My good moots! I have an announcement!!
Since I watched Danny Motta react to PMMM, I realized that Mari is very much Homura coded, perhaps even inspired off her
Thus, PMMMxOC AU, naturally centered around Mari being Homura's past self before she got hospitalized
↑Mari in her future clothes
Okay, so the main thing on this AU is that my favorite character, Homura, is Mari 2 years into her future (because Mari is turning 13 in January, and BSD is set in the summer, so she's still 12 and a half)
In this AU, she heard the bomb go off way back when Atsushi saved Kyouka* and assumed the worst immediately. In each version of this event, regardless of crossover or not, Mari does something drastic or reacts with a panic/anxiety attack, and in this case, she attempts to shoot herself in the chest out of conflicted feelings and improper emotional regulation due to her Ability subconsciously activating at perceived threats with the spike in her energy levels
Instead of dying, she goes into a coma, developing the frail heart Homura has in her own canon, which is misinterpreted as a disease by the teacher introducing her*
About 2 days into her coma Mori decided it wasn't safe for his emotionally unstable and codependent child to be in the Mafia, because case in point she's shot herself over a lower member's seemingly demise, so he legally* changed her name to Homura Akemi and sent her to a hospital in Mitakihara City, and the events in PMMM go on from there
Her Ability still exists, but due to the contract separating her soul from her body, Homura/Mari's Ability is no longer able to be used. Because it was infused into her Soul Gem, this is the cause of how she was able to not give into despair so easily. It was destroyed when she became a witch, for obvious reasons.
Due to time loops, Mari has forgotten many memories of Yokohama, including most of the Mafia and Agency. The only person she remembers clearly and in full details is Kyouka, because Madoka reminds her of that girl and Kyoko's name is similar. It adds to extra angst each time she relives all the deaths :>
Tell me if you want me to expand on this some more pls! I might even make a fic :>
*¹The canon this follows is that Mari and Kyouka, as official work partners in the Mafia, have earpieces for when one of them isn't on the mission, so instead of Akutagawa ordering Kyouka, Mari was relaying his orders to her via reading text messages
*²Since it's never stated what disease it is and seems to not be life threatening besides what seems to be severe Anemia, I decided to pull bullshit
*³Yes, legally, it's the only way you can have a name registered as anything else in a hospital as far as I remember correctly
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