You are Homura Akemi and you have failed for the last time. The timeline has shifted in a way never expected, leaving you without most of your power, and the world in a worse condition. You have no more chances. You will save Madoka even if it is the last thing you do.
Time Flow (Puella Magi Madoka Magica/???)
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- Pittsburgh PA
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- He/Him
You have failed, again. You couldn't defeat the Witch, there you lie broken and buried under the remains of a building. The world's cruelty knows no bounds, the one light in your life, the only thing you haven't cut away, is about to sacrifice herself, again. The incessant laughter that echoed throughout the city is suddenly cut off, the Witch is slain and the heroine falls. The tomb of rubble prevents you from hearing her screams or seeing her trash in pain, but you don't need to; they are already carved into dozens of your memories.
Kaname Madoka has become a witch, and you failed to save her. It takes the last of your strength to raise your hand to your shield, the gears spin and time flows in reverse. The rest of the world forgets the tragedy you have sworn to prevent.
Homura Akemi awakens in the hospital room that has greeted you after each of your failures… No, that isn't right, the room is different. The equipment is older, more worn down. It isn't the strangest thing to change with the variances that occasionally appear when you have gone back in time. It doesn't matter, nothing will stop you.
With practiced focus magic flows to your still recovering heart … your magic isn't doing anything. Were you just imagining the feeling based on your expectations? You raise your hand and call forth your Soul Gem.
Your Soul Gem doesn't appear.
There is no ring on your ringer.
Your shield is gone.
You are nothing more than the worthless girl who could only watch as everyone died around you, all those years ago.
The roar of your heart racing pounds through your skull, and then it skips a beat. And another. Each breath comes only in small pained gasps. The heart monitor screams an alarm. Then the world becomes still and silent. Tones of gray coat all you can see as time stands still.
So there is one tool left at your disposal. Without your shield, you don't have your storage and turning back time again may be impossible, what's more the loss of the strength and agility you had access to with magic reinforcing your body presents an even more immediate issue.
You are weaker than you ever have been before. You have no more chances. You will save Madoka even if it is the last thing you do.
There are 9 days until your transfer to Mitakihara Middle School.
There are 45 days until Walpurgisnacht attacks.
Choose 5. Please vote by plan.
[]The Devil You Know
Kyubey, the incubator, the parasite, if there is anything in the world that has some level of understanding of what has happened it would be that thing. Enough of its usual haunts are known to you, but finding it is still left up to chance. Even if you have to make another contract to save Madoka it would be worth it.
[]Weakness
The amount of time you have spent with the enchanted body of a magical girl nearly eclipses the time you had spent as a normal human, and your baseline is even weaker than what could be called normal. Teach your body how to move, how to fight your foes, how to survive the pain. You can't be weak ever again.
[] Magic without Magic
Something has changed in the nature of your time stop, whereas before you could feel the slow and constant drain on your magic, you felt nothing in the moment you used it. You must find whatever you can about how it has changed, some weakness or gap in its capabilities making itself know in the middle of a fight would be disastrous.
[]Known Threats
The Rose Witch, the Dessert Witch, the Box Witch, the Shadow Witch, the Artist Witch, the Class Representative Witch, The Bird Cage Witch, Oriko Mikuni and Kirika Kure. All the threats in Mitakihara, you know when they usually first emerge, you could eliminate some of them in advance. It is a line you never crossed before… but if you must, it is yet another sin you are willing to bear.
[] UncertainFriends Allies
Mami Tomoe was your first mentor as a magical girl, she led Madoka and you smiling into a world none of you were ready for. Then the truth broke her and she turned on her friends. There is so much you owe her and so much you curse her for, l but she is still skilled and experienced enough to be of use.Reaching out again will be painful.
[] The Unknown World
It wasn't limited to just the hospital, Mitakihara Town as a whole has changed. The skyline has lost the diverse collection of architecture it once had, the streets are cracked and marked by holes, and buildings are boarded up and abandoned. Hope seems to be a fleeting thing even among the normal people of the city. It is far too wide spread to be the effect of a witch or a simple variance, you should find the source.
[] Explosive production
The art of making a pipe bomb is one that you have practiced to the point of mastery. Each careful action in your hands becomes a meditative process, fleeting moments where you could relax while still being productive. Even a small supply is enough to eliminate any one of the threats you will face.
