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Yes, she can. Because it already happened. In the last update, in fact.
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Yes, she can. Because it already happened. In the last update, in fact.
Onmur
Archangel of Nutella.
That doesn't count.
Chibi Brina might be cutez, but her hugs just can't count for one full Brinahug.
Size matters, you know.
RexHeller
Title Incoming. Please Hold.
- Location
- Somewhere else.
But what about three Brinahugs at once? What about that?
Onmur
Archangel of Nutella.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Oh god no. The last loop that I got her talking about various artillery designs in, she kept at it for four hours.
[FLASHBACKS INTENSIFY]
I mean, it's laid out pretty explicitly in the text of the last update. I'm vaguely disappointed no one's talking about it, really...
UbeOne
Daydreaming CPU
- Location
- Philippines
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The hugs were blinding.
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
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- He/Him
Well she seemed to have issues of controlling one without controlling the other and had one body reacting to sensory input from the other... it seems.
.... make pillow/quilt fort and drag Mami in to enjoy the comfyness.
Mami: Where did you get this idea?
Sabrina: ... Perth.
Onmur
Archangel of Nutella.
I didn't have trouble identifying which Brina was which. There was always immediate context to make it clear which Brina was being referred to.
On re-read, I have to point how cute this is, though:
On re-read, I have to point how cute this is, though:
Sabrina cradling Chibi Brina and Chibi Mami.
Onmur
Archangel of Nutella.
She's dead, Einsig.
Or she'll be, soon.
Totally need to remake her and see if Mami wants to sleep hugging a Chibi Brina. What better way to get her used to the Witchy feeling...
OK, so looking it over.
When taken by suprise
Sabrina doesn't seem to realize which body is getting the sensation.
She does seem to be able to track it when she is taking action or when she is expecting it.
But not always...
So, Sabrina can keep track of which is which if she pays attention, but receives some minor confusion/mixup when not paying attention or suprised.
...I think we may have finally found a limit to Sabrina's obscene multitasking capabilities...
Granted, this confusion is surprisingly minor. She is handling this remarkably well given how monumental duplicated "input devices" must be; it won't take us all that much effort to get used to doing this seemlessly.
But right now, it does seem a bit awkward.
When taken by suprise
Sabrina doesn't seem to realize which body is getting the sensation.
She does seem to be able to track it when she is taking action or when she is expecting it.
But not always...
So, Sabrina can keep track of which is which if she pays attention, but receives some minor confusion/mixup when not paying attention or suprised.
...I think we may have finally found a limit to Sabrina's obscene multitasking capabilities...
Granted, this confusion is surprisingly minor. She is handling this remarkably well given how monumental duplicated "input devices" must be; it won't take us all that much effort to get used to doing this seemlessly.
But right now, it does seem a bit awkward.
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Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
It's all how it's phrased. Sabrina never actually misplaces a sensation or sends commands to the wrong place, she just has trouble narrating because she has no metatextual devices to lean on and insufficient communication protocols. The "arms sweeping down from the sky" are illustrative and Sabrina knows immediately that they're coming for the chibi, and she has no trouble letting go with her main body. The "You - the chibi you -" bit is specifically a hiccup in the narration rather than the control; she instinctively controls the correct body and only has trouble explaining which body she's controlling to the user because she's got such instinctive control over both of them. She's perfectly capable of controlling them and does so flawless and seamlessly, but has trouble telling us about it because she doesn't have words for it. I suspect that if we scaled to a thousand chibis, they'd all run perfectly, but Sabrina would have to resort to devices like "swarming" and decompressing events so the narrative takes longer than actual passage of time. Think about how Taylor narrates her swarms in Worm.
UbeOne
Daydreaming CPU
- Location
- Philippines
- Pronouns
- She/Her
...You may have to elaborate. I don't read Worm...
LucidProp
Pocky Eating MafiaDoka
Well, she can be if we want to.Chibi Brina is not a bug.
Yea, I do think some of it is an artifact of keeping the narrative flowing (making it clear that Sabrina can keep it straight at every place she was able to would make it more awkward to us to read it), but given Firn's responce above, I think at least some of the narrative mixup is reflecting actual in-universe confusion.
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Onmur
Archangel of Nutella.
Wait, damn, I must retract my statement:
RexHeller
Title Incoming. Please Hold.
- Location
- Somewhere else.
*GASP* We could make a Chibi Spida!
Onmur
Archangel of Nutella.
Chibi Brina riding Chibi Rochelle, who carries Chibi Mami in her Chibi Pincers.
Make it happen.
... Also, I'll always be sad we didn't try to get Homu to hug Chibi Brina. Who knows? Maybe that was the way for Homu to understand the cuteznz of Chibis, and make a Chibi Homu for Madoka.
Now the chance is lost forever. Literally forever.
EDIT: Also remembered Rochelle went Chibi once. We can totally make Chibi Rochelle and it'd be like she crossed over for a moment.
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The Narrator
Disembodied Voice
- Location
- Somewhere Offscreen
It definitely seems to me to be written to make the overlapping perspectives seems strange and confusing to the reader. Not to the point of actually annoying and confusing us so that we can't follow the story, but enough for us to realize that it's supposed to indicate as much.
Actually, has Homura ever let us hug her outside of timestop? She seems unwilling to let her guard down without being hidden in the moment between moments.
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
.... we need to get her a BUNCH of calming tea ... and maybe have Madoka asleep in front of her.... in Mami's apartment... with the doors locked... and Kyoko on QB patrol... and Sabrina giving her a massage.... after we've gone past where history ends for her....
then maybe she might relax enough to give her a hug.