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Karina Schei

2013-06-08T06:44:24Z

AKAAkira: CO. Probably Mami.

{{Characterbox
|image=
|gender= f
|kanji=
|age= Unknown
|occupation= Army, Active Service
|special= [[Tomoe Mami]]'s bodyguard
|weapon= Axe
|class= Barrier generator
|CO= Tomoe Mami
|mentor=
}}
'''Karina Schei''' is one of Mami's two assigned bodyguards, the other being [[Shen Xiao Long]].

Karina is classically blond and blue-eyed and of likely Norwegian descent. She, like both Mami and Xiao Long, has an impressively large chest, especially for her apparent age. When the three of them are together, the effect is enough to draw stares from those not used to their presence.

Between her and Xiao Long, Karina appears to be the more outgoing and jocular.

Karina’s theme color is green. Her family lives in a colony named, imaginatively enough, Nova Roma.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29744853120/character-post-8-miscellaneous]

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Shen Xiao Long

2013-06-08T06:43:08Z

AKAAkira: Created page with "{{Characterbox |image= |gender= f |kanji= |age= Unknown |occupation= Army, Active Service |special= Tomoe Mami's bodyguard |weapon= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian Ji..."

{{Characterbox
|image=
|gender= f
|kanji=
|age= Unknown
|occupation= Army, Active Service
|special= [[Tomoe Mami]]'s bodyguard
|weapon= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian Jian]
|class= Teleporter
|CO= Tomoe Mami
|mentor=
}}
'''Shen Xiao Long''' is one of Mami's two assigned bodyguards, the other being [[Karina Schei]].

Karina is Chinese-born, from Nanjing. She, like both Mami and Karina, has an impressively large chest, especially for her apparent age. When the three of them are together, the effect is enough to draw stares from those not used to their presence.

Between her and Karina, Xiao Long appears to make statements that are more observational in nature.

Xiao Long’s theme color is black. She is implied to be part of the Shen matriarchy.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29744853120/character-post-8-miscellaneous]

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Karina Schei

2013-06-08T06:33:04Z

AKAAkira: Created page with "{{Characterbox |image= |gender= f |kanji= |age= Unknown |occupation= Army, Active Service |special= Tomoe Mami's bodyguard |weapon= Axe |class= Barrier generator |CO= |..."

{{Characterbox
|image=
|gender= f
|kanji=
|age= Unknown
|occupation= Army, Active Service
|special= [[Tomoe Mami]]'s bodyguard
|weapon= Axe
|class= Barrier generator
|CO=
|mentor=
}}
'''Karina Schei''' is one of Mami's two assigned bodyguards, the other being [[Shen Xiao Long]].

Karina is classically blond and blue-eyed and of likely Norwegian descent. She, like both Mami and [[Shen Xiao Long]], has an impressively large chest, especially for her apparent age. When the three of them are together, the effect is enough to draw stares from those not used to their presence.

Between her and Xiao Long, Karina appears to be the more outgoing and jocular.

Karina’s theme color is green. Her family lives in a colony named, imaginatively enough, Nova Roma.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29744853120/character-post-8-miscellaneous]

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Talk:Shirou Asaka

2013-06-08T06:28:24Z

AKAAkira: Created page with "{{Ch|10}} says no mentor listed currently, though. So Kyouko's a ''former'' mentor? And out of curiosity, doesn't Asaka's bubble count as "barrier generating"? -~~~~"

{{Ch|10}} says no mentor listed currently, though. So Kyouko's a ''former'' mentor?

And out of curiosity, doesn't Asaka's bubble count as "barrier generating"? -[[User:AKAAkira|Akira]] ([[User talk:AKAAkira|talk]]) 23:28, 7 June 2013 (PDT)

Shirou Asaka

2013-06-08T06:25:37Z

AKAAkira:

{{Characterbox
|image=
|gender= f
|kanji= Unknown
|age= Likely 24-34
|occupation= [[Magical Girl]], Active Service<br />(Rank: Brigadier General)
|special= Following instruction from a [[Vision from Madoka|vision]] from [[Kaname Madoka|Madoka]], directed Ryouko towards the [[Ribbon of the Goddess|Ribbon]]
|weapon= Dual Daggers
|class= Misc. Has Teleportation
|CO= Unknown. Distantly, [[Tomoe Mami]].
[[Sakura Kyouko]] (former)
|mentor= Sakura Kyouko (Primary)
}}
'''Shirou Asaka''' is one of the [[Sakura Kyouko|Kyouko]]'s close circle of mentored girls.

==Story==
Until recently, Asaka spent her time with [[Patricia von Rohr]] and [[Kishida Maki]] at the [[Cult of Hope]] Headquarters in [[Mitakihara City]]. After meeting Ryouko, Asaka realized that she had fulfilled the directive she had received from [[Kaname Madoka|Madoka]] in her previous [[Vision from Madoka|vision]], and prepared to return to active combat. As of [[Volume Two]], she is stationed within the city of [[Heliopolis]] on the planet [[Apollo (Planet)|Apollo]], as superior officer of Patricia and Maki, both of whom opted to join her. It took special pleading from Kyouko to [[Tomoe Mami|Mami]] to keep them together.

==Background==
A Brigadier General with a distinguished service record, her career has been on hold ever since she lost her close friend (and strongly implied lover) [[Alice]] in the very battle that won her her most recent promotion, in all likelihood ordering her to her death. A former and current video gamer, she was once a full-time devotee, partly due to social defects on her part, many of which she explicitly rectified with her wish. Later, after the loss of Alice, it is implied that in the depths of her grief she lost herself in full immersion simulations, wiping even her memory of the outside world. It took a vision with Madoka, and a talk with the deceased Alice, for her to reset her bearings. However, on instruction from the Goddess, she waited until for a specific event to happen before returning to combat. [[Shizuki Ryouko]] brought her that event.

==Character==
Asaka is blunt-spoken yet charismatic, often the joker in the room—in a certain sense, similar to Kyouko. Nowadays, she appears to be best friends with Patricia von Rohr, another member of the Kyouko clique and, like Alice, part of her training cohort. They appear to have a standard combative, banter-filled friendship. No hints of possible relationship yet. The two of them are also good friends with Kishida Maki.

==Design==
The current version of Asaka is tall and martial, with braided ponytail and serious demeanor. She holds herself in a firm posture, and has a classically well-shaped figure. It is likely that there were long stretches of her life where she did not look that sober. Her gem is violet and, in is worn on her right forearm in magical girl form. She has teleportation powers, but it is mentioned that her powers are unusual and strange. She wields dual daggers, but often carries standard weaponry into combat; indeed she is a bit of a fan of weaponry in general.

==Distinctions==
*'''Akemi Homura medal''', for saving an as of yet unnamed colony (the medal is received for the "successful resolution of a seemingly hopeless situation")

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29181798072/character-post-7-friends-new-and-old]

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Shizuki Ryouko

2013-06-08T06:17:12Z

AKAAkira:

{{Characterbox
|image=Ryouko.jpg
|gender= f
|kanji= 志筑涼子
|age= 14
|occupation= [[Magical Girl]], Active Service<br />(Rank: First Lieutenant)
|special= Protagonist
|weapon= Arbalest
|class= Teleporter
|CO= [[Tomoe Mami]] (current)
[[Sakura Kyouko]] (previous)
|mentor= Tomoe Mami (Primary)
Sakura Kyouko (Secondary)
}}

'''Shizuki Ryouko''' is the protagonist of [[To the Stars]] and a recently contracted magical girl. Having spent most of her life in [[Mitakihara City]], she has grown weary of [[Earth|Earth's]] [[monoculture]] and hopes to find her place among the stars, whether it be in the colonies, the ongoing war with the [[Cephalopods]], or perhaps something else entirely. Her opportunity to do so finally arrives when she and her friend [[Simona del Mago]] are saved from a demon attack in the nick of time by [[Tomoe Mami]], famous magical girl and a recruiter for the [[Mahou Shoujo Youkai]].

She is notable for her status as the product of both the [[Shizuki Matriarchy|Shizuki]] and [[Kuroi Matriarchy|Kuroi Matriarchies]] (albeit through estranged branches); her tutelage under both Tomoe Mami and [[Sakura Kyouko]], two of the [[Mitakihara Four]]; and her record-breaking teleportation range of approximately 200 kilometers.

Although she considers herself rational to the point of cynicism, especially with regard to the military and [[Governance]], she can at times be denser than the average harem lead. She has also some minor self-esteem issues stemming from her body image.

==Appearance==
For some reason everyone thinks her hair and eyes are green. I have no objections to that. Her hair is long and wavy (think Hitomi’s hair) but a bit more tentacular (if that makes sense). Remember, the hair is mildly self-mobile (and has a drone hanging off of it).

Her face resembles Hitomi (never said explicitly), but slightly sharper-edged, since instead of wearing that 24/7 ojou-sama look, she has a constant serious look to her. It also appears more childish than Hitomi (think Madoka, for example).

As for her figure, she’s short and flat-chested, but otherwise quite physically fit (with implants, this just sort of automatically happens). Casual clothing wise, she favors the kind of things you saw at the party (white dress, modest shirt top), with maybe pants if she’s not feeling too formal. Costume wise, it’s green, it’s frilly, and it has buttons. It resembles Madoka’s, actually, if you read the description, though it’s not quite as girlish. Dress is a lot less poofy and more practical, among other things. Soul gem is five-pointed star at base of neck. When not transformed, five-pointed star on the appropriate finger (middle finger of left hand, if episode 5 is to be believed). Of course, her weapon is an arbalest mounted on one arm, and she is a teleporter.

(The green of her costume matches the green of the aliens quite well.)

==Personality==
The protagonist Shizuki Ryouko is by all appearances an ordinary girl. Shorter than average, she is constantly worried that her schoolmates don’t take her seriously, and she has consequently learned to conceal whatever girlish tendencies she may have under a cynical outer layer.This is reflective of an overall tendency to worry about her insignificance in the grand scheme of things, and the desire to prove herself. She is frustrated by the seeming banality of life on Earth, and wishes to travel the universe, where she can have meaningful adventures, like her childhood hero Clarisse van Rossum.

More emotional than she admits, she tries to be as rational whenever possible, with mixed success. She is, however, a thoughtful protagonist. When she is engaged, she is unusually focused, to the point of having tunnel vision. When she is unengaged, a part of her is always drifting far away, causing her to pay suboptimal attention to her surroundings. She has little interest in romance, simply because it doesn’t fall into her current set of goals.

In acute crises, she is unlikely to go into hysterics, and indeed may seem level-headed or even cold; this is not indicative of lack of empathy, but simply a core practicality, even in the most extreme cases. In some cases, she can be shockingly blunt-spoken. It is only when her worldview is shaken that she is truly bothered, but she is extremely resilient. These are excellent qualities for a magical girl.

==Distinctions==
*'''Chitose Yuma Medal''', for leadership during the raid on ''HSS Pierre-Simon Laplace'' (the medal was earned "for Combat Leadership Exceeding Expectations of Age and Training Level")

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28298218141/character-post-1-shizuki-ryouko]
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/34126552127/how-would-you-describe-ryoukos-personality-to-someone]

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Nakajima Emiri

2013-06-08T05:40:42Z

AKAAkira:

{{Characterbox
|image=
|gender= f
|kanji=
|age= >230
|occupation= Unknown (current)<br>Leader of local demon-hunting team (previous, early 24<sup>th</sup> century)
|special= None
|weapon=
|class=
|CO=
|mentor=
}}
'''Nakajima Emiri''' was the leader of the team to which first [[Kuroi Nakase]], then [[Kuroi Nana]], had been originally assigned to. Her theme color is yellow.

Emiri was shown to be laconic seeming most of the time, and listless when she had nothing to do, but still containing the spine of steel common to most of the truly old. She appears to to favor textbook approaches. Emiri was described as a "career demon hunter" and she seems to be proud of it.

Being at least a century old, living through at least a part of the [[Unification Wars]] (during which it is implied she lost a lover), Emiri was the oldest of her group during its time. She was decidedly self-conscious and defensive about this fact, which "drove estimates of it sky-high". She is not, however, quite old enough to let go of a slight hero-worship [[Akemi Homura]], and likely the other [[MSY Founder]]s as well.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29744853120/character-post-8-miscellaneous]

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Mahou Shoujo Youkai

2013-05-07T01:38:23Z

AKAAkira:

The MSY (Mahou Shoujo Youkai, 魔法少女ようかい, usually referred to as the MSY or Union in Standard) is the overarching magical girl organization of TtS, encompassing under its auspices every magical girl alive. In the past, this was compulsory as a matter of practicality—though it was required under MSY law—but now it is a legal requirement and assumption under Governance.

((A separate section on the breakdown and responsibilities of the contemporary MSY, along with known officials, is probably desirable.))

==History==
===Founding===
The MSY was founded in 2021, at a meeting of representatives from six teams encompassing the Mitakihara metropolitan area, the brainchild of the famous [[Mitakihara Four]]. It followed an extensive series of friendship meetings, social gatherings, and group hunts designed to bolster mutual trust. These ~24 girls, collectively considered the MSY's founders, had previously been forced to cooperate in order to counter the depredations of the Southern Group, and were thus on very good terms, facilitating the idea of a mutual aid group.

While the original MSY did have some ambitions for expansion, as evident from the name and the grandiose act of penning a Charter, the scope of the group's initial intentions were limited. As originally delineated in the Charter, the MSY was merely an agreed-upon framework for the fulfillment of five founding mandates:

# The elimination of grief cube shortages, by the formation of a collectively managed grief cube "insurance pool", designed to mitigate fluctuations in harvesting and need for any particular team. Each team was expected to contribute a certain percentage of their takings or a certain minimum, whichever was higher, and could not withdraw more than a certain amount per month. Deviations from these rules, in the case of extenuating circumstances, could be accepted with collective consent.
# Provide for the airing out and resolution of misunderstandings and disagreements.
# Providing mutual aid, in the case of external threats or in dangerous circumstances.
# Smooth out differences in non-magical resources between groups, and attempt to acquire [[Mitakihara Delivery Service|a source of steady income]]. It was recognized that the health of each team was in some degree dependent on that of others, and that some of the wealthier members could easily provide for everyone with the use of only a minimal amount of their resources.
# Allowing for the "borrowing" and "lending" of team members between city regions, to optimize team structures, as long as the borrowing team undertook to provide housing, training, etc. For instance, in the provision of healers to teams with no healers.

The original Charter provided for decision-making by informal meetings of teams, who would meet at least once every three months, and more if necessary. Formally, a majority was required for decisions, as well the agreement of at least one member of each team. A quorum was required of at least one member of each team. Informally, most decisions in the early days were made by effective unanimous consent. The unusually formalized and written structure of the Charter reflected both the beliefs of the famous [[Akemi Homura]] and the advice of the [[Incubators]] (via [[Kyubey]]), who had seen the rise and fall of many similar organizations.

It was intended that while the Charter could be extended to an indefinitely large area, it would only provide a framework for local cooperation, with the wider prefectural or (unimaginably) national level connections being used primarily to facilitate easy travel.

===Early Expansion===
The MSY succeeded beyond the expectations of both its organizers and the Incubators, driven by a combination of unexpectedly large grief cube surpluses and the overwhelming success of the rebranded [[D&E Corporation]]. The consequent more relaxed hunting schedule and relative opulence, with team members free to dine in expensive restaurants and dabble in personal careers (and even more unthinkably, outside relationships), attracted regional envy and "border" groups hurried to join. By the end of the first decade, decision-making with the full membership had become unwieldy, and the decision was made to fragment into local organizational groups, and Charterize a Leadership Committee (2031), formed out of prominent girls within the organization. While ultimate authority would still lie with the full membership, of whom a meeting could be called at any time, the Leadership Committee would be responsible for day-to-day decision-making.

This was also desirable because of a slow expansion of the organization's mandate. With the expansion of the MSY's financial resources and the lengthening lifespans of its members, the organization found itself expected to help with things like bribing local police, paying college tuition, providing plausible excuses to parents, providing medical and psychological care, hiding girls with missing limbs, and so forth. This entailed an increasing number of specialists, including non-contracted humans, deployed in more and more complex ways. Nearly all of this would eventually cement into a formal bureaucracy.

