Homura Akemi (Soul Magica)

Homura Akemi is a major character in Puella Magi Madoka Magica IF and the Soul Magica series as a whole. She is a mysterious girl that Madoka first meets in a dream, transferring into Madoka's class the next day.

Appearance
Homura has long black hair and indigo eyes. In previous timelines, she wore red glasses and had her hair done up in braids with purple bows at the ends. For her casual attire, she wears a light brown sweater over a black tee, white shorts over a pair of black leggings, light brown ankle boots, and a yellow ribbon in her hair similar to Madoka's.

Her Magical Girl attire consists of a white coat with a black outline over a purple skirt similar to that of her school uniform with a purple and black collar and black sleeve ends with purple outlines. She wears black leggings that have a purple diamond pattern up the sides and transition seamlessly into her black heels. She is the only member of the Holy Quintet with an Incubator Soul Gem, which takes the shape of a diamond on her left hand when transformed.

* In the current timeline, her Soul Gem also bears a Grief Seed-like design.

Personality
While Homura is still very distant, she's no longer as cold as she is in the original anime, engaging in the conversations her new classmates try to have with her. She is shown to care for others- not just for Madoka- in her own unorthodox way, as shown by her carrying Sayaka home to rest after the latter's fight with Kyoko. Her relationship with Kyubey has also bettered compared to the source material.

Etymology

 * Her first name is written in hiragana, which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji, it can mean:
 * flame, blaze (炎 or 焔)
 * heart on fire (心火)
 * The series uses her surname as seen in an early production sketch (暁海). Written this way, the name Akemi means "daybreak sea"

History
Homura's backstory is mostly the same as in the original anime.

She learns of Preservers in the third shown timeline, where Sayaka is revived after becoming Oktavia since she Contracted with a Preserver. This, however, does not impact the fates of Mami and Kyoko in that timeline. Despite help from "the mermaid twins," Madoka and Homura are still the only ones to survive Walpurgisnacht.

There is an extra timeline between this and the penultimate timeline of the anime based on the prologue of The Battle Pentagram video game and the Homura's Revenge manga: After mercy-killing Madoka, Homura tries to rewind time, but realizes that doing so will only make Madoka's karmic destiny get worse, and begins to fall into despair, but something happens to her Soul Gem that keeps her from Witching out (a la Tart Magica). A voice tells Homura that if she rewinds just one more time, she will save Madoka.

Songs

 * Magia
 * Drown in You
 * The World Has Gone Insane
 * Call You Mine

Duets

 * Showtime (Along with Madoka Kaname)

Trivia

 * According to Homura in chapter 1, her old school didn't have many sports teams or clubs, although she does mention being an underclassman of a certain "Detective Prince"
 * She states she did not have much of a relationship with this person
 * This is one of many references and ties to the Persona franchise, particularly Persona 5, as she is meant to be referring to Goro Akechi