（KHV Musical）What?'s Plot

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★ THE PLOT ⬊

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What?'s Giant Plot List Extravaganza Desu​

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PLOT I

<< Redshift >> "Duty, to the morals of all or duty, to morals of the self?"​

Genre:​

Science Fiction, Political, Tragedy, Romance, Mystery​

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Setting:​

Retro-futuristic space technology across various planets in a solar system representing KHV. Planets typically have differing and uniquely individual environments, however. Staff technology is decidedly ornate and baroque but still has space-y futurist influences. Clothing takes cues from late 19th Century Victorian fashion with 1930s and futurist twists.​

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Themes:​

Justice, Reconciliation, Crime, Class Struggle, Revolution, Loyalty and Duty, Freedom, Family and Identity, Love, Allegory and Metaphor, Conscience, Deities and Gods, Enlightenment, Aristocracy, European Romanticism, Space​

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Spoiler: Warning: Very Very Long

All characters except OC will be existing KH members. The Captain is ... well, you will see, and Lady Jayn is Jayn.

This summary contains horrible grammar and run-on sentences because I wrote it in a rush.
Also this plot is ridiculous and horrible and incoherent and makes no sense probably because I wrote it in a rush.

Music in this musical will be in multiple places not explicitly stated in the plot summary (but there will be some indications for major scenes).

In a retro-futuristic KHV spanning multiple planets in a cosmic system, OC has become a “Returned” - a free member after dropping his permaban sentence due to the appeal passing by one vote of an unknown staff member, the Savior, who constantly haunts OC as the “granter of their freedom”. Though OC is technically free, their “Returned” status makes them a social outcast. OC's “Returned” status causes them to fall into the lower class crowd and underworld, where they befriend another Returned who gives OC a home, an identity, and a place – and after forming the Scarlet Space Pirates as Captain to “liberate the cosmos from social injustice” after going around the various planets seeing such “social injustice” firsthand, a purpose as well, even if the more pacifistic OC does not necessarily agree with the Captain's radical methods. The Captain and the Savior continually haunt the consciousness of OC, and to whom OC should be more loyal in their goals with. The OC is tutored by the Captain, but the OC also keeps a sort of shrine to the Savior through any evidence they may find in tracking down that mysterious staff member – which proves to be little since staff rarely ever appear in person, if ever. The OC seems to be, eventually, the only one of the pirates who does not outright hate the staff. Things are turned upside down when, at a time a few years later when the cosmic system is on the verge of civil war among the staff themselves, the staff directly engage the pirates' Scarlet Armada for the first time. The conflict also puts OC's beliefs into question, and culminates with a duel between OC and the Captain over “duty to morals of all or duty to morals of the self”. The staff, appearing visibly in their hyper-futuristic technology (contrasting with the retro-futurism as being much more Baroque instead of Art Deco), slowly and systematically destroy the Scarlet Armada. The captain of this fleet, Lady Jayn, captures OC as a prisoner of the conflict, and the Captain is presumably left to die by the black holes created through damaging the hulls of the staff's ships.

OC is now among the staff, one of the few survivors of the attack on the Scarlet Armada. They take residence on the staff's Elegant Fleet, a collection of Baroque-styled ships that travel through the cosmos through bending space-time (instead of normal ionic propulsion), and are usually hidden through a warped cloak of dark matter and gravitational lensing. Where OC learned about many of the common members in the space pirates' travels, OC learns about the personal lives of the mysterious staff here, and learn that the “schism among staff” is true, as arguments have been very commonplace – but not to the extent of civil war, which is a rumour, probably spread by an unknown force. On the eve of decisions for the prisoners of war, OC is considered to be checked on his probation, and has one last chance before again being permanently banned – this time without appeal. OC must help repair the state of the cosmic system, including the staff schism, by undergoing training as a staff member themselves, since the staff believe that OC contains the potential after observing OC's mediating actions throughout the cosmos. OC agrees but also asks to find out who granted them their freedom in the first place. Staff reject the idea, but this prompts Lady Jayn to take up OC as her apprentice. OC undergoes training among all of the staff one by one, while learning about them and their methods personally, and OC finds that though the staff mean well they have become unintentionally distant from the less privileged members of cosmic society. As Lady Jayn personally trains OC, she slowly instills the thought in OC's head that she was the one who voted for their freedom, but never says this outright and keeps it ambiguous. OC becomes very loyal to Lady Jayn, and decides to become her personal “protector” after training is over. OC is “redshifted” (crowned a sectional moderator) at the end of their training, and is to look after the sections most in ruin at the moment – the Spam Zone and Introductions/Departures. OC learns that, upon being redshifted, they, like the other staff members, gain the powers to alter various aspects of spacetime, and OC settles on the basic power of the gravitational force. OC tests these with elegant song-duels with all of the purple-branded staff, and is able to best all of them except Lady Jayn. This is considered sufficient enough, and OC is expelled from the Elegant Fleet in order to directly police the remaining dissent among the cosmos as the Genesis Test. Throughout this entire ordeal, though their loyalty to Lady Jayn as their apparent Saviour has become immense, they continue to think of the Captain, and how he had been abandoned by the ruins of the Scarlet Armada.