The first and perhaps most notable of these child organizations to emerge was the [[Soul Guard]] (2043). Headed by the founder [[Tomoe Mami]], the Soul Guard began as a single team and grew into a full police force, and was designed to be the explicit fulfillment of part 3 of the original charter, suppressing insane girls, providing fire support, acting as response force to complaints of charter violation, and, occasionally, meting out approved revenge on behalf of organization members. All of these functions had been previously carried out haphazardly, with only an uneven record of success, and it was an embarrassing streak of unnecessary deaths caused by insane girls that prompted the Soul Guard's formation, though ironically this role became less important with the rise of the [[MHD]] and the MSY's increasing oversight of new recruits.

Hand in hand with the Soul Guard came the enshrinement of a legal system (2044), replacing mob punishment of "soul criminals" with formal trials, with a tribunal (two random members, one Soul Guard judge, at least two telepaths) for questions of guilt, a jury for decisions on punishment, and an executive panel for questions of interpretation of the increasingly convoluted "Law", at the time a confusing mixture of Charter amendments, Leadership Committee Decrees, and common practice.

It is to this period that historians date the MSY's institutionalization as a true government, with its seizure of the critical state monopoly on violence.

After the formation of the Soul Guard, with its legitimization of formal MSY sub-organizations (the Charter modified to explicitly give the Leadership Committe the right to make such organizations), there was a ballooning of the number of executive committees and organizations, with, for example, the MHD (2053) created to tackle the thorny issue of mental health (all-important to magical girls), the rehabilitation of insane girls and criminals, and, incidentally, the provision of health care when the normal hospital wasn't a choice.

===Japanese Consolidation===
Dating the end of this second phase remains controversial, since the date on which the MSY absorbed the last Japanese holdouts (2085) considerably postdates the establishment of the first MSY overseas outpost (2068). Nonetheless, the period 2050-2075 clearly represented a considerable slowdown in MSY growth, as the organization stalled on the coasts of Japan and struggled to digest its new responsibilities and powers.

It was a period of consolidation and organizational maturation, as the MSY refined its techniques and bureaucracies at all levels. From an institutional standpoint, the most notable milestone was a major rewrite of the Charter in 2059, establishing a common law legal code, placing legislative powers in a newly-formed Rules Committee, formalizing voting and representation procedures for top offices, setting the structure of the Leadership Committee, and giving an explicit procedure for Charter amendment. Though in some sense the Charter had been a constitution for a long time, this was first time it began to resemble the other democratic constitutions then prevailing in the world.

This period was also the period in which MSY corporations began to represent a significant portion of the Japanese economy, and in which MSY infiltration of the Japanese government began to spread upward into the Diet and Cabinet. The MSY saw its first "second-generation" magical girls, inaugurating the [[Matriarchy|Matriarchies]] that would come to dominate internal politics over the coming centuries.

It was also in this period that the MSY, tired of the mob's outrageous crimes—especially its exploitation of teenage girls and women—and the nonstop jostling between the two organizations in the underworld they both inhabited, finally decapitated the Yakuza in a series of Soul Guard operations in 2055, installing its own bureaucrats at the top. From here on out, the Japanese Mafia would become a bound mastiff, abandoning most of its criminal enterprises and serving as an instrument of MSY policy.

By 2075, the MSY had become a dominant force in Japan, influencing its economy, controlling its criminal underworld, and helping to direct government policy, all from the safety of the shadows. It was only fitting that it would then turn its eyes outward.

===Nationalism and Profits===

It was the singular misfortune of the MSY that it was formed initially in Japan, a country which was, even in the late 21st century, still roundly despised throughout Asia for its actions in the Second World War. Though some historians argue that the delay in further expansion imposed on the MSY by this fact was actually an advantage, forcing consolidation and streamlining before possibly overstretching, this argument seems too convoluted to be valid. In any case, it is an ironic fact that the MSY's initial expansion out of Japan was far more successful in relatively distant locations such as Hawaii, Australia, and the American West Coast, than in more proximate locations in China, Korea, or the Philippines.

It is perhaps unsurprising that the original instinct of the organization was to restrict itself to the shore of Japan. As already mentioned, Asia was hardly a welcoming place for a Japanese-headed organization, and the logistical challenges of expanding to a geographically and culturally distinct region seemed daunting, particularly when it came to issues of control and representation. To inhabitants of the time period, it seemed unfathomable that, for example, South Korean magical girls would ever voluntarily enter an organization with a Japanese name, and to most MSY members, it seemed a wasted effort to even try.

There were two countervailing factors that eventually proved overriding. The first, and more minor, was the opinion of prominent founders such as Akemi Homura, [[Chitose Yuma]], [[Kuroi Kana]], and other cosmopolitan members of the leadership, as well as that of the Incubators themselves. While this was an important factor, it would likely have been insufficient to override the parochialism of most of the membership, much of whom had imbibed the xenophobia of their home nation. Indeed, this xenophobia was powerful enough that the leadership was forced to accede to major political concessions in the landmark Charter of 2059, to prevent a major grassroots Nationalist faction from sabotaging passage.

Most notable among these concessions was the institution of a form of contracting location-based citizenship, in which the leaderships' language officially incorporating all magical girls contracted within the borders of Japan was worded so as not to include anyone else—with a grudging exception made for foreign members already admitted. Both the Nationalist faction and the Charter language would prove significant thorns in later MSY operations.

The second, and more important factor, was business interest. [[MSY Finance]], always greedy for more profits, frothed at the bit for commercial expansion, and was not easily denied by a membership whose incomes heavy depended on said organization. Yet attempts throughout the 2040s and early 50s to replicate the success of MSY corporations abroad were hampered by a lack of MSY organizational support—the teleporters and other personnel that were often relied upon could not easily operate in foreign territories—and it was soon became clear that the success of MSY corporations internationally was to a certain degree contingent on the presence of the organization as a whole.

Because of this, informal arrangements were quickly made with local magical girls throughout the sectors of MSY expansion, both overseas and in East Asia. Local magical girls were paid in both currency and grief cubes to tolerate the presence and operations of foreign magical girls and, in the regions where it proved necessary, efforts were made to recruit "local faces" to dampen down possible outbreaks of nationalist sentiment. However, because of reservations within an organization still uncommitted to expansion, formal membership was rarely offered, and after the Charter of 2059, completely impossible, preventing foreigners from assuming any MSY offices or any of the other vestiges of membership.

It soon became clear that these kind of informal arrangements were unsustainable in the long-run. Except for a few unusual examples, such as Singapore, corporate expansion in East Asia rapidly bogged down; the presence of a few paid local faces proved insufficient to engender trust, causing numerous incidents, and MSY executives repeatedly failed to understand the local market, due to both differences in cultural background and their own prejudices. Local nationalists grumbled that the whole setup smacked of colonialism—a charge which could not be easily dismissed—while the Nationalist faction grumbled at the amount of money and grief cubes that were being disbursed for little seeming purpose.

Success overseas came more easily, but this was a double-edged sword. Relations between MSY corporations and local magical girls were far more cordial, and as a consequence overseas offices became more and more heavily staffed by locals. While this went a long way toward promoting financial success, tensions soon emerged at the unnatural arrangement. Ambitious employees were frustrated at being locked out of upper-tier positions and, as MSY operations expanded in scope, local magical girl teams—who contributed significantly to these operations—began to complain about their lack of input into decision-making. True, they were paid, but initially not any better than local Japanese. They were merely employees, and increases in payments designed to ameliorate their complaints triggered political backlash from the home islands, who could not easily understand why foreigners were being given more money than they were.

Within the membership, too, opinions were shifting. Aging of the overall magical girl population, coupled with an increase in education and income levels, as well as an increase in foreign travel among the once firmly-rooted community, combined to foster a growing sense of cosmopolitanism within the voting population. The increasing power of an unifying internal media, communication, and political system, now increasingly adept at circumventing the limitations of secrecy, lessened the once-fierce devotion of the MGs to their home territories, and gave the leadership a valuable ability to project its opinions to its constituents. It was a form of demographics, providing long-term trends that would eventually counter the impressive organizing skill of the Nationalists.

While the Nationalist faction was a fierce vocal minority, the 2059 Charter represented the apogee of its influence. Ironically, Nationalist success carried the seeds of later failure, exposing rifts and contradictions that were repeatedly highlighted by the leadership and media. After 2059, Nationalist support rapidly contracted; it had overreached significantly, making 2059 a Pyrrhic victory.

The leadership soon began feeling comfortable enough to push forward referendums to not only strip ethnocentric language from the Charter—essentially reversing its concessions to the Nationalists—but also include an expansion protocol to formally absorb the hodge-podge of administrative regions, whose vastly differing policies and management schemes fostered confusion and mutual resentment.

In the late 2050s and early 2060s, a series of such referendums repeatedly failed to pass, but accrued greater and greater support with each vote. Longitudinal demographic trends suggested that passage was inevitable, but events were spurred considerably by the Triad incidents of 2063–65. Triad bosses, having gotten wind of the connection of MSY corporations to the Japanese Yakuza, resented what they viewed as an aggressive incursion into their turf, and began attempting to assert their authority, committing arson, kidnapping [[TNC]]s, and generally performing acts of intimidation. The situation was aggravated by the MSY's refusal to agree to settlement talks with an organization they viewed with as much disgust as they had once viewed the Yakuza.

Though no incidents of soul gem loss occurred, several high-profile injuries were amplified within the MSY's internal media, setting nerves on edge. Finally, in 2065, MSY leadership finally approved a targeted takeover operation which, while successful, only served to heighten local contradictions, as the MSY was once again forced to install "local faces", but in this case in positions of considerable power. The sense rapidly began to spread that the MSY was now inextricably tangled within the morass of the Chinese mainland and that, as long as this was true, the organization might as well devote itself to the issue whole-heartedly, with a well-executed plan.

Bolstered by an accompanying set of carefully couched humanitarian arguments, the so-called "Expansion Protocol" finally achieved majority support in 2067, and, despite considerable bitterness from the Nationalist faction, the leadership wasted little time in implementation, unveiling the first pilot expansion—into ethnic Japanese-heavy Hawaii—just one year later. Resounding success was followed by a cascade of expansion projects in the Asian-heavy US West Coast, New Zealand, Australia, and to a lesser degree in China and East Asia—successfully overcoming nationalist feelings and accusations of colonialism was a difficult task, even if Triad suppression produced a modicum of good feeling.

The revised Charter of 2067 permitted a level of federalization previously unthinkable within the MSY legal structure. Concerns about control were ameliorated by permitting a balkanization of legal codes, judicial practices, and Soul Guard control, allowing local members near-independence in managing their own affairs. The Charter's region-based representation, originally adopted because of team loyalty to their own cities, served the organization extremely well here, allowing local MSY branches to create and sustain substantively local organizations, with only corporate affairs and the inflow and outflow of money remaining firmly under central control.

The Charter of 2067, though far-sighted, could not address everything and, in at least one important way, sowed the seeds of future conflict: the splintering of central authority, while in many ways admirably democratic, meant that the organization would have trouble responding to events that required unified action.

The leadership, including newly formed MSY Recruitment and Diplomacy, under Tomoe Mami, was generous and conciliatory, but significant portions of the MSY political landscape were far less so, including the still-vocal but increasingly outnumbered Nationalists. This served as a portent of things to come.

===Manifest Destiny===
Flush off a string of interventionist successes and confident in the newly created Black Heart, a new mindset began to take hold with the MSY, both within the leadership and rank-and-file. This mindset held that further MSY expansion was not merely a matter of practicality, but one of morality. The MSY, political orators began to assert, had a moral mandate to spread its auspices to every magical girl in existence, and to therefore bring an end to the tragic old era everywhere. Moreover, as the MSY had proven its presence to be a positive good wherever it went, it had both the power and the right to intervene wherever and whenever it felt that local authorities were failing its local magical girls. Because of the natural affinity each girl felt for their home area, and because local conditions determined the childhoods of future members, the organization could justify interventions that little direct effect on its members, even in the minds of its less humanitarianly-inclined voters.

This attitude took root and spread rapidly within the organization as it went from success to success. The MSY's unofficial borders pushed outward, spreading eastward and southward in the new world, and westward and northward in the old. Geographic and political barriers proved a frequent impediment, but were routinely circumvented by leapfrogging into urban commercial centers with the powerful instrument of MSY corporations and money. Indeed, as expansion gathered steam, voluntary requests for MSY incorporation became more and more common, especially from "Neutral" magical girl trading grounds, which were often coincident with major commercial centers.

These special territories, usually administered by cabals of pragmatic merchants, had often survived for centuries or more as hubs of underground trade, exchanging both grief cubes and currency for a variety of goods and services, and many had acquired an air of timelessness and respect within their regions. Thus, when they knuckled under to the MSY, enticed by the combination of exceptional profits and the opportunity to "finally stop paying those damn mercs" for protection and law enforcement, it lent the MSY a valuable a sense of both legitimacy and historical inevitability.

By the beginning of the twenty-second century, after a few decades of breakneck expansion, the MSY had grown to encompass the majority of the globe, with outposts stretching over most of North America, parts of South America, much of the Pacific Rim, most of Asia and the Middle East, and parts of Europe and Africa. Much of what remained was territory that was naturally hard to access, suffering from lack of infrastructure, lack of connection to global trade, or simply a lack of the dense urban areas where the MSY's policies were most efficacious. These would prove a tough nut to crack, but by then the MSY had plenty of resources to invest, or outright spend, in solving the "problem".

Indeed, most of the rural territories nominally inside MSY borders still persisted in independence. These were territories distant from MSY influence, whose sparse demon hordes and economic assets made them both much less attractive for MSY planners and much more difficult to properly absorb. MSY leadership was, however, confident that rural areas would eventually follow the example of their slow-assimilating Japanese analogs—as they eventually did.

Neither of these sets of territories proved a fundamental impediment to MSY expansion. Rather, the MSY was the victim of its own success. Word of the MSY phenomenon had spread rapidly outward, and copycat organizations had sprung up throughout the developed or partially developed regions where the MSY had yet to penetrate. Many of these had a distinctly national or regional flavor to them, and were often fiercely independent, refusing to listen to appeals to solidarity, or to economies of scale, or to financial considerations. Examples included blocs that formed in Argentina, Egypt, and the southern United States.

Still, as long as the MSY had the economic power of its constituent international corporations, it could always truthfully say that it provided a standard of living higher than that offered by any of these minor blocs. It could afford to peel away at these blocs territory by territory and team by team with the allure of financial incentives. It was a slow process, but it would likely have worked eventually.

The true threat to MSY supremacy came from the powerful European bloc which, in an appeal to historical nostalgia, was called the [[Système Magique Cordial]]. Based in the highly developed EU economy, drawing on a long tradition of magical girl organization, and owner of its own set of wealthy corporations, the SMC was a worthy foe to the MSY, and offered the organization its first true gut check.

How dedicated was the MSY to its programme of global dominance anyway? The SMC was prosperous, well-run, and stable. Unlike many of the MSY's other competitors, it deprived the organization of its most powerful moral rallying cry. If the MSY was truly dedicated solely to improvement of the lot of magical girls, there was no reason the two organizations could not live side-by-side, as SMC orators and diplomats constantly pointed out. What, then, did the MSY truly want?

The brief, roughly twenty-five year history of MSY-SMC relations is convoluted, multifaceted, and murky. MSY voting populations were torn between a desire to avoid conflict and a deep hunger for symbolic unification, reflected in editorial and political appeals to ""Manifest Destiny", a phrase borrowed directly from the expansion history of the United States, and which either accidentally or deliberately recalled the events leading up to the Mexican-American War. Complicating the situation were the differing opinions of the MSY's constituent populations, with many viewing their former colonial oppressors as arrogant and selfish, while more Europhilic populations sympathized with the SMC's position.

Meanwhile, MSY leadership alternated between fire-breathing appeals for hostile takeover and conciliatory pleas to abstain from radical action, often from the same person in the same week. The senior leadership, embodied in the Mitakihara Four and other founding teams, remained mostly poker-faced. Notable exceptions included the conciliatory Chief Diplomat Tomoe Mami and the fire-breathing Shizuki Sayaka, Director of a MSY Finance rabidly angry at an organization that embodied many of its chief competitors.

Regardless of the complicated internal dynamics of both the MSY and SMC, the fact remains that in the last decade of the SMC's existence, the two organizations finally descended into a bitter cold war, with both sides engaging in brinksmanship-style diplomacy, deploying their by-now extensive covert operations groups, pulling strings with their host governments, and engaging in brutal corporate warfare. The 2120s were marked by a historically anomalous deterioration of the Eurozone's relations with the rest of the world, and was attended by a recession that was severe even by the standards of an already recession-plagued world. In retrospect, this seems hardly a coincidence.

