HAVEN ☆ mayfield game transplant

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Name: Berri
Contact Info: TaiyakinoNaku @ Plurk
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Character Name: Madoka Kaname
Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Canon Point: Episode 12 & End of Mayfield
Background/History: Madoka Wiki.
Previous Game History:

mayfield_rpg was a panfandom jamjar set in a 1950s American town called "Mayfield." Madoka arrived there about a year ago, in the summer of 2011, at her episode 9 canon point. She had recently experienced a lot of shit hitting the canon world fan and felt useless, feelings like were reaffirmed in Mayfield. Her canon mates spoiled later episodes for her, confirming that they had died or been severely traumatized, and eating away at her self-confidence.

As her stay in Mayfield went on, Madoka met many powerful people from other canons and slowly began building her confidence. She learned to play tennis, joined a basketball team, and tried to help start a baseball club for one of her friends. As her dead castmates began trickling into the game, Madoka pulled herself together with the goal of making them happy in their "afterlife."

All of this led to Madoka becoming stronger. Tragedy after tragedy struck, and she learned to pick herself up time and time again. With the encouragement of her new friends, Madoka learned to be someone who helped rather than just watching on. Whether she was offering hugs or baking cookies, Madoka found little things that even a powerless girl like her could do.

Then she canon updated to episode 12. This made Madoka a confident magical girl and got her up to speed with her personality development in Mayfield. Shortly after her update, shit began to hit the fan in Mayfield. It was revealed and confirmed that Mayfield was a virtual reality game and that the residents weren't jamjarred people but data copies of their "real" selves. While many others in Mayfield weren't happy, Madoka took comfort in that fact that this meant the "real" Madoka Kaname was still in "reality", where she was saving magical girls as she had wished. Because of this, Madoka no longer felt any hesitation when committing herself entirely to protecting and saving the people of Mayfield.

At her last Mayfield point, Madoka and the other Mayfield residents had moved to "a better place." Their new town is peaceful and they have been preparing it for living in. She lives with her friends happily and is ready for a peaceful new life... or was. Being moved to Haven will be a bit upsetting, but Madoka will be able to adjust quickly. She knows that her loved ones in both Reality and a Better Place are safe, so she does not need to worry about going home. Her top concern will instead be the residents of Haven.

Personality:

Kaname Madoka seems to be a completely normal girl. She is cheerful and simple, with a casual interest in love letters and looking cute that doesn't go too over board. Her personality as a normal girl was quite simple and plain, causing her to come off as weak. But Madoka actually has a lot of inner strength. She just needs help seeing it for herself. And this Madoka, who is a magical girl fresh out of Mayfield, can finally see her worth and apply it.

In all timelines, Madoka is a happy person. She is surrounded by a loving family and happy friends. She may be a bit quiet, but she always does her best to be friendly and caring. In the first timeline, Madoka does not hesitate to befriend the shy transfer student Homura right away. Mami and her quickly become friends, to the point that Madoka is promising to not leave Mami alone. Madoka never once labels Kyoko as an enemy, and is quick to befriend her when the chance arises. Even in the case of Homura in the most recent timeline, Madoka tries to be friendly towards her. Madoka even continues talking to Kyuubey, even once shit has seriously hit the fan because of him. In an alternative setting, this means that Madoka is very open to friend making. Madoka the magical girl is especially friendly and open, because she is confident in her social interactions and eager to get to know people--- as opposed to the shyer Madoka, who did not have the confidence to always push her desired relationships forward.

A lot of her kindness may be because Madoka is kind and naive. Homura makes a point to state to Madoka that she is naive, and that her kindness is a danger to herself. Because of this naivety, Madoka did not truly recognize any of the dangers of Puella Magi until she was slapped in the face with them. She was told it was dangerous, but did not take it seriously until Mami died, for example. During the instance of Mami's death, we also see some of Madoka's denial; Sayaka sobs tears of acceptance while Madoka just stares in disbelief, and doesn't truly come to terms with Mami's death until the next morning. Madoka wants to believe in the good in everyone and everything and will rarely reach a pessimistic conclusion without some hard evidence.
In a world where Madoka contracts and pursues a happy magical girl journey where Puella Magi fight for justice, Madoka is able to finally recognize that she was a child and come to terms with the harsh reality of her canon. This is because, while she is a naive person who does not actively seek to find things wrong with life, she is not so stupid that she cannot learn from experience. Applied to Mayfieldoka, this means that she will be able to wrap her head around being in a horrific setting. She has spent a year in Mayfield and learned the consequences of not preparing herself for tragic events. She may now face the fact that things could go wrong, but she does not do so pessimistically. Despite her horror game-induce paranoia, Madoka at least confidently believes that she can overturn bad situations and reach a happy outcome.

