This can be my shitty alternate-universe origin story of the main cast from “Railgun,” but with gender dysphoria. If you like “cute girls” anime I recommend this show, just make sure to skip the terrible filler arc in the latter part of S2, and be warned there are fanservice scenes.
This was originally going to be only the first part, but while looking at more artworks I was randomly able to come up with a part 2! 3 parts plus shitty alternate bonus ending.
Artwork sauce: https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1790646
If only I never got these powers, then maybe we could just be tomboys and no one would ever care about who I was hanging out with, or how much I followed the rules, or how feminine I acted. Now I’m a Level 5 and I can just blast electricity at anyone I don’t like, but for some reason, whenever I do something, it always just comes back to bite us. And I don’t want anything to hurt my friends, because… well, I just wanna have someone cool to hang out with, okay?
I was never supposed to be anyone special. We were just lowly Level 1s and 2s – being a hero was just something that you would imagine and fantasize about. And my friends weren’t supposed to be girls, either. We were “Child Errors” – orphan children who happen to possess esper abilities, who are cared for by the city. But when I showed promise beyond the others, I was the first to go away for the experiment. I was told that it was going to bring out my powers. But I don’t know what’s truth, and what’s lies anymore.
My friends are already having fun with themselves – I thought I was gonna have to put on a brave face and help them get through this, but now I’m the only one who can’t put on a perfect feminine front whenever I want! I don’t want to style or play with my brown hair – I’ve already cut it as short as I thought I could get away with. I don’t care about looks, I just don’t want to stand out or look stupid, since I’m pretty much stuck forever as a girl now. And the skirts here are way too short. We were secretly transferred to an elite, girls-only academy – both me and my friend, who also became very strong. And since we stay here as roommates now, we literally only dress like this. I can at least wear white shorts underneath, but my friend literally wears PANTIES. But I guess he just does whatever he wants now, since his ability is teleportation and he can sneak out basically at any time…
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I always wanted to be strong, then maybe I would be useful for something. But when my friends were taken away and turned into girls for a terrible experiment, I realized that being a powerful esper in Academy City is just a curse. My two friends not only have to get through strict academics, but they are also forced to attend special training for their abilities, where they learn skills that are obviously meant for fighting. And they even get into fights all the time in their school, 'cause they're idiots – I mean, because there are too many other esper students who don’t like being a lower level than two weak-looking girls. We can’t do anything but watch from the sidelines and try not to get hurt ourselves – but we still come by every day to support them and try to keep them out of trouble.
My other friend and I didn’t get anything – in fact he became a Level 0, with literally no powers at all. At least that got them to stop with the experiment. But he actually became more outgoing and comfortable than any of us – maybe too much since he is always trying to get me flustered by flipping my skirt up in public! We were transferred to a normal school, basically dumped and forgotten about, as long as we didn’t spill our secret. I didn’t want to be a girl, but now that we can go out and explore the city by ourselves every day, I've tried to stop thinking too much about what they did to my body.
Why do I wear the flowers on my head? I like to pretend that they’re used for some huge special power that I can’t tell anyone about. That’s what gets you respected around here… But I also kind of like the way that they look.