Kyubey (MAdH)

**English Voice** | Cassandra Lee Morris

**Kyubey** (Japanese: **キュゥべえ** *Kyuubey*) is one of the main mascots of *Magicae Amicitiae et Harmoniae‎‎*. Being an Incubator, also known as a Messenger of Magic, she is the one who grants special magic users the ability to become magical warriors.

## 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. 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 childish characters 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 in "The Dark Incubator" where she learns that magical warriors being stripped of their souls do exist, and as a result, throws a tantrum while screaming, name-calling, and banging her paws on the ground. However, she always means well, such as in said chapter, where she quickly demends the Queen of Dreams to put the insane Incubator on lockdown after realizing her own actions could lead to her being stripped of her magic.

### Relationships

* **Cherry Lovedream**: The first magical girl she met. During her time, Kyubey would often try to befriend others no matter what, although Cherry had to stop her before she could befriend an enemy.
* **The insane Incubator**: Kyubey absolutely ***HATES*** this particular Incubator who is based on her canon counterpart, and quickly tells the Queen of Dreams to put it on lockdown. However, said Incubator also considers emotions a mental illness and considers *her* insane. When she learns that the Incubator escaped lockdown in *Tart Magica: Amicitiae et Harmoniae‎*, she ***GOES BERSERK*** and gets herself knocked out a few times as a result.

### 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, can affect the future and can even be for things that wouldn't normally exist.

### 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. 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 speaks like normal instead of through telepathy.
* 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.
* 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.
* Kyubey mentions she has two best friends who are Incubators named Juka and Sun, who also have a pair of boy-girl twins. While both are not seen very often, Juka is mentioned to have contracted with Katrina before she went missing.