[] Supply Procurement
Perhaps you had taken for granted how much leverage even the basic enchantments magic afforded you. Now you are reduced to needing to rely on mundane tools to fulfill the same roles. A method of transport, tools for entering and egressing from locations, something to protect your vulnerable body, concerns you never had to solve before that are now urgent.
[]Acquiring weapons: Lighter
The Yakuza do not know it but they have acted as your greatest supplier of small arms and ammunition. Most would overlook them, but even mundane weapons can harm and kill witches and magical girls with your level of precision. While you now have to answer the question of storing your equipment there is little risk to the endeavor.
[]Acquiring weapons: Heavier
There is a great deal of risk and reward to stealing from the JSDF and the Americans. The sheer destructive force of their heavy weaponry and explosives can serve as an answer to most problems, however taking even a small amount is all but guaranteed to invite scrutiny and retaliation.
[]The Cat
In seven days, at 4:13 pm a black cat will be hit and killed by a car. Madoka Kaname will find her and damn herself with the wish she makes. These events can not be allowed to happen. There is time before it must be done, but being prudent now allows for more flexibility later on.
Kaname Madoka has become a witch, and you failed to save her. It takes the last of your strength to raise your hand to your shield, the gears spin and time flows in reverse. The rest of the world forgets the tragedy you have sworn to prevent.
Homura Akemi awakens in the hospital room that has greeted you after each of your failures… No, that isn't right, the room is different. The equipment is older, more worn down. It isn't the strangest thing to change with the variances that occasionally appear when you have gone back in time. It doesn't matter, nothing will stop you.
With practiced focus magic flows to your still recovering heart … your magic isn't doing anything. Were you just imagining the feeling based on your expectations? You raise your hand and call forth your Soul Gem.
Your Soul Gem doesn't appear.
There is no ring on your ringer.
Your shield is gone.
You are nothing more than the worthless girl who could only watch as everyone died around you, all those years ago.
The roar of your heart racing pounds through your skull, and then it skips a beat. And another. Each breath comes only in small pained gasps. The heart monitor screams an alarm. Then the world becomes still and silent. Tones of gray coat all you can see as time stands still.
So there is one tool left at your disposal. Without your shield, you don't have your storage and turning back time again may be impossible, what's more the loss of the strength and agility you had access to with magic reinforcing your body presents an even more immediate issue.
You are weaker than you ever have been before. You have no more chances. You will save Madoka even if it is the last thing you do.
There are 9 days until your transfer to Mitakihara Middle School.
There are 45 days until Walpurgisnacht attacks.
Choose 5. Please vote by plan.
[]The Devil You Know
Kyubey, the incubator, the parasite, if there is anything in the world that has some level of understanding of what has happened it would be that thing. Enough of its usual haunts are known to you, but finding it is still left up to chance. Even if you have to make another contract to save Madoka it would be worth it.
[]Weakness
The amount of time you have spent with the enchanted body of a magical girl nearly eclipses the time you had spent as a normal human, and your baseline is even weaker than what could be called normal. Teach your body how to move, how to fight your foes, how to survive the pain. You can't be weak ever again.
[] Magic without Magic
Something has changed in the nature of your time stop, whereas before you could feel the slow and constant drain on your magic, you felt nothing in the moment you used it. You must find whatever you can about how it has changed, some weakness or gap in its capabilities making itself know in the middle of a fight would be disastrous.
[]Known Threats
The Rose Witch, the Dessert Witch, the Box Witch, the Shadow Witch, the Artist Witch, the Class Representative Witch, The Bird Cage Witch, Oriko Mikuni and Kirika Kure. All the threats in Mitakihara, you know when they usually first emerge, you could eliminate some of them in advance. It is a line you never crossed before… but if you must, it is yet another sin you are willing to bear.
[] Uncertain
Mami Tomoe was your first mentor as a magical girl, she led Madoka and you smiling into a world none of you were ready for. Then the truth broke her and she turned on her friends. There is so much you owe her and so much you curse her for, l but she is still skilled and experienced enough to be of use.
[] The Unknown World
It wasn't limited to just the hospital, Mitakihara Town as a whole has changed. The skyline has lost the diverse collection of architecture it once had, the streets are cracked and marked by holes, and buildings are boarded up and abandoned. Hope seems to be a fleeting thing even among the normal people of the city. It is far too wide spread to be the effect of a witch or a simple variance, you should find the source.
