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So I'm all caught up on Wraith Arc.

The idea that ambient Grief will coalesce into them is now like, 99% discredited, and also I was totally right about how Wraiths work.

Wraiths are the response of the world to the dangerousness of emotional energy, expositing from their viewpoint that emotions have the potential to overturn and rewrite the universe, and that the fabric of it shudders and recoils from the possibility, birthing them.

They respond to strong concentrations of emotion and devour them in order to digest them into the safe form of Grief Cubes, so the spawning of them is literally 'You kill a Wraith and collect what was in it's stomach'. The consumption of emotions destroys them and the memories attached to them. If Hitomi's love for Kyousuke was devoured, she wouldn't remember loving him or why she loved him, if she remembered him at all.

Because magic is emotional energy weaponized and concentrated, a Wraith can steal your powers. A Magical Girl can have some of her magic eaten so that her Soul Gem, rather than being stained black, becomes darker in hue even if perfectly cleaned. Powers are lost and your MP pool's maximum shrinks. Kyubey claims that he's never seen a Magical Girl get her powers back by defeating the Wraith who stole them.

The Wraiths concentrated around Homura in such intense amounts because her power was frighteningly large, the presence of Salamander imagery implying she had her AI YO potential ever since she entered the Madoverse. When her Memory Magic was stolen, the Wraith that did so wasn't able to digest it, and so smaller Wraiths kept trying to siphon off parts and digest it, causing them to turn into humanoid doppelgangers people's memories, like a Sayaka who appears to Kyouko and Hitomi after Sayaka's death.

Things come to a head when a Wraith takes Madoka's form, appears to Homura, and explains it doesn't want to fight. In fact, it wants to help her get her magic back, to keep its race from being mutated any further. The clones aren't acting as Wraiths should. This one included, its bump in sentience making it act like the sweet Madoka Homura longs for. It knows it.
 
AuraTwilight said:
So I'm all caught up on Wraith Arc.

The idea that ambient Grief will coalesce into them is now like, 99% discredited, and also I was totally right about how Wraiths work.

Wraiths are the response of the world to the dangerousness of emotional energy, expositing from their viewpoint that emotions have the potential to overturn and rewrite the universe, and that the fabric of it shudders and recoils from the possibility, birthing them.

They respond to strong concentrations of emotion and devour them in order to digest them into the safe form of Grief Cubes, so the spawning of them is literally 'You kill a Wraith and collect what was in it's stomach'. The consumption of emotions destroys them and the memories attached to them. If Hitomi's love for Kyousuke was devoured, she wouldn't remember loving him or why she loved him, if she remembered him at all.

Because magic is emotional energy weaponized and concentrated, a Wraith can steal your powers. A Magical Girl can have some of her magic eaten so that her Soul Gem, rather than being stained black, becomes darker in hue even if perfectly cleaned. Powers are lost and your MP pool's maximum shrinks. Kyubey claims that he's never seen a Magical Girl get her powers back by defeating the Wraith who stole them.

The Wraiths concentrated around Homura in such intense amounts because her power was frighteningly large, the presence of Salamander imagery implying she had her AI YO potential ever since she entered the Madoverse. When her Memory Magic was stolen, the Wraith that did so wasn't able to digest it, and so smaller Wraiths kept trying to siphon off parts and digest it, causing them to turn into humanoid doppelgangers people's memories, like a Sayaka who appears to Kyouko and Hitomi after Sayaka's death.

Things come to a head when a Wraith takes Madoka's form, appears to Homura, and explains it doesn't want to fight. In fact, it wants to help her get her magic back, to keep its race from being mutated any further. The clones aren't acting as Wraiths should. This one included, its bump in sentience making it act like the sweet Madoka Homura longs for. It knows it.
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You missed the cliffhanger ending. Also, what does AI YO mean?
 
I left out the cliffhanger ending because I was just talking about Wraith mechanics.

AI YO is a memetic reference to Homura turning into the Devil.
 
FelOnyx said:
We need some transportation that isn't us-powered. But where to get any that's practical for what we need it for?

