Shitsurakuen/Puella Magi AU; heading to rakuen

[shootingforpeace]

It's quite a feat that you managed to write down this AU and edit all these icons, mun. I have no doubt you will be quite happy with your application when you have added the sample link.

But perhaps we could discuss the place I am going? It seems a little strange...and I did just die. Perhaps we could talk about this? Magical girls are fighters but I...am not sure I could handle anyone's weapon quite so well as my own.

It's a shame Sora isn't there though...I imagine she would be quite the fighter and just as upset at this system as she was with the Puella Magi system! She had such potential for being a magical girl.

Comments

[effortless]

You seem unusually hesitant for a warrior, especially one who no longer has to worry about living or dying.

[shootingforpeace]

I fought to live, because I had no choice. Why force me to fight for no reason at all?

[effortless]

Why do you require a reason? A fighter fights.

[shootingforpeace]

Do you consider something you took up because you had to be a thing that defines you? Given the choice I wouldn't be a fighter and it's not all I am.

[effortless]

To take something up from necessity is by nature defining, is it not? After all, if you objected so strongly to it that it could not define you in any way, you could have chosen to die straight away.

[shootingforpeace]

It means I came to know that I had to do this or die. It may be a part of me but it is by no means my entire defining factor. Defining me as a fighter is just as incorrect as defining me as a student or a cook or any number of things that are just one part of me. Don't you have different facets to your life?

[effortless]

Not particularly.

[shootingforpeace]

Well, how can you understand? I want to live my life outside the fights as fully as possible. That means not letting this define me.

[effortless]

Well. I can't say I agree with your reasoning, but it is hardly my place to do so in any case.

[shootingforpeace]

Are you a fighter?

[effortless]

I suppose so, but it would be more correct to say that I am a sword.

[shootingforpeace]

...A sword.

[effortless]

Precisely. It is as you said before: I am a weapon, and weapons do not wield other weapons. So calling myself a fighter would be a little inaccurate.

[shootingforpeace]

...

And that's all you see yourself as? A weapon?

[effortless]

I'm sure you find it odd. That will pass.

[shootingforpeace]

You don't have any hobbies? Hopes or dreams? Wishes? Are you content to be that one thing forever?

[effortless]

My only wish was to die, and that was granted. It seems like a bother to find another.

[shootingforpeace]

...Your wish was to die?

[effortless]

Selfish, I know.

[shootingforpeace]

Just...was life so bad?

[effortless]

[her disapproving silence can be taken as an affirmative.]

[shootingforpeace]

...I am sorry.

[mamarosa]

Don't fret, there are a number of students and teachers there who are undead, you will fight right in. I also would not worry about wielding other weapons, you learn to use them rather quickly as you don't really have much of a choice. Things are not as bad as they may seem, even if your friends are not there.

[shootingforpeace]

It was silly to hope death would bring the end of fighting.

I'm glad to hear that though! I'll confess I am still a little worried about the learning curve for some weapons.

[mamarosa]

It seems that fighting is eternal, but I believe that if we fight the correct battles that we will one day find peace, that is why I continue to fight even after my death.

The battles in the beginning will, most likely, not be that skillful or graceful, but it may prove advantageous for those who are adept at fighting. It will make your stay here a bit easier. Others will have a harder time, especially since you have to fight and there are penalties if you don't.

[shootingforpeace]

I understand, it is never skillful in the beginning. Everyone has to find their feet.

Is there much time between battles?

[mamarosa]

There is as much time between battles as you wish there to be, unless there is a tournament in place, then you have a set time. Mostly it is Player run.

[effortless]

Why?