Sayaka Miki is a magical girl, but more important her wish was to help her crush get his ability to play the violin back. This means that she can heal from pretty much any injury. In this show, this means super durability, but in Sayakaquest, it means she can heal from basically
any injury.
I mean
ANY injury, as long as it doesn't destroy her brain. This basically lets her tank through any kind of injury, and gives players an easy way to just fumble their way through combat encounters on their merry way to victory. The joke is that to compensate for that, I made death come very swiftly.
So Sayaka gets chopped into little bitty pieces by the first witch in the goddamn quest. rest in spaghetti never forghetti.
Timeline reset. Sayaka soon meets Kyouko, but this time in completely different circumstances. Rather than meeting up in the heat of battle, Sayaka and Kyouko meet up at an arcade. You kind of get the implication of this given that this is also where they meet up in SQ2 for their sixteenth anniversary, but I digress.
Sayaka and Kyouko, honestly, have a
lot of parallels. It's part of what makes their arc in PMMM so compelling. The different meeting emphasizes their similarities, rather than how far Kyouko is (supposedly) willing to go for her own selfish ends.
Oh yeah and DDR.
There was DDR.
Sayaka also decides to ask Homura a few more questions. Rather than immediately assuming that Homura is hostile, she instead takes a second to ask a question. This is obvious player influence and really Sayaka would be an impulsive hothead but she asks. Homura then makes it clear the context behind her trying to stop Mami from dying.
This sets their relationship on the right foot.
Kyouko and Sayaka aren't necessarily friends but they're clicking really,
really well. Sayaka also decides to confront Kyousuke about her feelings and is soundly rejected.
He likes her, but as a friend.
Sayaka takes it surprisingly well and moves on with her life just kidding she bawls her eyes out and is a bisexual disaster.
A few days later. Homura isn't really comfy detailing more of the history and deeper darker secrets of what Being Meguca Is Really Like, but what she
does do it emphasize the Ticking Clock that is
Walpurgisnacht. The original show has
Waluigi Night as a way to add tension to the series; a horrific endgame that will probably destroy everything and ruin the timeline again.
Walmart Night serves the same purpose in SQ1; the second
WhataburgerNight is made clear to Sayaka is the second that she realizes "Ah shit I have to learn to be a better meguca" and so she starts to train.
Sayaka and Kyouko get really close really quickly, and as it turns out they click pretty well both as friends and as combat partners. Kyouko is also extremely gay and she's starting to have feelings for Sayaka almost immediately. Part of this is her bouncing after Mumi, part of this is "oh no my heart."
She asks Sayaka out. Sayaka, who is bouncing after Kyousuke, accepts her advances and they become a couple. They are teenagers and don't know better, but a lot of Sayakaquest involves them growing closer as a couple, both for the better (as they're able to support each other in times of emotional crisis) and for the
fucking worst (because they're both magical girls, and grief can literally kill them. They become wildly codependent over the course of the quest).
