Homura Akemi

Homura Akemi (暁美 ほむら *Akemi Homura*?)
Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese), Cristina Vee[1] (English)
Homura is a magical girl who first appears in a nightmare of
Madoka's. She transfers into Madoka's school the day after the dream.
She is unnaturally good at everything she does, including academics and
sports. This makes her instantly popular, even though she is cold and
demeaning towards others. Homura's indifferent personality is the result
 of her failures while going through approaching 100 timelines.[2]

Originally a shy second-year student, she was befriended by Madoka
and eventually saved from a witch by her and Mami, who revealed that
they were magical girls. When Mami died in the fight with the rampaging
witch Walpurginacht,
 Madoka sacrificed her life to stop it. Homura, overcome by grief and
uselessness, contracted with Kyubey in order to become a person that
could protect Madoka, just as Madoka protected her. Her wish was to be
able to go back to her original meeting with Madoka, leading Homura to
receive the power to manipulate time to a certain extent. Homura cares
deeply for Madoka, however this caring is eventually twisted into a
sole, obsessive fixation on Madoka's survival regardless of her
feelings, and Homura never gives up on trying to "save" Madoka, even as
she grows more cold, intimidating and antagonistic to others, taking on
the role of the "rival hero" magical girl archetype. Caught up in a predestination paradox,
 she tries again and again to prevent Madoka from being killed or making
 a contract, but time after time fails to save her. After a timeline
reset, Homura always returns to the hospital room she formerly lived in.
 Since she is always reset to the same age as when she was living in
hospital, as a result of her timeline resetting, Homura's physical age
is not the same as her mental age; mentally, she is far older than she
looks, again a result of her going through what is now approaching 100
timeline cycles.

Her magical weapon is a shield filled with sand that allows her to
freeze time. However, this power becomes useless if she is physically
restrained as she cannot turn her shield to activate it. She can also
use this shield to block projectiles and store the various infinite
amount of weapons that she carries. Since her shield and magic has no
offensive capability, she instead attacks using stolen firearms and
homemade explosives while time is stopped. None of the girls actually
know what weapons she has, since she only uses them while time is
stopped. Homura cannot reset time until all the sand in her shield is
drained – which happens approximately a month and a half from her
discharge from the hospital, on the day of Walpurgisnacht – after which
she can reset the timeline whenever she desires.

In the final timeline, she inherits Madoka's bow – now a sleek ebony
 bow with purple diamond setting – and arrows, along with a set of white
 wings. Homura continues to fight in the new world against the wraiths,
despite believing that the world was irredeemably full of tragedies,
because it was a world that Madoka once tried to protect, and she vowed
never to forget Madoka's resolve.

Her witch form in the PSP Game and the movie *Rebellion* is **Homulilly**, known as the Witch of the Mortal World in the PSP Game and the Nutcracker Witch in *Rebellion*.
At the end of *Rebellion*, Homura usurps Ultimate Madoka and becomes the being **Akuma Homura** (悪魔 ほむら?),
 splitting Madoka and her goddess form, sealing her powers and rewriting
 the universe. Unlike Ultimate Madoka, Akuma Homura can take human form
in the new world, and does not exist as a concept. She managed to
enslave the Incubator race, who now work under her to take on the curses
 of the new world. Ultimate Madoka's powers are sealed within her
earring, which can change to and from a lizard form, and walk around on
its own.