2nd wish: Be careful what you wish for [Written]

[deadlyribbons]

[Mami stares at the page for the longest time. She's been meaning to do this for days but... Even today she's still not sure it's such a good idea but since it's not something she could manage to talk about with her crew, even with Madoka and Homura then...]

I would like to ask all of you here a few questions.

The first one is: If you were given the opportunity to make one wish, one single wish, would it be about yourself or about someone else?

And the second one is: Did you ever regret wishing for something to happen once it had actually become true and it was too late for you to do anything about it?

I undestand those could be seen as very personal questions. So feel free to answer anonymously if you prefer.

Thank you very much in advance for your time.

[She sighs, re-reading what she's just written. Well all what's left for her to do now is wait.]

Comments

[handwritten]

[diamondlight]

I think I... would wish for someone else. [A specific someone else.] I did have the chance to wish for something to happen, and it came true... it made things hard for me, and I'm still wondering if there's a better way to do things. But I'll never regret making that wish.

[handwritten]

[deadlyribbons]

Was the wish you made back then for you then?

Re: [handwritten]

[diamondlight]

No. The wish was... to protect someone else. Someone important to me. So unless that counts, it wasn't for me.

[ written ]

[deathsought]

I would wish simply to have never existed.

As for your second question... I regret ever gaining the amount of power I have. It wasn't worth it. It left the world worse than it was before, and it has inspired humanity not to learn from my mistakes, but to emulate them.

[ written ]

[deadlyribbons]

That's quite the sad wish. And if it hadn't been you but someone else in your place, how do you know they'd have made better life choices?

Maybe you could wish to achieve something that would fix things? Or something that would make your life worth it, to your own eyes at least?

[ written ]

[deathsought]

They wouldn't. Human nature doesn't seem to change, even across dimensional boundaries. The only difference is that immortality has given me the perception needed to see that, era after era, humans make the same mistakes over and over again, never learning from the past.

There is one thing that could save my world... but, I suppose that doesn't matter, here. This isn't my world, after all.

[Voice]

[alwaysgrumpy]

Hm...I guess I'd be selfish with it, personally. Though I don't think anything I ever wished for came true. Figure I've got enough regrets, without that.

[Voice]

[deadlyribbons]

I guess it's an instinctive reaction to think about yourself first. [Or at least, that's what she's trying to persuade herself of.]

Do you have that many regrets about things that happened in your life?

Re: [Voice]

[alwaysgrumpy]

Some people have good lives, some people don't. That's just how it shakes out.

[Voice]

[collagehero]

I think I probably just wouldn't make a wish. And regrets...hm...I guess everybody has some, huh? You just can't let 'em getcha down, that's all!

[Voice]

[deadlyribbons]

You wouldn't, Hajime-san? [She ponders this a moment and nods, before realizing she can't see it.] Well better safe than sorry, they say.

Some regrets are heavier and quicker to pull you under.

[Voice]

[collagehero]

Safe? Hm? I was thinking that it would be easier to just help someone out if they needed help or find someone who could help them if I couldn't. And I wouldn't wish for anything for myself because then I'd know I was getting it and there wouldn't be any surprise.

[written]

[yatagarasu]

That's assuming you can wish for anything, right? Even if it defies physics or raises the dead?

[written]

[deadlyribbons]

I'm not sure about raising the dead per se. But let's say you could probably wish for what caused the death of the person who's dead never to have happened... With all the other possible consequences and side facts it might have on the present as you know it.

[written]

[yatagarasu]

Oh.

[There's a pause before more writing appears. Kay gave that much thought.]

Then I don't think I'd wish for anything like that.

[soundandfurry]

Whoah... that's a tough one...

[deadlyribbons]

...Sorry.

You can choose to answer only part of it if that helps.

[written]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Wow, it's been over a year since Karen has had to think about herself and wishes. Although come to think of it she didn't give it much thought then, either. She just assumed from the beginning that someone else would be doing the wishing.]

At the moment, I think my most likely wish would be for everyone to be back where they belong. But other than that, it's hard to say. I'd like to think I would make some perfectly selfless wish, but everything I can think of would also benefit me somehow, even if it's just in some abstract sense such as peace of mind.

You're regretting something now, I take it?

[written]

[deadlyribbons]

Wishing for everyone to be sent back to there place sounds a lot selfish than wishing for yourself alone to be sent back. And still it's not as selfless as one might think at first. ...Are you sure all the people here actually want to be sent back?

More than one thing, actually. But yes, I am.

[Voice]

[hands4healing]

I don't think I have anything to wish for right now. But when I was younger...it'd be hard. There are people I'd like to make wishes for.

The things I'd want to wish for are pretty impossible, though.

[Voice]

[deadlyribbons]

Impossible? ...Isn't that the point of a 'wish' though? To grant us things we'd have thought impossible to get otherwise.

[voice]

[havesomedeath]

Wow, talk about a tough question! I mean, on the one hand, there's a lot of stuff I'd like to wish for... but on the other, I do like helping people out!

The second question's easy, though: nope! I don't do regrets! It's just a waste of time to feel bad about stuff that happened in the past, if you ask me!

[voice]

[deadlyribbons]

Life is always a matter of choices and priorities.

Even if it's a waste of time, feeling regrets is usually not something one can control.

[Written]

[infinitime_loop]

[ Homura hesitates before putting pen to paper; given the wording, she's not sure if Mami would want her to answer. But her curiosity wins, in the end. Throughout most of those timelines she still remembers, she hasn't had this sort of conversation with Mami before. ]

Before coming here, I never had any reason to think of a second wish.

I would have done some things differently, given the chance, but I do not regret the wish I made.

[ Which is a little ironic, since that was the entire purpose of her wish. ]

[Written]

[deadlyribbons]

[Mami's widen in surprise as she recognizes Homura's handwriting. She didn't expect her of all people to answer this. But she realizes that she's... happy that she did. She brushes her fingers against the page before taking her own pen to write an answer.]

And now you do?

We were all trying to make things right in our own ways, I guess. But those ways... need improvement.

[Mami would do things differently too, given the chance. And she does regret her wish too, for other reasons.]