Subsumption (PMMM Faux-Quest) (Witch MC)
- Location
- UK
[Q] Kidnap Kyousuke into your barrier.
-[Q] Glare at him and point at the crying Sayaka.
—[Q] "Fix that."
-[Q] Glare at him and point at the crying Sayaka.
—[Q] "Fix that."
Mh, what to do....
[X] Wait, plot, scheme.
-[X] Your time will come, you WILL be Queen of Pancake Castle.
[X] Consider fetching Hitomi to cure sayaka's Vitamin F(riendship) deficiency.
[X] Ferry Sayaka home....wait, where does she live? Maybe Hitomi knows...
[X] Wait, plot, scheme.
-[X] Your time will come, you WILL be Queen of Pancake Castle.
[X] Consider fetching Hitomi to cure sayaka's Vitamin F(riendship) deficiency.
[X] Ferry Sayaka home....wait, where does she live? Maybe Hitomi knows...
- Location
- Somewhere up the tree
ashy needs a cell phon-
wait, damn it
wait she can still tex-
damn it
okay how can we get in contact with hitomi in the future because we don't have functioning arms or a voice
unObservant
Just drifting along, really
- Location
- USA
[X] Grab (...steal. It's for a good cause!) some ice cream and blankets for Sayaka, then sit nearby and try to look nonthreatening. You don't know enough about her situation to give effective advice, and you aren't exactly close enough that trying to do so regardless is likely to turn out ok. If she wants to talk, listen, but otherwise just try and be there for her.
-[X] In the meantime, try to find Hitomi. She'll have a better idea of what to do, right?
-[X] In the meantime, try to find Hitomi. She'll have a better idea of what to do, right?
Motile Mollusc
Bitten by a radioactive were-tilde
- Location
- Here
[c] Subsume the hospital room! You refuse to be outdone by such a minor thing, no matter how silly Mitakihara is!
Damnit, Sayaka.
[c] Subsume Sayaka!
[c] Locate another Magical Girl for Sayaka to talk to.
-[c] Subsume them.
Or Hitomi, I guess.
[c] Locate Charlotte. Have her deploy cake at Sayaka until morale improves.
-[c] Persuade Sayaka to subsume the cake.
[c] Send a Faas to give her flowers.
[c] Push a Polina in her direction to nurse her. Sayaka is basically a form of cheese, so it'll be fine.
[c] Have Shemesh display his majestic planetoid lasers. They're so cool.
-[c] Have Shemesh stop displaying his majestic planetoid lasers at Charlotte.
--[c] Have Shemesh subsume some cake.
[c] Cut away to another scene.
- Location
- Somewhere up the tree
"cake will continue to be deployed until morale improves"
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hillo315
Intact but Tactless
- Location
- Somewhere. Somewhere else.
So Charlotte appears on the insignia because she's still alive and in charge of her labyrinth? It's supposed to represent the barrier, so that makes sense. It even includes Charlotte's insignia, which is pretty cool.
Yes.
The lawn is beautified at last!
A
And then Sayaka was a miracle worker.
Kyousuke should have a more favorable opinion of Sayaka from now on, and he probably feels bad for being harsh with her. Sayaka now has a much better chance of a successful love life if she gets over her hurt feelings.
Oh, and Kyousuke now knows that magic is a thing.
Ashy just now realizes that she is literally powered by a forsaken child.
Sayaka needs a hug.
I'll prepare lots of popcorn while I wait.
[
] Give Sayaka emotional support.[
] Give Sayaka headpats.[
] Just sit there all menacing-like while Sayaka releases her teen angst.[X] Wait.
hillo315
Intact but Tactless
- Location
- Somewhere. Somewhere else.
@Flairina I just realized that Ashy tilted at a windmill. But the windmill was a giant. I have no idea how I missed the obvious reference for so long, especially since it was lampshaded by everyone. 
Why ask Hitomi when Sayaka herself knows how to get home?
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- Location
- Somewhere up the tree
[] become the witch of therapy, your nature is to coddle
] become the witch of therapy, your nature is to coddle
Takareer
Words and feathers
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
Yessss, delicious long chapters!
- Location
- Tulsa Oklahoma
Quick question, could someone do a drawing of our insignia, or symbol? I'm curious about how it looks and how it may evolve with either the cohabitation or subsumption of other witches. Also, seeing as we subsumed Sayaka, does her wish form's symbol integrates into ours?
Cuz we kind of shouldn't touch her with a ten feet pole right now, i think.
Also, her waking up in her own bed after crying herself to sleep is gonn earn us some points.
Or maybe she won't be so happy knowing that every use of her power recharges the giant book witch that ate her.
She should probably be informed - open communication is good - but it's not so cheery information for her.
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- Location
- Christchurch, NZ
But now Kyousuke will never learn the secrets of true sorcery and join the Avengers!
Nottheunmaker
Altman be praised
- Location
- USG Ishimura
Huh, Sayaka using magic does recharge Ashtaroth. I did not expect that.
And yes Ashtaroth don't eat your barriers inhabitants, it's poor manners at the very least.
