#overclass

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

If you have the social influence to be able to redefine yourself as "oppressed" and enforce that definition, you're not "oppressed."

If you have everyone from government, legacy media, entertainment, industry and academia pushing your mantras, talking points, narratives and "representation," you're not "oppressed," you're the ruling overclass.

You can't be both the "oppressed" and the one doing the oppressing at the same time.

[jasperlion]

Visiting someone w the bestie! Don't worry about it! :)

Just a little birthday boy!!

[midnight--capricorn]

Whoops it is a cap wip moment (because I kinda feel like I'm in a completely parallel universe today. Idfk today has just felt weird)

Anyway. I don't know if this will be canon to the AU, but hey- at least I get to draw Celica getting the unlucky roll of a 50% hit from a fire dragon in Thabes labyrinth that fucking instakilled her

[bigboobshaunt]

for the ask game thing i rbed from you: fe echoes

I like that the Cipher characters were in it. Yuzu voice: Ration Ball.

[liberalsarecool]

Going to the Right is a massive failure. Billionaires funding idiot candidates and their 'laundering resentments' has created the desperate MAGA underclass.

The conservative overclass, the Rush Limbaughs, the Tucker Carlsons, the InfoWars, and top con TV reality star Trump, all exploited and activated the fears inside impressionable low-info voters.

The inane conspiracies are all Right Wing. Don't lay MAGA at the feet of liberals.

[stellastra-scribbles]

February 2024 - Scrapped/unfinished design of an overclass/gremory outfit for Ivy.

Without a bunch of the fancy stuff.

My insp/refs for the design, all of which came from other Fire Emblem games.

FE: Echoes - Celica's shoes + Sonya's dress.

FE: Three Houses / Three Hopes - Dorothea + gremory ornaments.

FE: Engage - King Hyancinth + Sleipnir Rider + Queen Ivy ending illustration.

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

I’ve had this unit concept bouncing around in my mind for the Hypothetical Fire Emblem Game I’ll Never Make we all have for a while now, comprised of the following personal attributes:

- “Roboticist” - unremovable personal skill that allows unit to act like an fe8 summoner, though robots would be akin to Lyn doubles in that they would have identical stats and skills to the user bar their HP stat, 1. Their equipped weapon would be a saw (robot-exclusive weapon type, like the automata from Fates) based on the weapon rank of the user’s equipped weapon (standard iron/steel/silver sort of progression, filled in by a cav-effective saw between iron and steel, a magic saw between steel and silver and a brave saw at S).

- In this game, each unit would have a “personal overclass”, which can be entered by using an “Overseal” at Lv20 in a specific promoted class (e.g. this game’s version of Anna would be able to enter Master Merchant by using an Overseal at Lv20 Trickster). Upon reaching Lv20 Mechanist, this unit would be able to overclass into the “Rossumova” class (named for the piece of fiction that invented the word “robot”), an upgraded version of Mechanist with staff access and the following class skills:

- “Co-Pilot” - units with this skill can do Fates-style dual-strikes with one another (i.e. this unit and their robots)

- “Grey Goo Scenario” - difficulty balancing this skill is mostly why I’m writing in. The general gist is that this skill replaces (has a chance to replace?) an enemy defeated by a unit with this skill with an allied robot. This very obviously could be quite broken. A skill% proc chance could alleviate this slightly?

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[posttexasstressdisorder]

If you want to see what the GOP has in store for the rest of America, visit the Old South

Thom Hartmann

June 27, 2024 5:42AM ET

Photo by Miltiadis Fragkidis on Unsplash

Today is the first Biden-Trump debate and many Americans are wondering how each will articulate their ideas for the future of America.

Republicans have a very specific economic vision for the future of our country, although they rarely talk about it in plain language: they want to make the rest of America look and function just like Mississippi. Including the racism: that’s a feature, not a bug.

It’s called the “Southern Economic Development Model” (SEDM) and has been at the core of GOP economic strategy ever since the days of Ronald Reagan. While they don’t use those words to describe their plan, and neither did the authors of Project 2025, this model is foundational to conservative economic theory and has been since the days of slavery.

