So I’m thinking of developing a relationship between Steve and Ishmael, aka noble hero aka this guy:
95% sure his name is a reference to something?
Anyway I’m thinking I’ll have them bond over the fact that they’re the only ppl who see to actually be scared of the quest they were on.
So basically after house good guys fall, Ishmael has nothing left and whatever wealth he saved up from selling his noble clothing, jewelry, and ALMOST his sword (all at much too cheap prices since he doesn’t actually know how much everything is worth—he didn’t know how anything less than 3 digits worth of gold was supposed to be valued at) he ended up broke and homeless, occasionally getting gigs reading and writing for food and clothing, and sometimes offering “security” services since he was still pretty good at fighting. However, eventually he had to resort to pick pocketing people for money.
[I do plan to dive deeper into the trauma and exploitation a homeless kid would go through living in the slums, but obviously I’d have to do research for that so it’s a 50/50 cuz on one hand it’s good angst, on the other I do not want to put effort into this crack isekai comic]
One day, Ismael realized he had to steal again for food so when he noticed a new group of adventurers running through town he decided to single out the one who was least likely to notice or, if he does, be able to kill in retaliation.
So of course he picked Steve, even though he had a big ass axe on him, he wasn’t very confrontational and his body language showed, making him the perfect target.
Ishmael does the classic “bump into him and walk off” routine and succeeds until antihero catches him.
Shenanigans ensue, Ishmael joins the party.
I’m thinking eventually they tackle his arch where I’ll be merging house bad guys with alpha males and make all of them vampires with baron bad guy being a sexy vampire (sorry to anyone who was a fan of old evil dadbod baron).
Shit happens and it’s an arch for basically everyone
Mary Sue—indoctrinated into hbg weird vampire sex cult bc the whole odd domestic abuser thing romance novels have for some reaso
Steve—failed to protect Mary Sue from being manipulated but maybe it’s not too late
Akai or whatever his name was— Baron offers him an actual harem in exchange for his loyalty
Ismael—trying to avenge his house and honor, only to accidentally bond with Steve about (almost)losing their only family to hbg and how they seem to be the only ones to see how scary the work actually is
Hero— so you know how Baron, despite being an evil advisor to the emperor and literally took out another house yet is still a BARON, one of the LOWEST LEVELS OF NOBILITY? I’m thinking this is because there’s some convoluted curse or contract keeping them so low and it can only be broken by
Marrying this one princess/duchess/ idk Ishmael’s younger sister???
Idk but they decided to lock her up in a tower until she comes of age.
The tower however, used to belong to an ancient wizard so powerful no one was able to reach his level even in the centuries after he’s passed, and if you’ve seen that one post about it, Yk what the noble lady was doing all this time.
Hero does the hero thing and goes to try and rescue her from the tower but upon discovering she’s actually been able to get out this entire time and is actually powerful af, he asks her for help during their quest instead. The princess, of course, agreed since she was waiting to kick vampire ass and her tower was running out of books.
Eventually they grow closer and become the ultimate power couple
I might have to rewatch JP’s videos to scan for any hints as to what I should name her or I might make something up on my own
So yeah, thank you for coming to my midnight plotting or smth