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PLAYER
✧ NAME: Ichi
✧ LJ USERNAME: unspeakingly
✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): unspeakingly @ plurk
✧ CURRENT CHARACTERS PLAYED AT PROMENADE: n/a
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Homura Akemi
✧ SERIES: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
✧ HISTORY:Homura Akemi began as a terribly weak, sick girl who wasn't much good at anything she did. She had to leave school because of her illness and weak body, and spent a lot of time in hospital. Finally, she was well enough to return to school, so she started attending again - but she still couldn't do much of anything. She was too shy to make friends, too nervous and afraid to stand out, too weak to amount to anything. Even after meeting the incredibly kind and friendly Madoka Kaname, her spirits were still low and her self-esteem still dreadful. Perhaps because of this, she was targeted by a Witch - a kind of monster, a curse, that feeds on humans. When it tried to attack her, however, Madoka leapt in with her friend Mami Tomoe to save the day and Homura. From this, Homura learnt about the existence of Puella Magi; girls who make a contract with the creature Kyubey, and become magical heroines in exchange for the granting of any wish they want.
Unfortunately, too soon, Madoka and Mami went up against the most powerful Witch of all - Walpurgis Night. Mami was killed first, and Madoka was left to fight Walpurgis alone. She tried, despite Homura's pleading for her not to, and died in the fight. Homura grieved, and when she said she wished it had never happened, Kyubey latched onto her words; he offered to grant her wish if she contracted with him. Homura agreed, and made the wish that she could go back in time and redo her meeting with Madoka, and be the one to protect her friend instead of being the protected one. Hence, Homura became the time-manipulating Puella Magi.
Homura reversed time to a month beforehand, when she first met Madoka Kaname. She immediately approached Madoka and announced that she too was a Puella Magi, and they could fight together. Although Homura was far from a talented Puella Magi, she was determined, she tried her best, and together with Madoka and Mami, she managed to be someone who could help. But once again, Walpurgis Night came to the city, and once again, Mami was killed in the battle. Madoka and Homura survived after its defeat - however, Madoka suddenly underwent a terrible transformation into a Witch herself. Homura found out the truth in this moment; that all Puella Magi were destined to become Witches in the end.
She reversed.
This time, Homura decided that she had to warn the others of the true nature of Kyubey and the Puella Magi contract before it was too late. She joined the team alongside Madoka, Mami and now Sayaka Miki, and when she thought she could, told them about Kyubey's deception. The other girls didn't believe her. Soon, Sayaka fell victim to grief and became a Witch, and the girls - with the help of Kyoko Sakura - took down the Witch Sayaka. They understood, suddenly. After their sad victory over what was once their friend, Mami killed Kyoko in a fit of grief and horror; she believed that if they were all doomed to become Witches, then they all had to die before they could become something so terrible. Madoka killed Mami before Homura could be shot, and Homura desperately tried to comfort her distraught friend. She promised that the two of them would stick together now, and that they could defeat Walpurgis Night when it inevitably came.
They did. However, both of them had exhausted themselves and corrupted their Soul Gems - they would become Witches together. Homura was content with this, but Madoka made a last sacrifice, and gave up her chance to drain the grief from Homura's Soul Gem. She begged Homura to go back in time and stop the Madoka in the past from ever making the foolish contract with Kyubey. Homura promised that she would, and in an act of mercy, fulfilled Madoka's very last request; she killed her before she could also transform into a Witch. And she reversed.
By Cycle Four, Homura had snapped. She was done with trying to handle things delicately. She decided that she couldn't rely on anyone but herself, and that she would take care of everything alone. She confronted Madoka and bluntly told her never to accept an offer from Kyubey, and a month later, took on Walpurgis Night by herself. She couldn't defeat it, and Kyubey took this opportunity to trick Madoka into contracting with him to save Homura and the city. Madoka became a Puella Magi again, killed Walpurgis Night in one shot, and then transformed into the most terrible Witch yet. Homura did not accept this fate. She flatly refused to fight the Witch and instead, she reversed.
The fifth and final cycle, Homura is fed up with all this bullshit. She corners Madoka and flatly says never to contract with anyone, if she doesn't want to risk her life and family. She tells her to remain Madoka Kaname. After that, she goes and tries to kill Kyubey, but he has an unlimited number of bodies, and manages to find Madoka before she can stop him. To her relief, they don't contract, but he stays with her. Mami takes Madoka and Sayaka under her wing to teach them about Puella Magi, and Homura hangs around and stalks them and is passive aggressive towards Mami - and then Mami dies. Homura takes the opportunity to sweep in, save the girls and warn them that if they become Puella Magi, this is what they face. She thinks that should be the end of it. She's saved Madoka from her fate.
