Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:05 AM
Read a bunch of manga and now I have an isekai plot pitch
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:06 AM
It's not even really a subversion
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:06 AM
So we start with fantasy land
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:06 AM
in fantasy land, there's a school for cool awesome mage knights
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:06 AM
only the most talented students from across the land get to go there
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:07 AM
Traditionally it's always been restricted to the aristocracy
Princess Emily
@deerleisure
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:07 AM
I don't think you really need a subversion for an isekai story to be fine, just. Avoiding the trope checklist every other isekai follows, and remembering that conflict is good for a story not bad. And not to be stupidly perverted about everything.
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:07 AM
Can't have peasants gaining their own power
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:07 AM
that's too hard Emily what kind of miracle worker do you think I am?
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:08 AM
But in recent years there was a big war and the nation that is home to this awesome mage knight school was losing
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:08 AM
So in an act of desperation the emperor opened up mage knight school to commoners
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:08 AM
And there were a bunch of commoner mage knights that helped turn the tide of the war
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:09 AM
Now the war is over, and the emperor doesn't want to undo his decree, because having this many knights is making his nation crazy powerful
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:09 AM
but the OTHER aristocrats are like "Hey now"
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:09 AM
"Now that the war is over we gotta reestablish the social order where we're better than everyone"
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:10 AM
So there were a series of unwritten rules where like
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:10 AM
Nobles would hold the families of commoners that tried to join the school hostage
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:10 AM
So you could go
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:10 AM
but if you weren't showing your social betters their proper respect, they'd like
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:10 AM
kill your sister or something
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM
So functionally, commoners that go to mage knight school still have to do whatever the aristocrats say
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM
AND INTO ALL THIS
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM
Our hero from another world appears
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM
yo this setting concept rules actually
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM
And their big "cheat power"
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM
Is that they have no family
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM
no clan
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM
NO ONE
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM
that the nobility can threaten
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:12 AM
because they're from another dimension
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:12 AM
So they show talent as a mage knight and find their way to the school
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:12 AM
and just start fucking up the social strata
moontouched
@rukafais
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:13 AM
bonus points if they just give a random noble house every time someone tries to ask where they're from
moontouched
@rukafais
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:13 AM
just to fuck with everyone
moontouched
@rukafais
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:14 AM
so you have half a dozen nobles going "WELL THEY'RE NOT MINE"
moontouched
@rukafais
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:14 AM
at any given time
moontouched
@rukafais
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:14 AM
as they just throw the entire social hierarchy into chaos
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
@lastbastion
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM
holy shit
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
@lastbastion
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM
i'm into it
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM
There's lots of scenes of various commoner knights getting bullied by nobles
Wild Child
@graygriffin
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM
hell yeah
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM
made to do embarrassing his
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM
this*
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM
shit*
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM
I can type
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM
And then hero boy shows up and is like "Hey"
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM
"You're a jackass"
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM
"Knock that off"
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM
"YOU DARE SPEAK TO ME AS SUCH! I'LL HAVE YOUR, UH..."
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM
"You'll what?"
moontouched
@rukafais
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:16 AM
whatcha gonna do, noble boy
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:17 AM
He's just like
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:17 AM
kinda average as an actual fighters
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:17 AM
his main advantage is he's actually willing to fight
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:17 AM
because also he came from a country that's a democracy
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:17 AM
So not only does he not give a shit about the nobility, but he actually ENJOYS shittalking them
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:17 AM
hell yeah!!! eat the rich, kid!
Wild Child
@graygriffin
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:18 AM
I imagine him punching a noble which shocks them
Vehrec
@Vehrec
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:18 AM
"You're friends with that commoner? Then her little sister is gonna lose a hand!"
moontouched
@rukafais
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:18 AM
it would be really funny if his main 'cheat' combat technique is the ancient technique of "i'm not afraid to nutshot a noble for being a piece of shit"
Wild Child
@graygriffin
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:18 AM
yessssss
Wild Child
@graygriffin
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:18 AM
"finally, a rich person right in front of me"
Wild Child
@graygriffin
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:19 AM
"all my fantasies are about to be fulfilled"
moontouched
@rukafais
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:19 AM
commoners already entrenched in the hierarchy of having their family held hostage wouldnt dare but he's just like lol /WHAM
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:19 AM
He's an American
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:19 AM
So he's just like
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:19 AM
"Hey look"
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:19 AM
"Republicans"
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:19 AM
"And I can beat them up"
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:19 AM
lmaoooooo yessss
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:25 AM
it DOES start getting more complicated once he starts making friends with the locals
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:25 AM
as vehrec pointed out
dragon time
@MadarFoxfire
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:28 AM
An incredible farce in which he is a dick to everybody but most of them are in on the joke
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:31 AM
yesssssss
ShootingXC
@UltraDude
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:52 AM
that's rad
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
@lastbastion
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:55 AM
i'm just imagining his BFF, a commoner knight lady who just makes a scene out of 'fighting' with him and it's just
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
@lastbastion
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:55 AM
both of them are clearly trying to not crack up
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:56 AM
Nobles are used to not paying too much attention to commoners
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:56 AM
so it's fine
Usagi
@UsagiSquared
Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:57 AM
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