(Er well- Kinda. Program Stan (Unit S1-A4) is the original copy made after Stan who unfortunately passed away due to “unknown reasons”. The scan was made to “save him” in a way, but General Damien had ordered for limiters to be put in place. Aka he’s basically a glorified operating system for their base 99% of the time and only has brief moments of clarity where he’s really himself again rip)
(Stanley meanwhile is a robot Mechanic Wendy built based on S1-A4. He’s got some things in common, but is starting to get his own personality)
God, Tsukinogi got such a raw deal out of the Abjurer Trait change.
S1 makes her unveil stealthed enemies but now she can't attack them herself anymore
and S2 already made her stop attacking and project a 10%atk/s healing aura.
I had what you could say was a S1 Aichi moment today at the card shop when I was there chilling and waiting for the tournament to start. One of the other guys came over and sat down near me and asked me if I had a spare Emmeline he could borrow and if I could also look at his D-Majesty Lord Blaster deck and give him my thoughts because he thought I was good at Vanguard. I was actually surprised because while I do play D-MLB, I'd also put myself as just decent compared to some of the other guys at locals, but I did look through his deck and gave him some ways to improve the deck. He was essentially playing a Set 5 version of the list with a couple Emmelines thrown in, so I showed him the different units I was running (I just run a high-ish rarity version of the WGP Malaysia list), why I was running them, and then talked him through the basic G3 combo turn, complete with unit placement and numbers.
It seems like a really small thing, but to me it made me realize enough of the guys there don't see me as a "free win" when they ask me to play them and that I've made a lot of progress from Total Newbie when I started Zero in 2021. I'm so used to being not taken seriously based on my appearance alone (I'm cis, female, with a really feminine wardrobe) or be told "That's not something girls do" that I'm always surprised when it happens. And especially since I was a little nervous about regularly going to this locals after hearing horror stories of how female players have gotten treated at other shops, I just feel really lucky to have found this locals where everyone's just welcoming from the shop owners to the other players, and no one tries to downplay my ability by saying I "won off of luck" especially when my preference is heavy multi-attack decks (bonus if they come with a side of deck thin).
a really cool idea i had is that if they ever decide to do a maeve spinoff (delusional) is that they should just have it set pre-s1 and make it curb your enthusiasm with superheroes.
lol i agree that would be super fun, i would kill for more scenes of the early days of the Seven in a tone that would be kinda like succession or curb or arrested development just seven rich assholes being petty to each other while madelyn kinda sorta keeps them under control ... even just one episode of diabolical about this would be incredible, i'd pay so much money
im trying to write my meddison wips but ive been struggling with the character voices bc ive not seen a single clip of this show in like a year and now im putting off my wips bc i desperately do not want to watch three seasons of d***k s*****d (read: the most annoying man in any fictional world ever) whinge and string these two women along and AUGH