Akemi Homura

Homura is a beautiful young girl with hip-length black hair and flat purple eyes. In the present timeline, she almost always presents herself with an emotionless, stoic look on her face and a black headband.

Personality - Since her arrival at Mitakihara Middle School, she is immediately depicted as being very intelligent, athletic, distant, and cold. It is revealedthat she is only like this because she has seen so much suffering during her tenure as a magical girl. Because of this, she does not want Madoka Kaname to become a magical girl and tries to do anything in order to stop her from making a wish with Kyubey, going as far as to attempting to injure the cat-like creature. Despite her cold attitude towards others, she still very much cares about her friends. Specially Madoka, who considers her best friend, because it is her sole objective to protect her due to the countless amount blood, sweat, and tears she has shed over her jumps in time.

In the original timeline where her journey began, however, Homura is portrayed as meek, shy, timid, clumsy and is known around the school for her lack of confidence. She was also known for her physical incapability of performing in P.E. class; she would get dizzy upon doing even the simplest of warm-up exercises. This had the unfortunate result of her being a target of bullying. Overwhelmed by her perceived uselessness, she begins questioning her existence and considered herself to be useless and worthless. Her feelings do not change until she begins her fated friendship with Madoka. Madoka, alongside Mami Tomoe, shows her the ropes and dangers of becoming a magical girl and notes that Madoka's own attitude became much healthier with every witch battle. Madoka was also probably the first person to see Homura differently, for the good person that she was and opened her eyes that changed her way thinking about herself.

In an ironic twist, we start to see a transformation on both with each timeline, leading to a role reversal. In the anime timeline we see how frail and meek Madoka is, compared to the current Homura whose personality had performed a complete 180-degree turn due to her experiences in multiple timelines. Madoka believes she is powerless and worthless, and someone who can't even do anything to save her friends. Homura also believes that Madoka is too kind and reckless for trying to do too much for others. This is probably because Madoka being a magical girl boosted her confidence to speak to others by a lot, even cheering a depressed Homura up telling her to live up to her name. She even asked her to call her by "Madoka" and asking if she could do the same by calling Homura by her first name. For each timeline Homura blocks the contract from occurring at the start, Madoka is just a really selfless girl who cares about others more than herself which causes her to take risks for others but feels hopeless and because of that Homura needs to keep an eye on her to make sure she doesn’t make a contract.

Despite being regarded as emotionless by Sayaka Miki, Homura is far from it. Although she does not easily show signs of remorse, sadness, or pity, it is only because she had grown used to the suffering around her. Her cold nature is from her determination to save Madoka after having failed in her mission to prevent Madoka from becoming a magical girl countless times. Homura herself has stated that she always feels badly with each life she unable to save or alter, but nevertheless, it does not slow her down from staying true to her main objective in saving Madoka.

"No matter how many times I have to repeat all of this, I'll protect you." "Don't forget that kindness can sometimes bring forth an even greater sadness." "How about we become monsters and tear this world apart?" "No one will believe me about the future. No one will accept the truth about the future. I know what to do now. I won't rely on anyone anymore. I don't care if no one understands. I won't let Madoka fight. I'll destroy every last witch by myself if I have to. And this time I'll defeat Walpurgisnacht once and for all." "We pray for hope, embrace curses and protect you from the dark. We're magical girls. We traded our souls for our powers in a destiny of battle. A destiny that ends in oblivion. For the only way to escape our despair is to vanish from this world. The end will come for all of us. So we continue our fight and wait for the law of cycles to come and lead us away. In this broken world; doomed to repeat it's tragedies and hatred, I dreamed of someone I knew and saw her familiar smile again." "You idiot! Why do you do that? Why do you always sacrifice your self like that? Calling yourself useless and meaningless, stop treating yourself like you don't matter! Why don't you ever think about all the people who love you! Stop being such a fool, there are so many people who'd be sad if you died! Why can't you understand that? What about the people who are trying so hard to protect you?" "The truth is, I'm from the future. I've met you over and over and every time- and everytime I've had to watch you die. What do I have to do to save you? What do I have to do to change your fate? I kept doing this month over again searching for the answer." "Everything's messed up. The more I redo this time the further apart we get. My feelings.. My words... Nothing gets through to you. I'm out of options. I don't know what to do anymore." “I'm sorry. I'm so, weak. I just wanted you back with me! I didn't care what I had to do! Commit the sins for one more chance, even if it turns me into a monster! It wouldn't matter. As long as I could have you back.” "I wish- I wish I could meet miss Kaname all over again. But this time, instead of her protecting me, I wanna be strong enough to protect her!" "I remembered why I repeated time and suffered over and over again. My feelings for Madoka, they run so deep, even pain has become precious to me. And as for my soulgem, a curse isn't what's tainting it." "It is the pinnacle of all human emotion. More passionate than hope, much deeper than despair. Love." "I'm not a magical girl or a witch. Madoka is a sacred as a god and I pulled her from the heaven. So if you want to know what I've become, I suppose if anything you can call me a demon now." "I don't give a damn if you live or die, I don't care. I just don't want Madoka to see you like this. As you destroy yourself. If you don't let me help you now, you're going to die either way. You see, if you make her suffer anymore, then I will kill you. Right here, right now. Sayaka Miki." "I swear I'll save you! I'll do whatever it takes to keep you safe! I'll come back again and again and again! I'll save you! I swear!" “Well then, I suppose one day, you'll also be my enemy. It's fine. I don't care. I'll keep wishing for a world where you can be happy.”