Coeurl

Coeurl
Japanese Name	クァール (Kuāru)

Coeurl (クァール, Kuāru) is a character in Null Magical Girl. She is a Magical Girl from the planet Terminus. She is involved in the war against Homo magica. She saves Kosane Kiriha during a battle and later implores her to become an "emotions manager" and create Magical Girls to fight against Homo magica. She is the captain of the starship Yamata no Orochi and the leader of the resistance force.

General Info

Physical Features
Age	Unknown
Eye colour	Unknown
Hair colour	Unknown, a light shade.
Magic
Soul Gem	Unknown
Weapon	Dual katanas
Witch Form	Unknown
Powers and Abilities	Magic reflect
Wish	Unknown
Other
Japanese pronoun	Ore (おれ)
Known relatives	None known
Origins	Planet Terminus, 800,000 years in the future
School	Not attending

Powers and Abilities

Coeurl has the ability to reflect magical attacks.

Etymology

• Coeurl's name and appearance reference Black Destroyer, another text by van Vogt. In it, Coeurls are a race of black cat-like creatures of high intelligence that feed on the "id" (likened to, or intrinsically connected to, phosphorus; when the creature feeds on prey's id, they drain the victim of the phosphorus within their body, and they devour phosphorus itself) of other creatures. The race as a whole built many now-dead cities and are now an isolated and starving species. The primary Coeurl of the story encounters a group of human explorers and attempts to feed on them, first by pretending to be curious, intelligent, and harmless, and later attempts to trick them into believing it was not responsible after they find the corpse of a human it fed upon. After the human explorers defeat the primary Coeurl of the story, they are determined to eradicate the race entirely, which they intend to do by allowing Coeurls to come to them in search of food.
  • In this way, Coeurls are very similar to Incubators, cat-like aliens that "feed" off of the mental or emotional energy of humans, and accomplish this by tricking humans into believing they are harmless or benevolent.
  • The manga's Couerl, similar to the alien race's color, wears a black cloak.

Trivia

• Aside from Itzli, being a Magical Girl "from the end of the galaxy", Coeurl is the first Magical Girl confirmed to be an alien from a planet other than Earth.
• Her home planet, Terminus, may be a reference to the planet of the same name from Isaac Asimov's novel Foundation.
• As regular Magical Girls and Incubators have been shown to not exist in the far future, it is unknown why Coeurl is an exception. She could be particularly old, or even some kind of artificial Magical Girl.
  • It's possible that Kosane made a contract with her.