bakerstreet | The Puella Magi Madoka Magica Meme

The Puella Magi ★ Madoka Magica Meme
(A joint creation by Claire and Courtney)

Image: Kyuubey, a white almost catlike creature with large, frightening red eyes, staring at the viewer.

Image: Kyuubey, a white almost catlike creature with large, frightening red eyes, staring at the viewer.

"Make a contract with me, and become a Puella Magi!"

After being approached by the strange creature, you made a contract with him and became a magical girl—a Puella Magi (or Puer for the guys). In exchange for having one wish granted, you must fight witches and collect Grief Seeds in order to keep your Soul Gem bright and clean!
But witch hunting is dangerous work -- do you have what it takes to walk the path of a Puella Magi?

Prompts contain major series spoilers!
It is suggested that you don't look at them or the comments if you aren't familiar with the series, as any spoilers will greatly reduce your enjoyment of the series.

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> Choose or roll a prompt, or make up your own scenario, and reply to others.
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1. Teamwork, go! You've got another Magi at your side and the two of you are working together to fight this witch!

2. Oh, err... you've stumbled into another Puella Magi's territory and they're not happy about it. Get your dukes up and prepare to fight!

3. You're a newbie Puella Magi trying to find your way in the world. Lucky you've got a mentor who can teach you how it goes!

4. One minute everything's good and normal and suddenly the whole world is topsy-turvy—the fact that you're just a regular (and probably very confused) person isn't helping this whole trapped-in-a-witch-barrier situation you've found yourself stuck in at all, and you'd probably be toast if there wasn't this Magi here saving your butt!

5. You didn't think that things could be so serious, so hard in the life of a Magi—not until you both just had to watch a friend's gruesome death at the hands of a witch. What are you going to do now?

6. The awful truth has made itself known. You have discovered, in some way or another, that your Soul Gem actually contains your soul and now your body is little more than a meat puppet. It's okay to cry.

7. This is it; the end. You or your friend have fallen into despair and the awful truth has made itself known—Puella Magi mature into witches. You have become a witch.

8. You may have heard stories of this witch but never thought it could be so powerful. The Walpurgis Night is here and devastating your city, and you are the one who has to stop it.

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Madotsuki!

[Damn it, damn it, damn it. She's just in time, isn't she—Madotsuki is there, too many stories up, balancing too precariously on her toes on the edge of the railing. She's going to fall—no, she's going to jump. This girl who Poniko has seen as a little sister is about to jump from this stupid building and she may already be too late, maybe nothing Poniko could try to say right now can change her mind.]

Get do—get back on the balcony! Right now, Madotsuki! [And yet she doesn't know anything but tough love, she can't figure out what else to do but be as bossy and as loud as ever.]

[ The wind catches hold of Madotsuki's braids and whips them against her cheeks, skins her hands and makes her eyes stream. Mucky tracks of tears already long dried cover her cheeks and despite all that, despite the pitch black Soul Gem in her clenched fist and despite the fact that she's little more than a totter away from plummeting into mid air, Madotsuki looks at peace. ]

I found them all, you know. All the effects. I left them in the Nexus before I woke up this morning.

[Right—she knows about the Nexus, and Madotsuki has told her about the effects. Those made her happy, didn't they? That world was hers, and she loved it, didn't she?]

M-Madotsuki, get, get off of there. Get back on the balcony, and turn around and go inside. Right now! [She could run inside, up the stairs, pull her down, but what if she was too slow? What if Madotsuki just jumped while she was making her way there? There's too much at stake for her to make silly risks, but what is she supposed to do?]

[ Almost as if she's noticing Poniko for the first time, Madotsuki looks down and meets the blonde's gaze. For a moment, her expression remains unchanged. Then her mouth trembles and fresh tears begin to tear down her cheeks. She chokes back a sob, and rubs her eyes with the back of her hand and hitches the corners of her lips back into a smile.

She doesn't want the last thing Poniko sees of her to be a crying little girl. ]

I thought if I found them all, it'd make me normal again. I don't want this anymore! I want to go back to school, and have friends again, I -- I don't want to be a Puella Magi anymore. Not after-- [ And she breaks down in tears again. The wounds are too fresh for her to talk about. She still has nightmares, tucked up in the corner of her mind, about what happened to Monoko. ]

I don't want to be a witch, Sempai.

[No—no, no, no, no. She remembers Monoko, too, but she has pushed it away and pushed her way through it like she always did, but she should have known that it would have been worse for Madotsuki. No, he had, but she hadn't done enough for her—she was sempai, wasn't she, didn't she owe her protegee more than that?]

M-Mado, please... [Her voice is softer now, and she is as gentle as she can be. She didn't know the Nexus well enough to see where that assumption came from, but can she blame Madotsuki for trying? That was hope, that might have been her only hope, and it's gone.] You don't have to be a witch, okay? We're strong enough. There are enough grief seeds. Please, just...just come down. It—it's going to be okay.

[ Madotsuki looks as if she might gag at the mention of Grief Seeds; it seems little more than cannibalism to her now. And besides, she's already too far gone. Apathy towards her fate until the very last moment and a combination of rage and grief had already blackened the Soul Gem beyond repair. She even imagines that she hears it cracking and it hurts, enough to make her flinch.

She peers over the edge of the balcony, looking suddenly uncertain. The ground seems a very long way down all of a sudden and falling from that height--

It'll hurt.

Madotsuki wobbles uncertainly back and forth, peering at the ground below. ]

I...

[ A sudden gust of wind, massively out of proportion to that day's weather slams into her and she totters. It's not clear if Madotsuki intentionally took a step forward or if she fell, but one thing is certain; one moment, her feet are on the railing and the next, Madotsuki is in mid air, tumbling towards the ground.

Her Soul Gem shatters into pieces in her hand and chaos reigns. Blackness explodes out from the center of her being and a cacophony of sound echoes in the rapidly forming barrier.

Madotsuki became a witch with a smile on her face. ]

[She wants to scream.

She should be screaming but the sound is caught in her throat as Madotsuki falls and the barrier explodes all around her, and she doesn't know what's worse until her body, separate from the gem that was her, falls and Poniko lunges forward to catch it.

The shout she wanted to make comes out as a sob and she holds her (her body) close and shakes her gently as if it's going to do anything.]

You—you stupid—Madotsuki...

[Madotsuki was the only friend she ever had.

It doesn't matter. It's not allowed to matter anymore. Gently, Poniko lays her down on the ground and folds the corpse's hands over her chest, and her braids are just a little out of place, so she unties them and fixes them up again with shaking hands but she is so very careful so that they can be perfect.

Poniko has always faked and fought her way through things.

She'll have to do it again.]

[ The barrier seems to pause slightly as if considering what form it should take. For now, there's nothing but blackness all around. Then, with the sound of stone scraping on marble, brilliant white lines begin to appear on the floor, crossing and criss-crossing in an intricate circular pattern. With a great clatter, a set of doors fall from the empty sky and land in a perfect circle with Poniko and Madotsuki's empty shell at the center.

It's like a cruel joke.

The doors all hang open, giving glimpses into what lies behind them; a maze of blocks, a forest, a blinding white snowstorm -- then each door slams in turn, and when the echoes fade away, there is only silence.

Madotsuki had tried to describe it to Poniko a thousand and one times. She'd even tried drawing it once but gave up in the end, saying it was something Poniko had to see for herself.

There's no mistaking it; This is the Nexus. ]

It is suggested that you don't look at them or the comments if you aren't familiar with the series, as any spoilers will greatly reduce your enjoyment of the series.

Is there some reason you didn't LJ-cut the prompts?

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