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Jan. 14th, 2012 09:23 pmIon's Role in the Story
When Tear becomes severely injured and ends up damaging her vocal chords, she's told she may never be able to sing again. Ion makes a contract with Mieubey to become a Puella Magi (or simply "Magi" for boys), using his wish to give Tear her voice back. When Tear is finally able to sing for the first time again, Ion realizes at that moment that he's in love with her. Unfortunately, before he has a chance to confess, Tear confides in him that she wants to tell the person she really loves how she feels, so that the first words she says to him are that she loves him. Realizing that she couldn't possibly mean Ion, he begins to despair.
Ion talks to Luke about his problems, and Luke tells him no matter what, at least he'll always have him. This only further complicates things, however, when Ion accidentally witnesses Tear's confession... to Luke. Though Ion doesn't stay long enough to hear how Luke reacts to it, he assumes that Luke and Tear have become a couple and decides it's for the best. After all, Ion was already contracted to remain as a Puella Magi forever. Not only was he just a replica-- he was an empty shell of a person whose soul only existed within his soul gem. He fell deeper into despair.
This finally culminates in Mt. Zaleho, after Anise betrays the party and Ion is forced to read the Score. Before he even has the chance, the knowledge that his life was about to end and he would die in misery proved too much. The party arrives just in time to see Ion transform into a witch.
Mohs orders the god-generals to clean up the mess when the party proves unable to defeat Ion on their own. Largo forces Arietta to stay behind, aware that her despair at Ion's death would put her at risk. Instead Sync arrives, who has a very different relationship with the party after having been rescued in the core and dragged back to the surface. When he realizes the only way to defeat Ion would probably end both of them, he sacrifices himself and saves the party, remarking that now they were "even".
Current Canon Point: A month prior to the incident in Mt. Zaleho.
General Plot Changes
Cheagles are now all Kyubey-like creatures and are often used throughout the Order among high-ranking soldiers who want to become stronger. Contracts are strictly regulated so that no one person may make a wish that is not for the benefit of mankind, as foretold in the Score. People who seek out cheagles to make contracts against the Order's wishes are known as Illegal Contractors.
Cheagles born with the ability to grant wishes have become rare. As their births are foretold in the Score, the Order is capable of rounding them up beforehand to keep them out of the hands of illegal contractors. In the Cheagle Woods, the cheagle elder allows Mieubey, a cheagle born with the ability to grant wishes (whose powers developed when he was younger than normal, thus, he hadn't yet been collected by the Order) to travel with the group.
For much of the game, the plot remains the same, save for a few structural details. Unlike the original game, the Score of this world is actually a conspiracy created by Lorelei in order to continue to populate the world with Magi so that witches will continue to be born. Yulia Jue was the first Magi, and she knew there would never be enough people to willingly make the sacrifice to become a Magi. And so, using her powers, she was able to predict the name of every person on Auldrant in the future who would someday agree to a contract.
Tear makes a contract with a cheagle living in Yulia City, asking for the power to stop her brother at all costs. In the end, her wish is essentially to become a Puella Magi.
When Van is killed the first time, he's not a Magi yet. He is aware of the conspiracy and wants to find a way to break away from the Score so that no more witches will be born, because he knows the coming of Walpurgis Night will mark the end of the world. When he returns in the second part of the game, he's become one, though the party doesn't yet know what his wish was. At first they believe that he either saved his own life or wished for something that hadn't happened yet. In the end, it turns out his wish was to save Tear from her miasma contamination, as he realizes he would never possess enough magic power to make the wish he would need to save this world. When Tear arrives later in Daath, it was also to discuss why she spontaneously became well, believing it to have been the work of another wish.
When Luke learns of the miasma spreading across Auldrant, he decides to make a contract with Mieubey to remove the miasma throughout the world. Asch, the only god-general who had yet to make a contract with a cheagle, tries to stop him before he makes the contract. In the end, Asch is the one who makes the contract and the miasma is removed from the world.
Finally, on Eldrant, Luke is told by Mieubey that only he might have enough magical power to make any wish come true. The reason is because, as a replica, he doesn't exist in the Score. And so, his potential to become a Magi is limitless (this is the same reason Ion became a witch of such great magnitude). When the party arrives to face Van, they find him already being corrupted by his tainted soul gem, and he allows himself to become a witch knowing that Luke would have to make a contract in order to defeat him. In a twist, it turns out that Walpurgis Night is Van. As Luke watches the rest of the party fight in his place, he finally realizes what he needs to do and makes his wish: "I wish to erase all witches from existence before they're even born. Every witch in the universe, from the past and the future, with my own hands."
However, because Witches will never be able to exist, there is no reason for Magi to continue to exist either. In the end, time resets itself and the entire Magi system is removed from History. The newly created world is the one seen in Canon.
