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Just a quick detour back into the world of Style Savvy for a moment, because my god...

So Style Savvy carries on much the same, past your first show. You unlock various other jobs. You have another fashion show...

Then Bad News comes to town. Ricky contacts you distraught. His boss is arriving, and she doesn't approve of the fashion shows. She's a practical-minded person who doesn't care for dressing up. She looks at the joy spreading through town and sees people wasting time on frivolous pursuits, obsessed with cloth and string when they could be making profit instead.

She's also his sister, Adelaide. She has no time to listen or care about his explanations. She sneers at the clothing on offer in the boutique. She insists the dome the shows are held in would be put to better use partitioned up as work space. The fun is over, it's Important CEO Business Time. We have come up against the End Boss of Fashion Forward, and it's an aloof businesswoman with no time for anything light or fluffy.

For a while it looks like that's that, the end. Ricky insists the show will go on, but no one is very hopeful. It takes Evie to identify the weak point: Adelaide sees nothing worthwhile in fashion because we're operating at too low a level for her incredibly expensive tastes. Nothing we show her is impressive to her because we need to step up our game past Marzipan Sky, past Chorale, past Streetflow and Brooke Bridge and all the other brands we've unlocked.

We have to fight End Boss Level coldheartedness with End Boss Killer fashion. Evie pulls some strings. She calls in contacts. The next day, Enid Chen moves into town.

Enid Chen is... High Fashion. Like, Paris fashion. Thousand-dollar shoes and skirts embossed with pearls. Dresses you don't buy if you're planning to send your children to college. That kind of fashion. Ozma's financal gains since near the start of the game can at wholesaler prices afford to assemble a small handful, an outfit and a half's worth of potential outfit pieces from Enid Chen. We have the resources for one strike from our boutique aimed at that cold heart.

Adelaide loves it. Because, I mean... come on. This is still a game about fashion changing lives and warming hearts. She doesn't exactly flip a full 180, but she does come around enough to allow the show to go on, just to see what it's like. Part two of the plan comes from Sophie and Callie: The Ozma Collection.

This is what took me so long to properly finish the game: Dress every major NPC in town with an outfit that... uh, more or less suits "their" style. Sporty, casual, preppy, gothic. Every person we've met in Beaumonde will be joining us on stage... and I didn't even have some of those styles UNLOCKED YET. So... y'know. Lot of work. I am not proud of all the outfits I constructed, but for the most part... Yes.

So that happened, and at the last of it, the last big show, I fully embraced Ozma as Fashion Witch of Beaumonde, going all out with Raven Candle wear. If StageDive is Hot Topic mall-goth, Raven Candle is Lifestyler Goth. Raven Candle is dark and mysterious and ... well. Witch-wear.

We even convinced Adelaide to get out there on stage with us, although she seems mostly concerned with impressing a nebulous "Him" in the audience. Hmmmm.

That's not as important, though, as what happens next. Evie comes back in with another letter from the missing Grandma Elaine...

...which confirms that yes, we REALLY WERE the Fashion Witch of Beaumonde the whole time.
I thought I made that plot thread up.
No, it's for real.
I don't know what to say. That's a real thing that's really in the game.
Ozma, Fashion Witch of Cute Mountain.
...

I love when a game I'm playing decides to roll WITH me instead of against me.
FASHION MAGIC'S BROUGHT THIS TALE TO A VERY HAPPY ENDING~

So... So that's FOR REAL all of Style Savvy I'm posting, but I had to share this jaw-dropping "wow wait for real" moment.
Back to GK2 soon, it's rather exhausting to make a post a day! Might have to slow down on that.