Project RE: (.hack//New Conglomerate)

"Disclaimer: I do not own .hack//Franchise or even the series, all copyrighted and it's owned by Cyber Connect 2 and Bandai Namco Entertainment.".hack//IMMORTAL DUSK Saga is directly a expansion and remake story of the original 2010's PSP game, .hack//Link in commence the 10th anniversary since it's release and consist with several projects which directly ties to Trilogy main titles of .hack//Link and also been rebooted to match fit the continuities with a previous .hack series. The saga stories could be possibly major contradict the direction of Third Season of .hack, however it would bring the grand opening to the project as well as a bridge path between 2nd Season and 3rd Season, however, this saga is also important to the series.

The story start with Tokio Kuryuu as the teeneger boy who loves video games, and along with his half-brother, Akira Kuryuu entering their new life of adventures in The World R:3, but suddenly got dragged in the messed and disaster situation with the mysterious PKK known as ENTIES and the world of network began to distorting and twisted lifes of the players in the online game, end with massacre. However, the progression of the story developments leads to a mysterious and twist along the way, the stakes getting slowly increased as the moment they reached through those level intensity of the story. As you progress from RIVES to RISING, All the mysterious that came in question will come to the light, but the moment of the truth is something that they would never escape.

The main titles of LINK (Remake) span in three main-titles, .hack//Link -RIVES-, .hack//Link -CHRONO-, and the lastly the final chapter and the opening to the third project of .hack, .hack//Link -RISING- which considered as the biggest game with a lot higher stakes and dark turn as the story progressing, but still faithful to the original, while incorporated in a new ways.

Background
.hack//IMMORTAL DUSK Saga is a trilogy saga which is expansion and remake stories of the original PSP Version since the released 2010, .hack//Link which consist the three main title numbered of .hack//Link story, and the project development ideas was started in 2019 ever since the game had reached until this year as the 10th Anniversary of the game release.

The first ideas is to make trilogy episodes which was known as .hack//Link -Chrono Link- contains Revision, Terror, and Countdown along with ideas making anime series, the prequel to the game known as .hack//RIVES which sets before the remake stories, although the second ideas begins with RIVES story starts it all which the plot direction came forward, instead back and forward at the same time, like progression of Manga series or Anime series, which makes the whole direction, flows forward. Although due to some fans comments and opinion about this game being seperate episode, along with myself learning development of the games that could take more than 3 years, and so I began another focus for awhile and set up a new ideas to come up with. Although I already write and complete the fanfiction story, The Safekeeping of Promise which is the prologue story of .hack//RIVES.

At the end of 2020 and the beginning 2021 which the end of the 10th anniversary of .hack//Link means that it would be impossible for to continue in the same year since it's already passed for that, and so I reimagining the saga of Link with something different but still faithfully to what I created, and this time it would be something to call whether it would be reboot or lead up to Third Season of .hack that set in canon-universe since it would majorly contradicts the SECRET FILE Timeline regarding MAMA's involvement toward all .hack series events in .hack//ARCHIVE 05 Beyond the World + Versus. Although, the setting timelime chronological is much unique and suprising, which everyone can guess whether this still set in 2020 or another one, but everything is part of my idea, everyone can guess what's now.

Theme
The direction of these trilogy sagas is much soft-rebooted from the original one, but it's also reimagining the story of Link while incorporated with brand-new ones. According to the CEO of CyberConnect 2, Hiroshi Matsuyama last week on Piroshi Q&A, the original .hack//Link was aimed for younger age, like for elementary and middle schoolers to enjoy and re-experience the world and stories of .hack, also allows game for you to play with your friends, to being cooperative together while enjoying an RPG formats unlike any previous titles.

But these stories sagas is aimed for Shonen and Older Audience who had enjoyed the series in the past, which the game will be a single-players, but there's also a lot possibilities for a Multiplayers to play together cooperatives with others which is faithful to the original. The story direction is like a level game, which the story has it's own level, and progressing through and those level intensity of the story will slowly increased, which means lot of twist and truth will come as the story progress.

The story themes is about journey of Tokio, but not because his journey to become a hero and save the world, but to learn that everything that could pass up for his dreams and ideals is not what he had expected, the truth is much harder for him to accept as the story progress. He believes that there's a light and darkness bounds together like in old fashion ways, but once he realize, they're be humans or AI, they can make a lot worst decision of all, and how does it reflect it to what's come after in bounds to consenquences for dream and ideals to keep push forward and someday you get tired of it, neither it would work out that way. Neither there's Light nor Darkness in this story but only he only entering in a Gray Area, worst truth reality of all.

Sometimes he might had realize, that everyone or even someone he admires (Like Tokio admiring Kite) saving the world wasn't even meant to become a hero in the first place, but those sensible choice and determination that keeps forward, choosing something that even matters now to go through, be either getting consenquences or worst, but as longs that they keep forward and changes, somehow it would lead something better or another worse, but that's how life was, be either getting succeded or not.

