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Player Information
Name: Char
Personal Journal: osakadensetsu
Contact Info: charmoeleon [AIM]
Other Characters: None
Please note this will have rather significant spoilers up through episode 10 of the series.
Character Information
Name: Homura Akemi (in Western order)
Source Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Age: ~14
Role In Canon: One of the main characters, could be considered the deuteragonist. (However this particular version shows up in only one episode.)
History:
Relevant history of Homura. Note that she'll be coming from the third (shown*) timeline, prior to Sayaka becoming a witch.
For future events in the fifth timeline, see Episodes 1-9 here if desired.
*At least five timelines are identifiable in Homura's history, but it's likely that there could be more unseen. The first and second are definitely sequential and it's most likely that the third followed the second, but there is ambiguity in how many in total have passed between the third and fourth as well as the fourth and fifth.
Personality:
Prior to meeting Madoka, Homura was a shy, withdrawn girl that had trouble socializing, to the point of nervously stammering in front of her new class upon transferring. Having been in the hospital for an extended period of time meant that she had few chances to develop friendships (or much in way of social skills) with others her age. Furthermore, it is likely that she has had little in way of human contact besides doctors and nurses (and perhaps the occasional extended family member), as her parents make no appearances and are most likely dead or not present in her life. (She is shown to live alone.) As such, she has for the most part been a solitary person - until Madoka changed her life.
Even by the third timeline, Homura's personality is still a far cry from that shown in later timelines. For the most part, Homura is still fairly shy like she was in the first timeline, not yet becoming the fully confident girl she is by the fourth shown timeline. Due to having the advantage of a significant amount of time around Mami and Madoka, Homura is much more comfortable around those two girls than anyone else she might encounter. For example, she has shifted from using polite speech to casual speech with at least Madoka. Even so, she sticks to calling her friends by their family names (rather than a more intimate use of their given names), something that only would change in the future with Madoka at the end of the third timeline. As for her other classmates, including Sayaka, she's had experience with them a few times albeit not so closely, so she's able to socialize somewhat more naturally in front of them than someone she has never met. Homura's aloof behaviour in the fifth timeline also supports the idea that outside the group of magical girls she has no significant friendships, suggesting that for the most part her social life since leaving the hospital has consisted of her fellow magical girls (and Kyuubey). However, over time Homura is certainly able to become more confident around people, particularly once her shyness has worn off, much as she does in the fifth timeline.
Although she initially feels completely untalented, Homura is shown to in fact be an ingenious girl over the ensuing timelines. Having to come up with her own weapons, she not only learned how to make her own homemade explosives in the second timeline, but also came up with the idea to steal weapons from the yakuza (and later SDF) in the third timeline. Her skill at combining these conventional weapons with her magical abilities to take on powerful witches shows that she is in the very least quite clever. Likewise, by the fifth timeline, Homura is certainly able to perform classwork with finesse. At minimum, she has shown an ability to memorize all that she needed to in her repeated timelines while moonlighting as a magical girl. While probably not nearly so skilled by the third timeline, Homura most likely has at least caught up with her classmates in general, if not surpassed them.
Having seen her friends Mami and Madoka die or become witches twice has certainly had an effect on her, but Homura is not yet coldly hiding her emotions behind a stoic facade. While her later self would show nothing at the deaths of Mami, Sayaka, and Kyouko in the fifth timeline, Homura would cry for their deaths in the near future in the third timeline, particularly in the face of Mami having tried to murder all the remaining magical girls. However, she is the most emotional regarding Madoka, who by this point is already very central to her heart. Still, considering what she's been through, she has a great amount of willpower that allows her continue on with the burden of the truth, in order to try and succeed. Where once she would try to run, now she faces forward
Abilities:
As a magical girl, Homura's soul is stored in her Soul Gem, an ornate egg-like object. Her body is simply hardware used by this Soul Gem, and thus is much more sturdy and resilient than a typical human body. Furthermore, magical girls are capable of doing many things a normal human body cannot, such as huge leaps and surviving falls with no broken bones. (And doing so in heels.) The Soul Gem itself is her weakness, however, and can be destroyed. Such an act would kill Homura. Furthermore, should her Soul Gem be further than ten meters from her body, a magical girl's body will become lifeless.
