Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2015 13:33:56 GMT -5
Alright, this has been something that has been on my mind since the day that Xcution had gotten its changes. I suppose I will begin this with the question; the fuck happened? The changes to Xcution were sudden, drastic, and I am sure left a number of us members of the Organization in both shock and confusion. I've been stewing on this for awhile and I have no doubt a number of you know why. Let's be 100% honest with ourselves, I am the poster boy for Xcution. Everyone knows my fondness and love for the Organization, to want to prove it's something better than what Kubo had written his garbage-tier Fullbringers to be. Except I really cannot say that anymore. This isn't a bash on our members, rather Xcution has no changed into something ridiculous and silly. I'm going to go ahead and pull out pieces from our Rank & Requirements section, quote the little bits of information that I want to share and talk a bit about how I feel about some of the changes. Let's begin.
You know, I don't have too much of a problem with this. Xcution was always supposed to be a organization that controlled a majority of the worlds largest businesses. It was how they made their money, how they paid their assassins, and how they held so much influence. They were designed to be the Illuminati. I don't have much to say on this one, rather just happy that this got pointed out. Moving on though.
Mmm...what? Hold on here, this is where things begin to get a little bit odd. I can buy that some members of the Spiritual Community could know about the existence of Xcution, no doubt about it. I'm sure the name alone or the threat of their involvement could make the logical members of Soul Society and Las Noches pause for a second and reconsider some course of action. So, the name itself being known isn't a problem. Rather we begin to see a problem with the mention of "Xcution is known to possess a private military". I will be honest, when I read that I paused for a brief second. Xcution was a organization created to operate with subtlety and stealth, like the Organization from the Hitman series or like the Assassins in Assassins Creed (You can argue this if you want but they're supposed to be stealthy but gameplay lets you do what you want). So while the idea of Xcution having a private army is hard to swallow it's no doubt duable. Xcution was supposed to be a place for hardened, warrior Mercenaries to find a place that they could work for. It wouldn't be a large Military by any means, given the fact that individuals in the Human World with powers would make up less than 0.001% of the earths population. But our real problem is when we actually continue down the line.
....a fuckin' what?
Are you kidding me. Reading this I was flabbergasted. There are people here, reading this rant, who know full well how I reacted at reading that. I just started laughing, asking RC over the phone if this was serious. I had to have read that wrong, there was no way this was right. Xcution now owns a modern yet high tech city? It had to have been a joke. There was no way someone actually could have thought that this was a good idea? The idea of Xcution owning a city is definitely plausible, hell you could even say they could own places like; Karakura, New York City, or even London. But, no, somehow without anyone even knowing Xcution had developed a city capable of housing 18,000,000 people. Eighteen Million people. What? Eighteen million people, that I have been told are either Spiritually Powered or just Spiritually Aware, ecists in the world. But here's the REAL kicker about this. It's hidden. Not a single non-Byrpesia citizen knows where it is.
Was any thought put into this? It's obvious that thought got put into the new Ranks Xcution has, but this? I don't even think five minutes was put into writing this. Let's go over why this is a stupid idea. Suspension of disbelief is shattered when you try and convince people that a city of 18,000,000 people is completely hidden from the world? Do you even know how big a city has to be to comfortably house eighteen million people? You're over twice the size of New York City, but nobody can find you. Byrpesia is not only 1.6 Ohios, but it's also 2.25 Switzerlands. This city nearly has the population of Florida. And yet nobody can find it? Where is it? Where is it that it can be not only isolated but also feed, house, give jobs, and support comfortable living standards for its 18 Million inhabitants? Is it Rapture and under the sea? Columbia up in the sky? Or is it in the Digiworld? Come on. The idea of Xcution having it's own private city is laughable and idiotic and makes zero to no sense for the Organization. Xcutions goal was to not only eliminate threats to the Human World, but also to give a place where outcasts could find a place to belong. But this? I'll be honest here and say this is worse than anything Kubo could have written if given more time with the Fullbringers.
