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Puella Magi Tacitus Volverem Revolution

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Well, apparently Sanity involves Cthullu now... This is going to be interesting... :V
 
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4 - Dreaming Syndrome
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    • [X] Sleep. You are tired. You want to sleep. Plus you didn't want mom and dad finding you awake and lecturing the hell out of you.

    You were bushed. You had to admit, you couldn't stay awake. And besides that, you knew your parents. Your parents were stricter now that things were falling apart. The alcohol too, didn't help your nerves in the slightest. You swore to god that you were going to have a lot to deal with when you went to school tomorrow. You had gone to your light switch and flipped it off, then headed to your bed and crawled underneath the nice, warm, blankets.

    And as you slept, you dreamed. In your dreams, you saw a silver-haired magical girl, stained red of the blood of others. Her eyes were hollow, and not hollow because she couldn't see. They were hollow because they've seen so much and done horrendous things to others. The corpses were piled there, their Soul Gems smashed into powder. She drew her blade towards you. Apparently you had become a target to her.

    "Stay away from me! Please!" You screamed, fear taking over your entire being. "You killed them all...! You're a monster!!"

    "Aren't you, too, then? You're a hypocrite. You say these things, and yet you don't understand the ramifications of making a wish. You should have never made such a wish." Her blade, still dripping with blood, inched closer and closer to you.

    Your blood ran cold. You didn't know how to respond. "A magical girl shouldn't go around killing other magical girls! I know I don't get along with any of them, but... but... you can't just kill because you feel like it...!!"

    "Magical girls aren't bound to ordinary rules of humanity. You have no reason to be hesitant. If you want to survive, then kill me, why don't you? It's easy, since all you have to do is..."

    "No! I don't want to hear it!"

    You had clapped your hands over your ears, refusing to hear such a frightening thing. Her lips were still moving, uttering words that you would reject until the day you die. You would never stoop to her level. She kept moving towards you, while you moved backwards. You didn't know how to react but with horror and disgust for this magical girl who no longer regarded life. Magical girls had their differences. You could accept that. What you couldn't accept was the barbaric behavior of murder and the justifications that led this magical girl to go on a murder rampage.

    Forcefully pushing you, the silver-haired magical girl gave a stoic frown, a never-changing apathy. "...Good night." Her blade ran through you. Her face had become blurrier and blurrier... until you felt like you had disappeared.

    -

    Your alarm was the first thing that woke you up. The time had read out on your cell phone as six am. God. What a horrible nightmare. Going to high school was a pain in the morning. Considering that Akanegasaki High School started at eight-thirty on the dot, you really didn't want to go. But it was better than nothing. Getting a morning shower, and then taking care of your personal hygiene, then you got yourself into your school uniform, you had all the necessary precautions to look nice and neat, the way that your parents wanted it to be.

    "Hey, Kyubey. I'm heading off to school." You said. You didn't want to talk about your weird dream last night. That was the one thing you didn't want to be reminded of. The fact that there was a magical girl there was all too coincidental.

    "I'll come along with you. That way so no magical girls can go outright target you..." Kyubey leaped off the sill. "I'll hop on your shoulder. Nobody will even see me. Only you and other magical girls, as well as magical girl candidates can."

    That was something to good to note, you thought to yourself. As you headed out of your room, you noticed that the room was eerily silent. That was typical. Usually your father was kind, until he took to the bottle and forgot about things. But it seemed that a note was left on the fridge. You took the taped note off and read it out loud, "Tomoko. I left some breakfast for you in the fridge. Scrambled eggs and bacon you can heat up. You can toast some bread and put butter on it and head to school. I apologize that nobody was awake for you when you came home. Then again, you shouldn't be out so late in the first place. Don't do it again. Love, Dad."

    Finishing reading up the note, you clutched it and folded it up, and placing it into your bag. Maybe you could write a note back to dad, since he loved work more than his family. Then again, the problems seemed pretty complex to begin with. "Right... Even though the pair of you are slowly losing it..."

