#9daime nue

[doppel-tournament]

ROUND 1, Part 10

#Round 1 #Magia Record #Aztekium #Abigail #9daime nue #Oxford #Shigure Miyabi #Hagumu Azumi #San Kagura #Miyuri Yukari

[dreamerwitches]

Mw designs for 9daime nue and Antonio

I am... not a fan of 9daime nue’s design or name so it was a little tricky to do her design. I’ve also renamed her to Kyudame nue because numbers in witch names are dumb. She’s an automaton waitress

I probably shouldn’t like Antonio as much as I do because as a doppel for Kaoru, they don’t make much sense (why does a football girl have a bull doppel?) but I love them so much, I couldn’t tell you why. And are you ready for... baddabaddabadda, first male magical witch??? Yeah! I think Antonio is a lovely lovely trans guy! ^^ give him a round of applause!

#madoka magica #pmmm #puella magi madoka magica #magia record #doppel #9daime nue #antonio #kazumi magica #Puella Magi Kazumi Magica #my art #magical witch au

[juriyuna]

I was gonna say something about how both Yuna and San are referred to as 鬼 ("oni"; localized as "demon") and have tiger motifs, but then I realized that San's only real connection with tigers is her doppel being named 9daime Nue. I've inflicted yet another curse upon myself

#and 9daime nue doesn't even look like a nue #(not as a doppel anyway. maybe it would as a witch) #incurable furry poisoning strikes again...... #i could probably find a few things to reach for with connecting san and tigers #(ie. the divine tiger byakko; associated with protection + strength + metal; often depicted wreathed in fire) #but nothing as concrete as yuna #magia record #kagura san #kureha yuna

[juriyuna]

Now that it's on my mind: thinking about the fact that a lot of Feathers probably accidentally summoned their doppels for the first time while training/fighting for the Magius is kind of entertaining. Some girls have expert control over their doppels, but it seems like that comes with practice.

There's a wide variety of possible disasters here, like:

- Vayu absolutely flooding the hotel hallways with quicksand

- Magical girls scattering for cover with their hands over their eyes to try to keep Sylvie from stealing them (unfortunately leaving their ears exposed to the horrible loud cymbal banging)

- Magical girls scattering for cover again, but this time it's to find a small enough hiding space where Oxford can't grab and dismember them (someone has to go get San; Miyuri is unconscious so nobody can snap her out of it)

- Ryou gets a bunch of dirt on various Feathers because Paparazzo kept randomly taking pictures of anyone in the vicinity

- Someone haplessly swaps out a vase in Fendt Hope and 9daime Nue barrels in from halfway across the building to beat the shit out of them because the change made it upset

- Oh God I just remembered that Abigail's whole thing is straight-up murdering magical girls; this could be a nightmare

- Yu Hong starts blasting out riches and all the magical girls in the training field drop down and start grabbing as much as they can like kids picking up candy from a piñata

- Panicked Feather running off to find a Magius executive because the Amane sisters' doppels got stuck together and nobody's strong enough to get them out

- Aztekium shoots a hole in the wall, provoking an enraged Soldier Bear into a 1v1 match

- Poker Alice picks a fight with someone else's doppel (or one of Alina's witches) while the other Feathers go "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT" and place bets on who's gonna win

#magia record #9daime nue 🤝 soldier bear: getting REALLY MAD when someone touches something they shouldn't have #yukika's doppel description says it's so strong that it's getting bored of regular opponents #so it would probably enjoy fighting one of alina's witches #but it would most likely win and then alina would be Super pissed #(this may not be the sort of excitement yukika wants in her life)

[juriyuna]

Top five best and worst doppels!

Narrowing down only 5 of my favorites is hard, but I'll give it a shot!

5 Best Doppels:

5. Halifax (Kasane Ao):

[slaps roof of doppel] this baby can pack SO much symbolism into it. Really, all of the doppels are full of symbolism, but something about Ao's always gets me. The resigned, exhausted look on her face, rusted shackles binding her to her guilt, the black blood around the guillotine, the way it literally decapitates Ao when she summons it (you can see her head on the ground after the blade drops)... oouuughhh. I might have to dig into this one in another post later before I go off on a Monzenbashi tangent, haha.

Design-wise, the black/blue/glowing cyan combo is pretty, so there's that too!

4. Cuauhtitlan (Kimochi Rabi):

One of my favorite doppel designs in the game for sure. The dull, washed-out colours are very pleasing to look at (and a nice nod to Rabi's fading hope), and there's something poignant about the massive stone wings framing the bodies of the Kimochi, with Rabi hanging as a sacrifice in the middle. I also like the way it operates and interacts with its master-- Rabi believes that the only salvation for magical girls is death, so Cuauhtitlan vaporizes its targets in an attempt to free them from suffering... but because Rabi (though she tries to ignore it) still has the tiniest scrap of hope in the back of her mind, she can't help but fear that this isn't what she wants after all.

