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So Easily Forgotten
true, but I couldn't name a "immune to bullets" Meguca off the top of my head. I used those three because they are bullshit overpowered.
A Red Letter Day pt. 25
Your paranoia jumps a notch. You can't help it, knowing what you know: Michiru Witches out on the day Umika's book debuts. To great acclaim, even, considering that you know Umika was in fact able to buy that house she promised Michiru and Kaoru.
There's a kind of awful, poignant tragedy to that, isn't there?
Well. You reject that.
Some part of you wants to go there now, now, now. You have impressions of Michiru Wishing her grandmother would be able to spend a day with her before she died, and you have memories of Michiru seeming perfectly fine up until she Witched out. Your memories might not be entirely accurate, but it's worrying enough to make you fret.
"Hello? Miss Sabrina? Miss Tomoe?" Michiru asks, sounding slightly concerned.
"Uh," you say, squeezing Mami's hand and making a quick, snap decision. "Give us a moment, Miss Kazusa?"
"Ah, of course?" Michiru says.
"Thanks," you say. You leave the connection, but speak out loud. "Mami?"
"Y-yes?" she says, licking her lips. "S-sorry I'm so..."
"No. You've done nothing wrong, Mami, don't apologise," you say, brushing her hair back and smiling at her. You reach out via telepathy at the same time, hooking in Homura, Oriko, and Kirika. "It's going alright, just need to discuss a bit. I'll fill you in in a bit?"
"I understand," Oriko says, sipping at her tea with unruffled calm. Homura eyes Oriko for a second before biting out a curt, "Understood."
"A-alright," Mami whispers. You hold her gaze with yours for a minute, smiling gently until the knot of worry written in the frown and her downturned mouth eases a little.
"Better?" you say.
She nods, managing a little smile. "It's just- hard."
"I..." you trail off. You want to say you understand, but truthfully, you don't. You don't understand how Mami feels, even if, perhaps, you can speculate and you can guess. Michiru would have been an amazing friend to Mami, but they'd met purely by chance. Michiru couldn't leave Asunaro, and Mami couldn't leave Mitakihara.
And so Mami must have pasted on the best smile she could, and... left. Because she couldn't settle for 'so close and yet so far'. It'd only have been a bitter reminder.
And here you are. Talking once more to Michiru, who's bright and eager and cheerful and more than willing to rekindle their friendship. What-could-have-beens abound, and regret isn't the best of flavours to mix with anything.
You exhale slowly, gathering your thoughts. Honesty is the best policy, right? "I don't understand how you feel," you say quietly. "I can't, because I'm not in your position. But I'm here, Mami, and you have my unconditional support. And not just me. You're not alone any more. Alright?"
Mami takes a shuddering breath, and smiles at you. "I- I know," she whispers. "I can- I can do this. A-and... Thank you, Sabrina." Her lips move silently for a second, but she shakes her head, still smiling at you.
"OK," you say, giving her a warm, affectionate grin. That's your Mami. It's slow, but she is recovering. "Then... I need advice, Mami?"
"What about?" Mami asks.
"I'm a little concerned about Miss Kazusa," you say very carefully. "I- I have reason to believe she's running low on Grief Seeds, but she's hiding it. Seven magical girls is a lot for one city, isn't it?"
The lines around Mami's eyes tighten. "Y-yeah," she says. "Asunaro isn't that big, either. Not like Mitakihara. And- I- I did get that impression, too."
"Kazusa Michiru is running out of Grief Seeds?" Oriko asks sharply, a frown on her face. You have Homura's full attention, too, violet eyes boring into the side of your head.
Kirika just seems slightly bored.
"And- actually, I'm uncertain. Mami, do you know what her powers are?" you ask.
"Um... Her powers are, um, real illusions?" Mami says, brows knitting. "She uses her abilities to imitate things, but they aren't really... real copies. It's not like Sayaka's magic."
You frown, nodding as you turn that thought over a few times. That seems to fit what you know. "Then... Is it possible that she's hiding how low she's running on Grief Seeds?"
"It's- it's possible," Mami says, looking increasingly worried.
"Then I suppose it's a good thing we checked in on her now..." You say, heaving a sigh. "Right. I want to bring it up with her, but I'm afraid of making her defensive, or clamming up. Mami, what would you recommend?"
"Maybe..." Mami bites her lip. "She's a terrible liar, if you ask her directly. Maybe that could work?"
"Would she be upset?" you ask.
Mami shakes her head. "I don't think so."
"I'll ask her, then," you say. "Or- hm, I could come at it obliquely. Offer her a Clear Seed, and ask if she has one to spare that I could use?"