Got it. We grief up a time machine, go to 2020 or so, grab a self-driving car, bring it back, and use it as our sciencemobile so that we can science on the go without hitting buildings.

[x] Onmur
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If we can't make a grief engine, there's always the option of making a bike with a carriage or whatever. Thing's pretty much all mechanical, should be a snap to make.
 
Drain a gas station and Grief up a jet engine. Turbines are really simple mechanically - 99.5% of the difficulty is in making them not melt (solved by using Grief), lose lubrication and eat themselves (solved by using Grief), blow up because one of the parts wasn't manufactured absolutely perfectly (solved by using Grief), or build up carbon deposits that eventually unbalance something and make it explode (solved by using Grief). Even better, not having to worry about lubrication or fouling means that you don't even need fancy fuel, so gasoline works perfectly well.
 
Vebyast said:
Drain a gas station and Grief up a jet engine. Turbines are really simple mechanically - 99.5% of the difficulty is in making them not melt (solved by using Grief), lose lubrication and eat themselves (solved by using Grief), blow up because one of the parts wasn't manufactured absolutely perfectly (solved by using Grief), or build up carbon deposits that eventually unbalance something and make it explode (solved by using Grief). Even better, not having to worry about lubrication or fouling means that you don't even need fancy fuel, so gasoline works perfectly well.
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Grief: The True Enemy of American Manufacturing.
 
Vebyast said:
Drain a gas station and Grief up a jet engine. Turbines are really simple mechanically - 99.5% of the difficulty is in making them not melt (solved by using Grief), lose lubrication and eat themselves (solved by using Grief), blow up because one of the parts wasn't manufactured absolutely perfectly (solved by using Grief), or build up carbon deposits that eventually unbalance something and make it explode (solved by using Grief). Even better, not having to worry about lubrication or fouling means that you don't even need fancy fuel, so gasoline works perfectly well.
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Make a grief power plant that runs on the Rankine cycle. All your energy problems solved forever!

Or you can just make a grief propeller, connect it to a grief generator via a shaft, and spin the propeller using grief control. Make an array of those.

:V
 
UbeOne said:
Make a grief power plant that runs on the Rankine cycle. All your energy problems solved forever!

Or you can just make a grief propeller, connect it to a grief generator via a shaft, and spin the propeller using grief control. Make an array of those.

:V
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why even bother making it a propeller if you're spinning it directly?
 
...Right, just spin the generator. Minimal energy loss that way.
 
AuraTwilight said:
So I'm all caught up on Wraith Arc.

The idea that ambient Grief will coalesce into them is now like, 99% discredited, and also I was totally right about how Wraiths work.

Wraiths are the response of the world to the dangerousness of emotional energy, expositing from their viewpoint that emotions have the potential to overturn and rewrite the universe, and that the fabric of it shudders and recoils from the possibility, birthing them.

They respond to strong concentrations of emotion and devour them in order to digest them into the safe form of Grief Cubes, so the spawning of them is literally 'You kill a Wraith and collect what was in it's stomach'. The consumption of emotions destroys them and the memories attached to them. If Hitomi's love for Kyousuke was devoured, she wouldn't remember loving him or why she loved him, if she remembered him at all.

Because magic is emotional energy weaponized and concentrated, a Wraith can steal your powers. A Magical Girl can have some of her magic eaten so that her Soul Gem, rather than being stained black, becomes darker in hue even if perfectly cleaned. Powers are lost and your MP pool's maximum shrinks. Kyubey claims that he's never seen a Magical Girl get her powers back by defeating the Wraith who stole them.

The Wraiths concentrated around Homura in such intense amounts because her power was frighteningly large, the presence of Salamander imagery implying she had her AI YO potential ever since she entered the Madoverse. When her Memory Magic was stolen, the Wraith that did so wasn't able to digest it, and so smaller Wraiths kept trying to siphon off parts and digest it, causing them to turn into humanoid doppelgangers people's memories, like a Sayaka who appears to Kyouko and Hitomi after Sayaka's death.