3. Merkava (Kirari Hikaru):

Hikaru is solidly under "characters I'd love to see a doppel ver. alt for" because of how good Merkava is. One, it's got an awesome design (which would transfer very well to a suit of armor), and two, there's a lot of potential in how it's basically the embodiment of executive dysfunction. A lot of characters have mixed feelings about their doppels, but Merkava is particularly hard for Hikaru to accept because of how it represents her inability to Do Things (even the things she wants to do) without a proper external motivator.

side note hikaru must be one strong draft horse if she can not only haul this thing along behind her, but pick up enough momentum to be able to grab it by the ropes and throw it over her shoulders. my girl has been eating her veggies, god damn

2. 9daime Nue (Kagura San):

I love 9daime Nue's colours and cool antique style, but the way its gangly arms move reminds me so much of this gif that I laugh whenever I see it in-game:

Still, it's an awesome doppel! I also like how it can be either very gentle or very brutal, depending on the circumstances-- if a natural cause displaces something in its environment, it will carefully sort things back to how they were before, which is kinda cute for how large it is. But if someone intentionally changes something, it will immediately hunt down the offender to beat them senseless. Doppel of Keep Your Hands To Yourself. (More seriously, it's interesting how it takes San's fear of change to an extreme degree.)

1. Catacombe (Izumi Kanagi):

Still my favorite doppel in the game after all of these years. :') It's a four-armed lion with gold teeth, ancient bronze swords, a skull necklace, and a mane of billowing smoke; what's not to like? And according to Magia Archive, it's blindfolded by two masks over each of its eyes, so that's cool too. (i wonder what its eyes look like......)

Catacombe was one of the earliest doppels released, so it has a bit in its description about how overusing it may cause Kanagi to become similarly unforgiving. I love notes like that; I think the concept of doppels influencing their masters is fascinating, even if it's only a temporary issue.

5 Worst Doppels:

5. Victoria (Kaharu Yuuna):

Very good from a symbolism perspective; very unpleasant to look at. I suppose that's part of the point- it's meant to be gaudy and self-absorbed- but... still...

4. Elsie (Shinobu Akira):

Does anyone remember how goo candy, blue raspberry, and blue raspberry goo candy were all the rage in the early 2000s? Like Juicy Drop Pops and those Ooze Tube things? I can TASTE this doppel. My mouth feels bad just looking at it.

3. Gosirsa (Natsu Ryouko):

I love Ryouko! I love what Gosirsa represents! The horns on the cart are awesome! But EEUFGJHJFGHH something about the cluster of wheels looks too much like tendrils or something and totally wigs me out ;_;

2. Hund Balou (Sarasa Hanna):

Props to Hund Balou's designer for making a doppel so viscerally uncomfortable to look at that I can't even bring myself to include a picture of it in this post. Its arms...

1. Poker Alice (Nanase Yukika):

I can only fit one more image in this post (mobile limit) and I'm not using it on Poker Alice. Why does it have teeth around its eyes??? Why is it so fleshy

#asks #magia record #long post #gif #i'm working on the other asks in my inbox!! #i got food poisoning so i've been slow OTL

[juriyuna]

if San is 9daime Nue, then what if... raijuu Miyuri

#la creatura... #magia record #yukari miyuri #the nue creates storm clouds; the raijuu is normally docile until provoked by thunder #it checks out #she is very small for a youkai but capable of surprising amounts of destruction #generally extremely timid though #more likely to either roll up like a pangolin or flee when scared #pmmm youkai au #man i haven't used that tag in ages #own art

[dreamerwitches]

So apparently, 9daime Nue is a reference to a dollmaker called the Ninth-Generation (or 9 daime, 九代目) Tamaya Shobei! It seems like he's called like that because of the name 'Tamaya Shobei' being a title, like a legacy name that's carried on. I said 'dollmaker' but it's more accurately Karakuri dolls, sort of automaton dolls that are used in festivals (tying into Kagura's festival thing). The ninth-generation Tamaya Shobei specifically made a Karakuri doll displaying the slaying of the Nue (a yokai that was shot out of the sky).

Still a stupid name though.

Yeah! I just kinda wish she looked more like a doll and less like a jumble of parts.

I suppose the number in the name makes her feel kinda robotic-ish but still, she's meant to have a normal name... just call her Tamaya or something :P

#ask #9daime nue