The context is also great. Mami accuses Kyoko of having been a bad influence on Oktavia, and that she'll soon be robbing convenience stores and wearing hoodies. Oktavia suggests that maybe she's just a delinquent at heart, and there is nothing more gangster than mermaids, leading to the above line. She then goes on an elaborate ramble about founding her own mermaid Yakuza and put the entire world's sushi production under her control.
Our introduction to Oblivion, aka the ruler of Genocide City. Reibey enters Oblivion's chambers in order to give her a status update and he walks in on her... trying to solve a Rubix's cube. Huh.
Then Reibey attempts to solve it....and can't, before lamenting on humans being masochists.
Later, in chapter 11, Reibey delivers some news that makes Oblivion so excited that she picks him up by the shoulders and holds him up to her face so close that their noses are nearly touching. Reibey is not happy about being carried around like a ragdoll.
Oktavia mourns the loss of her legs, despite not remembering having had them in the first place. Kyoko, who's spent much of the fic thus far carrying Oktavia around, agrees with the sentiment.
Ticky Nikki wants to make sushi.
Ticky Nikki: Can Nikki make sushi?
Annabelle Lee: Yeah, okay, why not? She'll be all healed up by the time we get back anyway, so go nuts. Just wait until we've got her on the boat.
Artz: So darling Nikki's going to be riding with us, then? Wonderful!
Ticky Nikki: Never mind, don't wanna make sushi no more.
Annabelle Lee: Thanks for crushing my sister's dreams, jackass
Becomes a Brick Joke in chapter 15 when, in the middle of a dramatic chase with Oktavia captued and unconscious, Nikki takes out sushi supplies.
Kyoko calls Oktavia "Ariel", only for Oktavia to not get the reference. Kyoko is shocked, thinking Disney is the kind of basic knowledge that Oktavia should retain anyway.
A few chapters later, Oktavia explains that she does retain general awareness of popular culture, but not the details (for instance, she knows that The Lord of the Rings is a film that exists, but she doesn't know what it's about or that it's an adaptation). With this in mind, and considering that Oktavia doesn't know what Disney is, it seems to imply that Sayaka genuinely didn't know what Disney was even when she was alive.
Oktavia at one point catches herself calling the Void Walkers "freaking Emos", before realizing that Kyoko is rubbing off on her. And then remarks that they look more goth than anything.
While the meeting with Mami is mostly a tearjerker, Oktavia does express her annoyance that apparently everyone knows her except for herself.
Annabelle's appearance in chapter 4 has her reflect on how she usually doesn't miss her legs, but would have loved to have them so she could kick the unconscious Elsa Maria. She instructs Arzt to do it as a proxy, which she dutifully does.
The Matriarch can be rather hillarious due to her Comically Serious nature, especially when paired with the very emotional Reibey. For instance, when Nikki tries to defend her sister after reporting their failure, the Matriarch abridges what was no doubt a lengthy rant.
Matriarch: Lord Reibey wishes to clarify that yes, it is your fault, and any attempts to convince him otherwise are highly discouraged. He also would like me to inform you that your intelligence, personal hygiene, sexual history, and ancestral heritage are of highly suspect quality. Hold please.
Mami and Charlotte's first meeting in the afterlife had Mami shoot her head off when she recognized her as a witch, then pursued her through the building when it didn't stick. By now, she is rather embarrassed by the whole affair.
In a bit of Crosses the Line Twice, once Mami had calmed down and explained the situation, Charlotte asked if all magical girls are like her, and accuses them of having caused all the disappearances they blame on witches themselves.
Charlotte: You know what, I'm starting to think that most of those 'disappearances' you blame on witch attacks are really you people getting suspicious and blowing people to pieces! 'Whoops, screwed up again! But that's okay, we'll just hide the body and say a witch did it!'
Kyoko wakes up from her coma, realizes she's wearing a pair of Charlotte's pink pajamas with teddy bear patterns, and starts considering if Annabelle was right and they really are in hell.
