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-->The witch's ensnared body towered over them, wrapped snugly by layer after layer of Mami's ribbons, while Nozomi's wires tied it down and held it in place. She looked like a giant golden cocoon, from which would hatch a monstrous butterfly. If only that were the case.\\
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-->The witch's ensnared body towered over them, wrapped snugly by layer after layer of Mami's ribbons, while Nozomi's [Charlotte]'s wires tied it down and held it in place. She looked like a giant golden cocoon, from which would hatch a monstrous butterfly. If only that were the case.\\
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"Um," Nozomi said, watching Mami out of the corner of her eye as her wife kept trying a failing to hold back laughter. "Are you…okay?"\\
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"Charlotte's…what?" Nozomi repeated, not understanding the joke. "Mami, what the hell are you-" And then her memory was jogged. "Oh." Her shoulders slumped, and she sighed. "Really? Really, Mami? That's-" And then she snorted as well. "Actually, that is pretty funny," she snickered.
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"Charlotte's…what?" Nozomi [Charlotte] repeated, not understanding the joke. "Mami, what the hell are you-" And then her memory was jogged. "Oh." Her shoulders slumped, and she sighed. "Really? Really, Mami? That's-" And then she snorted as well. "Actually, that is pretty funny," she snickered.
* GroundhogDayLoop: Charlotte's dream in ''Restless'' takes the form of one, each loop starting with her (in doll form) and Mami in Nautilus platform, followed by Mami being eaten by Charlotte's worm-self ridden by a rider who seems different each time. Each loop ends with Charlotte being put through reliving a different trauma. [[spoiler:In the final loop, the rider is Homura Akemi, revealing that the entire dream was a microcosm of the timeloop that they're all stuck in because of her]].
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: In a dream, Charlotte sees Mami die in front of her and breaks down, begging her to not leave her alone.
--> “Please,” she whispered. “Please, don’t leave me. I can’t do this without you. I can’t do this alone!”
--> “Please,” she whispered. “Please, don’t leave me. I can’t do this without you. I can’t do this alone!”
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* RoleReversal: Due to dream-related schenanigans in ''Restless'', [[spoiler:Kyoko, Oktavia, and Mami end up switching who's the witch and who's the puella magi, identifying themselves as Ophelia, Sayaka, and Candeloro]].
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* RoleReversal: Due to dream-related schenanigans in ''Restless'', [[spoiler:Kyoko, Oktavia, and Mami [[spoiler:the family end up switching who's the witch and who's the puella magi, identifying themselves as Ophelia, Sayaka, Candeloro, and Candeloro]].Nozomi]].
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* CallBack: Upon learning that she was under mind control by [[spoiler:Lily]]’s CompellingVoice, Kyoko compares it to the wish she made (for people to listen to her priest father, which magically brainwashed them into attending his sermons, and notes that she finally understands what it feels like.
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* CallBack: Upon learning that In Mami's DreamSequence in ''Restless'', there are two; Firstly she was under mind control by [[spoiler:Lily]]’s CompellingVoice, Kyoko compares it introduces herself to the wish she made (for people to listen to her priest father, punk hostess as "Mami, Mami Tomoe" which magically brainwashed them into attending his sermons, and notes the hostess mistakes as "Mamimami Tomoe" just like Akia. Later, Dream!Kyoko remarks that she finally understands what it feels like.Oktavia is laying more mermaid eggs than they can sell.
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* ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: In Mami's ''Restless'' dream sequence, she works at "<name redacted>, located on the corner of <street name redacted> and <street name redacted>" et cetera.
* ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: In Mami's ''Restless'' dream sequence, she works at "<name redacted>, located on the corner of <street name redacted> and <street name redacted>" et cetera.
* GuiltInducedNightmare: Kyoko and Mami's nightmares in ''Restless'' are both themed around their guilt. Kyoko's guilt for (in her mind) causing her family's death and failing to save both Momo and Sayaka, and Mami's guilt for every time she was manipulated into doing horrible things for what she thought were heroic reasons.
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: In a nightmare, Shizuku praises Mami for having kept Nautilus Platform running and expanded the business, and for not having gone of on a hopeless quest that endangered them all and destabilized world politics, which are things Mami did and feels extremely guilty for.
* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: [[spoiler:In Mami's ''Restless'' dream, she works at a café that secretly processes the teenage girl servers into cupcake icing. If the allegory wasn't obvious enough, the manager is Kyubey]].