"That would work," Mami says, brightening a little.
"You worry too much," Kirika opines, sitting up and snagging another cookie from the plate. "You're worried, right? Just ask her."
"I don't want to call her out just like that," you say, shrugging. "Anyway, back to it... Um. Again, sorry to leave you guys out, I'll hook you in in a few?"
"That would be acceptable," Oriko agrees.
Homura nods, jaw tight.
You smile at them, and return to the telepathic call - still just you, Mami, and Michiru. "Sorry about that, Miss Kazusa, just had to discuss a few things."
"Oh no, not at all," Michiru responds brightly. "Is everything alright?"
You squeeze Mami's hand, giving her a smile and giving her the opportunity to respond.
"Yes, everything is alright," Mami agrees, voice steady even as her hand tightens on yours. "I'm sorry to hear that you had to leave your- your normal life behind."
"It's not a big deal," Michiru dismisses it. "Protecting innocent people is more important, anyway!"
"It is," Mami agrees, swallowing. You hug her a little tighter.
"Yeah, I can agree with that," you add. "And... well. I can agree with the pressure of having a magical girl career, if you could call it that."
Michiru giggles abruptly. "'Career', I like that."
"Hah, glad you like it," you say. "I mean, I'm not in school and I feel like I don't have enough time in a day."
"I know," Michiru groans. "I don't know how you do it, Miss Tomoe."
"Sabrina helps," Mami says, giving you a warm, adoring smile.
"I'll bet," Michiru agrees with a laugh. "Being able to cleanse Soul Gems must be amazing."
"It's great, yeah," you agree. "And that works as a segue for me - Miss Kazusa, so, uh, to drag the topic back a bit, yeah, Mitakihara can easily support as many of your group as you'd like to bring over. And actually, I wanna make an offer... two offers. First, um - I definitely know how hard magical girl life is. I have a sort of solution to it, though."
"Oh?" Michiru says.
"Yeah," you say. "One of the things I've discovered about my powers is that I can control grief, including what's inside a Grief Seed - I can simply drain out all the Grief. I wind up with what I call a Clear Seed - and you can cleanse with it for years, at an estimate."
"Wow," Michiru breathes. "That's amazing."
"Like you said, I got lucky with my powers, right?" you say. "But, um, the offer I want to make is: I'm handing these out. They're prototypes, and I don't know if there are any issues down the road with them, but- do you want one? It's free."
"Yes!" Michiru squeaks. "Um- yes, please, if it isn't too much trouble?"
"Alright, then... are you up for visiting tomorrow?" you say. Mami swallows, shrinking a little, but she doesn't pull away. "Hm... bring a spare Grief Seed, if you have one?"
"Oh, tomorrow?" Michiru says, sounding startled. "Um, um, it's a bit short notice?"
"Well, I can ferry you over," you say. "I can move really fast."
"Um... Let me check with Umika and Kaoru!" Michiru says.
"Alright, I'll check with my friends, too, and hey, you know it doesn't have to be just three of you, right? You're all welcome to come over," you say.
"I know, but we can't all leave the city defenceless, silly!" Michiru says brightly. "Besides, you can come over afterwards and meet us all."
"Oh, that makes sense. Right. Let me know when you're done," you say. "Oh, hey- do you have a Grief Seed you can spare? I'll return it as a Clear Seed, of course, or I can go and hunt one down over here," you say.
"Oh, ah- sorry Kaor- uwa, I'm getting mixed up-" Michiru trails off into incoherence for a second before audibly wrenching herself back on topic. "Um, we can bring a Grief Seed, sorry, just one second-"
"She seems a bit scattered," you observe to Mami, swallowing a giggle.
"She always was," Mami says, shaking her head.
"Anyway," you say, smiling at your other friends. "Alright, so here's what's happened- actually, lemme grab Sayaka, too, since she should know. Um, Oriko, Kirika, try not to provoke her?"
"Naturally," Oriko says, tone utterly dry.
You nod, and reach out by telepathy to grab Sayaka. You let her know what's happening, and then start a second mental conversation to include everyone. "Alright, everyone here?"
You get confirmations from everyone - Mami, Homura, Oriko, Kirika, and Sayaka. "Alright, so, to summarize, we're in touch with Kazusa Michiru, from Asunaro. She's one of Mami's old students." You pause, squeezing Mami a little with the arm around her waist to make sure she's alright. "Mami and I think she's running low on Grief Seeds, and my original plan was to visit her tomorrow. I wasn't actually sure who should go, but she had her own idea, to come visit Mitakihara."
