Homura Akemi

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Homura Akemi is one of the main characters in the Puella Magi Madoka Magica anime and manga.

A new transfer student in Madoka's class and a stoic magical girl with unknown motives. For whatever reason, she will go to any length to prevent Madoka from striking a contract with Kyuubey. The true nature of her magical powers is unknown at first, with hints being gradually dropped over the course of the series before being fully revealed in the last few episodes; however, beyond her magic she also wields conventional weaponry such as handguns and explosives.

In the AWA fics, Homura is a student at the AWA Academy and is a part of Class 1.

Appearance

Homura Akemi is a young girl with long, black hair and violet eyes. In the present timeline, she almost always presents herself with an emotionless (stoic look) on her face. Long before she came to realize the horrors of her destiny in earlier timelines, she wears red spectacles alongside having two interlaces of braided hair, thus causing her hair to branch out in the present timeline after removing the braids. Near the ending of the movie Rebellion, in the new universe she has created herself, it is shown that she possesses purple earrings.

In her magical girl form, she wears a white, long-sleeve coat with a silver collar over a black, long-sleeve dress. The skirt is silver with a white trim. She also wears black leggings with dark-gray diamonds that cover the sides of the legs, and black heels. The coat appears to have a flower-like pattern with 3 "petals," and has 2 ribbons attached to it.

Personality

Since her arrival at Mitakihara Middle School, she is immediately depicted as being very intelligent, athletic, distant, and cold. It is revealed in episode four that she is only like this because she has seen so much suffering during her tenure as a magical girl. Because of this, she does not want Madoka Kaname to become a magical girl and tries to do anything in order to stop her from making a wish with Kyubey, going as far as to attempt to injure and even kill the cat-like creature. Despite her cold attitude towards others, she still very much cares for Madoka as it is her sole objective to protect her due to the countless amount of blood, sweat, and tears she has shed over her jumps in time.

In the original timeline where her journey began, however, Homura is portrayed as meek, shy, timid, and is known around the school for her lack of confidence. She was also known for her physical incapability of performing in P.E. class; she would get dizzy upon doing even the simplest of warm-up exercises. This had the unfortunate result of her being a target of bullying, as heard on Drama CD 1. Overwhelmed by her perceived uselessness, she begins questioning her existence and until she begins her fated friendship with Madoka, her feelings do not change. Madoka, alongside Mami Tomoe, shows her the ropes and dangers of becoming a magical girl and notes that Madoka's own attitude became much healthier with every witch battle. In an ironic twist, in the anime timeline, we see how frail and meek Madoka is, compared to the current Homura whose personality had performed a complete 180-degree turn due to her experiences in multiple timelines.

Despite being regarded as emotionless by Sayaka Miki, Homura is far from it. Although she does not easily show signs of remorse, sadness, or pity, it is only because she had grown used to the suffering around her. Homura herself has stated that she always feels badly with each life she's unable to save or alter, but nevertheless, it does not slow her down from staying true to her main objective in saving Madoka Kaname.

Abilities

Homura is an extremely powerful character if one learns to use them effectively, and is heavily projectile oriented while still not having some of the traits associated with other projectile-heavy characters. Several of her attacks are quick melee strikes, and others are fast, hard hitting ranged attacks with an RPG, mortar, or shots from a pistol or rifle. They can teleport instantly, allowing them to escape being cornered very easily, but have below-average durability.

Trivia

• Homura along with Madoka Kaname are the first characters from Puella Magi Madoka Magica to be introduced in the AWA fics.
• Homura is frequently referred to as "Kankri-chan" amongst fans, since both names sound pretty similar.
• Fans also call her original persona 'Moemura'.
• The character for Akemi means "dawn beauty".
• In the AWA fics, Homura is roommates with Madoka Kaname and Amu Hinamori.
• In the AWA fics, Homura initially hates Chizuru Tachibana but as time goes, she began to soften whenever he's around. Later on, it was revealed that Homura does have feelings for Chizuru and expresses disappointment when Chizuru and Yoshika Miyafuji became a couple.
• In the AWA fics, Chizuru calls her 'Homu Homu no Mi' which sounds like a Devil Fruits' name.

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