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SoaringJe said:
It being brought up in this thread made me go and read it. Fun story, much appreciated what you did write :smile:

and, being entirely theoretical here, does a possible post-PMAS Mami showing up in the main anime timeline sound fun to anyone else?
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Entirely theoretically ( :p), I think it would be awesome. Just as long as the author (and readers, of course) doesn't care about accuracy as much as Godwinson does. Otherwise they would fall into the same problem. Something somewhat similar has been done, I think by @Kaizuki , but it's about current Mami time traveling back to the start, plus it's just the period between the start of the loop and when Sabrina shows up. In this entirely theoretical idea, I think the author could make a very interesting story that either looks at different parts of the timeline, or just goes at a faster pace than PMAS.

Just don't worry too much about being completely accurate to PMAS.
 
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Shadowhisker said:
Would it be PMAS!Mami overwriting canon!Mami, or going against all the established rules of time travel and having our Mami be independent?1​
Would it be anything like @Kaizuki's (sadly defunct) Mami Quest? Has a similar concept.
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Yeah, def taking some inspiration from Mami Quest. And as for the former question, it'll probably be the latter bc then a scene like:
"Why are you helping me?" Homura asked, but that wasn't what she was really asking.

[X] You're a good person, Akemi Homura. You deserve to have someone there for you.
[X] To help myself...I don't think I'd be much good at it.
[X] ...it hurts. Seeing who I was and could have been...it's too much.
is possible. Or something. Entirely theoretical
 
Mq is not in fact dead, btw. The situation boils down to "I need to reread pmas to write MQ, but I need to finish fixing my brain before I reread pmas, but that takes time, and the only alternative would be writing Mami and the others ooc, which would destroy the appeal (to myself as much as to everyone else!)"

Yeah >_>
 
Okay, having rebooted my brain from the thought of double Mami, and recovered from the Mami sad of being deprived of 'Brina and double sad at the state of things, what pPMAS !Mami would do is she would adopt c!Mami as a younger sister, and that is not the best thing ever but it puts a smile on my face.
 
Firnagzen said:
You look back up at the faintly glowing Barrier, your own Grief surrounding you in a dense swarm, hundreds, thousands of blades drifting around you in a deadly, ever shifting cocoon.

You take a bold step forward, marching into the Barr-

-ier. You choke back the sudden nausea in the back of your throat, swallowing hard, and force yourself to look around.

Your feet clack hollowly on lacquered wood. Cracked, lacquered wood creaks underfoot, once-fine mahogany now dry and splintering. Faint orange light glows from above, illuminating a towering forest of smooth, flowing shapes of some scuffed, black material. They look... almost like faucets, faucets sprouting like gargantuan trees. Shadows gather all around you, overlapping in dense, spidery clusters.
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Firnagzen said:
You plunge into the Barrier, bracing yourself for the nauseating, stomach twisting slap in the face. You swallow hard, forcing back the rising gorge in your throat.

Something jabs you lightly in the side. You follow the spear back to Kyouko, who's peering at you with a frown. "Yo, you OK there?"

"Yeah," you say, straightening and fumbling with the pocky stick dangling from your lips. Scorching heat scrapes at the back of your neck and your scalp, even through your thick hair. "I... well. I can sense Grief. All this-" you wave for emphasis, "-is Grief. It's always a bit of a... shock to the senses."

Kyouko nods. "Right," she says, glancing around.
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Interesting to note that part of the overwhelming that happens when Sabrina enters a barrier is some level of nausea.
 
Torgamous said:
Sabrina: "I'm working on my control issues."

Also Sabrina: "Grief that I don't control literally makes me nauseous."
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I expect us to have a similarly nauseous reaction when we meet other grief controllers for the first time.

I'll be voting to keep a tight grip on our emotions and control when we meet Nodoka, for example, lest we instinctively rip away all her grief to make wings before we get a hold of ourselves.
 
Could we maybe consciously try to think "I permit Nodoka to have that grief, her control of the grief is being done with my permission" when meeting her? See if that prevents any revulsion?
 
Redshirt Army said:
Honestly? It might mean wish rejection, and our powers being lost (or just changing).
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Honestly, if Oriko is any indication, I think a change to our power that would not merely be the result of changing as a person, but also require deciding that the power we got was somehow wrong.

In addition to everything else, Oriko does voice explicit disaffection with her powers after all. (IIRC the line was something like "It shows me nothing but death.")
 
Keep in mind that if you misinterpret your wish, you might not actually get all of your powers. Oriko needed an epiphany to get her lasers, as an example.

Understanding yourself isn't exactly easy, and it isn't something you can figure out by spending a few hours dicking around with sonic showers, lasers, or rocket-powered chainsaw-hammers.
 
The Phoenixian said:
Honestly, if Oriko is any indication, I think a change to our power that would not merely be the result of changing as a person, but also require deciding that the power we got was somehow wrong.

In addition to everything else, Oriko does voice explicit disaffection with her powers after all. (IIRC the line was something like "It shows me nothing but death.")
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Sure. But as long as Sabrina doesn't reject her wish to control all grief, I expect her power to, well, seize control of all grief. Conceptually, it's one and the same.

So I don't see her getting over her (grief) control issues as long as she accepts her wish.
 
Redshirt Army said:
I expect us to have a similarly nauseous reaction when we meet other grief controllers for the first time.

I'll be voting to keep a tight grip on our emotions and control when we meet Nodoka, for example, lest we instinctively rip away all her grief to make wings before we get a hold of ourselves.
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I wonder, would other grief controllers also have the same problem as we do? If so, we should warn Hatsumi Nodoka that she might experience nausea and an instinctive desire for control when our grief gets in her range.
 
BlueTwinkleToes said:
I wonder, would other grief controllers also have the same problem as we do? If so, we should warn Hatsumi Nodoka that she might experience nausea and an instinctive desire for control when our grief gets in her range.
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Depends on the wording of their individual wishes, I'd imagine. Not every grief mages wishes to control grief; some might want to take it away, or redistribute it.
 
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