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[oc verses] Sending out the OC signal for people who like magical girls and/or Spehs Mareens
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the hook:
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"If space marines met Precures, they would disrespect them until the exact moment they saw them purify a magically corrupted person and then they would become sworn battle siblings"
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The backstory:
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In a galaxy, maybe this one, maybe another one
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Capital-C Chaos infects the metaphysical fabric of reality
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spreading through interstellar civilization like a disease, corrupting whatever it touches
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a massive grimdark galactic war happens
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In one small, obscure corner of the galaxy, far away from all this, is either Earth or a planet very much like it
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Modern day, no knowledge of the wider galactic civilization or the grim war facing it
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In the shadows of this planet, a minor Chaos god is born
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and it sets about corrupting the planet
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but it is opposed, not by giant gun guys and orbital bombardment
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but by a mysterious power that awakens from the innocent kindness and courage within the human heart
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called Magic
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One or more magical girls assemble and fight the slightly-goofy forces of Chaos Lite
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Then, one or more Tactical Space Marines (legally distinct) either follow Chaos to this planet or wind up there by chance
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Initially they don't really understand the situation, are mistrustful of these Magic Users, and look down on them as useless civilians
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until one of their number is corrupted by Chaos
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and Team Magic does a big fruity colors magic attack and just
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shoots all the Chaos back out of them
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and they're fine again
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a thing that has literally never happened once in the galaxy, ever
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and as the Chaos God grows in power, and the context of a greater interstellar conflict looms on the horizon, two unlikely groups form an alliance of mutual respect and learn from each other
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Setting details all malleable I'm still doing wall spaghetti here
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But, Precure 40K. With the canons filed off
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looks at previous plurks about this when it was a shitpost for more people to ping
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I'm calling dibs on the Main Magical Girl
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The teams do not need to be evenly-sized
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it could be a team of mahous and one marine, or a team of marines and one mahou
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as long as there's at least one of each
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This isn't explicitly 40K Chaos it's just, A Chaos
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the details we can hammer out
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I call the inevitable heel face turn villain from the wacky Chaos Mini-Boss Squad
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likely conflict between Team Magic and Team Marine about whether to try and reach out to the Chaos Generals or to just shoot them with guns until they die
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that sounds about right for the setting
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I call (legally distinct) Space Wolf or Storm Warden muhreen melee extreme violence specialist
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or, possibly
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Noise Marine from the Chaos Squad
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(por que no los dos)
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the details of how the Marines are organized and such will be up to the players playing them
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to imagine my character, there is definitely a scene of Evil Chaos General-chan managing to get a hold of a Space Marine rifle or something
and her face just goes : D
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I call dour space marine captain
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Cooking atm but will get to this soon
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oh hm
are there not Chaos Marines then?
did this setting not have a Horus Heresy uuuuhhh... Sobek... Schism?
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Chaos Marines exist in the sense that anyone can be corrupted by Chaos
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or does that happen during the story
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my general idea was that one of the members of the hero Marine Team gets temporarily corrupted
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then purified by The Girl(s)
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but for the most part, the local chaos god is using more magical girl type villains as lieutenants
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since it's working on Earth, which didn't have any space marines to corrupt
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it's cut off from the larger Chaos
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working with what it's got
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speaking of which, a cast question
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naruhodo
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Is this Earth?
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If it is, how does Earth not know about the interstellar space war?
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Why's Earth so normal?
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are the space marines aliens??
