EtchedSteel
*mumble mumble*
- Location
- Lima. Peru
[x] Mami will delay the fire as long as she can while you destroy the armchair. You don't do too well with fires after all...
HanakoQuest (PMMM/Katawa Shoujo)
- Thread starter Dorryza
- Start date
Problem is, We have a Painful History involving Fire.
- Location
- Hell
And you really think guns is how you get rid of it?
Get rid of Witch, everything goes away including fire.
Wait. *Actually Sees the Vote* Ohhh...
- Location
- Hell
So willing to switch? Hanako doesn't have the greatest firepower. Best to just double down and finish the Witch as fast as possible yes?
- Location
- here
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I don't know, Mami's pretty creative with her powers. Maybe she can make asbestos ribbons? I think they really do redirect wildfires with explosives. Or was that lava...
...Anyway, it basically boils down to which we think is more likely: that we can destroy the witch together before the fires reach us, or that Mami is capable of stopping the flames' advance. Considering that this witch already shrugged of a trio finale seemingly without damage, the latter seems more likely to me. Hence:
[x] Mami will delay the fire as long as she can while you destroy the armchair. You don't do too well with fires after all...
- Location
- Hell
Hanako...with a stick will somehow harm the witch more than Mami's Tiro Finale...
- Location
- here
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Of course not. However, assuming Mami succeeds at holding back the flames, we will have a vastly greater amount of time to wear the witch down, rather than needing to destroy it all at once in one shot. I don't think that we can take it out before the flames will reach us, even if we both work together. Hence, we need someone to stop the flames, and... well that's not something we're equipped to do personally for a variety of reasons.
- Location
- Hell
But why would you assume that? It's magic fire and Mami only has guns which don't exactly help with that.
All the time in the world isn't going to let Hanako beat something with a stick that manage to no-sell a Tiro Finale.
- Location
- Hell
Because that is totally a better option against fire...
Dirtnap
Kanmusu Affecionado
This is the girl that managed to make *flintlocks* from ribbons, she'll manage.
UbeOne
Daydreaming CPU
- Location
- Philippines
- Pronouns
- She/Her
They're percussion locks.
Dirtnap
Kanmusu Affecionado
Close enough. She makes guns out of yellow silk ribbons.
Leila- Defeated
Dorryza
Needs a Witty Title
- Location
- United States of America
[x] Mami will delay the fire as long as she can while you destroy the armchair. You don't do too well with fires after all…
You swallow as the fire grows ever close. "M-mami," you quickly say. "You deal with the fire, a-and try to slow it down. I'll take out the w-witch."
Mami glances at you, with a seemingly surprised look on her face, before nodding and bounding off towards the approaching wall of flame.
For your part, you swallow and step through the fallen bookcases, onto what seems to be an absolutely normal, average carpet. For all your trepidation, though… what's in front of you seems just like an ordinary stuffed armchair. But an extremely resilient one, you remind yourself as you catch sight of the dent left by Mami's opening Tiro Finale.
Bringing your quarterstaff up, you snap the stick back down with a crack, only to reveal a armchair no worse for wear, seemingly completely unmoved. Subsequent attacks in the same vein seem to get you no further.
Clearly, blunt force trauma is going to do absolutely nothing to a stuffed armchair. Even your best efforts see nothing but your staff bouncing, sinking, or being otherwise completely ineffectual. You glare at the weapon in front of you- why is it blunt? Why can't it be more useful, and maybe have a pointy end or something?
You shake your head, almost absentmindedly jabbing at the armchair again, before doing a double take as you feel your staff sink into it. As you pull it out with a puff of stuffing, you notice that one side is much heavier than you're used to- and you catch sight of gleaming metal. When you withdraw it fully, you see that the tip of your staff has now been adorned with a handguard, and above it, a wickedly sharp blade that curves up to a taper. It takes you a moment to identify what you're now holding as a Naginata.
[Ability gained- Naginata Transformation]
"The Fire's getting close, Hanako!" Mami yells, shaking you from your reverie.
