https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=0x99Puella Magi Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T02:11:02ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.39.3https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=148508Talk:Main Page2023-12-23T06:39:16Z<p>0x99: /* Future of Fanworks */</p>
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<div style="border:1px solid #c0c090;padding:10px;background:#FDFFEE;margin:0 0 0.6em;">'''Previous discussions are archived at''':<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 1]] (January 18, 2011–February 27, 2011)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 2]] (February 28, 2011-April 25, 2011)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 3]] (April 25, 2011-March 14, 2012)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 4]] (March 15, 2012-April 27, 2017)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 5]] (April 27, 2017–September 19, 2017)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 6]] (September 20, 2017–September 16, 2023)<br />
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== Main Page cleanup ==<br />
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I've taken the liberty to clean up the Main Page styling a little. It's using the same layout as before, but with more consistent spacing/etc. so it looks a lot less cluttered. It's also now and a lot less broken when viewing on a mobile phone. Adding/removing columns should now be a lot less insane. I'm unsure what to do with the News/Wishlist links, though, since they haven't been updated for quite a long time. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 10:13, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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: The News page could probably be updated by trawling the Main Page edit history, and maybe adding other bits if you can think of them. With some work it could even be arranged so that it's the ''source'' of the news on the main page (wrapping the lines that should be on the main page in <nowiki><onlyinclude></nowiki> tags). ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 13:33, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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:: Good idea. I'll find some time to do it. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 13:49, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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:: I did this, seems to work great. Now to populate 2015 to 2021... -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 12:42, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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::: That's slightly different from my thought, but it's probably easier to work with this way anyway. ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 15:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== Main visual ==<br />
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Would it be worthwhile to add the Scene0 main visual to the main page, too? I think a tabber would work for the desktop view, and on mobile there should be enough space to add it below Rising's. [[User:EPF|EPF]] ([[User talk:EPF|talk]]) 13:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
: I've made some adjustments, what do you think? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 13:18, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: I'm not sure… I've been so used to seeing the name beside the key visual and now it's moved below it… I can't find any real complaints though… ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 15:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
::: OK, let's try again. What about this one? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 15:16, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
:::: Oooh, I like it! Thanks [[User:EPF|EPF]] ([[User talk:EPF|talk]]) 15:30, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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==Not sure where to put this==<br />
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So... I'm not sure why I'm not an autoconfirmed user, but I don't know where to put this question? -- [[User talk:ReiAyanami|ReiAyanami]]<br />
:I think you may need to wait few more hours. Autoconfirm is set to 3 edits and 7 days from the date of registration. From what I see, you should get autoconfirmed today (Nov 7) at 20:18:23 (UTC) -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 14:30, 7 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::Alright, thank you! I didn't realize it was so exact. :) [[User:ReiAyanami|ReiAyanami]] ([[User talk:ReiAyanami|talk]]) 19:28, 7 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
:::Sorry for this, we used to have a lot of spam back in the day (who made a few edits to get autoconfirmed then proceeded on creating an SEO spam page). -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 21:07, 7 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== Future of Fanworks ==<br />
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'''(This was originally on my talk page but I have moved it here as it concerns the whole wiki.)''' While not an official Wiki, this is a Wiki for official content. Outside of personal OC's on the user's pages, is there a reason to include fanworks on the wiki? Fan roleplays have long since died, and many games are likely dead due to flash player shutting down. Is there a reason to have them? [[User:Amaterasu|Amaterasu]] ([[User talk:Amaterasu|talk]]) 17:24, 18 December 2023 (UTC)<br />
:I think it's best to keep what we have now as an archive rather than remove it since they were a part of the fanbase during the early days. We keep [[Poorfag]]'s page up for a reason since it was a meme thing and it doesn't interfere with official pages much like OCs on our user pages. As long as they're kept separate from the official stuff, I think it's ok. I believe you can still play the games even though flash player shut down, I remember there being a big project to archive and make old flash games playable when the shut down was initially announced. -[[User:The Witch&#39;s House|The Witch&#39;s House]] ([[User talk:The Witch&#39;s House|talk]]) 02:34, 19 December 2023 (UTC)<br />
::I'm also very much agree with this. For a more early meme and such we could make a banner that this was part of the community in the early days and are no longer updated. For ongoing content such as [[Fanworks]] I think the list of games/media/crossover are still worth keeping (and possibly updating). --- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 06:39, 23 December 2023 (UTC)</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=146999Talk:Main Page2023-11-07T21:08:22Z<p>0x99: /* Not sure where to put this */</p>
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<div style="border:1px solid #c0c090;padding:10px;background:#FDFFEE;margin:0 0 0.6em;">'''Previous discussions are archived at''':<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 1]] (January 18, 2011–February 27, 2011)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 2]] (February 28, 2011-April 25, 2011)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 3]] (April 25, 2011-March 14, 2012)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 4]] (March 15, 2012-April 27, 2017)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 5]] (April 27, 2017–September 19, 2017)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 6]] (September 20, 2017–September 16, 2023)<br />
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== Main Page cleanup ==<br />
<br />
I've taken the liberty to clean up the Main Page styling a little. It's using the same layout as before, but with more consistent spacing/etc. so it looks a lot less cluttered. It's also now and a lot less broken when viewing on a mobile phone. Adding/removing columns should now be a lot less insane. I'm unsure what to do with the News/Wishlist links, though, since they haven't been updated for quite a long time. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 10:13, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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: The News page could probably be updated by trawling the Main Page edit history, and maybe adding other bits if you can think of them. With some work it could even be arranged so that it's the ''source'' of the news on the main page (wrapping the lines that should be on the main page in <nowiki><onlyinclude></nowiki> tags). ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 13:33, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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:: Good idea. I'll find some time to do it. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 13:49, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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:: I did this, seems to work great. Now to populate 2015 to 2021... -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 12:42, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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::: That's slightly different from my thought, but it's probably easier to work with this way anyway. ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 15:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Main visual ==<br />
<br />
Would it be worthwhile to add the Scene0 main visual to the main page, too? I think a tabber would work for the desktop view, and on mobile there should be enough space to add it below Rising's. [[User:EPF|EPF]] ([[User talk:EPF|talk]]) 13:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
: I've made some adjustments, what do you think? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 13:18, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: I'm not sure… I've been so used to seeing the name beside the key visual and now it's moved below it… I can't find any real complaints though… ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 15:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
::: OK, let's try again. What about this one? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 15:16, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
:::: Oooh, I like it! Thanks [[User:EPF|EPF]] ([[User talk:EPF|talk]]) 15:30, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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==Not sure where to put this==<br />
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So... I'm not sure why I'm not an autoconfirmed user, but I don't know where to put this question? -- [[User talk:ReiAyanami|ReiAyanami]]<br />
:I think you may need to wait few more hours. Autoconfirm is set to 3 edits and 7 days from the date of registration. From what I see, you should get autoconfirmed today (Nov 7) at 20:18:23 (UTC) -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 14:30, 7 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::Alright, thank you! I didn't realize it was so exact. :) [[User:ReiAyanami|ReiAyanami]] ([[User talk:ReiAyanami|talk]]) 19:28, 7 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
:::Sorry for this, we used to have a lot of spam back in the day (who made a few edits to get autoconfirmed then proceeded on creating an SEO spam page). -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 21:07, 7 November 2023 (UTC)</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=146998Talk:Main Page2023-11-07T21:07:50Z<p>0x99: /* Not sure where to put this */</p>
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</div><br />
<div style="border:1px solid #c0c090;padding:10px;background:#FDFFEE;margin:0 0 0.6em;">'''Previous discussions are archived at''':<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 1]] (January 18, 2011–February 27, 2011)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 2]] (February 28, 2011-April 25, 2011)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 3]] (April 25, 2011-March 14, 2012)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 4]] (March 15, 2012-April 27, 2017)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 5]] (April 27, 2017–September 19, 2017)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 6]] (September 20, 2017–September 16, 2023)<br />
</div><br />
<br />
== Main Page cleanup ==<br />
<br />
I've taken the liberty to clean up the Main Page styling a little. It's using the same layout as before, but with more consistent spacing/etc. so it looks a lot less cluttered. It's also now and a lot less broken when viewing on a mobile phone. Adding/removing columns should now be a lot less insane. I'm unsure what to do with the News/Wishlist links, though, since they haven't been updated for quite a long time. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 10:13, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
: The News page could probably be updated by trawling the Main Page edit history, and maybe adding other bits if you can think of them. With some work it could even be arranged so that it's the ''source'' of the news on the main page (wrapping the lines that should be on the main page in <nowiki><onlyinclude></nowiki> tags). ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 13:33, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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:: Good idea. I'll find some time to do it. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 13:49, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:: I did this, seems to work great. Now to populate 2015 to 2021... -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 12:42, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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::: That's slightly different from my thought, but it's probably easier to work with this way anyway. ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 15:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Main visual ==<br />
<br />
Would it be worthwhile to add the Scene0 main visual to the main page, too? I think a tabber would work for the desktop view, and on mobile there should be enough space to add it below Rising's. [[User:EPF|EPF]] ([[User talk:EPF|talk]]) 13:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
: I've made some adjustments, what do you think? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 13:18, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: I'm not sure… I've been so used to seeing the name beside the key visual and now it's moved below it… I can't find any real complaints though… ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 15:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
::: OK, let's try again. What about this one? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 15:16, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
:::: Oooh, I like it! Thanks [[User:EPF|EPF]] ([[User talk:EPF|talk]]) 15:30, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Not sure where to put this==<br />
<br />
So... I'm not sure why I'm not an autoconfirmed user, but I don't know where to put this question? -- [[User talk:ReiAyanami|ReiAyanami]]<br />
:I think you may need to wait few more hours. Autoconfirm is set to 3 edits and 7 days from the date of registration. From what I see, you should get autoconfirmed today (Nov 7) at 20:18:23 (UTC) -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 14:30, 7 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::Alright, thank you! I didn't realize it was so exact. :) [[User:ReiAyanami|ReiAyanami]] ([[User talk:ReiAyanami|talk]]) 19:28, 7 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
:::Sorry for this, we used to have a lot of spam back in the day (who made a few edits to get autoconfirmed then proceeded on creating a spam page). -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 21:07, 7 November 2023 (UTC)</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=146862Talk:Main Page2023-11-07T14:31:10Z<p>0x99: /* Not sure where to put this */</p>
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</div><br />
<div style="border:1px solid #c0c090;padding:10px;background:#FDFFEE;margin:0 0 0.6em;">'''Previous discussions are archived at''':<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 1]] (January 18, 2011–February 27, 2011)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 2]] (February 28, 2011-April 25, 2011)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 3]] (April 25, 2011-March 14, 2012)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 4]] (March 15, 2012-April 27, 2017)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 5]] (April 27, 2017–September 19, 2017)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 6]] (September 20, 2017–September 16, 2023)<br />
</div><br />
<br />
== Main Page cleanup ==<br />
<br />
I've taken the liberty to clean up the Main Page styling a little. It's using the same layout as before, but with more consistent spacing/etc. so it looks a lot less cluttered. It's also now and a lot less broken when viewing on a mobile phone. Adding/removing columns should now be a lot less insane. I'm unsure what to do with the News/Wishlist links, though, since they haven't been updated for quite a long time. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 10:13, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
: The News page could probably be updated by trawling the Main Page edit history, and maybe adding other bits if you can think of them. With some work it could even be arranged so that it's the ''source'' of the news on the main page (wrapping the lines that should be on the main page in <nowiki><onlyinclude></nowiki> tags). ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 13:33, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:: Good idea. I'll find some time to do it. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 13:49, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:: I did this, seems to work great. Now to populate 2015 to 2021... -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 12:42, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::: That's slightly different from my thought, but it's probably easier to work with this way anyway. ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 15:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Main visual ==<br />
<br />
Would it be worthwhile to add the Scene0 main visual to the main page, too? I think a tabber would work for the desktop view, and on mobile there should be enough space to add it below Rising's. [[User:EPF|EPF]] ([[User talk:EPF|talk]]) 13:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
: I've made some adjustments, what do you think? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 13:18, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: I'm not sure… I've been so used to seeing the name beside the key visual and now it's moved below it… I can't find any real complaints though… ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 15:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
::: OK, let's try again. What about this one? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 15:16, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
:::: Oooh, I like it! Thanks [[User:EPF|EPF]] ([[User talk:EPF|talk]]) 15:30, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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==Not sure where to put this==<br />
<br />
So... I'm not sure why I'm not an autoconfirmed user, but I don't know where to put this question? -- [[User talk:ReiAyanami|ReiAyanami]]<br />
:I think you may need to wait few more hours. Autoconfirm is set to 3 edits and 7 days from the date of registration. From what I see, you should get autoconfirmed today (Nov 7) at 20:18:23 (UTC) -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 14:30, 7 November 2023 (UTC)</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=User:0x99&diff=146847User:0x992023-11-07T12:13:26Z<p>0x99: /* Current server admin tasks */</p>
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<div>Admin of this wiki. Trying to be more active. Usually pulling all-nighters in '''JST''' (UTC+0900) timezone. <br />
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Please email '''maru@puella-magi.net''' if I do not respond.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=0x99&namespace=2 Subpages] — my InQBate pages.<br />
*[[User:AnthonyBot|AnthonyBot]] — a housekeeping bot for this wiki. '''(Deactivated)'''</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=User:0x99&diff=146846User:0x992023-11-07T12:13:11Z<p>0x99: </p>
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<div>Admin of this wiki. Trying to be more active. Usually pulling all-nighters in '''JST''' (UTC+0900) timezone. <br />
<br />
Please email '''maru@puella-magi.net''' if I do not respond.<br />
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==Current tasks==<br />
===Wiki content===<br />
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! Status !! Started !! Finished !! Task<br />
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|Improve overall styling of the wiki using templatestyles (migrate off [[MediaWiki:Common.css]])<br />
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|class="working"|Working<br />
|Sep 23 ||<br />
|Cleanup mainline title content, adding production info, translate interviews, etc.<br />
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|Update [[Deciphering the runes#Fonts|MadokaRunes]] with new glyphs, etc.<br />
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|Rework [[User:AnthonyBot|AnthonyBot]] to trim double redirects<br />
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|Moved the server from NearlyFreeSpeech back to Hetzner<br />
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||Setup hourly backups for DB/image assets<br />
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||Setup Varnish caching for non-logged in users<br />
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|Update MediaWiki to 1.40<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=0x99&namespace=2 Subpages] — my InQBate pages.<br />
*[[User:AnthonyBot|AnthonyBot]] — a housekeeping bot for this wiki. '''(Deactivated)'''</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Puella_Magi_Wiki:Maintenance_Log&diff=146845Puella Magi Wiki:Maintenance Log2023-11-07T11:56:11Z<p>0x99: Per caching issue discussion</p>
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!November 7, 2023<br />
|Temporarily cut down images caching time to 1 hour (may need to F5/Ctrl+Shift+Reload)<br />
|-<br />
!November 1, 2023<br />
|Enabled Varnish caching for non-logged in users (MediaWiki will PURGE on page update)<br />
|-<br />
!October 29, 2023<br />
|Reenabled hourly backups for database and all assets (<code>zfs send</code> to Rsync.net)<br />
|-<br />
!October 27, 2023<br />
|Reenabled daily XML dumps<br />
|-<br />
!October 27, 2023<br />
|Bump upload limit to 1GB.<br />
|-<br />
!October 27, 2023<br />
|Migrated server to Hetzner ARM64 instance due to resource limit<br />
|-<br />
!September 25, 2023<br />
|Enabled email sending as a side-wide functionality (previously: only email confirmation)<br />
|-<br />
!September 15, 2023<br />
|Enabled [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateStyles TemplateStyles] and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeEditor CodeEditor]<br />
|-<br />
!September 10, 2023<br />
|Re-enabled MSUpload<br />
|-<br />
!September 10, 2023<br />
|Fixed broken SVG upload since migrating server to NearlyFreeSpeech<br />
|-<br />
!May 28, 2023<br />
|Enabled String Parser functions<br />
|-<br />
!May 28, 2023<br />
|Migrated server to NearlyFreeSpeech (managed hosting)<br />
|-<br />
!May 28, 2023<br />
|Dropped Cloudflare<br />
|-<br />
!January 11, 2021<br />
|Happy 10th Anniversary, Puella Magi Wiki!<br />
|-<br />
!November 24, 2019<br />
|Enabled [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase/Installation RESTBase] for [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor VisualEditor] (off by default)<br />
|-<br />
!November 24, 2019<br />
|Migrated server to Hetzner Dedicated Server (Xeon E3-1275)<br />
|-<br />
!March 27, 2019<br />
|Migrated server to a dedicated VPS instance (Linode).<br />
|-<br />
!March 26, 2018<br />
|Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.39.3, MariaDB to 10, PHP to 8.2.<br />
|-<br />
!March 26, 2018<br />
|Migrated server to NearlyFreeSpeech (managed hosting).<br />
|-<br />
!January 20, 2013<br />
|Upgraded MariaDB to 5.5.28a.<br />
|-<br />
!January 20, 2013<br />
|Migrated server back to dedicated VPS instance (LAMP stack).<br />
|-<br />
!January 17, 2013<br />
|Updated question captcha with new sets of questions/answers.<br />
|-<br />
!January 1, 2013<br />
|Load images only when it is visible on user viewport. (Experimental)<br />
|-<br />
!January 1, 2013<br />
|Upgraded PHP to 5.4.10 as well as other Wiki-related packages.<br />
|-<br />
!January 1, 2013<br />
|Upgraded MariaDB to 5.3.11, Nginx to 1.2.6.<br />
|-<br />
!June 9, 2012<br />
|Upgraded PHP to 5.4.3, Nginx to 1.2.1.<br />
|-<br />
!May 30, 2012<br />
|Migrated server from Debian (LAMP stack) to FreeBSD (FNMP stack).<br />
|-<br />
!May 24, 2012<br />
|Upgrade dPHP to 5.3.13, Apache to 2.2.16-6.<br />
|-<br />
!April 26, 2012<br />
|Really bump upload limit to 20MB.<br />
|-<br />
!March 20, 2012<br />
|Replaced ReCaptcha with simple question captcha.<br />
|-<br />
!March 17, 2012<br />
|Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.18.1.<br />
|-<br />
!March 14, 2012<br />
|Use a new MediaWiki editor.<br />
|-<br />
!March 1, 2012<br />
|Replaced Nginx with Apache 2.2.16.<br />
|-<br />
!February 26, 2012<br />
|Disabled Rocket Loader as it breaks some script on the site.<br />
|-<br />
!February 26, 2012<br />
|Used timestamp as cache key for images.<br />
|-<br />
!February 22, 2012<br />
|Upgraded Percona to 5.5.20-24.<br />
|-<br />
!February 22, 2012<br />
|Enforced SSL for login.<br />
|-<br />
!February 22, 2012<br />
|Less aggressive caching in CloudFlare.<br />
|-<br />
!February 14, 2012<br />
|Attempted to fix Site Offline error from CloudFlare (exempt from UFW rate-limit).<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Enabled SSL for all puella-magi.net subdomains via CloudFlare.<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Disable CloudFlare threat detection.<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Upgraded PHP-FPM to 5.3.10.<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Upgraded Nginx to 1.0.12.<br />
|-<br />
!February 3, 2012<br />
|Display real user IP instead of [[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.207|173.245.53.207]] (CloudFlare address).<br />
|-<br />
!February 2, 2012<br />
|Drop Coral and use CloudFlare as a frontend CDN.<br />
|-<br />
!January 19, 2012<br />
|Upgraded Percona to 5.5.19-24.204.<br />
|-<br />
!January 19, 2012<br />
|Upgraded PHP-FPM to 5.3.8-1.<br />
|-<br />
!December 21, 2011<br />
|Upgraded Percona to 5.5.18-23.203.<br />
|-<br />
!December 21, 2011<br />
|Upgraded Nginx to 1.0.11.<br />
|-<br />
!December 20, 2011<br />
|Domain and DNS renew.<br />
|-<br />
!December 3, 2011<br />
|Reconfigured firewall.<br />
|-<br />
!December 3, 2011<br />
|Upgraded to Nginx 1.0.10.<br />
|-<br />
!September 26, 2011<br />
|Bumping RAM.<br />
|-<br />
!September 24, 2011<br />
|Bumped file upload limit to 20MB.<br />
|-<br />
!September 24, 2011<br />
|Upgraded to Linux 3.0, Percona 5.5.15-55, PHP-FPM 5.3.8 and Nginx 1.0.6<br />
|-<br />
!September 24, 2011<br />
|Separated database server and main web server.<br />
|-<br />
!September 24, 2011<br />
|Migrated server from Arch Linux to Debian 6.0<br />
|-<br />
!June 21, 2011<br />
|Upgraded Percona Server to 5.5.12-20.3.<br />
|-<br />
!June 21, 2011<br />
|Upgraded to Nginx 1.0.4.<br />
|-<br />
!June 21, 2011<br />
|Server hardware upgrade.<br />
|-<br />
!May 30, 2011<br />
|Relocated server from London to Newark.<br />
|-<br />
!May 9, 2011<br />
|Fixed uploading for files above 1MB.<br />
|-<br />
!May 5, 2011<br />
|Updated embedded runes to v04282011.<br />
|-<br />
!May 5, 2011<br />
|Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.16.5.<br />
|-<br />
!May 3, 2011<br />
|Upgraded to Nginx 1.0.1 and PHP-FPM 5.3.6.<br />
|-<br />
|}</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=User_talk:0x99&diff=146844User talk:0x992023-11-07T11:53:40Z<p>0x99: /* Caching issue? */</p>
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<div><div style="border:1px solid #c0c090;padding:10px;background:#FDFFEE;margin:-0.4em 0 0.6em;">'''Previous discussions are archived at''':<br />
*[[User talk:0x99/Archive 1]] (May 5, 2011–March 30, 2016)<br />
</div><br />
<br />
== Status ==<br />
<br />
Holy crap a wild mod appeared! --[[User:Universalperson|Universalperson]] 20:58, 1 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
: Right, and I have to (finally) update the server and the Wiki software someday. —[[User:0x99|0x99]] 14:16, 3 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==pt version of Puella-magi wiki==<br />
Hi maru<br />
<br />
On last email and talk in irc, you've asked for me to wait the server be updated<br />
<br />
Does it was done? Does you still have plans to open the wiki to another languages? When can we talk about this again?<br />
<br />
Graciouslly<br />
<br />
{{User:Hibiki/ass2}} 03:29, 22 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
<br />
: Not much movement yet. Super busy with work. Sorry :( -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 14:37, 25 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Page patrolling ==<br />
<br />
Hi I have previously created a page on the wiki at [[Pachinko and Pachislot]] but seems like it is not indexed by search engine as the page have not been patrolled by mods. Could you help review and mark the page? [[User:C933103|C933103]] 15:10, 28 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
:I'm pretty sure the wiki doesn't have patrolling enabled. How did you check that the page wasn't indexed? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 18:50, 28 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== It's me again ==<br />
Any news? or you're saving efforts to update mediawiki at the moment? {{User:Hibiki/ass2}} 02:33, 5 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Front Page Sidebar==<br />
<br />
Is there anyway to add a link to the Magia Record anime in the sidebar under "Anime"? Especially since it will be launching in a few days and I don't know how to change that myself. Maybe also add the Magia Record Manga link as well?[[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] ([[User talk:Sondenise|talk]]) 01:58, 1 January 2020 (UTC)<br />
: Sorry that this took so long, I've added Magia Record to the sidebar. Will also redo the frontpage soon-ish. --- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 05:44, 5 January 2020 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== String parser functions ==<br />
<br />
Based on [[Special:Version]] it looks like these are supported, but they don't work on a page so they are probably disabled (which is apparently the default). Is there any chance of enabling them? ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 16:18, 15 April 2022 (UTC)<br />
:Sorry, I didn't notice this message. I know it's a year overdue, but I've now enabled string parsers in the Wiki. Please let me know if you need anything else. --[[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 15:57, 28 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Bulk Upload ==<br />
<br />
Was the MsUpload extension intentionally disabled or was that an accident? ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 01:11, 11 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
:I couldn't get it to work for some reason. I'll take a look at it later. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 06:40, 11 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Permitted File Types ==<br />
<br />
Any chance you could add .ogg (and maybe .mid) to the list of allowed file types? I was just thinking that it would be better to upload the musical rendering linked from [[:File:Sayaka Sheet.PNG|here]] directly to the wiki instead of hosting it on MediaFire. I think MediaWiki even has a built-in media player so it would be easy for anyone to listen to it if I converted it to .ogg. (Unless that's just an extension used on Wikipedia and the other big wikis?) ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 03:34, 17 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: I've enabled file uploads for ogg/mid/webm. Not sure if it'll work, but let me know if it doesn't. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 14:46, 10 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Tabs ==<br />
<br />
We were discussing building a tabbed view to show variants of a single character all on one page. I constructed style rules for it in [[MediaWiki:Common.css]], and it works almost perfectly, but there are a few little glitches that seem unsolvable without JavaScript… so I was wondering if you could perhaps add the first block of JS from [[User talk:SuzuneMU#Tabs]] to [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]?<br />
<br />
I already tested that code by pasting it into my browser's Developer Console; if you're uncertain of it, you can do the same before pushing it live. Or if you know of some other way to make the tabs function better, feel free to write your own code or edit [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] instead.<br />
<br />
The second block of code on that page is a way to make tabs able to scroll left and right, useful if there are too many to fit on a page. I'm not sure if we'd actually need that, though. It's also tested in the same way as the other code, and works if <tt><nowiki>{{Tab Nav}}</nowiki></tt> is added to the top of the tab container. I didn't actually test the two blocks combined though. ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 19:33, 19 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:: Done. Sorry, if I don't respond in a responsible time (2-3 days), please feel free to ping via email. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 08:31, 10 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== SVG upload is broken ==<br />
<br />
See [[:File:^Rune.svg]] for the error message. ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 23:50, 21 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: Sorry about this, SVG should now work again (it should re-process on page visit). -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 08:26, 10 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== A quick question ==<br />
<br />
Hello 0x99, I have a quick question, if thats okay. I'm going through the "Unused files" page and finding ones fit for deletion. The thing is, I feel like Im annoying the mods by making so many requests. Is there any way I could get the files deleted without causing any trouble for anyone? If not, I'll just keep putting them in the Deletion category. [[User:Amaterasu|Amaterasu]] ([[User talk:Amaterasu|talk]]) 18:17, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
:I think you already have the permission to delete pages (look at "More" in the top bar). You can directly delete it, but I actually like the Deletion Request category, since it serves as a double check in case somebody objects. We could probably do this automatically in the future with [[User:AnthonyBot]], though. By the way, thank you for taking the effort to clean up old images. It helps to shrink down the space and bandwidth usage by quite a lot (as these are often hotlinked as a forum signature, etc.). -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 18:29, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::Oh my! I do! Thanks. Sorry for bothering you! Have a good day. [[User:Amaterasu|Amaterasu]] ([[User talk:Amaterasu|talk]]) 19:28, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::If I can chime in real quick, I don't mind at all doing the deletions in batches. And thank you for your work!![[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] ([[User talk:Sondenise|talk]]) 01:47, 3 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
:::I'd also like to add, it's ok since we've been meaning to get rid of a lot of the fan art and unused stuff on here. Some stuff I wasn't sure on deleting since I couldn't tell if it was official or fan art, or in other cases whether we should keep stuff like [[Poorfag]]'s page+art around and the like around since it's technically fan-related but also part of the wiki's history and it's not really all that mixed in with official stuff. -[[User:The Witch&#39;s House|The Witch&#39;s House]] ([[User talk:The Witch&#39;s House|talk]]) 09:49, 3 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::::I'm perfectly fine with keeping ones with some history behind it or play a good part in the history of the community, e.g. meduca meguca stuff, poorfag, some memes in [[Deciphering the runes]], etc. Previously, there were a lot of fanart uploads that were just... un-permissioned fanart uploads (which were severely hotlinked). It's probably safe to clean those up. Though if the author uploads it themselves (or with permission) and linked from their User page, I think that's also cool to keep. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 09:56, 3 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Caching issue?==<br />
<br />
I noticed that [[:File:Mami 4star.png]] and [[:File:Mami 5star.png]] were reversed and tried to fix them by uploading each to the other as a new revision. However, somehow they're still reversed, at least for me. In the middle of it the wiki claimed they were duplicates, so I think the fix worked at some level, but they're now showing wrong? ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 03:11, 7 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
:I've been having the same issue. I replace a file and it shows as the original despite me refreshing, etc. [[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] ([[User talk:Sondenise|talk]]) 04:03, 7 November 2023 (UTC) <br />
::Ditto for me, but the problem only occurs for me when I'm actually viewing the file. Once I exit it/add it to the gallery, it seems to be okay. [[User:Amaterasu|Amaterasu]] ([[User talk:Amaterasu|talk]]) 11:25, 7 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
:::OK, I see the issue now. Looks like MediaWiki (still) only hashes the path on the first upload and not for subsequent revision, so the cache doesn't get expired. I'll do something. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 09:02, 7 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::::MediaWiki 1.38 includes a timestamp in a query parameter of a thumbnail URL only on a file page (e.g. [[:File:Sayaka_Chara_Sheet.png]], if you right-click on the image and use "Copy Image Link", it should have a timestamp appended to the URL). I've reconfigured the cache to take that timestamp into account when caching, so at least the file page should display a new version correctly now.<br />
::::Annoyingly enough, this is not the case for other pages, such as in the article itself, the link to the image, and in the gallery view. The previous [[User:0x99/MediaWiki_Patches|patch]] that we used back in Cloudflare days no longer works due to how MediaWiki handles URL generation. I'll look into a way to patch this in the next few days.<br />
::::In the meantime, I've cut the cache period from 2 hours on the server-side (not F5/Ctrl-Shift-R reloadable) and 1 week on the client side (F5/Ctrl-Shift-R reloadable) to 1 hour on both sides. This should help shorten the period where old images are shown on the article page and in the gallery. It should be back to instantaneous once I finished a new patch. I'll keep you posted. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 11:53, 7 November 2023 (UTC)</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=User_talk:0x99&diff=146836User talk:0x992023-11-07T09:02:37Z<p>0x99: /* Caching issue? */</p>
<hr />
<div><div style="border:1px solid #c0c090;padding:10px;background:#FDFFEE;margin:-0.4em 0 0.6em;">'''Previous discussions are archived at''':<br />
*[[User talk:0x99/Archive 1]] (May 5, 2011–March 30, 2016)<br />
</div><br />
<br />
== Status ==<br />
<br />
Holy crap a wild mod appeared! --[[User:Universalperson|Universalperson]] 20:58, 1 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
: Right, and I have to (finally) update the server and the Wiki software someday. —[[User:0x99|0x99]] 14:16, 3 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==pt version of Puella-magi wiki==<br />
Hi maru<br />
<br />
On last email and talk in irc, you've asked for me to wait the server be updated<br />
<br />
Does it was done? Does you still have plans to open the wiki to another languages? When can we talk about this again?<br />
<br />
Graciouslly<br />
<br />
{{User:Hibiki/ass2}} 03:29, 22 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
<br />
: Not much movement yet. Super busy with work. Sorry :( -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 14:37, 25 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Page patrolling ==<br />
<br />
Hi I have previously created a page on the wiki at [[Pachinko and Pachislot]] but seems like it is not indexed by search engine as the page have not been patrolled by mods. Could you help review and mark the page? [[User:C933103|C933103]] 15:10, 28 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
:I'm pretty sure the wiki doesn't have patrolling enabled. How did you check that the page wasn't indexed? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 18:50, 28 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== It's me again ==<br />
Any news? or you're saving efforts to update mediawiki at the moment? {{User:Hibiki/ass2}} 02:33, 5 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Front Page Sidebar==<br />
<br />
Is there anyway to add a link to the Magia Record anime in the sidebar under "Anime"? Especially since it will be launching in a few days and I don't know how to change that myself. Maybe also add the Magia Record Manga link as well?[[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] ([[User talk:Sondenise|talk]]) 01:58, 1 January 2020 (UTC)<br />
: Sorry that this took so long, I've added Magia Record to the sidebar. Will also redo the frontpage soon-ish. --- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 05:44, 5 January 2020 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== String parser functions ==<br />
<br />
Based on [[Special:Version]] it looks like these are supported, but they don't work on a page so they are probably disabled (which is apparently the default). Is there any chance of enabling them? ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 16:18, 15 April 2022 (UTC)<br />
:Sorry, I didn't notice this message. I know it's a year overdue, but I've now enabled string parsers in the Wiki. Please let me know if you need anything else. --[[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 15:57, 28 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Bulk Upload ==<br />
<br />
Was the MsUpload extension intentionally disabled or was that an accident? ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 01:11, 11 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
:I couldn't get it to work for some reason. I'll take a look at it later. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 06:40, 11 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Permitted File Types ==<br />
<br />
Any chance you could add .ogg (and maybe .mid) to the list of allowed file types? I was just thinking that it would be better to upload the musical rendering linked from [[:File:Sayaka Sheet.PNG|here]] directly to the wiki instead of hosting it on MediaFire. I think MediaWiki even has a built-in media player so it would be easy for anyone to listen to it if I converted it to .ogg. (Unless that's just an extension used on Wikipedia and the other big wikis?) ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 03:34, 17 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: I've enabled file uploads for ogg/mid/webm. Not sure if it'll work, but let me know if it doesn't. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 14:46, 10 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Tabs ==<br />
<br />
We were discussing building a tabbed view to show variants of a single character all on one page. I constructed style rules for it in [[MediaWiki:Common.css]], and it works almost perfectly, but there are a few little glitches that seem unsolvable without JavaScript… so I was wondering if you could perhaps add the first block of JS from [[User talk:SuzuneMU#Tabs]] to [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]?<br />
<br />
I already tested that code by pasting it into my browser's Developer Console; if you're uncertain of it, you can do the same before pushing it live. Or if you know of some other way to make the tabs function better, feel free to write your own code or edit [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] instead.<br />
<br />
The second block of code on that page is a way to make tabs able to scroll left and right, useful if there are too many to fit on a page. I'm not sure if we'd actually need that, though. It's also tested in the same way as the other code, and works if <tt><nowiki>{{Tab Nav}}</nowiki></tt> is added to the top of the tab container. I didn't actually test the two blocks combined though. ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 19:33, 19 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:: Done. Sorry, if I don't respond in a responsible time (2-3 days), please feel free to ping via email. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 08:31, 10 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== SVG upload is broken ==<br />
<br />
See [[:File:^Rune.svg]] for the error message. ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 23:50, 21 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: Sorry about this, SVG should now work again (it should re-process on page visit). -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 08:26, 10 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== A quick question ==<br />
<br />
Hello 0x99, I have a quick question, if thats okay. I'm going through the "Unused files" page and finding ones fit for deletion. The thing is, I feel like Im annoying the mods by making so many requests. Is there any way I could get the files deleted without causing any trouble for anyone? If not, I'll just keep putting them in the Deletion category. [[User:Amaterasu|Amaterasu]] ([[User talk:Amaterasu|talk]]) 18:17, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
:I think you already have the permission to delete pages (look at "More" in the top bar). You can directly delete it, but I actually like the Deletion Request category, since it serves as a double check in case somebody objects. We could probably do this automatically in the future with [[User:AnthonyBot]], though. By the way, thank you for taking the effort to clean up old images. It helps to shrink down the space and bandwidth usage by quite a lot (as these are often hotlinked as a forum signature, etc.). -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 18:29, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::Oh my! I do! Thanks. Sorry for bothering you! Have a good day. [[User:Amaterasu|Amaterasu]] ([[User talk:Amaterasu|talk]]) 19:28, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::If I can chime in real quick, I don't mind at all doing the deletions in batches. And thank you for your work!![[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] ([[User talk:Sondenise|talk]]) 01:47, 3 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
:::I'd also like to add, it's ok since we've been meaning to get rid of a lot of the fan art and unused stuff on here. Some stuff I wasn't sure on deleting since I couldn't tell if it was official or fan art, or in other cases whether we should keep stuff like [[Poorfag]]'s page+art around and the like around since it's technically fan-related but also part of the wiki's history and it's not really all that mixed in with official stuff. -[[User:The Witch&#39;s House|The Witch&#39;s House]] ([[User talk:The Witch&#39;s House|talk]]) 09:49, 3 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::::I'm perfectly fine with keeping ones with some history behind it or play a good part in the history of the community, e.g. meduca meguca stuff, poorfag, some memes in [[Deciphering the runes]], etc. Previously, there were a lot of fanart uploads that were just... un-permissioned fanart uploads (which were severely hotlinked). It's probably safe to clean those up. Though if the author uploads it themselves (or with permission) and linked from their User page, I think that's also cool to keep. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 09:56, 3 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
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==Caching issue?==<br />
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I noticed that [[:File:Mami 4star.png]] and [[:File:Mami 5star.png]] were reversed and tried to fix them by uploading each to the other as a new revision. However, somehow they're still reversed, at least for me. In the middle of it the wiki claimed they were duplicates, so I think the fix worked at some level, but they're now showing wrong? ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 03:11, 7 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
:I've been having the same issue. I replace a file and it shows as the original despite me refreshing, etc. [[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] ([[User talk:Sondenise|talk]]) 04:03, 7 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::OK, I see the issue now. Looks like MediaWiki (still) only hashes the path on the first upload and not for subsequent revision, so the cache doesn't get expired. I'll do something. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 09:02, 7 November 2023 (UTC)</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Ume_Aoki&diff=146509Ume Aoki2023-11-05T16:53:40Z<p>0x99: /* See Also */</p>
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<div>[[File:Ume.jpg|right|thumb|Ume-sensei in [[wikipedia:Metapod|Metapod]] form]]<br />
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{{Nihongo|'''Ume Aoki'''|蒼樹 うめ|Aoki Ume}} is a Japanese mangaka born August 3. She illustrated under the pennames {{Nihongo|'''Apply Fujimiya'''|藤宮 アプリ|Fujimiya Apuri}} for the visual novel Sanarara (Nekoneko Soft) and Apricot+ for most of the doujinshi that she writes. Ume's most well-known work is Hidamari Sketch, also known as Sunshine Sketch. She is also the voice of the little caterpillar creature in the anime for Hidamari Sketch. Most notably, Aoki provided the original character designs for [[Main Page|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]. She is from Hyōgo Prefecture.<br />
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==Works==<br />
[[File:Ume tentei.jpg|thumb|right|200px|See if you can find Ume Aoki]]<br />
*{{Nihongo|Hidamari Sketch|ひだまりスケッチ|}} (2004, ongoing) (manga, original creator)<br />
*[[wikipedia:Hidamari_Sketch|Hidamari Sketch]] (2007) (anime, original creator)<br />
*Hidamari Sketch ×365 (2008) (anime, original creator)<br />
*Hidamari Sketch ×☆☆☆ (2010) (anime, original creator)<br />
*Hidamari Sketch × Honeycomb (2012) (anime, original creator)<br />
*{{Nihongo|Tetsunagi Kooni|てつなぎこおに。|}} (manga, original creator)<br />
*{{Nihongo|Sanarara|サナララ}} (visual novel by Nekoneko Soft, illustrator)<br />
*{{Nihongo|Two Smiling Faces|笑顔ふたつ|Egao Futatsu}} (manga, original creator)<br />
*Puella Magi Madoka Magica (anime, original character design)<br />
*{{Nihongo|Mado no Mukōgawa|マドの向こう側|}} (2012, ongoing) (manga, original creator)<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
[[File:Thank_you_for_watching_the_end.jpg|thumb|300px|End card from the broadcast version of [[episode 12]]]]<br />
*Ume Aoki's first ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' doujin sold out in a little over an hour. She had to apologize to the public for the inconvenience. There are photos of the event showing long lines.[http://blog.livedoor.jp/geek/archives/51259461.html]<br />
*According to the Blu-Ray Episode 2 voice commentary:<br />
**Ume Aoki's started the girls designs with the weapons first then she decided what clothes went with the weapons. <br />
**Madoka, Homura and Mami's character designs were easy for Ume Aoki. On the other hand, Sayaka and Kyubey's character designs were hard.<br />
***According with [[Kirara Magica Interview Ume Aoki|Ume Aoki's interview with Kirara Magica]], from a design perspective, Kyouko and Sayaka were easier to draw. Madoka, Homura and then Mami-san were harder.<br />
****It's their twin tails hair, if the size and texture are slightly off, the character would look completely different. <br />
**Kyubey was not based on any animal, just the concept of a "small mahou shoujo animal"<br />
**When asked what animals she used as the basis for Kyubey, Ume Aoki was very cryptic because of spoilers.<br />
*Aoki, Shinbo, and Urobuchi discussed the idea of [[Guidebook#PAGE_121|Kyubey visiting Hidamari-so]] in "Hidamari Sketch" as a joke.<br />
**And Shinbo suggested that it should be called ''"Madoka Magica the Origin"''.<br />
***Apparently, Shinbo and Urobuchi had succeeded in corrupting Ume Aoki.<br />
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==Ume-sensei's letter==<br />
[[File:Scan 32.jpeg|left|thumb|100px]]<br />
[[File:Ume-sensei's letter to kyousaya.jpg|right|thumb|100px]]<br />
<i>In the last episode of the TV series, when Sayaka disappeared due to the Law of Cycles, I was happy to hear Kyouko say "And we finally became friends, too...". In her last scene (in the concert hall), though, she didn't mention Kyouko.<br />
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Even in the pre-Law-of-Cycles timelines, when Sayaka became Oktavia, she identified Madoka as her "most important friend" just before becoming a witch.<br />
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There's something powerful about the image of Kyouko and Sayaka as a duo, but in the TV series, I don't think the strength of Sayaka's feelings for Kyouko and vice versa were well-balanced. Kyouko felt very strongly about Sayaka, since Sayaka reminded her of herself when she was younger. Sayaka, on the other hand, just saw Kyouko as "another person who wished for someone else's happiness". (Of course, that was why, in the very end, it was Kyouko to whom Sayaka spoke about how she really felt at the very end.)<br />
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And now, The Rebellion Story!! When I heard the two of them talking towards the end, it made me think. This version of Sayaka was aware of post-Oktavia Kyouko. She was aware of how much Kyouko suffered trying to bring her back; of how Kyouko died with her in the end! Wow! Of course, I'm just one fan, and that's just what I got out of the movie, so I can't say I know what Mr. Urobuchi thought about it [laughter], but I was just thinking that she, like Madoka, knew what Kyouko did back then, since she's part of the Law of Cycles, too. This time around, it was Kyouko that said "I had a horrible dream", and it was she that didn't quite remember what had happened. That works, too...<br />
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Oh, it looks like I've written a lot here. Now, a message for Kyouko and Sayaka: "Be friends with one another forever! Stay on good terms!!!"... come on, that was just one line! [laughter]<br />
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I love Kyouko and Sayaka as a duo! -Aoki Ume </i><br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Autographs===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Autographed illustration umeaoki.JPG|Autographed illustration<br />
File:Ume autograph.jpg|Autograph of Homura<br />
File:Ume drawing and signature 2.jpg<br />
File:Exhibit 80.jpg<br />
File:Exhibit Autographed.jpg<br />
File:Ume Aoki Homura Madoka.jpg<br />
File:Madoka movie ume.jpg<br />
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File:Signboard madohomu.jpg<br />
File:Signboard madokami.jpg<br />
File:Signboard mamimomoe.jpg<br />
File:Signboard homura.jpg<br />
File:Signboard kyousaya.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
===Character Designs===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Madoka Kaname Original Design.jpg|[[Madoka Kaname]] Original Design<br />
File:Homura Akemi Original Design.jpg|[[Homura Akemi]] Original Design<br />
File:Sayaka Miki Original Design.jpg|[[Sayaka Miki]] Original Design<br />
File:Mami Tomoe Original Design.jpg|[[Mami Tomoe]] Original Design<br />
File:Kyubey Original Design.jpg|[[Kyubey]] Original Design<br />
File:Ultimate Madoka settei information 6 official art BD 6.jpg|Ultimate Madoka design<br />
File:Ume-sensei's original character design akuma.jpg|Character design for Devil Homura<br />
File:Madohomu prodsketch.jpg|Early Madoka and Homura designs<br />
File:Homura prodsketch.jpg<br />
File:Production note Homura design.jpg<br />
File:Mami prodsketch.jpg|Early Mami design<br />
File:Production note Mami design 1.jpg<br />
File:Production note Mami design 2.jpg<br />
File:Sayaka prodsketch.jpg|Early Sayaka design<br />
File:Kyoko prodsketch.jpg|Early Kyoko design<br />
File:PN 10.jpg|Old height chart<br />
File:PN 80.jpg|Early Kyosuke and Kazuko designs<br />
File:Aoki ume early kyubey hitomi.jpg|Early Kyubey and Hitomi designs<br />
File:PN 35.jpg<br />
File:Aoki ume early madoka family.jpg<br />
File:Megami 01.11 scan P32.jpg|Character designs from [[Megami Magazine 2011-01]]<br />
File:033.jpg|Ume's original designs for Madoka's drawings<br />
File:Rebellion Guidebook Nagisa Original Design.jpg|Ume Aoki's original [[Nagisa]] design<br />
File:Movie 3 Brochure 19.jpg|Outfit designs by Ume Aoki for the Rebellion Story<br />
File:1382895835480.jpg|Kyoko outfit design and later Nagisa design<br />
File:Ultimate Madoka Concept Art.png|Early Ultimate Madoka Design, Aokiume-Ten<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Character Art===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:UmeMadokamiArt.jpg<br />
File:Claris.jpg|[[Connect|ClariS]] art<br />
File:Madoka magica anthology 1.jpg|Madoka Magica Anthology 1 cover<br />
File:Madoka magica anthology 2.jpg|Madoka Magica Anthology 2 cover<br />
File:Madoka magica anthology 3.jpg|Madoka Magica Anthology 3 cover<br />
File:Newtype magazine cover clean version homura madokami photoshop.jpg|Newtype Magazine cover<br />
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File:Original ED visuals by Ume-sensei.jpg|[[Episode 1]] [[End Cards|End Card]]<br />
File:Madoka BD 5 Menu Art 2.jpg|[[Episode 9]] End Card<br />
File:EC12.jpg|[[Episode 12]] End Card<br />
File:Mr episode 13 end card.png|Magia Record Episode 13 End Card<br />
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File:Kirara Magica Rebellion Stitch.jpg|3 part cover art for Kirara Magica vol.9-11<br />
File:Godoka figure aoki art.jpg|Ultimate Madoka art<br />
File:Godoka big figure.jpg|Figure based on the art<br />
File:Exq homura devil art.jpg|Devil Homura art<br />
File:Exq homura devil.jpg|Figure based on the art<br />
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File:Madoka ume aoki postcard.jpg<br />
File:Homura ume aoki postcard.jpg<br />
File:Kyouko ume aoki postcard.jpg<br />
File:Sayaka ume aoki postcard.jpg<br />
File:Mami ume aoki postcard.jpg<br />
File:Kyubey ume aoki postcard.jpg<br />
File:Kirara Magica Vol.3 benefit.jpg|Manga Time Kirara Magica Vol.3 cover<br />
File:Kirara Magica Vol 3 Bonus Front.jpg|Volume 3 insert<br />
File:Kirara Magica Vol.6 benefit.jpeg<br />
File:Kirara Magica Vol.25 benefit Ume Aoki.jpg<br />
File:Rakugaki Note Ume Aoki.jpg<br />
File:Rakugaki Note Rebellion 05 Ume Aoki.jpg<br />
File:Madoka calendar 2.jpg|Art from a monthly Rakugaki<br />
File:DosQPP4UYAEA-06.jpg<br />
File:Ph main.jpg|Ume Aoki's 10th Anniversary illustration<br />
File:Madoka Novel Paperback cover.jpg|Nitro+ Novel ad<br />
File:Anime the Television Vol.1 Illustration.jpg|Anime The Television Vol.1 cover<br />
File:NewType 2015-05 01.jpg|[[NewType 2015-05]]<br />
File:Iroha Tamaki Ume Aoki.jpg<br />
File:1535156824540.jpg<br />
File:DmAaPx-UcAABE4i.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
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===4koma===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:4-koma megamimagazine.jpg|Ume 4-koma Megami Magazine<br />
File:Ume madoka.jpg|Translated Ume 4koma<br />
File:Madoka bd1 4koma.jpg|Translated 4koma from Madoka BD volume 1 fanbook<br />
File:Madoka BD2 Ume 4koma TL.png|Translated 4koma from the Madoka BD 2 fanbook. Header is, "Aoki Ume's Special 4Koma Theater (2)"<br />
File:BD 3 Ume 4koma TL.jpg|Translated 4koma from the Madoka BD 3 fanbook<br />
File:BD 4 Ume 4koma TL.jpg|Translated 4koma from the Madoka BD 4 fanbook<br />
File:BD 5 Ume 4koma TL.jpg|Translated 4koma from the Madoka BD 5 fanbook<br />
File:BD 6 Ume 4koma TL.jpg|Translated 4koma from the Madoka BD 6 fanbook<br />
File:Movies BDs 4koma Official Translation.jpg|Translated 4koma from the Madoka movie Blu-ray. ([[:file:Movies BDs 4koma 1 v2.jpg|alternate translation]])<br />
File:Movies BDs 4koma Rebellion Translation.jpg|Translated 4koma from the Madoka Rebellion movie Blu-ray<br />
</gallery><br />
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==See Also==<br />
* [[Kirara Magica Interview Ume Aoki]]<br />
* [[Manga Time Kirara Magica Vol.13]]<br />
* [[Pre-Broadcast Official Site Staff Quotes]]<br />
* [[Audio Commentary/Episode 2]]<br />
* [[Audio Commentary/Episode 12]]<br />
* [[Megami_Magazine_2011-01]]<br />
* [[NewType 2011-12]]<br />
* [[RKGKMDK]]<br />
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==External Links==<br />
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*[http://ap.sakuraweb.com/ Apricot+ Website]<br />
*[http://aokiume.blog21.fc2.com/ Ume Aoki's Blog]<br />
*[http://twitter.com/#!/umeaoki Ume Aoki's Twitter]<br />
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s16iUdMI5gA Youtube - Ume Aoki Live Painting]<br />
*{{pixiv_tag|うめ先生}}<br />
*[http://animapple.blogspot.com/2011/05/madoka-ume-zenzei-mado-magi-doujinshi.html Ume Aoki's Doujin a success]<br />
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?tqe9s63lizsd1eh Madoplus+, fan art coloring of Ume's doujin work]<br />
*[http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14239427?group_id=37201181 Ume Aoki at a promotional event for Hidamari Sketch]<br />
[[Category: Staff]]</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=RKGKMDK&diff=146508RKGKMDK2023-11-05T16:51:07Z<p>0x99: Created page with "'''''RKGKMDK''''' or {{Nihongo|ラクガキマドカ|Rakugaki Madoka}} is a ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' doujinshi created by Aoki Ume. The doujinshi has 16 pages in total and contains illustrations by Aoki Ume. == Distribution == The doujinshi was distributed at COMIC 1 event on May 1st, 2011 and features a clear file of Homura with a golf club in a style similar to that of Hidamari Sketch as a bonus. After the event, it was..."</p>
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<div>'''''RKGKMDK''''' or {{Nihongo|ラクガキマドカ|Rakugaki Madoka}} is a ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' doujinshi created by [[Aoki Ume]]. The doujinshi has 16 pages in total and contains illustrations by Aoki Ume. <br />
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== Distribution ==<br />
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The doujinshi was distributed at COMIC 1 event on May 1st, 2011 and features a clear file of Homura with a golf club in a style similar to that of [[:wikipedia:Hidamari Sketch|Hidamari Sketch]] as a bonus. <br />
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After the event, it was then available to purchase online from Toranoana at 3am on May 14th, 2011, and in a physical Toranoana stores on the same day in the morning. The first batch sold out within an hour, despite being sold at late night.<br />
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The second batch was made available on Toranoana on May 29th 2011 with double the stock but also sold out within 2 hours.<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
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File:03.jpg<br />
File:Apricot +7.jpg<br />
File:08.jpg<br />
File:13.jpg<br />
</gallery></div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Creative_Intentions&diff=146506Creative Intentions2023-11-05T16:27:41Z<p>0x99: /* Design Check */ link RKGKMDK</p>
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<div>{{spoilers}}<br />
[[File:Photoshop interview with madoka and homura.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
This article contains fan speculation and analysis based on information from or about the creative staff. It serves as a speculation and observation section for [[Translated Official Documents]], [[Translated Official Documents Miscellaneous]], and [[Tweets]], as well as a place for analysis of story elements and the show's design based on the creative staff's intentions, methods, and history.<br />
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==Thou Shalt Not Kill==<br />
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! width=120 |[[Megami_Magazine_2011-04|Megami Magazine]]<br />
| From an animation point of view, were there specific instructions from Shinbo or Inu Curry?<br />
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! [[Megami_Magazine_2011-04|Yukihiro Miyamoto<br>Series Director]]<br />
