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Other characters currently played:
Character name: Madoka Kaname/The Law of Cycles
Age: 14-ish
Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Canonpoint: Post-The Rebellion Story
Background: History!
Personality: Madoka is, first and foremost, a very kind and helpful girl. Its practically the thing which, when people first meet her, people will notice. She doesn't lie about anything, doesn't judge people regardless of who they are or where they come from, and always seems to find the good in people, even when those people don't see any good in themselves. She cares about just about everyone she meets, and would do anything for the people she cares for. Her kindness and forgiving nature can extend to people she never even met, and when a situation comes up, she does everything she feels she can to help. She is a friend to all, a dutiful and good girl seemingly on her way to becoming a good adult.
Of course, her obvious selflessness isn't entirely a good thing. Many times - though her compassion for others is genuine - her actions and spoken needs tend to mask a very deep uncertainty in herself. Though she doesn't always realize it, the root of many of her wishes throughout many timelines is her belief that she is useless, pointless, and without purpose. Before becoming a magical girl, she is timid and shy, stepping back so other, more dominant personalities in her life - those she emulates, but feels she can't hope to measure up to - can shine. The world is not a perfect place, after all, and even knowing that there are good things in the world to cherish, kindness, forgiveness, and goodness can only go so far.
Thus, becoming a magical girl seems to fulfill everything Madoka could always want - making a wish and then fighting to help others, and to become a confident, dependable person as a result, making the world a far better place through her actions. In reality, it merely manipulates Madoka's naivety and self-sacrificing tendencies when she sees someone in pain, and her views about the world and the magical girl system. It transforms her wish - something she almost almost always made without thinking of her own thoughts and feelings on what she really wanted out of her wish - into something selfish for her sake alone, turning the logic of her "selfless" wish onto itself. Thus, if she didn't die, she was doomed to the despairing fate of a witch. Not to mention that not only does her need to want to be that dependable person constantly puts her in danger of making a wish, but also, she inevitably attracts the very things that would doom her - either Incubators who hear her want to make a wish, or simply other magical girls alongside Incubators well aware of her potential, especially as timelines continued to converge onto her.
Its only through seeing the magical girl system fully, before making her wish, that Madoka sees what she needs to see, but she goes through a great deal of pain in order to have her eyes opened. She becomes aware of how important she is, and just how powerful her wish could be, but also finds what lengths others will go to get her on their side for their own ends, whether through manipulation or force. She comes to realize in full the horrible things that are in the world, and the terrible truth about the nature of the world and the Incubator system of magical girls; she sees magical girls attack each other and be violently killed, and become Witches because of their despair. At the same time, she also finds that there are things worth fighting for, and worth standing up for, and that she doesn't necessarily need to demean herself to the system which seeks to control her, to find those things.
Ultimately, she finds a way to make a truly selfless wish, both for herself and for every other magical girl in existence. By taking on everyone's doubts and despair, and bringing it to herself before it can turn others into witches, she became the avatar of hope herself, embodying the positive feelings and selflessness of what human emotions are capable of inspiring. She is still willing to sacrifice herself, but finally, she knows to do it on her own terms, where before she put others before her entirely, before truly considering herself in the equation.
Yet even despite this maturity gained through becoming the Law of Cycles, Madoka, as a god, is not without her flaws. Though clearly intelligent, and capable of quick action and strategy due to her experience and omniscience, she cannot help but be forgiving, and continue to see the good in everyone, even in those who would wish her harm or who hold hidden motives. Because she knows of their suffering, she trusts her friends, and all other magical girls in existence, almost without a second thought. She also, at first, believes that the Incubators will ultimately also do the right things, both for the new universe she created, and for the girls under their watch.
As a result, she can still be directly and indirectly manipulated. Even knowing what the Incubators were capable of, she allowed them to continue contracting girls as part of the system; even after Homura was trapped in the Isolation Field, and knowing fully what they were planning, after punishing the Incubators she let them continue to live as a whole, also for the sake of the new universe's system. And because she allowed herself to enter the Isolation Field to help Homura, even with her prior omniscience, even after hearing Homura's concerns and thoughts in the flower field, it didn't occur to her, after her memories were restored, that Homura would possibly think to interfere with the Law of Cycles, much less split her in half as she did.
Though she still has a connection with the Law of Cycles, she's on a tight leash due to Homura's new powers, and has thus lost her purpose, her powers, and her memories of the truth, reverting her to the timid girl she was before her wish. She's been forced to search for what she lost (though Homura is doing a good job suppressing those thoughts and feelings, she still has them), even as she lives in what she perceives as a perfect world. In a sense, she's back to square one - yet on another level, she's merely a prisoner of her own dutifulness, and though someone is out there is trying to break her from that tendency, and make her that self-confident girl without the need of a wish, she won't break from her principles. Even if she doesn't truly remember what she used those principles for.
