Puella Magi - Memento Mori (PMMM quest)
Muramasa
Best Girl
[x] Mariko, what you saw back there was... someone being exempted from my curse. Jocelyn wouldn't notice me. He couldn't until I spoke with him.
[x] That's what the curse is. It makes everyone around me think I'm not there or I'm not important enough to warrant attention. Everyone ignored me. It was like I didn't exist.
[x] At first I thought I'd done something very wrong, and that caused everyone to leave but I couldn't think of anything that'd be so bad that it'd drive everyone away; that it was bad enough that no one at school or anyone I tried to speak to would look my way. It took Uncle and Miss Cathy to show me the truth. That what I was going through wasn't natural. That it was magic that made me this way. But I didn't know about that until only recently.
[x] It's been like this for over two and a half years. My uncle, my sister, my friends... It didn't matter. Everyone was effected by the curse. My uncle staying with me like this? That's just a recent thing. I lived here alone for a very long time.
[x] And I would've continued to be alone... had mister Kyubey not approached me.
[x] I made my wish then. To be someone who matters to others. It's how we could meet and speak to each other like this. It's given me the chance to make new friends and reconnect with my old. It's how I've slowly been able to take my life back.
[x] That's what the curse is. It makes everyone around me think I'm not there or I'm not important enough to warrant attention. Everyone ignored me. It was like I didn't exist.
[x] At first I thought I'd done something very wrong, and that caused everyone to leave but I couldn't think of anything that'd be so bad that it'd drive everyone away; that it was bad enough that no one at school or anyone I tried to speak to would look my way. It took Uncle and Miss Cathy to show me the truth. That what I was going through wasn't natural. That it was magic that made me this way. But I didn't know about that until only recently.
[x] It's been like this for over two and a half years. My uncle, my sister, my friends... It didn't matter. Everyone was effected by the curse. My uncle staying with me like this? That's just a recent thing. I lived here alone for a very long time.
[x] And I would've continued to be alone... had mister Kyubey not approached me.
[x] I made my wish then. To be someone who matters to others. It's how we could meet and speak to each other like this. It's given me the chance to make new friends and reconnect with my old. It's how I've slowly been able to take my life back.
- Location
- Head in the clouds
[x] Muramasa
[x] Always Muramasa
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
[x] Muramasa
Chapter 2 - The day that no one wanted 29
DrZiztah
Mumu
- Location
- Europa
[x] Mariko, what you saw back there was... someone being exempted from my curse. Jocelyn wouldn't notice me. He couldn't until I spoke with him.
[x] That's what the curse is. It makes everyone around me think I'm not there or I'm not important enough to warrant attention. Everyone ignored me. It was like I didn't exist.
[x] At first I thought I'd done something very wrong, and that caused everyone to leave but I couldn't think of anything that'd be so bad that it'd drive everyone away; that it was bad enough that no one at school or anyone I tried to speak to would look my way. It took Uncle and Miss Cathy to show me the truth. That what I was going through wasn't natural. That it was magic that made me this way. But I didn't know about that until only recently.
[x] It's been like this for over two and a half years. My uncle, my sister, my friends... It didn't matter. Everyone was effected by the curse. My uncle staying with me like this? That's just a recent thing. I lived here alone for a very long time.
[x] And I would've continued to be alone... had mister Kyubey not approached me.
[x] I made my wish then. To be someone who matters to others. It's how we could meet and speak to each other like this. It's given me the chance to make new friends and reconnect with my old. It's how I've slowly been able to take my life back.
You inhale deeply to set yourself for everything that's about to happen, and begin with an exhale laced with forced calmness. "Mariko, what you saw back at Evelyn's was… someone being exempted from my curse."
There's no going back now, the genie's out of the bottle. And in a way, you can now follow through with everything else on the back of the gathered momentum.
"Curse?" Ariane asks out loud, looking perplexed at the concept. "What even happened while I wasn't there?"
"...Evelyn's brother turned really weird when Tamiko talked with him," Mariko answers. "His eyes glossed over for a second or two, and he went very stiff. It was, frankly speaking, damned creepy. Especially immediately afterwards when he seemed to go back to normal, as if nothing had happened."
