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boonerunner said:
Everybody talks about the "food" thing, but I wonder about the "lie" thing. Does Kyouko have the ability to tell when people are being honest due to the nature of her wish?
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I think it's just in her character to be straightforward and forthcoming between people, especially allies. As for lying to oneself, consider the amount of disillusionment in her backstory. From my reading of the series, half of what pisses Kyouko off about Sayaka at first is the fact that Sayaka can't be honest to herself about the nature of the work she's caught up in or honestly face her own selfish desires. Kyouko's very big on the sort of truth you find when you hit rock bottom and the truth that strips away the comforting lies we tell ourselves. After her father and her fight with Mami, that meant realizing that the world doesn't want heroes and doesn't reward them, and seeing Sayaka lying to herself about it even after the truth started coming out pissed her off. After watching Sayaka self-destruct and deciding to go down with her, her new rock bottom truth mean realizing that for the sake of the right people, sticking your neck out is worth it anyway.

...thankfully, this time around she's got Yuma to relearn that last lesson from, with substantially fewer blazes of glory.
 
Homura heads to the end of the corridor, and hesitates before unlock the door on her left. She pushes it open. She peers inside, before shaking her head. "Other door," she says, closing the door and heading over to the other.
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I guess she's not usually that interested in the money, so much as in the guns. :p

Things to keep in mind:
Firnagzen said:
Homura frowns, looking around the room. Her eyes settle on the katana, resting in its rack. "Why are you asking me?" she asks, eyes distant and pained.
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Why when we are the ones to pull off the miracles?
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"I told Mami about Soul Gems... and Kyuubey," you say.

Telepathy conveys a weary sigh to you. "Understood. You... can stay over at my house."

"Uh, that won't be necessary," you reply. Where did you toss that towel earlier? You find it in the sink, and wring it out, before dropping it into the wash basket.

"... explain?" Homura asks, tone utterly befuddled.

"I'm still staying with Mami," you tell her. "She's fine. Ish. I'm still, uh, helping her deal with it."

"... OK...?"

"So... yeah. That's what I wanted to tell you," you say.

"... OK?" Homura replies.

"Yeah," you say. "Um, bye. See you tomorrow, maybe? We might be going shopping."

"... Right... Bye," the time traveller agrees.
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Relevant (?) points from our previous conversation:
Firnagzen said:
"I do trust you, Homura," you whisper. "You... I let you think otherwise, and that's wrong. I... I trust you so completely and implictly that I take you for granted. I feel like... if you raise the slightest objection, I have to justify myself to you."
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Firnagzen said:
"I'm doing it again, aren't I?" you say. Whisper, really. "I'm acting like I know best and everyone else should just follow my instructions."

...

"I'll listen to you. And I... I'll be more careful," you begin slowly. Somehow,it feels like you've made that promise before.
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Firnagzen said:
Onions.
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Tomatoes!
 
boonerunner said:
Does Kyouko have the ability to tell when people are being honest due to the nature of her wish?
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Her known wish-power generates illusions. That's kind of the opposite of that.

Also, Kyouko can't maintain her selfish loner front any more than Sayaka can keep up the selfless ally of justice thing, even when Kyouko's not adopting stray children. So she's still perfectly capable of lying to herself, she just does it in ways that feel more like the "harsh truth."
 
Firnagzen said:
You look over her shoulder to see a burly man absolutely covered in coiling tattoos, visible thanks to the lack of shirt. He's kneeling on the floor,off to the side in front of a sword rack, apparently having just set down the gleaming... well, that is a katana.
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[q] Stop everything. Ignore question.
-[q] Ask Homura to replace Katana with Golf Club.
--[q] Take Katana.
 
rikalous said:
Her known wish-power generates illusions. That's kind of the opposite of that.
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Exactly. She could have the power of "reality and illusion" or something like that. At any rate, her wish was that people would listen to the words that her father believed in, but which the Church considered to be lies, so magic related to truth/lies would make sense.
 
Firnagzen said:
She stops abruptly, one leg poised on the next step and head slightly bowed.

"Homura?" you ask, catching yourself just before you collide with her.

She exhales softly. "Thank you," she says in her even, quiet tone, without looking back at you.
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Imrix said:
"I feel like I got hit in the face with a gold brick." "Uh, you did."
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Kyouko: "Do I look like a fucking charity case? You can't buy me with this." *Pockets gold bar*
 
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SynchronizedWritersBlock said:
I kind of want to see her response to "I found a gold bar, but I don't know what to do with it. I was thinking of firing it out of a railgun but... you want it?"
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She probably would be uncertain whether she should accept it because gold, or she should reject it because charity, and because what's she gonna do with it anyways? Pawn it?


Maybe she'll walk away telling us to go ahead and fire it out of a railgun. Then she'll follow us around stealthily until we do... It's not charity if she just picking up something somebody else dropped. :p

Yuma: "Big sis, shouldn't you just tell her you want it?"

Kyouko: "... Ugh... Sh... Shush, Yuma, big sis is very busy..."

Yuma: [CUTE FROWN]

Kyouko: [INDECISION INTENSIFIES]
 
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I love how Sabrina's first thoughts about what to do with a gold bar is firing it out a cannon. :D

Show's that SV has got its priorities straight. :p
 
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Onmur said:
We have a plan A?
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I figured plan A was to try and strip it to nothing with our griefbending and/or unlimited gunworks made entirely of Trio Finales. If there is anytime another eternal timestop would be called for, it would be Walpurgisnacht.

Of course, I'd give even money to Walpurgisnacht materializing only to be immediately curb-stomped by Feathers.
 
DracoDracul said:
I figured plan A was to try and strip it to nothing with our griefbending and/or unlimited gunworks made entirely of Trio Finales. If there is anytime another eternal timestop would be called for, it would be Walpurgisnacht.

Of course, I'd give even money to Walpurgisnacht materializing only to be immediately curb-stomped by Feathers.
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Time stop/Tiro Finale/Grief Cleansing is plan B, I think.

Grief shredding is more like a standard action.

I don't think we have a plan A. Except maybe throwing ALL DA MEGUCAS at Walpurgis.
 
DracoDracul said:
If we don't have a plan A, doesn't that mean plan B is plan A?
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No, that's... How... That's absurd! How would that even work? Are we supposed to take all the emergency buttons, every contingency plan and every last resort and use them as first resort, then?

Even if you could do that (the nerve), if Plan B were Plan A, then what would be Plan A? Plan C?

That's terrible. You're terrible. Please don't bring this up again.


















:p
 
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