So, I've been rewatching Drifters from start to finish recently and in my off time been playing Ark: Survival Evolved and I saw how the survivor could easily fit in as a Drifter.
This idea came to me after seeing, again, how Nobunaga is so passionate about making the muskets and how excited he gets after seeing the Gatling gun and revolver along with their bullets. It made me think how he'd froth at the mouth hearing how someone could make guns that not only hit harder, but load faster as well. We all might complain at how the Longneck Rifle takes a long time to load the next round, but compared to the musket, which takes the powder, bullet, packing and lighting the fuse, you might as well be comparing water and oil for drinking.
So the challenge is this: A survivor, after Genesis, both parts, is transported to by Murasaki to the world of Drifters, long before our trio of Drifter heroes arrive. He, or she if you want, first encounters non-humans, much like how the pilot Kanno Naoshi encountered the dog people, which I'm fairly certain are Kolbolds, but might just be beastmen since kolbolds are said to be in the Ends' army even though they look like orcs, but unlike our badass sewer mouth of a pilot, the survivor is actually more kind to the non-humans and uses his skills to help them out, such as with housing, farming, upgrading their weapons and armor, you know the basic survivor things you'd do in Ark.
From here, it can go how you'd like it for the most part, but here are the rules for the challenge are thus:
1: The non-humans the survivor meets must not be apart of the Black King's army. They can have problems with humans if you want, even be a good fit for the Ends' forces, but they can't be part of any faction at the time of the meeting. They must also at the very least understand intent. Much like how Toyohisa was able to get the elves to understand that he wanted that Orte knight commander to die by elf hands, even though they couldn't understand a word, these non-humans must be able to at least understand what the survivor wants to say and such. Now, the survivor can learn the language if you wish, or they can get by with just hand signs and gestures, but either way will take time for both sides to get used to this.
2: The survivor MUST meet up with Toyohisa and co. before the the attack on Verlina, the Orte capital. This can be before or after the Dwarfs, it can even happen right after the elves save their women, but it must be before the take over of Verlina. After all, even if the survivor made them non-stop, they could only make so much alone, so the dwarfs would speed that up even faster than what they did in canon. Plus, this just adds another army to the Drifters' forces, along with whatever beasts they have.
3: Tek CAN be allowed, but only AFTER the survivor can synthesize Element or create something similar, so no curb stomping from the start. IF and WHEN he does this can be up to you, but at minimum, it has to wait till long AFTER Orte is taken over. Same with the fabricator, as an assault rifle and pump action shotgun, even just one of each, would BUTCHER the ends' forces.
4: Taming is also allowed, but the survivor can't bring any more than ten cryopoded tames, which in truth is two of each for breeding so really it's only five. Now, you CAN decide to have ten different tames all together, but that would mean that once those tames are killed, that's it, no more of them. Or you can have a mix of the two, doubles of some, singles of others, so there can be proper mounts for the Drifter army while also having heavy hitters. This choice is completely up to you, so choose wisely. Also, any tame is fine so long as you can ACTUALLY tame them or raise from imprinting. And no titans or bosses, that would just be overkill for anything.
5: The survivor MUST be related to Toyohisa. They don't have to be from the same era, or even japanese, they could be american if you'd prefer, but they must have some blood relation with the samurai and be aware of it and proud of it. (duh, who wouldn't be?)
And 6 (optional): A pairing with the survivor. Now, this is has a bit of room to work with. The pairing can be with one of a few characters. If the survivor is male, pairings allowed are with Olminu, Yoichi, or Joan of Arc (in a form of turning her from the dark path and back to the light), and if the survivor is female, Olminu, Yoichi, or Toyohisa. As you can see, there's some room for yaoi and yuri pairings, cause let's face it, we'd all love to see a lady harass Olminu like Nobunaga does, only more physical, or seeing Yoichi, who even the elves think of as too beautiful, getting attention from a strong man. Besides, have you SEEN Yoichi drunk? He's just BEGGING to get dragged off for some bedroom action. This can be a harem or reverse harem if you so choose, so don't feel restrained if you can't choose just one.
And that's it. I honestly would love to see if anyone picks this up and gives it a shot, I love both the Drifters anime and the Ark game. I plan on doing this myself as my first proper story, the one I deleted not counting, but that won't be for a while yet. So hope some of you accept this challenge and I look forward to seeing what comes of it.
