magicalesbian | 2ND ☄ s h o o t i n g s t a r ☄ v o i c e / a c t i o n

Hello, Lucetizens!

[A pause. Let that sink in for a moment.]

It's weird, you know? If I hadn't gone home the first time, I'd have already spent a year here... [It almost sounds like she's going for a serious moment of reflection... but the smile pops back onto her face pretty much right away.] But what I'm really getting at is I never got a chance to re-introduce myself! So!

I am Hoshikyo, Luceti's newest magical girl! Some of you have probably already met me. I'm kinda hard to miss. You know. Being pink and sparklie and all. But that's besides the point!

What I'm really hoping to ask here is if there's anyone else in this village who lives as a part-time hero. And I don't mean you RPG protags or Shounen Jump wannabes. I mean, like, secret identity type hero or wears-a-cool-uniform hero. That kind of stuff! I mean, I know you're out there and all, but in a place like this it just makes sense for us hero-types to try and get along, you know?

Not... that I expect anyone to respond to this with their secret identity, of course. Because that'd be stupid. And if you do that? I'll call you stupid. Just getting that out of the way.

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[After a few hours spent as Hoshikyo talking over the journals, she reverts back to her usual self (

normalesbian) to go about her day in a far more normal manner, stopping by the library to pick up a few dozen (yes, dozen) books before going shopping for some groceries. It'd be nice if she could just take advantage of the free restaurants here, but having to go outside everytime she wanted to eat? No way. She'd rather just continue her meager existence of living off of instant foods. Just like mom used to make, yep.]

[Despite her earlier countenance over the journals, she is starting to feel a little homesick. And she can't help but wonder what the others back home are up to right now... there's a definite gloomy air hanging over her as she heads back home, several large shopping bags in hand.]

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[[ooc: Since a lot of Hoshikyo's canon deals with the idea of fictional worlds being real, please take a look at THIS POST if you are okay/not okay with 4th-Walling! Feel free to post to it even if they've already met, since it'd be pretty easy to handwave her just not recognizing someone right away. Additionally, any character is free to recognize Hoshikyo as though she exists in media within your character's canon, whether as the star of a shoujo manga series, a new brand of Vocaloid, a soft-drink mascot or whatever! My only condition is that recognizing Kari is off-limits.]]

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Like, really really! I have a transformation sequence and everything! [...] It happens faster than it does in anime though.

I'm...not actually sure what an-i-me is. [Manga is easier to find here.]

Whaaat? Wow, your world is really missing out then!

It's like. Moving pictures and stuff that tell a story! Or "cartoons" if that's a term in your world. It's hard to tell what worlds overlap where sometimes, you know?

No, I don't think it would be. If the pictures are moving, it's probably a teevee thing, right? [She is pretty awkward in saying tv, rather like an elderly person who hasn't kept up with technology trying to pronounce some new ubiquitous invention's name except for the fact that she's eighteen rather than eighty.] My world doesn't have any of this elec'ricity stuff. [Well possibly they had it 4000 years ago because that's how Tales worlds roll. But, wow, she can't even say electricity right.]

And besides, my world doesn't even have -- well, maybe it has manga, but I haven't seen any there. [The guy who explained to her what comics are was Japanese and she was holding a Japanese one at the time, so as far as she's aware they're all manga. She is able to make some connection between anime/cartoons and manga, though, since "pictures that tell a story" sounds similar.] So definitely no ani-me.

[She assumes the "worlds overlap" is a metaphorical idea. There are some surprising similarites between worlds.]

That's not too surprising. I mean, there are plenty of worlds out there where things like magic make other things kind of useless. Like, why have electricity when you can poof light out of nowhere?

But. Still. At least you've got manga! What else would you have to read otherwise? [...] Aside from books, of course. Assuming you have those.

We don't have magic, though -- or, at least, nothing like that. [Eres could seem rather magic-like, but she doesn't think of it as such.]

And, well, we have books, but...they weren't exactly common where I grew up. I only really got to read any of them when I got here.

Your world doesn't have books either? Or, like, they're hard to find?

[Well that gets her attention. So far, she's never really seen world where books were uncommon or rare like they are in her world, unless the world was just widely illiterate.]

It's not really that they're hard to find, exactly. It's just...paper isn't that easy to make, so it was usually used for important things. Not like some of the books around here. Though I don't know if that was the same everywhere on my world.

[Her people have been forced by circumstance to hide away in small villages for thousands of years, which didn't really help form a thriving economy.]

Okay, I think I get what you mean. There's a similar sort of case in my world, though it has much more to do with it being hard to find than hard to make. Or rather, the ingredients are hard to find. We don't have that many trees.

Oh. [She sounds a little surprised, but not too much. After all, while she grew up around plenty of trees, she knows someone who lives at the south pole of their world. Clearly this is just a case like that. (No it's not.)]

So, you lived in a desert, or...something like that?

Not really a desert, no, but some areas are pretty close. They were mostly wiped out by the Hellfire about a hundred years ago, and it's taken them awhile to figure out how to grow them back.

It's okay, though! I mean, we've gotten used to it. But it's something that makes my world pretty different from the ones I've heard of here.

...By the "Hellfire."

[She can't have heard that right. Or, rather, that can't be what it sounded like. Must be some kind of exaggerated metaphor.]

Well, it certainly would make your world pretty different.

[Her world tends to go in for apocalyptic flooding, instead.]

[She heard that tone of voice!]

Yeah, Hellfire. What else would you call it if all the forests in the world spontaneously burned down for no reason? Pretty sure the people alive at the time thought the world was ending.

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