Discussion History Awesome / DonkeyKong

[[spoiler: Basically, everything\\\'s fallen apart for them. Madoka is nowhere to be found. Usagi and Sakura have lost control of everyone but their closest friends. They\\\'ve each picked up a cabal of REALLY overzealous followers who are at each others throats (spurred on behind the scenes by Johan): everyone else is in inconsolable despair, demanding Madoka be returned to power. Metatron is beating down the door demanding their compliance, and Johan is about to make his move to push them all over the Despair Event Horizon. Basically, the Sisterhood is GONE. The Lieberty movement goes to deliver the death blow...but then Sayaka and Madoka make their appearance. Madoka apologizes to everyone: she had become too overprotective of them, and they had become overly reliant on her. One of her apostles kowtows, saying \\\"Her Grace\\\" has no need to apologize for she can do no wrong, but Madoka tells her that\\\'s not the case. The Sisterhood lifted her up as an infallible Messiah, when in the end the fact she didn\\\'t see Nyarlathotep for who he truly was is clear evidence that she is only human and as flawed as any of them. [[{{Deconstruction}} Rather than caring about her ideals, they worshiped HER as an icon of purity that would always protect her, so that when her flaws caught up to her it was all the more devastating.]] Sayaka says NOBODY is without flaws, not even Madoka, but she knows that people have the strength to overcome their flaws and stand tall and proud. Johan tries a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Sayaka, calling her \\\"Oktavia\\\" and saying that it\\\'s rather rich that SHE\\\'S giving lectures on people\\\'s flaws. Sayaka agrees: she DID fall to her weakness. Everyone has a Monster inside them, and once you give into it, it can turn you into something awful. She summons Oktavia and for the first time, Johan is stunned: as far as he knew, Witches were uncontrollable and unable to be turned into Personas. Sayaka declares that doesn\\\'t mean that there\\\'s no coming back from it. If she, the Goddess of Fallen Magical Girls, has the strength overcome her darker side, all of them do. Madoka says they don\\\'t need her to be strong: she puts her full faith in them and their ability to carry on even without her, so long as they continue to stand for the teachings of the Sisterhood. She then issues her final edict: Take. Johan. Down. The Magical Girls realize that it would be better to go down fighting than just stand there and fall into despair again: if \\\"Her Grace\\\" believes they can stand on their own, they\\\'re willing to try. They rally behind Usagi as Sayaka herself joins the fray. Realizing he\\\'s lost control of the situation and is staring down a group of very miffed Mahou Shoujo, Johan decides now would be a \\\'\\\'very\\\'\\\' good time to[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave]]. Unfortunately, the good guys don\\\'t have a chance to celebrate: Metatron bursts in with a group of angels in tow, ready to FORCE the Sisterhood to join. There\\\'s a huge fight, and the Sisterhood manages to win. Madoka watches as they accept Usagi as their new leader, but then hears a voice behind her, calling her out for having a Messiah Complex: she loved having people depend on her, loved feeling \\\'\\\'needed\\\'\\\', to the degree she didn\\\'t care about whether or not her protection was really good for them in the long run. Madoka agrees that she did feel that way on some level. The voice should know: it\\\'s HER after all. She turns and embraces her Shadow, which transforms into a Persona: a humanized and clearly weaker version of Kriemhild Gretchen. She smiles to herself: she isn\\\'t TOTALLY worthless, and she supposes that\\\'s good enough. She decides to go thank Tenma for pulling her out of her own HeroicBSOD and telling her how to help the Sisterhood. The arc ends as the Sisterhood pulls itself back together, and Usagi is crowned Goddess of Magical Girls.]]

So what do you think?