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FanFiciton Multiverse: The Emperor-Verse
Given the nature of my RWBY Reimagined AU, Saints of Remnant, I'm thinking compiling some of my fanfictions in a universe thats inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia which is implied to exist in this universe but never truly touched upon until a major crossover event and even then, its set after The Last Battle so Narnia is long gone, but it vaguely implied and referenced to explain how this multiverse works and even the origins of some worlds along utilizing the theology of my Catholic Faith, The Works of CS Lewis and Medieval Cosmology, since all these things in my opinion can help tie them all together.
The Emperor-Verse(link to the blog is in the title)
The Emperor-Verse is the fanfiction multiverse in which these stories take place, named after the Supreme Deity that rules these worlds The-Emperor-Of-All-That-Is which were created or adopted by The Great Prince and given The Breath of Life
My Catholic Faith along with the works of CS Lewis served great inspiration for this universe, but mostly its a prototype of one of my fictional universes, or perhaps you can call a ‘multiverse’, known as The Loreverse which you can find on my primary blog
And here are some of the titles
RWBY: Saints of Remnant(reimagined)
Code Geass: Lelouch of The Knighood(reimagined, possible placeholder title)
Skullgirls: Reimagined(placeholder name, need to think of something more fitting)
Bionicle: A Tale of Hope(reimagined)
Fate/Defiance(Fan Sequel to Unlimted Bladeworks)
Skeleton Knight in Another World: The Order of The Sacred Blood(alternate sequel)
BlazBlue: Alterized Fate(reimagined)
D.Gray-Man: Encore(reimagined)
There may be more in the future
It may feature a crossover involving five characters, two from our world which shares the same world as Fate in this case, jumping from world to world and bring some other characters across worlds depending on the situation
Now you’re probably asking
“Why are you doing this?”
Mostly because like I said, its a prototype of concepts and stories which these franchises I’m using I take heavy inspiration from, which will most likely become there own things mostly for The Lorverse.
If I used The Loreverse which I plan to make money on, it might lead to legal issues and I don't want that to happen.
“Why are you using your Religion?”
Mostly due to it being a strong foundation, notably theology, for most of my stories, there are many strong foundations of storytelling, religion, history, you can even fantasize science if you put the imagination, time, and effort into it.
After doing some soul searching and listening to the Narnia books on Audible, which Narnia is implied to exist, or I should say had existed, in this universe, and I might include elements of CS Lewis’ Space Trilogy
The multiverse takes these universes and blends them into my faith and its theology, and even uses medieval cosmology, and makes them more like swashbucklings epics and fairy stories.
“Isn’t this kind of entitled and disrespectful?”
Disagreement isn’t necessarily malicious, and entitlement is not inherently bad if its your opinions and subjective feelings which people are entitled to.
Tolkien was heavily inspired by his distaste for how Shakespeare handled certain concepts, such as the Ents when he was upset and dissatisfied that there were no walking talking trees in the Enchanted Fortest of Macbeth, and the Valar Aule the Smith and the origin of the Dwarves make him something of an Anti-Prometheus
Not to mention Philip Pullman, the author of His Dark Materials Trilogy, made it out his distaste how CS Lewis made the Chronicles of Narnia and his overall beef with Christianity, and nobody seems to take issue with that.
I’m not trying to spite anyone, I’m not trying to spite Monty Oum with my RWBY Reimagined AU, Especially when I never knew the guy, and that can be said with the other AUs I’m not trying to change canon or its “trajectory” whatever that means in this context. I’m not saying Pyrrha and Arkos and the current direction of RWBY post V3 was objectively bad, just not my taste, I expected it to be more like Star Wars or Avatar the Last Airbender, and ships I wanted akin to Ed and Winry, Han and Leia, Kagome and Inuyasha, I think you get the idea, and I know not everyone who liked it and are fine with how these other franchises turned out is an elitist about it, just in my experience, there were people who were. And I won’t touch upon the ships I have a beef with on this blog either.
And I’m not saying any of the franchises I’ve been covering are all objectively bad, even when they use concepts or take directions with them I don’t like due to personal tastes and preferences and “personal emotional beats”, I have my reasons for them just as you all have reasons for yours.
I am making these AU stories, which will eventually be revamped into original stories because looking back on them, their worlds, characters, concepts, ships I wanted, and other ideas all could have been in stories I believe are worth telling and I was disappointed and frustrated that they weren’t. That’s it.
