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Firnagzen said:
"You're welcome. I can't really think of any other groups that we know well enough to recommend, and... Osaki? Rissho University, in Osaki, Tokyo," Chouko says. "Um... Yuko's brother studies there, and that's... um, well, he found a girlfriend? And he noticed her ring, and fingernail mark, and, ah, yes. Sorry, that's not what you were asking."

"... no, please, do go on," you say, raising an eyebrow. Huh. A magical girl with a boyfriend.
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Beyond simply being interesting because boyfriend, there's a big reason I want to get in contact with this girl at some point.

Super veteran MG (university student, presumably!) who is living a stable lifestyle.
 
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Firnagzen said:
"So, Tokyo, huh?" Sayaka asks. "The way I hear Homura talk about it, they're all kind of stuck up."

You blink at her. "You talk to Homura?"

"... I mean, yeah?" Sayaka says. She gives you a narrow-eyed, sidelong look. "We're teammates and friends and all? She's all calm and cool and collected, but really she's kind of a softy isn't she?"
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Words cannot express how much I love this scene. Sayaka, casually talking to Homura, without prompting from anyone. They're talking to each other as friends. This is awesome.
 
[X] Godwinson

hillo315 said:
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So I saw *eyegleams* and just posted the picture it reminded me of. I netted 2 3 4 1 informative(s) and 2 3 5 insightfuls for it, one of them from Firnagzen himself, and I have no idea why. lel

Edit: *sees informative and insightful on this post* You're just trolling me now, aren't you? Damn it, guys! :lol
 
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justinkal said:
Beyond simply being interesting because boyfriend, there's a big reason I want to get in contact with this girl at some point.

