#I shall now combine our evil plans in a way that mutually benefits us both! how the tables have tabled!

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Okay. Okay okay okay okay. I wish I had a lot more to say but I’ve basically said all I know so I’m just gonna respond to a couple things you said. Unfortunately pmmm has been dethroned as my current hyper fixation, so my analysis probably won’t be as brainpoisoned quality as before

On the soul gem thing, I’m now going to rewrite history and say Mami’s color is gold because she presents herself as the archetypical magical girl. (Also uncertain how canon Madoka psp is, but if it’s fully canon, yes the guns are literally just fucking ribbons. Girlie pop has no weapon, just ribbon :(). Also side thing, Mami’s magic being the ability to manipulate ribbons into things she wants could be a reflection on her manipulative tendencies. She plays a facade in order to make the other girls fit the role she’s looking for, much like how she contorts her ribbons to suit her goals. (Note none of this is a diss. I love Mami to bits, we stan a morally grey queen. It makes me very sadge when I see fans either boiling her down to decapitations jokes, calling her stupid, or being gross and making her into a waifu).

Also it makes sense why no one else’s designs feature Sayaka’s blue. No one wants to end up like she did or echo her self destructive behaviors. She ends up as a witch in almost every timeline she becomes a magical girl and in all the others she dies before it can happen. Her influence on the group isn’t something to want to look up to or imitate, it’s a warning.

Homura and Kyoko are such interesting narrative foils and I wish we got to see them interact more in canon material. Like give me besties Homura and Kyoko. It feels like they barely talk despite being so similar.

I’d also say that homura could also have the most white on her because she’s the closest to the truth of what a magical girl is. Looking at the other girls designs, Homura and Sayaka probably have the most white on them. This is because the other girls aren’t privy to what a magical girl actually looks like in this world. Kyoko is distracted by her ideals of living for herself, killing witches and just trying to fucking survive the shitty hand she’s been dealt that she doesn’t have the energy, time, or morale to try to come to the true conclusion of what a magical girl means. Sure she knows the dangers and knows to be particular about your wish, but she doesn’t know the true exploitation from Kyubey and has even lost the “fairy tale” ideals associated with trying to be a kind of fictitious magical girl. Mami has more white but still not the most, because she’s knows very little about how kyubeys system works. She’s too busy trying to pretend to be a fictitious magical girl to keep herself going to the point where she doesn’t have the energy to retrospect to how being a magical girl works in this system. Madoka in the timelines where she becomes the mg we think of only knows what Mami tells her, and so only has about as much white as Mami has. This is why Madokami’s main color is white, she has redefined what it means to be a magical girl, surpassing everyone else. Meanwhile, Homura has the most knowledge to what being a magical girl actually means. She knows about becoming a witch. She knows about how shitty incubators are. She has seen the world end time and time again because of Gretchen. Whereas Sayaka becomes a symbol for what it means to be a magical girl under Kyubey. She makes a wish that seems perfect. She tries her hardest to fight witches and live up to her ideals. She ultimately self destructs and dies to become a twisted version of herself in every fucking timeline. Sayaka is the epitome of how corrupt the system is, Homura has the most knowledge of how corrupt the system is, and Madokami redefines the system to become slightly less corrupt.

Also love your read on Junko and the ribbons. However it did give me the crushing reminder that Madoka is like the only person in this whole fucking franchise to have a stable, loving relationship with her still alive parents.

Every time i rewatch madomagi the ending becomes more and more soul crushingly tragic. Like when I first watched it (back when I still had light in my soul) I was like “yay happy ending! Kyubey got fucked, sayaka isn’t eternally suffering, and Mami and Kyoko are alive! Sucks that homura and Madoka are separated for now but eh.” And then the second (after I learned what a Rebellion was) I was like “… Homura never said she was fine with this. Like yeah Sayaka and Nagisa aren’t suffering as witches forever but it still sucks that they are dead. And it’s not like Kyoko and Mami will likely be alive much longer…”. And now it’s like “MADOKA HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO YOURSELF YOU ARE A MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRL DONT BECOME GOD! I understand that your searching for purpose and want to improve the world but please for the love of you don’t become meguca!”

Their hair changes color??? That is so neat. No fucking clue what it means but that’s cool. If I had to guess, just from the stand point of a character artist, it might be a thing to make the designs either more cohesive or more visually interesting. I have hyperfixated on this show for so long and yet I have just found this out, I feel betrayed.

The conclusion to this post made me get the visual image of Homura cooking meth in her weird clock apartment and I need to curse others with this information as well.

Anyways, this concludes my 4th instance of postception. Please be aware that it will happen against, it’s a threat, a promise, and a blood oath. Very excited for Walpurgis no Kaiten, and still desperate to figure out how many fucking magical girls are a part of the Holy “Quintet”.

So I recently noticed something about Homura Akemi’s magical girl outfit that I’ve never seen anyone else mention. Probably because it’s honestly a bit of a stretch but I think it’s fun.

So in her magical girl design she has this weird chain of diamonds down her leggings (boots??? Both???) that always confused me because of how much it looked like Kyoko’s chains. It’s was then also realized that she and Mami are the only girls to have a ribbon neck tie and a bow at the back of their dress. And I tried to see if she had design aspects that aligned with Sayaka and Madoka, and I think sayaka’s is a little bit of a stretch, but they both wear a pleated skirt that is their theme color with a white trim at the end of it.

But I realized something fun when I got to thinking about madoka’s outfit and seeing if anything matched, and I realized that both she and Madoka have a hairstyle that comes in two and are tied with ribbons (Madoka has twin tails, Homura has twin braids). Homura later wears Madokas red ribbons after she becomes Madokami. And then I realized that Homura doesn’t have anything matching Madoka for most of the series. The only thing that tied her to Madoka she renounced to try to save her, and she only gets something that ties back to her after she failed.

Anyways again bit of a stretch but I think it’s fun :)