The drawings of the Kiss Players in their robot forms! (Excuse the low quality of the camera; this was taken on my laptop.)
ATARI HITOTONARI - TECHCROSS
TRANSFORMATION QUOTE: "Techcross, TRANSFORM!"
Loves sweets despite being vegetarian
Good with research and technology
Easily terrified of everything (but manages to flesh herself out and be brave later on...)
Overpowered and couldn't control it, plus dealing with a power unfamiliar to her (that power being Techbreaker, and also the ability to create spirit balls of spatial void...)
First character drawn for this rewrite before getting to the others, after all, she is kind of the story's main protagonist if you think about it, especially when you look into the tropes that make up her fighting style and also character.
MARISSA FAIREBORN - HIBISCUS
TRANSFORMATION QUOTE: "Hibiscus, TRANSFORM!"
Eats human food because she's a human (or really, regardless of what form you take, the person is still human and can still eat human-made food)
Fast Runner (a la Joseph Joestar... "RUN AWAY!")
TRANSFORMATION QUOTE: "Kickback, TRANSFORM!"
Has very high kicks (obviously)
Loves bao buns so much, but doesn't have the chance to eat one
Will kill anything if it goes against her own "code of honor" (or really, anyone who dares lay a finger on those she's close to, she will annihilate them)
Terrified/Has a fear of anything with tentacles (and in the drawing, just an octopus wanting to say Hi to Shaoshao)
FUN FACT: She was initially going to be paired with Hot Rod (like she did with Rodimus in the original), but was changed to Dinobot because of more interesting dynamics and wriggle room to write some interesting dialogue.
THE KISS PLAYER COMPACTS!
The typical item that you'd see in any magical girl show: The magical compact! Here in the Kiss Players Rewrite, it grants the user, typically a human girl with some association with a Cybertronian, to transform into a giant Cybertronian robot, a la magical girl style (with magical girl transformations and magical upgrades to boot).
ATARI'S COMPACT: Basic design for a compact, blue and white, with some technological aspects to it to sell the techno, almost webcore aesthetic to it.
MARISSA'S COMPACT: Basic design, except it's pink and cutesy, with hearts on it symbolizing Marissa's passion, or it's just selling the pink-girlypop aesthetic, which still works.
SHAOSHAO'S COMPACT: The only design that takes allusion to Hot Rod/Rodimus, fire patterns, and a red-and-orange color palette, not only is it very Hot Rod/Rodimus, but it also symbolizes Shaoshao's fiery temper if left untreated, and also sells the idea that, if she's given any form of magical-type, she's definitely fire-based.
KISS PLAYER MAGICAL-TRANSFORMATION UPGRADES! (KISS PLAYER UPGRADES, FOR SHORT!)
FUSIONS: Not an upgrade, as it is a feature of being a Kiss Player, but anyway, it's easily explainable; it's sort of like Fusions in the original Kiss Players mixed up with the Fusions from Steven Universe. Basically, how it works is that one Cybertronian and one Kiss Player can fuse together to make a form that combines both partners' powers into one, creating a formidable opponent/fighter. Example: Borboletta/Malva-1 (Fusion between Elita-1 and Hibiscus/Marissa Faireborn), Velocikick/Dinokick (Fusion between Dinobot and Kickback/Shaoshao Li), and Starcross/Techscream (Fusion between Starscream and Techcross/Atari Hitotonari)
CASSETTES: Ah, yes! The Cassettes! Consisting of Popstar Rosanna, Medic Glit, and Tetrahex Ripper Sundor/Sunder. How they work is kind of similar to how the magical girl transformations in Heartcatch Precure work, albeit differently, of course. They would have a device that looks similar to a cassette player, called a "Kiss Deck", that would have the holder of the deck emit a glow, and then have that glow transferred over to their respective Cassette, where they say a phrase and then transform into their cassette forms, letting the holder take their cassette, say their own transformation quote, and then place the cassette into the Kiss Deck, initiating their transformation. The changes that come with the transformation are pretty minor, outside of weaponizing certain parts of their body to make good weapons out of, like a bladed leg for Shaoshao or a multi-barrel shotgun arm for Marissa (inspired by Polyurethane and Polyester's weapons from NEW Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt).
SPARKBOTS: My Aspect babies! Consisting of Girlypop Lion Angela, Stoic Falcon Zangetsu, and Insecticon Star Dust. How they work is that, when the Sparkbots are in their ball form, to initiate the transformation, the person must draw a symbol onto it with a special drawing implement, typically a paintbrush (the Spark Brush), a marker (the Spark Marker), or even a digital artist's pen (the Spark Pen), whatever it is, when the user draws their respective symbol and says their transformation quote, the Sparkbot in their ball form would launch themselves upward, transform into their own forms, and then shine a beam of light that engulfs the user, initiating the transformation (in a similar manner to the transformations in Kira Kira Precure a la Mode). Much like the Cassettes, changes are pretty minor, but in the sense that the user emits a hue that corresponds with the color of the Sparkbot, like Pink for Angela or Green for Star Dust, alongside having the Sparkbot beside them as a keychain/charm connected to the user's hip, and the symbol they've drawn on the bot being on their chest.
If you think that's not enough magical stuff for these girls to have, don't you worry, I have more currently in its testing stages, and if you think none of them have anything to do with kisses, don't you worry, I have just the thing that can live up to its original concept and bring in a design concept/idea that was featured in many other magical girl shows, another form of makeup outside of the compact.
But enough hinting, hope y'all like this dump of lore and concepts, and also like the low-quality pictures of the girls and their magical robot forms, and I hope y'all have a good day.