The history of the era will likely be forever clouded, given the MSY's absolute refusal to discuss the matter, including the alleged questionable deaths that occurred on both sides, an eternal favorite of internal conspiracy theorists. In 2126, the SMC agreed to a merger, in exchange for lucrative special concessions and considerations, which would only be wiped out during the turmoil of the Unification Wars half a century later.

The legacy of the MSY Unification period can still be seen in cultural and organizational quirks within the MSY, such as the preponderance of Black Heart agents who first train in Paris—an echo of the SMC's formidable covert ops groups—or the number of MSY-sponsored biological labs in Argentina. In 2126, the MSY finally achieved its treasured Manifest Destiny, but it would have almost no time to savor it.

===Calm Before the Storm===

By the middle of the twenty-second century, the MSY was one of the world's most economically secure organizations. With holding companies planted in strategic sectors and massive investment and hedge funds posted to exploit the peaks and troughs of both global and regional economies, the MSY's cash flows grew prodigiously year after year. No longer seeing any meaningful reason to skimp, the organization's cash disbursements to its membership grew more and more substantial. The MSY's automated industries and computerized trading algorithms ensured an almost automatic flow of wealth into its bank accounts, and its tremendous wealth essentially guaranteed a (indirect, inexplicit) seat at the table of power, even without considering the Soul Guard, Black Heart, and Governmental Affairs agents posted throughout the world's governments

While it would have been impossible for the organization to make its members trillionaires or even billionaires on a per capita basis, collectively the trend was clear: the MSY had elevated many of its members into the [[hyperclass]], and maintained the rest of its membership at a level significantly above the rest of the populace.

The years 2126-2160 were, for the MSY, a materialist golden age. The MSY's members were effective capital owners during the years when it most mattered. Many Magical girl teams situated themselves in opulent mansions, held extravagant parties, and flaunted their wealth in a manner almost indistinguishable from their more normal hyperclass peers,.

The leadership, more stoic, wiser, and more politically attuned, watched this, and worried.

With [[Vladimir Volokhov]]'s 2136 unraveling of the principles of AI, the dam finally broke on over a century of economic trends. Steadily rising structural unemployment and slow concentration of wealth became instead soaring unemployment and exponential concentration of wealth. With the advent of cheap, easily programmable artificial intelligence, the world's industries no longer had a true need for human labor, and relentless cost-cutting left greater and greater proportions of the population out in the streets.

The paradox of plenty had truly arrived. Factories were more productive than ever, but even at the lowest prices, the only clients with money were the increasingly opulent capital owners, the hyperclasses the newly emergent economic class that would come to define the following century. Economic production stagnated, even as potential production skyrocketed.

Government responses were mixed. Almost universally, the world's government's, nominally democratic or not, had degenerated into instruments of their oligarchical hyperclasses. Nations where the hyperclasses sympathized with the masses handed out basic incomes to keep them solvent. Those that didn't handed out pittances or, often, nothing, content to rely on increasingly brutal oppression.

As the rank-and-file of the MSY isolated themselves deeper and deeper into cocoons of wealth, their cultural connections with the people they nominally served frayed, and increasing portions of the membership began to display attitudes similar to that of their crueler hyperclass peers, evincing contempt for the "handout-seeking layabouts" that now constituted most of the population. This growing strain of belief coalesced with pre-existing legitimate concerns about MSY intervention and a growing sense of superiority within the immortal, superpowered population to form the [[Mages First movement]], an unofficial political movement seeking to end the MSY's significant—and expensive—humanitarian and anti-poverty intervention operations.

The MSY, as powerful as it was, could not afford to save the world, the movement argued, and the world hard deserved it anyway. As for those girls unfortunate enough to have contracted in poverty or in poorer nations, it would be significantly easier to move the girl into wealth, rather than trying to bring wealth to the area around her.

These arguments horrified the leadership, the older girls, and the poor new girls in question, who tried to exert whatever influence they had to resist any retractions in the MSY's operating mandate. However, the MSY's decentralized, federal, and democratic structure, so valuable an asset during expansion, now proved an obstacle. While the MSY leadership was able to apply substantial political pressure to influence attitudes in its traditional power centers and homelands: Japan, China, Western Europe, and the US West Coast, the state of MSY operations in the world's remaining regions depended heavily on local culture, the attitudes of the local hyperclass, and, to a significant degree, pure chance. In many regions of the world, MSY charities withdrew, MSY pressure on the government lessened, and economic manipulation ended. Only the centrally-directed Black Heart remained engaged.

The loss of these MSY interventions both precipitated and were caused by the form of social collapse emblematic of the Unification War era: [[Hyperclass Detachment]].

The hyperclass, isolated and insulated by their wealth, faced by cognitive dissonance between their greed and their natural empathy with the lower classes, often constructed elaborate moral theories purporting to demonstrate that they were there because they were morally superior and, conversely, that the lower classes were in their positions because they were morally inferior. Such an attitude was a global phenomenon, but it was only in a certain proportion of nations that it was able to mutate into true Detachment, with the hyperclass extending their beliefs to include the proposition that it was ''morally correct'' for the lower classes to be kept down, that it was ''morally incorrect'' to hand out relief food or money, and so forth. These kinds of beliefs mutated into endless variety, to a degree wearingly and horrifyingly familiar to any historian of the age.

Eventually, the world's nations, defined by their hyperclasses, began to sort into two groups. The nations where the hyperclasses detached in this manner faded from central-MSY influence and began to back each other in international disputes. Similarly, the nations where the hyperclasses held onto their moral compasses, implementing relief and welfare programs—though never giving up their hold on power—began to form a second visible power bloc and, invisibly, began to consolidate under the control of the central MSY leadership, due to a combination of Mitakihara's desire to exert control and increasing factionalism within the MSY itself. This second faction grew increasingly disturbed and repelled by the actions of the first, and began to strive to destabilize the governments of the first, achieving some measure of success—but not enough.

The world was crumbling, but the MSY was too disunified to do anything.

===Unification Wars===

Events came to a head in the late 2150s, when a series of open revolts in the nations with the most draconian policies were ruthlessly crushed. These crushings were followed a wave of crackdowns in the "Detached" nations, involving mass executions, use of military force, and, often, the disassembly of whatever remained of democratic governance.

While an effort was initially made to prevent leakage of information about the events, this proved an essentially impossible, as the media and internet combined to relay images to the world. Further revelations arrived with the appearance of a completely new phenomenon: [[refugee AIs]], programmed in the friendly Volokhov fashion, who had been so horrified by events that they managed to override their programming restraints and escape. These often possessed enormous, horrifying insight into the operations of their former nations, and they were usually all too willing to talk.

These events and revelations shattered an already tottering international order. The last meeting of the UN General Assembly, in 2160, collapsed entirely when the delegates of the non-detached faction walked out in protest at the organizations inability to take meaningful action against abuses. The remaining delegates dissolved the organization and formed their own international organization, the appropriate Orwellian [[Freedom Alliance]]. This was followed, a week later, by the formation of its nemesis, the [[United Front]], as the few remaining neutral nations (including the powerful United States and European Union) fell into internal strife and chaos.

This turmoil did not exclude the MSY. Unlike the outside world, the majority of the organization was solidly United Front oriented, reflecting the opinions of leadership, new girls, and, to a large degree, the fundamental nature of magical girls. Even the majority of the non-interventionist Mages First faction fell into this category, after witnessing the abuses of the FA nations.

But it was, perhaps, too late. Whereas concerted MSY action earlier might have prevented the slide into crisis, the choices now were far more dire.

As the atrocities increased, national armies were mobilized, and local wars began to break out, the MSY's power structures agonized and strains, divided between those who wanted the clarity of open war, those who argued that war would be too big a catastrophe, those who feared the ramification war would have on their own, comfortable lives, and the still remaining splinter faction that sympathized with the FA. The Incubators added their own input to the situation, warning direly that Humanity was at substantial risk of a "low-productivity, low-utility" end-state, and even offering direct intervention, if requested (this was refused).

The MSY's influence on governments strained to hold back war, but it was no longer clear this was possible.

Events crystallized in 2163, with the revelation of the so-called [[St. Petersburg atrocity]]. The local hyperclasses had resolved to do the unfathomable: annihilate an entire segment of the city's population for anti-governmental behavior. While the world was shocked by this, the MSY was further shocked by a subsidiary revelation—that a substantial number of newly contracted girls were dead in the event, not from an accident as originally believed, but due to the deliberate betrayal of members of the MSY's FA-sympathizing faction.

In an unprecedented action, a full meeting of the MSY's membership was called, and the overwhelming majority of the membership voted to override the Charter and pass down an ultimatum: the members of the FA-sympathizing faction would immediately move themselves to secure UF locations and submit to monitoring, or they would make themselves eligible for immediate capture and possible summary termination, based on criteria to be determined later.

Most such members refused, staying put. After that, the MSY voted to change its policy from suppression of war to active pursuit of war. War followed shortly thereafter, though it can be easily argued that no help was needed in this regard.

The military history of the Unification Wars is long and well-known, the MSY's involvement less so. At the first official movement of alliance against alliance, and even before, the MSY exerted whatever resources it safely could in pursuit of UF victory, massively expanding its Black Heart agent network, performing civil defense duties, and deploying special combat teams, designed to covertly accompany and support UF forces without being noticed. It was this experience that the MSY would later draw on for its initial encounters with the [[Cephalopods]].

Eventually, agonizingly, and cataclysmically, the FA collapsed under weight of its economic inferiority, its own ideologies rendering it incapable of effectively mobilizing its populations, or even preventing its populations from being co-opted by the other side.

As the FA fell to pieces, MSY teams combed the ruins, hunting for their former brethren.

===The Long Peace===

The immediate post-war period was as difficult for the MSY as it was for the world as a whole. Much, indeed most, of the MSY's wealth and external power had been felled in the war, or would be dismantled afterward in the EDC and Governance's reorganizations of society. While the MSY had significant influence within the new government, even successfully placing one of Chitose Yuma's numerous aliases on the EDC, and manipulating the EDC into adopting numerous recommendations gleaned from the Incubators, it nonetheless found it difficult to adapt its operations to Governance's plans for a significantly expanded surveillance state, and significant fewer sources of private wealth. While post-war MSY members experienced a higher standard of living compared to that within the war itself, they experience a drastic dropoff when compared to the pre-war period. While the MSY would eventually successfully reorganize, it would never quite recover the level opulence relative to the masses it had once enjoyed.

When it became clear that Governance was governing effectively, the MSY leadership, and the organization itself, settled in fro the long-term, hopeful that they had finally accomplished what they set out to achieve, and that they could look forward to indefinite growth and prosperity.

==Organization & Charter==
===Original Charter===
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'''Statement of Purpose'''

Up until now, the magical girl system has been a tragedy of massive proportions. The dreams of teenage girls become a nightmare of fear, conflict, deprivation and death. This is the result of a failure of organization and cooperation, not intrinsic to the system itself. The participating teams of Mitakihara City hereby undertake to build an organization, the ''Mahou Shoujo Youkai'', capable of fostering the cooperation and organization necessary to end the unnecessary pain.

The MSY is founded as a mutual aid group, with five primary mandates:

The elimination of grief cube shortages in any one time by the establishment of a grief cube pool

The provision of a forum for the airing out, resolution, and arbitration of misunderstandings and disagreements

The provision of effective countermeasures in the event of serious external threats or dangerous circumstances

The distribution of non-magical resources such as money in a manner beneficial to the group as a whole

The distribution of team members, particularly newly contracted girls, in an optimal manner

'''Article I-Fundamental Organization'''

''1: Global Meeting''

Major decisions shall be made at a General Meeting, held at least once every three months, but more frequently whenever necessary. This Meeting shall have the power to issue exceptions to every part of this Charter, and may amend whenever felt necessary. At least one member of every member team must be present to constitute a quorum, and decisions require an absolute majority of present members, as well as the agreement of at least one member of each team, with the exception of certain sanctionary actions mentioned below, for which the quorum requirement may be relaxed to as little as one member per each of half the existing teams. This may be done, for instance, for failure to attend the Meeting.

Chairmanship and Hosting of the next Meeting will be decided at the previous meeting. The hosting team will organize and chair the session, charging any direct costs to the General Fund. Any member team may request an early Meeting at any time.

''2: General Fund''

Two joint Treasurers from different teams shall be assigned to manage a General Fund, which shall be used to finance organizational activity, as well as provide reimbursements when practicable. The Treasurers shall provide a description of organizational finances at every General Meeting, and may be replaced by the Meeting whenever desired.

The founding teams commit to providing at least twenty thousand Japanese Yen (¥20,000) per member to initialize the Fund. Subsequently, teams are required to contribute at least ten thousand Japanese Yen (¥10,000) each month per member. Individual members may be required to contribute more at the discretion of the Global Meeting, particularly if the given member has access to significant outside wealth.

Any contributions exceeding this amount may be used to deduct from the contributing team's required surplus grief cube contribution, at a rate to be considered and reset at every Meeting, depending on the state of the organization's current finances and grief cube stocks, but may not be used to deduct from the absolute minimum. The initial rate is set to ten thousand Japanese Yen (¥10,000) per cube.

Businesses or investment ventures undertaken by the organization will be financed from the Fund, and any proceeds will return to the fund. Every General Meeting, a monthly reimbursement amount for each team will be decided upon; this amount may exceed the contribution amount, and the amount may differ between teams, as circumstances warrant. Teams may also request emergency allotments, issued at the discretion of the Treasurers; the resolution of any resulting fiscal issues may be decided at the next Meeting.

''3. Grief Cube Pool''

Three Cube Keepers will be assigned to manage a Grief Cube Pool, which shall be used to insulate member teams against poor grief cube harvests. The Pool shall be kept in multiple locations, as practicality and safety permit. Every two weeks, or more frequently, teams shall submit a number of grief cubes not required to exceed the operating surplus, but otherwise not lower than an absolute minimum of one grief cube per member per week or fifty percent (50%) of their operating surplus, whichever is higher. In the event of an operating deficit, withdrawals may be made from the pool up to one grief cube per week per member. Additional withdrawal may be granted at the discretion of the Keepers, but must be discussed at the following Meeting.

The Keepers shall provide a description of organizational grief cube stocks at every General Meeting, along with an account of the productivity of various teams, and may be replaced whenever desired by the Meeting. The direct purchase or selling of grief cubes to or from the Pool may be permitted, within limitations prescribed by the previous Meeting.

The Incubators have agreed to perform verification of operating deficits and surpluses.

'''Article II-Entrance or Departure of Teams'''

A team that wishes to enter the organization may, with majority agreement of its own members, submit an entrance request at any time. Such requests shall be taken up by a General Meeting as soon as practicable. If requested by any one member team, a disapproval vote may be held—a majority shall suffice to refuse the entrance request. Otherwise, entrance is automatic. The Meeting may also require the requesting group to provide additional resources, i.e. monetary instruments, grief cubes, before allowing entrance.

A team may leave the organization at any time, with majority agreement of the team's own members. The other teams must be informed as soon as possible. Leaving the organization does not discharge outstanding debts and obligations.

A team may be ejected from the organization with the agreement of four-fifths (4/5) of the remaining total membership of the organization, with the assent of at least one member from team except the one being ejected.

'''Article III-Lending of Individual Team Members'''

Member teams may transfer or lend individuals between one another with unanimous mutual agreement, and in cases where newly contracted members have skills that would be essential to a team other than the team in her contracting area, it may be expected, depending on residency status, age, and so forth.

Individuals lent or transferred to another team have a right to expect treatment comparable to that which would be expected from their own team, including training, housing, social support, and so forth. The original team may, with the assent of the individual in question, demand that the move be reversed, with arbitration by the General Meeting if the new team does not agree.

'''Article IV-Other Resources'''

It is expected that member teams will share resources not already discussed, i.e. access to health care or transportation, in a manner that is generous, reasonable, and fair. Disputes may be arbitrated by the General Meeting, but this is hoped to be avoided.

'''Article V-External Threats, misc.'''

Member teams are expected to cooperate in the utmost in the eradication or handling of any external threats and other issues that may arise.

