sure am spamming up the place today, re: getting history-transplanted

[heartfeltfancy]

Ah, you...what?

Mun-san, I don't like the idea. I already left the Facility, I don't...I don't want to go back to a place just as bad, especially when I was already there.

I won't...I won't be able to protect anyone with this arm. I'll only end up being a burden, if I can't even protect myself properly. I don't want Mami-san to fret, s-she saved me in time so I didn't die, but...

[Silence.]

At least, you say, some people I know are there...?

((For reference, this Madoka got electrocuted and lost most use of her left arm, and her skin still has the scars from the voltage.))

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[rewindingly]

Madoka?!

[ Where does Homura even start? There's so much wrong with everything you just said, Madoka, Homura's not sure what to react to first. ]

[heartfeltfancy]

...Homura.

[Her eyes almost seem dead. Unwilling. The Homura she'd know, she was almost a lost cause. She'd ran off, became a different person...so, who was this?]

[rewindingly]

Madoka-!

... Is it true? Those things... Madoka, what happened to... [ Where was Homura during all of this? What kind of best friend is she if she wasn't protecting you, Madoka? ]

[heartfeltfancy]

Ah, I'm not a very good liar...

[rewindingly]

Madoka! What happened to you? What has your mundane been doing to you?

[heartfeltfancy]

Ah, so, you don't remember. You must not be the one that was in the Facility with me.

[ . . . ]

A lot of things.

[rewindingly]

Not the one...

[ She shakes her head. ]

Don't come here, Madoka! Don't let your mundane take you. Just stay home, stay back!

[heartfeltfancy]

Are you still trying to protect me? I'm afraid I'm too far gone to be protected like that.

[As if to testify, she holds up her left hand. It shakes violently.]

[rewindingly]

That's no reason! That's no reason to stop, that's reason to protect you more! Why can't you understand that? No matter what the situation, no matter what's happened or is going to happen or can or can't be protected, I'll protect you! I won't let you suffer anymore like this, Madoka, especially if you're like this!

[heartfeltfancy]

I think that's what you said before. [A small laugh.]

One person can't always be a savior. Not you, not me...

[rewindingly]

[ What's happened to you, Madoka? Homura's heartbroken for more reasons than she can count. ]

It doesn't need to be one person! I'm not the only one who cares about you, Madoka! Sayaka Miki, Mami Tomoe, your mother, your father, your classmates, our homeroom teach, everyone! We'll save you, together!

[heartfeltfancy]

[Her words might be sad, but she musters up a smile.]

Ah, but I was the one who was supposed to be doing the saving. That's why I became a Puella Magi, you know?

It feels like I've fallen so far already...

[rewindingly]

You never needed to be a Puella Magi to save people! You were saving people by being Madoka! All you ever needed was to be yourself, that was enough!

[heartfeltfancy]

But it wasn't enough to save the world, even when I had to die to do it...

[cherrytomatoes]

...

[Staring. Big sis looked sad. :c]

Madokaaaaa!

[Excitedly pulling on the hem of her skirt!! Why was she sad?]

OH MY GOD DFLK;HGFD;LHDFG

[heartfeltfancy]

T-Tatsuya...? Is that...you?

I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE

[cherrytomatoes]

Madoka! Madoka!

[That was probably his way of saying yes. He's also clinging to her leg and trying to give her a hug.]

No!

[Don't be sad!]

[heartfeltfancy]

[She tries to pick him up with her good arm.]

Ah, I'm sorry, you don't like it when we're sad, you do? Don't worry...

[cherrytomatoes]

[Yay! Thankfully he's pretty light, and now he can properly hug her!]

Mm mm!

[And he's kind of...pawing at her face now.] Yes!

[thisclinchesit]

You've got another arm, don't you?

[heartfeltfancy]

Yes, but I use a bow and arrow. You kinda need two hands for that.

[thisclinchesit]

[WELP.]

...no other weapons at all?

[heartfeltfancy]

Ah, not really. I'm kind've a long-range fighter.

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[oh okay

so this makes two people vastly important to her who have had their left arms totaled

that's several shades of awful right there

in lieu of saying something about that, sayaka lets herself exclaim on other topics discussed-]</sub>

You're right to not like the sound of coming here - Madoka, it.. it's even worse if people you know are there. They'll use it against both of us. _{..I miss you a lot, but if seeing you had to come with you being in the tower...}

[heartfeltfancy]

Ah, then it seems the change of environments won't be as jarring, aha...

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[That's not right.

That hopeless tone in Madoka's voice feels like something important inside of Sayaka just wrenched itself into a painful knot.]</sub>

...

Being somewhere terrible before doesn't make it okay for them to bring you somewhere just as bad. Stuff like this shouldn't happen to you, stuff like...

_{[Sayaka cuts her eyes away from Madoka entirely, lest her vision get drawn to her wrecked arm.]}

It's not right.

I AM NOT HERE AND I AM NOT SORRY

[acutabovetherest]

IT'S NOT LEFT, EITHER!

_{...oooh, that was bad, even for me. Gonna have to sharpen my wit.}

[beknightedheroine]

You're dead, random robot guy. You're dead.

[acutabovetherest]

Uh-oh...

I'd better cut out of here!

[Wild CUT MAN ran away!]

[heartfeltfancy]

....Sayaka-chan? What...what was that?

[AND WHY DID IT INTERRUPT OUR HEAVY DISCUSSION]

[beknightedheroine]

It was just a really mouthy pile of scrap, Madoka. I'll take care of it.