"That's how it works, I can't help it," you explain hurriedly. Your body is trembling a little already. "But before that, Jocelyn wouldn't notice me; he couldn't before I spoke with him." Your gaze is drawn to your socks, and you bite your lips before continuing, your voice more quiet and reserved than before.
"That's what the curse is. It makes me disappear. It makes everyone around me think I'm not there, or that I'm not important enough to warrant attention, I can't tell." Both of your friends seem to have decided on a heavy silence as they try to digest everything. "Everyone ignored me, it was like I didn't exist at all!"
You try, but fail to lift your gaze from the floor. Your hair falls on your eyes from the movement, and you fiddle your fingers apprehensively. "A-at first… I thought I'd done something very wrong, and that I made everyone leave. I-I couldn't figure out what it could be; what could be so bad that no one in the school - or anywhere - would ever talk back to me? Why wouldn't they even look at me!?"
You hadn't even noticed the way that your body turned tense as you went on. You draw in another deep breath, and let it out. Then you inhale again, and again. You can get through this. It feels like you're about to cry already, but you press on against the heaviness on your heart, and the doubts in your mind.
"It took my Uncle and Miss Cathy to show me the truth - that my situation wasn't natural, that it was magic that made me this way… B-but even that was only recently," you say quietly. Your cheeks feel wet. "I-it's been like this for… Two and half years, I think?" You don't want to remember them.
"My uncle, my friends… my sister," it slips from you before you can stop yourself, and already your mind slips and crashes to darker places. "I-it didn't matter, nothing matters! E-everyone was affected. My uncle living here like this? H-happened only recently. I've been all alone here, and would have continued to be… w-well, if it wasn't for Mr. Kyubey."
You draw your legs on your bed, and hug them with everything you have. Your knees seem to become more and more drenched with this. "I-I made a wish. I-I… I-I wished to be someone who matters to others. It's the reason we can meet and speak to each other like this. I-It's what's given me a chance to make new friends and reconnect with old ones. I-it's the lifeline letting me take my life back."
Or whatever's left of it anymore. Illusions and deceit, all of it
Someone shuffles around, and you hear a few light steps in the suddenly dead quiet room. You don't dare look up. Are they leaving you because of this? Did you scare them by being so weird?
"Tamiko?" Ariane's voice lightens up the shadowy silence. Immediately after, you're wobbled by her crashing onto your bed. Off-balance, you're forced to notice how she's edged closer to you. Her face is almost touching yours, when she speaks up again. "Here's what we're going to do…"
The girl steals a page out of your book, and wraps her arms around you in a tight, crushing hug. "Before all else, you're going to clear those eyes of yours. You can't see the sun like that! And until then, I'll be here... I'll be here for as long as you need. So just let it all go, you're not here alone."
There's movement to your other side, and the mattress of your bed is once more twisted underneath another weight on it. You don't need to check to know it's Mariko sitting there. "...What she said." She doesn't seem to have any words she can tell you right now.
What do you do?
[] Write-in.
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Well, the next update is going to have your friends asking some questions too
. But now it's mostly therapy.
[x] That's what the curse is. It makes everyone around me think I'm not there or I'm not important enough to warrant attention. Everyone ignored me. It was like I didn't exist.
[x] At first I thought I'd done something very wrong, and that caused everyone to leave but I couldn't think of anything that'd be so bad that it'd drive everyone away; that it was bad enough that no one at school or anyone I tried to speak to would look my way. It took Uncle and Miss Cathy to show me the truth. That what I was going through wasn't natural. That it was magic that made me this way. But I didn't know about that until only recently.
[x] It's been like this for over two and a half years. My uncle, my sister, my friends... It didn't matter. Everyone was effected by the curse. My uncle staying with me like this? That's just a recent thing. I lived here alone for a very long time.
[x] And I would've continued to be alone... had mister Kyubey not approached me.
[x] I made my wish then. To be someone who matters to others. It's how we could meet and speak to each other like this. It's given me the chance to make new friends and reconnect with my old. It's how I've slowly been able to take my life back.