|Shinbo would say something on the drawings on the layout and the situation design, like "I want here to be like this". But he did not say much about the personality of the characters. He only said "A character that killed other people cannot get a happy end".<br />
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[[File:Sayaka-transform-train.jpg|right|250px|Sayaka in the train scene.]]<br />
{|class="wikitable" style="width=100%;"<br />
|-<br />
! width=120 | [[NewType_2011-05|Akiyuki Shinbo]]<br />
|In the anime, Sayaka didn't kill the two hosts. [Referring to the men she encountered on the train in Episode 8]<br />
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! [[NewType_2011-05|Gen Urobuchi]]<br />
|It can be interpreted as both ways in the scenario, so Hanokage-san interpreted it as if they're killed in her manga version.<br />
|}<br />
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Madoka's world bears a strong sense of karma with regard to murder. The creators ensure that it does not go unpunished. Sayaka, who killed the two men on the train, could not escape her fate. Although the anime and manga disagree on whether she did so, under the "Schroedinger's Sayaka" principle, she must be treated as if she did in order to keep both interpretations viable. <br />
{|class="wikitable" style="width=100%;"<br />
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! width=120 | [[Guidebook#Episode_Commentaries|Gen Urobuchi<br>On Ep 12]]<br />
|My intention when I wrote the screenplay was: The location is not Japan and Homura's fight just goes on. But I think it is fine for all the fans to come up with their own interpretation. There is even conjecture that "this is without doubt the world after humanity was annihilated." It is still a valid interpretation. <br />
|}<br />
Urobuchi often leaves details intentionally undefined when they are tangential to the story and would give viewers food for thought, so the staff must pay careful attention to these ambiguous situations, especially when writing additional material such as spinoff manga (which sometimes deviated from the original scenario as shown in [[Manga differences]]) and drama CDs.<br />
{|class="wikitable" style="width=100%;"<br />
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! width=120 |[[Shinjidai_no_Mixture_Magazine_BLACK_PAST|Gen Urobuchi]]<br />
| ...producer and Shinbo-san got attached to Sayaka and I got the request that “could something be done in the final episode to bring her back to life?”. For me, it was “That's enough.” (lol) In “Madoka” Sayaka is a character who would be a problem [to the story] if she was brought back to life<br />
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[[File:Baka.jpg|right|250px]]<br />
Sayaka must meet her tragic fate to preserve the sense of a world with consequences: one in which magic cannot solve everything.<br />
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Ironically, the only magical girls who did not kill another magical girl were Kyouko and Sayaka, even though Kyouko and Sayaka attacked each other with intent to kill. <br />
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Since the other girls received relatively happy endings, there must be an exception applying in their cases. It may be that magical girls, being liches bound to soul gems, are already effectively dead and destroying them does not count as "killing other people." It is also possible that the rule is not absolute, and those who kill for the sake of protecting others are exempt from the consequences. Mami killed Kyouko to save her from becoming a witch, Homura killed Madoka for the same reason at Madoka's request, and Madoka killed Mami both to put Mami out of her misery and to save Homura's life. Another possible explanation is that this karma only applies to the same timeline the killing happened in.<br />
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==Chidamari Sketch==<br />
[[File:Hidamari Magi shock.png|right|250px]]<br />
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{|class="wikitable" style="width=100%;"<br />
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! width=120 | Gen Urobuchi<br />
|It's disappointing that my new anime is called 'Chidamari (blood puddle) Sketch'."<br><br>"I want to make the audience happy by the anime.<br />
|-<br />
!Gen Urobuchi<br />
|So here are my defendant's claims…<br><br>Regarding the question "what's with that wholesome scenario writer?", in actuality, we had this idea of hiding the scenario writer's name until the broadcast started, but the plan failed since the staff list was leaked back in the early spring. But the director still wanted to surprise the viewers...<br><br>So I thought it would be bad if everyone could guess how the series will be because of me. As a troubleshooter, I tried to mislead everyone. But as you can see, it's ineffective.<br><br>Okay, that took a big load off my mind. Thank you everyone who kept up until today! I'm going back to the normal Urobuchi from now on!<br />
|-<br />
!Gen Urobuchi<br />
|If the “expectation” has a sense of direction, this is almost the same as “prediction”. And that is what I would like to disappoint if possible. The feeling for “I want to surprise them” is strong inside me.<br />
|}<br />
[[File:Old_website.jpg|thumb|220px|The official site's original look]]<br />
The production team conspired to hide the true nature of the work from fans and present it as a cute, happy mahou shoujo anime. They attempted to conceal Gen Urobuchi's involvement. The [[Teasers and Commercials]] advertizing the show, as well as the original website, were misleading.<br />
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Dedicated fans still uncovered the truth when the staff list was leaked in 2ch on April 1, 2010, and Urobuchi was identified as the writer. Viewers familiar with his visual novels wisely nicknamed the show "Chidamari Sketch" (Pool of Blood Sketch), suggesting that it would be a twisted and gory version of character designer Ume Aoki's Hidamari Sketch.<br />
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Urobuchi denied this and attempted to salvage the plan. When [[Episode 3]] aired and Mami demonstrated that the show was headed into dark territory, Urobuchi admitted the truth and apologized for the deception. Some fans welcomed the new development, but others were still shocked like the production team had hoped.<br />
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In one notorious case, an Amazon user review gave the show a 1 star rating: "I recommended this to my niece over New Year's because of the cute character designs. Today I got an angry phone call from my sister and mother saying that she was frightened and depressed after watching the latest episode. I'm now banned from my parents' place. My niece won't speak to me. Everyone, be careful of the cute designs!" 97 out of 480 users found this review helpful, and there has been some debate over whether it was serious.<br />
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[[File:Madokamercy.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Madoka saving a magical girl's soul]]<br />
==Healing-type Writing==<br />
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! width=120 | Gen Urobuchi<br />
|It's time to recognize me as a healing-type writer.<br />
|}<br />
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Before Episode 3 aired, Urobuchi claimed on twitter that he had become a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Iyashikei healing-type writer (iyashikei)]. This turned out to be rather misleading, and he later apologized for deceiving fans.<br />
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Upon reading the [[Creative_Intentions#Fate.2FZero_Volume_1_Postface | Fate/Zero Volume 1 Postface]], "healing" takes on a new meaning. The postface indicates that one of Urobuchi's goals in writing Madoka was to explore how to write a happy ending within the confines of the logic and ruleset of a dark, unforgiving world. He took up the following challenge:<br />
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{|class="wikitable" style="width=100%;"<br />
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! width=120 | Gen Urobuchi<br>in Fate/zero<br>vol. 1 postface<br />
|Therefore, in order to write a perfect ending for a story you have to twist the laws of cause and effect, reverse black and white, and even possess a power to move in the opposite direction from the rule of the universe. Only a heavenly and chaste soul that can sing carols of praise towards humanity can save the story. To write a story with a perfect ending is a double challenge to the author's body and soul.<br><br> Gen Urobuchi had lost that power. It still hasn't recovered. The 'tragedy syndrome' is still continuing within me. Is this a terminal disease? Should I give up on the pure 'warrior of love' that I've longed for?<br />
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That turned out to be an exact blueprint for Madoka's ending. Madoka appears to be an attempt to overcome that "tragedy syndrome" by proving to himself that it's possible to have a self-consistent and natural happy ending to an Urobuchi story cruel enough to deserve the title "Chidamari Sketch" (Pool of Blood Sketch). In other words, this might be, in a way, a "healing" story, but from the author's perspective rather than the audience's.<br />
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|To tell the truth, the production of the Madoka anime was temporary stopped once the scenario was finished, however Hanokage's manga still continued. So the rough sketch of the manga was done before the storyboard. It's amusing if you compare the manga and anime, as they're divergences from a single scenario<br />
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|Main element of the story is how everyone from a different standpoint understands each other.<br />
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|I did not want to show cruel scenes; I wanted to show the feeling of those people who had to face those situations.<br />
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[[Image:Kyoko_contrast.png|thumb|250px|The preacher's daughter: good girl or bad girl?]]<br />
The story focuses on exploring how characters psychologically react to their circumstances, are shaped by their experiences, and come to understand one another (or fail to do so). The multiple timelines and storytelling techniques used show characters and events from several different perspectives and allow for various interpretations. As a result, the truth is sometimes ambiguous and dependent on one's point of view.<br />
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Much like how the anime allows both interpretations of "Schroedinger's Sayaka", it must perform a juggling act with the effort to characterize the girls consistently across widely varying timelines. For example, Mami's behavior when dealing with Homura in the early episodes had to be written with her violent breakdown in Timeline 3 in mind. When she tried to intimidate Homura, was Mami on the verge of attempting murder, or was she just bluffing? Which did Homura believe? Which would the viewer believe on the first viewing, or upon rewatching after seeing Episode 10?<br />
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The dialogue and events of the first nine episodes appear very different when viewed through the lens of Homura's past. Lines that once seemed innocent turn into cruel mockery. By experiencing the same events from different points of view, the audience is better able to understand the characters' feelings and motivations. <br />
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Kyoko is initially presented as a villain who exemplifies the cutthroat nature of the world of magical girls. However, as the audience learns more about her, she turns out to be in some ways a very kind and reliable character. Kyoko deals with several serious moral dilemmas, and ironically does the most harm when she's attempting to be helpful. <br />
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[[File:KyubeyIsEvil.png|thumb|left|200px|Working to save the universe, or humanity's evil enemy?]]<br />
Her moral philosophies are abandoned and rediscovered as she evolves from the inexperienced magical girl of the first scenes in [[Drama CD 3|drama CD 3]] into a hardened veteran, but she always tries to do what's best for those she cares about. Her insincere villainous persona was an attempt to use a coldly calculating, utilitarian approach to avoid repeating the costly mistakes she made when trying to be a savior. However, she took it too far and that backfired, leading to a destructive conflict between her and Sayaka. Much like Kyubey's, her story presents an unresolved comparison between different ethical philosophies rather than ending with a clear moral.<br />
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Rather than simply writing characters off as "bad guys," viewers are forced to question their own assumptions about what they believe to be "the truth" when characters fight amongst themselves and behave badly for good reasons. The black-and-white worldview that divides most children's shows about magical heroes into good guys and bad guys is attacked both within and outside of the story. Sayaka attempts to follow that philosophy but fails miserably, and members of the audience who try to do the same will fare no better.<br />
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|Her twisty, curly hair and floral hairpin make her seem like a big sister. Also, I gave her pretty big boobs.<br><br>Mami’s design was definiely centered around her image as a gunner. The second thing that stands out are her breasts.<br />
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|By the way, Homura-chan's normal clothes are the ones you see on the color page. I couldn't think of what she'd wear so I just let my lust guide me on that one.<br />
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[[File:Ume meet Urobuchi.jpg|thumb|right|100px|We suspect this is an accurate depiction]]<br />
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[[Ume Aoki]], the artist famous for the heartwarming and happy Hidamari Sketch, was hired as the character designer. To ensure a convincing positive image, the true nature of the story was hidden from her until after the initial character designs had been completed. This unconventional tactic succeeded: Ume poured her heart into the design of her favorite Madoka character, [[Mami Tomoe]], only to discover later that this masterpiece would be killed off in the third episode. Mami became exceptionally popular with fans.<br />
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|I'd be happy if everyone stopped bullying Kyubey so much *tear*, okay?<br />
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[[File:Kyokosayaka.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Yuupon's Nitro+ blog sketch of Kyouko and Sayaka]]<br />
Although Ume's work is usually thought of as pure and wholesome, the artist herself isn't quite so innocent. Several quotes reveal a fixation on Mami's boobs, and her Madoka doujin [[RKGKMDK]] features yuri shipping of her own characters and a revelation that lust served as inspiration. Perhaps this perspective allows her work to appeal to fans in certain ways without resorting to the out-of-character fanservice or undue pandering that is common in the anime industry.<br />
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Considering various staff members' histories and unofficial artwork, there's little question that the story was designed to allow fans of yuri to enjoy such an interpretation. However, it has not been made explicitly canon, so the issue was most likely purposefully left open-ended, much like the question of whether Sayaka killed the men on the train. Those who wish to interpret the girls' relationships as simple friendships are able to do so. <br />
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|For me, perhaps there is part in my thought that said whatever relationship that could exist between male and female it should also exist between couples of same sex.<br />
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However, Urobuchi made it clear in a [[Shinjidai_no_Mixture_Magazine_BLACK_PAST | Black Past interview]] that he draws no fundamental distinction between homosexual and heterosexual relationships. Relationships between the characters were written in such a way that they would remain unchanged if either character were genderswapped. Many fans would view Madoka and Homura's relationship differently if Homura were male. Common audience preconceptions about sex are invalid, and character interactions can only be judged fairly by thinking about how they would look from a gender-neutral point of view.<br />
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== Fate/Zero Volume 1 Postface ==<br />
A translation of the postface by Gen Urobuchi is available [[Fate/Zero_Volume_1_Postface | here]]. In it, he discusses his history as a writer and his thoughts on writing endings.<br />
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Urobuchi commented on the relationship between his thoughts while writing Fate/Zero and Madoka in a [[Shinjidai_no_Mixture_Magazine_BLACK_PAST | Black Past interview]].<br />
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|Among your works, even if we put side the issue of sexuality, it seems “Fate/Zero” is a turning point. Of the works before it, “Saya no Uta” is a good representative, where we can see a composition in which catharsis is obtained by means by giving priority to personal emotion over social mores when both are present. On the other hand, after “Fate/Zero”, the style is shifted to a direction in which the strength of the story was pulled up and tension was raised by continuously taking in concepts of morals and social responsibilities. The depiction of Kiritsugu Emiya in “Fate/Zero” is typical of this.<br />
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|I wrote it in the afterword of “Fate/Zero” too. It was the time when I got so troubled by the fact that as much as I wanted to write a heartwarming story, somewhere in me just could not believe in legitimate happiness but I had to move the work to a happy end, and I almost wanted to hang up my pen. From very beginning, to opt for the individual instead of the world, to affirm his own desire and ambition is to me an absoulte bad-end. If the world should be destroyed then there was no salvation whatsoever left. I think in the past I just picked the escape route by landing the story in way that is a bad-end in a macro perspective but a happy-end from the individual's point of view. However, “Fate/Zero” is a story that had the individuals fallen into misfortune but got the world saved. Perhaps this became the turning point like you said and finally I could write my happy-end. After that, be it “Eisen Fluegel” or “Madoka”, I approached to write works in which the protagonist may face ruin and destruction but to the world it holds a good ending.<br />
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Hi there! I love your work! We're currently doing some housekeeping for unused uploads in the wiki and found that [[:File:Gretchen pal.png]] was unlinked. I realized it may have been replaced by [[:File:GRETCHEN PAL REDONE.png]], do you think it's possible to make a note in [[:File:GRETCHEN PAL REDONE.png]] that [[:File:Gretchen pal.png]] was a previous iteration (so it won't get flagged in the future). Thank you! -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 16:23, 5 November 2023 (UTC)</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=File_talk:Gretchen_pal.png&diff=146502File talk:Gretchen pal.png2023-11-05T16:15:53Z<p>0x99: </p>
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* [[Deciphering the runes]]<br />
* [[Deciphering the notes]]<br />
* [[Events and venues]]<br />
* [[Fanworks|Fanworks]]<br />
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* [[Threads|Archived discussions and threads]]<br />
* [http://reddit.com/r/madokamagica Madoka Magica Subreddit]<br />
* [https://discord.gg/84DmX7k /r/MadokaMagica Discord]<br />
* [irc://irc.rizon.net/madoka #madoka at irc.rizon.net] ([http://qchat.rizon.net/?channels=#madoka webchat])<br />
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* [[Puella Magi Wiki:Maintenance Log|Wiki Maintenance Log]]<br />
* [[Puella Magi Wiki:Public Backups|Public Wiki Backups]]<br />
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* [http://www22.atwiki.jp/madoka-magica/ Japanese wiki (魔法少女まどか☆マギカ WIKI)]<br />
* [http://wiki.madomagi.info/%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5 Chinese wiki (魔法少女小圆维基)]<br />
* [http://es.madokamagica.wikia.com/wiki/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica_Wiki Spanish wiki (Wiki en español de Puella Magi Madoka Magica)]<br />
* [http://magireco.moe Magia Record Chinese wiki(魔法纪录中文wiki)]<br />
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' at Wikipedia]<br />
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' at TV Tropes]<br />
* [http://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E9%AD%94%E6%B3%95%E5%B0%91%E5%A5%B3%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A9%E3%81%8B%E2%98%86%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AE%E3%82%AB''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' at pixiv encyclopedia] (Japanese)<br />
* [http://en.dic.pixiv.net/a/Puella+Magi+Madoka+Magica''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' at pixiv encyclopedia] (English)<br />
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* [http://www.madoka-magica.com/ ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' official website] (Japanese)<br />
* [http://twitter.com/madoka_magica ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' official Twitter] (Japanese)<br />
* [http://www.mbs.jp/madoka-magica/ ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'''s page at MBS] (Japanese)<br />
* [http://www.madokamagicausa.com/ ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' official website] (English)<br />
* [http://twitter.com/MadokaMagicaUSA ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' official Twitter] (English)<br />
* [http://www.facebook.com/MadokaMagicaUSA ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'' official Facebook] (English)<br />
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Puella Magi Wiki maintains an hourly snapshot of all data in the Wiki to a remote location provided by [https://www.rsync.net/ Rsync.net] (unaffiliated). However, even with the backups, the Wiki can still be gone at any time by an unexpected circumstance. '''Public Backup''' is provided here in order to ensure the community effort can continue in such an event.<br />
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==Wiki Backups==<br />
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===Full XML Dump===<br />
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;[https://wiki.puella-magi.net/static/pmwiki.xml.gz pmwiki.xml.gz] ([https://wiki.puella-magi.net/static/pmwiki.updated timestamp]) (280MB, ~1.7GB uncompressed)<br />
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The Full XML dump contains all the contents of the wiki (including all revisions), but none of the user information. The dump is '''update every midnight (UTC)'''. A timestamp file is provided as a way to do a small request to determine if the file was updated. Please check <code>HEAD</code> request and check <code>Last-Modified-At</code> the header before downloading.<br />
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===Image Dump===<br />
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The image dump is currently very large due to thumbnails (70 GB+). Please contact [[User:0x99]] for an image dump for the time being.<br />
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==External Backups==<br />
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===4chan Threads===<br />
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''See also: [[Threads]]''<br />
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Puella Magi Wiki has its root from Madoka Threads on 4chan. These threads are currently archived externally.<br />
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===2ch Threads===<br />
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''See also: [https://archive.puella-magi.net/ Puella Magi Archive]''<br />
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As 2ch also plays a large part in the popularity of the series in Japan, Puella Magi Wiki has 2ch archive up to February 2014.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Madoka Crate]] an archival effort by ''Bibliotheca Anonoma''.</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Puella_Magi_Wiki:Maintenance_Log&diff=146471Puella Magi Wiki:Maintenance Log2023-11-03T09:58:38Z<p>0x99: Move XML dump to a dedicated page</p>
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|Enabled Varnish caching for non-logged in users (MediaWiki will PURGE on page update)<br />
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!October 29, 2023<br />
|Reenabled hourly backups for database and all assets (<code>zfs send</code> to Rsync.net)<br />
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!October 27, 2023<br />
|Reenabled daily XML dumps<br />
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!October 27, 2023<br />
|Bump upload limit to 1GB.<br />
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!October 27, 2023<br />
|Migrated server to Hetzner ARM64 instance due to resource limit<br />
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!September 25, 2023<br />
|Enabled email sending as a side-wide functionality (previously: only email confirmation)<br />
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!September 15, 2023<br />
|Enabled [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateStyles TemplateStyles] and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeEditor CodeEditor]<br />
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!September 10, 2023<br />
|Re-enabled MSUpload<br />
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!September 10, 2023<br />
|Fixed broken SVG upload since migrating server to NearlyFreeSpeech<br />
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!May 28, 2023<br />
|Enabled String Parser functions<br />
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!May 28, 2023<br />
|Migrated server to NearlyFreeSpeech (managed hosting)<br />
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!May 28, 2023<br />
|Dropped Cloudflare<br />
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!January 11, 2021<br />
|Happy 10th Anniversary, Puella Magi Wiki!<br />
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!November 24, 2019<br />
|Enabled [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase/Installation RESTBase] for [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor VisualEditor] (off by default)<br />
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!November 24, 2019<br />
|Migrated server to Hetzner Dedicated Server (Xeon E3-1275)<br />
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!March 27, 2019<br />
|Migrated server to a dedicated VPS instance (Linode).<br />
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!March 26, 2018<br />
|Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.39.3, MariaDB to 10, PHP to 8.2.<br />
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!March 26, 2018<br />
|Migrated server to NearlyFreeSpeech (managed hosting).<br />
|-<br />
!January 20, 2013<br />
|Upgraded MariaDB to 5.5.28a.<br />
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!January 20, 2013<br />
|Migrated server back to dedicated VPS instance (LAMP stack).<br />
|-<br />
!January 17, 2013<br />
|Updated question captcha with new sets of questions/answers.<br />
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!January 1, 2013<br />
|Load images only when it is visible on user viewport. (Experimental)<br />
|-<br />
!January 1, 2013<br />
|Upgraded PHP to 5.4.10 as well as other Wiki-related packages.<br />
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!January 1, 2013<br />
|Upgraded MariaDB to 5.3.11, Nginx to 1.2.6.<br />
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!June 9, 2012<br />
|Upgraded PHP to 5.4.3, Nginx to 1.2.1.<br />
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!May 30, 2012<br />
|Migrated server from Debian (LAMP stack) to FreeBSD (FNMP stack).<br />
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!May 24, 2012<br />
|Upgrade dPHP to 5.3.13, Apache to 2.2.16-6.<br />
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!April 26, 2012<br />
|Really bump upload limit to 20MB.<br />
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!March 20, 2012<br />
|Replaced ReCaptcha with simple question captcha.<br />
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!March 17, 2012<br />
|Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.18.1.<br />
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!March 14, 2012<br />
|Use a new MediaWiki editor.<br />
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!March 1, 2012<br />
|Replaced Nginx with Apache 2.2.16.<br />
|-<br />
!February 26, 2012<br />
|Disabled Rocket Loader as it breaks some script on the site.<br />
|-<br />
!February 26, 2012<br />
|Used timestamp as cache key for images.<br />
|-<br />
!February 22, 2012<br />
|Upgraded Percona to 5.5.20-24.<br />
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!February 22, 2012<br />
|Enforced SSL for login.<br />
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!February 22, 2012<br />
|Less aggressive caching in CloudFlare.<br />
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!February 14, 2012<br />
|Attempted to fix Site Offline error from CloudFlare (exempt from UFW rate-limit).<br />
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!February 8, 2012<br />
|Enabled SSL for all puella-magi.net subdomains via CloudFlare.<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Disable CloudFlare threat detection.<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Upgraded PHP-FPM to 5.3.10.<br />
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!February 8, 2012<br />
|Upgraded Nginx to 1.0.12.<br />
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!February 3, 2012<br />
|Display real user IP instead of [[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.207|173.245.53.207]] (CloudFlare address).<br />
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!February 2, 2012<br />
|Drop Coral and use CloudFlare as a frontend CDN.<br />
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!January 19, 2012<br />
|Upgraded Percona to 5.5.19-24.204.<br />
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!January 19, 2012<br />
|Upgraded PHP-FPM to 5.3.8-1.<br />
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!December 21, 2011<br />
|Upgraded Percona to 5.5.18-23.203.<br />
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!December 21, 2011<br />
|Upgraded Nginx to 1.0.11.<br />
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!December 20, 2011<br />
|Domain and DNS renew.<br />
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!December 3, 2011<br />
|Reconfigured firewall.<br />
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!December 3, 2011<br />
|Upgraded to Nginx 1.0.10.<br />
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!September 26, 2011<br />
|Bumping RAM.<br />
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!September 24, 2011<br />
|Bumped file upload limit to 20MB.<br />
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!September 24, 2011<br />
|Upgraded to Linux 3.0, Percona 5.5.15-55, PHP-FPM 5.3.8 and Nginx 1.0.6<br />
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!September 24, 2011<br />
|Separated database server and main web server.<br />
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!September 24, 2011<br />
|Migrated server from Arch Linux to Debian 6.0<br />
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!June 21, 2011<br />
|Upgraded Percona Server to 5.5.12-20.3.<br />
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!June 21, 2011<br />
|Upgraded to Nginx 1.0.4.<br />
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!June 21, 2011<br />
|Server hardware upgrade.<br />
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!May 30, 2011<br />
|Relocated server from London to Newark.<br />
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!May 9, 2011<br />
|Fixed uploading for files above 1MB.<br />
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!May 5, 2011<br />
|Updated embedded runes to v04282011.<br />
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!May 5, 2011<br />
|Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.16.5.<br />
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!May 3, 2011<br />
|Upgraded to Nginx 1.0.1 and PHP-FPM 5.3.6.<br />
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<div><div style="border:1px solid #c0c090;padding:10px;background:#FDFFEE;margin:-0.4em 0 0.6em;">'''Previous discussions are archived at''':<br />
*[[User talk:0x99/Archive 1]] (May 5, 2011–March 30, 2016)<br />
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== Status ==<br />
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Holy crap a wild mod appeared! --[[User:Universalperson|Universalperson]] 20:58, 1 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
: Right, and I have to (finally) update the server and the Wiki software someday. —[[User:0x99|0x99]] 14:16, 3 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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==pt version of Puella-magi wiki==<br />
Hi maru<br />
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On last email and talk in irc, you've asked for me to wait the server be updated<br />
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Does it was done? Does you still have plans to open the wiki to another languages? When can we talk about this again?<br />
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Graciouslly<br />
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{{User:Hibiki/ass2}} 03:29, 22 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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: Not much movement yet. Super busy with work. Sorry :( -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 14:37, 25 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Page patrolling ==<br />
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Hi I have previously created a page on the wiki at [[Pachinko and Pachislot]] but seems like it is not indexed by search engine as the page have not been patrolled by mods. Could you help review and mark the page? [[User:C933103|C933103]] 15:10, 28 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
:I'm pretty sure the wiki doesn't have patrolling enabled. How did you check that the page wasn't indexed? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 18:50, 28 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== It's me again ==<br />
Any news? or you're saving efforts to update mediawiki at the moment? {{User:Hibiki/ass2}} 02:33, 5 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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==Front Page Sidebar==<br />
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Is there anyway to add a link to the Magia Record anime in the sidebar under "Anime"? Especially since it will be launching in a few days and I don't know how to change that myself. Maybe also add the Magia Record Manga link as well?[[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] ([[User talk:Sondenise|talk]]) 01:58, 1 January 2020 (UTC)<br />
: Sorry that this took so long, I've added Magia Record to the sidebar. Will also redo the frontpage soon-ish. --- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 05:44, 5 January 2020 (UTC)<br />
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== String parser functions ==<br />
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Based on [[Special:Version]] it looks like these are supported, but they don't work on a page so they are probably disabled (which is apparently the default). Is there any chance of enabling them? ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 16:18, 15 April 2022 (UTC)<br />
:Sorry, I didn't notice this message. I know it's a year overdue, but I've now enabled string parsers in the Wiki. Please let me know if you need anything else. --[[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 15:57, 28 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== Bulk Upload ==<br />
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Was the MsUpload extension intentionally disabled or was that an accident? ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 01:11, 11 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
:I couldn't get it to work for some reason. I'll take a look at it later. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 06:40, 11 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== Permitted File Types ==<br />
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Any chance you could add .ogg (and maybe .mid) to the list of allowed file types? I was just thinking that it would be better to upload the musical rendering linked from [[:File:Sayaka Sheet.PNG|here]] directly to the wiki instead of hosting it on MediaFire. I think MediaWiki even has a built-in media player so it would be easy for anyone to listen to it if I converted it to .ogg. (Unless that's just an extension used on Wikipedia and the other big wikis?) ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 03:34, 17 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: I've enabled file uploads for ogg/mid/webm. Not sure if it'll work, but let me know if it doesn't. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 14:46, 10 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== Tabs ==<br />
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We were discussing building a tabbed view to show variants of a single character all on one page. I constructed style rules for it in [[MediaWiki:Common.css]], and it works almost perfectly, but there are a few little glitches that seem unsolvable without JavaScript… so I was wondering if you could perhaps add the first block of JS from [[User talk:SuzuneMU#Tabs]] to [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]?<br />
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I already tested that code by pasting it into my browser's Developer Console; if you're uncertain of it, you can do the same before pushing it live. Or if you know of some other way to make the tabs function better, feel free to write your own code or edit [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] instead.<br />
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The second block of code on that page is a way to make tabs able to scroll left and right, useful if there are too many to fit on a page. I'm not sure if we'd actually need that, though. It's also tested in the same way as the other code, and works if <tt><nowiki>{{Tab Nav}}</nowiki></tt> is added to the top of the tab container. I didn't actually test the two blocks combined though. ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 19:33, 19 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
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:: Done. Sorry, if I don't respond in a responsible time (2-3 days), please feel free to ping via email. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 08:31, 10 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== SVG upload is broken ==<br />
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See [[:File:^Rune.svg]] for the error message. ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 23:50, 21 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: Sorry about this, SVG should now work again (it should re-process on page visit). -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 08:26, 10 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== A quick question ==<br />
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Hello 0x99, I have a quick question, if thats okay. I'm going through the "Unused files" page and finding ones fit for deletion. The thing is, I feel like Im annoying the mods by making so many requests. Is there any way I could get the files deleted without causing any trouble for anyone? If not, I'll just keep putting them in the Deletion category. [[User:Amaterasu|Amaterasu]] ([[User talk:Amaterasu|talk]]) 18:17, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
:I think you already have the permission to delete pages (look at "More" in the top bar). You can directly delete it, but I actually like the Deletion Request category, since it serves as a double check in case somebody objects. We could probably do this automatically in the future with [[User:AnthonyBot]], though. By the way, thank you for taking the effort to clean up old images. It helps to shrink down the space and bandwidth usage by quite a lot (as these are often hotlinked as a forum signature, etc.). -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 18:29, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::Oh my! I do! Thanks. Sorry for bothering you! Have a good day. [[User:Amaterasu|Amaterasu]] ([[User talk:Amaterasu|talk]]) 19:28, 2 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::If I can chime in real quick, I don't mind at all doing the deletions in batches. And thank you for your work!![[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] ([[User talk:Sondenise|talk]]) 01:47, 3 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
:::I'd also like to add, it's ok since we've been meaning to get rid of a lot of the fan art and unused stuff on here. Some stuff I wasn't sure on deleting since I couldn't tell if it was official or fan art, or in other cases whether we should keep stuff like [[Poorfag]]'s page+art around and the like around since it's technically fan-related but also part of the wiki's history and it's not really all that mixed in with official stuff. -[[User:The Witch&#39;s House|The Witch&#39;s House]] ([[User talk:The Witch&#39;s House|talk]]) 09:49, 3 November 2023 (UTC)<br />
::::I'm perfectly fine with keeping ones with some history behind it or play a good part in the history of the community, e.g. meduca meguca stuff, poorfag, some memes in [[Deciphering the runes]], etc. Previously, there were a lot of fanart uploads that were just... un-permissioned fanart uploads (which were severely hotlinked). It's probably safe to clean those up. Though if the author uploads it themselves (or with permission) and linked from their User page, I think that's also cool to keep. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 09:56, 3 November 2023 (UTC)</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Talk:Database_Dumps&diff=146468Talk:Database Dumps2023-11-03T09:42:17Z<p>0x99: 0x99 moved page Talk:Database Dumps to Puella Magi Wiki talk:Public Backups</p>
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<div>== FYI ==<br />
I like this offsite public backups idea. We also have our own daily XML dump. See also [[User:0x99/Maintenance log#XMP Dump|XML Dump]]. --[[User:0x99|0x99]] 08:16, 23 March 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:Finally, a wiki that practices good backup methodologies! I'll add that to the page. Just wondering, would any of you care to create a public image backup? I'd like to have a complete wiki to submit to the Internet Archive. --[[User:Iruel|Iruel]] 01:19, 25 March 2012 (UTC)<br />
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::Yes I can, but it will probably take a little while. Also I just noticed our own XML dump has 5 days cache expiration in the header /facepalm. Fixing that... if you need to fetch it now make sure to append timestamp to the URL. --[[User:0x99|0x99]] 02:20, 25 March 2012 (UTC)</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Database_Dumps&diff=146466Database Dumps2023-11-03T09:42:17Z<p>0x99: 0x99 moved page Database Dumps to Puella Magi Wiki:Public Backups</p>
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<div>The [https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki Bibliotheca Anonoma] has selected the Puella Magi Wiki for monthly archival to protect its content. Archives made will be posted on this page as a public service.<br />
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If this page is no longer accessible, it can also be accessed at it's corresponding page at the [http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Puella_Magi Archive Team Wiki] or the Bibliotheca Anonoma. All the downloads are hosted on the [http://archive.org Internet Archive].<br />
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==Introduction==<br />
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Public backups are a crucial part of keeping the culture and folklife of the internet accessible for any length of time. In the spur of the moment, we often take the accessibility of the internet for granted. But websites and servers are not forever: The fall of Wikichan, the Insurgency Wiki and Encyclopedia Dramatica all show how quickly fortunes can turn. And when things go wrong, there is no hope with no backup.<br />
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==Dumps==<br />
===XML Full History Dumps===<br />
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''Easily importable XML dumps containing every edit on this Wiki.''<br />
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* '''Periodic Dumps''': [https://wiki.puella-magi.net/static/pmwiki.xml.gz pmwiki.xml.gz] ([https://wiki.puella-magi.net/static/pmwiki.updated timestamp]) - 280 MB, ~1.7 GB extracted<br />
** Full XML backups with all revisions and no user information. <br />
** Currently taken '''daily''', but please do check timestamp before making a request.<br />
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===Image Dumps===<br />
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Please contact [[User:0x99|0x99]] for image dumps. These are very large (70 GB+).<br />
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===4chan Threads===<br />
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The 4chan threads are the ultimate origin for most of the content on this wiki.<br />
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''Archivist's Note: I think we should simply wget the threads from foolz, since they only save thumbnails anyway.''<br />
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* [[Threads]]<br />
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===Misc.===<br />
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Other stuff related in some form or manner.<br />
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* [[Fanworks#Image Packs]] - Complete Image packs related to Madoka, possibly collected from 4chan. This needs to be put into the Internet Archive.<br />
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==How can we help?==<br />
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If you are a regular user, just downloading an XML dump is enough. If you want to keep the dumps updated, rerun the script below. If you are an admin, it would really help to get the wiki's images into the Internet Archive.<br />
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===Making Dumps===<br />
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Just download a Daily Dump from the site, and submit it to the Internet Archive. It would be nice if you 7ziped it up to save space.<br />
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In the past used the Wikiteam [http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/wiki/NewTutorial dumpgenerator python script] to create dumps.<br />
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Commands used for generating dumps are below:<br />
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python dumpgenerator.py --api=http://wiki.puella-magi.net/api.php --xml --images # Generates full dump using Mediawiki API<br />
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When creating dump archives, it is strongly recommended to use 7zip for the highest compression rates.<br />
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==Archivists==<br />
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* [[User:Iruel|Iruel]] - Tenshi Hinanawi. The head archivist of the Bibliotheca Anonoma.</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=146464Talk:Main Page2023-11-03T09:41:36Z<p>0x99: Move server stuff into Puella Magi Wiki talk:Maintenance Log</p>
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<div><div style="border:1px solid #29B6F6;padding:10px;background:#E1F5FE;margin:-0.4em 0 0.6em;"><br />
For server announcements, see [[Puella Magi Wiki:Maintenance Log|Maintenance Log]].<br />
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<div style="border:1px solid #c0c090;padding:10px;background:#FDFFEE;margin:0 0 0.6em;">'''Previous discussions are archived at''':<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 1]] (January 18, 2011–February 27, 2011)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 2]] (February 28, 2011-April 25, 2011)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 3]] (April 25, 2011-March 14, 2012)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 4]] (March 15, 2012-April 27, 2017)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 5]] (April 27, 2017–September 19, 2017)<br />
*[[Talk:Main Page/Archive 6]] (September 20, 2017–September 16, 2023)<br />
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== Main Page cleanup ==<br />
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I've taken the liberty to clean up the Main Page styling a little. It's using the same layout as before, but with more consistent spacing/etc. so it looks a lot less cluttered. It's also now and a lot less broken when viewing on a mobile phone. Adding/removing columns should now be a lot less insane. I'm unsure what to do with the News/Wishlist links, though, since they haven't been updated for quite a long time. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 10:13, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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: The News page could probably be updated by trawling the Main Page edit history, and maybe adding other bits if you can think of them. With some work it could even be arranged so that it's the ''source'' of the news on the main page (wrapping the lines that should be on the main page in <nowiki><onlyinclude></nowiki> tags). ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 13:33, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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:: Good idea. I'll find some time to do it. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 13:49, 16 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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:: I did this, seems to work great. Now to populate 2015 to 2021... -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 12:42, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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::: That's slightly different from my thought, but it's probably easier to work with this way anyway. ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 15:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== Main visual ==<br />
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Would it be worthwhile to add the Scene0 main visual to the main page, too? I think a tabber would work for the desktop view, and on mobile there should be enough space to add it below Rising's. [[User:EPF|EPF]] ([[User talk:EPF|talk]]) 13:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
: I've made some adjustments, what do you think? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 13:18, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: I'm not sure… I've been so used to seeing the name beside the key visual and now it's moved below it… I can't find any real complaints though… ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 15:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
::: OK, let's try again. What about this one? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 15:16, 24 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
:::: Oooh, I like it! Thanks [[User:EPF|EPF]] ([[User talk:EPF|talk]]) 15:30, 24 September 2023 (UTC)</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Puella_Magi_Wiki_talk:Maintenance_Log&diff=146463Puella Magi Wiki talk:Maintenance Log2023-11-03T09:36:17Z<p>0x99: Move from Talk:Main Page; I'm dumb* and can't type</p>
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<div>== TemplateStyles & CodeEditor ==<br />
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I've added [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateStyles TemplateStyles] and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeEditor CodeEditor] to the wiki, so styling the wiki could be less suffering. CodeEditor should be enabled automatically when editing non-main namespace pages with .css suffix (e.g. Template:Foo/styles.css). Though, the page may need to be changed to "Sanitized CSS" via [[Special:ChangeContentModel]] before they're usable in <code><nowiki><templatestyles src="..." /></nowiki></code> tag. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 20:23, 15 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== Email notification ==<br />
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If you've confirmed an email, email notification for watchlist and talk page can now be enabled (in [[Special:Preferences]]). I am not sure how well this works in practice (spam and stuff), but let's see! -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 18:39, 25 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== Downtime ==<br />
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Looks like there were some issues with the server (on the managed hosting side) and the wiki went down for a few hours. Sorry about this. If it happens again, I'll consider moving us to a VPS again. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 16:53, 7 October 2023 (UTC)<br />
: I've migrated the server to a VPS, so the wiki should be much more stable now. I'm continuing to fix things, so if you find any stuff broken, please report back. Thank you! -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 21:19, 27 October 2023 (UTC)</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Puella_Magi_Wiki:Maintenance_Log&diff=146460Puella Magi Wiki:Maintenance Log2023-11-03T09:34:16Z<p>0x99: Try to fill the gap as much as possible</p>
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!Log<br />
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!November 1, 2023<br />
|Enabled Varnish caching for non-logged in users (MediaWiki will PURGE on page update)<br />
|-<br />
!October 29, 2023<br />
|Reenabled hourly backups for database and all assets (<code>zfs send</code> to Rsync.net)<br />
|-<br />
!October 27, 2023<br />
|Reenabled daily XML dumps<br />
|-<br />
!October 27, 2023<br />
|Bump upload limit to 1GB.<br />
|-<br />
!October 27, 2023<br />
|Migrated server to Hetzner ARM64 instance due to resource limit<br />
|-<br />
!September 25, 2023<br />
|Enabled email sending as a side-wide functionality (previously: only email confirmation)<br />
|-<br />
!September 15, 2023<br />
|Enabled [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateStyles TemplateStyles] and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeEditor CodeEditor]<br />
|-<br />
!September 10, 2023<br />
|Re-enabled MSUpload<br />
|-<br />
!September 10, 2023<br />
|Fixed broken SVG upload since migrating server to NearlyFreeSpeech<br />
|-<br />
!May 28, 2023<br />
|Enabled String Parser functions<br />
|-<br />
!May 28, 2023<br />
|Migrated server to NearlyFreeSpeech (managed hosting)<br />
|-<br />
!May 28, 2023<br />
|Dropped Cloudflare<br />
|-<br />
!January 11, 2021<br />
|Happy 10th Anniversary, Puella Magi Wiki!<br />
|-<br />
!November 24, 2019<br />
|Enabled [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase/Installation RESTBase] for [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor VisualEditor] (off by default)<br />
|-<br />
!November 24, 2019<br />
|Migrated server to Hetzner Dedicated Server (Xeon E3-1275)<br />
|-<br />
!March 27, 2019<br />
|Migrated server to a dedicated VPS instance (Linode).<br />
|-<br />
!March 26, 2018<br />
|Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.39.3, MariaDB to 10, PHP to 8.2.<br />
|-<br />
!March 26, 2018<br />
|Migrated server to NearlyFreeSpeech (managed hosting).<br />
|-<br />
!January 20, 2013<br />
|Upgraded MariaDB to 5.5.28a.<br />
|-<br />
!January 20, 2013<br />
|Migrated server back to dedicated VPS instance (LAMP stack).<br />
|-<br />
!January 17, 2013<br />
|Updated question captcha with new sets of questions/answers.<br />
|-<br />
!January 1, 2013<br />
|Load images only when it is visible on user viewport. (Experimental)<br />
|-<br />
!January 1, 2013<br />
|Upgraded PHP to 5.4.10 as well as other Wiki-related packages.<br />
|-<br />
!January 1, 2013<br />
|Upgraded MariaDB to 5.3.11, Nginx to 1.2.6.<br />
|-<br />
!June 9, 2012<br />
|Upgraded PHP to 5.4.3, Nginx to 1.2.1.<br />
|-<br />
!May 30, 2012<br />
|Migrated server from Debian (LAMP stack) to FreeBSD (FNMP stack).<br />
|-<br />
!May 24, 2012<br />
|Upgrade dPHP to 5.3.13, Apache to 2.2.16-6.<br />
|-<br />
!April 26, 2012<br />
|Really bump upload limit to 20MB.<br />
|-<br />
!March 20, 2012<br />
|Replaced ReCaptcha with simple question captcha.<br />
|-<br />
!March 17, 2012<br />
|Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.18.1.<br />
|-<br />
!March 14, 2012<br />
|Use a new MediaWiki editor.<br />
|-<br />
!March 1, 2012<br />
|Replaced Nginx with Apache 2.2.16.<br />
|-<br />
!February 26, 2012<br />
|Disabled Rocket Loader as it breaks some script on the site.<br />
|-<br />
!February 26, 2012<br />
|Used timestamp as cache key for images.<br />
|-<br />
!February 22, 2012<br />
|Upgraded Percona to 5.5.20-24.<br />
|-<br />
!February 22, 2012<br />
|Enforced SSL for login.<br />
|-<br />
!February 22, 2012<br />
|Less aggressive caching in CloudFlare.<br />
|-<br />
!February 14, 2012<br />
|Attempted to fix Site Offline error from CloudFlare (exempt from UFW rate-limit).<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Enabled SSL for all puella-magi.net subdomains via CloudFlare.<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Disable CloudFlare threat detection.<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Upgraded PHP-FPM to 5.3.10.<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Upgraded Nginx to 1.0.12.<br />
|-<br />
!February 3, 2012<br />
|Display real user IP instead of [[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.207|173.245.53.207]] (CloudFlare address).<br />
|-<br />
!February 2, 2012<br />
|Drop Coral and use CloudFlare as a frontend CDN.<br />
|-<br />
!January 19, 2012<br />
|Upgraded Percona to 5.5.19-24.204.<br />
|-<br />
!January 19, 2012<br />
|Upgraded PHP-FPM to 5.3.8-1.<br />
|-<br />
!December 21, 2011<br />
|Upgraded Percona to 5.5.18-23.203.<br />
|-<br />
!December 21, 2011<br />
|Upgraded Nginx to 1.0.11.<br />
|-<br />
!December 20, 2011<br />
|Domain and DNS renew.<br />
|-<br />
!December 3, 2011<br />
|Reconfigured firewall.<br />
|-<br />
!December 3, 2011<br />
|Upgraded to Nginx 1.0.10.<br />
|-<br />
!September 26, 2011<br />
|Bumping RAM.<br />
|-<br />
!September 24, 2011<br />
|Bumped file upload limit to 20MB.<br />
|-<br />
!September 24, 2011<br />
|Upgraded to Linux 3.0, Percona 5.5.15-55, PHP-FPM 5.3.8 and Nginx 1.0.6<br />
|-<br />
!September 24, 2011<br />
|Separated database server and main web server.<br />
|-<br />
!September 24, 2011<br />
|Migrated server from Arch Linux to Debian 6.0<br />
|-<br />
!June 21, 2011<br />
|Upgraded Percona Server to 5.5.12-20.3.<br />
|-<br />
!June 21, 2011<br />
|Upgraded to Nginx 1.0.4.<br />
|-<br />
!June 21, 2011<br />
|Server hardware upgrade.<br />
|-<br />
!May 30, 2011<br />
|Relocated server from London to Newark.<br />
|-<br />
!May 9, 2011<br />
|Fixed uploading for files above 1MB.<br />
|-<br />
!May 5, 2011<br />
|Updated embedded runes to v04282011.<br />
|-<br />
!May 5, 2011<br />
|Upgraded MediaWiki to 1.16.5.<br />
|-<br />
!May 3, 2011<br />
|Upgraded to Nginx 1.0.1 and PHP-FPM 5.3.6.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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== XML Dump ==<br />
<br />
;[https://wiki.puella-magi.net/static/pmwiki.xml.gz pmwiki.xml.gz] ([https://wiki.puella-magi.net/static/pmwiki.updated timestamp])<br />
:Filesize is about '''280MB compressed''' or '''1.7GB uncompressed'''.<br />
:Contains all the contents of the wiki (including all revisions), but none of user information.<br />
:Update every midnight (UTC). Please send <code>HEAD</code> request and check <code>Last-Modified-At</code> the header before downloading.<br />
:Timestamp file can be used as a download trigger.</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Puella_Magi_Wiki:Maintenance_Log&diff=146459Puella Magi Wiki:Maintenance Log2023-11-03T09:11:39Z<p>0x99: 0x99 moved page User:0x99/Maintenance log to Puella Magi Wiki:Maintenance Log without leaving a redirect: Make it proper</p>
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<div style="margin:-10px -10px 10px;background:#fff;padding:10px;border-bottom:1px solid #dddddd;"><br />
'''The wiki has since been moved to a managed hosting service''' and the content in this page is no longer relevant.<br />
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It is kept here only for archival purpose.<br />
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<br />
This page listed whatever is done to the server.<br />
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{|border=1 class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"<br />
|-<br />
!style="width: 140px;"|Date<br />
!Log<br />
|-<br />
!January 20, 2013<br />
|Upgrade MariaDB to 5.5.28a.<br />
|-<br />
!January 20, 2013<br />
|Migrate server back to dedicated VPS instance (LAMP stack).<br />
|-<br />
!January 17, 2013<br />
|Update question captcha with new sets of questions/answers.<br />
|-<br />
!January 1, 2013<br />
|Load images only when it is visible on user viewport. (Experimental)<br />
|-<br />
!January 1, 2013<br />
|Upgrade PHP to 5.4.10 as well as other Wiki-related packages.<br />
|-<br />
!January 1, 2013<br />
|Upgrade MariaDB to 5.3.11, Nginx to 1.2.6.<br />
|-<br />
!June 9, 2012<br />
|Upgrade PHP to 5.4.3, Nginx to 1.2.1.<br />
|-<br />
!May 30, 2012<br />
|Migrate server from Debian (LAMP stack) to FreeBSD (FNMP stack).<br />
|-<br />
!May 24, 2012<br />
|Upgrade PHP to 5.3.13, Apache to 2.2.16-6.<br />
|-<br />
!April 26, 2012<br />
|Really bump upload limit to 20MB.<br />
|-<br />
!March 20, 2012<br />
|Replace ReCaptcha with simple question captcha.<br />
|-<br />
!March 17, 2012<br />
|Upgrade MediaWiki to 1.18.1.<br />
|-<br />
!March 14, 2012<br />
|Use a new MediaWiki editor.<br />
|-<br />
!March 1, 2012<br />
|Replace Nginx with Apache 2.2.16.<br />
|-<br />
!February 26, 2012<br />
|Disable Rocket Loader as it breaks some script on the site.<br />
|-<br />
!February 26, 2012<br />
|Use timestamp as cache key for images.<br />
|-<br />
!February 22, 2012<br />
|Upgrade Percona to 5.5.20-24.<br />
|-<br />
!February 22, 2012<br />
|Enforce SSL for login.<br />
|-<br />
!February 22, 2012<br />
|Less aggressive caching in CloudFlare.<br />
|-<br />
!February 14, 2012<br />
|Attempt to fix Site Offline error from CloudFlare (exempt from UFW rate-limit).<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Enable SSL for all puella-magi.net subdomains via CloudFlare.<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Disable CloudFlare threat detection.<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Upgrade PHP-FPM to 5.3.10.<br />
|-<br />
!February 8, 2012<br />
|Upgrade Nginx to 1.0.12.<br />
|-<br />
!February 3, 2012<br />
|Display real user IP instead of [[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.207|173.245.53.207]] (CloudFlare address).<br />
|-<br />
!February 2, 2012<br />
|Drop Coral and use CloudFlare as a frontend CDN.<br />
|-<br />
!January 19, 2012<br />
|Upgrade Percona to 5.5.19-24.204.<br />
|-<br />
!January 19, 2012<br />
|Upgrade PHP-FPM to 5.3.8-1.<br />
|-<br />
!December 21, 2011<br />
|Upgrade Percona to 5.5.18-23.203.<br />
|-<br />
!December 21, 2011<br />
|Upgrade Nginx to 1.0.11.<br />
|-<br />
!December 20, 2011<br />
|Domain and DNS renew.<br />
|-<br />
!December 3, 2011<br />
|Reconfigure firewall.<br />
|-<br />
!December 3, 2011<br />
|Upgrade to Nginx 1.0.10.<br />
|-<br />
!September 26, 2011<br />
|Bumping RAM.<br />
|-<br />
!September 24, 2011<br />
|Bump file upload limit to 20MB.<br />
|-<br />
!September 24, 2011<br />
|Upgrade to Linux 3.0, Percona 5.5.15-55, PHP-FPM 5.3.8 and Nginx 1.0.6<br />
|-<br />
!September 24, 2011<br />
|Separate database server and main web server.<br />
|-<br />
!September 24, 2011<br />
|Migrate server from Arch Linux to Debian 6.0<br />
|-<br />
!June 21, 2011<br />
|Upgrade Percona Server to 5.5.12-20.3.<br />
|-<br />
!June 21, 2011<br />
|Upgrade to Nginx 1.0.4.<br />
|-<br />
!June 21, 2011<br />
|Server hardware upgrade.<br />
|-<br />
!May 30, 2011<br />
|Relocate server from London to Newark.<br />