** In Chapter 40 (41 in the [=ao3=]), Mami's dream seems to be a reference to ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles''. The chapter also ends with [[spoiler:Ophelia]] telling Mami "[[VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077 "Wake the fuck up sempai. We got a dream to burn."]]
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* StatusQuoIsGod: In-Universe. [[spoiler:Marisa]] told Kyoko that there was a full-scale war between ''New Life Alliance'' (or simply The Alliance)[[note]]A group of Puella Magi and Witches who distrust Reibey and Oblivion[[/note]] and ''Void Walkers''[[note]]A group of Puella Magi and Witches who pledge loyalty to Reibey and Oblivion[[/note]], but since no one can truly die in this afterlife, the war kept going for years without any casualty and legitimate result other than small portion of land being taken over by The Alliance. After back and forth battles without definite outcome, both sides signed the armistice treaty ''Free Life Compact'' so they could at least keep their own territory.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: In-Universe. [[spoiler:Marisa]] Marisa told Kyoko that there was a full-scale war between ''New Life Alliance'' (or simply The Alliance)[[note]]A group of Puella Magi and Witches who distrust Reibey and Oblivion[[/note]] and ''Void Walkers''[[note]]A group of Puella Magi and Witches who pledge loyalty to Reibey and Oblivion[[/note]], but since no one can truly die in this afterlife, the war kept going for years without any casualty and legitimate result other than small portion of land being taken over by The Alliance. After back and forth battles without definite outcome, both sides signed the armistice treaty ''Free Life Compact'' so they could at least keep their own territory.
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* WorldOfSymbolism: The dream sequences in ''Restless'' are all this, of course.
** In Kyoko's dream, she tries to chase after her father, who always walks just out of reach, while there's an abandoned and unloved child crying in the background. It is representative of her guilt for, in her mind, causing her family's death, and her [[spoiler:continuous failure to save her sister from the Void Walkers]].
** In Octavia's dream, she's a questing knight going to save a princess from a monster, only to find herself ''becoming'' a monstrous mermaid, before [[spoiler:being rescued by Kyoko while wearing a princess dress. It is symbolic of her identity crisis, asthe punk gatekeeper tells her that she must reconcile the fact that she is at once a heroic knight, a monstrous witch, and a damsel in distress]].
** In Mami's dream, she works at a café teaching new hires the ropes before sending them to the basement, where she ultimately learns that they are killed and processed into cupcake icing. It is symbolic of her guilt for leading countless girls to their deaths as magical girls.
** In Kyoko's dream, she tries to chase after her father, who always walks just out of reach, while there's an abandoned and unloved child crying in the background. It is representative of her guilt for, in her mind, causing her family's death, and her [[spoiler:continuous failure to save her sister from the Void Walkers]].
** In Octavia's dream, she's a questing knight going to save a princess from a monster, only to find herself ''becoming'' a monstrous mermaid, before [[spoiler:being rescued by Kyoko while wearing a princess dress. It is symbolic of her identity crisis, asthe punk gatekeeper tells her that she must reconcile the fact that she is at once a heroic knight, a monstrous witch, and a damsel in distress]].
** In Mami's dream, she works at a café teaching new hires the ropes before sending them to the basement, where she ultimately learns that they are killed and processed into cupcake icing. It is symbolic of her guilt for leading countless girls to their deaths as magical girls.
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* AllohistoricalAllusion: In Kyoko's dream sequence in ''Restless'', she ends up dressing up with a fancy robe and her hair is put on fire, and she takes the name Ophelia, making her resemble her witch counterpart.
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* AllohistoricalAllusion: In Kyoko's dream sequence in ''Restless'', she ends up dressing up with a fancy robe and her hair is put on fire, and she takes the name Ophelia, making her resemble her witch counterpart. The same happens to Mami in her dream, taking the name Candeloro with her arms replaced by her ribbons.
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* RoleReversal: Due to dream-related schenanigans in ''Restless'', [[spoiler:Kyoko and Oktavia end up switching who's the witch and who's the magical girl, identifying themselves as Ophelia and Sayaka]].
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* RoleReversal: Due to dream-related schenanigans in ''Restless'', [[spoiler:Kyoko [[spoiler:Kyoko, Oktavia, and Oktavia Mami end up switching who's the witch and who's the magical girl, puella magi, identifying themselves as Ophelia Ophelia, Sayaka, and Sayaka]].Candeloro]].
