Gruesome Magical Girls Worldbuilding

[Kappa]

Also, more thoughts on fragment accumulation levels:

• One or two uses per month: No fragment buildup
• Early stages, more than two uses per week: Fragments accumulate.
  • Telepathic comms while transformed - can send to anyone, but only those with independent sending ability can reply
  • Host stops getting sick
  • Host can make unambitious alterations to petal-bodysuit (sleeves, leggings, skirt) and stem placement during transformation
• Mid-stage: Accumulated fragments from at least 20-25 transformations total
  • Host can transform even without an external rose, which creates no flower heads
  • Host ages more slowly and cannot die of old age, nor get dementia etc.
  • Precise control over stem/petal configurations, at-will outfit alteration even while not actively transforming
• Final stage: Accumulated fragments from at least 100-120 transformations total
  • Host can create new flower heads while transformed
  • Host can do some minor magic (e.g. telepathic comms) without transforming, and retains automatic healing and boosts while detransformed

[rockeye_stonetoe]

Steel wants a blue/purple rose. And also a black/white one, but less.

[Kappa]

Heh. Despite the general discomforts of rose-having?

[rockeye_stonetoe]

Yes. An AU Steel from this world DEFINITELY wants All The Roses, those two top on the list. Mountain is already powerful enough that the tradeoff doesn't look as good, though.

[DanielH]

How much do these hurt? Do fragments hurt or just the transformation and being transformed? I assume mundane anesthetic does not help?

Regardless, I would want at least some yellow/pink and probably blue/purple.

Do I read this right that at 20-25, you get the slow healing even if you don’t transform again?

[Kappa]

Yes, after 20-25 transformations at fragment-accumulating frequencies, you will age slowly etc. even if you never transform again.

Merely containing fragments does not hurt. Transforming and flowerhead-growing hurts a lot; staying transformed hurts to a moderate degree. Mundane anaesthetic will help with anything except black/white pain.

I would estimate the following wishcoin conversions, flavoured appropriately (e.g. red/black is sharp, blue/purple is bruisey):

Red/black transformation: A handful of hexes (3-5)
Red/black transformed state: About a square per second

Blue/purple or purple/blue transformation: A handful of hexes (3-5)
Blue/purple or purple/blue transformed state: About a square per second

Orange/red transformation: Several hexes (4-6)
Orange/red transformed state: A square or two per second

White/blue transformation: A hex or so
White/blue transformed state: A few triangles per second

Pink/yellow or yellow/pink transformation: A handful of hexes (2-4)
Pink/yellow or yellow/pink transformed state: About a square per second

Black/white transformation: A star or so
Black/white transformed state: A pentagon or two per second

[rockeye_stonetoe]

That's more than I was imagining. I was imagining mid pentagon to mid hex.

[Kappa]

i'm not fully satisfied with my numbers and I might end up revising some of them down, but yeah, being a gruesome magical girl is an uncomfortable enterprise.

[RoboticLIN]

Just going to say... Awesome.

Would transformed girls look like plant-suited, Batman's Poison Ivy style? Or with low-fragmentation you can make it more frilly-dress style?

I'm already somehow perceiving Dark Magical Girls to be masochists. Or a hidden super-power for the good girls. Eeep.

[DanielH]

That is less to sustain than I was imagining, even though it is more to transform. If magic were out, I imagine I would prefer just staying transformed to the pain of detransforming, even for sleep.