History DarthWiki / MagicalGirlsInWOD

** It doesn't help that the stages of Four Tribulations itself sounds like a list of things that a bride need to have: Something New, Something Old, Something Borrowed, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Something Symbolic]].

* The Esoterium: Introspective mystics who try to make the magical girl condition more bearable. Its members are capable of shaping each others Soul Gem (called Layer), defying certain limitations of magical girls. Most famously, there is a Layer that enables a magical girl to bear ([[HasTwoMommies or sire]]) children.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Amongst the Frontliners, this generally holds true. Amongst anyone else who don't want the ColonelKilgore to take charge, not so much.

* DynamicEntry: The Vigilantes get significant reward if they aid a magical girl who is in a pinch, leading to this trope. There is even a Vigilante charm, ''[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Barrier-Busting Boots]]'' that can potentially smash a concrete wall as though it's window glass, if it would lead to helping people who are in trouble.

* TheMasquerade: Due to phenomenon known as [[{{Engrish}} Shroud Over Arcane]][[note]]From ''[[{{Manga/Saki}} Saki]]'' meme, ''sonna okaruto ariemasen'' -- [[AgentScully the occult does not exist]][[/note]], it's hard for mundanes to connect the identity of a transformed magical girl to her mundane form. Paradoxically, the Shroud gets stronger as a magical girl rise in Legend. The magic of magical girls goes against the rule of reality as defined by God-Machine, and mundanes who see them in action will quickly forget them: [[WeirdnessCensor even storing the memory of the event goes against the rule]].

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: As Revenants lose Humanity (whether permanent or temporary), they become paler and what colors they have become more diluted. Notably, while the Revenants themselves remain beautiful if they were beautiful to begin with, [[UncannyValley the beauty is anything but natural]].

* {{Housewife}}: See the ''Spirit of the Living Humanity'' above? An Esoterium member decided to take it UpToEleven and become a loving housewife. The husband know of her situation and [[ThePowerOfLove take it like a man]]. There are several ''other'' problems: magical girls don't grow old, and with each passing year, this married couple seems more and more... age-dissonant. Also, the kids (two boys, one girl) must be kept away as much as possible from their mother's magical girl life.

* KungFuWizard: The magical girls, by default. A starting magical girl know how to hurt demons, while also have several charms that looks and act like classical idea of magic. Taken UpToEleven with magical girls who know both Bewitchment and Magical Fighting Style; there are only a handful of such individuals in the world, and Akemi Homura is not one of them!

* BandageBabe: Excessive and wholly unneeded bandages are acceptable as 'morbid apparel', which Revenants are required to wear in order to stay in sync with their Death aspect. It looks best (read: [[ShapedLikeItself morbid]]) when it's [[BungledSuicide around their wrists]].

* TheMagicGoesAway: The splat for Libram Puellae notice how in the past, the magical girls were more powerful than they are today. Joan d'Arc was a magical girl and she was a literal ArmyOfOne, something unthinkable today. The more optimistic Librarians believe that the power of the magical girl is cyclical, [[EternalRecurrence there are cosmic highs and cosmic lows]]. The less optimistic ones... believe in this trope.

** Invoked inversely with Bedevilment: because you need to undermine your pair to pass a stage (and form new pair after), it's highly unlikely that everyone involved in learning Bedevilment will have good opinion of each others. If your ex-pair don't have bad opinion of you, it's most likely because you killed her to pass the stage. [[FoeYay But then...]]

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Magical girls live in a lonely world where no one can truly relate to them and they are constantly fighting the forces of Evil. They are also unable to have children. Between these awful facts and the majority of magical girls being [[RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude contracted when they were teens]], [[SituationalSexuality they bond with each others very strongly]]. And thus this perception was born.
** This is actually enforced among the dark magical girls, in a way that strongly resembles PrisonRape. If you want to have any degree of power/safety in the scene, you better start sucking up to the powerful oldtimers so you will have someone put you under her protection. The powerful oldtimers themselves want to have as many people as possible to side with them, and the competition for young, naive newbies is fierce.

* RocksFallEveryoneDies: The game outright suggests that the ST sics Akemi Homura to a misbehaving Circle. Akemi Homura's stat block only says [[UnwinnableByInsanity "You Lose"]].

* AssimilationPlot: The goal of Kriemhild Gretchen: smash the God-Machine to bits, absorb all existence into Witch Realm, and eliminate suffering by eliminating the border between individuals. Considering that Witch Realm makes Hell looks like a picnic hill, this is probably not a very good idea. [[NotSoDifferent So basically just like]] [[spoiler:Ultimate Madoka]], except for absolutely everyone, not just magical girls.