Kyubey

**Kyubey** (キュゥべえ, ***Kyubey***?) is an Incubator, also known as a Messenger of Magic. She is the one who grants special magic users the ability to become Guardians of Harmony.

## Bio

### Appearance

Kyubey is a small, cat-like creature. She has white fur and four ears, one pair representing the average cat and the other similar to those of a rabbit's. She has red eyes and golden rings around her long ears. At the bottom of the ears, it appears that it is separated into three, along with a pink-white fade and three red ovals. These ears seem to be what give the Guardians of Harmony the ability to transform, as seen when she made Victoria's Harmony Gem (despite being grabbed and a bit strangled by Mirage). She has a large tail and pointy ears, the inside of them being pinkish peach color. On her back is a hot pink egg shape. Her front paws are pale pink, and her hind paws are pale yellow.

### Personality

Kyubey has a open heart and loves to make friends, even though she once had no personal understanding of human emotion. Despite this, Kyubey and others that are exactly like her do not always seem to have a distinct sense of self. On the occasions where a Kyubey is killed, another will step out and continue to converse as if nothing had occurred. Like Dragonet, she also is gluttonous and a bit spoiled (due to Joy, and later other childish characters such as Pinkie Pie, often spoiling her) and adores eating sweets even though they aren't very healthy for her. She can also be mischievious sometimes as shown whenever she steals somecreature's phone to send mischievious or teasing texts or calls.

Kyubey can also be childish at times, as shown at one point in S8 where she is temporarily stripped of her magic and as a result, throws a tantrum while screaming, name-calling, and banging her paws of the ground.

### Relationships

* **Victoria Daisy**: The first Guardian of Harmony she met. She likes being petted by her.
* **Joy Cherrysnow**: Joy absolutely adores Kyubey and often likes to brush and groom her, and often gives her sweets despite them not being very healthy for her. She commonly calls her "Cutie Cat."
* **Aphrodite**: Kyubey is obsessed with Aphrodite (in a non-romantic way) and often fawns over her due to her being a goddess, commonly fangirling and asking for her autograph.
* **Tenebrosum Leucosia**: Unlike her *Madoka Magica* counterpart who actively creates the evil that the magical girls fight, Kyubey hates him and encourages the heroes to not give in to their despair.

### Etymology

Before her origin anime's first dark plot twist aired, head writer Gen Urobuchi said on his Twitter account that the "Kyu" in Kyubey's name comes from the English word "cute". This was a lie meant to further mislead fans into thinking that Madoka Magica is an innocent happy show. In a later episode, it was revealed that "Kyubey" is, in fact, short for "in**cuba**tor".

## Magical Abilities

Kyubey has the ability to create Harmony Gems and connect them to Power Necklaces. She can also grant each Chosen One one wish, but won't grant any negative ones. These wishes can be almost anything the Chosen One desires (such as wishing to simply be a strong hero), can affect the future (such as Elis's wish that any children she may have in the future will grow up strong and healthy) and can even be for things that wouldn't normally exist (such as a card with infinite money).

### Things that cannot be wished for

* More wishes
* Negative wishes, such as wishing to kill somecreature or for a disaster or war to happen
* Non-Chosen Ones becoming Chosen Ones
* A messiah or Miko becoming a Hero
* Powerups, including necklace upgrades

## Trivia

* Unlike the non-binary version from PMMM, Kyubey clearly has emotions, as seen when Victoria happily pets her. Also unlike said counterpart, she doesn't make heroes out of wishes in exchange for souls and has nothing to do with the creation of witches due to that being a result of Chaos/the Darkness of Despair.
	+ She also talks like normal instead of talking through telepathy and is not seen as some sort of puppet by normals.
* The first Queen of Dreams once found out that the first Kyubey was simply nothing but a puppet used to interact with humanity. This also once resulted in another Kyubey (the last one before the first Guardians were discovered) being unable to predict or understand the actions of anyone or the results of those actions.
* The spelling of Kyubey's name in Japanese is peculiar. It uses a mixture of hiragana and katakana, and the long u sound in "Kyu" is marked with a small u (ゥ) instead of a large u (ウ) or dash (ー). Both features are fairly uncommon and non-standard.
* Kyubey's appearance and name share an affinity with Kyuubi, which are mythical Japanese foxes with nine tails. In folklore, Kyubey is known to possess men and have them do the Kyuubi's bidding.
* The only person whose powers she did not choose when making a contract is Miranda, whose powers (and Harmony Mark, since Kyubey does not choose Harmony Marks) were already chosen beforehand by Gabriel when he created her. Alison Garfield is another exception, however, since she was created by the wind gust already possessing her powers.
* Kyubey is, like her origin counterpart, immortal with an infinite respawn. In the 2-part season 1 episode Chance to Shine, during the mascot battle against Leucosia, she was shot by him. Another Kyubey then stepped out to play dead and revive herself, thus tricking him.
* In one of the AU sequels to the main series, Kyubey becomes a humanfied Guardian of Harmony and is unable to transform into any other form. This did become useful as she lost the ability to make contracts at all in the sequel.
	+ In "The Tale Of The Last Two Porters," Evelyn Porter II ends up being the last person she makes a contract with. It can be implied that she *willingly* possessed her without causing problems afterwards (which is why her Guardian form looks very similar to Madoka's goddess form).
* She makes a cameo in the Omen, though the story says that she was nothing more than a puppet. It is clear that the Kyubey that cameoed there is not the Kyubey seen in the actual series.
* Kyubey is physically incapable of granting wishes or contracts to those who are not Chosen Ones chosen by the Magic of Friendship, as she mentions in "A Towering Takeover" and as shown in S1 when Nina attempts to ask for a wish, she says that she cannot grant her one or make her a Guardian and fails to make a Harmony Gem for her since she has no Power Necklace to give her one. However, Lysandre's red torture laser technology in the former very nearly manages to bypass this and force a wish out of her to make Zygarde recreate the world in his image, but Aurea shows up and frees Melody and the Pokémon (since the other two break free)- with a sledgehammer.
	+ A Guardian, as one of the very few things they cannot wish for, also cannot wish for a non-Chosen One to become a Chosen One, as that is the Magic of Friendship's decision and not in Kyubey's control. They also, obviously, cannot wish for more wishes.

* As a running gag in Season 13, whenever a Guardian is drinking coffee, Kyubey will attempt to take a sip when they're not looking, only to always get caught before she can.