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I haven't got everything planned out, but the situation will get better. They might not end up together, but Yang will grow up, and Jauncifer might loosen up a little, over the course of their adventures.
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Commissions are $400 for a >4k word chapter of one of my MG's, done either in part (it goes in the kueue when it hits 400) or in whole, and please be aware that I have a backlog so it'll be a few months before I get to it!
Figure out what makes for the most interesting story, and start with that, and remember, screwing your character over arbitrarily in the setup works, but doing so once the story gets going usually just seems cheap, and will likely cause you to lose readers in the process.
Really, considering it's an open ended writing prompt, it's entirely up to you. If you want to start your MC off at a disadvantage, you could have the points the MC starts with cut down, as punishment for 'opting out', though you could also have had some, most, or all of those that took the...
For instance, despite Stacy being the Flaggy, the Sergeant in one story (forget which) put the -cifer in that squad in charge of managing who took what classes (accidentally signing them all up for his course-load on the first day).
Honestly, depends on the Contractor, and I'd assume that 'Flaggy picks the mish, everyone else has to take it' is the standard, but their assigned Drill Sergeant could switch that up.
I could handle everything else, except the Sun, though I'd also prefer not to have been out in 90 degree weather with 90% Humidity, but that's into 'it's manageable' territory.
Got back yesterday from a 4 day trip with my friends. They ask me every year if I want to go, and I said yes this time. It was nice hanging out with them, but dear God do I hate Camping in general, and The Sun in particular.
A good premise can only carry you so far, and, that's what happened. While, in a perfect world they'd reboot the entire thing into something amazing, but since I heard Shawcross, one of the 'writers' that ran it into the ground, moved with the sale of RT to Viz, I'm not holding my breath.
So, downside of taking good care of your car, but living in New England, is that the road salt literally will rot the metal. So, I've kept my car running for over a decade, but now it's at the point where the price required to fix my AC is literally more than the car is worth. But it works fine...
If you want both the system, and the growth boost, I'd point out that you're no longer trying to make an interesting premise, you're just trying to cheese the power to 'win', at which point, given how broken the various Catalogs are because they have Point Gain mechanics baked in, just Capture...
It would, in fact, shoe-horn you into the system, but Templates don't have to be characters, they can just be the system, though you wouldn't get the growth enhancer, as the growth enhancer is part of their build so you can't a-la-carte it.
I'd run it as you get the system, but your rate of power gain would be nerfed. Like if you Templated Bel from Danmachi you'd still grow faster than if you Templated someone else of equal power with a Falna, but, in turn, your initial Template's direct power would start off significantly weaker...
Just copy-editing it, not content editing, though. Also, yeah, I favorited that one, fuck, like a decade ago? It's really more horrified fascination that it's still updating than anything else. I have zero idea what happened in it.