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[Errol216]

It's been forever since I read P:tH and I've never been a huge fan of the magical girl genre, so I don't know much about standard tropes and well-liked subversions, but:

I feel obligated to recommend the webcomic Sleepless Domain. The protagonists so far haven't tipped into monster territory, but a lot of the questions that are coming up about the nature of what they are and where their powers come from is inching its way towards turning it into a Deviant chronicle's backstory.

[Errol216]

That's disappointing. I thought that their first few videos were pretty okay (mostly because they heavily emphasized that they were being incredibly reductive), but I stopped watching Extra Credits as a whole after the harassment incident last year and haven't been keeping up....

[Errol216]

It's interesting how each gameline seems to demand more and more backstory in order to understand what's really going on. With Vampire it's mostly a shrug, and then most of the next ones have some kind of otherworld, and then you've got Mummy with Irem and then Demon with the God-Machine and then Deviant with all the ... (blanking on the term; evil mad scientist cults) and now we're discussing whole alien civilizations with enough technological know-how and stake in this planet that they figured out not only how to mimic human shape but also how to insert themselves into our society as infiltrators?...

[Errol216]

Making up some fake logic, if we group all the lines in 3s, then there's a third to the triad for Beast and Deviant. If we take this up as the emotional theme of the three intelligence centers, then we already have Fear for Beast and Anger for Deviant, so what we're missing is Shame.

There are other gamelines that can explore shame, of course, so there needs to be something else. In this case, Fear and Anger aren't really themes of the line characters, but instead fuel sources. So how could your shame fuel your powers? What could you be ashamed of, and how would you draw strength...