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OOC Information
Player Name: Kay
Player Age: 23
Player Contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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Player/Character HMD: here
Other characters in game: None
IC Information
Character Name: Homura Akemi
Character Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Character Age/Gender: 14/Female
Canon Point: Episode 9, after rescuing Madoka from Oktavia's Barrier.
Character Canon History: General Homura Wiki + Homura Route in Madoka Portable
Character Personality: Homura Akemi is the product of repeated exposure to the despair of her friends around her. Once a shy girl who believed she had no worth in the world due to her heart condition, Homura gives herself a purpose and destiny she never fully comes to terms with until it is far too late to change. She has her beginnings as a girl who struggled to fit in and pass through day to day life without being a burden on others. She finds friendship in Madoka Kaname, who takes Homura under her wing despite all of her faults and insists that Homura herself "become cool". The plot thickens when Madoka and Mami rescue Homura from a Witch's Barrier and save her from committing suicide. This is a far cry from the girl Homura is now, but her lack of self-worth plays an important part of her character even at its end game.
Madoka starts off as a more confident girl, who believes in Homura when she doesn't believe in herself. She makes her apart of the Puella Magi initiative, even when she has no powers of her own (and after Mami advises her not to contract unless she feels she really needs to). Though she cannot lend a hand, her presence is made to feel as if it means something, and that alone sets forth the catalyst for what would become of Homura Akemi. Madoka Kaname becomes a focal point, idolized to the point that, when she is killed, Homura is prepared to sacrifice her soul to save her from her fate -- and so she does. She gains the power over time to go back and redo her meeting with Madoka Kaname, swearing to become strong enough to protect her, her only friend.
At first, Homura doesn't change all that much. She gains confidence and some minor belief in herself, for the sake of others. Even with this confidence, she still flinches uncertainly in her first battle until she is congradulated by Mami and Madoka for a job well done. She learns another harsh lesson when Walpurgisnacht arrives and Madoka falls victim to the dark secret of the Soul Gem. As Madoka despairs and becomes a witch, she discovers that mere confidence is not enough to overcome all boundries -- that friendship might be a great motivator, but that happiness must balance out to despair. In denial, she resets the timeline again.
Here is where Homura truly begins to lose trust in those around her. As she spills the truth she's learned about the Soul Gems, her friends begin to turn on her and doubt her. They accuse her of being in league with a rival magical girl. They point out that her fighting style (using bombs and explosives) is dangerous and should be altered for their safety. Heart sinking at their lack of trust in her, she agrees and raids many weapons vaults to add a variety of guns to her arsenal. Unfortunately, not even her warning would be enough to save Sayaka Miki from falling to despair and becoming a witch. Unable to handle the truth of what's been seen, Mami begins to kill her friends to spare them the pain from turning into a witch. However, as she turns her gun on Homura, Madoka fires an arrow into Mami's soul gem and kills her first. For the second time, Madoka has saved Homura from certain death, even when Homura had the strength she had paid for with her soul.
Once again, it is not enough to spare them from the wrath of Walpurgisnacht. As both girls begin to fall to despair, Madoka saves Homura one last time with Oktavia's grief seed, cleansing her soul gem and preventing her from turning into a witch. As Homura laments the wasted salvation, Madoka begs her to keep her from contracting in the past. Homura swears with every ounce of her being that she will save her, and performs one last mercy kill -- this time, killing Madoka.
It is the last straw.
Homura rises from her hospital bed and repairs her failing eyes with her Soul Gem, a symbol of cleansing the naiveity of her past selves. She pulls her braids free and let's her hair fall like a veil, like a victim in mourning. With a cold stare and a determined heart, Homura sets out to defeat every last witch she comes in contact with, so Madoka will never need to contract. But she alone is not enough when Walpurgisnacht comes and once again Madoka tries to sacrifice herself for Homura's sake and Homura is forced to try again. Its unclear how many times Homura has gone back and repeated the same month over and over again.
