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E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact: plurk @ allikateor
Other Characters Currently In-Game: Dorian Gray, Cornelius Hickey (for like two more days, lmao)
Character Name: Kyoko Sakura
Series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Age: Unknown, estimated to be between 14-16 as she's about the same age as the other magical girls. I'm happy putting her age squarely at 15.
From When?: Main anime timeline, after her death, before Madoka rewrites the universe.
As a note though, PMMM has a lotttt of different branching timelines, due to the fact that one of the main characters (Homura) has a power that lets her travel through time and she just keeps on doing these dang time loops. I'll be drawing background information (though not specific plot beats) from the side story manga A Different Story, which is one of those alternate timelines that Homura goes through and talks a lot about Kyoko's life pre-series.
Inmate Justification: Kyoko used to be a sweet kid. But she's had almost all of her sweetness beaten out of her by her terrible life. She is very jaded, living live by a survival of the fittest philosophy. This would be okay except that in her world, the survival of the fittest philosophy ends up with people dying. Magical girls get their power from witches, witches get their power from killing people. Kyoko has almost certainly let a lot of people die due to this absolutely jaded philosophy she's got—and she's definitely fine attempting to fight and kill other magical girls if that puts her on the top of the food chain. With one exception (noted later), she just doesn't see the use in caring about other people.
And on a petty note, this girl exists solely off of stealing shit from other people. She steals her food, she sleeps in stolen hotel rooms, she probably steals her clothes, Kyoko's entire existence is just theft.
Arrival: Against her will.
Abilities/Powers: MAGICAL GIRL FORM: Kyoko gets a nifty transformation sequence and can turn into a magical girl. In her magical girl form, Kyoko is stronger, faster, and more durable than the average human being. She can still be wounded—she doesn't have healing magic, after all. But she can put up a fight longer than most and being a magical girl means that pain that could severely incapacitate an average human would only minorly inconvenience her. She can also summon her weapon in magical girl form. Her weapon is a spear that can break apart into individual sections, strung together by a chain. The main use of her magical girl form is to fight Witches, beings that feed off of the suffering of humans, often leading them to their deaths.
SOUL GEM: Kyoko's soul resides in a vessel called a Soul Gem. This usually manifests as a ring around her finger, but she can also summon it as a small egg looking thing. The more a magical girl uses her power, the more she darkens her Soul Gem. Darkness in a Soul Gem can be removed using Grief Seeds, what a Witch leaves behind after you kill them. When a Soul Gem gets fully black, it shatters and the magical girl is turned into a Witch. When a Soul Gem gets more than 100 meters away from a magical girl, it turns the magical girl catatonic until the Soul Gem is returned.
ILLUSION MAGIC: In her magical girl form, Kyoko can craft illusions. She mostly uses this to create illusions of herself during combat to distract the enemy. She currently does not have access to this magic, having unintentionally sealed it off due to her trauma at losing her family.
BARRIER MAGIC: In her magical girl form, Kyoko can create lattice-like barriers to serve as protection for herself or to keep people out.
NONMAGICAL ABILITIES: Kyoko is a proficient fighter, having fought witches for over a year. Her favored weapon is her spear.
As an inmate, Kyoko's magical girl form and it's associated magic (illusion & barrier) will be outright nerfed. She'll still have her soul gem, though her warden will probably have to ask the Admiral for Grief Seeds if she gets her magic back. Her nonmagical abilities will remain as is.
Inmate Information: One of the reasons Kyoko is so jaded and bitter is that her good deeds were routinely, accidentally punished. Kyoko became a magical girl to help out her family: her wish was that people would listen to her father, a priest who's messages were getting a little too heretical, so heretical that he was excommunicated from the church. Kyoko viewed herself and her father on the same lens: both of them were saving souls, her as a magical girl and him as a priest. Everything went to shit when her father learned about the wish, viewed Kyoko as a witch, and then killed himself and the rest of Kyoko's family in a murder-suicide.
She's never fully processed that grief and never really fully accepted that her father's actions weren't her fault. This is what drives a lot of Kyoko's instincts: you can't depend on people, they'll always let you down, if you try to do something selfless for someone else, you'll suffer in exchange so it's better to live life as selfishly as possible. She explains this to Sayaka in terms of the food chain: humans get eaten by Witches, magical girls destroy Witches to survive. It's important to be the one on the top of the food chain—who cares about the little guys below you? She will help out, however, if it benefits the bigger picture: she's happy to team up with Homura in order to defeat Walpurgis Night, a massive witch in danger of destroying their entire city. But those bigger picture things are few and far between—again, Kyoko is more than happy to let people die if it benefits her.