"Got it," you call back before turning back to the armchair and slashing at it. The extra weight catches you off guard, and you nearly lose your balance as your Naginata only scrapes the edge. Even so, though, it seems to be much more effective, as you almost effortlessly tear the lining, and stuffing almost bursts out.
With your new weapon, dismantling the protective cover and filling is almost trivial, and it's only a matter of time before all that's left in the pile of scraps and wadded padding is a naked wooden skeleton, with a very dark green gem set directly where someone's head would have rested on the chair.
"Hey, Mami," you call. "Could you try shooting this?"
"Sure," she replies, and she soon vaults over a pile of collapsed bookcases, breathing hard from exertion but still somehow completely immaculate, as always. "Nice work," she comments as she looks at the rather sad sight of the lonely chair frame.
"T-thanks," you mumble.
Mami smiles. "I'm sure it'll do it this time," she says as she points at the frame. "Tiro Finale!"
You shrink back as the massive cannon forms and fires in an instant. This time, as the cannonball impacts, there's no protection- and the cannonball simply smashes through the wooden frame, small splinters flying everywhere.
You can almost make out a distant keening scream
As the wood holding it in place is pulverized, the gemstone bounces on the ground with a clear plink, before a brief flash of light transforms it into the grief seed that you're a bit more familiar with. You breath out a long sigh as you look around at the burnt room around you, some isolated fires still burning.
You did it?
You glance at Mami, and she nods back at you.
You did it.
[LEILA- DEFEATED]
"Here," Mami says as she bends down to pick up the grief seed, and promptly tosses it at you. "Catch."
You instinctively bring up your hands and clutch the Grief Seed. "W-wait, shouldn't we share this one?"
Mami shrugs. "This was technically your hunt," she says. "And besides, it's easier to store seeds if we alternate."
"Alright," you say simply.
"Anyways," Mami says as she detransforms with a quick flourish. "I need to go - I still have an assignment to finish!"
"W-wait," you can't help but say. "You're a M-magical girl, and you still care about homework?"
Mami tsks. "Hanako," she says disapprovingly. "You shouldn't let your Magical Girl life get in the way of your studies, should you?"
You decide that now would not exactly be the most prudent time to mention that you didn't do most of your homework even before you contracted. "S-sure," you say.
"Good girl," Mami says with a smile. "Anyways, I'll see you later."
"S-see you," you stammer out as the other girl turns around with a wave.
It's getting a bit too late to really go anywhere else, so you end up just making your way back to your dorm room. You enter thoughts about actually doing your homework as you walk. After all, you could always start doing your homework.
But as you enter your room, your eyes land on your bed, and your body reminds me of just what you put it through the entire day. And even though it's far earlier than what you would call normal, you can't help but lurch onto your bed, still fully clothed, for a moment to relax, and you close your eyes for just a second…..
You blearily open your eyes, instinctively shutting them in response to the blinding light streaming in from the open window. A quick moment later, your eyes fly open again as you realize the implications of the light, and you fumble furiously for your clock. Your eyes widen as you read "10:05 AM"- you're already over an hour and a half late to class.
A record seven minutes later, you slip as quietly as you can into your classroom. Most of the class's heads swivel to meet the disturbance, but once they realize that it's just you, they just go back to whatever they were previously doing, be it dutifully copying down Mutou's scrawling equations, or staring blankly at the window or the wall. By contrast, Hisao glances at you, a worried expression on his face… and Shizune studiously stares at Mutou. It takes you embarrassingly long to realize that she probably couldn't hear you, and you hurry to your seat with burning cheeks.
But couldn't she see the people who turned to look at you?
"You okay?" Hisao says to you as you sit down. "You weren't responding to my knocks yesterday, so…"
"O-oh," you say, fumbling for an excuse. "I-I… uh, I went on a w-walk…." Well, that's not technically wrong, after all…
"Cool," Hisao says, seemingly satisfied. "It's probably good if you get out so-"
Hisao rather abruptly cuts himself off as Mutou clears his throat rather loudly from the front of the classroom. The boy- well, young man, really- in front of you turns back to the front, suitably shamefaced, and the rest of the morning passes rather uneventfully.
When the Noon bell rings signally the beginning of lunch break, though, you find yourself sitting at your desk with no real plan of what to do.
