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Nah, we don't want to actively load more of a burden-to-care-for-another onto Yuma, especially not right now. She'll notice and care, but Sabrina actively requesting her to do so wouldn't be good for future efforts to help Yuma.
 
[X] Try to create wings of hope, channeling the hope that you can fix things, that you can stop meguca from becoming witches.
[X] Fill your extradimensional space with air using countless tiny bubbles of grief as 'buckets', so that in the future you'll be more able to move things into there without worrying about explosive decompression.
-[X] Manifest a few dozen hammers and store them around the outer edges of your hammerspace.
Having hammers stored in there ready to be rotated down and thrown via grief for off-axis attacks in case of sudden conflict could be useful and much harder to detect that any sort of active grief attack.
[X] While waiting for the others to come up for lunch, work on using your grief to feel individual atoms, and try to count the number of nucleons in them.
This is intended as a thing to ditch if others come up with a better idea for stuff to focus on. The idea behind cultivating this capability is that Sabrina can secure an independent source of income by way of elemental synthesis. What we'd do is, Sabrina creates a sealed inert-grief mechanical assembly line where environmental atoms are brought in and disassembled. A number of protons are kept on hand for electromagnetic sorting of protons and neutrons based on repulsion. Nuclei are then assembled on the other end, and cycled back through for charge equalization (picking up any electrons lost along the way). The entire assembly is sealed to prevent stray radiation from being a problem, with finished atoms being pushed through in individual bubbles and assembled however we want.

[X] Mami:
-[X] Flirt. Love. Cuddle. Appreciate. Encourage. Kiss. Bask. (In her happiness!)
[X] Homura:
-[X] You've got something you want to run by her after school... Also questions. Not urgent, though.
[X] Keep an ear open to what Sayaka and Madoka are up to at lunch.
 
Great success! A little bit of time to process everything and she'll likely be a lot more receptive to the idea. Had she really been mad at us for this we'd be chased out as opposed to being told to leave. Not to mention that she didn't turn down the cleansing so she's obviously not turned away from us helping out! Hurray!
 
... I suddenly want Mami to open a bakery and Kyoko and Sayaka act as delivery girls for cakes....

I DONT KNOW WHY

oh yeah vote

[X]Godwinson
 
Before I change my mind and go back to lurking, I might as well vote and stick some replies in.

obssesednuker said:
Well, what does Brina's witch look like?
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It's safe to assume there will be feathers. As for the rest of the witch, it's for the sake of horror that we don't know.

cmwatford said:
Wonder what Brina's doppel would look like. :thonk:
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I suppose Sabrina's witch wings would gain feathers, for starters. But that's as far as I can get with educated guesses, so I'll ask the one person who has all the answers.
@Firnagzen What does Sabrina's Doppel look like? What does it do?

Redshirt Army said:
Magia Record has some deeply unique circumstances going on, which aren't the case in PMAS. So no Doppels for Sabrina and Co.
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That doesn't mean Sabrina can't recreate the Doppel phenomenon herself. It works by allowing the soul gem to release grief at a slower rate, preventing it from going kablooey and becoming a grief seed. Controlling grief is exactly the sort of ability we need to make Doppels happen. The only issue is that Sabrina hasn't done enough science to know how to do that yet.

In Magia Record, the Doppel phenomenon has an AoE range limited to the barrier around Kamihama city. Based on that knowledge, Sabrina can start experimenting with barriers in mind. Not necessarily a witch barrier, but a space that defines the limits of a magical effect.

blast flame said:
Walpurgisnacht, we don't know.
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Walpurgisnacht's barrier has storm clouds in it. Rather minimalist, but definitely a labyrinth of sorts.

Torgamous said:
All the world's a stage.
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And all its men and women merely cannon fodder. :V

AuraTwilight said:
They all despair no more, but... why doesn't she feel better?
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Because she can't make that despair disappear. By ridding the universe of grief, she has no choice but to handle that burden all by herself. Actually getting rid of grief requires either a certain wish that grants that power or the enlightenment hax Madoka showed off in episode 12.

[X] Godwinson

Firnagzen said:
"So the thing is," you say. "I'm pretty sure that you don't know this, but if you were to just... show up on Mami's doortstep tomorrow and say absolutely nothing at all, the reception you'd get from Mami would be this: repeated, tearful apologies, mixed with offers of food, friendship, and housing."

"Bullshit," Kyouko snaps. Burning eyes snap to yours.

You meet her gaze calmly, despite the danger smoldering in her look. You're not backing down over this. Kyouko invited the topic. Kyouko knowingly invited the topic. It's important to you and Kyouko - and it's important to Mami. You need to get through to her, and something tells you this is one of very, very few chances you'll ever get.

