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Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:05 AM

Read a bunch of manga and now I have an isekai plot pitch

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:06 AM

It's not even really a subversion

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:06 AM

So we start with fantasy land

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:06 AM

in fantasy land, there's a school for cool awesome mage knights

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:06 AM

only the most talented students from across the land get to go there

Villain

@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.

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:07 AM

Can't have peasants gaining their own power

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:07 AM

~~that's too hard Emily what kind of miracle worker do you think I am?~~

Villain

@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

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:08 AM

So in an act of desperation the emperor opened up mage knight school to commoners

Villain

@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

Villain

@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

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:09 AM

but the OTHER aristocrats are like "Hey now"

Villain

@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"

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:10 AM

So there were a series of unwritten rules where like

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:10 AM

Nobles would hold the families of commoners that tried to join the school hostage

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:10 AM

So you could go

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:10 AM

but if you weren't showing your social betters their proper respect, they'd like

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:10 AM

kill your sister or something

Villain

@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

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM

AND INTO ALL THIS

Villain

@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

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM

And their big "cheat power"

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM

Is that they have no family

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM

no clan

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM

NO ONE

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:11 AM

that the nobility can threaten

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:12 AM

because they're from another dimension

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:12 AM

So they show talent as a mage knight and find their way to the school

Villain

@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

Villain

@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

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM

made to do embarrassing his

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM

this*

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM

shit*

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM

I can type

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM

And then hero boy shows up and is like "Hey"

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM

"You're a jackass"

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM

"Knock that off"

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:15 AM

"YOU DARE SPEAK TO ME AS SUCH! I'LL HAVE YOUR, UH..."

Villain

@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

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:17 AM

He's just like

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:17 AM

kinda average as an actual fighters

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:17 AM

his main advantage is he's actually willing to fight

Villain

@Overbringer

Tue, Feb 9, 2021 4:17 AM

because also he came from a country that's a democracy

Villain

@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"