Homura Akemi

### Catchphrase

Remember this and take it to heart: Kindness sometimes leads to even greater tragedy.

## Biographal Infomation

### Age

13 (S4-S7)
14 (S8-S11)
16 (S12)
21 (S13; appearance in S14)

## Magic Information

### Harmony/Cutie Mark

A blue shield with a clock on it and a pair of wings on the sides of the shield

## Forms

### Witch Form

Homulilly

**Homura Akemi** (暁美ほむら, ***Homura Akemi***?) is one of the main characters of seasons 4-13 of *Guardians of Harmony*. She is a cold, distant, and serious girl whose main priority is to protect her friends.

## Bio

### Appearance

Homura is a young girl with waist-length black hair and violet eyes. She wears red spectacles accompanied by two interlaces of braided hair. Her Harmony Mark is a blue shield with a clock on it and a pair of wings on the sides of the shield.

As a civilian from Seasons 4-7, she wears a dark mulberry purple sweater with a gray scarf, black sweatpants, and has a plain navy blue headband, complete with dull purple Mary Janes and navy blue socks. In Seasons 8-11, she wears a black long-sleeved shirt, midnight blue leggings, and gray boots. In Season 12, she wears a medium gray hooded sweater under a black vest, pastel purple pants, and dark gray sneakers with white socks. Her outfit is changed once more in Season 13 to a pale gray top, a baby blue skirt, a purple ribbon in her hair, and black heels.

In her Guardian of Harmony form, her glasses disappear while she wears a white, long-sleeved coat that splits in the center near the end of the sleeve, which is lined by a black trim. She sports a black, collared shirt, and said collar is lined with white along the edges. She also has a darker purple bow with long ribbons in the center of the collar. Around this, she has another larger dull, light purple seifuku-style collar, which has a black diamond shape on the back of it, all of which is over a black, long-sleeved shirt. The skirt is dull, light purple with a white, ruffled trim. She also wears black leggings with purple diamonds that line the sides of her legs, and black heels. The coat appears to have a flower-like pattern with three "petals," and has a purple bow in the back with two long ribbons that end in half-diamond shapes with black, triangle-shaped designs lining the ends. Her Harmony Gem, shaped like a diamond, is located on her left fist, while her Elemaximum, which takes on the shape of a clock with five hands, is located on the fabric of her right forearm.

In her Stage 5 form, she wears a black dress that is longer in the back, similar to Madoka's Stage 5 outfit. The top of this dress is a heart-shaped plunging neckline, with the inside of the chest piece being sharp to mimic feathers. She has a similarly paired choker, with a bow-and-arrow shaped piece that lays flatly across her chest. The bottom points outwards to either side, the ends being feathers. The inside of the skirt resembles a universe, just as Madoka's. She also wears thigh-high socks that follow a diamond pattern, like the adornments on the stockings she wears in her normal Guardian form. The outfit is complete with black flat shoes with an anklet piece attached, and full-length gloves that end with two strands. Unlike her canon counterpart's "demon form," she has the same wing style as Stage 5 Madoka, but colored purple, and her hair is a pastel purple ponytail.

### Personality

Ever since her initial journey begin in S4E1, Homura is depicted as being very intelligent, athletic, distant, and cold. It is revealed in S4E4 that she ended up like this because she had seen so much suffering during her tenure as a Guardian of Harmony. She (unintentionally) sometimes goes as far as to attempt to injure or kill Kyubey, getting some warnings from her fellow Guardians. Despite her cold attitude towards the others, she still very much cares for them, as it is her sole objective to protect them ever since she made her wish.

In the original timeline where her journey began, however, Homura is portrayed as meek, shy, timid, and is known for her lack of confidence. She was also known for her physical incapability of performing in P.E. class; she would get dizzy upon doing even the simplest of warm-up exercises, likely because of her time spent in the hospital due of her heart condition. This ended up having the result of her being a target of bullying. Overwhelmed by her perceived uselessness, she begins questioning the worth of her existence as she wanders into a Witch labyrinth. As she is trembling at the hands of the familiars, Madoka Kamane saves her life, and she begins her fated friendship with her. Madoka, alongside Mami Tomoe, shows her the basics and dangers of becoming a Guardian, and notes that Madoka's attitude became much healthier with every Witch battle.

