Sacrifice In Sayaka Miki's Things Fall Apart

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Fate is indefinite. Hope is ever fading from the grasp humanity holds onto it. Compared to other magical girls, Homura diminished her chance of salvation. Her grievances were for nothing because no matter what friend she’d seen ripped apart, no matter what soul faded from existence, there was Madoka - the one girl that no one remembered. She had a duty to fulfill - continue surviving for the girl who had given up her own existence for all magical girls.

Magical girls are adolescents. Young females blooming into themselves, embodying the delicate women humans can become. Their wishes could easily be perceived as selfish, lacking depth. Although there have been occurrences in which a soul has been given up for the sake of a beloved. Sayaka Miki fulfills this rare sacrifice. Her soul taken from her body for the boy she loved.

It’s a foolish wish. Mami’s
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Kyoko is less observant, stuck between her anger at Sayaka’s early departure and the burning happening within her own soul. Mami fights her own demons on her own. She’s a veteran at this. It can’t be too difficult. Before the other girls there was only Mami Tomoe. The city was hers to take care of which she’d done well in doing, maintaining things as well as possible.

The days blur without her knowledge. Mami knows the duties that come with being a magical girl, understand Sayaka and the rest of them all understood it. Yet the gain never equals the punishment they earn themselves.

Kyoko Sakura bites too hard. The indent her teeth leave are more than scarring. They produce blood, buckets of it. The fracture bones, tear the flesh of her victims. Sayaka Miki was her favorite chew toy. She was quick to set aflame, burst with irritation at Kyoko’s indifferent attitude. Kyoko is bored when the world swallows Sayaka away. The silence which had once been filled with bickering teenagers is now serene, tranquil in state.

Kyoko hates

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