Archer (Fate/Crossover - Madoka Kaname)

Archer (アーチャー, *Āchā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

“*If someone tells me that it's wrong to hope, I'll tell them that they're wrong every time.*” - Madoka Kaname

## Profile

### Identity

Archer's true identity is **Madoka Kaname**, the main protagonist and title character of the Puella Magi Madoka Magica. She is a shy and kind girl who cares deeply for her friends but has low self-confidence. After becoming a magical girl, she gains more confidence.

Madoka is a 14-year-old girl who comes from a loving family (composed by her parents, Tomohisa and Junko, and by her younger brother, Tatsuya).

Her life changes when she encounters the magical girl Homura and the familiar Kyubey, who offers to transform her into a magical girl. She sees herself as a girl without special qualities or talents, and after seeing Mami fighting against witches, aspires to become a magical girl like her. She is a kind and gentle person that is averse to fighting. She hopes that the magical girls will support each other, sometimes even putting her own life at risk to help them. After witnessing Mami's death, she grows uncertain about becoming a magical girl, growing ever more hesitant as the true cost of the role is revealed to her.

In previous timelines, Madoka became a magical girl in a pink dress wielding a rose-topped bow and arrow. However, every time, she was either killed or transformed into a witch named Kriemhild Gretchen, one that became ever more powerful with each time reset centered around her fate. After being shown the suffering of magical girls throughout history, Madoka decides upon her wish: she contracts to prevent them from becoming witches when they are at their limits. The laws of the universe are rewritten such that at the moment that a soul gem becomes black with anguish, Madoka appears and purifies it before the magical girl passes on. As a result of this wish, she becomes an omniscient savior that exists for all time, leaving only Homura with the memory of her human existence.

### Personality

At first glance, Madoka is a naive and gentle girl from a kind family. Though sometimes shy, she makes friends without much difficulty and treats others gently and with respect.

She has low self-confidence, and she believes she does not have much to offer the world unless she is helping people, which makes becoming a magical girl appealing to her. She has been known to become flustered easily, and in certain circumstances, she can be easily manipulated by others playing on her insecurity and desire to help. As a magical girl, however, she is more obviously confident in herself than before her wish, as shown when she ended up mentoring the initially very shy Homura.

She calls most girls she knows by their given name with the suffix "-chan" or "-san" at the end, and boys by their family name with the suffix "-kun", showing that she is closer to the girls than boys.

### Relationships

#### **Homura Akemi**

The first person to show Homura kindness, she became the one thing Homura was willing to risk everything for. With the memories of Rebellion, their relationship remains very complicated, especially with the knowledge of Homura usurping Madoka to become the Devil for the sake of creating a world where she can be happy.

#### **Sayaka Miki**

Both of them have been childhood beast friends in life, and even as Servants continue to remain good friends.

#### **Mami Tomoe**

Mami was Madoka's mentor and older sister figure. Mami has since become proud of Madoka for coming into her own as a Magical Girl, even using her wish to create a better world for them.

#### **Kyoko Sakura**

Both Madoka and Kyoko have a weird relationship, as she gets along with Kyoko better than most others, but they still disagree on many things. While Kyoko takes a more aggressive approach to problems, Madoka is much more willing to talk things out.

#### **Dalek Sec**

Having gained memories of the alternate reality where Berserker was trapped in her world and forced to aid Homura to escape, both of them have a complicated relationship, made even more so by his alliance with Homura. In that reality, she was able to convince him to spare Kyoko when he attempted to kill her for interfering with his plans. Berserker protects and aids her whenever he can, as part of an agreement with Homura made for their alliance.

## Abilities

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Magical Squall / Puruwia ★ Magica**

Originally shown in the final episode and the Homulily fight, she showers the sky with enough arrows to cover an entire city, Magia Record explains that it reduces the attack potency of those affected, and can restore the stamina of comrades. In the final timeline, however, it was shown that the arrows can travel through time and become duplicates of Madoka herself.

#### **Goddess Madoka**

Goddess Madoka had the power that allowed her to rewrite the concepts in all universes. Rewriting concepts (even if it seems insignificant) affects all of space.

Then she (through some paradox) destroyed her own future dark form. After that there was a complete reset of the causality of the world (as if former concepts and all related events never existed). Madoka herself became a conceptual entity (which means that it will take at least same level of power to destroy or rewrite the concept of Madoka).

However, Homura was not happy with the current state of affairs. So she gained the godlike power to rewrite the concept of Madoka and reset the world once again.

The Madokaverse includes 4-dimensional space. In Puella Magi Homura Tamura it was revealed that there are infinite universes.

## References

https://madoka.fandom.com/wiki/Madoka\_Kaname

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Madoka\_Kaname

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Madoka\_Kaname