    Gathering breakfast, you had opted that you would do what you could for the day, despite your mood being quite dark. It was simple to do a routine. Once you managed to get to the train, you were off to school.

    -

    If you were to say you had friends, you didn't have many. You had acquaintances. Nothing more, nothing less. It had been a relatively quiet trip over to your high school. Kyubey and yourself didn't talk much, either. Getting to homeroom, you saw your classmates. When you stepped in, it didn't matter whether you were there or not. You felt like you were an invisible one. You knew really that wasn't the case but it wasn't too far from reality for you considering that your mother's actions surely would have to come up sooner or later.

    Despite not having many bonds, you wanted to at least have a good school life. Your wish... The wish was making you wonder what sort of power you would have. You had to think on that, considerably so. The wish of, "I wish I was strong enough so that I won't reach this point again. I want to have a will of steel that'll let me trample down my problems."

    Did that mean that your power involved some sort of superhuman strength? Or superhuman will? You had no idea. You would have to see when you actually had to transform. You nearly fell asleep. You had fallen asleep on the train of course on your way to school, but you were feeling sleepy.

    "Mornin', Tomoko-chan!"

    You were jarred awake by the chipper voice of Mari Tachibana. She was the president of the flower arranging club. She was a second-year who had ginger hair and amber eyes. A real hot-head, as you reminded yourself. She was a bit taller than you. More popular than you, as you recalled. Her and a few other people associated with you and call you their friend, although you were sure that it wasn't truly genuine. She tends to visit your homeroom often and tends to be a bit of a troublemaker.

    "Good morning, Tachibana-senpai," You quietly acknowledged.

    "Hey, that's cruel, Tomo-chan! I come here for a visit and you're being all quiet as usual?! I gotta cure you from your illness of loneliness~" Since junior high, you swore that Mari had intentionally associated with you. She constantly was overbearing, quite sisterly.

    Everyone is looking at the pair of you, too. Mari is making too much of a commotion. Everyone usually would ignore a senpai coming over to visit one of the kouhai. But you didn't want to have such a headache during the morning. Although... this could be your chance to change to make your peers see you more positively.

    -

    What do you do next?

    [] Embrace it. Mari's just being Mari and you really want to be able to at least have one happy moment.
    [] Tell Mari off. You really hate her doing this sort of thing and she's giving you a bad reputation.
    [] Just leave the room. You don't want to deal with this today.
    [] Write-in of what you do next.
     
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    • Shiranui said:
    You were jarred awake by the chipper voice of Mari Tachibana. She was the president of the flower arranging club. She was a second-year who had ginger hair and amber eyes.
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    [X] "Ah, good morning Tachibana-Senpai."
    -[X] "Could you keep it down a little, I'm not feeling too well this morning."
     
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    My votes about baby steps, she's probably going to be tentative with asserting herself since it appears her Wish wasn't overt with it's application. That and someone that might like her... *Remembers Being Tomoko is Suffering* ... It'll be good while it lasts?

    And if Tachibana ignores our request... well, we don't want her around anyway. And I think the Wish will kick in at that point, a holding our ground action against someone being a "problem".
     
    [X] Embrace it. Mari's just being Mari and you really want to be able to at least have one happy moment.

    We already greeted her Good Morning.

    This Kyubey is oddly helpful and talkative. Why is he so invested in a newbie?
     
    [X] Embrace it. Mari's just being Mari and you really want to be able to at least have one happy moment.
     


    To give you all a very fluffy, cute Kyubey. I do hope everyone enjoys the Quest so far. I really got inspired by other PMMM Quests to just come back and give it a whirl again.

    Plus Kyubey will accompany you for a large majority of the Quest, too. So there is that. :3
     
    [X] Embrace it. Mari's just being Mari and you really want to be able to at least have one happy moment.
     
    [X] Embrace it. Mari's just being Mari and you really want to be able to at least have one happy moment.

    Get as much hugz as we can. Everything will go into maximum grief overdrive in due time.
     
