Hotaru Shima

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Hotaru Shima (志茉蛍, Shima Hotaru) is a magical girl who has battled many witches in the city of Shibuya for six years. She is portrayed as one of the most talented magical girls in Shibuya, alongside her partner, Kayano Midorikawa, and acts as a mentor towards Shiho Tadashi, Mai Tomoko, Rin Mafuyu, Haruka Ryuko, and Yuki Shinobu.

Appearance
Hotaru is a nineteen-year-old girl with long cyan-colored hair that is often tied into a low ponytail with bangs that are pushed aside. She has dark blue-colored eyes and a pale skin complexion. Her Soul Gem is cyan in color with intricate four-pointed star designs while her middle fingernail has three, small, cyan-colored four-pointed stars with a white ring.

Magical Girl
As a magical girl, Hotaru wears a white, metal breastplate with similar colored shoulder pads and steel cuffs around her upper and forearms along with white, armored leg guards with streaks of cyan. Underneath her armor, she wears a bright cyan, long-sleeved shirt with an asymmetrical skirt with dark blue trims and sports steeled high-heeled boots. Over her outfit, Hotaru wears a deep cyan cloak with a gold deep green pin keeping it together along with a pair of black gloves. Her Soul Gem is embedded at the base of her neck, taking the shape of a four-pointed star.

Personality
Hotaru is a calm individual, often portrayed as a 'big sister figure' towards the novice magical girls, and has a kind and mature personality. She worries a lot about disappointing her friends, feeling she must maintain a "perfect" image, but is beginning to show her true self over time. While she may appear very calm and poised (and often is), she does have some quirks, such as drinking hot soup during training sessions and being extremely bad with technology. Hotaru deeply cares about the people she holds dear, like Kayano and her younger sister, Aomi Shima. She willingly protects Aomi from danger, making a contract with Kyubey to save Aomi from her life-threatening illness.

Being a veteran magical girl, Hotaru is aware of a magical girl's fate. She is actively against other girls making contracts with Kyubey and tries her best to stop them from doing so without the use of physical harm. This includes her own sister, as she avoids the topic of magical girls entirely until Kyubey came in contact with her while Hotaru was away. In response to Aomi becoming a magical girl, Hotaru becomes extremely despaired that her sister is now in danger of losing her life, almost to the point of transforming into a Witch.

Besides being overly protective over her friends, Hotaru is shown to be extremely desperate when it comes to other magical girls. She upholds a sense of justice, going out of her way to avoid fighting with other magical girls. She eventually develops a kind and mature personality in order to get other magical girls to like her to stop them from fighting.

Fighting Style
Hotaru's weapon is a crossbow, which she wields on her right forearm. The "arrows" are a bright, neon-cyan in color. In combat, while Kayano often charges forward to attack the opponent head-on, Hotaru stays behind and attacks the opponent from far with her precise aiming. Sometimes, if Hotaru is forced to rely on physical combat, she can use her crossbow as a shield to protect herself from minor incoming attacks or deal a blunt blow with her cocking stirrup or limb of her crossbow. Hotaru's main source of magic is her healing ability.

Magical Girl Abilities

 * Healing Magic: Because she made a wish to heal Aomi of her illness, Hotaru was granted with the ability to use healing magic. Her healing magic is also a bright, neon-cyan color. When Hotaru focuses on a spot she wants to heal, it will glow. The bigger the wound, the slower it takes to heal. Hotaru is also able to heal herself and negate the feeling of pain.
 * Arrow Summoning: As part of her crossbow, Hotaru is able to summon multiple cyan-colored arrows to combat her opponents and surprise them with a barrage of shots.
 * Immense Stamina and Strength: Hotaru is a veteran magical girl, being one for six years, and has an immense amount of stamina and strength, as shown multiple times during battle. Over the years of being a magical girl, Hotaru has honed her athletic skills to better herself at combat.

History
Hotaru is the older sister of the Shima Family, always taking care of her sickly younger sister, Aomi. During her elementary school years, Hotaru was abruptly called home because Aomi had collapsed on the floor, while subsequently bumping into a confused Kayano Midorikawa in the school hallways. The next day at school, Hotaru was approached by Kayano and the two formed a strong friendship between each other. When Hotaru reached high school, Aomi has once again collapsed while attending class for the day, forcing Hotaru to miss the first day of high school. When she returned back to school the next day, her classmates began to shun her due to rumors about her being made that she was a delinquent.

Feeling saddened, Hotaru only had one friend to turn to; which was Kayano, who was one of her popular classmates. Despite the two having very different friend groups, they stayed best friends throughout their high school year. When walking home from school with Kayano, Hotaru was given news that Aomi was close to death in the hospital and she fell on her knees and began crying on the pavement, worrying that Aomi might not make it. Attempting to comfort her, Kayano asks Hotaru if she wants to be a magical girl.

Then, Kyubey appears before the two girls' eyes, introducing himself. Kayano then reveals that she had already made a contract with Kyubey, becoming a magical girl at the cost of a wish. Hotaru then accepts Kyubey's contract, making a wish to cure Aomi of her illness and gaining the ability to become a magical girl. Hotaru rushes to the hospital alongside Kayano and reaches Aomi's hospital bed, seeing her younger sister healed and back to normal. After that, when the two girls are returning home, Kayano invites Hotaru to fight witches together as partners and Hotaru accepts.

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Trivia

 * Hotaru's first name, Hotaru (蛍), means "firefly" while her last name, Shima (志茉), means "determination" (志, shi) and "white jasmine" (茉, ma).
 * Hotaru is the Puella Magi counterpart of her original character, Lumine White.
 * Hotaru's name is associated with her original counterpart, with the name "Lumine" (meaning illuminate) being similar to a firefly and "White" relating to the "white jasmine" in 志茉.
 * Her original counterpart has the ability to summon multiple spears and arrows at her own will. Her Puella Magi counterpart pays homage to that with her crossbow and cyan arrows.
 * While her original counterpart has white hair with the ends dyed cyan, her Puella Magi counterpart has her entire hair colored cyan.
 * Hotaru's magical girl form has designs with a four-pointed star and looks like a knight's armor. This relates to how Hotaru wanted to save Aomi of her illness.
 * Her Witch form is yet to be shown.
 * Hotaru is able to form a Doppel.