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* BaitAndSwitch: During Oktavia's dream in "Restless", the dream-version of Lily calls her Sayaka Miki, which she objects to as it's not her name. Lily then corrects herself to ''Sir'' Sayaka Miki, which she accepts.
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** When Charlotte offers to buy Oktavia an instrument, she suggests a violin, the instrument of the boy Sayaka sold her soul to. A bit later we learn that she chose a harmonica.
** During Oktavia's dream in "Restless",the [[spoiler:the dream-version of Lily calls her Sayaka Miki, which she objects to as it's not her name. Lily then corrects herself to ''Sir'' Sayaka Miki, which she accepts.accepts]].
** When Charlotte offers to buy Oktavia an instrument, she suggests a violin, the instrument of the boy Sayaka sold her soul to. A bit later we learn that she chose a harmonica.
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* EskimosArentReal: Sayaka/Oktavia laughs when told of the existence of flying fish, believing it to be another made-up story.
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* MythologyGag: When Charlotte offers to buy Oktavia an easily carried musical instrument, she suggests a violin. Violin was the instrument favoured by Kamijou Kyosuke, the boy Sayaka Miki sold her soul for and why Oktavia's labyrinth was themed after an orchestra. Oktavia ends up picking a harmonica instead.
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* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The small team of Void Walkers Reibey sends after Kyoko and Sayaka/Oktavia: [[OnlySaneMan Anabelle Lee]], [[PsychopathicManchild Ticky Nikki]], and the [[VillainousIncest incestuous]], also maniacal CreepyTwins Nie and Arzt.
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* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The small team of Void Walkers Reibey sends after Kyoko and Sayaka/Oktavia: Oktavia: [[OnlySaneMan Anabelle Lee]], [[PsychopathicManchild Ticky Nikki]], and the [[VillainousIncest incestuous]], also maniacal CreepyTwins Nie and Arzt.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In Oktavia's ''Restless'' dream, she (as Sayaka Miki) dreams of herself as a knight going to save a princess from a monster... only to find herself as Oktavia the Mermaid Witch.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In Oktavia's ''Restless'' dream, she (as Sayaka Miki) dreams of herself as a knight going to save a princess from a monster... only to find herself as Oktavia the Mermaid Witch.Witch, realizing that ''she's'' the monster.
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Kyoko was the one responsible for everything that had happened to her. Kyoko was the reason she had lost so much. She had been the one to push Papa into doing what he had done. She had been the one to drive Mami away. She had been the one responsible for Sayaka's downfall. And after all that she had cost them, it was a miracle that Mami and Charlotte were sticking with her.
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Kyoko was the one responsible for everything that had happened to her. Kyoko was the reason she had lost so much. She had been the one to push Papa into doing what he had done. She had been the one to drive Mami away. She had been the one responsible for Sayaka's downfall. And after all that she had cost them, it was a miracle that Mami and Charlotte were sticking with her.her]].
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* WistfulAmnesia: In her ''Restless'' dream sequence, Oktavia-as-Sayaka sees the train station where she turned into a witch and remembers that ''something'' bad happened there but can't remember what.
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* WistfulAmnesia: In her ''Restless'' dream sequence, Oktavia-as-Sayaka Oktavia sees the train station where she turned into a witch and remembers that ''something'' bad happened there but can't remember what.
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* AlasPoorYorick: At the end of ''Monsterland'', a Dockengaut holds up the skull of a recently eaten Valk "like a Shakespearean actor".
* AlienBlood: As seen in a dream sequence, Oktavia had blueish black blood before she died.
* AlienBlood: As seen in a dream sequence, Oktavia had blueish black blood before she died.
* BaitAndSwitch: During Oktavia's dream in "Restless", the dream-version of Lily calls her Sayaka Miki, which she objects to as it's not her name. Lily then corrects herself to ''Sir'' Sayaka Miki, which she accepts.
* BeyondTheImpossible: It's stated multiple times that anyone who's taken into a Dockengaut lair is lost and will spend the rest of eternity as a meat slave with no hope of rescue. Upon falling into one, Kyoko proceeds to make her way out of it alone.
* BigDamnHeroes: At the climax of the Monsterland arc, [[spoiler:Kyoko and Charlotte are cornered by two Dockengauts, exhausted and unable to fight, thinking they'll never see their family again... when a legion of Calliopes appear to protect them, followed by a heavily armed border guard transport which threatens the Dockengauts away and rescues the two girls]].
