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## Overview

Magical Girls of New Jersey is a coming of age comedy that spoofs both American superhero culture and Japanese magical girl tropes. The story takes place in the fictitious town of New Moscow, New Jersey, a settlement populated by Russian-American immigrants and their families. Through the main cast, different Russian minority ethnic groups are explored, particularly Muslim Russian groups. This is primarily through the lens of Arkadya Altunyan, the child of Christian Armenian-minority Russian-American immigrants.

When confronting the different heroes and villains in this world, the Magical Girls of New Jersey are faced with their possible futures, the paths unfolding before them faster than they can handle. Will they reach their breaking point? What will they become?

Until they age out of high school and confront their future, the Magical Girls of New Jersey are the beloved mascots of their home town, their state, and their cultures, as well as hyphenated Americans as a whole. Like ambassadors, they represent the ideal versions of themselves to the world. How will they measure up to this challenge and still get good grades?!

## The World

### Basis

In essence, being a superhuman is genetics.

Some traits are dominant, some recessive, some mutations. To be considered superhuman, these traits have to combine well enough or manifest powerfully enough to be useful on a scale larger than oneself or one’s innermost circle. From there, there are different levels of superhuman ability. Can this make or break your town, your region, your country?

The most powerful superhumans are a perfect storm of traits that only appear once or twice every few generations. The least powerful superhuman might not realize not everyone can do what they do. A little spark of light from the fingertips or abnormally powerful static electricity isn’t too easy to notice if you aren’t looking for it, especially if most of your family can do it.

### History and Role

In some cultures, superhumans were revered. In some, shunned or enslaved. In most, it’s more complicated, more nuanced than that.

Differences can be scary, especially advantageous or dangerous ones. Fight, flight, freeze, or fawn? Culture can really change what someone defaults to, even more so in a specific context.

As societies scaled up and became more complicated, the need became more pressing to cement a role for extraordinary persons. Different abilities are more useful in different climates, regions, and technological levels. Some people were used like batteries, generating force, motion, energy to some project, palace, machine, factory. Life could be menial and ordinary for gifted and gifted alike, pressed into work as similar as it is different.

Some stood out as soldiers. Some were performers, some mercenaries. Superhuman leaders inspired awe and jealousy with their honed ability, as practiced as a muscle.

Certain rulers recognized the genetic potential of these individuals. Soon, they began what some would consider to be the precursor to-or the foundation of-eugenics. It turns out, superhumans are not immune to inbreeding. Go figure. After some trial and error, superpowered bodyguards and soldiers were brought into the world for one purpose, not as people. These programs varied in methods and results, but in the end produced secrecy in those "gifted". This secrecy resulted in tests being issued with varying degrees of success.

This ancient practice, as with slavery of regular humans, was later considered a crime against humanity.

### Masked Justice

Some might call them super-heroes, short for superhuman heroes. This term is generally considered outdated and has fallen into disuse due to its implications of morality and reference exclusively to superhuman masked justice. Not all masked justice is superhuman, and not all superhumans do any kind of masked justice.

## Important articles

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