I’ve been playing Destiny (and Destiny 2), the computer game, since the open beta on XBox. I was looking for a new game to play and, amazingly, I found a first-person shooter I actually liked. Anyway, after many years, I decided to drop it because I was getting consistently disappointed by the content. No more, Bungie! No more money are you getting from- And then they brought out The Witch Queen expansion, everyone said it was the best campaign they’ve ever done, and I caved. I have to say, I’m not finished with the campaign yet, but I think calling it their best is… bollocks.
Anyway, I was massacring something or other (it’s usually fairly difficult to differentiate between mobs who die in one hit) when a thought hit me: Destiny is a Magical Girl Isekai.
The backstory of your character in Destiny is that there’s this thing called the Traveller who grants magic powers to various champions. The champions are selected from dead people found by a technomagic fairy called a ghost. The ghost literally reincarnates your character (the ability to bring you back from the dead is, of course, an explanation for you never dying permanently in game) into a post-apocalyptic world to fight ‘the darkness.’ You have magic, elemental powers. You are a reincarnated magical girl! Plus, in keeping with modern magical girl anime, it may be that the Traveller isn’t as nice as is originally thought, and the darkness isn’t as demonic as it seems. By this point in the Destiny 2 storyline, the lines are getting pretty muddy. See? Magical Girl Isekai!
Now I just have to imagine Zavala in a frilly costume waving a wand. That should cut the stuck-up bozo down to size…
Witches and Ray-Guns 
Never played it; do you also get the magical girl cute talking animal sidekick?
Well, no, but you do get your ghost. It can be cute.
Actually, last night I did a mission where Ghost is imitating one of the other NPCs, sort of a gunslinger ruffian character. That was cute. But not talking animal cute.
I am still playing World of Warcraft. It is a nice familar world I can do whatever I want. I have thought about the Halo collection, but after seeing the first three episodes streamed I ask myself if there are any real good guys in the backstory. I can always replay mass effect to scratch the shooter itch.
I spent a year out of work playing WoW through the night. Not my best time.
Mass Effect is what prompted me to write the first Aneka Jansen book, so that has a special place in my heart.
I knew I liked ME before, but hearing this I can honestly say I truly love it. ME was awesone (I even liked Andromeda), but knowing the link makes it even better. Steel Beneath the skin was my first book of yours, and it set me of on half a dozen other series that I still think of fondly to this day.
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I actually liked Andromeda. I didn’t buy it until after all the bugs had been ironed out, however.
Yeah, I binged the first three ME games (over and over) and then decided to write some sci-fi. Steel beneath the Skin was a success. The rest is history.