Imagine you were a wizard who absolutely adored doing magic. You love it, it gives you joy and connection with people, and it becomes your job. Maybe you even went to wizard school. People pay you to do spells for them, sometimes big, sometimes small. People tell you how much your magic means for them, how an enchantment you did was a birthday present for a friend, or how they have something you made displayed on their wall.
And over time, people make more and more enchantments that make your spell work easier - you can make them faster or to a better quality, and it lets you do even more of your magic for more people
Now imagine one day someone who wasn’t a wizard said that they had created an enchantment that made spells for people. You didnt need to go to a wizard anymore, it was completely free, and all it did was absorb a little bit of magic from thousands of wizards spells that were already out in the world. It took no effort, no hard work, and did it really matter? A spell is a spell after all, who cares if it was made by a wizard or through this enchantment.
That would suck, wouldn’t it? That would feel bad? You’re a wizard and now someone who isn’t a wizard is telling you you’re redundant because there’s a magic that mimics wizards, and really if you complain about it you just sound whiny, and maybe your magic wasn’t good enough after all if you’re worried this enchantment can perfectly replicate it. Besides, look, this spell made by the enchantment got so many more people to look at it on the town notice board. Do you feel bad? Stop it, being a wizard isn’t a real job anyway.
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Some idiot: "Why are you reading your own fic, that's shallow and stupid"
All fanfic writers and writers everywhere: "Who the fuck do you think I wrote it for?!"
I like when people like a character so way too much that it transcends even self shipping or kinning and becomes more of a patron saint that you pray to type of deal
Wait fuck Madoka is basically magical girl death
Like, a concept of death for magical girls itself, I didn't realize that before, but damn actually, it was always more of salvation for me? A savior? But she is just, death, the one who brings them over to the other side, the one to take their hand and gently lead them to the eternal rest, a comforting guide, but at the end of the day she's still leading you to your end
She isn't the reaper of souls, but a gentle guide who waits for you at the end of your path, who smiles at you and whispers you promises of calmness, of being free of suffering, free from being used, fredom from the life of fighting
Homura on the other hand can be called life, with witches always creating it, familiars are living beings, those that don't conform to the rules of reality, but they're still living beings and Homura, the peak of witches, the devil herself?
She's life itself, the hard fight, the one you go on and on for, go through tribulations, challenges and trials that she throws at you, but she's still gentle, still caring despite her harshness
She has her favorites, but she cares for all, doesn't she?
She will force you to fight, to survive, her entire goal at the start was to make sure people she was close to LIVED
And now as the devil, she's the cruelty of being alive, opposed to death, opposed to the pain it brings to others, opposed to the world that doesn't have the people she cares for
She created life in her familiars, Clara dolls being the absolute end of it all, beings that can mimics humans to the degree that isn't imaginable
These girls make me go slightly insane, the curse of coming to a fandom years down the line and realizing shit that probably had already been talked about
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The mischaracterization of Homura Akemi is something that needs to be studied
1)
Wrong, she isn’t a yandere, at least by textbook definition.
Reason one: Homura is incapable of killing Madoka’s friends, even if she wanted to
In the fight with Mami during the movie Rebellion, she is shown attempting to shoot her in the chest at the end of their fight. Despite this, Homura can’t bring herself to, instead opting to shoot her in the calf.
Another one is that despite how much she dislikes Sayaka she does not harm her life, she torments her, yes, but never even tries to physically harm or wound her, even after becoming a demon. The only one she has ever killed is Kyubey
Two. Homura is shown to care about others than Madoka
Time and time again, we are proven that Homura loves her teammates
While fighting Mami during Rebellion, she talks about how painful it always was to tell her the truth, to see her lose herself in depression after figuring out Kyubey’s deception
Homura is visibly shaken and upset when Kyoko sacrifices herself.
It is show that seeing the others die upsets her on multiple occasions, especially in the earlier timelines.
Its mentioned as well that Homura tried to save everyone, but eventually gave up after realizing it was impossible.
2)
For this, I specifically will be referring to the ‘desiring Madoka all to herself’
In Homura’s Labyrinth, not only Madoka was there, but so were Sayaka, Kyoko, Mami and even Nagisa. If Homura only wanted to be with Madoka and only have her to herself, then why would her ideal world have the others?
Homura doesn’t want a world where she has Madoka all to herself, Homura wants a world where all of them can be happy, fighting side by side while going to school and hanging out like normal teenagers, even if she has to be a villain to make it happen. Homura says herself that what she truly desires is a world where Madoka can be happy, and that is what she fights for.
Madoka Magica is not a story about a girl who wants someone all to herself, Madoka Magica is a story about hope, that no matter where you are there is always someone fighting for you, there is always someone who loves you. And that is said in the final credits, which is enough proof
That is not me saying that Homura is a complete saint or anything, but that is me saying that Homura is in no way as bad a person as people make her out to be, and that she is an unwell child that has been in an awful situation for anyone to be in.
Edit: I’ve been corrected that Homura did try to kill Sayaka, I honestly don’t know how I forgot about that but I apologize nonetheless!
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missing the sunlight -DaGOI au snippet
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