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Here is my Tecna from the collab separately. 💖
Transformation Warriorix by @chocofishy !!!
Also go to her page to check out the full collab and other artists who took part in it!
#winx#fan art#winx fan art#winx Tecna#winx club tecna#Tecna winx club#Tecna winx#winx tecna art#winx club fan transformation#winx club fan art#winx fan transformation#winx Warriorix#warriorix
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Happy Valentine's Day💕
Amuria and Darcy💕
#winx fanart#my art#art#digital art#ipad art#ipadillustration#fan art#fanart#original character#original art#oc#winx rewrite#winx club#winx#winx headcanons#winx darcy#winx trix#winx transformation#winxfairy#winx fandom
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They're laughing at Clampdown falling down the stairs (again).
Righty's out getting snacks.
(Gyat DAYUM, these guys were hard to draw-)
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#maccadam#transformers#transformers robots in disguise#transformers robots in disguise 2015#tf rid 2015#rid 2015#thunderhoof#fracture#chop shop#winx club#the trix#icy darcy and stormy#icy#darcy#stormy#art#my art#digital art#fan art#digital fan art#transformers fan art#illustration#my illustration#digital illustration#artwork#my artwork#digital artwork#krita#artists on tumblr#not a reblog
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#winx#winx club#winx artist#winx club art#winx art#winx club fan art#winx fandom#winx club official#winx oc#winxclub#winx transformation#enchantixpower#enchantix#enchantix fairy#winx enchantix#winx style art#winx oc fairy#fairy winx
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Advanced Forms Section 2
Mythix is a form that allows a witch or fairy the ability to travel between the real world and the Myth realm but only for a certain amount of time or else they’ll be trapped there forever. The outfit takes the form of the users favorite myth
Faunix, a sub form of Believix, is gained when a fairy or witch bonds with their familiar/magical animal companion and allows the user to gain the traits of their bonded animal.
This last form/sub form is VERY special. It’s called Dameonix/Goddix. Dameonix is the true form, a form that can only be gained by some that is the child of a fairy/witch and a god. The Sub form, Goddix, is what can be gifted to a fairy/witch if the god that gift’s it has the same powers. It’s got a god-like/warrior look to it.
#percy jackson#percy jackson crossover#percy jackson rewrite#winx club#winx club crossover#winx rewrite#winx mythix#winx butterflix#but i renamed it faunix#so...#winx faunix#winx dameonix/goddix#it's a fan transformation for this crossover/rewrite
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Exactly 8 years ago, the song of one of the best fan transformations was released on YouTube (so many memories...) ARCANIX!
Arcanix acts were responsible for allowing me to venture into creativity, and realize that I can also create stories!
I remember checking Lexi's FaceBook every day, looking forward to the release of another Act, it was so exciting and magical, I hope that one day Lexi can produce them again...
to celebrate this date, I decided to make Bryan in his Arcanix form (even though I know that there are only 6 guardian fairies who have this power) he is the fairy Arcanix who has his central power in storms, I tried to do something classic for him and the end result pleased me!
I hope you like it and happy Winxmas to everyone!
#winx club#magic#magix#fairy#winx transformation#winxclub#arcanix#winx oc#original character#original art#fairyofthunders#male fairy#arcanix act#winx fanfic#winx fan transformations#illustration
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Interested in my work?
I gave up on this project, but not my other ones, or art in general. Follow my other blogs for more of my work!
@team-angel-official
@nowhere-is-our-city
@eepop-artz (art blog)
The Team Angel Revival and the little comics I'm posting on my main (and by extension NIOC should evoke enough all soul energy. Mostly because, yknow, they're all made by the same person. I tend to usually have the same kinda mean sense of humor in almost everything I make.
All Soul (Complete)
This post has links to every chapter of this one incarnation I was able to complete during this blog's run.
Main theme:
The first chapters of the second incarnation will be coming soon.
