#Also got a rough draft for the mine fight and its aftermath

[twstmagica]

I promise I have a plan

In canon Yuu is a passive individual, a normal student who has to learn how to handle magical disasters. C!Yuu does often guide their friends to victory, but their main value is in how they can provide a new perspective for the boys who have spent their entire lives being pushed by circumstances beyond their control into villainous roles. 

C!Yuu’s empathy pushes them to understand the reason behind the student’s suffering, and their charisma allows them to nudge the boys towards self reflection and healthy solutions. 

In the magical girl au I want to explore a story where Yuu isn't a calming presence. Despite having taken on an heroic role since the age of ten this Yuu is used to being active. This may or may not be a good thing. We already have C!Yuu gently takes people by their hand and tugs them towards a brighter future. I want a story where the boys are confronted head on by M!Yuu  and are pushed into a faster overblot  and are shoved off a metaphorical cliff. That they might happen to land on a good solution doesn’t change the more violent nature of M!Yuu’s approach.

 M!Yuu can easily take care of magic disasters, but is drastically less capable than C!Yuu when handling non-combat related stress. I will admit to being somewhat inspired by deconstruction series such as Madoka Magica (considered by many to be the magnum opus of magical girl deconstruction) and Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka (I don't recommend this unless you like watching anime ironically. I like how they took a militaristic view on magical girls, but think they were excessive on the gore and fan service). This Yuu has baggage. I've probably spent an unreasonable amount of time brainstorming M!Yuu’s home world and what kind of person it would create. 

I still want to keep the bits of personality we’ve seen from canon. C!Yuu is blunt with their friends and somewhat impulsive. The voice lines show us that Yuu will initiate friendly physical contact and invade personal space. We also know that they are a bit of an airhead, as seen from the way Hornton’s identity managed to stay a mystery right up to ch5. Seriously, they got a card signed with the initials M.D. and hand delivered by the Diasomnia vice dormwarden, but it took six people calling Hornton by his full name for Yuu to finally take a hint. 

!CYuu is resourceful, which I feel is a skill they have honed due to being magicless in a magic school full of delinquents, so in that regard M!Yuu will come up short. A big difference is that M!Yuu has magic that, while not the same as what is used by the locals, will still put them in a better position when it comes to negotiations. C!Yuu has to put up with a lot of bullshit from Crowley and the students, but M!Yuu is more of a physical threat and her protests can’t be so easily ignored. Overall I hope to make a somewhat absent-minded sledgehammer with occasional episodes of PTSD.