Homestuck still has its candycorn claws in me

[soc_puppet]

Part of feeling better and being more productive means that I'm actually watching some of my (horrifyingly massive) back catalogue of anime now while I crochet. Currently on the docket is Wedding Peach, because I am a shameless Magical Girl addict.

Tonight I just got to an episode where one of the main Devils is all, "The power of the angels' love will never be a match for the power of the devils' hate!" And I just thought, "Man, quadrants would put such an interesting spin on that."

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If you can't tell that this now means I want concept art and/or an outline/description for an Alternian Magical Girl series, you don't know me at all.

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[redsixwing]

Possibly unhelpful, but: I rambled about quadrants to Star, and now when people start exhibiting the right traits, a comment of "wow, showing some spades there" is likely to elicit snickers from both of us.

I would read the heck out of an Alternian magical girl series.

... naturally, a team of four.

[soc_puppet]

That's not uncommon among Homestuck fans, from what I'm aware; you learn about the Quadrants, you start categorizing relationships across all sorts of fandoms that way :P See also: "Drift compatible" and probably some others I'm unaware of.

Well, of course the first and most iconic series would feature a team of four. Possibly it would go up to nine if later seasons demanded more characters (number-appropriate love interests for each quadrant), but it would start out with four "inner senshi" ;P Later copycat series might follow this formula, or might focus on only one half of the quadrants or even a singular quadrant. (Money says Kanaya's guilty pleasure was the one about an Ashen magical girl team who went around breaking up fights caused by evil things that would get energy from disrupted kismeses.)

That said, a lot of the stereotypical magical girl shows as we know them would probably read as sort-of freelance/obsessive moirails to trolls, since the heroines go around "pacifying" people who are magically enraged and empowered. I can see it as a very popular pale genre.

[redsixwing]

It's a useful framework. ^^;

Star and I were totally making 'drift compatible' jokes with the new Power Rangers movie. (Which, by the way, was unexpectedly pretty good.) I could make a case for a solid moiraillegiance in there, too.

Nine would make a good second season. The main character is going to have her hands full, no doubt. Because why not have an idealized romance too, that's half the magical girl fun anyway! ... this sounds like Nepeta's flavor of catnip.

Freelance moirails! Hah, yeah, that works. The bad guys keep trying to get into a really solid kismesis with the team leader, and she's just having none of it...

[soc_puppet]

I think I gotta see that now.

Quadrant Matches for the Main Four, heck yeah! And I can totally see Nepeta and Kanaya marathonning various series together, too. And then Rose gets in on it, sitting around and knitting while her gf and her gf's anime-loving pal watch the latest episodes once a week.

XD LOL! Though there's probably at least one series where an actual healthy kismesis forms with the main character, a la Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. "I truly loathe you, Villain, but I cannot be your kismesis until you get your evil moirail under control, and I've already got my ashen quadrant filled*! Calm that mess the fuck down and stop messing with other people's quadrants, and then maybe I'll hate you enough to date you!"

Really, like so many things, there is just so much added storytelling potential when you factor in quadrants.


* Come to think of it, I know ashen triads are usually characterized as the result of someone breaking up would-be kismeses, but I could definitely see it as someone meddling in an otherwise unhealthy moirallegence. I feel the need to prompt this somewhere now.