|-<br />
!May 9, 2011<br />
|Fix uploading for files above 1MB.<br />
|-<br />
!May 5, 2011<br />
|Update embedded runes to v04282011.<br />
|-<br />
!May 5, 2011<br />
|Upgrade MediaWiki to 1.16.5.<br />
|-<br />
!May 3, 2011<br />
|Upgrade to Nginx 1.0.1 and PHP-FPM 5.3.6.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== XML Dump ==<br />
<br />
;<del>[http://wiki.puella-magi.net/assets/pmwiki.tar.bz2 pmwiki.tar.bz2]</del> (no longer available)<br />
:Filesize is about '''25MB compressed''' or '''700MB uncompressed'''.<br />
:Contains all contents of the wiki (including all revisions) but none of user information.<br />
:Update every midnight (UTC) but please allow up to 5 minutes for file to get populated.<br />
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<div><div style="border:1px solid #c0c090;padding:10px;background:#FDFFEE;margin:-0.4em 0 0.6em;">'''Previous discussions are archived at''':<br />
*[[User talk:0x99/Archive 1]] (May 5, 2011–March 30, 2016)<br />
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== Status ==<br />
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Holy crap a wild mod appeared! --[[User:Universalperson|Universalperson]] 20:58, 1 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
: Right, and I have to (finally) update the server and the Wiki software someday. —[[User:0x99|0x99]] 14:16, 3 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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==pt version of Puella-magi wiki==<br />
Hi maru<br />
<br />
On last email and talk in irc, you've asked for me to wait the server be updated<br />
<br />
Does it was done? Does you still have plans to open the wiki to another languages? When can we talk about this again?<br />
<br />
Graciouslly<br />
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{{User:Hibiki/ass2}} 03:29, 22 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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: Not much movement yet. Super busy with work. Sorry :( -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 14:37, 25 April 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Page patrolling ==<br />
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Hi I have previously created a page on the wiki at [[Pachinko and Pachislot]] but seems like it is not indexed by search engine as the page have not been patrolled by mods. Could you help review and mark the page? [[User:C933103|C933103]] 15:10, 28 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
:I'm pretty sure the wiki doesn't have patrolling enabled. How did you check that the page wasn't indexed? -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] 18:50, 28 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== It's me again ==<br />
Any news? or you're saving efforts to update mediawiki at the moment? {{User:Hibiki/ass2}} 02:33, 5 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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==Front Page Sidebar==<br />
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Is there anyway to add a link to the Magia Record anime in the sidebar under "Anime"? Especially since it will be launching in a few days and I don't know how to change that myself. Maybe also add the Magia Record Manga link as well?[[User:Sondenise|Sondenise]] ([[User talk:Sondenise|talk]]) 01:58, 1 January 2020 (UTC)<br />
: Sorry that this took so long, I've added Magia Record to the sidebar. Will also redo the frontpage soon-ish. --- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 05:44, 5 January 2020 (UTC)<br />
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== String parser functions ==<br />
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Based on [[Special:Version]] it looks like these are supported, but they don't work on a page so they are probably disabled (which is apparently the default). Is there any chance of enabling them? ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 16:18, 15 April 2022 (UTC)<br />
:Sorry, I didn't notice this message. I know it's a year overdue, but I've now enabled string parsers in the Wiki. Please let me know if you need anything else. --[[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 15:57, 28 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== Bulk Upload ==<br />
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Was the MsUpload extension intentionally disabled or was that an accident? ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 01:11, 11 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
:I couldn't get it to work for some reason. I'll take a look at it later. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 06:40, 11 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== Permitted File Types ==<br />
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Any chance you could add .ogg (and maybe .mid) to the list of allowed file types? I was just thinking that it would be better to upload the musical rendering linked from [[:File:Sayaka Sheet.PNG|here]] directly to the wiki instead of hosting it on MediaFire. I think MediaWiki even has a built-in media player so it would be easy for anyone to listen to it if I converted it to .ogg. (Unless that's just an extension used on Wikipedia and the other big wikis?) ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 03:34, 17 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: I've enabled file uploads for ogg/mid/webm. Not sure if it'll work, but let me know if it doesn't. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 14:46, 10 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== Tabs ==<br />
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We were discussing building a tabbed view to show variants of a single character all on one page. I constructed style rules for it in [[MediaWiki:Common.css]], and it works almost perfectly, but there are a few little glitches that seem unsolvable without JavaScript… so I was wondering if you could perhaps add the first block of JS from [[User talk:SuzuneMU#Tabs]] to [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]?<br />
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I already tested that code by pasting it into my browser's Developer Console; if you're uncertain of it, you can do the same before pushing it live. Or if you know of some other way to make the tabs function better, feel free to write your own code or edit [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] instead.<br />
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The second block of code on that page is a way to make tabs able to scroll left and right, useful if there are too many to fit on a page. I'm not sure if we'd actually need that, though. It's also tested in the same way as the other code, and works if <tt><nowiki>{{Tab Nav}}</nowiki></tt> is added to the top of the tab container. I didn't actually test the two blocks combined though. ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 19:33, 19 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
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:: Done. Sorry, if I don't respond in a responsible time (2-3 days), please feel free to ping via email. -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 08:31, 10 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== SVG upload is broken ==<br />
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See [[:File:^Rune.svg]] for the error message. ~ [[User:Celtic Minstrel|Celtic Minstrel]] ([[User talk:Celtic Minstrel|talk]]) 23:50, 21 August 2023 (UTC)<br />
:: Sorry about this, SVG should now work again (it should re-process on page visit). -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 08:26, 10 September 2023 (UTC)<br />
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:I think you already have the permission to delete pages (look at "More" in the top bar). You can directly delete it, but I actually like the Deletion Request category, since it serves as a double check in case somebody objects. We could probably do this automatically in the future with [[User:AnthonyBot]], though. By the way, thank you for taking the effort to clean up old images. It helps to shrink down the space and bandwidth usage by quite a lot (as these are often hotlinked as a forum signature, etc.). -- [[User:0x99|0x99]] ([[User talk:0x99|talk]]) 18:29, 2 November 2023 (UTC)</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=User:0x99&diff=146284User:0x992023-11-01T13:10:28Z<p>0x99: </p>
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== See also ==<br />
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<div>{{Infobox_character<br />
|name=Minou<br />
|image=[[File:Minou Lapin pageBIO.png|220px]]<br />
|jname={{lang|ja|ミヌゥ}} (Minou)<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Minou'''|ミヌゥ|Minū}} is an antagonist in ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]'' alongside her sisters [[Corbeau]] and [[Lapin]].<br />
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==General Info==<br />
{{Magical Girl Details<br />
|eyes=Yellow<br />
|hair=Blonde<br />
|soulgem=Diamond above her chest<br />
|weapon=Various instruments of torture (notably a cat o' nine tails whip)<br />
|witch=Capricieux<br />
|witchlink=Minou in Magia Record#Doppel Description<br />
|powers= Turn magical girls into witches {{spoiler|(Only magical girls that contracted with Isabeau)}}<br />
|wish={{spoiler|That mother (Isabeau) shall not be defeated by any type of magical girl in existence.}}<br />
|pronoun={{nihongo|''Watakushi''|私/わたくし|}}<br />
|relatives=[[Corbeau]] (older sister), [[Lapin]] (oldest sister), [[Isabeau]] (mother), [[wikipedia:Charles VII of France|Charles]] (older brother), additional siblings not shown <ref>Although the official English translation of Tart Magica suggests that Isabeau adopted Corbeau, Minou and Lapin, [[:File:EB43-BDE2-AB93-4-B39-BD33-D765-E31-B5-EA0.jpg|this is not the case in the original Japanese]]]</ref><br />
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==Story==<br />
===Backstory===<br />
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As a young girl, Minou was chosen alongside her sisters [[Lapin]] and [[Corbeau]] to be among the first magical girls [[Isabeau]] contracted due to their closely interwoven fates. Isabeau grew to become like a mother to the three girls she took in. However, she eventually turned into a witch and was poised to kill the three girls, of whom only Corbeau had as yet contracted to become a magical girl. This lead to Lapin making her wish for her mother to “return to how she was.” Since the transformation from magical girl to witch is irreversible, her wish lead to Isabeau’s witch mind inhabiting the now empty husk of her former physical body. Isabeau was no longer mindless and now retained her original powers that were granted to her from her own wish. Even so, she still retained her witch’s ambition to destroy all of France.<br />
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===During ''Tart Magica''===<br />
Minou first appeared in Chapter 1 as an unnamed antagonist. As [[Tart]], [[Riz Hawkwood|Riz]], [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]], and [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]] attempt to stop her, she calls [[Flèche and Lame|Lame]] to her defense. Lame is easily defeated, prompting Minou to summon a magical branding iron and burns Lame with it. This causes Lame to transform into a witch, allowing Minou to escape through a portal. She later reports the defeat of Lame to her mother Isabeau. <br />
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In Chapter 5, Minou stands with Lapin and Corbeau as they finish slaughtering the soldiers of Orleans, a stronghold that held four thousand soldiers. Corbeau threatens the last of the injured soldiers as Lapin jeers and taunts them and Minou cuts off their retreat with her cat-o-nine tails. Before Corbeau can finish off the commander of the troops, someone fires an arrow at her. [[Etienne de Vignolles|Etienne]] appears, having been searching for Jean and assists him to stand. Minou notices what is happening and lashing at them with her whip, but the two are able to limp away to safety. <br />
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Back at the outskirts of Orleans, at the fort of Saint-Loup, Lapin is busy singing as she walks along the edge of the outermost wall, kicking the dismembered limbs of dead soldiers out into the distance. Corbeau asks her to go easy with the gore, claiming she's making a huge mess. Minou appears and relays orders to her sisters, leaving [[Flèche and Lame|Flèche]] with Corbeau to take care of [[Tart]] as Minou takes Lapin back home for the time being. <br />
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Towards the end of the battle between Corbeau, Tart, and Riz, Minou appears before an unconscious Flèche. She had planned to gather up what was left of her but instead she conjures a seal with her magic and presses it to Fleche, causing her to scream. As Corbeau summons black feathers around her, Minou walks over and calls out to Corbeau. She tells her she knows better than to use *that* while there are still English troops in the vicinity. Corbeau warns Minou away since she will automatically absorb any impurities in Corbeau's soul gem. But Minou isn't worried and tells her Lapin had been asking for her. She tells Corbeau to leave everything to Fleche instead. The two disappear into Minou’s portal, leaving Tart and her friends to fend against a now transformed Flèche. <br />
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Several months later at the city of Patay, Minou, Corbeau and Lapin stand at the head of the English forces as Lapin relishes the idea of ‘playing’ with the French forces opposing them. Before Minou can say anything, Lapin had already began her attack on Tart, Riz, Melissa, and Elisa. Unfortunately, the four magical girls are able to deflect most of Lapin’s initial attacks, hitting her with their weapons several times and causing Lapin’s soul gem to darken. Minou warns Corbeau away from their sister as her soul gem transforms into a grief seed and hatches Lapin’s witch form. After transforming, Lapin activates her ability to possess any and all weapons in her vicinity, including that of her English allies (with the exception of Tart and Elisa as their weapons have magical abilities imparted on them by Pernelle. She telepathically causes them to fly at her enemies and damaging them. She even forms a towering sword-like shape composed of the weapons she’s amassed and drops it at the opposing magical girls. Tart is able to deflect this massive attack on her friends even as Lapin activates her secondary ability: the ability to cause magical girls to lose their magical girl state temporarily. As Lapin in her witch form continues to battle the magical girls, Corbeau takes this opportunity to continue her fight with Riz earlier.<br />
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On the other side of the field, Minou watches the skirmish between the magical girls. Talbot asks if she is not going to join the fray and support her comrades but Minou only giggles in response. While she may worry about her older sisters, getting too close to the witch would relieve her of her own weapon and she would only serve as a hindrance. Eventually Tart and Elisa are able to defeat Lapin, who reverts to her human form. Corbeau picks up her sister and hands her to Minou, who retreats into one of her portals and leaves Corbeau behind to unleash her ''Danse Macabre''. Following the defeat of Corbeau at the hands of Tart, she lands against the trunk of a tree and falls to her knees, greatly weakened. Tart aims her blade at Corbeau, telling her this is the end as Corbeau tries to stand. But all Corbeau can think of is her two sisters, Lapin and Minou. Before she can deliver the finishing blow, a portal appears behind Corbeau and Minou steps through. {{spoiler|While Corbeau is overfilled with joy at the sight of her sister, Minou kneels down and takes Corbeau’s soul gem in her hands, informing her this is the end. Confused, Corbeau asks her why and if she doesn't see how much she loves her and Lapin. Minou confirms that this is what she suspected and says she stopped serving their benefactor a long time ago. As Corbeau yells out once more to Minou asking her why she can't understand how much she loves them, Minou shatters Corbeau's soul gem and tells her she doesn't love her any longer. Corbeau falls forward, calling out her sisters' names as she dies. Minou tells her that at the very least she will tell Lapin that Corbeau died honorably in battle. Tart angrily demands she explain herself as Riz calls her heartless. As Minou summons a portal, she giggles and says it'll be something to look forward to as she gathers Corbeau's body and takes it back with her, leaving the heroines alone in the woods. The two turn to go, knowing the battle isn't over yet.}}<br />
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After the coronation of the Dauphin Charles, many of his courtiers were celebrating this triumphant moment when several of the women in attendance suddenly ignite in flame as the lights cut out. Isabeau suddenly appears without warning accompanied by Minou. As Charles stammers and crawls away from her, he begs Tart to save him and demands she kill the queen. At his word Tart rushes forward and stabs her sword straight through the queen's heart as she stands there. Charles initially laughs at this display, but the queen smiles as a white miasma escapes from the queen's wound and she merely stands there smiling. Tart leaps back, certain she had injured the queen but thinking to herself that it didn't feel like she had stabbed her. Riz summons her shadowy tendrils and ties the queen up as Elisa and Melissa both swing their weapons directly at her. Isabeau merely smiles more broadly, completely unharmed from both their attacks. She raises her finger and shoots a beam of magical energy at the two girls, causing them to be knocked away hard. As Minou knocks Riz away with her whip, Tart unleashes her “La Lumiere” attack on Isabeau. However Isabeau remains completely unharmed. As Minou begins to admonish Charles, Isabeau faints, prompting Minou to catch her in her arms. Isabeau whispers to Minou, who declares to all that in one year’s time death shall befall Tart. Minou and Isabeau leave through Minou’s portal as Charles cries and the magical girls tend to their wounds. From here on, the four magical girls travelled the lands of France for several months, possibly years in search of Isabeau’s stronghold in order to thwart her plan to spread grief seeds throughout France and allow them to hatch into witches. With the chaos brought on by these incidents, Isabeau planned to deliver these lands into the hands of the English army and their allies and thus bring the country under her influence.<br />
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In May 1430 in Compiegne, Tart, Riz, Melissa and Elisa arrive at a witch’s barrier just outside of the town. Minou greets them from inside the barrier as she calls their daily battles ultimately futile. Minou then summons her portal and lets through an army of mind-controlled magical girls. She raises her hand and several brands drop down onto the girls, causing them to be consumed by despair and transformed into witches. She commands the witch army forward as she declares this to be the appointed time at which death would befall La Pucelle. As the four magical girls fight off this army of witches, Minou watches the battle rage on before her and decides that this small contingency of witches won't be enough to stop them and turns to where Lapin now stands. She tells her this is her chance to avenge the death of their sister Corbeau as Lapin stands there seething, promising to tear them limb from limb. Lapin demands revenge for the death of her sister, having been told by Minou that it was Tart and her friends who ended Corbeau’s life. Despite having defeated Lapin’s human and witch form once more, Lapin only reappears each time with her soul gem cleansed. Minou laughs to herself, as this is just the outcome she had hoped for. As Riz tosses a grief seed to Melissa to replenish her magic, Minou lashes with her whip and knocks the grief seed away. She then summons a portal beneath Melissa as Elisa races to protect her. Minou smiles and transports both of them away to an unknown location. As Tart calls out for her friends, a worm-like witch lashes at her with its tongue but Riz cuts it down with one of her daggers. She warns Tart not to lose focus as they try to cut their way out of the throng. <br />
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Melissa and Elisa look around for Tart and Riz as they stand inside a witch's barrier. Minou appears behind them as she promises they won't be bored here and summons several more magical girls from her portals. Once more, she raises her hand and several seals burn despair into the magical girls, causing them to transform into witches. The two girls begin to fight off the second horde of witches, Minou watching them and applauding their efforts. Elisa growls at Minou, incensed at her words. Minou laughs and readies her whip in order to "apologize" for her words when the ceiling of the barrier begins to crack and rain down on them. As Minou summons her portal, she can't believe that anyone would be able to dispose of so many witches, much less her sister Lapin as well. She looks inside her portal and sees Tart on her knees crying. She admires her for having been the only survivor and both Melissa and Elisa are stunned at these words. Despite having lost her only other sister, Minou is not bothered in the least and instead looks forward to what will come. As the barrier continues to shatter, she promises to allow Melissa and Elisa to spectate during La Pucelle's final curtain call, a battle that Minou intends for Tart alone. As the barrier dissipates, Tart is left alone to a small battalion of troops who capture her as a prisoner. It is after the Chamberlain advises King Charles to allow Tart to be sold off to the English to their advantage, it is revealed that {{spoiler|he had been working under the orders of Minou and her sisters for some time.}}<br />
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Following the capture of Tart and her subsequent selling to her enemies in England, she is held capture in a prison tower in the town of Rouen near the border channel between England and France. Minou walks into the prison cell, followed by Isabeau and two maidens who hold the train of Isabeau's gown. Minou lashes at Tart and Kyubey with her whip, mocking them and accusing them of being the source of their troubles. Before she can continue to torture them, a large booming noise rings out causing the walls to shake. A soldier opens the door to the cell, informing Minou of reports of a French attack. She orders him to get rid of them, but the soldier informs her that it was a larger assault than they had expected since it seems there is a concerted effort throughout France to recapture Tart. She apologizes to Queen Isabeau for the disturbance and vows to go forth herself to handle this trouble. As Minou deals with the French forces outside, Elisa and Melissa fight their way towards her prison cell, disarming soldiers and sentries along the way.<br />
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Isabeau makes her way outside, Minou humbling herself before her. Isabeau waves her hands before her which causes the troops to collapse to their knees, their strength being sucked out from them. As she aims her hand forward, a magic circle having formed around it, Tart stabs a standard into the ground before her and blocks her next move. Minou orders the magical girl slaves she brought with her to stop Tart, but Elisa and Melissa hold them off so Tart can race in towards Isabeau. Once more her sword attacks seem to have no effect on the queen. Isabeau raises her hands once more and fires a beam of magic directly at her. As the dust settles, Tart looks up from behind her shield to find that [[Pernelle]] has blocked the attack with her own magic circle, explaining to Tart that Isabeau is immune to attacks due to someone else’s wish. <br />
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===Minou in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===<br />
See [[Minou in Magia Record]]<br />
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Minou is one of the secondary antagonists in the three Tart events that were released for Magia Record. In it, she plays much the same role as she does in the original manga. She relays orders and information to and from Isabeau using her teleportation and orders the mindless Magical Girls that Isabeau has enslaved to further their plans. Her element is light. During the first event, Minou and her sisters go into Tart's dreams in order to cause Tart to lose hope and lose the fight for France. During the second event, Minou and her sisters attempt to rewrite history so Iroha and Yachiyo never exist and don't travel back in time to thwart their plans. During the final event, Minou attempts to erase Tart's memories so she'll be powerless to stop them. <br />
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For more information, see [[Magia Record Story The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time|The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time ''(NA: The Maiden of Hope)'']], [[Magia Record Story Rebel of a Dawnless Land|Rebel of a Dawnless Land]], and [[Magia Record Story End of a Legend, the Limits of Light|End of a Legend, the Limits of Light]].<br />
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==Powers and Abilities==<br />
Minou is able to summon various instruments of torture as her weapons, such as a cat-o-nine tails whip and a branding iron. The cat-o-nine tails can also transform into a large sword.<br />
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Minou has demonstrated the ability to create portals, which she uses to travel long distances. She can also corrupt the soul gems of other magical girls.<br />
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==Observations==<br />
Minou is the youngest sister of the three daughters of Isabeau and the last to be defeated. She speaks elegantly and never loses her cool, however she hides a dark soul and twisted mind as Corbeau has noted that torture and "information extraction" were Minou's specialty. Like her sisters, she wears an animal themed mask based on her name similar to the kind worn at masquerade parties. Until the final volume, Minou's face remained hidden from view even when she was not in her magical girl state.<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
* Minou is the French word for "kitty".<br />
==Gallery==<br />
<gallery><br />
Minou Lapin pageBIO.png|Minou's character bio from ''Tart Magica'' volume 4 (also featuring Lapin)<br />
File:Minou.png|Colour page from volume 2<br />
File:Tart3bonus.jpg|Colour page from volume 3, showing the villainous magical girls unmasked (Left to right: Minou, Corbeau, and Lapin)<br />
File:Minou lapin corbeau.jpg|Volume 4 colour insert<br />
File:Minou lapine corbeau childhood.jpg|Minou, Lapine and Corbeau as children<br />
File:Minou cat o' nine tales.png|Minou attacks with her cat o' nine tails whip<br />
File:Minou witch stamp.png|Minou conjuring a branding iron that causes soul gems to corrupt. Note the English lion on the seal<br />
File:MinouSG.jpg<br />
File:MinouDoodle.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1140272739766304773 Source]<br />
File:FjtXzpIVsAAFPzZ.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1601970945878421504 Source]<br />
File:FNQs99tVgAMDeTW.jpg|Elisa, Minou, and Riz as modern day high school girls (referencing Volume 5's bonus content and the [[Magia_Record_Story_The_Masked_Student_Council_Strikes_Back_(Holy_Maiden_Academy_Edition)|event based on the same]].) [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1500874375364431876 [Source]]<br />
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|jname={{lang|ja|メリッサ・ド・ヴィニョル}} (Merissa do Vinyoru)<br />
|surname=de Vignolles<br />
|magicalgirl=yes<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Melissa de Vignolles'''|メリッサ・ド・ヴィニョル|Merissa do Vinyoru}} is one of the main characters in ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]''.<br />
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==General Info==<br />
{{Magical Girl Details<br />
|birth=1414<br />
|height=147cm<br />
|eyes=Blue<br />
|hair=Blue<br />
|origin=[[wikipedia:Prechacq-les-Bains|Prechacq-les-Bains, France]]<br />
|soulgem=A blue shield with the image of a bunch of grapes inside (tie broach)<br />
|weapon=Hammerhead Mace<br />
|wish=To heal the wounds that threatened her father's and Tart's lives. The specific wording is unknown.<br />
|powers=Annihilation <br />
|witch=La Hire La Hire<br />
|witchlink=Melissa de Vignolles in Magia Record#Doppel Description<br />
|pronoun={{nihongo|''watashi''|私|}}<br />
|relatives=[[Etienne de Vignolles]] (father), [[Minor Characters (Tart Magica)#Milene|Milene]] (mother, deceased), Jean Poton de Xaintrailles (uncle), unnamed grandparents (deceased)<br />
}}<br />
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==Story==<br />
===Backstory===<br />
Melissa was born in a small village named Prechacq-les-Bains in the Gascony region of southwest France. Her father, Etienne had taken up soldiering at an early age, and his nickname ‘’La Hire’’ came from how quickly he could be riled to anger. At the time he was dating a young woman named Milene. After arguing with Milene in regards to his dream, he left the village in approximately 1413 with Milene’s brother and his best friend Jean Poton de Xaintrailles to become mercenaries. They returned in 1418 only to discover that the village had been struck with plague in the previous year and that the majority of the villagers had fallen to the illness, including Milene and her parents. Despite this, Milene’s daughter Melissa was able to survive and had been taken in with the other orphans by the local priest. Etienne realizes that Milene’s daughter was also his own and that the reason Milene became upset with him was to drive him off and allow him to follow his dream without being burdened by her or their soon-to-be-born daughter. Etienne then takes in Melissa and brings her with him everywhere thereafter, usually having her act as a medic or perform other field work for the soldiers. <br />
After Tart’s final capture and impending death by means of being burned at the stake, <br />
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===During ''Tart Magica''===<br />
Melissa first appeared in Chapter 1, in a flashback scene where she attempts to fight her way near Jeanne d’Arc as she is being burned at the stake. The chapter then flashes forward to the present where Melissa, [[Tart]], [[Riz Hawkwood|Riz]], and [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]] are attempting to stop [[Minou]] from escaping yet again. They are deterred by [[Flèche and Lame|Lame]], who is easily defeated. However Minou uses her abilities to cause Lame to fall into deep despair and instantly become a witch, fighting off the girls as she makes her escape. <br />
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A short glimpse of Melissa is seen as she views a bright glow in the sky when Tart makes her wish and contracts with Kyubey. She isn’t seen again until chapter 6, where she is formerly introduced as Etienne’s daughter. She is wearing a maid’s outfit and pouring wine for the various lords and other members of the Dauphin Charles’ court. When Tart arrives for her audience with the Dauphin, Melissa is able to see Kyubey riding on her shoulder.<br />
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Afterwards, Tart and Riz accompany a contingency of soldiers on their journey to liberate the city of Orleans. Melissa introduces herself to "Mistress Jean and Mistress Riz" and informs them she has been ordered to serve her from here on. Due to their proximity in age and the friendliness of Tart, she insists that Melissa address her by her nickname with Riz also insisting on a lack of formal address. They stop to make camp during their journey at a small unnamed village, with Etienne and the three girls going ahead to ensure the safety of the area. They find that the village has been burned to the ground with no one to be found. Riz's soul gem glows, alerting them of a nearby witch as Etienne races back to their contingency to warn them of the upcoming danger. As Tart and Riz leap into the barrier, Kyubey introduces himself to Melissa and takes her into the barrier. Kyubey explains that she has the talent necessary to contract, but only she can determine if she is willing to do so. The witch turns its attentions to Melissa and attacks, however it is blocked by the sudden appearance of [[Pernelle]]. She introduces herself to Riz and Tart, and offers Tart a magically-imbued sword that will help to limit the amount of magical energy she expends. Tart makes short work of the witch. After explaining the origins of the sword, Pernelle disappears through one of her portals. <br />
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Soon after they arrive and make camp just outside of the Burgundy Gate of Orleans. Tart shows off her handmade banner to the others, with only Melissa appreciating the design. That night, Melissa and Tart drink wine alongside the other soldiers in camp. Melissa longs to be able to do more to help besides tending to the wounded and the supplies and is strongly considering becoming a magical girl as well. Tart pounces on her, pinning her down and telling her not to put herself in danger now that they’ve become friends. It seems Tart is clingy when drunk as Riz soon finds out. <br />
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The following day, Riz and Tart at the head of the French forces face down [[Corbeau]] at the fort of Orleans. Melissa watches from close by. Corbeau impales several French soldiers with a rain of black feathers before proceeding to grab Tart and throwing her roughly aside. Riz and Corbeau trade various blows with their weapons as Riz notes that Corbeau pushes her impurities onto other magical girls in the vicinity. As Tart struggles to make her way back, [[Flèche and Lame|Flèche]] begins to pelt her with arrows. Corbeau walks over to Tart, ready to finish her off when suddenly Etienne slashes at her from behind in an attempt to defend Tart, but the attack does nothing. Corbeau throws Etienne face first into the ground, essentially knocking him unconscious. Melissa rushes to her father’s side as Flèche prepares to finish the two off. Tart throws herself in front of Melissa at the last second, taking the brunt of the charged magical arrow and losing a good deal of her shoulder in the process. Tart collapses to the ground, thankful that Melissa is alright. As Corbeau laughs, Kyubey walks over to Melissa and informing her of the impending death of Tart and her father. While he cannot force her to make a decision, at this moment she is the only thing standing between their lives and death. She contracts just as her father falters once more. Tart rises to her feet as Melissa stands angrily before Corbeau and begins her attack, swinging her polearm and causing her cone-like object to whiz through the air at their enemy. Riz is able to pin Corbeau down with several of her daggers as Melissa charges her cone-projectile and causes it to detonate at Corbeau’s feet. In its wake, only a large hole spanning the width of the bridge is left. Corbeau wonders what kind of magic it is as Melissa curses herself for having missed her. Corbeau is impressed with the new magical girl and tells Melissa that with her kind of power she may be able to take her down, assuming she can get close enough to hit her. Tart comes over, Kyubey having explained everything that just occurred to her and is somewhat dismayed that Melissa contracted. Before Corbeau can begin her attack once more, Riz pulls Tart and Melissa into her shadow realm, where she explains to the two girls the secret of soul gems and her plan for defeating Corbeau.<br />
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The girls reappear from Riz's shadow realm and attempt to sneak an attack on Corbeau but she is able to dodge it. Flèche resumes her attacks on Tart and the two battle against each other high on the fortress’ towers. Meanwhile, Riz and Melissa keep their attention focused on Corbeau, knocking her around with some of their attacks. Corbeau only laughs as she heals herself, reminding them that any impurities will be passed onto any magical girl within her range. However, Corbeau's soul gem is filled with impurities, much to her dismay. Tart continues to fight off Flèche, holding on tightly to Riz and Melissa's soul gems. As Flèche lays defeated shortly after, Minou appears from one of her portals and calls out to Corbeau to retreat for now as she brands Flèche and causes her to transform into a witch. The remaining French soldiers with Gille at the lead finally arrive at the fortress just as Flèche's witch form has spawned and stands ready and waiting in the courtyard. Tart is only able to redirect the witch’s attack away from the soldiers. Unbeknownst to them, Elisa is watching the fight from a distance and makes short work of the witch with her magic rifle.<br />
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After Elisa introduces herself to the group, she can’t resist challenging Tart to a duel, and ends up defeating her by means of her experience. Melissa is red to the ears when she hears Elisa gloating. After Elisa accepts a duel with Melissa, Elisa is promptly thrown out of the courtyard with a single toss by Melissa. Afterwards, as Melissa offers drinks to Elisa up in her bedchambers, she apologizes for having let her temper get the better of her. Elisa accepts her apology and says there was nothing to forgive since it ''was'' a duel after all. Melissa then informs the two that Tart was called to court and the two head down quickly. <br />
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Soon after the group heads out to the town of Reims in order to coronate the Dauphin Charles. They are met with a large group of English soldiers headed by John Talbot and accompanied by Minou, Corbeau, and [[Lapin]] at the city of Patay. The three English magical girls face off the four French magical girls at the head of their respective armies. Before they can give the word, Lapin begins her relentless attack but is quickly knocked into the air and brought back down forcefully. Initially, Elisa believes this will be an easy battle but Minou only laughs in response as Lapin’s soul gem darkens and she transforms into a witch. Lapin the witch uses her ability to disarm everyone within range of their weapons, including Riz and Melissa. Thanks to the magical properties imbued during their making, Elisa and Tart are able to retain theirs. As the girls attempt to fight Lapin, they soon realize that her gaze and the gaze of her floating discs cause them to revert back to normal and to temporarily lose their magical girl state. The girls attempt to continue fighting Lapin when Corbeau joins in the fray, focusing her attacks primarily on Riz. Melissa tries to assist Riz but neither of the girls have weapons. Despite this, Melissa throws a few well-aimed stones at Corbeau and is still willing to fight despite her handicap. Riz and Melissa focus their attacks on Corbeau as Elisa and Tart focus on Lapin. Soon, through their combined efforts, the two girls are able to defeat Lapin who unfortunately only reverts back to her magical girl state rather than cease to be. Corbeau hands the now unconscious Lapin to her sister Minou and tells them to retreat as she smiles and unleashes her magical attack "La Danse Macabre". Reaper skeletons swarm out of a portal in the sky as it begins to rain black feathers down onto the French and English alike. Anyone touched by a feather quickly begins to feel ill as they contract the deadly bubonic plague. Despite being affected, Tart is able to muster her strength and conjures a magic circle in the sky, who bathes everyone in purifying light and heals them of the disease. Tart then slashes at Corbeau with her sword, knocking far and away into a nearby grove of trees. The four magical girls race over to where Corbeau has landed {{spoiler|and are present when Minou appears to crush Corbeau’s soul gem.}}<br />
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Pernelle appears to the magical girls soon after and informs them of a prophesy being spread throughout the land concerning the appearance of Tart and the soon-to-be-freed France. Despite their doubts about the veracity of such rumors, the girls continue their journey to Reims unhindered. The Dauphin is soon crowned king at the sacred ceremony of coronation and the girls are welcomed to the celebration at the castle soon after. Despite the revelry, the lights go out suddenly and soon screams are heard as several woman are burning alive and Minou appears from one of her portals standing beside the Queen of France, [[Isabeau|Isabeau de Baviere]]. As the queen appears in the courtroom, the French magical girls transform and ready themselves to defend their newly crowned king. Despite Tart unleashing her La Lumiere attack on the queen, she stands there unfazed and undamaged. Minou whips at the girls with her cat ‘o’ nine tails but despite it all the girls are unable to defeat the queen and her daughter. Isabeau suddenly faints, but not before declaring the death of Tart in one year’s time. Minou and Isabeau leave through one of Minou's portals as Charles cries and the magical girls tend to their wounds. Afterwards, Charles broke down and could not make decisions for himself, relying heavily on the chamberlain to do his thinking for him. This resulted in the king withdrawing support from Tart and dispersing most of Tart’s greatest comrade in arms. For eight months Tart, Riz, Melissa, and Elisa went campaigning throughout France in search of Queen Isabeau's holdout. <br />
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At the town of Compiegne, the four girls found a barrier bearing the symbol of a cuckoo. As the girls enter the barrier, they are met by Minou. After greeting them, she summons several portals from which hundreds of magical girls stream through. Minou summons several branding irons and causes all of the girls to fall into despair and transform into witches, ready to be unleashed on Tart and her friends. The girls struggle but are just able to hold their own against the hoard of witches when Minou steps aside to allow Lapin to join into the fray. Lapin, {{spoiler|mistakenly believing they were the ones who killed her sister Corbeau,}} takes out her rage on the girls and challenges Riz one on one to combat. But Riz is unable to shatter Lapin’s soul gem before she underwent her witch transformation once more. Melissa coordinates a surprise attack on Lapin but despite using her anti-matter bomb on Lapin, she only reemerges in her magical girl form with her soul gem cleansed. The girls wonder if it's even possible to stop her since she is effectively immortal. As Minou laughs, she summons a portal beneath Melissa and Elisa and transports them to a different part of the barrier, effectively cutting the team in half. Once more Minou summons an army of magical girls only to have them transform into witches instantly and unleashes them on Melissa and Elisa. The two girls fight off the witches as best they can, Melissa firing her rifle wildly in all directions as Melissa swings her polearm about. Just as Melissa is about to be hit by a witch from behind, Elisa calls out to her and knocks her to one side, taking the brunt of the hit herself.<br />
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Melissa cradles Elisa in her arm and with the other, she swings her polearm and makes short work of the witch. As she holds Elisa up, she notices blood on her hands and realizes Elisa is bleeding badly. She asks why Elisa would do such a thing, and Elisa responds that if anything were to happen to Melissa it would make Tart cry her eyes out. Elisa sways a moment as Melissa insists that all of them would be grief-stricken if anything were to happen to Elisa since the four of them are partners and can't lose even a single one of them. Elisa smiles to herself and admits it's true. The two turn to face the oncoming horde of witches and agree to break through the throng so they can meet back up with Tart and Riz. The two continue to fight off the witches as Minou focuses her attention on Tart and the subsequent loss of her sister Lapin. As the barrier begins to shatter, Minou promises Melissa and Elisa they’ll be able to watch as Tart now finds herself outside of the church the barrier was located in, surrounded by enemy forces. Tart was captured and sold to the English. <br />
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Following Tart's trial in which she was convicted of heresy, she was kept in a prison cell in Isabeau's stronghold where Minou would torture her. She was kept in confinement for several months as Elisa and Melissa recovered from their wounds. Finally, the girls were able to mount a rescue by having the French forces attack the stronghold where Tart was kept and acting as a diversion for Minou while Elisa and Melissa fought their way to where Tart was kept. Finally reunited, the three girls embrace one another. Pernelle was also with Elisa and Melissa during their rescue operation. As she tends to Kyubey's wounds, Tart reaffirms her vow to bring light to France, Melissa vows to go forth to support Tart, and Elisa vows to go for the glory of herself and Tart. The trio head outside where Minou is making short work of the French forces. Elisa and Melissa fight off the magical girl army that Minou has brought with her as Tart races to where Isabeau is watching the battle. Isabeau transforms into her witch state and attacks everyone in her vicinity. Elisa and Melissa unleash their attacks on the witch queen but once more their attacks cause no harm to her. Elisa and Melissa can only watch as Tart battles with the witch {{spoiler|and ultimately defeats her. Melissa and Elisa race over to Tart, overjoyed that the battle is finally over and their greatest enemy defeated. But Tart faints, weak from the overexertion her soul gem has taken due to the battle. The grief seed Pernelle hands her does nothing as Tart’s soul gem has corrupted beyond repair. Melissa and Elisa prepare themselves to defend Tart as Minou threatens to kill them herself no matter what may happen when suddenly Minou's soul gem shatters and she becomes an ordinary girl. Tart offers herself as a prisoner on the condition that the soldiers are allowed to go free and Minou agrees, despite the pleas of Melissa.}}<br />
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It is May 30, 1431 and both Melissa and Elisa are hurrying to the public square, racing against the clock despite their wounds not fully recovered. Amidst the throng of people, Tart stands tied to a wooden stake, her hair cropped short as she wears a simple white tunic. She looks up at the sky and holds her hands clasped in front of her despite her rope bonds. Melissa and Elisa push their way to the front of the crowds as a soldier lights the pile of kindle at Tart's feet with his torch. Telepathically, Tart tells them not to save her as no one has any idea of the the kind of disaster she could bring to the world. She would rather ensure her death as a magical girl. Melissa cries out she would rather be with her in her final moments even if Tart were to turn into a witch. Tart tells them of a dream she had and thanks the girls for being there with her. Pernelle, Melissa and Elisa pray for their holy lady, La Pucelle as the flames begin to consume Tart.<br />
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Melissa sits on the back of Elisa's horse as the two girls quietly walk down a broad country field. Elisa asks if Tart left her life holding no grudges or regrets. Melissa knows they understood her last words and that there was no despair in her final prayer. Elisa agrees and comments that Tart was betrayed and lost hope at times, but kept fighting even when suffering near-mortal wounds. But those wounds were also proof of the battle she survived and the life she made it through. Even if both girls may become witches someday, they both agree to visit the village in which Tart grew up in.<br />
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===Melissa in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===<br />
See [[Melissa de Vignolles in Magia Record]]<br />
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==Powers and Abilities==<br />
While most magical girls who wish to heal others are often granted healing abilities of their own, Melissa was instead granted high-offensive abilities, most notably the power of anti-matter. She is able to wield her polearm such that she can send her cone-like attachment at her enemies, using it as a projectile and is able to change its direction in midflight just by swinging her polearm once more. She is also able to attach it to the top of her polearm for further damage and can even charge the cone from afar, effectively making it a bomb that she can detonate at will. Her strongest ability is her anger, and once her father or Tart are threatened nothing can stand in her way.<br />
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==Observations==<br />
* She inherited the same quick anger as her father, La Hire.<br />
* She is noted as being very pious by the village priest, and her father first met her while praying over her mother's grave.<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
* Vignoles is a complex hybrid wine grape variety. Vignoles is often prized for its ability to produce balanced and fruity late-harvest style sweet white wines, including ice wine, although Vignoles is also used to produce fruity dry and off-dry white wines as well. This may tie in to the fact that Melissa's soul gem has the appearance of a bunch of grapes on the front of a shield.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Manga pages===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Melissa pageBIO.png|Melissa's character bio from ''Tart Magica'' volume 3.<br />
File:Melissa tart volume 2 cover.jpg|Volume 2 cover featuring Melissa and Tart<br />
File:Volume 4 color insert.jpg|Volume 4 colour insert<br />
File:Melissa profiles.jpg<br />
File:Melissa attack 1.jpg<br />
File:Melissa attack 2.jpg<br />
File:Melissa attack 3.jpg<br />
File:Melissa second attack.jpg<br />
File:Melissa's soul gem.png|Melissa's soul gem<br />
File:Milene.jpg|Melissa's mother, Milene<br />
File:Melissa meets etienne.jpg|Melissa meets her father for the first time<br />
</gallery><br />
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<div>{{Infobox_character<br />
|name=Tart/Jeanne d'Arc <br />
|image=[[File:tartprofile.png|250px]]<br />
|jname={{lang|ja|ジャンヌ・ダルク}}<br />
|surname=d'Arc<br />
|magicalgirl=yes<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Tart'''|タルト|Taruto}}, also known as {{nihongo|'''Jeanne d'Arc'''|ジャンヌ・ダルク|Jan'nu Daruku}} and [[Wikipedia:Name of Joan of Arc|numerous other names]], is the protagonist of ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]''. <br />
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==General Info==<br />
{{Magical Girl Details<br />
|birth=January 6, 1412<br />
|height=150cm<br />
|eyes=Green<br />
|hair=Blondish Green<br />
|origin=[[wikipedia:Domrémy|Domrémy, France]]<br />
|soulgem=Cross-shaped gem (armored chest)<br />
|weapon=Light Sword "Épée de Clovis" (A weapon that embodies light as a magical girl)<br />
|wish=To have the Power to Bring light to France.<br />
|powers=Light<br />
|witch=La Pucelle de Blancheur<br />
|witchlink=Tart in Magia Record#Doppel Description<br />
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}<br />
|relatives=Jacques d'Arc (father), Isabelle d'Arc (mother), Jacquemin, Jean and Pierre d'Arc (older brothers) and Catherine d'Arc (younger sister)<br />
}}<br />
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==Story==<br />
===Backstory===<br />
Tart is the eldest of a family of 7, living with her mother, father, sister (Catherine) and three brothers in the small village of Domrémy in France. Tart’s adventures began when she followed her sister Catherine into the woods, following a fairy she had seen. The fairy turns out to be the familiar of a nearby grief seed that hatches into a witch before the girls. Catherine faints as several witch-kissed soldiers appear and amble towards Tart. Riz suddenly appears and knocks out the soldiers with the use of her daggers and shadow abilities. As she quickly dispatches them, the witch turns her fury towards Riz, who captures it with shadowy chains and impales it with her blade causing the witch to explode. Tart is amazed at this display as Riz explains that she and Kyubey were looking for her. They ask for her name and Kyubey nicknames her “Tart”. After Tart’s family appears looking for her and her sister, Tart faints from the stress and Riz brings the girls back to their home. Once Tart awakens, Riz awaits as Kyubey asks if she would consider making a contract with him. Tart’s father enters and asks if Riz would be able to work as a village guard for a time. During the following three years, Riz remained as a village guard and trained both Tart and Catherine in the art of sword fighting. Catherine quickly grows adept at her new skill as Tart struggles slightly. Due to Tart not deciding on a wish, Kyubey declares that he and Riz will have to leave soon. Riz goes to escort a shipment of goods the village is sending out when several thieves and bandits take advantage of Riz’s absence to burn the village to the ground, pillaging homes and slaughtering the villagers indiscriminately. Catherine is able to kill and wound some of the soldiers before she is impaled before Tart’s eyes. The soldiers leave, satisfied with their spoils. A short time later, Riz returns as Tart laments the loss of her sister and asks if she and her village can be restored with her wish. Kyubey affirms it can, but warns her it’s possible she may still lose both or other members of her family due to the war ravaging France. Tart makes her wish for the power to bring light to France. Before they leave, Tart cuts off her braid and places it on Catherine’s grave. <br />
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===During ''Tart Magica''===<br />
Tart first appeared in a flash forward in Chapter 1, where Tart stands tied to a wooden stake, her hair cropped short as she awaits her execution by fire. [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]] attempts to run towards Tart but is stopped by a pair of armed guards. The scene then cuts to the present day as [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]], Tart, Riz and Melissa are attempting to stop [[Minou]] from escaping yet again. They are deterred by [[Flèche and Lame|Lame]], who is easily defeated. However Minou uses her abilities to cause Lame to fall into deep despair and instantly become a witch, fighting off the girls as she makes her escape. <br />
The story then begins in a flashback with Tart reminiscing about the time that she first met Riz at her home town and the subsequent death of her sister Catherine at the hands of bandits resulting in Tart making her contract with Kyubey. Tart and Riz journey onward, with Tart asking what they should do next. Kyubey responds that there is much turmoil in France due to the lack of a true king sitting on the throne and reminds Tart that it is her duty also to defeat the witches that ravage France. On their journey to Vaucoleurs, Riz and Tart find that the town has been beset by a witch, as several witch-kissed soldiers aim their arrows at the two girls. Despite not being able to summon a weapon naturally, Tart is able to conjure a sword of light magic and disposes of the witch instantly. However, she used up vast amounts of magic in doing so to Riz’s dismay. Riz and Kyubey then explain how all magical girls irrevocably turn into witches if they use up all of their magic. Having defeated the witch, the girls are welcomed into the village where Lord Baurdicourt offers the girls what help he can and is able to secure an audience with the Dauphin for Tart. The girls then head out for Chinon after hearing the news of the French army’s defeat at Orleans by “three mere girls”. During their journey, Tart and Riz defeat more witches, but Riz warns Tart to better learn to control her powers before she enters battle since she drains her magic needlessly every time. <br />
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The girls soon arrive at Chinon, where they make announcement of their arrival and prepare for their audience with the Dauphin Charles. Charles decides to play a trick on Tart in order to test her and instructs Lord Gilles to sit on his throne in his place. As Tart enters the courtroom, both her and Kyubey sense something off about Gilles and announce to all that he is not the Dauphin. Somehow, Tart is able to sense who Charles really is among the courtiers and kneels before him. Stunned, Charles orders Tart to speak with him privately in his bedchambers. After affirming to Charles that she was indeed sent by God to place him on his rightful throne, Charles and Tart exit the room where he announces to all that La Pucelle is truly a messenger from God. After extensive testing by various theologians, her status as a messenger from God is confirmed to all, causing her fame to spread and more soldiers to volunteer for the war. Charles then assigns Lord Gilles and [[Etienne de Vignolles]] in charge of the troops that are to journey to Orleans, as Etienne assigns his daughter [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]] to act as a handmaiden to Tart and Riz. Melissa introduces herself to Tart and Riz, who both insist on dispensing with the formalities. The group soon encounter a small village that has seemingly been burned to the ground. Etienne returns to the main group of soldiers to warn them of the dangers ahead as Melissa remains in the village with Tart and Riz. Soon they encounter a witch’s barrier in from of the dilapidated church in the center of town. As Tart and Riz do battle with the witch inside, Kyubey takes Melissa with him into the barrier in order for her to watch the magical girls do battle and convince her to contract as well. As the witch is about to attack Melissa, she is saved by a barrier placed by [[Pernelle]]. Pernelle scolds Kyubey for bringing in outsiders as a magical girl is attempting to do battle and hands Tart a magically-imbued sword. Tart uses the sword to defeat the witch easily while conserving most of her magic power. As Pernelle introduces herself, she soon leaves through one of her portals. <br />
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The group slowly yet surely make their way to Orleans. Along the way they are able to recapture several forts that had been taken by the English forces and are soon able to camp not far from the outskirts of Orleans as they prepare to do battle the next day. Tart shows off her newly embroidered standard with a design of Kyubey on it to her friends. During the nightly revelry, Melissa reveals to Tart and Riz that she had been thinking about becoming a magical girl ever since Kyubey said she had the potential for it. Tart prefers that she stay as she is rather than risk herself in battle. The following day the soldiers and the girls began their assault on the fortress, the soldiers leaning ladders against the fortress’ walls but [[Corbeau]] is there to greet them and summons black feathers that rain down and impale the soldiers. She leaps down to where Riz and Tart stand. Corbeau knocks Tart away with a single blow before trading blows with Riz. Despite the injuries she’s taken, Corbeau heals herself with magic and Riz notices how incredibly dark her soul gem has become. Corbeau laughs as Riz realizes the truth: Corbeau is able to push her impurities onto other magical girls. By now Tart has managed to struggle her way back to where Riz and Corbeau are and offers to help. Riz tells her to stay back and Corbeau agrees, snapping her finger which causes her servant, [[Flèche and Lame|Flèche]], to aim several arrows at Tart, a few of which find their mark. Riz looks up to see Flèche watching them from one of the fortress' towers. Corbeau charges at Riz once more and is able to pin her down using her black feathers. As Flèche continues to shoot arrows at Tart, Corbeau walks to where Tart lays. Etienne sneaks up and strikes at Corbeau from behind in an attempt to defend Tart, but Corbeau also throws Etienne into the ground face first, knocking him unconscious. Melissa rushes to her father's side and Riz calls out to her, telling her to get away from the front lines as soon as possible. Corbeau tells Flèche to make sure nothing is left of La Hire and Flèche conjures a large spear-like arrow and fits it to her bow. As she unleashes the arrow aimed at Melissa and her father, Tart suddenly stands before them and takes the full brunt of the attack, sparing the two humans. As the dust settles, Tart asks Melissa if she's alright, and thanks heaven she is as Tart stands there with a large hole the size of her fist in her right shoulder. Tart collapses face first as Melissa calls out her name. As Corbeau laughs, the dust settling, Melissa stands before her, now a magical girl as well. <br />
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Melissa battles Corbeau, attempting to defeat her with her matter disintegration magic but fails. Corbeau is surprised that Melissa is now a magical girl and doesn’t seem to recognize Kyubey. Riz pulls Melissa and Tart into her shadow realm and explains the significance of soul gems. She asks Tart to hold onto Riz and Melissa’s soul gems as she battles off Flèche and they battle Corbeau. Riz pops out of a shadow behind Corbeau, throwing her off as she realizes that Riz can jump from shadow to shadow. As she throws a feather dagger at her, Riz disappears into a shadow once more before reappearing at Corbeau's feet behind her. Riz fends off her attacks with her dagger as Corbeau taunts her, making fun of her for only defending herself and not attacking. Tart and Melissa materialize behind Flèche and Corbeau respectively. Both of them swing their weapons at their opponents but are unable to successfully connect their attacks. Corbeau calls out to Flèche to provide support as she fends off attacks from both Melissa and Riz. She then calls to Flèche to finish off La Pucelle with another attack like the one that nearly killed her earlier. Tart prepares another attack against Flèche, but Flèche has dropped down one side of the tower they were fighting on. As Flèche runs backwards down the side of the tower, she launches arrow after arrow right at Tart, each one finding their mark. She turns and using her momentum is able to run sideways across the walls of the fortress, launching more arrows up in her wake. As the dust settles, Tart remains unharmed. Corbeau is furious at all this and demands Flèche use her full magic, as if she intends to drain herself dry. Tart braces herself for the incoming attack and thinks back to when they were still on their journey over. As Tart remembers the words of Riz telling her that she too will trust in that hope, she powers herself up and conjures a standard and lance with her magic just as Flèche is finishing powering up her final arrow attack. Tart unleashes a large beam of pure magical energy as she uses her ultimate move: La Lumiere. The attack destroys the tower where Flèche was standing as well as leaving a sizeable hole in the fortress.<br />
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Corbeau returns her attention and attacks on Riz and Melissa, who are able to coordinate a few successful attacks of their own on Corbeau. Corbeau soon realizes something is wrong as her soul gem begins to darken from the exertion of battle. Back at the scene of battle, Flèche stirs slightly as Minou appears before her. She had planned to gather up what was left of her but instead she conjures a seal with her magic and presses it to Flèche, causing her to scream. Corbeau, meanwhile, laments the impurities of her soul gem as Riz asks her how it feels to be defeated by her own power. As she summons black feathers around her, Minou walks over and calls out to Corbeau. She tells her she knows better than to use *that* while there are still English troops in the vicinity. Corbeau warns Minou away since she will automatically absorb any impurities in Corbeau's soul gem. But Minou isn't worried and tells her [[Lapin]] had been asking for her. She tells Corbeau to leave everything to Flèche instead as the two disappear through one of Minou’s portals. The remaining French soldiers with Gille at the lead finally arrive at the fortress just as Flèche's witch form has spawned and stands ready and waiting in the courtyard. Tart leaps out from the tower and strikes at the witch's head with her sword. While the attack wasn't quite enough to stop the witch, it powers up its attack and Tart only barely manages to turn its head just as it fires off its attack. She grips her sword tightly and slashes the witch down the middle, parting it neatly in half. The witch explodes and is finished off.<br />
