MetaHistory

The *MetaHistory* is the real-life history behind the events of various roleplays that constitute the verse of Seaside. Note that as this is being written well after most of the events in question - some of which have no contextual records - time and distance are likely to damage recollection, and so details on very early portions of the MetaHistory have been left intentionally simple so as to not be incorrect.

## Pre-Discord

### The Vanguard RPs

Prior to the creation of the DMGRP Discord server (now defunct), a number of *Vanguard* roleplays occured on BYOND's Roleplay Unlimited and Roleplay Infinite platforms, hosted by Mamoru Akasaka, which informed several of the setting aspects of Seaside Rumble: Suenami Midori and Nakadai Ginko (and their relationship) originated in this RP, as did their conflict with Void, and Midori's incredibly powerful PSYQualia is a result of these roleplays. Other characters, like Lord, had backstories that were adapted to be part of these RPs (even though the characters and players were not actually present during them).

There was also an Earthbound-inspired Duel Academy RP, where Lord and Suenami Aoi originate, as do Lucille and Charna, during this period, although those characters were merely conceptual compared to their use in Seaside.

For the sake of it, it is also worth addressing that there had previously been RPs using Duel Monsters Genesis and its predecessor, but there was such a tremendous time gap that very few concepts from those RPs survived into Seaside.

## DMGRP

### Seaside Rumble

Ran for three seasons (roughly corresponding to real-life years). Set at Uminari Duel Academy in Uminari City, Australia, it concerned the invasion (actually, exodus) of the Ba'al, a humanoid species from an alternate dimension. Seaside Ride 1 and Seaside Ride 2 occurred between seasons 2 and 3. Seaside Rumble 3 switched focuses to surviving God's Trial, and ultimately, due to a change to the events that occurred in the climax of the first Seaside Ride, the events of later seasons were effectively retconned.

### Seaside Ride

Intended to be side-stories to showcase other characters and play other games (to avoid burning out on *Yu-Gi-Oh!*), Seaside Ride 1 instead ended with a villain victory and an enormous change in the status quo as a result of the big bad, Loptr, becoming unsealed. This series focused on *Vanguard*; Seaside Ride 2 focused on *Buddyfight*, and ended up being canned somewhat early due to the game being poorly-received by the playerbase.

### Nexus

A some-decades-later sequel to Seaside that focused on the then-new dimensional-travel angle introduced at the end of *Arc-V*, with the setting taking place at a dimensional 'Nexus' (hence the name) that was basically a small city. This RP was unfortunately cut down before its time due to the playerbase fragmenting, and since most plans for it never came to fruition or were actually explained, it is considered apocryphal content to the verse and doesn't have a dedicated article.

At least two RPs were attempted after Nexus but neither went very far, one due to the playerbase simply not clicking with the concept and one due to further fragmentation; these weren't set in the same universe and so don't have any bearing on this wiki, and are only mentioned in passing here for recognition.