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animus_network2012-07-24 02:30 pm
heartfeltfancy) wrote in animus_network2012-07-24 02:30 pm
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[The feed turns on to the face of someone possibly familiar.]
Ahh, it is working? I was afraid this worked differently than the one I'm used to.
[She folds her hands in her lap, but awkwardly--because her left hand keeps twitching uncontrollably. If you study her for longer than a few seconds, you'll notice it's for a reason. Her entire left arm, as well as the left half of her face is horribly scarred, with a lightning-like pattern on the skin itself. Her left eye is partially closed, and overall the left side of her seems awkward.]
My name is Madoka Kaname. If anyone here is familiar with a place called the Facility, please contact me. [she pauses, looking a bit unsure.]
I guess...maybe it's good it was destroyed, if our worlds are all really gone, now. I hope everyone was able to get out safely, and those who weren't...
[A longer pause.]
They're in a better place, now.
Ahh, it is working? I was afraid this worked differently than the one I'm used to.
[She folds her hands in her lap, but awkwardly--because her left hand keeps twitching uncontrollably. If you study her for longer than a few seconds, you'll notice it's for a reason. Her entire left arm, as well as the left half of her face is horribly scarred, with a lightning-like pattern on the skin itself. Her left eye is partially closed, and overall the left side of her seems awkward.]
My name is Madoka Kaname. If anyone here is familiar with a place called the Facility, please contact me. [she pauses, looking a bit unsure.]
I guess...maybe it's good it was destroyed, if our worlds are all really gone, now. I hope everyone was able to get out safely, and those who weren't...
[A longer pause.]
They're in a better place, now.
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[..it's really difficult to speak about this, with Madoka out of anyone. She doesn't want to admit that she fell that far. Sayaka's voice turns distant and clipped, a defense mechanism she'd made to be able to bear talking about the secrets of Puella Magi at all.]
There were no Grief Seeds or Witches around in all the tower when I got here, so it was pretty much inevitable. I think I lasted a while, but eventually, I stopped being able to. I just kind of.. slipped away.
..but that's another thing about this place. They always bring you back the very next day, no matter what happens.
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Oh, Sayaka-chan...
[She tries to muster up a smile, but it's not sincere.] Eheh, I never thought I could call the Facility merciful, but...I guess it was. Our Soul Gems got cleaned every Sunday, for us...
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[Even if she has to smash her soul gem herself.]
You don't have to be sad about what's already happened, Madoka - [--'to hell with yesterday,' right?--] - Because I know better now. I just.. for a minute, I sort of wished you weren't like this. Like me.
..'wish' feels like a very wrong word now.
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I'm curious, though...what's the last thing you remember from home? I think we might be different, there.
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..when I last remembered, you weren't a Puella Magi. I'd just killed a Witch, and you told me that the way I'd fought it was bad for me.
I got angry. I don't remember a lot of what I said, but I ran away after saying it - and then I was here, and I never... h-had a chance to...
..Apologize to you, Madoka...
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Was this more of Homura's time-looping at work?]
Ah, I see. [ . . . ] Please, don't blame yourself.
i live to serve
That wasn't the sound of recognition. Sayaka's not sure whether to feel relief or worse - this isn't the Madoka she needs to apologize to. This is just another case of Sayaka being from the wrong timeline, the terrible awful one where Mami died and none of them got along at all and she was, most definitely, headlong on the path to turning into a monster where it really mattered -
Sayaka simply breathes rather than answer, the breath hitching in her throat every now and then.]
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Sayaka-chan...do you know about Homura-chan's powers?
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...I'm just not the right Sayaka. What I remember's probably just awful compared to the Mitakihara you knew.
['I'm not the right Sayaka' - it's a thought that's been niggling in her head ever since she met Mami again, something that's just become a solid truth now.]
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[That alone makes her jolt up from her seat.]
H-Hey, that's...alright, see, I've already gone through enough of this time business, so when you were in the Facility, you didn't remember the same things either. [ . . . ] And that's just what this is. It's not that you're the 'right Sayaka' or the 'wrong Sayaka', you just don't have the same memories, okay...?
[It's said with Madoka's same level of earnesty, though her words are rushed and frantic.]
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She's been here a few months, too. Um, let me think, I know what room she's in.
[--When the number comes back to her, Sayaka smiles. It's kind of neat all three of them are on the same floor.]
It's room 1-01. I don't know if she's there now, but.
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[Her voice drops down to a whisper.]
How much does she know...about Witches?
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[The name was highly foreboding, so even if she'd only heard it spoken once months ago, Sayaka remembers it clearly.]
Something named Walpurgisnacht.
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Mami-san...she knew...Walpurgisnacht...
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[That just raises more questions.]
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[..So not everyone else's timelines were as happy as Mami's. It almost makes her feel a little better, but realizing that it does just makes her feel worse.]
I think you really should talk to Mami-san soon, then. Things went a lot differently for her.
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[Despite her trailing off, Sayaka's current body language seems rather happy.]
..everyone worked together and beat it. It sounds nearly like a really happy dream, doesn't it...?
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[It's another tenet of the mindset Sayaka's built up towards this Mami - it's still Mami-san, but this was like a second chance, after waiting so long to make her own contract-]
...I mean, wouldn't you wanna help her more, because her world was so happy? It's like..
[Sayaka clams up there, realizing what 'it's like' was just going to lead into the same 'wrong world' reasoning Madoka had just chastised her for.]
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Aha...you're right.
In the Facility, I was used to keeping Mami-san from the awful truth of things, I even had to take her Soul Gem from her to make sure she didn't see [...] Oktavia. Maybe she needs it even more...
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What would she say if she knew Sayaka had gone as far as to smash it entirely, in a failed try at saving her from the pods?]
Mami-san is still a really strong person, but we'll just have to keep a sly eye out for her as her underclassmen, right? That's all -
[There's something else. That name Madoka used.. it puts a strange chill through her, like her insides are coated in ice water.
She is really getting sick of the emotional rollercoaster today.]
- Nn. That name, 'Oktavia'...
[That was it. The source of her renewed discomfort.]
Something about it makes me not want to hear it again.
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That's a feeling easy to understand. I'll refrain. [Like she never wanted to hear the name Gretchen ever again.]