The SEDM explicitly works to:

— Maintain a permanent economic underclass of people living on the edge of poverty, — Rigidify racial and gender barriers to class mobility to lock in women and people of color, — Provide a low-cost labor force to employers,

— Prevent unions or any other advocates for workers’ rights to function, — Shift the tax burden to the working poor and what’s left of the middle class while keeping taxes on the morbidly rich extremely low, — Protect the privileges, power, and wealth of the (mostly white and male) economic overclass, — Ghettoize public education and raise the cost of college to make social and economic mobility difficult, — Empower and subsidize churches to take over public welfare functions like food, housing, and care for indigent people, — Allow corporations to increase profits by dumping their waste products into the air and water, — Subsidize those industries that financially support the political power structure, and, — Heavily use actual slave labor.

For hardcore policy wonks, the Economic Policy Institute(EPI) did a deep dive into the SEDM last month: here’s how it works in summary.

Republicans claim that by offering low-cost non-union labor and little to no regulatory oversight to massive corporations, they’re able to “attract business to the region.” This, they promise, will cause (paraphrasing President Kennedy out of context) “a rising tide that lifts all boats.”

Somehow, though, the only people who own boats that rise are those of the business owners and senior executives. The permanent economic underclass is key to maintaining this system with its roots in the old plantation system; that’s why Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina have no minimum wage, Georgia’s is $5.15/hour, and most other GOP states use the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour and $2.13/hour for tipped workers.

It’s thus no coincidence that ten out of the 20 Republican-run states that only use the federal minimum wage are in the Old South.

Anti-union or “right to work for less” efforts and laws are another key to the SEDM; the failed unionization effort last month at the Alabama Mercedes factory was a key victory for the GOP. Unions, after all, balance the power relationship between management and workers; promote higher wages and benefits; support workplace and product safety regulations; advance racial and gender equality; boost social mobility; and have historically been the most effective force for creating a healthy middle class.

Unionization, however, is antithetical to creating and maintaining a permanent economic underclass, which is why, as EPI notes, “while union coverage rates stand at 11.2% nationally, rates in 2023 were as low as 3.0% in South Carolina, 3.3% in North Carolina, 5.2% in Louisiana, and 5.4% in Texas and Georgia.”

Unions also make wage theft more difficult, essentially forcing government to defend workers who’ve been ripped off by their employers. That’s why Florida doesn’t even have a Department of Labor (it was dismantled by Republican Governor Jeb Bush in 2002), and the DOLs in Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina no longer bother to enforce wage theft laws or recover stolen money for workers.

Another key to the SEDM is to end regulation of corporate “externalities,” a fancy word for the pollution that most governments in the developed world require corporations to pay to prevent or clean up. “Cancer Alley” is probably the most famous example of this at work: that stretch from west Texas to New Orleans has more than 200 refineries and chemical plants pouring poison into the air resulting in downwind communities having a 7 to 21 times greater exposure to these substances. And high rates of cancer: Southern corporate profits are boosted by sick people.

Between 2008 and 2018, EPI documents, funding for state environmental agencies was “cut [in Texas and Louisiana] by 35.2% and 34.8% respectively.�� Funding was down by 33.7% in North Carolina, 32.8% in Delaware, 20.8% in Georgia, 20.3% in Tennessee, and 10% in Alabama.”

To keep income taxes low on the very wealthy, the SEDM calls for shifting as much of the taxpaying responsibility away from high-income individuals and dumping it instead on the working poor and middle class. This is done by either ending or gutting the income tax (Texas, Florida, and Tennessee have no income tax) and shifting to sales tax, property taxes, fees, and fines.

Nationally, for example, sales taxes provide 34.4% of state and local revenue, but in the SEDM states that burden is radically shifted to consumers: Tennessee, for example, gets 56.6% of their revenue from sales tax, Louisiana 53.3%, Florida 50.9%, Arkansas 49.6%, Alabama 48%, and Mississippi 45.5%. Fees for registering cars, obtaining drivers’ and professional licenses, tolls, traffic and other fines, and permits for home improvements all add to the load carried by average working people.

Republicans argue that keeping taxes low on “job creators” encourages them to “create more jobs,” but that old canard hasn’t really been taken seriously by anybody since Reagan first rolled it out in 1981. It does work to fill their money bins, though, and helps cover the cost of their (tax deductible) private jets, clubs, and yachts.

Another way the SEDM maintains a low-wage workforce is by preventing young people from getting the kind of good education that would enable them to move up and out of their economic and social class. Voucher systems to gut public education, villainization of unionized teachers and librarians, and increasing college tuition all work together to maintain high levels of functional illiteracy. Fifty-four percent of Americans have a literacy rate that doesn’t exceed sixth grade, with the nation’s worst illiteracy mostly in the Old South.

