Fairy Magical Girls play a nerdy tabletop game.
Musa: [...] even Stella is playing!
Stella: Reluctantly!
Stella: Reluctantly!
The Winx get tired of fighting monsters, so they are now going to fight imaginary monsters. Stella is not thrilled by the idea, though.
The Winx Club Plays Dungeons and Dragons
is a Winx Club fan Webcomic written and illustrated by Annalise. It's currently available on tumblr.
Sadly, it's a Dead Fic, as the cover reads 'part one', implying the story continues but nothing other than the first part has been published since April 13th, 2020.
Tropes:
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Layla's fairy outfit is two-colored (blue top and green pants) instead of the all-green or all-blue ones that she wears in canon. This helps her be differentiated from Bloom (light blue) and Roxy (green).
- Annoying Background Event: Zigzagged. On the cover's background, Roxy and Bloom are getting roughed up by the Monster of the Week while Tecna and Flora try to help them. This is annoying to Musa, Stella, and Layla (who are in the foreground and are just taking a break from the fight) because they are fed up with having to beat random monsters all of the frigging time.
- Battle Ballgown: Played for Laughs when Musa invokes this trope in relation to Stella’s angelic character, who is initially dressed in a yellow, Greek-like robe and only wears metallic bracelets and leg protections as armor.Musa: I am not gonna help you if you get shot in the boob.
Stella: Ugh! [produces a collarbone-to-waist golden breastplate and metallic shoulder pads] This better? - By the Hair: The monster on the cover has snatched in its jaws a portion of Bloom's hair, therefore dragging her down.
- Casual Danger Dialogue: In the cover, Layla, Musa, and Stella talk about how bored they are about fighting the Monster of the Week all of the time and the prospect of playing D&D.
- Character Customization:
- The Winx are going to play Dungeons & Dragons and therefore they need to craft their characters à la DnD Fantasy Character Classes. Almost the entirety of the plot revolves around this and it’s the source of much snarky commentary (from Musa and Stella) and otherwise comical situations.Flora: Can we be fairies?
Tecna: [trying to not break Flora’s heart] Umm… no… but there are elves! They’re like fairies.
Flora: [cheerfully] Can I be an elf?
Stella: Ugh! I assume you’ll all be elves then?
Musa: Not me! [proceeds to pick her character]
Flora: Oh! [claps approvingly and supportingly] - Musa chooses a red Tiefling Quirky Bard armed with a lute to blast out killer tunes.
- Flora picks an elf Druid with a flower crown because she wants something as close to a fairy of nature as possible.
- Layla decides to be a water Genasi monk with ombre dreadlocks like the ocean.
- Stella enters the game just to prove she can create a character much cooler than the rest and crafts an angel with sun powers, a halo, and feathery wings. In other words, an Aasimar light cleric.
- Roxy reveals she used to play DnD and her character was a half-elf Forest Ranger with an animal companions—which Bloom was about to pick for herself. Roxy's ranger is an outcast and the princess of a lost kingdom fated to save it. Now having very similar backstories isn’t as funny, huh?
- At last, Bloom selects a half-elf Eldritch knight wielding a flaming sword with her bunny Kiko as her sidekick.
- As the Game Master, Tecna plays all the non-playable characters, but the other Winx teasingly pressure her to tell them her chosen Player Character—a gnome artificer with robots to use in combat.
- The Winx are going to play Dungeons & Dragons and therefore they need to craft their characters à la DnD Fantasy Character Classes. Almost the entirety of the plot revolves around this and it’s the source of much snarky commentary (from Musa and Stella) and otherwise comical situations.
- Deadpan Snarker: Stella tends to answer in sarcastic remarks while wearing the most fed-up and bored expression she can manage. When Musa proposes playing D&D, she responds that there's no way she'd be interested in "swapping fighting real monsters with fighting pretend monsters". When Tecna tells Flora that the race most similar to fairies is elves, Stella assumes all of the players will pick that race, showing utter boredom at Flora's excitement. She's very unimpressed at Musa's player character choice and highlights how lame and unoriginal the phrase 'killer tunes' is.
- Funny Background Event: Flora, Bloom, Tecna, and Roxy giving their all to fight a wyvern-like monster in the background is funny because Bloom has been snatched By the Hair, and Roxy snared by the monster's tail. It might be the overall lack of the tail but the girls' expressions only amplify the comedic effect. Meanwhile, in the forefront, Layla, Musa, and Stella are having a nice dialogue partially related to the situation.
- Game Master: It’s hinted Musa and Roxy have played DnD before, although neither of them takes the mantle of being the GM — it's Tecna, who Musa taught for this express purpose.
- Gaming Webcomics: The plot revolves around the Winx girls deciding to spend their weekend playing D&D as a way to take a break from all of their Monster of the Week-beating duties. The first chapter deals with Musa (who proposed the idea), Layla, Tecna, Flora, Bloom, and a reluctant Stella going through Character Customization. They are soon joined by Roxy, who brings pizza.
- In Which a Trope Is Described: The title describes the Winx's weekend activity after Musa convinces them to give D&D a try.
- Left Field Description: When picking the appearance and abilities of her player character, Layla chooses a Genasi monk whose dreadlocks sport an ombre look in the same tones as the ocean (the deeper, the darkest the blue). This implies that her Genasi character has water elemental powers and also highlights that Layla's home world is oceanic. Her exact wording is "ombre dreadlocks like the ocean."
- Messy Hair: Bloom is the only girl whose hair is not styled in any hairdo nor arranged neatly. This is a way to convey her canon personality being very much on the wild side and that she's the most casually dressed of the girls; she's after all wearing her pajamas. It makes sense, as Roxy coming later implies they are not in her house so that only leaves Bloom's place as the other girls are not native to Gardenia.
- Mirror Character: Played for Laughs and Lamp Shaded when Roxy announces her D&D persona is a half-elf ranger, the same thing Bloom was about to pick for herself. It's implied that her reasons are similar to Bloom's—the feeling of not quite fitting in on either Earth or Magix due to having been raised unaware of their magic and legacy and having a beloved pet as their companion. Roxy also gives her character the same 'princess of a lost kingdom' backstory that she and Bloom share.
- Super-Deformed: After Roxy introduces her half-elf ranger, she asks what the other girls' characters are. As Musa answers, her red Tiefling bard, Stella's Aasimar light cleric, Layla's water Genasi monk, and Flora's elf druid appear in chibi art style. A wondering Bloom appears as herself because she doesn't know what race or class to pick. The rest of the panels are drawn in a more realistic style than in canon.
- "Super Sentai" Stance: As it is customary for the Winx Club, the seven girls pose like this in their (imagined) Playable Character forms while shouting their trademark “We are the Winx!” on the last page of the fan comic.
- Tentacle Rope: The monster the girls are fighting in the cover has snared Roxy with its prehensile tail.
Swapping reading a Winx fan comic for reading its trope page? Hell, no.
