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Character: Kirika Kure
Fandom: Puella Magi Oriko Magica
Character Notes:
History: Kirika started out life as an optimistic, friendly person. Life was good. She had a best friend, Erika. Nothing could go wrong. Then her world got shaken. Her best friend betrayed her.
The years passed. Gone was the energetic girl. Without a friend, without someone to place her afffection on Kirika grew withdrawn. She would skip school often and when she did go she would stay away from her classmates. Jealous at the people who could go about life so freely, Kirika's anger at the world grew.
One day, she went to the store. It was like any other trip until she dropped the money to pay for her purchase. Kirika was slow to pick up the change - the stares of the people around her made her even more timid. The people behind her were getting impatient. It took so long, in fact, that staff of the store were trying to get her to pick up the money faster.
A person appeared out of the blue to help her. This person was Oriko Mikuni, the daughter of a congressman. Oriko gave her the money and left. This one act of kindness would change Kirika's (and the rest of the city's) fate for good.
Kirika never introduced herself to the girl. So, day after day she would go looking for Oriko. She skipped school often enough before so stopping all together to search for Oriko didn't bother her. It became a fixation.
She was about to catch Oriko's attention one day. Kirika stopped herself. Oriko wouldn't remember her, she thought. Who would remember someone so bland and timid? Certainly not the vibrant person who saved her.
At the train station, someone did find her. It was a strange white cat-like creature named Kyuubey. He offered her a chance for one wish. She took it: she wished to change herself. Kirika Kure became a magical girl in exchange for that wish.
During roughly the same time, Oriko became a magical girl herself. Due to the suicide of her congressman father (who's corruption was brought to light) Oriko's own situation wasn't quite stable either.
Oriko's magic was that of predicting the future. She had a single vision when she became a magical girl: a powerful monster called a witch would destroy Mitikihara City and then the entire world. She also learned that magical girls became witches at the end of their life. The witch that destroyed the world once had been a girl named Madoka Kaname.
Sometime after their meeting and the relization that they both were magical girls Oriko formulated a plan. They would either stop Kyuubey from making Madoka Kaname a magical girl or kill her before he had a chance.
They tried this in two different ways. Oriko tried to distract Kyuubey with a girl named Yuma Chitose who was younger than most magical girls but had enough potential to become one. (That would only lead a magical girl named Kyouko Sakura after Oriko.)
Failing that Oriko relied on Kirika to do her part which was, simply, kill other magical girls in a series of murders to distract Kyuubey and keep the rest pre-occupied.
It was working. That is, until Mami Tomoe got involved. Mami wasone of the most powerful magical girls in the area - making an ally out of her would make things much more simpler.
Whether Kirika was supposed to kill or recruit her is unknown but Oriko sent her out to meet Mami. On the way Kirika lost a stuffed animal. She focused more on finding it than on the task - until the person who found it was Mami herself. Kirika was overjoyed and started calling Mami 'savior' for that.
Kirika buys Mami a crepe for finding the stuffed animal - though she was curious to wonder why Mami only wanted a crepe for such a 'heroic' deed. They talked a bit. It was going quite well. Until Mami unknowingly said that she (Kirika) must have great fondness for whoever gave her the toy.
This sets Kirika off. She gives a monologue about how important love is and how people who constantly say terms such as 'like' or 'affection' simply Don't Get The Point. Mami is a bit... put off by this display to say the least.
Then things went downhill some more when a witch attacked. The witch focused on Kirika, binding her. Mami transforms into her magical girl uniform ready to help - but it's too late. Kirika slices her way out and kills the witch with ease...only to turn on Mami.
Normally, the barrier (the maze-like alternate dimension that witches hide in) of a witch would fade as soon as the witch is killed but Kirika's special magic is that of slowing time down. In this fight she keeps the barrier up so she can kill Mami without the body being found (as anyone who's killed in a barrier and not taken out doesn't leave a body behind).
At first Kirika has the upper hand. Mami notes that it's a bad match up: Mami has powerful attacks but she needs time to aim and fire. Kirika, due to her slowing magic, could dodge attacks as if she had super speed and there's little use in binding a person who could slice the restraints apart easily.