Yeah, it may also be due to subjective and personal feelings, at least so I’ve been told, but I try to integrate that in a meaningful way. Once again, I have my reasons for them as you all do for yours.
“But isn’t this crossover and multiverse stuff, especially if your including Narnia and your religion kinda cringe?”
It’s mostly because helps organize my stories and gives a stable foundation when reimagining these stories, notably the magical nature of each world such as the nature of Remnant(Aura, Semblance, Faunus), Geass, Blue(BlazeBlue), Bionicle mysticism, and so-on and so-forth as different configurations of Deep Magic
I’m also utilizing medieval cosmology as Lewis did to explain the multiverse by organizing with every universe being a “Sphere” and our world, blended with the Fate Type Moon universe for practical purposes, being “The Firstborn Sphere” and the outermost sphere being Heaven or some had called “Aslan’s Country” or as its called in this Multiverse “The Great Empire” which also can be applied to the multiverse itself aka The Great Cosmic Sphere. and Hell or also known as “Tash’s Country” or “The Netherworld” exists completely outside of the multiverse
As well using the Biblical Story of Genesis as a basis especially with Adam and Eve’s connection to many sentient species of the Multiverse.
Now personally when it comes to my faith, I can live with either creationism or theistic evolution, just anything besides outright materialism.
All of this just helps tie everything together...
And like I said, all in due time, these will be made into original stories for my original universe.
I can see why people think using my religion and Narnia is cringe due to the creatively bankrupt Pureflix movies are all feel-good with no substance written by mostly I like to call "Joel Olsteens" rather than the works of martyrs and church fathers, or the esteemed medievalist CS Lewis and his friend JRR Tolkien, a hardened veteran who's family and his own life was nurtured by a serious but still merry understanding of the faith.
And I'm not saying I'm on par with these guys, but I feel like if I take cue from them, I can be sincere in my work.
So I hope you all enjoy what I have to offer, which will most likely be put on AO3 and FanFiction.Net, and who knows, I might get a few artists to commission to redesign some characters or illustrate some scenes if anyone is up for it.
Tolkien:*uses his lessons in theology and myth to make middle earth*
C.S. Lewis: *Literal Lion Jesus and Man-Bird-Satan*
Tolkien:
Honestly reading the Chronicles of Narnia(currently in the middle of The Silver Chair) and I don’t give a damn if it’s also for kids
It’s been far more refreshing and has spoke more to me than all of these mega-dark fantasies
Not saying those aforementioned things aren’t necessarily bad, but I’ve grown so weary, frustrated, and exhausted.
Narnia is clear, simple, and CS Lewis tells the story without sounding patronizing or condescending
I listen to the audiobooks, and I honestly feel like I’m free. The horrible ocd thoughts, the anxiety, the rage, the frustration, it just washes away and it helps me appreciate my Catholic Faith more.
I feel free
Lewis: Don’t lecture me, Mr.Elf-Mary!
Tolkien: She’s just my wife!
Lewis: MY ARSE.
Honestly I feel like my bad experience with fandom steps into a larger problem.
Society has become a d-measuring rat race and we get punished for doing what makes us happy no matter what it is or why That’s been the case for for conceptualizing reimagined RWBY AU and niche writing in the past.
It’s made for “the wrong people” when I should be writing for “the right people”
I don’t mean to sound like a hippy, but society seems to have become so egocentric, all to the benefit to an elite who has hijack the concept of the greater good to work to their benefit.
There's no respect for anyone and their limits and boundaries and tastes from the broad things to nitty gritty details or walks of live regardless if they are moral or not
Everything it pit against each other, majority or minority, niche or mass, objective or subjective, individual or collective.
It's no longer "I'm different than you."
It's now "I'm these things and like these things and dislike these things because I'm a better person than you."
It's not just politics, its pop-culture, hobbies, jobs, everything.
The more I look up CS Lewis and remember GK Chesterton, the more I realize how screwed up everything is.
