#havent watched madoka and its a crime to spoil that show any more than whatever gets absorbed through internet osmosis

[pechikka]

ok i have to dump my guardians of the video game pmmm AU somewhere. and im not making a sideblog for gotvg. anyways madoka magica spoilers implied below

continue is madoka.

i dont have everything figured out but continue was madoka in the sense that she used her wish to completely rewrite the laws of the universe and being deleted from the world in the process, and aaa was her homura in the sense that she's the only one who remembers the old world. in this one, the story of the past really WAS forgotten by everyone else. the universe itself has been made again into a more fair one

continue and aaa were friends for years, continue as a civilian who kyubey never persuaded into magical girlhood through his slimy pushiness because she was just interested in watching and studying aaa do her thing until she uncovers the true origin of witches and probably in part because of that aaa transforms and because she was already the single most absurdly powerful magical girl, as a witch she is a being of destruction on a massive scale. and so continue finally makes her wish

i havent nailed down the specifics of how it differs from madoka's wish, though it has more or less the same result of changing the system so magical girls fight against "wraiths" instead of turning into witches and fighting those. however as a result of her wish in specific aaa was never a magical girl in the new reality despite having all her memories intact.

continue leaves behind a daughter who, like madoka's little brother in canon, inexplicably remembers her. aaa takes her in the same as in the comic

like in pmmm canon per the movie, the incubators WOULD prefer the witch method if they found out it was a possibility since its more efficient for energy collection than having the girls fight wraiths. cheat somehow begins to uncover these principles with the tacit support of the incubators in her weird experiments. because continue unlike madoka is probably not actually personally purifying every single girl, it IS actually possible for cheat to manage to push other magical girls into despair hard enough to make them turn witch, possibly with some manner of interference thanks to the incubators. and she does this for funsies because shes Like That

patch has been her longest standing chew toy. she never gives in no matter how cheat tries to drive her to the depths of misery and this makes cheat obsessed with seeing what kind of witch will bloom from that perfect and determined magical girl who has never given in to despair

patch used to be a fragile, sickly girl from a remote town whose wish was to become strong enough to change things for the better, but in typical pmmm fashion it went horribly wrong. like kyoko's backstory levels of wrong, her hometown is most likely gone and even if not she was definitely run out of town. shes been hopping from town to town hunting wraiths and leading slapdash teams of magical girls into battle (she met cheat in one of these occassions unluckily for her)

publi is a girl who loved magical girls and dreamed of becoming a hero of justice, who one day gets trapped in a witch's labyrint (from a grief seed planted by cheat) and is rescued by a girl with bright red hair. she INMEDIATELY wants to become a magical girl too!! patch begrudgingly runs her through the basics and takes her along on a few small wraith hunts to show her the ropes but publi hasnt yet made a contract because she hasnt decided on what to wish for.