Personality: At one point (as seen in episode ten), Homura was an insecure, shy, bubbly, friendly innocent, but that was a lifetime ago (and maybe more). Repeating the same events time and time again has made her withdrawn, calculating, and cold. She cannot afford to get attached. She’s concerned with practicalities, assessing her options, analyzing the probabilities -- she’s gotten very, very good at math, which was not true when her time-looped history started.
For all of that, though, Homura still cares deeply. She wants to help her friends. The distance and chill is a shield, a way to keep herself sane, to do the best job she can do. Independent, decisive, and determined, she rations her time carefully, which can make her seem abrupt or impatient. However, even at her most cynical, she doesn’t shut everyone out -- she tries to become friends with Madoka, and allies herself with Kyouko, not only because these are the most effective ways to get what she wants (she’s long since stopped expecting people to listen to or believe her, and she knows better than to trust others to be reliable), but because she’s lonely. She’d rather work with others, whether she admits it to herself or not.
With the timeline resolved in episode 12, Homura changed somewhat. Meditative, philosophical, almost apathetic-seeming, but still protective, her memory of Madoka makes her sort of a mystic; hopeful, religious, every bit as determined and protective as ever. Though she’s still cool and reserved, and more than a little melancholy, if her religion has a tenet, it is this “If someone tells me that it’s wrong to hope, I will tell them that they’re wrong, every time.” And no matter how she appears, Homura has always been a deeply hopeful person-- to repeat the same timeline again and again, never managing to save her friend,watching things get bleaker and bleaker, and still stubbornly holding to the thought that she could make things right if she just tried again, one more time -- it’s just another way Homura’s a match for her best friend.
[Canon] Homura || Puella Magi Madoka Magica || No rserve || 1 of 2 or 3
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CHARACTER
Name: Homura Akemi
Canon: Puella magi Madoka Magica
Timeline: Mid-episode 12.
Personality: At one point (as seen in episode ten), Homura was an insecure, shy, bubbly, friendly innocent, but that was a lifetime ago (and maybe more). Repeating the same events time and time again has made her withdrawn, calculating, and cold. She cannot afford to get attached. She’s concerned with practicalities, assessing her options, analyzing the probabilities -- she’s gotten very, very good at math, which was not true when her time-looped history started.
For all of that, though, Homura still cares deeply. She wants to help her friends. The distance and chill is a shield, a way to keep herself sane, to do the best job she can do. Independent, decisive, and determined, she rations her time carefully, which can make her seem abrupt or impatient. However, even at her most cynical, she doesn’t shut everyone out -- she tries to become friends with Madoka, and allies herself with Kyouko, not only because these are the most effective ways to get what she wants (she’s long since stopped expecting people to listen to or believe her, and she knows better than to trust others to be reliable), but because she’s lonely. She’d rather work with others, whether she admits it to herself or not.
With the timeline resolved in episode 12, Homura changed somewhat. Meditative, philosophical, almost apathetic-seeming, but still protective, her memory of Madoka makes her sort of a mystic; hopeful, religious, every bit as determined and protective as ever. Though she’s still cool and reserved, and more than a little melancholy, if her religion has a tenet, it is this “If someone tells me that it’s wrong to hope, I will tell them that they’re wrong, every time.” And no matter how she appears, Homura has always been a deeply hopeful person-- to repeat the same timeline again and again, never managing to save her friend,watching things get bleaker and bleaker, and still stubbornly holding to the thought that she could make things right if she just tried again, one more time -- it’s just another way Homura’s a match for her best friend.