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You are a Magical Girl. ...No, no. You're not a Magical Girl at all.

You don't deserve to be called that. Not anymore.

You don't even deserve to wear the suit you've got on right now - the suit that the person you utterly disappointed earlier put together with her own two hands. To your exact measurements, to your exact specifications. Three weeks' worth of painstaking worth, or so she told you once, when she still thought of you as someone worth trusting. Someone worth believing in.

It's not even disappointment. What you did went past that. You broke her. You defeated her. In one brief moment of savage, paranoid self-indulgence, you shattered her confidence in you as a trusted subordinate - and you could still her scream her hate at you from her vox-speakers. About how you've condemned yourself, the remaining members of your rank, and the valiant Knights that had gathered to assist you to a horrible, painful death.
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MORE HEALING
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>>31973281

You could still feel her bitter anger at your confession, too. It left its legacy in the form of dagger-sharp pain that stabbed through your core whenever you pulled in a breath, speaking of bruised if not cracked ribs. It also left its taste on your tongue - a thick, cloying, coppery tang that never went away no matter how much you swallowed. No matter how much you spat.

You did nothing wrong. You still believe that. Haruka said as much.

But Malal thought quite differently, and you can't help but agree.

You are Omegon, Culexus of the Ninth Officio, stationed in Mitakihara, Japan. En route to the Ninth's highly-experimental and secret teleportation facility, where you will be sent screaming a death you now very clearly deserve.

Along with nineteen of the only friends you've ever known, and forty knights who had foolishly decided to tag along.

You are Chitose Yuma. Coward, traitor, and liar.

[1/2]
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Maybe this time we won't vote for the stupidest, most pointless, most incoherent options that make no sense OOC or in context.

Who am I kidding, we're going to somehow fuck it all up the minute Deculture gives us an option that even hints at it.
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>>31973288
Yuma did nothing wrong
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>>31973290

"You lot at the Ninth...you're a frugal lot, aren't you?" Alondight, High Marshal of the valiantly-stupid Black Templars and the only permanently-wheeled Magical Girl you know of, mutters as she nibbles carefully on a squashed purple macaron. "This obsession with using public transportation to ferry your guests to and fro...where do all the savings go? Who benefits?" She turns to Enyo beside her. "Enyo, perhaps you'd know? Please tell me they're being used for something useful, at least--"

"The Teleportation Facility is deep underground, High Marshal." You finally rise to her most pitiful attempt at banter so far, and you hear the sound of forty knights turning to look at you as your vox speakers croak out your first words ever since your ragtag group left Headquarters. "This is the only way to access it currently. If this is any inconvenience to you, then on behalf of the Ninth, I offer our most sincere apologies."

Formal. Concise. Polite. Malal would've been proud, if she'd been here to hear it.

Alondight blinks at this, before shrugging her pauldroned shoulders. "Well, I suppose I can understand that, but..." She looks around at her knights, all of them sitting neatly in rows, some of them looking out the windows, staring at the scenery whipping past outside, trying not to appear too out of place. The High Marshal stares past them, glaring at the civilians who are also trying not to notice the horde of brutally-armored women. Some of them likely wondering just what kind of high-level cosplay convention had suddenly rolled into the city.

"...A bloody train." Alondight sighs. "A bloody commuter's train." She shakes her head. "I realize the Ninth is pragmatic in all things, but...I wasn't expecting to be ferried to my death on a train car. It lacks a certain..." The blonde makes a cyclical gesture with her squashed treat. "...Enyo, what's the word I'm looking fo--"

[2/3]
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>>31973299

"Ceremony," The taciturn Marshal cuts in, and Alondight nods. "Yes. That."

You shrug again. Part of you wants to tell her to stop being so fucking fussy about riding a goddamn train, to shout that it doesn't matter, because you're all going to die in less than an hour, and she should shut her yapping macaron-hole already.

The other part of you - the part that easily wins - has you murmur a half-hearted apology instead. Unable to think of anything else but the sight of your Culexus rank leader's defeated, crestfallen form, a sight you've never seen before and one you never want to see ever again.

...You'll do your duty. When Walpurgisnacht comes, you'll do what you're supposed to do, and you'll accept the death that's coming to you.

You can at least do that much.

"Oh, stop apologizing already, it's getting on my nerves." Alondight says, and you look up to frown at her - only to see that she's smiling. "I'm just being unreasonable to get you to talk. I can complain a lot, but I'm not as bad as Mordred." She nudges the black-haired Marshal at her side with an armored elbow. "Right, Enyo? I'm not as bad as the Princess, yeah?"

"I wonder." The taciturn Marshal replies, before grunting slightly as Alondight hammers her elbow into her side with a loud clanking sound. "I...I meant, yes, High Marshal, of course."

[3/4]
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>>31973307

"See?" Alondight's smile is a wide one, and she pops her macaron into her mouth with a flick of her clawed hand - her pale cheeks bulging with every chew. As soon as she swallows, she takes another slightly-less squashed pink one from her bag, and holds it out to you.

"Come on, then, Yuma. Flip up your visor so I can feed you one. You Culexus still eat, I presume?" At your silence, she cackles. "Don't worry, I make these myself. They're very good, everyone at the Castle loves them--"

"--only when she's looking." Another armor-denting dig makes Enyo finally turn away, her mechanical hand shielding her now-abused side as she winces in pain.

You blink at the offered macaron. The pink-colored treat perched upon brutal black claws looking like a visual metaphor- of something pure about to be ruined by the brutal, black thorns of reality.

[]Indulge the High Marshal. Your suit's active, so your ability won't harm them. Just to get her to shut up.
[]Kindly refuse. You're not in the mood.
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>>31973322
>[x]Indulge the High Marshal. Your suit's active, so your ability won't harm them. Just to get her to shut up.
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>>31973322
>[X]Kindly refuse. You're not in the mood.
Make your excuses. Culexus don't show their face for anyone.
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>>31973322
>[X]Indulge the High Marshal. Your suit's active, so your ability won't harm them. Just to get her to shut up.
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>>31973292

oh fuck off, go cry somewhere else.
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>>31973322
[x]Indulge the High Marshal. Your suit's active, so your ability won't harm them. Just to get her to shut up.
Your last ever chance to try new things!
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>>31973322
[X]Kindly refuse. You're not in the mood.
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>>31973322
>[x]Indulge the High Marshal. Your suit's active, so your ability won't harm them. Just to get her to shut up.
What does it matter, everyone else is about to die?
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>>31973322
>[]Kindly refuse. You're not in the mood.
Throwing it up would be impolite, and I don't think Yuma is capable of keeping it down right now.
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>>31973322
[X] Kindly refuse. With our luck, the Marshal is sensitive to Culexus powers.
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>>31973322
>>31973335

[X]Indulge the High Marshal. Your suit's active, so your ability won't harm them. Just to get her to shut up.

What does it matter, indeed
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>>31973330
No, don't you understand, only his reading and opinion of a character's mental state and personality is valid, everything else is just incoherent and out of character, and everyone must be informed of this!
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>>31973322
[X]Indulge the High Marshal. Your suit's active, so your ability won't harm them. Just to get her to shut up.

>"Good lord, she's, like, Ten!"
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>>31973322

[x]Indulge the High Marshal. Your suit's active, so your ability won't harm them

we deserve a treat after all this HEALING
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>>31973322
>[]Kindly refuse. You're not in the mood.
Upset kid mode go.
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If we somehow create a time paradox, it would be an improvement on the current situation.
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>>31973322
>[X]Indulge the High Marshal. Your suit's active, so your ability won't harm them. Just to get her to shut up.
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>>31973358

can I please direct you to: >>31973330 ?
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Macaroons, the favored cookies of lesbian magical girls about to die everywhere.
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>>31973322
>[x]Kindly refuse. You're not in the mood.
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>>31973322
>[X]Indulge the High Marshal. Your suit's active, so your ability won't harm them. Just to get her to shut up.

The most depressing time of the day has finally come! I'm excited to see this arc end!
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>>31973369
Macaroons are not Macarons.
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>>31973377
I didn't know there was a difference. I've seen both spellings used interchangeably
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>>31973377

then what the fuck are Macarons?

I honestly just thought it was a case of americans being stupid again.
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>>31973322
>[]Kindly refuse. You're not in the mood.
Isn't her face all messed up, too?
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>>31973377
My bad.

At least the Marshal won't be pulling a Mami like Chariot did.
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>>31973350
When your voting is so godawful that Deculture's scrambling to do damage control on characterization and story, yes it really, really is.
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All these characters we have never seen before about to go on a suicide mission! I wonder what will happen!

This is like doing the ending to Mass Effect 2 without any of the loyalty missions!
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>>31973390
When do we go bacck to collecting golden weapons?
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>>31973322
[X]Kindly refuse. You're not in the mood.
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>>31973397
Let's get the Shepard dies ending!
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>>31973322
>[x]Kindly refuse. You're not in the mood.
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>>31973290
>Coward, traitor, and liar.
Cheer up Yuma. Now you have more in common with your best friend!
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>>31973400
Didn't mean to quote.
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>>31973322
[X]Kindly refuse. You're not in the mood.
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>>31973393
He's not. He expects this stuff from the votes.
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>>31973393
you have already attempted to drive this point into the ground for three threads and very few people agree with you.
It is done
Please shut up
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>>31973385
That's because nobody realizes there's a difference until it's too late
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>>31973387
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>>31973393
>scrambling to do damage control on characterization and story
What? You cannot be this oblivious. No-one is that dumb, this is just shit-stirring again, right?
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>>31973400
The flashback is supposed to end today. After that, we go back to Chiaki. Though whether we get a new golden weapon soon remains to be seen.

The prophet does have the staff. Thats probably next.
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>>31973322
[x]Indulge the High Marshal. Your suit's active, so your ability won't harm them. Just to get her to shut up.
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>>31973400
After everyone dies.
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>>31973393

WAHHHHHH BOO HOO THE CHARACTER DIDN'T DO WHAT I WANTED THEM TO DOOOOO!!! fuck off and go find another thread to piss in.

this is magical girl noir quest. where bad shit happens all the time and there are no breaks on the HEALING train
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>>31973322
[]Indulge the High Marshal. Your suit's active, so your ability won't harm them. Just to get her to shut up.
You'll all be dead by the end of today anyway.
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>>31973387
they are cakes, you know, a little bit o' steam a little bit o' sugar
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>>31973411
>very few
That's why it keeps coming up, constantly, every thread, right? Because everyone agreed mindrape, confession, and more derp were brilliant choices that fit the characters and were internally consistent.

I didn't even find out about how boneheaded you and the shitvoters were until a thread or so back, and I have to say, you really outdid yourselves this time.
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>>31973322
>[x]Kindly refuse. You're not in the mood.
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>>31973416

well son of a bitch!
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>>31973322
>[]Kindly refuse. You're not in the mood.
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>>31973393
Hey, hey anon, guess what?
It. Wasn't. A. Write. In. Vote.
Yuma being a horrible lying rapist shit was within Decu's keikaku. He presented it as an option himself.
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>>31973411
Have you gone back and actually read the votes that people made? Of the 15 votes to do te mindrip, a majority wanted it to see what would happen.
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>>31973322

Thank you for participating in Magical Girl Noir Quest!

The current voting period is closed!
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>>31973430

seriously, fuck off. stop throwing a hissy fit just because this isn't your special sparkly waifu simulator.

people do bad things with good intentions, people fuck up and have to deal with the consequences. this is what creating a believable character is like. if you don't like it. kindly go fuck yourself
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>>31973444
Well, guess we found out!
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>>31973457

and it was GLORIOUS
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New Strategy! Let us ignore the shitposters and do the quest so it doesn't fill up and die!
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>>31973457
The difference was one vote, and mindrape lost the initial vote.
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>>31973447
I'm so sorry Hat-chan, it seems we're in for yet another thread of bitching and screaming. I really do wish people would listen to what you said last time and just let it go already.
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>>31973470
They can't. they would have to have less emotional investment in the character.
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>>31973468

The initial vote was tied, which was why there was a revote.

At any rate, I was seriously hoping people would have learned to agree to disagree during this time, but I guess that just isn't possible...

I have some new drawings for you. Wendy/NECO's birthday was in late April. This is for her.
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>>31973475
How can people have such a strong emotional investment in a character that they have such a poor understanding of?
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>>31973481
how can people have such a strong emotional investment in other people's emotional investments?

who even cares?
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>people still salty about the vote from 3 or 4 fucking threads ago
To the bitches, what DO you expect to gain by shitposting? Do you expect the players you disagree with to leave because you angrily told them to? Do you expect Decu to just retcon everything that has happened?
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Midori's birthday was yesterday. She requested a fanservicey drawing! How daring! This was the best I could throw together after work though
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>>31973450

The problem isn't that someone done fucked up. The problem is they fucked up by doing something the idea of Malal doing two posts earlier made her violently angry.

It being in a flashback, it also retcons her entire character in such a way you can throw everything she's said or done in the trash. Remember how mad she was at Kharn for being the one who killed all her friends through psychotic incompetence? Fuckin' Whoops, that didn't happen.
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>>31973481
They build the character in their heads and have a view of it. This is a common occurence with highly imaginative people. they'd be just as pissed if the GM force-changed a character trait or a racial trait for no reason other than the lulz in a tabletop game.

Essentially it's the same thing, just not a GM at fault, so they blame everyone on the board.
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>>31973476
Were you aiming for pic related with that Wendy face, because it was the first thing that came to mind for me.
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Lastly, here's a cute chibi of Kumatora. Still trying to pin down that costume design...

And that's all I got.
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>>31973476
>>31973509
>>31973532

I like all of them. I escpecially like the design on Kumatora here on the last one. Thanks for sharing!
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>>31973505
I expect no retcon, because the vote was fair. What I expect to get out of this is that the decision-making in the future will have better reasoning behind it than "there won't be any consequences so let's see what happens".
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>>31973510
>also retcons her entire character in such a way you can throw everything she's said or done in the trash

no it doesn't. at all. not even remotely. we didn't know her past. now we do. and it explains everything about her. why she's so bitter, why she hates murder-chiaki, everything.

it's pure solid guilt. and she can't deal with it. so she lashes out.

>Remember how mad she was at Kharn for being the one who killed all her friends through psychotic incompetence? Fuckin' Whoops, that didn't happen

uhhhhhhh how does this contradict what's happened. Kharn can still murder everyboydy. again. it's all guilt, she's twisted it in her mind that it's Kharns fault to try and shift the blame. and hell it probably WILL be Kharns fault and checking on her wouldn't have done a damn thing
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>>31973510
>The problem is they fucked up by doing something the idea of Malal doing two posts earlier made her violently angry.
Are you really saying that a mentally unstable little girl in an insanely high stress situation being a little hypocritical shatters your suspension of disbelief? Seriously?

>Remember how mad she was at Kharn for being the one who killed all her friends through psychotic incompetence? Fuckin' Whoops, that didn't happen.
Except it fits that perfectly - she's externalised her own self-loathing, offloading all the rage and hatred onto Kharn and Chiaki as a coping mechanism.
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HAHA
TIME FOR MAGICAL GIRLS
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>>31973550
Well, have there been any consequences?

