I'm just going to link the Plurk where I first brought this up, because people were doing some excellent brainstorming on that. (Apologies for my plurk background being so gross when viewed like that.)
Also going to say that despite not playing Uxie anymore I would still very much love to have some involvement in this hhhhh I WANNA PLAY TOO GUYS PLEASE CAN I 8'| I'd be willing to NPC Uxie again for this if no other suitable villains were available, but only if that doesn't break any rules. Copy X could also potentially work as an ember-sparker, but his BLATANT DISCRIMINATION is toward his fellow not-humans, so that might take some sneakiness.
Maybe the possibility of bringing in the city as a whole might help to escalate it, too? Smash has a lot of characters who wouldn't wanna opt in/would love and tolerate everyone/would give shonen speeches about justice/wouldn't ICly care, so using NPCs as set pieces might help convey the sense of "this is a real problematic tension" instead of "this is one or two jerks being one or two jerks?"
EDIT: A quick pastebin of potential ideas/things I remember being mentioned in the initial plurk. Nothing concrete, just potential ideas that might interest people? P.S. IT MENTIONS MY OWN DUDES AND POTENTIAL IDEAS A LOT ha haaa I'm sorry, this was kinda for my own reference initially.
Re: CIVIL UNREST INDEED
Also going to say that despite not playing Uxie anymore I would still very much love to have some involvement in this hhhhh I WANNA PLAY TOO GUYS PLEASE CAN I 8'| I'd be willing to NPC Uxie again for this if no other suitable villains were available, but only if that doesn't break any rules. Copy X could also potentially work as an ember-sparker, but his BLATANT DISCRIMINATION is toward his fellow not-humans, so that might take some sneakiness.
Maybe the possibility of bringing in the city as a whole might help to escalate it, too? Smash has a lot of characters who wouldn't wanna opt in/would love and tolerate everyone/would give shonen speeches about justice/wouldn't ICly care, so using NPCs as set pieces might help convey the sense of "this is a real problematic tension" instead of "this is one or two jerks being one or two jerks?"
EDIT: A quick pastebin of potential ideas/things I remember being mentioned in the initial plurk. Nothing concrete, just potential ideas that might interest people? P.S. IT MENTIONS MY OWN DUDES AND POTENTIAL IDEAS A LOT ha haaa I'm sorry, this was kinda for my own reference initially.