we're just well on our way to recreating the kamihama doppel system aren't we?
I've always saw witches as being a magical girls distilled dark side, all the parts of people that they try to ignore or put aside or see in a negative light distilled and amplified
I'll point out here, that there are proposed tests to tell exactly where the feather came from for certain, or at least certain enough to give us some much needed definite negatives. I'd honestly been itching to do them today but copious meetings, and fallout, got in the way.Man, I've been rereading PMAS, and it's just increasingly obvious that Feathers is Dedolere. Because if Sabrina's actions could break Oriko's visions of a scene, then Sabrina witching out would surely cause that -- Oriko was just reversing cause and effect. It wasn't that Feathers was killing Sabrina's friends, it's that in those futures, Sabrina's friends died and Dedolere resulted.
The clearest thing we can point at as being an Act of Feathers was to arrange for Sayaka to be attacked (and thus feel helpless and contract), while Sabrina was inside her own barrier. An act that very much so seems like someone who is trying to help, but has forgotten how to help without breaking people. Everything else besides that? Whispers that only Sabrina can hear, whispers that line up with being Dedolere, because the times the voice couldn't find Sabrina were times she was unburdened.
None of this is exactly new, but you know what? We had been talking about diplomacy and therapy with a witch? Let's start with the witch who has been contacting us, the one who we can't just defeat with more biggatons, the witch who is most likely to be able to hurt the people Sabrina cares about, and in so doing, hatch. Firn likes to comment about how it's always about the people, but we've always taken that as being about everyone around us. Sabrina is a people too (), and thus so is Dedolere. (Hell, it's Dedolere's name on Sabrina's soul gem in ring form)
I think it's a bit foolish to assume that the Nyantokanyaru IRC is exclusive to Kagoshima, especially as Nadia specifically noted that IRCs are frequently set up by groups who split up and wanted to keep in touch.
In this case it's most likely back to the more general phrase – "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" – or other derivations; for example, if the "bootstrap" in Dedolere's case is to Banach-Tarski from negligible to arbitrarily-large amounts of Grief near-instantly... well, I'm not sure how it would be "hilarious" or how that particularly produces an ontological threat, but it fits "bootstrap" at least.
We actually have some evidence of how a "Pre-Hatched" Witch would be like and how they would interact towards their respective Magical Girl. Primarily... from the evidence we have (Candeloro for Mami, and Homulilly for Homura)... they act as the final temptation to turning Witch. With Homura, its more subtle due to the nature of the events happening in there (what with it all taking place within her Soul Gem and how the line between her and her Witch is more than a little blurred. Come to think of it... meeting "Ai" within Wraith Arc could have actually been Homura meeting Homulilly then... hrmmm...), but in Different Story, we see what happens quite plainly and clearly:
Point being, while I am not against the idea of making contact with Dedolere, and in fact could reap massive dividends... there is an inherent risk to making contact with the very thing trying to ensure its creation. As Rebellion showed with the fully formed Homulilly, they are the manifestations of every single curse and despair-filled thought accumulated and inflicted back onto the soul of the Magical Girl (seen via Homura reliving her worst memory). If we talk to Dedolere, we have to approach it as carefully as we would talking to Kyubey... because we could run the very real risk of accumulating Grief rapidly and might have a repeat of the Familiar episode.
if this works it could imply some pretty interesting thingsOk I've sent Sabrina an email now. From the second gmail account that is set to a JP location that I used to sign up for Magia Record so it's extra authentic.
(Not my real name)
time to break the god damn universe my friends
That seems to imply that Mami could avoid witching just by believing in Sabrina hard enough.
I don't know about overcoming range limitations, that might require some other additional insight. But I do know that helping Dedolere is something that Sabrina ought to be doing anyway, as part of her wish, part of her nature. And if Dedolere is Feathers, then this will be a pro-active stance to addressing one of our two main opponents (Feathers, Kyuubey).
so we are going to go full doppel
...link?
