#she recruits sayaka and madoka while reinforcing these beliefs to them.
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gobstoppr · 10 days ago
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mami tomoe i miss you....
i ordered a physical copy of The Different Story manga and i have to wait like a week till it comes in... i wanna reread it Nowwww tho
#text#shes so everything...#one of my favorite readings of the original show is that of how they dictate their lives chasing moral purity#cuz they're kids. theyre stuck in this losing game. but they want so bad to be Good People.#mami is a character who is Terrified of doing things that are Wrong#sayaka even more so.#theyre so lost in this false dichotomy of selfless vs selfish#they cant handle that the reality of the situation is that the only option is to survive#in the different story when mami and kyoko cut each other off at the suggestion of being a little selfish#its just . fuck. that was Me in 2021. that was me at 17.#and mami only values her own survival as a means of protecting people; as a means of justifying the fact shes alive#if she realizes her existence might be harmful it all collapses.#thats why shes so quick to act when she realizes magical girls become witches#but again these rules for herself also get enforced onto the people around her#she cuts off kyoko. she immediately assumes homura is a 'bad' magical girl.#she recruits sayaka and madoka while reinforcing these beliefs to them.#there are Good magical girls and there are Bad magical girls. there is correct way to act and there is an incorrect way to act#she puts on this show of trying to prove herself as noble; to impress them; pretending to be the perfect person she wishes she was#and so we end up with sayaka. idolizing this false idea of mami after her death#taking on mami's selfdestructive lifestyle but pushing it to the extreme. fighting at a level too high for herself#continually rejects help from anyone she considers impure.#i could go on. i always have too much to say about sayaka#but anyways. ouhg.#mami tomoe
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