No
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>>31973532
Kuma-chan a cutest. I'd say I'd like her to appear more, but down that road sadness lies.
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>>31973322
[x]Kindly refuse. You're not in the mood.
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>>31973560
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that the flashbacks have no impact on Chiaki.

They have had serious fucking consequences for Chiaki before, and they still can. That's something you should keep in mind when what seems like a normal situation suddenly goes to hell.
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>>31973546
>>31973566

Hahaha, thank you! There's another Kumatora drawing that I want to do (well, the focus is on Midori, but Kumatora is still in the drawing too) but that might have to wait until the weekend or maybe next week. We'll see how it goes!
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What I really don't understand is why all this arguing is going on over Yuma of all people. I mean at the end of the day no matter how she acts she's still a pretty minor character.
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>>31973509
Look at those jugs! Dem Hips! Dat everything!
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>>31973602
Is she?

She's one of two precogs the Ninth has. And we WILL need them again.
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>>31973595
No means no
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>>31973509
Midorin is the healthiest and sexiest of waifus.
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>>31973532
Kuma-chan and Enyo are the best side characters! I love it!
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>>31973602
>Thinking a character that will be minor before will always stay minor.
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If Decu is an Incubator, theses lasts threads probably pushed back the Heat death of the universe by a few millions years by sheer mad
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>>31973609

The striped panties? Hahaha!

Someone once told me that Chiaki is one lucky bitch, and I supposed I'd be inclined to agree.
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>>31973602
Well basically there's a lot of massive overreactions and wild hyperbole being thrown back and forth that's creating a feedback loop of butthurt.
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>>31973602
>Malal's ex-successor
>Minor character

You can't be this stupid.
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>>31973638
Good lord.
We've passed the butthurt event horizon.
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>>31973626
He lives on the moon. He'd be the incubator of the first.
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>>31973620
Back the fuck up son
Wendy is the healthiest
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So what is the reason for the world being so different from the original Madokaverse, especially when considering that (at least some of the) events of PMMM seem to be canon, at least judging by the Homuras?
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>>31973620

She'd all those things and also a pervert
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>>31973655
But we haven't even gone past the Kármán line you giant dildo. Decu's a Filipino.
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>>31973666
Homu did a time-reset after Madoka's wish.
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>>31973629
>Chiaki is one lucky bitch

I agree.

That is, until anon will manage once again to vote for something retarded or get Midori killed because it might be interesting.
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>>31973665
>Wendy is the healthiest
Nope, she has a chance in body, but she's too busy being creepy and psychotic to have the correct 'healthy' mindset, so Midori takes the title.
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>>31973667
>not reading right to left
meh.
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>>31973666
Everything's organized.
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>>31973666
Ai yo, son.
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When Malal literally screams "Why would you be so stupid and out of character", and you insist it makes sense for her character, you're really just arguing against reality.
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>>31973694
>When Malal literally screams "Why would you be so stupid and out of character",
That's not what literally means
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>>31973509
Shimapantsu Midorin is love. Color them light blue and white please.
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>>31973665

No, I'm sorry. I like Wendy a lot, but she's outclassed!
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>>31973667
C-can we just have a spin off of Midorin and Kuma-chan writing filthy shoujo manga? Just forget this whole mad goddess ending the world thing.
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>>31973681
Shit tons of burgers still stored in that delicious body
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>>31973666
Irish Cuisine, anon.
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>>31973707
OPPAI POWAH
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>>31973717
Burgers are not healthy, ergo Wendy is not healthy. My logic is undeniable.
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>>31973701

Actually, if I remember correctly, they're supposed to be green! Someone asked Decu ages ago about Midori's underwear and he answered that she wears a sports bra and green striped panties!

>>31973714

I kind of want to do more of them writing MMxMM, but work has been cramping my creativity something fierce!
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>>31973666
The way I see it, we're an indeterminate number of loops removed from the initial timelines.

Every loop more girls become megucas and make a wide variety of wishes from the mundane to the universe altering. Then sooner or later Homuka pulls the plug and the whole thing resets exponentially increasing their power levels for the next round.

I'm betting the Blessed Lady Cult, for example, is a leftover from a previous loop which has become something quite unexpected from what it was originally supposed to be.
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>>31973717
Canonically, Wendy's in fair shape other than having a nice butt and boobs. Midori is softer in build.
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I like to think that Pinky influenced Yuma in some way.

It helps until it gets debunked by Decu.
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>>31973738
It's probably more likely that the people who attacked Kharn and Mirderface were members of the Cult, and that the black knife was a tool of Faust.
Pinky said that she went through a lot of trouble to set up events so that Malal died, and it explains why the attackers would have left Kharn and Murderface in a position to be recovered even though they had plenty of time to destroy their Soul Gems.
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>>31973731
I dont mind that at all. Midoris thighs must be so soft to the touch yet firm in its form.

I want to rub my face all over them all day long!
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>>31973738

well that's just stupid. youma did this of her own volition and she will reap the HEALING for it. we should forgive her when we get back to chiaki, poor girl needs some forgiveness. though she would probably take it the wrong way and be even MORE pissed at us.
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>>31973328 >>31973334 >>31973345 >>31973351

You lean back, turning slightly away from the offered treat, raising one gloved hand in both deference and apology. No, it's...you appreciate the gesture, but it's fine. You're not hungry, you don't have an appetite at the moment, and...you're no good with sweets, especially when all you can taste is your own clotting blood.

"Really?" Alondight pouts, clearly crestfallen at your refusal. "It's not good to let your blood sugar fall just before going into battle, you know? You won't have any strength left to kill heretics." She shakes her head, looking forlornly at the denied macaron, before turning to the raven-haired Marshal whose side she'd hammered mercilessly earlier. "Enyo? Come on, open wide. I can't eat something I offered to someone. There's a rule about that, right?"

"No, there isn't, High Marshal. You just don't want to look like a sugar-hungry glutton--" Another brutal clanking sound, and Enyo dutifully opens her mouth to the High Marshal, tears of pain pricking from the corners of her closed eyes. Alondight smiles at you, before cramming not just the pink macaron that you refused, but two additional ones, pulled from the bag so quickly you almost didn't see them. Enyo's eyes bulge at this, and she claps her armor-shod hand over her mouth as she turns away, gagging and choking.

"Make sure to chew thoroughly before you swallow, Marshal." Alondight reminds her, a smirk still curling her lips by the time she turns to face you. "See, Enyo understands what I'm talking about. None of that 'but those are just empty calories' or 'I'm too old for sweets' nonsense. Sweets provide the energy we need, just as much as hate fuels us to crush heretics wherever they hide." It's here that she raises her voice, addressing her black-armored comrades. "ISN'T THAT RIGHT, TEMPLARS?"

The unified response is loud enough to palpably shake the train car you're in.

"NO PITY! NO REMORSE! NO SURRENDER!"

[1/2]
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>>31973808

Alondight nods at this, a knowing smile baring white, perfect teeth. "So what I'm trying to get at here, Yuma, in case you didn't notice - is that I'm trying to get you to talk about just what happened back there. Yes, I know, it's crude and awfully blunt of me, and predictably foreign." She waves your protests away.

"I don't call your values or customs into question, please don't misunderstand, it's just that I believe the time for overt displays of politeness is over. After all, we ARE being sent to prevent the End of the World, and it's likely most of us won't be getting back home in one piece - or at all." Alondight nods again. "We'll be fighting side by side in the worst environment ever, so I'd at least like to be illuminated on certain matters involving those I ally with."

...So she's asking what Malal was angry about, huh.

"Do you begrudge me if I do?" Alondight leans back on her seat, crossing her arms over her tabard-draped breastplate. "It's not everyday you see the infamous Miss Malal brutalize a cherished subordinate like that, screaming hate loud enough to pierce the soul." She gestures to you. "Just what did you do, Chitose Yuma? What sin have you committed?"

How do you respond?

[]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.
[]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
[]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31973731

Which reminds me that Midori is supposed to be 168cm tall which is quite tall for a Japanese girl, while Kumatora is a more average 157cm so Midori would probably tower over here a bit.

Hmm... Maybe I can play around with that
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>>31973819
>[X]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.

HEAL DAMMIT
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>>31973819
[X]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.
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>>31973819
>[]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31973377
Macaroons, Macarons, Macaroni.
This shit is fucking confusing.
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>>31973819
[X]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.

I think Yuma would have learned her lesson from telling the full truth to Malal.
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>>31973819
Tell her we fucked with Girl A, leave Kharn out of it.
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>>31973819
>[X]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31973819
>[]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31973819
>[]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.

I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU FUCKS FUCK UP AGAIN
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>>31973819
>[]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.
As Malal said, they're all going to die anyway, where's the harm in letting her know what kind of trash they'll be dying for?
Frankly I don't think Yuma can scrape together enough of a fuck to give about secrecy or pride anymore.
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>>31973819
[x]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
Malal is trying to run damage control right now; don't screw things up worse than they already are.
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>>31973819
>[X]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.
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>>31973819
[x]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.

>>31973844
No, fuck off. Its enough retarded votes for one flashback.
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>>31973532
Why are there so many good side characters?
I'm still sad Erebus had to die.
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>>31973819
>[]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31973869
Yuma does not know for a fact that everyone will die. This is meta voting.
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>>31973819
>[x]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
should be good enough.
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>>31973869
On the contrary, I think maybe it'd be better if the knights didn't have to hear that not only are they going to be dying, they're going to die because we were a petty moron.
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>>31973819
[x]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.

BURY IT DEEP
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>>31973819
>[x]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.
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>>31973819
>[x]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
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>>31973476
That's adorable.
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>>31973819
[x]Don't tell her anything. Fuck these guys, we've already dug ourselves into enough of a pit, we don't need to drag even more people into our vortex of bad decisions.
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>>31973819
>[x]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
No more healing...
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>>31973819
>[x]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.
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>>31973819
[x]Dont tell anything.
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>>31973894

Thank you! There are several other new drawings in the thread! I hope you like them too!
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>>31973819
[X]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31973819
>[X]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.

It's still not enough yet.
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>>31973819
>[X]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.

herpaderp
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>>31973819

[x]Tell her the 'Disney' version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.

Basically summarize in a way without revealing Officio secrets (what happened to Kharn and Murderface's and their condition). Make sure to say it in a way that makes it clear that parts can't be said because secret.
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>>31973855
Upon reconsideration, changing my vote to:

[X]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.

Even Disney version is probably too much.
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>>31973819
>[]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
"I'm a mental rapist. I know I let Malal down, but..."
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>>31973819
[X]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
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>>31973819
>[X]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31973819
>[x]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31973819
>[X]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31973891
>>31973904
Stop samefagging you humongous faggot.
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>>31973819
[X]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
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>>31973819
[x]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.
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>>31973819
>[X]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
DISNEY TIME
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>>31973819

[x]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.

>>31973882

We don't even know who all is going to die here, Yuma certainly believes she is going to die at this point.
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>>31973819
>[X]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.

She needs to know that whatever Malal said, what we did probably isn't going to be responsible for the deaths of her Templars. But we can't be --too- open about Officio Business.

We did something we weren't supposed to do, and we didn't get to a job that Malal had tasked us with as a result.
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>>31973819
[x]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.

Well look at that, the chucklefucks feel at home now and dont want to go away anymore. How totally unexpected.
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>>31973819
>[x]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.
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>>31973922
>identical posts within 1.5 minutes
>samefagging
No.
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>>31973728
It can never match blue but light green is fine too i guess.
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>>31973922
You don't actually know how samefagging works do you.
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>>31973819
>[x]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
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>>31973819
>[]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
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>>31973819
[X] Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.

I see no point to divulge the full details.
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>>31973819
>[]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.

STOP PUSHING THE SHINY BUTTON
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>>31973819
[]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
High Marshal want an answer, at least this way we don't have to tell her about the Kharn stuff that Malal wanted kept secret.
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>>31973819
>[x]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.
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>>31973819
>[x]Don't tell her anything.

Now that the fucktards saw they can ruin everyones fun you better expect a lot of samefaggotery with every vote.
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>>31973819
>[x]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.

CONCEAL DON'T FEEL
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>>31973913
Normally I'd agree, but these people are on their way to their death and Malal's outburst about us "killing them all" has probably got them on edge.

Whatever Officio business we reveal is unlikely to go further and suitably edited we can put their minds at rest.
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We already told the truth to the two people that matter to us. This is something that not only reflects badly on us, but potentially the whole officio. Therefore it would probably be for the best not to tell about it to complete strangers we just met half-n-hour a go. There are more on the line here than just our image.
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>>31973819
>[x]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.

This should be sufficient to get her off our back
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>>31973819

[x]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.

I like these guys, give them the cliff notes
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>>31973819
[x]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31973819
[x]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.
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>>31973707
I just want them to hurry up and fuck in a way that doesn't involve cutting
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>>31973819
>[x]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
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>>31973819
[X] Tell her the Disney version.

She's doing her level best to get us to open up, and we have nothing to gain by just shutting her down like this. That said, we can't just tell them everything either.

Compromise best mise
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>>31973962

Hot topic votes always get a ton of responses. And are followed by even more angst. If they really wanted to ruin the fun, they would make write in posts that are worse than anything Decu could come up with.

Like for example, "I will show you." Then Yuma proceeds to mind rape this girl as well.
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>>31973819
>[x]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31973819
>[x]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
Disney time, with anons.
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>>31973819
>[x]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.
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>>31973965
When will she let it go?
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>>31973819
>[]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31973819
>[]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
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>>31973989
to take a slightly Meta tack: telling these guys a version of events gives Decu the opportunity to clarify Yuma's motivations out loud.
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>>31973819
>[]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31973819
>[]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
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>>31973995
>if they would want to ruin something they would make it more obvious that they want to ruin something!

Just so you know, your reasoning doesnt make sense at all.
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>>31973819

Thank you for your participation!

This closes our current voting period!
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>>31974010
Never. Or when Chiaki punches her in the face and then forgives her. That's when the breakdown occurs.

I see this is going to be another contentious one.
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>>31973995
There's enough players that that would never work. It needs to be an actual vote.
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>>31973678
it is what I was planning to do already, I also backed get fucked for the exact same reason
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Man, Chiaki just got done having light, fluffy times when we started this flashback, I think we're gonna need more once we finish, just to get people to cool off.
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>>31974052
>>/b/
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>>31973988
Are you so sure about the latter?
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>>31974010

sometime in the future, instead of ice it's puke.

she makes a puke castle to get away from all the judgmental anons and the thundering judgment of Chiaki Matsuda
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>>31974024
Aw fuck, had I thought of this then I would have voted to hear it.
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>>31974064
People still haven't gotten over getfuckedgate do you think this will ever stop?
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>>31974064
Oh man that would be nice, but nice things happening makes me paranoid.
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>>31973819

>[]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
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>>31974071
>non-invasive knifeplay

What's the fucking point then?
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>>31974064
You can bet your anal virginity that the tards who voted for the mindrape and then pushed through confession at the worst possible time in the history of ever ruined voting in MGNQ forever.

