Literature / Madgie, what did you do?

The Madgie, what did you do? (alternatively shortened to M,wdyd? or Madgie) Series is a series of short stories written by Amoridere (known on DeviantArt as AkaiChounokoe). It involves the titular Madgie and her older sister, Bunny, and a series of time travelling experiments gone awry. So far the series has about 55 stories, with more to come.

Most of the series can be read here: Folder I and here: Folder II. Be aware, "exclusive" stories cannot be read there, but they can be read at booksie, under the name of "Madgie Rabbitwright", and at Fictionpress, at Amoridere.

Stories in the Series

• Madgie, what did you do?
• Madgie, what did you do? II: Requiem
• Madgie, what did you do? III: Nuclear Snow
• Madgie, what did you do? IV: Death Harvest
• Madgie, what did you do? V: Virus
• Madgie, what did you do? VI: Butterfly
• Madgie, what did you do? VII: Signed and Stained in Blood
• Madgie, what did you do? VIII: Angel Wings
• Madgie, what did you do? IX: Blackout
• Madgie, what did you do? X: Bloody Snow Angel
• Madgie, what did you do? XI: The Butcher Shop and Madwoman's Cries
• Madgie, what did you do? XII: Marionette
• Madgie, what did you do? XIII: Artificial Angel
• Madgie, what did you do? XIV: Sacrificial Angel
• Madgie, what did you do? XV: No Home to Come Back to
• Madgie, what did you do? XVI: Angels' Chant
• Madgie, what did you do? XVII: Yearning to be Free
• Madgie, what did you do? XVIII: Mists
• Madgie, what did you do? XIX: Mercenary
• Madgie, what did you do? XX: Guardian
• Madgie, what did you do? XXI: Innocence
• Madgie, what did you do? XXI: Bullets and Sunshine
• Madgie what did you do? XXIII: Voices of the Innocents
• Madgie, what did you do? XXIV: Revelation
• Madgie, what did you did you do ? XXV: Blindness
• Madgie, what did you do? XXVI: We are as Mayflies
• Madgie, what did you do? XXVII: Blood of Angels
• Madgie, what did you? XXVIII: Poison
• Madgie, what did you do? XXIX: Infancy
• Madgie, what did you do? XXX: The Winter's Bloody Sky
• Madgie, what did you do? XXXI: Blood Rains
• Madgie, what did you do? XXXII: Snow Angel
• Madgie, what did you do? XXXIII: Last Lullaby
• Madgie, what did you do? XXXIV: Aftermath of The Great Fire Rain
• Madgie, what did you do? XXXV: Looking Glass
• Madge, what did you do? XXXVI: Fragmented Farewell
• Madgie, what did you do? XXXVII: Bloodied Butterfly
• Madgie, what did you do? XXXVIII: Memories
• Madgie, what did you do? XXXIX: Shattered Plague
• Madgie, what did you do? XL: The Shadows of Things That May Be
• Madgie, what did you do? XLI: Madgie's Winter
• Madgie, what did you do? XLII: Myxoma, Madness, and The Beginning of World War III
• Madgie, what did you do? XLIII: Blindness II
• Madgie, what did you do? XLIV: I Cannot Heal and Nothing Can Be Healed
• Madgie, what did you do? XLV: The Madwoman and The Many Bloody Threads of War
• Madgie, what did you do? XLVI: I have outlived you all and, still, I remain trapped in a dying world, dying along with it
• Madgie, what did you do? XLVII: World of Dust
• Madgie, what did you do? XLVIII: No Times for Regrets
• Madgie, what did you do? XLIX: Sky of Ember
• Madgie, what did you do? L: PROJECT: A.N.G.E.L
• Madgie, what did you do? LI: Of Value No More
• Madgie, what did you do? LII: Can I die happy, now
• Madgie, what did you do? LIII: It looked like falling snow....
• Madgie, What did you do? LIV: Radioactive Rain
• Madgie, what did you do? LV: Broken Wings
• Madgie, what did you do? LVI: Turning the Hands of Time, Part I
  • Madgie, what did you do? LVII: Turning the Hands of Time, Part II
• Madgie, what did you do? Finale!: The Crystals of Dreamer's Dust and The Angel
• Madgie, what did you do? 0: Beginning, where it all began

Poetic Adaptions

• Hello, my name is Doki
• That Winter Was Her Last
• Never Again Would She Write
• Lady Madness
• Those Wounds Didn't Heal
• Amongst the Stars
• Can I die Happy Now?
• Lady in White
• A Plea To River Seine
• Under The Sky of Ember
• And there began the blood rains
• It looked like falling snow

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Tropes for the Madgie, what did you do? Series:

• Anyone Can Die: Death does not discriminate, seeing as the titular Madgie has died more than once during the second story in the series

• Biblical Motifs: More so in the Turning the Hands of Time arc, where Doki is heard reciting bible verses.

• Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: Madgie, what did you do? VI: Butterfly. In general, butterflies do show up up often.
• Child by Rape: In the 24th Madgie, what did you do? story, we have this happen more or less to Doki as she becomes pregnant but doesn't give birth, making that a "Pregnant by Rape".
• Children Forced to Kill: The subject matter of Madgie, what did you do? XIX: Mercenary and, as the description put it, no one is exempt from fighting, even the youngest must fight, as in if they can hold a weapon and know what it is, they can fight.
  • One a side note, it's also been pointed out that Bunny was surprised that Doki (the one leading this group) was affectionate and maternal towards them and that they mean a lot to her, thus if she didn't have to, she wouldn't be putting them up to it but she has no choice and they have no choice either, as per the lines:
    In whatever war that is going on, I was surprised that Doki was very affectionate with them and it occurred to me that, due to what was going on, she didn't want to put them up to killing as so to defend their turf or themselves but it was not like she could take them anywhere else or hide them for very long. As it seemed in the case of Violetta, who was minus a leg, they would have to be damaged in sort of way if they were to be out of duty. Doki's affection towards them proved what no one thought, it proved that they were not expendable weapons and, that to her, they were precious and that, if she didn't have to, she wouldn't be making them do what they are doing.
• Child Prodigy: Madgie, having made it possible to go back in time.