For some reason the sentence "The Narniest of Narnians" keeps popping into my head
Thinking of my Megacrossover events; The Order of Cair Paravel
One Saga, involving RWBY, BlazBlue, Skullgirls, Bionicle, Skeleton Knight in Another World, Code Geass, Fate, D.Gray-Man and a few others which focus on original characters, notably one is the granddaughter of Susan Pevensie and her love interest who is an American dude who's a bit of satire of New Hollywood movies of the 1980s and set in mostly our world which shares the Fate World and references many 1980 films such as Ghostbusters and The Goonies and is all about fighting disenchantment and uses Chronicles of Narnia as a basis
Then there's another saga that involves the bully of the American character's school finding redemption involving Lies of P, Alice Madness Returns, Bioshock and a few others but uses The Ransom Trilogy and bits of The Silver Chair, even involves worlds including world of Fritz Lang's metropolis and overarching themes of the horrors and evils of scientism and modernity
Both involve evil Cults/Secret societies who are under the influence of "The Bent One" aka The Devil
I think it's because Calormene has an aesthetic akin to the Ottoman Empire.
But the difference is it's religion as this post points out, is akin to Babylonian myth and the likes of the Canaanite religion with Tash having influences of Moloch as well as a demon of Babylonian myth.
and in the tags of one reblog pointed out, Islam forbids depicting Allah in imagery, and Mohammed if I remember correctly.
C.S Lewis: Now for Calormene, I think I’ll draw inspiration from a few different sources from Middle Eastern history. But mainly from ancient cultures that practiced things like slavery. The religion I’ll base off old pagan beliefs from the time of the Bible, wherein bestial gods were worshiped and human sacrifice was still practiced. After all Tash will be my analogue for the Dev-
Woke fans: Oh my gosh! ISLAMOPHOBIA!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!? This violent cult reminds me of Islam! Which means Lewis hated Muslims!!!!
C.S Lewis: Did you miss the part where I gave Tash a bird head?
Listening to CS Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy, the Eldila and Oyéresu are basically Invisible Space Maiar and Valar and the Old Solar language is CS Lewis’s version of Elvish
“Beasts must be ruled by hnau and hnau by eldila and eldila by Maleldil. These creatures have no eldila. They are like one trying to lift himself by his own hair or one trying to see over a whole country when he is on a level with it, like a female trying to beget young on herself.’”
-Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
I think a common misconception about some people not liking 40k is because “you just want a progressive 40k”
Now I don't know how many I speak for,
but I want something akin to Space-Tolkien with over-the-top tech, military, and cool designs of 40k(not a carbon copy mind you, just the basic influences with a different spin.) with a clear line of Good and Evil and speaking as a Catholic, a Big G God and space Angels against Space Morgoth.
Yeah, there’s Star Wars, but people are very picky. And Star Wars doesn’t cut it for some people.
And it gets really annoying getting shoved into that or Star Trek and told to just shut up and be content with that.
Which is why I’ve been conceptualizing that very idea in one of my fictional universes which has been enhanced by reading CS Lewis' Ransom Trilogy, I’ll post about it someday.
Its kinda like warhammer 40k but with alliances vs alliances with various "punk" aesthetics with elements of Tolkien, Narnia, and pulp.
Kinda what to do of “My Reimagined Warhammer 40k” thread which is not so much as an AU but a prototype of my 40k inspired concept with the inspirations as placeholders
Basically “What if there was clear good and evil in 40k and it was more like Space Tolkien with bits of the Ransom Trilogy and Christian Theology?”
Maleldil, blessed be He!
Sci Fi concept: the aliens come to earth, first contact and all that, and when asked why they came, they say they're on pilgrimage because they wanted to see the planet where their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, lived
I can’t believe that in Perelandra the Oyarsa seriously told Ransom
“Take comfort in your smolness”
RWBY: Saints of Remnant notes: Spectulative Theology
WARNING: CONTAINS TOPICS OF RELIGION, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
Now anyone who has been following my blog is well aware I am a Catholic and my reimagined RWBY AU, RWBY: Saints of Remnant, is set in the Narnia Multiverse.
Why I did this was because I felt the best way to incorporate my faith into RWBY was to turn to the likes of CS Lewis and learn to think like him.Not that I consider myself on par with him or the rest of the Inklings.
Supposed Remnant was another world created by God in the same multiverse as Narnia/The Space Trilogy, and The Triune God(The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit) revealed himself there, what would that look like? How would it change the nature of Remnant?
Which I came to several conclusions
Humans and Faunus, like Humans in Narnia, are descended from Humans from Earth's past who had stumbled into it by God's will
Things like Aura, Semblance, the existence of Faunus, Dust, are a configuration of Deep Magic of this world
Christ and The Holy Spirit appear in this world by different appearances and different names and The Father created Remnant through Christ as he is the creator(Colossians 1:16)
The Grimm given their nature must exist as some kind of Satanic force within this world and are connected to the fallen nature of Humans and Faunus
So I will go into each one briefly so let's start with the first one
This one is plainly obvious given the setting Im implying its set in, humans and faunus are descended from Humans from Earth. To be exact humans around the world dating from the days of the Roman Empire up to the late Victorian Era/Gilded Age during times of war, exploration, and persecution.