While Mami and Kyoko's long awaited reunion is occurring outside, their witches are playing Go Fish inside. The fact that Oktavia is a fish goes unremarked upon.
Oktavia accuses Charlotte of cheating with her witch powers. Charlotte objects that her witch powers are to make deserts and turn into a giant toothy worm. It turns out later that she was cheating, just using mundane methods.
"By the way, she totally does it fish-style."
The whole 'mermaid eggs' segment in Chapter 6. Poor Kyoko is thrown for a loop and everyone has a laugh at her expense as they imply that Oktavia lays eggs and might be married now.
In chapter 12, Kyoko compares Oktavia harvesting mermaid eggs to a human harvesting babies.
Oktavia: Oh god! Do they even have a word for that's wrong with you?
She then says that Oktavia would have to sit in the boat doing nothing while the other harvested... and immediately realizes that she just told the mermaid she would have to sit in a boat. Oktavia delights in poking fun at her for her mistake.
Also in chapter 6, the main quartet discuss why Incubators only target young girls. Oktavia suggests that it's because girls look better in the frilly outfits. This leads them to discuss who had the best magical girl outfit.
Kyoko and Mami both object that their outfits weren't frilly.
Kyoko compares Mami's outfit to a mix of a cowgirl costume and a school girl uniform.
Off the above Oktavia asks Kyoko what her outfit looked like, Kyoko simply answers "Cleavage", and refuses to give more detail than that the top of Sayaka's breasts were visible. One could interpret this as Kyoko having been too busy staring at Sayaka's boobs to notice anything else.
This entire Seinfeldian Conversation is intercut with a scene of Reibey in perhaps the biggest Wham Episode so far, making for a hillarious contrast.
The Running Gag of why Elsa Maria is not welcome in Freehaven. It remains a Noodle Incident, but we know that she destroyed a church and threw a bird bath at the mayor. The priest has still not replaced the bird bath, calling it bad luck.
Corrie, the mayor of Freehaven, has taught her pet parrot to say "Rat bastard" anytime someone says Reibey's name. This consistently happens throughout the scene in her living room, and she admits that it got old pretty fast.
Alexandria Beltram, president of the New Life Alliance, calls, demanding to talk to Kyoko. Corrie tries turning her down, but Kyoko takes the phone, says she has no idea why Oblivion is after her, asks if Alexandria does, and hands the phone back to Corrie's wife before she can process what's happening. Almost everyone is mortified that Kyoko just hung up on the president, while Oktavia can barely contain her laughter.
Mami interrupts one of Kyoko's rants by correcting her about how magical girls are technically Liches, not Zombies. It's hillariously pedantic, especially coming from Mami of all people.
Kyoko mishears what she said and, thinking she said "bitch", responds with a "Same to you".
After their trip to the beach, Oktavia gets targeted by seagulls, which causes a chain reaction until every bird in Freehaven is attacking her. They end up having to get the help of three other girls to shoo away the birds and get Oktavia under roof. While pondering why they attacked her and not any of the inflatable fishes the kids played with, Charlotte suggests that they might go after the smell, causing Oktavia to get offended at the suggestion that she smells like a fish.
Charlotte: It's okay, nothing to be ashamed of. We'll get you some deodorant, some of that extra-strength stuff. And if that doesn't work, we could always just start rubbing you down with mermaid egg juice. We're used to that smell, and there's no way the birds will go anywhere near you after- [Oktavia hits her with her harmonica]
Later, Charlotte claims that they had to buy a bunch of smell-blocking enchantments just to ward off the birds.
Oktavia: Did you know that the birds in your town are homicidal maniacs? Because they're homicidal maniacs.
Marisa takes Kyoko to a restaurant that is described as less a hole in the wall and more a hole in the chainlink fence, or a hole in the cover over the hole in the wall. The narration mentions that the standard of the food should've shut it down a long time ago, even though unhealthy food is meaningless in the afterlife.
Marisa goes on an elaborate ramble about how impossible it is to reach Oblivion, including comparing the Withering Lands to "Morder, only this time's Mordor's got prettier orcs and more guns. And the scenery's nicer, I guess." She is genuinely disappointed when Kyoko tells her to stop, since she apparently had an entire speech planned.
