User blog:The Lord Reader/The Great Game

"The Great Game", also known as simply "the Game", refers to what scholars have dubbed the Sherlockian game, a pastime by Sherlock Holmes fans attempting to retrace the biographies of Holmes and Watson and root their fictional lives into the real world. They construct elaborate chronologies of the adventures, try to bridge inconsistencies and retcons in the Holmesian canon (and Arthur Conan Doyle made lots of them), create biographies and family history for the duo, that kind of thing. It is usually a light hearted activity and not to be taken entirely seriously, but can be useful, like in resolving contradictions in a writer's canon or simply having fun filling in the blanks the author did not thought of.

So this blog was created because I want to do that for the ToAru verse...sort of. I was inspired mainly bythis thread, wherein people tried to list hints towards what year ToAru takes place in, and this trivia note about the same on the Timeline article. I am aware that Kamachi most likely didn't think about it (as can be seen when "6 billions" humans change into "7 billions" in later volumes once we reached the number in real life); that ToAru is in an alternate universe; and that "the current year" is probably whatever year a book comes out in despite the story taking place in a single one. But I thought it might be fun to try and come up with ways to reconcile ToAru as close to our world as possible.

For example: In ToAru, Roberto Katze is President of the United States and the third POTUS of Hispanic origin. There hasn't been an POTUS of Hispanic origin in real life, but I speculate that, in that world, Benjamin "Ben" Fernandez, a Presidential contender in real life, was one of those Hispanic American Presidents, elected either in 1980, 1984, or 1988.

This blog will mostly be like that, where I give headcanons on the timeline, geographical locations, politics, etc., and, I hope, provide reasonable explanations for my assumptions.