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Ignite Heart! A Magical Girl RP

you are going to LOVE hoshi's upgrade path.

@HereComesTheSnow

You had my interest with Char.

Now, you have my UNDIVIDED ATTENTION.

...Also, Hoshi and Kyōka still totally need to become friends because A: the dorkiness would be IMMENSE and B: they could do some really crazy stuff by combining their powers.

...Come to think of it, though, I don't actually have any real ideas for an "upgrade path" for Kyōka, in that she probably won't be getting any new forms or abilities. She's probably just going to steadily adapt to using all of her energy because

spoilers

SHE'S ACTUALLY JUST A SUPER SAIYAN MASQUERADING AS A MAHOU SHOUJO

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On a totally unrelated note, every time I read "Noriko" I just think Gunbuster.

...Maybe I should have created a hot-blooded magical girl using Nono as an image for the transformation... Actually, damn, why didn't I think of that sooner? This thread deserves more Inazuma Kicks.

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I think that's being unnecessarily fancy and I'm just here to cut monsters up. All attempts at random artsiness are going to go over my head because there's no chance I'll read that deeply into it. :T

@Raineh Daze

Fair enough. I usually start the same way, then my character ideas get more complex retroactively and I pretend that I intended it all along. :P

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So perhaps by lampshading the edginess and having her not necessarily be taken as a serious threat? Perhaps because her powers are fueled by negative emotions she's not actually that strong in comparison to the others and has to try and learn the virtues of 'not being shortsighted' and 'focusing every waking moment on being a force for change is just going to burn you out and make you more miserable'...

@Eventua

That could work. I'm doing something similar myself with Kyōka, since she's basically meant to be a bit of a deconstruction/eventual reconstruction of the usual socially insecure junior high student with conveniently absent parents who gets to be a magically empowered hero and tries to do her best to fight evil, come what may. In her case, she accepts the offer and takes her role just as seriously as your traditional shy character in a mahou shoujo anime, but her family issues, social awkwardness, and insecurity don't just go away because of that.

(I'll just conveniently leave out the part, by the way, where I planned exactly none of this and just kind of decided on this as my intention retroactively. XD)

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But FRIENDSHIP, Raine! FRIENDSHIP is NEVER irrelevant!

...Also what show even is that? That sounds amazing. XD

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Fair enough. :P

Although, the idea of a normal in a cast of superpowered high school girls does actually make me wonder whether or not the RP would be improved with some bystander characters reacting to stuff, giving people advice, etc. Don't most Magical Girl shows usually feature the lead's friends who are oblivious to her double life, too?

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I dunno, the second one seems interesting, but you definitely have a point on the first, Raine.

...Although, come to think of it, that's actually probably how a teenager given PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER and told to be a selfless hero would react, so that's actually kind of funny.

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Alright. I'll change up Ariel's dialogue color next time, see if I can make it a bit brighter so it's easier to read.

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Whose? Kyōka's, or Ariel's? I changed Kyōka's text to make it brighter, and I thought it worked... Maybe monitor brightness has something to do with it. Sorry. I thought it was fine because it looked fine on my end. @_@

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Posted. I figure I should mention this, but Ariel is actually pretty experienced when it comes to working as a fairy partner to Magical Girls, so other fairies might be familiar with her - if that's at all relevant.