To make people actually remember, here's it once for posterity: Minako is nonbinary and uses they/them. This message will be pinned so you people stop getting it wrong and pissing me off. If you get it wrong in the future I'm going to be much less nice, considering you have to scroll past it just to read the quest.
Still thinking she makes them witch out when she's done with them so she can harvest their grief seeds for use as weapons or emergency rations. It would explain why the Incubators aren't interfering with her too much if they're still getting a steady flow of witchings.
It probably is technically stealing from Incubators in the other timelines, but that's not the problem of this timelines Incubator so long as it can meet its quota.
Do Japanese teachers have lessons in how to bring up something that is thematically related to the life of their protagonist student? Between this and Persona it seems to happen way too often.
Perhaps there's all sorts of life lessons and questions presented, but the part we get to see are the only ones relevant enough for the narrator to remember.
It's like when you learn some new, interesting fact, then within a couple of days, or maybe just hours, you hear/read about it randomly here and there.
It's like when you learn some new, interesting fact, then within a couple of days, or maybe just hours, you hear/read about it randomly here and there.
Yeah, special knowledge fallacy or something like that. Don't remember how it's called properly. It's when you hear something interesting and its relevance suddenly rises through the next several days, making you connect it with other things, or place more emphasis on the similar information.
Only in Madoka Magica no one seems to connect the dots together no matter what. It's like Faust went waaaaaay over the characters' heads, or maybe they didn't even bother to finish that assignment at all, which, well, is understandable. No need to read Faust when you live in Faust, and Faust herself has much more awesome hair than in the book.
Making people feel guilty and tagging them all as 'killers', equating everyone who has ever killed, no matter whether they were in a horrible situation they were not responsible for, or whether they're, well, Rin, who murders and worse, as far as I'm concerned, for kicks. Like, yeah, yeah, she has her GRANDIOUS GOAL AGAINST HER ENEM THE EVIL MITAKIHARA THAT DARES BE NICER AND SHINIER, which bullshit on multiple levels. So, for kicks.
So... Schrödinger's Mami's (another point for this being Mami is the loneliness; first line of the update) being poisoned against Sayaka (and co.). Now that this is all part of her first impression about Future Sayaka and Kyouko and Mitakihara, even if she later learns different, her mind is already biased, and changing her mind won't be as easy as going "we're so happy to see you, anyone who wants to use the seed can visit or live here and rin is an evil crazy cult leader".
Making people feel guilty and tagging them all as 'killers', equating everyone who has ever killed, no matter whether they were in a horrible situation they were not responsible for, or whether they're, well, Rin, who murders and worse, as far as I'm concerned, for kicks. Like, yeah, yeah, she has her GRANDIOUS GOAL AGAINST HER ENEM THE EVIL MITAKIHARA THAT DARES BE NICER AND SHINIER, which bullshit on multiple levels. So, for kicks.
So... Schrödinger's Mami's (another point for this being Mami is the loneliness; first line of the update) being poisoned against Sayaka (and co.). Now that this is all part of her first impression about Future Sayaka and Kyouko and Mitakihara, even if she later learns different, her mind is already biased, and changing her mind won't be as easy as going "we're so happy to see you, anyone who wants to use the seed can visit or live here and rin is an evil crazy cult leader".
Do Japanese teachers have lessons in how to bring up something that is thematically related to the life of their protagonist student? Between this and Persona it seems to happen way too often.
Japanese teacher here. Yeah, you need to take several courses in it before you get your teaching license. It's why we always put protagonists at the second seat from the back by the window, as a good mnemonic device of who to aim at.
When I was in student teaching i had to structure my entire lesson plan around reminding this one kid about how his entire family is dead because of him when he awakened his Cursed Eye when he was seven and kept integrating literature about byronic heroes caught in liminality between two intolerable conditions.
One day he flipped out in the middle of a lesson, ran out of school, and dropped out. He went missing for a few weeks but it's okay because he eventually got killed by a truck, which means he's following a successful lifepath somewhere else.
My director said he's never seen such excellent teaching out of a newbie.
