All Purpose Puella Madoka Fanfiction Thread

Well, I think that the way it works in canon isn't that you're destroying your own soul, but filling it up with Grief, whereas here it'd be a very literal "If you do a piece of magic that requires 10% of your soul, you now have 90% of your soul left". The scraps of souls from the creatures of Despair would be used to fix this by breaking them down into raw soul energy, and then pushing that against your soul so that it'd absorb it and regenerate - the soul knows what it wants to be, it just needs the material. Magical girls run off of Hope and positive emotions, so by burning your soul you're burning away them as well - if a soul is entirely burnt away, then there's nothing left but Despair, and so it can only try and fix itself with that - and thus a Magical Girl becomes a Witch. Or something close to that, anyway - I haven't really tried to make these kinds of mechanics make sense beyond general themes.

But yeah, I'm honestly surprised by how well the two series mash up - almost too well, if that makes sense.

The thing is though, that.

In Dark Souls, when someone's soul burns out, they become a hollow, and. Usually Hollows kinda suck? They're pretty weak.

When Magical Girls become Witches. Like. We're talking boss fights here.

So in a sense, the dynamics are a little different.

Life and times in Homura's world.

Kyoko coming out to her dad.

edited 4th May '16 7:20:08 PM by unnoun

Let's see, I'm assuming you're counting spinoffs or there'd be a lot of repeats here. Mami, Kyouko, and Sayaka, though I'm not sure which is which. ...Yeah, I got nothing. Bebe. Homura. There was a whole movie about it. Oriko and your near-namesake. Tatsuya. Junko. Yes, that is definitely going to be my answer. Madoka. Okay, this one could be half the fucking cast. That's, that's every meguca who hasn't broken in some fashion or another. That's what you've described. A meguca who isn't dead or witched or gone all hard and cold.

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Indeed. It's a very Homura approach to the issue. Save scum like hell and be very poor at social interaction.

edited 4th May '16 11:26:14 PM by rikalous

I think one of the knights is Joan of Arc.

I know shit-all about Tart Magica, so I none of the characters are from there.

Yeah, there's some spin-off characters in there. In order:

• Yep - Sayaka, Mami, and Kyouko in that order.
• The Soujo sisters from Kazumi Magica, combined into a single character. Their Soul Gem collecting is reinterpreted here as collecting souls.
• No, but that's maybe a better fit than who I was thinking of (Kazumi).
• This one's a bit cheating, since it's Candeloro, so kinda Mami.
• Indeed.
• Yeeep.
• Completely and totally 100%! Damn, how did you see through the cunning layer of disguising?
• Yes, but no. It's actually Kriemhild Gretchen, stripped of power and trying to regain it.
• Maybe mentioning her odd useage of firearms would have been better. It's Homura. Or a Homura that fucked up trying to hit Homucifer, anyway.

Ultimately, the main character would be a pawn being influenced by the three main people trying to gain the God's power - Kyubey, Kriemhild Gretchen, and Homura (absolutely none of whom will use it in a "good" way). Oriko and Kirika are there as well, if only trying to stop everyone else.

Any ideas for covenants and other sidequests?

Frankly I'd take Gretchen and Homura over Kyubey any day. At least they give a damn about something on a personal level.

edited 5th May '16 1:07:06 PM by unnoun

Anju and Kafei?

Was thinking more Solaire and Lucatiel, really.

Well, we need to have DLC that reveals that a chunk of the lore about Sayaka the Labyrinthwalker is actually stuff the PC did but attributed to her because the PC was pulled from the future.

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And then in the second sequel she'll have a bunch of cosplayers.

Heh.

In terms of covenants....not sure. Definitely one aligned with Oriko (Pv P). If you don't break Mami's fantasy, there'd be one associated with that, similar to the Princess' Guard, maybe (PvE). One following Soujo's footsteps, trying to become more human (this could be either PvE or Pv P, really)? Kyubey could have one, but really every magical girl is, for better or for worse, part of his "covenant". Tatsuya would have one as well (PvE).

edited 5th May '16 2:01:39 PM by Krika

...just in case it was unclear, I brought up Anju and Kafei in the context of your question for sidequest ideas.

What about Co-Op?

The biggest question is who's going to be Solaire.

I'unno.

Almost certainly Tatsuya would be the closest to Solaire in terms of being the most unambiguously good and friendly person in the story.

Tatsuya is an artist.

Shattered Skies Chapter 16 is now up!

It's a knock-down, drag-out brawl between the remaining Sailor Senshi, Joker, the Time Reaper, and a few special surprise guests...

And NEXT chapter, at long last... it's time for the attack on Madoka's world to begin. :D

...Okay, I think, somewhere, somehow, this Joker was given access to another Joker skillset, because, frankly, this guys is like the result of Garth Ennis, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Mohiro Kitoh and Gen Urobuchi basically trying to outdo each other in summer scary story competition.

I'm taking that as a compliment, so thank you. XD Smile Precure's Joker was and still is one of the vilest villains the franchise ever had, and was a fantastic character... but as a result of that series's piss-poor plotting, he offed himself to revive a Generic Doomsday Villain with zero personality in the last few episodes. He was exactly the kind of character who should have backstabbed stupid Pierrot, taken the reins by force, and become the true Big Bad, so part of what inspired this story was wondering what would happen if he did just that... after a little trip to Magical Girl Villain Hell, of course.

I imagined the experience would make him even more of a psycho, so I threw in elements of that Joker, plus quite a bit of Kefka Palazzo as well.

Hello!

I think that Madoka isn't the kind of show where you can just throw it in with a regular crossover, to me anyways.

I think shows with urban fantasy settings like the Shin Megami Tensei meta series, Shadowrun, Earthbound/Mother and FSN.

Or one of those shows that does go with everything like Guile's theme like Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure or Kingdom Hearts.

You gotta start somewhere.

And now, bizarrely, I want to see some kind of adoptive mother-child hurt/comfort scene between Godoka and Giygas.

Take a melody, simple as can be~...

It's here.

It took a year and a half to get to this point, but it's here at last, and I hope it's worth the wait. :D

Chapter 17 of Shattered Skies... enter the Madokaverse!

For those of you patient enough to stick with the story up until now, you have my gratitude... and my apologies for taking so long. I felt I had to save the Madokaverse for last in order to properly pull out all the stops and deliver it with the gut-punch that the 'verse deserves... let me know if I pulled it off.

Yes. I've always maintained that the setting is an absolutely crucial part of PMMM, and taking characters away from the incubators and the witches lurking in the background means you're missing some very important parts of the story.

For that reason Madoka crossovers have never much appealed to me. They wouldn't be the characters they are if they didn't have to deal with Kyubey and his manipulation and the dark side of their power.

Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.

I was honestly going to write a story where Madoka becomes a classic Demon Summoner with Shadowrun elements.

You gotta start somewhere.

Oh God.

Oh God.

That's just pure bullshit.

You're Magical Girl Villain! You're not supposed to do military Stealth-Based Game thing! Especially not as the in-

[got Chest Burster-ed]