"Swapped Fates: Madoka Kaname’s Descent into Shadows"

Prompt: Madoka Kaname (鹿目まどか?) is one of the five main Magical Girls and the main titular protagonist of Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica anime and manga series. She's a second-year student at Mitakihara Middle School and is in the same class as Sayaka and Homura, as well as Kyoko in The Rebellion Story. Madoka Kaname has pink hair tied in pigtails, and wide oval-shaped dark pink eyes. When down, her hair is shoulder length. She has choppy bangs that are pointed and chin-length, framing her face. Madoka also wears two red ribbons in her hair, which hold up her pigtails. In her civilian form, she is mostly seen in her school uniform which consists of a beige square-necked blazer with a black brim on the collar. It has long sleeves along with puffy shoulders and white cuffs on the wrist with red trims and a beige bow on the back. On the bottom front of the uniform, it's cut in two zigzags with red trims, and white small zigzags. She wears white thigh-high stockings and brown loafers. Madoka is an 8th grader you can find anywhere. She cares about her friends and has a kind heart. She is always surrounded by friends thanks to her gentle and caring personality. She always wants to help and comfort people to the best of her ability, even if it doesn't end well sometimes. After becoming a Magical Girl, she begins taking more confidence in her action as well as becoming less scared and anxious. Thanks to her family background, she has managed to develop a strong sense of courage and mental strength. Madoka first appears as a naive, gentle girl from a kind family. Though sometimes shy, she makes friends without much difficulty and treats others gently and with respect. She is shown to be a level-headed person, capable of making decisions on her own. Madoka's mother, Junko, commented that she has always been a good child and never lies. She has low self-confidence, and she believes she does not have much to offer the world unless she is helping people, which makes becoming a magical girl appealing to her. She has been known to become flustered easily, and in certain circumstances, she can be easily manipulated by others like Kyubey playing on her insecurity and desire to help. As a magical girl, she is more obviously confident in herself than before her wish. Madoka often tries to help and understand others, even if it doesn’t end particularly well. She’s anxious, scared, and doesn’t fully understand The whole situation, but she desperately tries her best to do so. Etymology Madoka (まどか?): Madoka's name is in hiragana, which does not have a specific meaning. When written in kanji, however, it can mean "round" (円か?)[1], referencing to Magical Girls' cyclical nature. It could also be read as "wish", "ambition", or "flower". Wish and ambition could refer to the wishes Magical girls make, whereas flower could refer to Madoka's motif. Kaname (鹿目?): Kana (鹿?) means "deer"[2] but when it is combined with the kanji "馬鹿" it can be read as "fool" and me (目?) means "eye".[3] Her last name can also be used as a first name. Sayaka Miki (美樹さやか Miki Sayaka?) is one of the five main Magical Girls in the Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica anime and manga series. She's a second-year student at Mitakihara Middle School and is in the same class as Madoka and Homura. She sometimes self-proclaims herself as the Magical Girl of Justice (正義の魔法少女 Seigi no Mahou Shoujo?). Appearance As a civilian, Sayaka has short-medium blue hair with yellow barrets and blue oval-shaped eyes. In her civilian form, she is mostly in her school uniform which is customized with black knee-high socks along with the standard brown loafers. As a Magical Girl, her clothing consists of a cobalt blue breast piece with yellow trimming and thin white frills along with a white corset that has yellow diamond shaped buttons and yellow trimming with thin frills, a darkish cadet blue asymmetrical pleated skirt with a white brim held up by a dark blue belt with a yellow buckle and a cobalt blue skirt that is split into square shaped segments, white thigh-high stockings that have blue trims tied by blue buckled straps,deep azure-teal boots,a white thigh-long cape and 4 pairs of gloves dull prussian blue opera gloves with similarly coloured arm bands,and wrist length white gloves with blue cuffs. Her Soul Gem is embedded in her belly button and has a C shape she accessories with a golden clip shaped like 2 f's, representing "fortissimo." Her outfit looks like a knight's. Personality Sayaka is shown to act slightly tomboyish and heroic. She cares a lot for her friends, made clear by her immediately making the contract to become a Magical Girl just so she could save Madoka. Despite acting tomboyish, she does have a girly side, shown by her interest in romance and classical music. However, her vision of love is very unrealistic. She hates the idea of being rejected by people that she