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