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I'd read that. 😈
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Forgot about that. Thanks for mentioning it!
And yes, a lot of Mppi's Taylors have Lovecraftian ties, but not full-on like Summoner Taylor.
I was thinking specifically about the source of the abilities. My thoughts are that the 'classic' magical would be along the lines of Sailor Moon: one that has an external power source that isn't sentient and/or sapient on it's own. Since Taylor gained all of her supernatural abilities through QA, that excludes her from being a 'classic' magical girl. Still a magical girl, though.
Ace Dreamer
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Would my proposed story 'I Was A Teenage Tentacle Monster' count as a 'magical girl' story? The idea is that Taylor would be cheerful...
Shoggoths need love, too... *
* Sentiment endorsed by Hagrid, Rubeus. So, it must be right!
MWKillKenny84
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The Pretty Cure, whose in general gain/are introduced to their powers via fairy companions that can either provide the powers or become the transformation trinkets say Hi! to this statement.
Plus cracking their knuckles in anticipation for a beatdown, just in case.
Kryslin
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Ok, if we take the definition of "Magical Girl" to it's most basic, it's a young woman empowered by a magical being of various kinds, for some nebulous goal that had better not include time travel for the sake of the universe.
So, by that definition, Lina Inverse is a magical girl.
Taylor triggers as the avatar of primordial chaos in this multiversal strand (According to some Slayers lore, this is what Lina actually is). OP? Hell,yeah. Magical girl? Yep (from a certain point of view...). Will the villains know what hit them. Briefly.
What does Taylor get? Not a solution to her A cup angst, overwhelming firepower (amongst other things), and eventually, a happy ending. And QA gets all the data. [Yum]
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Welp, Earth Bet is doomed.
Sandy River DL
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I mean, isn't that it's default state?
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Ace Dreamer
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Maybe what Earth Bet needs is the 'Z Team'?
Composed of Taylors from different worlds, all with different skill sets? Taylor-Dragon, Taylor-Shipgirl, Taylor-Star-Wizard? How could that go wrong?
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To be really thorough, they might need Taylor-Martian-Manhunter. Someone needs to do 'Face'...
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Actually… Kyubey is successfully staving off the heat-death of the universe (implied to also be the ultimate — and so far unsuccessful — goal of Entities), using the power of Emotion: most especially grief.
So, you could probably manage a decent PMMM crossover where Kyubey decides to take people's Shards instead of their Souls, with the end-goal of turning Zion into an immensely powerful Grief Seed. It would let you underline that Kyubey is not actually "evil" in the traditional sense, rather that Incubators have a completely alien sense of ethics/morality and emotion that don't align with human norms (partly due to being a hive-mind species, so they see individuals as being expendable, in the same way that you accept that a lightbulb might burn-out). Incubators are heavily goal-driven, so discovering a new, better source of power than pubescent/prepubescent human girls would be a valid reason to change modus operandi — and Lesser Shards might even voluntarily sacrifice themselves if it combats entropy for the species/entity, due to their own varying levels of individuality.
You'd be left with Parahumans vs Magical Girls (well… I guess the 'Girls' part would no longer be mandatory if it was the Shard that was important), with Cauldron stuck somewhere in the middle trying to decide which side to support for the best chance of safely taking down Zion and saving humanity. (Because, if they back the Magical Girls, and then the Incubators decide to resume 'harvesting' humanity…)
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Well, yes. It would be doomed in a different way though. Hopefully more in a sanity-destroying way, rather than a destroy-everything way, which would be an improvement on canon Worm.
DON'T SAY THAT!!!!!
Never say that - it tempts the Elder God known as Murphy into taking personal interest. You don't want his personal interest.
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You could throw in another group... Once you have two, why not make it three?
These could be the people in spiritual power armour, who are normal humans outside it. If you want somewhere to loot for ideas then Kill la Kill might be one place to start... Or mix 'power dressing' with techno-shamanism? Human clothes-wearing as human cyborg enhancement, from 'caveman times' onwards, pushed to the limit?
Spending time searching for a way to subvert the protections around Scions actual body? Research an attack that will feedback trough a projection to damage the controller? Attempt some kind of mimetic attack like TNG did vs the Borg. Scion is basically a giant computer, if Jack Slash can talk him into starting the apocalypse, perhaps somebody could talk him into turning himself off? Powers were getting jail broken at the end there, why not try and remove the restrictions on Doormaker? String theory opened the Aleph portal. Leet can build anything, well I'd like a dimension hopping homing bomb, Bakuda can give me something that will take out the solar system Scion Lives in when it arrives.
Basically anything at all other than a straight up fight, which is Scions strong point. Cauldron needed to hire some table top gamers and ask them how to cheese the shit out of it. A fair fight is a terrible plan.
SanguisAnima
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Seconded. Will read. With pleasure.
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So, Mary Marvel would count; or more properly, a female Shazam...
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Dangit, you've made me want to find and re-read that one Taylor as Sailor Saturn fic. Dies killing Leviathan, then gets reborn, and confusion ensues. Eventually ends Zion. Depressing in places, but a pretty good, relatively short fic. Just gotta remember the name. I'll find it eventually.
EDIT: Search here on SV is much better than I thought it would be. If anyone else wanted to read/re-read that one: Silence Falls by MrStarbuck.
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So as your first step you draw his attention to what you're doing and you have no way of stopping him if he decides to smack you down for it. Are you certain you thought this all the way through?
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I just bring it up because MP3 is one of the few writers who will write a younger Taylor. I like deviance and for want of a nail stories. Though, in this case I think it is more of Nail has been found, story.
Rajvik_wolfboy
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i have seen Taylor as a magical girl, twice, Once where she has Raising Heart, and another where, post GM she ends up on a ship with Nanoha, both were good though the second hasn't been worked on in years.
(looks at the author who knows who they are)
MGLN/Worm crossovers do work
(looks at the author who knows who they are)
MGLN/Worm crossovers do work
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I just had a thought: Taylor triggers with the power to control scum, refuse and vermin. Her first night out, she comes across Lóng, and anyone who keeps sex slaves is pretty scummy, so…
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What about Hybrid Hive: Eat Shard?? Doesn't that count?
I've a feeling I've read at least one other, but it doesn't come to mind... Of course, there is Scaling Up... And, I'd be surprised if dogbertcarroll, on FF, hasn't at least touched on the idea...
The other issue is whether Taylor is a magical girl in Brockton Bay... Or, in BB without having MG'd, elsewhere, first... MG-ing in 'Worm' is also a tricky business, as the Entities have allegedly taken a pretty firm look at the Earth plus parallels, and 'magic' might well be a significant no-no to their deciding to 'visit'... Not to mention them 'locking' the place up...
This story, Taylor having access to Weird Science, so off-the-wall that quite a number of full-on magical types are likely to look at it and say, 'Yer Wot???'...
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Don't forget On Fluttering Wings (Worm/MGLN)
From non-mgln crossovers, Her Dark Wings Arises (Miraculous Ladybug/Worm) Taylor definitely counts as a magical girl.
From non-mgln crossovers, Her Dark Wings Arises (Miraculous Ladybug/Worm) Taylor definitely counts as a magical girl.
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Actually, to the best of my recollection, nope.
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I'm pretty sure that all of Mppi's Taylors are already at least equal in intelligence to Hermione. The knowledge could be useful to her, provided she has some way to use magic (or something like magic).