"Hunh, cool," Sayaka says. "Why doesn't that happen more often?"
"What, visiting?" you say. "Mostly because meguca are territorial. But does anyone have any objections to Mitakihara hosting a few more meguca for... actually, I'm not sure if it's just a day visit or not."
"Where're they gonna stay?" Sayaka asks.
"I'm not sure," you say. They could stay at the Kure's, or at home with you and Mami.
"Our guest room would be a bit cramped with three people," Mami notes.
"It would be possible for them to stay here," Oriko says. "There is plenty of room."
The telepathic conversation goes silent for a second, and you can practically feel the dislike radiating off both Homura and Sayaka.
Heh. Homura and Sayaka, united for once by dislike of a mutual foe.
"We'll... sort that out," you say. Oriko's warehouse is also a possibility, though that one mattress might be a problem.
"Eh, good enough for me," Sayaka says. "Anything else?"
"One thing, actually, rain-check on a conversation... uh... tomorrow, probably? Maybe tonight. I'm juggling too many things," you say.
Homura meets your eyes, and you nod. You haven't forgotten the conversation with her, either.
"Sure?" Sayaka says. You can feel the shrug. "You know you can just chat with me without having to schedule an appointment, right?"
You snort, amused. "A good point, well made," you say. "Anyway, later!"
"Later!" Sayaka says.
To be honest, you didn't really expect objections on that. None of your friends would object to friendly visitors from out of town, you don't think, but it's still good to check with them. You are trying not to run roughshod over them, after all.
Mami seems to have cheered up a little, cuddling into your side with a happy sigh. Not to be outdone, Kirika's also wrapped around Oriko, the silver-haired girl pulling her close with her good arm. Barring the wire-taut wariness cording through her body, Homura just looks faintly annoyed.
"Um, it should be fine!" Michiru responds at last.
"Alright!" you say. "When is good? As I said, I'll come over and pick you up. Um... Mami, would you like to come along?"
"I- I have school," she says, looking torn.
"... how about I go over there at, say, eleven, pick you up, and be back in time to meet up for lunchtime?" you hazard. "Would that work?"
"That works for me!" Michiru says.
"That-" Mami swallows. "That would work."
You stroke your thumb slowly across the back of Mami's hand, shifting so that she can nestle a little closer. "Then tomorrow it is," you say. "Just three of you? We'll need to figure out where you can stay."
"Kaoru, Umika, and me!" Michiru chirps. "Uhm, we're happy to stay anywhere as long as it isn't too much trouble."
"Alright, noted," you agree. "Hm... how long do you plan to stay?"
"Um... maybe a day or two?" Michiru says, sounding uncertain. "How long is alright?"
You fight the urge to shrug. You'd look rather silly to Homura, Oriko, and Kirika, who aren't privy to the conversation. "Mami?"
She swallows hard. You can feel the faint tremor in her hand, and you hold her tight. You're not letting go. "A-as long as you want?"
"Oh! A day or two, then?" Michiru says.
"We're flexible, so... yeah?" you say, smiling at Mami.
"OK! Then tomorrow!" Michiru says. "Um... I need to go and tell my friends! Is there anything else?"
"Hm... if you're coming over for lunch, would you like us to prepare something?" you ask.
"Lunch swap!" Michiru says decisively. "I'll cook something, and you cook something."
"Sounds good," you say.
Mami smiles, a little. "I'd like that," she says.
"Then it's decided," you say.
"Alright~" Michiru agrees. "Anyway, I have to go now. Bye! It was great talking to you again, Miss Tomoe."
"It was," Mami agrees, making a quiet, inarticulate noise and burrowing into your side again.
"Bye!" you say, and close the connection. You sigh, and sit back, closing your eyes for a second. That was a rollercoaster of a chat.
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1Keep in mind that a good deal of the plot revolves around Michiru having Witched out.
There's a kind of awful, poignant tragedy to that, isn't there?
Well. You reject that.
Some part of you wants to go there now, now, now. You have impressions of Michiru Wishing her grandmother would be able to spend a day with her before she died, and you have memories of Michiru seeming perfectly fine up until she Witched out. Your memories might not be entirely accurate, but it's worrying enough to make you fret.
"Hello? Miss Sabrina? Miss Tomoe?" Michiru asks, sounding slightly concerned.
"Uh," you say, squeezing Mami's hand and making a quick, snap decision. "Give us a moment, Miss Kazusa?"
"Ah, of course?" Michiru says.
