- Location
- Wayland, Massachusetts
oh yeah, the fake vote:
[X] "I wish for the power to destroy the witch that stole my friends away!"
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[X] "I wish for the power to destroy the witch that stole my friends away!"
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Subsumption (PMMM Faux-Quest) (Witch MC)
Metroidwave
Strength To Lean On
- Location
- Somewhere in Colorado
Is that some invisitext I spy?
Also assuming this would give Ash a non-time travel way to rationalize just why there's (probably) a Sayaka and Mami walking around when she sees them.
[X] "I wish that everyone who was taken by that witch was here with me now, alive and safe!" No, they're supposed to be here, they're you...
I think this is the most in-character wish for Madoka under the circumstances. If she was certain her friends were dead, I maybe could see her taking choice A or B, but with Hitomi's experience giving at least the hope that they're still alive, she has different priorities. Madoka is the kind of person who would care first and foremost about saving her friends than taking revenge on whoever hurt them.
I think this is the most in-character wish for Madoka under the circumstances. If she was certain her friends were dead, I maybe could see her taking choice A or B, but with Hitomi's experience giving at least the hope that they're still alive, she has different priorities. Madoka is the kind of person who would care first and foremost about saving her friends than taking revenge on whoever hurt them.
Orkiod Inquisito
Proud Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos
- Location
- Holy Terra - Inquisitorial Headquarters
[X] "I wish that everyone who was taken by that witch was here with me now, alive and safe!"
Good chapter, nothing really to say about it, other than it looks like good setup for future chapters.
Good chapter, nothing really to say about it, other than it looks like good setup for future chapters.
- Location
- Wayland, Massachusetts
I mean it's a meaningless choice anyways, since the true answer is that Madoka is too busy not thinking anything even happened to even ATTEMPT a malicious wish.
- Pronouns
- She/Them
what does ashtart think madoka would wish for? what's her read on madoka? what panicked rationalisation makes for the most narratively interesting next step?
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hugh_donnetono
No use to complain
- Location
- Caught Out In The Rain
Unaligned Player
Agony that desires to meet Extinction
- Location
- Adrift between sanity and madness
- Pronouns
- Shrug
[X] "I wish that everyone who was taken by that witch was here with me now, alive and safe!" No, they're supposed to be here, they're you...
- Location
- Canada, probably
To plant a few epileptic trees… I wonder if human!Ashy's wish might have caused some sort of dissociation, and the narrator is technically a second personality. When the "main" personality became a witch, its first action was to subsume its other personality, who is our narrator. This would explain the lack of pre-wish memory, and also provide a diegetic explanation for the second-person narration: we are being informed what "you," the narrator, is thinking, from the perspective of the narrative itself. The invisitext is in first person, after all.
Takareer
Words and feathers
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
This has to have happened in response to Ashie's worries about inter-familiar fighting, right?
In any case, great chapter; the only downside is that there's not two more chapters.
Nottheunmaker
Altman be praised
- Location
- USG Ishimura
Oh there was some real juicy familiar stuff this time, lemme tell ya.
Though I wonder if that blood stuff doing the Ummashtart any good, or if it might cause changes to them. Probably not. At most I'm expecting to see some blood-color paper, which would be kinda cool. Tell you who the veterans are.
As for Madoka's wish?
[X] "I wish the Witch that took my friends never came here!"
Not that it matters.
I can tell you what's missing. It starts with a B, rhymes with gaudy, and Sayaka and Tira have one each.
Did you try making it shoot ink? Also you could throw it as an unpredictable opening move.
You know, this makes me wonder about cooking using barrier things. There's not much point with the maids and the endless desert caves, but it could be a fun way to pass the time.
I admire her willingness to try barrier food. Sayaka just completely willing to be a test subject.
I'm betting this is the Faas expanding their flower variety. Though I wonder if it needs the blood, or will do fine with Saar's water.
And I also wonder if this could get new trees, and if growing in different barriers could change the resulting tree?