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Melissa congratulates Tart but Tart assures her it wasn't just her who finished off the witch. As the smoke clears from a gun muzzle, Elisa stands at the edge of a cliff side some considerable distance away. Two men stand behind her, her uncle and the constable who praises her shot. They wonder if this was enough to secure the fate of Orleans and can see that the tide is now beginning to turn in this war. Elisa tells them to leave it to her as she will offer her greetings to the Dauphin Charles in person as well as introduce herself to La Pucelle. The leader of the English forces, John Talbot, breaks ranks and asks if they can be allowed to leave since they clearly stand no chance against the French army. Both Batard and Tart agree and allow the remaining English forces to leave with their lives. Batard declares Orleans liberated from the English much to the gusto of the French forces.<br />
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At the town of Loches, the Dauphin personally welcomes the retinue and congratulates them on their victory. It seems Elisa and her uncle raced ahead to inform the Dauphin of the news. Elisa introduces herself to Tart, Riz, and Melissa and telepathically informs them she too is a magical girl. She was sent on orders of her mother the Holy Roman Empress to see for herself the powers of La Pucelle and to render assistance if she is truly a messenger from God. Having witness the battle at Orleans, they offer their services to the Dauphin Charles. Sometime later, Elisa challenges Tart to a friendly duel but due to her battle experience she is able to defeat Tart easily. Angered, Melissa herself challenges Elisa to a duel and throws her bodily into the air. That evening, Elisa pouts in her room as Melissa enters in her maid’s uniform, offering refreshments and an apology for losing her temper. Elisa dismisses her apology, since it was a duel after all and promises to not taunt Tart in the future. After asking for Tart, and being informed that she was called to court, Elisa and her uncle head off to find a certain person. <br />
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In the Great Hall of the Chateau de Loches, Tart argues for the Dauphin to be coronated at Reims as soon as possible. While Gilles and Batard agree, the chamberlain has his own opinion on how to proceed when the Dauphin’s son burst in and is overjoyed to meet Tart. Tart promises to have his father coronated as soon as possible, the Dauphin agreein to this plan due to the prompting of his son. While the chamberlain wonders what could have brought the child to the hall at this exact moment, he eyes Oswald and Elisa who are speaking familiarly with the Dauphin’s wife. <br />
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At the city of Patay, Minou, Corbeau and Lapin stand at the head of the English forces as Lapin jumps up and down in joy at the thought of finally being able to play after waiting for so long. At the head of the French forces stand Tart, Elisa, Melissa and Riz as they note the three magical girls facing them but not recognizing Lapin as they hadn't met her before now. Corbeau turns to John Talbot and tells him they'll be acting as they please. Before they can begin, Lapin races ahead of her sisters and commences her attack. However, Elisa and Melissa are able to strike her down immediately, causing her soul gem to darken and Lapin to turn into a witch. Suddenly, the soldiers' weapons from both armies as well as Riz and Melissa's weapons begin to float in the air. Tart looks around bewildered as the soldiers fall back, unable to proceed with their fight so long as they remain without weapons. Only Tart and Elisa are able to retain their weapons thanks to the magics Pernelle has imbued them with. Lapin, now in a rabbit-like witch form, floats beneath the weapons as she directs them at Melissa and Riz. The weapons, now under the command of the witch, fly straight at the girls damaging them as Tart attempts to knock as many as she can away with her sword. Elisa, meanwhile, continues to shoot down as many of the weapons as possible when Melissa suddenly notices a huge shadow looming on them and calls out to Riz. The witch has amassed the weapons and shields she stole into a giant sword-like shape which starts to fall towards them. Riz calls Melissa to get into her shadow where she can pull them to safety but the eyes on the witch's cape flash at them, causing Melissa and Riz to revert from their magical girl forms to their human forms.<br />
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The sword-shaped conglomeration of weapons bears down on them and would have crushed them had Tart not suddenly appeared in front of them and slashed at the weapons with her own sword. Melissa, Riz, Tart, and Elisa revert back into their normal forms every time Lapin or her rabbit disks flash their eyes at them. Just as they’re getting their bearings, Corbeau charges at Riz who is just barely able to block her attack with her bare arms. Corbeau and Riz trade blows as Melissa tries to assist as best she can without her weapon, imbuing rocks with her magic and throwing them at Corbeau. Elisa and Tart attempt to coordinate a surprise attack on Lapin, but the eyes on her cape have the same ability as her rabbit eyes and they both revert to normal girls temporarily. Despite this, the two girls are eventually able to distract Lapin and successfully defeat her with Elisa’s rifle-turned-canon. However, her defeat only causes her to revert back into a magical girl, owing to the nature of her wish and the abilities it granted her. Minou retreats with an unconscious Lapin into one of her portals as Corbeau unleashes her Danse Macabre. Reaper-like skeletons fly out of the magic circles Corbeau summoned, black feathers flying out from their eyeless sockets. Everyone begins to double over in pain, wondering what's happening to their bodies. Riz looks at the tumor-like boils on her hands and recognizes it as something she's seen before. Corbeau laughs and reminds Riz she told her this fight would be a massacre and tells them all to show her the dance of death. As both the French and English forces alike lay doubled in agony, Corbeau beats down the weakened magical girls. Tart struggles to her feet and attempts to fight Corbeau, but is too weakened to do more than swing her sword feebly. Corbeau picks her up by the neck and mocks Tart’s attempts to fight back. As Tart warns her that she’s hurting her English allies as well with her magic, Corbeau scoffs and responds that she doesn’t care since her magic will kill everyone who comes near. She demands to know what it matters since everyone must die eventually, just like Tart’s sister. At these words, Tart's soul gem shines brightly and Corbeau's fingers are bent backwards as the force of Tart's magic caused her to be released from her grip. Tart glows with the power of her magic and an immense magic circle of Tart's doing appears in the sky overhead, casting light down on the soldiers below.<br />
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As the light bathes the battlefield, all of the soldiers and magical girls both English and French alike begin to stand and realize they've been healed of plague as well as their wounds. Corbeau is enraged by this and as she demands to know who Tart really is, Tart leaps up and slashed down her sword with full force at Corbeau, ultimately defeating her as the force of it knocks her into some nearby woods. She lands against the trunk of a tree and falls to her knees, greatly weakened. Tart aims her blade at Corbeau, telling her this is the end as Corbeau tries to stand. But all Corbeau can think of is her two sisters, Lapin and Minou. Before she can deliver the finishing blow, a portal appears behind Corbeau and Minou steps through. {{spoiler|While Corbeau is overfilled with joy at the sight of her sister, Minou kneels down and takes Corbeau’s soul gem in her hands, informing her this is the end. Confused, Corbeau asks her why and if she doesn't see how much she loves her and Lapin. Minou confirms that this is what she suspected and says she stopped serving their benefactor a long time ago. As Corbeau yells out once more to Minou asking her why she can't understand how much she loves them, Minou shatters Corbeau's soul gem and tells her she doesn't love her any longer. Corbeau falls forward, calling out her sisters' names as she dies. Minou tells her that at the very least she will tell Lapin that Corbeau died honorably in battle. Tart angrily demands she explain herself as Riz calls her heartless. As Minou summons a portal, she giggles and says it'll be something to look forward to as she gathers Corbeau's body and takes it back with her, leaving the heroines alone in the woods.}}<br />
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The two turn to go, knowing the battle isn't over yet. Out in the nearby woods Tart, Melissa, Riz and Elisa are just able to hear the cries of the troops and wonder what may be happening. Pernelle appears from behind a tree and informs the girls that the French has won a victory. After asking how they’re doing, Pernelle informs them of a prophecy spreading throughout France that predicts that Tart will save France. While Charles had the right to inherit the throne, it was a woman that sold that right to the King of England and now Tart has appeared and reclaimed Orleans, opening a path for Charles to be coronated. Thus far the prophecy is fulfilling itself. Elisa and Tart both argue that it was due to their and the soldiers’ efforts that France is being liberated and not just some prophecy. Pernelle smiles and tells her to never hold back in saying what she feels from her heart. But she asks that Tart never forgets that, while a larger fate may be at work here, it is Tart who is at the center of that flow of fate. As she magically teleports away, she tells them to make their way to Reims where she may meet them again. Now that the road to Reims was secured, Dauphin Charles was coronated as the King of France. With this, the wishes of La Pucelle as well as the people of France were realized.<br />
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Charles and the other courtiers celebrate the coronation of Charles when suddenly the lights cut out, leaving the room plunged in total darkness. A scream is heard and as they turn towards the sound, a light can be seen. But this is no ordinary light, it is several women burning alive and screaming as between the flames, Minou and another woman can be seen walking towards Charles. Riz and Tart quickly transform and stand ready to defend the king. They demand he run towards safety, but Charles stammers and looks like he is about to scream as he recognizes the smiling woman who stands before Minou. As he collapses to the ground, he demands to know what she is doing here. It is his mother, the woman who sold out France to the English, [[Isabeau|Isabeau de Baviere]]. As Isabeau appears in the courtroom, Riz, Melissa and Tart stand ready to defend the newly crowned king, already transformed into their magical girl states. Charles begs Tart to save him from his mother, the queen, and demands she kill her. At his word Tart rushes forward and stabs her sword straight through the queen's heart as she stands there. Charles initially laughs at this display, but the queen smiles as a white miasma escapes from the queen's wound and she merely stands there smiling. Tart leaps back, certain she had injured the queen but thinking to herself that it didn't feel like she had stabbed her. Riz summons her shadowy tendrils and ties the queen up as Elisa and Melissa both swing their weapons directly at her. Isabeau merely smiles more broadly, completely unharmed from both their attacks. She raises her finger and shoots a beam of magical energy at the two girls, causing them to be knocked away hard. Tart draws her power to herself and summons her standard, unleashing her "La Lumiere" attack directly on Isabeau, the excess power blasting out the castle's windows. However, the dust clears and Isabeau remains where she stands, not a hair on her head harmed. Tart is amazed that she remained undamaged even after using that much magic power on her, but Minou sneaks up behind Tart and knocks her down with her whip. Isabeau staggers suddenly and whispers something to Minou as Minou stands and declares the words of her queen "In one year's time death shall befall La Pucelle!" Minou and Isabeau leave through Minou's portal as Charles cries and the magical girls tend to their wounds.<br />
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The following day, after the group gathers to discuss that night’s events. Tart's followers want to liberate Paris as quickly as possible. However, the chamberlain La Remoille advising the haggard King Charles, sending entreaties to the English forces asking for a ceasefire. The result of the endless delays was that the army had to wait until close to August before it could depart from Reims. Finally the order came for the army to advance toward Paris. From August 1429, Charles showed no signs of recovery. In fact, just when everyone thought he had finally given the order to liberate Paris on September 9, only two days later, the order was rescinded. Shortly thereafter, the order came to disband his army altogether. It seemed the king's confusion was worsening. All of the forces who supported La Pucelle were completely disbanded. But Tart went questing throughout France for some eight months, virtually alone, searching for Isabeau. Finally in Compiegne, a town in the north of France, they discovered a witch’s barrier with the symbol of a cuckoo at the center. As they enter the barrier, they are greeted by Minou who summons an army of magical girls through her many portals. As the girls arrive, Minou summons branding irons and brands the girls, causing them to fall into deep despair and transform into witches instantly. She commands the witch army forward as she declares this to be the appointed time at which death would befall La Pucelle.<br />
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Tart, Riz, Melissa and Elisa stand ready as they face down an army of witches that Minou has summoned to destroy them. The first witch, who appears like a gigantic woman in a dress with a tassel for a head, brings her arm down on our heroes who are just barely able to leap out of harm’s way. Tart blocks the witch's arm with her bare strength and slashes at it with her sword. The cleaved half of the arm falls heavily on the ground behind her but before she can react, the hand of another witch reaches for Tart. However Melissa is able to block the attack on Tart with her polearm just in time, warning Tart to not overdo it. Riz calls out to the others, advising them to stay together as there are a vast number of witches they must face. Tart summons her strength as she prepares to take out all of the witches at once but Riz warns her not to do so, knowing Minou's strategy is to deplete their magic as much as possible. As Elisa fires left and right with her rifle, she tells Tart she won't have to use her magic since she'll take out all the witches for her. Minou watches the battle rage on before her and decides that this small contingency of witches won't be enough to stop them and turns to where Lapin now stands and informs her of her chance to take revenge for the loss of their sister. Lapin is enraged and more than eager to tear them limb from limb. She begins by summoning her rabbit-shaped discs and impeding their magical girl transformations. Despite this, Riz is easily able to dodge her attacks and slashes at her rabbit-shaped discs as Lapin is not used to combat the way her sister Corbeau was. When Riz informs Lapin that it was in fact {{spoiler| Minou who killed her sister}}, this causes Lapin to snap with rage and abandon all thinking.<br />
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Riz aims to shatter Lapin’s soul gem in order to prevent her from transforming into her witch form, but the news she received and the subsequent despair it caused her has instead only accelerated the impurities of Lapin's soul gem. It is too late, as Lapin quickly becomes a witch continues her attacks on the girls. The magical girls coordinate their attacks and unleash Melissa’s ultimate destructive move on Lapin. But it is not enough and Lapin reemerges from the bottom of the crater formed by the explosion, now human and her soul gem cleansed. Minou then causes a portal to appear beneath Elisa and Melissa and transports them to a different part of the castle in which they are battling. Tart and Riz are left to fend for themselves against not only Lapin's witch form, but the army of witches that are left from earlier. Tart and Riz begin to grow weary from the fighting and the amount of magic they've spent, causing Riz to charge her soul gem’s power and throw a dagger at Lapin’s feet. Shadows emerge from the dagger and wrap themselves around Lapin, effectively immobilizing her. As Tart calls out to her, Riz summons her ultimate attack, ''Gates of Hell''. {{spoiler| A large marble doorway comes up from the ground, skeletons adorning its framework. As the Gates of Hell begin to crack open, shadowy hands reach out from inside each of them grabbing at a different part of Lapin. She cries out for them to let go of her but they continue to hold on relentlessly as more hands reach out from the gate and grab at the witches in the area and pull them into the dark void that lurks behind the doors. Lapin continues to strain at the shadowy hands, crying out that nothing Riz does will make a difference since she'll keep coming back over and over again, returning to normal only for her to kill Riz no matter how many times it takes her. Riz acknowledges this, and informs her that she will be joining Lapin inside the black void of the gates to prevent her from escaping as the doors can only be opened from the outside. As Riz walks into the gate, Lapin is pulled into the darkness with her and the doors snap shut behind them, effectively ending Lapin’s life.}}<br />
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Tart sinks to her knees in tears as the witch’s barrier dissipates and she finds herself surrounded by enemy soldiers, where she is then taken prisoner. Despite being the one who placed him on the throne, King Charles refused to pay the ransom for Tart and she was subsequently sold to the English and placed on trial for heresy. The trial was filled with French judges who favored the English and Tart was declared guilty. Tart was then hidden away by Isabeau and Minou and hidden in a prison cell no one knew where. One day, Tart lays on the barren floor of her cell, Kyubey talking to her and encouraging her to get up once more. Minou enters Tart’s cell with Queen Isabeau and begins to lash her with her whip, berating Tart and Kyubey. As Tart attempts to defend Kyubey, commotion is heard from outside. The French army has amassed and are attempting to liberate Tart now that they've discovered her location. Minou goes outside to deal with the soldiers personally as Isabeau follows behind her. The soldiers know they'll be unable to defeat Minou, but are prepared to lose their lives in order to buy the distraction that Elisa, Melissa, and Pernelle need to rescue Tart. The three magical girls are able to subdue the remaining soldiers they encounter on their way. They break into the prison cell where they embrace Tart and are finally able to encourage her to stand up and fight once more. Back out on the battlefield, Minou lashes her whip repeatedly, causing the soldiers to be thrown into the air by the force of her attacks.<br />
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Batard and Richmont worry they won't be able to do anything more than evade her attacks as La Hire rallies the troops once more with a battle-cry for La Pucelle. Isabeau makes her way outside, Minou humbling herself before her. Isabeau waves her hands before her which causes the troops to collapse to their knees, their strength being sucked out from them. As she aims her hand forward, a magic circle having formed around it, Tart stabs a standard into the ground before her and blocks her next move. Minou orders the magical girl slaves she brought with her to stop Tart, but Elisa and Melissa hold them off so Tart can race in towards Isabeau. Once more her sword attacks seem to have no effect on the queen. Isabeau raises her hands once more and fires a beam of magic directly at her. As the dust settles, Tart looks up from behind her shield to find that [[Pernelle]] has blocked the attack with her own magic circle, explaining to Tart that Isabeau is immune to attacks due to someone else's wish. <br />
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Kyubey and Pernelle explain to Tart that Isabeau is now part magical girl, part witch, and part incubator thanks to her and Lapin’s wish. Minou declares to all that she wished for Isabeau to be undefeated by any magical girl. Isabeau transforms into her witch state as the empty shell of her human body sits cradled in an enormous hand jutting from the ground nearby. As Tart, Elisa and Melissa continues the struggle against the witch Crepuscule de la Reine (Twilight of the Queen), all of their attacks having no effect on the witch. Tart’s soul gem grows black with impurities as she reaches her limit, when she suddenly hears the voice of Riz reminding her of her sword training back in her home village. From before Tart, Riz's soul gem materializes from a shadow as Riz tells her that her final vow was for her soul to remain with her from that day forward. Even if Riz's body was lost, her soul remained behind like her shadow, always by Tart's side. Tart’s gauntlet turns black with Riz’s soul gem encased on the back. As Tart’s soul gem crackles with impurities, she slashes her sword down and successfully injures the witch. Due to Riz's wish, Tart’s soul gem has been prevented from transforming into a grief seed, making her more than just a magical girl. Before Tart can finish her off, Isabea's body begins to shake as a larger body emerges from underneath, a second larger witch form that causes the cathedral to crumble under the size and might of this new body as everyone gazes up in terror at the true form of Crepuscule de la Reine. However, Tart remains determined as ever as she faces down her foe. Isabeau begins to charge her cannon and aims it at Tart who immediately summons her standard and smashes through the center of it, causing the cannon to crumble. As Isabeau flies above the ruined cathedral, Tart summons a massive magic circle in the sky above her in an attack known as the Gate of Heaven. The center of the circle slides open like a gateway as crosses of light pierce Isabeau and hold her in place. Tart leaps up and swings her weapon down at the witch, slicing the massive body in half and then half again. As the pieces of the witch's corpse fall back to earth, the gate closes and disappears. Tart's shadowy gauntlet also begins to dissipate as Riz's soul gem crumbles. Tart thanks Riz for protecting her until the very end.<br />
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Melissa and Elisa race over to Tart, overjoyed that the battle is finally over and their greatest enemy defeated. But Tart faints, weak from the overexertion her soul gem has taken due to the battle. Pernelle hands the girls a grief seed in order to purify her gem but before they can do so, they're interrupted by the lamentations of Minou who stands over her mother's human body. Though her soul was that of a witch, her original body still remains thanks to her wish, but it is now quite literally an empty shell. Melissa and Elisa prepare themselves to defend Tart as Minou threatens to kill them herself no matter what may happen. Suddenly, Minou's soul gem shatters. She demands answers and Pernelle provides them: having been created by an imperfect creator she lost her powers the moment Isabeau was destroyed. Minou is devastated by the news and orders her soldiers to capture and kill them all but Tart offers herself as a prisoner in exchange for the lives of the French soldiers. Minou accepts gleefully. In May 1431 Tart was burned at the stake in a public square. Melissa and Elisa are present as Tart offers her final words of gratitude to the friends that were with her throughout her journey. Pernelle also is in the crowd and asks Kyubey why he didn’t just allow Tart to become a witch, but Kyubey responds that Tart did what he asked of him and he is repaying the favor by allowing her to die on her own terms. Just before the flames consume Tart entirely, she says, "I want to say to everything in the world...merci vraiment! Thank you!" as her soul takes on the form of a white dove that flies out of the flames.<br />
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===Tart in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===<br />
See [[Tart in Magia Record]]<br />
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==Powers and Abilities==<br />
Because of {{spoiler|Riz Hawkwood's wish,}} Tart is an abnormally powerful magical girl who Kyubey calls an "anomaly." She often destroys her enemies with blasts of energy, usually channeled through a magically-composed weapon. While incredibly powerful, these blast drain a great deal of her magic, taking a heavy burden on her. She has high offensive and defensive abilities, able to take direct hits from other magical girls without harm, and these abilities were enhanced even further after her near-death experience at the hands of Corbeau and her subsequent revival as a result of Melissa's wish. After her revival, Tart demonstrated the ability to conjure a flag standard that she could use to fire her most powerful attack "La Lumiere." Upon meeting with another magical girl named Pernelle, Tart was gifted a sword known as the "Épée de Clovis," which was forged with metal that had magical properties and was housed at the church of St. Catherine. This allowed her to channel smaller amounts of her magic into the sword and made it easier for her to conserve her magical power in battle. <br />
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When Corbeau used her Danse Macabre to infect both the English and French armies with bubonic plage, including any magical girls, Tart was able to use her abilities to summon a magical circle in the sky (similar to Madoka's attack), which rained down on the populace below. Everyone who had been infected with the plague were subsequently healed. During her final battle with Isabeau, Tart summoned a magic circle in the sky once again, this time opening like a gate from which powerful beams of light shapes like crosses shoot down, piercing her enemy. This ultimate attack was named "The Gates of Heaven", in contrast to Riz's "Gates of Hell" attack.<br />
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==Observations==<br />
* She is known as Jeanette by her friends and family, and referred to as 'La Pucelle' by the French soldiers and officials. The later is a shortened version of '<i><b>La Pucelle d'Orléans</b></i>' <i>(The Maid of Orléans)</i>, a common nickname for Joan of Arc. On it's own, <i>'La Pucelle'</i> can be translated as <b>"The Maiden"</b>.<br />
* She is a lightweight when it comes to drinking, as even a single cup of wine can turn her head and cause her to glomp onto her friends Riz and Melissa.<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
Kyubey asked Jean to spell her name out since it would be easier for him, however Jeanne was not very literate and was only taught to write her name by the village priest. After looking at her name, Kyubey decides her surname "Tart" sounded better and decides to refer to her as that.<br />
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See [[wikipedia:Name_of_Joan_of_Arc|wikipedia article on Joan of Arc's name]].<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Anime===<br />
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File:Tart in Anime.jpg|Tart's appearance from [[Madoka Magica Episode 12: My Best Friend]]<br />
File:Tart MRA24.png|Tart's appearance from [[Magia Record Episode 24]]<br />
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===Manga pages===<br />
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File:tartprofile.png|Tart's Profile, Ver. 1<br />
File:Tart Profile 2.jpg|Tart's Profile, Ver. 2<br />
File:Tart profile 3.jpg|Tart's Profile, Ver. 3<br />
File:Tart 1.png|Colour image from Volume 1<br />
File:Tart 2.png|Second colour image from Volume 1<br />
File:Melissa tart volume 2 cover.jpg|Volume 2 cover featuring Melissa and Tart<br />
File:Volume 4 color insert.jpg|Volume 4 colour insert<br />
File:Vol 5 color insert 1.jpg|Colour image from Volume 5<br />
File:Vol 5 color insert 2.jpg|Second colour image from Volume 5<br />
File:Tart writes her name.png|Tart writes her name (and the origin of her nickname)<br />
File:Tart initial attack 1.png|Tart using her magic to attack a witch<br />
File:Tart initial attack 2.png<br />
File:La Lumiere.png|La Lumiere<br />
File:Tart magic seal.jpg|Tart's magic seal healing the armies below<br />
File:Gate of heaven 1.jpg|The Gates of Heaven<br />
File:Gate of heaven 2.jpg|The Gates of Heaven<br />
File:Tart's soul gem.png|Tart's soul gem<br />
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===Games===<br />
{{SeeAlso|Tart in Magia Record#Gallery}}<br />
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File:Mobage7092.webp|Card from [[Madoka Magica Mobage]]<br />
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|name=Riz Hawkwood<br />
|image=[[File:Riz pageBIO.PNG|250px]]<br />
|jname={{lang|ja|リズ・ホークウッド}}<br />
|surname=Hawkwood<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Riz Hawkwood'''|リズ・ホークウッド|Rizu Hōkuuddo}}, also known as '''Liz Hawkwood''', is one of the main characters in ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]''. She is one of Tart's companions and close friends.<br />
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==General Info==<br />
{{Magical Girl Details<br />
|birth=1411<br />
|height=168cm<br />
|eyes=Yellow <br />
|hair=Black<br />
|origin=[[wikipedia:Milan|Milan, Italy]]<br />
|soulgem=Yellow rectangle (left cufflink)<br />
|weapon=4 shadow daggers (Shape changes due to magic power, e.g. spears, machetes, whips, scythes), named [[Machete]], [[Frusta]] and [[Falce]]. Fourth name is unknown (but theorized to be "[[Lancia]]").<br />
|wish=To be the one from whom a new, true hero would spring.<br />
|powers=Shadows, "Gates of Hell".<br />
|witch=Obscurite<br />
|witchlink=Liz Hawkwood in Magia Record#Doppel Description<br />
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}<br />
|relatives=[[wikipedia:John_Hawkwood|John Hawkwood]] (grandfather), Donnina Visconti (grandmother), [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather)<br />
}}<br />
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==Story==<br />
===Backstory===<br />
Riz was the grandchild of an Italian hero who had turned traitor. Her grandfather was named John Hawkwood, and he was the leader of the White Company Mercenaries. He tended to work for various landowners and nobles and would work for the enemy of a former employer so long as the price was right. The Visconti family had arranged for their daughter to marry Hawkwood, and that's how the Viscontis gained control of the White Company. But later, Hawkwood betrayed the Viscontis and brought them to ruin. Riz was born into the Visconti family as the granddaughter of a traitor and thus endured a harsh childhood. As part of her agreement to become a magical girl, she wished to be the one from whom a new, true hero would spring. For her, this was a wish that could not be granted until that condition was fulfilled. But since this was the price of her contract, it should have actually come true. So Kyubey set out with Riz in search of her hero and while they met many girls with talent, in the end none of them turned out to be the hero that Riz was searching for. Many of these girls would die at the hands of witches, some transforming into witches themselves. Due to these journeys and experiences, Riz learned much about the magical girl system and would later impart some of this knowledge to her compatriots Tart, Melissa and Elisa. It was not until she encountered Tart that her wish would be granted. <br />
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===During ''Tart Magica''===<br />
Riz first appeared in a flash forward in Chapter 1, where [[Tart]], Riz, [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]], and [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]] are attempting to stop [[Minou]] from escaping yet again. They are deterred by [[Flèche and Lame|Lame]], who is easily defeated. However Minou uses her abilities to cause Lame to fall into deep despair and instantly become a witch, fighting off the girls as she makes her escape.<br />
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Tart then recalls of how she first met her companions. In a flashback, Tart is seen with her sister Catherine following a fairy into the woods. The fairy turns out to be the familiar of a nearby grief seed that hatches into a witch before the girls. Catherine faints as several witch-kissed soldiers appear and amble towards Tart. Riz suddenly appears and knocks out the soldiers with the use of her daggers and shadow abilities. As she quickly dispatches them, the witch turns her fury towards Riz, who captures it with shadowy chains and impales it with her blade causing the witch to explode. Tart is amazed at this display as Riz explains that she and Kyubey were looking for her. They ask for her name and Kyubey nicknames her "Tart". After Tart’s family appears looking for her and her sister, Tart faints from the stress and Riz brings the girls back to their home. Once Tart awakens, Riz awaits as Kyubey asks if she would consider making a contract with him. Tart’s father enters and asks if Riz would be able to work as a village guard for a time. During the following three years, Riz remains as a village guard and trains both Tart and Catherine in the art of sword fighting. Catherine quickly grows adept at her new skill as Tart struggles slightly. Due to Tart not deciding on a wish, Kyubey declares that him and Riz will have to leave soon. Riz goes to escort a shipment of goods the village is sending out when several thieves and bandits take advantage of Riz’s absence to burn the village to the ground, pillaging homes and slaughtering the villagers indiscriminately. Catherine is able to kill and wound some of the soldiers before she is impaled before Tart’s eyes. The soldiers leave, satisfied with their spoils. A short time later, Riz returns as Tart laments the loss of her sister and asks if she and her village can be restored with her wish. Kyubey affirms it can, but warns her it’s possible she may still lose both or other members of her family due to the war ravaging France. Tart makes her wish for the power to bring light to France. Before they leave, Tart cuts off her braid and places it on Catherine’s grave.<br />
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As they journey on, Tart asks what they should do next. Kyubey responds that there is much turmoil in France due to the lack of a true king sitting on the throne and reminds Tart that it is her duty also to defeat the witches that ravage France. On their journey to Vaucoleurs, Riz and Tart find that the town has been beset by a witch, as several witch-kissed soldiers aim their arrows at the two girls. Despite not being able to summon a weapon naturally, Tart is able to conjure a sword of light magic and disposes of the witch instantly. However, she used up vast amounts of magic in doing so to Riz's dismay. Riz and Kyubey then explain how all magical girls irrevocably turn into witches if they use up all of their magic. Having defeated the witch, the girls are welcomed into the village where Lord Baurdicourt offers the girls what help he can and is able to secure an audience with the Dauphin for Tart. The girls then head out for Chinon after hearing the news of the French army’s defeat at Orleans by “three mere girls”. During their journey, Tart and Riz defeat more witches, but Riz warns Tart to better learn to control her powers before she enters battle since she drains her magic needlessly every time. <br />
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The girls soon arrive at Chinon, where they make announcement of their arrival and prepare for their audience with the Dauphin Charles. Charles decides to play a trick on Tart in order to test her and instructs Lord Gilles to sit on his throne in his place. As Tart enters the courtroom, both her and Kyubey sense something off about Gilles and announce to all that he is not the Dauphin. Somehow, Tart is able to sense who Charles really is among the courtiers and kneels before him. Stunned, Charles orders Tart to speak with him privately in his bedchambers. After affirming to Charles that she was indeed sent by God to place him on his rightful throne, Charles and Tart exit the room where he announces to all that La Pucelle is truly a messenger from God. After extensive testing by various theologians, her status as a messenger from God is confirmed to all, causing her fame to spread and more soldiers to volunteer for the war. Charles then assigns Lord Gilles and [[Etienne de Vignolles]] in charge of the troops that are to journey to Orleans, as Etienne assigns his daughter [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]] to act as a handmaiden to Tart and Riz. Melissa introduces herself to Tart and Riz, who both insist on dispensing with the formalities. The group soon encounter a small village that has seemingly been burned to the ground. Etienne returns to the main group of soldiers to warn them of the dangers ahead as Melissa remains in the village with Tart and Riz. Soon they encounter a witch’s barrier in from of the dilapidated church in the center of town. As Tart and Riz do battle with the witch inside, Kyubey takes Melissa with him into the barrier in order for her to watch the magical girls do battle and convince her to contract as well. As the witch is about to attack Melissa, she is saved by a barrier placed by [[Pernelle]]. Pernelle scolds Kyubey for bringing in outsiders as a magical girl is attempting to do battle and hands Tart a magically-imbued sword. Tart uses the sword to defeat the witch easily while conserving most of her magic power. As Pernelle introduces herself, she soon leaves through one of her portals. <br />
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The group slowly yet surely make their way to Orleans. Along the way they are able to recapture several forts that had been taken by the English forces and are soon able to camp not far from the outskirts of Orleans as they prepare to do battle the next day. Tart shows off her newly embroidered standard with a design of Kyubey on it to her friends. During the nightly revelry, Melissa reveals to Tart and Riz that she had been thinking about becoming a magical girl ever since Kyubey said she had the potential for it. Tart prefers that she stay as she is rather than risk herself in battle. The following day the soldiers and the girls began their assault on the fortress, the soldiers leaning ladders against the fortress’ walls but [[Corbeau]] is there to greet them and summons black feathers that rain down and impale the soldiers. She leaps down to where Riz and Tart stand. Corbeau knocks Tart away with a single blow before trading blows with Riz. Despite the injuries she’s taken, Corbeau heals herself with magic and Riz notices how incredibly dark her soul gem has become. Corbeau laughs as Riz realizes the truth: Corbeau is able to push her impurities onto other magical girls. By now Tart has managed to struggle her way back to where Riz and Corbeau are and offers to help. Riz tells her to stay back and Corbeau agrees, snapping her finger which causes her servant, [[Flèche and Lame|Flèche]], to aim several arrows at Tart, a few of which find their mark. Riz looks up to see Flèche watching them from one of the fortress' towers. Corbeau charges at Riz once more and is able to pin her down using her black feathers. As Flèche continues to shoot arrows at Tart, Corbeau walks to where Tart lays. Etienne sneaks up and strikes at Corbeau from behind in an attempt to defend Tart, but Corbeau also throws Etienne into the ground face first, knocking him unconscious. Melissa rushes to her father's side and Riz calls out to her, telling her to get away from the front lines as soon as possible. Corbeau tells Flèche to make sure nothing is left of La Hire and Flèche conjures a large spear-like arrow and fits it to her bow. As she unleashes the arrow aimed at Melissa and her father, Tart suddenly stands before them and takes the full brunt of the attack, sparing the two humans. As the dust settles, Tart asks Melissa if she's alright, and thanks heaven she is as Tart stands there with a large hole the size of her fist in her right shoulder. Tart collapses face first as Melissa calls out her name. As Corbeau laughs, the dust settling, Melissa stands before her, now a magical girl as well. <br />
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Melissa battles Corbeau, attempting to defeat her with her matter disintegration magic but fails. Corbeau is surprised that Melissa is now a magical girl and doesn’t seem to recognize Kyubey. Riz pulls Melissa and Tart into her shadow realm and explains the significance of soul gems. She asks Tart to hold onto Riz and Melissa’s soul gems as she battles off Flèche and they battle Corbeau. Riz pops out of a shadow behind Corbeau, throwing her off as she realizes that Riz can jump from shadow to shadow. As she throws a feather dagger at her, Riz disappears into a shadow once more before reappearing at Corbeau's feet behind her. Riz fends off her attacks with her dagger as Corbeau taunts her, making fun of her for only defending herself and not attacking. Tart and Melissa materialize behind Flèche and Corbeau respectively. Both of them swing their weapons at their opponents but are unable to successfully connect their attacks. Corbeau calls out to Flèche to provide support as she fends off attacks from both Melissa and Riz. She then calls to Flèche to finish off La Pucelle with another attack like the one that nearly killed her earlier. Tart prepares another attack against Flèche, but Flèche has dropped down one side of the tower they were fighting on. As Flèche runs backwards down the side of the tower, she launches arrow after arrow right at Tart, each one finding their mark. She turns and using her momentum is able to run sideways across the walls of the fortress, launching more arrows up in her wake. As the dust settles, Tart remains unharmed. Corbeau is furious at all this and demands Flèche use her full magic, as if she intends to drain herself dry. Tart braces herself for the incoming attack and thinks back to when they were still on their journey over.<br />
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As Tart remembers the words of Riz telling her that she too will trust in that hope, she powers herself up and conjures a standard and lance with her magic just as Flèche is finishing powering up her final arrow attack. Tart unleashes a large beam of pure magical energy as she uses her ultimate move: La Lumiere. The attack destroys the tower where Flèche was standing as well as leaving a sizeable hole in the fortress. Corbeau returns her attention and attacks on Riz and Melissa, who are able to coordinate a few successful attacks of their own on Corbeau. Corbeau soon realizes something is wrong as her soul gem begins to darken from the exertion of battle. Back at the scene of battle, Flèche stirs slightly as Minou appears before her. She had planned to gather up what was left of her but instead she conjures a seal with her magic and presses it to Flèche, causing her to scream. Corbeau, meanwhile, laments the impurities of her soul gem as Riz asks her how it feels to be defeated by her own power. As she summons black feathers around her, Minou walks over and calls out to Corbeau. She tells her she knows better than to use *that* while there are still English troops in the vicinity. Corbeau warns Minou away since she will automatically absorb any impurities in Corbeau's soul gem. But Minou isn't worried and tells her [[Lapin]] had been asking for her. She tells Corbeau to leave everything to Flèche instead as the two disappear through one of Minou's portals.<br />
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The remaining French soldiers with Gille at the lead finally arrive at the fortress just as Flèche's witch form has spawned and stands ready and waiting in the courtyard. Tart leaps out from the tower and strikes at the witch's head with her sword. While the attack wasn't quite enough to stop the witch, it powers up its attack and Tart only barely manages to turn its head just as it fires off its attack. She grips her sword tightly and slashes the witch down the middle, parting it neatly in half. The witch explodes and is finished off. Melissa congratulates Tart but Tart assures her it wasn't just her who finished off the witch. As the smoke clears from a gun muzzle, Elisa stands at the edge of a cliff side some considerable distance away. Two men stand behind her, her uncle and the constable who praises her shot. They wonder if this was enough to secure the fate of Orleans and can see that the tide is now beginning to turn in this war. Elisa tells them to leave it to her as she will offer her greetings to the Dauphin Charles in person as well as introduce herself to La Pucelle. The leader of the English forces, John Talbot, breaks ranks and asks if they can be allowed to leave since they clearly stand no chance against the French army. Both Batard and Tart agree and allow the remaining English forces to leave with their lives. Batard declares Orleans liberated from the English much to the gusto of the French forces.<br />
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At the town of Loches, the Dauphin personally welcomes the retinue and congratulates them on their victory. It seems Elisa and her uncle raced ahead to inform the Dauphin of the news. Elisa introduces herself to Tart, Riz, and Melissa and telepathically informs them she too is a magical girl. She was sent on orders of her mother the Holy Roman Empress to see for herself the powers of La Pucelle and to render assistance if she is truly a messenger from God. Having witness the battle at Orleans, they offer their services to the Dauphin Charles. Sometime later, Elisa challenges Tart to a friendly duel but due to her battle experience she is able to defeat Tart easily. Angered, Melissa herself challenges Elisa to a duel and throws her bodily into the air. That evening, Elisa pouts in her room as Melissa enters in her maid’s uniform, offering refreshments and an apology for losing her temper. Elisa dismisses her apology, since it was a duel after all and promises to not taunt Tart in the future. After asking for Tart, and being informed that she was called to court, Elisa and her uncle head off to find a certain person. <br />
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In the Great Hall of the Chateau de Loches, Tart argues for the Dauphin to be coronated at Reims as soon as possible. While Gilles and Batard agree, the chamberlain has his own opinion on how to proceed when the Dauphin’s son burst in and is overjoyed to meet Tart. Tart promises to have his father coronated as soon as possible, the Dauphin agreein to this plan due to the prompting of his son. While the chamberlain wonders what could have brought the child to the hall at this exact moment, he eyes Oswald and Elisa who are speaking familiarly with the Dauphin’s wife. <br />
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At the city of Patay, Minou, Corbeau and Lapin stand at the head of the English forces as Lapin jumps up and down in joy at the thought of finally being able to play after waiting for so long. At the head of the French forces stand Tart, Elisa, Melissa and Riz as they note the three magical girls facing them but not recognizing Lapin as they hadn't met her before now. Corbeau turns to John Talbot and tells him they'll be acting as they please. Before they can begin, Lapin races ahead of her sisters and commences her attack. However, Elisa and Melissa are able to strike her down immediately, causing her soul gem to darken and Lapin to turn into a witch. Suddenly, the soldiers' weapons from both armies as well as Riz and Melissa's weapons begin to float in the air. Tart looks around bewildered as the soldiers fall back, unable to proceed with their fight so long as they remain without weapons. Only Tart and Elisa are able to retain their weapons thanks to the magics Pernelle has imbued them with. Lapin, now in a rabbit-like witch form, floats beneath the weapons as she directs them at Melissa and Riz. The weapons, now under the command of the witch, fly straight at the girls damaging them as Tart attempts to knock as many as she can away with her sword. Elisa, meanwhile, continues to shoot down as many of the weapons as possible when Melissa suddenly notices a huge shadow looming on them and calls out to Riz. The witch has amassed the weapons and shields she stole into a giant sword-like shape which starts to fall towards them. Riz calls Melissa to get into her shadow where she can pull them to safety but the eyes on the witch's cape flash at them, causing Melissa and Riz to revert from their magical girl forms to their human forms. The sword-shaped conglomeration of weapons bears down on them and would have crushed them had Tart not suddenly appeared in front of them and slashed at the weapons with her own sword. Melissa, Riz, Tart, and Elisa revert back into their normal forms every time Lapin or her rabbit disks flash their eyes at them.<br />
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Just as they’re getting their bearings, Corbeau charges at Riz who is just barely able to block her attack with her bare arms. Corbeau and Riz trade blows as Melissa tries to assist as best she can without her weapon, imbuing rocks with her magic and throwing them at Corbeau. Elisa and Tart attempt to coordinate a surprise attack on Lapin, but the eyes on her cape have the same ability as her rabbit eyes and they both revert to normal girls temporarily. Despite this, the two girls are eventually able to distract Lapin and successfully defeat her with Elisa's rifle-turned-canon. However, her defeat only causes her to revert back into a magical girl, owing to the nature of her wish and the abilities it granted her. Minou retreats with an unconscious Lapin into one of her portals as Corbeau unleashes her Danse Macabre. Reaper-like skeletons fly out of the magic circles Corbeau summoned, black feathers flying out from their eyeless sockets. Everyone begins to double over in pain, wondering what's happening to their bodies. Riz looks at the tumor-like boils on her hands and recognizes it as something she's seen before. Corbeau laughs and reminds Riz she told her this fight would be a massacre and tells them all to show her the dance of death. As both the French and English forces alike lay doubled in agony, Corbeau beats down the weakened magical girls. Tart struggles to her feet and attempts to fight Corbeau, but is too weakened to do more than swing her sword feebly. Corbeau picks her up by the neck and mocks Tart's attempts to fight back.<br />
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As Tart warns her that she’s hurting her English allies as well with her magic, Corbeau scoffs and responds that she doesn’t care since her magic will kill everyone who comes near. She demands to know what it matters since everyone must die eventually, just like Tart’s sister. At these words, Tart's soul gem shines brightly and Corbeau's fingers are bent backwards as the force of Tart's magic caused her to be released from her grip. Tart glows with the power of her magic and an immense magic circle of Tart's doing appears in the sky overhead, casting light down on the soldiers below. As the light bathes the battlefield, all of the soldiers and magical girls both English and French alike begin to stand and realize they've been healed of plague as well as their wounds. Corbeau is enraged by this and as she demands to know who Tart really is, Tart leaps up and slashed down her sword with full force at Corbeau, ultimately defeating her as the force of it knocks her into some nearby woods. She lands against the trunk of a tree and falls to her knees, greatly weakened. Tart aims her blade at Corbeau, telling her this is the end as Corbeau tries to stand. But all Corbeau can think of is her two sisters, Lapin and Minou. Before she can deliver the finishing blow, a portal appears behind Corbeau and Minou steps through. {{spoiler|While Corbeau is overfilled with joy at the sight of her sister, Minou kneels down and takes Corbeau's soul gem in her hands, informing her this is the end. Confused, Corbeau asks her why and if she doesn't see how much she loves her and Lapin. Minou confirms that this is what she suspected and says she stopped serving their benefactor a long time ago. As Corbeau yells out once more to Minou asking her why she can't understand how much she loves them, Minou shatters Corbeau's soul gem and tells her she doesn't love her any longer. Corbeau falls forward, calling out her sisters' names as she dies. Minou tells her that at the very least she will tell Lapin that Corbeau died honorably in battle. Tart angrily demands she explain herself as Riz calls her heartless. As Minou summons a portal, she giggles and says it'll be something to look forward to as she gathers Corbeau's body and takes it back with her, leaving the heroines alone in the woods.}}<br />
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The two turn to go, knowing the battle isn't over yet. Out in the nearby woods Tart, Melissa, Riz and Elisa are just able to hear the cries of the troops and wonder what may be happening. Pernelle appears from behind a tree and informs the girls that the French has won a victory. After asking how they’re doing, Pernelle informs them of a prophecy spreading throughout France that predicts that Tart will save France. While Charles had the right to inherit the throne, it was a woman that sold that right to the King of England and now Tart has appeared and reclaimed Orleans, opening a path for Charles to be coronated. Thus far the prophecy is fulfilling itself. Elisa and Tart both argue that it was due to their and the soldiers’ efforts that France is being liberated and not just some prophecy. Pernelle smiles and tells her to never hold back in saying what she feels from her heart. But she asks that Tart never forgets that, while a larger fate may be at work here, it is Tart who is at the center of that flow of fate. As she magically teleports away, she tells them to make their way to Reims where she may meet them again. Now that the road to Reims was secured, Dauphin Charles was coronated as the King of France. With this, the wishes of La Pucelle as well as the people of France were realized.<br />
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Charles and the other courtiers celebrate the coronation of Charles when suddenly the lights cut out, leaving the room plunged in total darkness. A scream is heard and as they turn towards the sound, a light can be seen. But this is no ordinary light, it is several women burning alive and screaming as between the flames, Minou and another woman can be seen walking towards Charles. Riz and Tart quickly transform and stand ready to defend the king. They demand he run towards safety, but Charles stammers and looks like he is about to scream as he recognizes the smiling woman who stands before Minou. As he collapses to the ground, he demands to know what she is doing here. It is his mother, the woman who sold out France to the English, [[Isabeau|Isabeau de Baviere]]. As Isabeau appears in the courtroom, Riz, Melissa and Tart stand ready to defend the newly crowned king, already transformed into their magical girl states. Charles begs Tart to save him from his mother, the queen, and demands she kill her. At his word Tart rushes forward and stabs her sword straight through the queen's heart as she stands there. Charles initially laughs at this display, but the queen smiles as a white miasma escapes from the queen's wound and she merely stands there smiling. Tart leaps back, certain she had injured the queen but thinking to herself that it didn't feel like she had stabbed her. Riz summons her shadowy tendrils and ties the queen up as Elisa and Melissa both swing their weapons directly at her. Isabeau merely smiles more broadly, completely unharmed from both their attacks. She raises her finger and shoots a beam of magical energy at the two girls, causing them to be knocked away hard. Tart draws her power to herself and summons her standard, unleashing her "La Lumiere" attack directly on Isabeau, the excess power blasting out the castle's windows. However, the dust clears and Isabeau remains where she stands, not a hair on her head harmed. Tart is amazed that she remained undamaged even after using that much magic power on her, but Minou sneaks up behind Tart and knocks her down with her whip. Isabeau staggers suddenly and whispers something to Minou as Minou stands and declares the words of her queen "In one year's time death shall befall La Pucelle!" Minou and Isabeau leave through Minou's portal as Charles cries and the magical girls tend to their wounds.<br />
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The following day, after the group gathers to discuss that night’s events. Tart's followers want to liberate Paris as quickly as possible. However, the chamberlain La Remoille advising the haggard King Charles, sending entreaties to the English forces asking for a ceasefire. The result of the endless delays was that the army had to wait until close to August before it could depart from Reims. Finally the order came for the army to advance toward Paris. From August 1429, Charles showed no signs of recovery. In fact, just when everyone thought he had finally given the order to liberate Paris on September 9, only two days later, the order was rescinded. Shortly thereafter, the order came to disband his army altogether. It seemed the king's confusion was worsening. All of the forces who supported La Pucelle were completely disbanded. But Tart went questing throughout France for some eight months, virtually alone, searching for Isabeau. Finally in Compiegne, a town in the north of France, they discovered a witch’s barrier with the symbol of a cuckoo at the center. As they enter the barrier, they are greeted by Minou who summons an army of magical girls through her many portals. As the girls arrive, Minou summons branding irons and brands the girls, causing them to fall into deep despair and transform into witches instantly. She commands the witch army forward as she declares this to be the appointed time at which death would befall La Pucelle.<br />
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Tart, Riz, Melissa and Elisa stand ready as they face down an army of witches that Minou has summoned to destroy them. The first witch, who appears like a gigantic woman in a dress with a tassel for a head, brings her arm down on our heroes who are just barely able to leap out of harm’s way. Tart blocks the witch's arm with her bare strength and slashes at it with her sword. The cleaved half of the arm falls heavily on the ground behind her but before she can react, the hand of another witch reaches for Tart. However Melissa is able to block the attack on Tart with her polearm just in time, warning Tart to not overdo it. Riz calls out to the others, advising them to stay together as there are a vast number of witches they must face. Tart summons her strength as she prepares to take out all of the witches at once but Riz warns her not to do so, knowing Minou's strategy is to deplete their magic as much as possible. As Elisa fires left and right with her rifle, she tells Tart she won't have to use her magic since she'll take out all the witches for her. Minou watches the battle rage on before her and decides that this small contingency of witches won't be enough to stop them and turns to where Lapin now stands andinforms her of her chance to take revenge for the loss of their sister. Lapin is enraged and more than eager to tear them limb from limb. She begins by summoning her rabbit-shaped discs and impeding their magical girl transformations. Despite this, Riz is easily able to dodge her attacks and slashes at her rabbit-shaped discs as Lapin is not used to combat the way her sister Corbeau was.<br />
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When Riz informs Lapin that it was in fact {{spoiler| Minou who killed her sister}}, this causes Lapin to snap with rage and abandon all thinking. Riz aims to shatter Lapin’s soul gem in order to prevent her from transforming into her witch form, but the news she received and the subsequent despair it caused her has instead only accelerated the impurities of Lapin’s soul gem. It is too late, as Lapin quickly becomes a witch continues her attacks on the girls. The magical girls coordinate their attacks and unleash Melissa’s ultimate destructive move on Lapin. But it is not enough and Lapin reemerges from the bottom of the crater formed by the explosion, now human and her soul gem cleansed. Minou then causes a portal to appear beneath Elisa and Melissa and transports them to a different part of the castle in which they are battling. Tart and Riz are left to fend for themselves against not only Lapin’s witch form, but the army of witches that are left from earlier. Tart and Riz begin to grow weary from the fighting and the amount of magic they’ve spent, causing Riz to charge her soul gem’s power and throw a dagger at Lapin’s feet. Shadows emerge from the dagger and wrap themselves around Lapin, effectively immobilizing her. As Tart calls out to her, Riz summons her ultimate attack, ‘’Gates of Hell’’. {{spoiler| A large marble doorway comes up from the ground, skeletons adorning its framework. As the Gates of Hell begin to crack open, shadowy hands reach out from inside each of them grabbing at a different part of Lapin. She cries out for them to let go of her but they continue to hold on relentlessly as more hands reach out from the gate and grab at the witches in the area and pull them into the dark void that lurks behind the doors. Lapin continues to strain at the shadowy hands, crying out that nothing Riz does will make a difference since she'll keep coming back over and over again, returning to normal only for her to kill Riz no matter how many times it takes her. Riz acknowledges this, and informs her that she will be joining Lapin inside the black void of the gates to prevent her from escaping as the doors can only be opened from the outside. As Riz walks into the gate, Lapin is pulled into the darkness with her and the doors snap shut behind them, effectively ending Lapin’s life.}}<br />
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Kyubey and Pernelle explain to Tart that Isabeau is now part magical girl, part witch, and part incubator thanks to her and Lapin’s wish. Minou declares to all that she wished for Isabeau to be undefeated by any magical girl. Isabeau transforms into her witch state as the empty shell of her human body sits cradled in an enormous hand jutting from the ground nearby. As Tart, Elisa and Melissa continues the struggle against the witch Crepuscule de la Reine (Twilight of the Queen), all of their attacks having no effect on the witch. Tart’s soul gem grows black with impurities as she reaches her limit, when she suddenly hears the voice of Riz reminding her of her sword training back in her home village. From before Tart, Riz's soul gem materializes from a shadow as Riz tells her that her final vow was for her soul to remain with her from that day forward. Even if Riz's body was lost, her soul remained behind like her shadow, always by Tart's side. Tart's gauntlet turns black with Riz's soul gem encased on the back. As Tart's soul gem crackles with impurities, she slashes her sword down and successfully injures the witch. Due to Riz'S wish, Tart's soul gem has been prevented from transforming into a grief seed, making her more than just a magical girl. Before Tart can finish her off, Isabea's body begins to shake as a larger body emerges from underneath, a second larger witch form that causes the cathedral to crumble under the size and might of this new body as everyone gazes up in terror at the true form of Crepuscule de la Reine. However, Tart remains determined as ever as she faces down her foe. Isabeau begins to charge her cannon and aims it at Tart who immediately summons her standard and smashes through the center of it, causing the cannon to crumble. As Isabeau flies above the ruined cathedral, Tart summons a massive magic circle in the sky above her in an attack known as the Gate of Heaven. The center of the circle slides open like a gateway as crosses of light pierce Isabeau and hold her in place. Tart leaps up and swings her weapon down at the witch, slicing the massive body in half and then half again. As the pieces of the witch's corpse fall back to earth, the gate closes and disappears. Tart's shadowy gauntlet also begins to dissipate as Riz's soul gem crumbles. Tart thanks Riz for protecting her until the very end.<br />
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===Riz in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===<br />
See [[Riz Hawkwood in Magia Record]]<br />
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==Powers and Abilities==<br />
Riz has the ability to use shadows as portals. During combat, Riz uses this power to teleport herself and others around the battlefield, send attacks through shadows to hit targets at a distance, and transport nearby objects/people into a temporary pocket-reality.<br />