"Thanks," you say. You leave the connection, but speak out loud. "Mami?"
"Y-yes?" she says, licking her lips. "S-sorry I'm so..."
"No. You've done nothing wrong, Mami, don't apologise," you say, brushing her hair back and smiling at her. You reach out via telepathy at the same time, hooking in Homura, Oriko, and Kirika. "It's going alright, just need to discuss a bit. I'll fill you in in a bit?"
"I understand," Oriko says, sipping at her tea with unruffled calm. Homura eyes Oriko for a second before biting out a curt, "Understood."
"A-alright," Mami whispers. You hold her gaze with yours for a minute, smiling gently until the knot of worry written in the frown and her downturned mouth eases a little.
"Better?" you say.
She nods, managing a little smile. "It's just- hard."
"I..." you trail off. You want to say you understand, but truthfully, you don't. You don't understand how Mami feels, even if, perhaps, you can speculate and you can guess. Michiru would have been an amazing friend to Mami, but they'd met purely by chance. Michiru couldn't leave Asunaro, and Mami couldn't leave Mitakihara.
And so Mami must have pasted on the best smile she could, and... left. Because she couldn't settle for 'so close and yet so far'. It'd only have been a bitter reminder.
And here you are. Talking once more to Michiru, who's bright and eager and cheerful and more than willing to rekindle their friendship. What-could-have-beens abound, and regret isn't the best of flavours to mix with anything.
You exhale slowly, gathering your thoughts. Honesty is the best policy, right? "I don't understand how you feel," you say quietly. "I can't, because I'm not in your position. But I'm here, Mami, and you have my unconditional support. And not just me. You're not alone any more. Alright?"
Mami takes a shuddering breath, and smiles at you. "I- I know," she whispers. "I can- I can do this. A-and... Thank you, Sabrina." Her lips move silently for a second, but she shakes her head, still smiling at you.
"OK," you say, giving her a warm, affectionate grin. That's your Mami. It's slow, but she is recovering. "Then... I need advice, Mami?"
"What about?" Mami asks.
"I'm a little concerned about Miss Kazusa," you say very carefully. "I- I have reason to believe she's running low on Grief Seeds, but she's hiding it. Seven magical girls is a lot for one city, isn't it?"
The lines around Mami's eyes tighten. "Y-yeah," she says. "Asunaro isn't that big, either. Not like Mitakihara. And- I- I did get that impression, too."
"Kazusa Michiru is running out of Grief Seeds?" Oriko asks sharply, a frown on her face. You have Homura's full attention, too, violet eyes boring into the side of your head.
Kirika just seems slightly bored.
"And- actually, I'm uncertain. Mami, do you know what her powers are?" you ask.
"Um... Her powers are, um, real illusions?" Mami says, brows knitting. "She uses her abilities to imitate things, but they aren't really... real copies. It's not like Sayaka's magic."
You frown, nodding as you turn that thought over a few times. That seems to fit what you know. "Then... Is it possible that she's hiding how low she's running on Grief Seeds?"
"It's- it's possible," Mami says, looking increasingly worried.
"Then I suppose it's a good thing we checked in on her now..." You say, heaving a sigh. "Right. I want to bring it up with her, but I'm afraid of making her defensive, or clamming up. Mami, what would you recommend?"
"Maybe..." Mami bites her lip. "She's a terrible liar, if you ask her directly. Maybe that could work?"
"Would she be upset?" you ask.
Mami shakes her head. "I don't think so."
"I'll ask her, then," you say. "Or- hm, I could come at it obliquely. Offer her a Clear Seed, and ask if she has one to spare that I could use?"
"That would work," Mami says, brightening a little.
"You worry too much," Kirika opines, sitting up and snagging another cookie from the plate. "You're worried, right? Just ask her."
"I don't want to call her out just like that," you say, shrugging. "Anyway, back to it... Um. Again, sorry to leave you guys out, I'll hook you in in a few?"
"That would be acceptable," Oriko agrees.
Homura nods, jaw tight.
You smile at them, and return to the telepathic call - still just you, Mami, and Michiru. "Sorry about that, Miss Kazusa, just had to discuss a few things."
"Oh no, not at all," Michiru responds brightly. "Is everything alright?"
You squeeze Mami's hand, giving her a smile and giving her the opportunity to respond.
"Yes, everything is alright," Mami agrees, voice steady even as her hand tightens on yours. "I'm sorry to hear that you had to leave your- your normal life behind."
"It's not a big deal," Michiru dismisses it. "Protecting innocent people is more important, anyway!"
