Hannah Chiza Upgrade

[adm]Denied.

While going over the rationale for this I will be referencing the Upgrade Guide.

Firstly, I'll go over the factors.

❖ FOCUS: This upgrade is very focused in what it is asking for and it fits her trajectory of pursuing kido. So that's good.

❖ MATERIAL: The material presented is mostly primary and secondary, her title of Grand Witch is tertiary. One thing that will be covered as well in the following factor is an issue that the material presented is just operating on a completely different environment. Not only was the scale for PH during that time very different as to its current form but the systems were as well. This compounds with the spread of material. There is no material at all from this year, there's three pieces of material for 2023 (one is an upgrade), and the rest all happens between 2019 - 2022.

❖ TIME: While this is done over time time, there's a number of issues that stem from this factor. The first issue is that there's very little continuation. As I said previously all of this material happened years ago - and I don't discredit it for happening years ago, however, this is a Grand Master upgrade and I would expect her material be able to show consistency over time by her actions. This character has been played during 2023 and 2024, why is there limited or no material from this time?

❖ SCALE: I do believe you understand the weight of a GM as to what it represents. However, I do think its scope is not represented as will be covered below by breaking down the second part of the upgrade guide.


❖ NARRATIVE WEIGHT
This is the biggest one, primarily because this is a Grand Master and not a Master upgrade but the narrative weight of being a Master, let alone Grand Master, should be quite large. You collaborate with members and characters well but despite Hannah having what is presented to be a wide array of characters. She does not seem to present a consistent narrative with any of them or how they test or help her achieve this. The extent that she presents with these people are one-off demonstrations.

Why this is a problem for me is that handing a character Master is a big deal. It bends site rules around itself, and it only increases into GM territory. All of our current GMs are at the very least major parts of groups or actively participating in the site's setting.

❖ MASTER =/= MASTER
This is fine as I do not believe that Hannah's approach to Kido at Master is not unique to her character.

❖ A GOAL OR AN ACCIDENT?
I'm approaching this upgrade from the perspective of the first one and as this point mentions in the guide, I refer back to TIME and MATERIAL in the previous section and NARRATIVE WEIGHT. A lot of this material has no continuation or follow-up, a lot of it is concentrated entirely to 2019-2022, and Hannah is not really participating in the macroscale of the site's setting or having the individual characters push her--rather it is the opposite where she is pushing them.

MISC.
- Collaborate with other characters & members.

--This is done well, you engage with anyone and everyone on the site. However, the actual characters aren't really parts of an overall narrative towards Grand Master or even really having followup engagement as she travels this path for their collaborations to help push her further.

- Utilise the elements within the setting to your advantage.
-- This isn't done from what I have seen. The event participation for Clinch is good but it isn't like Hannah is capitalising on elements of the setting to enable growth.

- Create a focused narrative towards achieving this level.
-- See Collaborate with other characters & members. You do that well but I see collaborating to have cool moments, not build a narrative out of those moments to find elements such as motivations, needs, challenges, etc.

- Having one's limits pushed by other "transcendent" individuals.
-- She is not really being pushed here, as I pointed out. One of her threads is more her flexing rather than being challenged where she helps Solomon train.

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