Power Girls (Series)

**Power Girls** is a Gacha Club fantasy series created, written, directed and edited by Emilia W.

## Development Stages

### 2013

The idea for the series appeared in 2013. At that time, Emilia was into Kingdom Hearts game series. The only thing that bothered her is that there are only two playable female characters, Aqua and Kairi. Emilia came up with the idea of ​​creating the characters, looking at a colored pen with seven colors: black, red, orange, green, blue and purple. The seventh color, pink, served as a decorative element of the pen, and since it covered the the most of the pen, Emilia decided that the pink color would represent the main character, Violet.

The whole series at the beginning was supposed to be in "what if Kingdom Hearts had only female characters" style. While creating the story, Emilia's main focus was on the story from the first Kingdom Hearts game.

### 2017

In 2017, she returned to further production. On Instagram, she had posted a drawing with the official looks of the main characters: Violet, Emily, Elise, Gaia, Mia, Alex and Selena. She already had plans to do a series and even did an audition. Due to plot holes and problems with the story, Emilia stopped working again.

### 2022

The idea for the series returned in 2022, where Emilia confirmed that the series will be created in the Gacha Club mobile game. In the same year, she started creating a wiki and other media related to Power Girls: an account on Odysee, Instagram, Wattpad and even a Discord group.

The theme song was originally intended to be American Girl by Bonnie McKee but was eventually replaced by Enemy by Imagine Dragons and J.I.D, which is also the theme song for the Netlfix League Of Legends-based series "Arcane".

Emilia later confirmed that the series would be intended for ages 12 and up due to serious topics such as domestic violence. Another reason are LGBT characters and couples who, despite the fact that they already appear in cartoons for children, aren't accepted by some parents and in some countries, everything related to LGBT is forbidden.

Emilia also tries to show as many ethnic groups as possible. At first, all Power Girls members were supposed to be White Americans, later two of them were changed to Latin. These characters are Emily and Mia. Additionally, two of Violet's group of friends have been confirmed to be Indian and the other African-American. These characters are Ria and Leon.

Although the main antagonist is African-American, Emilia didn't intend to consider it as something racist. Queen Chiwa was supposed to be white but due to the fact that Ava's model was made earlier than Chiwa's and Neesha's, it was later changed to make her black. Emilia also added that siblings where one person is white and the other is black is a rare but still possible thing. According to the BBC, interracial couples have a 1 in 500 chance of having children born with different complexions. It means that Chiwa and Amora are biracial sisters.

Due to the Emilia's mental breakdown in November, the series was on the verge of an official cancellation, but ultimately she decided that she would work on the series and that it would premiere in 2024.

### 2023

In January, the first audition began in which people could apply for the role of Emily, Elise, Gaia, Mia, Alex and Selena. Emilia comfirmed she's taking role of Violet and one of Order Of Darkness's members, Carmilla. The results were announced on February 1st. IntrovertedDrey (Drey Blanc) got a role of Elise and Alex, MitsukiIzuma got a role of Mia.