You inhale deeply to set yourself for everything that's about to happen, and begin with an exhale laced with forced calmness. "Mariko, what you saw back at Evelyn's was… someone being exempted from my curse."
There's no going back now, the genie's out of the bottle. And in a way, you can now follow through with everything else on the back of the gathered momentum.
"Curse?" Ariane asks out loud, looking perplexed at the concept. "What even happened while I wasn't there?"
"...Evelyn's brother turned really weird when Tamiko talked with him," Mariko answers. "His eyes glossed over for a second or two, and he went very stiff. It was, frankly speaking, damned creepy. Especially immediately afterwards when he seemed to go back to normal, as if nothing had happened."
"That's how it works, I can't help it," you explain hurriedly. Your body is trembling a little already. "But before that, Jocelyn wouldn't notice me; he couldn't before I spoke with him." Your gaze is drawn to your socks, and you bite your lips before continuing, your voice more quiet and reserved than before.
"That's what the curse is. It makes me disappear. It makes everyone around me think I'm not there, or that I'm not important enough to warrant attention, I can't tell." Both of your friends seem to have decided on a heavy silence as they try to digest everything. "Everyone ignored me, it was like I didn't exist at all!"
You try, but fail to lift your gaze from the floor. Your hair falls on your eyes from the movement, and you fiddle your fingers apprehensively. "A-at first… I thought I'd done something very wrong, and that I made everyone leave. I-I couldn't figure out what it could be; what could be so bad that no one in the school - or anywhere - would ever talk back to me? Why wouldn't they even look at me!?"
You hadn't even noticed the way that your body turned tense as you went on. You draw in another deep breath, and let it out. Then you inhale again, and again. You can get through this. It feels like you're about to cry already, but you press on against the heaviness on your heart, and the doubts in your mind.
"It took my Uncle and Miss Cathy to show me the truth - that my situation wasn't natural, that it was magic that made me this way… B-but even that was only recently," you say quietly. Your cheeks feel wet. "I-it's been like this for… Two and half years, I think?" You don't want to remember them.
"My uncle, my friends… my sister," it slips from you before you can stop yourself, and already your mind slips and crashes to darker places. "I-it didn't matter, nothing matters! E-everyone was affected. My uncle living here like this? H-happened only recently. I've been all alone here, and would have continued to be… w-well, if it wasn't for Mr. Kyubey."
You draw your legs on your bed, and hug them with everything you have. Your knees seem to become more and more drenched with this. "I-I made a wish. I-I… I-I wished to be someone who matters to others. It's the reason we can meet and speak to each other like this. I-It's what's given me a chance to make new friends and reconnect with old ones. I-it's the lifeline letting me take my life back."
Or whatever's left of it anymore. Illusions and deceit, all of it
Someone shuffles around, and you hear a few light steps in the suddenly dead quiet room. You don't dare look up. Are they leaving you because of this? Did you scare them by being so weird?
"Tamiko?" Ariane's voice lightens up the shadowy silence. Immediately after, you're wobbled by her crashing onto your bed. Off-balance, you're forced to notice how she's edged closer to you. Her face is almost touching yours, when she speaks up again. "Here's what we're going to do…"
The girl steals a page out of your book, and wraps her arms around you in a tight, crushing hug. "Before all else, you're going to clear those eyes of yours. You can't see the sun like that! And until then, I'll be here... I'll be here for as long as you need. So just let it all go, you're not here alone."
There's movement to your other side, and the mattress of your bed is once more twisted underneath another weight on it. You don't need to check to know it's Mariko sitting there. "...What she said." She doesn't seem to have any words she can tell you right now.
What do you do?
[] Write-in.
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Well, the next update is going to have your friends asking some questions too
. But now it's mostly therapy.
- Location
- Head in the clouds
- Location
- Florida
1. Try not to cry
2. Cry
2. Cry
[jk] hug contest, comfy war never changes
- Location
- Europe
[X] Thank them both, for listening and for being good friends.
-[x] Hug them both.
-[x] Cry a little until you feel better.
-[x] Hug them both.