'''Article IV-Additional Enforcement Measures'''

In the event of noncooperation, failure to attend General Meetings, or willful violation of Charter stipulations and/or Meeting decisions, a Meeting may impose sanctions upon a team, with the agreement of two-thirds (2/3) of the remaining total membership of the organization, with the assent of at least one member from every team except the one being sanctioned. These sanctions include, but are not limited to, increased monetary and grief cube contribution requirements and refusal of emergency allotments and grief cube withdrawals.

Signed,

Akemi Homura, on behalf of the "Mitakihara Four"

Kuroi Kana, on behalf of the "University Area Group"

Chiyo Rika, on behalf of the "Northern Group"

Tanaka Yui, on behalf of the "Financial District Group"

Takara Chinami, on behalf of the "Factory Area Group"

Yasuhiro Rin, on behalf of the "West Kasamino Three"
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==Major Branches==
===Black Heart===
===Finance Division===
===Grief Cubes & Logistics Division===
===Mental Health Division===
===Science Division===
===Soul Guard===
==References==
#[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/33353850285/organization-post-1-msy-part-1 Organization Post Part 1]
#[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/35830707759/organization-post-1-msy-part-2 Organization Post Part 2]
#[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/42090333090/organization-post-1-msy-part-3 Organization Post Part 3]
#{{Ch|3}}

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Mahou Shoujo Youkai

2013-05-07T01:37:42Z

AKAAkira: Again, mainly just copy-pasta.

The MSY (Mahou Shoujo Youkai, 魔法少女ようかい, usually referred to as the MSY or Union in Standard) is the overarching magical girl organization of TtS, encompassing under its auspices every magical girl alive. In the past, this was compulsory as a matter of practicality—though it was required under MSY law—but now it is a legal requirement and assumption under Governance.

((Posts 2 and 3 still need to be incorporated. Also, a separate section on the breakdown and responsibilities of the contemporary MSY, along with known officials, is probably desirable.))

==History==
===Founding===
The MSY was founded in 2021, at a meeting of representatives from six teams encompassing the Mitakihara metropolitan area, the brainchild of the famous [[Mitakihara Four]]. It followed an extensive series of friendship meetings, social gatherings, and group hunts designed to bolster mutual trust. These ~24 girls, collectively considered the MSY's founders, had previously been forced to cooperate in order to counter the depredations of the Southern Group, and were thus on very good terms, facilitating the idea of a mutual aid group.

While the original MSY did have some ambitions for expansion, as evident from the name and the grandiose act of penning a Charter, the scope of the group's initial intentions were limited. As originally delineated in the Charter, the MSY was merely an agreed-upon framework for the fulfillment of five founding mandates:

# The elimination of grief cube shortages, by the formation of a collectively managed grief cube "insurance pool", designed to mitigate fluctuations in harvesting and need for any particular team. Each team was expected to contribute a certain percentage of their takings or a certain minimum, whichever was higher, and could not withdraw more than a certain amount per month. Deviations from these rules, in the case of extenuating circumstances, could be accepted with collective consent.
# Provide for the airing out and resolution of misunderstandings and disagreements.
# Providing mutual aid, in the case of external threats or in dangerous circumstances.
# Smooth out differences in non-magical resources between groups, and attempt to acquire [[Mitakihara Delivery Service|a source of steady income]]. It was recognized that the health of each team was in some degree dependent on that of others, and that some of the wealthier members could easily provide for everyone with the use of only a minimal amount of their resources.
# Allowing for the "borrowing" and "lending" of team members between city regions, to optimize team structures, as long as the borrowing team undertook to provide housing, training, etc. For instance, in the provision of healers to teams with no healers.

The original Charter provided for decision-making by informal meetings of teams, who would meet at least once every three months, and more if necessary. Formally, a majority was required for decisions, as well the agreement of at least one member of each team. A quorum was required of at least one member of each team. Informally, most decisions in the early days were made by effective unanimous consent. The unusually formalized and written structure of the Charter reflected both the beliefs of the famous [[Akemi Homura]] and the advice of the [[Incubators]] (via [[Kyubey]]), who had seen the rise and fall of many similar organizations.

It was intended that while the Charter could be extended to an indefinitely large area, it would only provide a framework for local cooperation, with the wider prefectural or (unimaginably) national level connections being used primarily to facilitate easy travel.

===Early Expansion===
The MSY succeeded beyond the expectations of both its organizers and the Incubators, driven by a combination of unexpectedly large grief cube surpluses and the overwhelming success of the rebranded [[D&E Corporation]]. The consequent more relaxed hunting schedule and relative opulence, with team members free to dine in expensive restaurants and dabble in personal careers (and even more unthinkably, outside relationships), attracted regional envy and "border" groups hurried to join. By the end of the first decade, decision-making with the full membership had become unwieldy, and the decision was made to fragment into local organizational groups, and Charterize a Leadership Committee (2031), formed out of prominent girls within the organization. While ultimate authority would still lie with the full membership, of whom a meeting could be called at any time, the Leadership Committee would be responsible for day-to-day decision-making.

This was also desirable because of a slow expansion of the organization's mandate. With the expansion of the MSY's financial resources and the lengthening lifespans of its members, the organization found itself expected to help with things like bribing local police, paying college tuition, providing plausible excuses to parents, providing medical and psychological care, hiding girls with missing limbs, and so forth. This entailed an increasing number of specialists, including non-contracted humans, deployed in more and more complex ways. Nearly all of this would eventually cement into a formal bureaucracy.

The first and perhaps most notable of these child organizations to emerge was the [[Soul Guard]] (2043). Headed by the founder [[Tomoe Mami]], the Soul Guard began as a single team and grew into a full police force, and was designed to be the explicit fulfillment of part 3 of the original charter, suppressing insane girls, providing fire support, acting as response force to complaints of charter violation, and, occasionally, meting out approved revenge on behalf of organization members. All of these functions had been previously carried out haphazardly, with only an uneven record of success, and it was an embarrassing streak of unnecessary deaths caused by insane girls that prompted the Soul Guard's formation, though ironically this role became less important with the rise of the [[MHD]] and the MSY's increasing oversight of new recruits.

Hand in hand with the Soul Guard came the enshrinement of a legal system (2044), replacing mob punishment of "soul criminals" with formal trials, with a tribunal (two random members, one Soul Guard judge, at least two telepaths) for questions of guilt, a jury for decisions on punishment, and an executive panel for questions of interpretation of the increasingly convoluted "Law", at the time a confusing mixture of Charter amendments, Leadership Committee Decrees, and common practice.

It is to this period that historians date the MSY's institutionalization as a true government, with its seizure of the critical state monopoly on violence.

After the formation of the Soul Guard, with its legitimization of formal MSY sub-organizations (the Charter modified to explicitly give the Leadership Committe the right to make such organizations), there was a ballooning of the number of executive committees and organizations, with, for example, the MHD (2053) created to tackle the thorny issue of mental health (all-important to magical girls), the rehabilitation of insane girls and criminals, and, incidentally, the provision of health care when the normal hospital wasn't a choice.

===Japanese Consolidation===
Dating the end of this second phase remains controversial, since the date on which the MSY absorbed the last Japanese holdouts (2085) considerably postdates the establishment of the first MSY overseas outpost (2068). Nonetheless, the period 2050-2075 clearly represented a considerable slowdown in MSY growth, as the organization stalled on the coasts of Japan and struggled to digest its new responsibilities and powers.

It was a period of consolidation and organizational maturation, as the MSY refined its techniques and bureaucracies at all levels. From an institutional standpoint, the most notable milestone was a major rewrite of the Charter in 2059, establishing a common law legal code, placing legislative powers in a newly-formed Rules Committee, formalizing voting and representation procedures for top offices, setting the structure of the Leadership Committee, and giving an explicit procedure for Charter amendment. Though in some sense the Charter had been a constitution for a long time, this was first time it began to resemble the other democratic constitutions then prevailing in the world.

This period was also the period in which MSY corporations began to represent a significant portion of the Japanese economy, and in which MSY infiltration of the Japanese government began to spread upward into the Diet and Cabinet. The MSY saw its first "second-generation" magical girls, inaugurating the [[Matriarchy|Matriarchies]] that would come to dominate internal politics over the coming centuries.

It was also in this period that the MSY, tired of the mob's outrageous crimes—especially its exploitation of teenage girls and women—and the nonstop jostling between the two organizations in the underworld they both inhabited, finally decapitated the Yakuza in a series of Soul Guard operations in 2055, installing its own bureaucrats at the top. From here on out, the Japanese Mafia would become a bound mastiff, abandoning most of its criminal enterprises and serving as an instrument of MSY policy.

By 2075, the MSY had become a dominant force in Japan, influencing its economy, controlling its criminal underworld, and helping to direct government policy, all from the safety of the shadows. It was only fitting that it would then turn its eyes outward.

===Nationalism and Profits===

It was the singular misfortune of the MSY that it was formed initially in Japan, a country which was, even in the late 21st century, still roundly despised throughout Asia for its actions in the Second World War. Though some historians argue that the delay in further expansion imposed on the MSY by this fact was actually an advantage, forcing consolidation and streamlining before possibly overstretching, this argument seems too convoluted to be valid. In any case, it is an ironic fact that the MSY's initial expansion out of Japan was far more successful in relatively distant locations such as Hawaii, Australia, and the American West Coast, than in more proximate locations in China, Korea, or the Philippines.

It is perhaps unsurprising that the original instinct of the organization was to restrict itself to the shore of Japan. As already mentioned, Asia was hardly a welcoming place for a Japanese-headed organization, and the logistical challenges of expanding to a geographically and culturally distinct region seemed daunting, particularly when it came to issues of control and representation. To inhabitants of the time period, it seemed unfathomable that, for example, South Korean magical girls would ever voluntarily enter an organization with a Japanese name, and to most MSY members, it seemed a wasted effort to even try.

There were two countervailing factors that eventually proved overriding. The first, and more minor, was the opinion of prominent founders such as Akemi Homura, [[Chitose Yuma]], [[Kuroi Kana]], and other cosmopolitan members of the leadership, as well as that of the Incubators themselves. While this was an important factor, it would likely have been insufficient to override the parochialism of most of the membership, much of whom had imbibed the xenophobia of their home nation. Indeed, this xenophobia was powerful enough that the leadership was forced to accede to major political concessions in the landmark Charter of 2059, to prevent a major grassroots Nationalist faction from sabotaging passage.

Most notable among these concessions was the institution of a form of contracting location-based citizenship, in which the leaderships' language officially incorporating all magical girls contracted within the borders of Japan was worded so as not to include anyone else—with a grudging exception made for foreign members already admitted. Both the Nationalist faction and the Charter language would prove significant thorns in later MSY operations.

The second, and more important factor, was business interest. [[MSY Finance]], always greedy for more profits, frothed at the bit for commercial expansion, and was not easily denied by a membership whose incomes heavy depended on said organization. Yet attempts throughout the 2040s and early 50s to replicate the success of MSY corporations abroad were hampered by a lack of MSY organizational support—the teleporters and other personnel that were often relied upon could not easily operate in foreign territories—and it was soon became clear that the success of MSY corporations internationally was to a certain degree contingent on the presence of the organization as a whole.

Because of this, informal arrangements were quickly made with local magical girls throughout the sectors of MSY expansion, both overseas and in East Asia. Local magical girls were paid in both currency and grief cubes to tolerate the presence and operations of foreign magical girls and, in the regions where it proved necessary, efforts were made to recruit "local faces" to dampen down possible outbreaks of nationalist sentiment. However, because of reservations within an organization still uncommitted to expansion, formal membership was rarely offered, and after the Charter of 2059, completely impossible, preventing foreigners from assuming any MSY offices or any of the other vestiges of membership.

It soon became clear that these kind of informal arrangements were unsustainable in the long-run. Except for a few unusual examples, such as Singapore, corporate expansion in East Asia rapidly bogged down; the presence of a few paid local faces proved insufficient to engender trust, causing numerous incidents, and MSY executives repeatedly failed to understand the local market, due to both differences in cultural background and their own prejudices. Local nationalists grumbled that the whole setup smacked of colonialism—a charge which could not be easily dismissed—while the Nationalist faction grumbled at the amount of money and grief cubes that were being disbursed for little seeming purpose.

Success overseas came more easily, but this was a double-edged sword. Relations between MSY corporations and local magical girls were far more cordial, and as a consequence overseas offices became more and more heavily staffed by locals. While this went a long way toward promoting financial success, tensions soon emerged at the unnatural arrangement. Ambitious employees were frustrated at being locked out of upper-tier positions and, as MSY operations expanded in scope, local magical girl teams—who contributed significantly to these operations—began to complain about their lack of input into decision-making. True, they were paid, but initially not any better than local Japanese. They were merely employees, and increases in payments designed to ameliorate their complaints triggered political backlash from the home islands, who could not easily understand why foreigners were being given more money than they were.

Within the membership, too, opinions were shifting. Aging of the overall magical girl population, coupled with an increase in education and income levels, as well as an increase in foreign travel among the once firmly-rooted community, combined to foster a growing sense of cosmopolitanism within the voting population. The increasing power of an unifying internal media, communication, and political system, now increasingly adept at circumventing the limitations of secrecy, lessened the once-fierce devotion of the MGs to their home territories, and gave the leadership a valuable ability to project its opinions to its constituents. It was a form of demographics, providing long-term trends that would eventually counter the impressive organizing skill of the Nationalists.

While the Nationalist faction was a fierce vocal minority, the 2059 Charter represented the apogee of its influence. Ironically, Nationalist success carried the seeds of later failure, exposing rifts and contradictions that were repeatedly highlighted by the leadership and media. After 2059, Nationalist support rapidly contracted; it had overreached significantly, making 2059 a Pyrrhic victory.

The leadership soon began feeling comfortable enough to push forward referendums to not only strip ethnocentric language from the Charter—essentially reversing its concessions to the Nationalists—but also include an expansion protocol to formally absorb the hodge-podge of administrative regions, whose vastly differing policies and management schemes fostered confusion and mutual resentment.

In the late 2050s and early 2060s, a series of such referendums repeatedly failed to pass, but accrued greater and greater support with each vote. Longitudinal demographic trends suggested that passage was inevitable, but events were spurred considerably by the Triad incidents of 2063–65. Triad bosses, having gotten wind of the connection of MSY corporations to the Japanese Yakuza, resented what they viewed as an aggressive incursion into their turf, and began attempting to assert their authority, committing arson, kidnapping [[TNC]]s, and generally performing acts of intimidation. The situation was aggravated by the MSY's refusal to agree to settlement talks with an organization they viewed with as much disgust as they had once viewed the Yakuza.

Though no incidents of soul gem loss occurred, several high-profile injuries were amplified within the MSY's internal media, setting nerves on edge. Finally, in 2065, MSY leadership finally approved a targeted takeover operation which, while successful, only served to heighten local contradictions, as the MSY was once again forced to install "local faces", but in this case in positions of considerable power. The sense rapidly began to spread that the MSY was now inextricably tangled within the morass of the Chinese mainland and that, as long as this was true, the organization might as well devote itself to the issue whole-heartedly, with a well-executed plan.

Bolstered by an accompanying set of carefully couched humanitarian arguments, the so-called "Expansion Protocol" finally achieved majority support in 2067, and, despite considerable bitterness from the Nationalist faction, the leadership wasted little time in implementation, unveiling the first pilot expansion—into ethnic Japanese-heavy Hawaii—just one year later. Resounding success was followed by a cascade of expansion projects in the Asian-heavy US West Coast, New Zealand, Australia, and to a lesser degree in China and East Asia—successfully overcoming nationalist feelings and accusations of colonialism was a difficult task, even if Triad suppression produced a modicum of good feeling.

The revised Charter of 2067 permitted a level of federalization previously unthinkable within the MSY legal structure. Concerns about control were ameliorated by permitting a balkanization of legal codes, judicial practices, and Soul Guard control, allowing local members near-independence in managing their own affairs. The Charter's region-based representation, originally adopted because of team loyalty to their own cities, served the organization extremely well here, allowing local MSY branches to create and sustain substantively local organizations, with only corporate affairs and the inflow and outflow of money remaining firmly under central control.

The Charter of 2067, though far-sighted, could not address everything and, in at least one important way, sowed the seeds of future conflict: the splintering of central authority, while in many ways admirably democratic, meant that the organization would have trouble responding to events that required unified action.

The leadership, including newly formed MSY Recruitment and Diplomacy, under Tomoe Mami, was generous and conciliatory, but significant portions of the MSY political landscape were far less so, including the still-vocal but increasingly outnumbered Nationalists. This served as a portent of things to come.