Imposing this limitation against economic mobility on women is also vital to the SEDM. Southern states are famous for their lack of female representation in state legislatures (West Virginia 13%, Tennessee 14%, Mississippi and South Carolina 15%, Alabama and Louisiana 18%), and the states that have most aggressively limited access to abortion and reproductive healthcare (designed to keep women out of the workplace and dependent on men) are entirely Republican-controlled.

Perhaps the most important part of the SEDM pushed by Republicans and Project 2025 is gutting the social safety net. Wealthy rightwingers have complained since FDR’s New Deal of the 1930s that transferring wealth from them to poor and middle-class people is socialism, the first step toward a complete communist tyranny in the United States. It’s an article of faith for today’s GOP.

Weekly unemployment benefits, for example, are lowest in “Mississippi ($235), Alabama ($275), Florida ($275), Louisiana ($275), Tennessee ($275), South Carolina ($326), and North Carolina ($350)” with Southern states setting the maximum number of weeks you can draw benefits at 12 in Florida, North Carolina, and Kentucky, 14 in Alabama and Georgia, and a mere 16 weeks in Oklahoma and Arkansas.

While only 3.3% of children in the Northeast lack health insurance, for the Southern states that number more than doubles to 7.7%. Ten states using the SEDM still refuse to expand Medicaid to cover all state residents living and working in poverty, including Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas.

The main benefit to employers of this weak social safety net is that workers are increasingly desperate for wages — any sort of wages — and even the paltriest of benefits to keep their heads above water economically. As a result, they’re far more likely to tolerate exploitative workplace conditions, underpaid work, and wage theft.

Finally, the SEDM makes aggressive use of the 13th Amendment’s legalization of slavery. That’s not a metaphor: the Amendment says, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” [emphasis added]

That “except as punishment for crime” is the key. While Iceland’s and Japan’s incarceration rates are 36 for every 100,000 people, Finland and Norway come in at 51, Ireland and Canada at 88, there are 664 people in prison in America for every 100,000 people. No other developed country even comes close, because no other developed country also allows legalized slavery under color of law.

Fully 800,000 (out of a total 1.2 million prisoners) Americans are currently held in conditions of slave labor in American jails and prisons, most working for private prison corporations that profitably insource work and unfairly compete against normal American companies. Particularly in the South, this workforce is largely Black and Hispanic.

As the ACLU documented for the EPI, “The vast majority of work done by prisoners in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas is unpaid.” Literal slave labor, in other words. It’s a international scandal, but it’s also an important part of this development model that was, after all, first grounded in chattel slavery.

The Christian white supremacist roots of the SEDM worldview are best summed up by the lobbyist and head of the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution, Vance Muse — the inventor of the modern “right to work for less” model and advocate for the Southern Economic Development Model — who famously proclaimed in 1944, just days after Arkansas and Florida became the first states to adopt his anti-union legislation, that it was all about keeping Blacks and Jews in their places to protect the power and privileges of wealthy white people.

So, if you want to see what Republicans have in mind for the rest of America if Trump or another Republican becomes president and they can hold onto Congress, just visit the Old South. Or, as today’s MAGA GOP would call it, “the New Model.”

[dyspunktional-leviathan]

If something is abusive when done by a man/boy towards a woman/girl, it also is abusive when the other way, same-gender and/or involving those who are neither.

Which is not to say that women/girls and nonbinary/genderqueer people are privileged in relation to men/boys (women are in relation to boys but on the age axis) but rather that you have internalized that those things are bad not because they are nonconsensual but because they are done by men/boys towards women/girls.

This also applies to any other overclass&underclass.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

It's also a good sign that you're the ruling overclass, not the underdogs.

[surpriseroundtellyourfriends]

RED STITCH LOVERS... REPORT!!!

(Thoughts on the finale below! NOT spoiler-free!)

What a fantastic finish cap to a fantastic show. You may have seen me complain about the endings to the other arcs before, but you won't see me complaining about this one. We wrapped up just about every loose thread (no pun intended), and those left dangling seem to be saved for the afterparty.