* BlatantLies: In ''Gift of the Puella Magi'', Mami claims that the bad mood she and Charlotte are in is because they forgot Vickie's gift to Natsuru and Shizuku back in Freehaven. Shizuku seems unconvinced, and later points out that she saw the gift in their luggage.
* ChristmasSpecial: ''Gift of the Puella Magi'' is a 19,000-word one-shot about Mami and Charlotte celebrating Christmas with their friends in Pinespire a few years before the main fic starts up.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: From ''Gift of the Puella Magi'':
-->'''Natsuru:''' Mami's a great girl. She'll understand, and oh crap she's right over there.
-->'''Natsuru:''' Mami's a great girl. She'll understand, and oh crap she's right over there.
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* GhostAmnesia: For witches again.
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* GhostAmnesia: For witches again.Witches cannot remember anything from their lives as humans, and only vague things from their life as witches.
* GilliganCut: ''Gift of the Puella Magi'' has Charlotte and Ammonia sit down to plan out a way to defeat Mami only to then cut to Charlotte tied up in a tree pondering how she should probably stop making plans.
* GilliganCut: ''Gift of the Puella Magi'' has Charlotte and Ammonia sit down to plan out a way to defeat Mami only to then cut to Charlotte tied up in a tree pondering how she should probably stop making plans.
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: In ''Gift of the Puella Magi'', Mami and Charlotte roll off a cliff and have time to remark that the fall will probably hurt before they start screaming.
* HaremGenre: Natsuru was at the center of one when she was alived, pursued by Shizuku, Mikoto, and Akane. At the moment she's in a steady relationship with Shizuku, who's not too concerned when Mikoto and Akane show up since she expects them to develop feelings for each other soon.
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* HumanResources: The slave trade exists [[WretchedHive in the darker corners of the Afterlife]]. Soul essence is commonly extracted like a reusable, limitless supply of Drug!Soylent Green. Much like [[{{Film/Taken}} kidnapped girls]], those that are taken into this life a generally stuck there for the rest of eternity. [[DespairEventHorizon Assuming they still have the will to try and escape.]]
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* HumanResources: HumanResources:
** The slave trade exists [[WretchedHive in the darker corners of the Afterlife]]. Soul essence is commonly extracted like a reusable, limitless supply of Drug!Soylent Green.Much like [[{{Film/Taken}} kidnapped girls]], those Those that are taken into this life a generally stuck there for the rest of eternity. [[DespairEventHorizon Assuming they still have the will to try and escape.]]]]
** Pinespire practices a much more benign version with their main Christmas tree, made up of paid Calliopes who work in shifts.
** The slave trade exists [[WretchedHive in the darker corners of the Afterlife]]. Soul essence is commonly extracted like a reusable, limitless supply of Drug!Soylent Green.
** Pinespire practices a much more benign version with their main Christmas tree, made up of paid Calliopes who work in shifts.
* InternalReveal: ''Gift of the Puella Magi'' has Charlotte learn about Natsuru's gender situation when she comes out.
* TheMissionary: In the Monsterlands-intermission, a group of Void Walker missionaries visit the Wayhouse in Etherdale to proselytize. Janelle correctly deduces that they're full of shit, since Oblivion has no need for missionaries. [[spoiler:True enough, they were using an imprisoned empathic Calliope to read Demmi's mind to see if she knows anything about Annabelle Lee and company]].
* PerspectiveFlip: In ''Restless'', Oktavia's dream sequence shows the battle between her and Kyoko from her perspective, thinking herself a knight trying to protect the princess (Madoka) from the monster (Kyoko).
* RacialFaceBlindness: Nanabey the Incubator wasn't too good at telling humans apart, which was how he ended up contracting the male Natsuru, putting her through GenderBender to fix his mistake.
* RoleReversal: Due to dream-related schenanigans in ''Restless'', [[spoiler:Kyoko and Oktavia end up switching who's the witch and who's the magical girl, identifying themselves as Ophelia and Sayaka]].
* SarcasticClapping: A pair of Dockengaut do this after [[spoiler:watching Charlotte and Kyoko nearly kill an entire pack of valks]].
** Elsa Maria's compass works just like [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl Jack Sparrow's]].
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** In a flashback in Chapter 32:
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** The narration in Chapter 30 (31 in the [=ao3=] version)refers version) refers to [[GoldfishPoopGang Annabelle Lee and her gang]] as [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Team Rocket blasting off again]].
