the city is the antagonist

Things that are really hard to do: design a lame superhero costume your teenage superheroine hates but has zero choice about due to, well, her being a minor and said costume’s canon designers being her parents. You can’t make it sexy or cool in any way, you can’t make it too tight or too flattering, you can’t even really make it practical … oh wait gee that would exclude everything superhero outfits traditionally strive to be? Aside from the practical part, anyway.

There’s also this weird disconnect where the parents obviously can’t think of their kid’s clothing as being sexualized no matter what it is because, you know, their kid, but at the same time can be so hyperaware and hyperconcerned about what constitutes “slutty”. So basically Starlight is thirteen and wants to be eighteen, and her parents think she’s eight. Also all the “cute” options that pass in comics—i.e. pleated skirts, cheerleader uniforms, frilly little dresses, really just skirts in general—don’t actually work when a sane human being is thinking about their baby girl flashing a supervillain every time they drop-kick one of his evil robot minions. Yeah, just … no. 

But yes no seriously can we please discuss how hard it is to design a superhero outfit someone’s parents put them in. Spoilers: it is really hard. 

Er. Feedback/suggestions, anyone?