(Incomplete)
Eating a burger with no honey mustard
#crossover#fan comic#moomin#snufkin#barbie#sonic the hedgehog#barbie doll#sonic#hatsune miku#vocaloid#winx club#winx#Youtube#all soul crossover comic#kagamine rin#art#comic#comic art#full comic#fanfiction#crossover fanfiction#magical girl#transformation#fairies#fairy character#genderbend#digital art#gay characters#lgbt author#i only added so many tags bc this is probably one of the posts i want people to see the most
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I think what this person is referring to is just regular therapy
#Seek help!!#G1 ended in 2015#It's over babe talk to your local shrink or mlp g1/2/3 fan#Or tmnt fan#Or transformers fan#Or he man fan#Or strawberry shortcake fan#Or winx club fan#Or scooby doo fan#Look my point is these things happen frequently and the vitriol displayed in the MH community is weird at best and fucked up at worst
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Upcoming Magical Girl Projects
Magical girl fans are finally eating good after years of starvation. So good, in fact, that I decided to make a list of magical girl projects in development. This is a continually updating list whose history can be found here.
You and Idol Precure - The 22nd season of the Precure franchise, You and Idol will replace the currently airing Wonderful Precure on February 2, 2025. While walking her dog, Uta Sakura comes across Purirun, a fairy searching for the legendary Idol Precure to save her homeland from the Chokkiri Gang. Uta then transforms into Cure Idol to take back the "sparkle" of her neighbors after it's stolen by a Chokkiri agent.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie - Walpurgisnacht Rising - The fourth PMMM movie, which will pick up where Rebellion's massive cliffhanger left off. While originally slated for late 2024, it has since been delayed to winter 2025.
Cute High Earth Defense Club Eternal Love! - The magical boy series is getting a new movie in winter 2025 as part of the celebrations for its 10th anniversary. The movie will be a time travel story that picks up a decade after the original series.
Maebashi Witches - A TV original production by Sunrise, Maebashi Witches is a coming of age story focused on a quintet of high schoolers who are approached by a strange and mysterious frog named Keroppe, who recruits them to become the titular group. Now working in a magical flower shop, the girls use the "Witchverse" pocket dimension to grant people's wishes with the power of song and dance. Has the same writer as Bocchi the Rock (Erika Yoshida) and is premiering spring 2025.
Princession Orchestra - A TV original coming in spring 2025, Princession Orchestra is based on a concept by Akifumi Kaneko, one of Symphogear's co-creators. The land of Alicepia's peace is destroyed when monsters called Jammerwocks attack, prompting a trio of young girls to step up the plate to protect the realm.
Winx Club - The western magical girl classic is getting a CGI reboot. While comments by Iginio Straffi imply that certain characters who were introduced later in the original series (such as Roxy and Nabu) will appear earlier, no specific plot details have been revealed so far. The series is coming to Netflix late 2025.
New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt - Panty & Stocking is getting a second season after over a decade that's coming out sometime in 2025. A teaser trailer confirmed the OG voice cast's return and announced the production staff, but plot details are still unclear.
Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. season two - Magilumiere is getting a second season, which was announced after the broadcast of season one's finale. No other details have been revealed.
Untitled Symphogear movie - A new Symphogear movie was announced in late 2023. However, no further details have been revealed.
Hua Xianzi: Zhi Mofa Xiang Dui Lun - A co-production between Tencent Video and Toei Animation's Shanghai branch, this anime is being billed as a "remake" of Lunlun the Flower Fairy. The heroine is Rumi, an apprentice at a homemade perfume studio who awakens as a Flower Child due to the power of a family heirloom. She's tasked with collecting and purifying the Rainbow Flower's scattered petals, only to clash with another Flower Child along the way and discover the surprising past of her feline mentor/sidekick.
Studio Pierrot's new anime - Studio Pierrot, which has made a variety of magical girl anime from TV originals like Creamy Mami to adaptations such as Tokyo Mew Mew, has announced that they're creating a new TV original magical girl anime. No specific details have been disclosed, but the caption for the teaser image ("I want you to sing once more...") implies that it'll be a magical idol anime.
Lolirock season three - After Lolirock's second season ended with a cliffhanger all the way back in 2017, it seemed like the story would never get a proper conclusion. However, the series's creator and director, Jean-Louis Vandestoc, announced on his Instagram in 2023 that creative meetings for a third season have begun.