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Riz's weapons also have the ability to change form into many different types of blades as well, allowing her to have a varied armory which actually works out in her favour as she can deal with enemies in a variety of ways.<br />
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{{spoiler| Riz's ultimate ability is the "Gates of Hell". She summons two enormous doors, which open up and drag both her opponents and herself inside before vanishing.}}<br />
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==Observations==<br />
* Riz briefly uses the name {{nihongo|"Riz Visconti"|リズ・ヴィスコンティ|Rizu Visukonti}} in volume 1, possibly to disguise her name or origin.<br />
** The surname "''Visconti''" belonged to her maternal great-grandfather, Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan.<br />
* Riz may actually be of English heritage, due to John Hawkwood also being English and an ancestor of hers.<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
* Riz is named after [[wikipedia:John_Hawkwood|John Hawkwood]], a 14th century European mercenary and one of the leaders of the White Company Mercenaries. <br />
* "Riz" can be alternatively read as "Liz". In fact, fans referred to her as Liz until the official English translation of the manga was released.<br />
** The name "Liz" is currently used as Riz's official English name in the translated version of [[Magia Record]].<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* In her Magical Girl outfit, on her cape is a badge or clip bearing [[wikipedia:File:Blason_John_Hawkwood.svg|her family's coat of arms]]. <br />
**In its egg form, the bottom symbol of her Soul Gem is a scallop shell, also a reference to her family's coat of arms.<br />
* Her four daggers shape into a machete, a whip, a scythe, and a spear.<br />
**Curiously this were the weapons of her four former companions, meaning that each dagger represents each dead friend of Riz.<br />
**To change the shape of her daggers, Riz calls upon the names of her [https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Minor_Characters_(Tart_Magica)#Riz.27s_former_companions| former companions] (Machete, Frusta and Falce).<br />
**Although she is shown using a spear in some panels of the manga, is never shown Riz calling for the name of that former companion's name that used a spear (Falce's twin).<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Manga pages===<br />
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File:Riz pageBIO.PNG|Riz's character bio from ''Tart Magica'' volume 1.<br />
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File:Riz_Frusta.png| Riz calling Frusta's name to summon a whip<br />
File:Riz_Falce.png| Riz calling Falce's name to summon a scythe<br />
File:Riz_Machete.png| Riz calling Machete's name while fighting Corbeau<br />
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==Prologue==<br />
A [[Isabeau in Magia Record|shadowy figure]] hidden behind her bed curtains describes how she envisioned a future where [[Tart in Magia Record|Tart]] was dead. She decided to invade Tart’s dreams in order to take her out, but visitors from the future disrupted her plans. To prevent this from happening, she will change the future so they won’t exist and venture to the past in the first place. <br />
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==Act 1==<br />
===Chapter 1 - ''The Dream Continues''===<br />
'''''1429: France – Eastern Border'''''<br />
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[[Elisa Celjska in Magia Record|Elisa Celjska]] has finally made it to French territory along with a battalion of soldiers. The group barely has time to catch their breath when they’re assaulted by soldier-like familiars. Elisa defeats them with ease, prompting one of the soldiers to wonder if she isn’t the saint mentioned in the prophecy, but Elisa laughs it off. Their victory is short-lived as they’re surrounded by [[Corbeau in Magia Record|Corbeau]], [[Lapin in Magia Record|Lapin]], and [[Minou in Magia Record|Minou]]. Minou welcomes them to the land of perpetual night. Elisa accuses them of turning all of France into a Witch’s wonderland which doesn’t faze Minou in the slightest. She points out that Elisa has crossed the border between France and the Holy Roman Empire with a legion of heavily armed forces. Corbea leaps into an attack on the soldiers but Elisa is able to fend her off. Corbeau smiles maliciously and summons more of the familiars to her aid. The soldiers fight off the familiars as Elisa takes on Corbeau herself. <br />
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The Roman army is able to take the familiars down thanks to Elisa’s directions all the while fighting Corbeau. Corbeau can’t get enough of this bloodshed as she cackles in joy at being in another battle to the death. Lapin jumps in and swipes at Elisa, injuring her slightly and irritating Corbeau. Lapin whines that she’s bored and it’s her turn to play now. Elisa gathers herself and redirects the troops to continue fighting the familiars as she turns to face the sisters once more. Corbeau asks if she really thinks she can take on all three of them. Minou only smiles and says she hadn’t planned on fighting herself but is willing to do so if Corbeau really wants to. Lapin giggles in glee at the thought of breaking in her new toys. The Roman soldiers offer to help fight the girls but Elisa warns them off. She reminds them their duty was only to make sure she made it into French territory, where she would split off from the group and head out on her own in order to infiltrate the enemy base. She just needs them to stop the Familiars that are blocking her path and then she’ll cut her way forward after that. They bid each other good luck and separate. Corbeau and her sisters politely wait until Elisa is done and then commence their fight. <br />
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[[Ui Tamaki]] tosses in bed, talking in her sleep. She wakes up in the hospital, wondering if everything she saw Elisa doing was really just a dream. She looks at her cellphone, the screen glowing brightly. Ui thinks it’s too bright, almost magically so. [[Nemu Hiiragi]] looks at her concerned as [[Touka Satomi]] asks Ui if she’s ok. Ui says she had a scary dream and describes everything she saw. Nemu is fascinated by the story and feels inspired to make a dream. She explains to her friends that The Holy Roman Empire really did exist in history, around the same time that Jeanne d’Arc was most active in France. Ui is amazed at this, while Nemu is surprised Ui wasn’t already aware of the fact since she dreamed about it. Nemu says the Witches that overran France didn’t really happen, instead saying it was the war against England that was devastating France at the time. Ui didn’t know any of this either, which prompts Nemu to wonder how Ui dreamed a dream that was so accurate without her knowing any of it beforehand. Ui thinks maybe her phone has something to do with it and shows them the brightly lit screen. <br />
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Nemu asks to see it and Ui hesitates. She’s not sure why, but she has the strong feeling she shouldn’t show it to others, even her two closest friends. Something is wrong, and she can’t quite place what it is until she realizes she’s in the hospital. She remembers now that her sister, [[Iroha Tamaki]], wished for her to get better and that all three of them became Magical Girls. She looks at her friends and notes they’re wearing the same pajamas they would always wear in the hospital. Not only that, neither of them have their Soul Gems and neither did Ui. Ui asks if she’s still dreaming since they should have left the hospital since they became Magical Girls. <br />
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Touka laughs and says the jig is up, turning herself back into Lapin while “Nemu” turns into Minou. Ui tries to run, footsteps echoing behind her. She heads outside only to find herself in a weird dark void.<br />
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Corbeau and her sisters catch up to Ui, revealing the hospital was only an illusion all along. They surround Ui, who knows she has to fight but has no way of transforming without her Soul Gem. She looks at her cellphone, still shining brightly in her hand and is able to transform into a Magical Girl. Minou smirks and the three sisters attack Ui relentlessly. Soon Lapin asks if they can just kill her already, but Minou says it’s too soon for that. Suddenly Ui is gone and the sisters look around to find that Elisa has rescued Ui. She introduces herself to Ui but Ui already knows who she is thanks to her dream earlier. Ui introduces herself quickly. Elisa, not eager to fight all three sisters again, asks if Ui can run and suggests they retreat for now. <br />
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Having run a fair distance, the two stop to recoup. Ui looks around at their odd surroundings and wonders if this is still a dream since she is able to move around without her Soul Gem. Ui asks Elisa to pinch her cheek, which Elisa does vigorously. Ui cries out in pain and wonders how a dream can hurt so much. Elisa says she’s mistaken since they are definitely in reality. They both transform out of their Magical Girl state as Elisa explains how all of France has been plunged into an ocean of nothingness where darkness is perpetual and Witches roam the lands freely. Elisa explains Ui had been imprisoned because she posses “the record of the blank prophecy”. Ui asks if she is referring to her smartphone and shows it to Elisa. Elisa, being from the 15th century, has no idea what a phone is much less a smartphone. All she does know is it is her job to rescue and protect the person carrying it. Ui is perplexed, since she was able to transform as if her cellphone were her Soul Gem. It’s as if her cellphone were magical. [[Kyubey#In_Tart_Magica|Cube]] and [[Pernelle in Magia Record|Pernelle]] contact Ui through telepathy. The two are in hiding outside of France, but thanks to a magical stone Pernelle gave to Elisa, they are able to communicate over vast distances. Cube asks Ui to tell them about herself. After listening to her, Cube concludes she is from the Far East and has traveled back in time from the future. He explains to Ui that she is in the 15th century although he still doesn’t know how it is she traveled back in time in the first place. But that’s the least of their concerns since France is about to be swallowed up by a Time Paradox and the only thing that can stop it is the Blank Prophecy that Ui is carrying with her. <br />
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About three months ago a massive distortion in space and time was observed centered on Orléans, France when Jeanne d’Arc was fighting there against the English. Someone or something caused the Time Paradox to occur which caused everything to become unstable. Immediately after France was plunged into nothingness and darkness and Witches ruled the land. For now, a small number of safe lands dot the darkness like islands. Ui can’t quite wrap her around around what a time paradox is. Cube explains it to her, stating that there are several contradictory things happening at the same time right now which is causing everything to become unstable. History that has already been dictated is being forced to change and now both the past and the future hang in the balance. Cube has been observing the situation and has traced several instances of history being changed. A history where France wins and a history where France loses are two different timelines that have now collided, rendering France apart in the process. Elisa, having learned all of this from Pernelle before, explains to Ui how all of France is covered in a Witch’s labyrinth where all the time distortions are happening. As the Allied English Forces continue to dominate Europe, so too does the Witch’s barrier extend. Ui asks what the deal is with her phone, saying Cube had mentioned that it could save them all from this impending doom. <br />
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Ui asks Cube how it is she’s able to transform by using her cellphone without her Soul Gem. Cube isn’t entirely sure about that, but according to his monitoring Ui’s Soul Gem is in a completely different dimension, possibly the future. Her cellphone is channeling the magic of Ui’s Soul Gem to her so for now it is functionally her Soul Gem. Pernelle is certain they’ll have to research more to get to the bottom of things, but one thing they do know is that the Blank Prophecy has a significant amount of power. It has the power to erase the Paradox and return history back to normal but only Ui can use this power since it belongs to her. They were able to learn all of this thanks to Elisa successfully infiltrating the English base. Ui is amazed to learn that Elisa had been fighting all by herself up to this point. Elisa proudly points out she’s not the kind of person to put in their two cents from a safe distance from the danger. Cube feels they’re more useful by monitoring the situation from the outside while Pernelle acknowledges they’ve put the fate of the world in Elisa’s hands by doing so. And now they know that the future depends on Ui and her prophecy. <br />
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Ui looks through her phone and gets a worried look on her face when she sees the photo she took of her and her sister. She explains to Elisa that a photo is something like a portrait and shows it to her, only Ui isn’t in the photo anymore. <br />
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Even the background has been changed to that of the dark void they now find themselves in. Cube believes the photo is showing them the state of the future and how it may be disappearing. This is proof that the paradox is extending through time as well and how the two futures and pasts are now colliding everywhere. The darkness that is engulfing France may soon engulf the world and eradicate the entire future. Elisa tells the two to lighten up since the Holy Roman Empire is still fighting and they were able to successfully rescue the bearer of the Blank Prophecy. If they’re able to save the past, then Ui will be sent back to the future she came from. Ui is more worried about not wanting her sister to ever look that sad than she is about disappearing, so she joins forces with Elisa to restore the past and secure the future. <br />
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===Chapter 2 – ''La Pucelle''===<br />
'''''Orléans Outskirts – Fort St. Augustine'''''<br />
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[[Minor_Characters_(Tart_Magica)#Gilles_de_Montmotency-Laval|Gilles]] rallies his troops as they fight the swarms of Familiars, asking them to hold fast until their saint can arrive. [[Riz Hawkwood in Magia Record|Riz Hawkwood]] is impressed they’ve made it so far, but she expected no less from the French Army that Tart had led. However a second wave of Familiars has appeared and there are twice as many as before. Riz hopes Tart can make it in time just as she hears Tart call out to everyone to duck as she unleashes her La Lumière attack. The magic attack clears the field of all the Familiars in one go as Tart apologizes for being late. Gilles and the troops are glad she’s there and are honored by her presence. Tart doesn’t feel she deserves so much aplomb but Riz informs her that everyone sees her as the last hope for France. No matter what happens they must defense Orléans to the death. <br />
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Ui asks Elisa how it is they’re able to communicate. Elisa senses magic flowing every time Ui speaks and deduces it must be thanks to her Prophecy. Ui looks at her phone and notices it flashes everytime she talks. Also, the batter icon has been changed as well. Elisa doesn’t know what she’s talking about, but suggests they hurry to Orléans where all the other survivors have gathered. They soon arrive at a sphere that looks like a window looking onto a town outside of the gates of Orléans. Elisa’s not sure how it works, but if they go through the sphere they’ll arrive in the town. After they arrive Elisa plans on meeting up with other Magical Girls from France in order to form an alliance with them against the English Magical Girls. Cube explains there are two other Magical Girls who are leading what’s left of the French Army in a resistance against the English. Pernelle explains that one of those girls is Jeanne d’arc, also known to them as La Pucelle. Ui has heard of her and says she’s the girl who saved all of France. Since France isn’t shrouded in darkness in the future, Pernelle is now certain of how history should be going. Elisa doesn’t like the thought of the “True Future” being predetermined and would rather strive towards the future she wants through her own free will. Pernelle would normally agree with Elisa on this point, but the “future” is being unraveled as they speak so they may have no choice but to return history to how it was before. Elisa is well aware of this fact as it is the only reason she’d be working alongside a shady alchemist like Pernelle and Cube, calling him a stuffy suspicious cheesecake and causing Ui to snort in laughter. Ui prepares to hop through the sphere but Elisa says there’s one more place they have to stop first. <br />
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Elisa takes Ui through a different sphere and the two end up in a forest outside of a church. Cube explains that a strong temporal disruption was observed at the church nearby but Ui can restore it to its original state if she uses her Blank Prophecy. Elisa tells Ui she’d been to Orléans before, when the Holy Roman Empire had first heard of La Pucelle. Back then she was tasked with observing La Pucelle and verifying if her powers were real. If the rumors were true, she was to assist her in helping crown the king of France. It was when she was watching La Pucelle in battle that the anomaly had first occurred. Out of nowhere Elisa was suddenly in a strange place. Certain areas in France, such as the church they would be visiting, were affected more strongly than others by the Time Paradox. For now, Pernelle wants Ui to go to those various regions with Elisa and use her Blank Prophecy to repair the distortions. If they can repair all of the distortions than the Time Paradox will be undone. Ui can sense an eeriness to the atmosphere as they arrive at the church. Suddenly Elisa yells at her to get down and Ui is just able to dodge one of Minou’s whip attacks. But Minou isn’t alone, as she’s brought a few Magical Girls that are under her control with her. She leaves her slaves to fight in her stead as Elisa transforms, warning Ui to stay back. Elisa fires her musket at the girls, taking them out in the process. Having created an opening for the moment, Elisa and Ui make good their escape. <br />
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Safely away, Ui tells Elisa that she can fight too. Elisa takes a hard look at her and asks if she’ll be able to fight other humans without hesitation. Elisa suspects Ui is the kind of girl that would take her time trying to figure out how to not hurt her opponent. Ui admits this is true so Elisa tells her to just keep out of the way. She stops and sighs, thinking out loud that the future must be a truly peaceful era. She admits to Ui that she doesn’t want to hurt weaker opponents if she doesn’t have to, but against powerful enemies like Corbea they have no choice but to go all out. Elisa encourages Ui to instead fight to protect herself and the Blank Prophecy. They won’t be able to save the future if something happens to Ui so she asks Ui to leave the heavier fighting to her. Ui smiles, cheered up now, and the two head into the church before Minou and her cohorts can catch up to them. <br />
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Inside the church they find a large bubble. Cube confirms that the Time Paradox has formed around this mass. Elisa informs Cube she overheard the English Magical Girls talking about this, calling it a “Fragment of True History”.<br />
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If the fragments are collected and written in the prophecy, then history will be restored. Ui says she’s not sure of how to record it using her phone, but does tell the others that her phone has a camera on it. Pernelle figures this must be futuristic technology and asks Ui to try it out. Ui takes a picture of the bubble and the world flashes around them. In Elisa’s mind, a place she’s seen before is coming back to her. Elisa is taken back to her memories:<br />
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'''''(May 7, 1429: Outskirts of Orléans – Tourelles Fortress)'''''<br><br />
Gilles urges the soldiers to combat, for if they take back Tourelles they’ll be able to take back the city of Orléans. Riz and [[Melissa de Vignolles in Magia Record|Melissa de Vignolles]] are battling Corbeau as Tart unleashes her La Lumière attack. Back then Elisa had been travelling to Orléans. As she observes the battle between Corbeau and the French Magical Girls from afar, a Witch appears to attack them. She can’t understand why La Pucelle is taking so long to defeat the Witch and decides to step in before innocent lives can be hurt. She uses her firearm to blast the Witch away in a single hit. <br />
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The memory soon ends. Ui asks if what she saw really happened as Elisa realizes that Ui saw her memories at the same time she recovered them. For Elisa it was like she was experiencing it all over again. Pernelle figures that true history was sealed away in those fragments. When Ui recorded the fragment on her Blank Prophecy, it confirmed it as true so Elisa ended up recovering her memories of her experience in that true history. Now that she’s recovered those memories, Elisa now holds memories of two different timelines. Ui asks if the girl she saw “Tart” was really Jeanne d’Arc. Cube confirms it is, as Tart is the nickname he gave her. Pernelle notes that everyone’s memories up until three months ago are still intact. When history was changed, the future was split into two timelines and what they saw was a fragment of the real history that was lost. Tart should have freed Orléans with the help of Elisa from the shadows. Now even Elisa believes Cube’s theories about the future being split in half since she could tell the difference when she relived her memories. Cube advises them to visit other places in France where the distortions are strongest so they can collect the Fragments of True History and undo the paradox. As Ui cheerfully holds up her phone in triumph, she notices the photo of her sister from before. In it, Iroha is still sad, but the background has returned to normal. This confirms they’re on the right track to bringing back the future. <br />
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They’re not stop is to meet up with La Pucelle at Orléans like they originally planned. Pernelle directs them to the army camp where Tart and Riz currently are. The two soon arrive and greet the girls in question. Riz is surprised to find that Ui knows who they are and notes she’s a Magical Girl too. Before Ui can introduce herself, Elisa interrupts and begins to introduce herself first. Halfway through her speech, Ui interrupts with her own name. Tart mixes them up and thinks she’s Ui Tamaki of the Order of the Dragon. Elisa tries to correct her but this only confuses Tart and Riz further. Tart has a strange feeling like she’s heard Ui’s name before but she can’t place it. Eventually Elisa manages to clarify their names, including that she’s not the proper princess of the Holy Roman Empire. Cube asks if she wouldn’t rather have him explain everything. Tart is surprised and delighted to hear back from her old friend Monsieur Angel. Tart likens him to her guardian angel, much to Elisa’s disdain. Finally, Pernelle explains everything to Tart and Riz. <br />
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Ui shows Tart her magic smartphone. Tart has no idea what it is either but Elisa promises that it’s a tool to help them out. She knows it’s a lot to take in and difficult to believe, what with tales of girls from the future. But Riz believes them wholeheartedly since she knows there’s no other explanation for this realm of darkness they find themselves in. As it is it’s the only solution they have for now as no one even knows if Prince Charles VII is safe. Pernelle explains to Ui that Tart’s goal is to help the rightful heir become the king of France. But nobody knows if the prince is even alive. At this point they need a miracle, and restoring history to its original state may be just the miracle they need. Tart doesn’t need any reason other than the fact that Cube asked her to help them, but Elisa wonders if the French army will agree to help as well. Gilles pipes up, ready to help his Holy Maiden on any quest she may be on and is glad to accept the help of the Order of the Dragon. Elisa is surprised with how quickly the army came onboard with their plan and marvels at how much they must revere La Pucelle. She recalls how slow Tart was to act back in Orléans and how she had to step in herself. She wonders if Tart is really as great as others make her out to be and vows to continue to observe her for herself. Outwardly she accepts Gilles’ offers of help with a smile, though she declares that she doesn’t believe Tart’s powers are as great as the rumors say. She asks for a demonstration of Tart’s powers and challenges Tart to a friendly dual. Tart looks askance until Riz steps up and offers to dual in her place. Riz and Elisa transform as Elisa accepts the dual. The two move to an open area for their battle. <br />
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The two quickly get into a skirmish as Elisa shoots at Riz. Riz melts into the shadows as she evades the attack but Elisa knows she’ll have to show herself in order to attack. She expects Riz to attack with her daggers and prepares to attack in the shortrange only to be surprised when Riz attacks her with a whip in a devastating attack called “Frusta Whip”. It wraps itself around Elisa’s arm, preventing her from using her firearm as Riz conjures a machete and attacks once more. Elisa counters by kicking Riz away. She gets ahold of her firearm once more and prepares to swing it like an axe. Riz is able to counter with her “Falce Scythe” and the two cross blades, pushing at each other with all their force. Suddenly, Riz drops her weapon and stops the match. She figures this is a good point at which to end the fight now that they’ve both seen what each other’s capable of. Riz knows she was only trying to provoke Tart into a dual to see what she’s capable of. If someone as capable as Riz believes in Tart’s abilities, then Elisa accepts that she is worth of assistance from the Order of the Dragon. <br />
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===Chapter 3 – ''Collision''===<br />
Minou receives her orders from the shadowy figure and teleports back to her sisters, who are waiting for her inside a church. She relays to them that they are to attack soon, causing Lapin to jump for joy. Corbeau thinks they’ll need time to prepare to defend themselves during a large-scale battle, especially if that holy maiden is going to show up again looking for the Fragments of True History. Minou says to leave the opening act to her. <br />
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'''''Outskirts of Orléans – French Army Camp'''''<br><br />
A French soldier has reported to Tart, informing her Melissa and the others are requesting their aid. Riz informs Elisa that Melissa is another Magical Girl who is currently defending the Castle of Loches with the French army. The soldiers regret to inform Tart that there is word that the castle was attacked by a monster and [[Etienne de Vignolles|La Hire]] has been slain, though they have yet to confirm this. Suspecting the monster may in fact be a Witch, Riz and Tart ready themselves to go. Pernelle urges Elisa and Ui to accompany them. Cube could feel the temporal distortion intensify rapidly there and suspects the Witch may have appeared there because of the Paradox and the Fragment of True History that may be there. Gilles stays to hold their camp down as the girls step through several gates to arrive at the distant city of Loches. <br />
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Peering from the void Minou marvels at the form of the Witch. When she’d heard a Fragment of True History had appeared she came over at once but she hadn’t expected a Witch from the future to appear alongside it. Time is beginning to break and she has that to thank for her unexpected helper. For now she’s content with letting the Witch defend the fragment so she and her Magical Girl slaves can avoid the large battles for now. <br />
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Tart and the others arrive at the Castle of Loches. They can feel the heaviness in the atmosphere but before they can react they find themselves thrust into a Witch’s barrier. The girls transform, but before Ui can do so a Familiar targets her. Tart rushes in and takes the blow, protecting Ui. As Ui transforms, Elisa rushes in and begins to take down the familiars. Riz can sense magic surging in the center of the barrier so the group hurries to get there before they’re too late. They arrive in time to Melissa fighting the Witch. She’s struggling with being able to land a hit on it, but she’s determined to avenger her father. Riz uses her shadows to bind the Witch in place while the other three Magical Girls use their magia attacks on the Witch all at once, ultimately defeating it. Ui is impressed with the display, but Riz is less so. She feels it was a waste of magic and she’s right. Elisa turns on Tart and Melissa and admonishes them, claiming she could have taken it down on her own. The two apologize, believing she had signaled for their help, not to step aside. <br />
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The French soldiers thank Tart and her friends for their assistance. Melissa introduces herself to Elisa. As Elisa introduces herself in turn, she gets a sudden shiver of fear that trembles through her body. She’s alright, but for some reason the sight of the normally reserved Melissa caused a [[Tart Magica Chapter 12|brief flash of fear]] to possess her. When asked what happened to La Hire, Melissa informs them that her father chose to stay behind and ordered everyone else to escape to safety. Melissa and the others look saddened at the passing of La Hire. <br />
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Pernelle explains to Ui that La Hire was a renowned mercenary known for his bravery. Cube tells Ui not to worry just yet. If they can undo the Time Paradox then his death can be undone as well. Elisa and the others soon find the Fragment of True History deep inside the castle the Witch was guarding. Cube tries to explain how the fragments and the Time Paradox works to Melissa, Riz, and Tart but all the big scientific words just leaves them scratching their heads. Ui gives them the shorthand version and then takes a photo of the fragment. When she does so, the group is inundated with their true memories of when they all first met. <br />
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'''''(June 1429: Near the Castle of Loches)'''''<br><br />
Elisa had challenged Tart to a friendly sparring match to test her abilities with Riz and Melissa cheering from the sidelines. Despite their differences in raw power, Elisa had more combat experience than Tart and was able to win the match. Elisa thought Tart was rather a disappointment compared to the rumors of her, which greatly angered both Riz and Melissa, with Melissa’s ears turning red from rage. Melissa offered to duel Elisa next before promptly grabbing her and throwing her high into the air. Not even her dad can stop her when Melissa gets that mad. <br />
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The memory ends and the girls stand there slightly disoriented. Riz and Tart don’t understand what they saw until Elisa explains to them it was their memories of true history. Melissa apologizes to Elisa for what happened while Elisa just makes a mental note to herself to watch what she says around her. La Hire walks up to them, wondering what’s going on. Melissa looks at him, eyes wide with shock. Just like Cube had said, when the paradox was erased time reasserted itself properly and the false events were erased. Melissa hugs her dad, crying all the while. For his part, the last thing La Hire remembers is taking on the Witch himself and getting beaten so badly he’d thought he died. Tart is happier than ever and thanks Elisa and Ui for helping bring hope back to France. Ui still doesn’t understand why her phone became magical; she’s just glad to be able to help. <br />
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Cube asks Ui if her device is common in the future. Cube wonders if the reason had to be some sort of recording device from the future. By recording the past, it creates proof that the past existed through observation and record-keeping. It confirms the true history of the past, based on the future she came from. But even Cube doesn’t know why Ui and her phone were chosen. The group heads back to their camp in Orléans. The soldiers and Magical Girls all get some rest for the night. <br />
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'''''Orléans Outskirts – Tourelles Fortress'''''<br><br />
Minou meets up with her two sisters. She apologizes to them for allowing a Fragment of True History to be taken. Corbeau tells her not to worry and asks if Ui has returned to Orléans. Lapin dances a bit as she relishes their job for the day: beat up Ui. Corbeau summons soldier-like Familiars as she too smiles in anticipation of the destruction. <br />
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At base camp, Riz warns the others she senses magic near Tourelles Fortress. Tart, the other Magical Girls, and the French soldiers all advance to the fortress. Tart directs the soldiers to deal with the Familiars while she and the other French-allied Magical Girls handle the English Magical Girls. <br />
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Elisa and Tart waste no time in unleashing their magia attacks on Lapin. Both attacks strike Lapin directly, who cries out in pain and falls to the ground seemingly defeated. Corbeau cries out her sister’s name as Lapin transforms into her Witch form. <br />
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Lapin the Witch flashes her eyes and cape at her opponents, causing Riz and Melissa to transform out of their Magical Girl state and pulling away their weapons as well in the process. The other soldiers too, have been stripped of their weapons. Elisa and Tart are still transformed, having been further away and not the object of Lapin’s attentions that moment. Thanks to Pernelle using magical metallurgy to create their weapons, both Tart’s sword and Elisa’s firearm are immune to Lapin’s magic. Tart directs Riz to take the soldiers with her back to the fortress as she and Elisa take on Lapin. Elisa hesitates, sure that Tart will be launching her magia attack first so that Elisa can follow through rather than attack both at once. Tart stands there, waiting for Elisa to attack first. Both girls stare at each other for a moment before they realize they’re both waiting for the other to attack first. Lapin the Witch has no worries on that front, however, and takes advantage of their hesitation to flash her eyes on Tart and Elisa, nullifying their transformations. <br />
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Minou and Corbeau watch the battle, laughing at the ineptness of the French army including their Magical Girls. Riz, Ui, and Melissa can hear the taunting of Corbeau, causing Melissa’s ears to grow red with rage. Riz transforms again, saying she’ll handle them. Ui asks if she’ll be alright without her weapon, but Riz hasn’t lived as mercenary this long for nothing. She warns Ui to stay out of danger, since they can’t afford to lose the Blank Prophecy. <br />
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Minou thinks it’s brave of Riz to think she can take both of them on alone. Corbeau steps forward, wanting to fight Riz on her own and wanting revenge for turning Lapin into a Witch. Riz and Corbeau trade blows, neither of them backing down. Internally, Riz worries she may lose the fight since Corbeau is more used to fighting without weapons than she is. Riz sinks into the shadows before coming out and launching a sneak attack on Corbeau. She then uses her shadows to bind Corbeau in place and then breaking her arm. Despite the pain, Corbeau only laughs and commends her on her moves. She uses her magic to heal her arm and smiles broadly in anticipation of the true fight to the death she will have with Riz. Such a fight is something she’d been looking forward to for a long time. Riz warns Melissa to protect Ui at all costs as she turns back to Corbeau to continue their fight. <br />
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Corbeau attacks Riz once more, each blow landing successfully. She mockingly asks Riz what’s the matter, since she’s been holding back her true powers this whole time. Corbeau thinks that La Pucelle must not be so great either and won’t be a threat to her. Hearing this, Melissa becomes enraged and transforms, throwing a large stick she found at Corbeau. Melissa dn Riz team up to take on Corbeau together. Corbeau easily dodges the sticks and stones Melissa is throwing at her, but fails to notice Riz closing in. Riz hits Corbeau successfully as Ui cheers them both on. With Melissa and Riz focused on Corbeau, Minou sneaks over to where Ui is standing, ready to kidnap her. But Tart noticed what was happening and ran over to defend Ui before Minou could get her claws on her. <br />
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Confused, Minou and Corbeau both thought that Tart was busy fighting Lapin the Witch. They think that Lapin must have been defeated until they notice that Tart had left Elisa to fight Lapin on her own. With only Elisa to stop her, Lapin makes her way to the fortress, ready to overtake it. Elisa tries to stop Lapin by firing at her repeatedly with her firearm but it’s no use, Lapin has begun to destroy the fortress itself. Riz calls out for the soldiers to evacuate at once. It’s not worth holding the fortress if it means everyone’s deaths. It seems like France may be done for, and Ui is frustrated at not being able to help. <br />
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Her cellphone glows brightly and the words “(Enter Command)” and two buttons labeled “<- Return” and “Continue ->” can be seen on the screen. Ui presses one of the buttons.<br />
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===Chapter 4 – ''The Comeback''===<br />
Ui awakens to find herself back at the Orléans base camp. Tart is relieved to see that Ui has awakened at last. Cube asks her if she doesn’t remember what happened. When Ui pressed the button, time was rewound to a short time earlier. In exchange for doing so, it consumed a great amount of Ui’s magic. So much so that Ui was on the point of Witchification. Riz uses a grief seed on Ui’s cellphone, cleansing it of impurities. Thanks to Ui’s new abilities, the fortress has been restored to how it was. According to Cube, everyone within the Labyrinth encasing France can remember everything that happened before time was rewound. They were saved thanks to Ui’s magic, but they were utterly defeated in that battle. None of them were working together as a team, which cost them their victory. Ui worries that they shouldn’t be wasting time talking like this, but it seems the English sisters didn’t attack the fortress again like they did before. They too remember what happened and aren’t in a rush to get into a battle with a girl who can rewind time. Pernelle and Riz warn Ui not to use that power unless it’s an absolute last resort due to the massive amounts of magic it consumed. La Hire offers to keep watch alongside his soldiers so the girls can rest until morning. <br />
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It’s midnight but Ui can’t sleep at all. Melissa notices that Ui is up and offers to cast a sleeping charm on Ui. She can’t remember where she learned it from, but supposedly it’s guaranteed to give you sweet dreams. Melissa places red and blue candles around Ui and casts the charm, sending Ui into sleep almost immediately. As Ui snores in her sleep, she mentions her sister. Tart overhears Ui sleep talking and it reminds her of the younger sister she once had. Tart falls asleep as well, a sad look on her face. Elisa goes to walk around the camp for a bit since she can’t sleep as well. <br />
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Elisa bumps into Melissa, who also can’t sleep. A charm for good dreams is pointless if you can’t fall asleep to begin with. Melissa apologizes to Elisa for falling for Corbeau’s taunting words. Elisa says tha’ts alright, since it just proves how much Melissa cares about Tart. Elisa notices that all the French army cares about Tart as much as Melissa does. Melissa says this is due to how much Tart cares for them in return and how she never hesitates to protect someone she sees is in danger. Elisa recalls that that’s what happened in that last battle when Ui was in danger. Melissa tries to describe what happened when she became a Magical Girl but finds she can’t remember the details. When Elisa prompts her with details from her own memories, Melissa recalls the events that happened. Her and her father were going to be killed by Corbeau when Tart stepped in and protected them from [[Flèche and Lame|Flèche’s]] attack. Tart was mortally wounded and that’s when Melissa made her wish to Cube for Tart and her father to be healed. It was then she vowed to fight alongside Tart no matter what. <br />
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Elisa is somewhat surprised that someone would throw their life on the line without hesitation to save another. Melissa is surprised that she could forget something to very important to her. Elisa has also noticed that all of her memories after the liberation of Orléans are very hazy, but Cube says this is because the battle of Orléans marks the appearance of the rift in history. Still, they were able to recover their memories once they recovered the Fragments of True History. <br />
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Elisa and Melissa walk back into the camp to find that Riz is awake as well. Only Tart and Ui were able to fall asleep. Riz hadn’t been able to sleep either after her crushing defeat at the battle. Elisa blames herself for disrupting their teamwork and decides to learn more about each other in order to remedy that. Elisa asks Riz about her weapon and the way it can change shape. Riz can change her weapon into anything she might need and has no preference in terms of its form. Whatever can help Tart is the one she prefers. Elisa asks Riz how her and Tart first met. Riz responds that she traveled many years as a mercenary in search of a “true hero”. Elisa is surpsied to find she’d made it so far outside of Italy, noting the slight Italian accent that Riz used to pronounce certain words. After a long time, Riz found herself in the village of Domrémy where she’d heard a girl with amazing potential lived. They’ve since spent many years together, though Riz regrets staying in that village [[Minor_Characters_(Tart_Magica)#Catherine|longer than they should have]]. Mentally Elisa wishes she could see the village where Tart grew up. Melissa shivers, the night air being colder than she’d expected so the girls settle in to rest. <br />
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Minou reports to her benefactor once more, confirming that everything is going according to plan. Once she finishes, she teleports to a church where her sisters stand waiting for her. Lapin is eager for their next assignment, but Minou warns her she’ll have to wait for now. Corbeau sighs, eager to get her hands on Riz again so they can fight to the death once more. Minou notes that Corbeau doesn’t remember any of the fights she had against Tart while they were in Tart’s dream during the first event. The only one who should be able to remember anything that happened in that dream is her because she’s the one that conjured it to begin with. Lapin asks Corbeau if she just really likes pain. Corbeau admits she does, whether she’s the one causing it or experiencing it. For her part, Lapin just likes causing it, especially to smaller weaklings like the French soldiers or Ui, who she calls stupid as well. Minou isn’t sure why the Blank Prophecy chose someone like Ui to wield it, but if they’re able to get rid of her then they’ll be able to succeed in rewriting history. Corbeau is fine with whatever plans Minou and their benefactor come up with so long as Minou and Lapin are safe. Lapin gives Corbeau a big hug, telling her she loves her while Minou wonders what Corbeau meant by that. Didn’t Corbeau want their benefactor to be safe as well?<br />
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Lapin asks Minou to answer the question from earlier: does Minou like pain or does she prefer to inflict it? Minou chuckles, admitting she doesn’t like torture in and of itself. What she likes is allowing someone the hope of salvation before plunging them into despair. Lapin says that’s so like her and the three head to their room to sleep, Minou bidding them all good night. <br />
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===Chapter 5 – ''From the Depths of Darkness''===<br />
'''''France - Orléans Outskirts'''''<br><br />
Early the next morning (or as close to that as it can get in a land of perpetual darkness), Cube awakens them all by saying “good morning”. He’s found another massive temporal distortion, and this one is far different from what they’ve seen so far. If his deductions are correct, they should be able to recover a very significant Fragment of True History. This one is located in Tart’s hometown of Domrémy. Gilles offers to accompany them along with the French army, but Elisa advises them it would be better if they stayed where they are to defend Orléans where Cube can help an eye on them to ensure the enemy doesn’t try anything while they’re gone. If they do, he can let Tart and the others know immediately. Pernelle informs them the gate to Domrémy is inside the Royal Fortress of Chinon. Chinon also happens to be the place where Melissa and Tart first met. The group of Magical Girls heads out.<br />
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Minou informs Corbeau that Tart’s group has left for her hometown. Corbeau warns that the fragment there is too important to lose. Minou understands that, and while the distortion has attracted Witches as usual there may not be enough to protect the fragment. Corbeau offers to go and protect it herself, but Minou suggests they let Lapin handle this one since she’s been so antsy lately. Instead, Corbeau can help Minou with a different task instead. Corbeau turns to tell Lapin she can head out but they find that Lapin had already taken off the moment she heard Minou say she could.<br />
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'''''France - Domrémy'''''<br><br />
Tart’s group finds themselves in the center of Domrémy. Pernelle directs them to a forest on the outskirts of town as being the center of this particular distortion. The empty and desolated village reminds Elisa of the days when she was in exile with her mother after they were cast out of the palace. Elisa follows the group, deep in thought until Ui calls her attention. They’ve reached the center of the distortion, but it seems Lapin is already there waiting for them along with some Magical Girl slaves. She sets her eyes on Ui and begs her to play. Telepathically, Riz and Melissa tell Elisa to take Ui with her to the center of the distortion while they occupy Lapin. They plan on taking their time distracting her since they don’t want her to Witch out like the last time they fought. Elisa agrees and grabs Ui, the two of them running into deeper into the forest. Lapin turns to go after them but Melissa stands in her way. Riz and Tart also transform and prepare to fight Lapin. <br />
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Elsewhere, Elisa and Ui make it to the center. There they make short work of the Witches guarding the fragment. Ui immediately takes out her phone and photographs it, sending everyone to relive the true past. <br />
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'''''(Several Years Earlier: Northern Italy – House of Visconti)'''''<br><br />
Elisa watches the memories unfold as Riz wishes to create a true hero on her own. Cube finds the wish unusual but promises to grant it per the contract. Riz had been born to the infamous Visconti family and was directly related to the man who later betrayed that family. So she left her family and went on a journey with Cube in search of an undiscovered hero in order to make her wish come true. Riz and Cube met many other Magical Girls on their journey, but all of them perished in one way or another without ever becoming heroes. Until the day she met Tart, La Pucelle. <br />
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The memories end and Elisa and Ui stand there, taking it all in. Elisa is a bit uncomfortable since she didn’t want to watch that without Riz’s permission. Ui noticed that the different weapons that Riz uses are the same weapons that the Magical Girls in her memories wielded. Elisa recalls the conversation she’d had with Riz the night before concerning her weapon of choice and realizes she’d been lying to her. Inside, Riz is more dedicated to Tart than anyone else. They head back to where Tart and the others are fighting, with Cube warning them that Lapin was giving them a hard time. <br />
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Lapin lands a fury of blows on Riz before causing Riz’s transformation to nullify. Tart rushes to Riz’s side, but Riz is thankfully uninjured. She warns Tart that Lapin still has the ability to nullify their transformations, but doesn’t seem to have the ability to draw weapons to herself that she did as a Witch. Riz transforms herself again and is determined to keep Lapin occupied until she retreats. As she readies herself for another round of fighting, she notices that Lapin’s magic is stronger than before. Not only that, the Magical Girls that accompany Lapin aren’t so easy to defeat either and costs them a great deal of magic to take down. <br />
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Lapin manages to corner Tart and nullifies her transformation just as Elis and Ui catch up to them. Seeing her defenseless, Ui rushes to Tart’s aid. Elisa chases after her and manages to block Lapin’s attack on Ui, following up with her own attack on Lapin. Corbeau appears, ordering Lapin to stop. Corbeau reminds her she shouldn’t be attacking their enemies on her own, but Lapin whines that she was eager to test out her powers now that they’re stronger. Corbeau points out that everything went according to plan ''this'' time, but they ‘d be in trouble if something happened to Lapin. That aside, even their enslaved Magical Girls seem to be nearing their limit. Lapin begrudgingly listens, but not before promising she’d beat Tart and her friends to a pulp the next time they meet. Corbeau apologizes to Tart for the intrusion and promises Riz they’ll fight next time as well before retreating. <br />
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Riz is thankful they’re gone while Tart thanks Elisa and Ui once more for their help. As the group relaxes for the moment, Pernelle contacts them to inform them they’ve found another Fragment of True History. Unfortunately this one is back in the village of Domrémy. The group heads back and very soon they find the fragment. Elisa finds it odd that there would be more than one fragment there, but Cube explains that was the reason the distortion was so strong there. When they recorded the other fragment in the woods, it allowed this one to appear. Ui takes a photo of the fragment, transporting the group into the memories of the past. <br />
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'''''(Several Years Earlier: France - Domrémy)'''''<br><br />
Cube and Riz greet Tart for the first time. After some time there, Riz began to teach Tart how to wield a sword. Tart’s younger sister Catherine is interested in learning as well and ends up picking it up better than Tart did. Their village was soon struck by disaster and in the process Tart’s dear little sister Catherine perished. <br />
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'''''(1428: France - Domrémy)'''''<br><br />
Tart cuts her hair short, vowing to prevent that kind of senseless cruelty from happening to anyone ever again. She has decided to become a Magical Girl and she wished for the power to bring light to all of France. <br />
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As she makes her contract, light began to rain down from the sky. This light could be seen across France and both Meliss and Elisa recall seeing the light that day. Ui doesn’t understand what she saw, and Tart describes it to her as a world they were unable to protect. <br />
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Elisa relays what they saw to Cube. Pernelle finds it odd tah the fragments they saw were events that happened long before the liberation of Orléans. Cube believes that these were essential events that needed to happen so that the Blank Prophecy could restore history properly due to their significance. The fact that they all became Magical Girls and their fates intertwined with one another, as well as Tart bringing light back to France all culminated in the creation of a future where Ui Tamaki was born. Elisa realizes that all their fates are connected, from Riz’s wish that led to her meeting Tart to Melissa’s wish that brought Tart back from the brink of death. Even their meeting at Orléans that helped to change the fate of France, Tart was at the center of it all. Elisa has a serious look on her face as she faces the group. <br />
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She thinks she should tell them about her own past since she was shown there’s, even if it wasn’t something she did on purpose. She admits to the group that she’s not a princess despite being the daughter of the Empress Barbara. Her father is not the king, but a nameless lover. When her existence was revealed, she and her mother were both cast out of the Imperial Palace. Riz is stunned to hear that she and Elisa both didn’t belong to the places they were born to. It was after they were cast out that Elisa made her wish to Cube. She had wished for everyone to acknowledge her existence so that her mother could be forgiven, and in exchange she continued to fight for her country, her emperor, and her mother. <br />
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Unlike Tart and her friends who risked their lives to save someone, she had continued to fight in order to never be unwanted again. The way she sees it, her reasons for fighting aren’t as noble as theirs. But Tart and the others don’t see it that way at all. Elisa saved Tart from danger on more than one occasion, and it was Elisa that encouraged Riz and Ui to keep going despite the odds. Elisa is happy to hear this, though she asks that they stop calling her “Princess Elisa” and start calling her plain Elisa instead. She also promises to start calling her “Tart” rather than “La Pucelle”. <br />
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Ui is glad they’re getting along better now. Although she’s not sure what her role is, she has a strong feeling that each of their journeys are connected to her future. Pernelle agrees, revealing to Tart that in the future it is known history that she saved France. Melissa is delighted to hear this while Riz is shocked. Tart grows serious and turns to Ui, asking her in earnest if the future she comes from is worth fighting for. Ui doesn’t hesitate in responding she wants to recover the future she shares with her big sister. Tart smiles, saying Ui’s response has made up her mind. She may not have been able to protect her own younger sister, but if they continue to fight then the peaceful days they couldn’t protect will be waiting for them in the future. <br />
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Elisa remembers the photo of Ui’s sister and asks her to check on it. Ui does so and is surprised to find it has been restored to how it was…<br />
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…only for it to immediately fade to white. Cube sees this as proof that the real future is returning thanks to their efforts, but the future isn’t set in stone yet. Tart stares at the blank image and asks if the girl she saw was Ui’s older sister. Ui proudly tells Tart that her sister is named Iroha. Tart has never met her before, yet somehow her face and name are very familiar. Elisa would like to look into it further, but she’s exhausted so the group returns to their camp in Orléans.<br />
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Back at the camp, La Hire is glad to see the girls are well and, judging from the smile on Melissa’s face, ventures to guess that their mission went well. Riz is exhausted too and ready to retire to her tent, but Ui wants to take a photo with everyone to commemorate their friendship. Tart doesn’t know what she’s talking about, but Ui just asks everyone to look at her cellphone for a bit. Just as Ui takes the photo, Melissa notices a bug on Elisa’s lapel that causes her to jump in fright. <br />
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===Chapter 6 – ''A Promise and the Truth''===<br />
Inside a church Minou meets the newest additions to their Magical Girl army. She assumes their wishes were for the benefit of her older sister. The girls nod, and Minou understands now that was the reason Lapin went off on a solo mission: she’d wanted to test out the new powers she’d been gained from their wishes. But Minou is upset that Lapin wasted the girls since they only have so many girls who have the potential to contract. She’s also upset at the way Corbeau is wasting them too. She had an incredible power and wasted a girl’s potential just so she could seal it away. Corbeau said she only did it so her sisters wouldn’t get hurt in battle, but she doesn’t believe they matter in the grand scheme of things. Minou believes that only the will of their benefactor should matter to them. Since the girls are useless to her at the moment, she goes to find another girl to present to their benefactor. She knocks on her benefactor’s door, asking forgiveness for the intrusion but she introduces her to a young lady that has a wish she would like granted. <br />
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'''''France - Orléans Outskirts'''''<br><br />
Gilles brings news to Tart of a great miasma forming around the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Orléans. Cube thinks it sounds like another fragment has appeared. Now that they’re clearing up some of the distortions in time, other distortions that were previously hidden are making themselves known. If they continue to clear the fragments, true history will be restored. Pernelle warns them to be careful when they get to the church as it has surely become a nesting ground for Witches. <br />
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The group arrives at the church and together they are able to take down the various Witches inhabiting the church. Riz points to a fragment of time floating at the back of the church and Ui quickly takes her phone out to take a photo of it. Once more the group is inundated in the memories of the past. <br />
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Only this time the fragments they view are of Iroha and [[Yachiyo Nanami]] learning the charm for sweet dreams from their friend [[Mitama Yakumo]]. In the memory, Mitama shows them how to place a red and a blue candle facing each other. The scene jumps ahead, showing Iroha and Yachiyo transported to the past and being saved from soldier-like Familiars by Tart. Ui can’t believe what she’s witnessing as she observes Tart talking to Iroha about how Cube knows they’re from the future. Tart asks Iroha if the future is worth fighting for. Iroha wants the future with her little sister back no matter what. They find a dark magic grimoire and Cube concludes that they are trapped within Tart’s dreams. The scene jumps ahead once more, and this time Cube informs Iroha that their memories of these events will fade once they wake up. During their final battle Iroha and Yachiyo held off the dark forces so Tart and Riz could make it to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. After the battle, Tart promises to never forget Iroha and Yachiyo as they ring the bell to end the magic dreams. <br />
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The memories fade as Tart looks down, a little saddened to find she ''had'' forgotten Iroha and Yachiyo after all. Ui is surprised to learn that Tart and her friends had met her sister in a dream. Elisa isn’t so surprised to find that both sisters had given the same response to Tart when asked if the future was worth fighting for. Melissa remembers now that Iroha and Yachiyo were the ones to teach Melissa the sweet dreams charm she had shown and used on Ui. Riz doubts even Corbeau remembers any of the events from Tart’s dream, as not remembering was part of the magic. <br />
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Riz relays everything they saw to Cube and Pernelle. Cube concludes it must have been a very powerful curse to have caused Tart to be trapped inside her own dreams to force her into becoming a Witch. Pernelle agrees, especially considering she herself and Cube were involved as well yet none of them recalls any of the events that happened. Cube admits this information has helped him greatly in deducing that this incident is where the Time Paradox affecting France first started. Riz finds many similiarities between this event and that one, namely that the three English Magical Girls are involved and France is being engulfed in darkness. Cube informs them the major distortions didn’t occur until Elisa arrived in Orléans, but they had recorded signs of the Time Paradox shortly before, when Tart was having her nightmare. He believes they started occurring around that time because the future depended greatly on whether or not Tart awakened safely or not. Because the English sisters are trying to prevent a future where Iroha and Yachiyo exist and are able to come back to France in the past to save Tart, there are now two timelines: one where they did, and one where they didn’t. <br />
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Ui asks what would have happened had Yachiyo and her sister not come to help Tart. Riz is sure that Corbeau would have won, resulting in Tart becoming a Witch and engulfing France and the rest of the world into perpetual night. But in the True History they were able to get Tart to wake up safely. Cube notes that someone must have come and undone that day, pushing the future closer towards ruin. Elisa recalls how instantly the world plunged into a dark void as soon as the battle of Orléans was over. Elisa pinpoints that moment as the exact moment in time in which the English trio had messed with history. Melissa agrees, seeing as how her memories from just before that battle are very hazy. Cube believes the key to all of this is Ui. IN order to thwart Iroha from going to the past, the trio summoned Ui into the past instead. Tart asks how it is that Ui of all people is so pivotal. Cube has several theories, one of which is the fact that Iroha used a sleeping charm to go into the past. He theorizes that that event hasn’t happened yet, and perhaps Ui had something to do with causing that event to happen. Ui ventures to guess that she might be the one to teach Mitama the sleeping charm that Melissa taught her. If that’s the case, then removing Ui would cut the whole chain of events completely off. <br />
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Elisa thinks the theory sounds ok, except she questions why the trio didn’t just kill Ui immediately instead of keeping her locked up. Ui thinks maybe they couldn’t kill her because they couldn’t find her Soul Gem, but Riz thinks they didn’t kill her simply because they might have found some other use for her because of the Blank Prophecy she wields. Ui agrees since her phone is capable of rewinding time. Whatever the case may be, it all comes down to whatever greater purpose the device has. Cube sums everything up: First, the incident where their enemies tried to get Tart to become a Witch by using a curse that was placed on her dreams failed thanks to the future interfering. But summoning Ui to the past reset “True History”, causing everything in the three months after the battle of Orléans to become highly unstable. So much so, it has impacted the future several centuries later at the point where Ui exists. If they continue to record the fragments of True History, they should be able to set things right and return the future to how it should be. Melissa cheers the group on to try their best to save France and the past. Internally, Elisa recounts the prophecy about France being destroyed by a woman but saved by a girl. She doesn’t like how events are playing out just as it was predicted they would. But she prefers the prophecy unfolding more than the thought of them losing their future. But if Tart is the girl who saves France, who is the woman who destroys it?<br />
