELEASE SOMETHING BAD, but lets say the 1-eyed scientist from Guilty Crown for good measure)
White Tail/Despair - Sephiroth (FF7), Naraku (inuyasha), Pain (Naruto)
!!!! **BUT PLEASE, all feedback is WELCOME, should this become a real project, what should be changed, what stands out, should I turn this into a real story, should I add more characters, what do you think would be a nice ending, feel free to ask questions etc!** !!!!!
(thank you for all your time!)