Mami Tomoe (Soul Magica)

Mami Tomoe is a major character in Puella Magi Madoka Magica IF and in the Soul Magica series as a whole. She is a 10th grade student at Mitakihara High School and Magical Girl senpai to Madoka and Sayaka.

Appearance
Mami has blonde hair done up (via magic) in twin drills and honey yellow eyes. Before making her Contract, she would have simply worn her hair down. She "fastens" her drills with a brown flower-shaped hair clip on each side. Her casual attire consists of an olive-green dress with mud yellow accents that feature sunflower patterns on the top and ends of the sleeves, black thigh-high socks, white dress shoes, and a pendant around her neck of an orange flower not too dissimilar in shape to her Soul Gem.

Mami's Magical Girl form features a white top with detached sleeves and a brown vest, a yellow skirt with a brown trim, striped purple knee-highs, brown boots with yellow past the ankles, and a brown hat with a white ball of fluff coming off the back. Her Soul Gem attaches itself to her right-side hairpin.

Personality
Mami first appears as an older, more experienced girl, and is one of the first Magical Girls introduced in the series. She is shown to have traditionally feminine tastes, such as drinking tea and dressing with flower clips in her hair and bows on her shoes. Mami enjoys hosting tea parties. She has been shown to be a rather good cook, especially when it comes to dessert. A kind senior to Madoka, she’s the helpful, sisterly type.

She has a strong sense of personal justice, which keeps her on the path of helping innocents despite gaining little reward for it. This sense of justice also makes it difficult for her to team up with other Magical Girls for more than short periods, as many will only fight Witches for the chance of finding a Grief Seed or in self-defense, and many others are against teaming up with their "competition" in hunting Witches and Wraiths. These circumstances compound with her lonely nature as an orphan who has trouble making friends at school due to her having little time for much outside of Witch and Wraith hunting, which has turned Mami into a very isolated person looking for friends. While she appears to be mentally strong, Mami is emotionally much frailer than she seems to be. In chapter 3 Mami admits this openly to Madoka, saying she can only cry on her own and declaring that she is not a good role model for anyone before Madoka reassures her that she's not alone.

Etymology

 * Her first name is written in katakana, which has no particular meaning. No official kanji of her name exists. When written in kanji, it can be read hundreds of ways. The official Chinese translation uses one of the most commonly and traditionally used kanji (麻美), "beautiful hemp", as the hanzi for her first name.
 * She may be named after the titular character of the magical girl anime Creamy Mami, the Magical Angel. The series had a crossover with Magical Princess Minky Momo, focusing on a young princess of a world of fairy tales in danger of disappearing because the people of Earth were losing their dreams and hope. Momo is sent to Earth by her parents in an effort to help humanity regain their hope, and for a time is successful. However, she later loses her powers and is soon after killed by an oncoming truck (similar to Mami's parents) and is reborn as a baby to be cared for by her adoptive parents on Earth, where she now has her own hopes and dreams to realize as she grows up.
 * Her name itself has been thought to be a play on the word "mommy". Considering her innate role as a motherly figure towards Madoka, it would be logical to call her "Mami". In Rebellion she has a companion named "Bebe" - "baby".

Pre-series
Mami lives alone in an apartment after her parents died in a car accident that resulted in her Contract to save herself.

vs the Sweets Witch
During her heart-to-heart with Madoka in chapter 3, the pair are shot by raven's feathers laced with the sand from Homura's Time Shield, allowing them access to memories of other timelines. Mami sees visions of her apparent death against the Witch, allowing her to take measures to avoid it.

Reunion with Kyoko
Mami is absent for Sayaka's first Witch hunt, having simply not been around to pick up the signal at the time. The next night, she and Sayaka decide to split up to cover more ground. Mami is hunting Wraiths when Kyubey tells her that Kyoko is in town, and has gotten into a fight with Sayaka. She follows Kyubey and stops the fight before Madoka can make a Contract with Gretchen.

Purifying Charlotte and Rescuing Nagisa
Mami teams up with Kyoko to take down a Witch similar to the one that almost killed her. When the Witch is defeated, the duo and Madoka find a young girl named Nagisa, who accidentally lets it slip that she's a Magical Girl. Nagisa explains that "a blue Kyubey" came to see her and that her Soul Gem started turning black, but she can't remember anything past that. When Kyoko uses the Grief Seed, it begins to glow and turns into a copy of Nagisa. The "clone" introduces herself as Charlotte- the Witch they just fought- and explains how Nagisa ended up in this situation. Notably, Mami takes the truth better than in the original anime

Songs

 * Feels Like Tonight