In the end Mami tricks Kirika. Instead attacking directly she challenges Kirika, telling her to attack. Kirika complies. Mami fires one shot and misses. Kirika taunts her only to be caught up in an explosion, blasting her to her knees. Mami fired a bomb that would have detonated in front of an enemy but due to the slowing magic caught Kirika in the back.
Mami figures that Kirika is the person killing magical girls and is teaming up with the 'white magical girl', Oriko. She tries to get information about Oriko from her. Even though seriously injured Kirika refuses to betray Oriko.
Oriko, however, would have none of this. She had been waiting for Kirika when she had a vision of Mami killing her. So she breaks up the fight with a smokescreen, takes Kirika, leaves a threatening message, and vanishes.
Back at Oriko's place Kirika is nearly dead. Her soul gem - her very soul - is cracked due to the explosion. (When transformed, her soul gem is on her back.) Oriko wants to get a doctor but Kirika refuses. She confesses that she's nearly dead and what the contents of her wish was. That, because of the wish, the person Oriko called friend was a fake.
It doesn't end well.
Oriko is angry. She orders that Kirika will do anything to protect her to make up for the betrayal. Kirika can't refuse and agrees.
This leads up to the suicidal last charge by Oriko. They break into the Mitikihara Middle School announcement room. Oriko gives a speech about witches and magical girls. Holding up a grief seed, a witch's barrier consumes the entire school.
Many innocent people die in that barrier. However, there are some people able to fight back: Homura, Mami, Yuma, and Kyouko manage to get to the center of the barrier where Oriko and Kirika are.
But strangely there's no witch. There's just the two girls. The first person to arrive at the center was Homura. Kirika fights her for a while but when the others arrive she stops. She remembers her fight with Mami. Four magical girls? She wouldn't stand a chance.
So she reveals where the witch is: it's her. Kirika was slowly turning into a witch - she slowed down the process with her magic for a time but it wasn't something she could do forever. She finally allows herself to become a witch, swearing that she'd still protect Oriko even in that mindless form.
The magical girls fight Kirika's witch form, eventually beating it into submission. Oriko knows she's lost and can't accept that Kirika's gone for good. She uses all her energy in a mad assault against the four other magical girls.
Homura manage to kills Oriko but as the barrier vanishes Oriko uses a shard of the witch to make a final attack. It misses Homura. Even though Oriko dies, the final attack manages to kill Madoka who was standing behind the girls.
Personality: Withdrawn. Quiet. Manic. Childish. Timid. Loyal. Shy. All these words could describe Kirika Kure, even if some seem contrary.
Kirika, after her wish, gives off an impression of a girl who's filled to the brim with raw manic energy. She's always on the move. Quick to speak whatever comes to mind even if the words aren't always quite right somehow. Her movements are quick and jittery, her expressions over-dramatic - more than one person has commented on her behavior as 'odd' or childish.
A good example of this is Mami's first encounter with her. Mami is sitting on a bench in a public area. Kirika is looking for the toy talking loudly to herself how her life is over if she can't find it. She's looking in trees, looking on the ground, pulling her hair out, crying. Only to suddenly cling to Mami when presented with the toy.
Kirika can't seem to focus her mind - it often drifts back to Oriko. Even in a middle of a fight, she'll start talking about how she's bored or starting to get hungry or wondering if Oriko would want a crepe. During a fight with a witch, Kirika continues a conversation with Oriko while killing the monster. Her mind is more focused on the conversation than on the fight itself.
When she does something that she thinks Oriko doesn't want, she starts to get upset (when she loses the toy or when she spills their tea in the said example above).
She seems good natured until someone starts talking about love. It's a trigger point for her, due to her wish and her past betrayal. Loyalty and love are hard commodities to come by so anyone who treats them as commonplace or belittles them deserves nothing but her scorn. How could a person who's not willing to become a murderer for the person they love understand it at all?
This brings me to what Kirika is really like, the Kirika who wished to change herself.
In-between the spurts of manic energy sometimes Kirika grows quiet and serious. She shows a bit more forethought and it's an almost outright contradiction to how she normally acts. This becomes more frequent during the end of the Oriko Magica timeline as Kirika starts to realize she has to tell Oriko about her wish and she realizes that she's about to turn into a witch.