Every vote will be just like this one, with people samefagging the shit out of it.
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>>31974096
the point is you're not fucking the point
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>>31974086
Why would it stop, when some anons who voted for it the first time say they will vote for it the second time, not because it's in character but because they think it's interesting?
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>>31974064

Should just continue having fun with Midori until the world ends around them. That'll show them. That'll show everyone!
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>>31974086
Stop? No. Go down to the low background rumble that only occasionally gets pulled out at inappropriate moments as part of a completely unrelated argument? Sure.
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>>31974102
If it goes that way, it'll just be strict numerical voting to cut down samefagging until people grow the fuck up.
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>>31974104

Then why bother bringing a knife into sex?
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>>31974115
Not to mention that one guy who will start shitposting about it because a choice he didn't like got picked.
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>>31974104
But wont it get dull eventually?
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>>31974102
You wanna step outside, take a deep breath of some nice, fresh air, and put the crazy back in the box maybe?
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>>31974111
Midori? Don't you mean, 'Midori'?
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>>31974127
>>31974131
I'm not the Knifeplay expert. Ask Hanegawa
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>>31974141

Midori.

I may be rather silly from time to time, but you have to be far too silly to buy into that particular crack pot!
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>>31974111
The world won't end until Chiaki has a threesome with Sayaka and NECO
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>>31974136
Only if you fuck off and promise to never post again.
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>>31974141

>2014
>believing anything that fucking cat writes
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>>31974166
If you promise to calm down and stop being irrational and angry, I solemnly swear that this will be my last post in MGNQ.
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>>31974129
>>31974115

And lets not forget the autists who will complain about his complaning pre-preemptively.
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>>31974166

please, please fuck off. you're spoiling the story for the rest of us
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>>31974111
Some sort of apocalyptic lesbian shag-a-thon?
Well I know my next write-in suggestion.
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>>31974183
And of course the autist who complains about people complaining about people complaining.
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>>31974180
I wasnt even angry in he first place, so sure, I promise.
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>>31974189
How about you take him with you and you fuck off altogether?
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>>31974193

dude you were so mad it was pathetic. please think before you post in the future
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Could we stop with the insulting, please?

Pretty please?

Let's have fun together...
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>>31974202

it seems we're at an impasse. the cryingfags who are so totally not mad that their waifu simulator had something bad happen to somebody wont fuck off and neither will those that enjoy deep characters and interesting motives.

whatever shall we do?
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>>31974227
We can all fuck off together happily into the sunset.
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>>31974227
We could just all shut the fuck up about it, and enjoy the cute things that Hat posts.
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>>31974223
>fun
where do you think we are
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>>31974223

It's too late Hat-chan, this shit is hitting critical mass
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>>31974223
Welcome to /tg/. Just because MGNQ was so isolated from the rest of 4chan, doesn't mean you can forget where you are.
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>>31974227
>deep characters with interesting motivations
You know this whole flashback has made Yuma as deep as a puddle of piss and have as interesting or consistent motivations to match
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>>31974223
It died down for a little bit while we were debating healthiness, but then another vote happened.

Basically, MGNQ is the thing that makes the MGNQ fanbase ruin MGNQ.
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>>31974235
>>31974233

I like these options. lets all just be friends and enjoy the story
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>>31973510
>>31974254
These posters speaks the truth.

>>31974223
Well, there hasn't been much fun these past few threads...why start now?

>>31973819

>[x]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
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>>31974223

Every thread the same thing, The future refused to change. Just ignore the scrubs bickering, have some softness.
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>>31974254

this is the worst bait.
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>>31974284
And yet it's completely true.
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>>31974274
>These posters speaks the truth.

yeah, no they are retarded trolls who have no understanding of human interaction and are trying to stir up shit. which must be what you're trying to do I suppose.
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>>31973970
If we're going to botch things, why not go all the way?
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>>31974227
>enjoy deep characters and interesting motives.
There were none of those in that flash back. It just managed to ruin Yuma as a character due to inconsistent votes.

I didnt even partake in the argument, but what you just said is stupid.
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>>31974254
A puddle is what she was before. Shes at least a paddling pool now.
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>>31974284
No it is an objective view of what has happened
Character has completely changed for no reason, the consequences of which invalidated every interaction with her thus far and made her bland, boring and a total write off since now her use as far as continuing the narrative lasts until the players vote to shoot her for the lulz
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>>31974303
No, what happened was that the nearby sewer overflowed.
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>>31974314
Pretty much this, unfortunately.
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>>31974314
>>31974325
>>31974333
>>31974302
dudes stop stirring this shit up. enough is enough
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>>31974333
And people are going to keep defending it because they can't admit they can't characterize worth a damn/voted poorly for three threads in a row and counting.
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The moral of the story is flashbacks a shit. A derail like this would have blown over if it happened in present time, rather than infecting every past action.
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>>31974341
I'll accept a concession that they fucked up and are willing to work on damage control at any time, if that's what you're asking.
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>>31974341
It isn't one guy, there is a butthurt squad in here at least
Post times are too quick
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>>31974341
It took a little over 2 minutes for the shit flinging to start this one isn't going to die down for a while.
>>31974355
Good on you i'm sure you can prove someone wrong on the internet.
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>>31974355

only if the others accept that Youma is now a much deeper, fascinating and interesting character now that she is driven by guilt and HEALING and that the story is no worse for what happened.

Deal?
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>>31973819
Tallied votes within the time limit:
>[]Tell her everything. ...No use hiding it from anyone now that it's out.
13

>[]Tell her the Disney version of it. You did something you shouldn't have had and lied about it.
23

>[]Don't tell her anything. Officio Business only. It doesn't affect the mission, as far as you know. Not like Malal tells you anything anyway.
21
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>>31974367
hahahahaha no you couldn't characterize a paper bag
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>>31974352
No the flashbacks until now have been quite good
What happened was the players decided to go full retard and choose the bait option just because they can't leave well enough alone

And now we have a dedicated group bitching about it every thread causing responses which just sadly fuel the fire
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>>31974298
That is up to you. I'll keep choosing what is the right thing to do while trying to figure the pros and cons of every choice. To each their own.

Regardless, I will keep enjoying this quest whatever choice gets picked in the end.
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>>31974367
Is it really that hard to not take the bait?
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>>31974367
>>31974355
Yeah both of these events are about as likely as my dick suddenly shooting diamonds every time I ejaculate
Sorry guys but neither side is going to drop it until you can learn to compromise
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>>31974380

says the person who has no idea how people work
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>>31974111
I'd like to read that. Seeing the apocalype come and not giving a shit, instead just enjoying what time they have left.
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>>31974398
Well, since it's apparently too hard not to fuck up a FLASHBACK...Yeah, it really is. Especially when they're flat-out wrong and just can't admit how much they screwed up.
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>>31974417
Oh no someone is wrong on the internet better call the police.
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>>31974417

oh hey look, an opinion stated as fact.
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stop it everybody! you're giving the incubators what they want!!!
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>>31974352
>derail
How is this a derail?
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>>31974367

If you haven't noticed, the "Oh god I've ruined everything forever" character type wasn't exactly in short supply. Cramming another character into that box makes her less distinctive, not more.
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>>31974434
That's funny because everything since that decision seems to have been "YOU FUCKED UP" in gigantic burning letters
Sorta kills the whole opinion thing right there when even the QM writes it in
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>>31974447
Look at this pleb who doesn't want to stave off the heat death of the universe, look at him and laugh.
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>>31974434
So you're saying that mindrape and confession weren't bad decisions from the POV of the characters, made sense for the character to do considering what they said right before the vote for each every one of those votes, and added anything from the reader's POV that non-mindrape wouldn't have done better?

Okay then, you have a different opinion. That opinion's also wrong.
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>>31974458
>Mistaking every character reaction for DM reaction
Do you even know how writing works?
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>>31974458
>everything since that decision seems to have been "YOU FUCKED UP" in gigantic burning letters
The character did fuck up. In character. That doesn't mean the players fucked up, nor does it justify you people being complete fuckwits and screaming inane, unsupported crap as if it were fact.
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>>31974466
Do YOU know how questing and DMing work?
>>31974475
The whole problem was that picking that option wasn't in character for Yuma
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>>31974460
>Believing aliens ever.
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>>31974460
We're gambling for a much bigger set of chips than the mere heat death of the universe, you know.

If the heat death of the universe happens, that's one thing. If Chiaki fucks this up, then the universe is going to be one solid witch barrier from one end to the other. Heat death isn't going to be a problem...
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>>31974465
>mindrape and confession weren't bad decisions from the POV of the characters
No, they absolutely were.

> made sense for the character to do considering what they said right before the vote for each every one of those votes
Considering the characters personality, history and mental state, abso-fucking-lutely, yes.

>added anything from the reader's POV that non-mindrape wouldn't have done better
That is purely opinion, but yeah, I think it did.
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>>31974493
I'm pretty sure Decu said he doesn't put out of character options in flashbacks.
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>>31974475
But the players did fuck up. Because it made no sense for the character or the situation and added absolutely nothing while destroying said character. Not more interesting, we've pretty much destroyed the character and retroactively ruined all her past and future appearances. Her only purpose in-story now is probably going to be to deliver trauma for Chiaki, with no real chance of development of her own.

>>31974466
In this case, I think we can take the hint when it's written in ten foot neon letters.
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>>31974493
>The whole problem was that picking that option wasn't in character for Yuma
Yes it was. That's the whole point.
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>>31974493
>The whole problem was that picking that option wasn't in character for Yuma
If it wasn't in character, it wouldn't be an option in the first place. The fact that Decu made the option available meant that it was something Yuma was, in fact, capable of.
No, I didn't vote for anything in the past 5 threads or so. I'm just tired of people using nonsense arguments.
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Seriously you people its been like, three threads.

Can't you get over it already?
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>>31974502
And what I'm saying is that it made no goddamn sense IC and OOC considering the character's prior appearances. We're not talking a blank slate; we have seen Yuma before and she did have established characterization and relationships. Taking those into account, the HURR DURR LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS VOTE was just plain terrible and considering the domino effect on the quest events, it was a bad idea.
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NYAN NYAN
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>>31974531
Not untill the flashback is over
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>>31974531
When people realize they fucked up and vote differently, sure. Otherwise, we'll just have more constant fuckups in the name of "Let's see what happens!".
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>>31974507

That is not true, you're apparently just incapable of reading anything at more than a superficial level.
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>>31974548
NYAN NYAN
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>>31974548
No. We are fighting.
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>>31973719
I'm being mildly retarded. I don't quite grasp how potatoes are relevant.
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>>31974536
>We're not talking a blank slate; we have seen Yuma before and she did have established characterization and relationships
And how is that contrary to what we've seen in this flashback?

Yuma's been extremely curt with us, and has been extremely unwilling to spend time around us. Nothing has been contradicted, here, aside from assumptions that people have made about her motives.
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>>31974536

See
>>31974560
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>>31974560
>It's too deep for you
>RAEP AND CONFESSING RIGHT AFTER TAKING STEPS TO AVOID THEM MAKE SENSE I SWEAR

Yeah, no, you're full of shit.
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>>31974536
Here are the votes from the first mindrip vote:
>A Pinky promise?

>FINE GEEZ

>Take them.
>Take them for your own, nya.

>Getting tired of this "not knowing shit" shit.

>It's not like we're mindwiping her, and cmon let's not be in the dark for once. I doubt Yuma is continuing to give a fuck at this point.

>This will end well.

>Oh nothing, just karma whiplash~

>End of the world in a couple hours here, let's not die in the dark. "What's the worst that can happen?"

>Fuck it, fine. I want to know. And Chiaki is fine now anyway.

>She won't know and this is important information. Making the mother of all omelets here, can't fret over every egg.
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>>31974475
>>31974517
>>31974530
>>31974560
Oh shut the fuck up you shiters. Yuma flipped her shit when she thought that Malal might have mindraped Girl A and then she goes and does it HERSELF. So fuck off with your "Decu doesn't put OOC options", Decu can make mistakes and this was one of those times.
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>>31974558
That's not how it works. No one ever admits they were wrong on /tg/. EVER.
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>>31974561
NYAN NYAN
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>>31974561
NYHAO NYAN
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>>31974558
You're the only side that's whining, though.
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>>31974586
I think it's telling they're hiding behind "But the GM offered it!" rather than trying to justify their choice.
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>>31974590
You were the only one making the ritual and you still managed to fuck up.

Congratulations.
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>>31974581
While you're counting, can you give me a number for how many people used 'interesting' or a variant as their motivation?
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>>31974604
Of course, you and your buddies are just fine with shitvoting without thinking.
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>>31974590
One fucking job, anon.
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>>31974574
>>31974604

Just stop guys, I think its been made clear enough that people disagree with them, so its safe for now to just not respond to anything not currently relevant and just let them bitch for now.
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>>31974586
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy
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>>31974626
There's hypocrisy, and then there's a goddamn split personality.
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>>31974618
>>31974607
BACK UP PLAN ! Post magical girls legs !
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>>31974636

there's mindraping, and there's taking a look to see if your mysterious lying superior was telling the truth
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>>31974603
GORGEOUS!
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>>31974656
People get executed for disobeying orders on a wartime footing.

I think it would have been hilarious if everyone had gotten her killed.

Oh, the lost shadowruns...
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>>31974670
Deculture!
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>>31974664
DELICIOUS
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>>31974656
>mysterious lying superior
>Not a trusted superior who the character literally thinks that she'd entrust her life to

Yeah, sure.
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>>31974656
Also, yeah, no, the option was much, much more than "take a look'. It was presented as mindrape from the start, plain and simple.
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>>31974617
It's not the voters' fault that the choice was there.

>inb4 boo hoo muh questing
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>>31974682
DECULTURE!
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>>31974685
Anon, look at >>31800991
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>>31974703
>Let's blame Deculture for us being idiots who went straight for a trap vote!
>Let's keep taking the obvious worse choice!
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>>31974699
To be fair, it was initially presented as being more morally wrong. I don't think most people expected it to be literal torture.
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>>31974719
>Boo hoo muh trap vote
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>>31974699
I think invading the mind of someone else and viewing private memories without consent counts as mindrape every time.
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>>31974719
>thinking there are safe votes.
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>>31974723
The moral outrage from the same character and calling it a "lobotomy" weren't enough of a clue? It seemed pretty self-evident...
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>>31974739
There are bad votes and then there are "Is it the character or the VOTERS that had a lobotomy" bad votes.
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>>31974719
https://twitter.com/magicalgirlnoir/status/463670144099569664

Decu's mistake was apparently being too subtle for you.
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>>31974605
Hmm, personally I don't think its difficult to justify.

Yuma needed to verify what had happened. Murderface wouldnt tell her' so she took it.

Unfortunstely this had expected consequences and having lost two whole hours to this investigation, confused, disoriented, and feelimg more than a little sick about what shed done, she lied to Malal about it while she tried to sort it out in her head.

