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Character Information

Name: Akemi Homura
Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Canon Point: end of Wraith Arc
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: OU
Age: 14

World Information:
You can definitely find anything you need through here.
This might also be helpful, specifically for Homura, though she definitely lived through more than 5 timelines.
You can find everything you need to know about wraith arc here.

Personal History:
Here is a wiki link here and here.

Personality:
In the very first timeline, we see Homura as a very shy, frail and uncertain girl. She had just transferred schools and was just released from the hospital due to a heart condition. She’s behind in school, doesn’t have any friends, is unable to participate in gym and feels that she’s ultimately of no use to anyone. In fact, she feels so useless, that she considers ending her own life on the way home from school.

Of course, that’s when things change. That’s when she meets Madoka. That’s when Madoka dies. That’s when she makes a wish and becomes a magical girl.

Because of her wish ("I want to redo my meeting with Kaname-san. But this time, instead of her protecting me… I want to become strong enough to protect her!"), Homura now has a purpose and immediately is more confident for it. Instead of standing around and doing nothing, Homura takes initiative. She introduces herself to Madoka, instead of the other way around. She offers to help as much as she can.

She has no experience being a magical girl, but she trains hard. With the help of Madoka and Mami, she gets a firm grasp on her time powers. She stays up late, looking on the internet how to make homemade weapons. She makes herself as useful as possible, because now she is useful.

Of course, it’s all for naught. Every timeline she lives through sees the same result: everyone dead, including Madoka.

Homura stays the same throughout these first handful timelines. She’s still the same shy girl as before, simply trying as hard as she can to help all of the friends she’s made. She tries to warm them of their future and of their grim fate. They don’t believe her. They die anyways.

As if that weren’t enough, Homura finally breaks within a single timeline. She has a realization. She can’t rely on any of the other magical girls: Sayaka always turns into a witch. Mami tries to kill them all when she finds out the truth. Madoka regrets becoming a magical girl.

So she takes matters into her own hands. She stops trying to be friendly -- clearly it didn’t work. If she can’t rely on others, she has to rely on herself. So she heals her eyesight, and presumably the rest of her heart condition, and carries on her journey alone.

She becomes cold and removed. She’s still trying to help, but distantly, more focused on minimizing damage and saving Madoka, specifically, than saving everyone. Not to say she doesn’t still try -- She still shows up when Mami is about to fight the witch that will kill her, though Mami refuses her help. She tries to help Sayaka, by offering her a Grief Seed before she can transform into a witch, though Sayaka refuses her help as well.

And, of course, she still tries to save Madoka, to keep her from contracting.

Though it’s obvious the entire situation is taking a serious toll on her -- twice we see her break down in front of Madoka. She admits that she feels lost. She can’t even give up on the entire situation, because the second she does, she will fall into despair and become a witch. It’s a scenario that almost happens, and the only thing that keeps that from happening is Madoka showing up and giving her support and reassurance.

You’d think that would be the end of it. It’s not.

Madoka contracts and with it makes a wish that, essentially, turns her into a god. Madoka destroys all witches at the cost of erasing herself from the world. Time restarts again.

The new timeline is similar, but different at the same time. Sayaka still succumbs to her negative emotions, but instead of becoming a witch, she simply dies, Madoka carrying her soul away. And then it’s just her, Mami and Kyoko.

This timeline causes some changes in Homura. Mami and Kyoko reach out to her, trying to make friends, trying to make a team. But Homura keeps them at arms distance. They might be the same people she’s known all along but they’re -- fundamentally different.

She becomes more reckless. Witches might not exist anymore, but something had to take their place. It’s wraiths that exist in this world now. And they threaten the world that Madoka sacrificed herself for. And Homura is -- a little lost, directionless, without Madoka there to be her guiding force. So she throws herself, full throttle, and dedicates herself to destroying as many wraiths as she possibly can, to help protect the world that Madoka loves so much.