It really sucks how much her wish has completely failed to resolve any of her problems in ways that make her happy. Seriously, one half was made to save a friend who was in minor danger at best, and she got eaten and bound to a witch in the process. The other half was made to help her crush who has no idea how she feels and broke her heart trying to get rid of her. Usually you at least get the veneer of a wish being what you want only for it to horriblely backfire in an ironic fasion. This one didn't even do that much, just limped into the room and crashed to the floor in abject failure.
Hmm, so they didn't try to 'fix' the grass, just trimmed it neat and planted flowers over them? Sounds lovely, always good to see competent landscapers at work, and it's within their understood nature. Very proactive familiars. Makes me somewhat disappointed in the Ummashtart though. Having a duty to 'set the scene' is already vague, but outside that Drider catching Hitomi they haven't done anything.
And yes Ashtaroth don't eat your barriers inhabitants, it's poor manners at the very least.
Ignoring for the moment that Charlotte is a witch and can't leave the barrier at all, it still wouldn't work because Charlotte has no Sayaka in her. All of her soul is bound inside Ashtaroth and her barrier by extension.
Being fair, I think her plan was less 'this'll set my world right' and more 'I made this stupid wish that got me stuck in this awful situation just to do this, I should do it while I've got the chance'.
It really sucks how much her wish has completely failed to resolve any of her problems in ways that make her happy. Seriously, one half was made to save a friend who was in minor danger at best, and she got eaten and bound to a witch in the process. The other half was made to help her crush who has no idea how she feels and broke her heart trying to get rid of her. Usually you at least get the veneer of a wish being what you want only for it to horriblely backfire in an ironic fasion. This one didn't even do that much, just limped into the room and crashed to the floor in abject failure.
Ironically enough, given the likely alternatives if she kept being an MG for longer than a week or so, being eaten by Ashtaroth might very well have been one of the best thing that could have happened to her.
- Location
- Tulsa Oklahoma
Makes me wonder how much grief we require to maintain ourselves, not to mention our roommate Charlotte? I'm hopeful that Sayaka provides enough grief to maintain the both of us, but if not, we may need to go hunting once more for either a witch we can actually consume, or for another magical girl to increase the grief production to balance the grief expenses.
Nottheunmaker
Altman be praised
- Location
- USG Ishimura
I know, I did a long post on the subject. But ask this; how much must the choices handed to you suck if being soul-bound to a giant grief monster that ate you is probably the best one?
I'm not sure on the amount, but if this was a real quest I'd be giving the QM some funny looks right now. Having your characters form a perpetual energy generator just by existing together seems like it'd make fights way to easy, just keep spamming your strongest attacks until you win. This could be mitigated by enemies having the same power or just being much stronger, but with what I know of PMMM, eh... We'll see.
Also while I'm looking forward to the interlude and hope it's full of interesting characters doing interesting things and other cool stuff, a small part of me just wants to skip to the next update where Ash wakes up to Sayaka screaming because Charlotte cuddled up to her at some point in the night.
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Jamie Roberts
Hávamál 127
- Location
- N/A
- Pronouns
- she/her
Ashy just now realizes that she is literally powered by a forsaken child.
In fairness, that's a near 100% renewable energy source, so is it really wrong? I ask you!
- Location
- Portugal
- Pronouns
- Her Graciousness
I've seen this 'grief powered magic' stuff before in pmmm fanfiction and I can never wrap my head around it in context.
It's been my head canon for the longest time that magical girls fuel their power with positive emotion, create grief as a byproduct because magic is zero sum, grief gets purged from the magical girl and concentrated in grief seeds, and the only reason witches can do any magic at all is because they inflict grief on humans, harvest the positive emotion and use that.
It would be dreadfully inefficient after all if the witch was using whatever resource coobs is capturing them for to do their magic with.
Has there been word of god on how this stuff works? There's been a lot of spin off works that I haven't read maybe they go into it idk
E: Like, there's got to be a reason that QB's ultimate entropy defeating device isn't witches and magical girls feeding off of each other and telekinetucally cranking a turbine shaft, right?!
It's been my head canon for the longest time that magical girls fuel their power with positive emotion, create grief as a byproduct because magic is zero sum, grief gets purged from the magical girl and concentrated in grief seeds, and the only reason witches can do any magic at all is because they inflict grief on humans, harvest the positive emotion and use that.
It would be dreadfully inefficient after all if the witch was using whatever resource coobs is capturing them for to do their magic with.
Has there been word of god on how this stuff works? There's been a lot of spin off works that I haven't read maybe they go into it idk
E: Like, there's got to be a reason that QB's ultimate entropy defeating device isn't witches and magical girls feeding off of each other and telekinetucally cranking a turbine shaft, right?!
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- Location
- Somewhere up the tree
well we actually don't know what happens when a witch leaves their labyrinth, we just know that when we did it it didn't feel pleasant to say the least
and as for the other thing well, that's kinda how pmmm wishes usually go wrong, you wish for something but it turns out that what you wished for doesn't actually make you happy or your life better
well adfligo systema works fine with it. why not here
incubators actually use grief specifically as a fuel source, since it can be used as a free energy machine. in a way the incubators plan is exactly what you described. magical girls and witches used as a fuel source to telekineticly crank a turbine shaft
grief is simply a much stronger fuel source than magic, and its self replenishing.
its a free energy machine where instead of burning coal or fuel or anything. it runs on human souls
Good work Sayaka, you'll have Ashtaroth back at full Grief in not time!