For Tokio, he has inability to accept the reality that everything doesn't go on way of his direction in the real world, and though there's force of light and darkness decision that makes things alright, but thus ended up impacting to everyone that he met be either they getting dead or suffer or happy, however, this sagas stories will grows and make Tokio developed to believed that sometimes, to save one person or another that he cares so much means that he had to go through consenquences and turn back on people in the real world who wants to do whatever they want, because he knew that the abyss and despair is only happens if you fufilled the mankind's selfish wish or orders, just to believes what it means to take to become a hero and save the world, everything is where the choice and consequences will lead to Tokio as a whole, but still fight and risking his life, even that means to save people that means lot to him than everyone else who walked the earth do thinking selfishly about him, as long they had reasonable intention to do or could unreasonable, that same goes for the other characters as well.

The way character interact together even with old and new characters, they might still talking as a PC that they usually do in The World (.hack), but sometimes, their took off their mask which featuring a full-depths within their perspective allows to know more about them in the real world as well. Because this stories is also about accepting the realities as it is, but also maintaining balance between themselves who they really used to be, and how does it defines them as their own character and how it brought the story coming altogether as whole between Real and Online World.

Premise
"The story begins with RIVES chapter, which started when they arrived and begin of Tokio Kuryuu and his brother Akira Kuryuu adventure in next version of the most popular MMORPG, The World R:3 where their discovery and secrets came upon them, with appearance of ENTIES brought the disaster toward online game and across the network data, causing distortion, but his appearance had led players to their death, which is starting of The Massacre of the Players Tragedy. and the next chapter is CHRONO which is the remake stories of PSP version, set after previous chapter, beginning for the new adventures as Saika Koshizumi transporting Tokio into The World R:3 once again (which now has been rebranded into The World R:X) and met Kite against Fluegel. the leader of schicksal, entrusting Tokio to free his friend from Akashic Records Time Stone effects by Flugel's Braieler Rossel. Entrusting everything those burden to Tokio, another chapter of the story, begin.""And the final chapter RISING is the most anticipated story of .hack which set a year after the second chapters and this story will be the final chapter to the saga. As focusing on Tokio once more in the state of disaster that the Real World has gone into. With AIKA's inviting him once again to The World R:X, gather his old friend in order to find people who were trapped in the online game and once again save Kite & Akira from his coma, also find Saika. But CC Corp and it's conspiracy begins setting their eyes on Tokio along with his friend, possibly become threat to them. The story continues with their lifes now being branded as Hacker for crossing the line and make stand against CC Corps, while their doing to stop Real Digitalization progress and save Aura, but the stakes and consenquences become in it's highest and their life is in hanging balance to it's core."

Main Characters & Growth Theme
Major Spoilers Alert!!


