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towerofanimus2012-12-03 11:06 am
onhigh) wrote in towerofanimus2012-12-03 11:06 am
the first arrow
Characters: Madoka Kaname and YOU!
Setting: Room 3-03, Floor Five, Cafeteria and Floor Twenty-Five.
Format: Starting with action, but I'll match you.
Summary: Madoka arrives in the tower and finds herself less alone than expected.
Warnings: Some angsty stuff and possible spoilers for the end of Madoka Magica in the comments.
[Room 3-03]
[Madoka wakes up, instinctively rolling over to reach for a stuffed animal that isn't there. The lack of a cuddly toy to hold forces her to wake up somewhat.
This isn't right. When was the last time she slept? Was she even supposed to be able to do that anymore? She's wide awake in seconds, shaking off her grogginess as she sits up. As she looks around the strange room, seeing the bodies laying in the beds around her, she clears her throat and tries to speak.]
Hello...?
[Floor Five]
[It doesn't take long for Madoka to start looking for the familiar, and a tech-advanced level with the promise of information is close enough to catch her attention. When she peers into a viewing station, her shaking shoulders are enough to give away her quiet sobs if you didn't hear them.]
There's no way--! Is this... Is this my fault? Homura-chan...
[Even through the tears, she can't pull herself away from the scene. Those tears might start damaging the machine, at this rate.]
[Cafeteria]
[Where there's food, there's hope, right? At least, eating tends to be comforting. Too bad the only thing Madoka's allowed to have right now is the oatmeal. For her first meal here, this isn't exactly a great start.]
Eh... Not as good as Papa's, but at least it's something!
[She makes a face as she eats, but she forces herself to keep going. No point in being snobbish about free food. She hums to herself thoughtfully.]
I wonder if I could make something better myself...
[Floor Twenty-Five]
[After leaving the fifth floor and journeying higher through the tower, Madoka finds the meadow. It's the perfect place to wind-down after what has become a confusing and kind of stressful day. This is probably the closest she's been to her normal routine all day, in a quiet place by herself.
It's a peaceful scene, and she gives a wave and a smile to anyone passing by. She looks a bit lonely, and anyone who passes her by may find themselves being chatted at.]
Oh, hello! Um, it's a nice day, isn't it? A-at least, I wasn't expecting such a nice place outside when I came here, were you?
[Her attempts are a little awkward, to say the least.]
Setting: Room 3-03, Floor Five, Cafeteria and Floor Twenty-Five.
Format: Starting with action, but I'll match you.
Summary: Madoka arrives in the tower and finds herself less alone than expected.
Warnings: Some angsty stuff and possible spoilers for the end of Madoka Magica in the comments.
[Room 3-03]
[Madoka wakes up, instinctively rolling over to reach for a stuffed animal that isn't there. The lack of a cuddly toy to hold forces her to wake up somewhat.
This isn't right. When was the last time she slept? Was she even supposed to be able to do that anymore? She's wide awake in seconds, shaking off her grogginess as she sits up. As she looks around the strange room, seeing the bodies laying in the beds around her, she clears her throat and tries to speak.]
Hello...?
[Floor Five]
[It doesn't take long for Madoka to start looking for the familiar, and a tech-advanced level with the promise of information is close enough to catch her attention. When she peers into a viewing station, her shaking shoulders are enough to give away her quiet sobs if you didn't hear them.]
There's no way--! Is this... Is this my fault? Homura-chan...
[Even through the tears, she can't pull herself away from the scene. Those tears might start damaging the machine, at this rate.]
[Cafeteria]
[Where there's food, there's hope, right? At least, eating tends to be comforting. Too bad the only thing Madoka's allowed to have right now is the oatmeal. For her first meal here, this isn't exactly a great start.]
Eh... Not as good as Papa's, but at least it's something!
[She makes a face as she eats, but she forces herself to keep going. No point in being snobbish about free food. She hums to herself thoughtfully.]
