09/19/12

Idea #4: The Legion of Superheroes characters in the Peach Girl storyline.

For those of you who don't know Peach Girl is a Japanese Manga following a high school girl named Momo, whose name means Peach that always gets judged negatively due to the way she looks. There's also her frienemy Sae who is always copying her, manipulating her and who she can't let know about her love interest since Junior High, Toji so she lies and says it's the popular boy Kiley. Many misunderstanding ensue to put it lightly.

-Main Characters: Brainy would be Momo and like Momo gets judged for her dark skin as a beach bimbo and a slut, Brainy would be mistaken as an Orion from Star Trek which is infamous for their sex trade since both species have green skin and in the story most people have never heard of Coluans, let alone seen one before. He would also get along more with girls since most of them think he's cute and wouldn't try to sexually assault him like boys have been known to attempt to do.

For Sae I went through a couple of the characters. The Legion girls aren't really the frienemy type but then it jumped out at me; Alexis. She's cute, likes to get what she wants and will do anything to get it. Along with looks she would be competing against Brainy in intelligence since they're both inventors.

Since I haven't read the entire Peach Girl series I don't know who Momo ends up with. (If you know, don't tell me!) So I chose the leading men with the personalities I wanted; Clark as Toji and Lyle (Invisible Kid) as Kiley. Plus I'm pretty sure Momo ends up with Toji in the end.

Also instead of "Peach Girl" I would call it "Topaz Boy" since Brainy with his green skin and purple eyes/uniform always made me think of the similarly colored Mystic Fire Topaz, my favorite gem. If you haven't seen one there are three types, the green/purple being my favorite and mesmerizing to look at, I highly recommend going to a jewelry store if only for a peek.

-Why I could not write it: The whole reason I thought of this crossover was for April 2012 Challenge month at the ClarkxBrainy club, the "Everyday hero" challenge. I wanted a lifeguard for my hero and it is revealed to us that the reason Kiley liked Momo was because she saved him from drowning at the beach and give him mouth to mouth, which Kiley brags it was a kiss until Momo reveals that while Momo did pull him from the water it was a male life guard that gave him to mouth to mouth.

While I still like the idea it's the same problem as Coraline. I'm not sure what I could do with the story except copy it with different characters. I also didn't want the part with the life guard to be so small since that was the main focus of the challenge.

It's one of those things were it may or may not happen.