holy Shit you weren't kidding! what a lovely long comment! <3 what a nice surprise :D
yes!! it reflects how they approach things and it was that parallel that punched me in the face and made me Sad so i knew it would inspire emotions too. :3 im glad the term was clear in context, I didn't think it would need to be explained. do the kids call it savescumming anymore...
Yep! that was the implication, but i didnt want to make it explicit in case a reader didn't want to think homura shoplifted. either way, you're right that homura is very laser focused and probably eats a lot of ready-made stuff. i mean, since shes so likely to just reset, its not like she has to worry about the longterm effects of any nutrient deficiency, so as long as she eats a vegetable thats good enough. i bet she eats those like. nutrient gel packs too. That said, konbinis can have a pretty wide selection of stuff, and heating up bentos and things are very common. so at least she isnt always eating cold stuff, poor kid.
That's homura's approach in one! Poor kid, she kind of treats the situation like a VN, or a resource management game, because if something goes wrong (and its been going wrong so many, many times) then clearly its because she did something wrong, didnt plan enough, didn't allocate enough resources, overlooked some factor. i got into pathologic lately and it has similarities w homura's situation because like the real world, events will happen with or without you, but unlike a game, homura feels the need to be everywhere at once.
Yes!! so a lot of things are written here not as deliberately for xyz reason, per se, but it feels right. so im really happy you managed to put why what i wrote works into words. i remember reading a fic where kyoko's past starvation resulted in some serious food security issues, to the point where she'd rather eat rotten food than let it go to waste, and it had like, the idea of the food being stored safe in her stomach. it really stuck with me. I agree definitely that for their different approaches, homura and kyoko have very similar goals and attitudes. i can see why you'd want more content! theres a lot to dig into here.
Yep :,) spoilers i didnt actually watch the movie bc i couldn't handle homura suffering even more. what made pmmm good and worthwhile was its happy and hopeful (wistful?) ending, that even if it was bittersweet it really ended on hope. by tearing that down it just felt like more suffering porn, and the girls' misery lost all meanging in favor of, idk, cheap moe and shock factor. im sure the movie has good parts and could even be meangingful too, im just a weenie and cant handle it lol. Point is, homura is Absolutely into sunk cost fallacy bc she's 1. so deeply unhappy 2. isolated emotionally and physically 3. like 12, so of course shes more prone to poor decision making.
Absolutely!! i imagine homura is like, notices that she's constantly snacking, figures getting her sweets would be an appropriate overture. then the offerings become greater since kyoko really responds to food gifts.
Yep! we see her split an apple with her sister in a flashback, and that hunger is a huge part of her personality. her own stomach may be "safe", but someone elses stomach is also "safe"; especially if that other stomach is someone she cares about. i imagine kyoko really wanted to help her little sister, and it was her sisters hunger more than her own that made kyoko desperate enough to catch kyuubey's attention. And like you said, Kyoko shares something less risky first, since she doesnt trust homura 100% yet, so its like a test. i had the original gameboy and gbc when i was a kid and they really are nigh indestructable; we joked about "nintendium", jokes about testing durability by chucking em off a roof, and one memorable magazine letter about a gameboy that got left in a horse stall during a blizzard that came out the other side. so kyoko does like viddy games, but an gameboy is much more reliable than something more modern and fragile. it also means her gameboy cant get smashed by a witch so easily too.
You're welcome! i liked that detail bc i think homura doesn't want to be as cold as she comes off, but is just feeling so burdened and miserable she goes like, well, as long as things turn out well its okay to be disliked. so despite her attitude, homura is holding out an olive branch by trying to be sensitive when she makes a comment on a tender spot. kyoko does notice, and its anotehr notch in her favor.
Yeah!! like most ppl i do love the interaction between sayaka and kyoko, the contrast between the idealism and cynicism. i mean, kyoko felt sayaka worth of sacrifice because she saw so much of her past self in sayaka, and her anger was a lot of displacement of anger at her past naive self. I think the contrast with homura makes it even better, and i think kyoko is definitely worthy of having her deeps explored. I'm glad i could contribute! it was lots of fun writing in her voice, deciding how to "translate" her colloquially.
Thank you so much for the lovely comment! it's really made my day and im so happy you sank your teeth into it. ive been really prolific on this meme and im proud how ive managed to make such toothsome, meaty bites that other people appreciate too. its been a fun exercise of how to pack in a lot of meaning into a short piece.
