Disclaimer: I don't own Dynasty Warriors/ROT3K
A/N: Needed to write a 4 part fic till I get to the Anime Expo this weekend. Will continue to finish this fic after the con. It's about my thoughts on the personalities and portrayals of my favorite three kingdoms characters in each personality from Rot3k, DW, DT, and other 3k relate games by other companies like Capcom.
Personality Complex
Zhao Yun's house…
China is being governed by democracy thanks to President Liu Xian. Zhao Yun lived in his apartment at Luo Yang alone. He sighed playing Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires, Romance of the three kingdoms 10, Dynasty Tactics 2, and Warriors of Fate (aka Tenchi no Kouru 2, Dynasty Wars 2).
He's been portrayed in many different personalities. The TV show makes him out to be a mean streak bodyguard; the novel makes him older than Liu Bei, the anime based on the game Warriors of Fate and Destiny of an Emperor made him a Guy clone which is obviously Capcom's portrayal of him, and the three different Koei games all have portrayals including the notorious barbarian version on Dynasty Tactics 2, white stallion knight version on Rot3k 10, and the Ryu clone on Dynasty Warriors.
"So which one is the real me?" Zhao Yun thought. Soon the doorbell chime and he went to answer it.
"Why can't you live in the city? What is it with you and your living in an isolated neighborhood?" Sun Ce groaned.
"Hey, Ce. Where's Zhou Yu?" Zhao Yun asked.
"Xiao dragged him with her to go shopping," Sun Ce sighed.
"After all that time Yu defend his pairing with Xiao from the DW community boards by Xiao Qiao haters," Zhao Yun said.
"Geez, when is everyone going to learn that historically our women are older than Shang Xiang," Sun Ce smacked his head.
"Having fun with the surf dude antics?" Zhao Yun grinned.
"LOL, you got me there," Sun Ce laughed.
"Come on in, I was playing a couple of games and studying something on my personality," Zhao Yun said.
"Oh, now you menton it. I too am having a personality disorder. This surf dude attitude is starting to weird out Da Qiao and she loved me as the fearless and smart Conqueror of Jiang Dong. Although, Dynasty Tactics 2 made a big deal out of my inferiority to my brother Quan," Sun Ce takes the 2nd controller and played Empire mode with Zhao Yun.
"Well, you're just in time to see me finish off Cao Cao with 4 cities left," Zhao Yun takes his controller and starts the game.
"Wang Ping, Gao Xiang, Zhang Bao, Guan Xiang, and a created officer?" Sun Ce shocked.
"Yep, my northern campaign force in the beginning of the game," Zhao Yun couldn't stop thinking about changing the Jie Ting incident.
"It's surf dude me again," Sun Ce laughed sadly.
"Dude," Zhao Yun joked.
"Oh please, I like saying that, but it's definitely not me," Sun Ce carry on with playing one of the generics.
Then the next doorbell chime…
"Zhang He, you're not looking too good," Zhao Yun said.
"And I'm not the only one here to see you," Zhang He points at Wei Yan who is still in rage of the unfair treatment he gets.
"Not…again…" Zhao Yun pretends the beast talking.
"Gaaah!" Wei Yan growled.
"Hahhaha, I'm just playing with you Wei Yan, really I'm worried about what happened to you," Zhao Yun said.
"Whatever, it seems you're playing a new game or practicing for tournies," Wei Yan said.
"I'm studying different personalities of me on each three kingdoms based games. Wei Yan, your bald looking badass self on Warriors of Fate is one of them, Zhang He your fierce tough guy self from Dynasty Tactics 2 is another," Zhao Yun said.
"Oh, I like my Dynasty Tactics 2 self better, though it's beautiful, but my Dynasty Warriors self completely overshadow it…" Zhang He said.
"Can't you ever stop saying the word beautiful? It sounds too girly," Sun Ce shook his head.
"But but but…" Zhang He sighed and sat down on the couch with his legs crossed.
"Game companies are killing us," Wei Yan whimpered.
"Tell me about it, I've been saying dude like forever thanks to my crazy fangirls that dedicated the Dynasty Warriors me," Sun Ce said.
