Violet / Akemi Homura (暁美 ほむら) (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
oceansoftime) wrote2011-08-02 12:17 pm
oceansoftime) wrote2011-08-02 12:17 pm
Memory #8: Magical girl training
omg! Memory #8! The Rubicon has been crossed!
(Ep. 10, trivial neutral; won in Game #57. Item: a chocolate coin wrapped in foil)
As a side note, I love this memory, god. This scene is so cute, and yet also such a window into the sometimes unexpected ways in which Homura thinks.
*Madoka and Mami have brought Homura to an out-of-the way place--a work site under a bridge. The place is abandoned other than them, possibly due to the heavy rain pouring down from the dark clouds blanketing the sky.**
Homura: All right, here I go!
*Homura, wielding a golf club, is standing before her foe--an empty oil drum. With a look of intense! Determination! on her face, she transforms and charges, weapon held high. She is gonna fuck that oil drum up!! As she dashes towards it, the gears on her buckler begin to whirl, and all around her, time freezes--even the multitude of raindrops in the air beyond the cover of the bridge stop dead, suspended between sky and ground.*
*Raising her voice in a battle cry, Homura takes a mighty swing! . . . And whiffs it, losing her grip on her club and nearly falling over. The next few swings connect, but barely dent the drum. But then--as though she'd figured out some sort of trick to it--the sturdy metal drum starts to crumple beneath her hits, bringing a proud, excited smile to Homura's face. Her blows carry the drum off the ground, where--like the raindrops--it ends up hanging in midair, Homura's magic preventing it from falling.*
*Once the drum's been beaten to a pulp, she releases the spell, letting it crash back to the ground. Exhausted, she slumps down too--but not before setting down a handkerchief to sit on. That pavement's wet and dirty, man, what do you expect!*
Madoka: What do you think, Mami-san?
Mami: She can stop time . . . it's certainly amazing, but she can't use it properly . . .
Homura: Ah, yes . . .
*Homura sighs a bit as she catches her breath. But then she looks up, expression thoughtful as an idea occurs to her.*
-WILL TO CHANGE ONESELF +100
-Thinking outside the box +50
-Must try harder!! +500
Well, the actual Idea she had at the end there was not included in this memory. (That's another one, plus a skill, roffle) Most of what this memory is is a small but encouraging dose of I Can Do It If I Try!!, with a side helping of . . . how to put this . . . not always choosing the most "innocent" or expected ways of trying harder/improving herself as a magical girl. I mean, you might expect, like . . . more physical training to make herself a better fighter, more magical training to learn the ins and outs of her time stop--things like that! But nope, her train of thought goes off the rails pretty quickly: must be useful with time powers --> oh, I know, bombs! So yeah. She'll start making more leaps like that.
(Ep. 10, trivial neutral; won in Game #57. Item: a chocolate coin wrapped in foil)
As a side note, I love this memory, god. This scene is so cute, and yet also such a window into the sometimes unexpected ways in which Homura thinks.
*Madoka and Mami have brought Homura to an out-of-the way place--a work site under a bridge. The place is abandoned other than them, possibly due to the heavy rain pouring down from the dark clouds blanketing the sky.**
Homura: All right, here I go!
*Homura, wielding a golf club, is standing before her foe--an empty oil drum. With a look of intense! Determination! on her face, she transforms and charges, weapon held high. She is gonna fuck that oil drum up!! As she dashes towards it, the gears on her buckler begin to whirl, and all around her, time freezes--even the multitude of raindrops in the air beyond the cover of the bridge stop dead, suspended between sky and ground.*
*Raising her voice in a battle cry, Homura takes a mighty swing! . . . And whiffs it, losing her grip on her club and nearly falling over. The next few swings connect, but barely dent the drum. But then--as though she'd figured out some sort of trick to it--the sturdy metal drum starts to crumple beneath her hits, bringing a proud, excited smile to Homura's face. Her blows carry the drum off the ground, where--like the raindrops--it ends up hanging in midair, Homura's magic preventing it from falling.*
*Once the drum's been beaten to a pulp, she releases the spell, letting it crash back to the ground. Exhausted, she slumps down too--but not before setting down a handkerchief to sit on. That pavement's wet and dirty, man, what do you expect!*
Madoka: What do you think, Mami-san?
Mami: She can stop time . . . it's certainly amazing, but she can't use it properly . . .
Homura: Ah, yes . . .
*Homura sighs a bit as she catches her breath. But then she looks up, expression thoughtful as an idea occurs to her.*
-WILL TO CHANGE ONESELF +100
-Thinking outside the box +50
-Must try harder!! +500
Well, the actual Idea she had at the end there was not included in this memory. (That's another one, plus a skill, roffle) Most of what this memory is is a small but encouraging dose of I Can Do It If I Try!!, with a side helping of . . . how to put this . . . not always choosing the most "innocent" or expected ways of trying harder/improving herself as a magical girl. I mean, you might expect, like . . . more physical training to make herself a better fighter, more magical training to learn the ins and outs of her time stop--things like that! But nope, her train of thought goes off the rails pretty quickly: must be useful with time powers --> oh, I know, bombs! So yeah. She'll start making more leaps like that.