Magic Knight Rayearth revival - TMS Entertainment is making a new Magic Knight Rayearth anime in honor of the franchise's 30th anniversary. Unfortunately, it's currently unknown what the format will be.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance - A new installment in the seminal Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, this will be a new TV anime to celebrate the series's 20th anniversary. No other details are confirmed, but it will presumably be connected to the upcoming EXCEEDS manga that will begin in 2025.
Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card season two - The sequel to the magical girl classic is getting a second season that will adapt the rest of the manga.
Magical Girl holoWitches - A multimedia project starring six VTubers as fictionalized versions of themselves who work as both streamers and magical girls who save people when they get trapped in the magical Holocas World. There was a four minute extended trailer in May 2024, but the anime's proper premiere date is unknown.
I Don't Want to Be a Magical Girl - An indie project by Kiana Khansmith, which follows the story of a burnt out magical girl named Aika. While she ran away from her duties in pursuit of a normal life, her position as a Protagonist™ causes her to get dragged into adventures anyway. Khansmith is currently hard at work on the pilot, which has a voice cast consisting of Anairis Quinones, Bennett Abara, Christine Marie Cabanos, Aleks Le, Shara Kirby, Michele Knotz, and Marieve Herington.
New Ojamajo Doremi thing - As part of the celebrations for the franchise's 25th anniversary, Toei Animation released two new music videos for the series' 1st OP and 4th ED with the promise that a new project will be made if the videos reach a combined 5 million views. This goal has since been met. Due to the girls being adults in the videos, the new project will presumably be an adaptation of the Ojamajo Doremi 16-20's sequel series of light novels.
#magical girls#mahou shoujo#magilumiere magical girls inc.#puella magi madoka magica#precure#pretty cure#princsession orchestra#winx club#winx club reboot#symphogear#hana no ko lunlun#lolirock#magic knight rayearth#cardcaptor sakura#magical girl holowitches#ojamajo doremi#cute high earth defense club love#panty and stocking#you and idol precure#maebashi witches#i don't want to be a magical girl#magical girl lyrical nanoha
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Meet the hyperfixations 1 - Winx Club - Bloom
Okay so, i decided to make few fanarts dedicated to all of my past hyperfixations, so you could know me better i think?
and my first hyperfixation, suddenly, Bloom. You don't know, but Winx was my first fandom, my first hyperfixation and the longest one in general (from the second to the seventh grade, FIVE fucking YEARS) Well, it's clear that Winx greatly influenced my drawing style, I think this can be seen even after so many years by the way, I drew Believix from memory without references. except some small details, but otherwise I remember everything… should I be sad or proud?… By the way, Believix is my favorite transformation for some reason. I don't know, Enchantix is of course beautiful and dramatic, but!!!!! I don't vibe with the designs. Believix was more my thing. and Dark Bloom is a whole other story, I saw her without any context for the first time and was like WHAT IS THIS GIVE ME MORE!!!!! and at the time when I was a fan of Winx, I didn't have regular access to the Internet, I had to catch the episodes on TV, so basically… I never watched Winx normally? almost… I think that at some point I finally got a DVD to watch them, because I remember how I started the second season and, recognizing the places, I kept waiting for Bloom to go crazy and become dark ahaha
#winx bloom#winx#winx club#winx believix#bloom believix#dark bloom#winx dark bloom#bloom winx#winx club fanart#winx fanart#Elsa Fogen Art tag
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Commission for Kissuiso [inst]. Transformation by Northwinx [inst]. ✨✨✨✨
#winx#fairy#fan art#winx club#design#winx oc#winx fan transformation#oc#winx art#winx club art#winx club oc#original character#winx oc art#winx club ocs
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Can you, maybe possibly do more winx club/fairy! Reader with the chain drabs- 📍(idk if any anon has this emoji but I want it.. whatever they mean)
Yeah, you can have that emoji. Of the people who have asked to be certain anons, none of them have used that emoji. I haven't come in contact with these emoji anons that much, but from what I can gather, they're used to mark a recurring fan who prefers staying anonymous.
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“I think I see your problem here.”