Despite being regarded as emotionless by Sayaka Miki, Homura is shown to be far from it. Although she does not easily show signs of remorse, sadness, or pity, it is only because she had grown used to the suffering around her, and must put up a strong front to continue fighting for her goal. Homura herself has stated that she always feels badly with each life she's unable to save or alter, but nevertheless, it does not slow her down from staying true to her objective in saving the Guardians. She eventually even gets a job as a grief counselor.

### Relationships

* **Madoka Kamane**: Her closest friend. They eventually realize their true feelings for each other between S13 and S14, marry, and have a magically-created daughter together.

### Etymology

* The name **Homura** is written in hiragana, which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji, it can read as:
	+ Flame or blaze (炎 or 焔)
	+ Heart on fire (心火)
	+ Mass of flame (炎叢)
	+ Village protector (保村)
	+ Beauty, Excellence or Surpass (秀)
	+ Village and Hamlet (邑)
* Homura's surname **Akemi** means "Bright" (**ake**) and "Mindset" (**mi**). It can also mean "dawn beauty".

## Magical Abilities

Homura's main source of magic, her shield, is capable of turning back time, as she has done numerous times, and stopping time. The amount of times she can turn back time appears to be indefinite. However, she does not use this function in battle. Rather, she uses a combination of time-stopping magic and regular, non-magic firearms, which she steals from the closets of bad organizations (the military, specifically) while time is stopped. She was previously known to craft her own bombs before stealing weapons. Otherwise, she has no natural magical offensive attacks due to being a support fighter in combat.

## Guardian of Harmony

Homura is the Guardian of Time. She is a Time Elemental whose Element of Harmony is Bravery, and her theme color is black. Her main weapon is a shield (which also serves as her Storage and Time Jump Device), and she has various military weapons as well. After the Law of Cycles recton, her weapon changes to a bow.

## Pokémon

* Eliott the Umbreon (partner Pokémon)
* Zigzagoon -> Linoone (Dash)
* Snorunt -> Froslass (Frosty)

## Trivia

* Her wish is to protect all of the Guardians rather than only Madoka or anyone else protecting her.
* Like the GoH counterparts of her fellow magical girls, her hair and eyes don't change much. However, unlike her origin counterpart, her glasses magically disappear in her transformed state.
* Strangely, she doesn't fight with Ella Ticcster at all despite their similar themes. Despite her also being a pure Time Elemental who has time-based powers, Ella's title was changed to the Guardian of Physics instead to avoid confusion with Homura and in-universe within the group.
* Homura is frequently referred to as "Homerun-chan" amongst Western fans, due to the similarity of the two names.
* Japanese fans refer to her as "HomuHomu."
* In the Magia Record NA community, Homura with her glasses and braids is often referred to as "Moemura," while Homura without her glasses is referred to as "Coolmura". As a running gag, she is sometimes called both nicknames by other characters.
* Her wearing lighter clothes in later seasons symbolizes her growing friendlier and more confident in herself.
* She often steals weaponry from GDI while time is frozen, though she also often steals weaponry from Team Rocket.
* Due to having no direct offensive attacks and having to rely on normal, non-magical weapons to attack enemies, she tends to rely very heavily on her Pokémon to do the attacking when fighting enemies who aren't the villainous quartet or their monsters, such as the regional villainous teams besides Team Rocket.
* Homura is one of the few characters whose Harmony Gem color doesn't match her theme color at all, as her Guardian outfit primarily has shades of black, white, and gray despite her Harmony Gem being purple.
* Despite having no direct combat attacks, Homura is still able to magically purify witches.
* Although she no longer has her cold attitude and mental trauama in the series finale, she now works as a grief counselor. This is confirmed to be a coincidence in-universe.
* Unlike her canon counterpart, she did not heal her heart condition with magic. Rather, prior to S4E1 during her time-looping, she had surgery to correct it. She can also turn back time by minutes or days instead of having to wait a whole month.