Full lineup of my oc's, the Cure Royale's:
APOLOGIES FOR THE LAYOUT, TUMBLR KEEPS MUNCHING THE FORMATTING! Cure colours added until I can stop it messing things around. (Now fixed!)
The Princess, & Cure Signet (red)
Cure Steady (green), & Cure Swift (blue)
Cure Sunfire (Orange/yellow), & Cure Surface (purple)
Spoilers for their backstory below the cut
Sailor Moon, but instead of running from the dark kingdom, the princess (in this case, Chiyoko), has been sent forward to avoid a particularly deceitful and underhanded prince who wants her power related to the Heart Kingdom and will stop at nothing to get control of it. The Queen saw how much the situation will make her daughter miserable if she had stayed, and sent her to the future instead, to a time where she could be free and thrive on her own terms. To a time where she would have a choice to whether to take up her birthright or not.
She also sends her four closest friends, allies, and guardians, Cure Steady, Cure Surface, Cure Swift, and Cure Sunfire along with her. The four cures, noted knights and guardians of the princess, volunteered to remain with her and protect her. The Queen also fulfilled their longstanding wishes to have a chance to become friends with the princess on a level footing. The Queen also tried to send other loyal members of the court who volunteered for the same task, but the magic was disrupted by the prince, and she was only able to get two of them through: Toupe, a lowly hairdresser-fairy, and Percivalance, a knowledgeable, but cowardly retainer who is very much out of their depth in the modern world.
So as it was, no-one who knew what was going on was there when Chiyoko turned 14 and got the first of her magical powers after an extremely normal and uneventful childhood. She misinterprets the powers as a magical girl thing instead of a 'hey so you're actually a princess', and ends up becoming a precure herself, protecting the town from the forces of Wilding, a malevolent plant-like creature who has taken root in the ruins of the old Heart Kingdom and is now intruding into Earth.
Cure Steady, Cure Swift, and Toupe quickly join her side, but with their knowledge of the past incomplete, they have to look for the princess, and try and uncover exactly what happened to the Heart Kingdom, to try and figure out what's really going on.
Unfortunately it turns out the Prince followed her to the modern day, and while he seemed to be an ally at first, or had maybe turned over a new leaf, he was actually behind all the troubles that had been caused, and was still intent on taking the Heart Kingdom's power for himself.
Thankfully Cure Sunfire, and later Cure Surface, who had been keeping an eye on the prince from the shadows, joined the team, eventually banding together to see the prince off for good.
Themes: obligations, predetermined destinies vs self-determination. The importance of choice. Evolution, growing up, family (both lost and found family)(and looking at the absolute mindfuck that essentially having two lives and families is.)
Change
Chiyoko, the princess, and the lead cure is the embodiment of change in this tale. While the prince constantly wants her to become a carbon copy of her past self, both Chiyoko and the Queen want her to make her own choices.
But Chiyoko constantly struggles with what those choices should be. Even from her hair, which changes colour to her moods once she gets her powers and needs to be almost constantly covered up by Toupe, to her Cure forms, where she can take on various different cure forms, taking a while to settle on her 'Super' form, as a symbol of how she wishes to help and protect people like the superheroes in modern stories, she always seems to face difficult choices.
But her friends are there to support her, and here, and now, she has the ability to make that choice. And ultimately shapes her own happiness and freedom because of it. (and this extends to the whole team that got flung forward in time. They all gain their own sort of freedom, and their happy ending is here.)
(Then another villain comes along and throws it all into disarray, but that's where my second team, The Memory Cures come into play. And that's a whole other story.)