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
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