PRE-APPLICATION DISCUSSION POST!

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Mitsuzane Kureshima | Kamen Rider Gaim

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I'm trying to figure out Micchi's backstory but there's one thing that I'm having trouble with. Does this sound alright?

His origin story's kind of the same as canon, where he's the son of the owner of the Yggdrasil Corporation (it's evil btw), but he and his brother never go to Zawame. His brother gets assigned to the Yggdrasil branch in LA, and Micchi requests to go with him. I've decided that instead of having innate powers he gets to keep his neat belt and be a kamen rider, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how he gets his belt? In the show he gets it from a dealer to help his friends, but here there's no dealer and no friends. I was thinking that his brother brought home a belt and Micchi basically steals it with intent to give it back and then just never gives it back. His brother is ranked highly enough in the company to have access to top secret equipment like that and he's absentminded enough to leave these things unattended but it still feels a little flimsy to me.

I'm just really attached to him keeping his belt because his transformation involves a grape falling from the sky onto his head.

(I've been calling him Micchi just because that's what I'm used to but seeing as he never met Gaim in CH there'd be no reason for him to have that nickname...)

Also I'm totally open to CR or team ups or anything! Micchi's an unregistered teen hero because he feels weird about his hero activities being controlled by any adults.

Re: Mitsuzane Kureshima | Kamen Rider Gaim

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HEY FRIEND! I'm obviously not a mod so I'm not at all an authority on whether it works or doesn't, but I do have a question that hopefully will help out with the concern of flimsiness (if thats ok)!

Have you figured out why he took the belt in the first place? Because I think having a solid reason (whether it's "he had to stop a bad thing" or "he wanted to play with it and got into a situation where he had to be a hero using the belt" or anything that would explain why he took it and maybe also why he didnt give it back) would strengthen the backstory a lot. If that reason ties in with how he decided to become a superhero, I think it's even better.

also the initial reason I wanted to comment is to say oh my god tHE GRAPE FALLING OUT OF THE SKY.........(i haven't kept up with gaim but it looks like i need to start)

Re: Mitsuzane Kureshima | Kamen Rider Gaim

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I think the main reason he took the belt was just to mess with it. The reason he didn't give it BACK is kind of... the belt locks onto the first person who uses it, and once someone uses it it goes from blank black to have a little decal on it, which would give him away. But the main reason he didn't is, he feels trapped by the expectations placed on him by his family, and he feels really helpless. He sees the belt and the powers that come with it as a way to (literally) fight for himself, on his own terms? It's something that hasn't been planned out for him, so it's HIS and that's really important to him.

GOD YEAH... grape... we're expected to take this all very seriously but it's a show about fruit warriors. it's so good though!! it's not too far in yet so it'd be easy to catch up.