But with her new memory powers, she begins to doubt herself. So much so, that she begins to doubt the existence of Madoka entirely. She’s able to use her memory powers on herself. Is it possible that Madoka and all the past timelines was something she made up this whole time? It’s not until she has a PTSD flashback of a previous timeline that she snaps out of it entirely, and is able to rest assured that Madoka, and thus her sense of purpose, are very real.

In conclusion, Homura started out shy and uncertain, and circumstances and situations have formed her into something aloof. Though she appears that way, she’s not entirely unflappable, as she has self-esteem issues that very much need to be worked through. Though, who knows where her next character arc will take her, now that she has the ability to focus on things other than keeping her dear friends from certain death.

Key themes:
Purpose
When we see Homura in the first timeline, she’s very frail. Her heart condition hinders her ability to do a lot of different things, and because of that her self-worth is extremely low. However, once she becomes a magical girl, that changes.

It’s in the wording in her wish: “I want to become strong enough to protect her!” And she’s not just talking about physical strength. It’s having a purpose and understanding of what she needs to do. It grounds her and makes her strong, giving her the ability to do anything in order to see her goal through.

We see this in wraith arc that when she begins to doubt Madoka’s existence, and thus her entire purpose, she begins to fall apart. And it’s not until she’s reassured that her memories are very real, that she is able to pull herself together and do what needs to be done.

Independence
In the beginning, Homura is very dependent on those around her, especially her fellow magical girls. Mostly because she has to be, due to her heart condition and her inexperience. It takes her a long time, not only to figure out how to use her time powers, but what weapons work best with her magic.

However, despite the fact that she’s been relying so heavily on others, they don’t exactly rely back on her. They don’t believe her and her words. They accuse her of trying to trick her. Eventually, it becomes too much, and she forces herself to stop relying on others. She becomes fully independent, because the only person she can truly rely on is herself.

Main Motivation:
To protect Madoka. That’s it.

In canon, it was originally to prevent Madoka’s death. However, along the way, Madoka herself asked Homura to prevent her from contracting and becoming a magical girl. Homura herself has stated that she feels like she's become lost, and the goal of keeping Madoka safe is the only thing she has left to guide her.

In the wraith arc, there is no Madoka for her to protect, but her goal of protection is ultimately the same. But this time, instead of Madoka herself, Homura choses to protect the world that Madoka cared so much about, enough that she sacrificed herself in order to save it.

In game, there is a Madoka, and so her goal will ultimately switch back to what it was before -- to protect Madoka in whatever form that might take.

Skills:
Magical Girls in General
In Madoka Magica, girls become magical girls by making contracts with Kyubey. In doing this, he removes the soul from their bodies and houses in it a Soul Gem. These Soul Gems shield Homra from the worst of combat, and keep her from dying in situations that would otherwise kill a normal human. Soul Gems can also be used to heal her body, and Homura in particular has been seen using her Soul Gem to heal her poor eyesight.

Also noteworthy -- before Homura became a magical girl, she had a heart condition. This prevented her from doing anything strenuous; even doing warmups in gym class proved too much for her. However, once she become a magical girl, she was able to completely heal herself, and is then seen breaking school records from her performances in gym class.

Homura is also able to control her body up to 100 meters away from her Soul Gem. If she goes any further than that, her body will collapse and is, functionally, a corpse that will begin to decompose after 3 days. In her magical girl form, her Soul Gem is in the shape of a diamond, on the back of her left hand. When she’s not in her magical girl form, she usually just transforms her Soul Gem into a silver ring.

Her Soul Gem is the entire source of her magical powers. Her magic is stored within it and, whenever she uses it, her Soul Gem becomes tainted. Feelings of despair, in particular, will also darken her Soul Gem. In order to… untaint her Soul Gem, Homura needs a Grief Seed. Grief Seeds are only found by killing witches. However, in the case of her Soul Gem becoming completely tainted, whether that’s from using too much magic or succumbing to despair, her Soul Gem will transform into a Grief Seed, and she will become a witch herself.