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possible answers:
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- It's Earth but in a parallel universe or something
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- It's Earth and this is one of those settings where there's just multiple independent planets full of humans
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- The space marines are aliens
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- The magical girls are aliens
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- Something weird and fucky is going on
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- Earth is being protected/cut off from the rest of the galaxy by a mysterious force
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I mean, aliens who literally are just human with no explanation exist in plenty of works
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- the administratum just forgot about this planet who knows how long ago
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Space Marines just out there in another corner of the universe
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that would work
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I don't super care which solution we go with
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- it's connected to the muhreens' verse by the Warp the same way 40K and WHF supposedly are
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is that a thing? I thought it was just 40,000 years of time gap
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nah 40K and Fantasy canonically share the same Warp even though that doesn't make any sense
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I think Parallel Universe weakens the setting a bit though, it means that the galactic chaos war isn't Right Over There
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they're not officially different points in the same timeline, that's just random fantheories
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my gut leans towards one of two things
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1. This is Earth, the marines are from some other planet but are also humans, shared precursor race background or something it's not important
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2. This isn't Earth, it's kind of nonsensically earthlike but the girls have like cute antennae
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2 is funnier but 1 probably makes the themes of the story work a little better
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My gut is some kind of Endless Space scenario
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how's that work
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where this isn't Earth but Earth existed at one point in this distant past
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Humans spread across the galaxy and forgot their past
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So there are multiple human factions but Earth is irrelevant
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IN WHICH CASE
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This would take place on like some Earthlike planet where the technology fell behind
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and this is some human planet that lost contact with the galaxy and civilization collapsed, but then they recovered back to 21st-century level
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yes
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works for me
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That's my first thought
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I'm not married to it
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Let's pencil it in for now
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Anyway my character pitch is
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A space marine captain led a force to Earth
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or to This Planet
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but something went wrong and like 90% of them died
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And my guy is like
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Space Marine Corporal 3rd Class
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but everyone who was ranked above him is dead so he's in charge and trying to be the hardass he thinks a space marine captain should be
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while internally going "aaaaaaaaahhh"
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But in the end his inexperience also leaves him less set in his ways, which is what makes him more willing to meet these strange girls half way
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Where a more experienced leader might have dismissed them out of hand
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I think the fatal battle happened somewhere else
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And they retreated to this planet in an escape pod
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in space nearby
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sure
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What if a fragment of True Chaos also landed here
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my character concept is ECG-chan, who is just a complete shitlord type who doesn't take anything seriously until [something serious] happens and forces her to reexamine her priorities. probably becomes a proper magical girl after the heel face turn.
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so the question becomes, for Magnet's character, how they feel about being thrust into the command of a confident-sounding but very inexperienced commander via catastrophe
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Forming like a third faction that Chaos Lite honestly fears just as much as the Magical Girls
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as a late game threat
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that has legs
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all I've got for Main Girl so far is
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Can I be the uhhhhh ”Techpriest” who is working as quartermaster for these guys and frantically scribbling notes on Magick
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- Initially an easy-to-panic coward
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- Does it scared
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magnet maybe your guy is like the technically more experienced but lower ranking right hand man
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- Learns to keep a cool head in nightmarish circumstances from working with the Marines
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got busted down for some past failure and isn't allowed to be in command any more or something
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Initially she can sort of handle Chaos Junior's forces, and the scary guys with the huge guns a little
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I think my guy is the type to go for glory in battle over following orders in the first place
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which probably is why he's not allowed to be in command
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but when True Chaos logs on, it is just HARD Too Much for her to deal with
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there you go
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so she has to have an arc about it
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So we have a leader, a berserker, and a theory guy
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he wants to hit them with his sword
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for the marines
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sounds like a solid team
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3 marines is plenty, I think
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Not a Marine per se, their best combat trick is “give the Marine a plasma gun and hide behind them”
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then, so far, just one magical girl, plus an eventual ally in the flipped general
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But part of the organization
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so a techpriest techpriest not a techmarine?
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and who’s reaction to this magic bullshit is to start writing things down
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I think one way that our Space Marines are different from the Adeptes Astartes is that like
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They can pass for normal humans
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It's worth thinking through what our discount techpriests actually are here. Are ancient sufficiently advanced devices worshipped as religious artifacts? Are they people who study the supernatural powers of Chaos at the risk of gazing too deep into the abyss?
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if they take all the armor and shit off
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do humans outside of this planet have anything magic-like?
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are there psykers
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I think there are no good guy psykers
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or is Main Girl a completely unprecedented phenomenon
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it's tech vs demons
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and like cultists and shit
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but yeah is the tech priest actually a PRIEST?
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Or is he just an engineer?
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the fun thing to do is to use 40K as a baseline but then evolve away from it in interesting ways
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yea
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He is an engineer. I think his also being a PRIEST is contingent on there being an older Terran Whatever that collapsed so that hi-tek becomes Holy Relics Of Old Terra
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Currently our lore is that Earth collapsed eons ago and left scattered human remnant civilizations across the galaxy
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Maybe Earth is currently like
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the source of True Chaos
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oh that's fun
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someone on Earth Capital-F-Fucked-Up
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They dug too greedily and too deep, into the astral plane
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Eye of Terra
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But him being reverential to the Ancient Works Of Art without them being religious artifacts could be interesting
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that sounds cool as hell
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Alpha Centauri is our Cadia
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I'm kind of into the idea of "Ancient Terra artifacts aren't generally seen with religious awe, but this guy does"
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Cadia?