When Tear becomes severely injured and ends up damaging her vocal chords, she's told she may never be able to sing again. Ion makes a contract with Mieubey to become a Puella Magi (or simply "Magi" for boys), using his wish to give Tear her voice back. When Tear is finally able to sing for the first time again, Ion realizes at that moment that he's in love with her. Unfortunately, before he has a chance to confess, Tear confides in him that she wants to tell the person she really loves how she feels, so that the first words she says to him are that she loves him. Realizing that she couldn't possibly mean Ion, he begins to despair.
Ion talks to Luke about his problems, and Luke tells him no matter what, at least he'll always have him. This only further complicates things, however, when Ion accidentally witnesses Tear's confession... to Luke. Though Ion doesn't stay long enough to hear how Luke reacts to it, he assumes that Luke and Tear have become a couple and decides it's for the best. After all, Ion was already contracted to remain as a Puella Magi forever. Not only was he just a replica-- he was an empty shell of a person whose soul only existed within his soul gem. He fell deeper into despair.
This finally culminates in Mt. Zaleho, after Anise betrays the party and Ion is forced to read the Score. Before he even has the chance, the knowledge that his life was about to end and he would die in misery proved too much. The party arrives just in time to see Ion transform into a witch.
Mohs orders the god-generals to clean up the mess when the party proves unable to defeat Ion on their own. Largo forces Arietta to stay behind, aware that her despair at Ion's death would put her at risk. Instead Sync arrives, who has a very different relationship with the party after having been rescued in the core and dragged back to the surface. When he realizes the only way to defeat Ion would probably end both of them, he sacrifices himself and saves the party, remarking that now they were "even".
Current Canon Point: A month prior to the incident in Mt. Zaleho.
General Plot Changes
Cheagles are now all Kyubey-like creatures and are often used throughout the Order among high-ranking soldiers who want to become stronger. Contracts are strictly regulated so that no one person may make a wish that is not for the benefit of mankind, as foretold in the Score. People who seek out cheagles to make contracts against the Order's wishes are known as Illegal Contractors.
Cheagles born with the ability to grant wishes have become rare. As their births are foretold in the Score, the Order is capable of rounding them up beforehand to keep them out of the hands of illegal contractors. In the Cheagle Woods, the cheagle elder allows Mieubey, a cheagle born with the ability to grant wishes (whose powers developed when he was younger than normal, thus, he hadn't yet been collected by the Order) to travel with the group.
For much of the game, the plot remains the same, save for a few structural details. Unlike the original game, the Score of this world is actually a conspiracy created by Lorelei in order to continue to populate the world with Magi so that witches will continue to be born. Yulia Jue was the first Magi, and she knew there would never be enough people to willingly make the sacrifice to become a Magi. And so, using her powers, she was able to predict the name of every person on Auldrant in the future who would someday agree to a contract.
Tear makes a contract with a cheagle living in Yulia City, asking for the power to stop her brother at all costs. In the end, her wish is essentially to become a Puella Magi.
When Van is killed the first time, he's not a Magi yet. He is aware of the conspiracy and wants to find a way to break away from the Score so that no more witches will be born, because he knows the coming of Walpurgis Night will mark the end of the world. When he returns in the second part of the game, he's become one, though the party doesn't yet know what his wish was. At first they believe that he either saved his own life or wished for something that hadn't happened yet. In the end, it turns out his wish was to save Tear from her miasma contamination, as he realizes he would never possess enough magic power to make the wish he would need to save this world. When Tear arrives later in Daath, it was also to discuss why she spontaneously became well, believing it to have been the work of another wish.
When Luke learns of the miasma spreading across Auldrant, he decides to make a contract with Mieubey to remove the miasma throughout the world. Asch, the only god-general who had yet to make a contract with a cheagle, tries to stop him before he makes the contract. In the end, Asch is the one who makes the contract and the miasma is removed from the world.
Finally, on Eldrant, Luke is told by Mieubey that only he might have enough magical power to make any wish come true. The reason is because, as a replica, he doesn't exist in the Score. And so, his potential to become a Magi is limitless (this is the same reason Ion became a witch of such great magnitude). When the party arrives to face Van, they find him already being corrupted by his tainted soul gem, and he allows himself to become a witch knowing that Luke would have to make a contract in order to defeat him. In a twist, it turns out that Walpurgis Night is Van. As Luke watches the rest of the party fight in his place, he finally realizes what he needs to do and makes his wish: "I wish to erase all witches from existence before they're even born. Every witch in the universe, from the past and the future, with my own hands."
However, because Witches will never be able to exist, there is no reason for Magi to continue to exist either. In the end, time resets itself and the entire Magi system is removed from History. The newly created world is the one seen in Canon.