Notable highlights:

THE ISABELLE AND IAN SIBLING MOMENT... I was so happy multiple people drew it; I want to animatic it. I cheered so fuckin loud, tbh. Ian IS the shitty older brother, and Isabelle is his darling twin sister who will keep him in line, and together they will murder their Uncle Hunterpalm <3

(I am specifically referring to him comforting and teasing her while she cried into his shoulder but ALSO, what is more sibling-coded than planning how to commit a murder and hide the body together?)

Unexpectedly delightful dynamic between Cadmus and Hutch. This whole time, Cadmus has been the only party member who really HATES Hutch with a vitriol, and the animosity with Cadmus trying to steal a buff from him (albeit while saving his life) was just so good. And then Hutch using his overclass to full-restore Cadmus (WHO FINALLY GOT TO NOT DIE DURING A FIGHT) and offering to help get revenge on Vice afterwards? Really good stuff.

(And like, we NEEDED that confirmation that Vice was gonna get his just desserts. I would've thrown hands if we didn't.)

Lots of good polycule bits. "If you were hitting on me, you're gonna have to get in line. There's forms and stuff." I fucking love these science freaks.

THE GROUP HUG... even though Florence was not technically a part of it, I'm pretending she was.

On the note of Roob being gone for so long—much as I also wanted them to get back, tbh? I think it provided an EXCELLENT excuse for (non-combat-planning) roleplay. Some of the best moments likely wouldn't have happened if Roob hadn't dipped.

God bless Craigor for INSISTING they all go out and get ice cream. In my head, Craigor's vital role in the found family is that he keeps everyone sane by forcing them to indulge in small pleasures like dairy queen.

Cadmus removing Florence's stitch for her was such a good casual moment of intimacy. It's like letting someone do your makeup for you, only in a more brutal and fucked-up scenario because it's RSR. Nobody fucking look at me I love their friendship and will talk about it for ages

I actually like how Isabelle's "dry anger" finally broke into crying. It feels more in-character that she's been trying to act tough and uncaring this whole time, but really, she's just overwhelmed. I also like how it's more obvious now when she's being possessed by Venutia. HUGE "the souls of the innocent" "a bagel!" energy.

On that note: there's a moment I've always loved where Isabelle uses a Beam of Unreality and deletes several rock fans, and Connor says to Cadmus "stick with me here: there might be something more dangerous to your health here than the goddamn rock and rollers," to which Cadmus (who didn't see the beam) replies "who, Isabelle? she wouldn't hurt a fly!"

What I'm saying is, I want that moment to happen again but now with both Isabelle and Cadmus having the knowledge that she IS a monster. But they both choose to keep quiet about it. That's Cadmus's work daughter, he is not losing ANOTHER person in his life—

ISABELLE IN GENERAL WAS GREAT THIS SESSION. HER BIG SPEECH? A+. GOOD JOB, SIX, YOU GAVE A CONCLUSIVE THEME AND CAP TO THIS SHOW THAT HAD THE BALLS TO BRING UP THE QUESTIONS JELLO WOULDN'T.

Carol/Carmen in general was a really great antagonist. Sympathetic in nature, simple motivations that make sense to her character, and still a massive bitch who needs to be stopped. I don't have any brainrot over her but I felt the need to acknowledge her since, y'know, the whole series kinda hinged on her.

Congrats to that one person for getting their rat canonized

in conclusion,

RSR good

[midnight--capricorn]

Now that I'm thinking about Skye, Mabel and Mercurius- they were always in a quartet. It's just that Arion is now the fourth member of that quartet and not Mal or Firis (the old fire emblem OC who was there- he was a wyvern rider)

I kinda prefer it like this because it's two physical weapon users (cav and pegasus knight) and two magic users (monk and guru)

[haggishlyhagging]

The history of drawing on feminist language and theory to sell products has been driven by the idea that female consumers are empowered by their personal consumer choices—indeed, that choice, rather than being a means to an end, is the end itself. The idea that it matters less what you choose than that you have the right to choose is the crux of "choice feminism," whose rise coincided with the rapid, near-overwhelming expansion of consumer choice that began in the 1980s. Consumption, always associated with status, became elevated as a measure of liberation and swelled with the self-obsession of the privileged but insecure. Tom Wolfe identified this dynamic in his coinage of the term "Me Decade," and later satirized it in his 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities. Historian Christopher Lasch, author of the 1979 bestseller The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, laid the enshrinement of a cycle of consumption and neediness at the doorstep of the advertising and marketing industries, but also excoriated left-wing movements, feminism included, as enablers. (The temperamentally antifeminist Lasch would later target burgeoning marketplace feminism in his posthumously published collection Women and the Common Life, writing that "the feminist movement, far from civilizing corporate capitalism, has been corrupted by it. It has adopted mercantile habits of thought as its own.")

