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Puella Magica Somniabunt Sanguinis [PMMM/Bloodborne]

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HymnOfRagnarok said:
Also wow, it looks like this ship is self-steering! Either that or it's guided by the hand of God, who really wants said ship to sail.
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At some point last night, I think I forgot whether I was trying to reference the appearance of Rika/Ruby shippers in the thread or just see how many spontanious anime nosebleeds I could cause among them without totally derailing the update.
Adhoc vote count started by Origami Clock on Nov 16, 2017 at 7:15 AM, finished with 30 posts and 9 votes.
  • [X] Angel food cake
    [X] Continue plant talk about gardening
    [X] Ask where she goes to school
    [X] She mentioned something about the alleyway reminding her of home. Is her home life bad? Can we help?
    [x] Maximum coffee
    -[x] Also maximum sugar
    [X] Angel food cake
    [X] Continue plant talk about gardening
    [X] Ask where she goes to school
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    [X] Rich chocolate souffle... Light, crisp strawberry shortcakes... Mouthwatering vanilla ice cream... Lemon tarts... Screw it, Rika was right. You have to try everything here. Good thing you've got so many paper bits!
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Ginger Maniac said:
This line is comedy gold. I'm still chuckling a few minutes after reading it.

Lesions in your anatomy are bad. You don't want a large, bladed, infested staff like that anywhere near your precious organs and all the blood running through them.

I think 'lesson' might have been the word you were looking for there.
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A lesion is indeed bad to have on your anatomy. Abnormal damage or change in the tissue of an organism, usually caused by disease or trauma, is always awful to experience.
 
Vindictus said:
Lesions in your anatomy are bad! That said, I think most people wouldn't default to 'Bladed war staff' when the actual word basically means 'wound'.
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Most people wouldn't. I just thought of the weapon at basically the same time as the actual meaning of the word, and thought it would be amusing to misinterpret.
Dark Abstraction said:
A lesion is indeed bad to have on your anatomy. Abnormal damage or change in the tissue of an organism, usually caused by disease or trauma, is always awful to experience.
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I need to remember to spell what I actually know out better for text next time, because people on the Internet can't see me grinning as I type. Whoops.
 
[X] Angel food cake
[X] Continue plant talk about gardening
[X] Ask where she goes to school
[X] She mentioned something about the alleyway reminding her of home. Is her home life bad? Can we help?

Let's be clear here: Lesions are not good? Or am I understanding you all wrong? :p

I still think a "are your angel food cakes made from actual angel food" line is in order. Addams Family references are far too fun (and possibly appropriate for darker humor! You know, for kids!) too pass up.
Adhoc vote count started by King Tharassian on Nov 18, 2017 at 9:03 PM, finished with 12 posts and 5 votes.
  • [X] "Helping you is not a hardship, nor is it a burden. So when I tell you that I'm happy to help you, I want you to know that I am not giving you trite platitudes. I am truly and sincerely happy to help you, and I will be happier still to see you happy."
    [X] "And on that note....Rika, you have magic now. In my humble and unbiased opinion, you have the best kind of magic. I'm sure we can think of something we can use it for!"
    -[X] Don't break the masquerade on magic, but appropriately quiet or subtle
    -[X] Make a note to ask Homura if there's any work she knows of that Rika's talents would be useful for. If nothing else, a puella magi who knows the vermin's true nature and hates it is valuable in and of itself.
    [X] "Helping you is not a hardship, nor is it a burden. So when I tell you that I'm happy to help you, I want you to know that I am not giving you trite platitudes. I am truly and sincerely happy to help you, and I will be happier still to see you happy."
    [X] "And on that note....Rika, you have magic now. In my humble and unbiased opinion, you have the best kind of magic. I'm sure we can think of something we can use it for!"
    -[X] Make a note to ask Homura if there's any work she knows of that Rika's talents would be useful for. If nothing else, a puella magi who knows the vermin's true nature and hates it is valuable in and of itself.
    [x] Hymn
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Origami Clock said:
At some point last night, I think I forgot whether I was trying to reference the appearance of Rika/Ruby shippers in the thread or just see how many spontanious anime nosebleeds I could cause among them without totally derailing the update.
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If Homura had been there, I have to imagine she'd be mentally steeling herself to give Ruby The Talk: Meguca Edition.

I feel for that old guy who overheard that conversation. Talk about awkward.
 
HymnOfRagnarok said:
If Homura had been there, I have to imagine she'd be mentally steeling herself to give Ruby The Talk: Meguca Edition.

