（KHV Musical）Jiku Neon's Plot

Hey guys, Jayn here posting Jiku's plot! If you would like to contribute to the plotting and further expand on the story before it's time to vote on which plot to go with for the Visual Novel, please use this thread to do so! Without further delay~​

★ THE PLOT ⬊

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Alright, gonna rearrange some of my original ideas to put them into a more coherent form for those who liked it already and want a more detailed/explicit form to work with.

Premise: This site remains a website we visit. The windows into the story will be three main characters. A new member, a veteran member and either an old member, returning old member or a banned member(there's a lot that can be done with this third person but it is difficult for me to express exactly what). The real world still exists as just that and our characters live in both. Each character is presented with a real world problem and the overarching site problem. The site problem and the real life problem develop simultaneously until experience with one helps the character solve the other and take that back to their final remaining problem. This should be more fun for most people because it's more of an exaggeration of what is rather than a totally fictional setting with random cameo appearances and shenaniganry.

Storytelling: I have two options here: 1) we do this in three acts(or routes) and have each act dedicated to one protagonist showing a linear progression from new to old and reviewing the same online events three times from different perspectives, showing something about how information and perspective mean everything. This allows us to keep their real world events nice and neat and separated. It does mean going through some of the same material over again so it might hinder the whole musical aspect since the musical bits are the online bits which are all in common. It might serve as motivation to have each person's online activities more distinct than I'd initially thought. 2) we do this all in one go and bounce around from protag to protag from scene to scene, like a book or play might. Now this allows everything to happen once and only once. But we only get each event from one perspective or a group perspective possibly. This might make storytelling a bit less personalized for each of the characters. It also makes time management a little different.

Characters: While pretty much all participating members are fair game for fixtures, we need protagonist(s). Everyone seems awfully taken with the idea of an original character and I understand why. However, the proposed storytelling method has this new member accompanied by a veteran member and another character. The veteran member should be someone who is well known here but doesn't necessarily need to be an old member. Their role in this is to provide perspective from someone who is a part of the the main community already and sees things through that perspective. The third member is a bit of an issue for me because there needs to be some kind of balance to the new member. The veteran is more of a middle ground. This third member needs to represent the side of the side that is both older and less likely to be a part of every change. Someone who is clearly a little out of step with the current mainstream but more in touch with the core of what it is to be a member here.
All of the characters can technically be made up but I would only suggest that the new member be made up. The other two would need to be picked based on the actual person's willingness. Though I suggest asking directly rather than letting people volunteer, at least for the third spot.
The idea with the spectrum of characters is to best show the site how we see it. To best make this something that we can look at and have someone to identify with or root for. In many ways it's just as much about perspective of the viewer as it is the perspective of the characters.

Tone: I don't like "dark" or "gritty" I like comedy and barring that realism. I'd prefer we try to keep this more or less reasonable. It can have ups and downs but there is no need to have one outweigh the other in a significant way.

Set: The Real- it's the real world. Each character has to deal with it every day and there will be scenes dedicated to important parts of it.
The Site- it's where the main story occurs. Instead of just putting a pure text wall down we can play with the setting since a lot of what goes online is abstract and subject to more imagination than the real is. So we can take a background skin from the site to start with and then embellish upon it and work with it to make a little make believe world. Within that world we have all the sections, each with their own flavor and corresponding change in art style or design. The musical numbers happen here so we have a reason for people to be bursting into song (the reason being because it's a world of pure imagination but whatever.)
The Megachats- I've decided I would really like to have a few scenes where people go off site to talk. Things are wilder here, a lot more things can happen and a lot more characters can talk disjointedly. So we keep the same idea as the site but maybe make the thing exclusive to a few musical numbers rather than main dialogues.
The idea here is to show the full spectrum of events that go into what makes things happen on the site.

Dialogue: Carried out normally in the real and the site. Carried out through music on the site and megachat conversations.
This is just the simplest and most coherent way to go about this.

Art: The characters will have real world versions of themselves that are more or less true to form. However, they will also have online versions of themselves which will be decided by the artists or by committee as we progress.

Music: As with all musicals each number should progress the story and tell you what the singers are feeling or thinking.

Plot: A kid in, let's say middle school, joins the site one day. He or she will travel around the site and through a musical number discover what it's all about. This kid becomes a regular to escape the real/have fun/be themselves/find themselves/whatever their real life deal is. There is a huge to be determined problem with/on the site. The new member follows the development and handling of this issues and possibly helps to solve it. A member who's been here for a bit and is all up on the latest trends and gossip is visiting the site when the nonspecific issue arises coincidently with a personal problem. They fight with both issues and with the help of music they succeed. Nothing for the last undecided guy, sorry.

Specifics(?): I'll leave all those up to you guys.

This is all I have to say.​

 

I like this! Especially since I can be the little new kid in middle school, LOL.