** In a flashback in Chapter32:32 (33 in the [=ao3=] version):
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** In Chapter 33, Kyoko is mentioned as being a fan of the ''Film/JurassicPark'' film series. The narration also references Muldoon's memetic 'clever girl' line.
** In Chapter 34, after narrowly surviving a valk attack, Kyoko threatens to “ go all [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] on your extinct asses!”
** In Chapter 37, Kyoko considers naming [[spoiler:the baby valk]] [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Baragon, Ghidorah, and Godzilla]].
** In Chapter 38, Kyoko is about to get sucked into a drain “like a goddamned [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtle]].”
** In Chapter 34, after narrowly surviving a valk attack, Kyoko threatens to “ go all [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] on your extinct asses!”
** In Chapter 37, Kyoko considers naming [[spoiler:the baby valk]] [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Baragon, Ghidorah, and Godzilla]].
** In Chapter 38, Kyoko is about to get sucked into a drain “like a goddamned [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtle]].”
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** In Chapter 33, 33 (34 in the [=ao3=] version), Kyoko is mentioned as being a fan of the ''Film/JurassicPark'' film series. The narration also references Muldoon's memetic 'clever girl' line.
** In Chapter34, 34 (35 in the [=ao3=] version), after narrowly surviving a valk attack, Kyoko threatens to “ go all [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] on your extinct asses!”
** In Chapter37, 37 (38 in the [=ao3=] version), Kyoko considers naming [[spoiler:the baby valk]] [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Baragon, Ghidorah, and Godzilla]].
** In Chapter38, 38 (39 in the [=ao3=] version), Kyoko is about to get sucked into a drain “like a goddamned [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtle]].”
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* SnuffFilm: The dockengauts, upon first arriving and kidnapping people, made films of themselves devouring their victims, at least one from each species, and sent it to everyone else just to brag. They were able to get away with no consequences for this because [[TheDreaded everyone is too scared of them to bother fighting them]].
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* SnuffFilm: The dockengauts, upon first arriving and kidnapping people, made films of themselves devouring their victims, at least one from each species, and sent it to everyone else just to brag. They were able to get away with no consequences for this because [[TheDreaded everyone is too scared of them to bother fighting them]]. Years later, the video is shown to young magical girls and witches stupid enough to consider visiting Dockengaut territories.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Charlotte acts upset and seems desperate to get away from Mami for a bit in ''Gift of the Puella Magi'', Mikoto accuses her of having forgotten Mami's gift and is now trying to sneak away to find a new one. Charlotte, not wanting to admit that she was going to propose and has lost the ring, goes with the explanation, despite Mami pointing out that she remembers seeing her gift in their room.
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* ThatCameOutWrong: When Mami asks what Charlotte and Natsuru were doing in the forest alone at night in ''Gift of the Puella Magi'', she phrases it in a way that sounds like she's accusing Charlotte of cheating, much to her horror.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In Oktavia's ''Restless'' dream, she (as Sayaka Miki) dreams of herself as a knight going to save a princess from a monster... only to find herself as Oktavia the Mermaid Witch.
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* ToughLove: The strange punk girl in ''Restless'' frames Oktavia's nightmare like this, forcing [[spoiler:Sayaka/Oktavia to confront her identity issues by recognizing that she is a person with many facets; She is the courageous Knight, a champion of justice, but she is also the wicked Witch, born of nightmares, and the innocent Princess, in need of a savior]].
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* UnfortunateNames: ''Gift of the Puella Magi'' has Ammonia the Calliope, who Charlotte figures probably chose her name based on pretty sounds rather than any particular knowledge of what ammonia is.
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* VillainousRescue: The main cast have so far had to been bailed out by Annabelle Lee and company ''thrice''; First in "Help", where [[spoiler:they kill Lily and save Mami and Charlotte from her brainwashing]]; second in "The Heist", where they help Mami and Charlotte rescue Kyoko and Oktavia (albeit double-crossing them later); and third in "Monsterland", where they call the border guard to rescue them from a Dockengaut territory.
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* WistfulAmnesia: In her ''Restless'' dream sequence, Oktavia-as-Sayaka sees the train station where she turned into a witch and remembers that ''something'' bad happened there but can't remember what.
