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♚ OOC
Name: Tex
Age: 35
Contact: texside @ Plurk
Character In-game: None.
♛ IC
Name: Mami Tomoe
Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Canon Point: The end of episode 3. Chomp.
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Appearance: ★
History/Background: The Puella Magi Wiki has a lot on her.
Personality: Mami is defined by a powerful sense of survivor's guilt. The two things that motivate her most come from the loss of her parents -- and the fact that she couldn't save them from the car crash that should have killed her, too, save for a wish that she made to the creature Kyubey. She feels terribly alone in the world and she has a strong desire to help others to make what she perceives as a failure to save her parents right.
This sense of justice is what people tend to see first, at least when Mami acts as a magical girl (or, say, when she starts to fight another world's war). Mami is idealistic in the extreme, at least outwardly. In canon (and, specifically, the manga that covers her earlier days), she is always trying to get other magical girls to kill both Witches and Familiars; the goal isn't to collect Grief Seeds for magical power, but instead to help as many people as she possibly can.
This is a powerful need for her. While she wants to do right for its own merits, it really comes from that deep-seated survivor's guilt. This can blind her to practicalities, sometimes, such as the need to collect Grief Seeds to survive; it also can blind her to the feelings of others, as she is perfectly willing to alienate herself to stick to this sense of justice. In the show, she remarks to Madoka how lonely the life of a magical girl. It's lonely precisely because Mami could be unbending about doing what she felt to be right, and driving away all of those she cares about.
The second major motivation that Mami gained from her parents' death was that very sense of loneliness. She was an only child and lost her entire family in an accident that was random, senseless, and blameless. That makes a hole in Mami's life that she tries to fill with friendship. She keeps her nice apartment with food to share (such as elegantly decorated homemade cakes, pies, and the like) and acts very cheerful, friendly, and classy.
Someone who meets her casually might find her easily likable because of that. However, Mami had to keep her distance from most people. She found that those outside of the life of a magical girl simply couldn't know what she experienced, day in, day out. She spent her afternoons hunting Witches, instead of going out with her friends. Not only did she lose her family, Mami also lost something that connected her with girls her age. She might be likable, but she has lots of acquaintances and few friends.
Loneliness makes her reach out even more. When she finds another magical girl, she tries to befriend them -- like she did with Kyouko, because she saw things the way she did, and then later with Sayaka and Madoka. This affects her approach to others in a few ways. She tries to look impressive and cool, both to bolster her confidence and others' confidence in her. She wants to look amazing, so that she will be respected -- and, maybe, so those friends she makes will stay with her.
When she makes a friend, she latches onto them. She can be very considerate and caring -- she will take them in, give them shelter and food, and worry over them constantly. However, Mami can also depend on them too much, and attach her well-being to them. When Kyouko decided to go her separate way from Mami, she was crushed. She doesn't handle a feeling of loss or betrayal well.
She can get depressed, then. Mami doesn't handle sadness well; her instinct is to withdraw. Outwardly, she can put on that calm, collected, and cheerful disposition that she projects at others. However, it can crack apart -- and when she gets particularly depressed, she can do terrible things (before she turns into a witch). Case in point, the horrifying realization that magical girls become witches leads her to kill her friends in a panic. That event, however, also shows something else: Mami can be, even in the throes of anger or despair, very methodical. She took paints to deliberately target Kyouko, first, then restrain Homura (judged to be less of a threat), and then turn on Madoka last (which proved to be a bad idea, because Madoka had it in her to put Mami down).
Similarly, when she is angry, she can lash out -- but she can maintain a veneer of control. Unless deeply, impossibly upset, Mami will often smile more, maintain that cheerful and elegant facade, even while she makes barbs at her enemy and attacks them. When she fights Kyouko in the fourth volume of The Different Story, she does precisely this, chiding her about making life hard for Mami as her senpai, while fighting her.
That loyalty to her friends can also inhibit her, though. It can make her hesitate -- like she did in that fight, where she couldn't bring herself to attack Kyouko seriously. Friendship can also make her overconfident; when she gets killed, it's because she is basking in the feeling of knowing Madoka will be with her, and she gets overconfident when fighting Charlotte. Friendship means everything to Mami, and it can influence her to go to great extremes -- and do anything to protect them.
The tension between wanting to be close to her friends and wanting to pursue justice and protect everyone is something that Mami, for all the brave face she puts on, has trouble resolving.