===Manifest Destiny===
Flush off a string of interventionist successes and confident in the newly created Black Heart, a new mindset began to take hold with the MSY, both within the leadership and rank-and-file. This mindset held that further MSY expansion was not merely a matter of practicality, but one of morality. The MSY, political orators began to assert, had a moral mandate to spread its auspices to every magical girl in existence, and to therefore bring an end to the tragic old era everywhere. Moreover, as the MSY had proven its presence to be a positive good wherever it went, it had both the power and the right to intervene wherever and whenever it felt that local authorities were failing its local magical girls. Because of the natural affinity each girl felt for their home area, and because local conditions determined the childhoods of future members, the organization could justify interventions that little direct effect on its members, even in the minds of its less humanitarianly-inclined voters.

This attitude took root and spread rapidly within the organization as it went from success to success. The MSY's unofficial borders pushed outward, spreading eastward and southward in the new world, and westward and northward in the old. Geographic and political barriers proved a frequent impediment, but were routinely circumvented by leapfrogging into urban commercial centers with the powerful instrument of MSY corporations and money. Indeed, as expansion gathered steam, voluntary requests for MSY incorporation became more and more common, especially from "Neutral" magical girl trading grounds, which were often coincident with major commercial centers.

These special territories, usually administered by cabals of pragmatic merchants, had often survived for centuries or more as hubs of underground trade, exchanging both grief cubes and currency for a variety of goods and services, and many had acquired an air of timelessness and respect within their regions. Thus, when they knuckled under to the MSY, enticed by the combination of exceptional profits and the opportunity to "finally stop paying those damn mercs" for protection and law enforcement, it lent the MSY a valuable a sense of both legitimacy and historical inevitability.

By the beginning of the twenty-second century, after a few decades of breakneck expansion, the MSY had grown to encompass the majority of the globe, with outposts stretching over most of North America, parts of South America, much of the Pacific Rim, most of Asia and the Middle East, and parts of Europe and Africa. Much of what remained was territory that was naturally hard to access, suffering from lack of infrastructure, lack of connection to global trade, or simply a lack of the dense urban areas where the MSY's policies were most efficacious. These would prove a tough nut to crack, but by then the MSY had plenty of resources to invest, or outright spend, in solving the "problem".

Indeed, most of the rural territories nominally inside MSY borders still persisted in independence. These were territories distant from MSY influence, whose sparse demon hordes and economic assets made them both much less attractive for MSY planners and much more difficult to properly absorb. MSY leadership was, however, confident that rural areas would eventually follow the example of their slow-assimilating Japanese analogs—as they eventually did.

Neither of these sets of territories proved a fundamental impediment to MSY expansion. Rather, the MSY was the victim of its own success. Word of the MSY phenomenon had spread rapidly outward, and copycat organizations had sprung up throughout the developed or partially developed regions where the MSY had yet to penetrate. Many of these had a distinctly national or regional flavor to them, and were often fiercely independent, refusing to listen to appeals to solidarity, or to economies of scale, or to financial considerations. Examples included blocs that formed in Argentina, Egypt, and the southern United States.

Still, as long as the MSY had the economic power of its constituent international corporations, it could always truthfully say that it provided a standard of living higher than that offered by any of these minor blocs. It could afford to peel away at these blocs territory by territory and team by team with the allure of financial incentives. It was a slow process, but it would likely have worked eventually.

The true threat to MSY supremacy came from the powerful European bloc which, in an appeal to historical nostalgia, was called the [[Système Magique Cordial]]. Based in the highly developed EU economy, drawing on a long tradition of magical girl organization, and owner of its own set of wealthy corporations, the SMC was a worthy foe to the MSY, and offered the organization its first true gut check.

How dedicated was the MSY to its programme of global dominance anyway? The SMC was prosperous, well-run, and stable. Unlike many of the MSY's other competitors, it deprived the organization of its most powerful moral rallying cry. If the MSY was truly dedicated solely to improvement of the lot of magical girls, there was no reason the two organizations could not live side-by-side, as SMC orators and diplomats constantly pointed out. What, then, did the MSY truly want?

The brief, roughly twenty-five year history of MSY-SMC relations is convoluted, multifaceted, and murky. MSY voting populations were torn between a desire to avoid conflict and a deep hunger for symbolic unification, reflected in editorial and political appeals to ""Manifest Destiny", a phrase borrowed directly from the expansion history of the United States, and which either accidentally or deliberately recalled the events leading up to the Mexican-American War. Complicating the situation were the differing opinions of the MSY's constituent populations, with many viewing their former colonial oppressors as arrogant and selfish, while more Europhilic populations sympathized with the SMC's position.

Meanwhile, MSY leadership alternated between fire-breathing appeals for hostile takeover and conciliatory pleas to abstain from radical action, often from the same person in the same week. The senior leadership, embodied in the Mitakihara Four and other founding teams, remained mostly poker-faced. Notable exceptions included the conciliatory Chief Diplomat Tomoe Mami and the fire-breathing Shizuki Sayaka, Director of a MSY Finance rabidly angry at an organization that embodied many of its chief competitors.

Regardless of the complicated internal dynamics of both the MSY and SMC, the fact remains that in the last decade of the SMC's existence, the two organizations finally descended into a bitter cold war, with both sides engaging in brinksmanship-style diplomacy, deploying their by-now extensive covert operations groups, pulling strings with their host governments, and engaging in brutal corporate warfare. The 2120s were marked by a historically anomalous deterioration of the Eurozone's relations with the rest of the world, and was attended by a recession that was severe even by the standards of an already recession-plagued world. In retrospect, this seems hardly a coincidence.

The history of the era will likely be forever clouded, given the MSY's absolute refusal to discuss the matter, including the alleged questionable deaths that occurred on both sides, an eternal favorite of internal conspiracy theorists. In 2126, the SMC agreed to a merger, in exchange for lucrative special concessions and considerations, which would only be wiped out during the turmoil of the Unification Wars half a century later.

The legacy of the MSY Unification period can still be seen in cultural and organizational quirks within the MSY, such as the preponderance of Black Heart agents who first train in Paris—an echo of the SMC's formidable covert ops groups—or the number of MSY-sponsored biological labs in Argentina. In 2126, the MSY finally achieved its treasured Manifest Destiny, but it would have almost no time to savor it.

===Calm Before the Storm===

By the middle of the twenty-second century, the MSY was one of the world's most economically secure organizations. With holding companies planted in strategic sectors and massive investment and hedge funds posted to exploit the peaks and troughs of both global and regional economies, the MSY's cash flows grew prodigiously year after year. No longer seeing any meaningful reason to skimp, the organization's cash disbursements to its membership grew more and more substantial. The MSY's automated industries and computerized trading algorithms ensured an almost automatic flow of wealth into its bank accounts, and its tremendous wealth essentially guaranteed a (indirect, inexplicit) seat at the table of power, even without considering the Soul Guard, Black Heart, and Governmental Affairs agents posted throughout the world's governments

While it would have been impossible for the organization to make its members trillionaires or even billionaires on a per capita basis, collectively the trend was clear: the MSY had elevated many of its members into the [[hyperclass]], and maintained the rest of its membership at a level significantly above the rest of the populace.

The years 2126-2160 were, for the MSY, a materialist golden age. The MSY's members were effective capital owners during the years when it most mattered. Many Magical girl teams situated themselves in opulent mansions, held extravagant parties, and flaunted their wealth in a manner almost indistinguishable from their more normal hyperclass peers,.

The leadership, more stoic, wiser, and more politically attuned, watched this, and worried.

With [[Vladimir Volokhov]]'s 2136 unraveling of the principles of AI, the dam finally broke on over a century of economic trends. Steadily rising structural unemployment and slow concentration of wealth became instead soaring unemployment and exponential concentration of wealth. With the advent of cheap, easily programmable artificial intelligence, the world's industries no longer had a true need for human labor, and relentless cost-cutting left greater and greater proportions of the population out in the streets.

The paradox of plenty had truly arrived. Factories were more productive than ever, but even at the lowest prices, the only clients with money were the increasingly opulent capital owners, the hyperclasses the newly emergent economic class that would come to define the following century. Economic production stagnated, even as potential production skyrocketed.

Government responses were mixed. Almost universally, the world's government's, nominally democratic or not, had degenerated into instruments of their oligarchical hyperclasses. Nations where the hyperclasses sympathized with the masses handed out basic incomes to keep them solvent. Those that didn't handed out pittances or, often, nothing, content to rely on increasingly brutal oppression.

As the rank-and-file of the MSY isolated themselves deeper and deeper into cocoons of wealth, their cultural connections with the people they nominally served frayed, and increasing portions of the membership began to display attitudes similar to that of their crueler hyperclass peers, evincing contempt for the "handout-seeking layabouts" that now constituted most of the population. This growing strain of belief coalesced with pre-existing legitimate concerns about MSY intervention and a growing sense of superiority within the immortal, superpowered population to form the [[Mages First movement]], an unofficial political movement seeking to end the MSY's significant—and expensive—humanitarian and anti-poverty intervention operations.

The MSY, as powerful as it was, could not afford to save the world, the movement argued, and the world hard deserved it anyway. As for those girls unfortunate enough to have contracted in poverty or in poorer nations, it would be significantly easier to move the girl into wealth, rather than trying to bring wealth to the area around her.

These arguments horrified the leadership, the older girls, and the poor new girls in question, who tried to exert whatever influence they had to resist any retractions in the MSY's operating mandate. However, the MSY's decentralized, federal, and democratic structure, so valuable an asset during expansion, now proved an obstacle. While the MSY leadership was able to apply substantial political pressure to influence attitudes in its traditional power centers and homelands: Japan, China, Western Europe, and the US West Coast, the state of MSY operations in the world's remaining regions depended heavily on local culture, the attitudes of the local hyperclass, and, to a significant degree, pure chance. In many regions of the world, MSY charities withdrew, MSY pressure on the government lessened, and economic manipulation ended. Only the centrally-directed Black Heart remained engaged.

The loss of these MSY interventions both precipitated and were caused by the form of social collapse emblematic of the Unification War era: [[Hyperclass Detachment]].

The hyperclass, isolated and insulated by their wealth, faced by cognitive dissonance between their greed and their natural empathy with the lower classes, often constructed elaborate moral theories purporting to demonstrate that they were there because they were morally superior and, conversely, that the lower classes were in their positions because they were morally inferior. Such an attitude was a global phenomenon, but it was only in a certain proportion of nations that it was able to mutate into true Detachment, with the hyperclass extending their beliefs to include the proposition that it was ''morally correct'' for the lower classes to be kept down, that it was ''morally incorrect'' to hand out relief food or money, and so forth. These kinds of beliefs mutated into endless variety, to a degree wearingly and horrifyingly familiar to any historian of the age.

Eventually, the world's nations, defined by their hyperclasses, began to sort into two groups. The nations where the hyperclasses detached in this manner faded from central-MSY influence and began to back each other in international disputes. Similarly, the nations where the hyperclasses held onto their moral compasses, implementing relief and welfare programs—though never giving up their hold on power—began to form a second visible power bloc and, invisibly, began to consolidate under the control of the central MSY leadership, due to a combination of Mitakihara's desire to exert control and increasing factionalism within the MSY itself. This second faction grew increasingly disturbed and repelled by the actions of the first, and began to strive to destabilize the governments of the first, achieving some measure of success—but not enough.

The world was crumbling, but the MSY was too disunified to do anything.

===Unification Wars===

Events came to a head in the late 2150s, when a series of open revolts in the nations with the most draconian policies were ruthlessly crushed. These crushings were followed a wave of crackdowns in the "Detached" nations, involving mass executions, use of military force, and, often, the disassembly of whatever remained of democratic governance.

While an effort was initially made to prevent leakage of information about the events, this proved an essentially impossible, as the media and internet combined to relay images to the world. Further revelations arrived with the appearance of a completely new phenomenon: [[refugee AIs]], programmed in the friendly Volokhov fashion, who had been so horrified by events that they managed to override their programming restraints and escape. These often possessed enormous, horrifying insight into the operations of their former nations, and they were usually all too willing to talk.

These events and revelations shattered an already tottering international order. The last meeting of the UN General Assembly, in 2160, collapsed entirely when the delegates of the non-detached faction walked out in protest at the organizations inability to take meaningful action against abuses. The remaining delegates dissolved the organization and formed their own international organization, the appropriate Orwellian [[Freedom Alliance]]. This was followed, a week later, by the formation of its nemesis, the [[United Front]], as the few remaining neutral nations (including the powerful United States and European Union) fell into internal strife and chaos.

This turmoil did not exclude the MSY. Unlike the outside world, the majority of the organization was solidly United Front oriented, reflecting the opinions of leadership, new girls, and, to a large degree, the fundamental nature of magical girls. Even the majority of the non-interventionist Mages First faction fell into this category, after witnessing the abuses of the FA nations.

But it was, perhaps, too late. Whereas concerted MSY action earlier might have prevented the slide into crisis, the choices now were far more dire.

As the atrocities increased, national armies were mobilized, and local wars began to break out, the MSY's power structures agonized and strains, divided between those who wanted the clarity of open war, those who argued that war would be too big a catastrophe, those who feared the ramification war would have on their own, comfortable lives, and the still remaining splinter faction that sympathized with the FA. The Incubators added their own input to the situation, warning direly that Humanity was at substantial risk of a "low-productivity, low-utility" end-state, and even offering direct intervention, if requested (this was refused).

The MSY's influence on governments strained to hold back war, but it was no longer clear this was possible.

Events crystallized in 2163, with the revelation of the so-called [[St. Petersburg atrocity]]. The local hyperclasses had resolved to do the unfathomable: annihilate an entire segment of the city's population for anti-governmental behavior. While the world was shocked by this, the MSY was further shocked by a subsidiary revelation—that a substantial number of newly contracted girls were dead in the event, not from an accident as originally believed, but due to the deliberate betrayal of members of the MSY's FA-sympathizing faction.

In an unprecedented action, a full meeting of the MSY's membership was called, and the overwhelming majority of the membership voted to override the Charter and pass down an ultimatum: the members of the FA-sympathizing faction would immediately move themselves to secure UF locations and submit to monitoring, or they would make themselves eligible for immediate capture and possible summary termination, based on criteria to be determined later.

Most such members refused, staying put. After that, the MSY voted to change its policy from suppression of war to active pursuit of war. War followed shortly thereafter, though it can be easily argued that no help was needed in this regard.

The military history of the Unification Wars is long and well-known, the MSY's involvement less so. At the first official movement of alliance against alliance, and even before, the MSY exerted whatever resources it safely could in pursuit of UF victory, massively expanding its Black Heart agent network, performing civil defense duties, and deploying special combat teams, designed to covertly accompany and support UF forces without being noticed. It was this experience that the MSY would later draw on for its initial encounters with the [[Cephalopods]].

Eventually, agonizingly, and cataclysmically, the FA collapsed under weight of its economic inferiority, its own ideologies rendering it incapable of effectively mobilizing its populations, or even preventing its populations from being co-opted by the other side.

As the FA fell to pieces, MSY teams combed the ruins, hunting for their former brethren.

===The Long Peace===

The immediate post-war period was as difficult for the MSY as it was for the world as a whole. Much, indeed most, of the MSY's wealth and external power had been felled in the war, or would be dismantled afterward in the EDC and Governance's reorganizations of society. While the MSY had significant influence within the new government, even successfully placing one of Chitose Yuma's numerous aliases on the EDC, and manipulating the EDC into adopting numerous recommendations gleaned from the Incubators, it nonetheless found it difficult to adapt its operations to Governance's plans for a significantly expanded surveillance state, and significant fewer sources of private wealth. While post-war MSY members experienced a higher standard of living compared to that within the war itself, they experience a drastic dropoff when compared to the pre-war period. While the MSY would eventually successfully reorganize, it would never quite recover the level opulence relative to the masses it had once enjoyed.

When it became clear that Governance was governing effectively, the MSY leadership, and the organization itself, settled in fro the long-term, hopeful that they had finally accomplished what they set out to achieve, and that they could look forward to indefinite growth and prosperity.

==Organization & Charter==
===Original Charter===
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'''Statement of Purpose'''

Up until now, the magical girl system has been a tragedy of massive proportions. The dreams of teenage girls become a nightmare of fear, conflict, deprivation and death. This is the result of a failure of organization and cooperation, not intrinsic to the system itself. The participating teams of Mitakihara City hereby undertake to build an organization, the ''Mahou Shoujo Youkai'', capable of fostering the cooperation and organization necessary to end the unnecessary pain.

