Incubators

Cube

Monsieur Angel (By Tart)

**Incubators** are an Alien-like race in the **persona record series**, they are responsible for creating **Magical Girls**, By Contracting with Young Girls and Offering Them One **wish** to anything they desire, this they created the girls **soul gem**, which is secretly the soul's of the girls, and magic inside the Compact Gem. their purpose is towards counteracting the effects of (and possibly negating) Entropy; the principle that energy output is always less than energy input, a fact that is presently causing the universe to slowly die out. However all of this has changed as **Madoka Kaname** became a God, and now limits on the Incubators to who may have the right potential or not. They now judge whatever the girl is worth becoming a **Magical Girl** or not.

## More Info

**Kyubey** is an Incubator. In order to achieve this, Kyubey collects raw energy from a source that seems to be excepted from entropy; the emotions of girls in their second growth stage (14-18). In order to harvest this energy, Kyubey forms contracts with these girls: the exchange of a **wish** for absolutely anything, for the servitude as a **Puella Magi**, magical girls who use their powers to defeat **witches** who then drop **grief seeds**. The energy produced during this process is then harvested by Kyubey through unknown means. Kyubey does not reveal, however, that Puella Magi turn into witches after falling into despair; witches that are then fought by other Puella Magi, creating an endless cycle. Because of this, Kyubey is often seen as the true antagonist of the series, despite the fact that his justification is that he is saving countless other sectors of the universe in doing so. Kyubey's goal in **Persona Magica** is to turn **Madoka** into an incredibly powerful Puella magi, who will then destroy the **Walpurgis Night** and become the most powerful witch; the **Kreimhild Gretchin**, a process which apparently produces obscene amounts of energy, at the expense of the human race (as there would be no Puella Magi able to defeat the most powerful witch).

## Problems they have to face

### Problems with **Grim Reapers**

Like Demons, Grim Reapers see Incubators like them and may call them a "Demon's Pet", Due to there Collect on Souls, and turning into soul gems, in other cases incubators are enemies of grim reapers, When Magical Girls die due to there fate a grim reaper can not collect the soul causing the magical girl to roam the earth as a Spirit or if they become a witch and there soul is consume by despair it disappears, However a grim reaper can cut a soul gem in a witch stage in half before it consumes the soul completely as they can also collect there Cinematic Records from the Magical Girls time alive, but the magical girl will have to stick being a Ghost for all life. (Until **Ghost Licence** Became a Thing).

## Known Incubators

* **Kyubey**
* **Little Kyubey**
* **Cube** (Another Name of Kyubey's)

## Abilities

Incubators have a wide variety of magical abilities which he uses in his mission to counteract entropy

* **Telepathic Communication:** Kyubey communicates with potential and contracted Magical Girls through telepathy, as opposed to verbally. He is able to use himself as a medium through which non-contracted girls can communicate to each other or contracted Magical Girls.
* **Vision Sharing:** Kyubey can share visions of sights and sounds with potential and contracted Magical Girls.
* **Selective Invisibility:** Kyubey is invisible to everyone except for Magical Girls and girls with sufficient magical potential. Normal humans do not notice his presence at all, just as he does not seem able to communicate with them.
* **Wish Granting:** Kyubey can grant wishes to those with magical potential, no matter how wild and unrealistic they may be. However, this process is limited by the karmic potential of a contractee, and insufficient karmic power may result in negative or unintended side-effects, such as lack of power control or a wish that cannot be properly or completely executed. Kyubey himself has no control over *how* a wish is interpreted, and seems to be unable to refuse or revoke a wish once a proper one has been made. However, there have been shown to be some exceptions to what he can grant, unlimited by a girl's karmic potential, such as if a wish is for something that does not exist (for example, wishing to visit a fictional location).
* **Soul Gem Creation:** Kyubey is capable of creating a small egg-shaped gemstone called a Soul Gem for each Magical Girl ; he does this by pulling the contractee's soul out of their body and forming it into their Soul Gem. As such, this results in temporal pain on the contractee while the contract is made. This makes the newly formed Magical Girl capable of transforming and using magic, as well as increased agility, strength and pain threshold, at the expense of the soul being separate from the body and thus controlling it externally, akin to a puppet.
* **Soul Gem Stimulation:** Kyubey can create impulses of certain feelings on a soul gem simply by touching it.
* **Energy Conversion/Collection:** Kyubey is able to collect emotional energy from Witch transformation, and Doppel summoning. As explained in Magia Record, Kyubey does not need to be in proximity to a Witch formation or the summoning of a Doppel to obtain its energy, as he collects it even while he cannot enter Kamihama City. This implies that the collection of this emotional energy is an inherent part of either process that he merely facilitates, or that this energy is naturally released into the universe when it is created.
* **Grief Seed Consumption:** Said to be one of Kyubey's "many duties", he can open a hole in the teardrop-like marking on his back to consume Grief Seeds. This permanently destroys the Grief Seed, preventing the Witch within it from regenerating when it accumulates enough taint from a Soul Gem it purifies. It is unclear if he only does this to prevent Witches from reappearing, and thus keeping their population manageable, or if it is part of his process of collecting emotional energy, given he already collects it when Soul Gems become Grief Seeds.
* **Replication:** Kyubeys, or Incubators, are an artificially-created hive-mind/collective that span the universe, looking for people to turn into Magical Girls so as to collect emotional energy and combat entropy. Multiple individuals of his kind, referred to as "terminals", exist simultaneously, and can act, think, and talk independently of each other, but they all retain the same knowledge and memories. Typically, only one Kyubey terminal is primarily active in a given territory at any time, though several are either kept in reserve nearby or are somehow instantly deployed to replace one another if they are killed by some means. So as to save energy, they will consume the remains of their fallen selves when possible.

## Relationships

### Grim Reapers

Grim Reapers Really don't have that good of a Relationship with Incubators, Due to there melting with souls of young girls and making them magical girls, Give Grim Reapers a Hard-time to collect souls, as a Magical girl who does not become a witch and dies either by Shattering or Losing it 100 meters away and can't get it back, They are forced to become spirits and roam around the earth until the end of time, however grim reapers can collect the **Cinematic Records** of when they were alive, and cut the soul in half to remove it from it's witch.

### Persona-Users

Incubators became interested in Persona-Users when their powers were as powerful as magical girls, but things they didn't know were coming to them soon.

### Magical Girls

Kyubey exchanged covenants and watched all the magical girls fight the witch, even though it had an evil plan to turn Magical Girl into a witch, but sometimes it was a refuge for them.

## Trivia

* "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".