sometimes I think that Mod would enjoy having a heroic nemesis, but then I'd have to decide who that is and I don't really have a good idea for that right now

Like, having a longtime nemesis, someone with whom you have a history you can draw on and you push each other to ever greater heights

The only heroic character I really have is Miss Trial, and she's great, but not really a good match for Mod for a number of reasons- partially because they both share my politics and so pretty much want the same things in the world, and partially because... I dunno, I started thinking about Mod getting smashed against the wall by eight foot tall marble judge lady and still smiling like the cat who caught the canary and kinda got distracted

Like, I don't wanna spend brainspace and such imagining someone who wants shitty things, so this loops back to "how much of this is a kink scene and how much of it is 'real'"

Mod does this sort of thing partially because she wants to do good and partially because she gets off on it. Yes, there's a certain bliss you can only get by watching some fascist's brain melt, but a longer-term nemesis would be someone you don't just want to kill right away. Someone you keep around because they challenge you and drive you to ever greater heights. And, of course, someone who just won't stay down, no matter how many times you throw them into vats of boiling silicon.

And, also, matching up the supervillain with the one hero in my stable feels a little forced. That's not to say Mod and Miss can't match wits every now and again, but they're not necessarily True Nemeses, you know?

squaring the circle of "I want to fight assholes who suck until they're not a problem any more" and "I want to have sexually-charged fights with equally caped-up people, luxuriating in our elaborate set pieces and banter and just bein' gay together"

@BestGirlGrace god this is the mood, isn’t it. The problem is finding someone who you disagree with, but who you don’t, like, REALLY disagree with

@BestGirlGrace maybe this is why so many villains choose to arch “we’re not so different, you and I” types. Upstanding do-gooders who would, in fact, hold THE SAME values as their antagonists, if only they crossed that one thin line of idealism

@BestGirlGrace in this case maybe Mod’s favored foe would be someone who works to combat cyber crime. Just spitballing here: Her name’s Watchdog, she’s a super-coder magical girl who can possess and heal computers with the help of her snarky AIBO sidekick, and by day she’s a mild mannered employee at a Best Buy Geek Squad counter. Oh, and she’s Marianas Trench levels of deep in the closet

@BestGirlGrace Her “love interest” is a coworker of hers who secretly moonlights as a mysterious Kamen Rider style masked white-hat hacker. He crushes on her when they’re at work together, but she’s only interested in him when he’s in tight, androgynous biker gear. Wonder What That’s All About

OH! And her show would have a little Planeteer Alert style infotainment segment at the end that would explain basic infosec safety tips

(sorry, got carried away, lol)

@distressedegg First of all, you absolutely rule and never apologize for sharing your extraordinarily good ideas. I smile every time you come across my notification column <3

There's a lot of good mileage you can get out of the "You know, dear, we both want the same thing. All you have to do is let me through. Or, better yet, I have a uniform in your size~" AND you know you have a common interest AND you know they don't have shitty politics.

I will write more later when I get a break at work, but I've honestly been flipping Watchdog over in my head since last night, coming up with real good dog-themed taunts ("Heel, puppy", "Fetch!", "Good girl, come get your treat.", "Now, now, don't tug at your leash, dear~") and the rad, rad cyberspace fights they'd get into and the "Huh, did her hair always get kinda staticky like that"

I keep turning "'white collar' infosec job" over in my head because of the whole in the closet at the office situation and there's some "hey, we got hired by some asshole corp, do we have to do this"

I'm already imagining, like, the end scene of Magic School Bus or whatever where Mod and Watch reassure the audience "Most viruses aren't as great as I am. Like Data Spike today, they're more like vampires that have to be let in."

"Be wary of phony download buttons and tricky popups!"

"Trust your instincts! Don't be afraid to close the page- turn off your computer if you have to."

"And if you're not paying, you are the product."

@distressedegg their firm just won a big Greytheon contact- which is awful on the face of it, but guess who made a mess of their servers last night, as Mod tried to steal and Watch tried to destroy the notes on some hideous new piece of military tech.

And so they both jump at the chance to cover their tracks, both from their coworkers and from each other, and wind up sharing an office.

@BestGirlGrace oh that’s SO perfect. Y’know, you could have Mod come in as a big shot freelance consultant on the project so you could get that nice workplace boss/employee dynamic going, too~