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Redshirt Army said:
[X] She's already started doing it. The guardedness and barriers she's built up are like the social equivalent of having a limp because she broke your ankle saving someone. With just the changed context of knowing what she fights for, instead of making her seem untrustworthy, they show how she's fought and suffered for a long time, trying to do the right thing. Just from reaching out, it's let everyone see her more clearly.
-[x] She's been trying to keep Madoka away, scare her away, for a long time, and you can understand why - but without the context, that made everyone interpret Homura's actions in a really bad light, and it made *Homura* see everyone in a bad light too - she always saw their suspicious side, instead of how caring they can be to their friends. Here and now, relaxing where she can, giving herself permission to laugh, smile, and joke when she can and just *interacting* with people, will see Madoka and Sayaka continue to get closer to her, and see her learning more about them in turn. It's emotional, social recovery, in the same way that physical recovery requires a sort of gentle exercise rebuilding.

[X] But... Homura probably isn't just worried about here and now, is she? You've been avoiding bringing it up, since you know it'll hurt, but... you don't want Homura to feel totally reliant on you with what has to feel like a brittle sort of hope. That's not fair to her.
-[x] You know that Homura likes to be able to reason her way through a problem. So here's your advice, that won't ever be needed, but should still help Homura settle some of the doubts she must feel - if things do go wrong, and she needs to start again. Borrow a notebook and write this down as you talk.
--[x] She has the info needed to actually argue her stance and mission to others, and explain the Incubator's lies. She's seen more of Mami and Sayaka now - and Mami can give her advice on how to convince her past self, in fact *everyone* will be mostly happy to explain their own reasoning to her if she asks them. And most of all... she should make sure Madoka has a place, and make sure she has the chance to see how much her contracting would hurt Homura.
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Hmm... okay, thinking over it more, we need that line emphasizing learned helplessness back in, because we can then use that to draw out another point:

Sayaka thinking Homura is cool might be perplexing under the idea that Homura's stiffness is because she's socially incompetent, but in the context of it being from an emotional injury doesn't it make perfect sense? That Sayaka thinks that Homura is cool because she's fighting to protect someone, and has kept going even through those hurts?
 
V01DRei said:
I don't get why it's relevant, can I get a picture?
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Homura Residence - Puella Magi Wiki

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In the few shots of Homura's room that we have, said room appears to have been changed from earlier timeline's small, normal apartment that she built pipebombs under the light of a computer and a single desk lamp, to one with a giant 2 story ceiling with holographic walls lighting up everything perfectly, along with a fuckhuge scythe-bladed pendulum on the ceiling for no apparent reason.
 
Appletank said:

Homura Residence - Puella Magi Wiki

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In the few shots of Homura's room that we have, said room appears to have been changed from earlier timeline's small, normal apartment that she built pipebombs under the light of a computer and a single desk lamp, to one with a giant 2 story ceiling with holographic walls lighting up everything perfectly, along with a fuckhuge scythe-bladed pendulum on the ceiling for no apparent reason.
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Uh Homura, not to be rude or anything but what's with the holographic walls and giant fucking pendulum?
...I thought it looked nice.

Ignoring the magi and incubators, does PMMM technically count as light sci-fi simply do to the advanced holographic tech?
 
King Washington said:
Uh Homura, not to be rude or anything but what's with the holographic walls and giant fucking pendulum?
...I thought it looked nice.

Ignoring the magi and incubators, does PMMM technically count as light sci-fi simply do to the advanced holographic tech?
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:thonk::thonk::thonk:

Maybe? It's more like being 20 minutes in the future than anything else. I imagine it's what Belgium a technocracy would look like if brought to the modern day, and had only the technology in mind.
 
King Washington said:
Uh Homura, not to be rude or anything but what's with the holographic walls and giant fucking pendulum?
...I thought it looked nice.

Ignoring the magi and incubators, does PMMM technically count as light sci-fi simply do to the advanced holographic tech?
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Homura's room is weird, but have you guys seen the coffee mug store from Magia Record? The Madoka universe is the Warp from 40k wearing a generic 'modern day earth' suit that's bursting at the seams.
 
King Washington said:
Uh Homura, not to be rude or anything but what's with the holographic walls and giant fucking pendulum?
...I thought it looked nice.

Ignoring the magi and incubators, does PMMM technically count as light sci-fi simply do to the advanced holographic tech?
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Personal theory is that Homura's personal brand of magic/enchantment works really, REALLY, well with tech.
 
memoryofglory said:
Homura's room is weird, but have you guys seen the coffee mug store from Magia Record? The Madoka universe is the Warp from 40k wearing a generic 'modern day earth' suit that's bursting at the seams.
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No it´s not. Stop investigating. ~definetly not Tzeentch in a trenchcoat

CaptainCece said:
"more accessible"

That's a deadass tropical forest in the middle of a cafe which unholy deity do these architects even worship?
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Kyubey. People keep thinking that you can´t wish good enough under it´s system, but the truth is that it´s easy as long as you think like an architect.
 
CaptainCece said:
"more accessible"

That's a deadass tropical forest in the middle of a cafe which unholy deity do these architects even worship?
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I mean, place I used to work for had a green wall like that in a meeting room (the other three walls was one glass (with curtains), one with a screen display and one was mobile and opened up into a larger meeting/lunch room). Basically, it's a lot of individual overlapping elements of plant (or fake plant) hung on the wall.
Though, it looks kind of flat so maybe just wallpaper or screen displays?
 
memoryofglory said:
Homura's room is weird, but have you guys seen the coffee mug store from Magia Record? The Madoka universe is the Warp from 40k wearing a generic 'modern day earth' suit that's bursting at the seams.
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That's actually more plausible to me than a bunch of insane architects trying to outcompete each other.

Something would have stopped them: money, safety regulations, sanity regulations, budget of the animators drawing the fucking scene.

But all these concerns fly out the window if we consider Magic.

So, my theory is:
Mami's lived long enough in her apartment it's started warping the laws of reality to appear as a cozy smallish Japanese flat on the surface, but also have infinite rooms for friends to stay over who would never come.
Homura's always rented the same apartment over the timelines, so now it's karmically connected with her by strings of fate and becomes more and more sci-fi with each iteration. She hasn't noticed, because the same reasons as Madoka; the change was gradual and she wasn't paying attention.
Kyouko's father (destitute!) church probably started warping into a big-ass gothic cathedral sometime during her Megucaing.
Madoka's house is a giant fucking upside down chair. Nuff said.

The bigger buildings, like schools, malls, mug shops(?) are the result of all human visitors' Potential coalescing into one distinct theme.

We just need to wait for a while to confirm this theory. If, after a few months ( read decades irl ), Mami's apartment starts coloring itself in iridescent sheens of all hues, becomes detachable from the rest of the building or starts sprouting signs forbidding visitors to leave unhugged or microwave tea inside it, then I can smugly say I told you so.
 
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