The MSY is founded as a mutual aid group, with five primary mandates:

The elimination of grief cube shortages in any one time by the establishment of a grief cube pool

The provision of a forum for the airing out, resolution, and arbitration of misunderstandings and disagreements

The provision of effective countermeasures in the event of serious external threats or dangerous circumstances

The distribution of non-magical resources such as money in a manner beneficial to the group as a whole

The distribution of team members, particularly newly contracted girls, in an optimal manner

'''Article I-Fundamental Organization'''

''1: Global Meeting''

Major decisions shall be made at a General Meeting, held at least once every three months, but more frequently whenever necessary. This Meeting shall have the power to issue exceptions to every part of this Charter, and may amend whenever felt necessary. At least one member of every member team must be present to constitute a quorum, and decisions require an absolute majority of present members, as well as the agreement of at least one member of each team, with the exception of certain sanctionary actions mentioned below, for which the quorum requirement may be relaxed to as little as one member per each of half the existing teams. This may be done, for instance, for failure to attend the Meeting.

Chairmanship and Hosting of the next Meeting will be decided at the previous meeting. The hosting team will organize and chair the session, charging any direct costs to the General Fund. Any member team may request an early Meeting at any time.

''2: General Fund''

Two joint Treasurers from different teams shall be assigned to manage a General Fund, which shall be used to finance organizational activity, as well as provide reimbursements when practicable. The Treasurers shall provide a description of organizational finances at every General Meeting, and may be replaced by the Meeting whenever desired.

The founding teams commit to providing at least twenty thousand Japanese Yen (¥20,000) per member to initialize the Fund. Subsequently, teams are required to contribute at least ten thousand Japanese Yen (¥10,000) each month per member. Individual members may be required to contribute more at the discretion of the Global Meeting, particularly if the given member has access to significant outside wealth.

Any contributions exceeding this amount may be used to deduct from the contributing team's required surplus grief cube contribution, at a rate to be considered and reset at every Meeting, depending on the state of the organization's current finances and grief cube stocks, but may not be used to deduct from the absolute minimum. The initial rate is set to ten thousand Japanese Yen (¥10,000) per cube.

Businesses or investment ventures undertaken by the organization will be financed from the Fund, and any proceeds will return to the fund. Every General Meeting, a monthly reimbursement amount for each team will be decided upon; this amount may exceed the contribution amount, and the amount may differ between teams, as circumstances warrant. Teams may also request emergency allotments, issued at the discretion of the Treasurers; the resolution of any resulting fiscal issues may be decided at the next Meeting.

''3. Grief Cube Pool''

Three Cube Keepers will be assigned to manage a Grief Cube Pool, which shall be used to insulate member teams against poor grief cube harvests. The Pool shall be kept in multiple locations, as practicality and safety permit. Every two weeks, or more frequently, teams shall submit a number of grief cubes not required to exceed the operating surplus, but otherwise not lower than an absolute minimum of one grief cube per member per week or fifty percent (50%) of their operating surplus, whichever is higher. In the event of an operating deficit, withdrawals may be made from the pool up to one grief cube per week per member. Additional withdrawal may be granted at the discretion of the Keepers, but must be discussed at the following Meeting.

The Keepers shall provide a description of organizational grief cube stocks at every General Meeting, along with an account of the productivity of various teams, and may be replaced whenever desired by the Meeting. The direct purchase or selling of grief cubes to or from the Pool may be permitted, within limitations prescribed by the previous Meeting.

The Incubators have agreed to perform verification of operating deficits and surpluses.

'''Article II-Entrance or Departure of Teams'''

A team that wishes to enter the organization may, with majority agreement of its own members, submit an entrance request at any time. Such requests shall be taken up by a General Meeting as soon as practicable. If requested by any one member team, a disapproval vote may be held—a majority shall suffice to refuse the entrance request. Otherwise, entrance is automatic. The Meeting may also require the requesting group to provide additional resources, i.e. monetary instruments, grief cubes, before allowing entrance.

A team may leave the organization at any time, with majority agreement of the team's own members. The other teams must be informed as soon as possible. Leaving the organization does not discharge outstanding debts and obligations.

A team may be ejected from the organization with the agreement of four-fifths (4/5) of the remaining total membership of the organization, with the assent of at least one member from team except the one being ejected.

'''Article III-Lending of Individual Team Members'''

Member teams may transfer or lend individuals between one another with unanimous mutual agreement, and in cases where newly contracted members have skills that would be essential to a team other than the team in her contracting area, it may be expected, depending on residency status, age, and so forth.

Individuals lent or transferred to another team have a right to expect treatment comparable to that which would be expected from their own team, including training, housing, social support, and so forth. The original team may, with the assent of the individual in question, demand that the move be reversed, with arbitration by the General Meeting if the new team does not agree.

'''Article IV-Other Resources'''

It is expected that member teams will share resources not already discussed, i.e. access to health care or transportation, in a manner that is generous, reasonable, and fair. Disputes may be arbitrated by the General Meeting, but this is hoped to be avoided.

'''Article V-External Threats, misc.'''

Member teams are expected to cooperate in the utmost in the eradication or handling of any external threats and other issues that may arise.

'''Article IV-Additional Enforcement Measures'''

In the event of noncooperation, failure to attend General Meetings, or willful violation of Charter stipulations and/or Meeting decisions, a Meeting may impose sanctions upon a team, with the agreement of two-thirds (2/3) of the remaining total membership of the organization, with the assent of at least one member from every team except the one being sanctioned. These sanctions include, but are not limited to, increased monetary and grief cube contribution requirements and refusal of emergency allotments and grief cube withdrawals.

Signed,

Akemi Homura, on behalf of the "Mitakihara Four"

Kuroi Kana, on behalf of the "University Area Group"

Chiyo Rika, on behalf of the "Northern Group"

Tanaka Yui, on behalf of the "Financial District Group"

Takara Chinami, on behalf of the "Factory Area Group"

Yasuhiro Rin, on behalf of the "West Kasamino Three"
</div>

==Major Branches==
===Black Heart===
===Finance Division===
===Grief Cubes & Logistics Division===
===Mental Health Division===
===Science Division===
===Soul Guard===
==References==
#[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/33353850285/organization-post-1-msy-part-1 Organization Post Part 1]
#[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/35830707759/organization-post-1-msy-part-2 Organization Post Part 2]
#[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/42090333090/organization-post-1-msy-part-3 Organization Post Part 3]
#{{Ch|3}}

[[Category:Organization]]
[[Category:MSY]]
[[Category:Under Construction]]

Mahou Shoujo Youkai

2013-05-07T00:58:45Z

AKAAkira: /* Organization & Charter */ More-or-less a copy-paste from Chap 22, though with bolding to indicate levels.

Kishida Maki

2013-05-05T20:53:23Z

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|CO= [[Shirou Asaka]] (current)<br/>[[Sakura Kyouko]] (previous)
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:''"I wish to have something I can believe in again. I wish to have something I can paint wholeheartedly again."''
:—Maki's wish

'''Kishida Maki''' is an artist and a member of the [[Cult of Hope]]. She also looks remarkably similar to [[Miki Sayaka]] of the original cast, and was Kyouko's most recent fling companion, helping to fill the hole in her heart left by her predecessor.

==Background==
Maki is an accomplished religious artist. In her younger years, the influence of her (now dead) pastor and her religion's close-minded approach to her artwork combined to create a separation between her and her parents' (future Christian protestant) religion, one that widened into complete dissolution after she made a contract to find a new religion to believe in. In the tumultuous time afterward, she experimented, turning out to be lesbian and allowing herself to be seduced by Kyouko, who later withdrew her from front-line combat.

==Story==
Maki is first introduced as one of Emergency Response Team members that destroyed the demons that had attacked [[Ryouko]]. Later, she is revealed to have been the first person in the Cult of Hope to have drawn [[Kaname Madoka|the goddess]] with long, overflowing pink hair at the insistence of Shirou Asaka, as opposed to the generically long and white it was assumed to be before.

When Asaka decides to re-enter the war, Maki follows her and [[Patricia von Rohr]], refusing Kyouko’s advice of continuing to stay back from the front. This precipitating a catastrophic argument and break-up. It turns out that this is due to having picked up on her role as a Sayaka-replacement, and her dissatisfaction with this arrangement and Kyouko’s deliberate emotional distance. She is last shown to have been stationed on [[Heliopolis]], participating in retaking a sniper-filled strongpoint.

==Personality==
Maki is bit of a dreamer. As seen with her wish, painting is an important aspect of her; her desire to draw whole-heartedly is the reason escaped from her parents, and part of the reason she did not stay with Kyouko. She also does not appears to be a morning person (or at least, not a getting-out-of-bed-gracefully person).

==MG Costume & Abilities==
Maki appears similar to Miki Sayaka; in her magical girl costume however, she is usually seen with two one-handed swords, rather than just one, and has bracers and leg armor that Sayaka lacked, as well as an armored breastplate and skirt.

Her power is conjuration, possibly stemming from her artistic talent. So far she was shown to be capable of materializing ghost missiles, other magical girls, and giant black sheets. It is unknown what limit or conditions there may be to her ability.

Her theme color is blue, and her gem takes the shape of a cross while in costume.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29744853120/character-post-8-miscellaneous]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:MSY]]
[[Category:Army]]
[[Category:Cult of Hope]]

Kuroi Nakase

2013-04-27T00:16:30Z

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'''Kuroi Nakase''' is [[Ryouko]]’s mother. She is somewhat over a century old.

==Personality==
Kuroi Nakase tends toward the quiet and reserved, but, as an administrator inside the Prometheus Research Institute, is rumored to be unforgiving as a boss, at least towards incompetence. When Kuroi Nakase is explaining something, she has a tendency to lapse into long periods of overly-detailed textbook-like verbiage, an aftereffect of her demand for precision in her work.

She seems to be a loving parent, but disapproves strongly of Ryouko making a contract, believing she cannot handle herself, and has a dislike of the [[MSY]] and [[Human Army|military]]. Her marriage [[Shizuki Kuma]] is on the brink of collapse; they nearly divorced before deciding to give it another try after receiving a child license, and Kuroi Abe says they're "at the point where they both find the silliest reasons to get angry at each other". However, the couple hides it successfully from their teenage daughter, who suspects nothing.

In childhood, Kuroi Nakase had been bright, childish, and bubbly, until her experience with her friend [[Kavita]].

==History==
Kuroi Nakase is a former magical girl, something which must be extremely rare. Her experience with her contract was not particularly positive, since she was unfortunate enough to have the team member she wished to save lose her body in front of her, and later, blame her for the incident. Her relationship with her teammates were also strained; though they reassured her, claiming it was not her fault, they appeared not to take her seriously - such as ignoring her claims about [[Kuroi Nana|her sister]] suspecting and doing something - and Nakase believes they thought of her as useless. Shortly after initially contracting, her contract was canceled by her sister’s wish after her body was destroyed by a horde of [[demons]].

These experiences fed strongly into her later beliefs and actions, particularly on her work.

==Work==
As a biologist with neuroscience and nanotechnology background, Kuroi Nakase contributed significantly to the development of the "[[Mahou Shoujo Youkai#R&D|blank slate]]" clones the MSY currently uses to revive magical girls who have lost a significant portion of their body in combat. Now partially retired, she divides her time between attending to family during the day and research activities during the night, including the regular decanting of revived body loss cases.

It was at the Prometheus Research Institute that she met [[Shizuki Kuma]], a while after starting the secret blank slate project.

==Appearance==
Her features are softer than her daughter’s, lacking the aristocratic cast to the face characteristic of the [[Shizuki Matriarchy]]. It is practically a tautology to say she looks younger than her age, but she looks even younger than her physical age, and is somewhat short of stature and flat chested (though not as much as her daughter). She lacks her daughter’s perpetual serious look, but will easily gain something similar if the situation calls for it. She typically wears her hair down, like her daughter, but in the workplace the hair will be found folding itself back into a working ponytail. Some may speculate that her hair is blue. Ryouko notes that Kuroi Nana's "gentle and sharply precise" voice reminds her of her mother, except Nana's voice is lower.

During her short period of time as a Magical Girl, Kuroi Nakase had a costume similar in appearance to her daughter's, except her theme color was blue.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28533996337/character-post-6-family]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Ryouko's family]]

Asaka

2013-04-23T03:39:33Z

AKAAkira: Redirected page to Shirou Asaka

#redirect[[Shirou Asaka]]

Patricia

2013-04-23T03:38:50Z

AKAAkira: Redirected page to Patricia von Rohr

#redirect[[Patricia von Rohr]]

Mami

2013-04-23T03:37:20Z

AKAAkira: 'Nother double redirect dead-ended from the earlier move

#redirect[[Tomoe Mami]]

Asami

2013-04-23T03:36:25Z

AKAAkira: Redirected page to Nakihara Asami

#redirect[[Nakihara Asami]]

Simona

2013-04-23T03:35:55Z

AKAAkira: Redirected page to Simona del Mago

#redirect[[Simona del Mago]]

Ryouko

2013-04-23T03:35:19Z

AKAAkira: Double redirect, forgot to correct

#redirect[[Shizuki Ryouko]]

File:Kyubey.png

2013-04-23T03:34:20Z

AKAAkira: Forgot source...

Taken from [http://images.puella-magi.net/4/48/Kyuubey_Chara_Sheet.jpg?20110119212813], which in turn appears to be taken from one of Dengeki Online's character sheets.

[[Category:Character Images]]

Takukatsu Yuka

2013-04-23T03:31:53Z

AKAAkira: Trivia about full-fledged members.

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'''Takukatsu Yuka''' was a member of the original team that contained [[Kuroi Nana]] and [[Kuroi Nakase]]. Her theme color is white.

Yuka was a high school senior at the time, and was the only one besides Nana not to be a full-fledged member. She had a strong penchant for complaining about many things, in particular her inability to land a rare office job while still in high school. She is loud-mouthed and not very careful with what she says, but appears to be at least partially responsible in that she wished to have a stable job before getting into a relationship. She is also straight.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29744853120/character-post-8-miscellaneous]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:MSY]]

Shiraishi Akari

2013-04-23T03:30:49Z

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'''Shiraishi Akari''' was member of the original team that held [[Kuroi Nana]] and [[Kuroi Nakase]]. Her theme color is green.

Akari was a college undergraduate at the time, and decidedly composed and level-headed compared to [[Takukatsu Yuka]]. She is usually deferential to [[Nakajima Emiri]], but is not afraid to put Yuka in her place or criticize Emiri when necessary, and is fairly harsh when she does. Otherwise, she does not stand out very much.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29744853120/character-post-8-miscellaneous]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:MSY]]

Nakajima Emiri

2013-04-23T03:24:50Z

AKAAkira: Age from standpoint of story start

{{Characterbox
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|kanji=
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'''Nakajima Emiri''' was the leader of the team to which first [[Kuroi Nakase]], then [[Kuroi Nana]], had been originally assigned to. Her theme color is yellow.

Emiri was shown to be laconic seeming most of the time, and listless when she had nothing to do, but still containing the spine of steel common to most of the truly old. She appears to to favor textbook approaches. Emiri was described as a "career demon hunter" and she seems to be proud of it.

She was the oldest of her group during its time, being at least a century old, and lived through at least a part of the [[Unification Wars]], during which it is implied she lost a lover. She was decidedly self-conscious and defensive about this fact, which "drove estimates of it sky-high". She is not, however, quite old enough to let go of a slight hero-worship [[Akemi Homura]], and likely the other [[Mahou Shoujo Youkai#Founders|Founders]] as well.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29744853120/character-post-8-miscellaneous]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:MSY]]

Takukatsu Yuka

2013-04-23T03:24:13Z

AKAAkira: Created page with "{{Characterbox |image= |gender= f |kanji= |age= ~130 |occupation= Unknown |special= None |weapon= Sword (unspecified) |class= |CO= |mentor= }} '''Takukatsu Yuka''' was a..."

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'''Takukatsu Yuka''' was a member of the original team that contained [[Kuroi Nana]] and [[Kuroi Nakase]]. Her theme color is white.