"It is," Mami agrees, swallowing. You hug her a little tighter.
"Yeah, I can agree with that," you add. "And... well. I can agree with the pressure of having a magical girl career, if you could call it that."
Michiru giggles abruptly. "'Career', I like that."
"Hah, glad you like it," you say. "I mean, I'm not in school and I feel like I don't have enough time in a day."
"I know," Michiru groans. "I don't know how you do it, Miss Tomoe."
"Sabrina helps," Mami says, giving you a warm, adoring smile.
"I'll bet," Michiru agrees with a laugh. "Being able to cleanse Soul Gems must be amazing."
"It's great, yeah," you agree. "And that works as a segue for me - Miss Kazusa, so, uh, to drag the topic back a bit, yeah, Mitakihara can easily support as many of your group as you'd like to bring over. And actually, I wanna make an offer... two offers. First, um - I definitely know how hard magical girl life is. I have a sort of solution to it, though."
"Oh?" Michiru says.
"Yeah," you say. "One of the things I've discovered about my powers is that I can control grief, including what's inside a Grief Seed - I can simply drain out all the Grief. I wind up with what I call a Clear Seed - and you can cleanse with it for years, at an estimate."
"Wow," Michiru breathes. "That's amazing."
"Like you said, I got lucky with my powers, right?" you say. "But, um, the offer I want to make is: I'm handing these out. They're prototypes, and I don't know if there are any issues down the road with them, but- do you want one? It's free."
"Yes!" Michiru squeaks. "Um- yes, please, if it isn't too much trouble?"
"Alright, then... are you up for visiting tomorrow?" you say. Mami swallows, shrinking a little, but she doesn't pull away. "Hm... bring a spare Grief Seed, if you have one?"
"Oh, tomorrow?" Michiru says, sounding startled. "Um, um, it's a bit short notice?"
"Well, I can ferry you over," you say. "I can move really fast."
"Um... Let me check with Umika and Kaoru!" Michiru says.
"Alright, I'll check with my friends, too, and hey, you know it doesn't have to be just three of you, right? You're all welcome to come over," you say.
"I know, but we can't all leave the city defenceless, silly!" Michiru says brightly. "Besides, you can come over afterwards and meet us all."
"Oh, that makes sense. Right. Let me know when you're done," you say. "Oh, hey- do you have a Grief Seed you can spare? I'll return it as a Clear Seed, of course, or I can go and hunt one down over here," you say.
"Oh, ah- sorry Kaor- uwa, I'm getting mixed up-" Michiru trails off into incoherence for a second before audibly wrenching herself back on topic. "Um, we can bring a Grief Seed, sorry, just one second-"
"She seems a bit scattered," you observe to Mami, swallowing a giggle.
"She always was," Mami says, shaking her head.
"Anyway," you say, smiling at your other friends. "Alright, so here's what's happened- actually, lemme grab Sayaka, too, since she should know. Um, Oriko, Kirika, try not to provoke her?"
"Naturally," Oriko says, tone utterly dry.
You nod, and reach out by telepathy to grab Sayaka. You let her know what's happening, and then start a second mental conversation to include everyone. "Alright, everyone here?"
You get confirmations from everyone - Mami, Homura, Oriko, Kirika, and Sayaka. "Alright, so, to summarize, we're in touch with Kazusa Michiru, from Asunaro. She's one of Mami's old students." You pause, squeezing Mami a little with the arm around her waist to make sure she's alright. "Mami and I think she's running low on Grief Seeds, and my original plan was to visit her tomorrow. I wasn't actually sure who should go, but she had her own idea, to come visit Mitakihara."
"Hunh, cool," Sayaka says. "Why doesn't that happen more often?"
"What, visiting?" you say. "Mostly because meguca are territorial. But does anyone have any objections to Mitakihara hosting a few more meguca for... actually, I'm not sure if it's just a day visit or not."
"Where're they gonna stay?" Sayaka asks.
"I'm not sure," you say. They could stay at the Kure's, or at home with you and Mami.
"Our guest room would be a bit cramped with three people," Mami notes.
"It would be possible for them to stay here," Oriko says. "There is plenty of room."
The telepathic conversation goes silent for a second, and you can practically feel the dislike radiating off both Homura and Sayaka.
Heh. Homura and Sayaka, united for once by dislike of a mutual foe.
"We'll... sort that out," you say. Oriko's warehouse is also a possibility, though that one mattress might be a problem.
"Eh, good enough for me," Sayaka says. "Anything else?"
"One thing, actually, rain-check on a conversation... uh... tomorrow, probably? Maybe tonight. I'm juggling too many things," you say.