Madoka also has a strong, naive belief in everyone getting along and working together. This belief inspires her to want to make a Puella Magi duo with Mami, to ask Homura to look after Sayaka, and to never hate Kyoko, even after she engages in a life or death battle with Sayaka. She does not take sides in a conflict either; even when Sayaka was being attacked by Kyoko, Madoka could not bring herself to side with her best friend or Kyoko. In one timeline, when Homura reveals the truth of Soul Gems, Madoka never directly aligns herself with Sayaka's belief that it is a lie, even though her actions suggest she doesn't believe Homura. Again and again, Madoka is very sensitive to all sides of a situation, and supports peace and dissolving conflict without violence.
Even when Madoka does form an opinion of her own, she is not always confident in it. She tries to get Sayaka to consider befriending Kyoko, but when Sayaka shoots that down Madoka just shuts up and starts rethinking things all over again. Madoka constantly looks for compromise and does not want to have a conflict with anyone, and is weak-willed enough to sometimes bend her opinion to avoid trouble.Madoka the magical girl is also shown to compromise in social situations: she may be absolutely confident in battle, but she was still staying neutral between Sayaka and Homura.

This is because Madoka is an observant person, who typically ends up watching rather than acting. That much should be plain and obvious, as observing is her entire role in the show. Though she may seen like a clueless ditz based on all of the clueless faces she makes, Madoka is the type of girl to think things through. She is slow and uncertain with her decision making, and as a result, rarely commits to a decision. This has already been hinted at, because Madoka does not pick sides in a conflict, but just thinks both sides through and never says who she supports. She tends to sit on the fence throughout the whole show, her biggest decisions being to run away.
Madoka doesn't observe and decide alone either. When she's trying to decide something, Madoka will not hesitate to talk to people about it. She is generally in control of her thoughts and emotions, or at least trying to be. When Mami dies, Madoka avoids a major emotional break down until she is about to talk it through with Sayaka. Until she has a chance to deal with them properly, she makes an effort to put a lid on her feelings and act normally. This Madoka has largely gotten over her habit of running away, but that does not mean that she won't think things through very deeply and sometimes struggle with her choices. But she no longer struggles as much with being confident, but with wanting to make the absolute best decision.

The decisions Madoka makes without talking to people are driven by strong emotions, generally fear. She stops the group suicide impulsively because she doesn't want to die, she throws away Sayaka's Soul Gem on impulse to stop Sayaka from fighting, and she shoots Mami because she's scared of seeing someone else die. It's only after Madoka commits these acts that she realizes what she's done and she usually crumbles under the pressure and confusion following her decisions, while seeming confident until they are completed. It might also be noted that her impulsive decisions were all made in an effort to protect someone; Madoka will think for eons about herself, but will act quickly to prevent someone else from getting hurt.

In all of the timelines Homura experiences, Madoka has died because she wanted to protect people as a Puella Magi. In one timeline, she even asks Homura to destroy her Soul Gem, essentially destroying Madoka's soul, rather than allow her to become a witch and hurt people. Even when Madoka is laying there dying, she is thinking about the fact that she wants to protect people. When Madoka makes her miraculous wish, it makes it impossible for her to exist and sets her in line to absorb suffering for the rest of eternity, but Madoka is completely content as long as she is helping people. Kindness and loving everyone is a huge part of her character.

When she's a Puella Magi, Madoka feels that she is worth something. And when Madoka feels like she's worth the life she's been given, she confidently works to protect it. There is a dramatic difference between the Madoka who prevents the suicide, scared out of her wits and lacking confidence in her ability to save those people, and the Madoka Magica who protects Homura in the first timeline. There's a huge difference in the Madoka who falls to her knees and breaks down when Mami dies in the line of duty, and is consumed by the terror of the witch Charlotte, and the Madoka Magica who looks down at Mami's corpse and Homura before she confidently heads off to fight the killer witch, all in the name of saving those precious to her. Even something as simple as her day-to-day interactions with people can be changed by a boost in confidence; when she is a Puella Magi, Madoka approaches Homura and leads the way to the nurse's office, while talking confidently and cheerfully with her. In another timeline, when she is not a Puella Magi, Madoka follows Homura and performs the same conversation, except this time she is stuttering and unsure. Her shy and timid nature will give way to a more happy ad upbeat girl when she feels good about herself.
In the end, unless Madoka feels confident in herself, she cannot and usually will not act useful, because she's too caught up in the fact that she doesn't think that she can be useful.

Lastly, and possibly most importantly, Madoka is a very pure girl and she is full of hope. It starts in her character design, where Madoka is noted for wearing pure and innocent white stockings, and ends in her purpose in the show. In Puella Magi, the transition from hope to despair gives off energy. And Madoka has the potential to be the strongest Puella Magi with the most hope, and therefore she can become the strongest Witch. This can be seen as the fact that Madoka is able to soak up a lot of despair before her heart breaks from the sadness. Even after all of the terrible things that happen in the show, Madoka still has hope that something good can happen. She believes that she can save Mami from her loneliness, that Homura can work with Sayaka and it'll turn out okay, and even once Sayaka is good and dead, Madoka believes with Kyoko that they can save her soul. Even after Kyoko, Sayaka, and Mami are all dead and Madoka Magica is crying her eyes out, she pulls herself together to fight Walpurgis Night with Homura.