Now you were by no means an expert on teaching magic, but when Hyrule came to you asking for advice, how could you possibly say ‘no?’ In a way, you were the best person for him to ask. While all members of the Chain have come into contact with magic - and even used it themselves - it was through magic items or fairies (which you were a little horrified to learn they often caught in bottles). Hyrule was the only one to actually harness magic and cast spells.
The two of you were similar in many ways: both of you learned about your magical heritage much later in life than others like you, there was the fact that both of you could transform (even if, like all other fairies of his world, he was much smaller than you), and the fact that you both felt different from the people you grew up around due to your magic.
“You’re trying to force the magic out, but at the same time you’re stifling it.” You spoke as you came closer, letting Hyrule relax his hand. “That kind of polarising pressure doesn’t allow the magic to flow correctly, which could lead to your spell backfiring on you. Believe me, it’s not good for your ego.”
You laughed a little at a memory of some of your first spells going wrong. You have no idea how, but you somehow messed up a spell that would change the colour of your hair. It was literally the first - and easiest - spell they taught you at Alfea and you managed to turn your hair into a technicolour nightmare.
But it seemed like your impromptu magic lesson had to be put on hold.
"[Name], my grappling hook got stuck in a tree and I can't pull it loose." A whiny voice caught your attention. "Can you fly up and get it?"
You know, sometimes you wondered if it wasn't such a good idea to tell these boys about your powers.
"Can't Wild climb up there and get it for you?" You ask a little annoyed. "I'm a little busy right now."
"But I wanted to show Wild a cool trick with it. If I go asking for his help, it'll be embarrassing."
You couldn’t say ‘no’ to that pleading look. Wind’s expressive face had its funny moments, but his puppy dog eyes were like weaponized guilt. Shooting Hyrule a look that said “sorry,” you received a small “it’s fine” in return. You’ll continue your training later.
You let out a sigh, looking up at the tall tree Wind was pointing at, “alright. But if this happens again, you’re on your own.”
“Deal!”
In just a flash of light you had transformed into your fairy form, wings out and fluttering to lift you off the ground. Following the rope, you found the hook stuck high in the branches, not only caught by the tree, but also by the rope itself. The whole thing was a giant knot looping around itself, one that you found hard to see where it began and ended. “Geez, Wind, how did you even manage this?” You groaned as you began pulling the problem apart.
“I was practicing a trick, but it went south.” The boy shouted from below as both he and Hyrule watched you work.
“Yeah, I can tell.”
After what felt like half an hour, you finally managed to untie the thing. Letting out a sigh of relief, you grabbed the metal hook, looped the long rope over and around your shoulder and flew down onto the ground. “Here.” You handed the grappling hook over to a very enthusiastic looking Wind.
“Thanks!” Wind then immediately turned his head away, rushing off somewhere else. “Hey, Wild! I can show it to you now!”
“Kids, am I right?” You laughed to yourself.
“Yeah.” Hyrule chuckled. “I don’t know where he gets all that energy from.”
“Now, where was I-”
You hadn’t even had the chance to detransform before someone shouted your name again. This time it came from Four’s corner of camp, where he, Wars and Legend were busy at a makeshift forging station. “We need a stronger, more stable fire over here.”
“I was doing just fine.” Wars shot back at the small smith. “You asked for a stronger flame and I gave you one.”
“I said a “fire,” not a “blaze!” You nearly singed my eyebrows off!”
Guess Wars really wasn’t quite as good with his control with the Fire Rod as he thought. Whose brilliant idea was it to use a weapon meant for combat for forging, instead? But then again, who asks an Enchantix fairy, a fully fledged Guardian Fairy, to be a living furnace, as if that’s somehow better? Probably the same kind of person who asks that same fairy to get a rope unstuck from a tree.
And the smithing group had devolved into a petty argument while you weren’t paying attention. Maybe this could be your out, let you finally get back to Hyrule. But if you were a betting girl…
You turned your eyes to Time, Sky and Twilight who were sitting around a small fire, watching a kettle of water start to whistle. “Let me guess, you’ve got a request for me, too?”
The oldest thought for a moment before giving you a cheeky smile. “No, but I’m sure Wolfie would appreciate an eye-in-the-sky helping him during his patrol.”
Yeah, it was definitely a mistake to tell them about your powers.