Unfortunately, Sayaka becomes a Puella Magi after that, and Madoka remains thoroughly entwined in the situation for the sake of her (fifth cycle) best friend. Homura sticks around to keep an eye on everything, and allies herself with Kyoko Sakura to some extent because it's the most convenient option; her and Kyoko start plotting to take down Walpurgis Night together when it appears, and in the meantime, Kyoko meddles with Sayaka. Homura intervenes every now and then to save Madoka some grief, but then she realises what is inevitably coming, as it has in other timelines - Sayaka will become a Witch. At this point, Homura is beginning to crack under the stress of this repeat.
And then she wakes up in Promenade.
✧ TIMELINE: 5th Cycle; before Sayaka becomes a Witch.
✧ PERSONALITY:Homura is, first and foremost, incredibly tenacious. She is stubborn and resilient in terms of both body and mind; she has the incredible ability to push through almost anything without it visibly wearing on her. If she has a goal, she will absolutely pursue it 'til the very end; she is persistent and extremely determined. Once she's on a path, there is next to nothing that can move her from it, and she herself will move mountains for the sake of her goal.
Which comes to the important subject of Madoka Kaname. Homura's entire existence is centred around Madoka; everything she does is to keep Madoka alive, safe and well. Through this, we see other aspects of Homura's personality, things that she only ever got to show to and for Madoka - fierce loyalty, for one, and a deep, protective love for her close friends. She is desperate to save Madoka to the point of being self-destructive, almost clingy from her fear of losing her hero, her closest and only friend. Homura has a huge amount of trouble letting go of something that has become dear to her.
Because of her sheer determination,her focus on nothing but Madoka, and her general world-weary outlook, Homura often comes off as cold and harsh; not hostile, but apathetic and off-brushing to the point that she appears cruel. She can't afford to take her time with anything in her experience, and she can't afford to take the feelings of others into account, so rather than dealing with those things, she ignores and pushes onwards. She is blunt and no-nonsense; she is, or at least she appears, entirely business-like and detached. In truth, this is an act, and also a product of her general frustration and cold fury from the continuous bad-ending timeloops. Homura forces herself to be perfectly calm and controlled at all times, because she knows that is the only way she can have any hope of succeeding without a terrible breakdown. Anything that is a hindrance to saving Madoka, she must discard - including her own feelings.
Homura is something of a contradiction, in that she seems to be very pessimistic - no one believes in the future; no one can accept the future, she says - but she has never given up on her impossible hope of saving Madoka, which makes her painfully optimistic. She has long-since reached her breaking point, but she has yet to give up her naive and foolish hope. She is horribly aware, at all times, that the moment she loses sight of her goal, she will give in to despair and become a Witch herself. She is one of the only girls not to have an utter catastrophic breakdown over the realisation that she is nothing but a walking corpse because of her wish (although this may be because she was given more time to accept it, had bigger priorities at the time, and heard it over and over again); she middles between pessimism and optimism and just accepts everything as it is. Once you've become a Puella Magi, you can never get rescued. Still, she does seem to show some disdain and sadness for what she is sometimes, calling herself inhuman - even if she never regrets it.
Beneath the façade that Homura has put up to protect everyone, to fool others and herself, there is still the young girl from the first timeline - although now, all traces of her self-esteem issues have been turned on the rest of the world; she believes that it's impossible to rely on anyone but herself, and only she can accomplish what she needs to see done. She is always mere moments from breaking, and actually bursts into tears a few times in Madoka's presence when she is under particularly high strain. This shows that her cold and controlled mask is not as perfect as she would like to pretend it is; she's still barely a teenager, and she has her limits. Her cracks are just a lot more visible than most others', considering all that she has to carry with her.