 * Tokio Kuryuu - The protagonist and also the main characters of this stories sagas, 14-years old boy who loves playing game and believing that his life had a sense a great purpose for pursuing his dream and ideal to become a hero. His character brought a passion toward his dream, with his ideals to protecting someone that really matters to him, believing a ways that he could save people and the world which those purpose, however leads to incredible great dangers, the vision and witness that he had saw doesn't even what he had expect for. As his story begin and progressing through, he gone through a lot cruel struggles, cruel truth, and cruel betrayal along the way, until he realize that he's in a reality and his choice is really matters whether it leads him to salvation or descrution or even much worst, and his character take spot to shine, believing there's only a choice that he would sacrifice to it, even means to saving someone that really precious to him the most.
 * Akira Kuryuu - Tokio's half-brother or so that he was thought to be younger than Tokio although he has a same age as he is. He's also the main characters and Deutragonist to this saga, although different from what Tokio did, even he has a charismatic, smart and athletic as he was a most popular in Tokio's school, he only wants to do to be by Tokio's side, protecting and taking care his foolish brother who made reckless opporturnities to do, but he has a lot good sense purpose to protect him, because Tokio is the only person who had given Akira's purpose, and he only trust Tokio's judgement even though he's the one who made an input for it. The story will grows as it progress, that sometimes that he couldn't stand by his side any time forever, and searching a reason to protect while to find his own freedom. And sometimes as during CHRONO story, he had to make a critical decision in order to ensure his brother safety by betraying him and given to Schicksal guild, most of the decision is a lot heavier and sometimes he would regret it for rest of his time with him. But as the story going much deeper, many parts of his secret origin would be unlock in unexpected ways, but once he learn those, he knew that he cannot turn back from that path that choose, and must keep moving forward, only for his brother's sake.
 * Saika Koshizumi - The beautiful girl student who transfering into Tokio and Akira's school that become a most popular student that could rivaled Akira's popularity. She's also the main characters, but her direction of her development has deeper sense and twist. She's the one who transporting Tokio into The World R:X and become master to him, in order to find Chrono Core and reach up to the level top of Akashic Records. At first, that she always being bossy, straightforward, rough, and didn't care about what Tokio and Akira's opinion, or even care about Twilight Knights, she always do pursuing for her personal interest for Chrono Core in order to achieve her own goal. However, the story progressing through after Akira's betrayal and after the event of Roots alternate timeline in AR, she somehow began to changes slowly, to understand that they too had a lot pain same as what Saika did, and decide to learn how to trust with their friends, especially for Tokio, and story progress that Saika also pursuing the goal not for herself, but for someone precious to him, which slowly that he could symphatize with Saika's situation a bit, as a same for Saika as well. Saika will learn she cannot doing anything alone, becoming full-fledge leader, and trusting toward each other, it could make her goals to fufilled as everyone accepting to help Saika, and call her as their friend and family. But eventually at the climax story of CHRONO story as they reached to the top, the major plot twist happens which lead their perception toward her totally change in such gloomier situation.
 * AIKA - The Princess and AI who has a same similar appearance as Saika, the one who always appear in Tokio's dream since the childhood, although he thought Saika was princess from his dream until AIKA shows up, but lot twist would come up in another way. She's become the Deuteragonist and Major characters in CHRONO story, and the Main Characters in RISING GEAR Story. Her story started after Tokio arrived in 2016 alternate timeline, and at the time AIKA was seperated from Saika's mind and took a form of Saika as result, and he thought that she was Saika due to her different behaviors and personality from the original one, and helping Tokio & Sol for a mission received by Twilight Brigade leader, Ovan, until the real Saika came and her true form shows to be a princess that Tokio had met from his dream. There are two stories that had shown the growth and themes toward her characters.
 * In CHRONO, at first she was soft-spoken, soft-spoken, polite, and yet shy at the same time, she lack a knowledge about technology and can be too modest and pessimist. Her story is about her existence as an NPC who evolved originally as and AIDA, struggling to believe her sense purpose that she had given birth to The World. The Second Part of Alternate G.U. Timeline was a perfect place for her character arc to shine a bit, dealing to overcome her stiffness and her modesty that reminds Tokio about Akira when he was a childhood, Every bit of her personality, there also happiness that become major hope that blessed to Tokio and along with his friend, but she also had her own problem. Due to AIDA was known for making a lots of incident on AIDA Server (G.U.), the fear insight on AIKA's existence that she soon also become a threat to Tokio as well, but as her story progress, she will now something that she was born for something purpose for her own, because she's not like the other AIDA's however, she can grow and make choose for herself, because Tokio thinks that someday she would confidently realize that she was born for the great purpose, not for destruction or salvation, but for someone that she really want to protect the most and believe that was Player's Hope that brought a purpose for her.
 * And RISING GEAR is a major step up for her characters. Spending time with Tokio in the real world as an AI through his smartphone, and during the once-again in The World R:X, she now join in a combat as Harvest Cleric. She deals with a lot struggles to understand what's truly right about human's nature, Betrayal, Despair, Sadness, Madness, Greed, and Death is most horrific things that she had watch through, but somehow after AIKA witness the whole story what happens to Tokio during Massacre of Players Tragedy. Begin to learn pain and suffering that she could experience along the way, struggling to think whether if there's hope lies ahead or despair that only things right now, but her characters go through development as AIKA became a bit mature and believes that whether it is Hope or Despair, she knew that she would keep push forward and made into action because what lies ahead is something she had fought for to protect, to share a same burden, to protect the hope that everyone believe even though she have to make a critical decision to sacrifice what most she had wish for their happiness same as how Akira did. Her characters goes through believe that Hope is not granted by someone else, but something to attained by fighting what was right to someone really special to her. Although She wish to be more kids to enjoy the fullest of her life and live together with Tokio, Saika, Akira along with everyone else, but she must accept that sometimes, it doesn't go the way how she want it and didn't work out that way, but believe something after she accepted for, is worth more happiness than in full bliss of wish for happiness for her own. Her story is not just for herself, but for everyone that she really know the most.
 * Interestingly Saika always thought AIKA as her younger sister, since they had mutual same appearance, but just reversed personality and behavior of each other. But aside for that, the story for two of them is about how Saika could do everything she had to become a sister for her, and asides that she became overprotective toward her. Those relationship between two of them, is interesting in parallel to Tokio and Akira's relationship as a brother, but different from Saika and AIKA, Two brothers of Kuryuu sometimes is the most idiot siblings that they ever met, but brave to make decision.

Each of those characters from Chrono Hunters Guild is also had their own different story character to tell, and something that also wanted to tell in a different layers way, while had course of friendship between four main characters as well.

Main Trilogy

 * .hack//Link -RIVES-
 * .hack//Link -CHRONO-
 * .hack//Link -RISING-

Spin-Off

 * .hack//Link -SAIKA-
 * .hack//Link -THANATOS-
 * .hack//Link -Returner-
 * .hack//4KOMA -Reborn- (Gag Comic)
 * .hack//Link -Schicksal-