Things come to a head when a Wraith takes Madoka's form, appears to Homura, and explains it doesn't want to fight. In fact, it wants to help her get her magic back, to keep its race from being mutated any further. The clones aren't acting as Wraiths should. This one included, its bump in sentience making it act like the sweet Madoka Homura longs for. It knows it.
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Huh? Did someone else start translating the Wraith Arc? I keep checking and only ever see that the first chapter and nothing else has been translated.
 
justinkal said:
Huh? Did someone else start translating the Wraith Arc? I keep checking and only ever see that the first chapter and nothing else has been translated.
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I've found up to chapter 5, I think.

Vebyast said:
Drain a gas station and Grief up a jet engine. Turbines are really simple mechanically - 99.5% of the difficulty is in making them not melt (solved by using Grief), lose lubrication and eat themselves (solved by using Grief), blow up because one of the parts wasn't manufactured absolutely perfectly (solved by using Grief), or build up carbon deposits that eventually unbalance something and make it explode (solved by using Grief). Even better, not having to worry about lubrication or fouling means that you don't even need fancy fuel, so gasoline works perfectly well.
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Or make a Witchy Grief thing: Directed flying machine, and pass the controls to somebody else.

That way you don't need to buy/steal all that fuel. :V
 
justinkal said:
Huh? Did someone else start translating the Wraith Arc? I keep checking and only ever see that the first chapter and nothing else has been translated.
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If you google Wraith Arc English the you should find a reddit page with a link to a tumblr acount with links to imgur albums with chapters 1-5 translated.
 
Yea, uh, reminder that I speak Japanese. English is actually my third language. So I literally just grabbed the relevant copies of Kirara Magica. I don't truck with no scanlators. They usually make a lot of errors.
 
AuraTwilight said:
So I'm all caught up on Wraith Arc.

The idea that ambient Grief will coalesce into them is now like, 99% discredited, and also I was totally right about how Wraiths work.

Wraiths are the response of the world to the dangerousness of emotional energy, expositing from their viewpoint that emotions have the potential to overturn and rewrite the universe, and that the fabric of it shudders and recoils from the possibility, birthing them.

They respond to strong concentrations of emotion and devour them in order to digest them into the safe form of Grief Cubes, so the spawning of them is literally 'You kill a Wraith and collect what was in it's stomach'. The consumption of emotions destroys them and the memories attached to them. If Hitomi's love for Kyousuke was devoured, she wouldn't remember loving him or why she loved him, if she remembered him at all.

Because magic is emotional energy weaponized and concentrated, a Wraith can steal your powers. A Magical Girl can have some of her magic eaten so that her Soul Gem, rather than being stained black, becomes darker in hue even if perfectly cleaned. Powers are lost and your MP pool's maximum shrinks. Kyubey claims that he's never seen a Magical Girl get her powers back by defeating the Wraith who stole them.

The Wraiths concentrated around Homura in such intense amounts because her power was frighteningly large, the presence of Salamander imagery implying she had her AI YO potential ever since she entered the Madoverse. When her Memory Magic was stolen, the Wraith that did so wasn't able to digest it, and so smaller Wraiths kept trying to siphon off parts and digest it, causing them to turn into humanoid doppelgangers people's memories, like a Sayaka who appears to Kyouko and Hitomi after Sayaka's death.

Things come to a head when a Wraith takes Madoka's form, appears to Homura, and explains it doesn't want to fight. In fact, it wants to help her get her magic back, to keep its race from being mutated any further. The clones aren't acting as Wraiths should. This one included, its bump in sentience making it act like the sweet Madoka Homura longs for. It knows it.
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A little bit of a late response, but I thought it was Homura's combat related magic that was stolen (explaining why she can't summon her bow), and that she only retained her memory magic.
 
TheFanficAddict said:
You're Japanese?
Or is it your second language?
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Japanese is my first language.

JarringToaster said:
A little bit of a late response, but I thought it was Homura's combat related magic that was stolen (explaining why she can't summon her bow), and that she only retained her memory magic.
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Her memory magic was significantly reduced compared to what it normally was. The stealing of her memory magic is pretty important since a bunch of Wraiths are using it.

Not that there's a difference; Homura's bow is a crystallization of her memories of Madoka, after all.
 
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