• Child Soldiers: The Tragic Variant. In Madgie, what did you? XIX, the children aren't given much of a choice in whether or not they want to but it is put that they have to fight. That, and their guardians, the ones that lead them, have would't put them up to it if they didn't have to.
• Dead All Along: In Requiem II, this is most prominent, as it is implied that she may have died a little while before then and that they weren't aware that she's died, with life continuing as somewhat usual. This is evident in that Toki is bleeding from the mouth and said bleeding should have killed her or should have stopped.
  • In Radioactive Rain, it is implied Toki may have committed suicide, if not died of radiation sickness, not too long before Bunny arrives back to the Bad Future. The fact that, despite having Bunny having seen her, Doki doesn't speak of her and her room is boarded up.

• Episode Zero: The Beginning: Madgie, what did you do? 0: Beginning, where it all began
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: In Madgie, what did you do? XLVI: I have outlived you all and, still, I remain trapped in a dying world, dying along with it, we have Doki who is all alone and everyone she and Bunny knew is dead and she, having a long lifespan, has spent 1,000 years alone.
• Facial Horror: Unless Akai draws a picture of it as a preview image, it is usually described, but there is an image of Toki with a mass of tumors on her face. It's unsettling, to say the least.
• Flower Motifs:
  • More often than not, it comes in the form of lilies, the which typically symbolizes or are associated innocence and death.
  • The preview image for the 56th story has Doki standing amongst lycoris flowers, the which are often associated with death (said flowers being planted in and around graveyards), at the same time, they are also associated with not seeing someone again or lost memories.
• Foregone Conclusion: Usually, we know that someone is going to die by the title, an example of which would be Requiem and Requiem II.
• Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: While its not about killing Hitler, it does touch upon how time travelling to past can be destructive, as almost each and every last time Madgie and Bunny traveled to the past, the future (or, rather, their present) was worst than what it was, although, how worst varied but it wasn't as should be.
• Improbable Infant Survival: Played with and more often than not averted in Madgie's case
• Last Request: Toki's was for Bunny to say "hello to the sunshine" for her, during the events of Bullets and Sunshine
• Mature Animal Story: This is a series featuring anthros and a lot of the subject matter here and there are not for a younger audience.
• Mad Oracle: Toki, being in she mentally ill but otherwise says things that are true. However, she is usually on medicine to make her coherent.
• Mercy Kill: Occurs at least twice.
  • Once, in "It looked like falling snow...", Toki mentions having to euthanize a badly burned Stinky (Bunny's cat)
  • The second occurred in Broken Wings, with Doki and a badly burned Madgie, however, the latter is more subtle as it isn't outright stated but she was mentioned to have become Madgie's "angel of mercy", this being one of the things she did in which she wasn't proud.
• Noodle Incident: What the hell does Madgie do in the past that causes something so catastrophic in the future?! Well, we never find out, even when some parts are narrated from Madgie's POV. Justified, though, Word of God stated she wanted the readers to play with their imagination on it.
  • In Broken Wings, Doki was mentioned to have done things in which she wasn't proud, although what they were wasn't made too clear.
• Numbered Sequels: Yes, with the sequels being titled in accordance to their order, with the exception of the finale, which is titled as such.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In some stories we have this with Doki, who is normally kind, gentle, and sweet.
  • In Turning the Hands of Time, Part I, Bunny mentions this with Jinx and, his brother, Spin, noting that if the former was around then the latter wouldn't be far behind, so, when he isn't, this causes her to assume the worst. In that vein, the fact that Toki's house is quite populated but, in that story, she finds out only Jinx and Doki remain.
• Rape as Drama: In Revelation, this has happened to Doki and she was forced into prostitution afterward.

• Stars Are Souls: In Madgie, what did you do? LII: Can I die happy, now?, Doki mentioned Madgie amongst the stars
• Snow Means Death: Quite often this is used. The most prominent uses of this trope would be Nuclear Snow, Bloodied Snow Angel The Winter's Blood Red Sky, Snow Angel, and "It looked like falling snow..."
• The Speechless: Toki was forced to be this in XXXI, with her vocal cords removed for reasons implied to be because she knew (or had a clue) of a genetically engineered biological weapon.
• They Killed Kenny Again: Madgie is this or, occasionally, some of the stories has it where her fate is ambiguous but in most of them has it that she dies, often in horrible ways, ever since the second story to the rest. She gets better once time is reversed back to the way it was.
• Title Drop: Story 53 get it's title from Doki describing the nuclear ash as looking like snow.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: The fact in these stories, left and right from the sequel onward, there are children killing themselves, something that, otherwise, they really wouldn't have considered.
• Truth in Television: Some of the material, from dying of radiation sickness in one story to mental illness in another, are actually based on real things. For example in "It looked like falling snow....", it was mentioned the heat from the nuke burned the floral pattern of Doki's dress into her skin, something that occurred during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (a reference [1]◊)
• The Virus: Blood Rains, Shattered Plague, and Virus have some sort of illness spreading around.
• World War III: Not necessarily three, but there are an awful lot of nuclear wars.

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