* WithThisRing: The main drama in ''Gift of the Puella Magi'' comes from Charlotte losing the ring she was going to use to propose to Mami with during a snowball fight, and the stress it causes her during what was supposed to be the most important day of her life. [[spoiler:It turns out Ammonia the Calliope ate it on accident and returns it to Mami none the worse for wear, unaware of the significance. Mami ends up showing it to Charlotte and putting it on in the snow outside of Natsuru and Shizuku's cabin, at the same time as she reveals that she was also planning to propose that Christmas]].
* WithThisRing: The main drama in ''Gift of the Puella Magi'' comes from Charlotte losing the ring she was going to use to propose to Mami with during a snowball fight, and the stress it causes her during what was supposed to be the most important day of her life. [[spoiler:It turns out Ammonia the Calliope ate it on accident and returns it to Mami none the worse for wear, unaware of the significance. Mami ends up showing it to Charlotte and putting it on in the snow outside of Natsuru and Shizuku's cabin, at the same time as she reveals that she was also planning to propose that Christmas]].
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* AllohistoricalAllusion: In Kyoko's dream sequence in ''Restless'', she ends up dressing up with a fancy robe and her hair is put on fire, and she takes the name Ophelia, making her resemble her witch counterpart.
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* BreastAttack: In the HotSpringsEpisode while Kyouko and Oktavia are playfighting, Oktavia complains about Kyouko grabbing her boobs because Kyouko doesn't have any so she can't retaliate. Kyouko is not amused.
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: In the HotSpringsEpisode, Kyouko does some bodybuilding poses naked as a joke, expecting Oktavia to make a snarky remark. When the remark doesn't come, she realizes that Oktavia is too preoccupied staring. Oktavia gets her back when she strips and Kyouko's joke dies in her throat.
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* NoodleIncident: Charlotte and Mami refuse to stay at a friendly farmstead because last time they did the farmers turned out to be soul-sucking demons.
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* DeathWorld: The Dockengaut homeworld and territories derived from it takes after the species, which is to say a horrible place comparable to Hell, populated mostly by a diverse ecosystem of creatures that all want you dead. The tick-tock sisters spent two hours there shortly after arriving in the afterlife, and it's a big part of the reason they went to Oblivon as soon as the opportunity presented itself.
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* DeathWorld: The Dockengaut homeworld and territories derived from it takes after the species, which is to say a horrible place comparable to Hell, populated mostly by a diverse ecosystem of creatures that all want you dead. The tick-tock sisters spent two hours there shortly after arriving in the afterlife, and it's a big part of the reason they went to Oblivon as soon as the opportunity presented itself. Most of the Monsterlands arc takes place in one such territory.
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** In chapter 29 (30 in the [=ao3=] version), Kyoko goes on a ramble comparing her journey to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
** The narration in Chapter 30refers (31 in the [=ao3=] version)refers to [[GoldfishPoopGang Annabelle Lee and her gang]] as [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Team Rocket blasting off again]].
** The narration in Chapter 30
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** Spawn sites all have uniquely messed up skies, ranging from Genocide City's caleidoscopic fever dream to Velocity Terminal's pristine blue sky, orderly rows of fast-moving clouds, and [[WorldInTheSky distinct lack of ground]].
** The sky in regions taking after the Calliope homeworld are dotted with giant floating crystak clusters.
** The sky in Dockengaut realms is ashy grey with occasional red or orange flares, like pustules or lava.
** Spawn sites all have uniquely messed up skies, ranging from Genocide City's caleidoscopic fever dream to Velocity Terminal's pristine blue sky, orderly rows of fast-moving clouds, and [[WorldInTheSky distinct lack of ground]].
** The sky in regions taking after the Calliope homeworld are dotted with giant floating crystak clusters.
** The sky in Dockengaut realms is ashy grey with occasional red or orange flares, like pustules or lava.
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* DeathWorld: The Dockengaut homeworld and territories derived from it takes after the species, which is to say a horrible place comparable to Hell, populated mostly by a diverse ecosystem of creatures that all want you dead. The tick-tock sisters spent two hours there shortly after arriving in the afterlife, and it's a big part of the reason they went to Oblivon as soon as the opportunity presented itself.
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* RealityIsOutToLunch: While there are normal parts of the afterlife by human standards, the stable parts of the afterlife are essentially stitched together based on multiple alien worlds forged by the memories and emotions of dead Magical Girls, and those are just the stable parts. Areas like spawn sights are collectively morphed by accumulated mental distress to a point highways in the sky are among the tamer features, with skies filled with eyes, mountains of flesh, and rivers of blood also being known.