The feminist cultural historian and media critic Susan J. Douglas has noted, for instance, that the success of advertising to women in the 1980s hinged on its effective pairing of status and power with liberation. As neoliberal, greed-is-good, if-I-have-an-umbrella-it-must-not-be-raining rhetoric became the common tongue of the overclass, luxury beauty products, designer labels, and exercise regimens (Buns of Steel, anyone?) became liberatory achievements, rather than mere consumer goods. "For women in the age of Reagan," wrote Douglas, "elitism and narcissism merged in a perfect appeal to forget the political already, and get back to the personal, which you might be able to do something about.” The representations of choice in a time of tacit postfeminism translated neatly into what could be called "empowertising"—an advertising tactic of lightly invoking feminism in acts of exclusively independent consuming.

Take the infamous 1994 billboards for Wonderbra that featured model Eva Herzigova looking down in delight at her suddenly pneumatic breasts swelling out of a scalloped black bra, alongside the words "Hello Boys." The Wonderbra had been sold in the UK since the mid-1960s, but sales rocketed up thanks to the billboards. The ads worked so well in part because they were tongue-in-check (others in the series read "Look me in the eyes and tell me you love me" and "... Or are you just happy to see me?"), but also because they assumed a level of what feminist theorist Angela McRobbie calls "feminism taken into account"—a belief that the movement's success has rendered it irrelevant as something to be considered in shaping culture. You can almost hear the rationale proffered in the Wonderbra billboard concept review: "This would seem sexist if we didn't know better, but we do know better, and because women know we know better, this is, in fact, empowering." If Herzigova, Kate Moss, and the millions of other women who sent Wonderbras flying out of department stores were making the choice to wear this underpinning, and they’re exhibiting sexual agency in doing so, such logic went, what's more feminist than that?

There are no concrete numbers on how many consumers indulged that postmodern reading of the ads, but based on Herzigova's own reflections twenty years later, probably not a ton. Recalling the billboards (which, in 2011, were voted the most iconic ever by Britain's Outdoor Media Centre), she initially told the UK's Mail Online, "My Wonderbra campaign empowered women.... It didn't degrade them like some said." But in the same article, Herzigova complained that when she tried to shift from modeling to acting, Hollywood executives wanted to check out her underthings first: "I met people who said, Yes, we can talk about the movie over dinner. I was, like, What dinner? I can just read the script here." The fact that the supposedly empowering ad did nothing to chip away at the routine sexualization of women—that it might have further galvanized it, even—didn't seem to register.

-Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once

[khr-guilded-cage]

As the matter of Luciana's teacher, I choose Persephone, and I am changing Percy to Zagreus for Skull's identity, he can interact with his mother

For one Queen of the Underworld for another, Persephone casually begin in the Vongola Mansion if she owned the place

Timoteo's protests were ignored, Luciana politely told him Vongola was hers now and she would do whatever she wanted with the family, if he tried to stop her, Luciana would murder him.

Persephone, the Dreaded Queen of Death, was terrifing as she as beautiful. Gained everyone's fear by easily showing how stronger she was than any Element Vongola could produce, casually beating the crap out of any mafiosi that tried anything, while wearing a bright spring dress and flowers

Luciana matched her aethetic to Persephone, surrounding the Mansion with asphodels and skulls, beyond many many greek aesthetic.

Nono keep trying to shove tutors at her, Luciana made the habit of killing them, she disliked murder, but those people won't listen otherwise. She is tired of the old man trying to control her.

Hades also keep showing up to his daughter now's house, any Vongola guard attempt to stop him got themselves killed, the god of death was not patience with those arrogant mortals

When Hades politely told Timoteo Luciana as his daughter, he had all the right to visit her any time he wanted. Iemitsu nearly had a aneurism, this powerful unknow begin the heir's father was bad news

CEDEF was running off like headless chiken attempts to find out more about Luciana's relatives who keep showing up and overclassing everyone

Hades keep showing up to the Vongola Mansion like he owned the place, nothing the guards did could stop the god, Luciana welcomed him happily and refused to make him leave like Timoteo wanted

'This is Family matter, young lady'

'He is literally my father'

Hades merely smiled amused at the mortal man, he is old and would be in his realm soon, the death god had a special punishment for those people

Thanatos visisted often, every time she killed a mafiosi, to see their reactions to death itself

The dark man clearly had a good relationship with his daughter and a level of influence over her, this wasn't good for the Famiglia

'Well, he is my father, can do whatever he wants, he is family, different from you. A mere distant cousin I barely know.'