Super veteran MG (university student, presumably!) who is living a stable lifestyle.
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Agreed! This lady is trying for some sort of future, and that makes her automatically relevant. However she lives, we need to learn about her for future reference. If we find her to accept morality in a way we understand, we need to support her ASAP. The boyfriend is a person with something else for us to see, as he is "in the club" already. We will be indoctrinating more normals as time goes on, so his story has short-term value. Further, we need more shipping fuel for Kirika, take copious notes!
Adhoc vote count started by Firnagzen on Feb 11, 2019 at 7:18 PM, finished with 149453 posts and 6 votes.
  • [X] Be nice, friendly, earnest, and sincere.
    -[X] General tactic: Gunboat Friendship Diplomacy. Sabrina possesses utter self-assurance and conviction in her cause -- rely on that to make an impression of someone powerful enough that they can get away with being kind in the Incubator's system.
    [X] Arrange for a meeting today, if possible.
    [X] Be yourself: sincere, filled with conviction, friendly, kind... and a little dorky.
    -[X] Ask to meet today. Offer your help with cleansing.
    -[X] Explain that the University Group vouched for them as good people. Ask them for their perspective on the "Tokyo Council".
    --[X] Assuming that it wouldn't cause issues with the Tokyo Council, offer them a Clear Seed (with the standard disclaimers and conditions).
    ---[X] If it WOULD cause an issue, offer to help push the motion in the Council forward with their help, or provide a Clear Seed anyway and help them deal with the political issues that would cause.
    [x] Your goal is to help as many girls get the help they need as you can. Ideally, you'd like to work with the Council to do it, since destabilizing Tokyo would be dangerous for magical girls and civilians alike.
    [X] Be nice, friendly, earnest, and sincere.
    -[X] General tactic: Gunboat Friendship Diplomacy. Sabrina possesses utter self-assurance and conviction in her cause -- rely on that to make an impression of someone powerful enough that they can get away with being kind in the Incubator's system.
    [X] Arrange for a meeting today, if possible.
    [X] Conditional: Negotiate permissions, we have an errand at Rissho University.
    - [X] Buy souvenirs for Yuki and her team
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Adhoc vote count started by Firnagzen on Feb 11, 2019 at 7:30 PM, finished with 149453 posts and 6 votes.
  • [X] Be nice, friendly, earnest, and sincere.
    -[X] General tactic: Gunboat Friendship Diplomacy. Sabrina possesses utter self-assurance and conviction in her cause -- rely on that to make an impression of someone powerful enough that they can get away with being kind in the Incubator's system.
    [X] Arrange for a meeting today, if possible.
    [X] Be yourself: sincere, filled with conviction, friendly, kind... and a little dorky.
    -[X] Ask to meet today. Offer your help with cleansing.
    -[X] Explain that the University Group vouched for them as good people. Ask them for their perspective on the "Tokyo Council".
    --[X] Assuming that it wouldn't cause issues with the Tokyo Council, offer them a Clear Seed (with the standard disclaimers and conditions).
    ---[X] If it WOULD cause an issue, offer to help push the motion in the Council forward with their help, or provide a Clear Seed anyway and help them deal with the political issues that would cause.
    [x] Your goal is to help as many girls get the help they need as you can. Ideally, you'd like to work with the Council to do it, since destabilizing Tokyo would be dangerous for magical girls and civilians alike.
    [X] Be nice, friendly, earnest, and sincere.
    -[X] General tactic: Gunboat Friendship Diplomacy. Sabrina possesses utter self-assurance and conviction in her cause -- rely on that to make an impression of someone powerful enough that they can get away with being kind in the Incubator's system.
    [X] Arrange for a meeting today, if possible.
    [X] Conditional: Negotiate permissions, we have an errand at Rissho University.
    - [X] Buy souvenirs for Yuki and her team
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[X] Redshirt Army
Adhoc vote count started by Firnagzen on Feb 12, 2019 at 7:09 PM, finished with 149463 posts and 12 votes.
  • [X] Be yourself: sincere, filled with conviction, friendly, kind... and a little dorky.
    -[X] Ask to meet today. Offer cleansing. Explain that the University Group vouched for them as good people, and that they can vouch for you to Osaki in turn. Try to make friends!
    -[X] Ask about Osaki's perspective on the "Tokyo Council" and Osaki's role in Tokyo politics.
    [X] If possible, for the sake of stability, you'd like to avoid issues with the Council. The last thing you want is a war in one of the world's densest cities. Still, your ultimate goal remains helping all magical girls, and you won't let politics stop you.
    -[X] If it won't cause (major) issues, offer them a Clear Seed (with standard disclaimers and conditions).
    --[X] Otherwise, offer to push the Council forward (with Osaki's aid), and keep the Clear Seed offer open in future if the Council proves intractible.
    [X] Be nice, friendly, earnest, and sincere.
    -[X] General tactic: Gunboat Friendship Diplomacy. Sabrina possesses utter self-assurance and conviction in her cause -- rely on that to make an impression of someone powerful enough that they can get away with being kind in the Incubator's system.
    [X] Arrange for a meeting today, if possible.
    [X] Be nice, friendly, earnest, and sincere.
    -[X] General tactic: Gunboat Friendship Diplomacy. Sabrina possesses utter self-assurance and conviction in her cause -- rely on that to make an impression of someone powerful enough that they can get away with being kind in the Incubator's system.
    [X] Arrange for a meeting today, if possible.
    [X] Conditional: Negotiate permissions, we have an errand at Rissho University.
    - [X] Buy souvenirs for Yuki and her team
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The vote wasn't quite up to my standards. Gave it a tune-up, but it's still basically the same idea.

[X] Be yourself: sincere, filled with conviction, friendly, kind... and a little dorky.
-[X] Ask to meet today. Offer cleansing. Explain that the University Group vouched for them as good people, and that they can vouch for you to Osaki in turn. Try to make friends!
-[X] Ask about Osaki's perspective on the "Tokyo Council" and Osaki's role in Tokyo politics.