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* InnocentInnuendo: At one point Kyoko jokingly threatens to eat Oktavia's fish tail, since it's the juciest piece of fish around. She only realizes what she said when Oktavia asks if she's complimenting her ass. Her attempts at rephrasing it as Tasty or Delicious are not much better.
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* DramaticIrony: In the Etherdale arc, the heroes end up with a group of mercenaries called Persephone's Protectorate, who've been hired to clean up a corrupted area and get help for the wild witches therein, but are struggling with a band of leechers and ask the heroes for assistance. The chapter immediately after reveals that [[spoiler:Annabelle Lee's gang of hooligans are with the so-called leechers, who are actually a Wayhouse; a humanitarian group. Persephone's Protectorate are the actual leechers]].
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* DramaticIrony: DramaticIrony:
** In the Etherdale arc, the heroes end up with a group of mercenaries called Persephone's Protectorate, who've been hired to clean up a corrupted area and get help for the wild witches therein, but are struggling with a band of leechers and ask the heroes for assistance. The chapter immediately after reveals that [[spoiler:Annabelle Lee's gang of hooligans are with the so-called leechers, who are actually a Wayhouse; a humanitarian group. Persephone's Protectorate are the actualleechers]].leechers]].
** During an angry rant about the nature of the afterlife, Annabelle Lee rants that whoever created the afterlife screwed up majorly, good intentions or no. Unbeknownst to her, [[spoiler:she's talking about Oblivion herself]].
** In the Etherdale arc, the heroes end up with a group of mercenaries called Persephone's Protectorate, who've been hired to clean up a corrupted area and get help for the wild witches therein, but are struggling with a band of leechers and ask the heroes for assistance. The chapter immediately after reveals that [[spoiler:Annabelle Lee's gang of hooligans are with the so-called leechers, who are actually a Wayhouse; a humanitarian group. Persephone's Protectorate are the actual
** During an angry rant about the nature of the afterlife, Annabelle Lee rants that whoever created the afterlife screwed up majorly, good intentions or no. Unbeknownst to her, [[spoiler:she's talking about Oblivion herself]].
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Kyoko sees a Vaskergoros for the first time, she asks if it's "Another alien". Kisa, the Vekoo she's talking to, clearly doesn't appreciate being thought of as alien, especially since humans like Kyoko are just as alien as anyone else.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: One of the big themes, and a major point of contention between the Void Walkers and everyone else. Void Walkers are magical girls and witches who have grown tired of the afterlife, either due to seeing it as a CrapsackWorld or sheer boredom, and think that everyone will feel the same eventually. During a rant, Annabelle Lee points out that making a happy life will only keep you content for so long, and there are only so many times you can start over from scratch without it getting old.
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* BrickJoke: When Mami and Charlotte are told that Oktavia and Kyoko are captured by the Brothel, they are horrified at the implications, but are quickly assured that the Brothel is a criminal cartel and not an actual sex work organization. Later, Kyoko asks what the Brothel is and Oktavia starts to awkwardly explain before Kyoko clarifies.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Oktavia gives Kyoko a royal chewing out in chapter 24, furious that despite having been told multiple times how important Oktavia's name is to her, and the consequences of not using it, Kyoko ''still'' can't get over her issues and use the right name.
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* SilentTreatment: When Kyoko calls her Sayaka one too many times, Oktavia goes quiet and refuses to respond to any of Kyoko's attempts at apologizing.
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* LetsSplitUpGang: In the Heist arc, Annabelle Lee proposes splitting up to infiltrate Starlight Motors. Despite their EnemyMine, Mami and Charlotte object to the idea because it means leaing Kyoko and Oktavia alone with AL and Nikki. They don't like the second setup much more, since it involves leaving Mami and Charlotte alone with Annabelle Lee and Nie Blühen Herze respectively.
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* MistakenForPedophile: Nikki objects to being teamed up with Nie because she'll "touch [her]". In response to Mami's horrified reaction, Annabelle Lee clarifies that she means in the sense of hugs, doting, and cheek-pinching, which Nikki hates.
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** Because the plot is following two arriving witches (Gretchen and Homulilly) instead of a magical girl and a witch who are actively being pursued by the BigBad, a lot more of how society works and functions is focused on and given greater detail. In particular a full procedure is established for introducing new arrivals to the aferlife, where in canon this either doesn't exist or the situation at hand kept Kyoko and Oktavia from participating in it.