Head on straight, she reported like the good little second Malal has trained her to be.
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>>31974741
Some could have rationalized it as flavor text or that the actions itself is just as bad as lobotomy. Different people perceive descriptions differently, which often causes a disconnect between readers. I'm pretty sure some clueless voters that ended up getting not what they were expecting were in the fray.
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>>31974611
I'd say that
>Take them for your own, nya.
is a variation of "it's interesting".

This one is more concerned with getting knowledge for knowledge's sake, since you can't use what Yuma learned as Chiaki in-character.
>cmon let's not be in the dark for once.

This one suggests wanting to see the karmic backlash as a reason to mindrip.
>Oh nothing, just karma whiplash~

And how are we supposed to interpret
>FINE GEEZ
or the
>Fuck it, fine. I want to know
They don't seem too preoccupied with character motivation, only player motivation to acquire knowledge they can't use when we shift back to Chiaki.

>>31974723
>It'll hurt her bad
That was right in the choice, though.
>Ransack her mind for her secrets. You have to find out what happened. It'll hurt her bad, but you're going to die later. What's the worst that can happen?
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>>31974772
>Decu says it wasn't conveyed properly
>This clearly means we did the right thing guys we totally didn't screw up!
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>>31974741
Was that ever explicitly about Yuma's brain peaking, because I only ever remember that referring to out and out brainwiping, which is what Yuma thought Malal had done, which is a different thing.
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>>31974741
IIrc, the 'lobotomy' etc. comments were on mindwiping, erasing the memories+personality of Girl A.
I didn't vote either way, but was pretty surprised by how severe of a thing mindreading turned out to be.
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>>31974586
How is it out of character for someone who is in their very nature a sneaky, backstabbing, betraying, cowardly count? Yuma holds herself to a different standard. It's part of her character, we dictated that. As a result it was NOT an OOC option, it was the most in character choice we could have picked. Yuma thinking herself so selfimportant that she has the right to help Malal of all people, Yuma thinks her friendship entitles her to help her friend walk the straight and narrow even though he friend is the only one who can see the curves.
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>>31974785
Some people apparently got it, so yeah, you being too dumb to get it is on you.
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The summoning ritual changed. Post legs.
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>>31974785
I think the point is that there are no wrong options in a flashback. There's just pleasant and unpleasant ones that gives different inner characterization to the PC we are controlling.
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>>31974800
>How is it out of character for someone who is in their very nature a sneaky, backstabbing, betraying, cowardly count?
Nice fanfiction mate, Yuma was never characterized as such before the flashback.
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>>31974823
How about we post sluts?
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>>31974800
>How is it out of character for someone who is in their very nature a sneaky, backstabbing, betraying, cowardly count?
Ah ah ah!
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>>31974823
No one cares.
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>>31974798
I think how much damage it did might be unique to Chiaki. I have suspiscions Malal was doing some mental engineering work and Yuma fucked it up
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getting close to two hours without a decu post. I wonder if we drove decu off with all our shit flinging?
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>>31974830
Except that isn't the case because a flashback is dependent on the characters taking part in it. If said characters had interactions/relationships with others, and we've seen how they handle things, having them suddenly break all that and act completely differently without proper explanation just doesn't work for readers who care about that sort of thing/aren't just voting for "let's see what happens when we do random things". Cue the current shitstorm.
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>>31974830
The point is that while some people didn't get what Decu intended to convey, this doesn't mean that the people who did are OOC shitvoters.
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>>31974823

>>31974843
Deal with it
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>>31974832
This. Shitvoters gonna shitvote and hide behind "But it was in-character!". I don't even like Yuma that much, before or after the character assassination, and it just reads wrong for her.
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>>31974839
>How about we post sluts?
Followed immediately by >>31974840.
Most timely and appropriate post in the thread.
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>>31974859
Except that it was only a problem because of OOC shitvoters and a large portion of the defenders are, in fact, OOC shitvoters.
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Noir quest flashbacks is suffering
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>>31974857
Except Yuma's current characterisation works perfectly well with Present Yuma, and indeed explains her actions quite adroitly
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>>31974892

shut up. enough. deal with it and move on. stop posting inflammatory bullshit.
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>>31974843
Rude.
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>>31974894
From the thumbnail I thought that Homura and Madoka had shited their panties.
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>>31974892
>it was only a problem because of OOC shitvoters
No, its only a problem now because you have piss poor reading comprehension, and are throwing a shitfit about it from a completely incorrect basis.
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Report and hide, anons.
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>>31974842
>>31974832
When has omegon ever gone up to Chiaki and leveled with her that she mindraped her, is responsible for the death of every other culexus of the 9th, her actions resulted in the destruction of the black templars, and above all did damage to Kharn we don't even know of yet, and is possibly the reason why Malal is 'dead'.
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>>31974906
Only in relation to Chiaki and if you look at it as a sloppy retcon/damage control on the vote.
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>>31974857
The problem is that we do NOT know how Yuma handled her relationships. We know how she treats Haruka, Chiaki and Kyouko and that is it. She treats each of them differently and her feelings towards them in the flashback are consistent with how she is in the present,
We didn't know anything about her relationship with Cavefish, Malal, or anyone else. It is something we are building during this flashback.
Also, it doesn't exactly matter how things change here, because it is a flashback. We are in the past, meaning that whatever happens here will then fit in to develop the Yuma Chiaki knows.
Also, the explanations are given by Decu.
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>>31974852
Is this how MGNQ dies?
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>>31974911
that happened once. They don't talk about that loop much anymore, it is Verboten
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>>31974934
Decu's too busy getting HUGE.
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>>31974925
>Yuma was never characterized as such BEFORE the flashback.
Putting in in all caps for your dumb self.
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>>31974914
>It totally made sense and fit everything up to that point and people who think differently can't read!

>>31974931
We can see patterns there, we had enough evidence for her relationship to Malal to make a guess at what made sense, and Decu handed enough hints out to make it clear which vote option actually fit.
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>>31974931
>We didn't know anything about her relationship with Cavefish, Malal
Cavefish, yes.
But it was made pretty clear that she admired and looked up to Malal, and that invoking her name was enough to get Yuma to fix the servo-skull, without requiring a direct order from her Warmaster.
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>>31974959
Making amends for what she did in the past.
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>>31974959
Exactly.

>>31974948
So you agree that the quest decision didn't fit her characterization before the flashback?
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>>31974957
Except Malal has already laid all the clues and is going to die shortly. She wouldn't have time to change all the stuff she'd said about Yuma in the past.
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>>31974934
This quest is seriously at it's worst when we aren't playing Chiaki. I stopped caring about what happened during the whole Midori-in-Chiaki's-mind arc and caught up later; I've stopped caring about what happens until the flashback ends, and I'll catch up later. I suggest you do the same.
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>>31974968
Except Decu made it clear that she admired and looked up to Malal even before the shitvote happened. So that doesn't work.
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>>31974969
Thanks for making me laugh during this shitnado anon
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>>31974948
>Yuma was never characterized BEFORE the flashback by US
Unless you post as decu anything you say about her character prior to this flashback is irrelevant.
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>>31974986
>This quest is seriously at it's worst when we aren't playing Chiaki.
Now that you mention it, "Get fucked" was during a non-Chiaki segment too...
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>>31975000
...Right. So Decu's prior story posts involving Yuma can't be taken as evidence regarding her character.

What are you smoking and where can I get some?
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>>31974957
>>31974959
You do realize that these hints don't actually say anything explicitly about the relationship. They only let us know how Yuma feels about Malal in the present. Looking at the current situation, it is not surprising that her loyalty to Mala is reborn after understanding that she fucked up and the guilt is giving her an extra kick.
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>>31975007
But the Barrier Arc was really awesome.
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>>31974986
When we play Chiaki, the argument usually just goes the other way - the "edgefags" declare the "dildo-paladins" to be shitposters who cannot into characterisation and yet still win the votes. I guess at the least its nice to see it go this way, just for variety.
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>>31974823
How about hands instead?
Pic related is what Midori is currently doing to Chiaki
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>>31974992
Remember how Midori idolized Murderface? Remember how she did those awful things anyway before getting kneecapped? You can do awful things to people you admire and still admire them anyway.
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>>31974071
Why do you have a book on erotic knifeplay?
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Shitposters and angryposters, Chill.
No point whining anymore. Decu retconned for us back when Kyubey timestop happened, it wont happen this time, so the complaining is pointless.

Instead, let's just SALVAGE the situation. We are most likely headed towards a Bad End now, and the difficulty may end up being cranked to "Ha Ha Ha!" Mode instead of Very Hard. But this aint over till, well, we die. Again,

Point is, enough hating on the edge-fag shitposters, and let's just fix the current mess.
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>>31975018
And what about Yuma's characterization in MAXIMUM CHRISTMAS and even earlier in the flashback, where she said that while she gets frustrated with Malal's secretiveness, she'd still trust Malal with her life without hesitation?
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>>31975032
After a four hour marathon of raunchy sweaty sex yes.
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>>31975032
How gratuitous!
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>>31975018
But we saw her loyalty was pre-existing and just as strong in said flashback before the shitvote. So that argument still doesn't work.

>>31975028
At least when we fuck up as Chiaki, there's an in character excuse for it. Here, there's nothing of the sort for the 180 shift in characterization.
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2lewd4me
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>>31975042
>Point is, enough hating on the edge-fag shitposters, and let's just fix the current mess.

your point was incredibly valid until you said that. now you painted one side. now your sue for peace will go entirely unheard
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>>31975071
Are you denying there are edge-fag shitposters?
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>>31975042

Once you get to "Malal actually get upset, calls you a worthless traitor that she regrets ever believing in, and that everyone is dead and it's your fault" ... there's not much of salvage.
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The thread is going to die early today it seems. We're already on page 6.

This is the point where a disagreement becomes a problem.
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>>31975043
There are plenty of other justifications available if you think about it, if you just accept that maybe Yuma's narration and her subconscious don't always agree.
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>>31975042
>let's just fix the current mess.
But, as certain people have stated in their votes, they want to continue making bad decisions because it promotes drama and HEALING.
They can't be negotiated with.
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>>31975080
No, that point was a few threads back.
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Decu, Decu please post something.

Even a Chikuwa.
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>>31975076

define edge-fag shiposter. because if he/you're trying to paint the "it's interesting" group as edge-lords then it's just inflammatory bullshit.
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I think decu had a despairgasm and is currently lying on the floor of the moon his head cuddled between Wendy's glorious thighs.
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So noone is interested in calling Malal out? I mean, not as Yuma, but just in general?
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>>31975090
Except that narration is and always has been the subconscious of the viewpoint character. That could be the case, but then there's no reason to bother trying to be consistent with any character.
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>>31975080
And this flashback will not end still. We will have at least another thread like this. This is amusing.
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>>31975080
>>31975098
Considering how long its been since decu or anyone has posted, I think they may have jumped ship for the day.
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>>31975113
It's as good an idea as forcibly mindprobing Girl A. Let's do it.
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>>31975079
Nah, she's pissed right now is all.

The fact she dies angry at Yuma is what makes Yuma the Meguca Malal wanted her to be.
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>>31975135
Can you blame them?
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>>31975135
And I wouldn't blame them.
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>>31975079
Like I said, we are definitely going to Bad End.
May as well do as much as we can anyway.
>>31975092
True, unfortunately.
>>31975111
A poster who made a desicion because it looked dark and noir and lolwhynot because lolwhynot, instead of stay in character.
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>>31975135
Who wouldn't jump off a burning ship.
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>>31975135
Considering the shambles the flashback's become, I wouldn't blame them.
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>>31975112
We need this pic, like now.
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>>31975116
>Except that narration is and always has been the subconscious of the viewpoint character.
Like how Chiaki getting choked up saying goodbye to Iori meant nothing at all?
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>>31975116
Unreliable narrators are often consistent with their character, you just have to look beyond the immediate information and consider the human psychology.
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>>31975165
Ultimately, it hasn't meant a damn thing, no.
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>>31975158
>A poster who made a desicion because it looked dark and noir and lolwhynot because lolwhynot, instead of stay in character.
It's perfectly in character and your continual and outright refusal to accept that it works just fine as characterisation is part of the problem.

Nothing has changed except YOUR perception of Yuma.
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>>31975148
Yes, they could at least post chikuwa
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>>31975148
>>31975151
>>31975160
>>31975163
Oh, now we can agree on something!
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>This entire argument
Every one of you, without exception, is a fucking retard.

Jesus christ. I thought you people were above this petty crap.
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>>31975142
i don't mean as Chiaki either. Just, well, NECO mentioned it as well, how the way Malal treats people is just a little off. How not even she can be sure if everything she does isn't for some ulterior motive, how everyone is so easily treated as pawns.
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>>31975196

Is this your first /tg/ quest?
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>>31975175
It does however show precedence for the narration and the viewpoint character's actual feelings not lining up.
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I feel sorry for Decu for having to deal with this shit right now. All these retards ruin this thread when he wanted to get it all done with.
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>>31975158

>because it looked dark and noir

this is magical girl noir quest. nobody can be blamed for wanting things to be dark and noir

>lolwhynot

these people can jump off a bridge

>instead of stay in character.

again, magical girl noir, some Madukas are pretty damn grim.
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>>31975196
Teach us your superior ways
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>>31975193
It seems not >>31975190.
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>>31975197

You'd think for being a hooligan for most of her life that she'd expect that some people wouldn't be satisfied with a pat on the head and a "Yeah dude, you can totally trust me! I can see the future! Now shut the fuck up and fall in line with the rest of the pawns."
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>>31975196
You realize that you're the equivalent of some dude walking into the special ed room and shouting "WHY ARE YOU ALL SO FUCKING STUPID?", right? Because that's what you're doing right now.
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>>31975197
right, I am done arguing. Nothing any of you fucks says is going to provoke me to say another word on the subject.

I -advise- everyone who isn't a shitposter to do the same.
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why won't this flashback fucking end

it should have ended four threads ago

we could all go back to not giving a shit about yuma because she's about as important as that m-idol bitch
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YUMA LIED
THE CULEXUS DIED
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>>31975196
>I thought you people were above this petty crap.

Where the fuck do you think you are?

No seriously, why the fuck did you think that people would not be petty? Are you new here?
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>>31975196
Hi newfag welcome to/tg/ have your complimentary sperging and autism.
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>>31975212
If he wanted to get it done, he should've posted an update maybe?

This discussion is retarted regardless, but it is not players fault that the story just stopped.
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They said that the Betrayer got everyone killed.

We thought it was Kharn.

It was actually Yuma.
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>>31975228
>go back to not giving a shit about yuma
But Yuma is love. She did nothing wrong.
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>>31975228
>implying Yuma's not about to become important
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>>31975228
But now we can't because she mindraped the viewpoint character thanks to shitvoters, we're inevitably going to find out that it happened IC, and we'll get outraged because the character will realize what it was and the shitvoters are already planning to vote to punish Yuma for the bullshit they voted to do in the first place.
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>>31975213
>this is magical girl noir quest. nobody can be blamed for wanting things to be dark and noir

Hurrdurr Interedasting =/= Dark & Noir
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>>31975249
GREEN IS THE DA- ah fuck it I can't get into the mood right now.
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>>31975249
I can feel the healing taking over me, it is a good pain!
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>>31975128
But anon, the incubators just found a way to prevent the Heat Death of the universe. This flashback shall never end.
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>>31975186
I would believe you if it was Chiaki in question. She's mentally unstable enough.