Now that smooth change is very different from the other barriers. It could be because Saar's barrier and Candeloro's have similar features, lots of water analogs, trees, that sorta thing. But it could be that it's because Mami witched in the barrier, so things just more easily fit in. Though it's probably a little of column A, bit of column B. Candeloro's barrier did head right to this section out of anywhere it could've gone.
Again, interesting how integrated these barriers are. And I dunno what to say about the teeth. I'm not even sure those came from Candeloro's barrier.
I know that feel. (I'm just recovering from surgery, my legs aren't gone, just being less useful for a bit.)
So that's a Brandy. Not as nasty as I thought.
I love this, it's fucking hilarious.
Huh. I guess Tira can make her own tea. A little be of control like that should help her.
Oh, now this... this is way more then anyone was really expecting. So first off, the Polina care more about treatment then combat, though they're clearly willing to engage in it. But they're smart enough to come up with new treatments for other familiars, so they're not working strictly of rote knowledge. The Pyotr being willing to get treated isn't surprising, same barrier, but the Ummashtart? That's surprising. How did the Polina to understand they wanted to help them? Like the paper-mache make sense, despite what Ash thinks. It's still treatment, just for paper lifeforms. And they got it all set up so fast. I bet they already had most of this stuff ready, they just needed a space to set it up. Very intelligent.
Though I wonder if that blood stuff doing the Ummashtart any good, or if it might cause changes to them. Probably not. At most I'm expecting to see some blood-color paper, which would be kinda cool. Tell you who the veterans are.
It's fascinating because it's weird, girls.
As for Madoka's wish?
[X] "I wish the Witch that took my friends never came here!"
Not that it matters.
Kalibrius
God of reflection
- Location
- The other side of the mirror
Anyone willing to do a series of interludes where sayaka tries some bit of barrier food and suffers some form of side effect that can range from black comedy lethality (possibly forcing ash to respawn her while sayaka grumbles) to plain old ridiculous
Edit senzabl and flairina, thanks for the likes a delight to have my ideas enjoyed by two very good weavers of tales
I cannot wait to see the next twist in the road of these characters
Edit senzabl and flairina, thanks for the likes a delight to have my ideas enjoyed by two very good weavers of tales
I cannot wait to see the next twist in the road of these characters
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I just binge watched the entire thing and there is only one thing I have that really makes me mad about the story. Why hasn't Astharot given the Glorious Cheese to Charlote!?
Its literally in her Witch description, a part of her identity that could be easily fulfilled by going to the supermarket or simply having Candeloro taking her as a guest and serving her Cheese. I want to see it!!!
Jokes aside this is really interesting and Im rather curious to see if absorbing some of Homura´s magic allows them to travel in time with her all the time or just at that one moment when they here connected. Also, did Sayaka, Tira and more importantly Candeloro replace their past selves like Homura does? Or are they going to deal with a Sayaka calling subsumed-Sayaka fake and stubbornly not listening to anything they say? It would be pretty funny.
Also, how would Mami react to a Witch having basically all her abilities and color palette? and the memory photo things? Im expecting a bunch of Candeloro inside the barrier soonish, all of them battling for Tira´s attention.
Its literally in her Witch description, a part of her identity that could be easily fulfilled by going to the supermarket or simply having Candeloro taking her as a guest and serving her Cheese. I want to see it!!!
Jokes aside this is really interesting and Im rather curious to see if absorbing some of Homura´s magic allows them to travel in time with her all the time or just at that one moment when they here connected. Also, did Sayaka, Tira and more importantly Candeloro replace their past selves like Homura does? Or are they going to deal with a Sayaka calling subsumed-Sayaka fake and stubbornly not listening to anything they say? It would be pretty funny.
Also, how would Mami react to a Witch having basically all her abilities and color palette? and the memory photo things? Im expecting a bunch of Candeloro inside the barrier soonish, all of them battling for Tira´s attention.
Jamie Roberts
Hávamál 127
- Location
- N/A
- Pronouns
- she/her
Hey, hey! Just because the elections are decided via an electoral-college doesn't mean that your vote doesn't count! It just won't be counted!
