Homura Akemi/History

Homura's self portrayal as a cold, antisocial, hardened Guardian of Harmony who lacks empathy is actually nothing more than a front she built for herself; those traits were not a part of her original personality.

## Timeline 1

When Homura was 6, her grandparents were taking her on a road trip one day in the car to take her to their house for the night. However, her grandma didn't notice a car swerving toward them from behind until it was too late. The car hit their car and ended up killing both her grandparents, but Homura survived and was left wailing on the side of the road for help. Her strong desire to redo the incident awakened her magic and rewound time so that she was able to warn her grandma of the out-of-control driver so she could drive onto the side of the road and avoid them, saving their car from getting hit. This also caused her to earn her Harmony Mark of a blue shield with a clock on it and wings on the side of the shield.

Homura, after getting her Harmony Mark, had a heart disease which left her bedridden for a long time, likely leading to her becoming unsocialized. As is shown in *The Truth About Homura*, she initially started her Pokémon journey as a timid, shy, and unsure girl before getting encouragement from the first person who reached out to her, Madoka Kaname, who also complimented her name, which she mentioned being self conscious about. After finding out Madoka was a magical girl after wandering into a barrier, along with meeting Mami Tomoe and the others, she felt inspired by them and looked up to them after they saved her life. All is seemingly going well until the day Event Horizon appears without creating a monster. Everyone but Aurea, Madoka, Nina and Nanette dies at the hands of the villain, and before Homura could get hurt, the four girls turn and go to fight the pink-skinned girl by themselves. The girls end up dying in front of Homura, and she cries over Madoka's ashes. As soon as she remembers the time she got her Harmony Mark, however, she decides to make a contract with Kyubey and then makes her wish: "I want to redo my meeting with Miss Kaname. But this time, instead of her or the other Guardians protecting me, I want to become strong enough to protect everyone!" This granted her time powers, and she was immediately thrust back in time to her first day as a Pokémon Trainer.

## Timeline 2

Homura, now a Guardian of Harmony, with newfound confidence and excitement, begins her Trainer journey all over again, walking straight up to Madoka after Professor Oak asks her if she got any Pokémon on hand and introducing herself as a Guardian of Harmony, to the embarrassment of everyone. After an indefinite amount of time, she meets up with the Guardians of Harmony again. With Madoka, Mami and Nanette as her coaches, she begins training to use her time magic alongside close combat weaponry, and ends up constructing bombs to use as her offensive weapons. In this timeline, Homura fights her first witch, and with the help of the other Guardians, she's able to purify it. This timeline ends when Madoka's Harmony Gem becomes corrupted during the battle with Walpurgisnacht, and is about to become a witch.

## Timeline 3

After coming to the realization that Kyubey may be tricking everyone (thus forgetting the 4th-wall-breaking note Kyubey told her in the first timeline), she does her best to try to convince everyone of that truth, to which Sayaka, who had become a Guardian of Harmony, doesn't believe her and presumes she's only trying to turn everyone against each other, and also adds that Homura would be useless to their team because bombs are the only offensive attack that she has. Following Sayaka's words, Homura steals firearms from a locker and is presumably accepted into their team. Once Sayaka becomes a witch, Homura apologizes before using these firearms to defeat it. After the witch battle is over, Mami shoots and breaks Kyoko's Harmony Gem (accidentally doing the same to all of the other Guardians), before tying up Homura with ribbons and aiming her gun at her, in an attempt to "save" all of them by killing them all and herself so no one would suffer. Madoka shoots and breaks Mami's soul gem with an arrow before she can break Homura's soul gem, and then bursts into tears. Homura comforts her and assures her both of them can defeat Event Horizon by themselves. This timeline ends when Madoka and Homura are lying together in the wreckage of the villain's destruction, defeated, and both of their Harmony Gems are clouded. Homura doesn't have any Grief Seeds, but Madoka secretly had one saved, so she used it on Homura's soul gem suddenly, healing her. Madoka asks Homura to go back in time and save her and everyone else from making a contract with Kyubey, and Homura agrees. She shoots and breaks Madoka's Harmony Gem at Madoka's request, killing her, all while crying and wailing. It's at the reset of this timeline -- the fourth timeline -- where she transforms herself into the Homura we see from then on.

## Series Timeline

### Season 4

Homura is first introduced in S4E1 as a newbie Pokémon Trainer. She claims that her head is hurting, and asks to go to Viridian. Homura is shown to lead Madoka and the other main characters to Viridian rather than Madoka leading her, which seems to put the others off, as they nervously shuffle with their hands and attempt to make conversation with her. Homura suddenly turns on her heel and asks Madoka if she truly treasures everyone around her, and if she would ever give up the life that she had. Madoka replies that, no, she is happy with the way things are and loves everyone she knows. Nanette, however, is directly confused by this.

(Spoilers for the rest of the series!)