History Characters / MagicalBoy

* HeroesWantRedheads: Max harbors a crush on the redheaded Tobi Flynn.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: Max finally gains complete control over his powers at the very end of the comic [[spoiler:after learning that Aurora and Devoid were genderless entities who chose to considered female, with Aurora validating Max's gender identity and restoring his confidence. He gains the abiltiy to fly, share his powers with others, and an enormous power boost that lets him completely overpower Devoid.]]

* SupernaturallyValidatedTransPerson: Inverted. Max, when he transforms, is forced into an extremely feminine and sparkly persona, despite being a trans guy. This slowly works its way to being played straight, however, as his outfit gradually becomes more masculine. Over the course of a few pages, his dress has become shorter and less sparkly, he's been getting a skirt, sneakers instead of high heels, and, in later strips, has become a tunic and pants, along with short, masculine hair. Also, when his Magical Girl staff is broken, it transforms into a sword instead. Even before the costume starts shifting to something more masculine, it [[QueerColors has the same color scheme as the Trans Pride Flag.]]

* GayBestFriend: Jen, Max's ButchLesbian friend, is the first one to know Max's gender identity, and supports him absolutely, even buying him a binder and some new clothes. The comic has yet to show her in a romantic relationship with anyone. [[spoiler:Until Max catches her and Pyper holding hands in a secluded alleyway]].

* HeroicComedicSociopath: She has a rather narrow view of things when it comes to her family's role as the descendants of Aurora to the point of being insufferable. She tries enforcing strict gender roles onto Max while completely overlooking him coming out as trans, does everything she can to make him fulfill his role as the current goddess without considering how he feels about any of it. It is even implied that the only reason why she married her husband was that she would have named her daughter "Áine Owen", a name that has symbolic significance with the CreationMyth and the LegacyOfTheChosen.[[note]]However, this might have been more of a joke as a later strip hints that one of the reasons Hikari is so panicked about the mere possibility that her child might not live up to their inherited responsibilities is that her own past mistakes almost got her husband killed at one point.[[/note]]

Pyper's fundamentally Catholic father and the priest at the local church. He believes that homosexuality is a sin and shames non-heteronormative people.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Is getting to become more accepting of the LGBT in the finale. It sort of helps when a demon ''thanked'' him for his ultra-conservative old ways.]]

* EleventhHourSuperpower: Max finally gains complete control over his powers at the very end of the comic [[spoiler:after learning that Aurora and Devoid were genderless entities who chose to considered female, with Aurora validating Max's gender identtiy and restoring his confidence. He gains the abiltiy to fly, share his powers with others, and an enormous power boost that lets him completely overpower Devoid.]]

* ImportantHaircut: Max gets his hair cut into a masculine look when he finally tries to come out to his family and classmates. Similarly, as he makes the role of Goddess his own, his dolled up bun gets turned into spiky ShonenHair after transforming.
* InsistentTerminology: His frilly Goddess outfit and magic wand repeatedly gets him called a "magical girl", which he's quick to correct to a "magical boy".

* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: The role of Goddess was forced onto Max on his sixteenth birthday, specifically the day he decided to come out to his parents as trans. Because the Goddess is an exclusively feminine role to take, he is forced to have his hair up, his face covered in make-up, and wear a frilly dress whenever he has to take on his duty (which he has no real say in whether he ''wants'' to fulfill it or not). If he does not fulfill his destiny, then the world will be overrun with [[EmotionEater emotion-eating]] monsters, leading to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. When he is not powered-up, his [[MyBelovedSmother zealous-to-the-point-of-obnoxious mother]] tries reminding him of his destiny every chance she gets, ignoring his coming out and trying to enforce his assigned gender onto him so that he may be a "proper lady."
* LightEmUp: As befitting the descendant of Aurora. Demons don't technically die from being blasted by this Light however, but are instead purified, stripped of their ill-gained toxic powers, and forced back into the other realm.

* MagicPants: When he first transforms, his binder is destroyed, but it comes back he returns to normal.

* PsychoactivePowers: Devoid's stronger minions repeatedly mock Max for having dinished power compared to his predecessors. As Max later learns, this is because he's constantly plagued with self-doubt because of his struggles with being accepted for who he is. This tampers with his ability to harness powers based on compassion, hope, and other positive emotions. [[spoiler:At the very end of the comic, Max's self-confidence blossoms after Aurora validates his gender identity and reveals the truth of her conflict with Devoid. After this, Max not only gains the ability to share his powers with others temporarily, but handily overpowers Devoid where even Aurora failed.]]

* AntiMentor: For all her talk of instructing Max how to use his powers "properly", Hikari does a poor job of showing him how to do anything. For instance, hen he asks for help in finding and sealing gates, she simply shoves him out the door with Walnut and tells them to go find it. She also refuses to accommodate Max's gender identity and constantly tells him to be a proper lady no matter how uncomfortable it makes him. Hikari then doubles down on her ideas of what a Goddess should be even when it becomes clear that Max is defeating Devoid ''despite'' her teachings rather than because of them.

* WantedAGenderConformingChild: Hikari has really been wanting Max to take up his intended role of a Goddess, even since before he was born. She flat-out balks at the possibility of having a son when she's pregnant with Max. Of course, she doesn't react well when he comes out as trans and is still having trouble accepting it. [[spoiler:In the epilogue after she realises how badly she'd been treating max this [[OpenMindedParent does a complete 180]] and Hikari starts chewing out people who misgender Max.]]

* OpenMindedParent: Not only is she supportive of her daughter's sexuality, she calls out Pastor Ryland as wella s the school for mistreating her daughter.

* TrueBlueFemininity: Aurora's color scheme consists of mostly blue and its shades, fitting for a Goddess of hope, love, and compassion who also admire the female organisms on earth at how they are able to produce life on their own.