[OJfic Resources] The Survivalverse AU
I’ve written a lot of stories for 100% Orange Juice and its associated properties, and I’d like to encourage other people to do the same. In this article, I’m going to be talking about my own AU, the Survivalverse, why I made it, and what design factors went into it, in the hopes that it sheds some light on some of the difficulties of writing OJ fanfiction and how to get around them. Why make an AU? I made an AU because, simply put, the characters and canon of the Suguriverse are designed in such a way that writing stories about them in that universe is difficult, but that eases the process of making games with them. What do I mean by this? Well, to begin with: the Suguriverse is composed of four games (plus Mixed Juice, but leave that aside for now): SUGURI, AoS, SORA, and AoS2. All four are an odd flavour of shmup/fighting game hybrid, trending more towards the shmup side of the genre, and mostly following shmup genre conventions. This means that Suguri and co. are, for th
