#listen i love this concept

uswe:

acepalindrome:

Someday I really want someone to make a series about a team of magical girls, expect they’re all adults now and thought their days of saving the world with the power of friendship and glitter was behind them. But now some new evil has emerged, and they’re all suddenly finding their powers coming back after being dormant for years, and after a couple days of desperately hoping a new team of fifteen year olds would appear to take care of this, they eventually realize that it’s all up to them.

So that means digging through old boxes of keepsakes to figure out where they stuck their Rainbow Twinkle Wand after they finished saving the world the first time around, and hoping the outfit still fits (it’s a magical transformation, so yes, it adapts to their adult bodies and fits perfectly, even though it’s a lot more frills and sparkles than they’ve worn in a very long time.) Also gotta get used to yelling their attack names, because the magic doesn’t work otherwise. One lady shouts ‘Strawberry Lipbalm Ray!’ and blasts a monster into oblivion, and then stares off into the middle distance because she’s 30 years old and has a mortgage.

I love this concept. I also think that the time off - the time to become adults and live in the real world and not in the compressed and heightened world of high school fighting monsters and saving the world would be really important. They’d have settled into different team dynamics - if they’re even still friends. They’d have different priorities, even if the first priority was still ‘make everyone be safe.’

Like, have the monsters changed? Is it a supervillain who finished their 10 year sentence for … whatever finally sent them away? Tax evasion. Can’t imprison someone in a real-world prison for summoning extradimensional demons, but tax evasion is still a thing. And now they’re out and up to the same shit. And the magical girls eventually just start shouting at them about what they were even thinking, fighting kids. Or is it the kind of thing were it’s teenagers accidentally transforming into monsters? If so, do they fight with themselves about pulling their punches?

Does one of them have the kind of job where she’s accountable for every second, and has to try to have a Normal Work Conversation while her magic pager vibrates in her pocket, trying to keep a smile on her face and work out a plan to sneak away as the time until her friends are hurt ticks away in bursts against her hip?

Do they keep their identities secret, still? Do they have more to lose - maybe young children or aging parents, even more at stake than when they were in high school? Or do they say ‘fuck it’ and reveal their faces, because that’s the only way they’ll get time off and a cut of merchandise sale? Do they have arguments within the group about which way to go?

After their first battle back in uniform, do they go to their favorite bar and very quietly go through two bottles of white wine before someone just says their attack name in a soft, shell-shocked voice, and then all they just go off cackling wildly because Glitter Heart Boomerang, and then they all just … say their attack names, one by one, as deadpan as they can manage through the snickers, and laugh until they cry, grown women sitting at a bar with their grown-up lives and grown-up loves and fully adult senses of dignity and they had to defeat a villain today by shouting Pirouette Prism Charge?

At least one of them has a boss who isn’tcompletely stupid and secretly knows and just accepts the worst fucking excuses without question. Ruby Princess Vermillia (aka Becky, from accounts) is beginning to suspect her head of department, Glen, is either onto her, or monumentally naive, after the fourth time he fully accepts the same lame excuse.

I kinda like the idea as well that one of the princesses has since transitioned and how that would play out. Either 1: his ridiculous Magical Girl Uniform is now more typically men’s clothing, but it’s still absolutely the same ridiculous frilly fru-fru fashion horrorshow, with sparkles and ribbons and bows. It’s just the skirt is now shorts and the crop top now has a different neckline and sleeves. Or 2: his uniform was always the boy version, which was always a point of confusion at the time but yeah guess that makes sense now. Either way, everyone is at least a bit jealous that Scott, aka Sapphire Prince Azuro gets to wear shorts while the rest of them are still stuck in tutus.