-[x] Cry a little until you feel better.
Spectral Waltz
Scatterbrained Writer
- Location
- Walking the Endless Corridors
[X] Thank them both, for listening and for being good friends.
-[x] Hug them both.
-[x] Cry a little until you feel better.
-[x] Hug them both.
-[x] Cry a little until you feel better.
Thebigpieman
I've got this, I think.
- Location
- United States
[X] Thank them both, for listening and for being good friends.
-[x] Hug them both.
-[x] Cry a little until you feel better.
Eesh, of all Tami's friends I'd say that Mariko and Ariane are the loneliest of them, especially considering the circumstances of our involvement with them. You have to wonder how many flags Tami's confession raised between the two of them.
-[x] Hug them both.
-[x] Cry a little until you feel better.
Eesh, of all Tami's friends I'd say that Mariko and Ariane are the loneliest of them, especially considering the circumstances of our involvement with them. You have to wonder how many flags Tami's confession raised between the two of them.
- Location
- Florida
[X] Thank them both, for listening and for being good friends.
-[x] Hug them both.
-[x] Cry a little until you fell better.
Pretty much sums it up for me.
-[x] Hug them both.
-[x] Cry a little until you fell better.
Pretty much sums it up for me.
- Location
- Earth
I have to admit, this is starting to lose its sting.
Do not get me wrong, the conversation is well-written and all... but this is the... third? Maybe fourth time we had to talk about the very same thing, in almost the very same words, with the very same reactions.
Which makes sense in a way, but does not really feel fitting in a narrative sense anymore. It gets repetetive.
Do not get me wrong, the conversation is well-written and all... but this is the... third? Maybe fourth time we had to talk about the very same thing, in almost the very same words, with the very same reactions.
Which makes sense in a way, but does not really feel fitting in a narrative sense anymore. It gets repetetive.
Muramasa
Best Girl
Granted this isn't a conversation I'd like to have repeatedly (that's just how things turned out by timing and circumstance) but it's kinda at the core of Tamiko's conflict. By it's very nature, she'd have to face this issue a lot since it's all around her and unavoidable. Given that this was Tamiko's friends and part of her core group, a full explanation of the curse was warranted and fitting. Though I do agree there are circumstances that a brief explanation would be preferable over having full disclosure.
Urgh it could be better the vote I mean.
Honesty the scene is a bit weaken since we did have it with the others before.
[x] Cry and hug them both tighter for a while
-[x] Thank you Ariane, I want to see the Sun with you by my side forever.
---[x] Same goes for you Mariko for its brighter with you here too.
----[X] Thank them both again, for listening and for being good friends.
Giving this a more personal touch, directly to them not a general direction.
Being emotional you always thank them repeatedly due to intense gratefulness.
Was going to add something about Mariko's issue to link it but its Tamiko's story.
Honesty the scene is a bit weaken since we did have it with the others before.
[x] Cry and hug them both tighter for a while
-[x] Thank you Ariane, I want to see the Sun with you by my side forever.
---[x] Same goes for you Mariko for its brighter with you here too.
----[X] Thank them both again, for listening and for being good friends.
Giving this a more personal touch, directly to them not a general direction.
Being emotional you always thank them repeatedly due to intense gratefulness.
Was going to add something about Mariko's issue to link it but its Tamiko's story.
Chapter 2 - The day that no one wanted 30
DrZiztah
Mumu
- Location
- Europa
[X] Thank them both, for listening and for being good friends.
-[x] Hug them both.
-[x] Cry a little until you feel better.
"Th-thank you..." you force the words out as a coarse whisper. It's strange that despite the heaviness of it all, you feel somewhat relieved now, as if a weight had been lifted off your burdened heart. It's doubtful this is going to be the last you tell of the curse to anyone, true, but it is a milestone for telling the last of your friends.
There is no more holding this secret from your friends. Perhaps you could even say that you've now officially overcome the worst of it.
You let your feet drop back on the floor, and bring your sleeve to your eyes. You wipe them clean with a hasty sweep, and follow up by wrapping your arms around your friends next to you. "Thank you for listening, a-and… just being there, for being the best friends I could ever ask for. C-can I just-?"
