First thing’s first: My Birthday is tomorrow! Soon I will no longer be a teenager anymore!
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get back to business.
In these last few days of my teenage life, I have journeyed deep into the recesses of the TV tropes, in search for something that would help me work out the problem with Alyssa. And after a few days research, I have stumbled upon one golden suggestion, that has made everything click into place.
That golden suggestion was ‘memory wiping’.
By building on this suggestion, I have remodelled my original idea of the magical girl sister blowing up her village, and worked out some of the elements that followed. Here’s how the updated version of Alyssa’s backstory goes:
Alyssa is spending some time chatting to her friends in the school canteen, talking about this and that and other things. Suddenly, one of her friends starts turning into a monster. Panic ensures as the monster goes on a rampage, killing a couple of Alyssa’s other friends and everyone else in the vicinity. Alyssa manages to save herself and a couple others, and witnesses the magical girls duelling this creature. However, this creature proves too much for the girls to handle, and they have to resort to more extreme methods. Long story short, they end up blowing up a good section of the school.
Now, of course, Alyssa is shocked by all of this, and tries to get to her friends to talk about it, only she witnesses the magical girls doing something to all the people present at the incident, effectively mind wiping them. She then sets to try and convince everyone about the truth, even finding some evidence from people videotaping it. Her magical girl sister Alice, who was present at the incident, catches wind of her sister’s strange behaviour, realizes what she’s up to, and decided to wipe her sister’s mind.
She goes to Alyssa’s room at night, to do it without her sister noticing. However, Alyssa, being a bit paranoid after the attack, manages to catch Alice by surprise, in full magical girl gear (as she can’t do the spell without it). They have a verbal confrontation, with Alice trying to convince Alyssa that oblivion is the best solution for the both of them, and Alyssa telling instead that she does not want to forget. Seeing that they will not be budged, Alyssa tricks Alice into getting close to her, and then stabs her with a knife.
Later on, after Alyssa escapes and builds herself a new life somehow, she stumbles upon the girl who caused the transformation of her friend, a dark magical girl on the Infernal’s side (...or is she?) who uses insects to infect people and turn them into monsters. Alyssa manages to trap her, and interrogate her, to find out why she did it. Through her, she learns about the magical girl civil war, and realizes that what happened at the school could happen again, unless she stops them. So, after disposing of the insect girl (pouring fuel or something flammable on her, and maybe using a lens to set it aflame), she starts her crusade against magical girls.
So, what do you think about this new history? There are still some more details to flesh out, such as how she manages to avoid detection until she joins the magical girl hunter group, her life within the group, and how she obtains the bouncy ball as her weapon, but for now, I think I have progressed quite a lot, don’t you think?
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