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yes!! it reflects how they approach things and it was that parallel that punched me in the face and made me Sad so i knew it would inspire emotions too. :3 im glad the term was clear in context, I didn't think it would need to be explained. do the kids call it savescumming anymore...
Yep! that was the implication, but i didnt want to make it explicit in case a reader didn't want to think homura shoplifted. either way, you're right that homura is very laser focused and probably eats a lot of ready-made stuff. i mean, since shes so likely to just reset, its not like she has to worry about the longterm effects of any nutrient deficiency, so as long as she eats a vegetable thats good enough. i bet she eats those like. nutrient gel packs too. That said, konbinis can have a pretty wide selection of stuff, and heating up bentos and things are very common. so at least she isnt always eating cold stuff, poor kid.
That's homura's approach in one! Poor kid, she kind of treats the situation like a VN, or a resource management game, because if something goes wrong (and its been going wrong so many, many times) then clearly its because she did something wrong, didnt plan enough, didn't allocate enough resources, overlooked some factor. i got into pathologic lately and it has similarities w homura's situation because like the real world, events will happen with or without you, but unlike a game, homura feels the need to be everywhere at once.
Yes!! so a lot of things are written here not as deliberately for xyz reason, per se, but it feels right. so im really happy you managed to put why what i wrote works into words. i remember reading a fic where kyoko's past starvation resulted in some serious food security issues, to the point where she'd rather eat rotten food than let it go to waste, and it had like, the idea of the food being stored safe in her stomach. it really stuck with me.
I agree definitely that for their different approaches, homura and kyoko have very similar goals and attitudes. i can see why you'd want more content! theres a lot to dig into here.
Yep :,) spoilers i didnt actually watch the movie bc i couldn't handle homura suffering even more. what made pmmm good and worthwhile was its happy and hopeful (wistful?) ending, that even if it was bittersweet it really ended on hope. by tearing that down it just felt like more suffering porn, and the girls' misery lost all meanging in favor of, idk, cheap moe and shock factor. im sure the movie has good parts and could even be meangingful too, im just a weenie and cant handle it lol.
Point is, homura is Absolutely into sunk cost fallacy bc she's 1. so deeply unhappy 2. isolated emotionally and physically 3. like 12, so of course shes more prone to poor decision making.
Absolutely!! i imagine homura is like, notices that she's constantly snacking, figures getting her sweets would be an appropriate overture. then the offerings become greater since kyoko really responds to food gifts.
Yep! we see her split an apple with her sister in a flashback, and that hunger is a huge part of her personality. her own stomach may be "safe", but someone elses stomach is also "safe"; especially if that other stomach is someone she cares about. i imagine kyoko really wanted to help her little sister, and it was her sisters hunger more than her own that made kyoko desperate enough to catch kyuubey's attention.
And like you said, Kyoko shares something less risky first, since she doesnt trust homura 100% yet, so its like a test. i had the original gameboy and gbc when i was a kid and they really are nigh indestructable; we joked about "nintendium", jokes about testing durability by chucking em off a roof, and one memorable magazine letter about a gameboy that got left in a horse stall during a blizzard that came out the other side. so kyoko does like viddy games, but an gameboy is much more reliable than something more modern and fragile. it also means her gameboy cant get smashed by a witch so easily too.
You're welcome! i liked that detail bc i think homura doesn't want to be as cold as she comes off, but is just feeling so burdened and miserable she goes like, well, as long as things turn out well its okay to be disliked. so despite her attitude, homura is holding out an olive branch by trying to be sensitive when she makes a comment on a tender spot. kyoko does notice, and its anotehr notch in her favor.
Yeah!! like most ppl i do love the interaction between sayaka and kyoko, the contrast between the idealism and cynicism. i mean, kyoko felt sayaka worth of sacrifice because she saw so much of her past self in sayaka, and her anger was a lot of displacement of anger at her past naive self. I think the contrast with homura makes it even better, and i think kyoko is definitely worthy of having her deeps explored. I'm glad i could contribute! it was lots of fun writing in her voice, deciding how to "translate" her colloquially.
Thank you so much for the lovely comment! it's really made my day and im so happy you sank your teeth into it. ive been really prolific on this meme and im proud how ive managed to make such toothsome, meaty bites that other people appreciate too. its been a fun exercise of how to pack in a lot of meaning into a short piece.