chellewalker
President of the Water Seeker Fan Club
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- She/Her
Only a couple lines to her name, and I still got attached to Swan Song despite knowing she's just there to die. She was a total theater nerd
Antagonistic Appropriation
- Thread starter Alivaril
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- Original Fantasy
Iris-Iven-Ibis
Interested-Idiot-Immortal
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- You know
I mean, if the Rainbows magic just simply follows different rules.
They might be barred to learn more about shade empire magic out of fear of hurting their actual ability to use it.
VV all ways tops!, Especially if it's the prisms, as seen by their constant "battling"
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- Pennslyvania
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- She/They
Aaaannnyyyway, I do hope VV and the Prisms get to grab some proper magical education at some point soon-ish, seems that's a deep-seated insecurity of VV, while being a more recent but still important thing to the others.
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Is this inspired by A Practical Guide to Evil at all? It's pretty different plot wise, but there's a lot of aesthetic similarities, given the whole "Evil Empire full of chronically backstabbing nobility," thing. Bunch of other stuff too, Violence isn't quite Catherine but they've got some similarities, same with Grey and Hakram, shadow powers, Legions…
If the connection is purely coincidental, boy have I got a series for you!
If the connection is purely coincidental, boy have I got a series for you!
That one might have interesting side effects.
Obviously doing away with the secret police is a good thing, but if you fire them then you end up with a bunch of people trained to be secret police (and probably not much else) loose inside the country. Killing them all really just equates to killing the least competent members while the better ones disappear into the woodwork.
Not sure what you do about that, but it seems like a real concern you'd need to plan for prior to actually serving pink slips.
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
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Ah, yes, that thing that's unique to A Practical Guide to Evil.
Alivaril did write a Practical Guide fanfic a while back, but I really think you're overfitting. None of the things you listed are special.
HMMM! I wonder why!
BagFullOfLizards
Some bag, mostly lizards
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- A bag
Showing up as a crow princess is a good start, you're only one letter away!
Great Greedy Guts
Ceterum censeo Vigilam esse delendam.
I assume that's why budget is in questioning parentheses. The plan might just be to slash the secret police to nothing in a more direct manner.
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- Origin Unknown
I imagine the difficulty would then become not eating seven— and wouldn't that be an embarrassing way to go.
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- America
I think in this case they were talking about the other kind of eating, considering the targets.
Fayhem
Definitely not an escaped SCP
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- At large
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- He/Him
Hm, interesting. I'd (perhaps naively) assumed that VV actually had "real" magical education in contrast to the Rainbows, but I guess Empire-typical classism strikes again.
"Would you give in to the omnipresent grimdarkery of your setting?"
"Nah, I'd Disney"
--VV, probably
LMFAO
JOY
I did address that. Given the size and logistical capabilities shown so far unless Joy figures out how to do it I think murdering the secret police would be very difficult to do in a clean and certain manner.
Sure she should have a list of identities at that point, assuming it isn't filled with issues due to nonsense politics like everything else the nobles touch, but these people are trained to hide and investigate. In a society with substantially less reel time data sharing there are all sorts of ways to evade notice.
I imagine she'd get a lot of them but the remainder would be the best of the lot. Newly embittered by the change in power and concerned about their long term prospects, which makes them a vulnerability for internal and external threats to exploit.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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- Earth
She does seem to have a base level of knowledge, she just doesn't have enough to effectively be a magical specialist, instead of someone who uses magic.
This assumes both competency and a high level of loyalty toward the current regime, which I suspect is a combination of traits in very short supply.
Alivaril
On a magically-deficient journey of self-discovery
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- A single human dimension
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Nnnnope. APGTE deliberately took such elements from other media, so yeah, this was a bit of a stretch.
The primary inspiration / parody target for AA's setting was actually Sailor Moon
EDIT: And, of course, the eternal, "wait is this mind control or 'just' speedrunning therapy," that viewers aren't supposed to think about when someone is hit with a giant love laser.
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VV's such a sweetie pie <3
Don't be silly, her brightname is Vers Violet!
Canon Fanart: Tireless Topaz (By Coshiua)
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I think that's just crows being crows. Crows are already scarily smart, throw some umbra magic into them and you get a chatty bird. Vv just loves animals to begin with and has magical girl aura, so of course they like her back.
I think a big part of why they think she's overreacting is that she kept her head down long enough to be biosculpted into a weapon. She's apparently already at the level of the royal guard with her inferior gear. Combine better gear with her being a Born Avatar (not a chosen one) and she's actually very, very scary for the nobility. I imagine most of the Avatars they've ganked have been poor commoners either thrust into greatness by being chosen by a god for their passion or talent, or born avatars not realizing the danger and being found early. VV realized the danger, has a powerful patron god, has spent the last however many years learning how to commit great personal violence, and gained the personal loyalty of one of the Empires elite units. She is the danger.
That's before we get into whatever ritual, spell, god or phenomenon is powering the magical girl team Luck bs going on in the background, because I doubt it's something Magenta created or has full control over considering one of the rainbows was born in the Shaded Empire.
I don't believe she was a noblewoman. If she was she was very minor nobility as she's working as a governess. I think that was just someone being close enough to the upper crust to buy into their worldview.
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Carrnage
Human
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- New Zealand
Nice sandalsHere is our Tireless Topaz. Because it isn't obvious, I'll mention that the top of her hair tie is a similar broach to the one that Curious Crimson wears.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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- Earth
V can mimic animal sounds, which I think is what Zaelix was referring to.
LostArchivist
Sane, unfortunately.
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- The State of Confusion
Big oof. All the magical girls got shorted on the "magic" front.
It goes double for not actually telling them that fact, though. Imagine the reaction when they realize they got their butts handed to them, and their opponent is similarly uneducated.
...A question arises regarding the names of the other royalty who got offed...
Like, that name is asking for it.
I have been waiting for this moment with anticipation.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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- Earth
V does have combat training though, which is probably more important for winning fights.
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- America
I realize this is the Bulli VV episode, however, there was a thought that came up.
VV can't seperate from Joy and Vice Versa.
At no point can VV say, "I don't want to deal with this" and close the door or even have a private thought.
Sure, Joy is generally benevolent so nothing will probably come of it, but I kept thinking about it throughout the teasing that VV doesn't really have many options to respond that don't either escalate things or do nothing. And of course, theoretically, vice versa also exists but Joys a goddess so it's not like there are many things she can be teased about.
VV can't seperate from Joy and Vice Versa.
At no point can VV say, "I don't want to deal with this" and close the door or even have a private thought.
Sure, Joy is generally benevolent so nothing will probably come of it, but I kept thinking about it throughout the teasing that VV doesn't really have many options to respond that don't either escalate things or do nothing. And of course, theoretically, vice versa also exists but Joys a goddess so it's not like there are many things she can be teased about.
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Great Greedy Guts
Ceterum censeo Vigilam esse delendam.
Her inability to take small bites?
punster lv1
Killjoy - cheerful shitposter - ignorant pedant
That and her failed attempts at fleshcrafting (and if VV gets desperate enough for friendly fire there'll also be the panic at being made by Gray or the Crimson is an avatar thing), but even then Joy is a lot better at managing her embarrassement so it remains a dubiously effective way to fight back against her.