Homura also appears to be something of a hypocrite. Not only does she act cold, but she advises others to also be cold - With kindness comes naïveté. Courage becomes foolhardiness. And dedication has no reward. Despite that speech, Homura is kind to an extent, as long as it doesn't negatively affect Madoka; she tries to save the other girls over and over, even if Madoka is her focus. She does let people become close to her, because she tries to save Mami, who hates her, and she grieves over Kyoko's death in the 5th Cycle. She's not courageous - just determined - but that does, on occasion, make her reckless and unprepared. She doesn't plan or wait. And her entire life is based on dedication, even though she always tells others that making a wish for someone else is foolish. Beneath her mature impression, she's still a fourteen year-old girl, and she'll save who she can, where and when she can; it's just that Madoka always comes first.
In short, Homura is a somewhat broken, incredibly tenacious little soldier, who lives and breathes and fights for nothing but Madoka Kaname's life and well-being. And she's okay with that.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS:Time manipulation (freezing + selective rewinding, but her rewinds won't work in Prom); her shield acts as an endless storage container; she can summon hundreds of guns and explosives; her body is an animated corpse, so her sensation of pain is lessened and she is more difficult to kill; her life, soul and existence is actually kept inside of the Soul Gem, from where it controls the corpse; she's incredibly athletic and skilled with both firearms and explosives.
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Day
✧ MASK DESIGN: C'est ici.
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: Her residence.
SAMPLES
✧ FIRST PERSON:Madoka- No, no, how is this possible?! [click, click, whirr. ... click, click, whirr. the girl's voice becomes more panicked, hysterical, on the verge of tears.] It won't work- I have to- Ah-!
[the audio cuts out. it returns - but it's safe to assume there was a large gap between when it was turned off and back on, because now the girl's voice is perfectly flat. it is flawlessly controlled, calm and emotionless. it barely even sounds like the same person as just a moment ago - she speaks clearly and bluntly.]
Provide me with all the information there is available on this place. In particular, how to leave it. If we're trapped as I'm assuming, I want to know about every effort that has been made to escape. I'm willing to cooperate with anyone if it will benefit me, and I'm not interested if it won't. If it's necessary, I'll work alone, but I want to hear about this place from anyone who can tell me first.
["I'm willing to cooperate with anyone." there was some definite emphasis on the "anyone" there. and she sounds dead serious about it. in fact, there's a frightening determination to the way this girl speaks...]
More importantly, if there's a girl named Madoka Kaname here, I want to hear about it. She's a difficult person to miss; she has bright pink hair and an exuberant personality. If you know of her being here, I need to know urgently.
[that determination just tripled, but there's an edge of desperation behind it. click, click, whirr. ... is that ticking? are those gears turning?]
✧ THIRD PERSON:Homura is a survivor. At the end of the month, it's always her that turns back the clocks, always her left standing. She's become adaptable, because that's what survivors do. They live. They live by any means necessary.
So when she can't fight, she shifts. She gathers information. (It's been a long time since she was the one out of the loop. She'd never minded much back then. She minds it a lot, now.) A city. Escape is impossible thus far, tried and tested. Madoka isn't here. Most importantly, Homura has been taken from where she was and the world might still be turning on without her. She could miss the date of Walpurgisnacht. She could miss the making of a contract. Madoka's contract. She gathers information until she's found her footing again, and then she shifts.
She plans. Escapes, negotiations, backups, backups for the backups. She's never been much for plans, but she'll adapt. She makes plans to get allies. Anyone. As long as they can help her. She makes plans for tests to further her plans. (She ignores the nostalgia, again. She hasn't had to test since the first time she reversed, figuring out her powers, learning to fight, to protect-) She treats the situation just like anything else; she has a goal, and she will realise it. One mission atop another is nothing, if it means getting back and completing the most important one - if it means saving Madoka.
And she prepares her most important contingency plan of all. She has all the information she could get. People are known to forget themselves, during their time in this city. Their memories get overwritten.
Forgetting isn't something Homura will tolerate. Not after everything.
Every day after that, she writes. Sometimes it's on scraps of paper, or telling stories to the residents, or in the journal she starts to keep. She writes about Puella Magi, about Kyubey, the truths that he never told them, she writes about herself and what she can do and what she's done, the first repeat right down to the fifth cycle, every moment in detail, just as vividly as she can remember it. Five months. Five of the same month. She writes about why. She writes about Madoka. Every page - Madoka Kaname, Madoka Kaname, Madoka Kaname. She writes it on the back of her door. MADOKA KANAME.
Even if she forgets everything else, she will remember that name, and she will remember what it means to her. She'll remember its importance. She'll remember why. She won't allow anything less.
And when - when - she leaves this city, she won't fail. Not this time.