[OPTION SELECT]
[ ] Go find and talk with- [write-in a topic]
-[ ] Hisao
-[ ] Lilly
-[ ] Shizune
-[ ] Homura (?)
[ ] Take a trip
-[ ] East to meet Yumi
-[ ] North to meet Kyouko
-[ ] West to meet Mami
-[ ] South (???)
[ ] Find a secluded area and
-[ ] Actually catch up on schoolwork
-[ ] Eat by yourself
--[ ] With a novel in hand
-[ ] Practice and train [Write-in what]
As a general aside- Skarmory originally created a discord for my second quest that I co-run with him PMET. As it has a Hanakoquest section (which I have admittedly more or less neglected for the past 2 months, because my discord time was spent organizing my World of Warships team, lel), I suppose I should probably pop a link here (and in my sig soonTM) for assorted potential plotting, organizing, update notifications, and other general shenanigans:
Discord
Just poke either me or Skarm and we'll give you the Hanakoquest tag.
You swallow as the fire grows ever close. "M-mami," you quickly say. "You deal with the fire, a-and try to slow it down. I'll take out the w-witch."
Mami glances at you, with a seemingly surprised look on her face, before nodding and bounding off towards the approaching wall of flame.
For your part, you swallow and step through the fallen bookcases, onto what seems to be an absolutely normal, average carpet. For all your trepidation, though… what's in front of you seems just like an ordinary stuffed armchair. But an extremely resilient one, you remind yourself as you catch sight of the dent left by Mami's opening Tiro Finale.
Bringing your quarterstaff up, you snap the stick back down with a crack, only to reveal a armchair no worse for wear, seemingly completely unmoved. Subsequent attacks in the same vein seem to get you no further.
Clearly, blunt force trauma is going to do absolutely nothing to a stuffed armchair. Even your best efforts see nothing but your staff bouncing, sinking, or being otherwise completely ineffectual. You glare at the weapon in front of you- why is it blunt? Why can't it be more useful, and maybe have a pointy end or something?
You shake your head, almost absentmindedly jabbing at the armchair again, before doing a double take as you feel your staff sink into it. As you pull it out with a puff of stuffing, you notice that one side is much heavier than you're used to- and you catch sight of gleaming metal. When you withdraw it fully, you see that the tip of your staff has now been adorned with a handguard, and above it, a wickedly sharp blade that curves up to a taper. It takes you a moment to identify what you're now holding as a Naginata.
[Ability gained- Naginata Transformation]
"The Fire's getting close, Hanako!" Mami yells, shaking you from your reverie.
"Got it," you call back before turning back to the armchair and slashing at it. The extra weight catches you off guard, and you nearly lose your balance as your Naginata only scrapes the edge. Even so, though, it seems to be much more effective, as you almost effortlessly tear the lining, and stuffing almost bursts out.
With your new weapon, dismantling the protective cover and filling is almost trivial, and it's only a matter of time before all that's left in the pile of scraps and wadded padding is a naked wooden skeleton, with a very dark green gem set directly where someone's head would have rested on the chair.
"Hey, Mami," you call. "Could you try shooting this?"
"Sure," she replies, and she soon vaults over a pile of collapsed bookcases, breathing hard from exertion but still somehow completely immaculate, as always. "Nice work," she comments as she looks at the rather sad sight of the lonely chair frame.
"T-thanks," you mumble.
Mami smiles. "I'm sure it'll do it this time," she says as she points at the frame. "Tiro Finale!"
You shrink back as the massive cannon forms and fires in an instant. This time, as the cannonball impacts, there's no protection- and the cannonball simply smashes through the wooden frame, small splinters flying everywhere.
You can almost make out a distant keening scream
As the wood holding it in place is pulverized, the gemstone bounces on the ground with a clear plink, before a brief flash of light transforms it into the grief seed that you're a bit more familiar with. You breath out a long sigh as you look around at the burnt room around you, some isolated fires still burning.
You did it?
You glance at Mami, and she nods back at you.
You did it.
[LEILA- DEFEATED]
"Here," Mami says as she bends down to pick up the grief seed, and promptly tosses it at you. "Catch."
