Supposedly a familiar is made from an animal.
A homunculus is artificial life, traditionally made with blood or semen as the starter
Magical Girl Home Base Quest
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A homunculus is artificial life, traditionally made with blood or semen as the starter
You learn something new about obscure occult lore everyday!
Edit: Speaking of which, oh hai:
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Huh the make people bare themselves naked part of Sitri's powers makes me wonder how well Acer would had done against him since that power seems like it would counter costumes unless you made sure he was too busy not dying to cast the spell.
Nottheunmaker
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Dang, costumes are nice. The image of a heart eating magic girl is both horrific and awesome. I want her boarding here, I bet she's got all sorts of gnarly trophies to trade.
My main take away though is that Witches are fallen Magical Girls. Now how they fall is the question. It's clear that Magic Girls and witches live for a long time, and they seem to retain their youth, so that's not a movtive. Could just be power. Magic Girl powers seem slightly random, while Witches have a certain level of standardization, see the familiars. Maybe it's a type of magic that requires those already gifted in it to use, but has rather... gruesome requirements. Might also be something to do with selling their soul. Hard to say without more information.
My main take away though is that Witches are fallen Magical Girls. Now how they fall is the question. It's clear that Magic Girls and witches live for a long time, and they seem to retain their youth, so that's not a movtive. Could just be power. Magic Girl powers seem slightly random, while Witches have a certain level of standardization, see the familiars. Maybe it's a type of magic that requires those already gifted in it to use, but has rather... gruesome requirements. Might also be something to do with selling their soul. Hard to say without more information.
I think it may be that there are people have a spark of magic (we've seen it referred to as the light of the soul), and many entities eager to make deals with those with that power. Choose poorly, and you're screwed.
Nottheunmaker
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Man, Sofia really lucked out finding her talent around the time we were setting up shop didn't she?
Per Goodyear, he finds about two magical girls per month that spawn with no support system.
And that's just the ones that actually manage to become magical girls, not just end up like Joselyn or this Home Alone Witch. 😕
7734
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Not gonna lie, Sitri is a solid mid-year crisis since he's powerful enough to fuffil the Named Enemy Trifecta: multi-stage fight with type alignment charts, extensive warmup missions versus his minions, and easy to have as a reoccurring character since you can't actually kill him.
Total honesty mode, Acer would have gotten dunked like a dishrag. Off goes the costume doesn't get into it; she just eats shit from magic damage since her costume is built around physical tankiness, and she probably fails the resistance against the background magic.
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Acer? She's a cheap laptop and monitor? 
7734
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Acer? She's a cheap laptop and monitor?
More like a kind of tree.
Redsoff
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Ah, even across worlds Mami is (in)famous.
I don't think it was a reference to Xcom, though. Otherwise, the MG would probably have missed the 95% melee attack.
Nottheunmaker
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This goes a long way to explaining why Magic Girls don't team up a lot. Depending on what they're up against, some girls might just be a liability. A girl that can make fire blasts isn't going to be much help against an angry fire elemental. Also explains why they have preferred targets. How much power a faction or person has is variable, but the basis of their power is well defined and unlikely to vary much.
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Sitri knows Dress Break?
What a fiendish power!
Icipall
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No wonder he was a womanizer from Hell.
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Heh. Kill Bill reference?
So I'm guessing this isn't the reason MG's face of Alchemists, so its technically possible to actually befriend them so long they didn't go off the
What does qualify an Alchemist as a target though?
The fact that they do horrible, horrible things.
Icipall
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I mean, could be, but rock salt, or salt in general, is very hazardous to many supernatural entities in mythology.
This elaborate answer! Like a presidential tweet! It answers all my questions and doubts!
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I'm interested in what those horrible, horrible things actually are? When does an Alchemist cross the line between "cool stuff dude", and "orbital bombardment target"?
Treat it as a lore question.
They do stuff liek remove peoples souls and sell them on the market, and similar stuff. Or mass produce horrible cursed weapons. Or lots of other things.
It's a pity I don't think Acer is in our location. Seems like she would be/have been great against Alchemists with their taste for emplaced defenses.
Along with what Robotninja said, it's been mentioned that Alchemists in the setting are usually Nazis. You can imagine how much they care about people outside of their in-group from that.
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Given their treatment of Jocelyn, I'm not sure their in-group ends up any better.