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A Little Vice (Trans Magical Girl fic)

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Shadell said:
The angel looked at me, unimpressed, "Nonsense! Such as we actually have no concept of exhaustion," she looked to Inessa, currently holding Temperance off from biting her with both arms, "but those creatures do… elicit a hitherto unknown emotion."
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We must be missing so much Michael development offscreen. She can apparently read people's souls with a gaze but is apparently ignorant of her own emotions. There's actually an interesting parallel of both Michael and Temperance being aliens, besides being also stoic*, and I wonder how their relationship is like (course, I headcanon Michael as Temps' mother figure).
*Though their versions of stoicism have different vibes.
 
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Lmao. Imagine, at the end of the story.
Temperance: Okay, now we gotta prepare mom's wedding.
Chiro: Wait what.
Inessa: Michael met some lady while in her human puppet.
Chiro: Her what?
Ida: Yeah, she basically helped turn around the lives of some small time criminals and now they're a charity. They help around the neighborhood, evacuate people during resinner fights. They got thankful so they helped build a realistic human body.
Inessa: Really weird that guy Kuze from chemistry started getting fake tattoos, carrying a styrofoam pipe and covering individual fingers when he failed. Think he got in a fight with Lupin while procuring a present Michael wanted for Temperance.
Temperance: She got into a bunch of hobbies. And really into doing normal stuff like going to meetings with teachers or watching my matches. She met a woman in one of those and they had a bunch of hobbies in common. Then they got caught up in an alternate dimension made by a resinner and the secret came out. Also, there was that whole thing with the NFT resinner trying to reach Cape Canaveral. Real fun roadtrip with them.
Chiro: Ah, I see. I understand it all now. *Could not compute most of this*
 
GreatWyrmGold said:
The more I learn about magical girls, the more I suspect they're just shonen battle manga with a girlier aesthetic. Though the first thing I'd point to for that is their Power of Friendship.
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Modern magical girl fiction is significantly influenced by the reference pool that includes shonen, so they share a lot. It also has some other influences that come in from different directions, though.
 
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This is gonna sound kinda random, but here's a Tumblr thread about Scott Pilgrim which is relevant to this story. Samples:
Demily Pyro said:
Denying a trans reading of Scott Pilgrim not because I don't see it but because if Scott was an egg and Ramona was a trans woman then there'd be no fucking way she'd be adhering to the prime directive this fucking hard whenever he says some egg shit.
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She-Ra Do Not Disturb said:
The thing is that this is a setting where the Vegan Police is real, so chances are that the Prime Directive is probably being enforced by a high council of trans girls
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She-Ra Do Not Disturb said:
Scott: WOAH! YOU CAN WAVE DASH!?
Ramona: Yeah, dude. All trans girls can. It's like a side effect of the hormones or something
Scott: That's so cool! Damn, I wish I was a trans girl
Ramona, to the cat girl: DO YOU SEE WHAT I'M DEALING WITH HERE!?
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(Note: @sheradnd probably means "She-Ra D&D," but I maliciously misinterpret "DND" on account of "and" starting with the letter A. Also: An ampersand is just a shift-7 away, people.)
 
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Remember how I brought up Ultima's virtue system a little while back? Well, one thing I'd overlooked at the time was how its Virtues are colour-coded, like so: Valor Compassion Honesty Sacrifice Justice Honour Spirituality Humility. So if we kept the colour scheme in check, that'd assign Inessa to Valor as a Fighter, Ida to Compassion as a Bard, Temperance to Honesty as a Mage, and Chiro to Justice as a Druid.
Temperance fits that class and virtue, but Inessa and Ida work way better swapped around, and unless there's a major 180 coming up for her (which granted does look more likely), Chiro with Justice is just weird
 
ArlequineLunaire said:
Remember how I brought up Ultima's virtue system a little while back? Well, one thing I'd overlooked at the time was how its Virtues are colour-coded, like so: Valor Compassion Honesty Sacrifice Justice Honour Spirituality Humility. So if we kept the colour scheme in check, that'd assign Inessa to Valor as a Fighter, Ida to Compassion as a Bard, Temperance to Honesty as a Mage, and Chiro to Justice as a Druid.
Temperance fits that class and virtue, but Inessa and Ida work way better swapped around, and unless there's a major 180 coming up for her (which granted does look more likely), Chiro with Justice is just weird
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You can make it work