As revenge for Kyoko running away without telling anyone, Mami has her carry all the supplies from their shopping trip, which are heavy and cumbersome enough that even Kyoko struggles with it.
Mami: Kyoko, please. I may be many things, but petty is not one of them. Kyoko: Bull to the shit!
During the confrontation with Reibey in chapter 9, Reibey makes a point of clearing his throat before speaking, despite using telepathy.
Oktavia is afraid of flying, citing that she's a fish and fish flying is unnatural. She initially thinks her friends are messing with her when they tell her that Earth has flying fish, and when they assure her that it's true, gives a Beat and a Flat "What".
On the Elysian, the chairs are created magically to accomodate every species, with Oktavia getting an otherwise normal chair with extra support for her tail. She's a bit disappointed that she didn't get an aquarium, until she checks the private bathroom and returns a second later soaking wet with a big grin declaring that she found it.
Later, Kyoko notices that some of the passenger seats are gone, replaced by metal poles as if they've been elevated into the roof. When asked, Mami says that they bought "Windrider" tickets. Kyoko's reaction is both adorable and hillarious.
Kyoko: Mami, does that mean what I think it means, and if yes, can I upgrade right the hell now?
The Twins describe Annabelle's new outfit as "biker-dyke chic", and Annabelle bites back by calling theirs "Pseudo-victorian prostitutes".
Oblivion walks in on one of Reibey's parliament meetings. Seeing the head honchos of The Empire falling over themselves in reverence of someone the audience knows is just a kid is funny enough on its own, but it's made hillarious by Reibey's Oh, Crap! reaction to the whole thing.
She did this because she was bored of the entertainments Reibey gave her; A paddle-ball, a hula-hoop, a beach ball, a Rubik's cube that neither of them can solve, and an Atari with no games, TV, or place to plug it in. He apparently thought this was enough to keep her entertained, and admits that he probably should have done more research first.
In Cloudbreak, Kyoko has a hard time seeing why the ai'jurrik'kai and other species are allied with humans since they seem to have so much more advanced technology. Mami answers that the ai'jurrik'kai love radio, and jotts love air conditioning. Kyoko is utterly dumbfounded.
Immediately after that, Kyoko seemingly sees someone she's pissed at and Mami worries that one of the void walkers are there... only for it to actually be a girl who threw away edible food. Mami ends up having to drag her away while profusely apologizing to the poor girl. And then the Dockengaut shows up. And agrees with Kyoko about not liking when people waste food.
The Madam gives Annabelle a Breaking Speech before claiming that she wants to help her redeem herself. Annabelle is rather flabbergasted at the suggestion, since the Madam is an infamous crime lord known as the Queen of Sin, the Mistress of All Evil, and the Dark Overseer of the Underworld.
Madam: As you can see, my flowing dark cape is at the cleaners, I seem to have misplaced my spike-covered scepter, and I had to return that throne of skulls for the sake of my back.
The Madam then points out that the Evil Overlord aesthetic is a bit more Oblivion's domain, and that Reibey might need a less melodramatic image consultant.
Mami is shocked that anyone in the Alliance Senate would be willing to hand Kyoko over to the void walkers. Charlotte points out that they had to spend some time in a locked room with Kyoko, which Mami admits explains it.
In Cloudbreak, Nikki is disguised as a Swedish magical girl who claims to love snow but has never seen it for herself. The supposedly Scandinavian girl has never seen snow.
Kyoko is mostly okay with being kidnapped by the void walkers, seeing it as just business. What she can't condone is the spilled food left over from Nikki's attempt at turning Oktavia into sushi.
Mami eats a hearty breakfast at the Persephone's Protectorate, leading Charlotte to make a joke about her only needing two more helpings to beat Kyoko's record. Mami points out the insanity of challenging Kyoko to an eating contest, before nervously asking if Kyoko got five cups of coffee. Oktavia assures her that she only had orange juice, since she and Charlotte warned the protectorate about giving Kyoko coffee.
