Hey guys, a question: how would you design a magical girl, based on your region/state/oblast/prefecture/etc? What would she wear? What would be her powers? What would be her rivals?
P.S For purposes of this forum, Escapist can also be considered a State!
-Beer manipulation/tolerance.
-Tax evasion.
-Able to summon tornados, hail, lightning, wind, heatwaves, but not control it.
-Barbeque
Personality: Stubborn and independant, but not really hot blooded. Libertarian. Sometimes rides a horse, mostly drives a giant pick-up. While not quite a power, makes dang good tacos.
I'm from the old Norse Viking countries so I'm thinking some sort of Disir, mainly Valkyries.
I could also go with Elves, Dwarfs (Imagine a Magical Dwarf Girl!!), Skogsr? (forest Nymph) or maybe a v?ttr.
I'm from the old Norse Viking countries so I'm thinking some sort of Disir, mainly Valkyries.
I could also go with Elves, Dwarfs (Imagine a Magical Dwarf Girl!!), Skogsr? (forest Nymph) or maybe a v?ttr.
I couldn't find all that many Magical Girl Valkyries despite looking through TV Tropes.
This Valkyrie would be more true to ancient forms than the Japanized version.
I do enjoy the fact that Japan loves Norse Mythology. Awesome.
Regarding the Magical Girl Dwarf, I'm also going to go with the more elder incarnation and have her be short, stout, thicc and gloriously bearded.
Not that I wouldn't mind the other kind either.. ,)
Did you prefer early Luanne, who knew how to fix trucks, seemed smart and didn't take shit from anybody (especially Cotton), or later Luanne, who cried about anything and wasn't too bright?
She would wear a custom, miniskirt version of some traditional 'bunad' (Norwegian festive garb, worn for weddings and national holidays).
There's a different style for each province. This version is used in West Telemark.
This would be complemented by a Viking helmet, complete with impressive horns.
Her main power would consist of being paid a regular heroism-salary by the government despite very rarely doing any actual heroics.
Her main rival, chiefly in terms of bragging contests, would be a similar girl representing Sweden. The Swedish girl would be wearing similar garb and a Viking helmet without horns, and they'd spend hours bickering about which version is correct / more fashionable. (Real Vikings never wore horned helmets, that's just a Hollywood thing.)
Stories / episodes about them would generally consist of one girl claiming to have done something pointless but impressive (climb this or that mountain really fast, etc.), whereupon the other would try to either disprove the claim or beat the record.
Whenever necessary, they would of course set their differences aside and work together to fight any outside threat - such as a more-than-usual corrupt politician or a kaiju awoken by the constant noise from offshore oil drilling.
This is America we're talking about, Fox12. We'd probably get something closer to Black Lagoon than Wonder Woman. Observe:
Foul Mouthed? Check. Booze? Check. Guns? Check. Religious trappings contrasted by an overwhelmingly condescending and irreverent attitude and a hair trigger temper? That's a big check. They're practically American stereotypes.
I live in Sydney... so I imagine a magical girl wearing a bank clerk outfit that has amazing powers of creating 25 year long 'geas' on her enemies guaranteeing they spend a lifetime of wage slave-esque labour in her name.
Coupled with the ability to a determine the origin of the coffee beans in any one of 5000 variations of overpriced coffee. Which, I've been told, is a life skill by the youth now. Like how an intern reporter wrote an OP-ed about how shameful it is that the nation's capital doesn't have decent cafeterias.
It's enough to make a liberal rethink the merits of conscription... maybe young millenials do have a warped sense of priorities? It's gotten to the point where I don't think Australians will survive climate change, not simply because it is catastrophic... just because things might get hard for the poor dears. Then again... most of the youth don't actually live that soft... in fact they work bloody hard in comparison. Just the noisy ones complaining about coffee that you hear most frequently from.
As far as I can tell life hasn't gotten do easy or problems so lacking overpriced coffee actually matters. But maybe I'm just slowly becoming one of those old fucks?
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