Madoka might cry and break down a lot, but despite all of the tears she sheds, she is a strong girl who does not give up and wants to keep protecting people. She continues to look towards the future throughout the entire series. And when she finally makes her wish, it is to protect the Puella Magi who make a huge sacrifice for their own hope and wishes. Madoka essentially becomes Hope when she makes her wish, which is quite the indication of just how much Hope is in this girl's character.

Abilities/Powers:

The "real" Madoka made such a huge wish that she broke the barrier of time and space. Her enormous wish and equal magical power brought Madoka from a human existence to one practically on par with a god. In past self had defeated the most powerful witch in the world with one shot, and this Madoka had more power than that girl. Her wish allowed Madoka to appear to every magical girl in any world or time right as she was about to evolve into a "witch" and destroy her soul gem before it became a grief seed.

This Madoka, however, is only a copy of that Madoka. In Mayfield, all characters start with none of their special abilities or powers. They have to regain them from the post office. Madoka has only regained a portion of her "real" belongings, which means that she only has a fraction of her "real" God-like abilities.

Madoka's regained abilities include...

→ Her Soul Gem: The most important aspect of a Puella Magi is probably their soul gem. It is literally her soul given a physical form. At this canon point, it is also shown to be giant---- so big that it is chilling in outer space and seen about to collide with Earth. Luckily, Madoka's soul gem has also been shown to 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. So for RP sake, her soul gem will always be the size of her palm.

It has three forms. The first is as an egg-like gem, the second as a small ring, and the third as a decorative gem on her transformation outfit. Her soul gem remotely controls her body, which does not has a soul in it. For this reason, if she is separated from her soul gem then her body will stop moving and resume being a corpse. Her body can also continue moving as long as her soul gem is in tact. This may seem inconvenient, but it is actually very helpful. Because of the separation of her mind and body, Madoka does not feel pain as strongly as a normal human girl. Her body could be stabbed and she would only feel a fraction of the pain. The general rule is that she cannot feel enough pain to render herself unable to fight. Her body can still give out if it cannot physically function.

Finally, for a normal Puella Magi there would be a danger of their soul gem tainting. This happens if they go too long without purifying it with a "Grief Seed" (or other purification methods). It can also taint if they fall into despair and begin cursing the world around them. if this happens, Madoka will become a witch. Her witch form is Kriemhild Gretchen and is kinda really bad news. She can end the world in less than 10 days at her canon point. Luckily! Madoka has~~~

→ Soul Gem Purification Powers: This is a product of Madoka's wish. In canon, Madoka is able to teleport to any Puella Magi who is about to turn into a witch and purify their soul gem. However, this is because she shot time traveling Magical Madoka arrows in her canon. Those arrows have not been shot in Haven, so the teleporting will not apply. Instead, Madoka will have to physically reach a Puella Magi and purify their soul gem by hand. This means that she will not have a 100% success rate, giving any Puella Magi characters in Haven the option of becoming a witch. I'll set up a permission's list.

In the case of Madoka's soul gem, if it is about to hatch into a witch then a second Madoka would appear and destroy the first. The only time she can do this is to prevent herself from becoming a witch. It might be noted that in canon, Kriemhild Gretchen had actually physically hatched before she was destroyed. There may be a short lag period where Gretchen attacks people before a new Madoka destroys her.

→ Her 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. In RP, Madoka will only pull out her Ultimate form if she feels it's appropriate. Otherwise, she'll prefer transforming into her first form. There isn't really a power difference between them. Just outfits and hair.

→ 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. When she uses magic, Madoka's soul gem gets a small taint.

Items/Weapons:

→ Soul Gem
→ Rose Bow
→ School Uniform

Sample Entry: Madoka at Better Place and her Mayfield Entries
Sample Entry Two:

Water was an essential part of any life. Whether it was in Mitakihara Town or Mayfield, Madoka knew that water was important. So it was the same in Haven and worth the risk. Madoka carried a bucket in one hand and her rose bow in the other, fully transformed and cautious as she made her way to the well.

She knew her new room mates would have happily done this themselves, but felt it was more appropriate for her. Her soul was encased in its soul gem and her magic would help her to protect herself. If something happened then she would be least likely to be bothered by it. That, and she knew she wouldn't be able to bear waiting for her room mates to return. She'd have worried and eventually gone after them.

Madoka looked down the well and set the bucket in place, taking a deep breath before proceeding to draw out some water. Even now, with her unable to protect them if something happened, Madoka was worried. "I need to get the water back quickly... please be okay, everyone."