Homura's shield is her magical “weapon”, with a number of abilities particular to it. First and foremost, it acts, of course, like a shield, capable of protecting her against magical attacks like those used by Walpurgisnacht in the fourth timeline. However, this shield also is greatly associated with time. With her shield, Homura can stop time's flow while allowing her to act freely. In addition, anyone making contact with her (even indirectly through clothing most likely) can still move freely. This has allowed her to make use of bombs and get away from the blast radius. In addition, projectiles such as bullets continue in their trajectory for a short distance until freezing in time once again. The stopped time is not readily apparent to anyone that is caught in it, though they may see Homura changing locations, as if she has teleported. Furthermore, the inside of the shield also acts as a “bag of holding” or pocket dimension of sorts, allowing her to store guns, ammunition, bombs, flashbangs, and so on inside it.
Although her shield also allows her to go back in time, this ability would very hard to implement in an RP and thus I assume it would not work. (After all it would reset a timeline, leaving her as the only one with knowledge of what occurred prior to her leap backwards in time.) Given her wish was to be able to go back in time and be able to protect Madoka, it is possible it would only work should she be unable to protect the girl in a timeline.
In later timelines, Homura is shown to have more talents, such as the ability to shoot blasts of energy from her shield (though her rare use suggests it is not very effective), cure her vision, and even fly. It's unknown what all abilities she can use. However, for the most part she relies on trickery and her ability to stop time rather than sheer magical power.
Unfortunately, using magic has a curse. Slowly a magical girl's Soul Gem will taint from its use, making the gem darker. Furthermore, negative feelings such as despair can also corrupt a Soul Gem. Should a Soul Gem become too tainted, it will explode and become a Grief Seed, thus turning the magical girl into a witch. The only way to prevent this is through using a witch's Grief Seed to absorb the corruption from a Soul Gem. Each Grief Seed can only be used so much before it turns back into a witch itself.
Sample:
[A somewhat nervous looking, young teenage girl appeared in the mirror, looking very uncertain about the mirror. For someone with a keen eye, her school uniform may strike up a memory of someone else who has used the vine before. But this girl was different. Her long, dark hair was pulled back into two braids and red-rimmed glasses sat squarely on her face.
After a moment, the girl spoke up.] This...this isn't dream is it? It feels too...real.
[More softly, as if to herself:] It can't be a barrier either... [Not that witches weren't real, but everything about them seemed rather dream-like to her...]
[The girl clutched her left arm with her right hand as the former began to shake a bit more visibly.] W-Where am I? W-What is this p-place?
K-Kaname...san? Tomoe....san...?
[Barely audible:] I want to go home...
Name: Char
Personal Journal: osakadensetsu
Contact Info: charmoeleon [AIM]
Other Characters: None
Please note this will have rather significant spoilers up through episode 10 of the series.
Character Information
Name: Homura Akemi (in Western order)
Source Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Age: ~14
Role In Canon: One of the main characters, could be considered the deuteragonist. (However this particular version shows up in only one episode.)
History:
Relevant history of Homura. Note that she'll be coming from the third (shown*) timeline, prior to Sayaka becoming a witch.
For future events in the fifth timeline, see Episodes 1-9 here if desired.
*At least five timelines are identifiable in Homura's history, but it's likely that there could be more unseen. The first and second are definitely sequential and it's most likely that the third followed the second, but there is ambiguity in how many in total have passed between the third and fourth as well as the fourth and fifth.
Personality:
Prior to meeting Madoka, Homura was a shy, withdrawn girl that had trouble socializing, to the point of nervously stammering in front of her new class upon transferring. Having been in the hospital for an extended period of time meant that she had few chances to develop friendships (or much in way of social skills) with others her age. Furthermore, it is likely that she has had little in way of human contact besides doctors and nurses (and perhaps the occasional extended family member), as her parents make no appearances and are most likely dead or not present in her life. (She is shown to live alone.) As such, she has for the most part been a solitary person - until Madoka changed her life.
Even by the third timeline, Homura's personality is still a far cry from that shown in later timelines. For the most part, Homura is still fairly shy like she was in the first timeline, not yet becoming the fully confident girl she is by the fourth shown timeline. Due to having the advantage of a significant amount of time around Mami and Madoka, Homura is much more comfortable around those two girls than anyone else she might encounter. For example, she has shifted from using polite speech to casual speech with at least Madoka. Even so, she sticks to calling her friends by their family names (rather than a more intimate use of their given names), something that only would change in the future with Madoka at the end of the third timeline. As for her other classmates, including Sayaka, she's had experience with them a few times albeit not so closely, so she's able to socialize somewhat more naturally in front of them than someone she has never met. Homura's aloof behaviour in the fifth timeline also supports the idea that outside the group of magical girls she has no significant friendships, suggesting that for the most part her social life since leaving the hospital has consisted of her fellow magical girls (and Kyuubey). However, over time Homura is certainly able to become more confident around people, particularly once her shyness has worn off, much as she does in the fifth timeline.
