Beautiful
Mar25
on 2019-03-25
at 00:15
Chapter: Down To Earth
Characters: G'Nar (the Insignificant), Maggie Rush
Location: Maddie's Apartment
She’s going to need a hero name. I have something in mind, but I want to see your suggestions.
↓ Transcript
Maggie
OK. How do we do this?
G’Nar
Well, for you to become a proper pretty magical girl heroine, I think we need to hit the classic tropes. Tropes have power. I’m the talking magical creature. You’re the spunky young girl. Living with a sibling guardian has to be a bonus. Next thing we need is a wand or staff you can carry everywhere. And it has to be cute or pretty.
Maggie
How about a “beauty?”
G’Nar
Not sure what you mean, but I suppose. Why?
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Maggie
I’ve got just the thing! Be right back.
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Maggie
Voilà!
Bat reads
Beauté Noire
OK. How do we do this?
G’Nar
Well, for you to become a proper pretty magical girl heroine, I think we need to hit the classic tropes. Tropes have power. I’m the talking magical creature. You’re the spunky young girl. Living with a sibling guardian has to be a bonus. Next thing we need is a wand or staff you can carry everywhere. And it has to be cute or pretty.
Maggie
How about a “beauty?”
G’Nar
Not sure what you mean, but I suppose. Why?
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Maggie
I’ve got just the thing! Be right back.
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Maggie
Voilà!
Bat reads
Beauté Noire
G’Nar….why are you trying to cause trouble? Oh…right…child of an Old One…
Here’s a PSA from the anime pope: Just don’t:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2gEkdPZOM8
It’s “Voila”.
The viola is the thing that makes a “Bratsch” sound when you sit on it (germanophone musician in-joke).
But some people just deliberately say “viola”, quoting old cartoon characters like, if I’m not mistaken, Yosemite Sam.
It’s written ‘voilà’ – viola is a musical instrument…
was there not a comic before abotu a guy that was the reincarnation of king arther and excalaber was a baseball bat. and merlin was a ghost?
Mage the Hero Dicovered, Mage the Hero Defined and Mage the Hero Denied.All three series by Matt Wagner.
And when did Maggie and G’Nar decide to join the Mahou Shoujo genre?
Read those a long long time ago, don’t recall Merlin being a ghost, just that one of them was legless (phantom legs wrapped in bandages)
Actually, it’s not even voila – it’s voici.
Voila = “there it is”
Voici = “here it is”
You’d more or less use voila when pointing at something, and voici when holding something (which is what we’ve got here).
Actually I think you have the perfect Magical Girl name on her bat.
I approve, while neither a player nor fan (though I am a Red Sox Widower). I will posit that this does in fact qualify as a magic wand and or staff. Seriously people, why does every bloody punter and ponce think it’s either a damnable twig or a great bloody 2 metre stick ffs? What is wrong with a middle length, thick and awkward to carry magical device. For that matter a nice walking cane just might be.
To be fair to the staff users, assuming it’s sufficiently sturdy, while it may not be discrete, it can double as a melee weapon if necessary. Or a walking/hiking stick. Or for poking away the ground ahead of you to try to trigger any traps. Or with a little help, it can be turned into a spear or other polearm.
Point is, a study staff can have practical and nonmagical applications.
Staffs are traditional, but those traditions have practical roots.
As for the wand/twig users … pretty much the only thing I can think of would be ease of concealment relative to a staff. Well … it’s also easier to point at something with a wand than a staff. No idea where there origins lie.
Magical sticks come in large, medium, and small formats. They are called staves (staffs), rods, and wands respectively.
The cane-sized edition of magical stick is called a “rod.” They are admittedly less popular and well-known than the wand and staff, but they are definitely part of the legends and lore.
“Rod” would definitely include this bat, although the bat is a particularly heavy example of the trope.
But anyway, she won’t call it one. It’s her bat. Or maybe it’ll be called by its individual name instead.
Wouldn’t a bat come under the ‘club’ category? o_O
Actually a whole lot of the things that were called “rods” back when that was the common word for a short-ish stick, are things that we would call “clubs.” A ‘walking cane’ is just the version that there’s a polite excuse for carrying, and when they were carried by fully able-bodied men, nobody was fooled.
I would suggest HitGirl, but… I think that’s taken. Batgirl is taken, as well, I think. Sailor Slugger?
[AndyOH!]:
That last panel — Am I seeing “Black Beauty”?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Beauty_(disambiguation)]
… is THIS the direction you’re planning to take … either from the Book or from the Horse?
I think Farah from Shattered Starlight would have a couple things to say about this….
Sidekick Girl (https://sidekickgirl.net/) calls hers “Mr. Bat II” ^_^
But can she kill a Dalek with it?
Oh get serious. It’s on her bat. They’ll see it when they see her, it is actually a very good name, and every reporter in the world will call her that on sight if they haven’t already got a clue to the contrary.
“Beauté Noire” – it’s perfect. If this isn’t exactly the name she’s picked, then people who assume that it is and have to be corrected are going to be a running gag.
“Beauté Noire” — French, meaning “Black Beauty.” Double meaning right there. The bat, the girl, both are black beauties.
“Bête Noire” — Also French, meaning “Black Beast” – this is a colloquial phrase meaning something like, “that horrible thing you don’t want to talk about that is probably eventually going to catch up with you and it’ll be bad and you kind of live life in a certain amount of fear that it’s going to come out and get you sooner or later….. ” But that’s a paraphrase of course. Think, something that is someone’s secret terror, the way Meuller or his report were Trump’s secret terror for the last year. And again, a double meaning, for both the girl, and the bat. ‘Cos I have a premonition that there are going to be a certain population that live in mortal terror of both.
While ‘Black Beast’ may be the literal translation of “Bête Noire”, another term for it is “Bug Bear” (no, not the 7+ foot D&D beastie), it has the same meaning, just, possibly, more common than ‘Black Beast’
Did I miss something? Where is this comic coming from?
What? You didn’t think Andy had forgotten Maggie, had you?
This is either a ‘non-canon filler’, or, it’s simply showing what others have been up to while Ace and co are “(not lost) In Space”, just like with Bruno and Peggy
Almost forgot to ask: new model for G’nar?
Also, do you have a ‘thing’ for that name? ‘Gina’, ‘Gna’ and ‘G’nar’
Not saying there is anything wrong if there was, just wondering if it was intentional, if there is a ‘connection’ somehow, or just a hippy co-inky-dinky
When did G’nar reveal himself to Maggie? (It is Maggie, isn’t it? I forget…)
[MikeLinPA]:
Yes, you’re right – it’s “Maggie Rush”.
I think this is the page you’re looking for (& the next page too):
[www.tmi-comic.com/comic/2016-03-22]
Love the computer! I have a couple of the old G4 Macs around still. Still use ’em for the occasional odd jobs.
If the idea is for you to carry the object around with you at all times, I think your school might object.