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“Too old, huh?”

“Maybe we oughta exchange some words sometime...”

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“I mean, we kinda are witches if you think about it.”

“We’re women or girls that do magic, it’s in the name.”

“If the shoe fits y’know?”

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(So, here’s the deal.

I’ve realized that the reason that I’ve been a little dissatisfied with this blog is that while I like the general idea of this setup, I don’t like some of  the specifics I set up concerning the death and rebirth part of the system and the “lives” mechanic so to speak. It’s wayyy too complicated.

So I’m sorta gonna revamp the specifics of how everything works here, death still isn’t that big of a deal so to speak, but think of it more in a Destiny sense, where Magical Girls can die but also can resurrect relatively easily aside from exceptions, I haven’t thought of those exceptions yet so give me time, but yeah.

Big changes.)

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(I really should get back into this blog cause there’s things I wanna do with it in relation to Mal and Reina.

Especially considering Marie and her story, that’s something I rlly want to do.)

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(I was playing around with an idea that allows Tori to circumvent the “You know I’ve never seen Superman and Clark Kent in the same room before, very suspicious.” thing, I mentioned she has the ability to turn her own shadow into a decoy, and I think sometime she uses that to make a clone of herself in the form of whatever persona she isn’t using [Making Nightmare when she’s Eclipse and vice versa] in a sense of splitting herself. It’s really awkward because both of them are her and it takes a lot of concentration and constant switching which she’s consciously in control of but it makes more sense, that way she can have Eclipse still help fight a blight beast while trying to show a few snooping civs or rookies that have no place there a good reason to stay away, because Nightmare is gonna attack them to scare them off.

Also because she can fight herself, to again, dispel suspicion. Eclipse and Nightmare can’t be the same person if there are TV accounts of the two fighting each other.

It’s not something she ALWAYS does, and isn’t very common, but still common enough as a protection measure.)

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“You know in some places that might be illegal don’t you? I’m not sure what the verdict is where you live but...I thought you should know.”

“Placing cameras around the city isn’t weird, it’s called being prepared. Those idiots on the forum don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to real security.”

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“Seriously?”

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(Tfw you get some evil ideas concerning stuff.)

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“Streaming fights shouldn’t be a thing period, we have to tell the same thing to the news crews over and over again and they still seem to not get it. You shouldn’t be ANYWHERE near a fight, be it Magical Girl vs Creature, or Magical Girl vs Magical Girl. It’s dangerous, obviously.”

“People these days...”

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(Did someone say Magical Girls? 

Because Yoooo I needa use this girl.)

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“A little time off is nice...I used to hate the idea given what I’m fighting for but you know. It’s good for someone to take a break every now and then...”

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(I really should add another info page for Marie so I can start using her for stuff.)

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“I’m not gonna be that condescending type and say you have to, or will ever end up changing your mind, childbirth really isn’t for everyone. But speaking from my own experience...I used to say the same thing you did even after I got married myself. It seems daunting, it’s exasperating, your first kid ruins you inside and out trust me...”

“But there’s something endearing about it, watching your kids grow up, knowing that there’s a part of you that goes on, even the little details. I’m not a fan of mayonnaise, and my eldest daughter Emma? She doesn’t like it either, it’s a little silly but it’s...nice you know?”

“Both of them drive my Ex and I up and down multiple walls, but if there’s anything him and I can agree on without question, it’s that we love them dearly and never regret having them.”

“I just wish I could be home to see them more often...”

“It’s the same thing that I hear everyday…”

She then plastered on a fake smile before imitating one of the various adviser’s she had meetings with everyday. “’Oh, you will change your mind about children, my Queen! They are delightful and raising them is one of the most rewarding experiences of a life time’! I hear that every day.”

She stuck out her tongue as she put a hand on her hip. Narrowing her eyes, she let out a soft laugh. 

“The only rewarding thing about raising a little monster is the fact that I will lose my sanity. Besides my nephew, you will never catch me around  a child. Why would I want to go through something that could change my body forever? Or raise a child when I don’t have a maternal bone in my body. It would be a disservice to that child to have me raise one. I suppose I’m being selfish when Cristallum needs an heir from it’s king and queen, but…”

“I think I’m allowed to be selfish, don’t you?”