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hi! i'm a fan of your work and wanted to request the slashers with a winx fairy s/o. just something about murders with a sparkly fairy lover is funny to me. you need sparkles to cover up the blood ig
Oh this is a fun one, especially because I also love Winx Club <3
Slashers with a Winx Fairy s/o
Jason Voorhees
While he is mildly put off by how… revealing these fairy outfits tend to be, he is also strangely fascinated by all the things you can do. You wouldn't happen to be able to revive his mom for him? No? Oh well, it was worth asking. But overall, your magic makes surviving out in the wild with him so much easier.
Vincent Sinclair
He wouldn't believe it if he hadn't already seen you use your magic. And he quite appreciates your transformations. From a purely aesthetic and artistic standpoint, that is (cough cough).
Freddy Krueger
Freddy would actually be the most curious about your magic. How would it measure up against his dream powers? What can you do in this realm where he has all the power, and can you undo the changes he makes to dreams? More importantly, how can this magic be used for killing? He would actually find murder with a side of fairy dust quite entertaining and encourage you to add some extra sparkle to his kills.
Bubba Sawyer
He instantly adores everything about your fairy forms and magic powers. Can you add some sparkle to his clothes, his mask, his home? Drayton may have a thing or two to say about that last part, but Bubba is absolutely thrilled. And not only that, your magic is also so helpful when it comes to chores! No more spending hours mopping the blood-soaked floors or trying to scrub dark red stains out of furniture. It leaves both of you with much more time for each other!
Brahms Heelshire
Being a fairy while living with Brahms is an incredible advantage. Brahms is having one of his outbursts? You have developed a shield spell to put around him that you affectionately call "The Tantrum Bubble", where he can get all his rage off his chest without causing any damage.
#slasher x reader#jason voorhees x reader#brahms heelsire x reader#bubba sawyer x reader#vincent sinclair x reader#freddy krueger x reader
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#winx#fairy#winx club#winx oc#winxclub#винкс#стелла#cosmix#winx cosmix#stella cosmix#winx transformation#winx art#winx fan art#fanart digital#stella winx#stellawinx#stellafanart#winx club fanart#winx club art#winx style#winx artist#winx fairy
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everyone in the magic dimension has magical powers, including the specialists
a lot of fans tend to use harry potter/atla logic in winx club. in those universes not everyone owns magical powers, even though someone in the family does. i don't honestly think it's the case of winx club.
the magical dimension was created by the great dragon who brought life and magic. each planet in particular has their own magical power. so the entire universe is made of magic, right? then why should someone be powerless?? that's why i think everyone has magical powers, simply ppl don't want to use it. (they may attend normal high schools/universities instead of alfea) in general it doesn't make sense to call them humans since they weren't born on the earth. they are all aliens
big example are the specialists which is a weapons based squad. they aren't even actually completely useless in an universe of wizards and fairies! in fact they are pretty helpful in wildland episodes because winx girls can't transform. they are probably a special force, useful in anti-magic environments. so they decided not to use their magic to become good knights. in any case they need to be magical creatures since they can easily cross alfea's barrier (we should talk about this barrier anyway, since they don't deal with humans much who is it meant to be for?? i suppose some animals that aren't fairy animals, who knows)
in general winx club works differently from other magical worlds. in the most of fantasy books characters were born as witches or faries. instead in winx club ppl were born as magical creations who can decide how to use their magic. mirta in fact at first was a witch then she became a fairy.