Kyoko's terrible home life has also influenced her personality in smaller ways. For a while, her family had no money, so she has a massive case of food insecurity. Wasting food is one of Kyoko's biggest triggers, as shown by her instantly jumping to almost fight Sayaka when she tosses away an apple Kyoko offered her. Likewise, giving someone food is Kyoko's way of extending an olive branch to someone. This ties back into her selfishness because Kyoko doesn't pay for her food: she's more than happy to steal it for herself, not really caring that it might negatively impact other people.
There's evidence that Kyoko's big talk, social Darwinism, shitty food chain attitude is partially a front: she says that she's going to kill Sayaka but is content beating her up, she says that she doesn't give a damn about normal humans but still makes it so that normal human Madoka is as safe as possible whenever she's drawn into combat, she says she doesn't need friends but at her core, Kyoko is terribly lonely. She outright bullies Sayaka and Madoka when they first meet, but she ends up becoming decent friends with them, bonding when the three of them learn the horrible truth about magical girls. It's telling that in other timelines, the more well-adjusted version of Kyoko is one with a strong social network from the get-go. Basically, this girl talks a lot of shit and starts a lot of fights but has a super soft center deep deep down in there.
She's started to come out of that shell a little bit by the end of her appearance in canon. Kyoko's made a friend, Sayaka, a fellow magical girl who she offers an olive branch to, explaining the whole shitty situation about her wish when she sees that Sayaka is depressed about learning the truth of Soul Gems. And she cares enough about Sayaka that Kyoko is fine going on what's essentially a last ditch Hail Mary mission to try and revert Sayaka back from a Witch to a magical girl. That last ditch mission fails, ending with Kyoko essentially taking herself and Sayaka out in a murder-suicide, an act that she doesn't regret as it means herself and Sayaka won't be lonely anymore.
Path to Redemption: Kyoko's a jaded, bitter, selfish little brat who's perfectly fine letting other people die...except she also was willing to take on what might as well be a suicide mission in order to try and help a magical girl she barely knew. Kyoko needs to be reminded about her relationship with Sayaka, how she was willing to fight and put her life on the line just for a chance to help someone she just met not too long ago. There's still that magical girl inside her, the one who made a selfless wish to help her family and the one who still wants to help protect her friends—the one who's desperately lonely, to the point where her final words were empathizing with Sayaka's loneliness and reassuring her that she didn't have to be alone anymore.
A warden's got to find that interior, tell her that it's okay to rely on others sometimes, and tell her that she doesn't have to do this alone. Likewise, a lot of Kyoko's actions revolve around the guilt she feels about her family's death. A warden would have to help her internalize that isn't her fault and actually help her properly grieve all these losses she has that still make her so bitter and closed-off.
As a note, the more honest and open a warden is with her, the better. Kyoko's coming off a period where she just discovered that her entire existence as a magical girl was based off a lie and that she's been lied to all throughout her magical girl tenure by the cute series mascot. She won't take secrecy well.
History: did you know that Kyoko has a wholeass wikipedia page? I'll happily provide more info if this isn't enough.
Sample Network Entry: [ The video clicks on to a teenage girl, frowning at the camera. She's eating an apple and regarding the whole thing with a skeptical look. ]
What I don't get is why so many Inmates here just seem to play nice. You do know that your Warden's only here for themselves, right? You don't mean anything. They'd take any Inmate as long as they can get what they want in the end. And if the Admiral granted them their request right here, right now, they'd drop you in a heartbeat.
[ Kyoko continues to frown, taking a large bite out of her apple. Based on her body language, she thinks she's absolutely 100% in the right. ]
Yeah, I know we're all stuck on the same boat and we should probably get along or whatever kindergarten nonsense they're trying to shove in your brains. But that doesn't mean you all need to be so weak about it. Heck, we can probably fill whatever stupid requirements the Admiral wants on our own! How much d'you wanna bet we can just do these things ourselves, on our own, no help needed?
[ She gives the camera a smirk before idly shrugging. ]
Anyway. Food for thought.
Sample RP: it's a TDM!
Special Notes: +1 to the army of food insecure gremlins.
