The One Chosen (WiP; on hiatus)

Okay, so are there any questions that people would have for any characters? :smile: I should note that the actual amounts of knowledge the characters have would vary, so keep in mind that even the slightly older students don’t know much more than you:

Relative knowledge levels:
Xiulan: 0
MC: 0.5
Max: 1
Charlie, Helena, Teri: 2
Ɔdmund: 2.5
Bethany: 4
Ɔthelgard: 7
Duchess Leercorton, Professor Karline: Like loads, but I don’t really want to quantify it.

Harry? :confused:

Questions like this, yeah! :sweat_smile: I don’t know if I’d add this one, though, as I could see it being problematic due to him being mixed race (although both parents are from long-established, rich, water-element families, which are the things that matter to him far more than actual race).

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I was not trying to get a joke about race sorry. But he sounded like those snobs with dogs that start with OHmy dog grandparents were all champions… And I go with him spa every day Her bed is designed by Prada…

Harry Potter … The priests I don’t want to ask them anything that I want is thinking how moron they are and how are hypocrisy filled. Then more options to fake being friendly but thinking they are lame snobs assholes that have live with luxury all their life

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Yeah, I got that :slight_smile:; I just wanted to avoid the problem (but yes, his magical pedigree is very important to him). :sweat_smile:

Oh, yeah; that Harry… :sweat_smile:

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And it will get worse when we lose the only good thing to come out of it thus far…the trust fund. :worried:
But my mc is not going over to the side of ā€œDog-faceā€ as he intends to usurp the guy by ā€œKlingon promotionā€. ::wink:

As is my mc and of the same sort of mixed race too, I really hope they’re not related. :worried:

My mc would like to ask more about his future living situation in advance, what are those dorms like?
Although fortunately it seems we won’t have to deal with roommates.

Is actually fun to talk with and by that I mean trade barbs snark at and sass him, my mc cannot stand him otherwise.

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Not too small, with a comfortable bed and its own desk, a magical window, and a door that can only be opened by you or the school staff (which I’m sure will do wonders for your paranoia :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: ). No en suite, but there are good facilities in each of the dorms. What other things might you want in a bedroom? :thinking:

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Won’t do any wonders for my mc’s paranoia either. Well I guess it’s showering with a bathing suit on.
Even modern prison cells get a toilet and sink and increasingly a shower too after all.

I though you also said there were differences between the houses and that the accommodation we get as the presumptive chosen one is different from what we’ll be downgraded to later on. :thinking:

A wardrobe/closet. :wink:
My mc would want a lockable trunk that’s nearly unbreakable and that cannot be easily opened by anyone except him.
He would also be interested in trying to buy just something like that in shopping scene.

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Showers (and toilets, obviously) would be in their own self-contained stalls. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: So you might have to queue, but you shouldn’t have to share (unless you want to… :smirk:)

I guess I might add a sink, but that would probably be the maximum. :thinking:

Differences are mostly cosmetic. :thinking: I mean, it would make sense for Water Hall to have far better stuff than the others, but I don’t want to penalise anyone for not choosing them. :sweat_smile:

And I’ll be keeping you just in the basic accommodation both before and after; no downgrading required.

To come out of? :smirk:

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Yes, I would expect them to be more luxurious than the others and conversely the rooms in the air dorms to provide built-in space (bookshelves) for a mini personal library. If not then it is likely that in-game the school has rules against that kind of stuff.
Maybe those rules can even be fairly recent so that in the past Water house did actually live in opulent luxury before being forced to change? :thinking:
While Fire and Earth may have had more communal dorms and facilities.
Other than perhaps doing away with some private and personal libraries I would expect such changes to have impacted Air the least as a house? :thinking:

Well…given how the mc here has always been busy just surviving and is exceedingly young he probably knows at this point that he likes guys but isn’t publicly ā€œoutā€ yet in part due to lingering institutional homophobia and for the other part due to how young he is and up until now being focused on simply surviving.

But, no, the physical one would be to simply put clothes and stuff that is not so sensitive it has to go into the trunk into. Actually living in a closet is soo Harry Potter and besides I think my mc would actually prefer living under a bridge to living in Harry’s cupboard under the stairs. :roll_eyes:

So will they also keep the real chosen one in the basic accommodation then?

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Lol with the living in a closet i thought that was an euphemism and a symbol that Harry was gay and in love with Ron ,I get very surprised when Harry ended Hetero. I am weird I know

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All of the accommodation is pretty much the same. :sweat_smile: I did wonder about having larger rooms for upper years, and I suppose a Chosen One might warrant one of the larger rooms, but… do you really want to be booted out of your room when it turns out you’re not them? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

I mean he just went with Ginny because she was the closest thing he could get to a female Ron. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Want has very little to do with it, which ties heavily into the psychological makeup of this mc, he never gets anything he wants…which is why he has to wait to seize it. Which in turn is why he’s ultimately aiming to oust ā€œdog-faceā€ by way of Klingon promotion. :slightly_smiling_face:
But getting booted out of a room is a really minor thing compared to some of the other shit heaped onto this poor mc. I mean it’s inconvenient and reinforces the recurring theme of his life but it wouldn’t give him sleepless nights or anything.

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guys if you are in the one chosen and main oc how will you feel me I will hate the people how put me in this hell

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Okay, so unfortunately my computer broke and I lost pretty much all of the next chapter/scene (your introduction to the dorms). I’ve been trying to get the data recovered, but the people I gave my computer to are dragging their feet… :unamused: and I don’t want to rewrite stuff that could still be recovered. However, in the meantime, I have completed the following chapter. Do people think I should upload this new chapter now, even if it skips stuff? (Note: nothing in the new chapter will rely on stuff from the missing chapter.)

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You could add bullet points of what we’re skipping in case some feel lost with the skip.

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This would make it even easier wouldn’t it (plus the dorms don’t seem as differentiated in terms of accommodations, quality, etc as they could have been). The Fallen Hero WIP occasionally did and does this, indicate where there are missing or incomplete scenes or where new scenes will be added, so if (almost) nothing in the code or narrative really relies on the missing scene I say go for it.

Is this the chapter with the big reveal where we possibly get kicked out of nicer dorm room and everything turns to shit (again) for our mc’s? :worried:

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Pretty much the only thing would be the introductions to the dorms, really.

I don’t know what you’re talking about. :innocent: No, but that would come later. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: And you won’t be re-roomed unless you really want to be… :sweat_smile:

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And… Updated!

Remember, there’s a missing chapter, but it shouldn’t impact the later stuff too much.

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I’d still really, really like a shoe (well expensive, fancy boot in my mc’s case. :wink: ) choice to go with the breeches to make them look good. As well as a general expansion of the shopping bit, my mc would really like to test his new financial leash. before it all gets taken away again and it is back to grinding poverty. :worried:

I also see young Charlie’s mood has not improved in chapter 3. :grinning:

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I like Steve… I’m not sure which though.

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Okay, so purely hypothetically, if someone were to set up a small party, what kinds of things would you expect/like to see there? Nothing illegal, which for this age-group includes alcohol.

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