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Kyouko Sakura // Puella Magi Madoka Magica // Reserved // 1/?
Contact Info: Gmail: kohaku.river626@gmail.com
AIM: aWondrousWorld
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Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Apartment: None
Character Name: Kyouko Sakura
Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Canon Point: End of episode 7
Background/History: Here!
Personality: Kyouko Sakura, paradoxically, embodies the worst and best of magical girls. The traditional magical girl is heroic and selfless, and indeed several of the characters in Puella Magi Madoka Magica partially or fully embody this troupe. Kyouko, however, is self-serving. She uses her powers for her own good, and doesn't care if her actions or inactions get other people hurt in the process. She will do anything she must to survive. But while in another context this would position her as a villain or anti-hero, under Kyubey's rules she is successful. Kyouko is ruthless: she actively challenges magical girls so that the strongest one continues to fight. She attacks only witches (not the less-powerful familiars), so that she gets healing grief seeds which allow her to continue fighting. Upon Kyouko's arrival to the series, she represents a near-perfect cog in a system which Our Heroes (Sayaka and Madoka) have only just begun to understand is far less heroic or altruistic than they thought. The other girls, particularly Sayaka, dislike her selfishness and crudeness almost immediately.
But Kyouko's personality is also more complicated than they originally realized.
Kyouko grew up in a religious household, with a preacher father. She looked up to him, and while she may have been a little bratty, she believed in the ideas of good and evil. The fact that nobody else would listen to her father, to the point where her family struggled to have enough to eat, angered her. When the opportunity came for her to make a wish, she asked Kyubey for people to give her father a chance: because she wanted to help someone she loved, and because she believed in him. She began her magical girl career as an agent of good, a vigilante to fight evil in its physical form, just as her father fought the evil in people's souls. And she trained under and became friends with Mami Tomoe, another magical girl who similarly believed they were forces of good fighting against evil.
The rules of magical girls have a close relationship with the laws of thermodynamics. Kyubey's species devised the system in order to counter the second law: the universe's entropic energy loss and eventual decay. Less obvious is the implementation of the first law: the amount of hope and despair in the world balance each other out. This principle hit Kyouko particularly hard. Her father discovered her role in bringing crowds to see him, and condemned her as a witch. Then he killed her entire family, himself included, leaving only Kyouko alive. Her wish for the good of another brought more despair than had existed in the first place. Kyouko withdrew into herself, vowed to use her powers for herself alone, broke off her friendship with Mami, and continued to defend her home town. The veil of selfishness she drew over herself was an assumed one, a coping mechanism, a mode of survival in what she now perceived as a harsh world. The girl who fought for others became the girl who fought only for herself.
Kyouko, then, is a jaded individual by the time she meets Sayaka and Madoka. She's also a girl extremely invested in her own interests. She won't do something if it won't benefit her. She doesn't fight Homura because she knows she wouldn't win, but she does stop Sayaka from destroying a familiar before it grows to a grief-seed-dropping witch, so that she can pick up the reward later. Kyouko hates what she perceives as a mistake in her wish to Kyubey. Her attempts to move past it don't erase her sense of self-loathing, though; she expresses this by being extremely rude to others, and through her temper; when provoked with regards to the death of Mami, her old friend and mentor, she snaps. And she retains a certain amount of trauma from her family's time of starvation -- she finds comfort in having something in her mouth, which is why she's always eating. Also, she hates when anybody wastes food.
Upon discovering that her soul has been extracted from her body, she takes it in stride, considering it to be just another punishment for her previous actions. She has enough sympathy for Sayaka, who takes the news rather more poorly, to try to convince her to live as she does, particularly given Sayaka's choice to wish for the good of someone else. But Sayaka surprises her. Even knowing what Kyouko does, that all good deeds are punished eventually, Sayaka still chooses to fight single-mindedly for other people. This surprises Kyouko, making her consider that perhaps her vow had been at least somewhat misguided. And that's where she finds herself in Haven: still jaded and traumatized by her own background, but a little confused by Sayaka's choices, and reconsidering her path of complete selfishness.
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Kyubey outfits them with further powers to help them in battle. Since her soul is separated from her body, Kyouko can heal from almost any wound eventually, even injuries that would kill a human. She also possesses a great deal of agility and strength, which comes from her powers and experience as a magical girl. Also, all magical girls can telepathically communicate, perhaps so that strategizing is easier in battle. It must be noted that Kyouko hordes grief seeds, which are required to keep the magical girl from becoming a witch, and which help increase her power. As such, Kyouko is able to unleash a large amount of power without feeling many negative effects.
Each magical girl has a specialized power set depending on their wish. Kyouko's used to be the ability to create many copies of herself. However, this was related to her wish for her father to be happy because of his new crowds, and when he died and took their family with him, Kyouko found herself unable to use this power again, or any of her magic. She was able to change her magical intentions through sheer force of will, through her vow to never use magic for anyone else. Her unique power set now manifests as red chain-link barriers that she can summon, which may have something to do with her suppression of past traumas or her sense of isolation.
Items/Weapons: Soul Gem, which allows Kyouko to transform, use her magic, and summon her spear.
One (1) box of Pocky
Hairpin
Sample Entry: Thread on Dear Mun
Sample Entry Two: Sayaka turned her back on Kyouko. She didn't even fight.
… running through the forest, towards the smell of smoke, towards the witch …
"You jerk!" Kyouko screamed after her. "We're magical girls! Nobody else can do what we do!"
"Then fight me next time we meet," Sayaka said in reply. "I won't lose."
… branches slashing her face, the wounds healing instantly -- it didn't matter, Kyouko could endure pain, her family needed her …
Kyouko just stared after the girl. Sayaka was going to fight a losing battle. She was going into an insane mission of altruism knowing that it would destroy her. Knowing all she would reap was pain.
… she could hear the fire engines approaching, the blaze must have been going for a while, how could she have been so distracted halfway across town …
She bit down on her apple. Then again. And again. Her saliva and the apple juice mixed and ran down her mouth, making her chin sticky. She would make short work of the little red fruit. She would survive, dammit. She'd learned how, hadn't she?
… and emerged into the clearing: the beautiful old building of stone and wood she'd called home, torn from its foundations like an unsatisfied God erasing it from existence, crumbling into itself, ashes to ashes …
She was making an impossible choice. How couldn't she see that? After Kyouko had opened her heart to her, shown her the consequences of selflessness, how could Sayaka make a decision like that? Was she stupid?
… saw the corpses dragged from the flames. Their heads half-exploded by gunfire. The sweet lips of her mother. The bright orange hair of her sister. The blood that covered everything else.
Her father sat just askew of the others. His eyes had no life to them. His pocket bulged with the shape of a pistol.
Apple juice dripped onto the floor, but Kyouko just kept on staring at the empty doorway. Couldn't Sayaka see that they could only ever use their powers for themselves?
Re: 2/2
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