Hera will be the last to die, but she'll have a decent death of old age. The rest won't be so lucky. Going by the list in my notes, of the thirty or so characters, the leading causes of death are fever/infection, violence, and childbirth.
You're right about Personaverse fanfic. About 99% of the stuff on FFnet is crap, and the badbathhouse livejournal (NSFW) consists of 5000 posts of drabble porn. This is not too surprising. Video games tend to make for reams of terrible fanfiction. I can count the decent Mega Man and Zelda fanfics I've read on one hand. You'll have luck with Final Fantasy, but that's more to do with the sheer volume of it produced than baseline quality.
My theory is that video game fanfic sucks because the games don't have a solid narrative style for writers to base their fanfic on. TV, movies, books, and comics are all focused on storytelling and fanfic writers can ape that style. This is probably why video game movies suck so much.
Besides that, I do have a reason to be reluctant to write Personaverse fanfic. Namely, that the series is so distinctly Japanese that I'm not sure I can maintain the proper characterization. For instance, if I did write Chie/Yukiko femmeslash, I'd feel obligated to do so as with regards to Japanese ideas on sexuality and gender -- which are very different from Western ideas.
It's been a while, but I believe the P3 social links I maxed out were Mitsuru, Fuuka, Kenji, Chihiro, Yuko, and that track guy with the bum knee.
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You're right about Personaverse fanfic. About 99% of the stuff on FFnet is crap, and the badbathhouse livejournal (NSFW) consists of 5000 posts of drabble porn. This is not too surprising. Video games tend to make for reams of terrible fanfiction. I can count the decent Mega Man and Zelda fanfics I've read on one hand. You'll have luck with Final Fantasy, but that's more to do with the sheer volume of it produced than baseline quality.
My theory is that video game fanfic sucks because the games don't have a solid narrative style for writers to base their fanfic on. TV, movies, books, and comics are all focused on storytelling and fanfic writers can ape that style. This is probably why video game movies suck so much.
Besides that, I do have a reason to be reluctant to write Personaverse fanfic. Namely, that the series is so distinctly Japanese that I'm not sure I can maintain the proper characterization. For instance, if I did write Chie/Yukiko femmeslash, I'd feel obligated to do so as with regards to Japanese ideas on sexuality and gender -- which are very different from Western ideas.
It's been a while, but I believe the P3 social links I maxed out were Mitsuru, Fuuka, Kenji, Chihiro, Yuko, and that track guy with the bum knee.