Wish: "I wish to understand where my true purpose lies."
From the beginning, Madoka felt strange and out of place in her world. She couldn't understand why she felt like everything was correct, except for her. She felt like she surely may have had another place to be, but couldn't explain why she felt such a longing. So, she made a wish to know why she felt so lost, even though she, at the same time, felt she had everything she could ever want out of her life.
Of course, Madoka doesn't realize that she's already made a wish, and had already discovered her true purpose, long ago, as a part of the Law of Cycles. So when she made her wish (or what she believed to be her wish), she was granted her own original powers, Soul Gem, and abilities were simply restored to her - as her true purpose was to be the hope of all magical girls, the Law of Cycles. An ability given as a result of this side effect - also a part of her original purpose as a magical girl - is the ability to inspire hope in others, and to be strengthened by her own hope. She is also given the chance to recover her true memories of who and what she is, at her own pace and time, due to the complexity of what she truly is. Her first and current memory is a pink field of stars.
However, as she was forcibly split by Homura, aka the Lizard Girl, there's no way she could be able to recover her full power without a certain party becoming privy to the machinations of these new Kyuubeys, if she ever managed to return home. Speaking of, because of her being brought to Nyoi-Cho, she's further away from the Law of Cycles than before - not even in the same universe as it. So, even with this wish she can understand her purpose, and even eventually remember most of it, but she will never be able to return to the heaven she created within herself, or to stop the Incubators or anyone else from interfering with it should anything go wrong.
Power: Her initial active power will be her ability to summon and use her bow and normal arrows, much like in the anime timelines. Her normal finishing move - a powered-up single arrow - is "Finitora Freccia".
Her passive power will be the power granted by her wish due to her true nature, empathic enhancement - she can inspire hope, make people feel better, and raise their power levels in others around her in battle, and she herself can briefly enhance her powers through her own hope.
Weapon: Rose Bow! Undrawn and drawn with normal arrow, drawn and completely powered-up with finishing move arrow
Sample: Madoka arrives in the new world...
Contact info:
Other characters currently played:
Character name: Madoka Kaname/The Law of Cycles
Age: 14-ish
Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Canonpoint: Post-The Rebellion Story
Background: History!
Personality: Madoka is, first and foremost, a very kind and helpful girl. Its practically the thing which, when people first meet her, people will notice. She doesn't lie about anything, doesn't judge people regardless of who they are or where they come from, and always seems to find the good in people, even when those people don't see any good in themselves. She cares about just about everyone she meets, and would do anything for the people she cares for. Her kindness and forgiving nature can extend to people she never even met, and when a situation comes up, she does everything she feels she can to help. She is a friend to all, a dutiful and good girl seemingly on her way to becoming a good adult.
Of course, her obvious selflessness isn't entirely a good thing. Many times - though her compassion for others is genuine - her actions and spoken needs tend to mask a very deep uncertainty in herself. Though she doesn't always realize it, the root of many of her wishes throughout many timelines is her belief that she is useless, pointless, and without purpose. Before becoming a magical girl, she is timid and shy, stepping back so other, more dominant personalities in her life - those she emulates, but feels she can't hope to measure up to - can shine. The world is not a perfect place, after all, and even knowing that there are good things in the world to cherish, kindness, forgiveness, and goodness can only go so far.
Thus, becoming a magical girl seems to fulfill everything Madoka could always want - making a wish and then fighting to help others, and to become a confident, dependable person as a result, making the world a far better place through her actions. In reality, it merely manipulates Madoka's naivety and self-sacrificing tendencies when she sees someone in pain, and her views about the world and the magical girl system. It transforms her wish - something she almost almost always made without thinking of her own thoughts and feelings on what she really wanted out of her wish - into something selfish for her sake alone, turning the logic of her "selfless" wish onto itself. Thus, if she didn't die, she was doomed to the despairing fate of a witch. Not to mention that not only does her need to want to be that dependable person constantly puts her in danger of making a wish, but also, she inevitably attracts the very things that would doom her - either Incubators who hear her want to make a wish, or simply other magical girls alongside Incubators well aware of her potential, especially as timelines continued to converge onto her.