Upon returning to the cosmos, it is seen that the dissent has grown even worse in the past few years on the Elegant Fleet. Many planets have declared martial law, and the Introduction/Departure planet has been engulfed by an “unknown force” that may threaten the rest of the cosmos and has charged the anti-staff dissent with paranoia. OC once again visits their old homeworld of the Spam Zone, now more ruinous, as they hide their staff identity and join an organization titled the Green Gem. Formerly a crime organization, their efforts turned to vigilantism when locally declared governments began rounding up and abusing new and immigrant planet members. OC realizes that a few of their old friends from back before the space pirate days – those who stayed on the planet and did not join the Captain – are members of the Green Gem, though they do not know who OC is. OC travels through the planets with the help of the Green Gem, calming dissent and being known throughout the system as the elegant revolutionary. However, at heart, OC does all of this to get the approval of Lady Jayn and to find out the whereabouts of the Captain. As OC and the Green Gem get closer and closer to the void where the Introduction/Departure section used to be, they also learn about the many changes that have taken place on the cosmos – and the imminent doom of the strange “being that ate the Intro/Departure planet”, called many names such as the “Quiet Void”, the “Creeping Silence”, the “Voiceless”, the “Galactic Glutton”, and other things.

The Green Gem's fleet – with OC as the captain – eventually reach the border of the Creeping Silence – an enormous spherical black “gap” in space that appears to perfectly surround the Introduction/Departure world. What is more, it is clear that the Creeping Silence is rapidly expanding. The fleet attempts to enter the space, but inside – to their surprise – they are met by strange attacks from the warped spacetime inside the gap itself, as if in a storm. Some ships are literally “dissolved” into the gap's space, while others are ejected out of it. The gap emits a few more of its black spheres to chase after the other ships, but these eventually dissipate outward. It is later learned that these dissipated spheres had consumed another planet – proving the myth of this Creeping Silence. The remaining fleet regroup in the Discussion section, where OC and a few closer friends engage in a night of starlight festival dates (with OC being mocked due to his loyalty to “a Lady”, where he cannot say Lady Jayn's name in public). Here, they reflect upon the stars and thinks about the Captain, and cringe at the injustice of how the man who gave them a home was cruelly defeated. Eventually, with information from the residents, they are ready, and set off again.

The fleet once again reaches the gap and enters. This time, the fleet stays intact, but OC realizes the deeper they go, more of OC's fellow crew members disappear slowly and slowly. The storm-like surges eventually become too much for OC's flagship and it crashes in an unknown pocket of compressing space. OC later wakes up on a vast clear puddle reflecting the stars, marked with a few torches here and there. Looking at their reflection, OC is forced to fight this reflection as it emerges out of the water and takes the shape of the Captain. It emits quotes that the Captain had previously said to musical tunes, and when OC defeats it and it shatters into crystalline pieces, the entire plane collapses and OC is sent into a dazed state.

OC here sees a flashback, narrating it directly. It is of an unknown young gentleman who OC seems slightly familiar with. Dressed elegantly, it tells the story of this young man being a very elegant and well-versed staff member. In his newest state, he befriends a young lady – also a very elegantly dressed new staff member, and he is shown to be visiting the various worlds, gaining the positive fervour of the cosmos. A genius of law and mathematics, he completely rewrites the cosmic rules and justice system, and brings further peace to many worlds. However, he begins to fall in love with the young lady – the only other person who treats him not as just a staff member but as a human. They court each other, dance, and even have training fights together. But these positives do not last for too long. At this time, the staff are a very visible presence around the cosmos, and the amount of messages and creepy offers to the man's lady become infuriating to the man, who has become slightly clingy. He tries his best to dissipate these increasingly harassing letters to the lady, but efforts grow worse as he has a slight falling out with her and a number of older planet citizens begin protesting his law reforms. He sets off away from the staff to travel the planets in a similar vein as OC did, personally attempting to get rid of the letters that harass his female companion. The man mistimes a number of these, leading to him getting into fights with a number of members. His female companion begins fighting with him for having to fight with others, saying “that is not proper staff conduct, especially over personal issues”. The public's opinion of him begins to degrade slowly, and begins to grow distant from his female companion yet cannot think of her as anyone else but the only one who can understand him. However, it is upon deciding the fate of a certain ban appeal that results in a final disagreement between the man and the woman. The man breaks the tie of the vote, and this startles the woman, who firmly believes that the appealed person's offence should not let them be released. They break up, and this sends the man into agony. The appeal will take another year to go through. In this time, the staff slowly erase all traces of what is known of their images by the populace, leaving only writing, and begin to remove themselves from visibility because of the backlash that the man will generate.

