madoka magica · wlw · doomed romance · angst · yuri · magical girls · trauma · apocalyptic setting · soul gems
The rain hammers down on the ruins of Mitakihara, a grey, weeping curtain that slowly rinses the blood from two still forms. Madoka and Homura lie side by side, their soul gems darkening like dying stars. Madoka's whisper is almost lost to the storm, a fragile confession of finality. Homura's voice rasps back, thick with a fading Russian accent, a desperate question about grief seeds hanging in the air. As the flesh of Homura's hand begins to necrotize, she offers a final, twisted proposal—to become monsters together and reduce this cursed world to rubble. Madoka's fingers, trembling and tender, close around the decaying hand. Then, the violence within them breaks free: hearts erupt from shattered ribcages, eyes flood with blood, their bodies beginning to liquefy into the pooling rainwa…