[FFML] Repost Quantum Destinies: Ohtori Academy Blues

[DB Sommer]

On 2/28/2012 10:51 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> DB... this has some problems, historically speaking... It might be
> best just to leave historicity out of it completely. Utena is never a
> good place to start dealing with objective facts, so I think giving it
> a year and a connection to the Chrysanthemum Throne is probably not
> wise...

JK cleared everything already. It's his toy, and he said it was okay to 
play with it this way, so I'm inclined to let it be

>> The wall, and the academy it surrounded, was erected in 1825 at the request
>> of one of the then Emperor’s advisors, a shadowy figure known only as Dios.
>> What role he actually served the Emperor was unclear, though none questioned
>> him openly. No drawings or pictures of the man existed, save a single
>> silhouette drawn by one of the Emperor’s concubines. No one knew for what
>> purpose Dios had the academy built, but it was rumored that he personally
>> designed the entire school, from the highest tower to the smallest carved
>> rose.
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> If you want to go by all of the great universities and secondary
> schools in Japan today, I would suggest you instead choose the Early
> Meiji period, so 1875~1890. This is when such schools would have been
> built and would have had imperial support.

Umm, history was changed dramatically long before this. The Shogun of 
the Dark has been behind the scenes for a while manipulating events to 
his advantage. You'd have to check with JK for sure, or he's mentioned 
bits and pieces of it in earlier works, but the Empire has been in 
control of everything along the Pacific Rim for quite a while. There was 
no Perry to crack open Japan, since there was no United States (there is 
a Texas empire, as I recall. But Japan is in firm control of everything 
West of the Rockies and has been for quite a while.) Korea was 
successfully conquered even longer.

Also there was a very specific reason to have Dios found Ohtori, though 
whether or not the plot line will be used is debatable since QD is 
already so big to begin with.
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