You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
But seriously, I am never going to forget what happened. It caused me to sit in a corner for like two months and hate myself and not talk to anyone and study Touhou patterns all day, and also get rejected by 30 different jobs and struggle to sign up for hormone therapy that never happened, more-or-less because my sis was poor.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
Also the prospect that I could finally have hormones was the one reason I still wanted to be alive even though my only friend in the world was Imipolex G. u_u
* much sadness (*I am a generally hardhearted person when it comes to the misfortunes of the fictional, but the last episode got me to tear up, in public no less.*)
* some moments of incredible spectacle
* and some moments of... for lack of a better word, grace. (it is a hard thing to explain without spoilers)
i mean, these are all the changes that i can think of (changes from the starting point of the series, when Homura shows up at school):
1. everyone is alive
2. the runes on Sakaya's magical girl ring are gone, and we can assume this is the same for everyone else. But we don't know that this means. Are they still magical girls even? are only some of them magical girls?
3. Madoka presumably still has whatever portion of her Godoka powers that Homura didn't nab
4. Homura has revealed her supreme dedication to Madoka's happiness above all else, regardless of Madoka's wishes, and has shown a willingness to do literally anything to preserve it. She also now has incredible, though not yet defined powers. Note that she has acted in full accordance with her wish, to save madoka.
so we don't know enough what she's done enough to really make a judgement call, but given that it was against the wishes of Madoka and she has declared herself to be a demon presumably whatever she's done is not all that swell.
[What Homura did in trapping the others back in the real world and altering their memories was not completely vicious, but it was still terribly cruel. While their new lives are certainly happier than those of their previous incarnations, they are now doomed to live to the end of days like Homura did, unaware of their coming fate or their inevitable battle when she assumes her role as a great destroyer.
But in the end, there is something even sadder in what she did that moves the goalposts a little. She knows that Madoka will rediscover her godhead, and she does not know if she will be forgiven. But because of her love for her, Homura does not care. She has chosen her own private damnation so that she might have just one last chance to express her love to this person who she gave so, so many lives for.
And that is the tragedy of the end. Homura has become the Devil to bask in the grace of a private God: The one that she loves.]
^ This is also very true, although I assume that [the "demon" part comes from, well, what I mentioned already].
because I care way too much about this, I've read a lot of peoples' opinions about the film - range of these opinions span from "deep analyses about the philosophies and themes of the film", to "Homura had her character drastically altered", to "thirty-or-so-page essay on Reddit on how the film ruined the franchise"
In short, even if the title character’s power to make a game-changing wish was consistent with the universe’s internal rules, it seemed to come so far out of nowhere that it undermined the emotional narrative that the rest of the series had taken its time to so painstakingly establish.
I must say that I very strongly disagree with this.
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i only asked because IRC is a strange and frightening place full of mysterious people and things that are baffling
you changed my entire life. UwU
i mean, these are all the changes that i can think of (changes from the starting point of the series, when Homura shows up at school):
1. everyone is alive
2. the runes on Sakaya's magical girl ring are gone, and we can assume this is the same for everyone else. But we don't know that this means. Are they still magical girls even? are only some of them magical girls?
3. Madoka presumably still has whatever portion of her Godoka powers that Homura didn't nab
4. Homura has revealed her supreme dedication to Madoka's happiness above all else, regardless of Madoka's wishes, and has shown a willingness to do literally anything to preserve it. She also now has incredible, though not yet defined powers. Note that she has acted in full accordance with her wish, to save madoka.
so we don't know enough what she's done enough to really make a judgement call, but given that it was against the wishes of Madoka and she has declared herself to be a demon presumably whatever she's done is not all that swell.
agree with the rest though