Lily says there are some issues with them returning to Cloudbreak, but it'd be best to wait with discussing until Mami is better. Charlotte immediately asks if it's about the Covens and the Leechers, causing Mami to have a Freak Out.
Oktavia is the only one who actually seems excited about helping Lily clear out the leechers. That is until Kyoko points out that the Leechers are camping in a swamp, and they're not pushing her wheelchair through that. Oktavia objects that swamps have water, to which Lily remarks that this swamp also has "horribly mutated crocodiles". The concept received some fanart.
Having seen Mami create ribbon clones like she did in Rebellion during an earlier fight, Charlotte asks if she might want to do it again sometime. Mami immediately tells her that she's not having a threesome with a copy of herself.
Hungry tries to bite Annabelle's head again, only to be stopped by Nikki. It seems like the two are about to fight, until they stop and have an entire conversation consisting of only the words "Hungry" and "Ticky", ending in them apparently reaching a compromise and Hungry leaving. Patricia and Annabelle Lee are both flabbergasted.
Despite otherwise being a very frightening figure, Lily is not without her funny moments. When it seems that the Wayhouse are reacting in pain to her voice, she tests it by singing the Modern Major General Song. She gets so wrapped up in singing it that one of her subordinates has to call out to her twice to get her to stop, and she's grumpy afterward.
"I like that song," Lily muttered.
While the final chapter of the Etherdale arc has little to laugh about, it does have a moment after Lily has been killed and her former brainwashed soldiers, including Charlotte and Mami, are done screaming, when Annabelle suddenly clears her throat.
Annabelle Lee: So... Are we cool?
In the aftermath of the battle, Annabelle Lee and her gang of hooligans enjoy practically celebrity status among Lily's former victims. The Twins are rather frustrated at this, as the constant attention means that they can't get the privacy to do what they would usually do to celebrate. Annabelle Lee interrupts them before they can elaborate.
In the rather more depressing chapter 21, there's a morbid moment of humor when Janelle informs Charlotte and Mami that Oktavia and Kyoko most likely haven't been handed over to the Void Walkers yet, and are still in the Brothel front in Marsters. Charlotte is immediately horrified at the idea that they gave the kids to a brothel, leading Demmi to explain that the Brothel is a criminal cartel.
Annabelle Lee complains that Mami always points a gun at her, and she's getting kinda tired of patching up her only jacket.
In the intermission, the Madam internally rants about why she hates Reibey; Not because he's an incubator, and not because he's a Jerkass, but because he is so jaw-droppingly stupid that the only reason he still has any kind of power is that he has access to the only source of true death. In the following conversation, he proves her right immediately by calling humans stupid and petty before realizing that he's talking to a human and quickly backtracking by calling her an exceptional specimen.
She later remarks that Reibey tends to go from evil scheming mastermind to sullen teenager at the drop of a hat.
Charlotte and Arzt at the beginning of the Heist arc have to spend five minutes in each others' presence. They spend the whole time having a staring contest of scowls, neither of them willing to blink, and Arzt starts mimicking Charlotte's movements in mockery. Eventually, Charlotte responds by making a "Simon(e) says" joke, and Arzt returns a gesture that Charlotte hopes none of the kids in the restaurant saw.
Later, Annabelle Lee's reworked plan involves Charlotte teaming up with Arzt. Charlotte objects to being left alone with "this psycho" and Arzt mockingly asks if she's afraid of "little old me".
Kyoko asks what the Brothel is, and Oktavia tries to awkwardly explain what brothel means. Kyoko quickly clarified that she meant The Brothel.
The Brothel, a criminal cartel with reach across the entire world, apparently use passwords made from random words. These include "Horseshoe Gravity Toilet 34 Rules" and "Armadillo Second Water Butt Sex." Annabelle Lee and Nie do a double take when they hear the second one.
While transporting them out of Starlight Motors, Oktavia's wheel chair goes a bit too fast for Mami's liking, and she resolves to give her a stern talking to later. In between all the hugs she intends to give her.