Although she initially feels completely untalented, Homura is shown to in fact be an ingenious girl over the ensuing timelines. Having to come up with her own weapons, she not only learned how to make her own homemade explosives in the second timeline, but also came up with the idea to steal weapons from the yakuza (and later SDF) in the third timeline. Her skill at combining these conventional weapons with her magical abilities to take on powerful witches shows that she is in the very least quite clever. Likewise, by the fifth timeline, Homura is certainly able to perform classwork with finesse. At minimum, she has shown an ability to memorize all that she needed to in her repeated timelines while moonlighting as a magical girl. While probably not nearly so skilled by the third timeline, Homura most likely has at least caught up with her classmates in general, if not surpassed them.
Having seen her friends Mami and Madoka die or become witches twice has certainly had an effect on her, but Homura is not yet coldly hiding her emotions behind a stoic facade. While her later self would show nothing at the deaths of Mami, Sayaka, and Kyouko in the fifth timeline, Homura would cry for their deaths in the near future in the third timeline, particularly in the face of Mami having tried to murder all the remaining magical girls. However, she is the most emotional regarding Madoka, who by this point is already very central to her heart. Still, considering what she's been through, she has a great amount of willpower that allows her continue on with the burden of the truth, in order to try and succeed. Where once she would try to run, now she faces forward
Abilities:
As a magical girl, Homura's soul is stored in her Soul Gem, an ornate egg-like object. Her body is simply hardware used by this Soul Gem, and thus is much more sturdy and resilient than a typical human body. Furthermore, magical girls are capable of doing many things a normal human body cannot, such as huge leaps and surviving falls with no broken bones. (And doing so in heels.) The Soul Gem itself is her weakness, however, and can be destroyed. Such an act would kill Homura. Furthermore, should her Soul Gem be further than ten meters from her body, a magical girl's body will become lifeless.
Homura's shield is her magical “weapon”, with a number of abilities particular to it. First and foremost, it acts, of course, like a shield, capable of protecting her against magical attacks like those used by Walpurgisnacht in the fourth timeline. However, this shield also is greatly associated with time. With her shield, Homura can stop time's flow while allowing her to act freely. In addition, anyone making contact with her (even indirectly through clothing most likely) can still move freely. This has allowed her to make use of bombs and get away from the blast radius. In addition, projectiles such as bullets continue in their trajectory for a short distance until freezing in time once again. The stopped time is not readily apparent to anyone that is caught in it, though they may see Homura changing locations, as if she has teleported. Furthermore, the inside of the shield also acts as a “bag of holding” or pocket dimension of sorts, allowing her to store guns, ammunition, bombs, flashbangs, and so on inside it.
Although her shield also allows her to go back in time, this ability would very hard to implement in an RP and thus I assume it would not work. (After all it would reset a timeline, leaving her as the only one with knowledge of what occurred prior to her leap backwards in time.) Given her wish was to be able to go back in time and be able to protect Madoka, it is possible it would only work should she be unable to protect the girl in a timeline.
In later timelines, Homura is shown to have more talents, such as the ability to shoot blasts of energy from her shield (though her rare use suggests it is not very effective), cure her vision, and even fly. It's unknown what all abilities she can use. However, for the most part she relies on trickery and her ability to stop time rather than sheer magical power.
Unfortunately, using magic has a curse. Slowly a magical girl's Soul Gem will taint from its use, making the gem darker. Furthermore, negative feelings such as despair can also corrupt a Soul Gem. Should a Soul Gem become too tainted, it will explode and become a Grief Seed, thus turning the magical girl into a witch. The only way to prevent this is through using a witch's Grief Seed to absorb the corruption from a Soul Gem. Each Grief Seed can only be used so much before it turns back into a witch itself.
Sample:
[A somewhat nervous looking, young teenage girl appeared in the mirror, looking very uncertain about the mirror. For someone with a keen eye, her school uniform may strike up a memory of someone else who has used the vine before. But this girl was different. Her long, dark hair was pulled back into two braids and red-rimmed glasses sat squarely on her face.
After a moment, the girl spoke up.] This...this isn't dream is it? It feels too...real.
[More softly, as if to herself:] It can't be a barrier either... [Not that witches weren't real, but everything about them seemed rather dream-like to her...]
[The girl clutched her left arm with her right hand as the former began to shake a bit more visibly.] W-Where am I? W-What is this p-place?
K-Kaname...san? Tomoe....san...?
[Barely audible:] I want to go home...