Board Thread:Returning to the Fanon Canon/@comment-2089817-20150123015548

Whenever you look on the news or read about some international incidents happening across the world in different countries, you often hear about one consistent situation centered around one person or specific group. Osama Bin Laden in the past, Al Queda, North Korea and ISIS today, but then there are threats that don't get "as much" coverage but if you look into it deeply enough, you'll find out how serious it is; a huge example of this being Joseph Kony and the LRA, which many have said has died down since 2013 after reports of his poor health. But if you were to look on the news today or look it up online, you'd be almost 99% more likely to hear about ISIS than anything involving Kony or the situation there. And this is just on the surface. The world is not one-dimensional, there is shit happening across the globe, 24/7, and you never know how dangerous they end up becoming in the years that will follow.

This is the real world. And this is one of the hugest things that separate reality from fiction. In the Naruto canon, we have Akatsuki. And apparently, over the course of several decades, the only person who ever thought about doing something about ending the ninja system using a violent and aggressive way was Madara, who tempted Obito, who tempted Nagato. This is extremely unrealistic. Could we argue that only Madara had the means of doing so? Maybe through the Juubi and Infinite Tsukuyomi method, but this isn't the only way to go about it. Tensions are high among the nations, even after the close of the warring states, and there are bound to be highly chaotic people or groups that want to cause havoc in order to achieve their own ends.

In other words, in a more realistic world setting, there would never be such a thing as a "main antagonist". Yes, a main antagonist of a particular situation or an antagonist of a particular moment in time that is at the center of attention, but the entire world is not going to pause while one crazy warlord reserved the next three months for his diabolical activities.

THEREFORE

Our FC needs to have a more realistic (and arguably more enjoyable) setting. One that features multiple events happening simultaneously, due to the efforts of multiple "villains", and the nations and individual parties would have to decide among themselves which situation requires their attention. Perhaps the Land of Fire and Land of Wind work together on a terrorist threat up in the north, while the Land of Thunder is dealing with a splinter cell of rogue missing-nins. Who knows, that's the fun of it. That being said, I wouldn't mind pushing forth my Sengoku Rebirth plan through Seireitou and his whole set-up, but that'll just be one particular situation. Others may pitch in villains of their own design, that have their own plans, and once we have all of the villains that want to get involved into the FC, we can finally set up a premise that can allow us to create a vivid world of roleplay.

Make sense? 