Lady Sunflash

Originally Posted by Voehler

My first thought - WTF?
My second thought - THIS IS AWESOME!

Nicely done.

Originally Posted by JessieTell

So a while ago (Around the time the Science Pack came out and I could make drastic changes to a characters body type.) I created a magical girl that at the time was just sort of a test of the capabilities of the costume creator and if I could accurately make a male character that transforms into a female character look similar in appearance. As time has gone on and with the 'secret leak' of the staff set that is coming soon I've decided that its about time I flesh out the Magical Girl concept a little more. So I've taken a look at my character Cute Saint Dominique in a more critiquing light and I think I've come up with a good sort of back story not just to the character, but to the 'Magical Girls of Paragon' sort of ideal.

So first off I guess a little about the character himself, and sort of why he would fit into the Magical Girl theme. In general Dominique is sort of a wimp of a character, before his mother died she was the one to name him Dominique which subsequently made him the target of childhood ridicule as he grew up. Living with a single father he never really had much interaction with his father who really didn't want anything to do with Dominique, and basically because of the kids taunting the boy sort of became what they expected him to be and unconsciously drifted toward a more androgynous appearance. Despite though he seems to be pretty aggressive and impulsive about proving his masculinity. Secretly Dominique dreamed of becoming a superhero himself since then he could prove that he wasn't just a wimp. Possibly because of his nature he was chosen by a magical item that shared a bit of his own nature.

This is where the transformation comes in, Dominique was sort of called to a magical coin that contained a coin with the mark of Aries engraved into it. Once he held the coin it triggered his transformation into Cute Saint Aries, basically a magical girl themed after the Western Astrology.

In this I'd like the theme of this particular magical girl team to fall along the ideal of the the twelve zodiacs. I don't want to get too heavily into what constitutes a character that would be considered a match for a particular part of the zodiac other than they attribute some of the themes that that particular sign sort of conveys. In the case of Aries the sign conveys expressiveness or impulsiveness which is kind of what I wanted Dominique to be as a character. Also I wanted to point out that the characters would not necessarily have to be male in their original form, I don't want this to become some sort of like weird cross dressy transgendery sort of SG (No offense to Transgender Cross Dressy sorts of people.) I just thought that Dominique mad a better male in his normal form than a female changing into Cute Saint Aries.

This wouldn't just cover the Magical Girls either, the reason I chose the Zodiac was that it presented a couple of other options for character to interact with each other. Basically the magical girl theme doesn't just cover the girls but the 'knights' as well or the people that are assigned as their guardians. In this case the Zodiac would be overlooked by the Planets. For instance Mars is the planet that overlooks Aries. In this case I would be using the completely modern version of the zodiac which would include Ceres the dwarf planet in our solar system as the over looker of Virgo. This would effectively give us 11 gaurdians to the twelve zodiacs.

While I figured that the zodiacs would be 'Cute Saint so-and-so' I don't know what exactly I'm going to call the guardians yet. That would be something I'd have to leave up to discussion.

So there would be a couple of things to look at in consideration of the theme of the characters which I've supplied links for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_astrology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_girl

Generally I think the hardest part is going to be coming up with a sort of character concept for all the Zodiacs. In this I would like to think that we can play a little loose and fast with the powers that would be linked to the Zodiac. Of course this would fit in well with Magical Girls in general who mostly have very vague powers in the first place. As well since this is Paragon City I have no problem with the powers being 'combat based.' In that the power grants the user an ability that directly effects combat. Of course this would be up to the person that decides to make the magical girl in question.

For instance I've decided that the Cute Saint Aries being the ram could represent a sort of stubbornness, so I've envisioned her as a Tanker sort of character who can take a lot of hits and keep on coming. Right now she does have a mace as her power set but I am going to change that once the staff power set comes around. Others could be as simple or contrived as you'd want them to be, Sagittarius might simply be an Archer, but by the same token her eager nature might also land her the Kinetic power set. Taurus being ferociously loyal might do something like take the Shield power set (So they can charge as a bull.) Or they might do something more along the lines of force fields if they feel they can justify it.

These are just ideas for the time being, I wanted to see if I could garner some interest in the hopes that more people would be interested in making Magical Girls, making this into some sort of thing.

Originally Posted by War-Nugget

Go Fire/Kin corruptor.

The /Kin will boost your +damage, and you will melt faces .. along with having a heal, the ability to make your friends run super quick, and well boosting their damage so they can melt faces too!
Fire is just heavy damage. Along with the +damage from kin, you can further melt faces.

Originally Posted by Baarogue

That is a spiffy costume. I like how the different set pieces work well together.

@Boomie, I ran into someone just a few days ago who had exactly the same costume as me aside from his colors and cape. He had a good laugh as we complimented each other's style.

Originally Posted by slaad

repulsing torrent is half the damages of burst...
seriously, taking fire without taking burn is a waste.
why not taking Energy Armor and color it yellow/orange? it'll fit to your gameplay and your concept !

Originally Posted by slaad

no burst, no burn ... really ???

you are gonna feel very useless in teams with only 1 AoE attacks (with 12sec rech in the better case)

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

This is mostly explained by the fact that the New Way of costuming factions is to use Player rigs instead of NPC rigs. This means using costume pieces that players have (or will have soon). So, NPC factions will look like stuff players make and vice versa (with the exception of a few signature pieces reserved for the faction or signature NPCs).

So, the Carnival of Light was made by a Dev using our player costume creator.

I look forward to their pieces that they're wearing that we don't have access to yet being released to us players.

And the new CoT pieces, too.