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[witch knights] OKAY proper focus plurk for the whole girl, Isobel Carver
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Born... somewhere on Earth, I don't know where
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national borders have begun to matter less and less under the increasingly overbearing leadership of the Terra Union
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Born into nothing
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Poor family living in a place with an increasingly fucked economy and a conservative government slashing social safety nets repeatedly
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Couldn't afford college
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managed, for a few years, to make ends meet, working multiple minimum wage jobs
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in a tiny studio apartment
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which was then hit by a stray missile from a Spacefront gladius
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which blew up basically everything she owned, leading to a cascade of complications, which led to losing all her jobs
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it's not even that unusual of a story
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high unemployment, scarce jobs, housing crisis
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so, Isobel ends up floating between couches and street corners
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Until One Day Everything Changed
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when she found a weird cat in a dumpster
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"what was weird about it"
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This is the first part I need to flesh out
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but the cat is Bradamante and something happens that leads her to unwittingly awaken it and become its next pilot
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and then meets and learns about the Witch Knights
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where she is met with a certain amount of mistrust
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because Bradamante was believed captured by the Custodes
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initially kept on because the Witch Knights need all the help they can get and eventually becoming a full-fledged member
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open question: what kinds of missions are the WKs doing at this point in time?
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they don't know where the Custodes secret base is
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and neither Spacefront nor the Terra Union are their real enemies
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so they need a concrete goal for this act
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Taking a page from Star Wars, I suggest that since we’ve established that they’re trying to be stealthy about things because they fear reprisals from Custodes
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Most of their missions are just focused on getting enough supplies to keep their organization running
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While waiting for a big opportunity to strike a blow for freedom
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I don’t think Witch Knights need fuel but things like medical supplies, food and water, etc
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staying afloat
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Which they keep as needed while distributing the rest to people who need it because they’re too poor to afford it on their own
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Staying afloat and doing relief efforts
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during this part: Isobel becomes a Witch Knight, is gradually accepted as part of the team, fights Leo for the first time
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And being frustrated they can’t do more
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then there's a Big Mission
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a chance to actually progress towards their goal of bringing magic back to the world
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during which we get the next big Isobel VS Leo fight probably
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face direct action from the Custodes
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one of them actually showing up in person with another magic mech
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Leo has his custom mech for this one
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and the end result is that the existence of magic is revealed to the earth sphere
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not 100% undeniably because that's literally impossible but like
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people who witness the battle see miracles
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that they cannot explain away
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and word spreads
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so the Custodes move to phase 2
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act 2: Witch Hunt
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Terra Union and Spacefront both acknowledge the existence of the dangerous terrorist organization known as the Witch Knights
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The stakes escalate
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both armies are now their enemy
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but this is an Isobel plurk so let's focus on her
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she is not the leader
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but the idea of just, abandoning the secrecy to act in the open despite the risks, was her idea
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and possibly just something she did, rather than something she persuaded the WKs to do deliberately
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Isobel's special skill is her voice, figuratively and literally
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she can talk and make people listen
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she can sing, which she used for panhandling when she didn't have a home
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but her ability is the ability to be heard
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and that's her mission in act 2
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express the true heart of the witches
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make people hear her over the screaming of the propaganda machine
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don't just hide and defend yourself. take action and protect others.
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do good, loudly.
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people will see, and then they'll question the Custodes narrative
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Spectre probably debuts in this arc
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as an ally and enemy in equal measure
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but bailing the witches out early on
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act 2 finale, perhaps a huge war crimey incident where Earth and Space set aside their differences to help people
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the elevator collapse in Gundam 00
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which ends in the war looking like it may wrap up and the Custodes being pulled further and further into the light
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act 3 is when they stop hiding
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don't hide and defend yourself. do evil, loudly.
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by which I mean, they have a whirling mass of raw magical power the size of a space station
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when it comes down to it, if ruling humanity in secret isn't doing the trick, rule humanity openly
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The Custodes against the world
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Some kind of ultimate superweapon final plan to crush the earth sphere's resistance in one fell swoop
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a final battle in their floating god city
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Isobel VS Cosimo
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Isobel carries the voices of the world to the withered heart of a secret empire
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the Witch Knights bring the fire of the gods back down from the mountain
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humanity enters a new uncertain age of magic
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will it be better than what came before?
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Isobel believes it will
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and has anew found family
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regarding Bradamante, I'm sticking to simplicity and here's my idea for its power creep
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Act 1: Teleport
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Act 2: Teleport your friends
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Act 3: Teleport your enemies
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respond to a missile barrage by, respectively,
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teleporting out of the way
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teleporting yourself and your friends out of the way
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and teleporting the missiles away
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A thought about Cosmino vs Isobel
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What if when JOAN fought him, she died but was able to instill some kind of secret weakness in him
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Which he either spends the story trying to hide or being blissfully unaware of until it becomes relevant
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legit
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Possibly Spectre’s main contribution to the finale is discovering this weakness and delivering it to the Witch Knights
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and also I assume just, also helping fight the Custodes with his cool robot
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Yes
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I feel like that face really reminds me of a character but I can't put my finger on it