In order to fit them all in the wheelchair, Mami has to sit in Oktavia's lap bridal-style, meaning that her rather ample bossom is directly in Oktavia's face. Charlotte tells her to watch herself since those are hers. Later, during the Monsterlands arc, they repeat it but this time with Kyoko in Oktavia's lap, laying her hands around her neck and remarking that it's a fine way to travel. Oktavia tells her to keep her hands where she can see them.
Reibey complains about the Madam leaving him on hold for hours. According to the Madam, it's only been 10 minutes.
Reibey finally decides that chasing Kyoko is more trouble than it's worth, and resolves to just give Oblivion a puppy or something.
At the Remembrance Day feast, Oktavia has sushi which Kyoko calls half-cannibalism. Oktavia agrees before violently scarfing it down.
This leads to Kyoko threatening to eat Oktavia's tail since she's the "juciest" piece around. Oktavia takes this as Kyoko calling her butt nice, and an embarassed Kyoko tries to rephrase it but makes it worse each time, first calling it tasty then delicious. She eventually tries to salvage it by saying her butt is better, only for Oktavia to declare that Charlotte's the best, then Mami's, and finally Kyoko's. Apparently being sat down means she spends a lot of time staring at butts. Not that she minds.
"I see nothing but butt." She spread her arms out as if to embrace the world. "Butts, as far as the eye can see."
When Nikki catches up to Oktavia in Velocity Terminal, she makes a police siren imitation, tells Oktavia that she's driving too fast, and says that she's gonna "ticket your face."
At the end of Monsterland, Mami pulls Kyoko into a bone-crushing Bear Hug, which coincidentally also leaves Kyoko's face pushed into her chest. She doesn't really mind.
After being told they'll get warm food and baths back at the border guard, Kyoko says she might propose to the Vekoo guard. The Vekoo turns her down, since she's already married and Kyoko smells bad.
When Janelle tells the void walkers that they're not welcome, Velken the Dockengaut complains about being faced with prejudice wherever it goes. It later sulks that the void walkers always uses it for intimidation, but never lets it have any fun.
In Restless, some of Kyoko's dream takes place in a 1920s speakeasy featuring, among other things, dockengauts wearing spiffy hats and bowties, and Annabelle Lee working as a server because Kyoko and her family ruined her life, so now she has to make ends meet somehow. Mami also shows up as a stripper, which the dream version of Elsa Maria complains about because it's "unchristian".
Annabelle Lee shows up again in Oktavia's dream, this time as a cheating carnival game operator with the same excuse about making a living. When Oktavia calls her out on cheating to make Kyoko suffer, she frankly responds "Duh, it's my job and I hate her."
In Mami's Restless dream, Dream!Kyoko calls Mami's kouhais a harem. That includes herself.
In Charlotte's Restless dream, she's in a hospital where Kyoko is rushing Oktavia into surgery because "She’s clearly come down with a bad case of fish! It might be terminal." Oktavia for her part doesn't seem to care all that much about the predicament.
While looking for Oktavia, Kyoko/Ophelia rides through an old dried forest. Afterwards, the forest is on fire, much to her shock... until she remembers that her head is literally on fire, and that she probably caused that.
Ophelia realizes that she has romantic feelings for Sayaka and thinks it's because she's so stubborn, aggressive and rude. Which probably speaks to some of her issues, but she decides not to unpack that for now.
When they run into a dream-version of her school, Sayaka wonders if it's locked and says she knows a way to sneak in. Ophelia just kicks in the door.
Sayaka: ...Or you could do that. That also works.
Later, Ophelia wants to burn down the school like she did with the forest. Sayaka asks her to please not burn down her school, and a genuinely shocked Ophelia asks what kind of girl doesn't want to burn down her school.
When Ophelia tells her that Mami and Charlotte are together, Sayaka hopefully asks if Hitomi knows about it, wanting to know how little miss "Girls can't love girls" reacted.
