#prodigy florian

Aight, so instead of just edgifying all the good characters, the protagonists/antagonists roles are actually swapped in the story. I'm doing Florian's redesign first because I absolutely despise the old one I drew.

background info:

So for the main plot(?) it's very similar to the OG game plot, except for the swapped roles. Kid gets escorted to school. Evil Guy shows up & gets rid of keystones. Que magical quest. It will have different scenes and outcomes, but all the characters are going to have most of the core personality traits (Puppet master oversharing, Pippet being extremely loyal, Noot being helpful (ish) sometimes, etc) that they have in-game.

So in this AU Florian is the average Petty Thief with ties to the Order and a sister who hates every fiber of his being for reasons. So almost as SOON as MC enters the forest Flora and Robin (Swap Puppet Master) ask them to help capture him because he stole an important artifact or sumthin.

Hijinks and some of the worst puns known to wizardkind ensue. At the end, Florian confronts the MC head on and loses spectacularly. the MC catches him and tries to bring him back to Flora, buuuut he escapes.

He forgot the artifact though- which happens to be the Firefly Keystone. Bam. OG mission finished.

Summary of character: Theater kid (derogatory). Lowkey kinda narcissistic and overly confident. But hey, the joking nature's still there, and there might be some development.

or not

idk yet

So instead of getting trapped in bubble things, all the teachers absorb differing amounts of shadow energy due to some eldritch being (not Puppet Master). Instead of focusing on the MC however, it mainly is abt the villians (order of influence) and newly corrupted teachers because I am OBSESSED with evil protags. AND HERES THE FUN PART, all the teachers have a small part of their conscience that is aware and tries to stop them from doing some pretty bad things. OH and Gale and the Puppet Master are connected (NOT A SHIP) because I fully headcannon that Puppet master is either Gale or Noot's shadow. The logic doesn't rlly follow up in cannon, but this aint cannon >:D