[X] If possible, for the sake of stability, you'd like to avoid issues with the Council. The last thing you want is a war in one of the world's densest cities. Still, your ultimate goal remains helping all magical girls, and you won't let politics stop you.
-[X] If it won't cause (major) issues, offer them a Clear Seed (with standard disclaimers and conditions).
--[X] Otherwise, offer to push the Council forward (with Osaki's aid), and keep the Clear Seed offer open in future if the Council proves intractible.

150 words.
 
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justinkal said:
Speaking of Tokyo, I'm still really curious to see what Akihabara is like here, and if cosplayers are common enough there that magical girls can freely walk around in public while transformed.

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We could also go to Comiket with Mami to publicly advertise our gem cleansing services without breaking the masquerade :V
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Since we're probably gonna be doing Tokyo soon, this comment has some increased relevance.

And yes, we should eventually go to Comiket. Too bad it happens too late in the year to happen in-quest. Maybe some other con? :V
 
Simulacrum

The girl pants as she runs, her breath an ephemerous mist quickly washed away by the sheer wind and pouring rain slapping at her face.

Her body burns from exertion, her feet splahing on the cold, soaked ground again and again and again, unable to stop, unable to look back.

She's left nothing behind. No hopes, no future, not even revenge.

Only burnt bridges, crumbling under her as she runs for her freedom, for her life...

A whoosh of air cuts across the heavy rain.

The girl gasps, her body convulsing- before she sprints forward at maddening speed, the rushing of wind across her ears drowning out all sound. She hears not the rain, nor her lightning fast steps, nor the wraith breathing down her neck-

She slips.

For a moment, Kanna Hijiri glides in the cold, rain-filled air, yellow eyes widened in panic.

Then it all comes crashing down as she hits the ground face first, eyes scrunched up as she half rolls, half scrapes against the soaked paviment.

After a seconds that feel like minutes, she comes to a stop, breathing heavily, staring up at the darkened sky. Rainwater pours down - on her eyes, blurring her sight, on her mouth, washing away the salt in the air.

She doesn't wait, pushing herself up with one hand, the other one wiping at her eyes... She stops.

A roaring sound reaches her ears, the waves of the sea crashing against the shore.

Nowhere left to run.

In a split second, a surge of magic, lightning wreathes her frame- then flickers out.

There's no point. Hijiri sits still, head bowed under the heavy rain, her soaked clothes and hair clinging to her frame, the winds making her shiver, the sheer cold clashing against the burning feelings inside her chest. Hate. Anger. Resentment. Helplessness.

Shame.

The cloned Kanna shakes, listening to her beating heart, clouded eyes staring at nothing.

A heavy flap of wings cuts across all of it.

Yellow, trembling eyes snap up.

Blue eyes stare down, trembling just as much. Not with fear, but with anger, sadness... vengeance.

The girl in blue looks awful. Her face is soaked, and the redness of her cheeks gives lie to any impression that it might simply be the rain. There's a rigid tension in how she holds herself - holds herself back, as she comes to a stop before the shivering Hijiri.

The Kanna doesn't stand. She simply stays put, looking up and seeing an enraged dark angel, shaking with rage and wreathed in despair - the monstrous wings and the fuming black mist of grief bearing down on her, promising revenge...

Or fair retribution, whispers a traitorous voice in Hijiri's head. She accepts it, then, powerless to do anything else. Her voice is quiet. "Just end this." She holds back a sob. If she dies here, it will be with some modicum of dignity.

But the seconds pass, and instead of the swift punishment Kanna dreads, Sabrina closes her eyes. She brings a hand to her face, taking deep, long breaths.

When she looks back at Hijiri, she's calm. Calmer, at least.

"You're a selfish, impulsive, spiteful idiot," she spits at her.

Hijiri is slient, bowing her head down at the judgement.

"I gave you a chance," Sabrina goes on, "let you go-"

"I escaped," Hijiri's voice whimpers.

"I let you go," re-asserts Sabrina, "hoping you would come around. Instead, you used your second chance to hurt people. To hurt me. And it worked," she glowers.

