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One of my favorite characters from recent years in anime (and all of fiction): So kawaii, smol and bae! How could anything be more charming than a tiny pigtailed destroyer XD

Or under 5' tall with pigtails and a giant weapon? :D

My female characters can be traditionally feminine or more masculine in terms of personality, but their sheer awesomeness tends to override that either way. If you can beat up a 500' dragon with a nonmagical melee weapon, even if you want to come off as girly, others will tend to view you a...

I'm a straight male but I always had a thing for heroic female characters and feel sad when in fiction female characters "sold" as being awesome often lose their relevance and end up playing second fiddle to males. That's why I've tended to take more inspiration from video games than books, when...

Obviously it would have practical use? You can use it to coordinate tactics with someone without the other people around knowing (like telling your friend to duck, you're going to shoot at them and hit the bad guy behind them), or if it has a long range use it like a telephone in a setting where...

You could kind of say the same thing about any type of media.

They aren't punished for using magic except some people might be intimidated and find them unapproachable, but OTOH magic is also not a "game breaker" in most of my worlds and top tier melee fighters are usually on par with or better than top tier mages.

Dominance and formidability relative to other characters is more relevant in whether characters come off as unbalanced in a story than raw power level anyway. Piccolo is more powerful than 99% of characters in western fantasy yet he never seems OP in DBZ because he becomes a punching bag for...

For fun I decided to compare Cart-Dragger (5'1 MC of the series titled after her) and Strength, one of the 4 imperial generals from the same books (7'0, she is female too BTW). The contrast looks so bae, especially knowing that Cart-Dragger dunks over Strength in ring(basket)ball! :D

An impractically huge and heavy enough weapon reflects the superhuman strength of its wielder though, especially if they also have a reputation for having killed hundreds (or more) people which indicates they can wield it effectively. lol

Why wouldn't a "dark lord" have resistance to magic from a common wizard? If you prefer your magic to have limits, I'd think a natural limit for it to have would be what (or who) it can effect and to what extent. For my works magic often doesn't fare too well against "cute girls". ;) For...

Of course you could have a non-magical fantasy. For example a story about a 26 year old, 5'1 160 lb duchess who wields a hammer with a head the size of her torso and uses it to beat up Godzilla sized monsters... and she has been doing this since she was much younger and skinnier, so the 16 yo...

But that's blatantly wrong since there are many examples of rulers going into battle without being superhuman. Cultural norms or personal pride can easily factor into this as well. Why are you so singleminded in insisting there is only one "right" way to do things even when there are real life...

Well, it's an example of a peak human of that world being physically superior to members of a fantasy race, but a closer example might be the story I'm planning where the elves explicitly have hollow bones and are thus much lighter (and easier to knock/toss around) than a human of equivalent...

Well, sort of related - when I've had elves appear in one of my stories, the male elves were compared unfavorably in physical terms to the female human MC. Not sure how much that counts considering how sturdy my female MCs (including that one in particular) tend to be though. She's a boogeywoman...