Yuma, aka 'Miss Malal's number one fangirl'?
Hahaha-No.
>>31975213
I understand it's MGNQ. But this was 40k levels of GrimDerp. The decision was incredibly stupid, both meta an IC. Yuma has no reason, at all, to disobey Malal.
And no, it isnt Noir to disobey your idol and mindrape someone they clearly care about.
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>>31975271
Everyone is Candeloro
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>>31975112
I dunno, I think if anyone, he's with Iori now
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>>31975276
Fuck off with your healing bullshit meme
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>>31975279
That's insulting to 40k GrimDerp. 40k GrimDerp is internally consistent. This is Battle-Sister skin lotion levels of stupidity.

Other than that, you're completely right about everything.
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>>31975293
NTR?
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>>31975265
>the shitvoters are already planning to vote to punish Yuma for the bullshit they voted to do in the first place.
No, I think most of that was coming from people who were TOTALLY OUTRAGED and cannot into characters, i.e. the more strident anti-mindrape voters.
Majority seemed to favour rough forgiveness anyway.
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YUMA LIED
THE THREAD DIED
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>>31975267

and sometimes it does. this was one of those cases
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>>31975135
Honestly I would have just dropped this entire thing for how people have behaved
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>>31975332
It never does, and No, no it wasn't.
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>>31975328
We are at 491+ posts and growing like cancer anon, this is the exact opposite of death.
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ROCKS FALL.
EVERYONE DIES (Except Yuma).
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>>31975313
Yeah, no, that's utter bullshit. Go read the thread. Idiots were actively voting for bad options because of their hateboner for Yuma.
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>>31975279
>I would believe you if it was Chiaki in question. She's mentally unstable enough.
>
>Yuma, aka 'Miss Malal's number one fangirl'?
>Hahaha-No.
Remember what Chiaki said to Yuma?

Meguca are ALL fucked in the head.
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>>31975343
Wouldn't blame him either.
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>>31975357
There's fucked-in-the-head and then there's "this makes no goddamn sense unless it's demonic possession".
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>>31975350
>Idiots were actively voting for bad options because of their hateboner for Yuma.
Citation needed.
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YUMA DID NOTHING WRONG
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Goddamn, there were like, what, two updates in over three hours?
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>>31975357
Meguca is suffering though this threads whining
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>>31975344

again we're just arguing over opinions here. we're obviously on different sides of the fence.

you can't change my stupid opinion and I can't change your stupid opinion.

so let's just give it up and allow decu to do his thing.
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>ITT

YUMA DID NOTHING WRONG
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>>31973870 >>31973883 >>31973892

You let out a sigh, considering the foreigner's crude and awfully blunt request. It's...it hurts even to try and think back on, just what you did back there at Headquarters - but it's for the sake of the mission. And from where you're standing, it looks like Alondight won't give up even if you refused her, and you don't really want to drag this out for too long.

So you do. You give her the Disney version of what you did that had Malal acting less of the cool, composed Equerry that she'd always been and more of the violently-angry hooligan that the rumor mill had always described her as before she wore the suit. Leaving out the more...unsavory of details out, making it clear that those details themselves are something that even your disgraced self would balk at revealing to another Officio.

Your third confession in the same day, you note idly as you finish. Leaving you just as empty and cold as the previous two.

"A bit vague, but I can reasonably infer from what you've left out." Alondight nods after a moment, her clawed fingers steepled in front of her face. "So after condemning Malal of the same sin - or at least a worse equivalent of it - you decide to commit it anyway, in your desperation to prove your Rank Leader's innocence. Even when you knew that such an act has very dire consequences, both physical, mental and moral."

She touches the tips of her claws together, one after another, creating a series of clicks that almost sounded insectile. A deathwatch beetle, cursing the living. "And after you confessed this to your rank leader - a brave, but stupid act, I will be honest - she declared that your doing has placed this particular mission in jeopardy, and this entire assembly in unescapable mortal peril. Am I still on track so far?"

[1/2]
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>>31975377
There's a whole thread's worth of citation if you weren't a lazy fuck and bothered to read it.
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>>31975372
Again, your poor reading skill does not make other players at fault.
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>>31975399
THE END IS HERE
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>>31975249
YES! I love it!
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>>31975350
what?

Why would anyone have a hateboner for Yuma?

Hell, I love Yuma, especially now.

>>31975372
>demonic possession
One I'm not ruling out as an actual possibility
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>>31975402
...Are you even reading the posts or just posting the same bullshit over and over in the hope that it'll somehow make up for a lack of an actual argument?
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>>31975249
YOU THOUGHT THE BETRAYER WOULD BE KHARN, BUT IT WAS ME, YUMA!
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>>31975427
>"I don't like being dead, do I, Enyo?"
New favourite character acquired.
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>>31975427
>"I don't like being dead, do I, Enyo?"
Why is Alondight so best girl
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>>31975399

You nod, wincing from behind your faceplate. ...Yes, she got all the details correct. Or at least, those you've been telling her earlier.

"...I see." It's here that Alondight turns to Enyo, the raven-haired Marshal having recovered from her sudden and forced feeding. "See? They're not really all that different from us, I find. Culexus do make mistakes just like us regular folk."

...What?

"Mistakes," The High Marshal turns back to you, smiling. "You've made a mistake, Chitose Yuma. Everyone makes them. Men, women, mundanes, Magical Girls...." She gestures to you with a claw-tipped hand, then to herself. "...Knights. All of us make mistakes, and when we do, it's often at our worst, our most unguarded. And yes, most of the time they have far-reaching consequences that we will regret for the days to come - but even then, mistakes are no reason to refuse a macaron when it's offered to you by a pretty girl. They certainly aren't worth brooding over."

Despite yourself, you couldn't help but laugh. ...What the hell is she saying? Wasn't she listening to a word you said? Didn't she hear what Malal was SCREAMING earlier, while she beat you up until you were choking on your own blood? Didn't she get the gravity of what you did?

Even when you should've known better. Even when Malal had never given you reason not to believe her today, the same as all the other days. You still suspected her of...THAT. You thought the worse of her, and that's why you did that THING.

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>>31975249
Perfect. Narrative. Continuity.

Characterisation is fluid! Oh man, who the fuck would have ever guessed that!? Not only that, but characters are sometimes not what they appear to be on the surface!

Yuma is still a consistent character, just not consistent in the way that some people voted for. Your interpretation of the character is no more valid than anybody else's interpretation, and when you get outvoted, you need to accept it and move on.
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>>31975399
>>31975427

IT'S CANON

YOU 'INTERESTING' CHUCLEFUCKS FUCKED UP BAD
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>>31975452
She's dead, anon. She doesn't like it very much. I'd ask Enyo to confirm, but she's dead too.

Thanks, Yuma.
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>>31975435
Post 31802509
>I'm just going to vote for killing her from now on. Every vote. Kill Yuma

31802573
>Nice. That bitch now certainly deserves some FoFA on her ass.

There's more; these two are just the first ones I could grab.
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>>31975459

"I'm not saying what you did was right, or free of blame. I certainly won't say that you're forgiven for it." Alondight frowns as she delicately picks another macaron from her bag. "But a mistake is a mistake. It's happened in the past, and to dwell upon them like how you've been doing so the entire trip is useless. Moreso than that, it's insulting to us Templars, who you've allegedly killed because of this sin of yours, which I'm very, very displeased about. I don't like being dead." She turns to Enyo again. "I don't like being dead, do I, Enyo?"

"No, High Marshal."

...

"Mistakes will always be made. A fact of life, and not worth agonizing over." Alondight points at you with the macaron balanced precariously between fleshmetal claw and fingertip. "What's important is how we deal with the mistakes we've made. You've already proven that you regret what you did, or at least feel remorse, and that's well and good. Perhaps that's enough for a priest to grant you forgiveness, if that's what you want." She takes a bite out of the treat, chewing thoughtfully. "It's time to ask yourself, though - what do YOU want, Chitose Yuma?"

What do you want? You echo her question. ...You're not sure.

"Not a bad answer, as far as answers go." The High Marshal smiles. "Only you can answer that, and hopefully you have enough time to find out just what. But I can hazard a guess of what you DON'T want. May I?"

...Yeah, sure. Why not.

"Pity." Alondight's smile fades. "Because that's the only thing I feel for you, staring at someone who can't even appreciate a pre-fight macaron." She tosses you her half-eaten treat, which you very nearly drop as you make to catch it. "We are about to engage the most powerful Witch that threatens all of existence, and you're sitting here MOPING. Feeling sorry for yourself."

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>>31975462
How can you still not get this? IC mistakes =/= Player mistakes.

Jesus this bait is effective.
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>>31975466
So? Let them vote whatever the hell they want. Do you want every vote to unanimous and be the one to decide what will be voted?
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5$ Yuma was supposed to get involved with kharn in the silent room and Malal was supposed to go into combat. Yuma would survive kharns attack and Malal would have saved the whole troop. Now Malal is going to be be killed by kharn and Yuma gets everyone dead.
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>>31975475
>"But a mistake is a mistake. It's happened in the past, and to dwell upon them like how you've been doing so the entire trip is useless..."
Read this anon's.

Read it up.
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>>31975475
>>31975459
....you know, I still hate Chariot.

You characterized her perfectly, of course, but
I still hate her. Probably because she reminds me of me.
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>>31975480
IC FUCKED UP BECAUSE THE PLAYERS FUCKED UP

DIRECT CAUSE AND EFFECT

YOU'RE ALL FUCKING HORRIBLE PEOPLE GO DIE IN A FIRE
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>>31975475
>It's happened in the past, and to dwell upon them like how you've been doing so the entire trip is useless.

I can't help but feel like this is poking fun at the thread drama.
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>>31975475

The High Marshal's voice turns rough, losing its silken civility. "Where is the famous brutality of the Murderers that I keep hearing of so much? I expected something more than sulking, spoiled children."

What? She's...no, that's stupid. You're just--you don't want their fucking pity! You did something horrible! And with your selfish fuckup - which she seems to be so happy making light about - you've compromised this entire operation and potentially killed everyone here, along with the rest of the fucking world!

You didn't know just when in your tirade that you rose to your feet, but you find yourself here now, standing over Alondight. She follows suit slowly after, her wheels making her tower over you by a good few inches.

"Really? Have you, now?" Her voice, ice-cold, sends a chill down your spine. "Enyo, can you confirm that Walpurgisnacht has not yet occured, and that we're all not currently dead?"

A cough, and a clanking noise. "...Confirmed, High Marshal." The stoic Marshal replies. "On both counts."

"You swear upon your life?" Alondight says without looking back at the armored girl. Another clank.

"Of course, High Marshal."

...What's that supposed to mean? Of course it hasn't happened yet! But that's beside the point, Miss Malal said--

"What Malal says is pure prophecy and therefore unreliable." You blink at this, at the bald-faced absurdity of it, and make to snarl an angry-worded rebuttal when Alondight raises a claw hand. "Hear me out. The Second, as an Officio, has always taken stock with prophecies and prognostications. We value them just like any other Officio. And I am certainly not calling Miss Malal's skills into question."

Then why--

[4/5]
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>>31975492
You have wheels for feet? That sounds pretty rad, anon.
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>>31975489
might well have been Malal's original plan.
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>>31975489
Yuma was always supposed to go with the Templars as is currently happening so you cannot be right. I claim my $5.
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>>31975495
Good gamemasters do that.
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>>31975466
>I'm just going to vote for killing her from now on. Every vote. Kill Yuma
I knew I should have done some stupid emote.
I was actually joking. I don't really give two shits about Yuma one way or the other. I'm actually with Hat about just knocking her upside the head and puking on her.
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>>31975495
Its pretty blatantly obvious this conversation is an attempt at reconciliation
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>>31974894
Symbolic and beautiful, being so close but separated harshly. The isolation despite supposed intimacy of this picture is astounding. Such composition.
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>>31975510
I'm calling bullshit, and there were plenty of other serious "kill Yuma because she's a bitch, what is characterization" voters.
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>>31975502
...I admit it, you made me snicker.
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>>31975498

"Because it hasn't happened yet." Alondight snarls. "Prophecies can be changed. They can be denied. If we fight hard enough, if we kill many enough, then even the most accurate prediction can be thwarted, or even wiped out entirely." She crashes a clenched fist against her breastplate. "'Carve out your destiny with your own blade, for prophecy is the excuse of the weak and dead men.' The First Knight said that to the Black Shieldmaiden, just before they came to blows. Do you know of the passage?"

You shake your head. You...never read too deeply into that kind of stuff.

"A pity. Nevertheless, there it is." The High Marshal gestures to the assembled Templars. "We are still alive, we are still ready to fight, we are still willing to carve our names on the Great Archenemy's flesh so that when we banish her back into the hell from whence she came, her sisters will know fear." She claps one hand on your shoulder. "So whatever your sin is, regret it, but do not let yourself be consumed by it. Despite what Miss Malal keeps on yammering about, we do not plan on dying so ignobly - and we will ensure that you and your sisters won't, either."

This...this is new.

You're actually being made to feel better about everything by a foreigner. An outsider of the Officio, at that.

Stranger things have happened, you think, as you look down at the half-eaten macaron resting on your gloved palm. It's a green color, the shade of your own hair.

How do you react?

[]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
[]Throw the macaron away. The foreigner doesn't know anything about you, or what you did. She shouldn't speak so fucking lightly.
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>>31975495
Sweeping this flashback under the rug? Sounds like a good call.
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>>31975536
>[]Throw the macaron away. The foreigner doesn't know anything about you, or what you did. She shouldn't speak so fucking lightly.
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>>31975536
>[]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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ISSSS IN DA PAST LOL, NOT LIKE IT WAS LITERALLY TODAY OR ANYTHING

Eat shit, you stupid marshal bitch
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>>31975536
>[x]Eat all of her macarons. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>>31975536
>[]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>>31975536
>[X]EAT IT
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>[X]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.

Malal was wrong about Yuma not fucking up, so what else is Malal wrong about? Let's spend all day proving her wrong!
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>>31975536
[X]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>>31975536
[X]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>>31975536
>[]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
Finally.
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>>31975495
Course it is.

We have a new goal.
We take all the grimderp/edgy, and turn it... INTO NOBLEBRIGHT. SO BRIGHT, THIS WILL BE MAGICAL GIRL SPARKLE QUEST.
... Or at least win. We can do that too.


[X]EAT. THAT. MACARON.
It might kill us. But Fuck it, we have causality immunity.
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>>31975536
[] eat the macaron.

It is delicious
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>>31975536
>[x]Throw the macaron away. The foreigner doesn't know anything about you, or what you did. She shouldn't speak so fucking lightly.
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>>31975536
>[x]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough
Woo yeah!

I like this Chariot harlot. She must survive.
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>>31975536
>[]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>>31975536
>[x]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.

