i am apping exactly one character because i am old and tired and cannot handle multiple characters at once anymore except in games where i am allowed to disappear for a month at a time if i feel like it and there are not many of those, so

and that character iiiiis this one

whose app is all done except the part where i put her on a TDM to get the prose sample

i am very fond of this magical girl. i spent a lot of time trying to figure out who i wanted to play here, i was undecided until like literally a couple weeks ago really, and then it was like, no, i know who i have to play here, it will be this one.

I'm not super familiar, but Precure's the magical punchgirl show, right? The one they dubbed into Glitter Force?

(other options i considered, then discarded: miria from claymore, eva/edriss 562 from animorphs, velvet crowe again perhaps, my personal take on the operator character from warframe, among others)

yeah, that's the one

they dubbed smile precure and dokidoki precure into the two glitter force series that have been put on netflix, and none of the others

the original series is on crunchyroll using the english subtitles that accompanied its subbed broadcast in hawaii from its original run, if you wanted to compare that to what comes later

don't tell anyone but i'm a bit fond of the glitter force dub because it's the samurai pizza cats dub team reuniting behind the scenes to deliberately try and recapture that spirit and do a throwback to that specific dub's sensibility

so even if it does lose some things characterization-wise the effort and intent there reminds me of my childhood very intensely

(and thankfully the series that became glitter force - smile precure - is, because it's itself a throwback to s1 sailor moon in how it was approached, mostly high on visual characterization through comedic punchlines and punchy animation, instead of really intense serialized writing choices, so it largely works out)

... fresh precure, however, is not much like either of those because it has a really intense arc plot that the series focuses really heavily on, so i doubt it'd fare as well in that vein.

(dokidoki precure, which became the second glitter force series, is also largely invested in broad characterizations and superficial motivations but it also has an intense arc plot. these two things don't go together well, and i have no idea how they fared in the translation effort and i'm afraid to find out.)

anyway the point is setsuna's a really, really strongly-written character who can flex multiple ways depending on the premise of the game she's in and the situation she finds herself in immediately upon arrival, while still maintaining the core of her characterization, so it gives me lots of ways to give/get plot hooks

and also, because i'm technically also playing her in the less stressful setting of , means even if setsuna's in a PSTD place in i can also thread her having extremely dumb awkward overearnest threads in sid to ease the stress of those threads simultaneously

anyway among other goals i have

i intend to thoroughly get setsuna involved with whatever nonsense is going on with the k collective, she is absolutely going to get in trouble over trying not to fight the pirates, she is absolutely still going to literally and metaphorically soldier on through trying to throw herself on the grenade of pretending to be a good troop for jorgmund -

for akarun's sake, if that gets to happen, but most importantly

at some point, she will work up the nerve to try and form a group to invent and practice choreographed dance routines in the gym.

jazzercise, then?

something like, yeah

I'm sorry, but now I'm stuck imagining this magical girl tearfully telling someone that she's beginning to doubt their commitment to Sparkle Motion.

the precures have a side job as a competitive dance idol group in the series; it's kind of a secondary detail to literally anything else about setsuna so i didn't really detail it in her app much but any of the others would have had more in it

because setsuna, while still a villain, at one point runs them all so ragged that maintaining dance practice and being a magical girl at the same time literally exhausts them so bad they almost die and have to be hospitalized for it

yowza

this is before the part where setsuna overworks herself so intensely trying to defeat them that she literally dies at least in part because of doing exactly that

but not much before it, frankly, so

(she got better. and then she became a magical girl!)

(but she did, also, literally die)

anyway if you are picking up on one of setsuna's problems that i look forward to ruining her life with being that she has no sense of proportion and will literally push herself to the point of overexertion if she thinks she has to for someone else's sake

you are correct. that is a thing that she does.

you know that test where they throw the dummy grenade and see who flinches away and then there's the dumbass who flinches towards the grenade instead

that's setsuna. every time

reading your app, Setsuna looks really fascinating! I love the idea of a character whose core trait of "happiness" is way more nuanced and holistic than the surface association

and the double-agent thing looks like a great character arc

HotPinkCoffee: yeah! one of the really, really impressive things about fresh is that it has an idea of what "happiness" entails that is ... well, not "i'm smiling and delightful all the time" (which, well, makes it an outlier even in its own franchise, in that regard) but about - well, are you content and fulfilled to be who you are, &c

Also wait holy shit you were considered playing Eva from Animorphs?

It’s zen peace-of-mind lifelong happy, lol.

yeah, i had stumbled upon my copy of visser after years of forgetting i even still owned it while cleaning my apartment around that time and after rereading it and remembering how good that one book was i was like I SHOULD DO SOMETHING WITH THIS ENERGY and then lost focus instead

because i didn't have the patience to reread the rest of the series

visser, though ... what a bleakly compelling book that was

I played Eva for years and never thought I’d see another! She’s tons of fun

Also fair re: rest of the series.

she's a great character. i wanted to play edriss more than eva but, unfortunately, kandrona

no kandrona in the wild

I'm sure they could get her some instant cinnamon oatmeal

other people: why would you want to play edriss, she's a terrible person

Yeah Jorgmund comes up with stuff like that (like blood for the vamps)

me: ... yes, that's why

(or prescription beer for Mac )

ldshglks

if i can juggle it i may reconsider attempting a canon refresh on them

because there's an alloran i could traumatize, now

the trauma would be mutual, probably, but also

oh yeah since i saw it just come up - i don't know how likely it will be that anyone will recognize setsuna but let's take any potential 4th-walling on a case by case basis, because that can either go very poorly or very badly and i'd like to be sure i know which is which

resurrecting an old plurk here, but Stacia is 100% down to enforce nap time by literally sitting on Setsuna

setsuna will probably require being sat on

if she doesn't drive herself hard enough to pass out first

highly mobile weighted blanket it is then!

sadly, none of setsuna's teammates or any other cures are here to prevent setsuna from overdoing anything by herself/talking her down from taking this approach to her problems

so yes, someone will have to wrangle her

Fortunately, Stacia is very bossy and enjoys wrangling other people, especially in regards to taking care of themselves so that they can Be Effective