to sum up winx club shouldn't be compared to other fantasy works because this universe works in a COMPLETELY different way
#winx#winxclub#winx club#winx headcanons#winx opinions#winx theory#bloom#winx bloom#winx flora#winx musa#winx stella#winx tecna#winx aisha#winx layla#magic winx#alfea#winx specialists#winx sky#winx riven#winx helia#winx timmy#winx brandon#winxclub lore is fcked up#winxclub reboot#rewriting winxclub#winx mirta
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Tragic Yuri or Tragic Yuri: On Female Autonomy, Reclaiming the Narrative, and 2011's Moodiest Magical Girls
(contains spoilers for Madoka Magica and Heartcatch Precure, very slight spoilers for Winx Club, topics of loss and depression, and the author screaming into the void about anime bullshit that happened over a decade ago)
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If you've spent any amount of time in the Precure or PMMM fandoms, you've probably come across this quote. It's natural in many ways for Urobuchi to feel the way he does--imposter syndrome is intensely common for artists and I'd imagine attempting to write a subversion of a common genre while a piece of media from that genre is wrapping up a super successful run is challenging. While I won't pretend Heartcatch reached the levels of popularity that PMMM ended up at, it was the highest-selling season for years in terms of toy sales and many still remember it very fondly. (I'm a bit more critical of it, personally, but more on that later.) And so much was made of Urobuchi confessing he hadn't seen Heartcatch at the time of writing his own show, with PMMM antis saying that meant he had no real appreciation for the genre.
But what if I were to tell you that not only would PMMM have been significantly worse if he'd made it more like Heartcatch, but Heartcatch would've been better off if it had been more like Madoka?
A disclaimer before we go any further: I am not suggesting that Heartcatch should've retooled into a darker series, or that it even had the ability to since the shows were made pretty much in tandem. The damage done to Heartcatch, in my opinion, was already done before Madoka's finale even aired. This is purely an exercise in comparing two magical girls from roughly the same anime season (one ending about when the other was starting) and seeing what they could learn from each other. Also note that my title on my main blog is literally "Heartcatch Precure finale anti," so there will be some bias involved. With that out of the way, let us proceed.
Context
Pictured: a completely normal Facebook discussion about a kid's anime character from almost 15 years ago.
For those unfamiliar, Cure Moonlight has essentially built up a reputation for being the Leafpool of Precure. For those unfamiliar with Warrior Cats, this is one of the worst things you can be called in fandom--someone with legions of fans who got screwed over so badly that those fans will never shut up about it. Being a Leafpool is not merely being a tragic character, but being actively fucked over by the narrative at every possible turn.
Let's explore Cure Moonlight in a bit more detail before comparing her to Homura and how, I argue, Homura did a similar story path to hers better. Like Homura, Cure Moonlight is first seen fighting a massive threat to humanity inside our pink magical girl Tsubomi's dream. The dream cuts off before we learn her fate, but all we can see on her face is pure sorrow before it does. The minute she is introduced, she already knows loss.
Throughout the show's run, we get to know her as Yuri Tsukikage, a veteran magical girl forced into retirement after her transformation item has been shattered. She has half of the broken Heart Seed that remains, and her foil Dark Precure, who broke the seed, has the other. Yuri is intensely depressed for this exact reason: she has lost her powers, her duties to the world, her fairy companion (who died in the battle with Dark Precure), and her father has also mysteriously vanished. The audience first sees her as a friend of one of the lead's older sisters, a senpai who excels at both sports and academics, before revealing her to be a broken person inside. The goal of Yuri's narrative, seemingly, is to restore her Precure powers, allow her to confide in new friends, and find her missing father.
The first two are accomplished in a pretty straightforward but heartwarming manner--Yuri begins to find a new purpose in training her Precure kohais and eventually regains her powers through hard work and determination. Typical kid's show stuff, even if seeing Cure Moonlight reappear for the first time is indisputably badass. It's the third one, however, that I have the most problems with.
Frequent followers of my main blog @curemoonliite may be familiar with a term I have called "moonbitching." This is what I call it when I rant at length about the Heartcatch finale and what it did to Cure Moonlight's character, or even just allude to it in the tags. Since this post will already be long enough without it, I'll go light on the moonbitching, but do just enough of it to give you the facts.
In the last few episodes of the series, Yuri learns that her father was brainwashed by the main villain of the series, Dune, and that Dark Precure was cloned from her genetic material while he was brainwashed. This is legitimately a fascinating plot point that, by itself, I have no problems with. However, soon after learning about this, both Dark Precure and her father are killed off in the final battle and all Yuri can do is watch.
Her father sacrificed himself for her in a moment of clarity, she didn't even get time to really process that she's been fighting her sister all along, and she's lost everyone all over again. She started the show with just her and her mother, and the second she sees hope at having a family again, it's taken away from her.