✧ NAME: Ichi
✧ LJ USERNAME: unspeakingly
✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): unspeakingly @ plurk
✧ CURRENT CHARACTERS PLAYED AT PROMENADE: n/a
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Homura Akemi
✧ SERIES: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
✧ HISTORY:Homura Akemi began as a terribly weak, sick girl who wasn't much good at anything she did. She had to leave school because of her illness and weak body, and spent a lot of time in hospital. Finally, she was well enough to return to school, so she started attending again - but she still couldn't do much of anything. She was too shy to make friends, too nervous and afraid to stand out, too weak to amount to anything. Even after meeting the incredibly kind and friendly Madoka Kaname, her spirits were still low and her self-esteem still dreadful. Perhaps because of this, she was targeted by a Witch - a kind of monster, a curse, that feeds on humans. When it tried to attack her, however, Madoka leapt in with her friend Mami Tomoe to save the day and Homura. From this, Homura learnt about the existence of Puella Magi; girls who make a contract with the creature Kyubey, and become magical heroines in exchange for the granting of any wish they want.
Unfortunately, too soon, Madoka and Mami went up against the most powerful Witch of all - Walpurgis Night. Mami was killed first, and Madoka was left to fight Walpurgis alone. She tried, despite Homura's pleading for her not to, and died in the fight. Homura grieved, and when she said she wished it had never happened, Kyubey latched onto her words; he offered to grant her wish if she contracted with him. Homura agreed, and made the wish that she could go back in time and redo her meeting with Madoka, and be the one to protect her friend instead of being the protected one. Hence, Homura became the time-manipulating Puella Magi.
Homura reversed time to a month beforehand, when she first met Madoka Kaname. She immediately approached Madoka and announced that she too was a Puella Magi, and they could fight together. Although Homura was far from a talented Puella Magi, she was determined, she tried her best, and together with Madoka and Mami, she managed to be someone who could help. But once again, Walpurgis Night came to the city, and once again, Mami was killed in the battle. Madoka and Homura survived after its defeat - however, Madoka suddenly underwent a terrible transformation into a Witch herself. Homura found out the truth in this moment; that all Puella Magi were destined to become Witches in the end.
She reversed.
This time, Homura decided that she had to warn the others of the true nature of Kyubey and the Puella Magi contract before it was too late. She joined the team alongside Madoka, Mami and now Sayaka Miki, and when she thought she could, told them about Kyubey's deception. The other girls didn't believe her. Soon, Sayaka fell victim to grief and became a Witch, and the girls - with the help of Kyoko Sakura - took down the Witch Sayaka. They understood, suddenly. After their sad victory over what was once their friend, Mami killed Kyoko in a fit of grief and horror; she believed that if they were all doomed to become Witches, then they all had to die before they could become something so terrible. Madoka killed Mami before Homura could be shot, and Homura desperately tried to comfort her distraught friend. She promised that the two of them would stick together now, and that they could defeat Walpurgis Night when it inevitably came.
They did. However, both of them had exhausted themselves and corrupted their Soul Gems - they would become Witches together. Homura was content with this, but Madoka made a last sacrifice, and gave up her chance to drain the grief from Homura's Soul Gem. She begged Homura to go back in time and stop the Madoka in the past from ever making the foolish contract with Kyubey. Homura promised that she would, and in an act of mercy, fulfilled Madoka's very last request; she killed her before she could also transform into a Witch. And she reversed.
By Cycle Four, Homura had snapped. She was done with trying to handle things delicately. She decided that she couldn't rely on anyone but herself, and that she would take care of everything alone. She confronted Madoka and bluntly told her never to accept an offer from Kyubey, and a month later, took on Walpurgis Night by herself. She couldn't defeat it, and Kyubey took this opportunity to trick Madoka into contracting with him to save Homura and the city. Madoka became a Puella Magi again, killed Walpurgis Night in one shot, and then transformed into the most terrible Witch yet. Homura did not accept this fate. She flatly refused to fight the Witch and instead, she reversed.
The fifth and final cycle, Homura is fed up with all this bullshit. She corners Madoka and flatly says never to contract with anyone, if she doesn't want to risk her life and family. She tells her to remain Madoka Kaname. After that, she goes and tries to kill Kyubey, but he has an unlimited number of bodies, and manages to find Madoka before she can stop him. To her relief, they don't contract, but he stays with her. Mami takes Madoka and Sayaka under her wing to teach them about Puella Magi, and Homura hangs around and stalks them and is passive aggressive towards Mami - and then Mami dies. Homura takes the opportunity to sweep in, save the girls and warn them that if they become Puella Magi, this is what they face. She thinks that should be the end of it. She's saved Madoka from her fate.