[] Explosive production
The art of making a pipe bomb is one that you have practiced to the point of mastery. Each careful action in your hands becomes a meditative process, fleeting moments where you could relax while still being productive. Even a small supply is enough to eliminate any one of the threats you will face.
[] Supply Procurement
Perhaps you had taken for granted how much leverage even the basic enchantments magic afforded you. Now you are reduced to needing to rely on mundane tools to fulfill the same roles. A method of transport, tools for entering and egressing from locations, something to protect your vulnerable body, concerns you never had to solve before that are now urgent.
[]Acquiring weapons: Lighter
The Yakuza do not know it but they have acted as your greatest supplier of small arms and ammunition. Most would overlook them, but even mundane weapons can harm and kill witches and magical girls with your level of precision. While you now have to answer the question of storing your equipment there is little risk to the endeavor.
[]Acquiring weapons: Heavier
There is a great deal of risk and reward to stealing from the JSDF and the Americans. The sheer destructive force of their heavy weaponry and explosives can serve as an answer to most problems, however taking even a small amount is all but guaranteed to invite scrutiny and retaliation.
[]The Cat
In seven days, at 4:13 pm a black cat will be hit and killed by a car. Madoka Kaname will find her and damn herself with the wish she makes. These events can not be allowed to happen. There is time before it must be done, but being prudent now allows for more flexibility later on.
Diplomacy: 0 (6-10)
Friends were something you had once, for a few brief months almost a lifetime ago. Letting others near you is simply a cause for more pain.
Martial: 10
Where true leadership eludes you, your awareness of the battlefield has been honed to a razor's edge.
Stewardship: 13
People would call you cold and unfeeling, but you know all too well the value of being prepared and not breaking under pressure.
Intrigue: 14
The disparity in raw power between you and other magical girls and witches has time and again forced you to be more cunning and to take whatever edge you can grasp, no matter the source.
Learning: 12
You are no scholar but you know what you need to know, chemistry, ballistics, and exactly enough of what is taught in school so that zero issues arise.
Prowess: 3 (17-14)
Years of surviving have taught you how to fight and given you a skill with firearms far beyond most, however your body can no longer keep up with your expectations.
Friends were something you had once, for a few brief months almost a lifetime ago. Letting others near you is simply a cause for more pain.
Martial: 10
Where true leadership eludes you, your awareness of the battlefield has been honed to a razor's edge.
Stewardship: 13
People would call you cold and unfeeling, but you know all too well the value of being prepared and not breaking under pressure.
Intrigue: 14
The disparity in raw power between you and other magical girls and witches has time and again forced you to be more cunning and to take whatever edge you can grasp, no matter the source.
Learning: 12
You are no scholar but you know what you need to know, chemistry, ballistics, and exactly enough of what is taught in school so that zero issues arise.
Prowess: 3 (17-14)
Years of surviving have taught you how to fight and given you a skill with firearms far beyond most, however your body can no longer keep up with your expectations.
Character Sheet
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- Location
- Pittsburgh PA
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| Homura Akemi | |||
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Age | 14? | |
| Gender | Female | ||
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Some will directly, some lead to gains eventually, some will indirectly, and some will not.
Okay then
[X] Plan RPL
- [X] The Devil you know
- [X] Weakness
- [X] Magic without Magic
- [X] Uncertain Allies
- [X] The Cat
Why I chose these 5 is that the whole point of surviving is:
A. We have to prevent Madoka from making a wish. Barring THAT, we at least need to make sure that she survives until Walpurgisnacth is defeated.
B. Since it's obvious that we can't use our Soul Gem anymore (which is a GOOD thing for some), we have to explore ways to get stronger physically and—thanks to that example—magically as well.
C. Another important aspect to think about is trying to make friends or allies, which is obviously easier said than done, considering Homura's Personality. But if we're going to survive this, it MUST be one of the priorities here.
D. In regards of the cat, that should be self-explanatory. The cat surviving gives us more than enough time to think of a plan of action, and gives us a reason to at least give us a chance to be in good terms.