[X] Fight a witch with a safety net. Have Takane pull you out if things get hairy. (No Roll. Takane would be okay with that.)
Japanese teacher here. Yeah, you need to take several courses in it before you get your teaching license. It's why we always put protagonists at the second seat from the back by the window, as a good mnemonic device of who to aim at.
When I was in student teaching i had to structure my entire lesson plan around reminding this one kid about how his entire family is dead because of him when he awakened his Cursed Eye when he was seven and kept integrating literature about byronic heroes caught in liminality between two intolerable conditions.
One day he flipped out in the middle of a lesson, ran out of school, and dropped out. He went missing for a few weeks but it's okay because he eventually got killed by a truck, which means he's following a successful lifepath somewhere else.
My director said he's never seen such excellent teaching out of a newbie.
[X] Fight a witch with a safety net. Have Takane pull you out if things get hairy. (No Roll. Takane would be okay with that.)
What if the families of the other characters students complain that their kids aren't getting the education they deserve, because of the focus on the protagonist? I can't imagine a teacher can keep giving so much attention to this one kid while still keeping up with the others.
What if the families of the other characters students complain that their kids aren't getting the education they deserve, because of the focus on the protagonist? I can't imagine a teacher can keep giving so much attention to this one kid while still keeping up with the others.
Ive got the suspicion that itll be Minako who runs into this totally not mami honest guv first, if only for the "fun" when they mention the name to mum and mun
So correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds like this Mami prevented Homura(?) From dropping the witch bomb. Or maybe the saints. Or Oriko or an OC. Someone damn it.
[x] Fight a witch with a safety net. Have Takane pull you out if things get hairy. (No Roll. Takane would be okay with that.)
I just realized - Minako's meduka power is practically a roundabout cheat code. They can just Clever Hans for an answer until they sense their teacher's agreement/realization/surprise that they've gotten the right answer, or close. Depending on the teacher's patience, that is.
[x] Fight a witch with a safety net. Have Takane pull you out if things get hairy. (No Roll. Takane would be okay with that.)
You choke back the urge to scream at her for lying to you. She's worried about you. She likes you a lot. Maybe even loves you. Pretty cool after just a few short days of relationship. She just wants you safe. She wants to keep you from getting too badly hurt.
You can tell that much; her mindscape is smoldering. The scaffold shudders as the wind whips the clouds overhead and turns the sky itself grey. Focusing on her gives you a clearer picture of how she works, how she thinks, how she feels.
You give her a thin smile. "Well, how about this? We fight with a safety net. If things get too fucky, pull me out. Okay?"
"I'll do that," she says as she stands up. You can tell, even without your powers, that she's not happy about it, but she still gives you a small smile.
"Thank you." You stand up after her. "Hey, uh, also do you mind if I uh...give you-"
She pecks you on the lips before you finish asking. You give her a grin, immediately bend your knees, and leap. The force is enough to shatter concrete and send you flying upwards into the sky. Your senses pull you towards wherever the witch is, across the park, past your apartment complex, then eastward into the Mall of Mitakihara.
You narrow your eyes. You can see the grief seed on top of the parking lot next to the main building; it's a tiny little structure, narrow and thin, solid concrete and steel shaped into a ribbed cylinder to make it look less jarring next to the mall. You slide across its top, then jump down the hole that runs down the center of the cylinder.
You can hear cars humming as you descend. Engines rumble faintly, tires squeal, engines die and start, all of the noise echoing at you as you descend further and further. The light around you turns orange, then red.
Five floors down, and you stop falling through a concrete spiral and start falling through an empty piston. Asphalt becomes glimmering chrome. Faint clanging turns into cacophonous ringing and grinding, machinery slamming into metal as smoke clouds your vision.
You come to a stop on a radiator that's bigger than a car. Your school shoes struggle to keep a grip before you realize that you should probably transform.
A second later, and you pull your mask over your face, pull your hoodie over your hair, and slam your bat into the ground. You stare into the mechanical hellscape before you as smoke clouds your vision and wisps overhead.
The engines rumble all around you, each in constant motion. You find it hard to keep your balance even with your boots gripping the floor with as much strength as they can muster.