Unfortunately, Sayaka becomes a Puella Magi after that, and Madoka remains thoroughly entwined in the situation for the sake of her (fifth cycle) best friend. Homura sticks around to keep an eye on everything, and allies herself with Kyoko Sakura to some extent because it's the most convenient option; her and Kyoko start plotting to take down Walpurgis Night together when it appears, and in the meantime, Kyoko meddles with Sayaka. Homura intervenes every now and then to save Madoka some grief, but then she realises what is inevitably coming, as it has in other timelines - Sayaka will become a Witch. At this point, Homura is beginning to crack under the stress of this repeat.
And then she wakes up in Promenade.
✧ TIMELINE: 5th Cycle; before Sayaka becomes a Witch.
✧ PERSONALITY:Homura is, first and foremost, incredibly tenacious. She is stubborn and resilient in terms of both body and mind; she has the incredible ability to push through almost anything without it visibly wearing on her. If she has a goal, she will absolutely pursue it 'til the very end; she is persistent and extremely determined. Once she's on a path, there is next to nothing that can move her from it, and she herself will move mountains for the sake of her goal.
Which comes to the important subject of Madoka Kaname. Homura's entire existence is centred around Madoka; everything she does is to keep Madoka alive, safe and well. Through this, we see other aspects of Homura's personality, things that she only ever got to show to and for Madoka - fierce loyalty, for one, and a deep, protective love for her close friends. She is desperate to save Madoka to the point of being self-destructive, almost clingy from her fear of losing her hero, her closest and only friend. Homura has a huge amount of trouble letting go of something that has become dear to her.
Because of her sheer determination,her focus on nothing but Madoka, and her general world-weary outlook, Homura often comes off as cold and harsh; not hostile, but apathetic and off-brushing to the point that she appears cruel. She can't afford to take her time with anything in her experience, and she can't afford to take the feelings of others into account, so rather than dealing with those things, she ignores and pushes onwards. She is blunt and no-nonsense; she is, or at least she appears, entirely business-like and detached. In truth, this is an act, and also a product of her general frustration and cold fury from the continuous bad-ending timeloops. Homura forces herself to be perfectly calm and controlled at all times, because she knows that is the only way she can have any hope of succeeding without a terrible breakdown. Anything that is a hindrance to saving Madoka, she must discard - including her own feelings.
Homura is something of a contradiction, in that she seems to be very pessimistic - no one believes in the future; no one can accept the future, she says - but she has never given up on her impossible hope of saving Madoka, which makes her painfully optimistic. She has long-since reached her breaking point, but she has yet to give up her naive and foolish hope. She is horribly aware, at all times, that the moment she loses sight of her goal, she will give in to despair and become a Witch herself. She is one of the only girls not to have an utter catastrophic breakdown over the realisation that she is nothing but a walking corpse because of her wish (although this may be because she was given more time to accept it, had bigger priorities at the time, and heard it over and over again); she middles between pessimism and optimism and just accepts everything as it is. Once you've become a Puella Magi, you can never get rescued. Still, she does seem to show some disdain and sadness for what she is sometimes, calling herself inhuman - even if she never regrets it.
Beneath the façade that Homura has put up to protect everyone, to fool others and herself, there is still the young girl from the first timeline - although now, all traces of her self-esteem issues have been turned on the rest of the world; she believes that it's impossible to rely on anyone but herself, and only she can accomplish what she needs to see done. She is always mere moments from breaking, and actually bursts into tears a few times in Madoka's presence when she is under particularly high strain. This shows that her cold and controlled mask is not as perfect as she would like to pretend it is; she's still barely a teenager, and she has her limits. Her cracks are just a lot more visible than most others', considering all that she has to carry with her.
