Remove ads

Puella Magi Adfligo Systema

Reader mode
... Should we discuss mixing magic? I mean, good odds the animators already know about it but maybe they know some tricks?

Or is that too lewd a subject to discuss in public?
 
Raiseth said:
The real question is, of course, whether it is lewd eNOUGH?!

Eh, go for it, I'd say. Though I wonder how you'd manage to arrive at this non-sequitur from the allegedly serious talk about how Mami's current mental state.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Well, talk about Mami, serious stuff, then go to what you've been doing and talk combined-tech like grief-infused-ribbons, and how that feels...
 
Ono's wish affected her attitude?

A thought, "I wish I wouldn't look like I needed help". Not sure what'd cause this, but working backwards from results
 
@Jiven , @Polenball , @R2Walker , @Raiseth , @Torgamous , @Jonen C

Guys, gushing about Mami is not the right way to go here. Masami is asking a serious question. Notice how Firn wrote how her expression changed to a carefully neutral one? Masami is actually broaching a serious topic here, and she knows it. She wants to know how Mami has been doing--in the sense that she has no idea what Mami has been through or what she thinks of the current situation. Now is absolutely the time to reveal to Masami that Mami is not some god on a pedestal who is happy and awesome. Now is the time to reveal that Mami has been through some rough shit, that she was used and deceived by Kyubey to do his bidding and was absolutely devastated when she found out. If we're going to reconcile them, we need to hammer home how Mami was suffering the whole time, just like Masami was. That she yearns to reconnect with her old friends/students, but is terrified of doing so because she thinks they hate her.

(*edit: restating my vote so you guys know what I actually put)

[X] Answer her:
-[X] Be real with her. Explain how Kyubey used her and deceived her to serve as a recruiter, and how it devastated Mami when she found out the truth about soul gems and Kyubey's betrayal. How Mami feels terrified about reaching out to her former trainees/friends, but longs to reconnect with them all the same. But explain that she's doing a lot better now than she was, and you intend to keep that trend going.
 
Last edited:
[X] Answer her:
-[X] Be real with her. Explain how Kyubey used her and deceived her, and how it devastated Mami when she found out the truth about soul gems and Kyubey's betrayal. How Mami feels terrified about reaching out to her former trainees/friends, but longs to reconnect with them all the same. But explain that she's doing a lot better now than she was, and you intend to keep that trend going.
 
Yeah, considering the last time we broached Mami with the Animators, just gushing isn't the way to go here. Some bad stuff has gone down between Masami and our girlfriend. Might have been a certain rat prodding things along to keep Mami isolated, but we can't be sure about that; however, Masami most likely doesn't know how fricked up Mami's mental state was/is.

[X] Answer her:
-[X] Be real with her. Explain how Kyubey used her and deceived her, and how it devastated Mami when she found out the truth about soul gems and Kyubey's betrayal. How Mami feels terrified about reaching out to her former trainees/friends, but longs to reconnect with them all the same. But explain that she's doing a lot better now than she was, and you intend to keep that trend going.

Going with Satly's vote right now, although I think it could use some refinement regarding how coobs prodding along Mami's recruitment.
 
[X] Answer her:
-[X] Be real with her. Explain how Kyubey used her and deceived her, and how it devastated Mami when she found out the truth about soul gems and Kyubey's betrayal. How Mami feels terrified about reaching out to her former trainees/friends, but longs to reconnect with them all the same. But explain that she's doing a lot better now than she was, and you intend to keep that trend going.
 
[X] Answer her:
-[X] Be real with her. Explain how Kyubey used her and deceived her, and how it devastated Mami when she found out the truth about soul gems and Kyubey's betrayal. How Mami feels terrified about reaching out to her former trainees/friends, but longs to reconnect with them all the same. But explain that she's doing a lot better now than she was, and you intend to keep that trend going.
 
[X] Answer her:
-[X] Be real with her. Explain how Kyubey used her and deceived her, and how it devastated Mami when she found out the truth about soul gems and Kyubey's betrayal. How Mami feels terrified about reaching out to her former trainees/friends, but longs to reconnect with them all the same. But explain that she's doing a lot better now than she was, and you intend to keep that trend going.
 
Madou Sutegobana said:
But does Sabrina have permission from Mami to share her personal details?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
If it's in the name of reconciling her and her former friends/students, I'm sure she wouldn't mind. Especially since the image/impression she'd built up of being perfect and without problems was a big part of why she had so much trouble making and keeping friends. It's actually fairly ironic--she built up this image of being "the perfect sempai" because she was afraid that if people knew how lonely and in pain she was deep down, they'd abandon her...when it was that very facade that facilitated her friends/students abandoning her so easily--they all just assumed that Mami would be totally fine without them, based on how Mami acted around them all the time. It's also part of why those same people didn't keep in touch or reach back out to her--the image of a perfect magical girl they'd built in their heads was probably off-putting and intimidating, especially when compared to the serious problems they themselves were facing (like Masami's injuries, Kyouko's dearth of Witches to hunt, Kazumi's struggle to sustain a team of seven magical girls without enough Witches to farm, etc).

Like, if Mami were here, we'd quickly ask her for permission, but this whole issue is why she isn't here.

It's also an important bonding experience with Akemi and Noriko (and, to a similar extent, Masami and Hiroko), too. Them realizing that Team Mitakihara has its own share of personal problems/trauma/fears will help humanize us and make us relatable. I think, deep down, there is a sense of shame and inadequacy that the two pairs we're with feel about themselves, because they tried to make it on their own but essentially failed and suffered heavily along the way. Revealing that, hey, even Mami was secretly suffering a lot and was devastated when she learned that Kyubey was just using her and deceiving her all along would do a lot to make them feel victims of a deeply unfair system rather than people who failed on their own merits.
 
Last edited:
Reader mode
You must login or register to reply here.
Remove ads
Back
Top