User DW:
katesE-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact: plurk @ allikateor
Other Characters Currently In-Game: Dorian Gray, Cornelius Hickey (for like two more days, lmao)
Character Name: Kyoko Sakura
Series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Age: Unknown, estimated to be between 14-16 as she's about the same age as the other magical girls. I'm happy putting her age squarely at 15.
From When?: Main anime timeline, after her death, before Madoka rewrites the universe.
As a note though, PMMM has a lotttt of different branching timelines, due to the fact that one of the main characters (Homura) has a power that lets her travel through time and she just keeps on doing these dang time loops. I'll be drawing background information (though not specific plot beats) from the side story manga A Different Story, which is one of those alternate timelines that Homura goes through and talks a lot about Kyoko's life pre-series.
Inmate Justification: Kyoko used to be a sweet kid. But she's had almost all of her sweetness beaten out of her by her terrible life. She is very jaded, living live by a survival of the fittest philosophy. This would be okay except that in her world, the survival of the fittest philosophy ends up with people dying. Magical girls get their power from witches, witches get their power from killing people. Kyoko has almost certainly let a lot of people die due to this absolutely jaded philosophy she's got—and she's definitely fine attempting to fight and kill other magical girls if that puts her on the top of the food chain. With one exception (noted later), she just doesn't see the use in caring about other people.
And on a petty note, this girl exists solely off of stealing shit from other people. She steals her food, she sleeps in stolen hotel rooms, she probably steals her clothes, Kyoko's entire existence is just theft.
Arrival: Against her will.
Abilities/Powers: MAGICAL GIRL FORM: Kyoko gets a nifty transformation sequence and can turn into a magical girl. In her magical girl form, Kyoko is stronger, faster, and more durable than the average human being. She can still be wounded—she doesn't have healing magic, after all. But she can put up a fight longer than most and being a magical girl means that pain that could severely incapacitate an average human would only minorly inconvenience her. She can also summon her weapon in magical girl form. Her weapon is a spear that can break apart into individual sections, strung together by a chain. The main use of her magical girl form is to fight Witches, beings that feed off of the suffering of humans, often leading them to their deaths.
SOUL GEM: Kyoko's soul resides in a vessel called a Soul Gem. This usually manifests as a ring around her finger, but she can also summon it as a small egg looking thing. The more a magical girl uses her power, the more she darkens her Soul Gem. Darkness in a Soul Gem can be removed using Grief Seeds, what a Witch leaves behind after you kill them. When a Soul Gem gets fully black, it shatters and the magical girl is turned into a Witch. When a Soul Gem gets more than 100 meters away from a magical girl, it turns the magical girl catatonic until the Soul Gem is returned.
ILLUSION MAGIC: In her magical girl form, Kyoko can craft illusions. She mostly uses this to create illusions of herself during combat to distract the enemy. She currently does not have access to this magic, having unintentionally sealed it off due to her trauma at losing her family.
BARRIER MAGIC: In her magical girl form, Kyoko can create lattice-like barriers to serve as protection for herself or to keep people out.
NONMAGICAL ABILITIES: Kyoko is a proficient fighter, having fought witches for over a year. Her favored weapon is her spear.
As an inmate, Kyoko's magical girl form and it's associated magic (illusion & barrier) will be outright nerfed. She'll still have her soul gem, though her warden will probably have to ask the Admiral for Grief Seeds if she gets her magic back. Her nonmagical abilities will remain as is.
Inmate Information: One of the reasons Kyoko is so jaded and bitter is that her good deeds were routinely, accidentally punished. Kyoko became a magical girl to help out her family: her wish was that people would listen to her father, a priest who's messages were getting a little too heretical, so heretical that he was excommunicated from the church. Kyoko viewed herself and her father on the same lens: both of them were saving souls, her as a magical girl and him as a priest. Everything went to shit when her father learned about the wish, viewed Kyoko as a witch, and then killed himself and the rest of Kyoko's family in a murder-suicide.
She's never fully processed that grief and never really fully accepted that her father's actions weren't her fault. This is what drives a lot of Kyoko's instincts: you can't depend on people, they'll always let you down, if you try to do something selfless for someone else, you'll suffer in exchange so it's better to live life as selfishly as possible. She explains this to Sayaka in terms of the food chain: humans get eaten by Witches, magical girls destroy Witches to survive. It's important to be the one on the top of the food chain—who cares about the little guys below you? She will help out, however, if it benefits the bigger picture: she's happy to team up with Homura in order to defeat Walpurgis Night, a massive witch in danger of destroying their entire city. But those bigger picture things are few and far between—again, Kyoko is more than happy to let people die if it benefits her.
