Canon Promo Post 2020

[modzilla]

Please use this post to promote the fandoms you're interested in requesting, or ask for recommendations of canons that suit you!

Promoting your canons

Comment here with information about the canons you are thinking of requesting, or otherwise want to get people into!

Information you might include

Title

Media

Approx length

Where to find it (If giving links, please only link to legal sources. You may want to encourage people to contact you directly if they are having trouble finding a canon and you can give them tips.)

What is it, in summary?

What do you love about it?

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests?

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence) - this is at your discretion and is not expected to be comprehensive

Some examples: Yuletide, Fandom5k

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Asking for recs

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[batman]

Title: Wild Arms 2 (or Wild Arms: 2nd Ignition)

Media: Video Game

Approx length: About 30 hours to play, or a couple of hours to just read/watch the cutscenes. Here's a text-based LP!

Where to find it: It is currently $5.99 on PSN, available for PS3, PSP and Vita. Otherwise, you can emulate it, as it is an old PSX game.

What is it, in summary? Have you ever thought to yourself "These modern games are too sensible; I want a plot with alien soul invaders who eat planets, where your quirky miniboss squad are two sentient lizards, and at one point you beat up a foetus (born from incest, naturally) in the womb while it is possessed by both an alternate universe and its father"? If you have, I have the game for you. I still don't know how this game got released.

Wild Arms 2 has it all: a cool soundtrack, a great setting, villains who have their own reasons for what they do, and interesting characters and concepts. You play as members of ARMs, a group of international peacekeepers trying to unite the world against Odessa who want to rule it. The party is made up of a war hero who has been vilified for his actions as they are inconvenient for the current world order, a sorceress-in-training with survivor's guilt after her sister died to save her, a junior militia member whose first day on the job ended up with everyone being possessed by demons and he had to kill them all to survive, a woman who turned herself into a cyborg to save the world, a boy who can hear the spirits whose mother took him away from his destiny to die in a ritual sacrifice, and a vampire that joined your party through Weird Time Travel Shenanigans. If you like deconstructions of heroism, if you like characters being terrified of the alien invaders inside them, and if you're willing to put up with what is at times a pretty terrible translation, then Wild Arms 2 is a great way to spend 30 hours.

What do you love about it? As the above two paragraphs may have made clear, Wild Arms 2 is A Ride. It's unabashedly off-the-walls ridiculous at times, at several points the translation translates idioms literally resulting in a narrative that can feel like a fever dream at times, but at its core it's a story about heroism and self-sacrifice by flawed people who are just not equipped for what they are required to do. The playable characters are fun and bounce off one another in interesting ways, Filgaia as a backdrop is really interesting, and the idea of the protagonist being the catalyst for the end of the world and having no ability to stop it is pretty novel.

Also there are NPCs literally called Tony Stark and Scott Summers.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it? Body horror and worldbuilding! Filgaia is such an interesting place with its mix of lost technology and magic, while Ashley's emotional turmoil can end the world and it's rather hard to remain upbeat when the demon inside you is changing you and can take you over at any moment.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests? Nope. But it's pretty short, as games go, and the game is quite easy as long as you don't go for the bonus boss.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence) Wild Arms 2 contains canonical incest treated sympathetically, attempted child sacrifice, violence against a child in the backstory of one character, and Brad deciding to name a dog Rassyu (you can rename the dog, fortunately).