On another note...
I was wondering how I would spark Homura's interest in Benjamin.
What I might do is have it that, due to the unusual circumstances, there is a brief exchange between them where they see each others memories. Not much, but they see the important bits.
She doesn't know this person. But she feels the agony in her heart like it was her own. Beaten. Belittled. Cowed. Reduced to nothing. The only thing that kept you going was love for someone important to you and a powerful desire to not see that person hurt because of your selfishness.
There is someone there that knows exactly how much this hurts. How it feels to have something dangled in front of you in so tantalizing a manner, and have it yanked away because you were not perfect. Only perfection is rewarded.
And then, there is that person, reaching out to you. Calling out, "Take my hand! I can help you!" And you know they can, because they know how it feels.
If nothing else, misery loves company. It might be nice to lean side-by-side against someone like that, and cry along with them.
Homura will be left with that memory of his pain, and how it was precisely because of that pain that he reached out to her. It will leave her reeling - so much so that Madoka will notice - because she had never, ever thought that anyone else could feel that way.
But Homura has her pride. The sudden realization of what had just happened would shock and appal her. But the impact was still there. And in the days after the Scaglietti Incident, she finds herself looking more and more in his direction.
And Madoka being Madoka, she will not be jealous at all. "Go to him," she'll say. "Learn from him. He never forgot how to love, and neither did you. But you need to see in him how you can grow your life from the ashes of your past."
Homura's name really does mean "Flame". But the second definition of Homura is flames in the context of passion: love, jealousy, and anger. At first she will worry that Benjamin might somehow steal Madoka from her.
"Silly. I might love him... But I could only love him as much as I could love you." And then Madoka will prove that point to her, time and time again.
But then her eyes would turn to Fate and Nanoha... and the flames in her heart will rise, because despite herself, she will become possessive over him. Homura may be a Sun in Leo, but her Lilith is in Libra, her Venus and Mars signs are both in Cancer, and her Eros and Psyche signs are both in Scorpio. When it comes to love, Homura lives up to her name.
And then RWBY and company show up and then shit really starts to get crazy...
I was wondering how I would spark Homura's interest in Benjamin.
What I might do is have it that, due to the unusual circumstances, there is a brief exchange between them where they see each others memories. Not much, but they see the important bits.
She doesn't know this person. But she feels the agony in her heart like it was her own. Beaten. Belittled. Cowed. Reduced to nothing. The only thing that kept you going was love for someone important to you and a powerful desire to not see that person hurt because of your selfishness.
There is someone there that knows exactly how much this hurts. How it feels to have something dangled in front of you in so tantalizing a manner, and have it yanked away because you were not perfect. Only perfection is rewarded.
And then, there is that person, reaching out to you. Calling out, "Take my hand! I can help you!" And you know they can, because they know how it feels.
If nothing else, misery loves company. It might be nice to lean side-by-side against someone like that, and cry along with them.
Homura will be left with that memory of his pain, and how it was precisely because of that pain that he reached out to her. It will leave her reeling - so much so that Madoka will notice - because she had never, ever thought that anyone else could feel that way.
But Homura has her pride. The sudden realization of what had just happened would shock and appal her. But the impact was still there. And in the days after the Scaglietti Incident, she finds herself looking more and more in his direction.
And Madoka being Madoka, she will not be jealous at all. "Go to him," she'll say. "Learn from him. He never forgot how to love, and neither did you. But you need to see in him how you can grow your life from the ashes of your past."
Homura's name really does mean "Flame". But the second definition of Homura is flames in the context of passion: love, jealousy, and anger. At first she will worry that Benjamin might somehow steal Madoka from her.
"Silly. I might love him... But I could only love him as much as I could love you." And then Madoka will prove that point to her, time and time again.
But then her eyes would turn to Fate and Nanoha... and the flames in her heart will rise, because despite herself, she will become possessive over him. Homura may be a Sun in Leo, but her Lilith is in Libra, her Venus and Mars signs are both in Cancer, and her Eros and Psyche signs are both in Scorpio. When it comes to love, Homura lives up to her name.
And then RWBY and company show up and then shit really starts to get crazy...