    Huehuehue. That'll be the fun part~ ☆

    Alright I am gonna say I will close up votes at some point. So if you want to vote, now is the time.
     
    I wonder if @AnonymousRabbit will vote actually? I was kind of curious because they were the one that had Tomoko for the win...Maybe I shouldn't be too hasty in finishing vote tallies up...
     
    Oh no! We need to save you from that right away but I haven't made a contract with Kyubey to do so...! I'll keep votes open for ya, Rabbit. It'd be a shame if you got to miss out having your say in this story post.

    To comfort you, I give you a Kyubey chibi, Rabbit:

     
    [X] Embrace it. Mari's just being Mari and you really want to be able to at least have one happy moment.
     
    Ohhhh~ By the way, if you have a curiosity about Tomoko's family and how it's falling apart and you think, oh, this is it...? It gets much worse than that. And that's all I'm gonna say. :V

    But don't worry, everything's fine right now. Tomoko isn't all about suffering. We can have fun as well~
     
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    Ah, what the hey. I'll just keep voting open for the day and I'll close around when I feel there's ample enough votes. That means that anyone who wants to vote, can vote. That includes @AnonymousRabbit so that way you don't have to feel pressured by work to vote quickly.

    We're no rush and voting shouldn't be like a race after all.
     
    Alright, can somebody do a tally for me please? I know the answer already, but I want to make it official and because I need to pick back up on the ball about tallies. :V

    EDIT: ...On second thought now looking over, a tally isn't really needed this time around. I'll write up the story post. Votes are closed.
     
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    5 - Magical Girl Allies...?
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    • [X] Embrace it. Mari's just being Mari and you really want to be able to at least have one happy moment.

    "Alright, alright." You chimed in. "I surrender your will, Mari-senpai."

    Mari's eyes glittered with joy at this and she practically took you into a bear hug. "Yaaaaaaaaaay! I got Tomo-chan's approval! I'm queen of the world~"

    "C-Calm down... It's alright for a hug, but you're... squeezing me..." You swore that your lungs were going to pop at this rate.

    Blinking, Mari nodded. "You're right. I'll be more gentle. Tomo-chan doesn't want to be squished! Too early in the morning for that."

    That... did for a moment, you manage to convince her with your words alone? No. It was just normal telling her off. It was a normal thing. But your wish wasn't like that. It involved strength. It wouldn't make sense. You hugged her and then Mari was the one wincing.

    "Are you concentrating on hugging me lots, hahaha...? Because you are hurting me now..." Mari said with a quiet for a moment.

    "S-Sorry, s-senpai...!"

    Mari chuckled. "I was kiddin', Tomo-chan! You'd be surprised on how strong I am!"

    Everyone in class glared for a moment. Then burst out laughing, considering how your senpai had tricked you. You laughed slightly as well. It was good to have a hug. It was a long time since anyone had, really. You never thought that for a girl who was a year ahead of you to be so energetic over the smallest of things. You thought when people get older, they would change and mature and become cooler... some people never changed, you guessed.

    You really didn't have the time to confirm how Mari was doing, since the bell rung. This caused Mari to rush out of the room and head back to her own homeroom. Although, didn't she look like she was wincing in pain as she left? No matter. You could talk to her later about it during club, perhaps.

    "Say, Tomoko." Kyubey had spoken up, in telepathy, no less. "Wouldn't you like more friends to be a magical girl with you...?"

    You paused. More friends? And as magical girls, too? It was a suspicious thing. And plus, all considering... Kyubey seemed trustworthy to you, although you couldn't really say for sure whether you know this to be a reality or a fantasy. A magical messenger should be something to be regarded as suspicious to normal people. Yet here you were trusting it. Like it wasn't a problem with you. Like it didn't matter. Shouldn't you be more wary?

    ...Well, Kyubey was the only one who really understood you, anyways.