Justice through kindness
 
Oh, Superbia creating light walls/shells is interesting. His whole thing is defending his fragile ego, after all. Maybe he'll have some ability involving scales protecting him.
Reading about Michael on wikipedia: Michael is a usually masculine given name derived from the Hebrew phrase מי כאל‎ mī kāʼēl, 'Who [is] like-El', in Aramaic: ܡܝܟܐܝܠ (Mīkhāʼēl [miχaˈʔel]). The theophoric name is often read as a rhetorical question – "Who [is] like [the Hebrew God] El?", whose answer is "there is none like El", or "there is none as famous and powerful as God." This question is known in Latin as Quis ut Deus? Paradoxically, the name is also sometimes interpreted as, "One who is like God."
Attributes: banner, scales, weighing souls, sword, slaying Satan or a dragon
Well, don't think she's gonna be killing Superbia, but weighing souls is fitting.
Oh, Ida was shown to be Jewish, though the magical stuff seemed Christian. I'm wondering about the theological situation in A Little Vice. Maybe the angels and such are just creatures of the tree molded by humans, whether subconsciously in a Persona kind of way or directly by people who knew how to use the tree. Or there is in fact god and angels that aren't of human make but not exactly one specific Abrahamic religion?
 
LampWitch said:
Oh, Ida was shown to be Jewish
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Where did you get that from? I would like it a lot if true but I must have missed it. Although I haven't been looking too hard because I somewhat assumed that the overall christian theming of A Little Vice meant all the characters were likely christian by default/culturally christian.

On the theological side of things, I think there is definitely room in the hypothetical anime for exploration there. I think my preferred form for that in universe could be implying that there are other magical girls of other religions off doing their own things.
Practically, the world is meant to be our world with a few changes so I expect that there wouldn't be any notable difference religion wise.
 
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Where did you get that from? I would like it a lot if true but I must have missed it. Although I haven't been looking too hard because I somewhat assumed that the overall christian theming of A Little Vice meant all the characters were likely christian by default/culturally christian.
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Her apartment was described has having tchotchkes in it, a word that comes from Jewish-American slang to mean miscellaneous items. That's the only thing I could find.

Though hey, if you want a Jewish Magical Girl... *points at sig*
 
Oh, must have been mistaken then, sorry. Thought it was a mezuzah. Damn it brain. Tchotchkes seems like food name, so maybe I got distracted thinking of food instead of thinking if I had the word right.
 
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Thanks for the confirmation I hadn't missed anything.
Now I'm thinking that since the word tchotkes was used in C's internal narration, that could mean that C or somebody C knows is Jewish. Since I think it would have showed up in C's internal narration that they were Jewish by now I theorize that Inessa is Jewish which is incredibly amusing to me that the theoretical protagonist of Shining Virtue Angelic Heart, with all of it's christian theming, could be Jewish.

ArlequineLunaire said:
*points at sig*
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I have already read fool bloom thanks to the omake you posted a while ago, however I probably should catch up to any new chapters since it has been a while since I read it.
 
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ArlequineLunaire said:
Her apartment was described has having tchotchkes in it, a word that comes from Jewish-American slang to mean miscellaneous items. That's the only thing I could find.
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There's nothing inherently Jewish about having miscellaneous items lying around, the narrator describing those items as tchotchkes isn't Ida, and I've heard a fair number of non-Jewish people using the word "tchotchke," including myself.
I can't say that Ida isn't Jewish, but saying she is because C described some items in her house as tchotchkes seems kinda like saying Lupin is Japanese because Temperance called em a tsundere.
 
GreatWyrmGold said:
There's nothing inherently Jewish about having miscellaneous items lying around, the narrator describing those items as tchotchkes isn't Ida, and I've heard a fair number of non-Jewish people using the word "tchotchke," including myself.
I can't say that Ida isn't Jewish, but saying she is because C described some items in her house as tchotchkes seems kinda like saying Lupin is Japanese because Temperance called em a tsundere.
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Oh, must have been mistaken then, sorry. Thought it was a mezuzah. Damn it brain. Tchotchkes seems like food name, so maybe I got distracted thinking of food instead of thinking if I had the word right.
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I just mixed up the names for things. And another mistake was that Chiro saw the item inside. Mezuzahs are outside. And looking back, it was obviously multiple items.
 
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Thanks. I posted it earlier in the thread. I forgot to fix up things I left for later. I think it was putting A Little Vice in the more recent tropes' own pages.
 
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