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The wars of tomorrow will be fought with magic and super-tech.
The wars of tomorrow will be over the top, fought with explosions and heavy
weapons, and disregard all concept of collateral damage. The wars of tomorrow
will be fought by soldiers trained in strict discipline, and indoctrinated into
bitter, pointless enmity.
The wars of tomorrow will be school rivalries. Welcome to
New Canyon High.
Series name: The War
for New Canyon High
Our heroes go to New Canyon High School, a
deliberately quaint school. The two-story building is sandwiched between six
titanic, hundred-story apartment buildings, with an antigrav platform hovering above
the school with a high-powered LED light to simulate sunlight. (There will be
an episode where New Canyon’s rivals turn this into an orbital death laser.)
New Canyon is locked in an eternal rivalry with their semi-neighbors,
The Socratic Institute for Advanced Pupils (the acronym is pronounced “psi-app”).
SIAP is located on top of one of the neighboring apartment buildings, and
attracts only the smartest, the most ruthless, and definitely the richest
students from across the solar system. Like New Canyon, SIAP is a boarding
school, but SIAP’s school uniforms are hyper-fashionable variants of jumpsuits
and flight jackets, with unofficial tolerance for clothes that still look as
rich and incorporate the core colors and designs. The rivalry between the two
schools dates back decades.
[Scene]
Zax: “So… what exactly started this rivalry?”
Katlyn: “Betrayal from on high…”
Flashback: A bored-looking SIAP student is at the edge of the roof, tapping through her phone. Bored, she flips a quarter, catches it, flips it, catches it, then tosses it over the railing. The camera pans over a bit, follows the coin as it reaches the apex of its arc, spinning slightly, then the camera drops fast down the 200 stories. We see a brand-new school with the sign “Canyon High School,” with a number of students and teachers standing as an idealistic-looking principal gives a speech at a podium. A streak of silver falls, and there’s a beat-pause as she stands still, then falls over, the entire crowd erupting with concern.
Zax: “That’s… wow, that’s insane.”
Zax: “Wait, the sign said ‘Canyon High School.’ How did it
become ‘New Canyon’?”
Flashback: The same bored-looking SIAP student is tapping through her phone again, in a mirror of the earlier shot. She tosses something small over the edge again, looking bored; we track the object to the apex of the toss, then a picture-in-a-picture shows the student tapping a skull-and-crossbones button on her phone’s screen, and the small capsule she threw abruptly explodes out into a giant anvil. The camera drops down to Canyon High, where a number of students and teachers are hanging a wreath on a casket. All are in tears. We get about three seconds of this shot before KABAM.
Jaydah is a recent junior-year transfer to New
Canyon, originally being a student at SIAP. She was a robotics wiz, leading the
robotics club to awards and prestige, the only currency of note at SIAP. In her
shadow was Raeyan, a SIAP student with a decent knack for robotics, but driven
to dominate any group she’s a part of. Raeyan had seniority in the club, so
Jaydah put up with her ordering the club around and taking all the credit.
Collaborating with her on robotics was productive, too, Raeyan had a
determination that often made workable some stroke of genius that Jaydah’d had.
Before a major tournament, though, they’d all worked themselves ragged, and when
Raeyan gave her an order, Jaydah snapped back.
Raeyan grabbed her, dragged her out of the room, and threw
her off the roof. This marked the end of their collaboration.
In the stress of the fall, Jaydah’s genetic affinity for air
magic showed itself, and she floated safely down to ground, landing softly in
New Canyon’s main courtyard. Reviews of her landing were mixed, with some New
Canyon students appreciating the aesthetics and the gentle landing, and others charging
energy blasts because a SIAP student had just come to New Canyon. She convinced
most of them to let her transfer and join the fight against SIAP, but the class
president refused to believe her, and attacked. One of his sword strikes missed
Jaydah, but cut into one of the bystanders, the freshman Tray Larkell. The
crowd erupted, horrified that their class president had let his hatred get one
of his students hurt. As Jaydah rushed over to try to patch him up, the class
president lined up a final attack on her, but was cut down from behind by the
vice president, senior Katlyn Hunter. The crowd hushed, and one of the seniors
picked up the president’s fallen sword, presenting it to her and administering
the rites of succession.