The words hang in between them, louder than the pouring rain.

But rather than hardening, something in Sabrina's eyes softens.

"... I'm not going to hurt you back. I'm not even going to hate you for this, no more than I'll hate myself for giving you a chance. That won't fix her." Sabrina looks down, letting the rain wash across her frame. "It'd be too easy to hate you, to hurt you, to lose myself to... revenge," Hijiri's breath stops. "... But I'm not going to do that. She wouldn't like that, and I'm not going to change because of you."

Hijiri regains her breathing, and she looks up at Sabrina, who looks down at her... but not with rage. With something else.

"You're a magical girl," the white haired girl says, "and I set myself a task, when I was created."

She knows she shouldn't speak. The righteous wrath she had expected hasn't come down on her, what she imagined as a vengeful angel was just talking, seemed to be composing herself just so long as Hijiri didn't open her mouth. But maybe that's why she couldn't contain herself, just like before.

"A task was set for you," she snarls weakly.

Sabrina looks down at Hijiri, and she understands the emotion in her blue eyes. Pity.

The tall girl shakes her head. "I was given knowledge, and chances," she retorts. "Knowledge of the most terrible things in this world, that hope will drown in despair, that our reality is sustained by suffering. Knowledge that those around me were doomed to fates unimaginably worse that death... and the opportunity to change that. To make things better, if I really wanted to."

The blonde girl's eyes scrunch in anger... jealousy. "You were given everything you wanted-"

"I was given knowledge of everything wrong," Sabrina stomps towards the sitting girl. "I knew, I know that I can't help everyone. Sometimes I feel I can barely help the ones around me." She stops, only a feet separating her from the cringing girl on the ground. "I refused to accept that," she murmurs, before her tone rises once more, "I refuse. I refuse to let people suffer when I can do something, anything about it. That's my choice. Mine. Me."

They stay still for a moment. The blue coated girl looking down, the pigtailed girl bowing her head, not daring look up. Shivering. There's only the sound of rain and wind.

Hijiri flinches as a dark stream of grief pours out of her Soul Gem, the purple black miasma joining that coming from Sabrina's white Gem, the combined Grief rising to dissipate into thin air.

Slowly, the Kanna looks up. She feels nothing, not even relief. Numb, but still defiant. "You were made that way. Made happy and willing to... play your part."

"Then I was made with a conscience!" Hijiri shrinks as Sabrina's face suddenly looms inches away from hers. Her intense, almost unhinged stare fills the pigtailed girl's vision. "If I had chosen to not help, to dismiss those feelings, then I would be less than a person! If I could just ignore what was wrong in front of me, then I would be just a machine!"

Hijiri flinches, scrambling back weakly. But the maddened angel stays just as close, following with contemptuous ease. Finally, a pale hand reaches out-

-Hijiri's eyes shut-

-to hold the blonde girl's soaked shirt.

"I don't really understand you, Hijiri." Kanna opens her eyes, panting. "Taking the chances you're given... Taking the chances I was given doesn't make me a puppet. And neither are you. Tossing everyone who loves you away doesn't make you more real! You're hurting those who care-"

"It's fake! All of it!" cries Hijiri suddenly. Her hand claws at Sabrina's, holding it in a crushing grip. She's not sure who she's trying to convince. "They don't love me. They're not my-"

"They do care. All of them." Sabrina's words cut across Hijiri's rant, across the winds and rain with such a deep seated surety, the grieving girl believes them for a moment.

"T-they won't- accept me," she stutters, and if some of the drops trailing down her cheeks aren't rain, she doesn't notice. "If they... found out I'm not..." She wants to leave. She wants to stay. She has nowhere to go.

With a grunt, Sabrina lifts the girl up to her feet, letting go once Hijiri steadies herself, barely, still trembling.

"You're afraid," Hijiri cringes at the accusation. "But for all you've done, I haven't given up on you. What makes you think they will?"

