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Spreading Love and Justice at Sufficient Velocity (Magical Girl ideas and discussion)

ArlequineLunaire said:
Though the funny thing about Clow Reed is that, despite being inspired by Aleister Crowley, physically he looks a lot closer to Crowley's archenemy W.B. Yeats (yep, the poet) with his hair grown out
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I think he's named more in honour of the Crowley-Harris Tarot than because he was actually inspired by Aleister Crowley. I don't think there are any similarities beyond the tarot motifs.
 
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Rewatching Cardcaptor Sakura, one thing I wondered was why Sakura doesn't tell her family about everything. It's later said that the cards have started to target her, but it's never said they'll target her family if they find out.
I'm guessing (other than just genre conventions) it's because Sakura wouldn't want her family worrying about her, sounds like the most in-character reason
 
ArlequineLunaire said:
Rewatching Cardcaptor Sakura, one thing I wondered was why Sakura doesn't tell her family about everything. It's later said that the cards have started to target her, but it's never said they'll target her family if they find out.
I'm guessing (other than just genre conventions) it's because Sakura wouldn't want her family worrying about her, sounds like the most in-character reason
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It is noteworthy that it is shown that her brother knows everything (Mirror even had romantic feelings for him). But essentially all the cards were not revealed.
 
I'm trying to compile a list of original MG stories on SV, since I've been bringing up the idea of what a big Kingdom Hearts or Super Robot Wars-style crossover between them could be like. Obvious not all exactly have MGs as the main character, and some have been inactive for a while. But hey, let me know if I've missed any:
Edit: Thought 'what the hell' and decided to list of the CWMGQ spinoffs anyway, even if they're technically fanfics
 
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It depends a lot on your perspective, but The Practice War is arguably also a magical girl story, of sorts. Mandy ticks a lot of the boxes except for actually being a girl. ...and then there's Iris.
 
Baughn said:
It depends a lot on your perspective, but The Practice War is arguably also a magical girl story, of sorts. Mandy ticks a lot of the boxes except for actually being a girl. ...and then there's Iris.
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ArlequineLunaire said:
Nope, we've had sci-fi MGs since Cutie Honey and Miracle Girl Limit-chan in the early 70s. Though sci-fi MGs are usually still magic-like in aesthetic
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Technically, Honey is an Android modeled in the likeness of a human female. I wonder, then, what keeps Mandy so 'borderline'. :cool:
 
Lunaryon said:
Just original works, or...?
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Yeah, just original works. A main part of the crossover was to showcase SV's own creations. Though I have considered maybe allowing MG OCs, even if they may have to be tweaked to fit the setting.

Edit: Of course, nothing to stop you from crossing over the crossover afterwards
 
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ArlequineLunaire said:
I've been bringing up the idea of what a big Kingdom Hearts or Super Robot Wars-style crossover between them could be like.
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I have already expressed as much in private messages, but I wanted to more directly state my support for this idea. It seems like a fun way to bring the magical girl community here together.
 
Yeah, my thing hasn't really introduced many original magical girls yet, it's mostly been focused on SRWing existing properties.
 
Speaking of Super Robot Wars, the people I've talked with seemed to agree that while the KH approach of everything being separate universes would be easier, the SRW approach of putting everything in the same continuity would be more fun and interesting if harder to pull off. Though CWMGQ's Cosmos and Void continuities (i.e. strictly canon and anything goes) do make that easier.

About what does and doesn't count as MG, SRW itself does have a couple non-mecha series in it, e.g. Captain Harlock, although that wasn't till quite a while later
 
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And it also depends - A lot of Super Robot Wars games do have multiple worlds in them anyways, but like... SRWV has some 26 series that it pulls units from, and has a total of 3 parallel universes that the series are being blended into.

Personally, I am far more fond of the SRW approach, having done that for both UsagiQuest and Bright Dawn to Come, so if you need someone to bounce ideas off of I am willing to help
 
ArlequineLunaire said:
Speaking of Super Robot Wars, the people I've talked with seemed to agree that while the KH approach of everything being separate universes would be easier, the SRW approach of putting everything in the same continuity would be more fun and interesting if harder to pull off.
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At risk of being premature with specifics, Phantom Ascension could present both wiggle room and difficulty where that is concerned, given the worldbuilding I have established.

The Shades are not perfect or omniscient by any means, but they have a presence stretching back to prehistory and do their best to keep appraised of and in control of any magical issues, which may conflict with any other quests where magic is public knowledge (such as Fool Bloom) or the scale of incidents is simply beyond usual containable bounds. (Such as what little I have seen of some of the other stories listed) However, both alternate dimensions and parallel timelines are established concepts, (even if the latter is only relevant to a spinoff one of my Beta readers plans to write) which would line up well with a multiple-universe approach.

On further thought, it could still even work within a blended-universe approach, by saying this is an alternate timeline where the Shades have significantly less of a grasp on everything, but Kikuko's unique circumstances still come to pass in more-or-less the same manner as in the main "canon" quest timeline. While I assume the goal would be for this blended universe to be as close as possible to the originals of each story, this would be a way to reduce potentially conflicting worldbuilding where the Shades are concerned while still technically aligning with MGPA's background. The existence of Death and everything around her should not conflict, however, unless any other stories also deal with such matters.
 
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Another thing about SRW is all its original characters (there's even whole games about them). Other than branding, I think the idea behind them is to not make any series look favoured over another when it comes to the main character.

LampWitch suggested an OC Magical Girl who tries to recruit others with want ads and online posts. I like the idea, though would also be up for hearing other suggestions
 
ArlequineLunaire said:
LampWitch suggested an OC Magical Girl who tries to recruit others with want ads and online posts. I like the idea, though would also be up for hearing other suggestions
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In the case of a blended universe, that does sound like a fun conceit; and it could still translate to a separate-universe approach. That could be part of her power, perhaps, summoning others from their home universes to fight with her, by sending out invitations. It would be particularly amusing if she did not even do this intentionally, just sending out advertisements in the mail to try to find other possible magical girls in her hometown, only to unknowingly infuse them with her power, so they instead breach transdimensional boundaries and drag magical girls from other universes entirely back to her.
 
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