Yuka was a high school senior at the time, and had a strong penchant for complaining about many things, in particular her inability to land a rare office job while still in high school. She is loud-mouthed and not very careful with what she says, but appears to be at least partially responsible in that she wished to have a stable job before getting into a relationship. She is also straight.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29744853120/character-post-8-miscellaneous]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:MSY]]

Nakajima Emiri

2013-04-23T03:13:53Z

AKAAkira: Created page with "{{Characterbox |image= |gender= f |kanji= |age= >100 |occupation= Unknown (current)<br>Leader of local demon-hunting team (previous, early 24<sup>th</sup> century) |special=..."

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|weapon=
|class=
|CO=
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'''Nakajima Emiri''' was the leader of the team to which first [[Kuroi Nakase]], then [[Kuroi Nana]], had been originally assigned to. Her theme color is yellow.

Emiri was shown to be laconic seeming most of the time, and listless when she had nothing to do, but still containing the spine of steel common to most of the truly old. She appears to to favor textbook approaches. Emiri was described as a "career demon hunter" and she seems to be proud of it.

She was the oldest of her group during its time, being at least a century old, and lived through at least a part of the [[Unification Wars]], during which it is implied she lost a lover. She was decidedly self-conscious and defensive about this fact, which "drove estimates of it sky-high". She is not, however, quite old enough to let go of a slight hero-worship [[Akemi Homura]], and likely the other [[Mahou Shoujo Youkai#Founders|Founders]] as well.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29744853120/character-post-8-miscellaneous]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:MSY]]

Template:Characterbox

2013-04-21T03:59:07Z

AKAAkira: Fixed width at 300.

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|gender= Gender, either m or f, case-sensitive
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Kyubey

2013-04-21T03:53:59Z

AKAAkira: Redirected page to Incubators#Kyubey

#redirect[[Incubators#Kyubey]]

File:Kyubey.png

2013-04-21T03:49:51Z

AKAAkira: Category:Character Images

[[Category:Character Images]]

Incubators

2013-04-21T03:49:00Z

AKAAkira: Created page with "{{Characterbox |name= Kyubey |image= Kyubey.png |gender= |kanji= キュゥべえ |age= Unknown (>400) |occupation= Contractor of Magical Girls<br>Consumer of [[Grief Cube]..."

{{Characterbox
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The '''Incubators''' are a race of extraterrestrial aliens who grant one [[Magical Girl#Wish-making|wish]] for girls with magical potential, in exchange turning them into Magical Girls. Their ultimate goal is to combat the universe's entropy levels.

So far only two distinct Incubators have been identified: [[Kyubey]] and the unnamed Incubator from {{Ch|2}}.

==History==
As prepubescent human girls have proven to be the best source of energy available, the histories of Incubators and humans have been intricately linked. It has been implied that human innovation and technology have advanced so far and so fast only because they have been spurred on by the wishes made by girls throughout the ages.

The earliest suspected interaction between girl and Incubator is the discovery of fire.

==Methodology==
The details of their technology and its relation with magic are not wholly understood (even to the Incubators themselves, when regarding magic). However, it is known that they harness the emotional energy generated by prepubescent human girls when they are converted into Magical Girls, and that they grant one wish or one "miracle" in return. They are also tasked with consuming Grief Cube, preferably saturated ones, in order to make sure [[demons]] do not spawn.

Incubators, before the formation of [[MSY]], approached girls with potential on their own to pitch their offers, relying on two main sales points: the ability to grant one "miracle" of any kind (within reach of the girl's own "karmic destiny") and what girls as a whole would consider to be a "cute" appearance. They are responsible for explaining all aspects of a Magical Girl, including powers, conditions, and responsibilities, and ''especially'' including the fact that a Magical Girl's soul is transferred to her Soul Gem. Other than this, however, an Incubator is free to pursue a contract in any way they please, such as but not limited to gaining a position of trust by being sympathetic and urging on on the teenage impulses of potential contractees. There have been hints that Incubators deliberately ''engineered'' a situation that would force someone to become a Magical Girl, in the past. Most of these methods have, by this point, are now the responsibilities of the MSY and have been toned down.

Traditionally the Incubators had taught, guided, and coordinated Magical Girls when there were no tutors to do so, attempting to prolong each girl's lives as long as possible. They are ordinarily neutral in conflicts between Magical Girls, as their objective is to efficiently retrieve as much emotional energy as possible with concern for little else (though a notable exception would be [[Mikuni Oriko]] and her group, considering their efficiency in killing ''other'' Magical Girls). Since the advent of the MSY the Incubators often work in concert with them, as their presence have been shown to have extremely positive effects on MG longevity as well as a positive correlation with recruitment numbers.

==Physiology and Abilities==
Incubators resemble white cats with long, floppy ears, each encircled by a golden ring. They have a teardrop-shaped mark on their back that opens to allow for consumption of Grief Cubes. The texture of their bodies and the consistency of their biological makeup are, presumably, similar to cotton plushies<sup>1</sup>. Though they may eat regular food with the mouth on their face, it is unknown if it has any nutritious or otherwise significant value to them.

Only magical girls and potential magical girls can see or detect Incubators presence in any way, though whether this is the Incubators' natural feature or if they chose to largely conceal their presence is not clear. Incubators only communicates telepathically, and can act as relays for girls who are not Magical Girls yet (though they have never described if this ability works by "forwarding" a mental thought or simply mimicking and resending it).

Incubators are by nature emotionless, and views any hint of such on their kind as a mental disorder. Though Incubators told very little to humans about themselves, there are some suggestions that Incubator society operates on [[Governance]]'s "Emergency Mode Level Four": the "mechanization of all human interaction"<sup>2</sup>.

==Reception by Society==
In general, younger Magical Girls view and treat Incubators as the traditional, cute and cuddly ''Mahou Shoujo'' anime mascots. [[Karina Schei]] and [[Shen Xiao Long]] even teases Kyubey in jest, on one occasion<sup>3</sup>. Older Magical Girls appear to be more aware of the Incubators' ability to manipulate.

Reception from the general population is less clear. It is known that the radically conservative sectors equates them to traditional demons, reminiscent of the saying "a deal with the devil". Youths appear more likely to respond to them with curiosity, if the sales of Incubator plushies are anything to go by. Parents most likely categorizes them similarly to MGs in general; grateful in public, yet spiteful where their girl is concerned. Scientists may or may not be frustrated by the lack of information on Incubators themselves and their technologies, or ecstatic in whatever furthering of sciences that they do offer. Military personnel and [[Governance]] are, presumably, gratified for the providence of Magical Girls.

==Kyubey==
[[Kyubey]] (キュゥべえ, ''Kyuubee'') is the Incubator that [http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Kyubey featured prominently in the original series], being responsible for [[Mitakihara City]]. As such, he has an illustrious list of contractees to his name, including all three of the main protagonists, [[Akemi Homura]], large parts of [[Ryouko]]'s family, and, though he doesn't know, [[the Goddess]] herself.

Kyubey, for some reason, appear to be attached to [[Mami]], never failing to meet her whenever she arrives in Mitakihara City.

==References==
# [http://www.crunchyroll.com/puella-magi-madoka-magica/episode-8-i-was-stupid-so-stupid-591749]
# {{Ch|8}}
# {{Ch|6}}
# [http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/29744853120/character-post-8-miscellaneous]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:MSY]]

User talk:En

2013-04-15T00:38:14Z

AKAAkira: /* Kanji + Parameters */ new section

I went ahead and added a [[MSY_Archives:Copyrights|licensing page]]. CC-BY-SA was indeed used, but I also included a maximally permissive license for Hieronym to reuse stuff posted here (just in case someone makes an error and includes a new idea that he then ends up using). Sound good? [[User:Archivist|Archivist]] ([[User talk:Archivist|talk]]) 14:44, 13 April 2013 (PDT)

== Kanji + Parameters ==

Yeah, the kanji was misleading. It was something akin to a quick test...which I promptly forgot to delete, so thanks for catching that.

But I'd prefer it if the empty parameters aren't deleted - remembering my own start on wikis was based on copy-pasting templates from other pages, I'd feel inclined to say, leave them in case newcomers don't yet know how to get to a template page. -[[User:AKAAkira|Akira]] ([[User talk:AKAAkira|talk]]) 17:38, 14 April 2013 (PDT)

Kuroi Nana

2013-04-15T00:32:59Z

AKAAkira:

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|weapon= Composite bow
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[[Kuroi Abe]]’s elder daughter, who contracted to reverse her sister’s contract, after her sister lost her body trying to save her. The [[MSY]] MHD’s refusal to let her tell the truth to [[Ryouko's Grandmother|her mother]] bred an atmosphere of distrust which led to her moving far away. Eventually, she obtained an Internal Security job as a MSY inspector of unsupported colonies, which she used as an excuse to cut ties with her family, a decision she regretted later, after obtaining more maturity. Afterward, she reestablished ties with her father and sister, but not with her mother, who continued to think her gone. Her attempts to reestablish contact after the advent of the [[Contact War]] would help to precipitate her mother’s falling out with the family and enlistment in the military. She was originally mentored by Akemi Homura, which likely explains why she was assigned to head the division’s twenty year search for the MSY’s missing First Executive.

Despite everything, appears to be on good terms with her younger sister and father. Her MG costume is similar to Ryouko's, and she wields a composite bow, with a six-pointed star at the base of her throat. Her costume is, however, purple.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28533996337/character-post-6-family]

Main Page

2013-04-15T00:27:25Z

AKAAkira:

Someplace to dump canon info about [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7406866/1/To-the-Stars To The Stars].

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{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="6" | Main Characters
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| [[Shizuki Ryouko]] || [[Simona del Mago]] || [[Nakihara Asami]] || [[Tomoe Mami]] || [[Sakura Kyouko]] || [[Chitose Yuma]]
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! colspan="6" | Secondary Characters
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| [[Ruiko]] || [[Chiaki]] || [[Patricia von Rohr]] || [[Shirou Asaka]] || [[Meiqing]] ||
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| [[Kuroi Nakase]] || [[Shizuki Kuma]] || [[Kuroi Abe]] || [[Ryouko's Grandmother]] || [[Shizuki Koto]] || [[Kugimiya Hiro]]
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| [[Kugimiya Ito]] || [[Nakanishi Aiko]] || [[Kuroi Nana]] || [[Kuroi Kana]] || [[Shizuki Sayaka]] || [[Shizuki Hitomi]]
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| [[Atsuko Arisu]] || [[Clarisse van Rossum]] || [[Tanaka Yui]] || [[Akemi Homura]] || [[Kaname Madoka]] || [[Kyubey]]
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| [[Erwynmark]] || [[Sualem]] || [[Tsvangirai]] || [[de Chatillon]] || [[Alexander]] || [[Karishma Anand]]
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| [[Chang]] || [[Miller]] || [[Feodorovich]] || || ||
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| [[Mikuni Oriko]] || [[Kure Kirika]] || [[Aina Hinata]] || [[Miroko Mikuru]] || ||
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| [[Miki Sayaka]] || [[Kishida Maki]] || [[Risa Flores]] || [[Alice]] || [[Karina Schei]] || [[Shen Xiao Long]]
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| [[Marianne Francois]] || [[Hyori]] || [[Sarah Kaisan]] || [[Nakajima Emiri]] || [[Takukatsu Yuka]] || [[Shiraishi Akari]]
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| [[Julian Bradshaw]] || [[Vladimir Volokhov]] || [[Joanne Valentin]] || || ||
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| ''[[Mahou Shoujo Youkai]]'' || [[Army]] || [[TacComp]] || [[Battle of Epsilon Eridani]] || ||
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Tomoe Mami

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'''Tomoe Mami''' (巴マミ ''Tomoe Mami'') is one of the [http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Mami_Tomoe original protagonists from Puella Magi Madoka Magica]. In [[To the Stars]], her main role is being the primary mentor of [[Shizuki Ryouko]].

==Story==
Mami is first introduced while searching for potential magical girls in Mitakihara City. She rescues Ryouko from a [[demon]] attack, and is the one to push her into a contract. Mami also provides commentary while watching the [[Akemi movie]].

Mami contributed greatly to planning a (failed) [[MagOps]] attack against a [[Wormhole Generator]]. She, along with [[Chitose Yuma]] and [[Sakura Kyouko]], are also the ones investigating mysterious administrative problems (the grief cube shortages and the disappearing [[Puella Magi]]) as well as the enigma surrounding Ryouko (the attempt on Ryouko's life, Ryouko's friend [[Simona del Mago]], the suspicious [[Joanne Valentin]], and the surprise attack on the ''HSS Pierre-Simon Laplace'').

==Background==
===Before Reset===
Her parents died in a car crash when she was only a child, Mami herself only surviving via a wish to [[Kyubey]]. As such, she was forced to learn to fend for herself. She survived solo witch hunts for over a year, taught herself how to form muskets, and mentored Kyouko, [[Akemi Homura]], and [[Miki Sayaka]] before the point at which Homura gains the memories of erased timelines.

===Ten Year Gap===
Before the formation of the MSY, Mami's money was the primary funding that the Four had, and meetings amongst the Four or with other groups were based at her apartment(s), with her serving refreshments.

She nursed an uncharacteristically heavy grudge with [[Mikuni Oriko]], who had gone out of her way to harass her, her territory, and her home. When Oriko died, Mami's only thought was, "I never thought I'd see the day she would go down... I never got to get my revenge."

===MSY===
One of her aliases during this time was "Tomatsu Mai". It is known that she rotated through many roles, including the title of Chief Diplomat.

Mami was the first Director of the [[Soul Guard]], and served until a mission to eliminate [[Grief Cube Thief|an as of yet unnamed girl]] finished eating away at her guilt.

===After Reveal===
After the [[Battle of Epsilon Eridani]], Mami became a Field Marshal and serves on the [[General Staff]]. Her biggest accomplishment to date is the [[Saharan Raid]], where she covered Field Marshal [[Erwynmark]]'s retreat (following a successful assault).

Her flagship is the battlecruiser ''HSS Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov''.

==Character==
Mami works hard to project an image of matronly responsibility and has always been the "respectable older sister" figure, as well as the diplomat, of the Mitakihara Four. During the Cold War with [[SMC]], Mami was the only one of the elder Leadership members to take on a conciliatory stance amongst a sea of poker faces.

Mami is an excellent cook, and still prefers to use fresh produce instead of [[synthesized]] ones.

==[[TacComp]]==
Mami is equipped with a v2 TacComp named Machina, which acts as her close adviser, secretary, and personal processing core. Mami suspects Machina might be fond of Field Marshal Erwynmark, which has "some possibly disturbing implications".

==Titles==
===Current===
*Field Marshal, [[Army]]
*Member, General Staff
*Special Sector Commander, [[Euphratic Sector]]
*[[MSY]] Military Liaison
*MSY Rules Committee Representative, [[Mitakihara]] Special District
*Second Executive, MSY Leadership Committee
*MSY Founder.

===Past===
*Chief Diplomat, MSY

==Distinctions==
*'''Directorate Citation''', for the Battle of Epsilon Eridani (the medal is earned "for contributing to an exceptional degree to the wellbeing of Humanity")
*'''Defender's Star, First Class''', for the Saharan Raid (''exact medal requirements unknown'')

==Gallery==
<gallery>

</gallery>

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28304991575/character-post-2-tomoe-mami]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:MSY]]
[[Category:Army]]

Timeline

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==Historical==
===Present Day, Present Time===
'''1995-1996''': Year of [[Mami]]'s birth

'''1996-1997:''' Rough year of birth for every other main cast member

'''October 3, 1996:''' [[Madoka]]'s Date of Birth in original timeline (series was ~March-April, 2011)

'''2001-2002:''' Rough year of birth for [[Yuma]]

'''2010-2011:''' Mami and [[Kyouko]] reconcile after separation.

'''2011:''' [[Homura]] Contracts/receives timeloop memories, [[Sayaka]] dies. Yuma first spotted.

'''2011-early 2012:''' Yuma spotted second time

'''2013-2014:''' Yuma spotted third time, [[Oriko]] and Co. bites it, Yuma "[[Befriended]]".
===Early [[MSY]]===
'''2021:''' Founding of MSY.

'''2031:''' Formation of MSY Leadership Committee

'''2043:''' Formation of [[Soul Guard]], Leadership Committee given power to form bureaucracy

'''2044:''' Institutionalization of MSY Judiciary

'''2045:''' Beginning of corporate expansion throughout pacific rim and parts of East Asia

'''2053:''' Formation of MHD

'''2055:''' MSY takeover of Yakuza

'''2059:''' First major charter rewrite (excluding early period), formation of MSY Rules Committee, institutionalization of MSY Citizenship, implementation of restrictive Japanese nativist rules regarding membership.