I feel for that old guy who overheard that conversation. Talk about awkward.
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I don't know if Ruby would be able to sit through "The Talk" a second time. Mama already told her about what would happen if she found a nice boy to "pollinate" her, if you recall. She'd probably melt into a flowerbed. Again.

And yeah, that guy's probably just actively ignoring them, or trying at least.
 
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King Tharassian said:
I don't know if Ruby would be able to sit through "The Talk" a second time. Mama already told her about what would happen if she found a nice boy to "pollinate" her, if you recall.
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Yes. See Meguca Edition i.e. yer a lesbian, meguca.

Or might as well be, from Homura's perspective. She has a very skewed population to draw observations from across uncountable timelines, the straightest of which is probably Sayaka.


And yeah, that guy's probably just actively ignoring them, or trying at least.
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Speaking of, Ruby ought to be extra careful about not breaking the masquerade, because there is no guarantee that Kyubey will be willing or able to cover up her indiscretions. Or will clean them up in a way that sabotages Ruby.

Seeing as Ruby tries to kill Kyubey as soon as he gets near, he can't exactly be on hand for janitor duty, meaning Ruby's problem snowball into bigger problems.

So let's try to avoid giving Rika another mental breakdown, this time in a public place.
 
HymnOfRagnarok said:
Yes. See Meguca Edition i.e. yer a lesbian, meguca.

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Ah, too true. At least we might get Homu-blushes out of it!

And regarding masquerades.... Yeah, as fun as it sounds being on par with Hellsing Abrudged!Alucard in terms of subtlety, we should go more for.....

Anderso.... No....

Max..... No....

Kamina..... No no no.....

Dang. Who in anime is a non-villain that's actually subtle!?!?
 
Cake, chatting and flowers coming up, Just as soon as I finish frantically cramming for my rehersal of my dissertation draft with my supervisor. Your normal, horribly depressed magical girl viewing will be recommencing shortly.
 
Vindictus said:
Lelouch has his moments from what I've heard.
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.... A few. Yes. But his brand of Magnificent Bastardry is very much cinematic.

Also:

Origami Clock said:
Cake, chatting and flowers coming up, Just as soon as I finish frantically cramming for my rehersal of my dissertation draft with my supervisor. Your normal, horribly depressed magical girl viewing will be recommencing shortly.
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Yay! Depression, gloom and heartache! My favorite meal in the morning!
 
Might be slightly later than the morning. Meeting ran on so I only had an hour till I needed to head off to a society thing. Spent the next 4 hours drinking and talking all sorts of bollocks on the subject of transhumanism before I had to go and face the joys of sourthern rail. Long story short, I'm writing now, should have something presentable in an hour or two.
 
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    • Because I'm about to pass out on my keyboard, I'll give you a little taste of what I've got written, and I'll finish things off tomorrow while I'm spending the day on the train. It's pure fluff, because I haven't quite wrapped up the sad things yet, but I like to think that I write above average fluff, in general.
    You end up with a cube of cake that through some eldritch cooking lore seemed to weigh less than one of the plump, glistening strawberries that it was garnished with. It smelled of sugar and the lazy days of midsummer when it was too hot to do anything but laze around and bask.

    You had to try very hard to keep the expression of raw, unrelenting hunger off your face as you walked over to an empty table by the window away from the counter. While your pride could endure the indelicacy of your own appetites, you doubted it could withstand the sight of a knowing smirk from Rika.

    Of course, she was in a similar situation herself, a tall triangle of pure chocolate extravagance sitting on her plate, so rich that you could practically see it wobble with every step you took.

    There was a subtle, unspoken conflict occuring between the two of you now. You both knew that the first one to openly reveal the unrelenting desires currently filling them would be roundly mocked for her indecorous behaviour.

    It was a three-way conflict, you, her, and the infernal confectionary sitting innocently upon their altars of white porcelain, waiting to be sacrificed to appease the terrible, insatiable appetites that filled you both.

    You both know that this is utterly silly, not to mention flagrantly hypocritical as well, but frankly, it wouldn't be nearly as much fun if it wasn't.

    Who ever heard of gaining smugness points by being sensible?
     
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    • You end up with a cube of cake that through some eldritch cooking lore seemed to weigh less than one of the plump, glistening strawberries that it was garnished with. It smelled of sugar and the lazy days of midsummer when it was too hot to do anything but laze around and bask.