This quieter side is Kirika's true personality, the hurt girl who hid inside herself to keep from being hurt. She'd rather stand with her back to the wall during school breaks or skip school entirely rather than interacting with her classmates. According to Kirika, she hated the world. Her classmates? Just idiots who existed in a blah world.
The truth was that she was scared of interacting with people. She was jealous of those who could interact with others so freely and so often. This fear allowed her to keep a persona of being cold even though she was merely timid.
This shows up in her very first meeting with Oriko. She's overwhelmed with being the center of attention when she drops the money. The people trying to force her to move faster only added to her anxiety. When Oriko helped her... it was like a miracle.
That one act of kindess made Kirika decide that maybe that not all people were bad. That line of thought made Kirika obsessed with Oriko. She followed Oriko everywhere. She tried to overcome her shyness, her timid nature.
The relization that Oriko Mikuni, daughter of a famed congressman, probably wouldn't remember her, a shy socially-awkward girl with nothing, made Kirika incredibly depressed. After all, who would remember her? That depression, that lack of faith in herself is what drove her to make a contract to become a magical girl.
Her obsession became undying loyalty with her new personality (once she gained enough courage to actually talk to Oriko). Kirika took it on herself to do anything for Oriko. If Oriko was interested in roses then Kirika would learn everything about them. If Oriko thought killing magical girls was the only way to stop the end of the world then Kirika would become a serial killer. She would do anything Oriko said - this loyalty even was present in her witch form (this might have been due to the nature of Kirika's wish, though).
Kirika seems to take small acts of kindness towards herself very seriously. It's probably a remmnant of her 'who would pay attention to someone like me' line of thought. Such as when Mami only would let Kirika buy her a crepe for a reward.
One more thing, Kirika prefers her more manic personality. She states to herself that she doesn't want to revert to the withdrawn state she was in before making her wish.
Other: The details of Erika's and Kirika's relationship and how that affected her was detailed out in Puella Magi Oriko Magica: Noisy Citrine. However, Noisy Citrine isn't translated so only the most basic details from it have been added to this application.
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First Person (entry type): So, roses! Let's talk about them for a minute, okay? What kind of things do they need to grow? What do you need to keep them healthy? What kinds are there? What do the colors mean? Can you transplant them?
I'm kind of hungry... Er, okay, that's not what I meant! I mean, there's a friend of mine... They own a big rose garden. It's huge! It has to be the biggest in Mitikihara. Or at least the biggest one on their block. Rich people are fond of their roses. Go figure.
Anyway! I need to know everything about roses. Maybe there's a gardener or someone I can talk to. There's got to be some kind of crash course somewhere--if it's for my friend I'll learn everything I can.
Man, I really am getting hungry...
Third Person: Being on the move was a good thing. Kirika needed to move. If that meant squirming in her seat during the rare day she actually attended class or jumping across rooftops as a magical girl? Well. Why not, then. Ever since the moment she made that wish the newfound energy within her compels her to move.
Kirika knows what streets Oriko takes to get home from the private girl's school almost by heart. Even if the girl was probably at home already (Kirika knew by experience that she probably wouldn't even catch a glimpse of her at this hour) but... Well. It doesn't matter, does it? Oriko might have stopped somewhere or stayed at school late. All that mattered was the fact that Kirika has a plan.
So she runs across familiar buildings. She could walk down on the street like she used to but that's not enough. Simply walking won't slow the tide of energy building inside her. If she's careful the people below won't see her as she dashes from one place to another.
It's better if she just keeps her feet moving. If she just stops for one second then her mind might catch up to her. Kirika frowns to herself as she comes to the edge of a building.
She can't stop here. She can't let her mind slip back to what it was. That Kirika Kure was dead. Right? The wish changed her - why did these thoughts sometimes come back?
With a shake of her head, Kirika jumps to the next building. There's a train station nearby. If she's lucky Oriko will be there. She can talk to her... That's what she should be thinking of, not of wishes.