Homura meets your eyes, and you nod. You haven't forgotten the conversation with her, either.
"Sure?" Sayaka says. You can feel the shrug. "You know you can just chat with me without having to schedule an appointment, right?"
You snort, amused. "A good point, well made," you say. "Anyway, later!"
"Later!" Sayaka says.
To be honest, you didn't really expect objections on that. None of your friends would object to friendly visitors from out of town, you don't think, but it's still good to check with them. You are trying not to run roughshod over them, after all.
Mami seems to have cheered up a little, cuddling into your side with a happy sigh. Not to be outdone, Kirika's also wrapped around Oriko, the silver-haired girl pulling her close with her good arm. Barring the wire-taut wariness cording through her body, Homura just looks faintly annoyed.
"Um, it should be fine!" Michiru responds at last.
"Alright!" you say. "When is good? As I said, I'll come over and pick you up. Um... Mami, would you like to come along?"
"I- I have school," she says, looking torn.
"... how about I go over there at, say, eleven, pick you up, and be back in time to meet up for lunchtime?" you hazard. "Would that work?"
"That works for me!" Michiru says.
"That-" Mami swallows. "That would work."
You stroke your thumb slowly across the back of Mami's hand, shifting so that she can nestle a little closer. "Then tomorrow it is," you say. "Just three of you? We'll need to figure out where you can stay."
"Kaoru, Umika, and me!" Michiru chirps. "Uhm, we're happy to stay anywhere as long as it isn't too much trouble."
"Alright, noted," you agree. "Hm... how long do you plan to stay?"
"Um... maybe a day or two?" Michiru says, sounding uncertain. "How long is alright?"
You fight the urge to shrug. You'd look rather silly to Homura, Oriko, and Kirika, who aren't privy to the conversation. "Mami?"
She swallows hard. You can feel the faint tremor in her hand, and you hold her tight. You're not letting go. "A-as long as you want?"
"Oh! A day or two, then?" Michiru says.
"We're flexible, so... yeah?" you say, smiling at Mami.
"OK! Then tomorrow!" Michiru says. "Um... I need to go and tell my friends! Is there anything else?"
"Hm... if you're coming over for lunch, would you like us to prepare something?" you ask.
"Lunch swap!" Michiru says decisively. "I'll cook something, and you cook something."
"Sounds good," you say.
Mami smiles, a little. "I'd like that," she says.
"Then it's decided," you say.
"Alright~" Michiru agrees. "Anyway, I have to go now. Bye! It was great talking to you again, Miss Tomoe."
"It was," Mami agrees, making a quiet, inarticulate noise and burrowing into your side again.
"Bye!" you say, and close the connection. You sigh, and sit back, closing your eyes for a second. That was a rollercoaster of a chat.
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1Keep in mind that a good deal of the plot revolves around Michiru having Witched out.
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The flying fuck?
We're talking about a situation where the World knows about magic, I propose crimes against little girls' Souls get treated like any other crime [sic], you know, by having governments, learned people, professionals, discuss what's good or bad and what constitutes proper punishments for transgressions.
And you tell me I'm feeding a power trip and insinuate I'm poposing killing people.
Kindly go stuff it.
Augh, I wish I had the time to properly explain the problems I'm trying to bring up, but there are so many of them and I have so little time gah. Okay, so there's four problems that I was trying to highlight all at once, and they all sort of got compacted together and summarized because I just don't have time to write a full essay on each and I'm sorry about that. I still don't have time to do this topic justice, but maybe I can fill things out just a little, and be late for work to do so.
Okay, so to begin: A lot of what both of you are suggesting is that, in the aftermath of a masquerade reveal, we're going to need to prevent the inevitable attempts by individuals, groups, and state actors to exploit the souls of teenage girls as a resource by improperly guiding those girls into making Wishes that support the third party, rather than the girl. This leads to a few issues:
1) Prevention and Precrime - To actually prevent this sort of exploitation from happening we are going to need to proactively intervene in the lives of Potentials before they Wish, and this gets into some very precrime-y areas because we're talking about regulating what sorts of influence that individuals, groups, state actors, etc are allowed to exert over teenage children, potentially years into the future, before it happens.
2) Global Dictatorship - It's a sad fact that a huge number of children still live in circumstances that would be considered non-free. I gave a few examples above, but there are many more places where women and girls are, to this day, still not thought of as worthy of equal protection under the law; in fact there is a good argument that most places don't do that. All of that's going to get worse when it's revealed that these girls, whom are already treated as property, suddenly become property that you can exploit to grant Wishes. We are going to need to change all of those regimes before we can safely break the masquerade, which means either directly taking over or imposing our own rules on like 90 countries around the world.
