[Mingle Post] Inception

[passingmod]

Who: Everyone! Open to All
What: "Inception" mingle logs
When: any time
Where: dream-built settings: totems, building dreams, projections

Entering someone's dream means entering the most private, secret, and vulnerable part of their mind. It means the chance of influencing them, it means the risk of losing yourself. It means building up fantasies, and it means watching them explode when the dream crumbles.

Hold on to your totem, explore, and protect yourself.

(ooc: This is a post to keep threads together for the Inception prompt. Separate posts or additional subthreads are also fine, and this one is optional. More information on the theme can be found here.)

Comments

youre going to be too late homuchan!!!!!

[lamentoso]

The words were lost to Sayaka, who had sprinted away from the weird magical girl with everything she could muster. They didn't need any help from someone like that!

Pushing through another door just ahead -- she stopped dead in her tracks. The change of scenery was alarming -- suddenly she found herself in a large room adorned with sweets. A high table stood in the middle of the room, a small pink thing sitting in one of the two chairs.

A tea party? But what could...

She ducked behind some of the desserts near-by, crouching, waiting and keeping an eye on the creature until...

"Sayaka!" cried Madoka's familiar voice. And there, alongside her, Mami.

"You made it!"

/sob her endless fate

[braidstobows]

It was all just like before. There were the giant sweets, there were the naive girls ready to sell their souls, there was the already had - and who was about to lose.

Wait. She was seeing this, when she should be out in the corridors of the labyrinth still, tied up in the binding spell on Mami's ribbons. Then maybe there was that tiny chance-

She decided to join the battle. She ignored the other girls, instead running dangerously close to the witch to get its attention on her instead. She should be able to defeat it - its level wasn't a deterrent to her - and then...!

disgustingly late /shame

[lamentoso]

Watching Mami fight was mesmerizing. Sayaka found it hard to take her eyes off of the magical girl, except to make sure that Madoka was safe and well also. "You got it!" she cried victoriously jumping a little in her excitement. Which was just about the time she noticed that another one had made the scene... Akemi... Dammit! Was she here to steal the glory?! Mami-san had been working hard all this time!

"Tiro..." Mami's voice brought her back into the fight, she was about to do her signature move! The finishing blow! "Finale!" The gun exploded forcefully, piercing the witch right at its centre. Sayaka's grin was already in the making, ready to congratulate Mami on her victory, but then...

The witch had changed shape... emerging from the body of the first one, a grotesque clown face smiling madly. Sayaka felt her blood run cold. A mouthful of razor sharp teeth opened --

never <3

[braidstobows]

- and Homura was too late. Again. And Madoka... her eyes quickly found Madoka.. she'd be sad again. That brief flicker of hope of changing it all was already put out as those jaws closed around Mami's neck.

That's what Sayaka didn't understand: There was no glory to being a magical girl. There was only this. For her, too: Some day Homura would encounter a witch she couldn't defeat, she was sure of it. And that was fine, if only-

It didn't take much to finish defeating the witch after that. Or to take the grief seed. She turned to face the other two, both of them still from shock.