Skills/Abilities: Mami is a magical girl. First, this means she is unnaturally tough in her canon; the process puts her soul inside of a gem, while her body is strengthened and made to rely solely upon magic. If the gem is destroyed, she dies; however, this lets her body heal from considerably more damage than usual (but she is perfectly capable of being killed by massive trauma). The gem requires absorbing magic from Grief Seeds dropped by Witches; if she doesn't do this, it darkens. If it turns completely black, she would turn into a Witch.
Upon arriving in Caissa, I imagine that she reverts to a normal human and her Soul Gem doesn't come with her. However, she remains in very good (but entirely natural) physical condition. (And has her head back.)
Mami's magical abilities were twofold. First she could make incredible lengths of ribbons and constructs with them: ladders, bridges, swings, and binds. She could also summon percussion lock rifles, pistols, and cannons in great numbers. This could reach absurd numbers; Mami was capable of making dozens of rifles and firing them telekinetically in the series. She could also make artillery pieces, such as her trademark finisher attack, Tiro Finale. She could also, notably, transform into a magical girl outfit.
Mami is, without the aid of magic, a skilled sharpshooter. While she fires swarms of guns with a thought, we see her take a rifle to shoulder several times and shoot a familiar or a Witch. She is better with rifles than she is with
She is also a very talented baker. She makes some amazing cakes and wonderful tea to go with it. And, clearly, she can style her own hair like nobody's business.
Magic Weapon: Sergeant Forsythe's Rifle, a percussion-lock musket. It is made mostly of wood, though the barrel and firing mechanism are metal. It has fine engraving on the barrel, patterned like flowers found in one of Caissa's oldest gardens. The stock of the musket has the initials "Sgt. R.S.F" engraved on it. The bullets have to be loaded in a chamber on the side; the chamber can hold only one shot at a time.
Its magical ability is to multiply the number of bullets it fires. At first, this is limited to a couple of shots at once, but when fully mastered, allows the wielder to shoot up to a dozen bullets at the same time. The magically-created bullets appear just after the real one leaves the barrel. They have to fire in the same general direction, but with greater mana expenditure, the shooter can nudge the bullet into a slightly different trajectory; for example, at an angle from them, but never shooting behind them or arcing the shots around an obstacle.
Carrier: Cannoli, a white and brown short-haired cat with green eyes. He is lazy and somewhat overweight (which isn't likely to be helped by Mami's baking), but periodically starts knocking things over at night for the glee of it.
Sample: TDM
Name: Tex
Age: 35
Contact: texside @ Plurk
Character In-game: None.
♛ IC
Name: Mami Tomoe
Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Canon Point: The end of episode 3. Chomp.
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Appearance: ★
History/Background: The Puella Magi Wiki has a lot on her.
Personality: Mami is defined by a powerful sense of survivor's guilt. The two things that motivate her most come from the loss of her parents -- and the fact that she couldn't save them from the car crash that should have killed her, too, save for a wish that she made to the creature Kyubey. She feels terribly alone in the world and she has a strong desire to help others to make what she perceives as a failure to save her parents right.
This sense of justice is what people tend to see first, at least when Mami acts as a magical girl (or, say, when she starts to fight another world's war). Mami is idealistic in the extreme, at least outwardly. In canon (and, specifically, the manga that covers her earlier days), she is always trying to get other magical girls to kill both Witches and Familiars; the goal isn't to collect Grief Seeds for magical power, but instead to help as many people as she possibly can.
This is a powerful need for her. While she wants to do right for its own merits, it really comes from that deep-seated survivor's guilt. This can blind her to practicalities, sometimes, such as the need to collect Grief Seeds to survive; it also can blind her to the feelings of others, as she is perfectly willing to alienate herself to stick to this sense of justice. In the show, she remarks to Madoka how lonely the life of a magical girl. It's lonely precisely because Mami could be unbending about doing what she felt to be right, and driving away all of those she cares about.
The second major motivation that Mami gained from her parents' death was that very sense of loneliness. She was an only child and lost her entire family in an accident that was random, senseless, and blameless. That makes a hole in Mami's life that she tries to fill with friendship. She keeps her nice apartment with food to share (such as elegantly decorated homemade cakes, pies, and the like) and acts very cheerful, friendly, and classy.
Someone who meets her casually might find her easily likable because of that. However, Mami had to keep her distance from most people. She found that those outside of the life of a magical girl simply couldn't know what she experienced, day in, day out. She spent her afternoons hunting Witches, instead of going out with her friends. Not only did she lose her family, Mami also lost something that connected her with girls her age. She might be likable, but she has lots of acquaintances and few friends.
