[OOC][PLOT] Planning for Arc 2 - Crisis on Infinite Earths

[Labster]

Sorry, Brent. I had no idea you were having trouble with that.

I thought about it while I’ve been driving around tonight, and I think I got something.

Now, I’m just spitballing here, but I do believe that Sakura would have a very noticeable magical signature.  Nothing on the scale of Princess Serenity, especially when she’s doing one of her bigger whammies.  But probably still unique enough that it’d stand out in the background noise pretty clearly.

It does, but the world is getting a surprising amount of magical flux lately. Sakura's signature will figure into the epilogue of this story.

It is canonical that Salem likes to try to eliminate problems before they become problems.  And I would like to think that Sakura’s lunar flavored magic would smack as being similar to whatever it is that women with Silver Eyes do.

Oooh, so close. There is a card that does have the silver eye effect, but it's not in Yue's portfolio. On the up side, you have just justified to me Sakura not being aware of her winning card, which allows the plot to happen the way I want it to.

Maybe it doesn’t all happen with guns blazing.  Maybe she tries to have Sakura recruited to their side.  She is still very young, and in Salem’s eyes, probably still very impressionable.  But either way, she wouldn’t want power like that running loose.

Um, well, because of the thing above, no on recruitment. Silver eyes are rare because Salem kills people with silver eyes whenever she finds them. It's like, maybe that's her weakness? Now Cinder may not be aware of all of those points, and she might try the recruitment thing -- I haven't decided for sure yet. It depends on what she was asked to do, which depends on what Salem's plan is.

What do you think?

I think you're doing good, but you're still a few yards behind me. I've had all of these thoughts before. And a little bit my fault, because what I should have asked what is Salem's goal instead of her objective -- what's the end game? Which is, I think, the sort of thing we ought to discuss on wiki, as not to ruin the surprise for our readers. I do have some ideas.

I mean, maybe this is hard because I'm writing a little backwards -- I have a resolution I want, and I'm trying to find the fact pattern that causes that resolution. It's like algebra: just solve for the trope. But since that affects the overall plot, there are more equations, which means now I'm calculating the eigentropes. (Apologies for the terrible metaphor.)