    You had to try very hard to keep the expression of raw, unrelenting hunger off your face as you walked over to an empty table by the window away from the counter. While your pride could endure the indelicacy of your own appetites, you doubted it could withstand the sight of a knowing smirk from Rika.

    Of course, she was in a similar situation herself, a tall triangle of pure chocolate extravagance sitting on her plate, so rich that you could practically see it wobble with every step you took.

    There was a subtle, unspoken conflict occuring between the two of you now. You both knew that the first one to openly reveal the unrelenting desires currently filling them would be roundly mocked for her indecorous behaviour.

    It was a three-way conflict, you, her, and the infernal confectionary sitting innocently upon their altars of white porcelain, waiting to be sacrificed to appease the terrible, insatiable appetites that filled you both.

    You both know that this is utterly silly, not to mention flagrantly hypocritical as well, but frankly, it wouldn't be nearly as much fun if it wasn't.

    Who ever heard of gaining smugness points by being sensible?

    For around a minute or two neither of you say a thing, though the air between you practically roils in the intensity of the staring between the two of you, taking only the smallest and most delicate bites as you wait for the other to snap.

    Frankly, the only thing that kept you to escalating to even more preposterous heights is the arrival of your steaming drinks, the arrival of another person forcing the two of you into a detente of sorts.

    You were aware of the existence of things like coffee, it would be pretty hard to remain oblivious when you were cohabiting with Homura, who would probably get her caffeine intravenously if she could.

    Rather that the chipped mug filled with some evil tar-like substance that she was predisposed to, here you had an opportunity to sample food slightly more in keeping with your standards of elegance and toxicity.

    Of course, it also looked like it could dissolve your teeth with a single sip, streaks of caramel brown swirling within it beneath the iceberg of vanilla-infused cream bobbing on the top of it. You even got an actual glass to drink it from, so you could see all the strata that went into it's creation.

    Rika looks almost envious of it, even as she inhales and savours the steam of her tea. That was one point for you, even if the duel of cakes was going to have to be considered a draw.

    "That is just unfair. You must have the metabolism of a mayfly if you can have that without feeling guilty about it."

    You just look serenely back at her, keeping the fact that your figure is more the product of your magic and willpower than anything else firmly to yourself. It would be rude to flaunt your advantages too openly, after all.

    "I burn a lot of energy gardening. It's hard work, keeping everything looking pretty and under control."

    "Sooo unfair. But I suppose it does mean I get to live vicariously through you. How do you feel about ice-cream?"

    "I don't really like cold things that much., sorry."

    "Well I suppose that does make a bit of sense, what with your accent and everything."

    "Accent?"

    "What, you didn't know you had one? Definitely northern, though I can't tell if it's from Hokkaido or from one of the Northern Territories. "

    You weren't entirely sure what to make of that. Homura hadn't said anything, but them when it came to things irrelevant to the mission, she that was sort of her standard response, your efforts to get her to poke out of her she'll still definitely a work in progress.

    I can see why you don't like the cold. Me neither really. I'm like a flower really, showing myself off in summer and staying bundled up for the rest of the year."

    Well, you supposed that explained why she was wearing that woolly turtleneck and thick comfy jacket still when it was halfway through spring.

    "Is it nice here in summer? I've not been here long enough to see for myself."

    "Not in the streets, with all the glass and concrete everywhere it's like standing in a giant oven. But in the parks, and in some spots by the river...mmm, it's wonderful."

    "How long have you lived here? It sounds like you know the city quite well."

    "...and this was going so nicely."

    The cosy, almost blearily comfortable atmosphere that had been growing around the two of you had suddenly grown decidedly chillier.

    "Sorry, sorry I know that wasn't fair on you...its just touches on quite a few personal things for me."

    "I'll happily change the subject if it would make you more comfortable."

    "No, no...I brought this up...its only fair that you know why I was so rude and ungrateful to you."

    You don't like how she seemed to be so familiar and comfortable with putting herself down. It was a pattern that you were becoming increasingly familiar with as you become familiar with Magical Girls.

    You wonder if this was a spiritual thing, some part of their soul twisted and damaged by whatever process prematurely decanted their magic into their underdeveloped bodies.

    "I used to live in the country nearby...my parents...I won't waste your time with the details of it, but it ended with me leaving home two years ago."

    The idea of a parent willingly separating from their child is honestly a little incomprehensible, and unwillingly...you really, really want to give Rika a hug right now, but she didn't really seem in a hugging mood.

