Puella Magi Madoka Magica IF

Puella Magi Madoka Magica IF is an Archive of Our Own story by GorochuVA, the first in the Soul Magica series.

Summary
There exist "Messengers of Magic" who have the power to grant one wish to a chosen girl. However, that girl must then become a Magical Girl and fight against Wraiths and Witches, evil creatures born from curses that are responsible for murders and suicides. A schoolgirl named Madoka Kaname and her friend Sayaka Miki are approached by a pair of these Messengers of Magic named Kyubey and Kriemhild Gretchen, and a Magical Girl named Mami Tomoe, with an offering to become a Magical Girl. But as all this is happening, Homura Akemi, another Magical Girl, tries to prevent Madoka from making such a deal...

Characters
List of characters in Soul Magica

Season 1
1. It's Like We Met in A Dream or Something

2. The Wishes I Could Make

3. Mami's Dance With Death

4. Sayaka's Miracle

5. Ambassador of Kazamino

6. A Little Girl and Her Cake Planet

7. Destiny Realized! Madoka's Ultimate Wish

8. The Hollow Little Mermaid

9. Mermaid's Melody

10. The Last Love of Homura Akemi

11. My Very Best Friends

12. The World Is My Stage

13. This Euphoria! The Trial of the Questing Beast

Season 2
14. The Disappearance of Hitomi Shizuki

15. Blue Beauty Sisters

16. Aching to Move

17. Cooking By the Book

18. Welcome to the Show

Opening theme

 * ClariS - Blossom
 * "Determinate" from Lemonade Mouth (season 2)

Ending theme

 * Koji Yusa - Break Your Destiny (chapters 1-7, chapters 10-12)
 * The Lumineers - Ophelia (chapter 9)
 * ClariS - Connect (chapter 13)
 * Thousand Foot Krutch - Be Somebody (chapters 14-18)

Season 1

 * Kalafina - Magia (chapter 1)
 * Daughtry - Feels Like Tonight (chapter 3)
 * Hoobastank - Crawling in the Dark (chapter 4)
 * Zach Callison - Interlude IV/Showtime (chapter 7)
 * Bree Sharp - It's Here (chapter 7)
 * "The Curse" from Zoophobia: Bad Luck Jack (chapter 8)
 * "Voice in the Dark" from Mermaid Melody (chapter 9)
 * "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misrabels (chapter 9)
 * Daughtry - Drown in You (chapter 10)
 * NateWantsToBattle - Branded (chapter 11)
 * "Core Pride" from Blue Exorcist (chapter 13)

Season 2

 * Magna-Fi - Who I Am
 * Britt Nicole - Welcome to the Show

more TBA

Main Cast
Christine Marie Cabanos - Madoka Kaname

Sarah Williams - Sayaka Miki, Oktavia von Seckendorff

Carrie Keranen - Mami Tomoe

Lauren Landa - Kyoko Sakura

Christina Vee - Homura Akemi

Xanthe Huynh - Nagisa Momoe, Charlotte

Shelbey Lindley - Hitomi Shizuki

Cassandra Lee Morris - Kyubey (chapters 1-12)

Brad Swaile - Kyubey (chapter 13 onward)

Amy Birnbaum - Konomi Haruna

Laura Bailey - Meguru Hibiki

Tara Platt - Oriko Mikuni

Mollie Weaver - Mitsune Miwa

Melissa Fahn - Asahi Miura

Amanda Brown - Kriemhild Gretchen

Alessandro Juliani - Jusanbey

Robbie Daymond - Alubey

Trivia/Notes

 * The story differs drastically from Chronicler-of-Soul's original "Soul Magica Madoka Arc," and was almost treated as a separate timeline from the rest of Soul Magica canon, likely due to the desire to match the infamous "rough draft is as good as final" status of Gen Urobuchi's original screenplay for Madoka.
 * Many characters from Magia Record have different Witch forms than those shown in-game
 * The title of chapter 10 is a reference to the Maurice Leblanc novel "The Last Love of Arsene Lupin"
 * This came from a research venture for a separate fanfiction that planned to add the Holy Quintet to the cast of Persona 5 Strikers. Homura's Persona was named Fourveir, after a child Lupin takes in as his apprentice in the novel, as Homura would have succeeded Joker as the leader of her own Phantom Thieves of Hearts
 * The series as a whole contains many more references and ties to the Persona franchise not present in the initial drafts
 * This is also the first chapter not to use an opening theme


 * Chapter 7 is the first chapter to feature more than one insert song
 * In the preview for chapter 8, Madoka sings "Animal Instinct" from Mew Mew Power at the karaoke bar. However, in the chapter itself, she and Kyoko sing "Take Me As I Am" from Jekyll and Hyde, changed to match Sayaka's performance of "Alive"
 * This is also the first chapter to feature additional songs that do not serve as the insert song for the chapter, and the first to not use an ending theme