From then on, any time Kyubey gets close to Madoka, she takes him out. She accepts coldly that she cannot trust anyone to help her and that she cannot save everyone -- anyone -- but Madoka. Everyone regards her as mysterious and suspicious, as she never reveals her true intentions. After all, if nobody believed her in the past, why would they believe her now? But that's ok. Nobody needs to understand, because that is not important. Her means will always justifiy her ends, if her ends deliver her what she wants. The basis of her existance is centered around the wish she made at least four months ago -- to save Madoka from her grim fate. Her repeated failure has given her a harsh code of morals and making her appear selfish and irresponsible to the ignorant onlooker.
Even with her hardened heart, Homura's attachment to her other friends has not faded. She tries once to rescue Mami from her assured death at the hands of Charlotte and fails. She retrieves Sayaka's Soul Gem after Madoka had thrown it away. She agrees to work together with Kyouko to dispatch Walpurgisnacht and also retrieves her from Oktavia's barrier with Sayaka's body before the witch can kill her. But at the end of the day, Homura knows that she cannot expect to save others. Madoka is her responsibility. She is everything. She must continue to fight for the sake of her wish.
Because if she gives up, she will truly lose everything.
Character Abilities: Homura's PSP ability tree
Homura's abilities are not entirely clear in canon. Urobuchi himself has claimed that he did not think all that deeply into how far Homura is able to time travel and at what rate. It is clear that her shield operates like a sand timer with a supply of one month's worth of time. She is able to slow and stop time for a total of this amount, though it is not clear if she is able to reverse past one month.
There is a fan analysis of how her shield operates. It still does not explain how (if) sand restores itself or how long Homura is able to maintain a timestop. Popular subscribed theory implies that once the month's worth of sand runs out she must reset in order to regain lost sand. I have absolutely no idea how that would work in a game, though.
Her shield also acts as its own temporal hammerspace, allowing her to store all manners of weaponry along with their ammo to keep herself unlimitly supplied.
Finally, Homura is a magical girl and her soul is thus kept in a soul gem, leaving her body as a shell. She cannot be killed without shattering this gem, appearing as a ring on her left middle finger when she is not transformed into her puella magi form. In form, it appears on her left hand. She is able to persist through fights for an inordinate amount of time until her magic is exhausted, at which point it will blacken and transform into a grief seed, killing her and giving birth to a witch -- in this case, Homulilly.
Character Inventory: one Mitakihara school uniform, her soul gem, her cellphone, and a decent supply of grief seeds.
Samples:
[THIRD PERSON]
One night had passed. One night too many.
While it was true that her knowledge of time and time resets technically only spanned across one month, Homura already found herself becoming impatient. There was irony in it, she'd realized, having lived out the same month over and over again so many times that she had since lost count. But this was different. This wasn't the month she knew in the place she knew with people she knew. This was strange, unusual and, worst of all, kept her from pursuing her true goals and desires. This was not just an interruption -- it was a waste.
Then again, she was also distantly aware of how her hands continued to shake and how dizzy she felt. It stirred up painful memories of hospital beds and pills, of weakness and loneliness that she knew better than to acknowledge. And yet there she was, leaning against the nearest wall with her eyes closed, trying to will the images and the dizziness out of her mind. She vaguely recalled something about physical contact curing her ailments, and momentarily considered grabbing the next shoulder that walked passed her to give it a try.
Awkward? Not if it helped her figure this out any faster.
Frustrating? Definitely.
Homura's eyes slid open again. No luck with dissolving that awful cloud hanging over her head. Worse, she could see the normally bright violet stone set in the ring around her finger darkening slightly. She could not afford these sorts of set backs. Not now -- not here, especially. And so, Homura Akemi would push herself up and walk, back straight, flipping her long and silky black hair over her shoulder with one hand. If she had to drag the next person along with her, then so be it, but she would find answers without wasting another moment of her very precious time.