    "I have money, just not enough to really be comfortable anywhere. I've lived...almost everywhere in the city, really, well the places that I could afford to."

    "...is there anything I can...I mean, at the very least, I don't have anything else today that I can't..."

    You trail off, your words tangling up with the speed they're pushed out, trying desperately to say something, anything to repair this situation.

    "I wouldn't want to waste your time. I'll manage. I made it through two years, and it took that thing to push me over the edge. After all you've done..."

    She trails off, and in her eyes you see the many ways she finishes that sentence, and none of them are particularly kind to herself. But why would you expect any different?

    You see know that you got it the wrong way round. The vermin might shatter the souls of it's victims, but first it requires a flaw, a crack that can be levered open with scurrilous temptations and then exploited with all it's perfidious might.

    As you said earlier, it wouldn't be so evil if it wasn't so very, very good at what it did, and the first skill of every predator is to identify the weakest within the herd.
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    So, you have an emotionally vulnerable magical girl sitting practically in your lap.
    What are you going to do to exploit help her, SV?    ​
     
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    • NB: probably a few typos in there, writing on an iPad with a slightly dodgy free word processor does tend to do that. Shame my laptop is be too bulky and too fragile to actually work on while mobile.
     
    Hmm. This is hard. I guess in anime Japan, Mami's situation really isn't that unique. And Rika doesn't even have dead parents. Unless they did die and that's why she left home.

    I suspect the Puella Magi also don't have to give a damn about metabolism, but we'd need to ask Homura that. I doubt it came up in casual conversation.

    Still, Rika expressing a desire to live vicariously. Progress.

    So, hinted that we need to deal with her putting herself down all the time. She's refusing help because we've already helped her and she seems to feel guilty.

    Note for the future, but maybe we should ask Homura if she has enough money to pay Rika for work. I'm sure Homura can come up with a bunch of things for another set of hands to do, even if Rika doesn't know everything going on.

    But, Rika does know that the bunnycat is bad fucking news, so maybe Rika can be hired for bunnycat lookouts or errands or shit. It really depends on whether Homura has enough stockpiled money to throw at Rika's problems, or if Homura just has effectively endless petty cash.

    For now, I think...reassure that helping her isn't a burden, and give her something better to think about. Gonna take a gamble and remind she has magic now. Yeah the Grief cost sucks, but magic! There's almost definitely a way it can be used to improve her situation that she didn't have yesterday, so let's see if we can get her focused on the positives.

    Also, if the reminder of phenomenal cosmic power over plants doesn't cheer her up, I'm not sure what will, so might as well bite this bullet.




    [X] "Helping you is not a hardship, nor is it a burden. So when I tell you that I'm happy to help you, I want you to know that I am not giving you trite platitudes. I am truly and sincerely happy to help you, and I will be happier still to see you happy."
    [X] "And on that note....Rika, you have magic now. In my humble and unbiased opinion, you have the best kind of magic. I'm sure we can think of something we can use it for!"
    -[X] Don't break the masquerade on magic, but appropriately quiet or subtle
    -[X] Make a note to ask Homura if there's any work she knows of that Rika's talents would be useful for. If nothing else, a puella magi who knows the vermin's true nature and hates it is valuable in and of itself.



    And now that I have broken the board enconomy on the use of happys:

     
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    [X] "Helping you is not a hardship, nor is it a burden. So when I tell you that I'm happy to help you, I want you to know that I am not giving you trite platitudes. I am truly and sincerely happy to help you, and I will be happier still to see you happy."
    [X] "And on that note....Rika, you have magic now. In my humble and unbiased opinion, you have the best kind of magic. I'm sure we can think of something we can use it for!"
    -[X] Make a note to ask Homura if there's any work she knows of that Rika's talents would be useful for. If nothing else, a puella magi who knows the vermin's true nature and hates it is valuable in and of itself.

    We must spread ALL the hugs. Everywhere.
     
    [X] "Helping you is not a hardship, nor is it a burden. So when I tell you that I'm happy to help you, I want you to know that I am not giving you trite platitudes. I am truly and sincerely happy to help you, and I will be happier still to see you happy."
    [X] "And on that note....Rika, you have magic now. In my humble and unbiased opinion, you have the best kind of magic.I'm sure we can think of something we can use it for!"
    -[X] Make a note to ask Homura if there's any work she knows of that Rika's talents would be useful for. If nothing else, a puella magi who knows thevermin's true nature and hates it is valuable in and of itself.
     
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