#elemental fusion

[halloweenneko]

Just a thought on Gentar, the fusion of Halilintar and Gempa. In wiki, it says that Gentar is 100% confident with zero fear. I find this very interesting. Because how come the fusion of two elements that gained their second tiers through fears and traumatized situations have no fear?

[finalvortex]

I’ve noticed your elemental fusion story has the girls represent the 5 Chinese elements, except for earth which is replaced with air. What’s up with that?

The way I think of it is that air = gas, fire = energy (or plasma, if you prefer), water = liquid, metal = solid, wood = complex structures or living beings.

I think I started with the five Chinese elements, then added air because it just makes sense to me as an element. Then I dropped earth because, functionally, it feels like it fits into the same power space as metal to me. I could have just as easily decided to keep earth and drop metal.

Maybe this is being weird about a Chinese cultural thing, on reflection. Maybe it would be better to have Xanthe's element be earth? Then it would feel more like I was adding something to the Greek set of elements, rather than taking something away from the Chinese ones.

[finalvortex]

heres what i got (tentative)

[finalvortex]

elemental fusion thought: more interesting if fusion is mandatory for transformation. this creates the problem that someone is always going to be left out, unless i can add a sixth element or something

[finalvortex]

Oh Cindy's element should be oil that makes more sense

[finalvortex]

For the record, the mc's magical girl titles are:

Piper - Spark Flame

Raine - Spark Tide

Xanthe - Spark Chrome

Faye - Spark Breeze

Hazel - Spark Leaf

[finalvortex]

remember when i was talking about fucked up and evil magical girls? um. yeah. (picrew)

Alice/Spark Acrid. I'm not totally sure about her deal yet?

Cindy/Spark Silver. Fashionista. Big on hats.

Penelope/Spark Plasma. Plays the violin in Xanthe's band.

Sophie/Spark Haze. Mechanic? She's... steampunk I guess.

Violet/Spark Ion, the leader of this group. Goth.

[finalvortex]

What is elemental fusion about anyways?

Good question, I think I've talked about the characters a little before but never the actual story.

Elemental Fusion (a placeholder title until I can think of something better) is a relatively by-the-book magical girl concept.

Five girls get breakfast clubbed (that is, they are from different cliques and would never normally interact, but they all end up in detention together) when an earthquake traps them in but also reveals a secret chamber beneath their school.

Stored there are five mystic artifacts (I haven't decided exactly what, leaning towards bracelets) that allow them to unlock magical girl transformations, each with an associated element - fire, water, metal, wood, and air.

The twist is that any two of these girls can fuse into a single being with their own element (which is generally more powerful but more situational). Fire and air make lightning, water and metal make ice, and so on.

I haven't really figured out who the antagonists are yet. I also think the artifacts were left there several decades earlier by a previous group of magical girls who failed at the thing they were attempting to do.

Aside from that, everything is still pretty much up in the air. This story concept is relatively in its infancy.