The reason magical girl Zhu Junhao retired is suspected to be her disgust at all her teammates pairing off with other girls.
Like a group of heroes in a hot-blooded girls' manga, their team has an odd number of members, so one person always gets left out when everyone is being paired up. Zhu Junhao is that person.
She's had enough of her teammates turning mild yuri into full-on yuri, selling every ship without regard for gender or canon.
Could you stop pushing ships already? How long are you going to keep doing this? She's had it. Once everything was settled, Zhu Junhao left the magical girl headquarters and went on vacation to a modern city in a world with no ships and a male protagonist.
Out of curiosity, and because she really was bored, Zhu Junhao set up a camera and started working as a photographer for the esports guys.
But... why are you all shipping the guys together too?!
Zhu Junhao feels like she's about to fall to the dark side. She might become the first magical girl in history to despair over such an undignified reason.
Lin Jingyan, who took in the fallen magical girl and gave her a job, doesn't understand why Zhu Junhao is so resistant to shipping herself with other girls. She clearly does it too, and sometimes she sells it with such heartfelt sincerity that even Lin Jingyan thinks she's a lesbian.
"I'm not shipping anything! Their souls and mine are inseparable!"
"Would you dare say that online, in front of all the fans?"
Zhu Junhao fell silent.
"See? When you run into a hard question, you clam up again. Shipping requires conviction. You can't sell it if you're not willing to go all in. I suspect you retired because you couldn't compete with the others at shipping. You're always the rejected one in fanfiction."
"You jerk! When it comes to magical girls, you can't call anyone a rejected one!"
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An original female character in The King's Avatar. The male lead is Lin Jingyan. Feel free to self-insert, but please mind your preferences.
I don't know why she ended up with such a strong pathetic-loser vibe. She was originally supposed to be the snarky one.
Anyway, everyone is generally straight, meaning heterosexual. Except for the protagonist and canon couples, nobody dates. Please allow for other kinds of love, like familial and platonic affection.
It borrows some elements from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, but the magical girl setting is mostly background. It's a strange chemical reaction between a hot-blooded girls' manga and an esports story with a male lead and no ships. Let's all descend into madness and ship everyone together (sigh)!
Theme: Straight guys shipping guys, six feet under.