In a conclusion to the running gag with Akia and Mephisto misunderstanding her name, when Candeloro calls Ophelia "Kyoko", Ophelia corrects her by saying "Ophelia, Mami. It's my name." A confused Candeloro asks what an "Opheliamami" is.
Ophelia confidently declares that now that they're more awake, the dream they're in can't affect them anymore. Nozomi gestures to their respective clothes and witch remnants and asks if she's sure about that.
"Great! See? Teamwork makes the dream work. Or, kills the dream. If we're lucky."
This line, between Sayaka and Ophelia;
“Didn’t she try to kill me too that one time?” “Oh, please,” Ophelia snorted. “Who hasn’t tried to kill each other at one point or another?"
When Sayaka hears about Annabelle Lee, she remarks that she sounds like Kyoko's rival, which Ophelia admits is more or less true. She then sounds rather hurt when remarking that she thought she was Kyoko's rival.
Ophelia describes killing their dream counterparts as "Second-degree suicide."
Chapter 44/43 opens on Jerky's perspective, who's confused as to why his mama hasn't mated with the fish-girl yet since they both clearly want to.
Upon strongly suspecting that Oktavia and Kyoko/Ophelia are an item, Sayaka laments that her other self apparently has no taste.
After they compare her to Freddy Krueger, Mephisto sends Freddy Krueger's gloved hand specifically just to flip them off.
While the scene around it is tragic, Candeloro wonders if the best possible outcome for the Sayaka/Oktavia situation would be for them to become two different people with their own bodies. Charzomi points out that poor Ophelia would have to chose between them like a bad holo-drama.
After Oblivion throws a tantrum about Reibey being a liar, she leaves, and Reibey takes the chance to smash his head repeatedly into the floor while calling himself an idiot for making a small girl Oblivion when he could've just stuffed her in a room with toys and a kitten and brought her out when he needed her.
Other
In First Time, Shizuku apparently has a bad habit of showing up whenever Mami and Charlotte try to get intimate, a phenomena they have dubbed the Shizuku Zone. They finally have a week alone at the Nautilus Platform, and are about to get freaky... and then the phone rings, causing Charlotte to let out a string of curses and accuse Shizuku of having a sixth sense. Funnily enough, until the exact reason of the call came up, it wasn't from Shizuku.
Also from First Time, Charlotte has only one chance to make the joke and she does not hesitate.
Charlotte:Please be gentle with me, Mami-sempai Charlotte murmured in an overly submissive tone. It's my first time.
In Gift of the Puella Magi, it's noted that Pinespire is a bit of a melting pot between the four races of the alliance. Since they all celebrate each others' holidays, this results in things like the Starfish Alien Ai'jurrik'kai singing Christmas carols, or humans dancing around with impossibly tall hats during the Jott Core Dance.
In Ghosts of Christmas Past, the amount of jokes made about Kyoko technically being Momo's younger sister because the latter has spent far longer in the afterlife.
Momo objects to Kyoko having her feet on the table by saying "Feet, Kyoko." Kyoko doesn't miss a beat before responding that it's actually Sakura Kyoko, and that Momo really should know by now.
Kyoko mentions that Momo and Yuma woke her up that morning with a glass of water "used in ways not intended by the manufacturer." Everyone takes this the wrong way before Momo quickly clarifies that they just dumped water on her.
"Big sister my most wondrous ass."
Kyoko objects to Momo calling her unfunny, and asks Yuma who's funnier. Yuma says it's Kyoko... especially when she gets angry, and makes a grimace to demonstrate what she looks like when angry.
In the comments of a post on the author's tumblr, someone joked that the reason the Void Walkers all dress like Emo Teens is that Reibey fell into an emo phase after his falling out with Oblivion. TakerFoxx responded that they're not that far off from what really happened.
At one point, Taker mused on their tumblr that they could have Suletta in the Aerial fight Asuka in the Unit-02 with their respective girlfriends serving as mission command and it wouldn't even be that weird within the setting of Resonance Days.
A fan asked why Reibey didn't just create a Homunculus of Kyoko before going through all the trouble to capture her. Taker's response was simply that Reibey is an idiot.
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