Here's Hoping for Better Star Guardian Lore

Ifneth··2 votes·504 views

I've been sitting on this for a while since I read the Star Guardian lore during the invasion event. I don't know how else to say this, but I read the Star Guardian lore, and I couldn't help but feel like there were either Freudian slips or bizarrely-sexual references throughout. It wasn't just barely-justified references to a champion's lifting their "long legs" over a rock or Lux's wishing she'd worn a "bikini top and shorts" because of the heat. Even mundane tasks were described in ways that I couldn't help but blink at, baffled by the choice of words.

Beauty, even allure, are certainly parts of the Star Guardian theme and the themes of the Star Guardian champions themselves, but if the gnawing feeling I described above is accurate, then there's something creepy in that lore. I hope that Riot doesn't repeat it.

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Zezockary2 votes

The Star Guardian skins are based on magical girl anime and manga. Go watch Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha or Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya and tell me that the Star Guardian lore is too sexual.

Ifneth1 votes

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The Star Guardian skins are based on magical girl anime and manga. Go watch Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha or Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya and tell me that the Star Guardian lore is too sexual.

I alluded to this in my post. However, Magical Girl stories take breaks between moments of fanservice, whereas I found one weird Star Guardian innuendo after another. And even if the Magical Girl genre is known for having that much fanservice, there’s no rule that Star Guardian must, and we should ask ourselves if we really want it to. Personally... it just made me really uncomfortable.

Zezockary3 votes

Honestly on my first read through I didn't even notice anything like that, I will have to go back through and read it again. Honestly, I don't care either way but as a fan of Magical Girl anime I am glad that it has more similarities than differences to the genre.

Ifneth1 votes

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Honestly on my first read through I didn't even notice anything like that, I will have to go back through and read it again. Honestly, I don't care either way but as a fan of Magical Girl anime I am glad that it has more similarities than differences to the genre.

I hope I’m wrong. The story was otherwise interesting and well-written, with accurate and expressive characters. I want to enjoy it.

Blood Magicks1 votes

I mostly agree with you but can you make a full list of sentences that made you uncomfortable? I think it would be fun to analyse.

Chromatic Eagle2 votes

You have strange hobbies.

Ifneth1 votes

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I mostly agree with you but can you make a full list of sentences that made you uncomfortable? I think it would be fun to analyse.

I would rather not. The stuff I found was so unsettling that I would rather not think about it, lest my imagination should never unsee it. :-( However, you can just read the first chapter’s kitchen scene to see my point.

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