I wonder if I could make something better myself...
[Floor Twenty-Five]
[After leaving the fifth floor and journeying higher through the tower, Madoka finds the meadow. It's the perfect place to wind-down after what has become a confusing and kind of stressful day. This is probably the closest she's been to her normal routine all day, in a quiet place by herself.
It's a peaceful scene, and she gives a wave and a smile to anyone passing by. She looks a bit lonely, and anyone who passes her by may find themselves being chatted at.]
Oh, hello! Um, it's a nice day, isn't it? A-at least, I wasn't expecting such a nice place outside when I came here, were you?
[Her attempts are a little awkward, to say the least.]
Floor 5
Well, after what Madoka did...?]
It couldn't have been because of that. It just couldn't.
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[She turns to face Kyuubey, though she doesn't recognize zir at first. She starts at the unfamiliar face, but she's too upset to really think about why a voice she knows is coming from a face she doesn't.]
But they're all gone... And I'm still here. I'm the one that changed things, so--!
[She's still crying, but she tries to wipe at her eyes and pull herself together. Every magical girl and every human is gone? There's no way that could happen without a momentous kind of change.]
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[Ze pauses to think for a moment.]
Maybe there's another way to look at it. Your wish might have destroyed the old system and the old world and created a new one in its place. ...though it seems that the wreckage of what was is still in existence. I didn't think that was possible, but then, that kind of wish hasn't been made before.
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[She blinks in shock, the tears starting to slow as the sadness is pushed aside by this new information. The only people who know about that in such detail are Homura and Kyuubey. But this person didn't look like either if them.
Well, that's not quite true. If Madoka had imagined what Kyubey would look like as a human, this wouldn't have been far off from her idea. It's not impossible that the Incubators had a skill to change their appearance that Madoka didn't know about.]
Is that you, Kyuubey?
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[Ze's smiling now. It's an odd thing, but it's there just the same.]
Still, you made the same wish, and that's what matters. Right? To destroy every witch before they are born. Every witch from every world, from the past and the future, with your own hands - that was it, right?
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[This is strange, but it's not an unwelcome change to see Kyuubey give a real smile. Madoka smiles back, hesitantly.]
Mm-hm, that's right. My wish... It came true, and there will never another witch again!
[She glances back at the machine, though the view of her world is gone now, and the feeling of all those deaths with it.]
But maybe... I messed up somewhere.
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[Ze shakes zir head.]
As for what I meant by that...hmm. You know what parallel universes are, right? Basically I'm from a world that's a lot like your own, it exists just as yours does, but the two worlds aren't exactly the same.
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[But it's still one that heard and granted her wish, which means the differences between them might only be skin-deep.]
So, maybe that world I saw... That could be a different one, too, right?
[Maybe the Madoka of that world made a different wish. Maybe things didn't work out for her.]
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[Ze's a broken incubator- But Madoka doesn't need to be burdened with that.]
It could be.
[In a way, that's probably true too; the way Kyubey sees it, Madoka's wish basically torched a house that couldn't be lived in anymore so that everyone could move to a place that could be lived in. So maybe that's another way of looking at it; it is a different world - the one left behind.]
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[She nods, trying to make herself believe that. It will be okay. If it isn't, she has the power to do something to help fix it, this time.
But the way this Kyubey is acting is a welcome distraction from all that. It's also difficult to ignore, now that she's calming down.]
Um, I'm sorry if this sounds rude, but you seem different from my Kyubey. Did something happen to you in your world...?
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[At that question, Kyubey nods.]
Yeah, about that...Not only did someone wish for me to be able to do this, someone else wished emotions on me first. [There's a half-hearted shrug with one shoulder.] Guilt for my actions being the first one. So, yes, I'm different.
[Broken, by incubator standards.]
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[Wow, Madoka, way to step on a landmine there.]
...I'm sorry someone did that to you. I know it's not what you would have wanted.