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a fortress world that looks over the Eye of Chaos
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ah
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or in this case, looks over the demon world Earth
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Main Girl = Nanjao, or Nan to her friends
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This isn't Earth so the names are made up
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I like the implants for days look tho so the Techno has implants for days and is therefore trans as hell
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Do Nanjao's people know this isn't humanity's homeworld?
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Good question. I think they do but for most people that's just like, kind of a factoid
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It doesn't matter to their day to day at all
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yeah that sounds right
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"There are ancient ruins suggesting we landed here in a spaceship millennia ago and that's cool I guess but I gotta get to work and the bus is late"
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Villain that's what Cadia used to be
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like how humans evolved from apes. there are probably religious weirdos who think this is the only planet humans have ever been on
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Right Cadia kind of exploded
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at the current point in the lore timeline now it's more like
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https://images.plurk.com/11MsgOEYdoqZKaJkWwjIkD.png
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Ah, making this dude a religious weirdo, sort of The Chabad House of the Technos.
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anyway when I say Nanjao is a coward I mean it in the very specific sense of like
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I dig it
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https://images.plurk.com/3xnpV9vkggTfQ7riUe7h7N.jpg
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yesssssss
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I picture the marines showing up at like
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episode 10 of a 52 episode precure season
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yeah Nan's been doing this for a bit on her own (unless we get another mahou)
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but not super long
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I feel like we should get some more mahous
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it wouldn't hurt!
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at least like 1-2 more
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If we get 1 more
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then when Emily's girl defects we'll have a solid 3 of each
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if we get 1 more it's a Futari wa Precure setup
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even coutning a bonus third from the defector
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buddy cop magical girls and their weird friend
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Going to bed soon but one more key thematic point to discuss, here at the start
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This planet's easygoing way of doing things stands in contrast to a galactic war that's burning millions of lives into dust
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This is definitely not the story of how Nan becomes cool with mass murder
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How do we deal with the bridge between the vast horrifying atrocity scope of the larger setting and Nan's youthful innocence
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Climax:
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it makes sense as we've been discuss it when they're dealing with the smaller-scale conflict on the one planet
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Nan learns how to turn everyone into magic
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but once True Chaos is added into the mix
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er
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into magical people
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oh that's interesting
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Magic starts spreading across the galaxy
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so then every human can purify Chaos beings
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yes
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the climax is like
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everyone in the world uniting their newly awakened magical powers
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to defeat the big bad
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True Chaos brings the full brunt of its galaxy-spanning astral network of metaphysical evil to bear on the planet
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but in doing so, it creates a channel
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through which magic can spread back out
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and then space marine captain is like "...There's no reason we can't keep on spreading this"
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unintentionally spreading hope instead of despair to the galaxy
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OK. Shoots up a signal flare seeking one more magical girl to round out the squad
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Goes to bed
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I was at work but I am fucking in
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I'll cook up a magical girl
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excellent
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hell yeah
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Emily already has the evil general who flips, so I can't be the angsty midseason cure, but I'll think of something
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is there a mascot
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There can be
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yeeeea magical girls
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I think an important thing is that
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“Chaos Lite” isn’t weaker than True Chaos
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The demon queen or whoever she is could match true demons in raw power
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She’s just...less scary
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Fewer mouths full of screaming eyeballs
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...GRA invaders as the aesthetic for true demons
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yeah we need to figure out villain aesthetics and mechanics
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Shapeshifting tentacle eyeball horrors
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Chaos Junior is probably a scarier villain than most Precure antagonists, but like, not so dark that it stops being a magical girl show
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Low level demons are practically mindless because they don’t have the willpower to resist their own chaotic nature
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The stronger ones are less shapeshifty
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less https://images.plurk.com/7EZzd6BNj5aRuk7HPw7Bs2.jpg , more https://images.plurk.com/2NAU40qMpFkQqJbzAWNlA1.jpg
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/fixes
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I figure evil clown there is what you get when a human is freshly corrupted
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But over time their human will gets eroded and they start devolving into a tentacle monster
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Unless they’re just really strong willed
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worth considering for Princess Emily - is Chaos General-chan a fundamental chaos demon or a corrupted human?
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Also: Acting Captain Leonides and my first thoughts on the Empire
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probably the former, unless that just doesn't work for the story? if she's corrupted though, I'd lean towards corrupted mascot or some such instead of corrupted human, even if she gained a human form
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either works
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