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oceansoftime) wrote2011-07-30 12:41 am
oceansoftime) wrote2011-07-30 12:41 am
Memory #7: A stitch in time saves nine
(Headcanon, significant neutral; won in Game #56. Item: a Kunzite-pink needle [reusable])
WELL this one is headcanon so there's no script! But basically, in the Oriko Magica spinoff manga, the antagonists are a pair of magical girls who're killing other magical girls. At the end of the series, they're defeated and both die! But Mikuni Oriko, the brains of the operation, uses her last ounce of strength to fire off an attack that kills Madoka. She does this because, thanks to her super infomoddy prophetic powers, she knows about Madoka's hidden potential--as well as the fact that Madoka would eventually become an equally powerful witch. Naturally, Homura doesn't take this well and hits the timeline-reset button. Again.
But clearly not for the last time! The Oriko timeline is a little tricky to place, but it seems like it's probably early-to-middle in Homura's litany of failed timelines. And yet, Oriko and her accomplice Kirika never seem to be involved in Madoka's death except for that one time. Hmmmm . . .
Thus, this memory! In it, Homura tracks Oriko and Kirika down, finding them at Oriko's house and killing them both, even though Oriko knows she's coming. She then disposes of the evidence, hauling their bodies into a witch's barrier and killing the witch, ensuring that they vanish completely.
Throughout this whole morbid affair, Homura is angry, but it's tempered with a cold, businesslike attitude--this is just something she has to do to protect Madoka. Of course, this particular memory doesn't come with the recollection of just what Kirika and Oriko did . . .
-Wait, what the fuck +9001
-Realization that things might not have worked out as well as she'd hoped +1000
-Willingness to shank in the name of loved ones +100
-Witches make the best body closets +50
Coming on the heels of her happy, teamworky sig pos, this one is sort of a mood whiplash. She was so sure that magical girls working together was what it was all about! And now here she is, killing two of them for reasons she can't properly recall--but which, in the memory, she was sure were completely and utterly justified.
This is the first non-ep. 10 memory Homura's gotten in Aather, and also her first memory of That Other Her. She's heard about this, and seen herself Like That a little bit in Kyouko's memories--but now, for the first time, she's got a memory of herself in that mental place. This is gonna hit her hard. In some ways, it'll strengthen her--once she accepts it, anyway; it's going to take a while to process--but her initial reaction will be deep confusion, distrust of her own memory/motives, and a serious hit to the optimism she'd been developing thanks to other memories she's won back.
WELL this one is headcanon so there's no script! But basically, in the Oriko Magica spinoff manga, the antagonists are a pair of magical girls who're killing other magical girls. At the end of the series, they're defeated and both die! But Mikuni Oriko, the brains of the operation, uses her last ounce of strength to fire off an attack that kills Madoka. She does this because, thanks to her super infomoddy prophetic powers, she knows about Madoka's hidden potential--as well as the fact that Madoka would eventually become an equally powerful witch. Naturally, Homura doesn't take this well and hits the timeline-reset button. Again.
But clearly not for the last time! The Oriko timeline is a little tricky to place, but it seems like it's probably early-to-middle in Homura's litany of failed timelines. And yet, Oriko and her accomplice Kirika never seem to be involved in Madoka's death except for that one time. Hmmmm . . .
Thus, this memory! In it, Homura tracks Oriko and Kirika down, finding them at Oriko's house and killing them both, even though Oriko knows she's coming. She then disposes of the evidence, hauling their bodies into a witch's barrier and killing the witch, ensuring that they vanish completely.
Throughout this whole morbid affair, Homura is angry, but it's tempered with a cold, businesslike attitude--this is just something she has to do to protect Madoka. Of course, this particular memory doesn't come with the recollection of just what Kirika and Oriko did . . .
-Wait, what the fuck +9001
-Realization that things might not have worked out as well as she'd hoped +1000
-Willingness to shank in the name of loved ones +100
-Witches make the best body closets +50
Coming on the heels of her happy, teamworky sig pos, this one is sort of a mood whiplash. She was so sure that magical girls working together was what it was all about! And now here she is, killing two of them for reasons she can't properly recall--but which, in the memory, she was sure were completely and utterly justified.
This is the first non-ep. 10 memory Homura's gotten in Aather, and also her first memory of That Other Her. She's heard about this, and seen herself Like That a little bit in Kyouko's memories--but now, for the first time, she's got a memory of herself in that mental place. This is gonna hit her hard. In some ways, it'll strengthen her--once she accepts it, anyway; it's going to take a while to process--but her initial reaction will be deep confusion, distrust of her own memory/motives, and a serious hit to the optimism she'd been developing thanks to other memories she's won back.