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He uses them in stories and matches.
This is more of IRL wrestling thing but it works like this:
Wrestler X: "I don't like you."
Wrestler Y: "I don't like you. Let's fight."
Then they wrestle a match.
Note, this is just an example and, in the VGCW itself (and wrestling as a whole), it's a little bit more complex.
edited 24th Feb '14 9:31:19 AM by ChrissieMcNapkins
I live in a constant state of fear and misery.However, there's much more going on behind the scenes.
The typical cute mascot things are in fact a race of emotionless hivemind creatures with advanced technology, and are trying to prevent the destruction of the universe via heat death/entropy. (This is an actual theory in real life. Look it up if you can, no way in hell I'm explaining that too.) To do this, they would need to break the laws of physics — something that magic, a thing they've discovered, can do. Unfortunately, being emotionless whatsits, they cannot use it.
Still with me?
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistThey're pretty boned until they discover humanity. Not only do we have lots of nice illogical emotions and are naive enough to not question their motives, they're perfect for doing the magic thing. Especially young people, and even more especially young girls, since they usually develop faster emotionally than boys, and still maintain their naivete.
Still with me? Here's where things get screwy.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistThe way energy is harvested is by creating magical girls, and then destroying them.
When a magical girl makes a wish, it is granted... but granted just how they asked it. 99% of the time, they wind up worse off because of it. On top of that, they turn them into Soul Gems — basically, materia, as the fic is clever enough to note, but more in-depth than that. They essentially rip their souls out of their bodies and turn them into their Soul Gems, disguised as simple typical Transformation Trinkets, with the body being a meat puppet controlled by the gem that will go inactive if it is taken far enough away and reanimate when in close proximity.
Still with me? We're not done yet.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
draw disco breen
because why not
edited 24th Feb '14 9:50:36 AM by thespacephantom
UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI Magical boy!Cloud.
Something with Shinji?
edited 24th Feb '14 9:51:33 AM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistCombined with the emotional strain of fighting Witches constantly, the fact that they aren't permitted to talk about it, and the thing they wished for the most corrupted and twisted to make them miserable and driving them to despair, sometimes without any additonal tweaking, they break. Figuratively and literally. Their Soul Gems shatter and are corrupted fully, transforming them into Witches for other magical girls to fight, continuing the cycle automatically. And, in addition to this, the energy produced upon the emotional destruction of the human soul is phenomenal — and helps to stave off entropy, thereby preserving the universe. The Witches themselves are irrelevant to it. You know, like with nuclear fission, but with emotional trauma.
So given Cloud's instabilities and emotional fragility, incredible magic potential, his young age and desperation, and the fact that the world appears to be ending here, he's prime Soul Gem fodder.
Does that explain it?
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistTLDR; Implied fatality via mindfucking.
Hm... I think I finally know how to round off the arc I'm planning.
Indeed. I'd finish watching it if I had the attenton span for Magical Girl stuff.
The artwork for the Witches is incredible. If nothing else, watch it for that.
edited 24th Feb '14 10:01:18 AM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistProblem is though how powerful a Magical Girl, and eventual Witch will be is determined by an invisible value of the strings of fate tied around you. Its the reason Madoka was able to become a God, and change the universe. Cloud being the most unhappy person ever and a protagonist that nearly destroyed/saved the world, would make a Witch that would wreck everyone's shit regardless.
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UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI