#cuz ontop of this i got some treats at the store

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Guys I actually just. Freaked out. I stared at my phone in shocked silence for a good minute

My fav madcom artist followed me !!!! Im so excited HII MERSEI!!! :DD

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Y'know I contemplated on how I'm supposed to split the story up, because the Rosa and Pumpkin story is separate from the Emi, Zenny and Luna story

The characters appear in each other's side of the story but the main focus is always split between those two groups aside from Luna being the main link

I could just make it so that the stories occurred concurrently but that bumps into the minor plot of Zenny being under cover after the events of the light element rediscovery and I had story beats where Luna would go to Pumpkin's cafe to vent about how tiring it is— WAIT I GOT IT

So the story beats before LER are:

- Emi seeing glimpses of the light element

- Zenny and Luna getting their degrees (Luna in AI development and biomechanics while Zenny focuses on robotics and general mechanical engineering)

- I don't think I did have specific plot points for Rosa and Pumpkin because their backstory is rather detached from LER so maybe before this the two are still getting to know each other but haven't gotten further than close friends

- Like Rosa is still coming to the cafe in biker gear and hasn't told Pumpkin about her secret garden

- Pumpkin really needs a reason to be working at her gramma's store, maybe she's a recent college drop out and is still trying to figure her life out so she lives with her gramma to figure things out

(Side tangent: yes I am basing more of Pumpkin's struggles with my current college struggles and I did consider dropping out but I decided not to though I'm not sure if I'll even pass, that said I do want to use Pumpkin as a way to explore this perspective of figuring things out in your adulthood without the burden of college on your shoulders)

Post LER story beats:

- Rosa and Pumpkin are dating now

- Rosa is being more open and is now going to the store in more casual clothes

- Zenny is now a light being and is now in legal incognito mode

- Luna now goes to Pumpkin's cafe to distract her from her tiring new workload ontop of trying to find Zenny as she wasn't on the ship when LER happened

- After constantly bumping into each other in the clothes isle, Rosa is now helping Zenny out with clothes picking and is willing to make Zenny some custom clothes if they're willing to be her personal model

- Robo Luna is created and has found Zenny but not really because Zenny lied and said their name is Star instead yet Robo Luna still wants to get to know Star more and because Zenny wants to take advantage of their new light elemtal new body they would wear more girly clothes when they're hanging out with Robo Luna that this leads to Zenny bumping into Rosa constantly

- Rosa asks Zenny to meet her at Pumpkin's cafe to try out a uniform design she made for the cafe

- On the same Robo Luna follows Star/Zenny to the cafe and meets Rosa

- Robo Luna comments at how Luna mentions her when she talks about Pumpkin with her which she also brings up that Luna often comes to Pumpkin's cafe to destress right when they're infront of the store

- Reluctant but tearful reunion/ Chase scene happens here

(Now this is where in torn because I've basically treated Pumpkin's cafe/ Sutomu Cafe as a plot hotspot cuz now I'm rememebering that Emi also goes here but the development of Zenny and Luna meetings post LER makes it hard to pin it down what I want to do about it. If anything I haven't figure out what to do with Emi post LER because of the whole government willing to bend the rules for you because you discovered an ancient element so they'll fund your research but you work in a more private branch now type deal, actually it might just because I use Emi as a deeper world building lens as apposed to the more normal surface world building with Pumpkin and Rosa with their more slice of life aspect so I might just leave the whole government stuff vague since I don't really want to make it more complicated than it already is)

(The bare bones recap is that I need to figure out what kind of government IdLS's world runs on or more specifically how it runs itself when the land is one massive continent only divided by elementally made mountains and rivers for borders for each region of the continent)

Man I need to untangle all of this writing at one point and put it into a lore bible