[X] Plan RPL
- [X] The Devil you know
- [X] Weakness
- [X] Magic without Magic
- [X] Uncertain Allies
- [X] The Cat
Why I chose these 5 is that the whole point of surviving is:
A. We have to prevent Madoka from making a wish. Barring THAT, we at least need to make sure that she survives until Walpurgisnacth is defeated.
B. Since it's obvious that we can't use our Soul Gem anymore (which is a GOOD thing for some), we have to explore ways to get stronger physically and—thanks to that example—magically as well.
C. Another important aspect to think about is trying to make friends or allies, which is obviously easier said than done, considering Homura's Personality. But if we're going to survive this, it MUST be one of the priorities here.
D. In regards of the cat, that should be self-explanatory. The cat surviving gives us more than enough time to think of a plan of action, and gives us a reason to at least give us a chance to be in good terms.
- Location
- Laniakea
[X] Magic without Magic
IMO, finding the limits on the Time Stop ASAP is the most important thing.
Not just to avoid nasty surprises later on, but also because the exact limitations and costs of using it would likely provide a strong hint to the other crossover this quest is using - whatever has supplanted the Madoka Magica magic system Homura was using before is likely the magic system of the other crossover.
There's almost definitely going to be an alternative cost or limit, because unlimited time stop is well, broken. There are basically only 2 other things that can counter it, the first thing being enemies that are flat-out immune to time stoppage and the other thing being the Walpurgisnacht-type of problem, where the opponent is so impervious to damage or so exotic in nature that there simply doesn't exist any kind of resource or preparation Homura can fetch under timestop at all that works against it, not even if she brings all the missiles and rockets in Japan.
[X] The Unknown World
Homura HAD a house in Mitakihara. It was a rather nice house. Was thinking it would be a good place to stash any small arms she stole from the Yakuza.
....This Mitakihara doesn't appear to have nice houses anymore. If the skyline is different, the buildings are probably different. Need find out whether Homura still has a house anymore. Or even whether Madoka still has a house anymore. And what the school looks like now, it's probably not so fancy-looking anymore.
[X] The Cat
I'm picking this one because it is (or was) pretty much a guaranteed run-in with Madoka.
If the whole of Mitakihara is so different, chances are the whole cat encounter is also going to be different. It might not even be a cat that Madoka runs across, if she does run across anything at all.
[X] Weakness
[X] Acquiring weapons: Lighter
Can't go wrong with generic shoring-up of her physical capabilities. Supply Procurement would've been the alternative choice, but unless her time stop is severely limited, it can literally wait to be done later on.
IMO, finding the limits on the Time Stop ASAP is the most important thing.
Not just to avoid nasty surprises later on, but also because the exact limitations and costs of using it would likely provide a strong hint to the other crossover this quest is using - whatever has supplanted the Madoka Magica magic system Homura was using before is likely the magic system of the other crossover.
There's almost definitely going to be an alternative cost or limit, because unlimited time stop is well, broken. There are basically only 2 other things that can counter it, the first thing being enemies that are flat-out immune to time stoppage and the other thing being the Walpurgisnacht-type of problem, where the opponent is so impervious to damage or so exotic in nature that there simply doesn't exist any kind of resource or preparation Homura can fetch under timestop at all that works against it, not even if she brings all the missiles and rockets in Japan.
[X] The Unknown World
Homura HAD a house in Mitakihara. It was a rather nice house. Was thinking it would be a good place to stash any small arms she stole from the Yakuza.
....This Mitakihara doesn't appear to have nice houses anymore. If the skyline is different, the buildings are probably different. Need find out whether Homura still has a house anymore. Or even whether Madoka still has a house anymore. And what the school looks like now, it's probably not so fancy-looking anymore.
[X] The Cat
I'm picking this one because it is (or was) pretty much a guaranteed run-in with Madoka.
If the whole of Mitakihara is so different, chances are the whole cat encounter is also going to be different. It might not even be a cat that Madoka runs across, if she does run across anything at all.
[X] Weakness
[X] Acquiring weapons: Lighter
Can't go wrong with generic shoring-up of her physical capabilities. Supply Procurement would've been the alternative choice, but unless her time stop is severely limited, it can literally wait to be done later on.
Solarstream
It's all in the cards
- Location
- Zombie World
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] PistachioCookies
- Location
- Pittsburgh PA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Vote is closed update should be in the next few days.