3) Who Watches the Watchmen? - So, after we've taken over the world and imposed our anti-exploitation regime, how do we govern it? Who watches out to ensure that we're not going to far, and saying "No, fuck you, go directly to hell." to people who are just raising their children?
4) What about crazy/homicidal girls? - Most of the plot of Kazumi Magica that has been mentioned here (haven't read the manga myself, unfortunately) seems to revolve around a few crazy little girls making vindictive Wishes in order to hurt or kill other girls whom they have a grudge with. I'm presuming we're preventing these wishes too?
Damn it, I'm already late. See you guys... Sunday maybe?
- Location
- La La Land
Finally caught up with everything now and I hope to contribute! I have no idea where to go from here though so I'll just hang back and observe for now, so uh, do your thing and discuss what to do next. I guess?
- Location
- ⇙
That went well. Some of Michiru's answers and mannerisms during all this make me think that them having not too many grief seeds is probably true. Good thing we called now before everythingt goes to hell.
Michiru and co staying at Oriko's would be a great solution but I doubt we can convince Homura and Sayaka of that.
Michiru and co staying at Oriko's would be a great solution but I doubt we can convince Homura and Sayaka of that.
Nice reminder that not everyone is as good as Sabrina when it comes to multitasking.
Recurrence
Armchair Parapsychologist
- Location
- Limbo
So, call me a pessimist, but I'm thinking the Saints are clean out of grief seeds and they're going to try to drum one up tonight. I'm hoping they play it safe, if they lost somebody because we pushed the grief seed onus onto them I am going to be profoundly sad.
The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
- Location
- My own little world
First thoughts:
Agree with Recurrence that the saints may have a grief seed problem. I expect Michiru was talking to Kaoru about them, Not sure if she's talking about going hunting or just scrounging one up between them.
If we talk again to Michiru we should definitely take Mami's original advice and be direct. (Mami let herself be steamrolled by us again
)
The amount of weight going into defending the town makes me very worried about them facing others, and fits in well to their insistence on coming to Mitakihara earlier.
Specific metaknowledge to discuss and look up on the Internet:
Release date of The Sky of Seven Stars (connected to "an unfortunate event")
Missing persons report or Obituary for Asuka Yuuri (Her death is connected to Anri's wish.)
Agree with Recurrence that the saints may have a grief seed problem. I expect Michiru was talking to Kaoru about them, Not sure if she's talking about going hunting or just scrounging one up between them.
If we talk again to Michiru we should definitely take Mami's original advice and be direct. (Mami let herself be steamrolled by us again
)The amount of weight going into defending the town makes me very worried about them facing others, and fits in well to their insistence on coming to Mitakihara earlier.
Specific metaknowledge to discuss and look up on the Internet:
Release date of The Sky of Seven Stars (connected to "an unfortunate event")
Missing persons report or Obituary for Asuka Yuuri (Her death is connected to Anri's wish.)
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
I'll just briefly summarize what else I'd like us to do today.
• Discuss Asunaro a bit with our crew, for the sake of sharing information.
• Contact Kyouko, confirm that Sayaka is getting training and discuss payment.
• Contact Tokyo, and schedule an arrival date some time in the coming week.
• Have the long belated discussion with Homura.
• Discuss Asunaro a bit with our crew, for the sake of sharing information.
• Contact Kyouko, confirm that Sayaka is getting training and discuss payment.
• Contact Tokyo, and schedule an arrival date some time in the coming week.
• Have the long belated discussion with Homura.
• Discuss Homura's communications with Madoka. Don't openly poke at it, but work towards her telling Madoka more.
• Make progress towards the potentialbomb.
• Discuss your general plans for the future, particularly regarding Walpurgisnacht
• Plan a dedicated science session to work out how grief rending and Prima Luce interact with time-stop. Maybe testing what happens to grief out of our range, too.
• On the topic of power interactions: Nadia wished to "never stop moving" or something along those lines. Does that interfere with timestop at all?
• Discuss that shopping trip she wanted with the JSDF - when would be a good time?
• Hugs, small talk, etc.
• Go home. Do some enchantment practice while Mami finishes her homework.• Make progress towards the potentialbomb.
• Discuss your general plans for the future, particularly regarding Walpurgisnacht
• Plan a dedicated science session to work out how grief rending and Prima Luce interact with time-stop. Maybe testing what happens to grief out of our range, too.
