Epilogue

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EPILOGUE

Your stopped time has restarted. Whether you were in the grassy field or fighting for your life on the castle grounds, you'll suddenly find yourself in an untouched area of the gardens. Ish is back, and so are the items, and the dead.

You return to Chateau Ambregris with the certain knowledge that come Monday, you will greet a new week, in a home of your own choosing. No longer will the chime of the clocks hunt you down, no longer will the oppressive scent of roses haunt your senses, no longer will you be forced to watch the death of those you've come to love and hate.

Parting is such a bittersweet sorrow, isn't it?

Make merry one last time, in this castle of illusions. Ironically, your memories of this stolen time that never existed are the one thing that will truly remain to you.

END NOTES

🔮 All dead are revived as tsukumogami! Congrats on your immortality(?)
🔮 Any other contracts made with Ish will be honored
🔮 Characters may choose to leave for any world they desire.
🔮 Time has not passed while you were stuck in this loop!
🔮 There will be no cross-dimensional world travel, except for on Samhain (Witches New Year October 31st/November 1st). On these dates, Ish will enable everyone to visit each other's world freely.
🔮 Universal Communication will be possible, courtesy of Manba and Ish. Everyone who wants one will be given a small fox that can communicate with other foxes through voice and video; the foxes can talk and are fairly simple creatures, enjoy them and give them fried tofu once in a while.
🔮 Powers are on for the finale, but Ish will step in and yeet anyone who gets too out of hand back to their homeworld, so play nice! (or relatively nice. )

[OOC: Welcome to your epilogue! The timeloop is ended, the evil has been defeated, and you have some time to catch your breath in the castle before the rest of your life begins! ]

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[antemeridian]

[ ...

no, she really isn't. not when she actively refrains from connecting to others the way she does, not when she reminds herself not to care for strangers, because her soul cannot afford to stretch itself thin. if she were kind she would sink into those feelings and offer them freely.

it's kind of him to think that, though. ]

Back, I suppose. [ a world she still owes her protection to. ] Is there somewhere else you think I should be going?

[antline]

That's an interesting question.

[Not one he expected. He tilts his head, furrowing his brows as he thinks. SHOULD be going? An telltale word.]

Does "back" make you happy?

[antemeridian]

I am not unhappy.

[ another telltale word. ]

"Back" is where I should be. There is ... we have a duty.

[ ... homura is a girl out of time. 'should be' is relative. ]

[antline]

Mm.

[A duty. He can understand that.]

We...? Another one of you? Someone else?

[antemeridian]

Someone else. Others. More like me, but not the same.

I told you before that we get one wish. There are other girls who have been made the same offer. A wish, and in exchange, a duty to battle curses.

[antline]

Hm. More like you...

What if someone wished to...not battle the curses?

[LOOPHOLE? (no)]

[antemeridian]

... It sounds like the kind of open-ended wish that would very much backfire on someone.

[ she's imagining so many different wants someone wouldn't have to battle the curses. a lot of it more or less sums up to 'they become a magical girl and immediately get removed from existence, one way or another.' ]

And if they wanted simply to not have to battle ... then all they would need to do is not make the wish.

[antline]

Backfire?

[Huh. And here he thought it would be straightforward.]

Open-ended...so a wish could turn bad? Even if you didn't want it to be? How is that...fair?

[antemeridian]

Backfire. If someone doesn't want to battle the curses... and wished for that, I can imagine at least a few ways that could play out. For example: they might be erased. Invisible. Unnoticeable. Stripped of feeling. The wraiths—the curses of which I speak—prey on people for their capacity for emotion. An emotionless husk has little to offer them. Or perhaps they simply do not see the one who made a wish ... and neither does anyone else.

Another: they are granted little to no power to fight. The wraiths target them nonetheless. Without offering a struggle, they are overwhelmed by the curses, and are taken away by— the Law of Cycles. If they are dead, then they also do not have to fight, correct?

[ ... ]

From some points of view, it is fair because the wish will be granted. Whatever miracle you ask for will indeed come true, one way or another. [ won't it? she never did become strong enough to protect madoka, did she? but perhaps... ] But we have little control over how it is, unless the wording is extremely careful ... and even then, there may still be consequences unforeseen.