[FIRST]
Test Drive Thread #1
Player Name: Kay
Player Age: 23
Player Contact:
Player/Character HMD: here
Other characters in game: None
IC Information
Character Name: Homura Akemi
Character Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Character Age/Gender: 14/Female
Canon Point: Episode 9, after rescuing Madoka from Oktavia's Barrier.
Character Canon History: General Homura Wiki + Homura Route in Madoka Portable
Character Personality: Homura Akemi is the product of repeated exposure to the despair of her friends around her. Once a shy girl who believed she had no worth in the world due to her heart condition, Homura gives herself a purpose and destiny she never fully comes to terms with until it is far too late to change. She has her beginnings as a girl who struggled to fit in and pass through day to day life without being a burden on others. She finds friendship in Madoka Kaname, who takes Homura under her wing despite all of her faults and insists that Homura herself "become cool". The plot thickens when Madoka and Mami rescue Homura from a Witch's Barrier and save her from committing suicide. This is a far cry from the girl Homura is now, but her lack of self-worth plays an important part of her character even at its end game.
Madoka starts off as a more confident girl, who believes in Homura when she doesn't believe in herself. She makes her apart of the Puella Magi initiative, even when she has no powers of her own (and after Mami advises her not to contract unless she feels she really needs to). Though she cannot lend a hand, her presence is made to feel as if it means something, and that alone sets forth the catalyst for what would become of Homura Akemi. Madoka Kaname becomes a focal point, idolized to the point that, when she is killed, Homura is prepared to sacrifice her soul to save her from her fate -- and so she does. She gains the power over time to go back and redo her meeting with Madoka Kaname, swearing to become strong enough to protect her, her only friend.
At first, Homura doesn't change all that much. She gains confidence and some minor belief in herself, for the sake of others. Even with this confidence, she still flinches uncertainly in her first battle until she is congradulated by Mami and Madoka for a job well done. She learns another harsh lesson when Walpurgisnacht arrives and Madoka falls victim to the dark secret of the Soul Gem. As Madoka despairs and becomes a witch, she discovers that mere confidence is not enough to overcome all boundries -- that friendship might be a great motivator, but that happiness must balance out to despair. In denial, she resets the timeline again.
Here is where Homura truly begins to lose trust in those around her. As she spills the truth she's learned about the Soul Gems, her friends begin to turn on her and doubt her. They accuse her of being in league with a rival magical girl. They point out that her fighting style (using bombs and explosives) is dangerous and should be altered for their safety. Heart sinking at their lack of trust in her, she agrees and raids many weapons vaults to add a variety of guns to her arsenal. Unfortunately, not even her warning would be enough to save Sayaka Miki from falling to despair and becoming a witch. Unable to handle the truth of what's been seen, Mami begins to kill her friends to spare them the pain from turning into a witch. However, as she turns her gun on Homura, Madoka fires an arrow into Mami's soul gem and kills her first. For the second time, Madoka has saved Homura from certain death, even when Homura had the strength she had paid for with her soul.
Once again, it is not enough to spare them from the wrath of Walpurgisnacht. As both girls begin to fall to despair, Madoka saves Homura one last time with Oktavia's grief seed, cleansing her soul gem and preventing her from turning into a witch. As Homura laments the wasted salvation, Madoka begs her to keep her from contracting in the past. Homura swears with every ounce of her being that she will save her, and performs one last mercy kill -- this time, killing Madoka.
It is the last straw.
Homura rises from her hospital bed and repairs her failing eyes with her Soul Gem, a symbol of cleansing the naiveity of her past selves. She pulls her braids free and let's her hair fall like a veil, like a victim in mourning. With a cold stare and a determined heart, Homura sets out to defeat every last witch she comes in contact with, so Madoka will never need to contract. But she alone is not enough when Walpurgisnacht comes and once again Madoka tries to sacrifice herself for Homura's sake and Homura is forced to try again. Its unclear how many times Homura has gone back and repeated the same month over and over again.
