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>While this series still gets fan art, precious little of it is actually mecha musume stuff
The Goddess/HDD designs themselves are heavily mecha musume inspired. This is obvious if you just look at most of the transformation sequences. Yes, it is regrettable there isn't more fanart that pushes that concept further I personally had a few funny ideas about a potential Switch Blanc/White Heart making use of the Labo, but it may just be that people don't see any reason to push the designs further. The NEXT forms arguably did push that aspect further, and reactions were a bit mixed. Even here, I vastly prefer normal White Heart to NEXT White.
>I think a lot of people are seeing her as a little girl character, putting her firmly into the sister category
She is a loli, so I guess this makes sense, but I personally like the idea of a loli-mom Blanc, especially when her daughter/son has to correct the record when someone confuses her for a little sister/daughter before she blows up at the hapless fellow. Also just seeing how she would react to her daughter likely outgrowing her and potentially having to restrain her jealousy and insecurity because it's her own daughter.
>It is also fun to think of how HD Blanc and UD Blanc would be different in this regard
Since the circumstances in Ultradimension as presented to us make it virtually impossible for Rom and Ram to exist, at least as Blanc's sisters, my personal take is that they would be born as Blanc's daughters instead. Either them, or a Candidate take on the Game Boy instead. It would likely be difficult to retool Rom and Ram to represent the Game Boy or GBA since them being near-identical sisters is supposed to mirror the DS line's dual screens, but, well, by the end of Re;Birth 3/Victory, Ultradimension is already on the seventh gen of consoles, so the chance to rep Game Boy that way may have sadly passed. I suppose the Game Boy may be a good chance to introduce a boy deity, since, you know, Game Boy. But I generally try to keep things in line with how Compile Heart themselves would do it, and if they did, it would obviously be a girl like every other major character that's not a robot or Trick.
>I have an open mind towards it. If you have any ideas for how this should work or who should have the romance I'd enjoy thinking about this.
If I'm being completely honest, my dream Neptunia game is basically Fire Emblem Three Houses but Neptunia. Something about 3H really grabbed me with the way it presented its story through a factional lens, with the outcome being dependent on which faction you prop up. And Neptunia strikes me as perfect for this kind of storytelling, with four equal rival factions each with their own associated characters and politics. It would be a perfect way to focus on each of the four nations without having them all just end up being Neptune and co.'s cheerleader squad. I'm aware VII already sort of did this, but it didn't do it nearly enough. And ultimately it didn't matter which one you chose because they all just converge on joining up with Neptune again anyway. I want to actually be able to side with Blanc and Lowee. I want to be loyal to her and help her become the leading light of all Gamindustri. And this in my mind is where the romance would come in. It would be a slow burn from working alongside her and steadily getting to know each other, like it was portrayed in 3H, with side events peppered along the way, sometimes humorous in the anime/ecchi-style, sometimes romantic.
>Assuming we go with a male god for fanfic purposes, some obvious plots do come to mind. Other than the cute young kid, or a trap who pretends to be a goddess, there's also the story about trying to befriend important people, do feats, and market oneself. Then probably after saving the day in a crisis gain some shares.
This is close to the idea I had as well. Since he would likely not be allowed to be a candidate to be a proper ruler, he would take up odd jobs as a freelancer of sorts, doing work behind the scenes as a keeper of order in the country.
Another idea I had, if you go with the idea of Goddess offspring being demigods instead of full gods/goddesses, is that they would be "special snowflakes" of sorts, having innate goddess-like powers that are NOT tied to a source of Share energy, or maybe they passively generate their own. This would allow them to be hard-counters to the numerous villains in the series who deal with the goddesses by stealing or otherwise cutting them off from their source of powers. You could keep it from being too bad fanfic-y by making them more limited in some way, like making their overall power cap lower than a proper Goddess with full shares so that they don't completely overshadow their mothers.
>The four HD goddesses would be above other goddesses without NEXT forms like Uzume. However, is Uzume superior to Nepgear for being a full-fledged goddess?
Uzume is arguably one of the most powerful characters in the series if she just learns to properly control her powers. She's a literal reality warper who can make things happen just by thinking hard enough. She was so powerful that she terrified her own citizens just by existing. Kurome was the original Uzume with a presumably more thorough grasp of her powers and she shows just what Uzume could be capable of by casually altering gravity just to make the party kneel and corrupting and possessing several goddess-level characters through her astral form. This is before she even got the fragment of Rei's powers. She literally birthed two entire dimensions from her thoughts while dreaming. Uzume could be capable of all that if she had a better grasp of her powers since she and Kurome are the same.
So yeah, I'm gonna say Uzume is superior to Nepgear.