Kyoko's terrible home life has also influenced her personality in smaller ways. For a while, her family had no money, so she has a massive case of food insecurity. Wasting food is one of Kyoko's biggest triggers, as shown by her instantly jumping to almost fight Sayaka when she tosses away an apple Kyoko offered her. Likewise, giving someone food is Kyoko's way of extending an olive branch to someone. This ties back into her selfishness because Kyoko doesn't pay for her food: she's more than happy to steal it for herself, not really caring that it might negatively impact other people.
There's evidence that Kyoko's big talk, social Darwinism, shitty food chain attitude is partially a front: she says that she's going to kill Sayaka but is content beating her up, she says that she doesn't give a damn about normal humans but still makes it so that normal human Madoka is as safe as possible whenever she's drawn into combat, she says she doesn't need friends but at her core, Kyoko is terribly lonely. She outright bullies Sayaka and Madoka when they first meet, but she ends up becoming decent friends with them, bonding when the three of them learn the horrible truth about magical girls. It's telling that in other timelines, the more well-adjusted version of Kyoko is one with a strong social network from the get-go. Basically, this girl talks a lot of shit and starts a lot of fights but has a super soft center deep deep down in there.
She's started to come out of that shell a little bit by the end of her appearance in canon. Kyoko's made a friend, Sayaka, a fellow magical girl who she offers an olive branch to, explaining the whole shitty situation about her wish when she sees that Sayaka is depressed about learning the truth of Soul Gems. And she cares enough about Sayaka that Kyoko is fine going on what's essentially a last ditch Hail Mary mission to try and revert Sayaka back from a Witch to a magical girl. That last ditch mission fails, ending with Kyoko essentially taking herself and Sayaka out in a murder-suicide, an act that she doesn't regret as it means herself and Sayaka won't be lonely anymore.
Path to Redemption: Kyoko's a jaded, bitter, selfish little brat who's perfectly fine letting other people die...except she also was willing to take on what might as well be a suicide mission in order to try and help a magical girl she barely knew. Kyoko needs to be reminded about her relationship with Sayaka, how she was willing to fight and put her life on the line just for a chance to help someone she just met not too long ago. There's still that magical girl inside her, the one who made a selfless wish to help her family and the one who still wants to help protect her friends—the one who's desperately lonely, to the point where her final words were empathizing with Sayaka's loneliness and reassuring her that she didn't have to be alone anymore.
A warden's got to find that interior, tell her that it's okay to rely on others sometimes, and tell her that she doesn't have to do this alone. Likewise, a lot of Kyoko's actions revolve around the guilt she feels about her family's death. A warden would have to help her internalize that isn't her fault and actually help her properly grieve all these losses she has that still make her so bitter and closed-off.
As a note, the more honest and open a warden is with her, the better. Kyoko's coming off a period where she just discovered that her entire existence as a magical girl was based off a lie and that she's been lied to all throughout her magical girl tenure by the cute series mascot. She won't take secrecy well.
History: did you know that Kyoko has a wholeass wikipedia page? I'll happily provide more info if this isn't enough.
Sample Network Entry: [ The video clicks on to a teenage girl, frowning at the camera. She's eating an apple and regarding the whole thing with a skeptical look. ]
What I don't get is why so many Inmates here just seem to play nice. You do know that your Warden's only here for themselves, right? You don't mean anything. They'd take any Inmate as long as they can get what they want in the end. And if the Admiral granted them their request right here, right now, they'd drop you in a heartbeat.
[ Kyoko continues to frown, taking a large bite out of her apple. Based on her body language, she thinks she's absolutely 100% in the right. ]
Yeah, I know we're all stuck on the same boat and we should probably get along or whatever kindergarten nonsense they're trying to shove in your brains. But that doesn't mean you all need to be so weak about it. Heck, we can probably fill whatever stupid requirements the Admiral wants on our own! How much d'you wanna bet we can just do these things ourselves, on our own, no help needed?
[ She gives the camera a smirk before idly shrugging. ]
Anyway. Food for thought.
Sample RP: it's a TDM!
Special Notes: +1 to the army of food insecure gremlins.