Remnant itself, formerly known as Omnibus, is older than Narnia but younger than Charn. And it's also set after The Last Battle so Narnia is long gone by the start of the story. But it should be noted the Ragnarok War which shattered the world takes place at the same time as The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
Second. Deep Magic
As I understand it, Deep Magic in Narnia is basically the Supernatural Law of each universe which is in different configurations in each world and thus have different results.
For Remnant's case, Deep Magic would probably be responsible for the odd hair colors of people, it would transform some humans into faunus(thus making them Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve, an offshoot race of humans), and giving both the potential of semblance and aura. And the Maidens and Wizard(who are among a total pantheon of 13 individuals in this AU) are of a deeper magic.
3. How God(The Father,The Son, and Holy Spirit) reveals himself in Remnant
This is obvious, I tried to do what CS Lewis did and come up with a supposed incarnation of Christ/Aslan in Remnant, and borrowing ideas from @vitamaeternum
I present The Storyteller(art done by @magiesheartlove)
sent by the mysterious Author Allfather to "tell" Omnibus into existence and proceeding from The Author Allfather through The Storyteller an entity known as The Ink of Life which works a lot like Aslan's Breath.
4.The Nature of Grimm and the connection to Original Sin and the nature of evil
We all know Grimm are drawn to negativity and how they are soulless abominations.
What if the Grimm are a manifestation of original sin that Satan and his horde of demons use to ravage and corrupt Remnant?
St. Augustine of Hippo describes Evil as privatio boni, evil exists as a corruption, negation, or absence of Good for Good is substantial while evil is not. It exists only as some kind of sickness, a cavity in your tooth, the hunger of an empty stomach, a festering wound, a black hole.
And I will go into this when I explore grimmified humans and faunus, The Grimmborne.
But basically Remnant is a wounded world, the Grimm exist as a corruption/negation of creation that festers in said wounded world and has increased after the Ragnarok, and the negativity from sin, corruption of the four kingdoms, and the tragedy of the increasing death rate of hunters exacerbates it("Always Winter, and never Christmas!")
I don't want to reveal too much, but I wanted to give you all a taste of what I have in mind.
Fandom Woes: Self-Righteousness of Modern Tragedy
I think I want to explain my case better about my beef with modern tragic/more-bitter-than-sweet fantasy/sci-fi, such as RWBY, Code Geass, and D.Gray-Man and it’s not necessarily the stories in of themselves
It’s the Self-Righteous Martyr/God-Complex of toxic contingent within these fandoms, to me they seem to ultimately not care the message the tragedy and suffering of these stories are trying to convey, but rather enjoy them and flaunt them for their own self-righteous megalomania
And I know that sounds hyperbolic, but it’s the tone, attitude and behavior of these people that give me that impression
For example with Code Geass and RWBY and the tragic deaths of Euphemia Li Britannia, Shirley Fenette, Lelouch, Pyrrha, and Penny respectively
As soon as that happened, many among the fandom would come out and theatrically proclaim the necessity of these tragic deaths, how it is so realistic an shows “thats life”, and brag how ultimately hopeful the stories still are and how it taught them how to be oh-so hopeful despite the odds, and I can see them act that way towards the burden of Allen Walker if the fandom was still active today as it was back then.
In any these cases, these people act as if they themselves were righteous martyrs, prophets of God,Life,Reality, usually the latter two because they claim "that's life" or "that's reality" all in a tone that reeks of holier-than-thou arrogance and vanity...
"Of my virtue, I am justly proud..."
Or worse, they speak with ghoulish glee and bragging about it gives them a feeling of power over these fictional characters as if they themselves are God almighty and it bleeds into how they treat real people who didn't like it by passive aggressively or belligerently belittling, judging, shaming, gaslighting, and sneering at them, implying the worse reasons of their distaste, and tell them to go watch a sitcom or slice-of-life anime or something
Then they are quick to condemn other fictional characters like Suzaku from Code Geass for being such a SOB and cheer on Watts putting Cinder on Full Blast, all while implying themselves to be such better people than both
Then they brag about what story was told with these ideas and concepts to be the end-all-be-all of these concepts in any fantasy/sci-fi epics that have even the slightest tinge of darkness and conflict and, lock them down into little theories, formulas, dogmas, and rule out everything else as a corruption, heresy, or a worthless little parasite, because they themselves are the infallible, all-knowing, and all-seeing “literary experts” who got everything all figured out and everyone else, wether the majority or minority, as peon reprobates.
