All Purpose Puella Madoka Fanfiction Thread

Thrice, something to consider is that Homura's brave new world isn't just about putting Madoka in a safe little box where she can't get hurt. It's also got lonely Mami having a Meet Cute with a tiny hungry child to adopt, and hobo Kyouko attending school and hanging out with people, and even Sayaka, who Homura's squabbled with since her hair was in braids and who just declared eternal enmity towards her, gets to live with the friends she left behind and the girl she left the afterlife for. She may be going around wiping memories, but she's putting in the effort to make the people she knows happier than they were before.

Puellahalla is apparently nice enough that only two people wanted to take a vacation from it, at least.

edited 15th Nov '16 11:03:03 PM by rikalous

Found my post explaining the movie.

Some of you may be interested in reading my quest. It's not actually a fix fic at all as it's a sequel, not a fix fic, and it's a quest, not a fix fic, but it does go into those issues at least.

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/puella-magi-restitutione-divinus-pmmm-post-rebellion.24530/

I mean, I feel like This one is a pretty good outline.

I like decay and putrefaction because cheese and wine.

It was also for Norse Warriors, who are known for liking to bash heads.

edited 16th Nov '16 4:23:00 AM by unnoun

My only complaint with Rebellion probably is that it takes away Madoka's right to choose.

(Mind you you could point out that TV series Madoka took away everybody else's choices with her decision. So there's that.)

If I WAS gonna Fixfic it (And I don't really plan on it) I wouldn't mind setting up a situation where Madoka and Homura's Goddess selves come into some form of yin/yang balance....

Before you consider writing a "fix" fic, I'd recommend waiting for Season 2 or Movie 4 or whatever the new animated project is going to be.

Could Madoka help it? The girls have already made their choice by accepting Kyubey's contract. The choosing part is done. All Madoka can do is protect them from the most dire consequences of that choice. It's a hail-Mary pass, and I think it's about the best thing Madoka could have done given the circumstances. Maybe her meguca nirvana/heaven is imperfect, but I'd gladly take that over the alternative. But aaanyway.

I don't mean to invalidate you guys' perspectives on Rebellion and the series as a whole, but personally, I can't like Homura anymore (at least not as much) unless she regrets what she did to Madoka. She may have made things better for Sayaka, Mami, and Kyoko (and I'm certainly glad that she did—I love all three), but as long as she undid Madoka's willing sacrifice and depowered her out of sheer possessive obsession... man, I just can't root for that. It's horribly abusive. God!Madoka and devil!Homura as a yin-yang analogue would be better than what we currently have, but it still feels unnecessarily grim. I don't see why Homura had to suddenly become evil. It feels contrived.

As for Heaven, putrefaction, and cheese, I feel like you guys are willing to use your imagination, but only up to a point. As long as we're already in heaven, who says cheese has to come from putrefying milk? Of course, that's beside the point, because I think it's safe to assume that Madoka's meguca heaven isn't the real deal, but a barely functional facsimile created at the eleventh hour to avoid catastrophe. (It isn't even something Madoka herself created but something that came about in order to accommodate her wish.)

Still better than succumbing to despair and becoming a monster, though.

EDIT: Is season two definitely coming?

edited 16th Nov '16 6:14:37 PM by ThriceCharming

Nagisa came back because she wanted to have cheese again.

That means no cheese period.

I mean, that's being a bit unfair.

Homura thinks that she only chose what she did because she was forced into it, and Madoka as much as admits that herself, to Homura's face.

I certainly wouldn't call "possessive obsession" Homura's motivation. That's just being ludicrously uncharitable about it.

edited 16th Nov '16 6:30:44 PM by unnoun

There's no cheese in Madoka's heaven. That doesn't mean that no putrefaction automatically equals no cheese. My point (though admittedly it was a tangential, off-the-cuff point that I didn't think about very much) is that a critique of Madoka's heaven doesn't hold up as a critique of the abstract idea of heaven. To me (and probably to most people) it isn't heaven if you can't count on the things that make you happy, almost by definition.

And, okay, maybe I was a little unfair to Homura. But, like... she knows that Madoka isn't too wimpy to make that big, important sacrifice. She even gives her a mini You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech, right there and then. Furthermore, labyrinth!Madoka and real!Madoka (for lack of a better term) have had radically different life experiences that shaped them into different people. How is it not selfish of Homura to remember this impossibly brave iteration of the person she loves most, the one who did have the courage to sacrifice her personal relationships for the sake of every magical girl who ever lived or who ever will live, and still think, "Nah, I'd rather have the one that's not brave enough to leave me, and screw everything else?"

edited 16th Nov '16 6:46:06 PM by ThriceCharming

I mean, technically the Madoka in the labyrinth was the same Madoka who made that choice, she just dumped her memories in Sayaka and Nagisa.

Since you clearly didn't read my post explaining the film, I'll just quote the pertinent bit for you:

TL;DR: Homura only did what she did because of a misunderstanding.

Failure of communication is, as always, a bitch.

It's been three damn years and no word of if they're doing anything outside of a brief clip that, thanks to a certain mecha film series, I have high doubts they're actually gonna use for the film.

You're right, I didn't. I overlooked it. Sorry.

Indeed.

I have to say, this conversation is actually pretty stimulating, so thanks to all for participating in it. But it's making me want a Fix Fic even harder than before. I long to see Homura crying into a restored God!Madoka's shoulder as she gently strokes her hair and shooshpaps her.

edited 16th Nov '16 7:08:34 PM by ThriceCharming

And luminouses her. Oh, all the lewd luminousing...

I don't know what that is, but for some reason I still know it's awful and that you should be ashamed of yourself for suggesting it.

The terrified nun out of her mind with the flamethrower, definitely.

Well, luminousing involves a lot or rubbing. Lewd, lewd rubbing...

Luminous is fandom slang for this cheekrub thing◊. It is adorable, and neither awful nor lewd.

Also, I wanna point out that "put Madoka in a box where she can't get hurt or have agency because of something she told me once" is Homura's basic motivation for nigh all of the original series. She's backsliding and misunderstanding, but this ain't coming out of nowhere.

edited 16th Nov '16 7:41:41 PM by rikalous

Eh, I'll take it.

Ah, all right! They can definitely do that. That's adorable. I'm going to stare at that gif until the pain goes away.

Have a bonus gif with Kyouko and Sayaka.◊ It's good for what ails ya.

Chapter 22 of Shattered Skies is now up.

In which the Main Five begin to put the pieces back together and move forward.

Featuring the return of the satanic bunnycat everyone loves to hate. XD

Does anyone here know of any good PMMM fanfics where Kyoko is at least one of the main characters, if not the main focus? Any reccomendations would do, be it a Kyosaya shipping fic {Cute or not}, a character study about Kyoko, or anything else really.

I'm a few chapters behind in fic. But Kyoko has a pretty major role in it.

Homura gets I'd say about 45% of the focus in the fic, with Kyoko getting the next largest amount. It's also a role I've never seen Kyoko play before in a fanfic.

EDIT: This fic is also ambiguously in continuity with the first one I linked. This is a much more fluffy shipping one though.

edited 14th Dec '16 9:13:35 PM by 32ndfreeze

Kyoko is the main character of my Stars Above side-story, My Sunshine, but it's not going to make much sense without reading the main story first. It's also very, very much not a happy story, I'm warning you up front.

However, I also wrote three short fluff stories where she's a major character.

edited 14th Dec '16 9:17:14 PM by FringeBenefits