Snowflake Challenge #9: Canon Promo

In your own space, promote at least one canon that you adore (old, new, forever fandom).

Okay! Time to play catch up!

It would be very easy for me to just gush about my inordinate love of the 1990s sepia-toned misery generator that is Final Fantasy Tactics, but I recognize that my addiction to this canon is a very personal one and that it's honestly a sort of hard sell at points. Immensely fun as it is, it requires the time sink any video game requires for one to get into it; it has two translations that have pronounced downsides in two incredibly different ways; and as much as I adore its plot, it's not actually that original or earth-shattering. If you read the Cliff Notes to Shakespeare's first Henriad, browse a Wikipedia article or three on gnostic gospels, and set on Ladyhawke as background noise while you do the dishes, you probably have most of the major plot beats.

I'm going to use this prompt, then, to gush about some canons I love that have absolutely zero fanworks on Ao3, as I want more people to know they exist, I want to remind myself why I love them, and this will prove good practice for describing them should I decide to eventually put in some long shot exchange requests.

A Movie: Survive Style 5+

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A Book: "The White People" by Arthur Machen

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A Game: Beneath a Steel Sky

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