"Fangirls….Wei Yan…wants…his own…fangirls…" Wei Yan did it again with the caveman speak.
"But, you're ugly," Zhang He sarcasm ticking.
"…….you like to see my Romance of the Three Kingdoms 11 self? Chicks dig the badboys," Wei Yan grinned evilly.
"I'll pass…you really are such a dangerous individual," Zhang He said.
"That I proudly am, but noo, people and historians failed to know that Yang Yi lied to the idiots thinking I'm causing chaos. Why can't I command the shu army to invade Wei instead that idiot gets voted to lead after Zhuge Liang died?" Wei Yan argued.
"I know you're loyalty since I took you with me to search for information on the Nan Zhong regions and hooking with the Nanman women," Zhao Yun smiled.
"You two been hanging around with Nanman women instead of following orders at the Nanman Campaign?" Sun Ce shocked.
"Until Zhu Rong ambushed us…" Wei Yan fantasized his idol Zhu Rong.
"The poster girl of Rot3k games next to Diao Chan," Zhao Yun added.
"And Lu Bu is the posterboy of the Rot3k games," Zhang He said.
"Yeah, not that I ever doubt it. Dynasty Warriors, I took a slip of the posterboy thingy, but Koei backlash my position with my crappy masou mode and went over the top on my character relationship with Liu Chan on 5 Empires. I didn't make the kid become emperor, Zhuge Liang did," Zhao Yun said.
"Wait, what if you were the one taking matters of the affairs in Shu instead of Liu Chan?" Sun Ce questioned.
"I wouldn't let Ma Su defend Jie Ting, Li Yan not forgetting to transport the supplies, Zhuge Liang's hideous cruelty, give Liu Feng, Guan Ping, and Guan Yu a hero's funeral, not have Meng Da revolt back to Shu, and allow the Nanman's join the Northern Campaign with their elephant troops. Those elephants are better at destroying castle gates than the siege weapons, also, my ambition is the recover Emperor Xian and his followers to restate the Han government. Forget about Liu Chan being the 15th Han emperor, because that is not going to happen," Zhao Yun replied.
"Since when did you become so political?" Zhang He asked.
"I was the Prefect of Jiang Xia, Gui Yang, and Jiang Zhou," Zhao Yun said.
"See, Koei just portrayed Zhao Yun nothing more than just another generic general showing what he can do and not who the heck he really is just like the unfair treatment I get," Wei Yan muttered.
"Am I inferior to Zhongma?" Sun Ce asked.
"No…" They all answered.
The next doorbell chime and the presence of Liu Bei and Cao Cao appear at the same time for some strange reason.
"Liu Bei and Cao Cao hanging out together?" Sun Ce shocked.
"We decide to settle our judgement by admitting how overrated we both our and how our portrayals been alternated so many times," Cao Cao said.
"Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei is having a barbecue party tomorrow, so he wants to ask you if you'll come," Liu Bei said.
"I'll think about it. So, what's the solution between you two?" Zhao Yun questioned.
"Cao Cao apologized me today about removing the real Han officials replacing his own loyalist and followers. Still, his actions went above the law and uncalled for including Zhao Yan's murder," Liu Bei said.
"And Liu Bei apologized to me for betraying the Han, meaning he had to revolt for the reason I abuse the emperor. The cause of it made the war longer including The Battle of Chi Bi getting the Sun family to attack me," Cao Cao said.
"Woah woah, this is confusing," Wei Yan said.
"I know it is, Wei Yan. But, the true is, my personality that Koei overdid isn't really me. I'm not a virtuous saint and the same time as Capcom make me into the hero to save China from Cao Cao being portrayed the evil overlord," Liu Bei said.
"To be honest, I like being portrayed The Communist, but of course, I'm not evil, well I did went above the law and out of a control with myself at the time of my father's death. But, Lu Bu, damn him for ruining me taking my home behind my back. I favored you Liu Bei, so why did you have to break my heart?" Cao Cao wept.
"……" Zhao Yun becomes speechless, as are Wei Yan, Zhang He, and Sun Ce.
