Western Harem Idea

#1
OK, this came out of some Infinite Stratos stuff and wanting to make a version that made SOME sense that I haven't really gotten anywhere with. So why do we have a boy attending an otherwise all girls school? Genetics, there's some special ability on the X-Chromosome that's recessive and rare, our protagonist is one of the rare XXY males that has this ability, in fact his father and grandfather also had the ability.

What is this ability? Magic, because with that any other problems that crop up can be waived away.

Some history for the setting, magic was discovered in the 1960's when large numbers of women started entering tertiary education, this prevents history from being disrupted TOO much. It's theorized, based on ancient writings on the subject working, that it was known in ancient times but died out due to small breeding pools and the rise of male dominance.
So as this is IS based that means it's set in high school, possibly in a just opened one in Southern California. Now given that the number of mages is pretty low magical education is interesting.
First of all it's actually heavily science based, messing around with the laws of physics without actually knowing them doesn't tend to end well. Secondly because of the specialist nature of the education it tends to drop materials that exist only to make the system look good from the core and it isn't covered under normal education system and funding. (Side note: Magical education institutions can't compete is sports programs, so phys ed is an exercise program resembling military basic rather then a sports program). Thridly magical education is over supplied, parents are always campaigning for more schools because they don't want to send their children too far, meaning that there's lots of extra space for non-gifted students which are fiercely competed for because they represent a good opportunity. Despite this most schools are still boarding, travel requirements make anything else impossible for most students, especially as most schools are situated fairly remotely just in case something goes wrong. Dorms for magical students are not sex separated due to low numbers of male students.
And finally due to low male numbers there's a bit of a lesbian until graduation thing going on
 

zerohour

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#2
Alright, what kind of direction do you want to take this in?  Is it going to be whacky fun,  or serious?  Is it going to be gag-a-day style, or will there be an overarching storyline?
Why did magic get rediscovered when women started tertiary school? That's the college or graduate level if I'm right, so why would it be a high school based series?  I'd have there be something more than just "women being educated" as the trigger for this.  Maybe magical energy rises and falls naturally, and after a 2000 year low, it's finally resurging.  That makes more sense to be than male dominance, simply because magic is generally a game changer.  Makes more sense that male dominance came about BECAUSE magic faded away.  Without that advantage, it makes more sense that the physically stronger men would take a more dominant role.
Next up, if it's science based, why would ancients have been able to use it?  Their understanding of the world was very, very limited, centered more around gods and spirits than science.  I'm not saying that it can't work, but with our much, much broader understanding of how the universe works, that implies a greater understanding/mastery of magic in the modern era.

Why is lesbianism encouraged/accepted?  Are the schools entirely locked down, so they can't meet cute local boys?  Do people fear magic, so avoid those that have it?  I know the schools are isolated in case things go wrong, but there's a big difference between a long bike ride to town on the weekends, and completely cut off from society, and that before you factor in flying broomsticks/teleporting/magic portals/whatever else exists in this setting.
Even disregarding magic as an option, food still needs to get to the schools, which means there needs to be some kind of support system in place to supply it.  It doesn't have to be much, but a decent sized town (couple thousand people at most) is going to be necessary.

There's a conflict with the schools being oversupplied and allowing non-gifted students in.  Since non-gifted kids can go to the school, that means there will be a decent number of males on campus.  Granted, ti will probably still favor the females, but there will be other guys around besides the protagonist.  I'd guess that the ratio would be about 2:1:1 for gifted students, non-gifted females, and non-gifted males.  Not a huge deal, but something to consider.
Why make PE military based, instead of having a magic school only league? 

Right now it sounds like magic is regarded as dangerous.  Schools are isolated, military training in place of gym, and

How about characters?  Any ideas for them?

Sorry I can't be more helpful, but the idea is very, very vague.  I can't really help much beyond asking you to clarify things right now.
 

goldenarms

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#3
zerohour said:
Next up, if it's science based, why would ancients have been able to use it?  Their understanding of the world was very, very limited, centered more around gods and spirits than science.  I'm not saying that it can't work, but with our much, much broader understanding of how the universe works, that implies a greater understanding/mastery of magic in the modern era.
"Magic is but scinece that hasn't been explained yet." Or something like that. I would like to think that while science can explain how it works, the practical application still looks a hell of a lot like magic -- abilities working on quantum-level scale.

zerohour said:
Why is lesbianism encouraged/accepted?  Are the schools entirely locked down, so they can't meet cute local boys?  Do people fear magic, so avoid those that have it?  I know the schools are isolated in case things go wrong, but there's a big difference between a long bike ride to town on the weekends, and completely cut off from society, and that before you factor in flying broomsticks/teleporting/magic portals/whatever else exists in this setting.
Realistically, I don't think schoolgirl lesbians is going to be something major or encouraged at all, unless their wonders happen to rely on tantrica, or are side effects like Otonashi Kaguya's summoning magic in Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Maou (summoning Asmodeus exponentially ramps up her lust, and can affect others), so I wonder why this was brought up at all (unless you've been taking lessons from the late Jim Bader). And heaven help you if you think parents are going to be lobbying for more schools to teach their children sex magic. Not in the US of A!

zerohour said:
There's a conflict with the schools being oversupplied and allowing non-gifted students in.  Since non-gifted kids can go to the school, that means there will be a decent number of males on campus.  Granted, ti will probably still favor the females, but there will be other guys around besides the protagonist.  I'd guess that the ratio would be about 2:1:1 for gifted students, non-gifted females, and non-gifted males.  Not a huge deal, but something to consider.
I'd argue against the idea that schools would be oversupplied, partly because of the dreadful lack of properly trained personnel to handle this new system, not to mention, the field itself would still be growing. It's not like they had magic for hundreds of years; at best, it's been only fifty-some years since its discovery, so any schools that cater to magic users is going to be extremely limited only to magic users because parents aren't going to be clamoring for more schools so their kids won't be so far away; they'll be clamoring for safety in their schools, which means these magical users are going to be considered a danger to ordinary students, and you know what that means -- separation. Therefore, I would imagine the magic-based schools are going to be a good distance away from civilization, and at most, there would be a handful of such academies. It would be treated somewhat like college, where students can go home over breaks and whatnot, but otherwise, they'll be living at the schools.

zerohour said:
Why make PE military based, instead of having a magic school only league?
Or magic-based events, like tournaments.
 
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