Just hope that whoever's been nibbling on it doesn't have mononucleosis. That would suck.
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>>31975536

[x]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>>31975536
>[x]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
Redemption can only be acquired when one can still act, and therefore alive.
And she's got a point about the blood sugar thing.
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>>31975493
You really need to draw a big ol' mental line between the narrative part of a quest and the game part.

One influences the other, yes, but at the end of the day as long as events are justified and consistent in narrative, the playerbase cannot be blamed for them.

In terms of story, Yuma did everything she did because she wanted to, not because voices in her head told her to do. She had a reason to do these things, even if it wasn't a good reason, and it didn't go against what we already knew of her character.

You need to understand that the players decide WHAT the characters do, but they do not decide WHY they do it, or HOW. That's why they are characters and not paper cut-outs.
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>>31975528
meh, believe what you want. You can rape my mind too if you want to. Others may not have been, joking but I was. Don't believe me, oh well.
Hey, Decu's posting again, must have finished jerking off to everyone's tears
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>>31975558
OK, I lel'd.
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>>31975536
>[]Throw the macaron away. The foreigner doesn't know anything about you, or what you did. She shouldn't speak so fucking lightly.

Fuck Macarons
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>>31975536
[X]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
Time to stop being a little bitch.
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>>31975536
[x]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
Fiiiine.
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>>31975536
>[]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>>31975536
>[X]Throw the macaron away. The foreigner doesn't know anything about you, or what you did. She shouldn't speak so fucking lightly.
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>>31975562
If we break causality, this shit will never have happened!
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>>31975536
>[]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.

Healing status:
[x]Healed
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>>31975536
>[x]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>>31975536
>[]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.

Yes, grab the bull by the horns Yuma!
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>>31975578
> the playerbase cannot be blamed for them.


The playerbase can always be blamed, because the playerbase are the ones ultimately making the decisions.

And sadly, the playerbase are FUCKING RETARD CHUCKLEFUCKS.
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>>31975536
I;m laughing my head off here.
Maybe Yuma should laugh a bit too.
>[x]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>>31975536
>[x]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
KUU KAI
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>>31975536
>[X]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.

We have to live in the present! (even though this is the past)
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[X] Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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Rolled 53

>>31975536
[x]Use the macaron as a temporary focus to mindbreak her
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>>31975593
No, it definitely will. And won't. And might. And never. And always.
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I've liked what I've seen of the 2nd so far. Hopefully we won't end up getting all of them murdered despite what Malal says.
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>>31975536
[x]Throw the macaron away. The foreigner doesn't know anything about you, or what you did. She shouldn't speak so fucking lightly.
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>>31975536
>[X]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.

Hope is a bitter pill, but I'd rather eat something bitter than starve on despair.
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>>31975536
>[X]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>[] EAT THE OFFERED FLESH OF FALLEN ANGELS
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>>31975536
"Black Shieldmaiden" is Homura right? Is Sayaka the "First Knight" then?

Also, Alondight is correct if I am not mistaken? Its not WN that kills them all. Its Kharn. Assuming we see that, I can see it being pretty tragic. Most survive, think they have beaten the prophecy, Yuma thinks there is hope, and then, BLAM, Kharn witches out and kills them all except for Yuma.
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>>31975536
[x] EAT THE FUCKING MACARON, YUMA
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>>31975536
[X]Throw the macaron away. The foreigner doesn't know anything about you, or what you did. She shouldn't speak so fucking lightly.
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>>31975536
>[x]Throw the macaron away. The foreigner doesn't know anything about you, or what you did. She shouldn't speak so fucking lightly.
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We'll save them! Don't worry!
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>>31975619
I believe that someone in the previous thread said that in a writeup Fast Wheels was still alive?
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>>31975536
>[]Throw the macaron away. The foreigner doesn't know anything about you, or what you did. She shouldn't speak so fucking lightly.
Upset kid all the way.
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>>31975578
I assumed the inanity of the statement and the allcaps meant he was joking...
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>>31975536
>[x]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>You don't have to tell me what happened, but you do have to eat this macaron
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>>31975536
>[X]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>>31975536
[X]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>>31975536
>[]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.

Fuck, Yuma proved Malal Can Be Wrong.
Maybe she can face fuck the prophecy so hard it swings around to everyone surviving
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>>31975639
Rad Wheels McGee survives.
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>>31975536
[x]Throw the macaron away. The foreigner doesn't know anything about you, or what you did. She shouldn't speak so fucking lightly.

Fucking filthy gaijin foreigners
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>>31975536
>[]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
We've always believed this to be true.

It has to be true because otherwise Malal dies, and we WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN until we make this up to her.
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>>31975601
>Ignoring the entire rest of the post to focus on a single line which is easy for you to attack

Okay then anon
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>>31975536
I have this gnawing feeling in the back of my mind that eating the macaron is going to lead to Yuma smackdown 2 electric boogaloo and the knights calling her a piece of shit.

On the one hand, it would be pouring gasoline into the shitnado and then lighting it on fire and I'm terrified of the prospect of it actually happening. On the other hand, I've got a bit of a sick fascination with wanting to see just how bad this could get.

Well, Decu? Do you have the lead ballsack and suicidal tendencies required to inflict this upon your players and then dance under the fallout?
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>>31975663
But the rest of the post is shit
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>>31975658
Good, best character can't die.
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>>31975663
The rest of the post is just RETARD CHUCLEFUCK APOLOGISM.

It merits no response.
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>>31975381
>YUMA DID EVERYTHING WRONG
fix that for you~
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>>31975536
[X]Throw the macaron away. The foreigner doesn't know anything about you, or what you did. She shouldn't speak so fucking lightly.
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>>31975536
>[X]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.

Macarons are pretty gross but Yuma does need to work at redemption.
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>>31975663
Rest of the post is just "sad English major trying to pretend she hasn't wasted his life on a worthless specialisation".
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>>31975674
Yuma did nothing wrong; Girl A got what she deserved; Malal just got OWNED by Homucifer.
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>>31975536
>[X]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
If anything Macarons are tasty as fuck.
Bit of a bitch to make though.
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>>31975536
>[x]Throw the macaron away. The foreigner doesn't know anything about you, or what you did. She shouldn't speak so fucking lightly.

YOUR NOT MY REAL DAD, WHEELS.
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YUMA EAT THEIR FLESH
YUMA DID NOTHING WRONG
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>>31975669
Nah. This is the part where the wounds are attempted to be healed but rabid anons bite at the scabs.
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Quick, guys, we need to vote to fuck it up to make it more interesting!
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>>31975669
How would accepting her advice and tasty pastry lead to them calling her a piece of shit?
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>>31975707
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RST6MKltBHc
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>>31975678
>Macarons are pretty gross

Get out.
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>>31975536
>[x]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.

Are We gonna fuck up walmart night?
Hell yes we are!
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>>31975721
That's for when Kharn starts going crazy and we choose to punch her in the face to calm her down
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>>31975748
>Are We gonna fuck up
>Hell yes we are!
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>"'Carve out your destiny with your own blade, for prophecy is the excuse of the weak and dead men.' The First Knight said that to the Black Shieldmaiden, just before they came to blows. Do you know of the passage?"

I want to read the meguca bible, these seem like scriptures I can get behind

>>31975536
>[]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.
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>>31975757
It worked last time though.
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>>31975763
Damn right. We'll Fuck Up So Hard And Gloriously it turns all the way around to Victory
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And here it comes!
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>>31975536

Thank you for your patience! Thank you for voting!

This concludes our current voting period.
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>>31975786
Which girl has best armpits? Hardmode: Not Kyouko
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>>31975786
I want to see the whole outfit.

>>31975792
HAHAHA
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>>31975740
probably means the soft coconut cookie and not the soft meringue sammich cookie.
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>>31975800
But Hard Mode is objectively wrong
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>>31975800
Kyouko
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>>31975786

I know you want to help, anon, but please try to hold off a little unless someone announces a banner will be late.
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>>31975808
Why had this debate already.
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>>31975536
Green hair is the danger!
The macaroon is green like Yuma's hair.
Albright is gone kill us all.
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>>31975800
Kyouko
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>>31975823
Sorry, I jumped the gun.
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>>31975800
Assuming you hardmode is 'Other than' rather than "Not", I'd say Sayaka.
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>>31975831
>macaroon
There's been no macaroons involved in this flashback. It's a macaroon free zone.
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>>31975792
Something seems... off about that Mami. I can't put a finger on it.
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>>31975800
Not!Reimu

I already forgot her name but she called Malal "MARAR" once
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>>31975858
Her head's attached to her body.
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>>31975851
Actually the tomato surprise of this flashback is that all food is made out of macaroons, even macarons.
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>>31975858
Wendy murdered her and is now wearing her face. /shadowrun
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>>31975536
>[x]Eat the macaron. They're right. There'll be time for regret later. You should focus on redeeming yourself. And...yes, there's always a chance Malal's predictions may prove to be wrong. You just have to try hard enough.

Pop that thing like a benzo and lets fuckin do thiiiiis
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>>31975858
It was one of Hat's very first banners.
Hat's style has evolved greatly since then so it's a little jarring to see the old stuff I'm betting.
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>>31975858

You can't see her mamis.
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Think this flashback will actually end today? Or will we get to see Kharn kill everyone yet.
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>>31975858

A lot of the first set of banners have minor things which bug me. If I had more time, I would probably go back and redraw them
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>>31975876
A useless endeavor since no-one can duplicate mami's mamis.
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>>31975780
Yuma doesn't have the conviction. She's broken herself.
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>>31975880
>>31975895
Well shit.
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Wait, won't they throw their guts out if Yuma flips up the visor?
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>>31975916
Macarons for everyone!
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>>31975916

armor is active so it is unlikely.
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>>31975916
I'm hoping for a technicolor yawn
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>>31975870
How horrifying, that's truly a fate worse than death.
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>>31975916
She can crank up the seal to compensate.
We found that out when Chiaki busted her helmet open god knows how long ago, Also when Malal gave blood in her flashback
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>>31975916
That's my fetish
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>>31975536
[x]Shut up, shut up and eat the damn Macaroon you.. you double dildo!

Also
>"Because it hasn't happened yet." Alondight snarls. "Prophecies can be changed. They can be denied. If we fight hard enough, if we kill many enough, then even the most accurate prediction can be thwarted, or even wiped out entirely." She crashes a clenched fist against her breastplate. "'Carve out your destiny with your own blade, for prophecy is the excuse of the weak and dead men.' The First Knight said that to the Black Shieldmaiden, just before they came to blows. Do you know of the passage?"

Wait a sec there is a whole Madokami-Bible now? And there is a whole passage deidcated to totally not Homura while they are going to fight Homulilly and the other parts of the witched-out Quintet?!

Man, now I am curious what shit is written in that bible.
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>>31975905
How about Yuma going full suicidal on a crazed Kharn...
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>>31975916
Culexus also have that secret forbidden technique that lets them eat with their helmets on.
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>>31975953
Wasn't that Malal's personal trick?
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>>31975916
It was said a while ago that that whole bit was just a rumour/misinformation campaign. It's not THAT bad when a Culexus takes off her helmet.
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>>31975945
This quest is the Madokami-Bible.
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>>31975974
So we're declaring the flashback apocrypha?
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>>31975967
I don't remember, and even if it was Yuma is (was?) Malal's protege. If Malal taught it to anyone, she'd teach it to Yuma.
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>>31975916
It's all down to discipline. Some culexus can get by just wearing the collar of the suit.
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>>31975992
No, we're just reading it out of order.

All of this has been foretold in advance.
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>>31975967
>>31976009
She taught it to Odette, so it must not be that much of a secret.
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>>31975948
She wouldn't. That requires conviction too. Kharn would just run her through and she'd die right there.
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>>31976054
But if Yuma did die in this flashback, who is the Omegon that Chiaki knows? Alpharius?
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Hope someone archived this, it's about to fall off the board.
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>>31976061
Just when I thought this thread was lacking in Shadworuns...
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>>31976061
Shadowruns.
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>>31976061
Why did you have to say that?
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>>31976071

Eh, we still have almost 30 threads ahead of us.
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>>31976081
>>31976075
What if Yuma sacrifices herself to save Malal in a desperate bid for redemption and Malal fakes her own death and disguises herself as Omegon?
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>>31976098
well, the problem that that theory is, of course, Haruka
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>>31976098

What if Malal took levels in Callidus all this time and is disguising herself as 'Midori'?
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>>31976098
...

Have we ever actually seen present day Yuma without her helmet on ever?
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>>31976118
No we have not.
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What if Kharn died during Walpurgisnacht and that Callidus is just really dedicated?
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>>31976112
MINDRIP, ASSUME HER IDENTITY. HOW DOES IT FEEL, BITCH?
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>>31976118
Well, we headbutted it hard enough to crack her visor. Does that count?
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>>31976112
She's in on it too, obviously.
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>>31976118
When Chiaki punched her helmet so hard it broke.
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>>31976116
Except then Malal met Malal and- But- ...
>>31976118
When we told her to shut down Haruka's sightseeing due to GIANT DRAGON.
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>>31976112
What if Yuma still alive and Mala wear Haruka skin ?
Then the Transcendant one would have spoken to her instead of Chiaki during the ritual.
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>>31976116
My boner would be the boner that pierces the heavens.
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>>31976061
[Spoiler] Malal [/spoiler]
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Everyone is Malal. It's like The Truman Show, except the only people watching are also Malal
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>>31976175
Malal was Candeloro the entire time!
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What if Midori assumes Wendy's identity to check if Chiaki will cheat on her?
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>>31976142

It cracked.
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>>31976188
Chiaki will catch on because of being a butt whisperer, and the most incredible roleplay will ensue.
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>>31976175
So it's Hey Ya with Malal
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>>31976191
/autistic.
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>>31976187
But everyone is Candeloro, including Malal?

Candeloro-ception!
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>>31976210
Broken to the point of being able to see who is beyond the visor=/=a crack.
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>>31976188
What if Wendy disguised walks in as midori to ruin their relationship and get back in the VIP with chiaki. But midori as Wendy has only love for Wendy as midori, so chiaki and midori as Wendy hate/love fuck Wendy as midori out of her jealousy. And from that point on chiaki goes nuts because they switch identities like everyday.
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>>31976261
I have no idea what you are saying but it sounds wonderful
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>>31976261

So that's how Midori balances being a full time author and magical girl. A body double.
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When are we going to space, /MGNQ/?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ni8Ep1Q69g
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>>31976261

Hey Chiaki keeps going for the Callidus. She knows what she's getting into. They're her weakness just like Kharn was into blondes.
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Are we getting a chikuwa, or another post?
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>>31976261

... Let's just go with Chiaki and Midori. It's simpler, cuter, and better
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>>31976303
>Page 9
Obviously chikuwa
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>>31976303
Given the time, it's probably Chikuwa.

Remember that Decu's schedule recently changed.
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>>31976298
So ChiakixEnishi when?
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>>31976304
Wendy you can't fool, but that is a pretty good midori costume
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Another post.
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>>31976324
As soon as Enishi loses 50lbs
I love Enishi, but I love making fun of her more
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>>31975546 >>31975549 >>31975552 >>31975558

You shake your head at this, before flipping up your visor with your free hand. A wry smile on your face as you feel both the train's climate control and the stare of forty knights on your exposed skin.