"Holy shit."
"Every witch is different," Takane says. "But they always look...different. Like they don't belong."
"Like a collage." Your foot slides across the surface again. You tap it; it's solid. Rock-solid, even. You see fans whirring overhead before the radiator hisses and huffs.
"Watch your step." Takane steps forwards, eyes down as she steps over the surface. She only takes a few short hops, as though she knows jumping too high will attract...something.
You step ahead. One step. Then two. Then three. The world is heavy. The engines instill terror in you. It's so fucking loud. You stare around you, then take a leap ahead.
And then it hits you. You stumble across another engine as soon as you land, the feelings overwhelming, the power too much. Your mind grows dimmer and dimmer as Takane stops. "Huh, Mina?!"
You fall to your knees as sweat beads on your forehead, as the engines underneath your knees rumble and tumble and roar and scream and something else is screaming too. Something else is there. It's more than the witch.
Your mind turns red. Your vision turns black. And then you see a human face.
Distorted, scratched, screaming in a language that sounds like it should be Japanese. Sounds like it should be something. Perfect, lucid screams of agony, teeth of gears that turn further abstract. Engines running against each other in a maelstrom of sound and noise and nonsense.
Blood-red rage fills your head. You want to rip into something, tear it to shreds. You feel like you're about to shed your skin, tear apart the labyrinth and whatever else is unlucky enough to fall into this hell.
And then it stops. Takane grips your shoulders. "Mina!" She rushes to your side. "You okay?! Did your powers-"
"I'm fine." You wave at her. "It's fine, I'm fine, it's nothing." You're hyperventilating. That vision was less than a split second but your chest is still heaving, your breath is still heavy, your heart is still beating in your chest. Your left hand is gripping the floor underneath, your right holding onto your bat so tightly that you think it's going to crush the handle.
Takane lets her grip go. "But you...you felt the witch, didn't you?"
"I felt it, yeah." You breathe in. "Monsters are fucking weird," you hiss.
"Mina-"
"Let's kill it. Kill it fast."
You didn't notice that the second eye on your chest is open, this time with a blood-red glow. Two of the three eyes are wide-open, glancing wildly around at the barrier.
But, as it turns out, you stopped locking onto the witch as soon as you came in here. You can still feel the anger, but something seems to have stopped it. You didn't know your powers had a safety...or maybe they don't.
You're bristling a little. You feel a little more irritable, a little bit angrier, and you don't know why. You clench your teeth as you grip your bat, as you take a look at the greater Engine in the sky, at where the witch probably resides, wherever it came from.
You breathe in again. That quirk of yours is probably something you'll have to look into at some point. And there's the matter of that thing you suspected.
Witches have a pretty complex mental hellscape. Each is different, each varies wildly. You glance at Takane, and the uppermost eye on your chest turns green.
Her plain holds a shattered soul gem among a scaffold that's been blasted apart into splinters and wood and metal.
And in the center, an orb of pitch-black.
You clench your teeth and set your jaw.
She suspects the same thing you do.
"Let's focus," she says.
[] Dive deeper into the Witch's emotional scape. (DIFFICULTY ???)
[] Try to keep your mindscape at two eyes open. (NEUTRAL)
[] Connect to Takane. Try not to think about...the obvious. (DIFFICULTY 1)
Adhoc vote count started by TheOneMoiderah on Jul 9, 2019 at 9:28 PM, finished with 18 posts and 9 votes.
[X] Dive deeper into the Witch's emotional scape. (DIFFICULTY ???)
Comment, I'm reminded of a PMMM fic where the protagonist had 'invisibility' power (more like not-being-there powers) and took her time to go through each Barrier and study them, taking notes in a book. Each Witch was unique, but she'd get better at figuring them out that way.
Now I'm imagining Minako trying to delve into each Witch's mentality with their powers would be a nice way to quickly go insane. Too deep.
I'm reminded of a PMMM fic where the protagonist had 'invisibility' power (more like not-being-there powers) and took her time to go through each Barrier and study them, taking notes in a book. Each Witch was unique, but she'd get better at figuring them out that way.