Its only through seeing the magical girl system fully, before making her wish, that Madoka sees what she needs to see, but she goes through a great deal of pain in order to have her eyes opened. She becomes aware of how important she is, and just how powerful her wish could be, but also finds what lengths others will go to get her on their side for their own ends, whether through manipulation or force. She comes to realize in full the horrible things that are in the world, and the terrible truth about the nature of the world and the Incubator system of magical girls; she sees magical girls attack each other and be violently killed, and become Witches because of their despair. At the same time, she also finds that there are things worth fighting for, and worth standing up for, and that she doesn't necessarily need to demean herself to the system which seeks to control her, to find those things.
Ultimately, she finds a way to make a truly selfless wish, both for herself and for every other magical girl in existence. By taking on everyone's doubts and despair, and bringing it to herself before it can turn others into witches, she became the avatar of hope herself, embodying the positive feelings and selflessness of what human emotions are capable of inspiring. She is still willing to sacrifice herself, but finally, she knows to do it on her own terms, where before she put others before her entirely, before truly considering herself in the equation.
Yet even despite this maturity gained through becoming the Law of Cycles, Madoka, as a god, is not without her flaws. Though clearly intelligent, and capable of quick action and strategy due to her experience and omniscience, she cannot help but be forgiving, and continue to see the good in everyone, even in those who would wish her harm or who hold hidden motives. Because she knows of their suffering, she trusts her friends, and all other magical girls in existence, almost without a second thought. She also, at first, believes that the Incubators will ultimately also do the right things, both for the new universe she created, and for the girls under their watch.
As a result, she can still be directly and indirectly manipulated. Even knowing what the Incubators were capable of, she allowed them to continue contracting girls as part of the system; even after Homura was trapped in the Isolation Field, and knowing fully what they were planning, after punishing the Incubators she let them continue to live as a whole, also for the sake of the new universe's system. And because she allowed herself to enter the Isolation Field to help Homura, even with her prior omniscience, even after hearing Homura's concerns and thoughts in the flower field, it didn't occur to her, after her memories were restored, that Homura would possibly think to interfere with the Law of Cycles, much less split her in half as she did.
Though she still has a connection with the Law of Cycles, she's on a tight leash due to Homura's new powers, and has thus lost her purpose, her powers, and her memories of the truth, reverting her to the timid girl she was before her wish. She's been forced to search for what she lost (though Homura is doing a good job suppressing those thoughts and feelings, she still has them), even as she lives in what she perceives as a perfect world. In a sense, she's back to square one - yet on another level, she's merely a prisoner of her own dutifulness, and though someone is out there is trying to break her from that tendency, and make her that self-confident girl without the need of a wish, she won't break from her principles. Even if she doesn't truly remember what she used those principles for.
Wish: "I wish to understand where my true purpose lies."
From the beginning, Madoka felt strange and out of place in her world. She couldn't understand why she felt like everything was correct, except for her. She felt like she surely may have had another place to be, but couldn't explain why she felt such a longing. So, she made a wish to know why she felt so lost, even though she, at the same time, felt she had everything she could ever want out of her life.
Of course, Madoka doesn't realize that she's already made a wish, and had already discovered her true purpose, long ago, as a part of the Law of Cycles. So when she made her wish (or what she believed to be her wish), she was granted her own original powers, Soul Gem, and abilities were simply restored to her - as her true purpose was to be the hope of all magical girls, the Law of Cycles. An ability given as a result of this side effect - also a part of her original purpose as a magical girl - is the ability to inspire hope in others, and to be strengthened by her own hope. She is also given the chance to recover her true memories of who and what she is, at her own pace and time, due to the complexity of what she truly is. Her first and current memory is a pink field of stars.
However, as she was forcibly split by Homura, aka the Lizard Girl, there's no way she could be able to recover her full power without a certain party becoming privy to the machinations of these new Kyuubeys, if she ever managed to return home. Speaking of, because of her being brought to Nyoi-Cho, she's further away from the Law of Cycles than before - not even in the same universe as it. So, even with this wish she can understand her purpose, and even eventually remember most of it, but she will never be able to return to the heaven she created within herself, or to stop the Incubators or anyone else from interfering with it should anything go wrong.
Power: Her initial active power will be her ability to summon and use her bow and normal arrows, much like in the anime timelines. Her normal finishing move - a powered-up single arrow - is "Finitora Freccia".
Her passive power will be the power granted by her wish due to her true nature, empathic enhancement - she can inspire hope, make people feel better, and raise their power levels in others around her in battle, and she herself can briefly enhance her powers through her own hope.
Weapon: Rose Bow! Undrawn and drawn with normal arrow, drawn and completely powered-up with finishing move arrow
![Undrawn and drawn with normal arrow](http://img.amiami.jp/images/product/review/122/FIG-MOE-5792_11.jpg"){kind=link}
Sample: Madoka arrives in the new world...