#casfly

I was originally gonna try to do Anomaly Arbitration Knight 3 (free Lygus dragons) but AA was way too hard for this derpy team. I did do Knight 2 with Hyacine replacing Fugue in this team though! though Hyacine does kinda trivialize that knight so it's not as much as an accomplishment imho.

Also, it turns out I COULD NOT immediately detonate the second dragon, because on runs I did that Firefly left the second TV phase at ONE FUCKING PERCENT before Sparxie nuked the team. That means the 20% res pen from leaving Netherwing onfield for 3 turns was a necessary part of the run lol. However, doing the same with the first dragon meant that you couldn't get the second dragon in time to help with Sparxie's second phase, which meant Firefly failed the DPS check. I couldn't hold the first dragon to the second phase either because Fugue or Dahlia would have died to first phase.

There were some really close calls even on the winning run too:

I figured out that with this setup, you could get the first dragon in time for Sparxie ONLY by letting the MOC buff kill the last chicken and cutting between the phase changes with Firefly ult, which gave barely enough Newbud to squeeze a dragon in to hit the outside TVs before Firefly had her first turn. Except for the winning run, where this somehow DIDN'T happen and the dragon was only acquired by Sparxie's first action, just before sending Firefly into the TV.

The middle schoolgirl in Sparxie's first phase died to the Fire dot from Firefly. Somehow. Without that...actually now that I think about it I still would have passed first phase and might have actually helped with newbud gen. Huh.

While Firefly did sucessfully kill the first TV phase, she couldn't kill Sparxie's first phase before Sparxie got up and and restarted it at 4%. I ended up throwing Castorice into the TV both to allow Firefly to brute force that last 4% AND to build more Newbud.

After Castorice gets in the mech pod, Firefly asks why she never told Stelle the details of her condition, because Stelle already knows what Firefly went through with her own ELS. After Cas explains that she was just afraid of Stelle pulling away, Firefly retorts that by removing the chance of heartbreak, she also removes any hope of Stelle giving her happiness or a cure. After Cas’s scoff at the chance of a cure, Firefly reveals Stelle does in fact have a cure; or rather her godmother Herta created one after Stelle convinced her to help cure Firefly many years ago. An expensive cure, sure… but Firefly is willing to pay the bill for Castorice. And Polyxia, when Cas tells Firefly about her sister. Sure, it’ll hurt, but not more than it would hurt Castorice. Why? Because it’s the right thing to do. Castorice’s sudden flustered complaints about Firefly sounding like Stelle lead her (who is not as dense as Stelle) to realize that she’s accidentally seduced her rival, and leaves to let Castorice (and herself) process that.

After some shenanigans (and probably a cameo from Constance), Duke Inferno goes out like he did in canon (completely offscreen), and the two girls end up at Castorice’s house. Inside is not just Polyxia, but Castorice’s main doctor… Ruan Mei, aka Herta’s ex/rival/It’s Complicated. After putting two and two together, it’s revealed that the vaccine that cures Entropy Loss Syndrome (as well as dozens of other projects between the two ‘geniuses’) could have been invented a LOT sooner if they hadn’t been constantly sabotaging each other over the years. Castorice has A Crash Out about this, and suddenly the fiery passion in her eyes as she tears Ruan Mei a new one for letting petty rivalries get in the way of other’s happiness is very familiar to Firefly. Castorice ends her rant by saying something along the lines of “If you’re so incompetent at social interaction that you can’t be the bigger woman and leave, or make amends like a normal person, you can always just seduce her. That’s always effective.” And Firefly is suddenly happy to prove Castorice right.

After Castorice lets Firefly have some space (in a mirror to the previous ‘Oh’ moment), Firefly invites herself into Castorice’s room to accept her suit…only to find Castorice adjusting her shrine to Stelle (they’re both a little yandere) to have a picture of Firefly in it. Firefly has Some Emotions about it, and after a long conversation they agree to a new deal. 

Everyone at school is Very Confused at CasFly arriving together and acting like Historical Girl Best Friends…except Stelle, who is obliviously happy they’re getting along. Up until Castorice and Firefly wingman each other so hard that they break through Stelle’s density field. As the realization flashes across Stelle’s face, they let her have some space… and to make out in a supply closet because the (not best at all wtf) cure to jealousy is to make out with the person you’re jealous of. Obviously. look yandere’s gonna yandere even if they’re poly