Which then they pressure onto creatives with less power than them, especially when they disagree. All while they themselves can do whatever they want and do whatever they want with things they are unhappy with because “we know better than you”
I have experienced this expressing my ideas of what RWBY could have been instead, AU and Original work and been told it could only work as a slice of life anymore or a sitcom, or otherwise what I do with this stuff is ultimately meaningless and heresy and spiteful
All while they supported things like His Dark Materials Trilogy which is the Anti-Narnia written by a Atheist who hates CS Lewis and Christianity with a passion because he made the concepts more “interesting”
Or how making a sexy magical Captain Marvel with her own sailor scouts like Kamen America and her Kamen Corps because the creators were unhappy with what was done with the concept of Captain Marvel is nothing but a "Porno Captain Marvel Rip-Off"
while making an evil superman like Homelander and other nasty rendition of superheroes in "The Boys" by a guy who despises superheroes is totally fine because he knows what's the "interesting" end-all-be-all of these concepts.
All these things I describe can be summed up to figures in the Bible, The Pharisees
“They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.”-Matthew 23:4
They brag about the virtues and necessity of tragedy at the expense of fictional characters and real people, and boss around other creatives on what they do with this stuff, especially when they are unhappy, all whilst they themselves do whatever they want because they are supposedly so “objective”, they don’t need to follow the rules like everyone else
These prigs will tell others to “broaden their horizons” and give them the benefit of the doubt, but will refuse to give others the exact same courtesy because once again, “We know better than you.”
These self righteous people seem to only enjoy these stories not because of the message the tragedy and suffering is trying to convey, thats just a shield for them, but rather for their moral superiority and the thrill of power over others and being the measure of all things, for they know how life exactly works for specific individuals in specific genres and they know how to carry it out exactly.
They know with a "G"(gnosis) what's the end-all-be-all of specific concepts in ideas in specific genres and how to carry them out and they alone are the alchemists who can turn lead in to gold and everyone else is subjective and suffer from false consciousness.
In fact, I compare them to Digory’s Uncle Andrew in The Magician’s Nephew who though he could control other people by using their values against them to get them to do what he wants, while he himself doesn’t need to follow the rules, and basked in self congratulation of being a “great magician”
“Men like me, who possess hidden wisdom, are freed from common rules just as we are cut off from common pleasures. Ours, my boy, is a high and lonely destiny.”
And while we’re at it and Code Geass is on the table, let me point to one of the antagonists of Akito The Exiled, Gene Smilas
He was the mentor and surrogate parent of Lelia Macal who sought to bring Europe to a brighter future, often invoking the tale of the venerable St.Joan of Arc.
But when the time came to supposedly save EU, did he bet on his own life like the Saint did?
No.
He decided to position himself as God and Lelia as Joan of Arc, planning for her to die as a martyr for his own gain and become Emperor of Europe, because she happened to be a young lady with good morals who wasn't afraid to fight alongside her troops.
Like Uncle Andrew, Gene was nothing more than a peddling magician, but worse, he saw himself as God who controlled Lelila's destiny all while basking in delusions of righteousness in his quest for power. While Uncle Andrew was at least scared straight by Narnia.
To use a description of the Pharisees from the TV Series Jesus of Nazareth(1977) but slightly tweaked,
He bowed before the Story of Joan of Arc, but violated the heart of it.
And that's why I am so irritable about Tragedy in these kinds of stories, it feels like they are no longer enjoyed out of humility, compassion, truth, goodness, and beauty.
But rather out of pride, vanity, power, cruelty, and moral superiority
and sometimes it tempts me want to write my inspired stories in a way that gives them all the finger rather than for what I saw these ideas and concepts could have been, just so I can give them a taste of their own medicine
I know that's wrong, but these people test my patience, especially when they keep invading other people's spaces, bypass other people's "curations" because "there's nothing subjective about this, I need to correct and educate you", and getting away with this kind of nasty behavior
Because they are perfectly “objective” and everyone else is “subjective” therefore “subjected” to their “objective” will.
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