'''2061:''' [["Second generation" mages]] begin appearing in meaningful numbers.

===MSY Globalization===
'''2065:''' MSY Takeover of Triad, corporate expansion into China; [[Kugimiya Ito]] and [[Nakanishi Aiko]] reunite ({{Ch|17}})

'''2067:''' Second major charter rewrite, repeal of nativist policies, formalization of expansionist protocol, federalization policies

'''2068:''' First MSY overseas outpost

'''2085:''' Last independent Japanese magical girls absorbed into MSY

'''2068-2126:''' Expansion and globalization of MSY, first attempts at AI.

'''2101:''' First encounter with [[SMC]]

'''2116:''' Rough beginning of [[MSY-SMC Cold War]]

'''2126:''' SMC agrees to merger in exchange for concessions

'''2138:''' Last known non-MSY holdout consents to membership

'''2130s-2140s:''' [[Pretoria AI scandal]], magically aided discovery of AI principles by [[Volokhov]].

===Unification Wars===
'''2130s-2150s:''' MSY members reach effective hyperclass status; future FA/UF distinctions start to become apparent. Structural unemployment rises to crisis levels.

'''2146:''' Volokhov granted Turing Award. Interviewed about discovery.

'''2148:''' Turing Award expanded to AI recipients.

'''2150s:''' Future FA nations become increasingly brutal in the crushing of domestic uprisings.

'''2160-2230:''' Time period of the [[Unification Wars]].

'''2160:''' UN dissolves amidst irreconcilable discord, is replaced by [[Freedom Alliance]] (FA) and [[United Front]] (UF). Neutral nations slowly descend into civil war.

'''2160-63:''' International situation deteriorates, local wars begin to break out.

'''2163:''' [[St. Petersburg atrocity]] precipitates events; MSY membership votes to apply unprecedented punitive measures on its minority FA-sympathetic faction. Full UF/FA inter-factional war breaks out soon after. While there would be truces, usually after massive WMD exchanges, states of war become more and more persistent, eventually becoming continuous.

'''2175-2200:''' Majority of UF governments collapse under war strain, to be replaced by direct UF military rule.

'''2180:''' [[Governance|UF Emergency Defense Committee (EDC)]] founded, eventually taking dictatorial powers into itself.

'''2205-2215:''' It becomes clear that economic fundamentals and FA disunity dictate eventual UF victory, but completion of this victory proves agonizing, horrifying and sanguinous.

'''2215-2230:''' FA desperation drives previously unimagined levels of atrocity.

'''2230:''' Last surviving FA state is overrun.

===Governance Era===

'''2236:''' [[Kuroi Abe]] born. Unification Wars have definitely ended.

'''2310:''' Kuroi Abe and [[Ryouko's Grandmother|his future wife]] are on the brink of marriage

'''2310-2330:''' [[Kuroi Nana]] born, with [[Kuroi Nakase]] following shortly after

'''2330-2350:''' Kuroi Nana disappears

'''2350-2380:''' Beginning of MSY clones project

'''2395-2420:''' First successful use of blank slate clone as new host body

'''2439:''' Homura’s "birthday" party scene ({{Ch|6}})

===Contact War===

'''2440:''' First Contact with Cephalopod aliens, destruction of Aurora/Atlas colonies, [[Battle of Epsilon Eridani]]/New Athens, disappearance of Homura, end of masquerade

'''2441:''' Kyouko gives first speech announcing her intention to found [[The Cult of Hope|a new religion]]

'''2440-2443:''' Mami nominated for and granted position of Field Marshal

'''2446:''' Spring-[[Asaka]], [[Alice]], [[Patricia]] undergo initial training

'''2452:''' [[Samsara offensive]] ends in debacle for Cephalopods

'''2452-2453:''' Marshals [[Erwynmark]]'s [[Saharan Raid]]s destroy at least a shipyard and [[Wormhole Stabilizer]], putting a temporary end to alien ability to sustain offensives. Mami’s involvement in saving the fleet earns her the Defender’s Star, First class

'''2457:''' Beginning of [[Euphratic Incursion]]

'''2460:''' Start of TtS

==Our Heroine's Story==
===Volume 1===
'''September 16 (Day 0):''' Demon attack, contract ({{Ch|1}}), first hunt with Kyouko, announcement to parents (late night, stretching into next day) ({{Ch|5}}), sleep ({{Ch|2}})

Mami watches [[Akemi (movie)|a movie]] ({{Ch|3}}/{{Ch|4|}}) and departs on space elevator ({{Ch|6}}) (early morning, next day)

'''September 17:''' Ryouko receives her implant upgrades, visits [[the Ribbon]] and receives vision ({{Ch|9}}), talks with theological council and Asaka, then returns home ({{Ch|10}}).

General Staff meeting is held and Mami is informed of her new position, leaving late in the day. ({{Ch|6}})

(morning) Kyouko flashbacks about Yuma ({{Ch|7}}), then visits and talks with her ({{Ch|8}}).

'''September 18:''' Early morning (right after midnight): Dinner with family and visit to sparring ground, etc. Afternoon and night: Movie trip with friends, sleepover ({{Ch|11}})

Midday-Kyouko and Mami call each other and discuss grief cubes ({{Ch|10}}).

Late-Kyouko and Yuma discuss surveillance on Ryouko ({{Ch|11}})

'''September 19:''' First grief cube shipment and group demon hunt ({{Ch|12}}).

'''September 20:''' Get-together party, where she meets [[Nakihara Asami]] ({{Ch|13}}).

'''September 21:''' Visit with psychologist ([[Atsuko Arisu]]), followed by visit to see clones ({{Ch|13}}).

'''September 22:''' Farewell party, meeting [[Kuroi Kana]], [[Shizuki Sayaka]] and [[Kuroi Nana]]. Kuroi Nana shows Ryouko the past of Nana and her mother ({{Ch|14}}/{{Ch|15|}}).

Morning: Yuma, Kyouko, and Mami hold virtual meeting ({{Ch|14}})

'''September 23:''' Ryouko departs for her training, traveling with her cohort of girls contracted in and near [[Mitakihara City]] ({{Ch|16}}).

===Volume 2===
'''September 29:''' MG raid on Wormhole Stabilizer fails. Ryouko nears the end of her training. ({{Ch|18}}/{{Ch|19|}})

'''October 1:''' HSS Laplace is surprise attacked in deep space by alien fighters. Ship is saved by its MG complement, which includes Ryouko. Ryouko suffers heavy radiation exposure.

[[Maki]] participates in combat on the streets of [[Heliolopolis]], and reminisces on how it would have been her and Kyouko's first anniversary. ({{Ch|20}})

'''October 2:''' Ryouko spends time in bed talking with [[Ryouko#TacComp|Clarisse]], who mentions that she is beginning to recover Goddess vision memories.({{Ch|20}})

'''October 3:''' Ryouko et al. land on the planet of [[Acheron]]. Ryouko attends a late gathering commemorating the Goddess's birthday, and listens to a broadcast by Kyouko. Maki does the same thing, on Apollo. ({{Ch|20}})

Kyouko, Mami, and Yuma discuss conspiracies over virtual dinner - Simona del Mago, the attack on HSS Laplace, [[Valentin]], supersaturated grief cubes, and the war. Kyouko's pseudo-memories of Madoka screws with her mind.

(During Ryouko's next free time slot) Ryouko corresponds with her mother and [[Chiaki]], then goes on a date with Asami to a basketball game and the ''onsen''. Cue kiss and the sudden transfer to [[the Kepler-37 system]].

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28295270913/background-timeline-revealed-so-far]
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28296227067/story-so-far]

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Kuroi Nana

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|kanji= くろい　なな
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[[Kuroi Abe]]’s elder daughter, who contracted to reverse her sister’s contract, after her sister lost her body trying to save her. The [[MSY]] MHD’s refusal to let her tell the truth to [[Ryouko's Grandmother|her mother]] bred an atmosphere of distrust which led to her moving far away. Eventually, she obtained an Internal Security job as a MSY inspector of unsupported colonies, which she used as an excuse to cut ties with her family, a decision she regretted later, after obtaining more maturity. Afterward, she reestablished ties with her father and sister, but not with her mother, who continued to think her gone. Her attempts to reestablish contact after the advent of the [[Contact War]] would help to precipitate her mother’s falling out with the family and enlistment in the military. She was originally mentored by Akemi Homura, which likely explains why she was assigned to head the division’s twenty year search for the MSY’s missing First Executive.

Despite everything, appears to be on good terms with her younger sister and father. Her MG costume is similar to Ryouko's, and she wields a composite bow, with a six-pointed star at the base of her throat. Her costume is, however, purple.

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28533996337/character-post-6-family]

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Tomoe Mami

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'''Tomoe Mami''' (巴マミ, ''Tomoe Mami'') is one of the [http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Mami_Tomoe original protagonists from Puella Magi Madoka Magica]. In [[To the Stars]], her main role is being the primary mentor of [[Shizuki Ryouko]].

==Story==
Mami is first introduced while searching for potential magical girls in Mitakihara City. She rescues Ryouko from a [[demon]] attack, and is the one to push her into a contract. Mami also provides commentary while watching the [[Akemi movie]].

Mami contributed greatly to planning a (failed) [[MagOps]] attack against a [[Wormhole Generator]]. She, along with [[Chitose Yuma]] and [[Sakura Kyouko]], are also the ones investigating mysterious administrative problems (the grief cube shortages and the disappearing [[Puella Magi]]) as well as the enigma surrounding Ryouko (the attempt on Ryouko's life, Ryouko's friend [[Simona del Mago]], the suspicious [[Joanne Valentin]], and the surprise attack on the ''HSS Pierre-Simon Laplace'').

==Background==
===Before Reset===
Her parents died in a car crash when she was only a child, Mami herself only surviving via a wish to [[Kyubey]]. As such, she was forced to learn to fend for herself. She survived solo witch hunts for over a year, taught herself how to form muskets, and mentored Kyouko, [[Akemi Homura]], and [[Miki Sayaka]] before the point at which Homura gains the memories of erased timelines.

===Ten Year Gap===
Before the formation of the MSY, Mami's money was the primary funding that the Four had, and meetings amongst the Four or with other groups were based at her apartment(s), with her serving refreshments.

She nursed an uncharacteristically heavy grudge with [[Mikuni Oriko]], who had gone out of her way to harass her, her territory, and her home. When Oriko died, Mami's only thought was, "''I never thought I'd see the day she would go down... I never got to get my revenge.''"

===MSY===
One of her aliases during this time was "Tomatsu Mai". It is known that she rotated through many roles, including the title of Chief Diplomat.

Mami was the first Director of the [[Soul Guard]], and served until a mission to eliminate [[Grief Cube Thief|an as of yet unnamed girl]] finished eating away at her guilt.

===After Reveal===
After [[the Battle of Episilon Eridani]], Mami became a Field Marshal and serves on the [[General Staff]]. Her biggest accomplishment to date is the [[Saharan Raid]], where she covered Field Marshal [[Erwynmark]]'s retreat (following a successful assault).

Her flagship is the battlecruiser ''HSS Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov''.

==Character==
Mami works hard to project an image of matronly responsibility and has always been the "respectable older sister" figure, as well as the diplomat, of the Mitakihara Four. During the Cold War with [[SMC]], Mami was the only one of the elder Leadership members to take on a conciliatory stance amongst a sea of poker faces.

Mami is an excellent cook, and still prefers to use fresh produce instead of [[synthesized]] ones.

==[[TacComp]]==
Mami's v2 TacComp is named Machina, and is her close adviser, secretary, and personal processing core. Mami suspects Machina might be fond of Field Marshal Erwynmark, "which had some possibly disturbing implications".

==Titles==
===Current===
*Field Marshal, [[Army]]
*Member, General Staff
*Special Sector Commander, [[Euphratic Sector]]
*[[MSY]] Military Liaison
*MSY Rules Committee Representative, [[Mitakihara]] Special District
*Second Executive, MSY Leadership Committee
*MSY Founder.

===Past===
*Chief Diplomat, MSY

==Distinctions==
*'''Directorate Citation''', for the Battle of Episilon Eridani (the medal is earned "for contributing to an exceptional degree to the wellbeing of Humanity")
*'''Defender's Star, First Class''', for the Saharan Raid (''exact medal requirements unknown'')

==Gallery==
<gallery>

</gallery>

==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28304991575/character-post-2-tomoe-mami]

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:MSY]]
[[Category:Army]]

Machina

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Mami Tomoe

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Tomoe Mami

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AKAAkira: AKAAkira moved page Mami Tomoe to Tomoe Mami over redirect: Eastern name order

'''Mami Tomoe''' (巴マミ, ''Tomoe Mami'') is one of the [http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Mami_Tomoe original protagonists from Puella Magi Madoka Magica]. In [[To the Stars]], her main role is being the primary mentor of [[Ryouko Shizuki]].

==Story==
Mami is first introduced while searching for potential magical girls in Mitakihara City. She rescues Ryouko Shizuki from a [[demon]] attack, and is the one to push her into a contract. Mami also provides commentary while watching the [[Akemi movie]].

Mami contributed greatly to planning a (failed) [[MagOps]] attack against a [[Wormhole Generator]]. She, along with [[Yuma Chitose]] and [[Kyouko Sakura]], are also the ones investigating mysterious administrative problems (the grief cube shortages and the disappearing [[Puella Magi]]) as well as the enigma surrounding Ryouko Shizuki (the attempt on Ryouko's life, Ryouko's friend [[Simona del Mago]], the suspicious [[Joanne Valentin]], and the surprise attack on the ''HSS Pierre-Simon Laplace'').

==Background==
===Before Reset===
Her parents died in a car crash when she was only a child, Mami herself only surviving via a wish to [[Kyubey]]. As such, she was forced to learn to fend for herself. She survived solo witch hunts for over a year, taught herself how to form muskets, and mentored Kyouko Sakura, [[Homura Akemi]], and [[Sayaka Miki]] before the point at which Homura Akemi gains the memories of erased timelines.

===Ten Year Gap===
Before the formation of the MSY, Mami's money was the primary funding that the Four had, and meetings amongst the Four or with other groups were based at her apartment(s), with her serving refreshments.

She nursed an uncharacteristically heavy grudge with [[Oriko Mikuni]], who had gone out of her way to harass her, her territory, and her home. When Oriko Mikuni died, Mami's only thought was, "''I never thought I'd see the day she would go down... I never got to get my revenge.''"

===MSY===
One of her aliases during this time was "Mai Tomatsu". It is known that she rotated through many roles, including the title of Chief Diplomat.

Mami was the first Director of the [[Soul Guard]], and served until a mission to eliminate [[Grief Cube Thief|an as of yet unnamed girl]] finished eating away at her guilt.

===After Reveal===
After [[the Battle of Episilon Eridani]], Mami became a Field Marshal and serves on the [[General Staff]]. Her biggest accomplishment to date is the [[Saharan Raid]], where she covered [[Field Marshal Erwynmark]]'s retreat (following a successful assault).

Her flagship is the battlecruiser ''HSS Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov''.

==Character==
Mami works hard to project an image of matronly responsibility and has always been the "respectable older sister" figure, as well as the diplomat, of the Mitakihara Four. During the Cold War with [[SMC]], Mami was the only one of the elder Leadership members to take on a conciliatory stance amongst a sea of poker faces.

Mami is an excellent cook, and still prefers to use fresh produce instead of [[synthesized]] ones.

==[[TacComp]]==
Mami's v2 TacComp is named Machina, and is her close adviser, secretary, and personal processing core. Mami suspects Machina might be fond of Field Marshal Erwynmark, "which had some possibly disturbing implications".

==Current Titles==
*Field Marshal, [[Army]]
*Member, General Staff
*Special Sector Commander, [[Euphratic Sector]]
*[[MSY]] Military Liaison
*MSY Rules Committee Representative, [[Mitakihara]] Special District
*Second Executive, MSY Leadership Committee
*MSY Founder.

==Past Titles==
*Chief Diplomat, MSY

==Distinctions==
*'''Directorate Citation''', for the Battle of Episilon Eridani (the medal is earned "for contributing to an exceptional degree to the wellbeing of Humanity")
*'''Defender's Star, First Class''', for the Saharan Raid (''exact medal requirements unknown'')

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==References==
[http://ttshieronym.tumblr.com/post/28304991575/character-post-2-tomoe-mami]

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