Is that supposed to say Missy?
Yes, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sarah gave her that nickname.
If I am not wrong that is Mami Tomoe.
Right you are
I'm very happy to see this back man!
Thanks! And thank everyone here commenting; you're the ones keeping this fic alive.
Really happy to see a new chapter of this story, I will probably need to do a re-read since it's been a while from last time I read it but I remember to have enjoyed it quite a lot.
Just know that the first couple or so chapters
desperately need to be redone, but I'm not gonna do that or else I'll
never finish this thing.
... I should probably leave a warning on the first post to skip ahead.
Oh yeah, immediately reminding me that being Sophia sucks in this situation. Extremely out of her depth threatening people, extremely out of her depth stalking people...she's just all around in a bad place and unfortunately doesn't and probably won't ever know by how much.
It's right that Sophia is kinda
pathetic as far as actual threats go, once you sit down and see how her powers work and
how she uses them (remember what canon Skitter got up to with "just" bug control, and that Mami's magical weapon is
ribbons).
Another thing, one which my some friends mentioned off-site, is that she makes more sense being one of
Coil's minions than being part of the Wards; she serves more as an example of just how corrupt the "system" is (and how desperate the PRT and the Protectorate are) that someone like
her is allowed to be a "hero", despite being a lot closer to (and nastier
than in some cases) some of the villains in the setting.
So we know from before that Sarah takes her relationship with her parents pretty seriously, at least to the point of being pretty uncomfortable with "Kyuubey Truths" directed at them. I'd guess she has at least a decent relationship with them, from that. Which make the revelation that three years ago she was homeless for what is, by implication, a protracted amount of time pretty interesting. Is she currently adopted? Did she run away and then later on go back? She didn't use a Wish to fix anything, since she was a Magical Girl while homeless...
"Spoilers~!"
"Hey Sarah-"
"No."
She's sure giving an implication, though since it's Sarah there's reasonable odds she's fucking with Taylor with said implication.
That's a pretty safe bet, yes.
Plus a little innuendo because Sarah.
Okay let's be fair, Rachel paying attention to Taylor was a significant part of what led to this, and Taylor was/is starved for positive peer relationships. There was also Kyuubey and Sarah that played a pretty big part, but it definitely started with Rachel looking at Taylor, going "Im gonna interact with her", and not taking no for an answer.
Also I think this is when Rachel finds out...anything about Taylor's family situation? She knows her dad exists and was asleep when they went Witch-hunting, but that doesn't necessarily extrapolate to "mom dead", especially when Taylor's trauma is very frontloaded from Emma's nonsense.
Despite how much
both girls have opened up to each other, neither has really
tried to pry into each other's lives all that much. Ironically enough, for the same reason: they fear pushing the other away.
Oh Sarah's looking for problems, isn't she. Also looking out for Taylor, but looking for 'fun' in the process.
Whoever said that you can't mix business with pleasure?
-checks Missy's backstory- You know what, yeah she probably does. She gets to beat up people causing problems here, compared to where her parents are/were.
Canon Missy Biron identified more with "Vista" than her own civvie identity, and spent as much time as she could with the Wards rather than at home. Give her a chance to just
walk away from that envoriment and you can bet she'll take it. With her presonality, she actually makes a
very good Magical Girl candidate.
Oh no it's the Pleiades Saints.
Probably but you never know, it could be Maiko Sue from
Puella Magi Imperatrix Mundi. Or some other magical girl with a witch theme, it can't be that rare.
I had the
funny idea of putting in a few expies of
other magical girls (the first three mentioned) in the Clinic, and then I decided to have
other canon meguca in there as well.
Then my brain caught up with me. "Hey, Dalek, isn't that a really
big Chekov's Gun to be waving around?"
Hence what
might be the Pleiades Saints. Maybe.
I dunno, probably? It's probably not forbidden actually but it'd be really weird.
It's not forbidden, indeed, and it
would be really,
really wierd to do so. It's a the gender-inverted equivalent to a guy taking a girl somewhere which is typically filled entirely with guys (and liable to get just as much
unwanted attention).
Something I've been chewing on: There's always a bit of a risk when you bring friends into the Clinic. After all, remember that even if your neighors are nice, the Cinic hosts magical girls from all across
Brockton Bay, and there's always gonna be someone out there crazy, desperate, or
mean enough to think taking your normie friends hostage is a good idea. If you
do, though, girl friends (and
girlfriends) are that little bit safer to bring, since there's the possibility of them contracting.
Boy friends (and
boyfriends) on the other hand? Well...
-nature documentary voice- "And here we see what science calls a 'mutual tsundere coexistence'-"
There's a
reason why my notes have them being effectively a single character.
Oh hey Mami what's up. We don't yet know who hired you and why investigating Rachel is part of it. Or if Taylor's a separate element or a way to get to Rachel, I guess.
Not a lot of character difference in these options, I think. It's mainly a difference in how comfortable Taylor feels about someone brand new (and good-looking) expressing interest in her, in a situation that's at least somewhat new and uncertain to her. Is she comfortable enough for a direct confrontation, does she want someone to share the load/shield her, or is she still avoidant enough to not want to? She was comfortable enough to unload feelings at Susan, but that was a more personal one-on-one thing and Rachel was only a couple of feet away. She doesn't trust Sarah anywhere near as much, so that's going to play into things a bit.
Also whether or not she listens to Sarah's proffered advice.
Thanks for the chapter! Good to see this back
Hmm. I think it's kind of a toss-up between Taylor ignoring Mami or dragging Susan with her - hard for me to judge since I already know Mami is important, while to Taylor she's just a random person staring at her ... ah, no, wait, she beckoned her closer, she wasn't just looking. In that case:
I'd be lying if I said I
didn't enjoy introducing Mami Tomoe to the plot, and
especially introducing her to Taylor. I think I mentioned previously that Mami is a
lot like Taylor in many ways; family tragedy clouding everything they do, a very weak powerset (make ribbons/control bugs) which they mixed with ingenuity to become FAR more powerful than anyone expected, extreme loneliness...
... except that Mami's an exceptionally attractive mentor figure who is dedicated to heroism in a system where that's not rewarded
and is skilled enough to actually pull it off, while Taylor's a tall, thin, gawky person who dresses plainly to hide and blend in, is intensely distrustful of authority (for good reason, to be fair) and became a villain when pushed enough.
(For the record: Canon Skitter vs Mami Tomoe ends with a slightly stung Mami
and a very dead Skitter).
