Iryi is walking past the old Wall remnant, running her hand against (newer) fense posts and smiling at the sun when she disappears.
Iryi is walking past the old Wall remnant, running her hand against (newer) fense posts and smiling at the sun when she disappears.
Yeah! Does she have preferences for types of stories? Like, romances, comedies, tragedies, fantastical stuff...
...fantastical stuff sounds really cool (they probably have whole different fantastical stuff!) but maybe she should watch something not fantastical first so she learns more about the world, too. Romance?
The romances are actually really not accurate either, they're kind of an idealized version of the world? Plus movie makers don't know about witches and magical girls. If she wants accurate... Hm...
She was thinking they might be accurate about things like 'what do places people go look like' and 'what other food exists'. But if they're not then probably not that.
Also romances reminds her of historical romances which makes her wonder how long there have been magical girls?
Oh yeah, they're probably accurate for those. Sakura has some romances she can queue up...
And the Kyubey probably know but they haven't told anyone. Sue heard of a magical girl who's thousands of years old once, though.
She sides with the Kyubey and is their close ally, but she's not one of the crueler magical girls.
Side with them - if you argue that Kyubey are bad, or in some kind of fight...?
Uh oh, what do cruel magical girls do?
If you argue they're bad or get in a fight, and the girl also acts as their enforcers sometimes.
Cruel magical girls sometimes attack and even kill other girls for their grief seeds, tend to be more aggressive with maintaining territories, and will run witch-farms where they'll intentionally let witches feed on humans so the witches grow larger.
Do people fight Kyubey often? How does that happen? What does enforcer mean?
eep!! (What is a grief seed?)
...is there something she should be prepared to do if other magical girls come attack Nausicaa them? Or if witches try feeding on them?
Directly fighting Kyubey's rare - they tend to select against girls who'll do that - but fighting the girls who're considered more closely aligned with their interests counts. Enforcers mostly get rid of girls who're being really inconvenient to Kyubey? Like, if a girl's trying to break the masquerade.
A grief seed is a witch's soul gem, pretty much. If a magical girl witches her soul gem becomes a grief seed, and you can offload grief from a soul gem into a grief seed.
Witches can't feed on magical girls. It's pretty unlikely they'll get in a fight with other magical girls - they have an established territory, and they're a team. Most magical girls work solo, and wouldn't be willing to try to steal territory from a team.
...So magical girls want grief seeds to offload into, because that way they get hope and magic back?
She's not a magical girl, can witches feed on her? (She's less worried about that than about them hurting Nausicaa but it still seems like that would be bad). Also do they have to worry that enforcers will see them doing something weird and not like it?
Why aren't there more teams? (How did they get to be a team? If it's ok to ask.)
Yeah. Grief seeds are incredibly important.
Nausicaa doesn't know, but it's decently obvious to trained outsiders if someone's being influenced by a witch, and magical girls can disrupt that.
Enforcers might object to them disrupting the witch economy, but also Kyubey tends to be fairly cautious?
There aren't more teams - well, Sue thinks Kyubey is intentionally keeping girls from building any kind of alliances that might threaten the Kyubey. The Kyubey claim that magical girls are natural loners, and will inevitably come into conflict over limited resources like grief seeds.
Do most magical girls not get really lonely? ...Does that make anyone suspicious, that sounds like a kind of suspicious thing to say. Or do they say it differently?
"They're really blunt and often push that they don't think like humans. But - they say it in little bits, over a longer time?"
That makes sense.
Do magical girls really not get lonely? She's pretty sure regular humans get lonely.
She thinks they do, but...
Kyubey seems to not mind a state of affairs where most magical girls end up witching.