[#133] Magic In My Dreams (Sleepless Domain)

[estirose]

Theme Prompt: #133 - Storytelling
Title: Magic In My Dreams
Fandom: Sleepless Domain
Rating/Warnings: T/None
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 526
Summary: Lian will never become a Magical Girl, but there's nothing wrong with daydreaming about it.


Dear Diary,

I've written to you many times about the times where I wished I could be a Magical Girl, just like the ones that go out night after night protecting the city. I'm too old to become one now, so I guess I'll just have to become a Magical Girl in my dreams, fighting alongside Yen'ei, Rong, and Mu. Maybe even Meiying, even though she hasn't ever really been part of our core group, she and I get along well.

But all of us - except maybe Yen'ei - are of the age when Magical Girls lose their powers, so that's not something that's happening.

I still daydream about it, though, like I've done ever since we were kids. We would be Team Carmine - or Team Whimsy, I go back and forth on that. We'd all be weapon-based fighters, using the weapons our ancestors used. Basically, like Team Spear before everything happened. I've never fully decided who would get what, but I'm a fencer so I'd get some kind of sword for sure. Yen'ei would keep our spirits up - or make me want to facepalm more than usual. Mu would be her usual quiet self, ready to apply what little healing power she had. Rong, our ever adventurous one, would be charging forward. Meiying, if she was with us, would be flipping over our enemy's heads - maybe she'd be our ranged fighter if Mu wasn't. Sometimes we'd have elemental powers as well. I'd be the team leader, ready to defend all of them - especially Yen'ei.

We'd have a friendly rivalry with Team Forte - battle of the bands kind of thing, even if they're instrument-based and we'd be singers and rappers - and survive until we were old enough to not be Magical Girls. We'd then tell our kids about all of our adventures and all the monsters we faced.

The more practical part of my brain reminds me that Magical Girls can and do die, and that one of us could easily be dead if we were particularly unlucky. Maybe it's better to be a civilian. But another part of me still wants to write stories about what could have been, even if it's entirely in my mind or in these pages.

After all, Yen'ei and I made our first imaginary team when we were in preschool. She was Rose Girl and I was Sunflower Girl and we were Team Summer for no reason at all. That changed as we met Rong and Mu and Meiying and my daydreams changed to the team I have now. A thematic team, good friends, a story in the making.

A story that will never happen. I feel sad somehow, but I guess that's part of being an adult, isn't it? Dreaming about what can never be. Daydreaming forever about what could have been. Going on with life.

I think I'm just as happy that all of us are as safe as we can be. And that, dear Diary, is all I can ask for.

-yours, Lian.

Comments

[coffinliqueur]

Aah, I'm unfamiliar with these characters, but this is a lovely bittersweet piece about the relatable subject of reflecting on all the adventurous or out-of-one's-hands or fantastical aspirations one might have had for themselves/with their friends growing up! ♥

[estirose]

Thanks! Lian and company themselves are Original Characters. I love worldbuilding for this webcomic and bringing in the POVs of people who aren't the main characters (who are all magical girls).