You instinctively bring up your hands and clutch the Grief Seed. "W-wait, shouldn't we share this one?"
Mami shrugs. "This was technically your hunt," she says. "And besides, it's easier to store seeds if we alternate."
"Alright," you say simply.
"Anyways," Mami says as she detransforms with a quick flourish. "I need to go - I still have an assignment to finish!"
"W-wait," you can't help but say. "You're a M-magical girl, and you still care about homework?"
Mami tsks. "Hanako," she says disapprovingly. "You shouldn't let your Magical Girl life get in the way of your studies, should you?"
You decide that now would not exactly be the most prudent time to mention that you didn't do most of your homework even before you contracted. "S-sure," you say.
"Good girl," Mami says with a smile. "Anyways, I'll see you later."
"S-see you," you stammer out as the other girl turns around with a wave.
It's getting a bit too late to really go anywhere else, so you end up just making your way back to your dorm room. You enter thoughts about actually doing your homework as you walk. After all, you could always start doing your homework.
But as you enter your room, your eyes land on your bed, and your body reminds me of just what you put it through the entire day. And even though it's far earlier than what you would call normal, you can't help but lurch onto your bed, still fully clothed, for a moment to relax, and you close your eyes for just a second…..
You blearily open your eyes, instinctively shutting them in response to the blinding light streaming in from the open window. A quick moment later, your eyes fly open again as you realize the implications of the light, and you fumble furiously for your clock. Your eyes widen as you read "10:05 AM"- you're already over an hour and a half late to class.
A record seven minutes later, you slip as quietly as you can into your classroom. Most of the class's heads swivel to meet the disturbance, but once they realize that it's just you, they just go back to whatever they were previously doing, be it dutifully copying down Mutou's scrawling equations, or staring blankly at the window or the wall. By contrast, Hisao glances at you, a worried expression on his face… and Shizune studiously stares at Mutou. It takes you embarrassingly long to realize that she probably couldn't hear you, and you hurry to your seat with burning cheeks.
But couldn't she see the people who turned to look at you?
"You okay?" Hisao says to you as you sit down. "You weren't responding to my knocks yesterday, so…"
"O-oh," you say, fumbling for an excuse. "I-I… uh, I went on a w-walk…." Well, that's not technically wrong, after all…
"Cool," Hisao says, seemingly satisfied. "It's probably good if you get out so-"
Hisao rather abruptly cuts himself off as Mutou clears his throat rather loudly from the front of the classroom. The boy- well, young man, really- in front of you turns back to the front, suitably shamefaced, and the rest of the morning passes rather uneventfully.
When the Noon bell rings signally the beginning of lunch break, though, you find yourself sitting at your desk with no real plan of what to do.
HP: 95/100
Grief: 150/500
GS- Claire: 700/1000 Filled
Grief: 150/500
GS- Claire: 700/1000 Filled
[OPTION SELECT]
[ ] Go find and talk with- [write-in a topic]
-[ ] Hisao
-[ ] Lilly
-[ ] Shizune
-[ ] Homura (?)
[ ] Take a trip
-[ ] East to meet Yumi
-[ ] North to meet Kyouko
-[ ] West to meet Mami
-[ ] South (???)
[ ] Find a secluded area and
-[ ] Actually catch up on schoolwork
-[ ] Eat by yourself
--[ ] With a novel in hand
-[ ] Practice and train [Write-in what]
As a general aside- Skarmory originally created a discord for my second quest that I co-run with him PMET. As it has a Hanakoquest section (which I have admittedly more or less neglected for the past 2 months, because my discord time was spent organizing my World of Warships team, lel), I suppose I should probably pop a link here (and in my sig soonTM) for assorted potential plotting, organizing, update notifications, and other general shenanigans:
Discord
Just poke either me or Skarm and we'll give you the Hanakoquest tag.
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- Location
- Hell
Ok
[X] Find a secluded area and
-[X] Actually catch up on schoolwork
-[X] Eat by yourself
--[X] With a novel in hand
Hanako needs some me-time!
