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OOC Information;
Name; Anna
Personal Journal; kues
Contact; inabaeyes@gmail.com
Other Characters; N/A, apping Bernkastel


IC Information;
Character Name; Madoka Kaname
Age; 14
Appearance; here

House; Sigyn
Power; Growth

Personality;

Madoka's life before becoming a magical girl is mostly unknown, but mundane. She lived a peaceful life with her parents and her younger brother. They had a nice home, a lot of money, and Madoka had a close circle of friends. She was definitely happy. One day, she formed a contract with a small, white, ferret-like creature named Kyuubey. In exchange for saving the life of a fatally injured cat, Madoka became a magical girl and was assigned with the task of fighting witches, distorted and nightmarish creatures. She allies herself with Mami and Sayaka, and one day is approached by a strange girl with glasses named Homura, claiming to be a magical girl herself.

By this period, Homura has reset time twice already, once when Madoka died and once when Madoka became a witch. Madoka quickly makes friends with Homura, like always, but this time is informed directly of the other girl's time-stopping abilities. She tries to tell the group of the true nature behind Soul Gems, but gets shot down by Sayaka. Homura ropes Kyouko, whom Sayaka initially distrusted, into the group and....of course, Madoka welcomes her with open arms. The five grow stronger together, and Homura begins stealing more weapons behind their backs. One day, though, Sayaka's fate in the main timeline happens--she turns into a witch, forcing Kyouko to kill her. Mami witnesses first-hand the true fate of magical girls, and kills Kyouko. She intends to kill Homura and then kill herself, but Madoka intervenes and shoots down Mami with one of her arrows. Somber and shaken, Madoka and Homura go out to fight Walpurgisnacht by themselves.

The girls, for the most part, are successful. They manage to take down Walpurgisnacht completely, with the only damage being surrounding area property destruction. However, both girls wore out their Soul Gems by overtaxing their powers. They both lay on the ground, on the verge of turning into witches, when Madoka takes out a spare Grief Seed she had been concealing. She asks Homura two things, after cleansing her Soul Gem for her: 1) to go back in the past once more, and make sure Madoka never became a magical girl in the first place, and 2) to mercy kill her right then, so she would never become a witch.

Homura does so, and with Madoka dead once more, heads back into the past for the fourth time. Madoka shows no memory of the past timelines (in this case, just #1 & #2) except for fleeting feelings of deja vu.

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Madoka Kaname is a fourteen-year-old girl living in Mitakihara, Japan. She's almost in highschool, she has a trio of dedicated friends, and her family is well-off and caring. She has everything she could ever want. Right?

Wrong. Because the most pivotal event in Madoka's life is the one that changes her the most. And that would be her decision to become a Puella Magi or not. Even with her "happy" life, Madoka felt inadequate. Her best subject in school was art, but she was no "artist"; she wasn't athletic or smart, or anything really noteworthy. She had little to no self-confidence in herself, convinced she was a burden on everyone around her. But that changed when she was given the opportunity, to, in essence, become a super-hero. It started with her saving the life of a cat she so dearly loved. And that led her of a path of becoming a "hero" per se. It was her shtick. She could fight. She could defend her loved-ones. She was no longer an ordinary human. And she could protect her entire city from the deranged "witches"--even if none of them knew about it, it felt good. It was her purpose.

You see, Madoka likes being a hero. She enjoys helping others more than helping herself, because of that lingering lack of confidence. If someone else is happy, she is happy. Though as a Puella Magi, she gained a "purpose" it didn't completely dissipate her low opinion of herself. She tried to put it behind her. She tried to fill her normal life with training and fighting, and she enjoyed it for the output from others. Madoka, overall, is a very kind person. She isn't god, however. Like any other human, she can be selfish. The wish she made during her death reflects this--to save Homura and have her go back in the past and prevent her from making a contract. In a less selfish manner, she could have saved herself and kept living as a Puella Magi, in the endless cycle of killing witches and purifying herself with their "remains". As she and Homura lay dying, they had no regrets. They saved the town, at the cost of their own lives. If she was truly a selfless person, she would have let Homura finally rest. Instead, she chose to "free" herself and ask Homura a favor--two incredibly, incredibly hard favors.

But, of course, that is not her defining trait. Though the series themes of "innocence versus corruption" and "selflessness versus selfishness" are outstanding, family plays an important part as well. They key person in Madoka's life is her mother, Junko. Junko is a businesswoman, and she brings in most of the family's income. She is a strong, tough woman that Madoka looks up to greatly. She is Madoka's greatest role model. And Junko seems to realize this, as she gives her daughter encouraging words of advice whenever she can. Unconsciously Madoka desires to be just like her; she wants to be a strong woman who is the base of her family, who can say or do anything to defend herself. But Junko is just a regular human. She's not a super-hero. Madoka knows that, but still strives to be someone people can rely on, just like she relies on Junko.

Madoka is level-headed, though; not with her mind in the clouds, like one might think. She has an inordinate amount of common sense that most of the girls in the series seem to lack. As such when Mami killed Kyouko and tried to kill Homura in a psychotic rage, she recognized that Mami could not be saved and put her efforts into killing Mami to save Homura. And even when she looked up to Mami in the main timeline, she wasn't willing to use her wish to revive Mami--as she was still a new acquaintance. Would you save a friend you just made, as opposed to trying to help a friend that you'd known since kindergarten?

She doesn't judge based on first impressions, either. When Homura acted coldly to her in the main timeline, she did not try and scrap the notion of being Homura's friend, like most of the girls did. She tried her best to understand Homura and her intentions. And even when Madoka learned Kyuubey was collecting humanity's energy, she did not fly into a fit of blind rage like Sayaka and Kyouko did. She wanted Kyuubey's side of the story, even if he really was the one doing wrong.

Madoka doesn't like violence for violence's sake, but it if's necessary to use, she will not hesitate. Even after she learned witches were once human beings, she didn't stop trying to hunt them. She knew they were monsters and no longer contained a trace of the humanity that the girls once had. And she's no pansy, at least while in Puella Magi mode. If someone is bullying her or her friends, or otherwise doing something damaging to those she cares about, she will not hesitate to verbally call them out on it, such as when she reprimanded Kyuubey for his essentially turning the Puella Magi into monsters and then proceeded to actually act coldly towards him.

But overall? She's a teenage girl trying to figure out the right path, in a world she though innocent. Mitakihara is a breeding ground for corruption and tears, you know.

Samples;
Network Sample; stuff here

Log Sample; from a_facility