fatedmagica | mayfield → canon update

Name: Berri
Character Name: Madoka Kaname
Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Housing Change: No change
Reason for Canon Update: Madoka's personality has been developing during her stay in Mayfield, so this will catch her up.
Updated Background: Madoka last left off at the very end of episode 9, where she was knocked unconscious in the lair for Sayaka's witch self. She is rescued by Homura and informed that both Kyouko and Sayaka died, and it is assumed that Madoka then went to school and attended classes for the weeks it took to discover Sayaka's corpse and arrange her funeral.

Kyuubey decides to tell Madoka about why the Incubators are promoting the change from Magical Girl to Witch and makes Madoka very upset. She understands that what he is doing is good for the universe as a whole but cannot stand that girls are having to suffer for it. Kyuubey tells Madoka she could be the last magical girl and save the universe because of her tremendous power. She just needs to let him know when she's ready to die to save the universe. This makes Madoka cry.

Later, Madoka visits Homura to talk about the upcoming visit from Walpurgisnacht, a terrifyingly powerful witch that it coming to Mitakihara City. Homura tells Madoka not to worry about it and insists that she stay with the other civilians. On the night of the witch's arrival, Madoka evacuates to a shelter with the rest of her family but begins having second thoughts. She has a discussion with Kyuubey about Homura, gets slapped by her mom, and then rushes off to join Homura.

Homura is fighting Walpurgisnacht and is not winning. Her foot is trapped and her soul gem is tainting as she doubts whether or not it is a good idea to turn back time. Before she can fall into despair, Madoka arrives and apologizes for deciding to make a wish. She turns to Kyuubey and makes her wish, which completely blows the little guy's mind; Madoka wants to erase every witch from every timeline or dimension, past or present, before they are born using her own hands.

Madoka then transforms and fires a single arrow at the sky, which causes millions of pink magic arrows to rain down. As they fall, Madoka is already going through time and timelines and destroying witches before they can be born. This destroys Walpurgisnacht, who can no longer exist. As the dramatic effect of her wish begins to take its effects on the universe, everything fades to white and the entire universe takes a break to reset itself.

This wish completely rewrites the rules of Madoka's universe. Because Madoka will eventually destroy her own witch form as a magical girl she is tossed off of the regular plane of existence and essentially ascends to godhood. The human existence of "Madoka Kaname" never comes to be and no one will ever be able to know she existed. Homura, however, is able to continue to remember Madoka-- probably because Homura's wish was to protect Madoka and her forgetting Madoka would invalidate her wish and cause a trainwreck. Madoka is able to see every timeline that ever existed and tells Homura they were the best of friends before disappearing, and leaving Homura to live in the new world. She is also shown to have a talk with Sayaka, where they decide to let Sayaka wish and die in this world as well.

All of this matters to Godoka; time becomes meaningless to her once she ascends to godhood, because she is everywhere and no where all at the same time. But to be specific, I am taking Madoka from the moment after she destroys her witch form. She will still recall the conversations with Sayaka and Homura and will have vague memories of the other magical girls she saves.

Updated Personality: The biggest change to Madoka's personality is confidence. It's emphasized in staff interviews that becoming a Puella Magi gives Madoka confidence, and it's the same when becoming a Puella Magi goddess. Madoka is no longer stuttering. She carries her end scene dialogue confidently in both tone, words, and the thoughts she's expressing; Madoka never has any doubts in anything. She is able to have faith in herself and her friends and have that faith not falter.

This will be very important in a setting like Mayfield. Madoka's confidence means that she won't be worrying her little head off about the situation back home. Her wish has been made, the arrows were fired, and Madoka knows in her heart 100% that everything will be okay now. She'll be able to completely focus on Mayfield without crying over the universe.

A confident Madoka is also a happy Madoka. She will no longer stumble into social interactions, but will be more likely to seek them out and more able to hold a conversation. She's shown in Timeline 3, a Magical Girl timeline, introducing herself to Homura as opposed to being dragged along. Her stuttering will decrease and she'll have some more social confidence.

She is also a great deal braver. There is a huge difference between human girl Madoka, who freaked out in witch's lairs, and magical girl Madoka, who ran into a lair to defeat a witch and save Homura. Madoka has always been able to display bursts of courage in hard situations, but Madoka no longer needs to be completely backed into a corner in order to feel courageous.

Lastly, on the note of bravery, Madoka has been shown to be very mature and able to "roll with the punches", so to speak, in her magical girl form. When she realized she had to sacrifice her life to defeat Walpurgisnacht in the first timeline, Madoka did so with a calm smile and while reassuring Homura. She's shown to have that same brave calmness throughout the last episode; as she apologizes to Homura for contracting, as she talks to Mami and Kyouko, and as she fires the arrow that destroys her witch self. She's able to keep a level head and swallow back panic to put on a strong front.
This goes back to her faith; Madoka operates with hope, love, and absolute trust as her guidelines. The backbone of her wish is that Madoka wants to share those feelings with other magical girls, so that they don't die despairing, and that will be very apparent in everything she does. As she tells Mami, Madoka wants to be there for anyone who doesn't believe in hope and she wants to be the one who scolds them quietly every time until they believe.

Updated Abilities: Madoka's abilities have changed a lot because of her wish. But like all girls who make wishes, she is a Magical Girl at the core. For Madoka, this means;
→ She has a Soul Gem: It is also shown to be giant, so big that it is chilling in outer space and seen about to collide with Earth. For the purposes of Mayfield, Madoka's soul gem will be scaled down; even in official Ultimate Madoka artwork, she has her soulgem necklace drawn, which supports the idea that she should be able to scale it down.

→ She has a Magical Girl transformation: She actually has two. Madoka's Ultimate form is never fully explained in canon, but she is seen to be able to transform to her "usual" Puella Magi self and then to Godoka. For the sake of Mayfield, Madoka will only pull out her Ultimate form if she feels it's appropriate. Otherwise, she'll prefer transforming into her first form.

→ Magical Powers: Madoka fights with a rose-themed bow by firing magical pink arrows. The drama CDs imply that Madoka can also do other things with her magic (she makes Homura run fast in PE), but since that's never fully explained in canon I will not be using her magic for anything but fighting with arrows. Madoka is super powerful, but I will be watering down her powers for the sake of roleplay.

→ Soul Gem Purifying: This is a product of Madoka's wish, and I would be regaining this ability separately from her magical powers. When a Puella Magi is about to become a witch, Madoka will have the option of purifying their Soul Gem. Keyword; option. I'd put up a Permissions Post and it would only apply to the Magical Girls in her Canon. I do not intend to ever have Madoka regain her entire Goddess nonexistence; she will maintain the human-isc existence that Mayfield gives her. This means that Madoka will not teleport to Magical Girls who need their gems purified, but will have to physically walk there.

So Madoka will have a few things to regain. I will be treating her two transformations as separate regains. Madoka has already regained her untapped magical power in Mayfield, which is the same as her Soul Gem. I'd like to ask that this regain be updated with her canon update. As I do not intend to have Madoka regain her goddess form, there will only ever be one Madoka at anytime; I will never have her regain her "everywhere and nowhere".