Barrett and Marty's thoughts on whatever we want

so I was bad and got excited and talked to Marty through facebook. But just s it's here.

What if Vera's magic was actually Joy powered but because she's chaotic evil she gets joy out of locking herself up and hurting people and stuff. Dark side of joy is the idea.

Zephyr's power comes from a feeling of ecstasy, which he gets from thrills and victory. So part of why he's fearless is that his powers are tied to adrenalin highs so he knows danger only makes him stronger.

Also having her thing be pleasure not Joy is interesting cause pleasure is arguably more selfish. I think we're close but not there yet with her. Though let me just say, keeping Joy tied to lightmagic and having the psycho evil character use light magic is kinda interesting (there could be another character who also uses light magic)

yeah I like the idea of not really connecting elements to good or evil but jsut having them be what the characters make them. And yeah this is also your test post

I like where that's going. I'm considering using something like that for Mikau since my original plan was to give him "ghost" powers (invisibility, clones, the works). not sure if fear would make sense for him... unless he was trying to make OTHER people scared. idk

here's another story idea I had.. this might be cliche but bear with me.

hatred has two sides of the coin. typical dark magic, that everyone is familiar with (and fears). obviously, this magic is very potent at killing and is very scary n shit.
however, the unexplored realm of this magic comes from love ? or somethin. and that can give life, healing, and in some cases, even resurrect the dead.

So what if Lord Zon strikes a deal with Victor. He uses his tricks to manipulate Victor during their final confrontation, and he says something like "I can bring Mikau back if only we can harness my power" blah de blah. so Victor fakes Lord Zon's death and spends years with Lord Zon held in captivity trying to figure out how to do this (and going insane as a result, on top of other reasons). They bring back Mikau, but not how they expected: this soulless killing machine. Mikau's arc already is finding his humanity again, and learning to work for the side of good (joining Zott's team) so I think this would be a neat way to do that.

on top of that, Grace now has access to powerful healing magic maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe. idk as usual still playin with this idea.

Now that's cool. That would obv. explain Mikau too (obsidian skin, shadowy appearance, etc)

one thing I'm thinking about tho is that Grace is kinda the "fearful" one of the group, so I worry a bit that adding Mikau to that boat will sort of... one-up Grace in a sense? I definitely like the explanation of fear's power so I dunno.

then again, Mikau actually being fearful would make a buttload of sense (since after all the way he was written in the Legend of Silvaterra would suggest that he's not the kind of person at all that would succumb to dark magic n whatnot) and like you said could be a powerful twist that would motivate him to join Zott's side and confront Victor. I always imagined him as being "vengeful" but that was just sorta...generic since hes all evil and blah blah blah

maybe Grace can start out the fearful one but her path to overcoming it will be very different than Victor's. Cuz in a way, all the characters are "fearful" of different things and there's nothing saying "THIS CHARACTER HAS TO BE THE HAPPY ONE, THIS ONE THE SAD ONE," etc

edit: dude when i quote you and it gives me a mini version of your avatar its a perfect sprite size hahaha

the way I always saw it was Grace was fearful of what she could become because of those exact reason: you don't just "grow" out of it or "stop being traumatized". but i think you're right.. grace's arc is more about finding things in her life that make her happy and learning to love herself (LOVE MAGIC YEA!) so I think that makes sense

here's another thing about Mikau i didn't tell you before: I already told you I see him being an out-cast (literally he is banished from his village) but later I envisioned him in victor's story as rallying a bunch of his kind and being sort of a leader to them during the war. I wonder how we can twist that into his character?

oohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh separating the two, interesting. I was originally talking about having hatred magic and love magic be like, both infused in the same person (with love magic being a lot harder to access because of how overpowering hatred magic is) like Lord Zon and Grace both have hatred and love magic, and when Lord Zon succumbs entirely to hatred Grace is able to fight through it

no I mean, he's banished from his village, and when Victor fights against Lord Zon, Mikau helps rally his village that was once against him to fight WITH Victor against Zon