#i also imagine she liked puella madoka magica for almost the complete opposite reasons

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Considering the way that she got her new outfit in Vita Ayala's New Mutants is kind of a Sailor Moon/Magi(k)cal (hah) girl send up, I could totally imagine Illyana getting super into Sailor Moon as a young girl. Seeing girls around her age with similar magical powers without the associated trauma could give her a way to ignore her problems for a little while, and imagine herself in the role of Usagi, fighting evil with her friends (Kitty and the New Mutants) and a cute animal sidekick (Lockheed) without any of the pesky Limbo stuff. And even into her twenties she watches every reboot and does an annual rewatch of the original, which would influence how she manifested her new uniform.

It's also very cute to imagine her buying merch and trying to hide that she likes the traditionally 'girly' show from her friends and family, but she has the whole manga print run on a bookshelf somewhere.

#i also imagine she liked puella madoka magica for almost the complete opposite reasons #she sees a lot of herself in that. in a less than good way sometimes #illyana rasputin #magik #x-men #new mutants #headcanons #in oc land i imagine atticus is super into it purely through exposure from her #they went as tuxedo mask and sailor moon for halloween once and illyana would NOT stop smiling #he also buys her tons of merch. like a irresponsible amount. but cant tell anyone why hes buying the $400 plush of Luna