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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeric" data-source="post: 3304798" data-attributes="member: 17012">The idea of someone becoming an "instant blackguard" is a bit silly to me.  Being a blackguard is not as simple as falling from grace as a fallen paladin; you have to actively pledge yourself to the powers of evil.  The "peaceful contact with an evil outsider" is essentially the Fausian deal wherein the future blackguard offers his or her services to that creature's master (or possibly to the creature itself, if it's powerful enough) in return for supernatural power.  It's not something I think Miko would ever do.  She, like the best villains in literature, genuinely believes that she is doing the good and right thing.  Blackguards know that what they are doing is evil, and embrace it.Now, I can see Miko becoming a blackguard, but it would take a bit more than simply losing her paladin status.  I think if she does what she thinks is the good act (killing Lord Shojo), what she believes the gods want her to do, and then loses her powers because of it, she will become totally disillusioned with the paladin order.  At that point, she is ripe for the forces of evil to sneak in and with honeyed words convince her to join the other team.  That's how I would play it, at least.Now watch, after all of this discussion, she gets capped in Monday's script. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I can't wait!</blockquote>

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