Yeah, and they've got a lot of deepseated dependency issues that they also need to sort out before they can start moving forward properly.
I don't know. The thing with Kickstarter- and his plot hinges on it- is that he can give mundanes powers, but the powers break their body down because they're not supposed to have them. (He doesn't tell them this, obviously, he just tells them that he's "kickstarting" the powerup process.)
However, I never gave any thought to if he used his powers on an outlier, because why would he need to? So what if he could give them an additional power? But of course it would still have the same effect as it does on mundanes. But I might have a loophole because it's a power that Dark already had and just got overwritten and all Kickstarter did was remind his body that it could do that.
Lock just has the ability to temporarily powerlock an outlier and stop their powers from working. A lot of the third arc is them trying to persuade him to help them stop Kickstarter and save his mundane victims.
Lock also has the ability to unlock potential, which effectively triggers Omega state in his target. I could do something with him doing that to Dark (against protest, because Omega state can be deadly, but Dark would absolutely twist his arm and do it if it meant protecting his friends) and then Omega state reactivates his old power.
That one is less dangerous in the long run, because it would just be a side effect of Lock's powers, so it'll depend on how much urgency I want to put into the arc.
Yeah, it would be a very bit-by-bit thing if they managed to rebuild a relationship of some kind (romantic or not), and it wouldn't be the same as before.
So if Kickstarted reactivated Dark's power, there would be worry it would eventually kill him, but they might find out that's not true? Interesting. And the Lock situation would be obvious short-term drama, but less worrying for them in the long run.
Oh, it's romantic, without a doubt. Like I don't know at what point it'll make the switch but at some point they're going to hit a romantic stride. I also know that Hope falls first, but Dark falls faster and harder and more fully and just. Hurls himself headfirst into being in love, whereas Hope dips his toe into attraction and then immediately builds a wall between him and the idea because he cannot comprehend of the idea of anything coming of it and is afraid of ruining what they have by admitting to wanting what the haven't. But that's something to suss out later.
(I was listening to music and "Black is the Color" was playing and I realized that Dark would one-hundred-percent sing it about Hope but replacing black with pink and fixing the pronouns and like. That's when I realized that he's going to spend several arcs pining and hurting because he's so deeply in love, and all he wants in the world is to make Hope happy and Hope won't fucking let him.)
Yeah, it's gonna come down to whether I want it to be just a plot device to get Dark's fire powers back, or a long-term plot to give me something to work with for the fourth arc.
Yeah, they'd have things very complicated. And Dark would be less hung up on acting on his feelings, while Hope would get in his own way a lot. And Hope pulling back would make Dark stop.
Dark would very much pull away if Hope did. For all his posturing, it's really just that, he doesn't want to push Hope to the point of abandoning him. And for all of Hope's issues, he also has a more stable support network- Dark has trouble trusting his friends to go on loving him if he gets to be too much trouble (though he translates this as constantly testing where the limits are, in direct opposition to his writer), whereas Hope keeps up barriers so that he'll be okay when people eventually walk away. (They both believe that their relationships have expiration dates, but they also both approach this belief differently. Basically.)
Yeah, Dark seems like the thing that would make him back off would be Hope backing off.
That's interesting, with the boundary testing. Especially with the sympathetic motivation and ugly fallout. And I can see Hope taking the opposite approach of not wanting to push people or unsettle them, but also feeling like he doesn't owe them a look at himself with the barriers down, and taking that step for self-protection.
I don't know. The thing with Kickstarter- and his plot hinges on it- is that he can give mundanes powers, but the powers break their body down because they're not supposed to have them. (He doesn't tell them this, obviously, he just tells them that he's "kickstarting" the powerup process.)
However, I never gave any thought to if he used his powers on an outlier, because why would he need to? So what if he could give them an additional power? But of course it would still have the same effect as it does on mundanes. But I might have a loophole because it's a power that Dark already had and just got overwritten and all Kickstarter did was remind his body that it could do that.
Lock just has the ability to temporarily powerlock an outlier and stop their powers from working. A lot of the third arc is them trying to persuade him to help them stop Kickstarter and save his mundane victims.
Lock also has the ability to unlock potential, which effectively triggers Omega state in his target. I could do something with him doing that to Dark (against protest, because Omega state can be deadly, but Dark would absolutely twist his arm and do it if it meant protecting his friends) and then Omega state reactivates his old power.
That one is less dangerous in the long run, because it would just be a side effect of Lock's powers, so it'll depend on how much urgency I want to put into the arc.
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So if Kickstarted reactivated Dark's power, there would be worry it would eventually kill him, but they might find out that's not true? Interesting. And the Lock situation would be obvious short-term drama, but less worrying for them in the long run.
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(I was listening to music and "Black is the Color" was playing and I realized that Dark would one-hundred-percent sing it about Hope but replacing black with pink and fixing the pronouns and like. That's when I realized that he's going to spend several arcs pining and hurting because he's so deeply in love, and all he wants in the world is to make Hope happy and Hope won't fucking let him.)
Yeah, it's gonna come down to whether I want it to be just a plot device to get Dark's fire powers back, or a long-term plot to give me something to work with for the fourth arc.
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(Aw!)
It sounds cool either way.
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That's interesting, with the boundary testing. Especially with the sympathetic motivation and ugly fallout. And I can see Hope taking the opposite approach of not wanting to push people or unsettle them, but also feeling like he doesn't owe them a look at himself with the barriers down, and taking that step for self-protection.
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