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Current Characters: Mami Tomoe, EVA-Beatrice
Character: Kirika Kure
Fandom: Puella Magi Oriko Magica
Character Notes:
History: Kirika started out life as an optimistic, friendly person. Life was good. She had a best friend, Erika. Nothing could go wrong. Then her world got shaken. Her best friend betrayed her.
The years passed. Gone was the energetic girl. Without a friend, without someone to place her afffection on Kirika grew withdrawn. She would skip school often and when she did go she would stay away from her classmates. Jealous at the people who could go about life so freely, Kirika's anger at the world grew.
One day, she went to the store. It was like any other trip until she dropped the money to pay for her purchase. Kirika was slow to pick up the change - the stares of the people around her made her even more timid. The people behind her were getting impatient. It took so long, in fact, that staff of the store were trying to get her to pick up the money faster.
A person appeared out of the blue to help her. This person was Oriko Mikuni, the daughter of a congressman. Oriko gave her the money and left. This one act of kindness would change Kirika's (and the rest of the city's) fate for good.
Kirika never introduced herself to the girl. So, day after day she would go looking for Oriko. She skipped school often enough before so stopping all together to search for Oriko didn't bother her. It became a fixation.
She was about to catch Oriko's attention one day. Kirika stopped herself. Oriko wouldn't remember her, she thought. Who would remember someone so bland and timid? Certainly not the vibrant person who saved her.
At the train station, someone did find her. It was a strange white cat-like creature named Kyuubey. He offered her a chance for one wish. She took it: she wished to change herself. Kirika Kure became a magical girl in exchange for that wish.
During roughly the same time, Oriko became a magical girl herself. Due to the suicide of her congressman father (who's corruption was brought to light) Oriko's own situation wasn't quite stable either.
Oriko's magic was that of predicting the future. She had a single vision when she became a magical girl: a powerful monster called a witch would destroy Mitikihara City and then the entire world. She also learned that magical girls became witches at the end of their life. The witch that destroyed the world once had been a girl named Madoka Kaname.
Sometime after their meeting and the relization that they both were magical girls Oriko formulated a plan. They would either stop Kyuubey from making Madoka Kaname a magical girl or kill her before he had a chance.
They tried this in two different ways. Oriko tried to distract Kyuubey with a girl named Yuma Chitose who was younger than most magical girls but had enough potential to become one. (That would only lead a magical girl named Kyouko Sakura after Oriko.)
Failing that Oriko relied on Kirika to do her part which was, simply, kill other magical girls in a series of murders to distract Kyuubey and keep the rest pre-occupied.
It was working. That is, until Mami Tomoe got involved. Mami wasone of the most powerful magical girls in the area - making an ally out of her would make things much more simpler.
Whether Kirika was supposed to kill or recruit her is unknown but Oriko sent her out to meet Mami. On the way Kirika lost a stuffed animal. She focused more on finding it than on the task - until the person who found it was Mami herself. Kirika was overjoyed and started calling Mami 'savior' for that.
Kirika buys Mami a crepe for finding the stuffed animal - though she was curious to wonder why Mami only wanted a crepe for such a 'heroic' deed. They talked a bit. It was going quite well. Until Mami unknowingly said that she (Kirika) must have great fondness for whoever gave her the toy.
This sets Kirika off. She gives a monologue about how important love is and how people who constantly say terms such as 'like' or 'affection' simply Don't Get The Point. Mami is a bit... put off by this display to say the least.
Then things went downhill some more when a witch attacked. The witch focused on Kirika, binding her. Mami transforms into her magical girl uniform ready to help - but it's too late. Kirika slices her way out and kills the witch with ease...only to turn on Mami.
Normally, the barrier (the maze-like alternate dimension that witches hide in) of a witch would fade as soon as the witch is killed but Kirika's special magic is that of slowing time down. In this fight she keeps the barrier up so she can kill Mami without the body being found (as anyone who's killed in a barrier and not taken out doesn't leave a body behind).
At first Kirika has the upper hand. Mami notes that it's a bad match up: Mami has powerful attacks but she needs time to aim and fire. Kirika, due to her slowing magic, could dodge attacks as if she had super speed and there's little use in binding a person who could slice the restraints apart easily.