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“I have a friend I co-mentor with some days, her’s was the worst...her husband kept talking her into trying to adopt since she didn’t want to have to take the time off that would come with having her own kids, she’d finally caved, but that was around the time this dangerous rift came up near France and she was pulled on Emergency Response, that rift didn’t close for about 2 and half years, and she was stuck there the whole time, it’s how we met actually. She got all these letters about how the adoption cleared and he ended up adopting a newborn pair of twins, all was “fine”. She even stayed longer since he said not to worry.”

“She went home 10 months later and caught him with another woman, to make it worse, the two kids he “adopted”? Both his, both had with said other woman since he’d had her on the side for a while with false pretenses prior to all this. The final icing on this cake was that she was sending money back to him to help raise them, so essentially she’d been paying to raise kids that weren’t hers at all.”

“The good part of this is that ironically she and the other woman left him upon both finding out, and they actually ended up getting together themselves and raising the kids as their own. They’re all still a family today too.”

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“I’d consider the lack of kids a positive really, they really make a lot of this job harder than it should be, even with all the neat things that come with them.”

Then she caught the implication in that sentence, he must’ve been a cheater then. 

“Oh...I think I get what you meant...sorry that didn’t work out and everything then, really hate jerks like that since I hear that happening a lot too.”

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“Well. I dunno. my case wasn’t bad or anything, and like, I know I still feel for my Ex no less than I did when we were married and he feels the same way, so I’d still call it true love but…our paths just differ now.”

“I have a responsibility I can’t just give up for him or my kids, even if I love them more than anything. Not only does me quitting put them in danger, but then other moms and wives like myself risk losing what’s important to them too. But I couldn’t keep asking my family to put up with the moving and school changes and everything just to stay near me, or how hurt and lonely they’d be if they didn’t and I was gone for years y’know?”

                               ❝–Didn’t really have kids with my ex, so I wouldn’t know..                           Although I think he was making plenty of his own with other women.❞

                             ❝Still — sounds nice that you’re still close with yours I guess.                                          And you have kids to help you through it.❞

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(In case anyone’s curious...) 

(Marie and Victoria do end up together at the end of the actual story line I have written down. Takes them a bit of time to reconnect and forgive for all the stuff that happened when they were way younger but yeah.

Adam ends up dying way later when someone pieces together that Victoria, Eclipse, and Nightmare are the same person, and ends up popping open a rift back in the states near where him and the kids are and a decently ranked beast comes out, he ends up staying and distracting it enough for the kids to get out, which forces Tori back stateside to be there for her kids. Japan’s situation dies down so Marie comes back too, the plot unfolds as it should and once all is said and done they both realize that they have a lot of ground to work well together.

Marie wants to retire and live life as a normal person, so she can stay and make sure the kids are safe and raise them too, and Tori can still do her responsibility as a Magical Girl, both understand what that means and know how it is, so Marie doesn’t mind not seeing Tori for a while and they both know how to make each moment together count. Not to mention if anyone does try anything to go after Tori’s family again, Marie can certainly put up a damn good fight, so it all works out perfectly.

This doesn’t have any impacts on ships obviously. Tori can end up with anyone and so can Marie if I end up adding her here too, but just thought it was a neat tidbit to add for anyone interested.)

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“Well. I dunno. my case wasn’t bad or anything, and like, I know I still feel for my Ex no less than I did when we were married and he feels the same way, so I’d still call it true love but...our paths just differ now.”

“I have a responsibility I can’t just give up for him or my kids, even if I love them more than anything. Not only does me quitting put them in danger, but then other moms and wives like myself risk losing what’s important to them too. But I couldn’t keep asking my family to put up with the moving and school changes and everything just to stay near me, or how hurt and lonely they’d be if they didn’t and I was gone for years y’know?”

“Makes you concerned about the fact that divorce is just a common conversation and just a regular thing at this point.”