Kyubey

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**Kyubey** (Japanese: **キュゥべえ**) is an Incubator, also known as a Messenger of Magic. She is the one who grants magic users the ability to become magical warriors. She appears in *Magical Pokémon Quest*, *Magical Little Ponies*, *Puella Magi Minori Magica* and *Lina Erica is a Hero*. Notably, she also appears in the sequels *Magical Record: The Next Generation* and *Puella Magi Whitely Magica*.

## 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 magic users the ability to transform into magical warriors. 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. She is gluttonous and a bit spoiled (due to childish characters often spoiling her) and adores eating sweets even though they aren't very healthy for her. She can also be mischievous sometimes as shown whenever she steals someone's phone to send mischievous or teasing texts or calls.

### 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".

## 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.
	+ She also talks like normal instead of talking through telepathy and is not seen as some sort of puppet by normals.
* The 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 magical warriors were discovered) being unable to predict or understand the actions of anyone or the results of those actions. Of course, the Incubators get better.
* 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.
* Kyubey is, like her origin counterpart, immortal with an infinite respawn.