Mariko allows this for now, and forces down any grumbling about the sudden physical contact. She seems to have decided to let Ariane handle the talking here.
"Take as long as you need," Ariane tells you with a small smile.
So you let yourself cry it out to your friends with quiet sniffles. It's not as overwhelming as the times you've had to do this before, but it's a relief to do it all the same. And it doesn't take long for you to feel better again, and fall quiet.
"Do you feel better now?" Ariane chimes at you.
"...Yeah. Thank you, again, I-"
"It's no biggie! That's what friends are for, right?" Ariane cuts you off. "But still… That's all so mind-boggling. And terrifying too."
"That's putting it pretty damn mildly," Mariko pans from your other side. "Magic can really pull some crap over people like no other, huh?"
"But it can be good too!" Ariane fires back without any delay. "But who would do something like that, and why?"
"I don't even know," you answer in a low voice, and shake your head. "It could be anyone, or anything. Maybe it was just someone making a cruel prank, maybe someone just hated me that much, maybe it was collateral effects from something. I have nothing."
Mariko frowns heavily, and for a moment she seems like she might want to say something to that. You can't tell why, but she appears to decide against it at the last second. She seemed almost invested for a moment there, but instead she diverts the conversation to another topic entirely.
"By the way, you said you have a sister?" Mariko asks off-hand. You freeze immediately at the words, as all your thoughts are pulled to a screeching halt. You probably would have had to explain that to Mariko before the trip, but you would have really preferred to do it at your own initiative.
"Yeah, you mentioned that here," Ariane adds with a speculative frown. "You don't live together, though… Is she your big sister?"
What do you do?
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In which Mariko continues to ruin everything forever.
-[x] Hug them both.
-[x] Cry a little until you feel better.
"Th-thank you..." you force the words out as a coarse whisper. It's strange that despite the heaviness of it all, you feel somewhat relieved now, as if a weight had been lifted off your burdened heart. It's doubtful this is going to be the last you tell of the curse to anyone, true, but it is a milestone for telling the last of your friends.
There is no more holding this secret from your friends. Perhaps you could even say that you've now officially overcome the worst of it.
You let your feet drop back on the floor, and bring your sleeve to your eyes. You wipe them clean with a hasty sweep, and follow up by wrapping your arms around your friends next to you. "Thank you for listening, a-and… just being there, for being the best friends I could ever ask for. C-can I just-?"
Mariko allows this for now, and forces down any grumbling about the sudden physical contact. She seems to have decided to let Ariane handle the talking here.
"Take as long as you need," Ariane tells you with a small smile.
So you let yourself cry it out to your friends with quiet sniffles. It's not as overwhelming as the times you've had to do this before, but it's a relief to do it all the same. And it doesn't take long for you to feel better again, and fall quiet.
"Do you feel better now?" Ariane chimes at you.
"...Yeah. Thank you, again, I-"
"It's no biggie! That's what friends are for, right?" Ariane cuts you off. "But still… That's all so mind-boggling. And terrifying too."
"That's putting it pretty damn mildly," Mariko pans from your other side. "Magic can really pull some crap over people like no other, huh?"
"But it can be good too!" Ariane fires back without any delay. "But who would do something like that, and why?"
"I don't even know," you answer in a low voice, and shake your head. "It could be anyone, or anything. Maybe it was just someone making a cruel prank, maybe someone just hated me that much, maybe it was collateral effects from something. I have nothing."
Mariko frowns heavily, and for a moment she seems like she might want to say something to that. You can't tell why, but she appears to decide against it at the last second. She seemed almost invested for a moment there, but instead she diverts the conversation to another topic entirely.
"By the way, you said you have a sister?" Mariko asks off-hand. You freeze immediately at the words, as all your thoughts are pulled to a screeching halt. You probably would have had to explain that to Mariko before the trip, but you would have really preferred to do it at your own initiative.
"Yeah, you mentioned that here," Ariane adds with a speculative frown. "You don't live together, though… Is she your big sister?"
What do you do?
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In which Mariko continues to ruin everything forever.
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