Not all the changes to Xcution were horrible though. The new Ranks given to them are incredibly well thought out and fit perfectly into the Organization. I cannot find any room to really complain about the new Ranks. However, even the new ranks cannot justify the horrible changes that Xcution was given. Xcution was fine the way it used to be. A shadow organization that had a skyscrapper for its center of commands. It could have some serious plot development after Discords attack on the building, forcing the organization to become far more secretive and harder to find. It could have forced them even deeper underground and into the shadows. But, instead, they get a giant sign reading "Here we are".
So, what can be done to fix this? We retcon the idea of Xcution having a hidden metropolis. We return to the idea of Xcution being a hidden organization working from the shadows, similar to how the Illuminate worked and how it once worked in the past. The ranks remain, as Xcution could justify having a private military it could sell to buyers, a Research division to create better methods of combating Spiritual threats, and Corporate managing alliances and finances. And the Seven Guns? They would remain the top dogs, Xcutions secret weapon against their enemies. But, we now have one last problem we need to address with the Organization. Ever since Z stepped down from Mod I personally felt like there was now a massive hole in Xcutions plot. We saw in Canon 13 that Xcutions central Headquarters was holding the Black Pyramid, an item capable of tearing a hole through any world directly into hell.
This could have potentially opened up a story arc for not only Xcution, but all of the HWDs like Uzaki Enterprise. Xcution could have begun to focus its efforts on eliminating escaped Saika, Hason, and Akki as well as doing everything they could to stop Discord and his allies from opening Hell. This could have easily involved the recently created Uzaki Enterprise and given them much more plot and importance. But instead, all the plot has begun to go to Shinigami and Vandenreich instead, leaving HWDs with no story importance once again. You could easily include Xcution in the fight against the Vandenreich, using covert tactics to hassle them and cause them grief while they focus on the Shinigami. It's not impossible, it's just not being done. This isn't to blame the mods, it's just to point out what has been happening lately. So, this has been about a hour worth of writting so I better end it here. No tl;dr, you read this.
This is the single biggest human group in the world. Though it started as a corporation, a business, it has become far more than that. On the surface, Xcution is still just that. A large company which owns dozens of smaller companies. A powerful financial obelisk that controls the economy of the world, and is worth trillions.
You know, I don't have too much of a problem with this. Xcution was always supposed to be a organization that controlled a majority of the worlds largest businesses. It was how they made their money, how they paid their assassins, and how they held so much influence. They were designed to be the Illuminati. I don't have much to say on this one, rather just happy that this got pointed out. Moving on though.
But, in the spiritual world, Xcution is known as far more than that. Both on the surface and in the spiritual world, Xcution is known to possess a private military
Mmm...what? Hold on here, this is where things begin to get a little bit odd. I can buy that some members of the Spiritual Community could know about the existence of Xcution, no doubt about it. I'm sure the name alone or the threat of their involvement could make the logical members of Soul Society and Las Noches pause for a second and reconsider some course of action. So, the name itself being known isn't a problem. Rather we begin to see a problem with the mention of "Xcution is known to possess a private military". I will be honest, when I read that I paused for a brief second. Xcution was a organization created to operate with subtlety and stealth, like the Organization from the Hitman series or like the Assassins in Assassins Creed (You can argue this if you want but they're supposed to be stealthy but gameplay lets you do what you want). So while the idea of Xcution having a private army is hard to swallow it's no doubt duable. Xcution was supposed to be a place for hardened, warrior Mercenaries to find a place that they could work for. It wouldn't be a large Military by any means, given the fact that individuals in the Human World with powers would make up less than 0.001% of the earths population. But our real problem is when we actually continue down the line.
and, even more impressive, a hidden, secret Metropolis
....a fuckin' what?