EtchedSteel
*mumble mumble*
- Location
- Lima. Peru
[X] Find a secluded area and
-[X] Actually catch up on schoolwork
-[X] Eat by yourself
--[X] With a novel in hand
-[X] Actually catch up on schoolwork
-[X] Eat by yourself
--[X] With a novel in hand
Seclusion
Dorryza
Needs a Witty Title
- Location
- United States of America
[X] Find a secluded area and
-[X] Actually catch up on schoolwork
-[X] Eat by yourself
--[X] With a novel in hand
Frankly, you're tired and you feel like you need a break. You stymie Hisao's wave with a quietly uttered "not today" and head down to the cafeteria with your backpack. After pocketing and paying for a small piece of curry bread, you begin to head for the door, before stopping. After a brief moment of introspection, you instead make a detour towards the library. You slip in so quietly past the propped-open doors that the librarian, huddled under her desk as always, doesn't even notice your entrance, and you quietly pad towards the rows of books.
You can't help but tentatively reach out and run your fingers along the rough, uneven spi-
Pages full of teeth.
You blink and shake your head. The books still sit there, benignly. Frowning, you slowly keep walking, but your hand remains at your side.
Unusually, however, you progress straight past the fantasy section and find yourself in science fiction. You pause- something about futuristic technology has never really clicked with you, but you figure you might as well give it a shot. Hovering your hand near the rows of spines, you close your eyes before plucking a book out. "Ender's Game", the title reads. The back cover, speaking of an interstellar war between aliens and a desperate Humanity, seems interesting enough.
You make your way back to Yuuko, making sure to take noticeably heavier and louder footsteps . As a result, by the time you make your way back to the front desk, the Librarian is sitting upright, waiting for you.
"I'm sorry, I didn't even notice you coming in," she begins by apologizing profusely.
"No, d-don't worry about it," you say. "I don't mind. But… w-would you mind checking out this book for me?"
"Of course," she says as she takes the book from your hands. "Ah… Ender's Game. Good choice, Hanako." She scans it, stamps it, and then hands it back. "Two weeks, as usual."
"Th-thanks, Yuuko," you say as you accept the book and turn away.
"You're welcome!" you hear behind you as you walk away.
As you wander around campus, however, you find that there's no real secluded area. As a result of the lunch break, the cafeteria, hallways, and courtyard are all choked with milling students, and you're unintentionally herded to the campus boundaries, near the forest. As pavement and manicured grass give way to beaten dirt trails and leaf loam, the sounds of your classmates behind you fade away, and you find yourself surrounded by the chirps of birds instead. You find yourself relaxing almost unconsciously as the seclusion really sets in.
You reach for the novel you picked up, but you remember Mami's earlier admonition about schoolwork, and decide you might as well give it a shot. Reaching into your backpack, you pick out a textbook- it happens to be your microeconomics textbook. Flipping open to the page you've carefully marked with a piece of torn notebook paper, you begin to scan the next unread section, worksheet and curry bread in hand.
Supply and Demand is a concept relating the value or price of a good to the quantity supplied to the willingness or ability of consumers to acquire it….
When you finally finish the worksheet after scouring the "Partial Equilibrium" section for what feels like an eternity, you resolve that's enough schoolwork for now, and reach instead for the book you picked up.
"Ender's Game, huh?" you whisper as you open the book.
You dive in, and follow little Ender as the young boy is torn from everything he knows and transplanted into the harsh environment of Battle School, where the hyper-competitive atmosphere tempers those that strong enough and breaks those that aren't. You watch as the adults in his life make his life miserable, nearly kill him in their quest to get the most out of him that they possibly can. You finally find out what it was all for as Ender stares, shocked, at the destruction of a planet and an entire species, as those who have controlled his entire childhood celebrate wildly behind him.
You can't help but feel for Ender's complete loss of childhood, innocence, and free will. He was used by the adults in Battle School mercilessly…
But he did what he needed to. His upbringing and training was arguably what allowed him to defeat the greatest threat to Humanity ever- could one truly weigh the destruction of one child when compared to that of an entire species?
[PICK ONE]
[ ] As distasteful as it sounds, the ends justify the means. If the adults hadn't done what they did, there would be no humanity left, and there would certainly be no Ender. In the end, they had no choice, and did what they must.