Nono already had so little control over Luciana and her pack of Guardians, her vast paternal family was a danger, the heir needed to be loyal to their Famiglia, having outsider loyalities was bad, having another family, one she actually cared about, was not good.

The man was a threat to the Vongola Famiglia and need to be...taken care of

He needed to get Luciana's family under his control, in the Vongola, a way to turn Luciana's loyality to the Vongola. Make them part of the Vongola, therefore family

Luciana Allegri was too brash, too angry, to rebellious, too furious, she wasn't like sweet kind civilian Tsuna. Yoshida Kazue was equally bad, so different than his sister, Nono expected him to be calmer, softer like Nana, a way to calm down his fiance's temper. But the boy just supported her anger, encouraged her desire for revenge for his nephew instead of seeking a more peaceful approach. Kazue would happily drown a man in gasoline while Luciana set him on fire, he would hold a man down while she behead him.

Iemitsu keep trying to appease his brother-in-law, they were family after all

Sawada Nana had been brought to Italy, in attempts to...soften the relationship betwen Nono and his heiress, the woman keep arranging dinners between her brother and husband, to ensure the things didn't escalate and in hopes to make Luciana more open to listening to their advice

It didn't worked, one particular dinner ended up with Chiara, the Storm, slapping Nana across the face and calling her a worthless delusional bitch

'Now Kazue-kun, its not nice to talk to family like that.' The blond idiot said. 'As I was telling Nana, we are making a deal with Luciana-chan, it good to have her help on this, don't it Nana-chan?'

'Shut up, Sawada.' Kazue snapped, tired of his brother-in-law's manipulations

Nana stared wided-eyed 'Kazue! Don't talk to Iemitsu like that!'

Luciana cut her off 'No, we will not, as I said before, Sawada, multiple times, I won't help you, Basil won't be CEDEF. Mei will be my CEDEF Head. And my relatives won't join Vongola, you are to leave them be.'

Iemitsu frowned, clearly not liking begin told no. 'C'mon, Kazue-kun, Nana-chan would be upset, you don't want to break your sister's heart, do you?' He said, grinning.

'No, Sawada, my wife already said no, end of the story, you fucker.'

'Kazu-kun, please.' Nana cried, tears falling down her eyes. Why they just don’t listen to her darling husband? She wanted to make him happy, why her half-brother couldn't just do what Iemitsu wanted? Her husband would stay with her more and Nana would her perfect happy family again, Nana though in frustation 'why Kazue-kun is such a terrible child?' She sobbed. Why those people dont obey her beloved Iemitsu-kun?

Chiara casually walked over Nana and slapped her hard, making her fall on the floor crying.

'We are leaving' Luciana declared. 'Go fuck yourself, Sawada Iemitsu.'

Vongola's reputation took a heavy hit eith Tsunayoshi's death, four dead heirs and one ilegitimate rebel, Luciana's absolute and open hatred of Timoteo wasn't helping his image, he needed the girl on his side, the Famiglia needed to be united and strong in time of striffe, with Xanxus's coup it had already weakened

The girl was uncooperative with Nono's plans, refusing to even begin polite to him, loudly calling him a old bastard and telling to get the fuck away from her in the middle of a important ball of the Alliance, her Guardians around her. She called him the Kisnlayer

[thefairykingssword]

What kind of gameplay stuff do you have planned, like skills, reclassing, that sort of thing

Yes to skills! I rather like them.

Reclassing! You can change the class of a promoted unit to the alternative branch at level 10 using a second seal. Second Seals are very rare though, and the new class can only go up to level 10. However, I am considering including third stage classes, but I'm not sure about that yet. You know what, have a poll.

[blazlngblade]

Overclassed Dorrie today!

Dorrie got his 6-Star status in the latest update, and since he's one of my favourite 3-Stars, why not!

Then decided to stack his magic a bit higher...

With his "Blessing of Light" skill, I did this much damage.

And with his Special, he got to the highest that his damage cap allowed!

I am so proud of him!