Cynthia Moonpath/Tropes

Tropes that apply to Cynthia Moonpath, written as if it were a TV Tropes page.

## Characterization and background

* **Nice Girl**: She is quite kind, normally.
* **Phoneaholic Teenager**: She spends *quite a lot* of time on her phone.
* **All-Loving Heroine**: Just like her ancestor, she cares about everycreature.
* **Chronic Heroine Syndrome**: Often is obsessively selfless. This ends up costing her existence.
* **Ret-Gone**: She is erased from existence after the Law of Cycles retcon, becoming part of the Divinity.
* **Tears of Remorse**: She cries as she states her wish, saying that she has no choice but to break Katrina's magic will.
* **Small Role, Big Impact**: Despite not being a main character, she is the one who makes the wish for the Divinity to live so that She can erase all witches.
* **Expy**: She is a partial one to the canon Madoka Kaname.
* **Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help**: She sometimes helps out the main characters when in need, but often forgoes what she wants for the sake of others.
* **Tragic Keepsake**: Before being erased from existence, she creates a pendant and replicas of Madoka's civilian ribbons for Megan to remember her by. She also gives Megan her glasses.
* **Married to a God**: In "Pure Hearts," the Taisha asks her to perform a special ritual called the Shinkon in order to restore the Shinju's power, a ritual which involves Cynthia becoming the Shinju's "bride". This unfortunately requires her to sacrifice her life.
* **Not Allowed to Grow Up**: Justified. Unlike the other Guardians who all eventually grow up (including Melody in the rewritten timeline) and don't age past their early/mid-twenties, Cynthia never becomes an adult because she is erased from existence before then.
* **Magically-Binding Contract**: Defied. Although Katrina's will concerning transfership of her Divinity magic is magically-binding, Cynthia manages to override it anyways and states as part of her wish that she is doing so.
* **Deus Ex Machina**: By the final chapter of *Katy Magica*, Cynthia conveniently still hasn't made her wish, which allows her to use it to fix everything. If she had already made her wish, she wouldn't have been able to (indirectly) save everycreature and would most likely have died herself.
* **Status Quo is God**: Also defied. Cynthia breaks the status quo of the Divinity being inside a human and brings her back to life.
* **Running Gag**: Much like her predecessors, sometimes when the Magis are in a pinch, Cynthia appears out of nowhere, stands on a high place such as a building while being framed in shadow, and delivers her introductory speech.
* **Running Away to Cry**: While Katy and Evelyn beg her not to accept the Shinkon, she is extremely conflicted between leaving her friends and saving the Multiverse, and simply runs away crying.
* **Ethereal Choir**: The song "her wings" plays when she is saying goodbye to Megan.
* **Drowning My Sorrows**: After Sky and Kenny die, she plans to commit suicide again, this time via alcohol poisoning... except the problem is she is under 21 and can't legally buy it. She decides to go to the convenience store anyways, gets a bottle of vodka and gives the clerk the money, but the clerk and her Charizard say they can't sell it to her since everycreature knows the Magis and that they're only teenagers. She then sulks away pouting, but when she isn't paying attention, she turns around, grabs the bottle off the checkout counter anyways, and bolts out the door.

## Appearance

* **Purple is Powerful**: Her theme color is purple, and she is an extremely powerful Guardian, being more powerful than Katy, Sky, or Kylie.
* **The Glasses Come Off**: She loses her glasses in her transformed state.
* **Identical Descendant**: Her hair and eye colors untransformed are very similar to Katrina's.
* **Power Makes Your Hair Grow**: Literally. Her final transformation gives her long, flowing hair that almost reaches the ground.
* **Costume P---**: In her Summi Magicae Aeternae Stellae form, she gets a long flowing overskirt almost reaching her ankles, fist armor, giant sakura petals and bows in her hair, and *huge* rainbow wings.
* **Shout-Out**: It is most likely a coincidence, but in her final powerup, her fist armor with the Celestial and Dream Stones on each resembles the Infinity Gauntlet with the Infinity Stones (from the Marvel Comics).

## Abilities

* **Light 'Em Up:** Her powers are mainly light-based.
* **An Ice Person**: As the Warrior of Auroras, it is only fitting that she has ice-based powers.
* **Super Mode**: After being freed from the Shinkon, she takes on a special powerup to defeat the AoTA once and for all, called Summi Magicae Eternae Stellae. Said form gives her *massive* rainbow wings, blonde pigtails that go down to her ankles, long eyelashes, and an upgraded version of her staff with rainbow jewels.

## Relationships

* **Cool Big Sis**: To her little brother Kenny. Also acts as one to the main Guardians, although Melissa usually acts as their Team Mom.
* **Out of Focus**: She lives in Blake's old home just like the mains, but is not considered a main and is quite often busy helping those around the Multiverse.
* **Honorary True Companion**: Downplayed. While Cynthia lives with the mains and is on the team in-universe, she has other obligations around the Multiverse as well and is generally not focused on.
* **Hero Worshipper**: Although she is more powerful than Katy, she greatly admires Katy's leadership skills and learns to be a better person from her. While Walpurgisnacht (and the AotA) is what directly inspires her to make her wish, Katy's death also inspires her to make it, as she doesn't want her and the others' efforts to be all for nothing.
* **Arranged Marriage**: Cynthia agrees to marry the Shinju if it means restoring its power and saving everycreature. She pretends that everything is fine, but after Katy, Evelyn, and Jim reach the Shinju due to Preserver-Kylie's oxygenated head bubbles, they force her to stop lying to herself and furiously confront her, saying that they know she doesn't *really* want to do this. The most terrifying part? She's only *14 years old*.
* **Child Bride**: Is only 14, but is forced into agreeing to be the Shinju's bride to save creaturekind, all while lying to herself that it is what she wants and that she isn't afraid at all.
* **Ripple-Effect Proof Memory**: She is on the receiving end of this. Because Megan meets Cynthia in an empty space while the Multiverse is in the process of reordering itself, the former knows the latter existed.