[ ] Despite the pivotal part that Ender played in defeating the buggers, there had to be a different way. How could humanity call itself civilized, and even worthy to live if, in order to survive, it committed such atrocities on its own children?
[ ] [WRITE-IN]
You flip the final page with a start, only just realizing that your legs are sore and the sun has passed from its previous high perch, burning with a sullen orange. It appears that you've completely lost track of time and you went so far away that you neither heard the bell signaling the end of lunch, or were seen by any of your fellow students returning to class.
Hurriedly flipping your phone open, you find that the time is 14:30- It's getting a bit late for school, but there's still an hour or two of classes left.
Then again, seeing as you've missed so much today already, you don't think anyone would really mind, or notice, if you just left and did something else, and if you skip, you'll have more time to do what you want as opposed to if you don't.
[OPTION SELECT]
[ ] You- (pick one, mandatory)
-[ ] Go to class
-[ ] Skip for the rest of the day
[ ] Take a trip
-[ ] East to meet Yumi
-[ ] North to meet Kyouko
-[ ] West to meet Mami
-[ ] South (???)
[ ] Find a secluded area and-
-[ ] Grab another novel
-[ ] Practice and train [Write-in what]
-[X] Actually catch up on schoolwork
-[X] Eat by yourself
--[X] With a novel in hand
Frankly, you're tired and you feel like you need a break. You stymie Hisao's wave with a quietly uttered "not today" and head down to the cafeteria with your backpack. After pocketing and paying for a small piece of curry bread, you begin to head for the door, before stopping. After a brief moment of introspection, you instead make a detour towards the library. You slip in so quietly past the propped-open doors that the librarian, huddled under her desk as always, doesn't even notice your entrance, and you quietly pad towards the rows of books.
You can't help but tentatively reach out and run your fingers along the rough, uneven spi-
Pages full of teeth.
You blink and shake your head. The books still sit there, benignly. Frowning, you slowly keep walking, but your hand remains at your side.
Unusually, however, you progress straight past the fantasy section and find yourself in science fiction. You pause- something about futuristic technology has never really clicked with you, but you figure you might as well give it a shot. Hovering your hand near the rows of spines, you close your eyes before plucking a book out. "Ender's Game", the title reads. The back cover, speaking of an interstellar war between aliens and a desperate Humanity, seems interesting enough.
You make your way back to Yuuko, making sure to take noticeably heavier and louder footsteps . As a result, by the time you make your way back to the front desk, the Librarian is sitting upright, waiting for you.
"I'm sorry, I didn't even notice you coming in," she begins by apologizing profusely.
"No, d-don't worry about it," you say. "I don't mind. But… w-would you mind checking out this book for me?"
"Of course," she says as she takes the book from your hands. "Ah… Ender's Game. Good choice, Hanako." She scans it, stamps it, and then hands it back. "Two weeks, as usual."
"Th-thanks, Yuuko," you say as you accept the book and turn away.
"You're welcome!" you hear behind you as you walk away.
As you wander around campus, however, you find that there's no real secluded area. As a result of the lunch break, the cafeteria, hallways, and courtyard are all choked with milling students, and you're unintentionally herded to the campus boundaries, near the forest. As pavement and manicured grass give way to beaten dirt trails and leaf loam, the sounds of your classmates behind you fade away, and you find yourself surrounded by the chirps of birds instead. You find yourself relaxing almost unconsciously as the seclusion really sets in.
You reach for the novel you picked up, but you remember Mami's earlier admonition about schoolwork, and decide you might as well give it a shot. Reaching into your backpack, you pick out a textbook- it happens to be your microeconomics textbook. Flipping open to the page you've carefully marked with a piece of torn notebook paper, you begin to scan the next unread section, worksheet and curry bread in hand.
Supply and Demand is a concept relating the value or price of a good to the quantity supplied to the willingness or ability of consumers to acquire it….
When you finally finish the worksheet after scouring the "Partial Equilibrium" section for what feels like an eternity, you resolve that's enough schoolwork for now, and reach instead for the book you picked up.