An extremely modern, high tech city, called Byrpesia, located in an unknown part of the human world. Many Xcution employees and others live, commute from, and operate out of this hidden city, with a population of about eighteen million
Are you kidding me. Reading this I was flabbergasted. There are people here, reading this rant, who know full well how I reacted at reading that. I just started laughing, asking RC over the phone if this was serious. I had to have read that wrong, there was no way this was right. Xcution now owns a modern yet high tech city? It had to have been a joke. There was no way someone actually could have thought that this was a good idea? The idea of Xcution owning a city is definitely plausible, hell you could even say they could own places like; Karakura, New York City, or even London. But, no, somehow without anyone even knowing Xcution had developed a city capable of housing 18,000,000 people. Eighteen Million people. What? Eighteen million people, that I have been told are either Spiritually Powered or just Spiritually Aware, ecists in the world. But here's the REAL kicker about this. It's hidden. Not a single non-Byrpesia citizen knows where it is.
Was any thought put into this? It's obvious that thought got put into the new Ranks Xcution has, but this? I don't even think five minutes was put into writing this. Let's go over why this is a stupid idea. Suspension of disbelief is shattered when you try and convince people that a city of 18,000,000 people is completely hidden from the world? Do you even know how big a city has to be to comfortably house eighteen million people? You're over twice the size of New York City, but nobody can find you. Byrpesia is not only 1.6 Ohios, but it's also 2.25 Switzerlands. This city nearly has the population of Florida. And yet nobody can find it? Where is it? Where is it that it can be not only isolated but also feed, house, give jobs, and support comfortable living standards for its 18 Million inhabitants? Is it Rapture and under the sea? Columbia up in the sky? Or is it in the Digiworld? Come on. The idea of Xcution having it's own private city is laughable and idiotic and makes zero to no sense for the Organization. Xcutions goal was to not only eliminate threats to the Human World, but also to give a place where outcasts could find a place to belong. But this? I'll be honest here and say this is worse than anything Kubo could have written if given more time with the Fullbringers.
Not all the changes to Xcution were horrible though. The new Ranks given to them are incredibly well thought out and fit perfectly into the Organization. I cannot find any room to really complain about the new Ranks. However, even the new ranks cannot justify the horrible changes that Xcution was given. Xcution was fine the way it used to be. A shadow organization that had a skyscrapper for its center of commands. It could have some serious plot development after Discords attack on the building, forcing the organization to become far more secretive and harder to find. It could have forced them even deeper underground and into the shadows. But, instead, they get a giant sign reading "Here we are".
So, what can be done to fix this? We retcon the idea of Xcution having a hidden metropolis. We return to the idea of Xcution being a hidden organization working from the shadows, similar to how the Illuminate worked and how it once worked in the past. The ranks remain, as Xcution could justify having a private military it could sell to buyers, a Research division to create better methods of combating Spiritual threats, and Corporate managing alliances and finances. And the Seven Guns? They would remain the top dogs, Xcutions secret weapon against their enemies. But, we now have one last problem we need to address with the Organization. Ever since Z stepped down from Mod I personally felt like there was now a massive hole in Xcutions plot. We saw in Canon 13 that Xcutions central Headquarters was holding the Black Pyramid, an item capable of tearing a hole through any world directly into hell.
This could have potentially opened up a story arc for not only Xcution, but all of the HWDs like Uzaki Enterprise. Xcution could have begun to focus its efforts on eliminating escaped Saika, Hason, and Akki as well as doing everything they could to stop Discord and his allies from opening Hell. This could have easily involved the recently created Uzaki Enterprise and given them much more plot and importance. But instead, all the plot has begun to go to Shinigami and Vandenreich instead, leaving HWDs with no story importance once again. You could easily include Xcution in the fight against the Vandenreich, using covert tactics to hassle them and cause them grief while they focus on the Shinigami. It's not impossible, it's just not being done. This isn't to blame the mods, it's just to point out what has been happening lately. So, this has been about a hour worth of writting so I better end it here. No tl;dr, you read this.