Wednesday 10 January 2018

Heroines of Legend: Fictional Universes - 10: Madoka Kaname (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)



Strengths: Optimistic, extremely friendly, selfless, creative, kind, gentle, caring, cheerful, helpful, encouraging, supportive, sweet, loving, brave, will do anything for others, and keep on trying her best.


Weaknesses: Naive, easily led, simplistic and childlike view of things, sometimes too caring without further thought, indecisive, quite passive, lack of self-confidence and believing in her own abilities.


Powers/Abilities: As a magical girl, she uses a bow and arrow. There is nothing really special about her in her ordinary, everyday schoolgirl life, apart from her willingness to try things she's not particularly good at, and being the kindest, most selfless daughter, sister and friend anyone could hope for.



Will: Weak to strong, over the course of the series.


Home/Place of Origin: Mitakihara, Japan.


Occupation: Magical girl (in most timelines), the witch Kriemhild Gretchen, the Witch of Salvation (in others), a Goddess (ultimate form, until the movie Rebellion).


Social Standing: Extrovert.


Ethnicity: Japanese.


Sexuality: Indeterminate - anything in this area is subject to interpretation, when analyzing her literal cosmic relationship with Homura Akemi which transcends all universes. Her story isn't about romantic interests, however, and she is only fourteen-years-old.


Other Trivia: Mother is career-driven, father is a full-time househusband. She is a magical girl across multiple timelines. Eventually, with all that power and potential, in the timeline in which the main series takes place, she makes a wish to free every single magical girls - past, present and future - from their predestined fate of becoming witches; thus transforming her into a goddess, letting magical girls die in peace rather than despair. She is the epitome of hope, but at the cost of her own physical existence in every timeline. It is a legitimate possibility that she is the most selfless character in all of fiction. In Rebellion, she could be turned back into an ordinary girl with no magic or alien interference in her life, and no bittersweet fate to fall upon her. But she knows something is missing. That the sensitive girl is destined for greatness, for breaking free and transcending all illusions forcing her into place, for the good of everybody she knows and loves...




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