This...this shouldn't be working. For fuck's sake, you...you're not supposed to be cheered up even slightly by a bunch of people who you're never going to see again after this! Christ!

And yet, as you lift the macaron up to your mouth to take a bite - your teeth digging into the soft, crumbly, candy-sweet shell, at the same time that something warm and wet trickles down your cheeks, blurring your vision as you try to blink your eyes - you realize that she's right. The Templars are right.

You did something wrong. Yes. You made a horrible, awful mistake that you'll have to atone for.

And yes, Malal may hate your guts to the point that she probably won't even mind if she saw your dismembered corpse, your ruined vox replaying your screams for mercy over and over again.

But it's no reason to wallow in self-pity. No reason to curl up and die and let the world crush you in its inexorable roll towards annihilation.

There's still some right to be carved out of your failures. Some honor to be torn away from the burning wreckage that you've gotten yourself into.

Of course, that's only if you stop being such a little bitch about your mistakes and survive long enough to do so.

As you finish the macaron - the last few bits of it going down your throat as you swallow - you open your eyes to see the Templars standing up from their seats, facing you. Enyo and Alondight herself are at the head of this impromptu formation, and with a shouted command from the raven-haired, robot-limbed Marshal, all forty Knights crash their armored fists into their breastplates in a unified salute.

"So will you fight with us, Chitose Yuma? Or will you just sit here and wait for death?"

[1/2]
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>>31976295
as soon as we fight Shadow The Meguca
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Is it bad that every time someone brings up these three-in-a-bed scenarios, I always end up just picturing Chiaki becoming ever increasingly exasperated at coming home to one or more callidus wearing her face engaged in some humiliating form or sexual play?
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>>31976359
>"Yeah I'll just be over here if you need me, thank you very much"
lel
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>>31976359

...You narrow your eyes at the High Marshal, before reaching up and slamming your visor back down. "What the hell are you talking about? Of course I'll fucking fight," you growl. "If we fight hard enough, if we kill enough, then we can change the future." Even Miss Malal said as much, and she was a slave to her own predictions.

"Now you look like one of the Ninth's proper bastards." Alondight grins, and it's here that she unpins what looks like a rather grandiose badge of their heraldic cross from her articulated chestplate.

"Before every Crusade - every military action we go out to undertake - the highest-ranking Templar picks someone from her squad to serve as the Emperor's Champion. It's not a commanding rank, so you can't order me or Enyo around, mind, but more of a marker for someone we believe will have a pivotal role in this Crusade. Someone to seek in the shitpit of curses and hurt feelings of war and to fight alongside, knowing that to fight alongside them is to fight with the Will of the First Knight."

She pins the magnetic clasp of the badge onto your suit, and it locks into place just beside your 'Novice' badge.

"It's a very important thing for us, so act sufficiently impressed," Alondight leans in and hisses in a stage whisper.

Not that she needed telling you, this...this is actually one of the highest honors the Second can give anyone outside their Officio, really.

"Behold, fellow Knights!" The High Marshal turns around, one clawed hand gesturing to the assembled warriors. "Behold and welcome Chitose Yuma, the Emperor's Champion of the Walpurgisnacht Crusade!"
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>>31976374
No, it's not bad. In fact, it's the only correct answer.
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>>31976381

They bang their fists against their chestplates once more, a deafening crash that rattles the train's windows.

All while completely confounding - and terrifying - the civilians unfortunate enough to be stuck in the same car as a crazy girl in a leather suit and forty others in black steel armor.

Emperor's Champion. It...it does have a ring to it.

Better than coward, liar and traitor.

You can only hope that you'll live long enough to tell Malal about it.
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>>31976394
Thank you Decu!
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>>31976394
>You can only hope that you'll live long enough to tell Malal about it.
oh, Yuma.

As a Meguca you should know better about being careful what you wish for.
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>>31976394
Damage control mode go!
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>>31976394
Hell yeah
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>>31976407
yes, this.
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>>31976394
Is this the end of the flashback, or will we get to see the immediate aftermath of the fight with Walpurgisnacht?
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>>31976394
Yuma is badass. Too bad she has to die.
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>>31976394

I was planning on finishing the flashback this thread but unfortunately I got a little carried away again...

Let's try for an ending this Saturday night! Thank you for everyone's participation, and feedback is always great! Once again apologies for the absurdly slow posting times!

We have a writeup incoming, so questions answered before we fall off the board!
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>>31976426
Probably more. Everytime Decu says he wants to finish something it takes another 3 threads.
He's said it about three time this flashback alone.
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>>31976434
Awesome conclusion. We've gotten a full character arc in this flashback.
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>>31976434
Decu pls.

Do you really think you'll be able to finish this month?
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>>31976434
Is the whole culexus suit necessary to contain a culexus' power?
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>>31976434
Thanks for the thread !
For how long did the rage you gathered from the last threads pushed back the Heat death of the universe ?
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>>31976434

Thanks for running!

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Magical%20Girl%20Noir%20Quest

Thread has been archived and will update with writeups!

Things got a little tense but I'm relieved it didn't drive you off!
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>>31976446
I'm not complaining
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“Hold her down, please, she's going under hypervolemic shock.”

The patient thrashed and twitched on the ground, vomiting gore from a mouth already stained red, clawing at her savior as pain wracked her ruined form. The grass beneath her was already stained dark red with blood.

“Attaching two large-bore IVs. Kanae, five migs of morphine, stat.”

The surgeon's voice was the eye of this storm of death and blood. Though soft, it cut through the sound of the girl's death throes, a calm center to the dying patient and the frantic assistants.

“BP's dropping fast!”

“Blood Knight's panties, was that her pancreas? I think that was her pancreas—”

“Focus, please. She's trashing too much, we'll have to put her under. Yomi, I need ten ccs of—”

It was a pointless battle, the surgeon knew. The girl was just too far gone. Superhuman fortitude meant her wounds, which would have instantly killed a grown man twice over, merely granted her a slow, painful death. The Narthecium, a technolgical marvel as it was, was of little help here, though even with the best operating suite in existence there wasn't any hope. But she fought on nonetheless.

Poor girl, thought the surgeon, as she wrestled to insert the IV. Such bright, beautiful blue eyes, marred as they were by desperation and pain. She might have been quite pretty if her jaw hadn't been torn off and half her face reduced to mush.

Twenty seconds later, the girl let out a wet, gurgling death-rattle and at last fell still.

“...she's dead.”

A pregnant silence hung in the air.

It died with the tell-tale *click* of a smartphone camera.

“Haha!” cackled Kanae. “Oh man, that expression's fucking hilarious!”

“You wanna do the 'Welcome...TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW~!' prank when she wakes up, or should I?”

“Nah, I think Yasuko did that one already.”

“Shit...”
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>>31976446
He also said that he wanted to finish MGN at thread 100.

Decu is as bad at time managment as G. R. R. Martin.
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>>31976394
Still a liar and a betrayer, just not a coward anymore.

Can't win every battle I suppose.
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>>31976434
Thanks for running. Despite the slowness the stuff you write is awesome!

Also I would like to ask how long has the Blessed Lady/ Madokami religion been around in this timeline? Since the founding of the officio or before that?
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>>31976434
Do we have to watch them die? Can't we just leave it on a high note? Do you need to make me cry?
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>>31976434
Sorry for the shitstorm Decu. Look forward to it!
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Such disrespect, thought the surgeon. Such disregard for the dead. She might have admonished them, back when she first started her grim work. And she did, once.

They had replied, “So...what? The Incubator's just going to regenerate them in, like, an hour, anyway.” At the time, there wasn't much she could say to that. Now, she wasn't sure if she cared enough to try a rebuttal.

The surgeon stood up and began wiping her blood-soaked hands on a clean towel. “Kanae, Kinoko, please seal the body in a bag and get it to Officio headquarters immediately. Here is the Soul Gem.” She handed Kanae a small metal object in the shape of a vial—a phylactery, for the safe transport of a Soul Gem. The two assistants nodded and began lugging the corpse to a nearby van.

Such a binary thing, this job, mused the surgeon. Between inhuman fortitude, magical regeneration, and resurrection, there were few wounds suffered by Magical Girls that required skilled surgery. Either it was effectively a papercut, or nothing a bit of magic couldn't fix, or the victim in question simply got a new body. Or, of course, the girl lost her Soul Gem, and no amount of medical knowledge could save her. That meant pretty much all of her patients fell into two categories: right as rain in a few days at most, or a corpse. Almost none in between.

She'd joined the 9th Officio's Apothecarion to save lives, but the struggle to beat back death simply didn't exist in her line of work. Nonetheless, she'd made a promise, a promise unheard by any but herself, and she decided to stick with it.

The surgeon gave the blue-eyed girl one more lingering glance as Kanae and Kinoko took her body away. They carried it unceremoniously, Kanae grasping the arms and Kinoko pulling at the legs, past the rest of the girl's squad mates, who shot the body and its bearers looks of disgust. 'No wonder they call us “Corpse Takers”,' thought the surgeon.
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>>31976434
Will we get a chance to acquire the bible used by the Second, as Chiaki?

Will you provides passages from the Puella Magi's Uplifting Primer?

Has the Incubator Home Office communicated with the First Officio after Planetfall?
Does the First send back quarterly reports to the Home Office?
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>>31976434
So we have BRS, BGS, Strength, and now Chariot. Where is the Dead Master meguca?
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She went about doing last minute inspections, last minute check-ups to see that all injuries were as well taken care of as they could be. When her duties were done, she walked back to her van—more akin to an ambulance than a car, what with the medical suite occupying where the passenger seats used to be. She slipped out of her gore-streaked surgeon's smock and pulled on a set of fresh ones, ones that wouldn't stain the interior of her car with the worst kind of body fluids, and disengaged her Narthecium, purifying it with a few bursts of antiseptic.

She was ready. Ready for a long shower, a hot meal, and a good night's sleep. She called over another of her assistants, asking with a tired smile to be driven back to Headquarters. A well-deserved break for a job well done.

...a 'job'. A cost-cutting measure. That's what it amounted to now, she supposed. She stared at the hands that had been wrist-deep inside a girl's torso just minutes before. She'd been sewing flesh and fighting death, she realized, not to save a life but so that an alien cat-creature could manage his resources more efficiently. It sounded like a boardroom business decision, which it was.

Where was the fire she'd had when she first started this work? She thought second chances at life were supposed to be a bit more exciting than this.

Ah, well.

She silently disengaged her power and shivered as the pain and soreness, blocked out by her magic, came flooding back in. With the pain came the fatigue, and with the fatigue came the waves of sleep.

As the car rolled its way back home, the surgeon dreamed. She dreamed of a Witch made of blurred and faded blocks of color, and she dreamed of black-pinioned wings. Her white lab coat was draped across her like a blanket.
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>>31976434
Can a magical girl graft her head onto a non magical body and make it her own?
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>>31976508
In Peter Parker Quest
Or at least she was…
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On the shoulders of the coat was a badge. It bore the Helix sigil of the Apothecarion, alongside a title and a name:

Apothecary Secunda, Officio IX: Touno Asai

-

An hour later, Touno found herself in the Officio's medical wing. The Apothecarion served as the Officio's bio-medical R&D facility, but it also housed plenty of hospital beds for injured Magical Girls.

Today's patient was a certain red-haired Eversor.

“What's up, doc?” said Kyoko, her face split by a happy grin. “Heard you got back from a Witch Hunt! How'd that one go?”

Touno couldn't help but make a little smile at her patient. “The Witch Hunt itself? It was a success, from what I heard. I also heard there were minimal casualties, which is always good.”

“Eh? Oh, I was askin' about how all that shit went for -you-, doc.” Kyoko's beaming face sank into one of sympathy. “I don't envy your job, doc. It can't be easy, trying to stitch back up people you know on a daily basis...”

Giving her patient another small smile, Touno shook her head as she pulled out an orange medicine bottle. “We had one fatality, and she'll be fine with a few day's bed rest. But thank you for asking, Miss Sakura.”

Touno was in her usual outfit, now, out of her work clothes, and certainly not her Magical Girl uniform—the last time she put that one on was about a year ago. A thin violet chain bearing her Soul Gem wrapped around her waist, the precious jewel itself resting to the lower right of her belly button, just below the appendix. It adorned a simple, long-sleeved deep indigo dress that ended at the knees, hiding a tall, shapely figure that was the envy of much of the Officio—if the grabby hands in the showers were any indication—with a white shawl sitting about her shoulders like a mantle. On top of all of this was her white labcoat, indistinguishable from others of its kind save for the Apothecarion badge on the right shoulder.
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>>31976484
>finish MGN at thread 100.
>at thread 200 we're only half done.
Jesus Decu.
Speaking of what were we doing 100 threads ago?
Oh right, house warming party....Then Ruri.
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They said her outfit made her look like a nun trying to cosplay as a scientist. She was never quite sure whether they said that to make fun of her or not.

Brushing aside her long purple hair, she pulled off the bottle's top and shook out a couple of pills.

“Here is your daily dose of antibiotics. You did finish your dinner, correct?”

Kyoko let out her trademark guffaw. “Of course I did! You know me, hungry as a horse!”

Touno's head tilted slightly, her warm red eyes boring into Kyoko's. “Including the salad?”

The red-haired Eversor wilted under the gaze. “I, well, uh...”

Staring intensified, mixed with a hint of disappointment. “Miss Kyoko...”

“Okay, okay!” said Kyoko. She threw her hands up in exasperation. “You know I hate beets! But the fucking hospital chef keeps making salad with beets! It's like she hates me or something!”

“Miss Kyoko, I'm not entirely sure if Chef Hashimoto is aware of your...dislike of beets. I don't think he's doing this personally.”

“Then he must be a frigging psychic or something! Either way, get that shit away from me, beets suck.”

Touno's look of disappointment deepened into a frown. “But Miss Kyoko, if you don't finish your food I can't let you take your antibiotics, and if you don't finish your antibiotics regimen I can't let you go. What would Equerry Miki think of this?”

Kyoko's face turned into one of despair. “Fuck me, really? You'd go that low? You're killing me here, doc!”

“I believe I'm doing the very opposite, Miss Kyoko.”

“Fine,” sighed Kyoko as she threw herself back into her pillows. “Give me the damn beets.”

Touno's slight smile came back again. “Thank you, Miss Kyoko. Please make sure to chew thoroughly.”

“Yes, mom.”

As Kyoko set about crunching through her salad, wincing every time her teeth sank into a beet, the doctor and the patient gave the television a look. On the screen was the daily news.
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'SIXTH BODY FOUND, LOCAL SERIAL KILLER SUSPECTED

'A sixth body was discovered earlier today, found brutally murdered under the Akiha Bridge. Like the previous five, the victim was a local petty criminal, previously suspected with multiple cases of sexual assault and violence against local high school girls. The gruesome way in which the victim was killed—apparently twisted and bent by possibly industrial machinery—matches the pattern of the previous victims, and has left police baffled...'