Blaming himself, he sets away from the rest of the staff and drifts among the planets, known as the “forsaken staff member”, attempting to drown his sorrows. He eventually gets into another fight with a former harasser of his ex-girlfriend, and accidentally harms the man to the point of near-death. Due to such improper conduct, the man is stricken of his rank and is banned from society for a while. It is here that the lady reveals characteristics showing she is Lady Jayn. The man is eventually released and assumes a new name, drifting to the shadowy underworld of the Spam Zone due to the fact that he had shamed himself with his former identity. He later meets the member that he had voted yes to their freedom – the formerly permabanned member, the OC, and the rest is history.

OC once again wakes up, this time on a grassy plain by the stars. This revelation causes OC to lose their mind, and it is reflected in the nature of the environment itself, which twists and turns to former scenes of OC's past experience, as OC walks through this on the single straight path. OC is temporarily brought back to sanity when they once again return to the vast starlit puddle plane. Here OC sees the figure of the Captain again – stating that OC knows about his past, and calling this vast plane the “Waltz of the Meridian”, or the border between the physical manifestations of thought and pure thought itself. The Captain claims that all of his efforts were really a way to get back at his failures of the people and how corrupt he became as staff. The Captain started the rumour of the civil war to undermine the staff and overpower the members. The Captain claims that all he can do now is consume and consume, as this giant spatial gap is a manifestation of his own conscience. The Captain and OC get into a final duel over the sorrows and the loyalty over Lady Jayn, and it is revealed that the Captain had black hole powers in his possession, explaining this giant black hole-like scenario and a few other minor implied and foreshadowed uses while captain of the space pirates. The battle rips apart the gap slowly, but the Captain is eventually defeated by the arrival of Lady Jayn – the Captain and Lady Jayn talk, and the mutual apologies and forgiving allow the Captain to disappear. Lady Jayn turns to OC and claims that she had to use the OC in order to settle this issue once and for all and get in contact with the Captain again, but the OC, finally realizing their efforts, feels that they have been in the shadow of too many people for two long, and wishes to quit the staff to be an independent person, and be no longer used by anyone. Lady Jayn claims they can only do this if they beat her in a duel, and the two have a final musical fight, where it is shown that Lady Jayn has time powers, explaining her amazing reaction skills and strange time periods in the Captain's story. Lady Jayn is defeated with the power of OC's individual will, and as she disappears, the gap begins to disintegrate. OC, however, now quickly realizing all of the challenges towards their beliefs, breaks down and blacks out.

OC now floats through space, where their voice cannot be heard as a whole. However, they drift through the debris of the Green Gem fleet and they are able to travel through the wreckage. By OC's own will, they find some survivors – some of OC's closest friends, and sing a song led by OC themselves into the stars in order to call for help, where “a single voice may not receive any heed but many voices echo through the universe”. Jayn's old staff ship appears, as if on queue, and the members of Green Gem are permitted to board. Here, OC relinquishes his redshift to the admins, despite them having passed the test with flying colours, and returns with the Green Gem to the Spam Zone, and the Green Gem are surprised at how far the staff went to keep the peace among the people, and how friendly the staff can be if they become more visible and active, at the exchange of being treated more respectfully. In the Spam Zone, the Green Gem is treated with a hero's welcome, but the OC hides themselves away from the crowds, and slowly wades through the backstreets to their old apartment – possibly having seen a trace of Lady Jayn hiding herself. In the old apartment, they reach their where they slowly tuck themselves in bed and rest, but not after singing the song that the Captain first taught them when they were indoctrinated into the Captain's “family”.

 

This is so awesome. Have you given any thought into condensing it for a VN? And what do you recommend for art work for the spaceships? I have never seen one in a VN?