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Character Name: Kyoko Sakura Series: Puella Magi Madoka ☆ Magica Timeline: Episode 7, after the Elsa Maria battle Canon Resource Links: Lots of spoilers in the links! Wikipedia Character page on Madoka wiki TV Tropes
Personality: On first impression Kyoko seems to be that of a callous girl who cares for nothing but herself and her own gains. She's impersonal and remains detached from others - for her to even call someone by name is an extremely rare occurrence. She is ruthless to an extreme - she is willing to allow people to be killed in order to grow power for her to harvest later in a more efficient manner. Indeed, she is resourceful - almost to a fault. It is most obviously expressed in her mindset towards food. She eats a lot (all the time, actually), but eats it all and goes out of her way to threaten someone when they waste food in her presence. Her need to conserve extends beyond just food: her ruthless, highly efficient strategies are geared to wasting the least amount of energy and time battling. Neither does she bother with staying quiet for the sake of politeness. She doesn't hesitate to point out the flaws in other's actions - at least from her point of view - or give suggestions to what she'd do - all with a confident, sassy air about her. Oh, she doesn't care if you're offended or hurt by what she says. She'll still say it.
But there's more going on than just her than abrasiveness and egoism. In fact, she was previously nothing like this. Kyoko used her wish associated with becoming a Puella Magi on another person - in this case, her father, a priest excommunicated for his radical new ideas. Her family suffered during this time, having little to no food. She used her wish to bring him more followers, and thus brought prosperity and happiness back to her family. While a new Puella Magi, she subscribed to the idea of battling for justice and the good of others. It's not until her father discovered her actions, and killed himself and the entire family, save Kyoko, that she changed. She abandoned the idea of compassion, seeing it as bringing nothing but an equal amount of despair. Better, then, to fight for herself and only herself and curtail all that sorrow. So she became a harsh realist who seemingly exists only to fight another day.
In the end, though, all her cruelly self-centric ideals are just a barrier strung up around her. Despite everything she claims to believe, she desperately tries to aide another Puella Magi, Sayaka, who Kyoko views to be going down he same path as her. She helps her in fights, reveals her backstory - things that, if Kyoko's outer appearance were what she truly felt deep down, would be incredibly unlikely. Once she begins to let someone in, her walls begin to crumble and the truth comes out: her subconsciousness, the true Kyoko, never changed. She's still a girl who wants to fight for ideals and see love and friendship win. She claimed to live for herself but really just wanted to find something worth defending.
So it is that, despite the cruel and delinquent appearance she throws out, Kyoko is still a girl bound by ideals and a need to help others.
Strengths/Weaknesses: + Extremely confident in herself and her abilities. + Determined, and not easily scared off or discouraged. + Highly resourceful - she hates to waste time, energy, and especially food + Highly independent.
- Selfish, self-centered. Cares for nothing that doesn't benefit her. - Willing to hurt or allow people to get hurt for said selfish reasons. - Not very good with connecting to people - or at least not communicating it. Highly abrasive to go along with that
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Cyndaquil Password: Raspberry Lemonade
Samples First Person Sample: [Even before the video comes through, the sharp crunching sound of someone munching on an apple can be heard. When it does start up? There's a red-haired girl staring into the camera with idle annoyance, eating - you guessed it - an apple.]
Hey. Any of ya know a shortcut through this route?
[Crunch crunch.]
It's not so much the traveling, y'know. I can do that fine, no problem. But having to fight all the low-level wilds and weak trainers? Not worth my time.
[She smirks, and gestures vaguely.] I'm better than that. Besides, I'm running low on ether, so I can't even trounce the idiots that wanna challenge me!
So. Who knows the way to the worthwhile battles?
Third Person Sample: "Tch." Kyoko stared down at the blue-and-tan pokemon - the poor excuse for her pokemon - and took a sharp, angry bite from the taiyaki, paying no heed to the sweet flavor of the filling. "Just what were you thinking?"
Cyndaquil whimpered to itself softly, shuffling his feet as she stared. He was still battered and bruised, nursing some founds from harsher blows. Kyoko said nothing when he slunk over to sit on her foot and lean on her leg.She narrowed her eyes, and frown, lifting her foot to get him off (but gently, truly; the slight fall would look worse than it really was). And when he squealed in protest? She grimaced and snapped, "Stop that."
The trainer - still new - took a rough swallow. "I told ya. Don't waste your time with the pokemon around here - they're too high level for you. If I'm gonna let you walk around with me, you can't go rushing into fights. What d'ya expect?" She held a glare straight at her pokemon, hard and condescending - then rolled back her eyes and sighed. "So stupid..."
It wasn't until another moment of harsh silence, broken only by the sound of Kyoko chomping on her meal, that she finally reached into her bag and pulled out her potion. In one quick movement, she kneeled down and scooped Cyndaquil up closer. "You gotta listen to me, okay? I'm not gonna let you end up mincemeat." Cyndaquil squealed again - this time, from the sting of a potion. When she stood again, she took the now-healed pokemon with her. Cyndaquil squirmed, surprised, but settled in after a moment. She grinned momentarily down at him, near mockingly.
"I've gotta carry you, you understand? I can't trust ya not to run off and do something else to waste our time. Unfortunately, you're too vital to me to let you get eaten by something."
Her pokemon wriggled happily in her arms. "Quil!"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Kyoko sighed, "Don't go attracting more unwanted attention."