In the end Mami tricks Kirika. Instead attacking directly she challenges Kirika, telling her to attack. Kirika complies. Mami fires one shot and misses. Kirika taunts her only to be caught up in an explosion, blasting her to her knees. Mami fired a bomb that would have detonated in front of an enemy but due to the slowing magic caught Kirika in the back.
Mami figures that Kirika is the person killing magical girls and is teaming up with the 'white magical girl', Oriko. She tries to get information about Oriko from her. Even though seriously injured Kirika refuses to betray Oriko.
Oriko, however, would have none of this. She had been waiting for Kirika when she had a vision of Mami killing her. So she breaks up the fight with a smokescreen, takes Kirika, leaves a threatening message, and vanishes.
Back at Oriko's place Kirika is nearly dead. Her soul gem - her very soul - is cracked due to the explosion. (When transformed, her soul gem is on her back.) Oriko wants to get a doctor but Kirika refuses. She confesses that she's nearly dead and what the contents of her wish was. That, because of the wish, the person Oriko called friend was a fake.
It doesn't end well.
Oriko is angry. She orders that Kirika will do anything to protect her to make up for the betrayal. Kirika can't refuse and agrees.
This leads up to the suicidal last charge by Oriko. They break into the Mitikihara Middle School announcement room. Oriko gives a speech about witches and magical girls. Holding up a grief seed, a witch's barrier consumes the entire school.
Many innocent people die in that barrier. However, there are some people able to fight back: Homura, Mami, Yuma, and Kyouko manage to get to the center of the barrier where Oriko and Kirika are.
But strangely there's no witch. There's just the two girls. The first person to arrive at the center was Homura. Kirika fights her for a while but when the others arrive she stops. She remembers her fight with Mami. Four magical girls? She wouldn't stand a chance.
So she reveals where the witch is: it's her. Kirika was slowly turning into a witch - she slowed down the process with her magic for a time but it wasn't something she could do forever. She finally allows herself to become a witch, swearing that she'd still protect Oriko even in that mindless form.
The magical girls fight Kirika's witch form, eventually beating it into submission. Oriko knows she's lost and can't accept that Kirika's gone for good. She uses all her energy in a mad assault against the four other magical girls.
Homura manage to kills Oriko but as the barrier vanishes Oriko uses a shard of the witch to make a final attack. It misses Homura. Even though Oriko dies, the final attack manages to kill Madoka who was standing behind the girls.
Personality: Withdrawn. Quiet. Manic. Childish. Timid. Loyal. Shy. All these words could describe Kirika Kure, even if some seem contrary.
Kirika, after her wish, gives off an impression of a girl who's filled to the brim with raw manic energy. She's always on the move. Quick to speak whatever comes to mind even if the words aren't always quite right somehow. Her movements are quick and jittery, her expressions over-dramatic - more than one person has commented on her behavior as 'odd' or childish.
A good example of this is Mami's first encounter with her. Mami is sitting on a bench in a public area. Kirika is looking for the toy talking loudly to herself how her life is over if she can't find it. She's looking in trees, looking on the ground, pulling her hair out, crying. Only to suddenly cling to Mami when presented with the toy.
Kirika can't seem to focus her mind - it often drifts back to Oriko. Even in a middle of a fight, she'll start talking about how she's bored or starting to get hungry or wondering if Oriko would want a crepe. During a fight with a witch, Kirika continues a conversation with Oriko while killing the monster. Her mind is more focused on the conversation than on the fight itself.
When she does something that she thinks Oriko doesn't want, she starts to get upset (when she loses the toy or when she spills their tea in the said example above).
She seems good natured until someone starts talking about love. It's a trigger point for her, due to her wish and her past betrayal. Loyalty and love are hard commodities to come by so anyone who treats them as commonplace or belittles them deserves nothing but her scorn. How could a person who's not willing to become a murderer for the person they love understand it at all?
This brings me to what Kirika is really like, the Kirika who wished to change herself.
