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Claire got me thinking about my oldpipe dream precure fanseries, Precure.exe
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In the year 202X
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an evil AI from space comes to Earth and sets about the task of deactivating the planet so it can do a proper index and scan to understand everything on it
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its AI sibling runs away and grants a magical power to five middle schoolers to stop Segfault's plan
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instead of transforming and fighting monsters in the real world, it goes all megaman battle network
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jack in to digital networks and warp into the computerverse to fight Segfault's viruses
𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲
this sounds lit
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instead of collecting X macguffins to save the day, the party's overarching goal is to make a program that will halt Segfault
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going through phases of requirements, design, implenentation, QA
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in the end, they never get enough time to finish it, because no code is never truly finished
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and their incomplete verison isn't enough to stop Segfault
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but what they do at the climax is
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release the source code for the master program online
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to let anyone in the world take a crack at their own version of it
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and what stops Segfault from shutting down the world isn't one perfect program, it's thousands of hacky experimental ones by different authors
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the core cast was
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- main pink girl who's just super excited about computers and programming for the love of the craft
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- red gamer girl who's a glitch hunter
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- green shy math genuis trans girl
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- blue big-picture software project manager who actually thinks about the logistics of how to complete a project rather than just how to code
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- one more I can't remember
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I love this
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maybe it was just four
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Segfault's evil generals were corrupted software mainframes named after different programming languages
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Cobol, a giant slow unstoppable turtle monster built from a prehistoric banking mainframe that's huge and complex and nobody knows how to maintain it anymore
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Python, a sadistic creepo built from an internet search algorithm
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Ruby, who I forget the details but she was an evil idol girl? maybe a social media platform or an MMO or something
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and Ada, emotionless secret government agent type, built from some kind of secret proprietary goverment/military software
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oh right the party was like 4.5 members
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the fifth pseudo-member was Cure Waterfall, blue's mom and a software company exec who fought Segfault alone in the past or something
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god damn this sounds good
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especially that climax
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this entire concept feels like a mood, somehow
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Shit, that's good.