"Massacre of Xu, Zhao Yan's murder, Empress Dong (Fu), and the Emperor's heirs. Do you think they deserve it after your father died? Do you think your father will be happy if he was alive, Cao Cao? I defy you become I want no part of that and serving a Han ruled by You is totally against Liu Xian's authority, you even tried to lecture him when he is the one speaking the true of what you did is wrong. The Jade belt plot didn't take action historically, but I do see you executed Dong Cheng. Should have come clean Cao Cao, you made me very suspicious of your motivations. However, I'm sorry that I couldn't see through your feelings for restoring the Han emperor so I betrayed you too soon," Liu Bei said.
"So, those really did happened. Man, it's going to be impossible for Cao Cao fans to admit those wrongdoings. The drums roll for Cao Cao backlash," Sun Ce grinned.
"Correction, INSECURED Cao Cao fans," Zhao Yun coughed.
"Still, Cao Cao is the greatest and most beautiful general of the land," Zhang He said.
"Yeah yeah…" Wei Yan yawned.
"Opinionate," Zhao Yun countered.
"Xu You made Cao Cao win at Guan Du, so the credit should be giving to him and not Cao Cao," Liu Bei rolleyed.
"Hahaha, well it's Yuan Shao's fault he lacks to sense of counseling, so I'm still the victor," Cao Cao laughed.
"You want to know what really made me joined Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei?" Zhao Yun asked.
Liu Bei knew what his little brother has in mind.
"By the time the Coalition ended, I was still a peon and Yuan Shao had changed his tone when I first learned his ambitions. One is if he had the Imperial Seal from Sun Jian by force before he even let Liu Biao stop him and the other is before he took Ye. Many able men were overrating Shao's leadership and will when he led the Coalition, once I felt worried and deeply terrified of what he'll become in the future until I met Liu Bei who was serving Gongsun Zan that time. He offer me to employ to Gongsun Zan, but I decide to keep this as a secret till I planned a defection plot against Yuan Shao at the time Gongsun Yue was assassinated," Zhao Yun said.
"Clever and the plot works and Gongsun Zan's army defeated Yuan Shao that time," Cao Cao clapped.
"Hmm, then why did you have to slain Qu Yi?" Zhang He asked.
"To make my defection look clear to Yuan Shao, I'm changing the balance of power in favor to Gongsun Zan. Yep, Yuan Shao lost a potential man that can lead his absolute rule possible," Zhao Yun said. "I can't thank Liu Bei enough till I left in absence of Gongsun Zan's force to mourn my brother when visiting Ye; I found Liu Bei serving Yuan Shao which took me off guard so I persuaded Liu Bei to leave Yuan Shao so we can gather some troops to help him rebuilt his army that was when we found Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and the rest at Ru Nan. The incident with Pei Yuan Shao never happened," Zhao Yun said.
"Why didn't Koei put this in the game? You saved Liu Bei from Yuan Shao before Shao was gonna kill him," Sun Ce asked.
"Because that would make it seem like I'm completely better than Liu Bei and is the real virtuous hero of the land. Koei didn't want this so…that's the whole story including how Luo Guanzhong portrayed me in the novel…." Zhao Yun answered.
"You are better than me, I realized that before I died after Yi Ling…" Liu Bei sighed.
"Plus, you're no different to Gongsun Zan, big brother. That temper which put you out of the line in revenge for the death of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei…" Zhao Yun said.
"What are you really doing at visiting Ye?" Zhang He asked.
"Besides wandering? Well, I can't tell you," Zhao Yun crossed his arms.
"Come on, tell us!" Zhang He said.
"Oh, is there someone besides me you were looking for?" Liu Bei asked.
"Uh…no, just that I found you by coincidence, nothing else," Zhao Yun lied.
"I'm sure there's someone else you're thinking to visit instead of me. Perhaps…a woman?" Liu Bei raised his eyebrow.
"Hmm, now this is getting interesting," Cao Cao said.
Suddenly another doorbell chime and this time Wei Yan answers the door. In comes a female person, but who is it?
To be continued on Part 2