Update from yours truly (pt 2), and Session 0

Hi guys!

So, IRL I'm a florist and the busiest day of our year is this weekend. There is maybe one more post I will do on Chapter 1 (by tonight), and then Chapter 1 will be done. Chapter 2 will begin with a short time skip. It goes without saying that my activity will be sparse until mid next week.

With that in mind, there is something I should have done b
for Chap 1 that I didn't do. I didn't do any type of session 0... I'm so sorry guys! So consider this thread the session 0.

Is there anything you guys would like to see moving gorward? Certain narratives? A direction you'd like to see explored? Certain backstory entanglements with family, past friends you'd like to ecplore? Maybe your bestie outside of school gets kidnapped or something. Sky's the limit!

I think you effectively covered Session 0 in these threads:
-->Character Information & Descriptions
-->Ideas, discussions

You just didn't explicitly call it "Session 0"

That said, I was really disappointed at first with everybody posting 'notes', but in this case it's ENTIRELY appropriate.

I don't have any specific complications from Fee's past. There's a boy she liked and accidentally hurt when her powers manifested. That is more something that haunts her than someone who would have an impact on her currently. All her friends ditched her when she went multicolored, so... I think she's got plenty to deal with as it stands.

If someone wants to work a love triangle in so she gets super confused about her feelings for Spencer and someone else, that could be entertaining, and could pose some dilemmas for her if both her love interests need her help at the same time (depending on how much teen angst and melodrama people can tolerate.) I imagine she has no ability to differentiate her feelings of joy when someone accepts her for who she is from feelings of attraction, since she's not used to people accepting her at all.

If anyone wants to get a subplot working with Fee, let me know. I'm open to pretty much anything.

Spencer is rife with ugly subplot fodder, but I'm also game if someone wants to get in trouble with me. I'll probably even chivalrously take the blame!

I kind of wondered, can Logan make keys? That would open up a whole lot of opportunities for troubled

You know, I'm willing to get he can. He'd have to.have to see the original in order to copy it.

I think the main thing I'd like to see settled (at least to an extent) is the, like, "moral standing" of the school. There's an interesting tension at the moment where it's not clear whether it's actually as it appears (X-Men Academy, intended to do 'good') or a secret military-industrial experiment (Weapon-X, intended to do 'evil'). That's a great place to start the story, but I feel like we need to sort out what side we're on before we can really engage with... well, anything else.

I'm aiming to position Ariel as the sort of 'stable core' of the group - she's quite level-headed, mature, not particularly interested in pursuing romantic interests, has a supportive family background... all with the caveat "for a teenager", of course! That does mean she's not likely to be a major source of drama and has less of a personal journey to undergo on the path to adulthood, so less of the story spotlight will be on her - and I'm totally okay with that. She's a great supporting character, but she's not the star. :)

(Mom)
[Sadrielle maneuvers the crosshairs over Ariel. With her gone, the rest of the team will explode!]

I like your examples for the moral standing of the school, I might have used the Hellfire Club, but the Weapon X program is a far more extreme example of evil. It's also Canadian! Eeep!

Short note: After Ellis has a chance (get that book!!), I'll close the thread. The kids will have the weekend and things will resume on a Monday in an actual class setting.

Logan--I have something in mind for your request! More replies coming in a sep post, finger typing this on my phone and didn't want to accidentally lose it!

Ariel, are you asking me to railroad you? *bats eyelashes*

To be perfectly honest the moral ambiguity of the school was supposed to be a bit of a persistent thing until I realized 2 things: one, Spencer is 2 shakes away from being a charismatic conspiracy theorist on the level of a mini, non criminal Manson, and that if the school has issues that he would just bust you out in like 3 days amd have you all be delinquent street vigilantes :p which would be pretty damn cool! The 2nd realization was that you guyses are all still teens. That means unless Clairemont herself wants to be a criminal, she literally can't condone street fighter kid heroes unless there was precedent. And so I railroaded the conspiracy plot slightly by putting the mall trip and time skip to help open that option through precedence (government sponsored super hero kids, rofl)

So.

Running with Ariel's suggestion, and now that Spencer has his abilities, I think we have stable groumd to continue exploring what the school actually is and what directions it can go.

@Strumdaddio. You're right ♡ Well. In that case we can consider this a friendly check up and to make sure everyone is still on the same page. Most of the notes deal entirely with side plot ideas for the characters' secrets so no worries! You've each got some interesting ideas.

Jesus Fiona, thats depressing! I love it.

Uhhh. Apparently I lied. I just spent two days doing absolutely nothing and I still haven't done much other than throw up the second chapter. Here goes attempt 2 to push myself back to the swing of things.

Hey Strum! I know you made a reply here at some point and I SAW IT but I forgot to respond to it! But no, I've still got passion! Just had a very stressful week + sickness at the same time, but I think I'm getting back into the swing of writing again now.

Incidentally, me reading the childrens responding back to Clairemont:

Oh just wait... Spencer's response is going to blow your mind!