[Puella Magi Madoka Magica] - Love, love, love (I watched you behind bars) - [3/3] - I do adore thee
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Summary: Swallow your guilt, swallow your pain. There's always a price to pay for love.
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To love was to let go.
Homura loved, loved, loved. She tore her from the sky and then wrapped them all in silk chains. A shattered girl with the power to change the world was not fit to be loved, but she could love in turn.
Loving meant giving. A golden cage, endless paths, endless lifetimes of smooth sailing and all the luck in the world.
Loving meant stepping back before the world shattered like her too.
She loved her especially. Dearly, violently, madly, gently. She loved her with all she had, a weak, gasping, stuttering heart patched and sewn together with raw magic. She loved her, even from far far away, watching as she slept with another loved one—joy from another in the creases at the corners of her eyes.
Homura loved Madoka, old and grey over and over again, but she did not let go.
(For Homura, to love was to stay and never let go)
Was trying to like. Imagine how a step-mother Penelope/step-daughter Athanasia AU would work. Claude would either never know about Penelope’s affair (or at least does not suspect about the pregnancy. Somehow) or would be so blinded by grief after Diana’s death that he would just pathetically accept Penelope back.
Obviously she could not pass Jennette as Claude’s so ..?? She would probably huh. Keep her as her forever dirty little secret or eventual pawn to use (maybe she is passed off as countess rosalia’s daughter?).
Her relationship with Athanasia would depend a lot on whether Athy is still reincarnated or not but I guess Penelope would either roll with Claude’s mistreatment of her (and probably have him disinherit her because she is, after all, his low-born bastard) or play the kind step-mother for politics (and the rest would also depend on whether or not they do have children together later on. maybe Anastasius using her as his black magic baby machine fucked her body up). Just imagine. The drama
drawing for a scene in the TME light novel (specifically, Paris helping out Lyla!!).
I drew this scene immediately after I read it because oh my god of all the things I was expecting from Paris's first introduction, him lending a (unneeded) helping hand to Lyla was NOT what i thought his first introduction would be like