#this all boils down to Oriko gets a little sister figure and also a grumpy dog

[asmfic]

I know that Sadness Prayer states that Koito talks to Oriko for the first time after Komaki's death but I'm firmly throwing that out for ASM. I think leaning into Oriko's human connections and the extent to which they clash with her desire for a purpose and her magically-assigned mission is sooo fun.

#Also paralleling Koito and Yuma is fun #I don't get to put much about older Koito into the bad timeline but she is around #but yeah I love the idea of Koito and Komaki both having interacted with Oriko in their own ways #and then canon having Komaki die unintentionally in the path of this mission #in the drive to have a purpose #and Koito becoming a magical girl in the wake of Madoka's death #it's all interesting #but I especially like to lean into them having some kind of existing dynamic for asm #since Komaki lives and now both Asako's are forces in her lives #this all boils down to Oriko gets a little sister figure and also a grumpy dog #authorial rambling