[b]"Petal FINAL BANISHMENT!"[/b]

The thirteen year old girl spun in a circle, her skirt flickering in the wind as her teammates surrounded her, joining their powers together in a final, cataclysmic moment.  Their staffs, swords, wands, and other magical implements touched together as their power cojoined - their previous conflicts forgotten as their realization that they must work together to defeat thier foes physically manifesting as a great, magical power!  Spirals of green and blue circled around their foe, containing him.

The ghost let out a screech as the girls, together, finished banishing it with the [b]Power of Friendship©[/b].  The city was saved!

It was over, but the girls looked at eachother.  "Friends forever, yeah?"  They all nodded and cheered eachother on, smiling.  The futures for them would be bright and wonderful!

At least if Nusami hadn't gotten knocked up at sixteen.  Dropping out of school to take care of her child, all the previous grandeur from being a hero hadn't helped her out.  The town didn't know their identities - their alternate costumes hid that clearly, so no one was going to help her.  At twenty when she finally wanted to move away to find better prospects, she found herself unable to leave.  The [b]Power of Friendship©[/b] stopped her, after all.  They had sworn they would be friends forever, and now their words would force them to be.  It didn't matter that at 25 one of them married an abusive millionaire, or that another had become an ex-convict, or that she was working at a fast food chain at 32 because she didn't have a highschool diploma.  They were all TOGETHER after all, and isn't that what mattered?

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Essentially the idea is that magical girls - like those from Madoka Magica, Tokyo Mew Mew, ect. are now grown up.  Their powers haven't disapeared though, they've grown older, and their costumes and abilities are as cringe as they've always been - how did they decide on those getups before?!

A new evil is rising, and the group finds themselves once again forced to use the [b]Power of Friendship©[/b] to defeat it!  The only problem is, they have lives of their own, they aren't really friends, and the [b]Power of Friendship©[/b] forces them to remain in the city (or at least not leave for overly long periods of time)!

I would prefer characters who have actually lived lives - and had/made a few bad (and good) things happen.  By the time someone is in their 30s they probably don't have a perfect track record.  I expect this to be a good blend of situational humor, slight darkness, and a little bit of seriousness.

Any takers?

NOTE: The backgrounds given were just examples.  Undoubtedly some of the magical girls grew up to be largely normal functioning adults.