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Though finding things agreeable or disagreeable aren't really emotions. We've already built robots that can make these responses unprompted. Quote:
As for "I wish I wouldn't become a Witch", I had a roleplay character who made such a wish in an attempt to game the system. When her Grief Seed filled up, it emptied back out...along with all her memories. All the negative energy that would've been her wish ended up being Familiars. And when those Familiars get big enough to become a Witch, they instead exploded into other Familiars, and it quickly got out of control. To her credit, she figured out how to command them to an extent. She could have them attack other Witches and shit, but she can't actually prevent them from attacking at all; they have to kill something. And if she tries to restrain them, they get more aggressive. Not that this has any bearing on canon. Just food for thought. The player of Kyubey was highly amused by my ingenuity with that subplot, and it sounds like it fits with the Puella Magi-verse enough to be the appropriate response of that wish, aside from just not having a contract happen period.
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2012-12-03, 07:14 | Link #43 | |
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Kyubey's words at the end of Episode 8 (which he basically says just to himself and/or the viewing audience) also strike me as him subtly poking fun at Sayaka and other Puella Magi that turn into witches. Like Laevatein wrote, there's a definite "smugness" there, imo. But I think it's most accurate to break this down into pride and schadenfreude. Honestly, I'm largely with ChainLegacy. I think that a truly emotionless alien race would have trouble simply getting out of bed in the morning, let alone troubling themselves over something like entropy. I don't think that Kyubey was lying in what he said to Madoka et al. I think that the Incubators really do have very little emotion relative to humans, so Kyubey was simply engaging in a tiny bit of exaggeration. Because I do think the Incubators have some emotion.
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2012-12-03, 11:33 | Link #44 | ||
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Agreed, that is part of a parallel universe mechanic, instead of a simple time reset. Quote:
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2012-12-03, 20:01 | Link #45 | |
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Also, the "statistics" comment could've been her lazy way of saying "that's where it always is, I don't want to explain why I know that to you". We don't really have evidence Walpurgis shows up somewhere else at all. |
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There's a particular hypothetical/question I wanted to pose, and this thread struck me as a good one to pose it on.
Suppose a 14 year old Puella Magi is brought, by her parents, to the Doctor for a thorough medical examination. Would the Doctor be able to find anything strange about her body? I ask, for the following reason: We know from Kyubey that the soul is extracted from the Puella Magi's body in order to somehow make it tougher and more resilient against damage (at least that's the impression I took from Kyubey's words). That being the case, is this bodily change to the Puella Magi perceptible to medical professionals? Is it something that would "show up" under a X-Ray, say? Or maybe under a microscope? Just curious to get people's thoughts here.
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Still, it makes sense. The brain being "the seat of the soul" makes sense. So if you take the soul out, I could see it leaving a dead brain. The Soul Gem now essentially controls the body's systems like the brain normally would.
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I do fancy your cultural explanation, however. That would, ironically, make their species even more human-like. |
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