Renascence: A Homura Quest
- Thread starter Higure
- Start date
- Crossover Fantasy Mystery
- Location
- Your Native Universe
Sayaka's existence is a suffering one.
[X] Be honest, but hold back some. No need to give her more too process. (Ego Roll Required. DC 60.)
Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
- Location
- Brazil
That settles it, then.
I'd vote for trying to omit some things, but I think being honest from the start will be better in the long run.
[X] Be honest.
Random Tale
The Story-Bound
@Higure , I think we need these Omake bonuses applied to Homura soon. I think Comfortingly Calm is needed fast.
Also,
[X] Be honest, but hold back some. No need to give her more too process. (Ego Roll Required. DC 60.)
-[X] Let her know that there is more, but that we'll tell her later once she has had time to process what we have told her so far.
Hyp3rB14d3
Gotta catch 'em all!
[jk] Kiss her.
[x] Transform.
[x] Stop time.
[x] Retrieve an ice cream cone.
[x] Transform back.
[x] Be honest.
[x] Transform.
[x] Stop time.
[x] Retrieve an ice cream cone.
[x] Transform back.
[x] Be honest.
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- Location
- California Conservation Corps
- Pronouns
- She/Her
As tempting as that would be, I feel that it ruins the moment. Though we might as well come clean. There aren't really any half measures here. Either we go all in and be completely honest or we lie our ass off. I vote for the former.
[x] Be honest.
- Location
- Your Native Universe
As much as being completely honest would be the best option in some cases, being it in Sayaka's case does not work with her fantastic mental state at the moment. There's a reason why Sayaka ends up witching the most. It's because she reacts the most like a human would out of the entire cast. She does have limits, and she can break if she is pushed too hard all at once. If Homura tells her everything and Sayaka just breaks, we just wrecked Sayaka for a loop unless Madoka decides to with it away. Easing her into it would probably be safer.
Edit: Granted, I may be slightly overparanoid about the consequences.
Edit: Granted, I may be slightly overparanoid about the consequences.
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Actually this is the best time to drop some crazy sh*t on Sayaka, because she hasn't made a contract yet and is in no danger of Witching out.
That said, I'm really not liking the "Be honest" vote here, not because of Sayaka, but because of Homura. If Homura were not a magical girl it'd be fine, but we need to keep in mind that Homura is insane, and is only staying out of Witchdom by deliberately shying away from the weight of centuries of failure. She doesn't have the luxury of being able to have a breakthrough moment, the way a normal girl would in this case. That's the real tragedy behind Homura in the first place: even the process of healing is too much for her, and will cause her to witch out.
[X] Be honest, but hold back some. No need to give her more too process. (Ego Roll Required. DC 60.)
Crow
Falling is a Pleasure. Regardless of its Fate
I think for a moment, looking at my surroundings and confirming the situation.
Good, no one in sight, for now.
Taking a deep breath, I start talking. It is already too late to pull back and lying does nothing but hurt my relationship with Sayaka.
"Because I can't stop, because stopping would mean giving up... and would make everything I endured, everything I did-"
Deep breaths, Homura, just like you taught yourself... panicking now will accomplish nothing.
Almost unconsciously I look at my own hands... and recoil as I see them painted red.
"D-don't make me do this!"
"I'm only saving you from our cruel fate... in the end we were just Kyubey´s mere puppets, huh?"
"Tomoe-san!"
-Bang-
I jump and can feel my face rapidly paling, throughout the loops... I have killed, again and again and again, I killed both my friends.
"You killed her! We were going to save her!!"
"H-Homura-chan..."
"There was nothing that could have been done... once the soul gem becomes tainted, the Puella Magi dies and from her tattered soul a Witch is born."
"YOU!!"
My allies and teachers.
"It didn't have to be this way..."
"Heh, watcha crying for Ribbons? This is a dog-eats-dog kinda world, honestly going out this way... isn't bad at all."
"Kyoko."
"Nothing more to say, go on."
Whether I myself pulled the trigger or because of my weakness, I saw them fall.
"DON'T GET IN MY WAY TRANSFER STUDENT!"
"Don't think you know what you´re dealing with here, Miki Sayaka! Either join me or scram! You have no right to judge my actions!"
Over and over, even if I forged bonds with them...
"You... did it meant anything? The time we spent?"
"As I thought, we are just destined to suffer... I'll end you myself here and then kill myself... Homura."
A warm hand touches mine and I realized that I closed my eyes unconsciously, covered in sweat, I manage a shaky smirk as I keep talking.
"It would become... meaningless. If I stop I would fall apart... and wont be able to glue myself back together... even if I tried to forge bonds I-"
"I was such a fool to believe in you! Do you even care!?"
"Always end up burning them...."
"Do it... please... stop the foolish me..."
"I have invested and sacrificed too much of myself to stop or hesitate, even if I must become inhuman, I MUST achieve my goals."
My breathing stabilized, I forget about the personae I crafted to interact with this interation of Sayaka Miki as my ideals reassert themselves, from deep within me the flames of my passion ignite once again just like my namesake... the name she liked so much.