A sob. "But they're not- not my family. It's- it's all hers..." she cries, letting the tears fall free at last. "W-why would they- why do you-"

"No," Sabrina shakes her head, prompting Hijiri to look up. "No matter what Niko intended, they are your family."

The blonde looks away.

Sabrina reaches out once more, to grab her shoulder this time. She waits for Hijiri to look back at her.

"I didn't always have my friends," she speaks quietly, wistfully. "I only knew about them, when I first woke up. And it scared me... It scared me to tell them the truth," Sabrina frowns. "I was afraid they'd reject me."

Hijiri's hands shake, droplets spilling off her loosely hanging fingers.

"But they didn't." Kanna looked up with a hurt, questioning gaze. "Because the time we spent together was real," the tall girl's lips curl just a bit. "What I knew about them beforehand was just that, stuff I knew about them. The time we spent together... lived and laughed and cried together... that's what made them accept me... and the time you spent with your family... that's real, too."

"I..." Hijiri falters, at a loss for words. "I, I- I don't-"

"They'll take you back," answers Sabrina easily. "They are your family, and they love you." The total certainty in her tone grinds away at Hijiri's doubts. "I'm sure of it."

Yellow eyes stare up. "But... but her, your friend-" Hijiri's voice falters as Sabrina's grip tightens momentarily.

"You can't..." the white haired girl starts, before rethinking. "Maybe you can help there. Would you?"

The Kanna's eyes widen slightly. And then she breaks. She sobs into the night, taking great, heaving breaths. "W-why? Why d-do you- why would t-they-?"

Sabrina turned away, staring into the shifting peaks and valleys of the stormy ocean. "...It's never, ever, wrong to have hope. And just because something is flawed, that doesn't mean that it's not worth fighting for."


For all things in the world, if they are just left alone and paid no attention, are bound to advance in a negative direction.

No matter what we do, we can't stop the universe from getting colder, either, and on the same principle. This world is only maintained in existence by a series of logical, common-sense processes; it can never escape the bondage of its physical laws.

Therefore, in order to write a perfect ending for a story you must possess the power to break the chain of cause and effect, invert black and white, and act in complete contradiction to the rules of the universe. Only a pure and heavenly soul, a soul that resounds with genuine praise for humanity, can save the story.
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Special thanks to @Onmur for his major editing input. Additional thanks goes to @Godwinson , @Kaizuki , and @Firnagzen for providing beta reading. This has been lingering in my drafts file for over a year, so I figured it was high time to finish and publish it.
 
Y'know, that omake reminds me of a quote I heard from somewhere.
"It's a funny thing isn't it? The more you want to hurt someone, the easier it is to make them stop living. But no matter how much you love someone, you can't bring them back from the dead."
 
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Johnnyboy306 said:
"It's a funny thing isn't it? That more you want to hurt someone, the easier it is to make them stop living. But no matter how much you love someone, you can't bring them back from the dead."
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Kyubey: You can fix that if you make a contract with me and have your wish granted - you can be a Pulla-*BANG*
[Mile or so away]
Homura: *cycles bolt on South African 20mm Anti-material rifle*
Sayaka: *looks through high powered spotter scope* You were off from a perfect headshot, adjust for wind to the left...
 
Johnnyboy306 said:
"It's a funny thing isn't it? That more you want to hurt someone, the easier it is to make them stop living. But no matter how much you love someone, you can't bring them back from the dead."
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My first though was "We're proving that last bit wrong, aren't we?" Homura is bringing Madoka back from dead, in a sense. Then I realized that the Madoka of this timeline isn't the same Madoka that died in the first iteration. They started of the same person, yeah, but they have since diverged. Then I went off on a tangent about how we could truly reverse death; a project for the distant future. It's not like the dead are getting any deader.


Anyway, great omake, Redshirt. I'm guessing Hijiri killed/witched the Pleiades and/or Mami? Oh, and we should contact Hijiri sometime.
 
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