However, Homura does not have to be transformed into her magical girl form in order to access all of her abilities. The ones she has easy access to are:

A sixth sense, allowing her to sense the presence of other magical girls, witches, and any other use of magic.
Telepathy, which is used to communicate with both other magical girls and regular humans. She can not read anyone’s mind or emotions, she can only speak directly into their minds.
Physical enhancements. Homura has been seen scaling tall buildings and jumping off of them, with no issues whatsoever. She can also heal herself, or anyone else, with her magic.
Imbuing other objects with magic. Other magical girls have been seen doing this more than Homura does, but because witches and their familiars can only be killed by magic, it only makes sense that Homura will imbue her weapons with magic before she fights them. How efficient they are most likely depends on how much magic she puts into it.

Homura’s Magic
A magical girl’s magic is based on the wish they make. Homura is a special case, because her wish changes.

Her original wish was: “I want to redo my meeting with Kaname-san. But this time, instead of her protecting me… I want to become strong enough to protect her!” And so she was gifted time magic. With her time magic, she was able to stop time, but also turn back time to a very specific time of 46 days.

When Madoka reset the universe, things were forced to change. Because Madoka no longer existed, Homura’s wish of wanting to redo her meeting doesn’t exactly hold up anymore. When Homura expressed her concern that she would forget Madoka, she simply says,

"Even if you go back to the old world, it's possible that you will return without forgetting about me. It's a small chance, but it's possible that a true miracle will happen... after all, Magical Girls make hopes and dreams come true."

And that’s what happens. A true miracle occurs. Homura is the only one to remember Madoka. And magical girls are born when true miracles happen.

Because a magical girl’s magic is based on the wish they make, Homura no longer has time magic. Instead, she has memory magic. She can change the memories of those around her at will. Up to and including herself, which is something that not only happens in Wraith Arc, but also later in Rebellion.

On top of memory magic, Homura also gets a bow and arrow, which is similar in appearance to the one that Madoka uses when she is a magical girl. It fires regular arrows, as well as arrows imbued with magic.

Homura’s Skills
Outside of being a magical girl, Homura does have a few skills of her own.

Most notably is the fact that she knows how to make pipe bombs. She looked it up on the internet and has since made very many of them. They were her primary weapon before she switched to guns.

And on that note, Homua is very knowledgeable about many different types of firearms. Pistols, shotguns, machine guns, rocket launchers, as well as grenades, pipe bombs, and smoke bombs. And, I would assume, any other type of weapon that is accessible to the Yakuza or the Japanese Military, because that’s exclusively where she stole them from.

Item
Madoka's ribbons.

Sample
When Homura finds herself on the train station, things are… confusing.

She’s been here before, though not for long. She supposes that not even the Voidtrecker Express could hold back the call of Walpurgisnacht for long. She should be grateful for the reprieve she had, for the time she got to spend talking to --

Madoka.

Things come rushing back all at once. Not just from her time spent here, on the train, but from back home. She remembers Madoka making her wish. Erasing herself from the world entirely. Homura being the only one to remember how things were, before.

She remembers being here, on the train. She remembers Madoka’s hands, with no ring on them, holding her own, the other girl smiling up at her.

She doesn’t know how time works here. Her time powers are gone, replaced with memory magic that she both does and does not know how to use. But, she thinks, if there’s a chance...

Face set, she determinedly pushes through the crowd, ignoring the confused questions of the people around her. She looks for any hint of pink hair in the crowd, any red ribbons that are identical to the ones she wears in her hair, now.

If there’s a chance that Madoka is still here, uncontracted, still remembered by the world around her, then Homura needs to see it with her own eyes. She needs to hold Madoka’s hands just one more time, to hug her close, to memorize everything about the other girl that she can.

After all, Homura knows just how fleeting life can be.