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Riz asks Tart why she’s so quiet with such a serious look on her face. Tart replies that something has been bothering her. If Melissa is the one who taught Ui the sleeping charm, and Ui is the one to pass it on in the future so that eventually Iroha learns it, then Iroha went into the past to teach it to Melissa, then who came up with the sleeping charm in the first place? The group stands, staring and unable to answer. Thankfully La Hire shows up to inform Tart and the others that many of their allies have come back to fight alongside the French forces. Riz is glad to hear of some good news for a change, as this proves they’re on the right path. The group cheers one another on as they continue their fight to save the future and the past.<br />
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==Arc 2==<br />
===Chapter 7 - ''The Loire Campaign Begins''===<br />
Gilles rallies the troops, hope rekindled now that many of their comrades who had fallen dead have been resurrected thanks to history being restored. They all thank Tart for this great miracle, although Tart says to her friends that she’s not the one deserving the thanks. Elisa reminds Tart of her determination to continue fighting without a moment of hesitation and they are here now thanks to that. Pernelle wonders if Elisa is a little nicer than the last time they met face-to-face. All the cheers of the French soldier make Tart feel lighter and more excited. Cube says it’s thanks to each one of the soldiers’ wishes making her stronger. La Hire is glad to see the soldiers’ morale is so high now, but he’s not surprised since they’ve managed to complete one of their objectives, namely the liberation of Orléans. Next is the coronation of Prince Charles in the sacred city of Reims, which is where the army will be heading next. Unfortunately, the Prince went missing amidst the chaos. However, La Hire isn’t too worried for the moment since the more battles they win, the more soldiers will be resurrected and will join their fight for France. He’s almost sure that the Prince will turn up if that is what is destined to happen. <br />
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Pernelle noticed that more of the smaller fragments of true history tend to be unlocked if they relate to a specific area, such as when more fragments appeared after they recorded the true history of the cathedral. If “True History” ends with a victory for France, then the march for Reims will be critical and the battles that take place at the Loire River valley will be of particular importance. Gilles turns to Tart, who gives the orders for the French army to advance to Reims. <br />
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The group travels towards Reims, defeating Familiars along the way, and soon they encounter a True History fragment. Ui records it on her phone, triggering a flood of memories. <br />
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'''''(June 1429: France – Castle of Loches)'''''<br><br />
The Dauphin Charles has declared his intention to head to Reims so he may be coronated as king. Gilles relays orders to his troops, informing them that the Duke of Alençon and Tart would be leading them. Riz, Melissa, and her father all cheer for Tart. <br />
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The memories end as Riz recalls that their original plan was the Loire campaign, so called because they were to free the Loire Valley from English occupation, fortify their keep, then march onwards towards Reims. Though the circumstances are different, the current plan is almost identical. And with each fragment of True History that they recover, more soldiers who shouldn’t have died return to their ranks. With Tart on their side, the army isn’t as worried about the three English sisters as before. <br />
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===Chapter 8 - ''Decisive Battle at Patay''===<br />
'''''France - Beaugency'''''<br><br />
The French are able to easily recapture Beaguency, securing even more of the region under their control. Elisa is pleased things are going to smoothly, but Riz thinks it may be too smooth. Minou teleports out of nowhere, agreeing with Riz. Startled, Elisa demands to know what she’s doing here. Minou chuckles, claiming she’s there to give them a heads up on the battle they will soon encounter in Patay. Minou is aware of how True History is supposed to unravel, and she warns them there is a particularly important fragment there that they dare not handover. Minou claims this fragment the deciding factor in whether or not the prince is crowned king. <br />
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Riz consults with Cube, who confirms that he can sense a history fragment of colossal importance in Patay. Riz asks Minou why she would tell them something so important. Minou smiles, saying the reason she told them was to make sure the performance they give tomorrow will be much more rousing this way. She promises her and her sisters will smite them with all of their collective might before bidding them goodbye and teleporting away. Cube talks with Pernelle, admitting that Minou may be telling the truth. It’s possible Minou glimpsed into the future and knows that the French will ultimately win, which is why she’s messing with the past in hopes of changing the future. With no other options, the group decides to head to Patay for the decisive battle. <br />
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Back at the cathedral, Lapin welcomes Minou back. Corbeau asks Minou if she informed Tart and her group. Minou says she did, promising Corbeau that Tart would lead in the attack. Corbeau is happy Tart will be there, but she still would have preferred a surprise attack since it would have been easier to defend the fragment that way. Lapin defends her little sister, since she knows Minou loves to be dramatic. Minou smiles but inside she has other reasons for telling Tart their plans, most of which deal with ensuring the safety of their benefactor. Lapin looks closely at Minou for a second before declaring that Minou has become stronger. Minou admits she had one of her maidens sacrifice herself in order to gain a new power, but laments that it won’t help them in a fight. Corbeau tells her to leave the fighting to her and Lapin, as she admits to also using up another maiden’s wish on herself. Since she can’t use her usual methods of fighting ever since sealing up her ability, she had the maiden use a wish in order to allow her to keep up with Lapin and Minou. Now there is not one who could hold their own against her in a physical fight. Internally Minou worries that Corbeau will use up too many maidens and her plans could fail, but at the same time Corbeau’s help will be crucial for the next step in the scheme. Minou pretends to play dumb as she listens to her sisters talk about how much they look forward to the fight. She suggests they all take a soak before bed and both Lapin and Corbeau are eager to take her up on her offer. They all promise to take a good soak here once more after the battle at Patay. <br />
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'''''Patay, Central France'''''<br><br />
The French army arrives on the fields of Patay, a determined look on their faces as they prepare for the battle ahead. On the English side, the soldier-like Familiars, enslaved Magical Girls and other soldiers also stare down their enemies. Minou steps forward and welcomes Tart and her group to Patay. Riz greets Corbeau as Corbeau looks eagerly upon their fight. Lapin tells Minou to hurry it up so she can get to killing but Minou tells her to be patient for just a bit longer. Minou turns to the group and promises to explain everything. Elisa tells her they already heard her speech about how important the fragment is to the prince’s coronation, but Minou promises to tell them instead the reason behind why France has been engulfed in never-ending night. It wouldn’t be as much fun for her if they were to be crushed without even knowing the reason why. <br />
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She begins her story by describing a ripple in time in the far flung future. Her benefactor was the first to sense this ripple and commanded Minou to have a vision of the future. Having been commanded, Minou did as she was asked since her benefactor is able to make any miracle come true, even those that defy logic. Riz figures out that Minou is referring to wishes. Cube reminds them that his race is able to create miracles in exchange for a contract but he informs that that he was not the one to grant those wishes, including the wishes of Minou, Corbeau, and Lapin. Elisa surmises that there must be a mastermind behind them, someone who is capable of contracting Magical Girls. Minou admits it’s true, although her own wish wasn’t for clairvoyance but rather she forced a maiden to make the wish for her, motioning to one of the Magical Girls who is standing on the field. When she learned the English were doomed to lose the battle, she attempted to change the past in order to change the future. In her first attempt, she studied a grimoire until she came upon a spell to caste a curse upon Tart, forcing her into an endless dream. However, this ended in failure since Iroha and Yachiyo traveled into the past and disrupted her plans. So she came up with a new plan to erase her biggest obstacle from existence and make it so she never existed. And when she cast the magic, Ui appeared. <br />
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Ui asks why the magic pulled her from the future instead of her sister Iroha. Minou admits she doesn’t know the reason why the magic pulled her instead, she simply cast the spell. Cube wonders if the reason the spell pulled Ui instead of Iroha was because Iroha would have found a way to interfere in the past once more, which would have caused a flurry of time paradoxes. Pernelle wonders if Ui had never been born, would it have caused a definitive change in her older sister’s fate. It finally dawns on Ui. The reason Iroha became a Magical Girl was to heal Ui. If Ui had never been born, then Iroha would never have contracted. Minou nods, finally uncovering the mystery behind it all that even she could never explain. Corbeau takes this as her cue as both Lapin and Corbeau begin their attack on Ui. Thankfully Tart was able to rush in and protect Ui from their assault. Elisa steps in and begins to battle with Lapin. Riz goes to attack Minou, but Corbeau steps in to protect her younger sister. Corbeau tells Minou to sit back and watch the show as she warns Riz of her newfound abilities. Melissa tells Ui there’s a fragment of history in the village and urges her to follow. Riz calls out to Tart, telling her to go with Ui while she and Elisa contend with the sisters. However, Melissa, Tart, and Ui are soon stopped by the enslaved Magical Girls, a troop of soldier-like Familiars with them. <br />
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But La Hire and his men have already made their way there, engaging the Familiars and urging the girls to go on ahead. Elisa keeps Lapin occupied but Lapin has already noticed Tart slip away with the others. She yells out about how Tart fights dirty, enraging Melissa and causing her ears to turn red. Melissa turns to fight Lapin but is unable to land a blow. Corbeau warns her sister that Melissa is able to vaporize anything she hits but Riz uses the opportunity to land another blow on Corbeau. Corbeau takes the hit in stride, but she warns Riz that she sees through their plan. She knows that they’re just trying to buy Tart time so Tart can unleash her magic and wipe the battlefield of them all. She runs at Tart, but curiously enough Tart doesn’t counterattack. Riz blocks Corbeau’s attack. Corbeau is surprised that Tart isn’t reacting until she realizes too late that the real attack was coming from Elisa. Elisa unleashes her magia attack “Der Drache Lindwurm” on them and clearing the field of the Familiars.<br />
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Tart urges everyone to storm the village while they can as Gilles yells out orders to the troops to follow. Minou chuckles to herself as she watches the drama before her unfold. <br />
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The group races towards the fragment but not without Corbeau trying her best to stop them. Elisa hops onto a horse, whipping the reins as she urges it to run at all speed. She grabs Ui as she passes and races towards the fragment. Ui takes a photo of it as quickly as she can. The skies instantly clear as all the soldiers recount their memories of that day and the victory they had claimed. <br />
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===Chapter 9 - ''An Irregularity''===<br />
'''''June 18, 1429: Central France - Patay'''''<br><br />
In a flashback, the English sisters face down Tart and her army. Lapin runs in ahead of the others, targeting Tart. But Riz, Elisa, and Melissa are there ready to face her as they dodge around her rabbit eyes. They take Lapin down hard, causing Lapin to crumple to the ground. Elisa faces Minou, promising her she’s next but Minou points to her eldest sister instead. Lapin transforms into a Witch, using her ability to pull every weapon in the vicinity towards her. Lapin targets Riz and Melissa but Tart rushes in and blocks the attack with her sword. Only Elisa and Tart’s weapons were immune to Lapin’s ability. Corbeau goes after Riz, angered that they’d gang up on her sister like that. Riz attempts to use her shadows to bind Corbeau in place, but Corbeau breaks out and resumes their fight. <br />
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Lapin the Witch fixes her eyes on Tart and Elisa, nullifying their transformation. Elisa yells at Tart, reminding her she was to go left. But Tart had confused which direction to go and the two bicker for a minute. In that moment, Lapin attacks and prevents them from transforming once more. Elisa says she has no choice but to defer to Tart and block Lapin’s attacks while Tart makes her way in for the final blow. The plan relies on Tart trusting Elisa with her life which Elisa isn’t sure she’s willing to do for someone she just met, but Tart had already ran ahead the moment she heard the plan. Tart’s transformation is nullified but Elisa urges her to keep going as she unleashes her magia attack on Lapin. <br />
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Minou promises the best seats in the house to her unseen captives as they prepare to watch the moment when history is rewritten. <br />
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Tart and Elisa open their eyes to find themselves standing in a black void alongside Minou and a sleeping Ui. They are unable to move as Minou explains they are now in a space created by the Blank Prophecy. Anyone who is not a part of that moment in history is transported there until history finishes playing out. But Minou pulled the two out of the scene before it ended. Elisa says even if they’re locked up in there there’s no way that Minou would be able to change the natural course of history in which they win the battle of Patay. Minou says that history IS changing as she takes Ui’s cellphone and uses her magic on it. <br />
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'''''(June 18, 1429: Central France – Patay)'''''<br><br />
The soldiers on the history began to murmur and chatter amongst themselves. Tart has suddenly vanished from the battlefield, as if by magic. Riz notices that Elisa has disappeared as well. La Hire rallies the troops, ordering them to pick up whatever weapons they can as they continue the battle. Corbeau smiles as she prepares herself. <br />
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Back in the dark void, Elisa watches on dumbfounded as she asks how they could have been erased from history. Minou explains that they’ve been quarantined in this empty void for the brief moment it takes for true history to be determined. Thanks to the teleportation magic she recently acquired she was able to teleport them out of history. However, the magic has its limits since she can only use it once. The two cry out as they continue to watch the soldiers attempt to battle on only to be slaughtered at the hands of Corbeau. Riz grabs Melissa and the two hurry to stop Corbeau. <br />
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Riz attacks Corbeau with a machete and knocks her towards Melissa, who is able to unleash her disintegration magic on Corbeau. But Corbeau merely ducks into one of the craters left behind by Melissa and dodges the attack. Corbeau warns the girls that things are going to get really bad for them now that Minou and Lapin have already made it to safety. Riz warns Melissa to get away from Corbeau, but Corbeau only laughs and tells her there’s nowhere to escape from her next attack. Both enemies and allies will fall to dust before her as black feathers begin to rain down on the battlefield in Corbeau’s “La Danse Macabre” attack. The feathers land on everyone, causing them to cry out in pain and collapse to the ground, each one of them now infected with bubonic plague. Riz recognizes the disease instantly as Corbeau warns her that her magic causes the infection to take root immediately. Once infected, the victim will feel agonizing pain that feels like it lasts for a lifetime. <br />
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Elisa and Tart struggle against their invisible bonds, as Tart demands to know how they could do that to their own allies as well. Minou smiles, promising them it’ll only be a little while until the events that are unfolding here are etched into time, permanently erasing the true sequence of events from history. <br />
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The two struggle further until Elisa recalls that this space was created thanks to the Blank Prophecy. She begins to yell at Ui to wake up. Ui opens her eyes, confused about where she is. Elisa tells her to take her phone out, the screen glowing with the words “Recording…” on it. Minou won’t let them stop her though as she fights with Ui to take the phone from her. Ui reminds her she’s a Magical Girl too and strikes back at Minou. The invisible bonds holding Tart and Elisa in place are loosened and the two hurry to help Ui in her struggle against Minou. They get the phone back to Ui and ask her to help their friends by returning them to that time in history. Ui doesn’t know what to do as she stares frantically at the screen, which now reads “enter command”. Elisa reminds her of the time she rewound time by imbuing the phone with her magic and then wishing for it. Minou tries to stop Ui once more but Elisa and Tart step forward to prevent her. Minou strikes at Tart who quickly counterattacks. A noise is heard and Ui asks what it is that fell but Elisa reminds her they have more pressing matters at hand. Ui holds her phone up, begging it to work. Light flashes and both Tart and Elisa find themselves on the battlefield once more. <br />
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'''''June 18, 1429: Central France – Patay'''''<br><br />
The soldiers cry out in agony as their bodies are wracked in pain by the disease. Corbeau is upset to see them back, but smiles since they are too late to stop her. Tart admonishes Corbeau for infecting her own allies but Corbeau doesn’t care. Her magic will indiscriminately bring death to everyone around her since the weak are bound to die, just like Tart’s sister did. Tart has heard enough and her body begins to glow with the light from within. Tart tells Corbeau that she never hated her sisters for standing in her way since all she ever wanted was for her country to be saved. But now she can never forgive them for trying to bring ruin to everything. Tart glows even brighter and her form changes shape amidst the glow of her light. Tart vows to save everyone as a large magic circle appears in the sky and rains white feathers down onto the field. <br />
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The feathers land on everyone, enemy and ally alike, healing them of their disease and their wounds. The English soldiers are amazed that their enemy would take pity on them and heal them as well, calling her a true saint. Corbeau is enraged at what’s happened. She demands to know what Tart is. Cube calls her “an irregularity”. Tart summons a sword made of light and slashes at Corbeau, sending her soaring and crashing into some nearby woods. <br />
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Corbeau lands roughly, shaken at what’s happened. She wonders how her sisters will react and hopes they can forgive her for losing the battle. Minou teleports there, greeting her older sister. Corbeau is overjoyed to see Minou and thanks her greatly. Minou says there’s no need to thank her now that Corbeau is useless to her. Minou is upset that Corbeau used up so many of the maidens they’d fathered on herself when they were all intended to be for ''her'' to use. Corbeau begs Minou to listen, telling her it was all so she could protect Lapin and Minou. Minou confirms what she’d always suspected: that Corbeau had long since given up on ''her''. Corbeau yells at her, demanding Minou listen and understand how much Corbeau loves them. Minou says that’s too bad because she doesn’t hold a single drop of love for her before crushing Corbeau’s soul gem. <br />
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===Chapter 10 - ''Coronation Bound''===<br />
The soldiers cheer and celebrate their hard-fought victory at their new camp. Cube congratulates Tart on having regained many of the most vital fragments of this world’s true history. Once they arrive in Reims they’ll be able to finally undo the time paradox that has been happening the past three months once and for all. Ui can’t believe it has only been three months since the change occurred. Even though the changes first began during the battle for Orléans, time has barely progressed since then. After Tart’s miracle at Patay, the English soldiers lost all their morale and surrendered easily. Not many had wanted to raise their weapon against the girl who had saved them. Tart is humbled but Elisa says it was all thanks to her simple desire to help everyone that brought about a miracle. Now all that is left is for them to reach Reims and see that the prince is coronated. Ui is eager to continuing helping while Riz notes that their teamwork has grown greatly since their journey began. This reminds Ui of the object that Minou dropped when she and Tart were battling in that black void. She shows them the red and blue candles and the book that Minou dropped. Riz recognizes them as the candles and book that Corbeau used to terrorize Tart’s dreams. Elisa suggests the Ui keep them in her possession since they have to protect Ui anyways. La Hire informs the girls they’re ready to move out as Ui hurries to get ready. <br />
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Elsewhere, Lapin wakes up. She asks Minou what happened as Minou reminds her that she was turned into a Witch again. Minou pities Lapin, who must die as a Magical Girl only to become a Witch and then be killed again, resurrecting her as a Magical Girl once more. She is virtual immortal even if she has to taste the bitter sting of death forever. Minou appears to be sad as she informs Lapin of Corbeau’s heroic death during her battle with Tart. Because her death was recorded in the Blank Prophecy there is nothing she can do to undo it. Lapin can’t stop the tears that stream from her eyes as she swears revenge for the sister who did everything she could by herself to keep them safe. Minou tells Lapin to rest for now since they can no longer keep their promise to each other of having a soak together again afterwards. <br />
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Minou reports to their benefactor the death of Corbeau. Despite this everything is continuing to go according to plan. She promises to play her part with all her heart and soul when the time comes. No matter how bright the light of hope may shine, the shadows of despair will darken to meet it. <br />
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Lapin stomps around angrily, saying it’s not enough. She calls two maidens over and demands they go see ''her'' at once in order to offer up their wishes. Minou watches as Lapin focuses on doing everything she can to exact revenge for Corbeau. <br />
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The group of Magical Girls draw closer to the city of Reims, but they sense magic in the area. Cube warns them that he’s certain it is the magic of a Magical Girl that they’re sensing. Elisa knows that it can’t be Corbeau since she’s dead, so she wonders which of the two remaining sisters it could be. Riz is certain of one thing however, and that’s that the magic they are sensing is so powerful it’s making all her hair stand on end. Even Corbeau wasn’t this powerful. She warns them to be prepared for anything since they need to enter Reims so they can achieve their final goal.<br />
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===Chapter 11 - ''Assault''===<br />
'''''Northern France - Reims'''''<br><br />
Lapin stands outside the gates of Reims, alone. Tart and her friends come out to face her, Riz transforming and preparing herself for anything. Lapin suddenly begins talking about how kind Corbeau was until they killed her as she begins her attacks on the group. Tart is confused about what she’s talking about but Riz figures she must be there to avenge Corbea’s death. Riz warns the others that she’s stronger than ever so they’ll have to go all out on her. Tart refuses to fight for the moment since she knows if they do, then Lapin will simply become a Witch again. Lapin targets Tart once more, but Melissa blocks the attack. Elisa tells Ui to hurry and get the fragment alone as fast as she can while they try to keep her occupied. Lapin charges up an attack before promising to kill each and every one of them. Miraculously the group is uninjured. Each of the girls is prepared to fight alongside one another no matter what it takes to bring light back to France. <br />
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The group of Magical Girls begins their counterattack on Lapin, each one coordinating with the other to strike at her efficiently. They’re able to knock Lapin out, but it seems Lapin is tougher than they thought. She struggled to stand while she mutters words of vengeance for Corbeau. Elisa calls to Ui telepathically, but Ui hasn’t been able to find the fragment due to all the different magics in the air. Elisa tells the others they’ll have to continue to support Tart as one by one they all attack Lapin in turn, with Tart delivering the final blow. <br />
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Tart’s “La Lumière” knocks Lapin out for good, her mask falling off in the process. Minou teleports there and kneels over her sister. Riz prepares for another fight but Minou assures them she has no desire to see her sister dead or a Witch again. Minou turns to Tart and tells her she’s no match for her all-encompassing might. She concedes victory “again” before gathering Lapin and teleporting away. Elisa wonders if they’ve won the battle when they hear Ui contact them. She’s found the final fragment at last. Ui takes out her phone and photographs it.<br />
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===Chapter 12 - ''The Blank Prophecy''===<br />
'''''(July 17, 1429: Northern France – Reims. Notre Dame Cathedral)'''''<br><br />
Gilles recites the oaths as he coronates the Dauphin Charles, Tart watching from the altar where she stands carrying her flag. The ceremony completed, Tart congratulates the new king as the soldiers and everyone in the audience cheers. <br />
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The memory ends. Tart is relieved that history has been rectified and the prince is now the rightful king of France. Ui can’t believe she was able to witness such a historic event. Elisa asks her how her photo from the future is looking after all their hard work. She sees the photo of her and Iroha, no longer a blank white image. The group is overjoyed at this news as they head back to the French camp. When they arrive, they find the soldiers chattering amongst themselves. It seems King Charles returned as soon as the girls had completed their quest. They all consider it another one of Tart’s miracles. Tart is humbled and doesn’t want to take all the credit, but Melissa suggests they all head over to the banquet to celebrate. <br />
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They all drink, eat, and make merry except for Riz and Melissa. Elisa asks them why they’re monitoring Tart to closely. They admit they’re trying to keep an eye so Tart doesn’t drink any of the wine. La Hire offers the girls some of the newly opened wine but Riz and Melissa shoot the idea down immediately. Ui gets the feeling something terrible might happen if Tart drinks it. Her and Elisa decide to get some dessert but Ui isn’t sure what to choose. Cube asks if there isn’t anything she recognizes from her own time, so Ui asks a young servant girl if there isn’t any cheesecake. The servant girl offers to bring her some and offers Ui some wine. Ui declines, saying she’s too young so Elisa asks the girl to bring her some grape juice instead. <br />
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Ui looks around the banquet tables and notices Tart standing next to King Charles and Gilles, the admiral of France’s army. Tart catches her eye and runs over to her. She tells Ui she gets nervous standing next to so many important people because she still considers herself a simple country girl. Elisa offers Tart some of her grape juice but gets a bad feeling all of a sudden. Ui reminds Elisa that only she had the grape juice since Elisa was drinking wine like the others. Elisa realizes her mistake as Riz and Melissa rush over. They ask if Tart drank any, but they’re too late. The wine had already touched her lips by the time they’d gotten there. Elisa asks if Tart is a lightweight, but Tart denies it shortly before stumbling and falling into Elisa’s arms. Tart grabs hold of Elisa and hugs her tightly, refusing to let go. Riz and Melissa were afraid of her rampant hugging when she drinks even the slightest. Tart hears the word “hugging” and assumes Ui wants a hug too. She runs over to Ui and puts her in a big bear hug. Riz and Melissa can only look on and shake their heads. <br />
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'''''After the banquet…'''''<br><br />
The group sleeps off their drink and food peacefully. A voice in the night calls out, beckoning for Ui. Ui awakens, calling out telepathically and asking who is there. Tart wakes up and notices Ui is gone. <br />
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Ui continues to follow the voice that beckons her closer into the woods. Tart follows after her, wondering what is going on. Elisa catches up to Tart, having also woken up and found Ui missing. As they follow her, Elisa senses magic in the air. The two transform and hurry towards the magic they sense. Ui finally arrives at the source of the voice only to find Minou standing in the woods. Minou summons several magic circles around them and teleports both of them to the cathedral where her and Lapin are. Unfortunately for her, Tart and Elisa were able to make it within the circle of magic and were teleported with them. <br />
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Elisa demands to know what Minou plans to do with Ui, but Minou assures her she won’t touch a hair on her head. She only wanted to teach her a function of the Blank Prophecy that she carries. Minou summons her circles and forces Ui’s body to move. Ui is forced to take out her phone and pull up the command prompt. The two buttons labeled “<- Return” and “Continue ->” appear on the screen once more. Minou forces Ui to press the Continue button. On the screen Ui views a video. It shows her France, where Tart and the others are waiting. <br />
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'''''(September 1429: France – Parisian Outskirts)'''''<br><br />
In this vision of the future, a soldier informs Tart that the King has ordered a halt to the campaign to save Paris. Tart can’t understand why he would do that when they’ve just set up for a siege. Elsewhere, Elisa demands answers when she learns that the King has dissolved the army. Riz is afraid that the rumors are true and the King has lost his grip on reality. Melissa sadly informs the others that the Duke of Alençon and Gilles have been deployed aggressively across several other campaigns in order to separate them from Tart. Tart for her part refuses to stop fighting until light returns to France, even if it’s down to just the four of them. <br />
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'''''(May 1430)'''''<br><br />
Gilles can’t believe the news he is receiving: Tart has been captured by enemy forces during the siege in Compiègne. He asks if the King has begun negations for her release, but the soldier is sad to inform him that no action has been taken. <br />
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'''''(May 30, 1430: Southern France - Rouen)'''''<br><br />
Tart stands trial before the church. The Church has just found Tart guilty of heresy. Her sentence: to be burned at the stake. <br />
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Tart holds her hands before her as the flames draw closer. Melissa and Elisa hurry to get there in time. They call out desperately for their dearest friend as the flames begin to lap at her feet. <br />
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The vision ends with Ui in tears over the fate of her friend. Elisa calls it lies but Minou only laughs. The Blank Prophecy is a recording device from the distant future after all. Everything they just saw is what lies ahead for them in the proper history they worked so hard to recover. And this will happen within the short span of the coming summer. Elisa realizes if they want the happy future where Iroha and Ui live then they can’t avoid this fate. Tart realizes she must sacrifice her own life for the sake of a bright future. <br />
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Elisa asks Minou what her plan is by having them see the future. Minou says when she saw the future in her vision, it was the same future they were seeing too. Thanks to Tart King Charles VII will be crowned and a dying France liberated. By doing so, she will crush her benefactor’s dreams into dust at the cost of her life. Minou doesn’t know if Tart was forced to make that sacrifice or if she chose it on her own, all she does know is that she will die for her cause. Tart is deep in thought. She knows now that she will be sentenced to burn at the stake like a common witch or heretic. She wonders if maybe after she liberates France she might turn into a Witch that was determined to see France burn to ash. If that were the case, maybe this was the only way to ensure the future would not lose its light. Perhaps this was the way to ensure she would leave this world peacefully rather than as a Witch. <br />
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Elisa asks Minou why she would show this to Ui if history is set in stone. Minou responds that Ui now has the option to choose the future since she has gathered enough fragments of true history to alter it completely. Ui can choose to keep the future the way it is, condemning Tart to her eventual fate. Or she can turn back time once more. Ui looks at the screen, two new buttons replacing the prior ones: “<- Return to Start” and “Confirm History ->”. If Ui chooses to return to the start, then they will essentially throw away all the fragments they’ve collected and the Prophecy will become blank again. Everyone will forget everything that’s happened and they’ll try again from the beginning during the battle for Orléans.Minou says they can try as many times as they like, but the end results will always be the same. She smiles at them and asks them if they haven’t realized that this isn’t the first time they’ve tried. <br />
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Elisa asks Minou what she’s talking about now. Minou asks if they haven’t used the return function before. But this time, instead of only a half a day, they would be rewinding month’s worth of time which would require a huge amount of magic. And since wiping the Prophecy blank would wipe everyone’s memories, including Minou’s, they have no way of knowing how many times they’ve done this before. But what if a small specific fragment were to remain behind in the prophecy? Then they could know how many times they’ve tried. <br />
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Minou summons her magic circles again and forces Ui to navigate the phone. A vision comes to life and they see Elisa and Riz talking about the ultimate price that Tart must pay for the sake of the future. Ui cries, determined not to let Tart die just so she can go back to her future. Tart tells her friends not to worry about her, but they won’t let Tart die like that. Ui takes her phone and rewinds everything back to the very beginning. <br />
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The group can’t believe what they saw. It confirms they’ve done this journey multiple times now. Minou affirms that it is true, and that never once has Ui confirmed history which is why dawn will never come to France. Elisa realizes what Minou’s plan really was: to create the Blank Prophecy as a trap for Ui so her soul will be imprisoned in history. When she received the magic to pull Ui from the future thanks to a maiden’s wish, Minou placed a curse and Ui’s soul gem inside her phone. Everytime she cycles through hope and despair her soul grows slightly weaker each time until eventually Ui is erased from reality (since her soul gem is trapped inside, she wouldn’t even be able to become a Witch). Ui understands now that if she were to never exist, then Iroha would never contract, never go into the past and awaken Tart from her magical nightmare. Eventually the sisters would win and the world would be cast in eternal darkness. <br />
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Elisa realizes now that the reason Minou never hurt Ui was because of her plan. If all they’d wanted to do was get rid of her they would have killed her from the start when they first kidnapped her. Ui looks on in tears, her soul beginning to fill with impurities. <br />
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Minou hands Ui her phone and tells her to make her choice. She would rather that Ui do it on her own so that she will despair even harder. Ui stares at the two buttons on the screen. Elisa reminds Minou if Ui confirms history than her own defeat will be sealed. Minou chuckles and reminds Elisa that neither of them are free to choose their future. Ui tries to desperately find a third option, such as going back and changing Tart’s eventual fate. But the contradictions in time have already been established. If they don’t recover true history then the world will stand as it is now, irreparably broken forever. Elisa is enraged that they have no real choice. Their only shot at victory is a pre-ordained fate. Ui can’t let that happen, but as Minou reminds her, she can always turn back time and try again. Ui stares at the buttons once more, her soul filled to the near brim with impurities as she prepares to turn back time once more in an effort to save Tart. <br />
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Just as she’s about to press the button, Tart stops her. She tells Elisa how much she admired her, for how hard she fought for a future she chose for herself and rejected the hand that fate had dealt her. She thanks Ui for everything her and her sister taught her. So long as there is hope to be found in the future, there will be a light to guide us. Tart chooses to voluntarily accept her eventual fate and grabs hold of Ui’s hand and guiding it towards the “Confirm” option. Minou sees that Tart is trying to sacrifice herself and attempts to stop her but Tart’s magic repels her. Ui begs her to stop but Tart tells Ui she’s sorry as she presses Ui’s finger to the screen. <br />
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<- Return to Start ''' Confirm History ->'''<br />
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The command is accepted. Light flashes all around them as Ui calls for Tart. Tart bids her goodbye, asking her to have a wonderful future. <br />
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Ui awakens to find herself in a white void, bubbles of magic dancing all around her. She hears Cube calling to her telepathically. He explains that Ui is currently inside the Blank Prophecy, since that is where her Soul Gem is. She asks about Tart, but the correct history has already been put into place. Tart and the others will re-enact history the way it was without ever having met Ui and the others. Now that the paradox has been resolved, everything that happened will seem like a dream. Once Ui steps out of this world her Soul Gem will be restored and everything will be done. Ui asks if there’s nothing she can do for Tart, but Cube confirms that she did indeed burn at the stake as a heretic. They could do nothing to change her fate. But if Ui stays in this void forever, then she will cease to exist. Cube advises her to accept the choice that Tart made, face it, and take that step forward before the chime resounding through time falls silent. Ui recalls Tart’s final words and promises to have a wonderful future as she steps out of the void. <br />
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Back at her benefactor’s room, Minou stomps and curses the fact she can never defeat Tart. She recalls the prophecy that France would be doomed by a woman but saved by a girl. She begs her mother for advice on what to do to prevent all of this. <br />
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Ui finds herself in an antique store, still surrounded by the magic bubbles. On the floor are two candles, one red and one blue, and an old book. Ui wonders if she was carrying these or if they were for sale. She can’t remember, but she gets the feeling that they’re very important. She puts the items on the store shelves before falling asleep again. <br />
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Ui is sleeping in Mikazuki Villa. Her phone goes off as she receives a call from Nemu. Nemu called to see if Ui knows any charms since Mitama has been really into them lately and has been asking everyone. Ui says she knows of a charm for good dreams that requires red and blue candles. Nemu has never heard of such a charm and asks where Ui heard about it from. Ui isn’t sure but says it was in 15th-centure France. Nemu identifies it as the century in which Jeanne d’Arc lived. She tells Nemu about it who is fascinated to learn that the charm has strong history. She promises to read up on it in the library and thanks Ui. She tells Ui she’ll see her later at the slumber party, but Ui is confused. Nemu is annoyed and reminds Ui that they were planning a slumber party at her house with Touka. Ui remembers the details and apologizes. <br />
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Later, Ui wonders why she feels so sad everytime she looks at her phone. Iroha returns, glad to see Ui is awake now. According to Iroha, Ui had fallen asleep on the couch so she snuck out quietly in order not to wake her. Iroha asks Ui if maybe she had a bad dream, but Ui can’t explain why she feels the way she does. Iroha suggests they go for a walk to take her mind off of things.<br />
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===Epilogue===<br />
The sisters walk, but Ui can’t seem to focus on anything despite it being a sunny day like any other. Her phone rings and it’s Touka, letting her know she would be a bit late for the slumber party. She looks at her phone again and Iroha asks her what’s wrong. Ui explains that she gets this feeling like she’s forgetting something really, really important every time she looks at her phone. Iroha suggests she go through her phone and see if anything jogs her memory. Iroha walks over to the side to give her sister some privacy. Ui scrolls through her messages, calendar, and other parts of her phone but she doesn’t see anything out of the ordinary. She comes across her photos and sees one she doesn’t recognize. She doesn’t know the girls in the picture or why she took it, but then she begins to cry loudly. Iroha asks her if she’s ok but Ui doesn’t even know the reason why she’s crying. Iroha hugs her sister tightly when Ui suddenly recalls Tart’s final words to her. Ui turns to her sister and tells her, “Let’s have a wonderful future together.” Iroha agrees and Ui eventually calms down. <br />
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Feeling better, Ui decides to head home so she can get ready for the slumber party. Iroha promises to see her at home after she’s done with her errands. Iroha heads to get groceries, and decides to stop by Mitama’s place afterwards. Mitama is glad to see her since she just learned an interesting little charm. <br />
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'''''La Fin.'''''<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh9RTItFOHY Chapter 1 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bYYy0kPwNQ Chapter 2 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqU7StErvBA Chapter 3 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCq_kU_dYxs Chapter 4 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=964wQuU-n7w Chapter 5 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjQW9W2STls Chapter 6 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCnQ2WE_Ro Chapter 7 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1aT4LSj74 Chapter 8 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMRii2O1Jas Chapter 9 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60cKInDKBXs Chapter 10 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVvDHe_u9qo Chapter 11 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0ae1dezIV0 Chapter 12 and Epilogue Youtube Recording]<br />
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<div>{{Infobox_character<br />
|name=Yu <br />
|image=[[File:Yu PM.png|200px]]<br />
|jname={{lang|ja|夢乃夕作}} Yumeno Yusa<br>''a.k.a. ''{{lang|ja|ユゥ}} Yuu<br />
|id=8022<br />
}}<br />
'''Yu''' (real name '''Yusa Yumeno'''), also known as the '''Sleepwalking Ghost''', is one of the original characters of the 2017 mobile game [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record]]. She is an NPC of ambiguous moral alignment, who seeks out and kills all "bad people" whose names appear on her magically updating list.<br />
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==General Info==<br />
{{Magical Girl Details<br />
|height=Unknown (though described as being tall).<br />
|eyes=Unknown<br />
|hair=Unknown<br />
|soulgem=(Presumably) golden medallion in the center of her forehead.<br />
|weapon=Unknown, beyond that it is capable of impaling people.<br />
|pronoun={{nihongo||ワタシ|watashi}}<br />
|relatives=Unnamed mother<br />
}}<br />
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==Personality==<br />
For unknown reasons, Yu has lost all the memories of the period prior to the time she became a Magical Girl. She is also completely unable to distinguish the morality of others on her own, relying solely on whether or not someone's name is on her list to judge whether a person is good or bad - if a person's name is written on her list, then they are bad, and if it isn't, then they are good. Her judgement is this manner is thus entirely black and white, to the point that Yu possesses no compunctions regarding seeking out and murdering the people who do appear on her list, nor of extracting their organs after the fact to sell for money.<br />
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Towards those that she has judged as good, Yu appears relatively affable. She is kind to [[Nagisa Momoe|Nagisa]], though claims when asked by her that she would not make a good teacher for other magical girls, on account of her lost memories. She later also claims that she will always be on Nagisa's side, and will help her if there is ever the need.<br />
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==Backstory==<br />
Yusa Yumeno was childhood friends with a girl named Kei, "Yu" being a nickname that Kei gave her. Yu comes from an affluent family, and is very intelligent, which led her mother to tell Yu not to be friends with Kei any longer, as she believed that Kei was holding her daughter back. However, Yu was obsessed with her friend Kei. When they eventually went to different high schools, Yu would walk the long distance to Kei's school every day in order to walk her home, despite Kei showing visible annoyance at this. Yu could seemingly only think of Kei in terms of their childhood, doing such things as bringing Kei a popsicle after school most days, even though Kei had previously explained to her that she hadn't liked popsicles since she was a kid. <br />
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When Yu told Kei that she was thinking of transferring to the same college as her, Kei replied that she would most likely not be attending college, due to having to get a job to help support her family instead. Yu then offered to attend whatever college was nearby in order to remain close to Kei, but Kei declined, telling Yu not to hold herself back for her sake. However, Yu herself believed that Kei was the only one that could understand her, thinking herself to be an extremely warped person, and could not bring herself to let Kei go. <br />
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One day, Yu placed her hands on Kei's neck as if to strangle her, though she stopped herself before she could actually complete the action. Rather than be upset however, Kei smiled and grabbed Yu's hands tightly, encouraging her to continue. Thereafter, the two girls would practice strangling each other, covering their necks with bandages afterwards to hide the bruises.<br />
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Soon, the pair grew tired of having to live up to everyone else's expectations, leading Kei to make a plan for the two of them to commit suicide together. She and Yu met up on a cape over the ocean. Kei had dressed in her best outfit, and brought a colorful ribbon for them to tie around themselves. Yu proceeded to express concern over their plan, asking Kei if her family wouldn't care what happens to her, only for Kei to hit her in response and reply that she doesn't care what her family thinks - she only cares what Yu thinks about her. <br />
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Together, the two vowed to follow each other throughout their reincarnations, and to kill each other again should they ever meet. They used the ribbon to tie their arms and legs together, and with their hands on each other's throats, leaped into the sea. However, due to the waves pulling them apart, only Kei ended up dying, while Yu ultimately survived.<br />
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An unknown time after Kei's death, but prior to the events of Magia Record, Yu awakens in the hospital. Kei's body had already been located, and the bruises on both of their necks dismissed as some sort of game they played with each other, while Kei's death was ruled as an accidental drowning. Yu's father had already told everyone that the two girls had simply lost their footing while on the cliff, which is why only Kei had died. <br />
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Yu soon returned to school, only to be disgusted by the pity everyone was giving her, and feeling as though her old self had died with Kei. As the days went on, Yu could no longer bear the trauma of having to live her life without Kei in it, feeling as though her sense of self was beginning to succumb to others' perceptions of her. It is then that Kyubey appeared, and soon made a contract with Yu. What it is that Yu wished for is unknown.<br />
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Despite dying, Kei's spirit did not fade away completely, instead merging with a [[Paola|Witch]] that resided in the ocean near the cape. When she manages to possess Madoka during the event story of [[Magia Record Story The Ribbon at the Brink Where the Waves Break|Beachside Bonds]], she reveals to Homura that she is aware that Yu became a magical girl. However, she also believes that Yu already became a Witch, and was hunted down some time ago. Kei goes on to say that she believes Madoka and the others were the ones to have hunted down and killed Yu's Witch, due to the lingering smell of blood and curses on them from killing other Witches. Before disappearing, Kei begs Homura to kill Yu next time, before Yu can become a Witch, so that the two of them can be reunited no matter what world or timeline Homura jumps to.<br />
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==Appearances==<br />
===Event Appearances===<br />
*[[Magia Record Story The Ribbon at the Brink Where the Waves Break|The Ribbon at the Brink Where the Waves Break ''(NA: Beachside Bonds)'']]<br />
*[[Magia Record Story Nagisa Momoe's Wish Comes True|Nagisa Momoe's Wish Comes True ''(NA: Nagisa's Wish)'']]<br />
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==Powers and Abilities==<br />
Yu is regarded as a relatively powerful magical girl, able to defeat fellow magical girl Inui Itsumi with ease, as well as her [[Uhrmann|witch form]], which Nagisa previously fell against. Though her weapon is never officially stated, it is presumably something sharp, as she is known to use it to stab and impale people. <br />
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Yu's magical list constantly updates and populates itself with the names of "bad" people. It is possible this list also assists in locating the individuals whose names it states, but the extent of this, if any, is unknown.<br />
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==Observations==<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
* "Yu" is simply a nickname based on a shortening of her full name, Yusa Yumeno. It is unknown if she herself remains aware of this any longer, due to her memory loss.<br />
* The characters in her last name mean "dream" (夢) and "belonging to" (乃) respectively.<br />
* The characters in her first name mean "evening" (夕) and "harvest" (作) respectively.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*Yu is one of a handful of magical girls in any Magia Record event to possess a unique "costumed" NPC sprite. From this, it can be seen that her magical girl form possesses a large pointed horn, a stitched (or heavily scarred) mouth and hairline, an extremely large furred collar with a matching choker, similarly furred leg warmers worn over her knees, and two "tails" emerging from the back of her outfit that are decorated with three bows each. The only others to possess a unique NPC costume sprite are [[Pernelle]] and [[Flèche and Lame]] all from the Tart Magica spin off manga.<br />
** A similar horn has been seen on [[Yuna Kureha]].<br />
* She was probably named after [[wikipedia:Yumeno Kyūsaku|Kyūsaku Yumeno]] (夢野久作), Japanese novelist in early Shōwa period.<br />
** In [[Magia Record Story The Ribbon at the Brink Where the Waves Break|the event story]], she and Kei talk about ''Nōzui-Ron'' (''An Inquiry about Encephalon'') , a nested story in ''[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9 Dogra Magra]'', his representative work, and there are also several other homages and quotes from this novel.<br />
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==Prologue==<br />
[[Iroha Tamaki]] and her friends had been separated by the [[Wings of Magius]]. And one day after the team overcame their ordeal and returned to their lives at Mikazuki Villa, something happened at Mitama’s shop. That is where this story begins…<br />
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Iroha greets [[Mitama Yakumo]] at her shop. Mitama says she came just at the right time since she wanted to test out a charm she learned. [[Yachiyo Nanami]] looks at the charm and notes that it’s a spell for having sweet dreams. Iroha thinks it would be perfect for Yachiyo since she’s been having trouble sleeping lately. Mitama is certain it will work since it’s a charm that has been passed down in Europe since the medieval ages. Mitama shows them how to prepare the spell by setting up two candles, a red one and a blue one. She then shows them the rest of the steps for the spell. Since the two of them learned the spell so quickly, Mitama offers to give them a pair of old candles she found at an antique store for free to get them started. Yachiyo regards the candles suspiciously but since Mitama didn’t avoid eye contact when she said there was nothing wrong with them, Yachiyo graciously accepts the gift. Iroha thanks Mitama and the two head back home. <br />
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Later that night, Yachiyo and Iroha set up the candles in the living room just like Mitama showed them. Iroha is getting a little nervous, but Yachiyo tells her to remain calm or else she won’t’ have pleasant dreams. Yachiyo lights the candles and both her and Iroha almost immediately drift off to sleep. Iroha finds herself in a dark void. There is a single point of light in the distance, so Iroha walks towards it<br />
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==Act 1==<br />
===Chapter 1 - ''A Dream of France''===<br />
Soldier-like familiars growl menacingly as they do battle with the French soldiers opposing them. A soldier cries out as they soon begin to be overwhelmed by the soldier familiars so a captain orders them to engage the creatures in groups of three. However, more of the soldier familiars appear from seemingly nowhere and join in the battle. The captain calls for a retreat but [[Corbeau in Magia Record|Corbeau]] soon steps in and blocks their escape. The captain recognizes her as one of the English “Witches” but Corbeau corrects him, calling herself a “Magical Girl” as she strikes him before brutally killing the captain. Iroha (still wearing her pajamas) walks through the woods, following the noises of battle. One of the solider familiars notices Iroha and begins to approach her but Yachiyo appears fully transformed and takes the familiar down. Iroha asks where they are since they should be in their beds at home but Yachiyo doesn’t have a clue either. She urges Iroha to hurry and transform, ready to fight and defend herself. Corbeau sees the two and approaches them, surprised but glad to see new Magical Girls and asks if they’re allied with the French girl. Iroha doesn’t know what she’s talking about but that doesn’t matter to Corbeau. She summons more of the soldier familiars in order to take care of Iroha and Yachiyo. Yachiyo is surprised to see a Magical Girl summoning Familiars. It seems Corbeau hasn’t had her fill of death and destruction yet so she orders the familiars to attack them. Yachiyo warns Iroha not to underestimate her as she can sense how powerful Corbeau’s magic is. <br />
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Corbeau cackles as she attacks Iroha, who is still somehow able to stand. Corbeau smiles and asks if Yachiyo is worth destroying as well. She doesn’t want to lose her new toys by killing them too quickly, so she wonders if she should break them one by one instead before returning her attention to Iroha. Corbeau strikes at Iroha once more, with Yachiyo being too slow to react in time to protect her. Just as the attack is about to land, [[Tart in Magia Record|Tart]] manages to get in front and protect the two girls from Corbeau. Corbeau glares at Tart in disbelief, unable to believe that Tart was able to deflect her attack despite how much power she put into it. Tart asks if Iroha is alright before introducing herself. Corbeau begins to giggle to herself, prompting Yachiyo to ask what’s wrong with her. Corbeau is overjoyed at this turn of events as she still wants to take out Tart herself. Tart urges Yachiyo and Iroha to escape while she takes on Corbeau for now. Iroha hesitates but Yachiyo reminds her they’re in no condition to fight some lunatic. Iroha warns her to be careful as they turn to flee. But Corbeau isn’t going to let them get away so easily as she summons a Witch’s barrier to the battlefield. Both Iroha and Yachiyo are dragged into the labyrinth along with Tart. Yachiyo can’t believe that Corbeau can not only summon Familiars but Witches as well. Tart offers to take care of the Witch as well but Yachiyo reminds her she’s a Magical Girl too and can handle at least this much. <br />
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Yachiyo and Iroha soon make short work of the Witch, although Iroha is still worn out from having to endure the earlier attacks from Corbeau. Yachiyo notes that the Witch they just defeated was a Witch they’ve seen before in Kamihama, [[Candy]], and questions what it would be doing here of all places. But there’s no time to ponder that as Iroha points out Tart, who is still battling with Corbeau. Corbeau laughs all the while as she trades blows with her mortal enemy, eventually successfully knocking her back into a tree. Yachiyo calls out to Tart, who assures her she’s fine as she picks herself back up. Corbeau glares in disbelief as she questions how Tart could be ok after a hit like that, but then she only begins to giggle once more to herself. She cackles about how the fun is now going to begin as she declares a battle to the death. However, before she can begin another assault on Tart, [[Riz Hawkwood in Magia Record|Riz Hawkwood]] appears from Corbeau’s shadow, knocking her to one side. Both Corbeau and Yachiyo notice how Riz is able to manipulate the shadows around them as Riz informs Tart she’s needed with her troops, who are struggling greatly against the Familiars. It seems Riz has brought [[Melissa de Vignolles in Magia Record|Melissa de Vignolles]] with her, whom she instructs to direct Iroha and Yachiyo back to their camp. Melissa introduces herself and prepares to leave but Corbeau is ready to block their escape. Riz warns her not to show her back to enemy as she strikes at Corbeau, promising to make her pay for what she did to Tart. Corbeau grins and shrugs; she’s just as content fighting and killing one of La Pucelle’s little friends. Tart turns to Iroha and Yachiyo and tells them Riz can handle her while they make their escape. Iroha and Yachiyo introduce themselves as they turn to flee. As they’re running, Yachiyo recognizes La Pucelle and Tart as some of the different names attributed to Jean d’Arc and wonders if the Magical Girl running beside her is actually the same person. <br />
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Tart arrives at the battlefield where her French troops are attempting to do battle with a legion of soldier Familiars. Iroha and Yachiyo stare at the vast number of Familiars as Tart and Melissa explain they are minions of Corbeau. France had been utterly overwhelmed ever since those creatures appeared among the English forces. Iroha is confused by all this talk about France and England. Yachiyo points out how much it looks like a medieval battalion. As far as she can tell, this is a battle that took place in the past. Tart is a member of the French military whereas the English appear to be summoning monsters to fight for them. The soldier familiars waste no time turning their sights on this new prey, so Tart asks Melissa to escape with everyone to safety while she takes on the Familiars alone. Iroha says there’s too many for her to take on, but Tart only asks that they go help the soldiers of France. Yachiyo observes how the French have only soldiers on their side whereas the English have only monsters fighting for them and decides to follow Tart’s instructions for now. Yachiyo hands Iroha a Grief Seed and tells her to use it to restore their magic. Both Yachiyo and Iroha are going to help kill any Familiars that are blocking their path in order to help the French soldiers escape safely. Iroha does as she told, asking Tart to stay safe. <br />
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After defeating a few soldier Familiars that followed after them, Iroha, Yachiyo, Melissa, and the group of French soldiers make good on their escape. They travel as far as their able until they’re sure they’re out of range of the battle before Melissa and the other soldiers begin to tend to the wounded. Just as Iroha asks if Tart will be ok, both her and Yachiyo sense an incredible amount of magic coming from where Tart was. Melissa explains that they felt La Lumière, Tart’s light magic. Yachiyo worries about Tart, since that much magic couldn’t possibly let anyone make it out of there alive, including her. Suddenly, Iroha says she can’t hear anyone’s voices. Yachiyo calls out to her as Iroha fades and soon awakens to find herself standing in the living room, wearing her pajamas. She wonders if it was all just a dream. <br />
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===Chapter 2 - ''Suspicious Candles''===<br />
