R.O.H.G.E.
Okay so you’ve got these five high school girls, right?
Rachel is your typical Alpha Bitch. She’s the head cheerleader, the most popular girl in school, all the boys want her on their arm, she probably sleeps around, she’s always stylish. She doesn’t see herself as “not like other girls”, she sees other girls as not like her- but obviously she’s everything a girl wants to be and everything a girl should be.
Opal is the goth-punk-emo-rocker girl who has just discovered feminism, and isn’t quite sure what to do with it yet. She wants to throw off the shackles of the patriarchy and embrace all other women in the solidarity of sisterhood, except for all the ones who are still conforming to social expectations of women because they’re obviously The Enemy™. She’s not like other girls- she’s far more enlightened. She’s openly a lesbian and has some terfy leanings.
Hannah is the athlete, the star of the girls’ basketball team and the girls’ track team. She scoffs at weak, shallow girls who don’t have the wherewithal to go through the intense training she does, as well as scoffing at the frivolity that comes along with it. They care far too much about clothes and make-up and boys and she doesn’t have time for any of them.
Gertrude is a tomboy, kind of plain and unassuming and frequently mistaken for a boy. She’s “just one of the guys” and prefers it that way, because girls have too much drama and boys are just easier to talk to in general. She’s never worn a dress in her life and jokes about how much it “burns” if make-up even comes near her. Everyone assumes she’s a lesbian but she’s not.
Eloise is the smartest girl in school. She gets straight-a’s, wins academic awards left and right, and has never missed a day of school in her life. Everyone already knows she’s going to be valedictorian and they’re only sophomores. She, too, has recently discovered feminism, and knows exactly what to do with it- she spends quite a lot of time talking down to the other girls in school for not being more like she thinks they ought to.
So you’ve got these five girls, and you’ve got this secret organization who are researching genetic engineering. And for some plothole reason they need a bunch of teenage girls to subject to some experiments to do with superheroes. And they decide to pick the girls who are The Most™ because they’ll be best suited for some reason. And the girls consent, and next thing you know you’ve got these five ordinary teenage girls who now have superpowers and have become very technopunk magical girls and are helping the secret organization to save the world or something idk I’ll think of it later.
The point is, most of the character development across the story is going to be about the girls becoming better people and learning and growing and realizing that “not like other girls” shouldn’t be a weapon against each other, and they shouldn’t be competing for the approval of men but instead uplifting and supporting each other.
Also Rachel and Hannah end up being a couple because I want to play around with the “jock gets the cheerleader” trope a bit.