"Do you know why you ended up fighting?" you ask. You hold your hand out, gesturing at her with the outstretched palm. "She doesn't have a problem with you. Mami's problem is that until very recently, literally everyone in her life eventually abandoned her or abused her trust."

You laugh, and if there's bitterness in it, well, it's just you and Kyouko - who opens her mouth to say something, but you cut her off with a slice of your hand through the air. Her fist clenches, jaw setting hard, but you are not backing down. Because she's getting annoyed, she's getting angry, but that's her defense mechanism.

"You're not special," you say with a razor-sharp smile. "At one point, I accidentally convinced her I was breaking ties with her, and promptly ended up in a ribbon cocoon. And yet, the only thing I've ever heard from Mami on the topic is how much she regrets what she'd done that night."

"Bullshit!" Kyouko snarls, before softening her voice and darting a look towards the bathroom door, body taut with tension. She turns a blazing look on you. "She tried to kill me!"

You laugh in her face.

"If she wanted to hit you, she would have," you say, folding your arms. "No. She didn't."

Kyouko rears back as if struck, eyes burning and fingers twitching.

"You might've fought," you say. "But believe you me. She felt horrible for it, and she holds the pain still. Close to her heart."

And you smile again, wry and thin as you stand and start to pace slowly around the room, more out of having an outlet for your nervous energy than anything. It also puts you a bit out of immediate stabbing range. Kyouko's gaze tracks your motion as you brush your fingers over the television, over the curtains at the windows.

"You say I'm a saint or something," you say. "Forgive everyone, everyone deserves redemption no matter who they are. And that's... eh. There are some people..." You shake your head, trying not to think about the Soul Gem you're holding locked in Grief. Rionna. "But no. The relevant fact of the matter is this: you, Kyouko, are not unforgiveable. There's literally one person who has a problem with you. And that's you."

You shove your hands into the pockets of your coat, facing Kyouko squarely. You've said your piece, and it's up to her to decide what she wants to make of it. And you watch her face flicker from anger, to dismay, to something else you can't really make out.

"Get out," Kyouko says.

Your heart falls.

"Kyouko, I-"

"I said get out-" Kyouko snarls. "Shut up, go away, I want to think. I'll think about it, OK? But I want to not have you throwing wordswordswords at me while I think! I'll think about it, now get out."

"I...," you start, before remembering something very important. "No. Grief Seeds first."

Kyouko makes a wordless, inarticulate noise, plunging her hand into her pocket and producing a handful of half-filled Grief Seeds you silently refresh.

"Happy?" she demands. "I'll be fine. Just- let me think."

"OK, OK," you say. "I'm sorry. Say bye to Yuma for me."

Kyouko's hand twitches, as if clenched around the invisible haft of an invisible spear.

You head out, carefully shutting the door behind you with a quiet click and padding away over the carpet.

Well.

That was...

Probably a success?

You'd definitely gotten through to Kyouko, at any rate. Some of it penetrated her shell.
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For Kyouko, this is a huge revelation. Remember when Homura lost her cool in episode 11 and gushed out her feelings and secret past to Madoka? Same deal here. If we let Kyouko process this, she will probably become a happier, more fulfilled person for it. And that's exactly what we're trying to do. Yay us.

Godwinson said:
I see what you did there.
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I don't get it. Please tell me what was done there.

Kaizuki said:
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Wait, should we be doing this in privacy?
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Nope! It's not like the muggles can see it happen anyway.
 
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A few thoughts, some jokes I've been sitting on for a while, others things that need doing.

[x]Lunchtime
-[x]Take bets on whether Madoka will end up more towards her mother's height or her father's.

And, since we're thinking of, visiting Ms. Yuki today, it would probably be wise to see if we have any progress on the stuff she wanted to get done before that happens. Not much point in visiting if half the stuff we need to do can't actually be done.

-[x] Ask Homura (telepathically?) if she's had any progress picking out a building for Tsuruya yet.
 
Firnagzen said:
"C'mon, she's seven," Kyouko says. "And a damn smart cookie, but she ain't fucking around with us."

"That you know of," you say. You have a vague impression that an older Yuma would probably turn out to be the most unexpectedly, deeply scary spymaster, but you're not terribly sure where that impression comes from.
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*snickers* ...I wonder if the bugs exist in this universe.

Kaizuki said:
Mental image of the cops ending up thinking there's a new gang somewhere called the cake shop
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When we form our New World Order/global conspiracy/grand meguca alliance, we should call it the Cake Shop.

Oh, and

[X] Godwinson

It has particle physics. I like particle physics.
 
We should probably not genocide an entire species.

Except the Incubators.

I mean let's be frank I strongly suspect the Cephalopods are being manipulated by the Incubators.
 
now I'm picturing some Alien puella magi landing on earth to try to get us to join their anti-incubator alliance.
 
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