[WIP] Lightweaver: Chosen ( 120K Words )

Ooh, this one is good, was ready to write it off as yet another magic/superhero school setting but no this is too good!

Still have some questions about the world though, what is the overall tech level? The opening bits when mc is getting struck by lightning feel downright Dickensian to me but the magic school has electric lights and the clothes mc has to change into practically scream modern/contemporary plus there’s Leo’s smartphone. So my question is this, is the world/kingdom a place of schizo tech or was the place mc came from particularly backwards and the mc particularly deprived even in that backwards place? If so it’ll be hard adjusting, like a North Korean refugee from the countryside there escaping to the South. :thinking:
And of course there’s the mc’s new “powers” making handling anything electrical potentially that much more of a challenge. :worried:

My mc doesn’t find it funny at all. Expect him to try hair dye, if we’re ever offered the option. Eyebrows are a pain to dye though, you’d need beard dye for that. :worried: Or is mc’s hair magically resistant to hair dye now?

I’m not sure my mc would like that. It kinda feels like to mc like people only want him for his supposedly rare new cosmic consolation prize. I mean if anybody really wanted him they’d have adopted him from the orphanage, right? At least I could easily see his adolescent reasoning go that way.

Ouch, kinda hurtful, though kudo’s to you and a good potential line for mc if they ever get in a serious argument with Leo or Alec.

My mc is a bit less sanguine about it. But the game fortunately provides more reluctant options, my mc is currently on the line of thinking that it is just another thing forced upon him without his consent.

And it seems from some lines in the game mc does not have a positive history with Weavers and powers:

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Of course the mc now finds themselves stuck amongst them nonetheless. :worried:

Surprising there were Weavers at all in the orphanage of a podunk village, they seem kinda valuable but it does imply they were treated better than the rest, whatever much that means in the Dickensian hellhole the mc apparently came from. Almost makes me think there’s recently been a big war or something to cause even very valuable kids to become unadopted orphans. :thinking:

Otherwise you’d think they would at least be taken to the kind of fancy place the mc is in now even if they are orphans too.

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