loves. When Kyousuke started dating Hitomi, Sayaka felt hurt and rejected. This showed that she wanted to get praise for her wish and even to get the chance to date him. She also no longer had the courage to confess to Kyousuke ever since she found out the truth about Soul Gems, and regarded herself as a zombie because her soul is outside of her body. She rarely thinks twice before acting on something and comes into conflict with others easily. When combined with her kindness and courage, those two traits make her ignorant and careless. As said by Homura, those kinds of traits are fatal for Magical Girls, as she wouldn't get anything in return for her kindness, which turns out to be true. Being careless could also sometimes make her forget things like her Soul Gem, as seen in The Veranda of Madoka. Sayaka also has a strong sense of justice, yet an unideal view of the world. She views the world to be black and white, and outright shows dislike to anyone (including Magical Girls) who shows an amount of self-greed, such as fighting Witches for their own good rather than protecting others. She also believes in fighting those who she views as unjust, even if they are Magical Girls and not witches. Ultimately, her vision of the world being "black and white" and her overly heroic mindset, her idealistic vision of love, along with her kindness yet stubbornness, have led her to her demise, becoming unstable and self-destructive and refusing to get help from others. She falls into a spiral of deep despair and her Soul Gem becomes dull to the point that she succumbs to becoming a witch. Madoka Relationships Sayaka Miki: Madoka's childhood friend. They've been best friends and classmates since they were young, ever since Sayaka protected Madoka from a group of bullies during elementary school. Sayaka would do anything to protect Madoka and vice versa. They care deeply for each other and would stand for each other at all cost. Madoka would be truly hurt if something happened to Sayaka and was showing concern when Sayaka was despairing in the series' main timeline. When she saw how Sayaka was slowly becoming colder and crueler as a Magical Girl, she tries to reach out to Sayaka and is immensely hurt when Sayaka pushes her away and guilt trips Madoka for not doing anything to help. After the events, Madoka is shown to approach her mother for advice about Sayaka's behavior change. Mami Tomoe: Madoka highly respects Mami, a veteran Magical Girl who acts like a mentor to her. Madoka cares for her and would do anything to save her. Although Madoka is the first person Mami shows a more vulnerable side to her at, which makes Madoka realize that Mami is like any other Magical Girl out there; her respect for Mami only grows as she is able to relate to and understand Mami. Mami's death greatly affected Sayaka and Madoka, showing them a more realistic perspective of being a Magical Girl. Kyoko Sakura: They seem to get along more than Sayaka, Mami or Homura do with the latter, but they don't seem to agree on most things. While Kyoko likes to battle things out, Madoka talks things out, making them contradicting opposites. When Sayaka became a Witch, the two shared the same concern and left their differences aside in hopes that they would bring the old Sayaka back. Homura Akemi: Initially, Homura appears as cold towards Madoka but Madoka is unaware of her motives. Despite that, she believes Homura has actually a good heart, even though Homura refuses this. However, Homura cares deeply for Madoka and would do anything for her sake, as it's later proven that Homura created multiple timelines just to protect Madoka. Madoka is Homura's best friend and she appreciates Homura's relationship with her. Prior to Homura becoming a Magical Girl, Madoka is shown to be friendly and open-minded when talking with Homura, even complimenting her name on their way to the nurse's office for Homura's heart medicine. Hitomi Shizuki: Hitomi is one of Madoka's childhood friends. Despite that, Sayaka and Hitomi have both a friendly and antagonistic relationship, with the latter one being more developed during the series' timeline. Madoka and Hitomi retain a friendly relationship until the end of the series. Madoka appears to care for Hitomi as she saved her from a Witch's Kiss in episode 4 and prevented Kyubey from making her a Magical Girl in the second audio drama CD. Tatsuya Kaname: Madoka's younger brother who she adores, even though he is sometimes troublesome. Tatsuya was the only one to remember Madoka during the finale, though seemingly only as an imaginary friend. Family Tomohisa Kaname Her father who she adores very much because she cares for him and treats her very well. Madoka loves her dad's special hot chocolate. Not much more is shown about their dynamic together, but it can be assumed that they have a very healthy and positive. Junko Kaname Her mother who she shares a mutual adoration with. She cares for Madoka and often gives her advice which