- Location
- Yuritopia
so what you're saying is that Ashy could've
JmonsterNEO
Spouter of nonsense
- Location
- The quest forums
Pfft, like Madoka could ever be malicious.
unObservant
Just drifting along, really
- Location
- USA
Fun chapter as always, it's always great to see this update!
Plus, the Pen being controlled by Words in a weird inversion of the natural order? That kind of symbology is super fitting for distorted Witch-logic, and as the Book Witch we need to capitalize on that before someone tries to steal our new niche!
Hmm. Peerless Edge may be pretty dangerous to use as a normal sword with flimsy ribbon arms and body-strength in general, sure... but who says ribbon-arms are the only option here? Maybe Ashtaroth could wrap some Shatterwords around the hilt or back half of the sword, turn it into more of a mid-range or sniping thing than a personal weapon. We already know that multiple can exist at a time, and while trying to control them indirectly might require a bit of a learning curve, it's also a learning curve that's much less likely to end with a sword stuck in something unfortunate.
Plus, the Pen being controlled by Words in a weird inversion of the natural order? That kind of symbology is super fitting for distorted Witch-logic, and as the Book Witch we need to capitalize on that before someone tries to steal our new niche!
The Crimson King
It's possible to eat an orange with just teeth.
- Location
- America
Red Sun plays in the distance
That's what it means to be the only member of authority/sane member of a commune.
MMmm, Ashy's witchstincts may be a part of her uncaringness, good to note.
One day. One day.
Triage. How nice of them.
Ah, they're helping eachother. How adorable. Maybe, one day the travelling circus will be a haven for all familiars.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM APPLE
Nottheunmaker
Altman be praised
- Location
- USG Ishimura
Nah, she'd need Saar's human body.
If handling the super sharp sword with rather fragile and exlosive tentacles doesn't work she can just get really high and let Peerles Edge fall point first. Gilgamesh giant sword style.
[x] "I wish that what Ashtaroth said was true."
With Peerless Edge, Ahtaroth now possesses both pen and paper. I wonder what happens if we fill ourselves with trashy fanfiction.
With Peerless Edge, Ahtaroth now possesses both pen and paper. I wonder what happens if we fill ourselves with trashy fanfiction.
- Location
- Moscow
You are back! It's so nice to see this!
A nice chapter. Witch pocket dimensions are weird, and you manage to write them well.
So Ash can also tap into their sense of taste, eh? Good for her. That does make me wonder - can she also tap in more unconventional senses, like sense of time or direction or pain?
Eagerly waiting for time travel reveal. Next chapter?
A nice chapter. Witch pocket dimensions are weird, and you manage to write them well.
So Ash can also tap into their sense of taste, eh? Good for her. That does make me wonder - can she also tap in more unconventional senses, like sense of time or direction or pain?
Eagerly waiting for time travel reveal. Next chapter?
That could be interesting. It sort of makes me wonder if this could lead to a conflict with Kyoko at some point; Kyoko has been waiting for a Familiar to grow big enough to become a Witch to harvest, only for us to swoop in and take the poor thing in just when her work is about to bear fruit.
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- Pronouns
- She
Honestly, the assumption that Madoka would wish away Astaroth for Sayaka and Mami is a moot point until we prove that this current timeline's version vanished with Ashe's arrival. I'm starting to think that Tome/Novella might be akin to the inside of a soul gem like Homulily's False Mitakihara.
A world in unto itself, but not yet anchored to the natural universe unlike fully hatched Witch Labrynths. Which might explain the whole 'Welcome to my world' thing the Witchstincts said when Saar was Subsumed.
Homura is the only one that might be able to tell if anything's wrong, given that Ash managed to take a chunk of her soul, enough to count as part of the Time Magic.
A world in unto itself, but not yet anchored to the natural universe unlike fully hatched Witch Labrynths. Which might explain the whole 'Welcome to my world' thing the Witchstincts said when Saar was Subsumed.
Homura is the only one that might be able to tell if anything's wrong, given that Ash managed to take a chunk of her soul, enough to count as part of the Time Magic.