So one of my first thoughts on reading through this, even before the thread happened, was that each of the girls might be from different Earths. My train of thought then thoroughly derailed, wondering about how you'd prove that to them, or identify it yourself if you happened to be isekai'd with a group.
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I think those ones kinda specifically don't grow up so much as grow out? Plenty make it to adulthood and many of those do become ladies of some sort.
Given Topaz's issues with modern slang? I considered that, but the problem is aside from Crimson's run-in with the fae, there's nothing else to feed that.
Punster already said what I'd say here well:
Crimson's curse definitely feels like something that's got a nasty little fae tweak to it for cruelty's sake. Whether that's a one-off or standard-issue probably depends on how much the fae are mere signatories to the Masquerade versus prime movers behind it (as they were in at least one urban fantasy series I'm aware of).
I think we're forgetting the obvious here: a child, even a teenager, telling someone about faeries isn't going to be taken seriously most of the time. There's no need for any additional intercession for it to go nowhere, but the fae in question could still be spiteful enough about the attempt to curse her to be unable reveal things about others/the supernatural that the person hearing doesn't already know.
Honestly she's good enough at coming up with nonexistent problems she decides need to be dealt with at all costs that her Rainbow name might more accurately be "Paranoiac Purple."
I mean the Rainbows make reference to their Magical Girl state as a transformation(brought on by trinkets, I believe) so maybe VV hasn't even ever transformed at all, yet? Her displayed power is just training(with umbra) and Joy's remodeling, not any special tricks like the others have.
I think y'all might be overthinking this one. Crimson's curse seems pretty straightforward to me. She ruined the Fey's 'surprise' so she was cursed to not reveal any more secrets or surprises.
The sweet spot would be if she eats "Masquerade enforcement measures."
She also uses a bow
Carries a lance, light based powers.
V can use shadows to do stuff, likes to change her weapon into different forms and is skilled in melee.
That so far seems to be 'baseline' is I think the point, not associated with like, an MG transformation. It's possible that there are ties to what her MG form could do, but considering everyone except Crimson seems to have zero magic experience before isekai, we can't tell if it's an amplification of innate powers that they could have learned even without transformation trinkets, or derived from said trinkets.
Isn't that more due to the inherent limitations of Gods?
I mean, V could also have MG powers, sure. But Zaealix was also talking about her use of Umbra, and ability to call on Joy, neither of which are linked to her MG-ness (assuming of course that she is one, she still might turn out to not be).
See, Alivaril. You say that, but I'm not fully convinced and therefore will allow you to make your arguments more foolproof.
In fact, she actually insists that Prisms have consistent coloring.
Joy seems to be talking about their physical colouring there, rather than souls though. And it's possible that souls don't neatly overlap with physical bodies, or that Joy isn't able to view both physical and soul at once, and so would have to identify Crimson's soul without the aid of her consistent colour.
