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60 lines
2.4 KiB
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# Spellblade Plot
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https://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-method/
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## One Sentence
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A woman realizes the gap between two opposites and their place in the middle.
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## Kick in the Pants
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> something I feel is missing from this set-up is, what is Alicia's overarching
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> motive? What is she doing this for? Why the army recruiting process, and how
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> would an underground school help her further her goals
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> what is it that _moves her_?
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> This whole thing is meant to be an allegory for coming out as nonbinary. Her
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> goal is to not be so afraid of herself.
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## Cover Idea
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Use the palette of the nonbinary pride flag, yellow sky, white clouds, Alicia
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in purple holding her locus to the sky, black ground w/ yellow highlights.
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## One Paragraph
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Alicia is a student at the Zhalram School of Bladecraft, one of two schools
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owned by a shadowy organization that oversees the Zhalrami army recruiting
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process. Alicia is troubled in her schooling and tries to suppress her innate
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magical talents with little success. Alicia finds a spiritualist in town and the
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spiritualist encourages her to use her magic in battle, making her team the
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cream of the crop (with various social consequences). Alicia gets caught by the
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schoolmasters and confronted to admit she is a spellcrafter, leading Alicia to
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disagree and coin the term "spellblade"; arguing that she has a unique gift and
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she wants to see where it will end up. The teachers have never seen this happen
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and deliberate before accepting Alicia and encouraging them to continue down
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that path.
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- First battle
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- Cover the setting
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- Introduce the bladecraft school
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- Introduce spellcraft and frame it as an "other"
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- Introduce Alicia undergoing a magical awakening
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- Accidentally uses powers on the field
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- Leads to victory
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- Puts herself in the line of fire
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- Tongue-lashing for the absurdly crazy strategy
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- Meal hall
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- Bed, idle thoughts about her magic
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- Spiritualist discussions
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- Various battles?
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- Flashbacks to her father noticing signs of this happening and teaching her
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how to suppress her gift
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- The magical side would effectively kidnap her from a young age and her
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father wanted to be with Alicia as a kid, the Zhalrami army desperately
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needs spellcrafters for battle with Usill
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- Father died in the aftermath of an avalanche
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- Alicia enrolled in the bladecraft school to get away from home because it
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reminded her of her dad
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