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** Because the plot is following two arriving witches (Gretchen and Homulilly) instead of a magical girl and a witch who are actively being pursued by the BigBad, a lot more of how society works and functions is focused on and given greater detail. In particular a full procedure is established for introducing new arrivals to the aferlife, where in canon this either doesn't exist or Resonance Days the situation at hand kept Kyoko and Oktavia from participating in it.it despite being in place.
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Charlotte and Oktavia wouldn't count since they're withces in the original too.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Some of the crossover characters who cameo as human magical girls, like Fate and Vita, would have been different races in their home series (Fate being Mid-Childan and Vita being an ArtificialHuman), but are humans in story.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Some of the crossover characters who cameo as human magical girls, girls and witches, like Fate and Vita, would have been different races in their home series original franchises (Fate being Mid-Childan and Vita being an ArtificialHuman), but are (presumably) humans in story.
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Would the witches count? IDK, be free to expand that to cover Charlotte, Tavi, and co
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* FantasticRacism: WordOfGod is that there are regions of the afterlife where Witches are hated and oppressed, though none of the main characters have so far encountered this.
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For better understanding of this story, read also [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9755679/1/First-Time First Time]], the prequel which tells the story of how Mami and Charlotte coped with their inner demons and eventually got together.
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For better understanding of this story, read also [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9755679/1/First-Time First Time]], the prequel which tells the story of how Mami and Charlotte coped with their inner demons and eventually got together. Another prequel story [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8831371/1/Gift-of-the-Puella-Magi Gift of the Puella Magi]] also covers this time period.
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* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Reibey calls the Madam an “exceptional specimen” of her kind (humans).
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* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Reibey calls the Madam an “exceptional specimen” of her kind (humans). The Madam clearly doesn't take it as a compliment, but is too stoic and polite to say anything.
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* DemotedToExtra: Any of the magical girls who are still alive (Madoka, Homura) or became a witch (Sayaka) is reduced to TheGhost in the fic. The former can't be present in the afterlife without dying, while the latter is [[PostHumousCharacter functionally dead]].
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* CentralTheme: The ongoing question, brought up across Resonance and Walpurgis, about if it is better to die with all of your memories and know what you've lost (to die a magical girl), or to die with none of them and start completely anew (to die a witch.)
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* AnachronicOrder: The Heist arc is written out of order, usually showing some event InMediasRes before jumping back to show how we got there. Each scene is timestamped, so the audience can follow along.
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* EnemyMine: In the Heist arc, Mami and Charlotte team up with [[spoiler:Annebelle Lee's gang in order to rescue Kyoko and Oktavia from the Brothel. The void walkers still want to capture them and bring them to Reibey, but crucially needs to do it themselves]].
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* GenderFlip: InUniverse. Per WordOfGod, there's a substantial industry in the afterlife of remaking movies from memory, with all-female casts for obvious reasons.
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** InUniverse. Per WordOfGod, there's a substantial industry in the afterlife of remaking movies from memory, with all-female casts for obviousreasons.reasons.
** Charlotte at one point makes a Simon Says joke, but replaces Simon with Simone.
** InUniverse. Per WordOfGod, there's a substantial industry in the afterlife of remaking movies from memory, with all-female casts for obvious
** Charlotte at one point makes a Simon Says joke, but replaces Simon with Simone.
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* HighSchoolAU: Due to the focus shifting from Kyoko and company trying to get [[spoiler: her sister]] back from Reibey to the arrival of two new witches to the afterlife, we get to see the normal methods of integration. They just so happen to involve classes, dorms, and supervisors. Ophelia even mentions having tons of demerits back when she was in the system.
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* HighSchoolAU: Due to the focus shifting from Kyoko and company trying to get [[spoiler: her [[spoiler:her sister]] back from Reibey to the arrival of two new witches to the afterlife, we get to see the normal methods of integration. They just so happen to involve classes, dorms, and supervisors. Ophelia even mentions having tons of demerits back when she was in the system.
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...I just realized the thing is basically one of those. Still better than 99% of the things you find.
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** Where is the Walpurgisnacht that Homura and Madoka slew before they turned into witches? It would have arrived some time before they did but there is of yet no indication of where or who it was.
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** Where is the Walpurgisnacht that Homura and Madoka slew before they turned into witches? It would have arrived some time before they did but there is of yet no indication of where or who it was. In addition, WordOfGod clarified that it wasn't the twenty-eight member Walpurgisnacht that Dr. Cynthia mentioned.
