Girls and Guns (Cancelled)

by PygmalionKK

(This story has been cancelled, please do not expect any further updates.) What was originally likely to be a very boring post for G&K's newest commander quickly takes a turn for something far more exciting and significant, not only for him, but for the soldiers under him as well.

3. The Future of Girls and Guns

So uh, I posted this story in the official Girls Frontline EN Discord.

When I mentioned that I'm playing on EN, someone filled me in on the lore that I was missing. Most of this seems to be from Code Name: Bakery Girl, which I can't really find all that much translated information about, just that it's a chronological sequel to Girls' Frontline and that they share the same universe.

From what I gathered, the Soviet Union never dissolved and became the Russian Federation like I assumed, the Soviet Union is still around in Girls' Frontline's timeline, which is a big fucking plothole because SV-98, AK-12, Tiss, Groza, 9A-91, and a few other dolls are all based on guns manufactured in the Russian Federation (Tiss is debatable because she's a 74u in 9x39, but my point still stands). The New World is effectively uninhabitable, the US is still around but it's run by an AI and is now called Rocksert, and the fucking ELID mutants are not what I was expecting. When I was reading up on the background lore and saw the word ELID mutants, my brain imagined the Erichus Monsters from Starbound's first dungeon on the mining facility, not four legged versions of the Shamblers from Quake 1 with a human head sticking out of the top on a spine like an anglerfish, who also happen to require heavy artillery to kill effectively.

Now that I know the lore and story are way more of a clusterfuck than I initially thought, I've kind of realized something.

I can't continue to write Girls and Guns, not with the version of Girls' Frontline that I'm on, anyways. The general background of the game seems to be mostly explained in Code Name: Bakery Girl, which has no translated version for me to access, the official wiki for Girls' Frontline is incredibly unhelpful because not only is a lot of the background lore from Bakery Girl is missing, like the SOVIET UNION NEVER COLLAPSING, which is kind of important to know, but lots of lore in general is missing from the wiki that someone like me would need to be able to write a cohesive story in this universe.

Effectively, this means Girls and Guns is cancelled. I know the response for this has been largely positive, and I would continue this under normal circumstances, but I can't due to the background lore being untranslated and thus inaccessible, not being written down on the wiki so I don't know it happened or is there, and generally just being a clusterfuck and too much trouble to find, all of which would result in a story that is barely related to the universe it's supposed to take place in should I continue writing for it at the moment. Sorry guys, I genuinely wanted to write this story out, but I can't work with something that has background lore as difficult to find for myself as this.