Loneliness makes her reach out even more. When she finds another magical girl, she tries to befriend them -- like she did with Kyouko, because she saw things the way she did, and then later with Sayaka and Madoka. This affects her approach to others in a few ways. She tries to look impressive and cool, both to bolster her confidence and others' confidence in her. She wants to look amazing, so that she will be respected -- and, maybe, so those friends she makes will stay with her.
When she makes a friend, she latches onto them. She can be very considerate and caring -- she will take them in, give them shelter and food, and worry over them constantly. However, Mami can also depend on them too much, and attach her well-being to them. When Kyouko decided to go her separate way from Mami, she was crushed. She doesn't handle a feeling of loss or betrayal well.
She can get depressed, then. Mami doesn't handle sadness well; her instinct is to withdraw. Outwardly, she can put on that calm, collected, and cheerful disposition that she projects at others. However, it can crack apart -- and when she gets particularly depressed, she can do terrible things (before she turns into a witch). Case in point, the horrifying realization that magical girls become witches leads her to kill her friends in a panic. That event, however, also shows something else: Mami can be, even in the throes of anger or despair, very methodical. She took paints to deliberately target Kyouko, first, then restrain Homura (judged to be less of a threat), and then turn on Madoka last (which proved to be a bad idea, because Madoka had it in her to put Mami down).
Similarly, when she is angry, she can lash out -- but she can maintain a veneer of control. Unless deeply, impossibly upset, Mami will often smile more, maintain that cheerful and elegant facade, even while she makes barbs at her enemy and attacks them. When she fights Kyouko in the fourth volume of The Different Story, she does precisely this, chiding her about making life hard for Mami as her senpai, while fighting her.
That loyalty to her friends can also inhibit her, though. It can make her hesitate -- like she did in that fight, where she couldn't bring herself to attack Kyouko seriously. Friendship can also make her overconfident; when she gets killed, it's because she is basking in the feeling of knowing Madoka will be with her, and she gets overconfident when fighting Charlotte. Friendship means everything to Mami, and it can influence her to go to great extremes -- and do anything to protect them.
The tension between wanting to be close to her friends and wanting to pursue justice and protect everyone is something that Mami, for all the brave face she puts on, has trouble resolving.
Skills/Abilities: Mami is a magical girl. First, this means she is unnaturally tough in her canon; the process puts her soul inside of a gem, while her body is strengthened and made to rely solely upon magic. If the gem is destroyed, she dies; however, this lets her body heal from considerably more damage than usual (but she is perfectly capable of being killed by massive trauma). The gem requires absorbing magic from Grief Seeds dropped by Witches; if she doesn't do this, it darkens. If it turns completely black, she would turn into a Witch.
Upon arriving in Caissa, I imagine that she reverts to a normal human and her Soul Gem doesn't come with her. However, she remains in very good (but entirely natural) physical condition. (And has her head back.)
Mami's magical abilities were twofold. First she could make incredible lengths of ribbons and constructs with them: ladders, bridges, swings, and binds. She could also summon percussion lock rifles, pistols, and cannons in great numbers. This could reach absurd numbers; Mami was capable of making dozens of rifles and firing them telekinetically in the series. She could also make artillery pieces, such as her trademark finisher attack, Tiro Finale. She could also, notably, transform into a magical girl outfit.
Mami is, without the aid of magic, a skilled sharpshooter. While she fires swarms of guns with a thought, we see her take a rifle to shoulder several times and shoot a familiar or a Witch. She is better with rifles than she is with
She is also a very talented baker. She makes some amazing cakes and wonderful tea to go with it. And, clearly, she can style her own hair like nobody's business.
Magic Weapon: Sergeant Forsythe's Rifle, a percussion-lock musket. It is made mostly of wood, though the barrel and firing mechanism are metal. It has fine engraving on the barrel, patterned like flowers found in one of Caissa's oldest gardens. The stock of the musket has the initials "Sgt. R.S.F" engraved on it. The bullets have to be loaded in a chamber on the side; the chamber can hold only one shot at a time.
Its magical ability is to multiply the number of bullets it fires. At first, this is limited to a couple of shots at once, but when fully mastered, allows the wielder to shoot up to a dozen bullets at the same time. The magically-created bullets appear just after the real one leaves the barrel. They have to fire in the same general direction, but with greater mana expenditure, the shooter can nudge the bullet into a slightly different trajectory; for example, at an angle from them, but never shooting behind them or arcing the shots around an obstacle.
Carrier: Cannoli, a white and brown short-haired cat with green eyes. He is lazy and somewhat overweight (which isn't likely to be helped by Mami's baking), but periodically starts knocking things over at night for the glee of it.
Sample: TDM