Thread:MMYP999/@comment-27109830-20171030064428/@comment-27416494-20171118200455

Well, there's gonna be plenty of info to cover here, so I might miss out on a few points, but this should be a suitable synopsis either way.

They're best friends of the main character with ambitious dreams of becoming great heroes. Unfotunately for both of them, they tend to come off as overly idealistic heroic wannabes (which is literally Almaz's ingame title at first) who are way in over their heads in their current situation. To wit, Almaz thought it was a good idea to take on an Overlord at level five and Sayaka's ideals would slowly become her undoing over the course of the story. They may be able to keep with their various superpowered allies due to their unique ability to magically summon swords out of thin air (case in point for Almaz), but at the end of the day, they are ultimately seen as the weakest members of their respective teams. (Admittedly, this case isn't so severe with Almaz, but he is still a human travelling with a group of powerful demons.)

In addition, both of them have been in love with two of their childhood friends Sapphire and Kyosuke for as long as they could remember, yet refused to act on their own feelings due to their own emotional insecurites. The major difference here is that while Almaz actually ended up marrying Sapphire at the end of D3, Sayaka wasn't quite as lucky when it came to Kyosuke. To make matters worse, the two of them were also struck with an incurable curse/ailment that would eventually doom them to become a fully fledged demon/witch. This would eventually result in their deaths at a later point in their stories, which understandably threw their friends (especially Mao and Madoka) into a fit of grief and despair. While they may have returned to life at a later point in time due to varying means (or at least the emergence of alternate timelines for Sayaka), their deaths would ultimately serve as a grim sign that the stories of their respective works were set to take a darker turn than before.

With all of that said, I will admit this is a pretty uneven match, but I still find the idea fascinating enough at the end of the day.