Something must have shown in my eyes because Sayaka looks at me dumbfounded for a moment.
Looking at her and past her I declare my intentions firmly, like an oath of old...
"Even if I break down and everything I am gets burned to ashes... I will save them, this time for sure."
Author´s Note: Okay you probably can recognize what this is alluding to(and for some reason I always end up writing these kind of pieces...need to expand a little)
Of course its not a healthy mindset for HomuHomu to have but...well those kind of mindsets are necessary to survive such hardships.....
Not sure about the quality of it or if its even interesting and I do have some other more interesting ideas but I just had to write this down as soon as I read the update you know?
Are you serious?
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Um, yes? This Sayaka never made a contract with an Incubator; she was given a sword instead. She has crossover abilities now; she might not even be able to make a contract anymore.
Crow
Falling is a Pleasure. Regardless of its Fate
I didnt mean that, I know all that(disregarding your assumptions)
I meant if you´re really serious in thinking you can throw traumatic shit at a person again and again without expecting consequences.
This is a critical moment between Homura and Sayaka. To Homura, Sayaka is the one who dies; the one who fails; the one who breaks. The one who always, ultimately, rejects her.
But this time.. This Sayaka is different. Why she's different doesn't really compute. But she's... a friend. Maybe. Moreso than any Sayaka she can remember.
Homura still, even now, expects Sayaka to turn on her, to reject her. And now she's being asked to explain herself?
Sayaka's demand for an explanation.. in any other time, Homura would have just refused to answer, as there is nothing to be gained from it, and nothing that Sayaka would listen to or accept. Even now, it would be so easy to do...
Can Homura tell Sayaka the truth? Will Sayaka not break? She's already trembling from what she saw, and admitted that she didn't even really grasp it all. What would happen to her if Homura told her to whole truth? What would happen to Homura, if she opened up and truly explained herself.
She didn't even tell Kyouko that much.
But...
"... besides, I'm not alone. I have you and Sayaka, right?"
...
...
[x] Be honest.
But this time.. This Sayaka is different. Why she's different doesn't really compute. But she's... a friend. Maybe. Moreso than any Sayaka she can remember.
Homura still, even now, expects Sayaka to turn on her, to reject her. And now she's being asked to explain herself?
Sayaka's demand for an explanation.. in any other time, Homura would have just refused to answer, as there is nothing to be gained from it, and nothing that Sayaka would listen to or accept. Even now, it would be so easy to do...
Can Homura tell Sayaka the truth? Will Sayaka not break? She's already trembling from what she saw, and admitted that she didn't even really grasp it all. What would happen to her if Homura told her to whole truth? What would happen to Homura, if she opened up and truly explained herself.
She didn't even tell Kyouko that much.
But...
"... besides, I'm not alone. I have you and Sayaka, right?"
...
...
[x] Be honest.
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Consequences, sure. Critically, though, the consequences in this case will be more like crying, and will not include, "Turn into a Grief monster and attempt to slaughter hundreds of innocent people."
BlackHadou
Bunny-Sensei
Or, you know, Sayaka's brain snapping, her deciding not to associate with us, or any number of other choices she could make.
She'd already SEEN worse though. Hearing it wouldn't do anything like the kind of damage needed to compare to it.
Homura is not very good at lying as you can see from the difficulties, and we have no idea how much she had already seen firsthand. Any deception is largely doomed due to that, we're trying to cover up when we have no idea what she had already seen.
The Comforting perk would be immensely useful here.
Entropy Judge
Recurring Bouts of Misanthropy
The phrasing sounds more like "If we're going to tell Sayaka anything, now (relatively speaking) is as good a time as any, because XYZ." And I think he's got a point - we can either dribble things out for her at a pace that seems safe, but takes forever, or we can start opening up, as much for Homura's sake as for Sayaka's. Homura has been avoiding herself, and Sayaka's got a point in that Homura isn't right in the head. She's been doing this so long, been through so much, that she's got issues. If this weren't coming right before our meeting with Madoka and Kyouko, I'd say to Be Honest, but frankly I'm more worried about what potential backlash that's going to have on Homura rather than how it affects Sayaka. So I'm sitting between 'Be Honest' and 'Refuse to Answer,' because the former is what I think Homura should do, but the latter is what I think is going to let us have the conversation over dinner, especially since Being Honest is likely going to open some wounds and rub them raw, and then having to talk more about them in a short while is probably not going to do her much good.
BlackHadou
Bunny-Sensei
It is like day 4. You are rushing. This isn't the sort of shit one confronts at breakneck pace.
At this speed, Homura won't make it to the end of this loop.
[X] Be honest, but hold back some. No need to give her more too process. (Ego Roll Required. DC 60.)
I'd go for refusal to answer, but it's not likely to win unfortunatelly.
Also, i personally would like to include something akin to "because of you among other reasons" or "because of yours and those of others reactions among main reasons" because she simply deserves it.
I'd go for refusal to answer, but it's not likely to win unfortunatelly.
Also, i personally would like to include something akin to "because of you among other reasons" or "because of yours and those of others reactions among main reasons" because she simply deserves it.