• On the topic of power interactions: Nadia wished to "never stop moving" or something along those lines. Does that interfere with timestop at all?
• Discuss that shopping trip she wanted with the JSDF - when would be a good time?
• Hugs, small talk, etc.
• Look at a globe/atlas and note any discrepancies already, holy shit.
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- Location
- United Kingdom
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Ask Homura to freeze time, go over there, cleanse everyone, go back?
That's an option, isn't it?
That's an option, isn't it?
- Location
- Germany
Or that a certain someone is goingnto do SOMETHING to nake her go witch.
Its NOT beyond the White creep....
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
Well, they're so low on grief seeds that she doesn't have one on hand for us to turn into a clear seed. On the other hand, she's looped in the rest of her team, so we don't have to worry about her martyring herself quite as much - hopefully we made it clear enough that we're distributing free cleansing that they'll call us if they run into trouble.
- Location
- Illinois
EVERYTHING I'VE DONE IN THIS EVENT HAS BEEN WORTH IT
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Yep. Mami is happy, we made contact with some nice girls, we're likely going to get some fun time science help... right now, everything is looking up.
I wonder when the other shoe will drop.
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
- Pronouns
- She/Her
We should make a grief shoe levitator.
- Location
- Illinois
If a shoe drops in Asunaro, does it make a sound?
Karnewarrior
Leastmost of the Hanged Man Arcana
This.
We have to trust someone sometime to keep themselves safe. Even the greatest heroes can't shield everyone at once.
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
- Pronouns
- She/Her
What about Madoka?
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Of course they do, just like with any other endangered species.
The Narrator
Disembodied Voice
- Location
- Somewhere Offscreen
Damn, we didn't get the chance to ask about other magical girls in the area that we could help.
Does Mami know where Kazusa lives? We could probably fly there in time stop and stealthily clean her gem....
...or, y'know, we could just call her back and be like, "Oh, just one more thing I forgot to ask!"
But seriously, if we're going to try helping any independent meguca in Asunaro, we probably need to put the word out ahead of time. It makes more sense to bring it up now than to wait for tomorrow.
I don't buy into the idea that wishes have somehow advanced civilization. We've seen the things that people wish for and they're overwhelmingly small and personal. There probably have been a few good things done here and there that weren't promptly undone by cruel irony or a witch, but it doesn't come close to balancing out the loss of life that it's caused. Contracting has only ever been intended to benefit the Incubators at the expense of humanity. We're better off without it.
At the end of that road lies Magneto and Khan Noonian Singh and Voldemort. At the end of that road lies magocracy.
Does Mami know where Kazusa lives? We could probably fly there in time stop and stealthily clean her gem....
...or, y'know, we could just call her back and be like, "Oh, just one more thing I forgot to ask!"
But seriously, if we're going to try helping any independent meguca in Asunaro, we probably need to put the word out ahead of time. It makes more sense to bring it up now than to wait for tomorrow.
I don't see that as much of a loss. The majority of wishes have only paltry or fleeting benefits that are outweighed or rendered meaningless by the costs. Was Ono's (presumed) wish for beauty for the few days she'd have lasted before witching out worth it? She sold her soul for a makeover that she could have gotten from any beauty parlor. Or Umika, who sold hers for a book deal. Then there are the wishes that had the opposite of the intended effect: Kyouko wanted a happy and well-fed family, and instead she got a dead one. Homura wanted to be with Madoka, and instead she erased her from existence. Madoka wanted to save lives and help people, and instead she destroyed the world in nearly a hundred timelines.
I don't buy into the idea that wishes have somehow advanced civilization. We've seen the things that people wish for and they're overwhelmingly small and personal. There probably have been a few good things done here and there that weren't promptly undone by cruel irony or a witch, but it doesn't come close to balancing out the loss of life that it's caused. Contracting has only ever been intended to benefit the Incubators at the expense of humanity. We're better off without it.
I find this idea troubling... even dangerous. If we encourage magical girls to think of themselves as separate from humanity, cut off from human society and human contact, unbound by human laws, then how long will it be before they begin to think of themselves as above human law and human morality? As above humanity? How long before they begin thinking that they are better than mere mortals, that normal people's lives have less intrinsic value? That because they're stronger and faster than humans, because they have powers that humans do not, because they're superior to humans, they should be ruling them?
At the end of that road lies Magneto and Khan Noonian Singh and Voldemort. At the end of that road lies magocracy.
Karnewarrior
Leastmost of the Hanged Man Arcana
We'll have to trust her at some point too. We can only hope she lives up to our trust.