    Having Mari around was interesting. In the end, it felt like you wanted to crush her in her arms, but overall, she wasn't too bad. At least she wasn't the student council president. Then you were positive that you wouldn't be able to enjoy your position there, too. You served as a secretary there, too. You preferred flower arranging more, though. Not to mention that your input was vastly ignored. You were used to it and most would think it would hurt you. It did. It always did.

    Your day had been passing smoothly though, after that incident. Some remarked that you were strange for hugging back your senpai. Some thought that Mari was in pain when she left the room. Others just assumed it was just nothing and didn't really think about it much. After all, Mari did all sorts of hugs, including bear hugs. They probably had suspected that one day somebody would dish back what she had deserved.

    Again, normally since your senpai was the one that interacted with you. You remembered that you were pretty much the only first-year - no, that's wrong. There was another person. Hanayo Chigusa, a first-year who attended flower-arranging quietly, and she was much better than you. Her dark green hair that was kept in plaids and she wore black, thick-rimmed glasses. Her pupils were of a bright sky blue. As far as you can recall ever since you attended school together, she never spoke. Not even once. She had to use sign language to communicate.

    "Friends..." That word was muttered under your breath, a word that felt so unfamiliar and alien to you. It was a strange concept. Friendship was to bound together by other people. People who were supposed to understand you. You wanted to have that same connection. You wanted to be the one that connected everyone together to you.

    Of course, there was a first-year vice president in the student council. The smart, analytical type, Minami Fujimura. You swore she was a like a human computer to you. Her lilac colored hair that was down to her shoulders and her amethyst eyes that were sparkling and full of life. Minami was the type of person that you didn't like the most. You could tolerate Mari and Hanayo never spoke anyways, so there was that. It was the way that Minami made you feel. Like you were insignificant. Like she was so much smarter than you. You weren't sure if the pair of you would see eye to eye, really. Yet perhaps there was a chance to bond with her... you had no clue.

    Mari, your senpai, even though you had described her as a girl with ginger hair and amber eyes, her ginger hair was long and wild like her. Nearly containable hair, in fact, considering that the faculty at one point insisted that she do something about her hair or be sent home for the day. Hence why she wore a ponytail at school. She always got herself into trouble though considering she always went into your homeroom and decided that hugging you was appropriate during school hours. You had to wonder why, to be honest. You weren't special enough to garner attention from her.

    "It's lunch time, students."

    With that, everyone who hadn't gotten their lunches were heading to get bread or whatever, you always had your lunch with you anyways, so there was really no need for you to get something to eat. You had to make all your meals yourself, minus your drink. Today's meal was fried chicken, rice, two boiled eggs, potato salad, miso soup, and milk. Since it was lunch time, you had a bit more freedom in the building. Which was nice. You had considered eating outside but it looked like it was going to rain again. Meaning everyone will be inside for today.

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    Kyubey has told you that you should start getting magical girls to your side. Who to pick to talk to and spend lunch with? You might get an ally...

    [] Mari Tachibana, the second-year big sister type senpai. Although she hugs a lot and seems to spoil you, you figure things might be easy with her...
    [] Hanayo Chigusa, the first-year's silent participant in the flower arranging club. She always is alone at lunchtime... maybe you could chat with her.
    [] Minami Fujimura, the first-year student council vice president. You don't get along with her, but things can change. Maybe you might get along with her.
    [] Pick somebody else.
    [] Don't spend lunchtime with anyone. How can you approach them with a proposition of a magical girl from Kyubey, the messenger of magic...?
     
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    • Shiranui said:
    Kyubey seemed trustworthy to you, although you couldn't really say for sure whether you know this to be a reality or a fantasy. A magical messenger should be something to be regarded as suspicious to normal people. Yet here you were trusting it. Like it wasn't a problem with you. Like it didn't matter. Shouldn't you be more wary?

    ...Well, Kyubey was the only one who really understood you, anyways.
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    Getting Mami vibes here. :V

    [x] Hanayo Chigusa, the first-year's silent participant in the flower arranging club. She always is alone at lunchtime... maybe you could chat with her.

     
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