Homura also appears to be something of a hypocrite. Not only does she act cold, but she advises others to also be cold - With kindness comes naïveté. Courage becomes foolhardiness. And dedication has no reward. Despite that speech, Homura is kind to an extent, as long as it doesn't negatively affect Madoka; she tries to save the other girls over and over, even if Madoka is her focus. She does let people become close to her, because she tries to save Mami, who hates her, and she grieves over Kyoko's death in the 5th Cycle. She's not courageous - just determined - but that does, on occasion, make her reckless and unprepared. She doesn't plan or wait. And her entire life is based on dedication, even though she always tells others that making a wish for someone else is foolish. Beneath her mature impression, she's still a fourteen year-old girl, and she'll save who she can, where and when she can; it's just that Madoka always comes first.
In short, Homura is a somewhat broken, incredibly tenacious little soldier, who lives and breathes and fights for nothing but Madoka Kaname's life and well-being. And she's okay with that.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS:Time manipulation (freezing + selective rewinding, but her rewinds won't work in Prom); her shield acts as an endless storage container; she can summon hundreds of guns and explosives; her body is an animated corpse, so her sensation of pain is lessened and she is more difficult to kill; her life, soul and existence is actually kept inside of the Soul Gem, from where it controls the corpse; she's incredibly athletic and skilled with both firearms and explosives.
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Day
✧ MASK DESIGN: C'est ici.
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: Her residence.
SAMPLES
✧ FIRST PERSON:Madoka- No, no, how is this possible?! [click, click, whirr. ... click, click, whirr. the girl's voice becomes more panicked, hysterical, on the verge of tears.] It won't work- I have to- Ah-!
[the audio cuts out. it returns - but it's safe to assume there was a large gap between when it was turned off and back on, because now the girl's voice is perfectly flat. it is flawlessly controlled, calm and emotionless. it barely even sounds like the same person as just a moment ago - she speaks clearly and bluntly.]
Provide me with all the information there is available on this place. In particular, how to leave it. If we're trapped as I'm assuming, I want to know about every effort that has been made to escape. I'm willing to cooperate with anyone if it will benefit me, and I'm not interested if it won't. If it's necessary, I'll work alone, but I want to hear about this place from anyone who can tell me first.
["I'm willing to cooperate with anyone." there was some definite emphasis on the "anyone" there. and she sounds dead serious about it. in fact, there's a frightening determination to the way this girl speaks...]
More importantly, if there's a girl named Madoka Kaname here, I want to hear about it. She's a difficult person to miss; she has bright pink hair and an exuberant personality. If you know of her being here, I need to know urgently.
[that determination just tripled, but there's an edge of desperation behind it. click, click, whirr. ... is that ticking? are those gears turning?]
✧ THIRD PERSON:Homura is a survivor. At the end of the month, it's always her that turns back the clocks, always her left standing. She's become adaptable, because that's what survivors do. They live. They live by any means necessary.
So when she can't fight, she shifts. She gathers information. (It's been a long time since she was the one out of the loop. She'd never minded much back then. She minds it a lot, now.) A city. Escape is impossible thus far, tried and tested. Madoka isn't here. Most importantly, Homura has been taken from where she was and the world might still be turning on without her. She could miss the date of Walpurgisnacht. She could miss the making of a contract. Madoka's contract. She gathers information until she's found her footing again, and then she shifts.
She plans. Escapes, negotiations, backups, backups for the backups. She's never been much for plans, but she'll adapt. She makes plans to get allies. Anyone. As long as they can help her. She makes plans for tests to further her plans. (She ignores the nostalgia, again. She hasn't had to test since the first time she reversed, figuring out her powers, learning to fight, to protect-) She treats the situation just like anything else; she has a goal, and she will realise it. One mission atop another is nothing, if it means getting back and completing the most important one - if it means saving Madoka.
And she prepares her most important contingency plan of all. She has all the information she could get. People are known to forget themselves, during their time in this city. Their memories get overwritten.
Forgetting isn't something Homura will tolerate. Not after everything.
Every day after that, she writes. Sometimes it's on scraps of paper, or telling stories to the residents, or in the journal she starts to keep. She writes about Puella Magi, about Kyubey, the truths that he never told them, she writes about herself and what she can do and what she's done, the first repeat right down to the fifth cycle, every moment in detail, just as vividly as she can remember it. Five months. Five of the same month. She writes about why. She writes about Madoka. Every page - Madoka Kaname, Madoka Kaname, Madoka Kaname. She writes it on the back of her door. MADOKA KANAME.
Even if she forgets everything else, she will remember that name, and she will remember what it means to her. She'll remember its importance. She'll remember why. She won't allow anything less.
And when - when - she leaves this city, she won't fail. Not this time.