From then on, any time Kyubey gets close to Madoka, she takes him out. She accepts coldly that she cannot trust anyone to help her and that she cannot save everyone -- anyone -- but Madoka. Everyone regards her as mysterious and suspicious, as she never reveals her true intentions. After all, if nobody believed her in the past, why would they believe her now? But that's ok. Nobody needs to understand, because that is not important. Her means will always justifiy her ends, if her ends deliver her what she wants. The basis of her existance is centered around the wish she made at least four months ago -- to save Madoka from her grim fate. Her repeated failure has given her a harsh code of morals and making her appear selfish and irresponsible to the ignorant onlooker.
Even with her hardened heart, Homura's attachment to her other friends has not faded. She tries once to rescue Mami from her assured death at the hands of Charlotte and fails. She retrieves Sayaka's Soul Gem after Madoka had thrown it away. She agrees to work together with Kyouko to dispatch Walpurgisnacht and also retrieves her from Oktavia's barrier with Sayaka's body before the witch can kill her. But at the end of the day, Homura knows that she cannot expect to save others. Madoka is her responsibility. She is everything. She must continue to fight for the sake of her wish.
Because if she gives up, she will truly lose everything.
Character Abilities: Homura's PSP ability tree
Homura's abilities are not entirely clear in canon. Urobuchi himself has claimed that he did not think all that deeply into how far Homura is able to time travel and at what rate. It is clear that her shield operates like a sand timer with a supply of one month's worth of time. She is able to slow and stop time for a total of this amount, though it is not clear if she is able to reverse past one month.
There is a fan analysis of how her shield operates. It still does not explain how (if) sand restores itself or how long Homura is able to maintain a timestop. Popular subscribed theory implies that once the month's worth of sand runs out she must reset in order to regain lost sand. I have absolutely no idea how that would work in a game, though.
Her shield also acts as its own temporal hammerspace, allowing her to store all manners of weaponry along with their ammo to keep herself unlimitly supplied.
Finally, Homura is a magical girl and her soul is thus kept in a soul gem, leaving her body as a shell. She cannot be killed without shattering this gem, appearing as a ring on her left middle finger when she is not transformed into her puella magi form. In form, it appears on her left hand. She is able to persist through fights for an inordinate amount of time until her magic is exhausted, at which point it will blacken and transform into a grief seed, killing her and giving birth to a witch -- in this case, Homulilly.
Character Inventory: one Mitakihara school uniform, her soul gem, her cellphone, and a decent supply of grief seeds.
Samples:
[THIRD PERSON]
One night had passed. One night too many.
While it was true that her knowledge of time and time resets technically only spanned across one month, Homura already found herself becoming impatient. There was irony in it, she'd realized, having lived out the same month over and over again so many times that she had since lost count. But this was different. This wasn't the month she knew in the place she knew with people she knew. This was strange, unusual and, worst of all, kept her from pursuing her true goals and desires. This was not just an interruption -- it was a waste.
Then again, she was also distantly aware of how her hands continued to shake and how dizzy she felt. It stirred up painful memories of hospital beds and pills, of weakness and loneliness that she knew better than to acknowledge. And yet there she was, leaning against the nearest wall with her eyes closed, trying to will the images and the dizziness out of her mind. She vaguely recalled something about physical contact curing her ailments, and momentarily considered grabbing the next shoulder that walked passed her to give it a try.
Awkward? Not if it helped her figure this out any faster.
Frustrating? Definitely.
Homura's eyes slid open again. No luck with dissolving that awful cloud hanging over her head. Worse, she could see the normally bright violet stone set in the ring around her finger darkening slightly. She could not afford these sorts of set backs. Not now -- not here, especially. And so, Homura Akemi would push herself up and walk, back straight, flipping her long and silky black hair over her shoulder with one hand. If she had to drag the next person along with her, then so be it, but she would find answers without wasting another moment of her very precious time.
[FIRST]
Test Drive Thread #1