“Geez,” said Kyoko through a mouthful of lettuce. “The hell makes someone do shit like that? Actually, the hell DID shit like that?”

A grimace. Touno hoped the suspect was a Witch or a Familiar, and not another Magical Girl. She, too, wasn't sure what could drive a someone to kill a human being in such a way, and she wasn't sure if she wanted to know either.

As Kyoko finished her meal, they talked to kill the time. Most of it was Kyoko telling her doctor whatever was on her mind while Touno nodded and said “mhm” every so often.

Eventually, the topic wandered to Touno herself.

“Say, doc,” said Kyoko. “You never talk much about you. Why don't ya tell me something about yourself? Favorite movie, favorite food...” Here she made a coy smile, revealing a small garden's worth of spinach stuck between her teeth. “...any cute boys and/or girls you've been checking out...?”

Touno blinked. It took her a moment to come up with a response. “W-well, I suppose I like udon noodles. I can't say I watch movies very often, so I don't really have a favorite movie.”

Kyoko's smile grew wider. “I asked three questions, doc.”

Touno merely smiled back. “No one in particular.”

“Really?” said Kyoko, leaning forward.

“Yes, really.”

“...reaaaally?”

“Ah,” said Touno, ignoring Kyoko.”I see you've finished your salad.” She held up the antibiotics. “It's time for your daily dose, Miss Kyoko.”

“Uuuugh...”
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Kyoko was gulping down the pills when Touno's phone vibrated. 'Garra', read the Caller ID. She answered, and a voice like rumbling gravel greeted her.

“Asai, it's Garra. Incubator's office, stat.” Before Touno could even say hello, the line went dead.

The Incubator? Thought Touno as she gazed at her phone. Kyuubey? What could he (it?) possibly want with her? A performance review, or did she mess something up?

She glanced at Kyoko, who was muttering something about beets and medicine.

Oh well. Time to find out.

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When Touno arrived at the Incubator's office, she found herself sitting in a waiting room chair. The Incubator was busy, she was told. Curious, she thought, to have someone brought to your office just to make them wait, but then she'd never quite understood Kyuubey.

So to pass the time, she fished a paper clip out of her pocket. She turned it over and around in her fingers, and twisted it. Again and again, making it bend and bend and bend and bend and bend...

Soon enough, what used to be a paper clip was now a tiny ball of bent metal.

One of her colleagues had caught her doing this, once. Touno told her that she found the act relaxing. Some people liked to punch bags to blow off steam, others liked to fuck. She, on the other hand, simply enjoyed the tactile sensation of twisting and bending things with her fingers.

Given her colleague's reaction, Touno decided to keep her hobby to herself.

She was still staring at the former paper clip when the blonde secretary chimed in. “Miss Asai, the Incubator will see you now.” Her warm-honey smile became an apologetic frown. “I'm sorry I had to keep you waiting for so long...”

Touno's answer was a small smile of her own. “Thank you Miss Mami, I didn't mind.” Waving the golden-haired celebrity goodbye, she stepped into Kyuubey's office.
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For someone who commanded wealth, influence, and violent force to equal a small country, the Incubator of the Ninth liked to keep his (its?) room surprisingly modest. It was well-sized, just large enough to not feel cramped, but not so large it felt unnecessarily big. A well-made oak desk bore a computer monitor and stacks of papers, sitting atop a nice red carpet adorned with generic images of flora and fauna. A set of modern-looking chairs, designed for both comfort and aesthetics, sat in front of the desk. Perhaps all of this was just to the taste of the odd little cat-alien. Or perhaps he (it?) was merely interested in paying lip service to the human concept of aesthetics.

The only thing that felt off about the office was the back wall—an entire wall devoted to a dozen, a hundred monitors, each a brick in the Incubator's substantial knowledge base. Normally, the monitors would be turned on, displaying a storm of data only the Incubator could comprehend, but at the moment they were all off. A black monolith, silently staring down at whoever Kyuubey deigned to speak to.

Sitting on an ornate chair behind the oak desk was Kyuubey.

“Ah, Asai Touno, I apologize for the delay. Last minute business, you see.”

Many Magical Girls found the Incubators to be unsettling, and Touno was no exception. With a figure that looked like the bizarre offspring of a cat and a rabbit, a mouth that always seemed to be a very slight smile, and eyes—particularly the eyes—that were blood-red, always staring, unblinking, at you, maybe studying you or maybe scheming against you...well, feeling unsettled before an Incubator was almost inevitable.

Perhaps that was their intent.
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“You appear to be somewhat nervous; if that is the case, I would advise you to relax, as you are most assuredly not in trouble.” At this, Touno blinked. “Rather, you've been doing quite satisfactorily. Since you'd been made Apothecary Secundus, overall patient satisfaction with treatment and bedside manner have increased noticeably, and mission-related non-permanent fatalities have lowered 2%.” Kyuubey tapped a key, no doubt reading data off his monitor.

“The latter figure, of course, does have to take into account that few non-permanent fatalities are viably treatable. Regardless, your efforts mean the heat death of this universe has been delayed by a marginal measure of time. Well done.”

Touno couldn't read Kyuubey at the best of times, and at the moment, as tired and in need of a shower and a hot meal as she was, she was uncertain whether the Incubator was being sarcastic.

“It's because she cares,” came a grunt from the side. Touno turned at the sound—she'd been unaware of the third member of the conversation until now.

Garra Valthex, Apothecary Primus of Officio IX. A rather short, dusky-skinned, brown-haired nineteen-year old from outside Japan. Called 'The Corpse Master' by the others, which Touno felt was logical—a fitting title for the mistress of the Corpse Takers.

Garra, as a saying in the Second goes, wore her wounds with a smile. Very literally, in her case. A scar at the left corner of her lips, one that she didn't or couldn't heal, left her constantly sneering at the world. Given the rest of her personality, Touno supposed that the scar saved Garra a lot of trouble.

“Pardon me, Garra Valthex?” asked Kyuubey. His (its?) head tilted -just so-, in what seemed like mimicry of human body language.
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“It's because she cares about the corpses,” said Garra. Touno wasn't sure if Garra was actually sneering or not. “Don't ask me why, she just does. I dunno what she sees in those things, a stiff is far more interesting to study if you ask me.”

“Now, now,” chided Kyuubey, “Asai's work has reduced the burden on my end of regenerating non-permanent fatalities. The fewer regenerations I have to perform, the more contracts I can make, and the more contracts I can make—”

“Yes, yes,” said Garra, waving off the Incubator. “In any case, she actually fucking cares.” She turned to Touno. “That's why you get to be the new Apothecary Primus.”

Wait, what.

“Dear me, Valthex, you ruined my surprise.” If there was disappointment in Kyuubey's voice, Touno was too stunned to hear it. “But what Valthex is saying true, Asai. As of this moment, you are now the Apothecary Primus of Officio IX.” Another tilt of the head. “I suppose congratulations are in order? Perhaps you'd like a party, with some cake? You should consult Mami Tomoe for the latter, she is quite adept at baking.”

It took Touno a moment to find her voice again.

“B-but Incubator Kyuubey, I...why...”

“Because,” said Garra, “I asked our all-powerful kitty here if I could retire. Pursue my real passion: autopsies.” Her scar-smile widened. “He said 'yes', and so now YOU get to be the new Corpse Master.”

Kyuubey spoke up. “To be accurate, that's not the only reason for this promotion, Asai. I would have been far more hesitant to approve of Valthex's...request if I felt that our Apothecary Secundus was not ready to step in and take over.”

Touno still wasn't entirely sure what to say. “I...thank you, Incubator,” she said as she bowed low, “For both this promotion and your trust in me. Though I am unworthy of this honor, I will do my utmost to not fail you.”
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“Don't be so modest now,” said Kyuubey. Was that mild admonishment she heard in his (its?) voice? “You are quite capable, you know.”

A pause.

“Oh, before I forget, there is one more reason why you have been promoted to Apothecary Primus.”

Garra's smile grew even wider.

“You get to Murderface's personal medi-bitch, Asai. How does that make you feel?”

Murderface? As in...the Warmaster? As in, Chiaki Matsuda, formerly known as Girl A?

Kyuubey admonished Garra again for spoiling the surprise, but Touno paid this no heed. Personal physician to the Warmaster? And to Chiaki Matsuda, no less?

-salvation came soaring in on black-pinioned wings-

She felt dizzy. Giddy, even. The fulfillment of a promise that should have been kept one year ago.

“That was the other reason I chose you for promotion,” said Kyuubey, returning to the matter at hand. “Given how long this Officio has gone without a Warmaster, and given how...unscrupulous our current one can be, I'd rather have the best medical expert we have ensure she does not become a permanent casualty.” After a pause, the Incubator continued.

“Meanwhile, approximately one year ago, Warmaster Matsuda—known better as 'Murderface' at the time—rescued you and your squad from Witch Selene, resulting in no permanent fatalities in what should have been a total squad annihilation. Records also show you began Apothecary training immediately after the incident, despite no indication of post-traumatic stress disorder, any other mental issues, or noticeably decrease in combat performance.” A third head tilt. “I'd imagine those two things were connected. Is this, perhaps, another dimension of human gratitude?”

After another pause, the Incubator coughed into one of its ear-hands.
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“I digress. In any case, yes—this is the other reason why I decided promoting you Apothecary Primus was appropriate. It is quite fitting, after all, to have the Officio's highest ranking Apothecary be its highest ranking member's personal physician. Not to mention, given your history with Matsuda I'd imagine there would be a high degree of compatibility—”

“Whereas I,” said Garra, “think Murderface choking on her own goddamn golden gun while being flayed alive would be far too quick a death for her—”

“—one that might not exist with the current, well, now former, Apothecary Primus,” said Kyuubey, heedless of Garra's interruption. “That said...I do understand if this last duty makes you uncomfortable, Asai. If so, I would be happy to leave you as Apothecary Primus, and have another Apothecary attempt to be Warmaster Matsuda's personal physician—”

“I'll do it!”

Garra and Kyuubey jumped, at both the voice and the sudden slamming of hands on the desk.

“I'll do it! I'll absolutely do it! I'll start right now if you need me to!”

Kyuubey and Garra looked at Touno, then at each other, then at Touno again. There was a fire in those soft red eyes, one that neither of them ever recalled seeing.

“Well,” said Kyuubey, “this is a pleasant surprise. I honestly expected at least a little bit of hesitation.” A fourth tilt of the cat-rabbit head. “Very well, Asai, as you seem to be...eager to begin your new duties, I will make a formal announcement shortly. The Warmaster is currently indisposed, but when she returns I will endeavor to have her meet with you. Please do your best to keep our Warmaster healthy and whole, Asai, it would be most...inefficient if I were to have to find a new one so soon.”

Kyuubey's eyes bore into Touno's for a second, but she didn't relent. The Incubator broke off and began tapping something into his (its?) keyboard.
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“Now, if are no questions, I must respond to a most inflammatory e-mail communique sent from my brother Jyuubey. Goodbye, Asai, I expect the best from you.”

Nodding dumbly, Touno Asai walked out. She ignored the scathing goodbye from her former superior. She barely acknowledged Mami's more cheerful one as she left the office and made her way to her own room.

'At last...at last, I can finally...'

A promise she'd once made, an oath she'd once sworn.

'...I can finally tell her...'

Something warm fell on her hand. Through blurry eyes, she realized they were tears.

The last time she remembered crying was one year ago, inside a Witch's barrier, in the light of orange fire-blossoms, in the shadow of black-pinioned wings.

She realized this, and smiled.

A smile that grew into warm laughter.

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“If the path to salvation leads through the halls of Purgatory, then so be it.”
-Ahriman, former Warmaster of Officio III, attributed

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>>31976671
Pretty good.
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> “You get to Murderface's personal medi-bitch, Asai. How does that make you feel?”

Are we at love dohecadrons yet?
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>>31976671

That last little addition made me worried. good show.
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>>31976434
Why'd Kharn not retire right after losing Malal? Why'd she step down to go on adventures with Murderface for half a year afterward Walpurgisnacht?
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>>31976460

Yessss I really want to I'll work extra haaard!

>>31976462

Yes.

>>31976467

Hahaha!

>>31976487

It's been around ever since Magical Girls started existing!

>>31976495

I made a promise to myself to get through that scene too! So yes, the WPN scene will be written in full detail!
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>>31976731
And here you said you wanted to get this flashback done in five threads.
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>>31976705

She tried to rekindle the magic, to try and be the old Kharn again but it just didn't work.
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>>31976731
Will we see Malal and/or Girl A before it all ends?
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>>31976773
When did she stop being the 'old' Kharn?
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>>31976773
Are we gonna see more of Yumegon in the present now?

Is>>31976261 Canon? If not why isn't it?
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Looks like Deculator has gone to bed and Cooldown is MIA.

Guess you're stuck with me for any questions until we fall off the board. Hahaha...
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>>31976261
Need an edit of the Kharn "Are you Malal? fanart with Chiaki grabbing Midori and asking "Are you Wendy?"
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>>31976923
It happened already, chiaki was actually midori disguised as Wendy disguised as chiaki. She seduced Wendy disguised was chiaki disguised as midori. All the while the bed was actually enishi disguised as chiaki disguised as a bed, while chiaki was disguised as a pillow that both Wendy and midori laid their hands on tenderly holding each other.
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>>31977002
I second this.
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>>31976997
Well I'm here too, for what it's worth.
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>>31976997
What are you even for?
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>>31976997
Could you answer these?
>>31976515
>>31976508
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>>31976997
What's Odette's favorite super robot?
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>>31977035
Writing Canadian megucas and annoying deculture.

>>31977037
For the first one I'm going to say maybe. Someone in the Thirteenth is bound to have tried it by now. Possibly multiple times. May or may not have worked out depending on the skill of the surgeon.

Second one I'm not terribly sure about, but I know she's out there somewhere.
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>>31977009
>Enishi has a fetish for disguising herself as furniture people fuck on.
Yes...
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>>31976997
When crimson
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>>31977073
Answer this please>>31976923
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>>31976997
Does Strauss actually have a Magic Schoolbus?
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>>31977023
When wil Slam Jam?
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>>31977063
Pic related.

>>31977078
Reply hazy try again

>>31977088
Probably and Hahaha!

>>31977092
She usually drives a tricked out hearse, but damn, that it's tempting to give her one. She could fit a much bigger lab in there, too.
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>>31977109
When she's good enough to slam with the eversors on the court! Until then Slam cannot slam with the best!
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>>31977150
How much did today's shitstorm make you want to punch, throttle or otherwise harm people?
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>>31977234
I don't really read the in-between chatter, but spoiler knowledge has made this whole flashback HILARIOUS.
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>>31977234

I, for one, am really disappointed.
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>>31977363
More or less disappointed than Malal?
This was all just advanced roleplay to put people in the right mood, I'm sure!
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>>31977363
It will all be over soon. Besides, I figure its just a loud minority.
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>>31977363
Get over yourself. You're a disappointment.
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>>31977234
It made me really sad.
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>>31977261

I still have hope that things will turn out somewhat okay and not eternal suffering.
It has been tough though.



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