The Mikazuki Villa household is preparing for another schoolday as Yachiyo tells Iroha about the dream she had. It seems she had the same dream as Iroha. It all felt so real that Iroha was convinced it couldn’t have been a dream when it was happening. Yachiyo asks if she still has any of the injuries she sustained during the battle but it seems they’ve all disappeared. Yachiyo wonders if anyone else in the household had the same dream, but [[Felicia Mitsuki]] doesn’t know what she’s talking about. [[Sana Futaba]] says the only thing she dreamed about was the “Flufftastic Furry Friend Videos” she was watching online before she fell asleep. Since only Yachiyo and Iroha had the dream, Yachiyo suspects it was either the spell or the candles that cause them to have the same dream. The two decide to call Mitama and ask her about it. Mitama is surprised to hear they had nightmares since she claims that everyone else who’s tried the spell had such lovely dreams. She wonders if maybe the candles are to blame. Yachiyo hangs up the phone and relays what Mitama had said to Iroha. She asks Iroha if she was the one that put out the candles but Iroha says they were already out when she woke up. Yachiyo considers the possibility they were released from the dream when the candles went out. Since the candles were still relatively untouched, Iroha suggests they try it again. Yachiyo wonders if their dream will pick up where it left off or if they’ll have a completely different dream this time. But what’s really prying at Yachiyo’s mind is the face that all of the people kept referring to Tart as “La Pucelle”, which is the name given to Jeanne d’Arc, which would mean that the dream they had took place in medieval Europe during the Hundred Years’ War. Iroha wonders why they were able to understand each other’s languages if that were the case, but Yachiyo reminds her it was a dream. Yachiyo asks Iroha what she wants to do with the candles for now. Iroha wants to try lighting them again. Yachiyo asks if she isn’t afraid, but Iroha thinks that it was only scary while they were dreaming it. Since she woke up just fine, she’s not as scared of going back into the dream. Yachiyo agrees so the two re-light the candles. <br />
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The two fall asleep almost immediately and find themselves back in the same dream, only this time they’re standing in the middle of a European village at night (although it was nighttime in the dream last time as well). Considering Iroha can feel the dirt beneath her feet and smell the grass, she wonders if it really is a dream. Yachiyo takes this into consideration, since you normally wouldn’t be able to share a dream with someone else either. Everything feels so real that even Yachiyo is beginning to have her doubts. Iroha suggests they try looking for Tart first. Yachiyo thinks it would be best if they remained transformed for now. <br />
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Yachiyo and Iroha soon find Tart, who is standing amongst the French soldiers alongside Melissa and Riz. Tart is relieved to see them as is Melissa. Riz introduces herself to the two since she didn’t get a chance to last time they met. Melissa catches up Iroha and Yachiyo on everything that happened, including how they seemed to vanish into thin air in front of her. Tart and the others had been worried they were sucked into a Witch’s barrier. Iroha and Yachiyo now realize that their “dream” seemed to have continued without them. Yachiyo asks Tart if her real name isn’t Jeanne D’arc by any chance. Tart is surprised to find that Yachiyo knows this. Most people usually call her Jeannette, Tart, or even Darc but her true name is Jeanne while her father goes by the name D’Arc. Tart asks how Yachiyo could have known that. Yachiyo stumbles on her words and attempts to come up with a good explanation, but thankfully she’s saved by Melissa who happens to point out a small girl who is standing by herself in the distance. Tart wonders if the little girl is all alone while Riz suggests they go check it out. Riz asks the girl if she’s alright, but the girl asks Riz for her help. Her sister has been caught by a scary monster and points in a direction in the distance. Riz figures it must have been a Witch or Familiar that captured the girl’s sister. Iroha thinks they should help and tells Tart they need to help. Tart agrees, but Yachiyo telepathically asks Iroha if they should follow them. Iroha then remembers that this is all supposed to be a dream. She was so caught up in anything that her first reaction was to help the girl. Yachiyo says that’s so like her and can’t blame her for reacting that way. After talking to everyone, even Yachiyo can’t help but think of them as anything other than real people. Iroha promises to be careful but Yachiyo thinks it’ll be fine since any injuries they sustain will simply vanish when they awaken. <br />
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Iroha, Yachiyo, Tart, and Riz follow the girl’s directions and soon find a Witch’s labyrinth. The enter the barrier and soon find the Witch. Iroha recognizes the Witch as one they’ve seen in Kamihama before as well, the Witch called [[Stacey]]. Iroha wonders if maybe the reason the Witch is here is because it’s supposed to be their dream. While Yachiyo agrees tentatively, she mentions that the thing that has been bothering her the most is the fact that the little girl was able to see the Witch despite not being a Magical Girl. Iroha wonders if that’s also due to all of this being a dream. Yachiyo isn’t so sure about that, but for now they should assume that ordinary people can see Witches and Familiars as well. Tart and Riz soon find the girl’s sister in a part of the barrier. Riz warns Tart to hold back since Tart’s magic is so powerful it may harm the little girl as well. She advises Tart to wait for the enemy to make a move first but Tart doesn’t want to wait. Iroha mentions having fought that particular Witch before and offers to help. Riz agrees to follow Iroha’s lead for now since she doesn’t want anyone else to get hurt either. Together, the team follows Iroha’s direction and they soon are able to vanquish the Witch safely. The little girl is reunited with her sister and she thanks the group for all their help. Riz is grateful they were able to get the girls home safe, while Tart praises Iroha’s perfect instructions. Iroha is just glad she was able to help. Even if it’s a dream, Iroha believes that helping people still feels wonderful. Yachiyo agrees as Riz thanks her for her help as well. Both Riz and Tart would have regretted it immensely if they hadn’t been able to help those little girls since they looked so much like Tart and [[Minor_Characters_(Tart_Magica)#Catherine|Catherine]] in their youth. Tart explains that Catherine was her little sister that both she and Riz were unable to protect. <br />
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'''''1428: Domrémy Village, France'''''<br><br />
Tart cries over the body of her fallen sister. Catherine gave her life to save Tart’s even though Tart was the older one. Riz holds Tart and cries, apologizing for not making it back in time. <br />
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Tart had lost her beloved little sister when her hometown was invaded. Because she never wanted anyone else to suffer that kind of cruelty, Tart became a Magical Girl by wishing for the power to bring light to all of France. Iroha can understand where Tart is coming from. She too has a little sister so she can’t just shrug all of this off just because it’s a dream. Yachiyo understands that this is the kind of thing that happens when a war rages on for decades. Tart swore to herself on that day, standing in front of Catherine’s grave to free this land. Riz had pledged to protect and support Tart every step of the way. The story of Jeanne D’arc started with just the time of them, and thanks to the guidance of an angel their allies have grown considerably as they make their journey, allies like the French Soldiers and Melissa. However, Tart still feels like she’s not living up to the expectations everyone has of her. Even though she almost liberated Orléans, a strategically vital city, it soon fell into the hands of the enemy. Yachiyo is shocked at what she just heard. Iroha looks at her quizzically, but Yachiyo tells her telepathically to just listen to what Tart is saying for now and she’ll explain later. Yachiyo doesn’t know what’s going on, but according to the history she knows Tart was never defeated. She should have rescued Orléans from the brink of defeat. <br />
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Tart explains that as they were battling to free Orléans, a sudden, vast wave of familiars appeared commanded by Corbeau. This turned the tide of battle against them, causing them to feel to the southernmost city of Toulouse. In Toulouse is a great hero by the name of [[Etienne de Vignolles|La Hire]], who is also Melissa’s father. Both him and many others who fought alongside them were separated from their battalion. Riz explains that the Familiars aren’t even the last of it. Thanks to Corbeau’s influence, the wold has been plunged into never-ending night. Yachiyo claims it’s just like a dream, but Riz explains to Yachiyo that just because it’s a dream for them doesn’t mean it’s the same for them. To Riz and the others this is undeniable reality. Yachiyo and Iroha apologize when suddenly they begin to feel oddly. It’s the same feeling as before which means they must be waking up from the dream. <br />
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===Chapter 3 - ''In Pursuit of the Dawn''===<br />
Awake in their living room, Iroha concludes that their dreams must have been caused by the candles. Yachiyo agrees and believes that telling or asking Mitama for anything else won’t help. Iroha then remembers Yachiyo’s reaction when Tart was talking and asks her what the matter was. Yachiyo explains that in recorded history, Jeanne did liberate the city of Orléans before going on to save parts of northern France that were under English control. But in their dream, Corbeau appeared during that crucial battle and defeated the French. Everything Tart told them can be confirmed on a map. The outcome of that war could be very bleak for all of France. And that’s not the only major difference. During the course of their dreams, they would also encounter Witches from modern day Kamihama, as well as the fact that night never ends. Yachiyo would like to just write all of this off as a dream, but she’s hesitant to do so. Before she can finish her statement, they hear the stomping of Felicia going down the stairs. Felicia is glad to see that they’re awake and says they tried multiple times to wake them but were unable to. Yachiyo asks why they would try to wake hr up when it’s still dark out but Felicia says that IS the problem. She points to the wall clock and Iroha sees that’s it’s 1:00 am. Felicia says it’s not the middle of the night but the middle of the day! The clock actually reads 1:00 pm. Yachiyo opens her eyes wide as she realizes that it’s been night out since yesterday. Felicia is glad they understand what she’s been trying to tell them finally. But that’s not the only strange occurrence going on. It seems all the people of Kamihama have vanished except for the Magical Girls. <br />
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Yachiyo can tell this is a very serious problem. The sun isn’t rising in Kamihama just like how it was in France and now everyone who isn’t a Magical Girl has disappeared. Iroha wonders if this is all their fault but Yachiyo reassures her, placing all the blame on Mitama. Yachiyo decides it’s a little harsh to put ALL of the blame on her, but in the end it doesn’t matter who is to blame since they have to do something about this situation. One thing is for certain, however: whatever is happening in the France of their dreams is definitely related to their problems in the modern day. Iroha believes it’s just like Riz told them: just because it’s a dream to Iroha doesn’t mean it’s not reality for them. Iroha shakes her head, having taken everything in the dream world too lightly just because she could wake up safe and sound. Yachiyo suddenly realizes something and asks Iroha to check on her Soul Gem. Yachiyo inspects it and confirms her suspicions: despite not being physically injured, the magic they used has still been consumed. Whatever the source of their dreams may be, they still use magic just like in the real world and it has an impact on their world too. Yachiyo suggests they take the dream world as seriously as the real one. Iroha thinks they need to go back into the dreamworld to figure out how Kamihama and it are connected. Yachiyo agrees as Felicia stands there watching them. Felicia says they’ve been talking a bunch of nonsense and wonders what a bunch of candles have to do with anything. Yachiyo says it’s a long story that she doesn’t have time to relate right now. She asks Felicia to let them sleep for now and to not wake them. If they need anything else she’ll let Felicia know. Felicia thinks Yachiyo doesn’t want her to help and is trying to get rid of her but Yachiyo promises she just doesn’t want to get more people involved than need be. She tells Felicia that if she does as she’s told, then they’ll have steak for dinner tonight. That was all Felicia needed to hear as she promises to make sure that Sana doesn’t bother them either as she heads back upstairs singing about delicious meat. With Felicia out of the way, Yachiyo and Iroha prepare to plunge back into the dream world and search for whatever is causing all of this. Iroha is ready to take this as seriously as anything else as the two settle down into chairs and relight the candles. <br />
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Yachiyo and Iroha are transported back into the dream world only this time they find they’ve landed in the middle of a Witch’s labyrinth, that of [[Rebecca]]. Yachiyo is a little dismayed since she was hoping to join up with Tart and the others immediately. Iroha sees a man struggling in the distance, attempting to do battle with the Witch. As the man battles, he declares, “I, La Hire, God’s wrath incarnate, refuse to die here. I will see Melissa again!” Iroha recognizes the name of “La Hire” as the name of Melissa’s father which means they must be back in the same dream. Yachiyo says she must be right so they need to help this man right away. It doesn’t matter how strong any human is, they’re no match against a Witch. <br />
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Yachiyo and Iroha soon defeat the Witch and the barrier dissipates, leaving them standing in a wooded area. La Hire thanks the girls and praises their strength, comparing them to La Pucelle in battle. Yachiyo and Iroha introduce themselves as companion of La Pucelle and Melissa. Hearing that name causes La Hire to brighten, thankful that his daughter is still alive and safe for now. La Hire informs the girls that various creatures like the one they just slayed are crawling all over France, sowing chaos and destruction in their wake. But there is a nearby fortress that continues to resist and keeps their faith in La Pucelle. Since he cannot abandon his post, he asks the girls to tell Melissa that he and the other soldiers are in good health and that they haven’t given up hope. He bids the girls goodbye before heading into the woods. Yachiyo realizes now just how dire the situation is for France and just how heavy the message they must convey is. Iroha is glad they were able to help Melissa’s father and thinks it’s an amazing coincidence that they were able to meet like that, but Yachiyo believes their meeting was more than just a chance encounter. The first two times they arrived they met with Tart right away. <br />
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Yachiyo and Iroha walk through the woods until they eventually come upon a camp site. It was Yachiyo’s idea to walk south towards Toulouse in hopes of catching up with them. They look around the camp and soon find Melissa, delivering to her the news from her father. Having spread the news around, the morale of the troops grew much higher than it was before. Iroha hears many of the soldiers calling him “Good ol’ red ears, La Hire” and asks Melissa about the nickname. Melissa explains that whenever his father loses his temper, his ears grow red. Tart says Iroha and Yachiyo always arrive just when they need them most, like a ray of light in the dark, and asks if they aren’t angels as well. Iroha says there’s no way she’s an angel and tries to explain that they’ve come from a world outside of the dream where Tart is a legend. Riz’s ears widen momentarily when Iroha says “outside the dream” but instead asks them to continue with their story. Iroha tries to tell them she’s from the future, but Yachiyo says they should just explain everything to them including the stuff they don’t understand. They relay everything that has happened to them so far as well as what they know of written history. Melissa is surprised to hear that Tart frees Orléans and leads France to victory before eventually helping to crown the King of France under the guidance of a voice from heaven. Tart is overjoyed at this news, as it is exactly as Monsieur Angel said would happen while Riz is still trying to make sense of Yachiyo’s claims that they’re from hundreds of years into the future. Iroha asks what she means by “Monsier Angel” so Cube appears and says she’s referring to him. Both Iroha and Yachiyo’s jaws drop as they realize it’s Kyubey! Cube corrects them, saying his name is “Cube”, not Kyubey, although he was called that before in the lands to the east. But he says that’s not important right now. <br />
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Cube explains that he is the one who contracted Tart. Iroha asks if he knows why they were brought here but Cube says he doesn’t know since they are unknown entities to him. But if they can tell him everything that happened, then he can come up with a hypothesis. Iroha and Yachiyo tell him everything in great detail with Cube listening intently. When they’re done, Cube concludes that they must be in the past of their current reality. Iroha thinks she understands what he means and says that just because they were asleep they wrongly concluded that it was a dream when in actuality their souls were being transported into the past. Cube says she’s right as that’s the only explanation for all of this, such as the fact that he is barely meeting them for the first time. Iroha says that it was Kyubey that turned them into Magical Girls, but Cube says that was either him in the far distant future or an associate of his. Yachiyo asks how this place could be their past if it’s so different from the history that they know of. Cube explains that it’s because all of this is a time paradox most likely caused by Corbeau. France’s defeat was growing more and more likely with her arrival. She was a girl with an unending supply of Familiars at her command who can summon Witches from other eras. Clearly she was an anomaly. If things continue like this and France loses the war, the entire world will be consumed in endless night for hundreds of years which is why Kamihama is like that now. History has been diverted from its original course so its begun to affect their future. However, all of this hasn’t been set in stone yet which is why the influence on the future has been minor thus far. But if they leave and leave things as they are, then Yachiyo and Iroha themselves may very well disappear. If they’re able to help Tart to defeat Corbeau and save France, then everything should go back to normal. Yachiyo eyes Cube suspiciously and asks if they can really trust him. While Cube doesn’t know what their relationship is like in the future, as far as the here and now is concerned they can definitely count him as an ally. Should Corbeau win this battle, then it would set them back considerably. Tart is the only being in this era who can stand a chance against her. She’s burdened with an astronomical fate as a Magical Girl who connects past and present. Even for his kind, Tart is a shining beacon of hope. <br />
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'''''1429: Toulouse, France'''''<br><br />
Having moved the base camp to another area, Iroha looks up and smiles at the brightly shining morning sun. Yachiyo is happy to see that the sun in the past looks the same as it does in the future. Yachiyo turns to Iroha and warns her that they’ll have to see things through to the end and help Tart with her fight. Iroha knows they can’t help it since they can’t just leave Kamihama the way it was, with all the people disappeared. She had originally thought of all of this as nothing more than a dream because of how they got there, so she was never able to take Tart’s or anyone else’s feelings seriously until now. Tart and the others are fighting with everything they have and Iroha had failed to acknowledge that before. Yachiyo says it’s just like how Riz had said earlier, and now this is an undeniable realitiy for them as well. Yachiyo reminds Iroha if they use up all the magic in their Soul Gems then there’s no way for them to make it back alive. Iroha nods, aware of the ramifications. Yachiyo and Iroha then proceed to find Tart and the others to let them know of their decision. Riz is at first skeptical of their decision. Iroha assures her they’re going to do whatever they can to help them fight the Witches and Familiars, even if they might disappear unexpectedly. Riz warns them they might not survive the endeavor, but Yachiyo promises them that they’ve already made peace with their decision. Because they thought this was just a dream world they didn’t take things seriously at first. But now they know what’s at stake and are prepared to do what it takes to ensure their victory. Riz is relieved to hear that and turns to Tart to ask her what she thinks of all this. Tart looks serious and says there’s something she must ask them first. She explains that they are all battling for the sake of their future, to restore hope to their country, and to see a better tomorrow after all the sorrow. Monsieur Angel (Cube) had told her they were from the future, so Tart asks them if they feel that the future is worth fighting for. Iroha is surprised at the question for a moment but quickly answers that they do. Even though the future has its own share of sorrow what with wars and everything else, and the fact that even in the future Magical Girls continue to fight tirelessly every day to save those people, Iroha still wants that future back no matter what. It’s their future, Iroha says with strong conviction. Tart smiles, overjoyed to hear that the time they live in must be a truly splendid era. Tart had only wanted to know if hope still remained in the future and Iroha’s answer had shown her just how much hope the future harbors. With that, Tart gladly accepted Iroha and Yachiyo’s help. With everyone fighting as one, this country whose dawn has been denied will be restored of its light. <br />
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===Chapter 4 - ''The Fortress Rallies''===<br />
'''''Toulouse, Southern France'''''<br><br />
Tart stands before a contingency of French soldiers, declaring their intent on bringing dawn back to the country of France starting from their last remaining fortress in Toulouse. The soldiers cry out in unison at Tart’s every word, chanting the name of Jeanne, La Pucelle. Iroha and Yachiyo are surprised to see how popular Tart is and how loudly the soldiers would cheer for her. Melissa explains that the morale of the soldiers was quite low, but that’s when Tart shines brightest. Even when they were still winning every battle Tart was always like that. Seeing her like that reminds Melissa of the first time she laid eyes on Tart. Tart had met with Prince Charles, the successor to the French throne, for the first time. However, he had wanted to test her to see if she was as holy as she was said to be, so he had someone else sit on the throne to greet her. But Tart saw him and immediately declared him to be an imposter. After witnessing her feat, the crown prince reacted at once by announcing to everyone that Tart was truly a messenger from God. That is when Tart earned her nickname “La Pucelle”, the maiden. The dauphin had then granted her command of the French forces. Melissa recalls the moment she saw her the first time was like a miracle. That is why she travels with Tart and aids her as her servant. Melissa finds it personally fulfilling to be by Tart’s side every day. Yachiyo can see that Melissa is very devoted to Tart. Iroha remembers that the fortress they’re headed to is the same one where Melissa’s father is. Melissa smiles at the thought and says she’s right. Even though her father has the nickname La Hire, “Wrath of God”, to him he is her beloved father who treasures Melissa above all else. Riz appears and assures Melissa they’ll see him soon enough, although he is holding the fort with nothing more than the stray soldiers he was able to gather. She warns them at they’re currently under siege and the situation looks very bleak. Despite this, Tart was certain they could reach them and help them to fight back, rekindling their flames of hope. Riz comments on Tart’s high spirits and says it’s thanks to Iroha and Yachiyo that Tart’s own faith was restored, earning them Riz’s gratitude. Iroha tries to humbly deny it but Riz says there’s no need to be embarrassed and leaves to find Tart. Yachiyo notices that Riz always stays so close to Tart, almost like she’s her shadow. Melissa informs them that Riz believes it’s her personal duty to ensure Tart’s safety. Over where the soldiers are, Tart begins to give orders for advancing on the fortress. <br />
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It’s already night as Tart leads the troops onwards. The group draws closer and Tart can see the fort where La Hire is waiting for them. Tart senses something just as she’s engulfed by a Witch’s barrier. [[Zenobia]] glares down at her prey, whipping up sandstorms. A soldier yells out at the foul creature but Tart transforms and steps in front of him. Tart swings her sword as she goes after the Witch, but soldier Familiars appear from the edge of the barrier and begin to encircle the French soldiers. Yachiyo wonders what these Familiars are doing in the barrier of a different Witch, but Riz believes that it’s because the master of this Labyrinth is not a true Witch and implying them to be clever copies of the originals. The soldiers are starting to tremble at the sight of these monsters since a single one was able to lay waste to them before. They’re beginning to fear the worse and doubt that even their La Pucelle will be able to take down so many, especially with the losing streak they’ve had lately. Melissa overhears the soldiers and demands they repeat what they said, her ears burning bright red and her fists shaking in anger. Iroha and the other soldiers take a step back in fear. Riz uses her telepathy to explain to Iroha that Melissa always gets like that whenever anyone criticizes Tart. Yachiyo notices that, just like her father, her ears turn red when she loses her temper. A soldier Famliar advances towards them growling menacingly, but Melissa says they can’t leave the front line to be guarded by such cowardly wretches and promises to take on the monster herself. Iroha asks if Melissa is a Magical Girl too but Riz informs her that Melissa is just an ordinary girl, although Cube believes she has great potential. Yachiyo and Riz tell Melissa that won’t be necessary and step forward to take down the monster in her stead. Seeing the young girls step forward to bravely face these monsters, the soldiers began to chatter amongst themselves, calling themselves pathetic especially after they had departed so full of themselves. Iroha asks the soldiers not to push themselves but to please be there to act as backup for Riz and Yachiyo. The soldiers realize she’s right and get into formation as Iroha goes to join them in their fight. <br />
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Yachiyo and Riz attempt to finish off the soldier Familiars, with Yachiyo offering to finish it off. Despite her attack, the soldier Familiar remains standing. A voice calls out, warning her not to underestimate the creatures as La Hire appears and deals the killing blow. Yachiyo thanks her savior before she recognizes him as La Hire. The barrier soon dissipates, implying that Tart had finished off the Witch once and for all. Melissa runs and hugs her father, happy to see that he’s still alive and well. La Hire hugs her back tightly as Tart and the other soldiers clamor around him, elated to see that their captain is still safe and has been reunited with them. Tart says he must have ran full speed from the fort to have arrived so quickly. La Hire says he certainly did as he grins cheekily. Tart wonders if it’s really ok for the commander himself to leave the fortress to fight, but Riz assures her the fort is fine since [[Minor_Characters_(Tart_Magica)#Gilles_de_Montmotency-Laval|Baron Gilles de Rais]] is overseeing it. Yachiyo notes that both La Hire and Gilles de Rais were remembered as heroes in history books. Tart turns back to the soldiers and begins to announce orders for their next move: to take this challenge head-on and reunite with their allies at the fortress. The soldiers cry out in unison once more. <br />
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The group soon arrives in front of the fortress, although the fortress is surrounded by a thick miasma of darkness. Together, the Magical Girls and soldiers fight as one and destroy the battalion of soldier Familiars surrounding the area. After a long battle, the group is victorious and soon the sun begins to shine down once more on the land. Tart and the others stand beaming at what they’ve accomplished, with Melissa comparing the rays of sunshine to rays of hope shining down on them. Baron Gilles exits the fortress and approaches the group, calling the battle a marvelous entrance by La Pucelle. Gilles asks Tart to make her way to the front of the soldiers and then asks Iroha and Yachiyo to do the same. Gilles steps forth and begins his speech, talking about how long they’ve toiled in submission since that fateful day. He tells the soldiers to fear no longer since the will of God has descended to them once more through their heaven-sent La Pucelle and the two new holy maidens that have joined their cause, causing both Yachiyo and Iroha to open their eyes wide at having been called “new holy maidens” and causing the soldiers to cry out in cheers once more at “Les Pucelles”. Yachiyo shakes her head and calls this all a nightmare while Riz and Melissa just giggle at how uncomfortable they seem after being hoisted onto pedestals like that. <br />
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===Chapter 5 - ''Saving the Dauphin''===<br />
Yachiyo and Iroha are “awake” once more and back in the present time. Yachiyo asks Felicia if anything has happened but Felicia says that nothing has changed one bit. Felicia mentions that [[Tsuruno Yui]] had come over trying to figure out what’s been going on but then she immediately took off afterwards. Felicia says she has no clue where she went, but she’s really wishing Yachiyo and Iroha good luck since she’s REALLY looking forward to that big steak for dinner even if that means the schools won’t be closed anymore. Yachiyo asks Felicia to keep studying on her own as they try to resolve this since they’ll be busy for awhile and won’t be able to check on her. Sana asks if they’ll be going alone again and suggests it might be better if the rest of them helped out. Iroha quickly interjects, telling Sana they shouldn’t go or they’ll be turned into holy maidens too! Yachiyo says she doesn’t want to go into it when she sees Sana’s confused expression. Iroha thinks it’s a good thing they woke up shortly after that speech or they would have been crushed by the people mobbing them. Yachiyo really doesn’t want to have to go back to their dream at that point, but Iroha is pretty sure a good bit of time has already passed since then since that is how it was the other times they’d gone back. Yachiyo thinks she’s right and believes they should get going, so she relights the candles once more. <br />
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Back in the French camp, Tart informs them of a rescue mission she has planned. The rescue mission concerns the heir to the throne, the Dauphin Charles, who is currently imprisoned in Bourges. Melissa explains that the whole war actually began as a dispute over who would inherit the throne, but Corbeau had imprisoned the one true heir of France. Iroha can see how this would be a big problem, while Yachiyo comments that this drastic event never happened in any history she’s ever known. Tart is surprised to hear this, but regardless of what history may say she knows they must fight on. Rescuing the Dauphin and ensuring that he’s crowned is detailed in the orders she received from Monsieur Angel. Yachiyo narrows her eyes when Tart calls him “Angel” as Cube looks up inquisitively. <br />
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The night before they depart, Yachiyo spies Riz by herself near the edge of camp. Riz is summoning various different weapons with her shadows and practicing with them. Yachiyo approaches her and asks if she’s training for the battle tomorrow. Riz says she isn’t training, but trying to make sure her weapons are balanced since they haven’t been in the best condition lately. Yachiyo comments on how Riz is helping the Holy Maiden but is using very ominous fighting tools, such as a machete and scythe. Riz says Tart is the light of hope, so she is the shadow that clings to it. If these weapons can protect her, then it doesn’t matter how ominous a form they take. Yachiyo giggles so Riz asks her, “What is it?” Yachiyo explains that Riz seems so mature but then she refers to her weapons as “little ones”. Riz explains she’s barely a year older than Tart and Melissa while Yachiyo informs her that Iroha is actually a year younger than Melissa whereas she and Riz are about the same age. Riz thinks about how old Catherine would be if she were still alive and surmises that she would have been friends with Iroha. Since Riz couldn’t save Catherine, she has to protect Tart not matter the cost. Yachiyo looks at her with a worried expression full of concern. She tells Riz that she shouldn’t put her life on the line even if it’s to save someone else’s because Tart treasures Riz as much a she does Tart. Tart has lost so many important friends up to this point, so Yachiyo is sure she feels entrusted with the will of each and every one of them. She begs Riz not to give Tart another painful memory to mourn. Riz understands what she means and promises to take care of herself too. Riz believes that Yachiyo is a lot like Tart and is sure that many of her friends have entrusted their hopes and dreams to her as well. Yachiyo recalls the faces of her friends Kanae, Mel, Momoko, and Mifuyu and admits that it is true. Riz thinks maybe the Baron was right and that maybe Yachiyo really is a holy maiden, just like Tart but Yachiyo insists that’s not true. <br />
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The next day, Tart rallies the troops together once more and declares their next mission: to save the rightful heir to the French throne and bring back the Dauphin Charles. The soldiers cry out in unison, “Les Pucelles, Les Pucelles, our three holy maidens!”, causing Yachiyo to look dismayed and Iroha to smile in embarrassment. <br />
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The troops advance and are soon within sight of Bourges. Now they need only to break through their defenses and victory will be within their reach. Gilles announces to the soldiers that they have nothing to fear since they have the blessed maidens on their side. La Hire grins as he mentions how Gilles sure knows how to really rouse his troops. The troops work together in unison as they fight alongside the Magical Girls. The battle is long and hard but soon they are able to vanquish the hordes of soldier Familiars and advance towards the fortress where the Dauphin is being held in its basement. Riz believes it will be difficult to break the gate but she’s already come up with a plan with Tart. She tells Iroha to go with Tart who will be leading the charge. Something comes flying down at Tart, causing Iroha to yell out a warning and push Tart to one side and narrowly blocking the projectile. Corbeau emerges and says it was meant to be a killing blow but they were still able to deflect it. Riz glares at her opponent as Corbeau says it wouldn’t have been any fun if she had killed her so easily before immediately launching an attack at Riz. Riz telepathically tells Tart to leave Corbeau to her while she and Iroha head to the fort. Riz asks Yachiyo to cover her before asking Corbeau what she hopes to accomplish here. Corbeau laughs and says she just wanted to enjoy the bloodbath. When she really gets going, even her allies sometimes get caught in the fire, but in this world she can wantonly destroy as much as she wants which is why she jumped at the opportunity. Yachiyo listens to Corbeau’s words intently and thinks there’s more to what she meant when she said “in this world”. Corbeau is eager to start their one-on-one battle but Riz says no thank you as she melts into the shadows. Riz throws a projectile from Corbeau’s left-side before materializing at her right and striking Corbeau once more. Despite the injuries, Corbeau laughs gleefully. She knows Riz is using her “little shadow tricks” and asks if she too believes that offense is the best defense. Riz knows that in a battle of pure strength Corbeau would be the victor, so she’s doing what she can to wear her down bit by bit. Yachiyo steps in to back up Riz as Riz urges Tart to hurry into the fortress with the others while they buy her some time. Corbeau asks if they think she’ll let them get away so easily as she summons more of the soldier Familiars onto the field. Tart and Iroha are soon surrounded as Corbeau turns her attention back to Riz and Yachiyo, promising they’ll be able to play to their hearts’ content. <br />
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Riz and Yachiyo continue their battle with Corbeau. Soon Riz is able to run in at Corbeau with a reckless attack meant to end Corbeau’s life, but at the last moment she recalls Yachiyo’s words to not throw her life away and pulls back at the last second. Corbeau laughs as the counterattack she thew only narrowly missed Riz’s vital spot. She warns Riz if she had really gone through with that killing blow, then she herself would have been dead. Corbeau prepares to finish off Riz now that she’s exhausted and at her limit, warning her not to think she can be beaten so easily while still being concerned over her own safety. However, Yachiyo steps in and attacks Corbeau, protecting Riz in the process. She asks if Riz is ok as Riz picks herself back up and thanks Yachiyo. Yachiyo says she would have been very upset if Riz was hurt just because of something she had said earlier. Corbeau asks what they’re chattering about as Riz telepathically gives the signal. Tart hears her and unleashes her La Lumière attack on the fortress, causing it to collapse. Gilles gives the signal to the troops to begin storming the dungeons as La Hire asks them to leave it to him to find the Dauphin and take him to safety. Corbeau now sees what they were planning all along and begins to cackle loudly. She admits she’s been beaten and leaves the fortress to them, claiming she should never have underestimated Tart’s magic. She warns Riz and Yachiyo that she won’t forget them and promises they’ll have a proper fight to the death when next the meet before leaving. <br />
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Yachiyo points up to the sky and says the sunlight has begun to return to the fortress. Soon the entire area is awash in bright sunlight as Tart asks Gilles to give them a speech. Gilles says he thought she would never ask before turning to the soldiers and giving a rousing speech about how the Dauphin has finally been released thanks to Les Pucelles. As the soldiers cheer, the Dauphin Charles takes Tart’s hand before thanking Tart form the bottom of his heart for the delightful rescue. Tart doesn’t know what to say in reply. The Dauphin soon turns and gives a speech to the soldiers, asking them to behold the glow that fills their sky as proof that the heavens have not forsake France after all. He motions to Tart, Yachiyo, and Iroha as living proof of this and says that the sun will rise so long as they have faith. Now that they’ve been recognized by God and with the protection of Les Pucelles, their next aim is for Château de Chinon. Noticing the confused look on Iroha, Tart explains that it is a French stronghold in the north. The group will march in that direction and free any forts or villages they come across as they go. If they can force their way into Château de Chinon, then they can finally begin on their plans for their most important mission yet: to recapture Orléans. The soldiers cry out loudly as the Dauphin finally gives the words they’ve been waiting for. Riz tells the others that this will be the decisive battle, on the same battlefield where they once tasted defeat they will rise again and retake Orléans. <br />
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===Chapter 6 - ''The Night Before''===<br />
Iroha and Yachiyo awaken once more in the living room of Mikazuki Villa. Felicia shows up and calls it perfect timing. Sana says that something has changed: although it’s still dark out, some of the people have started to come back. Felicia begins to cheer them on as Iroha asks if this means that some of the correct timeline has been restored. Yachiyo believes she’s right but says they still have a long way to go before history is back to how it should be. In the history that Yachiyo knows, Tart and the Dauphin held an audience at Château de Chinon and then a mission to liberate Orléans happened soon after. But since Tart and her friends had already lost Orléans once, this would be considered more of a rematch, which is why they’re calling it a mission to recapture rather than liberate the city. Only then can they start where they left off in history. Sana apologizes for interrupting, but warns them that the people that have returned have become increasingly anxious because the sun never rises. Yachiyo says they have to hurry and set things right as she prepares to relight the candles. Before they go, Felicia reminds them of their promise of a big steak dinner when this is all done. <br />
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Iroha and Yachiyo are transported to a village, but it seems Tart and her soldiers have already left the area of Bourges. Yachiyo thinks they’ve already begun their trek towards Château de Chinon and suggests they head north to catch up with them. Since the sun is shining down brightly on the village, it seems Tart and the others have already recaptured this area. At some point the group was driven back to the southernmost edge of France, but by now they’ve been able to retake about 40% of France with their counteroffensive. As they head towards Chinon, they’ve been freeing the towns and fortresses they pass along the way. Since their enemy isn’t an army, but a mass of Witches and Familiars that Corbeau has summoned to fight, they just need to drive them back in order to recover the land. Even so, it’s terrifying to think that one woman alone was able to drive a whole country into submission, although Cube did mention that Corbeau was an anomaly here. Iroha wonders if there are even any humans on the English side, but Yachiyo thinks Corbeau must have left them behind in case they were hurt in her rampage. Considering Corbeau’s choice of words, Yachiyo finds it very strange and suspicious that Corbeau would refer to it as “this world”, which makes it sound like she came from somewhere else. If Corbeau isn’t from this world, then what is the world they find themselves in now? Even if Cube believes they’re in medieval France, his theory doesn’t necessarily account for everything. For example, the two groups are able to communicate just fine despite the fact that they don’t speak Japanese and Iroha and Yachiyo don’t speak French. Also, the entire phenomenon where the sun never rises seems pretty unrealistic. As confusing as it all is, for now all they can do is trust that Cube’s theory is the correct one and that they are in medieval France. If they keep going, then surely all the strange dream logic and the reasons behind it will become clear in the end. One thing they know for sure is that time in this world is passing and Tart and her friends are fighting with everything they have. As long as they don’t forget that, then it shouldn’t matter what this world is. They have to take Tart and everyone else seriously. Iroha agrees with everything Yachiyo said as the two begin their journey to catch up with everyone at Chinon. <br />
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'''''1429: Château de Chinon, France'''''<br><br />
The Crown Prince Charles took back the castle, their first step in recapturing Orléans. Yachiyo and Iroha finally arrive at the camp where Tart gladly welcomes them back. Iroha is glad to see that they’ve already gotten inside the castle. Yachiyo asks when the mission to recapture Orléans begins. Melissa says the mission will begin in two days time, first thing in the morning. Cube informs them there are French forces north of Orléans as well, so if they’re able to recapture the city and join their troops with theirs then they can return the light to France. Melissa nods at what Cube said, prompting Iroha to ask if she can see Cube as well. Cube explains that she may not be a Magical Girl, but she does have the potential for it. The final battle will soon be here and Iroha is getting nervous just thinking about it. Tart says they’ll be having a celebratory banquet here before they head for the frontlines and says they’ll be delighted if they would join them. Yachiyo doesn’t see why not. Iroha asks where Riz is so Melissa explains she’s currently on reconnaissance. Yachiyo is surprised she’d be on such a dangerous mission alone but Tart says since she has the power to hide amongst the shadows it’s better for her to be on her own. Melissa mentions that Riz has been working alone often lately, and is sometimes gone all day long. She wonders if perhaps Riz is worried that Corbeau is planning a surprise attack on them. Yachiyo can see where she’s coming from and says she should be fine on her own since she’s so strong, although it does seem unlike her to leave Tart for so long. Just as she says this, Riz appears and asks if they’ve been talking about her. Tart happily welcomes her back and asks how it went. Riz doesn’t have much to report as Yachiyo eyes her carefully. Once more Yachiyo has the feeling that Riz is hiding something. Since the banquet will be starting soon, the group goes to join the others in the celebrations. <br />
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The party is soon underway and the soldiers cheer and talk happily amidst the drinking and feasting. Iroha asks what Yachiyo is drinking. Yachiyo says it’s goat’s milk and offers some to Iroha to try since Yachiyo thinks it tastes quite good. Iroha takes a sip then asks what Melissa is drinking. Melissa says it’s a little something the Dauphin treated to her so she could partake in the toast. Iroha asks if it’s alcohol and says she probably shouldn’t drink that but it’s too late, Melissa has gulped it all down. Gilles joins in the conversation and mentions that Melissa has already drank seven flagons of the stuff. Yachiyo can’t believe it since it doesn’t show on her face at all. La Hire joins them as well, laughing and asking if they’re enjoying themselves. He asks Melissa if she likes the drink before mentioning that it’s made from crushed grapes plucked before they’re ripe, which is different from wine. Iroha is relieved to hear that it’s not alcoholic at all and asks if Riz is drinking the same thing. Riz is, since she doesn’t want any alcohol either, so Iroha offers to get her a plate of food. Riz asks for something sweet if they have it. A young servant girl offers the girls some wine, but Riz initially refuses. Seeing how dismayed the girl is, and how cute, Riz decides to make an exception and accepts a glass of wine. Iroha warns her not to do it since Riz says she doesn’t drink, while Yachiyo wonders if she’s just incapable of turning down children or something. <br />
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Cube notes what high spirits everyone seems to be in and asks Iroha if she and her friend will be participating in the battle to retake Orléans. Iroha says they will so long as the candles don’t burn out and return them to the future. Cube asks what she means by that, so Iroha explains that they forgot to mention how it is they came from the future. Riz asks them to explain it to her as well. Iroha explains everything abou the candles and how they’re able to go to the past in their dreams as they sleep. They had tried the candles out as part of a charm that was supposed to give them nice dreams but something must have been wrong with the candles. Melissa asks what they were talking about since she overheard them mention a charm for sweet dreams. Since Melissa is interested in spells and charms, Iroha asks if it’s alright to teach her the charm. Yachiyo believes it was the candles and not the charm that caused them to go to the past so she doesn’t see the harm in teaching Melissa the charm. Just then Iroha remembers Tart and asks where she is. Tart hears her name and walks over, all sloppy smiles and happy to see them all. She grabs hold of Iroha in a tight hug and continues to giggle as Iroha struggles to leave her embrace. Riz says she looks completely drunk while Yachiyo asks who gave her alcohol. Cube can vouch that Tart hasn’t had a single drop and thinks it may be because of the smell of the alcohol everywhere. Iroha is surprised that just the smell alone could affect Tart so much as Yachiyo guesses she must be the hugging type from the way she’s been going on. Tart begins to snore as she falls asleep upright, still holding Iroha in a tight hug. Riz shakes her head at the so-called “Holy Maiden” as Iroha calls out for help.<br />
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==Act 2==<br />
===Chapter 7 - ''The Mission to Recapture Orléans''===<br />
'''''May, 1429''''' <br><br />
The French army, commanded by Gilles de Rais and La Hire, followed Crown Prince Charles’ orders to depart from Château de Chinon and head towards the vital stronghold of Orléans with the aim of recapturing it. They marched the long road, liberating the fortresses and towns along the way. Leading them on a white horse with a French banner was a girl the angels named Tart. <br />
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On the battlefield once more, Tart swings her sword down and slices a soldier Familiar in half. Melissa points to where a Witch’s labyrinth stands ominously. They enter the barrier and are faced with an irate [Stacey]. Tart asks Iroha and Yachiyo to take care of this creature. Yachiyo agrees and tells Iroha to focus on the Familiars to the right while she takes care of the ones on the left. The two girls split up and take the Familiars head on. The various [[Stacey#Ekaterina|Ekaterinas]] are no match for the Magical Girls, leaving a path open for Tart to unleash her La Lumière, leaving the Witch as nothing more than smoke and dust. The barrier dissipates and the bright sunlight filtering through the trees can be seen. La Hire grins and says her magic blows him away no matter how many times he’s seen it. Now that the Witch has been eliminated the soldiers are fired up and ready to show what they’re really capable of. <br />
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The soldiers continue on their march and soon approach a town shrouded in darkness. Riz informs Tart that the town up ahead is loyal to the Dauphin. Tart urges the soldiers to hurry and drive out the Familiars so they reclaim this town. The soldiers back up the Magical Girls as they battle fiercely, eventually vanquishing the last of the horde of soldier Familiars swarming the town. Yachiyo, Iroha, and Riz catch their breath for a moment as Melissa finally finds them. She informs them that Tart is about to formally greet the townspeople and would like the two of them to come with her. Yachiyo looks dismayed for a moment and asks if they have to act like Holy Maidens again. Melissa nods, but says it should be ok since all they have to do is stand beside Tart while she waves her banner. That’s what Yachiyo was afraid of, but Iroha says they can’t really refuse and the two head over. Riz is glad she’s just a simple shadow after seeing how much extra work it is to be a Holy Maiden. Melissa giggles at Riz. <br />
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The two join up with Tart, who is glad as ever to see them, and they turn toward the crowd. The crowd is chanting “Les Pucelles! Les Pucelles! Our Blessed Maidens!” as they look upon their saviors. One of the older villagers presses goods and gifts into Tart’s hands as one of the little girls looks up to Iroha with awe. Yachiyo can tell that Iroha has become somewhat popular herself as one of the Holy Maidens. Iroha wonders if it’s because she helped liberate some of those villages as well. Iroha notices the banner that Tart is waving and points at it, wondering if it’s really appropriate. <br />
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Riz notices the banner Iroha is pointing at and mentions that Tart herself had embroidered it. It seems she wanted everyone else to be able to witness Monsieur Angel. That being said, Riz thinks it makes for an unpleasant design whereas Melissa believes it to be charming. Soon the sun began to rise and began to bathe the village in its warm glow. Iroha smiles up at the sun, mentioning how she never gets tired of seeing that. Yachiyo can see now that Tart really is the light of hope but Tart overhears them and humbly states that she’s just a simple girl from the country. She credits all the people who work tirelessly under her for this miracle. That and Monsieur Angel as well, of course. Having made it this far, the only thing left for them to do is to attack the fort itself. And with the light of hope on their side the soldiers believe it will be only a matter of time. <br />
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The soldiers march upon the fortress of Orléans, but the fort is surrounded by a thick swarm of soldier Familiars. The soldiers feel overwhelmed but Gilles urges them on, demanding they show no fear as they make their first step towards recapturing Orléans. Melissa cheers the soldiers on, asking them to continue to believe in La Pucelle, their light of hope. With a team of Magical Girls backing them up, the soldiers rage war upon the soldier Familiars and after some time they soon are victorious. The sun soon begins to shine down on them, confirming their victory. Gilles claims this is the perfect evidence of the divine protection granted to them by Les Pucelles. Although Tart believes that all she did was wave a banner around, she’s still overjoyed that they won. A small village girl approaches Tart and asks if she can play with her. Tart happily agrees and the two run off. Iroha watches the interaction from a distance and smiles. Yachiyo has already learned what an honest, humble, and pious girl Tart really is beneath it all. It’s no wonder she’s so loved by everyone. Iroha agrees, since she too had assumed Tart was too timid when they first met. Riz agrees with their sentiments, noting that even if what they’re seeing now isn’t true, Tart herself is very, very real. Yachiyo repeats Riz’s statement about “if it isn’t real” and remarks that it is a strange thing to say. Riz mentions that they had said something of the kind themselves before. Iroha nods; they had assumed this world to be nothing more than a dream because the candles were supposed to give them sweet dreams when they fell asleep so they had assumed that this world was a dream the two of them were sharing. Riz admits she said something of the kind to them before and says it’s not outlandish to think that this world could be someone’s dream, although neither of them is the dreamer. <br />
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Yachiyo looks at her shrewdly and asks Riz if she knows something she isn’t telling them. Riz apologizes and says she can’t tell them anything or else everything will come to an end. Yachiyo reminds Riz that the only reason they decided to join Tart’s fight was because of what Riz had told them. She asks Riz that there be no more secrets between them. Riz hesitates for a moment before agreeing. First though, she has to know what kind of candles Yachiyo and Iroha were using. Iroha explains they were antiques, one red and one blue. Riz nods as this confirms to her that they really are from the future, and not just because they know the true future. Riz asks them to listen carefully to what she is about to say since she believes she can trust them with this information. She tells them if anything should happen to her and they need help, to remember Tart’s little sister Catherine. They should go to the church that bears her name and offer their prayers. Although she’s not certain what they will find there, she’s certain they’ll encounter someone who can help them. Having said all this, Riz turns to leave on more reconnaissance work. Iroha stares as Riz melts into the shadows. Although she didn’t really understand what Riz was telling them, even she can tell that Riz is keeping a secret. Yachiyo agrees, admitting there may be a reason she couldn’t tell them everything although she did trust them with what information she could. Iroha and Yachiyo soon get that strange feeling again that tells them they’re about to wake back up in Kamihama. Iroha sighs and says she wishes she could disappear like Riz does into the shadows when they go.<br />
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===Chapter 8 - ''A Turn for the Worse''===<br />
Safe at home in Mikazuki Villa, Iroha and Yachiyo prepare themselves for the big upcoming battle. As they hurry, Iroha wonders out loud how it is they’re able to safely meet up with Tart everytime. Even now after traveling countless times she still doesn’t know how it works. Yachiyo nods and says it’s like they just get sleepy and before they know it they wake up in France. She describes it as seeing a light. Iroha perks up and says she’s seen that spark of light too. Yachiyo turns and lights the candles and soon the two are transported to the same field in front of the fortress where they were before. The look around but Riz is nowhere to be seen. Tart runs up to them and says they haven’t heard back from Riz for an entire day now. Melissa asks if they have any idea where they could be, so Yachiyo informs them Riz had mentioned she was going to go scouting. Tart breathes a sigh of relief since Riz has returned late from reconnaissance before. Although they’re not worried she’s not safe, Melissa fears she may not return in time for their next mission. La Hire calls out for Melissa to hurry and Melissa says the mission is about to start right now. Iroha puts on a brave face and says they’ll fight as hard as they can in Riz’s place. Tart happily accepts their help, although personally she’s still worried about Riz. The mission to recapture Orléans had reached its climax, though Riz was nowhere to be found. The French forces began advancing toward the fortress. <br />
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The French descend upon the fort and soon the keep is within sight. Gilles orders the siege to begin but Yachiyo warns them to hold back: she can sense magic emanating from it. La Hire warns them to watch out as he narrowly dodges an attack from Corbeau. Corbeau laughs, telling him he’s lucky to be alive. Tart glares at Corbeau as Melissa begins to panic since Riz isn’t back yet. Corbeau overhears Melissa and looks around for Riz. Yachiyo steps forward and tells her Riz isn’t here today, but she’d be glad to take her place. Corbeau grins, happy to accept an invitation from the girl in blue since she wasn’t a bad fighter either although she had had her heart set on a battle to the death with Riz, the girl in black. Tart asks her why and Corbeau responds that Riz is just like her, ready to kill without hesitation. Tart says Riz is nothing like her but Corbeau has already struck at Tart, asking what it is that’s so different about them. Iroha cries out Tart’s name but Tart picks herself back up, assuring Iroha she’s fine. Corbeau loves the determination in Tart’s eyes and remembers how upset Riz had become when she attacked Tart before. She decides she’ll try to crush the Holy Maiden again in order to drive Riz into a killing frenzy once more. Yachiyo calls out to Iroha, telling her they have to cover Tart. <br />
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Corbeau attacks Iroha, knocking her aside before striking at Yachiyo. Yachiyo is momentarily knocked off her feet as Corbeau turns her attentions onto to Tart. Tart prepares to strike will all her might as Yachiyo warns her not to use up her magical power. Tart promises this will be the final blow as she unleashes her La Lumière attack on Corbeau, but Corbeau dodges the attack and cackles at Tart. Corbeau calls it a pity since, despite the sheer power of Tart’s attack, the trajectory is too easy to read. Corbeau says her Soul Gem must be at its limit already and asks Tart if she really thinks she can do it again. Tart warns her she won’t lose. Corbeau smiles once more at the brave words and promises she’ll keep playing with her until her eyes are colored with despair. Corbeau is getting impatient waiting for Riz to show. Melissa turns to Cube and asks him if she can save Tart by becoming a Magical Girl. Cube says that will depend on her strength, but without Riz around they may have no other option. Riz appears just then and goes towards the field where Tart is battling with Corbeau. She apologizes for being late as she ran into some trouble on her way here. Corbeau cackles madly as she welcomes Riz back. She’s eager to get started and finish their fight to the death. Riz says she’ll take her on gladly and threatens to kill her right away so she can never lay another finger on Tart again. <br />
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The two soon begin circling each other, trading blows and dodging attacks. Corbeau gets hit by Riz as she sneers and says she admires her thirst for blood. Unlike Tart, Riz is willing to show neither weakness nor forgiveness. Riz tells her to be silent as she strikes her once more. She is Tart’s shadow and if it’s to save their light of hope then Riz won’t hesitate to bloody her hands. Riz prepares to land the killing blow but Corbeau manages to escape her grasp, promising she won’t go down so easily. Corbeau aims her next attack at Tart but Riz is able to step in front of the attack and take the brunt of the blow. Riz collapses in pain as Tart looks over her. Riz says she’s at her limit as she begins to fade into the shadows. Tart cries out Riz’s name as she begins to wail in anguish. Suddenly the sky turned pitch black and Corbeau begins to cackle once more. Iroha turns to Corbeau and asks if she still wants to fight but surprisingly Corbeau doesn’t. Although she would have preferred fighting to the end against them all, she needs to finish the job she was given. She grabs Tart’s arm and takes her away forcibly as Iroha is powerless to stop them. <br />
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Thanks to Corbeau seemingly abandoning the battleground, the rest of the soldiers were able to recapture the fortress but it was at the cost of Tart and Riz. With the two of them gone, it seems the sun will never rise in this world again. Back at camp, Gilles can’t believe what La Hire is telling him. Their precious maiden has been snatched away by the enemy forces. La Hire asks him to calm down as La Pucelle is sure to return. For now it is their job to hold the front lines until then. What’s really worrying Gilles is that the Dauphin Charles has become faint of heart after everything that’s happened. Cube watches the camp and comments on how dire the situation has become. Yachiyo agrees, and mentions that this endless night is not helping. Not just here at the fort, but throughout all of France the sky has grown completely dark. Iroha shudders to think of a world covered in darkness and says this sort of thing doesn’t happen in the real world. Yachiyo says that’s just like how Riz said and relays the information to Cube. Cube finds this information interesting and ponders it for a moment. He soon comes to a conclusion that explains everything: this entire world is actually Tart’s dream. The moment she lost her friend Riz, Tart’s heart was overcome with despair and in that moment the world was covered in dark clouds. Both Yachiyo and Iroha were able to travel to this world through their own dreams and conveniently appear wherever she needs them to. Even the language barrier has been removed. In other words, everything is linked to Tart’s mind. This world is a dream that reflects what is inside Tart’s heart. <br />
