Kyouko might have been presumed dead in the fire. And even if she wan't, she hasn't paid mortgage or property taxes for the past year, so it might have been repossessed.

Without a body, she probably would have been declared missing, and then legally dead later.

Then again, she's been hanging around in the same city she grew up in and doesn't exactly hide who she is, outside of covering her tracks shoplifting and squatting in hotels, so she's either using magic to erase her presence, or her survival as a street urchin is a kind of open secret in town.
 
Then again, she's been hanging around in the same city she grew up in and doesn't exactly hide who she is, outside of covering her tracks shoplifting and squatting in hotels, so she's either using magic to erase her presence, or her survival as a street urchin is a kind of open secret in town.
You're not really taking into account just how large and anonymous a major city like Kasamino is. The odds of Kyouko randomly crossing paths with anyone who might recognize her are extremely small.
 
Not just any priest's murder-suicide. Recall Kyouko's wish.
Guy was probably pretty close to being a regional celebrity.
Of course, how much of that fame managed to be retained after he died is anyone's guess. Assuming his congregation wasn't just being supplanted by illusions, of course.
 
Would you recognize David Koresh if you saw him? What about Chris Benoit's wife and kids? When you saw their pictures on the news, how long did it take you to forget their faces? A few weeks? A month? The public has short memories.
 
In addition to the possibility of it being repossessed, it's also possible that the property got auctioned off by Father Sakura's estate, since there was no reasonable expectation of Kyouko being able to maintain/pay for it, and it would have given her a reasonable cushion of money for things she couldn't conveniently steal/nice things for Yuma.
 
Would you recognize David Koresh if you saw him? What about Chris Benoit's wife and kids? When you saw their pictures on the news, how long did it take you to forget their faces? A few weeks? A month? The public has short memories.
If one of Benoit's kids was missing after his murder-suicide, you bet your ass that kid's face would have been all over the news.
 
If one of Benoit's kids was missing after his murder-suicide, you bet your ass that kid's face would have been all over the news.
Yeah, but with no new developments, how long do you think it would stay there before the news cycle moved on? How long would the face stay in people's memories? Not an entire year, I'm guessing.
 
For the first few days or weeks, when it would have been most prominent in the news, she was living with Mami. No idea whether she ever went outside except at night to hunt witches. If she intended to let the world know she was alive, she would have done it then, so she may have been deliberately laying low.

After that she was homeless and avoiding human contact. She'd be in the places homeless people usually are: alleyways, dark corner, under overpasses, places where she wouldn't be seen, places no one owns or cares enough to patrol regularly, keeping her hood up to make her face harder to see and cover her distinctive hair. People try to avoid looking at the homeless, and when they do notice them they remember the trimmings instead of the faces: the dirty and torn clothes, the multiple bags, the smell, what disgusting bodily function they were performing in public, what incoherent thing they were screaming. It won't be long before she doesn't look anything like whatever photographs of her survived the fire, anyway: living on the street prematurely ages people. Not that it matters, because within a month the news cycle has moved on and the public has forgotten what the other Sakura kid looked like.

I'm sorry to say that it's hardly uncommon for a teenager to go missing and never be found, or for a homless girl to end up living on the streets and vanish from the eyes of society. I pay attention to the homeless because it's my job to. Most people just tune them out. They're invisible.
 
Would this be true for meguca though?
Probably depends on how willing they are to use magic to counteract it. The text has described Homura as looking a bit worn and thin from not eating or sleeping enough. And I don't know if transformation sequences would clean off excess grime or anything like that.

EDIT: Kyouko's also not, as far as we know, using meth or heroin, so some of the premature aging factors wouldn't apply.
 
Probably depends on how willing they are to use magic to counteract it. The text has described Homura as looking a bit worn and thin from not eating or sleeping enough. And I don't know if transformation sequences would clean off excess grime or anything like that.

EDIT: Kyouko's also not, as far as we know, using meth or heroin, so some of the premature aging factors wouldn't apply.
She's known to use Grief, though.

In fact, we know an alternate Kyouko in another quest has become addicted to Grief, so let's say there's a chance for all Kyoukos to become addicted to Grief.
 
She's known to use Grief, though.

In fact, we know an alternate Kyouko in another quest has become addicted to Grief, so let's say there's a chance for all Kyoukos to become addicted to Grief.
So that's why she doesn't want the 100+ years supply of Grief(cleansing) all in one go! She's aware she has a problem and is deliberately trying to ration herself.

Also, what quest is this?
 
A frankenvote, because there were bits of both that I liked and some of them wanted some tweaks:

[x] Let Sayaka know that Kyouko's powers are a sore spot.

Less knowledge necessary; just let Sayaka that this is another case of don't ask about copying.

[x] While traveling:
-[x] Talk about Sayaka OPness.
--[x] The power booster meguca and recursion: The Sayingularity?
--[x] Suggest super learning powers.
--[x] Ask Sayaka how she'd feel about being the police.
-[x] Start forming gold for maximum fenceability

Move this up in case Kyouko asks for payment up front.

[x] After meeting with Kyouko...
-[x] Hang around, let Kyouko take charge.

[x] During training:
-[x] Watch what's happening along with Yuma. Chat casually.

Chat with Yuma. Explicit is good.

-[X] Contact Nakano Mika. Go over the public knowledge parts of Kyouko's situation, for context.
--[X] Explain your uncertainty. Kyouko has mixed feelings about the building('s history), and its demolition. You're sorry for bothering her, and you're not certain what she can do, but even just knowing development plans for that land might help.
--[x] Ask if she'd mind if you put Kyouko in touch with her.

Specific course of action. I prefer the handling where we explain the context and make it clear that we don't really know what'd help but this feels right anyway.
 
Thank you.
... I should have phrased my question as 'which quest?' for the homophone. Alas.
and that was her stated reason here.
My brain drew a separation between her 'this new untested thing could be heroin' here (as I recall?) and the possibility in Onmur's post that she is already addicted to Grief, and is thus refusing a lifetime's supply all at once.

-[x] Start forming gold for maximum fenceability
*one brain damage later*
"I made gold fences and epees!"
:V
 
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Hmm. Is Kyouko planning to use the Church?
I doubt it.

But this reminds me I wanted to comment on two things.

One: Everyone knows Sayaka is going to ask, right? We might want to talk about powers and training and shipping, but her? We just kissed Mami in front of her. :p

Also, we are running without knowing where the hell we're going. :p :p :p
 
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