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Battle Action Harem Highschool Side Character Quest (No SV, you are the Waifu)

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Guys... guys... Bread-chan is a real thing.

This is another one that comes up from time to time.

In their defense, I never understood before coming here just how CRUCIAL rice is to almost every Japanese meal. Every school lunch (except Bread Tuesday, which my coworkers tend groan about) has a serving of white rice attached, and even places like ramen shops usually offer rice on the side for an extra fee. It's really not a meal unless it includes rice! We just don't have any equivalent of that, at least not in my family ;0 So I can understand how it must be disorienting.
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I just started reading this story and I'm enjoying it, but I'm slightly disappointed with the last vote. The stated goal of the Quest is:
Avalanche said:
If you have read this far, then you have gotten your first look at the main character of this quest.

You will not be playing as him.

Rather, you are playing as one of the side characters.

Your goal is to become a main character and star in your own series.

How you do this is up to you, win the main characters affections, get popular enough to be labelled 'best girl' or save the world, anything goes.
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We just had the opportunity to directly control the main character and we used this control to do... what? Come up with a sensible plan of attack? Normally I'm in favor of sensible battle plans, but we were given a perfect opportunity to have the main character directly grant Anna plot relevance and we wasted it. We could have had him declare that Anna was his rival. We could have had him ask for special one-on-one training. Heck, we even could have had Koujirou express his undying love to Anna (thinly veiled as a distraction attempt)!
 
boonerunner said:
I just started reading this story and I'm enjoying it, but I'm slightly disappointed with the last vote. The stated goal of the Quest is:

We just had the opportunity to directly control the main character and we used this control to do... what? Come up with a sensible plan of attack? Normally I'm in favor of sensible battle plans, but we were given a perfect opportunity to have the main character directly grant Anna plot relevance and we wasted it. We could have had him declare that Anna was his rival. We could have had him ask for special one-on-one training. Heck, we even could have had Koujirou express his undying love to Anna (thinly veiled as a distraction attempt)!
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Let me highlight one of the sentences you quoted.
How you do this is up to you, win the main characters affections, get popular enough to be labelled 'best girl' or save the world, anything goes.
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The only route listed where the main character's actions and attitudes towards us really matter is the one where we end up getting the guy. Saving the world or becoming best girl can happen completely independently of him.
 
boonerunner said:
We just had the opportunity to directly control the main character and we used this control to do... what? Come up with a sensible plan of attack? Normally I'm in favor of sensible battle plans, but we were given a perfect opportunity to have the main character directly grant Anna plot relevance and we wasted it. We could have had him declare that Anna was his rival. We could have had him ask for special one-on-one training. Heck, we even could have had Koujirou express his undying love to Anna (thinly veiled as a distraction attempt)!
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We came up with a perfectly sensible plan of attack that Anna will break over her knee with at least some effort.

This shows Koujirou that he's a long way off from being at Anna's level while also showing Anna that Koujirou is taking this seriously which will win points from her; this still increases plot relevance.
 
Bag of Bones said:
We came up with a perfectly sensible plan of attack that Anna will break over her knee with at least some effort.

This shows Koujirou that he's a long way off from being at Anna's level while also showing Anna that Koujirou is taking this seriously which will win points from her; this still increases plot relevance.
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It's a perfectly serviceable plan and will probably have lots of great things come from it. I don't really have a problem with it.

I just like being meta.
 
boonerunner said:
It's a perfectly serviceable plan and will probably have lots of great things come from it. I don't really have a problem with it.

I just like being meta.
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Avalanche said:
This quest is less Meta thanks to setting tone. More and more lampooning of genre conventions and various other meta elements would have appeared in more positive toned settings. As is, such conventions are simply not appropriate to the story in general.

EDIT: To answer your question: No. There is no fourth wall as far as you are concerned.
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I just wanted to pop in in order to apologize to anyone who was offended by one of my previous comments or otherwise inconvenienced or bothered by the attention it brought to the quest. It crossed a line and it was in bad taste. I am sorry and it won't happen again.
 
rikalous said:
The only route listed where the main character's actions and attitudes towards us really matter is the one where we end up getting the guy. Saving the world or becoming best girl can happen completely independently of him.
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True. But we currently have direct control over the main character, and while that doesn't lend itself towards saving the world, it does give a clear opportunity to grant plot relevance (romantic or otherwise) to Anna. The fact that the entire fight is already focused on Anna is promising, but (had we cared to) we could have chosen completely in character actions for Koujirou which would have tilted things even more in Anna's favor from a plot standpoint.
 