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Character
Name: Kyoko Sakura
Series: Puella Magi Madoka ☆ Magica
Timeline: Episode 7, after the Elsa Maria battle
Canon Resource Links: Lots of spoilers in the links!
Wikipedia
Character page on Madoka wiki
TV Tropes
Personality:
On first impression Kyoko seems to be that of a callous girl who cares for nothing but herself and her own gains. She's impersonal and remains detached from others - for her to even call someone by name is an extremely rare occurrence. She is ruthless to an extreme - she is willing to allow people to be killed in order to grow power for her to harvest later in a more efficient manner. Indeed, she is resourceful - almost to a fault. It is most obviously expressed in her mindset towards food. She eats a lot (all the time, actually), but eats it all and goes out of her way to threaten someone when they waste food in her presence. Her need to conserve extends beyond just food: her ruthless, highly efficient strategies are geared to wasting the least amount of energy and time battling. Neither does she bother with staying quiet for the sake of politeness. She doesn't hesitate to point out the flaws in other's actions - at least from her point of view - or give suggestions to what she'd do - all with a confident, sassy air about her. Oh, she doesn't care if you're offended or hurt by what she says. She'll still say it.
But there's more going on than just her than abrasiveness and egoism. In fact, she was previously nothing like this. Kyoko used her wish associated with becoming a Puella Magi on another person - in this case, her father, a priest excommunicated for his radical new ideas. Her family suffered during this time, having little to no food. She used her wish to bring him more followers, and thus brought prosperity and happiness back to her family. While a new Puella Magi, she subscribed to the idea of battling for justice and the good of others. It's not until her father discovered her actions, and killed himself and the entire family, save Kyoko, that she changed. She abandoned the idea of compassion, seeing it as bringing nothing but an equal amount of despair. Better, then, to fight for herself and only herself and curtail all that sorrow. So she became a harsh realist who seemingly exists only to fight another day.
In the end, though, all her cruelly self-centric ideals are just a barrier strung up around her. Despite everything she claims to believe, she desperately tries to aide another Puella Magi, Sayaka, who Kyoko views to be going down he same path as her. She helps her in fights, reveals her backstory - things that, if Kyoko's outer appearance were what she truly felt deep down, would be incredibly unlikely. Once she begins to let someone in, her walls begin to crumble and the truth comes out: her subconsciousness, the true Kyoko, never changed. She's still a girl who wants to fight for ideals and see love and friendship win. She claimed to live for herself but really just wanted to find something worth defending.
So it is that, despite the cruel and delinquent appearance she throws out, Kyoko is still a girl bound by ideals and a need to help others.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Extremely confident in herself and her abilities.
+ Determined, and not easily scared off or discouraged.
+ Highly resourceful - she hates to waste time, energy, and especially food
+ Highly independent.
- Selfish, self-centered. Cares for nothing that doesn't benefit her.
- Willing to hurt or allow people to get hurt for said selfish reasons.
- Not very good with connecting to people - or at least not communicating it. Highly abrasive to go along with that
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Cyndaquil
Password: Raspberry Lemonade
Samples
First Person Sample:
[Even before the video comes through, the sharp crunching sound of someone munching on an apple can be heard. When it does start up? There's a red-haired girl staring into the camera with idle annoyance, eating - you guessed it - an apple.]
Hey. Any of ya know a shortcut through this route?
[Crunch crunch.]
It's not so much the traveling, y'know. I can do that fine, no problem. But having to fight all the low-level wilds and weak trainers? Not worth my time.
[She smirks, and gestures vaguely.] I'm better than that. Besides, I'm running low on ether, so I can't even trounce the idiots that wanna challenge me!
So. Who knows the way to the worthwhile battles?
Third Person Sample:
"Tch." Kyoko stared down at the blue-and-tan pokemon - the poor excuse for her pokemon - and took a sharp, angry bite from the taiyaki, paying no heed to the sweet flavor of the filling. "Just what were you thinking?"
Cyndaquil whimpered to itself softly, shuffling his feet as she stared. He was still battered and bruised, nursing some founds from harsher blows. Kyoko said nothing when he slunk over to sit on her foot and lean on her leg.She narrowed her eyes, and frown, lifting her foot to get him off (but gently, truly; the slight fall would look worse than it really was). And when he squealed in protest? She grimaced and snapped, "Stop that."
The trainer - still new - took a rough swallow. "I told ya. Don't waste your time with the pokemon around here - they're too high level for you. If I'm gonna let you walk around with me, you can't go rushing into fights. What d'ya expect?" She held a glare straight at her pokemon, hard and condescending - then rolled back her eyes and sighed. "So stupid..."
It wasn't until another moment of harsh silence, broken only by the sound of Kyoko chomping on her meal, that she finally reached into her bag and pulled out her potion. In one quick movement, she kneeled down and scooped Cyndaquil up closer. "You gotta listen to me, okay? I'm not gonna let you end up mincemeat." Cyndaquil squealed again - this time, from the sting of a potion. When she stood again, she took the now-healed pokemon with her. Cyndaquil squirmed, surprised, but settled in after a moment. She grinned momentarily down at him, near mockingly.
"I've gotta carry you, you understand? I can't trust ya not to run off and do something else to waste our time. Unfortunately, you're too vital to me to let you get eaten by something."
Her pokemon wriggled happily in her arms. "Quil!"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Kyoko sighed, "Don't go attracting more unwanted attention."
"Quil!"