In-between the spurts of manic energy sometimes Kirika grows quiet and serious. She shows a bit more forethought and it's an almost outright contradiction to how she normally acts. This becomes more frequent during the end of the Oriko Magica timeline as Kirika starts to realize she has to tell Oriko about her wish and she realizes that she's about to turn into a witch.
This quieter side is Kirika's true personality, the hurt girl who hid inside herself to keep from being hurt. She'd rather stand with her back to the wall during school breaks or skip school entirely rather than interacting with her classmates. According to Kirika, she hated the world. Her classmates? Just idiots who existed in a blah world.
The truth was that she was scared of interacting with people. She was jealous of those who could interact with others so freely and so often. This fear allowed her to keep a persona of being cold even though she was merely timid.
This shows up in her very first meeting with Oriko. She's overwhelmed with being the center of attention when she drops the money. The people trying to force her to move faster only added to her anxiety. When Oriko helped her... it was like a miracle.
That one act of kindess made Kirika decide that maybe that not all people were bad. That line of thought made Kirika obsessed with Oriko. She followed Oriko everywhere. She tried to overcome her shyness, her timid nature.
The relization that Oriko Mikuni, daughter of a famed congressman, probably wouldn't remember her, a shy socially-awkward girl with nothing, made Kirika incredibly depressed. After all, who would remember her? That depression, that lack of faith in herself is what drove her to make a contract to become a magical girl.
Her obsession became undying loyalty with her new personality (once she gained enough courage to actually talk to Oriko). Kirika took it on herself to do anything for Oriko. If Oriko was interested in roses then Kirika would learn everything about them. If Oriko thought killing magical girls was the only way to stop the end of the world then Kirika would become a serial killer. She would do anything Oriko said - this loyalty even was present in her witch form (this might have been due to the nature of Kirika's wish, though).
Kirika seems to take small acts of kindness towards herself very seriously. It's probably a remmnant of her 'who would pay attention to someone like me' line of thought. Such as when Mami only would let Kirika buy her a crepe for a reward.
One more thing, Kirika prefers her more manic personality. She states to herself that she doesn't want to revert to the withdrawn state she was in before making her wish.
Other: The details of Erika's and Kirika's relationship and how that affected her was detailed out in Puella Magi Oriko Magica: Noisy Citrine. However, Noisy Citrine isn't translated so only the most basic details from it have been added to this application.
Additional Links:
First Person (entry type): So, roses! Let's talk about them for a minute, okay? What kind of things do they need to grow? What do you need to keep them healthy? What kinds are there? What do the colors mean? Can you transplant them?
I'm kind of hungry... Er, okay, that's not what I meant! I mean, there's a friend of mine... They own a big rose garden. It's huge! It has to be the biggest in Mitikihara. Or at least the biggest one on their block. Rich people are fond of their roses. Go figure.
Anyway! I need to know everything about roses. Maybe there's a gardener or someone I can talk to. There's got to be some kind of crash course somewhere--if it's for my friend I'll learn everything I can.
Man, I really am getting hungry...
Third Person: Being on the move was a good thing. Kirika needed to move. If that meant squirming in her seat during the rare day she actually attended class or jumping across rooftops as a magical girl? Well. Why not, then. Ever since the moment she made that wish the newfound energy within her compels her to move.
Kirika knows what streets Oriko takes to get home from the private girl's school almost by heart. Even if the girl was probably at home already (Kirika knew by experience that she probably wouldn't even catch a glimpse of her at this hour) but... Well. It doesn't matter, does it? Oriko might have stopped somewhere or stayed at school late. All that mattered was the fact that Kirika has a plan.
So she runs across familiar buildings. She could walk down on the street like she used to but that's not enough. Simply walking won't slow the tide of energy building inside her. If she's careful the people below won't see her as she dashes from one place to another.
It's better if she just keeps her feet moving. If she just stops for one second then her mind might catch up to her. Kirika frowns to herself as she comes to the edge of a building.
She can't stop here. She can't let her mind slip back to what it was. That Kirika Kure was dead. Right? The wish changed her - why did these thoughts sometimes come back?
With a shake of her head, Kirika jumps to the next building. There's a train station nearby. If she's lucky Oriko will be there. She can talk to her... That's what she should be thinking of, not of wishes.