#I HAVENT WATCHED ARCANE S2 YET DONT SPOIL

[karaspal]

me when the trope is siblings with a complicated yet strong relationship

[danidoesathing]

You keep mentioning in the tags pmmm au, I am very interested to learn more about it

:D ah yes my pmmm au also know "what if jayce suffered even more" au. its basically the madoka magica plot/setting but i make it with arcane characters. which the situations and personalities of the characters alters how everything plays out. i shall yap before the cut to spare everyone's dashboards

so this mostly assuming you've seen the show but if case you havent 1. please god watch it its so fucking good. dont let the first three episodes fool you its a wonderful tragedy and jayce and viktor's s2 arc takes a good amount of inspiration from it. im about to spoil it and its my favorite show ever so PLEASE

2. a very very brief run down on madoka magica it's basically "magical girls if being a magical girl was more like selling your soul for a wish that will eventually and inevitably end with you becoming a monster (a Witch) of pure emotion and anguish that's a reflection of your own issues. and also the alien cat creature giving you powers is an emotionless manipulative bastard exploiting desperate pre-teen girls for it's own gain". the show mostly follows madoka, who gets to see first hand how awful being a magical girl is but due to circumstances (initially being saved by a magical girl who dies, her friend becoming a magical girl, that fuck ass cat) is constantly brought back into that world. There's a mysterious transfer student whose later revealed to be a time traveler whose been reliving this month for the past 12 years trying to save Madoka and prevent her from becoming a magical girl. The show ends with Madoka making her wish to erase all Witches from existence, and due to the enmority of her Wish (as well as a result of the progression of time being dependent on Madoka). She becomes a God (magical girl jesus) and rewrites reality in which magical girls are spared from that fate, but Madoka's mortal existence is erased from existence, and homura is the only one who could remember her (or the original reality). in the movie sequel due to a long series of events im not gonna even try to touch upon, Homura eventually comes to the conclusion that Madoka is not happy as a god and rips her down from heaven, rewriting reality again to give madoka a happy, mortal life. and the second movie isn't out yet so thats where it is right now. you see where im going with this?

im still not sure if im calling them mages or puella magi yet. age wise everyone is young but not quite as young as the show. Jayce-Viktor-Mel are all about 17/18. Caitlyn and Vi are about 14/15, and Jinx is about 12 (about 9 or so when she made her wish) and Ekko is about 13. this is mostly just make everything happen while still being in the typical age range.

for obvious reasons. Viktor and Jayce are madoka and Homura. the first loop, however, is pretty close to the show's final loop. Viktor and jayce are best friends (about four or so years?) and lab partners on their final year of high school. Viktor is singed's foster son, while orianna is in a coma (not exactly a loving or stable home. that plus his general self loathing and the general torment of being a chronically ill teenager means his mental health is the fucking gutter). Jayce and his mother nearly die in the blizzard still and he swears up and down they were saved by magic.

Viktor makes his wish to "fix" himself (he's a healer/caster/support type. focuses mostly on casting and summoning robot familiars but builds most of his own extra tech and enchants it with magic to help during combat.) but figures out pretty quickly the deal comes with a number of strings, even if he's not sure what exactly. He knows Jayce with his naivety and love of magic would jump at the chance to become so he tries to keep it a secret. but fate forces his hand and he saves Jayce from getting snatched by a witch. Jayce is, as expected, enamored by the idea of becoming a mage. Viktor keeps telling him its a stupid fucking idea especially when he has nothing to wish for. and they get into a number of fights about it, esp when caitlyn makes her wish, but ultimately Jayce reluctantly heeds viktor's warnings. then things gradually get worse and worse as they do. caitlyn and vi disappear. viktor won't talk about it or anything to do with magic really and his warning turns into begging jayce not to do this. jayce is scared for him but can't help. eventually walpurgisnacht happens and Viktor dies defending the city. Jayce cannot handle this and makes his Wish to go back and save Viktor. and thus begins the loop of the worst three or so months of his life in a futile effort to save the one he loves and the slow building of a god. this can only end well

they are only ones who would really take any solid roles though. everyone else has their unique storyline while these two are having their knock-off yuri plot. Jinx's original wish is to make her bombs work correctly, which inevitably backfires and kills her family and leads to Vi getting arrested on false charges. Jinx believes herself to be a. well a jinx, and adopts a kyoko esq mentality where she decides to never help anyone ever again, and stops caring about the destruction or causalities when she fights witches. One of these causalities results in the death of Caitlyn's mother (which is blamed as a terrorist attack. which is mean yeah but). Caitlyn (usually, again dependent on timeline circumstances) makes a wish to be able to find the person that killed her mother (long range gunner like Mami, but with a more sharpshooter focus and her flowers are more like violets). Vi's own wish to be able to find her sister (brawler defensive type, there's some kind of wolf theming here), which gets her out of juvey. she and cait eventually team up to find the people they're looking for (fun fact! in the first loop vi and viktor team up to fight witches due to convince and their combat styles matching ie barbarian + cleric/sorcerer. and i like their potential dynamic sue me). their fate varies depending on the loop but unfortunately Jinx has the sayaka curse where she becomes a Witch every time she is a magical girl. which is all of them. cause i have plans for her in the rebellion part of the au. dont even worry about it

ekko is here somewhere. still figuring him out. im think of him not being involved in most of the loops but due to jayce's time fuckery and ekko's own time abilities (also jinx) feels the need to intervene. or him not even making his wish in a majority of loops but that changes for some reason in the later ones and is a key aspect in changing the outcome of the final loop. ive no clue what mel's doing im so lost on how to include her. if anyone has any ideas PLEASE shes literally a magical girl in the show i cant not put in here it'd be rude

and i of course made witch forms. ive already yapped a lot but i will at least say what they are because the witch forms are SO important to me even if the ones that dont get used. we got: Vivian, the Witch of Rabbits (Jinx). Aster, the Witch of Fools, then Witch of the Underworld in rebellion (Jayce). Apollyon, the Witch of Machinery, then Witch of Fractals post-loop 30+. Valí, the Witch of Families (Vi). Annette, the Witch of Queens (Caitlyn). Ekko's is currently unnamed, but is the Witch of Hour-Hands. Mel's is also unnamed, and is the Witch of Gold (though i may change that, feels too simplified with how obstruct these things can be)