Her kohai Tsubomi, upon seeing this, begs Yuri not to take revenge on the Big Bad that's stolen everything from her. This isn't the Yuri I know, she shouts. But somewhere along the line, we've lost the Yuri we know. All her development, all her growth, has been torn away the minute she's forced to lose everything again. Her path as a character is now uncertain, the narrative deciding it won't allow her to pursue even the slightest act of revenge.
And all Yuri can do is watch alongside us.
Homura and Yuri
The minute I saw this finale for the first time, I was reminded of how a classic piece of children's/family media handled a similar plot point. Allow me to be cliched for a moment, but if we look at someone like Inigo Montoya, we can see that his decision to pursue revenge is never really questioned by the narrative. This is something that's always bothered me about female characters in media, especially magical girl stories--a magical girl can never just say "give me my father back, you son of a bitch." They may want to, but due to sexist notions about women and violence, they're always expected to take the high road.
Oftentimes, this is done by using the magical girl leader as a mouthpiece to directly dismiss their teammate's desires--Bloom and Aisha go through something very similar in S4 of Winx Club when Aisha's fiancee is killed. Neither Bloom nor Tsubomi are naturally dismissive people, and the narrative tends to characterize them as kind, but they are briefly mischaracterized in moments like this to give the typical "revenge is bad" message that kid's shows tend to have. A message that is often distinctly missing from boy's cartoons, but I digress.
Aisha is at least allowed the dignity of separating from the main team for a few episodes to join some extremists, but Yuri doesn't even get that.
And Homura gets so much more.
I'll admit, I still have mixed feelings about Rebellion to this day, but what I do appreciate about it is that it isn't hampered by these restraints that magical girl media made for children seem to have. That villain arc the Facebook commenter from before said Yuri should've had? It was too late for her by the time the finale ended, but it wasn't too late for Homura.
Homura is, in many ways, an anti-Yuri, and a lot of that comes from her having autonomy within the narrative. Female autonomy is something we see discussed in the social justice sphere a lot, but not quite as much in the storytelling sense. Probably the main difference between the two is that Homura, as a time traveler, can stop the ones she loves from ever being killed. In fact, that's also her greatest weakness, as she wears herself down with the timelines so much that she can barely bring herself to care for anything else sometimes.
Homura's depression comes from the idea that she Can Stop The Thing, but can't figure out precisely how to. Yuri's depression comes from the fact that she Can't Stop The Thing, thinks she knows how to, and gets herself into more trouble along the way. One of these makes for an intensely more active character that doesn't feel unfairly dunked on by the narrative, and oddly enough, it's not the kid's show character.
Yuri, as a children's character, is kept from doing certain things by what that entails. Homura, however, has no such restrictions. She can travel through time and repeat everything over literally until she breaks herself. And that she very, very much does.
Homura doesn't have to be convinced in the finale to let Madoka go, she just peacefully comes to terms with it herself. That alone gives her more autonomy than Yuri had, even if we recall that Rebellion's ending was not the original one that Urobuchi had planned. However, Rebellion's ending serves as an ultimate rebuttal to the narrative that a magical girl must simply allow hardship and loss to happen to her. If the world isn't fair to her, if not even time travel works out, why not just remake it?
This action comes at the cost of stripping Madoka of a lot of her autonomy, sure. But it is, in a way, the natural conclusion of how magical girl leaders are often made to strip their "angsty" team members of theirs. Homura's fall from grace is a flipping of this script in every way possible, and even if it's far from the best decision for her to make, we can see that it's 100% fully her own.
The revenge is complete. No one is there to stop her. Even the writers don't really know what to do with her now. Homura has now transcended the fate of the purple magical girl, and that's the best thing that could've ever happened to her.
A girl who seeks revenge is a devil. A girl who cannot become a princess is doomed to become a witch. But ask yourself, is the fear of becoming these things worth becoming a spectator in your own story?
And, if that's the case, is it truly better to reign in hell than serve in heaven?
#magia record#homura akemi#my post#cure moonlight#heartcatch precure#had to put that paradise lost ref at the end sorry not sorry#a lot of my own thoughts about fighting the system vs being a spectator in your own story came out here too#it's a helluva lot to unlearn that's for sure
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