i wrote in a custom middle section with mine. trans rights forever

okay "half" is an exaggeration

Cruella-esque prologue where gaston's parents are pushed off a balcony to their deaths by a woman who can read

"what's your last name, son?"
"nothing. i don't have a people."
"fart a bunch, huh?"
"what? no"
"gas....a ton. welcome to the army, gaston"

shame, forgiveness, and acceptance are big themes but not in the "half the cast used to be fascists trying to nuke all of france" way

i think you know what to expect, though. between all the banter and playing touys with your funny dogs together, there's gonna be awkwardly trying to heal from abandonment and alienation and tattered trust and self-worth, rarely succeeding at saying what you mean, roasting colonial capitalists, etc

i say this and then i spend the next hour almost teasing what a bunch of the story beats are and then gradually edit it into just another blurb i can add to my pinned post

but anyway, story. i've had ideas floating around for a long time of who the cast of TBM are, how they interact, what they go through, how they exist in the space created by their games and address what went unaddressed, etc. it's time to make a bad first draft so i can start chiseling out the edits

more than maybe anything else though, all the passive ability sets in #SVTheBrokenMirror are being reworked to be more like they were designed from the ground up with themes and choices in mind and less like they're obligated to keep in decisions they made 20 years ago and bandaid fix over them

very funny that i once claimed on here that i wasn't changing many of the moves and mechanics. i will at least refrain from correcting 95% accuracies to 100% and little nitpicky stuff like that but there is absolutely going to be patch notes