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First off, things that other people might actually care about.
As far as major story arcs go, I think it's pretty set that the first Big Bad to have a whole story arc and inevitably be defeated will be Damon Gant. After all, he's been developed in a way that really helps introduce a slew of new and old heroes, by giving a good overall reason why many of the old heroes have either retired or dropped into supporting roles, and simultaneously making a need for new heroes to replace them. He's also a manipulator, so I expect he'll have lesser villains doing his dirty work in his plot arc as much as he does it himself (... not THAT kind of dirty work!).
I also expect that Angel would be very active in this arc, though as an independent villain and never working for Gant, and afterward either retire or become a supporting hero, depending. She's bound to learn that Goodman was alive the whole time, and the result is pretty much that he either dies in the final showdown with Gant or he lives and the two live happily ever after. Either way, it works - as much as I love Angel as Vision, the whole sight powers would start to feel overused if she were around for the entire run of Super Makoto.
Now, on the other hand, Makoto actually taking on von Karma will probably be the last Big Bad arc, because he's basically the most puppetmaster-like of all the Big Bads. Not to mention he's the most distant of the Big Bads, and yet all roads seem to lead to him eventually. (By the way, Lydi's not part of that family in Super Makoto, right? Maybe we should give her a different family name, or find a way to connect her to the bigger plot?)
Sadistress, as important and big and bad as she is, will probably never have her own major Big Bad arc, because those end with the defeat of the Big Bad and Sadistress must be omnipresent in the storyline. So, instead, Sadistress will be the first, last, and eternal rival of Makoto. She'll be the first one Makoto fights, and most likely she'll get an epilogue battle even after von Karma, which will either take her down or establish that Makoto's adventures continue on into the future. In a way, Sadistress's presence seems to justify that of Super Makoto's. So perhaps we've been going about the Gavins origins the wrong way, and instead of Makoto 'creating' Sadistress, Sadistress's appearance triggers Makoto's discovery of her powers. Maybe?
Well, I think we might have actually hit upon something with the succubus thing by making both Gavins half-succubi. If we get a little more creative with the "localized gravity" we joke about and the innate, mountain-like strength Sadi has, it almost seems like an elemental power in the same way Rocktra's electricity is - just a different element and manifested differently. Since their father was human and had to donate a human Y chromosome, their male side is the more human, whereas their mother (who their father was apparently lucky enough to sleep with twice) gave them ability to shape-shift (let's ignore that "after having sex" requirement, that makes this project a lot more adult than it should be) into females with succubi-like powers, explaining their inhuman abilities and natural, sexy charisma.
However, I don't know if either really used their succubi powers much up until the onset of Super Makoto - something happened that made Kristoph snap and decide to turn into Sadistress, which made Makoto discover her powers to counter the threat. Konrad, on the other hand, probably consciously suppressed his Rocktra powers because he's genuinely a good guy and succubi aren't supposed to be heroes. What made him change his mind and try being a hero? Daryan deciding to become Hairaiser probably had a lot to do with it, but I don't think that made him become a hero right away - Hairaiser starts his villainy before SMakoto begins, and Rocktra becomes a heroine after it begins. I see this as more of a parallel to the game, with Apollo doing some big thing about "darkness is consuming all of us, I am the light, allow me to pull you free of the darkness Konrad" like he did in 4-4. It was overblown in the games, yeah, but face it, when there's literal demon stuff involved, the big talk works.
We're getting close to getting the real start of Super Makoto worked out. I just get that feeling, you know?
Now, as a personal side note, it seems I've just been promoted on this project. Which is Bee's way of rewarding me for keeping interest in Super Makoto for the entire summer. Whooooop. All that really means, though, is that I get to be more proactive in developing things. Or something like that. Actually, I don't really know what it means, but I guess I can feel more important or something. That's a good thing, right? For me, at least. I dunno how it'll affect anyone else.
Regardless, I might feel a little more confident now in trying to find a place for my OC in this universe, since Bee himself noted that it was funny I was probably the most devoted with the least amount of insertion. Recently I've been playing with the idea of Interpol: it's pretty much expected that a new agent would be sent in after Romein's death at the hands of Hairaiser. And, well, if that's Pie, it explores one of the concepts that's been given little attention in SMakoto so far, the idea of a relationship forming between enemies - you know, if love can bloom on a battlefield and all that jazz. Which it probably will, because Daryan's pretty much got all enemies and no friends at this point, which he himself is mostly responsible for by scaring them all away. But really, at some point we have to throw him a bone.
It would mean she'd mostly be
seen in a suit and firing oversized guns, two things I still can't draw very well but that just gives me all the more reason to practice. Wings would probably have to go, since being a pretty fairy might interfere too much with her image as an Interpol agent. And she'd probably be speaking in French at times, given Interpol HQ is in the city of Lyon - the historic silk capital of the world, French capital of studying culture and cuisine, important in the history of cinema, it's a pretty damn important city, go look it up
on Wikipedia or something - which would mean I have to stop sucking at my own French. Eh, I'll manage somehow.
I am also ashamed to admit that while writing this, I am considering whether or not Jean Armstrong should be in Interpol, if not the head of it. Mostly because the thought of Armstrong in a suit cracks me up.