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Going by Season 4’s newsreel, his plea deal sentence should be over or ending by 2012 IIRC. Do you guys think he lived until then? If he does earn his freedom, what will he make of his life now? And, is there any chance we see him in Episode 10 or maybe Season 6, possibly in connection with Avery?

I’m working on a Magical Girl project of my own. The premise is that, the main character is the daughter of a member of a Magical Girl team who sealed away the big bad 25 years or so ago, but when she prematurely dies, this seal weakens and allows for the big bad and their minions to start reappearing. But, after finding out the team’s dormant powers passed on to their children, the MC sets out to locate the children of the OG team to reform the team before it is too late. Along the way, it explores themes of how non-heroic people become heroes through actions and friendship.

My problem is, I don’t know what to do for the aforementioned big bad, at ALL. What’s the best way you guys brainstorm your villains? If it helps, my team is primarily elemental theme (air, water, rock, metal, electricity).

How do I know how much hair to take off when I cut a wig? I’m making a Hajime Hinata cosplay, and as I already cut a wig to short once and probably don’t have time to make a new one if I do, I want to be extra cautious. How exactly should I go about trimming it so I don’t accidentally cut off too much? I have other plans for the ahoge as a separate magnetic attachment btw.

So, the team I’m working on for my story is currently called Gloss Endeavor. Since my team has an elemental theme to it, I want that to be referenced in the individual names of the characters, and my first idea is Latin roots being added onto the names. Since my elements for the team members are air, water, rock, metal, and electricity (chosen because these elements are the most powerful in a modern urban environment), the girls would be called Aero Gloss, Hydro Gloss, Petro Gloss, Ferro Gloss, and Electro Gloss respectively.

My main worry is… Are these names “cutesy” enough? I also want that aspect in their magical girl personas, at the very least, and I’m not to sure if it fits. I’m pretty early into development, so stuff can be moved around, including adding a motif or two. My story’s more focused on the characters anyways, so I can afford to tweak some of the magical girl identity aspects.

I want to write a story involving a team of Magical Girls that don’t fit the typical mold of what a Magical Girl is or what they embody. They inherited their Magical Girl powers from their families instead of being scouted out for them because of some good quality, and most of them only reluctantly join the team for selfish reasons. Over the course of the story, though, I want them to earn their “goodness” through some self-discovery and experience, bringing them a little closer to that idealized version of a Magical Girl.

I’m interested in this as a concept, but I haven’t consumed much Magical Girl media yet, so I’m not sure what kind of traits I should give these characters for their arcs. What do you all think?

I don’t have much right now, I just have some basic ideas as for how it is going to work.

I want my series’ magic system to be elemental, but strictly based on the MANIPULATION of elements, not the CREATION of elements. I also limited my pool to not including any form of life manipulation (such as plant manipulation), because I feel like that is something a villain should do.

Since my team is a 5 man band, I chose the elements of air, water, rock, metal, and electricity. Mostly because those were the most common elements you could probably find in a city, where I want it to be set.

I do also want a weapon aspect to it, because as a fan of Super Sentai, I definitely feel more experienced with it. I imagine these weapons would be used to a) extract the elements from the surroundings to be used, and b) harness those elements through attacks that emphasize creativity and surroundings awareness. For example, the rock manipulation character would use a giant hammer to smash up a road, making the fragments levitate in the air so she could hit them at the villain with loads of power.

What do you all think? Are there any tweaks or improvements I should make?

I’m gonna preface this by saying I haven’t watched many Magical Girl shows. I‘m only just starting to get into it (Ive watched a few episodes of Sailor Moon and that’s it), so forgive me if what I said may have already been done before. But I had an idea for a story involving them, and wanted to see if it was any good.

It would follow a teen girl whose mother was a Magical Girl say, 25 years ago, and was part of a team of Magical Girls that sealed away some evil big bad. Unfortunately, the girl’s mom gets sick and dies at the start of the series. She’s given her mother’s transformation device as a memento, but later realizes that SHE can now use it to transform into a Magical Girl herself.

Also, now that one of the OG Magical Girls is dead, the seal on the big bad starts cracking, letting some of the monsters escape back into the real world. So, she sets out on a journey across the country (or maybe just their city) to find the children of the OG team in order to reassemble the team for a new generation. Along the way, they have to learn everything about their powers from years old secondhand footage and whatever the still-alive OG members tell them.

I‘d definitely want to explore legacy and the nature of heroism in this story. Like, the OG team was chosen to become Magical Girls because they were good of heart or something. The new team might not have those traits initially, at least; they all inherited their powers. So I definitely want to show how those people would react to or use their newfound powers.

What do you all think? Should I flesh this out a little further?

I may or not use this for my own fangan, but I’m leaning a lot towards no. It’s also sort of an iteration of a motive concept I sometimes see on this site.

