Marguerite
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| Marguerite (マルグリート) | |
|---|---|
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| Physical info | |
| Type | Human, Magical Girl |
| Gender | Female ♀ |
| Age | Unknown |
| Eye color | Light yellow |
| Hair color | Blonde |
| Magic info | |
| Soul Gem | Gold oval gem (on her neck) |
| Weapon | Unknown |
| Witch Form | Walpurgisnacht (see also Wasu) |
| Powers and Abilities | Purify Soul Gem |
| Wish | "I wish to save all Magical Girls"[unofficial tl.] |
| Social info | |
| Japanese pronoun | watakushi (わたくし) |
| Background info | |
| Character designer Primary artist |
Ume Aoki |
| Voiced by | Japanese: Maaya Sakamoto (WENWJA𝕏aniDBANNIMDb) |
Not to be confused with Asahi Miura's Witch form.
Marguerite (マルグリート) is a character from Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-.
Appearance
Magical Girl
Personality and Traits
Powers and Abilities
In Walpurgisnacht: Rising, it is seen that she can use her Soul Gem to purify other Soul Gems, by moving the curses from other Soul Gems into hers.[observed] She is also seen to have no fighting abilities.[observed]
History
- See also Wasu.
Marguerite was a convent sister living in a European village and engaging in charitable missions. She held a belief that the world was kind despite the misfortunes, even doing small acts of kindness like returning a baby bird which had fallen from its nest, despite falling from the tree herself during it.
One day, while giving bread to the people in the village, there was none left for a little boy, so he took the crumbs left over and gave them to his brother. Marguerite approached them with more bread and befriended them, even playing with their toy horse. Days later, she would find both boys dead and while she is praying at their graves, she is approached by a Demon. She is saved by Enyo Terez and Sy Pled, and the other Magical Girls from the convent arrive to fight the Demons as well.
During this time, she is also approached by Kyubey, who asks her to make a contract. While the other Magical Girls were praying for Enyo, whose Soul Gem was about to reach its limit. Maguerite made a wish to save all Magical Girls, and gained the ability to purify Soul Gems, becoming a central figure in the convent. There, Magical Girls would call her name and ring the bells their Soul Gems were kept in to signify the need to have their Soul Gem purified.
After purifying them, Marguerite would pray to the central bell on the convent, seemingly placing all the impurities within the bell on the sanctuary of the chancel.[observed][note 1]
Some winters later[note 2], most of the Magical Girls in the convent turned into Witches, as Marguerite had reached her capacity. As Sy Pled and Enyo were protecting Marguerite from the Demons who called out her name, the central bell's curses emerged. Overwhelmed by the curses from Magical Girls calling her name, she took the curses and the emotional energy onto herself, and created Nazukasokotsune[1], a place where Magical Girls can have a new name and form after their Soul Gem breaks. Those souls she could not saved in time merged with her, forming Walpurgisnacht, while from that point, Magical Girls became Witches.[observed][2]
After becoming Walpurgisnacht, she forgot her own memories, as she had fused with all the Demons of the time before she was created—the previous forgotten curses—and couldn't identify who her original self was among the thousand of voices inside her.[3] She broke the toy horse from the boys she'd saved long ago, and she would spend centuries wandering the globe and causing calamities. She was attracted to Madoka during the events of Puella Magi Madoka Magica when Madoka shot an arrow at Izabel, the light and radiance caused her to mistake Madoka for Marguerite. This memory would remain in her memory across the time loops Homura created as well.[observed][2]
During the events of Madoka Magica Episode 12: My Very Best Friend, after Madoka made her wish to erase Witches, she ended up defeating Walpurgisnacht. When her cog was the only thing left of her Witch form, all the forgotten Magical Girls came out of it and begged for help from Madoka, thinking she was Marguerite. She then held hands with Marguerite and took all the girls into the Law of Cycles.[observed][2] They would remain there until he events of Rebellion, where Homura's fracturing of Ultimate Madoka caused them to fuse into Wasu.
Gallery
Anime Screenshots
Concept Movie
Walpurgisnacht: Rising
Official Art
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Marguerite concept art -
Art by Kazuki Kawata, the visual concept designer for Walpurgisnacht Rising
Trivia
- In the Concept Movie's Blurry Still, her name is spelled as Marguerita (マルグリータ maruguriita).
- Her wish came true at the moment she said "Stop time, thy name is Witch."[unofficial tl.] (時よ止まれ、あなたたちの名は魔女！[verification needed] Toki yo, tomare, anata-tachi no namae wa majo!) This mirrors the condition of Faust’s wager with Mephistopheles, so that if Faust ever reaches a moment of such contentment that he wishes the moment lasts forever, then Mephistopheles wins the bet and may take his soul:
| German | English | Japanese |
|---|---|---|
| Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen | If to the passing moment e'er I say, | |
| Verweile doch! Du bist so schön! | "Oh, linger yet, thou art so fair!" | 「時よ止まれ、汝は如何にも美しい！」 |
| Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen, | Then cast me into chains you may | |
| Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn! | Then will I die without a care! | |
| Dann mag die Totenglocke schallen, | Then may the death-bell sound its call, | |
| Dann bist du deines Dienstes frei, | Then art thou from thy service free, | |
| Die Uhr mag stehn, der Zeiger fallen, | The clock may stand, the index fall, | |
| Es sei die Zeit für mich vorbei! | And time and tide may cease for me! |
Etymology
- "Marguerite" means "pearl," from the Latin margarita, and in French, the word marguerite refers to the ox-eye daisy flower, which is seen alongside Madoka's new Magical Girl form in Walpurgisnacht: Rising. It is a variation on the name "Margarete," the name of Faust's love. After Faust's moral resistance collapses, he would start addressing her with the diminutive "Gretchen" instead, which is often interpreted as denoting her spoiled purity.
Notes
- ↑ While Walpurgisnacht is being created, the wave of impurities emerges from the bell that Marguerite prays in front of, thus it is possible Marguerite could not only absorb the impurities from Soul Gems, but also store them elsewhere.
- ↑ While Walpurgnacht: Rising shows a passage of time through changing seasons, it's difficult to pinpoint how much time has elapsed between her contract and when her Soul Gem reaching its capacity.
References
- ↑ Spoken line in Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-: "At the very instant she shifted into despair, she absorbed all the emotional energy we were meant to harvest upon her witch self and created this facility."[unofficial tl.] (「彼女が絶望に変化するその刹那、僕たちが得るはずの感情エネルギー相転移を、魔女になった自分に吸収することでこの空間を作り上げたんだ」)[verification needed]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Shown in Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-
- ↑ Spoken line in Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-: "Thousands of cursed voices, I do not know who I truly am."[unofficial tl.] (「幾千の呪いの声、どれが本当のわたくしか分からない」[verification needed])