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[Jan. 16] [PMMM] Branching Off in All Directions
Title: Branching Off in All Directions
Day/Theme: Jan. 16, 2014 "so far, this has been a one-way tale"
Series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Character/Pairing: Homura
Rating: PG
author's comment: err, kind of in a hurry today, oops
From here the story diverges. As multiple timelines are formed, layering one across another, who becomes capable of saying what is true and what is false? What is impossible in one world may comprise the most vital underpinnings of another.
1. There are all the many worlds in which she loses. Madoka makes the contract. Perhaps she doesn't. She becomes a witch or she doesn't. She dies. …or she wins, in a sense, and is forgotten. Homura has a hard time deciding whether or not she feels, deep down, this is better or worse.
When she goes long stretches without receiving a sign, it's worse.
When her life brushes up again against Madoka's and she remembers the words her amazing friend spoke to her somewhere beyond the ordinary bounds of the universe, it's better.
2. There are worlds in which there have never been magical girls and witches and Incubators (or else they take some other form with some other goal and never touch upon Homura's mundane existence). She goes to a new school and makes new friends. They do ordinary things together- homework and clubs and sleepovers. She beats her illness. She grows up. She works and goes to college. It's more than she could ever ask for.
3. Other worlds, completely different from any she knows and recognizes. Entrance into a heaven for magical girls. Cakes, fluffy clouds, eternal rest.
Day/Theme: Jan. 16, 2014 "so far, this has been a one-way tale"
Series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Character/Pairing: Homura
Rating: PG
author's comment: err, kind of in a hurry today, oops
From here the story diverges. As multiple timelines are formed, layering one across another, who becomes capable of saying what is true and what is false? What is impossible in one world may comprise the most vital underpinnings of another.
1. There are all the many worlds in which she loses. Madoka makes the contract. Perhaps she doesn't. She becomes a witch or she doesn't. She dies. …or she wins, in a sense, and is forgotten. Homura has a hard time deciding whether or not she feels, deep down, this is better or worse.
When she goes long stretches without receiving a sign, it's worse.
When her life brushes up again against Madoka's and she remembers the words her amazing friend spoke to her somewhere beyond the ordinary bounds of the universe, it's better.
2. There are worlds in which there have never been magical girls and witches and Incubators (or else they take some other form with some other goal and never touch upon Homura's mundane existence). She goes to a new school and makes new friends. They do ordinary things together- homework and clubs and sleepovers. She beats her illness. She grows up. She works and goes to college. It's more than she could ever ask for.
3. Other worlds, completely different from any she knows and recognizes. Entrance into a heaven for magical girls. Cakes, fluffy clouds, eternal rest.