Yeah, I meant magical girl just in the sense that she has powers.
The boys aren't concerned with her being hot--in fact, at the start they're just embarrassed and freaked out that she might change clothes in front of them. (She barely talks and has probably never seen another person her age before.) The issue of pretty only comes up when they're disguising her--they give her a blond wig and a ridiculous smocked dress that we're supposed to believe belonged to the older sister at one point. (Excuse me, I was a teen in for part of the 1980s. No one ever wore anything like that.) The main character makes an offhand remark that she looks pretty--and she takes this to heart! She doesn't even know the word "friend" when they encounter one another, so I doubt she knows "pretty"--but I guess an understanding of it comes with the extra X chromosome.
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Re: spoilers for Stranger Things (though actually this whole discussion is spoilerific)
Date: 2016-09-24 06:12 pm (UTC)The boys aren't concerned with her being hot--in fact, at the start they're just embarrassed and freaked out that she might change clothes in front of them. (She barely talks and has probably never seen another person her age before.) The issue of pretty only comes up when they're disguising her--they give her a blond wig and a ridiculous smocked dress that we're supposed to believe belonged to the older sister at one point. (Excuse me, I was a teen
infor part of the 1980s. No one ever wore anything like that.) The main character makes an offhand remark that she looks pretty--and she takes this to heart! She doesn't even know the word "friend" when they encounter one another, so I doubt she knows "pretty"--but I guess an understanding of it comes with the extra X chromosome.