Through scrolling through sad madoka posts I was reminded that some people may not have seen this gem:
“Save the world, save one girl - what's the difference? You might have all the power you could ever ask for, but some things remain difficult.”
I’m not sure if many people here have seen this, but it’s a quest (a sort of open text-based game where all players vote on the decisions that the character executes) where you play as Sabrina Vee, a weird confused amnesiac that knows all of Madoka Magica, side materials and all, for reasons that are explained in-story.
It’s fix-it story where the main character has great powers, which solves little of her problems because her problems can’t be solved with violence. “It’s always about the people” is repeated over and over as a main theme, and it shows.
literally the name of the quest means “System Breaker”. That’s exactly what it’s supposed to do: break Madoka Magica’s cruel Witch-based system without ascending anyone into lonely nonexistence.
tons and tons of discussion about the themes and characters, with people who absolutely adore them.
all characters are treated with warmth and respect. So much respect. You’ll get people having multi-page wars about how to gently break information bombs to every single character, but that’s only because they care so much. They do not want to mess this up.
The players care so much that they have their own wiki.
HAPPINESS and FLUFF without downplaying the suffering faced by the characters in PMMM. Because the story is itself based on addressing their pain!
Not a single person has died yet. The player character has managed to even befriend (and spare) Oriko and Kirika, who are reoccurring characters.
Homura gets someone she can trust with everything. She gets to be real friends with everyone again, she gets a support system, Sayaka sees her as a mentor. She gets so much kindness and sympathy and admiration and. and. I love Sabrina, guys.
actually everybody gets a support system. Especially Mami Tomoe.
lots of mystery and speculation. Is it Post-Rebellion? A wack timeline? Is Sabrina actually a witch/Walpurgisnacht/dewitched Ultimate Kriemhild Gretchen/a stack of Clara Dolls in a trench coat?
… Can you solve de-witching? (The author is a physicist, he has internal rules for magic).
and it’s all well-written.
Please check this out. It’s so much fun, it loves the characters so much, and there are many, many hilarious hijinks throughout both the story and the quest discussion pages themselves. If the discussion itself looks too long for you, there’s a Story-Only mode that lets you read only the story parts. And of course you can jump in and help Sabrina when you’re all caught up!
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(Spoilers for the "A Knight Stranger" companion quest if you wanna go into it completely blind!l)
A couple of drawings inspired by the Luocha companion quest lol
i. Armchair detective March and best girl Luocha
ii. My reaction to Yassified Luocha's english voice
iii. Welt comments on March's story telling
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thinkin…………..arthur gets injured and is being treated by gaius and merlin but he’s awake and gets to see firsthand this competent and serious merlin that meets his gaze constantly and arthur notices the fear and terror in his eyes that he forces back to heal him. thinkin…….merlin being his nurse while he heals and not leaving his bedside in fear of infections settling in while he’s gone and loosing arthur in such a simple way. arthur constantly wakes to a hand carding thru his hair or caressing his cheeks. thinkin………….merlin holding arthur’s head in his lap as he spoon feeds him broth. gaius rolling his eyes and leaving the room bc he and merlin and arthur all know he can sit up and feed himself but merlin leaves his fingers on arthur’s pulse and breathes in sync with him while arthur stares up at him like he hung the moon and the stars and carries the air into his lungs and squeezes his heart to pump his blood.
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Aventurine and his insane luck. The blessed one but his blessing is also a curse. He uses his good fortune like a weapon. It cuts him like a knife. It's meant to protect him, but he wanted to protect everyone else. He doesn't see the point of it. He resents his luck because it made him survive every tragedy, when his loved ones didn't. He loves it because he loves his mother, his sister, and his father, and it's one of the few fragments left of his first self, his truest self. Lucky boy, boy made of gold and honey. When he was born, rain fell. It was the god's blessings. Or was it the god's tears?
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while the stables scene is a great example of percabeth's growth as a couple, particularly regarding their switch of roles in who plans for their future. an even better example is when they first told the other they loved them. annabeth, who is a well-respected strategist due to how well she can plan for the future, tells him as quickly as possible before something or someone could take him away from her again. she seized the first opportunity she had free of plan. percy, on the other hand, who is known for his impulsiveness and reckless planning, tells her two books later. not because he wasn't head over heels the entire hoo series. but because he was planning for the right moment. he wanted to wait until he could give her permanence and stability on a silver platter because he knows how much it means to her.
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