Thousand Strings
An LLS Production
THE ARCADIA MOVEMENT...
An organisation of Psychic Duelists, formerly known as a haven of monsters and delicate beings alike. Twenty years had diluted the bloody history of the Movement somewhat from the time of Divine. Now the Movement had had four leaders, counting the aforementioned Divine.
No history of the Arcadia Movement would be complete without any mention of Madame Seiran Shimotsuki, formerly known as Diana Hunter. She and her husband, Rafael Shimotsuki, were the baddest of a bad lot. Where previously the Arcadia Movement made their moves through discrete deceptions, Madame Shimotsuki was the first to have shown the power the Arcadia Movement could pack. To this day, October the fifteenth was credited as the day of the White Witch Massacre in certain circles. Of course, having a tragic death was also what made her notable, but then aren't most?
Of course, if the Madame gave the Movement its opening spiel, the one who wrote most of the entire fucking body was her daughter. Setsuka Shimotsuki was a twelve-year-old girl with big dreams and power to match. Ten years was a pretty short time for an international organisation to gain any legal, social or political power, yet the Little Miss Badass of New York made it. Her disappearance from the roof of the Kaiba Dome before it was torn down two years ago marked the end of ten years in which the Movement went from mildly notable to very notable, and also cemented her place as the second bloodiest head of the Movement in history, but also as the youngest to date.
Inheriting the admittedly large breeches was the eighteen-year-old girl, Seika Kannazuki. Being the least experienced Duelist to helm the Movement, her reign was begun by legal tussles over the will of the late Madame and the wishes of Setsuka Shimotsuki. Although born without Psychic powers, there was no doubting her place in the Central Movement. Not with the support of Chase Princeton, Rex Atlas, and her adopted older brother, the only Psychic to challenge Setsuka Shimotsuki, Fudo Ryuusei.
These are the main parties. These are the high and mighty of the Movement. They are the scarlet thread within the colourless skein.
Yet, the skein of the Arcadia Movement are many and varied. Some came from the depths of hell, others come from the highest of backgrounds. Some were ordinary people who were thrown into extraordinary situations, like Seika Kannazuki. Some were ordinary Psychics who chose to stay on the sidelines. Some... well, some are like my boyfriend. The reason you see that some characters aren't all there?
They're the ones doing good work too. Not world-saving business, no. They protect the ordinary, from the extraordinary. They're police. They're Arcadia people. They might be enemies.
They're what falls under the cracks.
Whatever it was, whatever the reason, here and now, their threads were twined under the Castle that they call...
... the Arcadia Movement.
The colourless skein of life may contain many colours at once, though we only see the scarlet thread.
Chase Princeton.