Madoka cherishes. Madoka is shown to turn to her mother for advice when Sayaka slowly changes after becoming a Magical Girl, showing how reliant Madoka is with her mother. After Madoka makes her final wish; Junko, like everyone else except Tatsuya and Homura, forgets about Madoka and assumed that Tatsuya's drawing on the sand was his new imaginary friend, "Madoka". During a small talk with Homura, she comments that she likes her bow (which was previously Madoka's ribbon) and would give it to her daughter if she hypothetically had one. Tatsuya Kaname Her younger brother who she loves even if he is naughty and causes her trouble and Madoka always looks after him to make sure he is nice. After Madoka's sacrifice, Tatsuya is the only other person to remember Madoka, other than Homura; drawing a crude picture of her in the sand; which Junko, Madoka's mother, assumes that she is his imaginary friend. Kyubey (キュゥべえ Kyūbē?), also known as the Messenger of Magic (魔法の使者 Mahō no shisha?), is a cat-like creature featured in Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica anime and manga series as well as several subsequent works. Appearance Kyubey is a small, cat-like creature. It has white fur and four ears, one pair representing the average cat and the other similar to those of a rabbit. It has red eyes and golden rings around its long ears. At the bottom of the ears, it appears that it is separated into three, along with a pink-white fade and three red ovals. These ears seem to be what turns the girls into Magical Girls, as seen when it makes Sayaka Miki's Soul Gem. It has a large tail and pointy ears, the inside of them being pinkish peach color. On its back is a hot pink egg-shaped oval that can flip open to remove Grief Seed fragments. Personality Despite appearing and sounding somewhat human, Kyubey is an Incubator and has no personal understanding of human emotion. Despite appearing as an individual, Kyubey and the rest of the Incubators do not seem to have a distinct sense of self. On the occasions where a Kyubey is killed, another will step out and continue to converse as if nothing had occurred. The Incubators are an emotionless race, but seek to exploit the thermodynamics-violating emotions of the human race to produce energy and prevent the Heat Death of the Universe, the ultimate end of the universe itself. The fact that the system they use to harvest this power-- Magical girls and Witches-- would be considered horrendously evil by humans is inconsequential to the Incubators. They choose this method because it is the most expedient to their goals. No action they take is ultimately malicious, as they do not themselves experience or understand the emotions required to act in such a way. Everything about Kyubey, however, is implied to make it as appealing as possible to the Magical Girls (by leaving out potentially traumatizing details about it), as well as emulating behaviors and 'emotions' for the same purpose. This lack of understanding ultimately results in Kyubey being unable to predict or understand the actions of the Magical Girls or the results of those actions, despite them being obvious to the girls themselves. Kyubey is a creature who makes contracts with young girls to turn them into "magical girls" so that they can fight witches. In this process, the girl makes a wish and Kyubey grants it, but in return, the girl's soul is put in a small gem, which is also the source of their magic. If destroyed, the magic will disappear and the girl will die. If it is corrupted with darkness from grief, the gem will turn into a grief seed and the girl will turn into a witch. This is the ultimate fate of all Magical girls. Much like the rest of its race, Kyubey does not possess any human emotion. As seen in a later episode, Kyubey refers to magical girls' bodies as empty shells while explaining why Sayaka "died" when separated from her soul gem. This may also be why Homura Akemi got angry when Madoka Kaname threw it. Kyoko Sakura claims that it tricked and turned them into zombies, though it wasn't its intention. It believed that it was doing a good thing, seeing as it was convenient that they were invincible. Sayaka Miki: Sayaka is very protective of Kyubey in the beginning and likes him a lot. However, after finding the truth about Soul Gems, Sayaka starts being aggressive towards him and has even come to a point to stab him. Mami Tomoe: Mami is very good friends with Kyubey, at least in most timelines as long as she doesn't know the dark secrets of being a Magical Girl. She takes good care of Kyubey and is very protective of him towards Homura. Homura Akemi: Homura dislikes Kyubey to no end. No matter the timeline, she will always attempt to kill him and prevent Kyubey to form contacts with Madoka and to a lesser degree with Sayaka. Kyubey usually comes to Homura whenever there is something new he has discovered or wants to talk to someone aside of Madoka. Iroha Tamaki: Like many other Magical