Meanwhile, Raeyan covered up the evidence in her attempted
murder. She claimed that Jaydah had fallen out by accident, and anyways, any
SIAP student who couldn’t avoid randomly falling off a tall building would be a
liability in the corporate world. The teacher who would’ve been Jaydah’s best
defense, physics teacher Nisa Sonnet, was brainwashed by Raeyan, and she
refused to testify to Jaydah’s character, ensuring she would be expelled.
Since then, Raeyan has become one of the leaders of the SIAP
war effort, wielding an electrified katana as elegantly as she poaches teachers
from New Canyon. Ilanah Larkell, the drama teacher of New Canyon,
recently started working at SIAP, leaving behind her wife and son, who have
joined Jaydah’s new team. Raeyan’s proxies on the SIAP PTA are slowly bending policy,
diverting more resources towards the war with New Canyon. Raeyan was defeated
once when Jaydah refused to die, and this reminder of her failure must be
destroyed.
Tray and Abigail Larkell work with Jaydah as part of
her strike team, rapidly mobilizing against SIAP attacks and raiding it
whenever possible. Tray is Jaydah’s classmate, and Abigail is one of New Canyon’s
PE teacher. (Abigail has arranged for any raids against SIAP to be treated as
extra-credit assignments.)
Trey has recovered from his injuries, and is determined to
do his part to rescue his mother, Ilhana. He’s worked closely with Jaydah on an
expandable battlesuit, carried around in a wallet-sized condensed form. He’s
still traumatized, though, and reluctant to use the full power of the suit.
Nonetheless, its size and double railguns is enough to intimidate many enemies.
Abigail has always been a proponent of heavy discipline, but
in joining Jaydah’s team, she’s had to accept that Jaydahis the team leader.
She keeps herself on a rigid schedule of training, teaching, field trips, protein
shakes, and more training. She’s become so fast that she occasionally seems to
teleport; when she was a student at New Canyon, she got the nickname of Aby,
for Already Behind You. She’s always
watchful of her son Trey in battle, making sure he’s not overwhelmed in close
combat since being traumatized by a melee weapon.
Zax is another new transfer who signed up for Jaydah’s
team, but unbeknownst to them, he’s actually a mole from SIAP. He’s a brawler,
able to shape-shift into a golden dragon. He’s agreed to this because he wants to
combine SIAP’s tech with New Canyon’s emphasis on magical and personal
training. If he can walk out of this as an ultra-buff mecha-dragon, he’ll be a
happy man. That said, he’s fairly unassuming in conversation, enjoyable to talk
with and open to listening. As such, he can often convince people of things
when talking with them one-on-one, but persuading a crowd or during a hectic
situation isn’t his strong suit.
Marten is an old New Canyon student, a senior this
year. He joined Jaydah’s team on a lark, and some members aren’t sure if he’ll
be dedicated when the chips are down. That said, his ability to project energy
blasts from his hands makes him valuable, and he’s shown a hatred for Raeyana
specifically – no one’s sure why, he just jokes and deflects when asked about
it.
The last member of the team is Katlyn, the secondary protagonist of the series, former class
vice-president, and now president by right of succession. She’s a swordsman,
trained by Abigail to peak physical performance, with an inherent affinity with
metals – when she needs extra strength, for a strike or a jump, she can pull on
the force of the materials around her. When she was a sophomore, she climbed the
side of SIAP’s building, bypassing the building security and keycard elevators
that had foiled them in the past. She returned from the raid with a new scar, plus
the bloody neo-katana of the SIAP class president. She was inducted into
student government for this, granted her own small class as her demesne; from
there, she’s worked herself up through the ranks, inspiring and defending her
classmates, never showing any sign of self-interest, and never letting herself
relax or fail.
She technically outranks Jaydah, but Jaydah knows the SIAP
tech and security better, and Katlyn’s agreed to co-leadership of the team. Katlyn
still hasn’t quite acclimated to being class president, and she regrets the necessity
of cutting down the previous president. She’s fixated on Raeyan as the cause of
that situation, since she was the reason Jaydah landed at New Canyon.
Although Katlyn is one of the students most invested in the
war, she’s also the one who shows the most awareness of a world outside of it. She’s
been working with Abigail since she was a freshman, so she’s seen that Abigail stayed
right with New Canyon after graduating, instead of moving on. Katlyn is
determined to win the war so that she can move on to doing bigger, more
important things after graduating, instead of worrying about the safety of later
New Canyon students. She puts up with the least grandstanding from SIAP
students, contemptuously ignoring any grandiose speeches they make before
attacking.
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