"Ender's Game, huh?" you whisper as you open the book.
You dive in, and follow little Ender as the young boy is torn from everything he knows and transplanted into the harsh environment of Battle School, where the hyper-competitive atmosphere tempers those that strong enough and breaks those that aren't. You watch as the adults in his life make his life miserable, nearly kill him in their quest to get the most out of him that they possibly can. You finally find out what it was all for as Ender stares, shocked, at the destruction of a planet and an entire species, as those who have controlled his entire childhood celebrate wildly behind him.
You can't help but feel for Ender's complete loss of childhood, innocence, and free will. He was used by the adults in Battle School mercilessly…
But he did what he needed to. His upbringing and training was arguably what allowed him to defeat the greatest threat to Humanity ever- could one truly weigh the destruction of one child when compared to that of an entire species?
[PICK ONE]
[ ] As distasteful as it sounds, the ends justify the means. If the adults hadn't done what they did, there would be no humanity left, and there would certainly be no Ender. In the end, they had no choice, and did what they must.
[ ] Despite the pivotal part that Ender played in defeating the buggers, there had to be a different way. How could humanity call itself civilized, and even worthy to live if, in order to survive, it committed such atrocities on its own children?
[ ] [WRITE-IN]
You flip the final page with a start, only just realizing that your legs are sore and the sun has passed from its previous high perch, burning with a sullen orange. It appears that you've completely lost track of time and you went so far away that you neither heard the bell signaling the end of lunch, or were seen by any of your fellow students returning to class.
Hurriedly flipping your phone open, you find that the time is 14:30- It's getting a bit late for school, but there's still an hour or two of classes left.
Then again, seeing as you've missed so much today already, you don't think anyone would really mind, or notice, if you just left and did something else, and if you skip, you'll have more time to do what you want as opposed to if you don't.
HP: 95/100
Grief: 150/500
GS- Claire: 700/1000 Filled
Grief: 150/500
GS- Claire: 700/1000 Filled
[OPTION SELECT]
[ ] You- (pick one, mandatory)
-[ ] Go to class
-[ ] Skip for the rest of the day
[ ] Take a trip
-[ ] East to meet Yumi
-[ ] North to meet Kyouko
-[ ] West to meet Mami
-[ ] South (???)
[ ] Find a secluded area and-
-[ ] Grab another novel
-[ ] Practice and train [Write-in what]
- Location
- here
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Hmmm... There are strong parallels here to the Incubator's energy harvesting scheme here, what with the question of whether the good of many is worth atrocities toward the few. However, I really can't see how we'd ever find out about that particular aspect of the setting, let alone any time soon. It seems more likely that this vote will determine Hanako's reaction to the general ruthlessness of meguka life, and towards QB in particular for recruiting them.
HOWEVER:
I may be remembering wrong, but isn't it revealed in the end of Ender's Game that the buggers were never going to attack again? Am I thinking of a later book in the series? I have a pretty clear memory of it being revealed that the buggers only attacked the first time because they couldn't comprehend that individual humans were sentient, and that they deeply regretted their actions. Assuming I'm not remembering wrong, I think a write in may be in order:
[X] The adults might have been justified in what they did to the children... if the buggers has actually been going to attack again. Trying to make the best of a horrible situation wasn't their mistake, it was blindly assuming that that situation had occurred in the first place. The real tragedy of the story was that pessimism and paranoia prevented humanity from realizing that they had another choice.
This write-in has a more hopeful tone than either of the default options, and I think it's also the best mindset for Hanako to have going forward. It doesn't have us meekly accepting that Mami's loneliness or Kyoto's survival of the fittest are inevitable or necessary, but it also prevents us from going full Sayaka and refusing to compromise or forgive other Meguka for what they've done under the system. It's also probably the best attitude for trying to improve the lives of other magical girls, which is a prerequisite for forming a larger team than us and Mami.
Thoughts?
EDIT:
[x] go to class
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[x] Despite the pivotal part that Ender played in defeating the buggers, there had to be a different way. How could humanity call itself civilized, and even worthy to live if, in order to survive, it committed such atrocities on its own children?