Girls, Iroha, prior to finding out the secrets of a Magical Girl's life, used to be good acquaintances with Kyubey, contacting each other on a daily basis. Though after Iroha found out the dark secrets of a Magical Girl and seeing Kuroe transforming into a Witch, she despises Kyubey endlessly, to the point that she even shot him. Touka Satomi: It is described by many characters that Touka and Kyubey are really alike in terms of ideology. Though Touka does despise Incubator like everyone else because she knows the secrets of a Magical Girl's life. Kyubey has a wide variety of magical abilities which he uses in his mission to counteract entropy. Telepathic communication - Kyubey communicates with Puella Magi and potential Puella Magi through telepathic communication, as opposed to verbal. Exposure to this apparently enables Puella Magi and potential Puella Magi to also communicate telepathically amongst each other when Kyubey is nearby. Invisibility - Kyubey is invisible to everyone, except for Puella Magi and candidates. Normal humans do not seem to notice his presence at all, just as he never communicates with them. Teleportation - Kyubey has been evidenced to cross long distances in impossibly short time spans, the method for which is yet unknown, but can be assumed to be teleportation. In episode 10, he also fades into reality above Homura, which may be the visible manifestation of him teleporting. Wish granting - Kyubey can grant the wishes of young girls, in the same manner a Genie would. Unlike most genies, Kyubey does his best to grant the wishes accurately, without twisting the wording, and wishes that end up backfiring do so for factors entirely beyond the Incubator's control. Kyubey only allocates one wish per contract. It appears that Kyubey can only grant the wishes of others, since he has never been seen using his reality-warping power to his own ends. Wishes are fueled via the magical potential of the new Puella Magi. Because of this, while Kyubey can grant almost any regular wish, particularly high-impact wishes cannot be granted for most girls. a homeless girl name dawn hate live on the sheets for all she had was the outfit on her and a tent she called home she never went to school thanks to grown up on the sheets so when Kyubey came and said he can give her a better life he taken it so she look at girls with all better lives then her at Mitakihara Middle School and when she saw madoka she decide to swap lives with her and she made sure madoka know her true life but can't at on the knowledge she still have kyubey said this wish will not be on you to pay but madoka since she will gain the homeless girl life mean the soul gem will be madokas to have to deal with the homeless girl outfit was a oversize shirt that act like a dress with short socks with hole sneakers and a jacket and a bra and panties that don't fit right and a head full of uneven hair with lices in it when she gain madoka life she gain every madoka has in her life where madoka gain everthing in the homeless girl life thet includes knowledge that madoka study for going to the homeless girl and madoka loss it make the swap hard on madoka but watch her school uniform remove it self-form her and go to the homeless girl and her pigtails why she gain everything wrong with the homeless girl like the lich fly off the homeless girl head and fly towards madoka and what not form madoka point of view the homeless girl can care less of what happen to madoka and no one will know of the swap thanks to how the wish wads made madoka is force to be at the homeless girl camp site by teleport to it thanks to the girl making her wish there I want to see madoka scary as the lice craws towards her as well her outfits dissolves to the homeless girl outfits they can swap body mass like thanks to madoka being well fed is not skin and bones like the homeless girl was thank to the homeless girl not being able to get a lot of food same with the homeless girl get the mass of madoka they don't swap looks so madoka look like herself if she was homeless girl same as the homeless girl look like she had madoka uniform and her normal body that not skin and bones but a healthy meal plan and normal growth for a girl her ages. the homeless girl is skin and bones with her breast not grown pass a cup thank to not having food so madoka breast change form a b cup to a and black heir that is cut short also the swap show the homeless girl outfit dissolves and fly towards Madoka and force itself on her and the bugs on her go towards Madoka like cockroaches and worst some of them went up to her head and enter her mouth why she was talking make it form madoka point of view and her try to get out of the homeless life but the most she can do is get put onto bad homes who are hard on her thanks to dawn wish making it so that she can only use what dawn know about life make madoka act as a delinquent in Japan that where both girls live force on after the swap for madoka live dawn life..