[DSKS][RFC][Spoilers] Taking Care of Business, or, Fixing Kyubei - a (possible) DSKS Side Story
03-07-2011, 02:06 PM
03-07-2011, 02:06 PM
Not that I've seen Puella Magi Madoka Magica yet, I have been hearing plenty about it, and signs point towards that little abomination known as Kyubei as the real offender. And in DSKS-verse, he'd be about as palatable as Metallia playing at being moon-cat. That is, to be utterly destroyed with maximum prejudice.
Raven absolutely hates the imp on general principal - he cheats death somehow. However, dealing with the creep strikes me as elegantly simple. What do you normally do with something that just won't die? You stick it with a one-way ticket to someplace really unpleasant. In other words, a banishment. Preferably one cast at a God-level, which Zeke is quite capable of pulling off if Raven intervenes. Which he will - the only reason he hasn't done so sooner is because he was busy taking care of things on Earth. And Kyubei hasn't shown his face until very recently.
Most of the story is spent cleaning up the mess - dealing with the Witches and their Familiars, and settling things with the Magical Girls so they don't wind up turning into Witches themselves.
Yes, this is straying into the grim-dark territory, but with purpose of showing that someone is there to fix things, even if it doesn't exactly have a pretty bow on it.
"We've been fortunate. If Queen Beryl had any sense then her goal would have been achieved without anyone being the wiser until it was all over with. But this Kyubei creature... he wasn't really all that powerful. All he had going for him was some method of circumventing death. Whether or not that had something to do with his plans, we can't be sure of now. But what he really had was smarts. His one mistake was in coming to a world that Raven happened to have a very close eye on. That was our one saving grace. Otherwise, who knows how long Kyubei could have operated with no one being the wiser, or being able to stop him."
Thoughts? Suggestions? Scathing criticisms?
Raven absolutely hates the imp on general principal - he cheats death somehow. However, dealing with the creep strikes me as elegantly simple. What do you normally do with something that just won't die? You stick it with a one-way ticket to someplace really unpleasant. In other words, a banishment. Preferably one cast at a God-level, which Zeke is quite capable of pulling off if Raven intervenes. Which he will - the only reason he hasn't done so sooner is because he was busy taking care of things on Earth. And Kyubei hasn't shown his face until very recently.
Most of the story is spent cleaning up the mess - dealing with the Witches and their Familiars, and settling things with the Magical Girls so they don't wind up turning into Witches themselves.
Yes, this is straying into the grim-dark territory, but with purpose of showing that someone is there to fix things, even if it doesn't exactly have a pretty bow on it.
"We've been fortunate. If Queen Beryl had any sense then her goal would have been achieved without anyone being the wiser until it was all over with. But this Kyubei creature... he wasn't really all that powerful. All he had going for him was some method of circumventing death. Whether or not that had something to do with his plans, we can't be sure of now. But what he really had was smarts. His one mistake was in coming to a world that Raven happened to have a very close eye on. That was our one saving grace. Otherwise, who knows how long Kyubei could have operated with no one being the wiser, or being able to stop him."
Thoughts? Suggestions? Scathing criticisms?