Each surviving contestant is forced to wear a mask and specialized outfit (à la kigurumi) that obscures everyone’s identities. Masks are fitted with a voice changer, and if any contestant tries to say anything about their identity, it shocks them. They can either only eat in one specific isolated room, or can’t eat at all until a murder

Moreover, contestants cannot take off the disguises until AFTER the next class trial. This includes the victim, meaning the class trial will not only focus on HOW the victim was killed, but WHO the victim is. And even if the kill was right in front of them all, they’d still have to guess who is under the killer’s mask.

I feel like there’s a lot of expectation subversion you could do with this motive. Imagine mid way through the trial, you find out the POV character you’ve been following is completely different, and that the victim is the previous protagonist! The possibilities are endless.

If her plan in killing Leon worked, was she just planning to sleep in a room with a dead body?

I’m writing my ch1 in script format. I’m already 1000 words in and, while I’ve set up a few character dynamics, haven’t introduced much of the setting yet (I plan to do it right after this scene is over). I have no idea if this is a good pace. What do you all think?

I cut a wig too short for the first time. I’m a beginner, so I guess it was bound to happen eventually. But it still sucks.

Lucky, I think I can repurpose it. The character I am cosplaying is Hajime Hinata from Danganronpa 2, and I already had a spare identical wig I intended to use for a separate magnetic ahoge. The good news is, I can use that spare wig as my new base and repurpose the butchered one for the ahoge. I think it should work, especially since I have plenty of felt background and a good chunk of the wefts are still pretty long.

This can work, right?

My second motive is based on what the contestants treasure most, which my mascot has seized and threatens to destroy if someone doesn’t kill. The mascot hands them each a video file and opens up a video room as to prove they have the power to do it. What they “treasure” is left intentionally vague and varies for each cast member as to build intrigue. It could be a valued item, or a place that holds a lot of memories for someone, or even some kind of status symbol or secret they’ve built their life around. Intentionally, though, this excludes killing innocents like contestants’ family, but that is the only line drawn. Also, it is a first-come-first-serve basis. As soon as one person kills, all other “treasures” are destroyed.

My blackened for this chapter, for example, values their family money, so the mascot kidnapped their parents and threatened to cut them off from their funds. I’m still working on the individual motives for all my other characters, though.

Is this too simple of a motive?

I’m working on a cosplay of Hajime Hinata from SDR2, and I’m thinking about how my wig is going to work. I know I want a separate structure for my Ahoge (probably one made out of wire and felt), as I want to get the canon shape of the Ahoge. What’s the best way to go about this?

It’d honestly just be another excuse to do something with my Hajime cosplay I’m making but still. Would this be cool?

My mastermind isn’t a part of the main cast. Instead, she is personally introduced in chapter 3 when she supposedly hacks into the killing game facility. Her cover is that she is a seventeenth Ultimate, an Ultimate Codebreaker, part of a secret Hope’s Peak program in cooperation with the nation’s military to breed the next generation of the defense industry. Though, she is eventually tracked down by the mastermind and killed via an assassin’s gunshot to the head at the end of ch4.

Unbeknownst to the cast, she didn’t die. In ch4 it’s also revealed my Ultimate Lucky Student protag was chosen due to a last-minute rigging of the votes. My mastermind is secretly that ORIGINAL Ultimate Lucky Student. In ch6 they find out the footage of her “death” was real, and that it was the result of Hope’s Peak sending their real seventeenth Ultimate, an Ultimate Hitman, to silence her after she threatened to go public with the fact that the lottery was rigged. But due to her lucky nature, she managed to survive what should have been an unsurvivable wound, where she then secretly recovered, planned a killing game among Hope’s Peak students as revenge, and erased the memories of the cast so they would never remember anything about their time at Hope’s Peak.

Is it too obvious that the person introduced halfway through the story is the mastermind all along?

I have a character in my fangan named Lloyd Patrick Gault, and while he dresses and acts like a proper British gentleman detective, is actually instead the Ultimate Knitter, and is quite sheltered, timid, and inexperienced in detective work. His whole gist was that his insane helicopter parents never let him leave their suburban house and he coped through detective shows until he was like, 14, when he finally entered the real world. In the killing game he’s pretty much a comic relief character that desperately wants to prove his skills, but falls short every time, much to his sadness.

I have plans for Lloyd to become the Chapter 5 Killer via an unknowing accident kill. I ALSO want Lloyd to be the one to finally put the pieces together about the big twist of the chapter: the fact that my mascot manipulated the characters and crime scene, effectively orchestrating the accident kill. He’d finally solve a case of his own, though at the cost of his life.

The thing is, I’m not too sure how to go about it. I‘m not sure how I take him from “good-hearted idiot” to “solved a case when no one else could” without some serious jumps in logic. I suppose I could play to his few strengths (possibly his vast knowledge in fabric or homemaking), but I have NO specific details about it. How should I go about this?