Huh, rereading update 9 and Anna's backstory along with the GM entry for type 0 weapons...
Anna sure threw a lot of wrench in that battle.

I'm pretty sure the UN plan at the beginning was something like:
- Use fleet to distract Sekhmet as long as possible
- Valks assault the Breach, especially the AA Antagonist stationed.
- Call the Artillery on the Hive until it's dust.
- Regroup, restock, then assault Sekhmet.
All with the threat that Sekhmet manage to destroy the fleet before they could destroy the Hive, leaving them sandwiched inbetween or they retreat. Add the pressure that Sekhmet then up and disappeared from their sensors.

Of course, the reason then turned to be Anna, the then unknown bogey. Just imagine, there's this heavily damaged and battered frame (who also possibly lost some limbs) coming out of nowhere that then proceeded to mow down the Breach before going after the Hive and blowing it up sky high on her lonesome before buggering off, without a single word. That's how scary she is.

I now get the feeling that her unknown and >30k combat rating was because 30k is the limit of the scale that the UN used to grade the valks. Her combat rating is literally unknown because it broke the scale (and the testing ground when it comes to WFM)
 
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Alphaleph said:
Huh, rereading update 9 and Anna's backstory along with the GM entry for type 0 weapons...
Anna sure threw a lot of wrench in that battle.

I'm pretty sure the UN plan at the beginning was something like:
- Use fleet to distract Sekhmet as long as possible
- Valks assault the Breach, especially the AA Antagonist stationed.
- Call the Artillery on the Hive until it's dust.
- Regroup, restock, then assault Sekhmet.
All with the threat that Sekhmet manage to destroy the fleet before they could destroy the Hive, leaving them sandwiched inbetween or they retreat. Add the pressure that Sekhmet then up and disappeared from their sensors.

Of course, the reason then turned to be Anna, the then unknown bogey. Just imagine, there's this heavily damaged and battered frame (who also possibly lost some limbs) coming out of nowhere that then proceeded to mow down the Breach before going after the Hive and blowing it up sky high on her lonesome before buggering off, without a single word. That's how scary she is.

I now get the feeling that her unknown and >30k combat rating was because 30k is the limit of the scale that the UN used to grade the valks. Her combat rating is literally unknown because it broke the scale (and the testing ground when it comes to WFM)
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You think that's bad? You skipped the worst part. They followed that bogey to a war-torn village smack dab in the middle of enemy territory filled with corpses, fresh and old alike. Imagine what's running through the squad who followed her's heads. They might not draw the obvious conclusions as to what happened simply because of how unlikely it is for anyone to survive in this place, much less a whole town.

Then they spot the figure that just soloed a hive and type zero, on her knees, wracked with what must be unimaginable sorrow and horror. They try to approach, to see how they can help and she screams. It is the sound of a heart shattering.

Then, this unknown goes ballistic. The grace, the transcendent skill she displayed in the hive and against Sekhmet is nowhere to be seen and, even depleted, she's more heavily armed than anyone else. She isn't fighting the squad, she's firing at everything.
 
No. She tapped into the UN comms network, got overwhelmed because of both the volume and structure being wildly different than what she was used to, and passed out because it was too much for her to deal with in her current state.
 
Alphaleph said:
I think at that point Anna was pretty much out of fuel and has nothing to shoot with. Or no aiming at all.
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No. She tapped into the UN comms network, got overwhelmed because of both the volume and structure being wildly different than what she was used to, and passed out because it was too much for her to deal with in her current state.
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Nope
Avalanche said:
Stay here, stay hidden. I found where they are coming from, I'll stop them for good.​
Saskatoon Breach is down! It's down, it's down! Repeat, Saskatoon Breach is has been destroyed! - Holy shit, we found Type Zero Sekhmet! What? Of course it's dead, you think I'd still be alive to talk to you if it wasn't? -

Please…​
TAB 15, we have eyes on the bogey. It's a Valk. No IFF - Unknown Valk, please respond -

I'm back…​
Good god there is a town here? So close to three Breaches? - 'Was a town' are the right words. So many graves, oh my god. - The bodies in the cellar are still warm, the attack must have been within the last day… - Miss. Excuse me miss, we're part of the United Nations Armed Forces -

You're late.​
Dammit she's lost it, take her down! Take her down!
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She was enough of a threat that they had to 'Take her down' not just fly off.
 
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