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Yachiyo asks if this is all true, then how could Tart’s dreams be affecting the future. Cube corrects his earlier statement and says that Tart and the world that the others are from is in the past, the past that belongs to Iroha’s reality. The real Tart is currently asleep in 15th century France and all of them are in her dream. If Tart were a normal girl then events in her dream wouldn’t have an impact on the future, but Tart is an extraordinary girl even for a Magical Girl. If her heart gets hurt, even in her dreams, then her Soul Gem will become tainted. If Tart’s heart is completely tainted with despair, and she becomes a Witch then it would trigger a catastrophe that would cover even the real world in darkness. The darkness that covers the world will continue on into the future. Yachiyo figures that explains why the Kamihama in the future is also experiencing an endless night. Cube explains this is all an elaborate trap orchestrated by Corbeau. If they consider how Corbeau captured Tart rather than killing her, then it’s clear her goal is to drive Tart into despair inside of her dream and create the greatest Witch that France has ever seen. Iroha asks if there’s any way to stop Corbeau. Cube says one way would be to rescue Tart from despair in this dream and wake her up in the real world. Yachiyo asks Cube if he’s going to help them. Cube reminds her he’s said it before, but they share the same interests. Stopping Corbeau’s plans is the top priority. <br />
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As Cube finishes his statement, both Iroha and Yachiyo find they’ve woken back up in Mikazuki Villa. Yachiyo asks what they should do in order to save Tart from her dreams of despair. Iroha listens for a moment before mentioning how unusually quiet it is. They go to look for Felicia and Sana in their rooms, but the two are not to be found. Iroha wonders if they went out so they walked through the deserted streets of Kamihama, but no one could be found, not even another Magical Girl. There’s no mistake: they are the last ones left in the world. <br />
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===Chapter 9 - ''A World of Endless Night''===<br />
Back at Mikazuki Villa, Iroha begins to panic. She asks Yachiyo if they should hurry and start dreaming again or what else they can do. Yachiyo tells her to calm down and reminds her she’s the leader now, so she needs to be able to show she can stay calm and collected. Iroha says she’s right and takes a deep breath to calm her nerves. Afterwards, she says they need to think of what their options are. Yachiyo says that’s better and suggests they do what they can in Kamihama since they just got back. Iroha asks if there’s anything in their world that isn’t in Tart’s world before remembering the candles. Yachiyo says they never stopped to look into the candles. Cube and the others seemed to have been unwittingly dragged into Tart’s dream, but they’re able to leave and enter freely thanks to the candles. Iroha recalls Riz’s words on the battlefield and believes that Riz may know something about them. Mitama claims she got them from an antique shop, so could they be connected to Tart somehow? Yachiyo hopes Mitama won’t mind, but she thinks they should break into her shop and investigate. <br />
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Iroha and Yachiyo soon make their way to the Coordinator’s shop and manage to find a way in. Once inside, the two look around for anything that could be a clue. Iroha thinks she has found something and holds up a candle similar to the ones they received from her. Yachiyo tells Iroha to look around some more in case Mitama bought more items from the same shop. They continue to search for some time until Iroha comes across an old book. The book looks to be about as old as the candles and appears to be written in Latin. Yachiyo finds the book to be suspicious and thinks it’s worth looking into. Maybe they can use a dictionary to help them read it. <br />
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After several hours of painstakingly pouring over the tome line by line, word by word, Yachiyo’s head can’t take anymore. She never thought there’d come a day when she would find herself reading ancient Latin. Thanks to her hard efforts, however, she was able to figure it out in the end. It seems the book they’re holding is actually a dark magic grimoire. The book talks about magic that could be used to trap humans in a Witch’s labyrinth and force them to have nightmares that they can’t wake up from. It would appear that whoever wrote this book had extensive knowledge on Witches and Magical Girls. Iroha asks if this means that Corbeau used this dark (Witch’s) magic to cause Tart to become trapped in an endless nightmare. Yachiyo says that’s right and that the book also mentions the same candles. In order for the spell to work, the candles are made with a piece of hair from the victim. The candles are then used to create a way in and out of Tart’s dream. It’s possible Mitama bought the candles and book at the antique shop by chance, but they must be the same ones that Corbeau herself used in the past. Just like them, Corbeau has been using the candles as a means of going in and out of the dream. But because she’s an “unwelcome visitor”, she had a harder time getting near Tart than they did. Iroha asks if the charm that Mitama taught them has anything to do with this as well. Yachiyo shakes her head; Mitama’s sweet dreams spell is something else entirely. The placement of the candles and everything else are unnecessary for the spell to enter Tart’s dreams to work. It seems it wasn’t Mitama’s spell that caused all of this to happen, but the candles themselves. There’s more on the page but at this point Yachiyo can’t continue translating it. They would need someone who can read it properly but they don’t know of anyone who still would be able to. Iroha wonders if there’s someone in the dream who could help them and recalls Riz’s words about the church Catherine was named after. Iroha wonders if the person Riz was referring to could help them. Yachiyo isn’t sure that anyone will be there to meet them for sure and suggests they start by talking to Cube. She wonders out loud if it’s possible to bring the book back with them into the dream. Iroha shrugs and says their clothes made it back with them so it may be possible if they hold the book while lighting the candles. With nothing else to lose they relight the candles once more. <br />
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This time when Iroha awakens, she finds herself in utter pitch blackness. France and nothing else for that matter can be seen in the dark abyss and Yachiyo isn’t there either. Iroha fears she may have gotten lost but soon she can hear Yachiyo calling out to her telepathically. Iroha replies and asks where she is. Yachiyo thinks they’re still in the space they go to before they enter Tart’s dream. Yachiyo warns her not to move as she tries to walk in the direction of Iroha’s telepathy as they keep talking. After some time, Yachiyo is reunited with Iroha in the dark abyss. Iroha wonders how they’re going to get out of there and suggests they call out with their telepathy in the hopes someone can hear them. Iroha calls out for help and soon she hears the voice of Melissa. Iroha asks Melissa to keep talking so they can try to make their way to where they hear her voice. Although Melissa doesn’t really understand what’s going on, she promises to try her best. Yachiyo thinks Melissa really does have all the makings of a Magical Girl and begins o make her way towards the sound of her voice. Soon the two begin to see a light in the distance and are transported to France once more as they finally approach it. Iroha breathes a sigh of relief as her and Yachiyo find themselves in the French soldiers’ camp. Iroha thanks Melissa for her help before questioning why they got lost this time on their journey. Melissa notices the book in Iroha’s hands and asks about it. The two are glad to see that the book was able to make it with them on their journey. Iroha explains that the book contains details about the dark magic Corbeau used to trap Tart. Iroha was hoping Cube would be able to read the book for them. At the sound of his name Cube pops up out of nowhere and asks “You called?”<br />
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Cube pours over the tome, reading every passage until at last he had finished. According to Cube, he now knows everything about the magical trap Corbeau is using and says they correctly deciphered the gist of it. By using the magic in the grimoire, magic that uses a Witch’s Labyrinth, Corbeau lured Tart into an endless slumber. Since Cube and Melissa were nearby, they were dragged into her dream as well. Corbeau then used the red and blue candles to enter the dream herself and waged war in order to drive Tart into despair. Iroha asks Cube if he doesn’t remember the moment he got dragged into the dream, but Cube says his memories seem to have been altered so that they match the dream. Yachiyo replies that Tart and Melissa would never have suspected they’re in a dream if even Cube was affected by the spell. Cube says it makes sense that the Witches and Familiars would roam the countryside openly since the dreamer themselves are trapped in a Witch’s labyrinth, which means the dream itself is like a labyrinth. According to the tome, the spell also granted Corbeau the ability to command and summon as many Familiars as she wants as well as make duplicates of enemies from other people’s memories, which would explain why they’re being attacked by modern day Witches. As far as Cube is concerned, Iroha and Yachiyo are partially to blame for the instability of the future. Iroha can’t believe what she’s hearing but Yachiyo shakes her head and says he’s right. These events originally began and ended during Tart’s era, but then hundreds of years passed and Corbeau’s candles ended up in their hands. They entered Tart’s dream and changed the past, so naturally the future changed as well. Cube says that’s just one possibility. The war was already looking bleak by the time they had arrived, so the Witches that appeared may have pushed things over the edge. Cube says it’s not all bad and reminds them that, without the help of additional Magical Girls, then the French army would have fared even worse. It may be that the two of them are also the only ones who can turn this war around. If they hadn’t come then it’s possible the situation would have been even worse. Cube says it’s possible that it is their destiny to save France. Melissa asks Monsieur Angle if there’s any way for them to save Tart. Cube says there is: they must ring the Sacred Bell. <br />
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===Chapter 10 - ''The Key to the Solution''===<br />
In order to wake up Tart, they must ring the Sacred Bell. Unfortunately the book is in bad condition and the section that describes that part is indecipherable. Yachiyo and Iroha look down in dismay until Melissa suggests that the Sacred Bell may be in reference to a church bell. Recalling Riz’s words, Iroha asks Melissa if there are any churches nearby that are named Catherine. Melissa replies that Monsieur Angel had once led them to a church named Saint Catherine’s Church in a town called Fierbois. Tart, Riz, and Melissa had met a mysterious woman there named [[Pernelle]]. Cube explains that Pernelle is a Magical Girl whose knowledge of alchemy and magic is unparalleled. She watches over other Magical Girls and gives them advice. Iroha says that matches up with what Riz had told them about finding help at that church. The group considers the possibility that the same Sacred Bell might even be located at that church, or that Pernelle may at least know something about it so Yachiyo and Iroha ask Melissa and Cube to take them there. <br />
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The group travel and arrive in Fierbois, the home of Saint Catherine’s Church. Melissa asks around but it seems the church bell was damaged during battle. Despite the lack of bell, the group decides to head to the church and step inside. Yachiyo and Iroha do as Riz had instructed them and begin to pray. They soon hear a voice replying to their prayers, saying they must be the girls that Riz had talked about and bids them welcome. Cube says hello to Pernelle and asks why she isn’t showing herself. Pernelle replies that she exists outside of La Pucelle’s dream and cannot traverse within that space. Despite still being in the real world, Pernelle might still be able to help them. Pernelle says their voices are still somehow able to cross over and reach her, but holding the rift in this dream labyrinth open is very difficult. Iroha tells Pernelle they want to wake Tart up from this dream and asks her about the Sacred Bell. According to the grimoire, Pernelle says that Tart had heard a certain church bell ring out just before she was put into a magical sleep. In order for Tart to awaken, she must ring that same bell herself within the dream. She explains that, in the ral world, Tart had been within the city of Orléans, fighting to liberate it, when she fell into a slumber so the bell they must search for must be the one affixed to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Yachiyo, Melissa, and Cube are relieved to hear the good news and know that they must now liberate Tart and get her to ring that bell in order to waken her from this nightmare. But Iroha says, “No. That’s not enough!” and explains that, even if they wake her up, Tart’s heart is still filled with despair over the loss of Riz. But Pernelle interjects: Riz is alive, but she’s lost sight of the light and is unable to escape the world of darkness. <br />
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Pernelle explains how Riz had been able to avoid being dragged into Tart’s dream when Corbeau put her to sleep because she was elsewhere at the time. In order to save Tart, Riz stole a set of candles from Corbeau and used them to enter Tart’s dream. Pernelle explains that Riz couldn’t tell them about it because a rule to using the candles was that “The grimoire’s secrets cannot be revealed. Break this rule, and your body will be engulfed by the dream Labyrinth.” However, Yachiyo and Iroha were safe from this rule because their bodies are in the future, where the labyrinth that has trapped Tart should no longer exist. Cube says that explains everything and how this further emphasizes Yachiyo and Iroha’s importance. Riz was the first to find out about Tart’s enchanted sleep and had been working with Pernelle to try and save her, but because of the rules of the candles she was unable to talk to anyone about it. She then entrusted the rest to them in case anything happened to her. Melissa questions where Riz is if she’s safe. Pernelle informs her that Riz had been severely wounded and had vanished into the shadows, but she has healed. However, she is lost within the space between dream and reality because Tart’s guiding light has disappeared. Yachiyo says she understands now and reminds Iroha that they too were lost in that darkness. Riz must be lost in that same dark void that they were in. They had been heading towards Tart’s light so they would keep going in the right direction, but when Tart lost hope her guiding light disappeared and Riz couldn’t reenter the dream, causing her to become lost. In order to help Riz, they need to save Tart first and let her know that Riz is alive so the light of her hope can shine again. Pernelle says that should work and makes one final request of them: to give Tart the Épée de Clovis. If she holds this sword aloft, then the light of her hope will shine brighter than ever and help guide Riz out of the darkness. <br />
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===Chapter 11 - ''The Light of Hope''===<br />
Back at the French camp, Yachiyo relays what they learned from Pernelle to La Hire and Gilles. If they can rescue Tart and let her know that Riz is safe, then they can put an end to this endless night. Melissa knows that it’s hard to take-in but they’re all be trapped in Tart’s dream until then. Gilles nods and says, “Our Holy Maiden’s despair brought an endless night, but her hope will bring the dawn. Any miracle is possible when it comes to La Pucelle!” Iroha wonders if it’s wise to tell everyone the truth but La Hire only laughs. He’ll just tell everyone that it’s a plan to rescue Tart and nothing more. That alone should be enough to motivate the soldiers to help. Melissa tells the girls that Tart is being held at the fortress at Tourelles, which is at the southern cornerstone of Orléans. Gilles informs them that Prince Charles is terrified of Corbeau and has been reluctant to dispatch troops, but nevertheless Gilles will do his best to persuade him to send help. <br />
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The next day, Gilles stands before a gathering of French soldiers, declaring the time has come to save Tart. Now it is their turn to bring hope to the blessed girl who had brought them hope. The soldiers cheer and work themselves up into fervor for the sake of saving Tart. As she watches on, Melissa wipes a tear from her eye. Seeing all these soldiers prepare to lay their life down on the line for the sake of Tart has moved her. Soldiers from the other fortress are also coming down to join them for the sake of Tart as well. The soldiers begin to move out. One of the soldiers that stayed behind to help guard the fortress asks Prince Charles if he’s sure about this since their defenses will end up being spread thin. Prince Charles says there’s no other way and quotes Gilles’ line about bringing hope to the maiden of hope. Yachiyo and Iroha also join in the rescue mission to bring back Tart and save their future. <br />
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The group soon approaches the fortress at Tourelles where large swarms of soldier Familiars stand waiting to defend it. Yachiyo races ahead of the group and uses her spear to impale several of the Familiars, leaving an opening for the others. Yachiyo and Iroha race ahead but are soon met by another wave of soldier Familiars. La Hire stabs a Familiar with his sword and calls out to the other soldiers to keep up with the girls. The group advances but they are soon engulfed in a Witch’s barrier and come face-to-face with another copy of [[Zenobia]]. Iroha tells La Hire to leave the Witch to them as they focus on controlling the Familiars. Yachiyo warns them to be careful as she turns to face the Witch head on. Gilles yells out words of encouragement, pushing the soldiers to keep fighting as hard as they can. France will win back La Pucelle! After a fierce battle, the Witch is defeated and her barrier dissipates. Yachiyo, Iroha, and Melissa soon begin to storm the fortress gates. They search within the fort, all the while calling out Tart’s name. They soon find her locked up in one of the prison cells deep inside. The girls break the cell open and Melissa embraces Tart. Tart says she’s fine and apologizes for causing them to worry before staring glumly at the ground. Iroha immediately tells her the good news: Riz is alive. Tart can’t believe what Iroha is saying as she describes how they have a plan to bring her back. Iroha asks if she’s ready to hear the plan and Tart, immediately brightened by the news of her friend, is eager to hear the details. <br />
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Iroha explains everything to Tart as they hurry out of the fortress. By the time they’ve reached the outside, Tart has already been informed that this entire world is her dream. Iroha explains that Riz knew the truth from the start and had been traveling back and forth between reality and the dream in order to save her. When Tart fell into despair, she lost her light and now Riz is lost somewhere in the darkness without Tart’s light to guide her back out. Tart asks what she must do to save her lost friend. Yachiyo hands her the Épée de Clovis and tells Tart to raise it high and light up the hope within her heart. <br />
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She tells Tart to fill her heart with hope and call out for Riz, who is lost and wandering in the darkness. If she does so, then the light of her hope can guide Riz out of that darkness. Tart does as she’s told, all the while calling out to Riz. Within moments, Riz’s voice can be heard and she soon materializes in front of the group. Tart is overwhelmed with happiness at the sight of her best friend and tears well up in her eyes. The group rejoices as Melissa points up at the sky and the reappearance of the sun. The warm golden light streams down on everyone and the soldiers look up in awe. Gilles announces that Tart has rewarded them with a miracle and the soldiers cry out in victory. Melissa is glad that Riz is safe while Yachiyo asks if her injuries have healed. Riz nods and turns to Tart, saying they still have one last thing to do together. <br />
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===Chapter 12 - ''The Final Battle''===<br />
Tart had regained hope and dawn had returned to all the regions in the dream world. Back at camp, Riz apologizes to Iroha and Yachiyo for not saying anything sooner. She was worried that anything she said would break the rules laid out in the grimoire. The two girls don’t blame her at all since she was just trying to do what she could to save Tart. Riz herself had only just realized they could speak with those outside of this dream when she told Yachiyo and Iroha about that church. If she had missed that opportunity, she wasn’t sure she could have asked for anyone’s help. Riz thanks them for their help. Iroha says they didn’t do much while Yachiyo smiles and says Lady Luck must have been on their side. Melissa steps up and apologizes for interrupting their conversation. She informs them that Tourelle has surrendered so the fortress guarding Orléans is no longer an obstacle. All that’s left is for them to cross the bridge over the Loire River and break into the city. There are still enemies hold up in the city and as of now they still don’t know Corbeau’s whereabouts. Once there, they must find the Cathedral of the Holy Cross so Tart can ring its bell and wake up in the real world. Then this dream France will cease to exist and everyone will awaken in the real world. Iroha asks Cube what will happen then. Cube explains that their memories will begin to fade once the curse is lifted and before long they too will believe that this was all just a dream. Even though things unfolded very differently from what was in their history books, this world is still just a dream after all. The girls are very sad to learn that they will forget everything that’s happened in this dream world and soon begin to say their farewells. Melissa is sad to see them go, especially after they’d just begun to get to know each other so well, but Riz believes this is a happy farewell because they all still believe in the same future. Iroha nods and says they should all continue to fight for their future after this dream ends. Tart smiles and says, “Well said”. The group then heads out to join up with La Hire and the other soldiers to end this dream once and for all. <br />
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The group convenes in front of the fortress of Orléans. Riz orders Tart to go ahead of them and find the Cathedral while Iroha and Yachiyo cover her. As they begin to run, Iroha is struck from behind. The group turns to find Corbeau standing there, giggling menacingly. Corbeau looks around and comments on how much of her territory they’ve managed to encroach on while she was away. Riz says they would have been happier if they never saw her face again. Corbeau turns and grins maliciously at Riz, surprised to find she’s still alive. Riz promises she’ll never die at Corbeau’s hands and prepares to end this. Yachiyo goes to back up Riz much to Corbeau’s delight. Corbeau smiles and says they make a fine distraction while Tart rushes into Orléans, knowing Tart is trying to end this dream world. Be that as it may, Corbeau made an obligation to those who created this dream world and she means to fulfill it. Corbeau laughs and says they should enjoy this longer as she summons another wave of soldier Familiars around her. Iroha looks around nervously as she notices that the path to Orléans has been blocked and the sky above Corbeau has darkened once more. Riz stands before Corbeau and warns her that her plan has failed because Tart will never despair again. Tart takes a step forward and says she’s right. She promises Riz she will never let her take on any burden by herself ever again. <br />
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Riz and Tart vow to fight together forever, just like how they started this fight together all those years ago. Corbeau chuckles to herself in anticipation now that the Holy Maiden herself is joining in this fight. Corbeau grins, baring her teeth as she warns them they better aim to kill or else they’ll meet their own deaths here on this battlefield. Yachiyo asks Iroha if she’s ready as the four of them will have to finish this together. Corbeau says the stage has been set especially for them so it’d be a waste to end it so soon. “Let’s destroy one another, until we are nothing but hideous corpses!” she vows as she races in to attack. <br />
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The battle between the five Magical Girls is soon underway as Corbeau and Yachiyo trade blows, Corbeau reveling in the pain that’s inflicted on her. She can tell that Yachiyo is no stranger to battle as Yachiyo replies that Corbeau is running out of breath. Yachiyo calls out to Riz, who commands her shadows to hold Corbeau in place. She vows to never let Tart fall into despair again as she strikes at Corbeau with her weapons. As Corbeau cries out, Riz and Yachiyo urge Tart to take this chance and make her way to the Cathedral. Yachiyo orders Iroha to go with her and the two soon take off in the direction of the city. Corbeau picks herself up and promises she won’t let them slip past her. She summons more of the soldier Familiars who quickly block the path the path to the city. Iroha asks Tart if she can’t just blast them all away, but Tart doesn’t want to risk hurting the people of Orléans. Melissa and La Hire step forth and offer to take care of the monsters for them while they make their way into the city. Gilles orders the soldiers to charge as one unit until they break through the enemy ranks. Seeing that she’s outnumbered, Corbeau warns them she won’t hold back either and summons another wave of soldier Familiars behind her. The Familiars immediately turn their attentions towards the French soldiers and begin to attack. Yachiyo is shocked that Corbeau has the magic to summon so many but Cube explains that the Familiars are being spawned directly from this dream Labyrinth so Corbeau can summon as many as she wants without expending any of her own magic. <br />
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Iroha is beginning to lose hope but soon a voice calls out to them. It is Prince Charles, and he’s arrived with reinforcements. Melissa and Tart are beyond surprised that the Dauphin himself would come out onto the front lines. Corbeau strikes at the Prince but Charles stands back up and vows to not retreat from this fight. He was one of the many that was saved by La Pucelle so he has to do whatever he can to repay that favor. He turns and orders the soldiers he brought with him to cut a path down. The soldiers unleash their fury on the Familiars and soon a path has opened up on the field. The enemy lines begin to crumble as the combined might of La Hire’s troops and the additional reinforcements are able to secure a way into the city. La Hire tells them to leave it to him as he tells Melissa to stay close by his side. Melissa happily sticks close to her father as she shouts out cheers of encouragement to the fighting soldiers. The Dauphin hands over command of the reinforcements to Gilles, who orders them to guard La Hire and his troops as they make their way into the fortress. Corbeau growls at them, warning them not to get too cocky since they still have to contend with her. Tart knows they can’t ignore her, but the team of Magical Girls will defeat her together. Tart asks the others to lend her their strength and promises she will never succumb to despair. She asks that they fight alongside her for a future filled with light. The four Magical Girls gang up on Corbeau, each one striking at her in turn as their attacks begin to overwhelm her. Soon Riz uses her shadows to hold Corbeau in place as she tells the others to back away. She calls out to Tart who unleashes her La Lumière attack directly on Corbeau. Corbeau cries out as she is cast into the surrounding darkness. <br />
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With Corbeau out of the picture, the group begins to break into the city. Iroha stays by Tart’s side as Melissa and La Hire guide them to the Cathedral. Corbeau, however, is not done just yet. Somehow she was able to avoid the brunt of the direct hit from Tart and managed to survive. Despite this, Riz isn’t worried since Tart has already gone ahead and soon this “dream” will be over. Riz looks down on Corbeau, knowing the insane Magical Girl still wants a fight. Corbeau gives her toothy grin and says she know her all too well as Corbeau attacks once more. <br />
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Inside the Cathedral, La Hire takes on one of the soldier Familiars who is attempting to stop them. Iroha points to the bell tower and tells Tart to hurry. Cube reiterates that once the bell has rung, Tart and everyone else will awaken in the dream world and their memories of this adventure will soon fade. Melissa knows that moment is coming and thanks Iroha for all her help in saving Tart. Before she rings the bell, Tart turns to Iroha and says that, although she had some terrible experiences in this dream, she’s still so very happy that she was able to meet her. Seeing her fight so fervently for the future has confirmed to Tart that her own feelings weren’t wrong. She lost her beloved little sister when her hometown was invaded. Because she never wanted such cruelty to ever happen again to anyone, Tart had decided to become a Magical Girl and wished for the power to bring light to all of France. Even after she wakes up from this dream, Tart will always remember that wish and her vow. She promises to continue fighting until she brings light to her country. Iroha nods and says she believes in her. Looking at her, Tart promises to never forget her and Yachiyo and thanks them for everything. Iroha promises she’ll never forget her either. Tart asks if she wants to ring the bell with her together, saying she would be honored. The two girls grab hold of the corded rope and pull on it, causing the bell up in the tower to sound a clear note. AS they continue to pull on the rope, the bell continues to chime and its notes soon reverberate throughout the land. Melissa yawns as an overwhelming urge to sleep begins to wash over her. <br />
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Outside the fortress, Yachiyo and Riz continue their battle with Corbeau although Yachiyo is beginning to lose the will to keep going. The sound of the bell washing over them and the three girls pause their fight. Hearing the bell, Corbeau shakes her head and says it’s time for her to leave. She promises Riz they’ll settle this at the real Tourelles as she fades from the dream. Yachiyo knows it’s time to say farewell and, knowing that Riz will have to continue their fight once they awaken, bids Riz good luck on her endeavors. Riz thanks her, telling her how happy she is that she was able to meet the both of them and the dream and they begin to fade. Iroha gets an odd sensation that tells her the dream is ending. Tart says they should smile as they part ways for the sake of both their futures. Iroha nods and smiles brightly at Tart. <br />
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==Epilogue==<br />
For a moment, Iroha swims in a vast sea of gray as she wonders if she’s still in the dream. She opens her eyes to find herself back at home in Mikazuki Villa with Yachiyo standing over her. As Iroha sits up, she asks where the candles are and where Tart is. Yachiyo stares at her inquisitively as she asks what she’s talking about. Iroha’s eyes widen in shock, but Yachiyo chuckles and says she’s only joking. She can still remember everything as Iroha gives a big sigh of relief. Felicia comes down the stairs, glad to see that Iroha is finally awake. Sana comes up behind her and explains that everything is normal again and the sun is shining once more. Iroha is glad to hear the good news. Felicia says they should hurry and get going, prompting Yachiyo to ask why she’s in such a hurry. Felicia says they need to hurry and go buy the biggest slab of meat they have at the store. Yachiyo sighs and says they can go together tonight. Felicia lets out a cry of happiness as she cheers for dinner. Iroha turns to Yachiyo and asks her if she thinks Tart was able to win the battle at that fortress. Yachiyo suggests they look it up in a history book before their memories can completely fade. <br />
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The pull up a history book and look at a section and begin to read. <br />
May 7th, 1429. Tourelles, the outskirts of Orléans. After waking from her dream, Jeanne d’Arc continued her battle in the real world. This is a record of how she freed Orléans. Jeanne had already passed through the Burgundy Gate and entered Orléans. The fortress at Tourelles was the only foothold the English forces had left. <br />
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Gilles ordered the soldiers to march forth under the Holy Maiden’s banner to free Orléans once and for all by defeating the enemy at Tourelles. As the soldiers made their way forth, Riz pointed in the distance at England’s own Magical Girl. Corbeau approaches them, chuckling all the while and introduces herself as Corbeau, their enemy. The battle soon begins and Corbeau takes a liking to Riz, calling her more fun than the Holy Coward that faces her. As the battle ensues, Corbeau soon gains the upper hand and manages to pin Riz down with her black feathers. Tart attempts to defend Riz from Corbeau’s attack, but Corbeau instead directs her wrath at Tart and knocks her away, leaving Riz defenseless. Corbeau promises to cut Tart into little pieces in front of her and turns towards where Tart is lying prone. Before Corbeau can attack, La Hire rushes in and prepares to defend Tart with his life. Corbeau sneers at the mere human that dares to stand before her and viciously strikes him away, mortally wounding La Hire. Melissa runs crying to her father’s side and Corbeau takes advantage of this moment by aiming her attack at Melissa. By this time Tart has already gotten back on her feet and has run towards Melissa, stepping forward and bodily protecting her from harm’s way. <br />
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Corbeau had then ordered her servant [[Flèche and Lame|Flèche]] to unleash her might in a major attack on Tart, causing Tart to suffer massive damage and nearly losing her life. In that moment, the light faded and hope had disappeared. Melissa cried out for Tart as she frantically wondered what she could do to help Tart and her father. Riz cried out for her dear friend as well, but Corbeau told her not to be sad since she would be joining her soon. But then, a miracle happened and a third Magical Girl, Melissa, was born. <br />
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Riz watches in amazement as Tart picks herself up, her wounds having been healed. Melissa’s wish had healed everyone, even Tart’s fatal wounds. Riz turns to Melissa and asks her why. Melissa smiles and replies that she believes that whatever path Tart does go down will become a light of hope for everyone in this country. Tart points to the enemies that are approaching them. Riz isn’t surprised but Melissa is up for anything. No matter what fate may await them, Melissa is prepared to fight alongside them as a Magical Girl. <br />
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On May 7th, 1429 Tourelles surrendered. The next day, England abandoned Orléans. With that, Jeanne d’Arc carried out her greatest feat of liberating the city. A poet from the same era, Christine de Pizan, wrote about her in “The Tale of Jeanne d’Arc.” In 1429, the sun shone once again. <br />
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Yachiyo and Iroha close the history book, relieved to read that Tart’s wish had come true after all. Yachiyo nods in agreement and remembers what Cube had said. If what he said was true, then they will be forgetting about everyone soon. Yachiyo says she’ll miss them with a sad look on her face. Iroha suddenly notices something in the old book and points at one of the pictures. <br />
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The two girls look closely and can’t believe what they’re seeing. There in the portrait is Yachiyo and Iroha wearing their Magical Girl outfits and standing alongside Jeanne d’Arc. Yachiyo says it must be because of what happened when they were named fellow Holy Maidens. Tart must have remembered what happened in the dream and told someone about it. Yachiyo hopes no one else will realize it’s them as Iroha calls it somewhat embarrassing. <br />
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Later that day, Yachiyo is at Mitama’s shop and is relating to her everything that had happened. Mitama shakes her head and apologizes for what happened, offering to take back the candles and book and properly disposing of them. She had never realized what an awful spell she was teaching to others. Iroha assures her that the spell itself was harmless and puts all of the blame on the antique candles. Mitama is relieved to hear that and tells them that the spell had become widespread in France during Jeanne d’Arc’s era. She shrugs and figures it was just some little spell that had been passed down since then. Hearing that the spell came from Jeanne d’Arc’s era, the two ponder the possibility that it was Melissa who had spread the spell after learning it from Iroha in the dream. Iroha thinks it may be possible since there was a picture of them in that history book. Yachiyo thinks the use of red and blue candles for the sleep spell was too specific and couldn’t’ have been a coincidence. Iroha wonders if they were the ones that came up with the custom of using those kinds of candles. At this point Iroha feels so confused: if the spell they shared with Melissa became widespread during Tart’s era, and if that’s how Mitama learned of it and then later taught it to them, and they were the ones to teach it to Melissa, then where did the spell come from? Iroha’s head begins to spin from trying to figure it out. Yachiyo points out that the grimoire never mentioned how to set up the candles, so the spell that no one came up with just circled around and around. Yachiyo wonders if they were so preoccupied with making sure history was fixed, even though it worked out in the end maybe it was meant to work out no matter what. Cube had said something of the kind too. He had mentioned that there was the possibility that they were fated to save France. Iroha says the picture is proof that they changed history, but Yachiyo isn’t so sure about that. The picture could have existed before they ever lit those candles and maybe they just never noticed. Either way, she doesn’t see a point in wondering about something they’ll never know. Mitama just smiles at them confused. <br />
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'''''Fin'''''<br />
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....A [[Elisa Celjska in Magia Record|mysterious Magical Girl]] watches Tart from afar. "So this is the 'Pucelle' I've heard so much about."<br />
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'''''La suivre''''' ''(To be continued)''<br />
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==External Links==<br />
===JP Server===<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGw8c8Pv-pw Prologue Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z1ITZzx5bs Chapter 1 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvKoqq0Trt8 Chapter 2 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2AFHX_aWq4 Chapter 3 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw4BgoEKfUY Chapter 4 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNkmNgq35Qo Chapter 5 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krkLuY_Qq14 Chapter 6 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T86LkuPbp1c Chapter 7 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WcLGqPgmQg Chapter 8 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r24kBFyLpoQ Chapter 9 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzKZ6OeFLfo Chapter 10 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJUn1e4Mmdc Chapter 11 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFFxi_1pju8 Chapter 12 Youtube Recording]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSwTM3eBytA Epilogue Youtube Recording]<br />
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A list of all minor characters from ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica]]''.<br />
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==Bertrand de Poulengy==<br />
Another squire of Vaucouleurs who, like Jean de Metz, accompanied Jeanne to Chinon. He also gave quite a bit of witness testimony regarding La Pucelle and indicated that he had been to Domrémy many times to visit La Pucelle's family. He was probably ordered there as a part of the investigation into her life, but it's thought that he also held a deep faith in La Pucelle.<br />
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He only appears in Volume 2.<br />
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==Catherine==<br />
Tart's younger sister. She only appears in volume 1 where she is first seen chasing after a fairy-like apparition that turns out to be a witch's familiar. After being rescued by Riz, Catherine and Tart were taught sword fighting as a means of defending themselves. When Riz went out on an escort mission, soldiers who had been lying in wait ambushed the village of Domrémy burning it to the ground and slaughtering the helpless citizens. Catherine was able to fend off and kill a soldier before he could harm Tart, but was instead impaled through the back in front of her sister while she was distracted. <br />
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==Charles de Valois==<br />
The fifth son of the previous French King, Charles VI, and the crown prince (Dauphin) of the French monarchy. By 1417, all four of his older brothers had died, and Charles was named crown prince. But not long after, the alliance of England and Burgundy forced Charles VI to sign the Treaty of Troyes, denying his son Charles his birthright as heir to the throne. A Burgundian chronicler wrote that Charles VII was extremely thin, gangly, and weak-boned with an odd, wavering gait. It was a pretty awful description, even from an enemy political faction. <br />
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File:EvAPs4dUYAMhNut.jpg|Pictured in the bottom left. [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1364608092223148033 Source.]<br />
File:-830200.png|Charles in [[Magia Record]]<br />
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==George de la Tremoille==<br />
The Grand Chamberlain of the royal court of the Dauphin Charles. The Grand Chamberlain is the highest civil post in the Kingdom, and Georges buried quite a number of political opponents to attain the position. He was also a very wealthy man, and by loaning money to the impoverished state commanded by the Dauphin Charles, he gained an enormous amount of behind-the-scenes influence on the royal court. Gilles de Rais is a distant cousin of his. <br />
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==Gilles de Montmorency-Laval==<br />
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Also known as Gilles de Rais. The head of the prestigious noble family Laval and a subordinate of the Duke d'Anjou, a central player in the side supporting the Dauphin Charles. Gilles inerited his estate at eleven years old when his parent died, and he was raised by his grandfather on his mother's side. His mother's side of the family was the pedigreed Craon family that included the second Grand master of the Knights Templar, Robert de Craon. And since there was no male heir bearing the Craon name, Gilles was set to inherit nearly all of the wealth from both sides of his family, meaning that as a young nobleman he was promised more wealth than the king. It's said that he later became the model for the French children's story, ''Bluebeard''.<br />
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File:Gilles de rais.png<br />
File:EvAPs4dUYAMhNut.jpg|Pictured in the bottom center. [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1364608092223148033 Source.]<br />
File:Gilles.PNG|Gilles as he appears in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]<br />
File:Memoria_1511_c.png|A memoria card featuring Gilles (front left)<br />
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==Jean de Dunois==<br />
Also known as the Batard d'Orleans (The bastard of Orleans). The illegitimate child of Louis de Valois, the Duke of Orleans and a part of the French royal family. As a cousin and the same age as the Dauphin Charles, he was raised alongside the Dauphin until they were both ten years old. Because of that, the Dauphin name him the man he could most rely on, and the Batard took that seriously, taking up a sword at the age of sixteen and fighting for his country ever after. <br />
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==Jean de Metz==<br />
A squire of Vaucouleurs. He was one of the witnesses who testified about La Pucelle's red clothes, the first time he met her in Vaucouleurs, the things that happend on the road to Chinon, and how he was moved by the words she uttered in his presence. Even now,there is a small road leading from the keep at Vaucouleurs called "Passage Jean de Metz." It's possible that he lived on that road during the time of Jeanne. <br />
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He only appears in Volume 2.<br />
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==John Talbot==<br />
A man with a reputation for being an excellent military commander and a captain at the Siege of Orleans. He appears as an intelligent and popular commander character in Shakespeare's play, ''Henry VI, Part 1,'' and he is also known in British literature as the English Achilles. They say he was even admired by the French for his long military history and for his pattern of always treating his enemy with respect. <br />
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==Milene==<br />
Milene is the girlfriend of Etienne and the mother of Melissa. She was a strong-willed woman who drove Etienne out with harsh words after he told her he was leaving to become a mercenary. Knowing how much he valued his freedom and not wanting him to give up his life to become a father, she purposefully hid her pregnancy from him. She later contracted plague and died as a result. <br />
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==Rene d'Anjou==<br />
Brother-in-law of the Dauphin Charles and second son of Yolande d'Aragon. Since Robert de Baudricourt had a close relationship with him as his councilor, Rene agreed to see La Pucelle and played a central role in acting as a go-between when she requested an audience with the Dauphin. At the time, he was in a rather difficult position - while his family's main house were supporters of the Dauphin Charles, the rest of the d'Anjou family were supports of England. This left him stuck between a rock and a hard place. His decision and actions led to results he never anticipated. <br />
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==Robert de Baudricourt==<br />
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The leader of the garrison at Vaucoleurs and a councilor to Rene, the brother-in-law of the Dauphin Charles. When La Pucelle requested an audience with the Dauphin, he was the very first person in power to believe in her. He is reported to have said to her as she left Vaucouleurs, "Va, va et advienne que pourra," which means, "Go, go and come what may." In English, the statement may seem as if he doesn't care, but in French it has a nuance of entreaty and encouragement. <br />
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He appears at the end of Volume 1 and the beginning of Volume 2.<br />
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==William de la Pole==<br />
The commander of the English forces besieging Orleans. He ascended to the position following a field promotion after the previous supreme commander died. He had been a soldier from the time of his youth, but in terms of age, battle experience, and popularity with the troops, he did not measure up to John Talbot. The single deciding factor that allowed him the position was his higher rank in the peerage, and perhaps it was for that reason that he was obsessive about the task of invading Orleans as soon as possible. <br />
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==William Glasdale==<br />
An English military captain. In the Siege of Orleans, he commanded some five hundred men at the strategically vital fort of Les Tourelles, but it's said that at the height of battle, he met an unexpected end when he fell into the Loire River and drowned. They say he viewed the sudden addition of La Pucelle to the French army with open disgust, and rumor suggested that his ignominious death was divine retribution for the insults he threw at her. <br />
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==Yolande d'Aragon==<br />
The Dauphin Charles' mother-in-law, and the daughter of King John I (John the Hunter) of the Kingdom of Aragon in the north of modern-day Spain. She and her husband, the Duke of Anjou, provided support for the Dauphin Charles when he was chased out of Paris and arranged for his marriage to her daughter, Marie. She and her husband were central players in the Dauphin's faction at a time when the strength of the allied English and Burgundian faction seemed overwhelming. At the same time, they opposed the strength of La Tremoille's position which led to infighting within the royal court. <br />
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==Riz's former companions==<br />
Magical girls that Riz and Kyubey sought out in search of the hero Riz's wish would bring before she met Tart. All of these girls turned out to not be the one, and either died in battle or turned into witches. <br />
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First girl referred as [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1352573908826812416?t=5lBmEssKsNEPrkLTG5Xrvw&s=19 "Machete"] and had the same age as Riz when they met, shortly after Riz made her wish. [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1018845062317334528 She wasn't planned with a specific magic at all according to Masagitune]. <br />
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Second girl referred to as "Frusta" (the italian word for whip) in a tweet is the [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1256746635524104192 only one older than Riz]. [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1018845062317334528 She had a scorpion motif and poisonous magic]. <br />
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The last two girls were twins. One of twins is referred as [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1256760624794595330 "Falce"] (the italian word for scythe) in a tweet. [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1256760624794595330 Falce had a red outfit and her magical power was ice magic, while her twin (probably named Lancia, spear in italian as her weapon was a spear) had fire magic. Both twins were younger than Riz.].<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
* Masagitsune described Machete as a "vanilla character" [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1018845062317334528 Source.]<br />
* Masagitsune usually referes to Machete as "Nata (鉈)" [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1018845062317334528 Source.]<br />
* Frustra's whip was part of her magical girl outfit. [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1018845062317334528 Source.]<br />
* From the four of them, Falce is Masugitune's favorite. [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1256746635524104192 Source.]<br />
* Falce and her twin magical girl outfits are based in an italian tribe existing during the time of the 100 year war that Masugitune saw in a documentary, but he doesn't remember the name of the tribe. [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1256760624794595330 Source.]<br />
* The four of them are still alive in the alternative world of the Holy Maiden Academy, where they attend as students [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1285322093270200323 Source.]<br />
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File:Lizs former companions1.png| Riz and Machete<br />
File:Lizs former companions2.png| Riz and Frusta<br />
File:Frusta.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1256705882206822400 Source.]<br />
File:Lizs former companions3.png| Riz, Falce and her twin. <br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Etienne de Vignolles]]<br />
* [[Flèche and Lame]]<br />
* [[Pernelle]]<br />
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<div>The chapter opens with Jeanne d'Arc as she stands tied to a wooden stake,her hair cropped short as she awaits her execution by fire. It is May 30, 1431. She looks up to the sky as she clutches her soul gem tightly to her chest. A [[Melissa de Vignolles|girl with short hair]] attempts to run towards Jeanne but is stopped by a pair of armed guards. As the flames begin to consume Jeanne, the scene cuts to Jeanne in the year 1429 as she sleeps in her tent on the outskirts of Paris. A young maid enters her tent and awakens Jeanne, calling her Tart. It is the same young girl seen earlier during Tart's execution. She offers Tart some water. Tart thanks Melissa as a different young woman enters the tent. Tart tells her she had had a dream but couldn't remember what the dream was. [[Riz Hawkwood|Riz]] teases her, saying she said the same thing when they first met and she hasn't matured much since then. [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]], another young girl, enters the tent and prompts everyone to hurry. As Tart finishes dressing, they head out to save all of France. <br />
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The chapter begins to recap the Hundred Year War and explains how currently in the story the armies of France have been driven into a corner by the combined armies of Burgundy and England. A long-haired man in armor makes short work of an English soldier, skewering him through the middle with this sword. The girls call out to him as he explains how the English have begun to move out from behind their fortress and are attempting to attack again. He mentions how the English now have a Sorciere (witch) among their ranks. As Tart and Riz exchange glances, they ride off on horseback hurriedly in the direction of the fortress. Riz marvels at the number of defending troops as Elisa, Riz and Melissa transform into their magical girl state. Tart also transforms as the chapter narrates how she brought about a change in the war in only four short months and has earned the nickname La Pucelle - The Maiden Jeanne. <br />
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As the girls survey the inside of the fortress having routed out most of the English soldiers inside, an unknown magical girl wearing a [[Minou|cat's mask]] kicks the helmet off a dead soldier and welcomes the girls to the fortress. Tart calls her a witch but the girl calls her rude for calling her that seeing as how they are both magical girls despite fighting on opposite sides of the war. Tart races at the unknown magical girl, sword drawn and aimed right at her face, but a [[Flèche and Lame|magical girl in maiden-like attire]] blocks the attack at the last second with her own sword, a clouded expression on her face. The maiden trades blows with Tart who manages to knock the maiden's sword from her hand. Before she can pick it up, a spear arises from the shadow of the sword as Riz uses her magic to block the maiden's path. Elisa strikes the maiden in the side with the butt of her rifle and knocks the maiden out cold. The unknown magical girl in the cat masks mocks her uselessness before conjuring a seal with a lion's emblem with her magic, stamping the maiden magical girl in the back and causing her soul gem to corrupt into a grief seed. Black energy crackles around them as she transforms into a witch whose appearance is a girl doing a handstand whose lower body has been replaced by that of an owl's head and wings. The magical girl in the cat mask bids them farewell as she vanishes within a magical circle. As Tart races to catch the cat mask magical girl, the witch reaches her hand down at Tart. Melissa knocks the witch's hand to one side with her spear before charging her attack and throwing it at the witch. The witch takes flight, throwing glowing feathers down at the girls. Elisa aims her gun at the witch and fires multiple shots from her musket with the use of a magic circle that multiplies the bullets. The shots destroy one of the owl's wings as it lands heavily on the ground below. Tart destroys it with her La Lumiere attack, obliterating every inch of the witch. The French soldiers congratulate and welcome La Pucelle to their encampment and cheer as she waves her banner around. As Tart turns to Riz, [[Kyubey]] appears and tells Tart she's improved vastly from the first day when he met her. Tart is overjoyed to see him, calling him Monsieur Angel. <br />
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<div>{{Infobox_character<br />
|name=Minou<br />
|image=[[File:Minou Lapin pageBIO.png|220px]]<br />
|jname={{lang|ja|ミヌゥ}} (Minou)<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Minou'''|ミヌゥ|Minū}} is an antagonist in ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]'' alongside her sisters [[Corbeau]] and [[Lapin]].<br />
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==General Info==<br />
{{Magical Girl Details<br />
|eyes=Yellow<br />
|hair=Blonde<br />
|soulgem=Diamond above her chest<br />
|weapon=Various instruments of torture (notably a cat o' nine tails whip)<br />
|witch=Capricieux<br />
|witchlink=Minou in Magia Record#Doppel Description<br />
|powers= Turn magical girls into witches {{spoiler|(Only magical girls that contracted with Isabeau)}}<br />
|wish={{spoiler|That mother (Isabeau) shall not be defeated by any type of magical girl in existence.}}<br />
|pronoun={{nihongo|''Watakushi''|私/わたくし|}}<br />
|relatives=[[Corbeau]] (older sister), [[Lapin]] (oldest sister), [[Isabeau]] (mother), [[wikipedia:Charles VII of France|Charles]] (older brother), additional siblings not shown <ref>Although the official English translation of Tart Magica suggests that Isabeau adopted Corbeau, Minou and Lapin, [[:File:EB43-BDE2-AB93-4-B39-BD33-D765-E31-B5-EA0.jpg|this is not the case in the original Japanese]]]</ref><br />
}}<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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==Story==<br />
===Backstory===<br />
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As a young girl, Minou was chosen alongside her sisters [[Lapin]] and [[Corbeau]] to be among the first magical girls [[Isabeau]] contracted due to their closely interwoven fates. Isabeau grew to become like a mother to the three girls she took in. However, she eventually turned into a witch and was poised to kill the three girls, of whom only Corbeau had as yet contracted to become a magical girl. This lead to Lapin making her wish for her mother to “return to how she was.” Since the transformation from magical girl to witch is irreversible, her wish lead to Isabeau’s witch mind inhabiting the now empty husk of her former physical body. Isabeau was no longer mindless and now retained her original powers that were granted to her from her own wish. Even so, she still retained her witch’s ambition to destroy all of France.<br />
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===During ''Tart Magica''===<br />
Minou first appeared in Chapter 1 as an unnamed antagonist. As [[Tart]], [[Riz Hawkwood|Riz]], [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]], and [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]] attempt to stop her, she calls [[Flèche and Lame|Lame]] to her defense. Lame is easily defeated, prompting Minou to summon a magical branding iron and burns Lame with it. This causes Lame to transform into a witch, allowing Minou to escape through a portal. She later reports the defeat of Lame to her mother Isabeau. <br />
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In Chapter 5, Minou stands with Lapin and Corbeau as they finish slaughtering the soldiers of Orleans, a stronghold that held four thousand soldiers. Corbeau threatens the last of the injured soldiers as Lapin jeers and taunts them and Minou cuts off their retreat with her cat-o-nine tails. Before Corbeau can finish off the commander of the troops, someone fires an arrow at her. [[Etienne de Vignolles|Etienne]] appears, having been searching for Jean and assists him to stand. Minou notices what is happening and lashing at them with her whip, but the two are able to limp away to safety. <br />
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Back at the outskirts of Orleans, at the fort of Saint-Loup, Lapin is busy singing as she walks along the edge of the outermost wall, kicking the dismembered limbs of dead soldiers out into the distance. Corbeau asks her to go easy with the gore, claiming she's making a huge mess. Minou appears and relays orders to her sisters, leaving [[Flèche / Lame|Flèche]] with Corbeau to take care of [[Tart]] as Minou takes Lapin back home for the time being. <br />
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Towards the end of the battle between Corbeau, Tart, and Riz, Minou appears before an unconscious Flèche. She had planned to gather up what was left of her but instead she conjures a seal with her magic and presses it to Fleche, causing her to scream. As Corbeau summons black feathers around her, Minou walks over and calls out to Corbeau. She tells her she knows better than to use *that* while there are still English troops in the vicinity. Corbeau warns Minou away since she will automatically absorb any impurities in Corbeau's soul gem. But Minou isn't worried and tells her Lapin had been asking for her. She tells Corbeau to leave everything to Fleche instead. The two disappear into Minou’s portal, leaving Tart and her friends to fend against a now transformed Flèche. <br />
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Several months later at the city of Patay, Minou, Corbeau and Lapin stand at the head of the English forces as Lapin relishes the idea of ‘playing’ with the French forces opposing them. Before Minou can say anything, Lapin had already began her attack on Tart, Riz, Melissa, and Elisa. Unfortunately, the four magical girls are able to deflect most of Lapin’s initial attacks, hitting her with their weapons several times and causing Lapin’s soul gem to darken. Minou warns Corbeau away from their sister as her soul gem transforms into a grief seed and hatches Lapin’s witch form. After transforming, Lapin activates her ability to possess any and all weapons in her vicinity, including that of her English allies (with the exception of Tart and Elisa as their weapons have magical abilities imparted on them by Pernelle. She telepathically causes them to fly at her enemies and damaging them. She even forms a towering sword-like shape composed of the weapons she’s amassed and drops it at the opposing magical girls. Tart is able to deflect this massive attack on her friends even as Lapin activates her secondary ability: the ability to cause magical girls to lose their magical girl state temporarily. As Lapin in her witch form continues to battle the magical girls, Corbeau takes this opportunity to continue her fight with Riz earlier.<br />
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On the other side of the field, Minou watches the skirmish between the magical girls. Talbot asks if she is not going to join the fray and support her comrades but Minou only giggles in response. While she may worry about her older sisters, getting too close to the witch would relieve her of her own weapon and she would only serve as a hindrance. Eventually Tart and Elisa are able to defeat Lapin, who reverts to her human form. Corbeau picks up her sister and hands her to Minou, who retreats into one of her portals and leaves Corbeau behind to unleash her ''Danse Macabre''. Following the defeat of Corbeau at the hands of Tart, she lands against the trunk of a tree and falls to her knees, greatly weakened. Tart aims her blade at Corbeau, telling her this is the end as Corbeau tries to stand. But all Corbeau can think of is her two sisters, Lapin and Minou. Before she can deliver the finishing blow, a portal appears behind Corbeau and Minou steps through. {{spoiler|While Corbeau is overfilled with joy at the sight of her sister, Minou kneels down and takes Corbeau’s soul gem in her hands, informing her this is the end. Confused, Corbeau asks her why and if she doesn't see how much she loves her and Lapin. Minou confirms that this is what she suspected and says she stopped serving their benefactor a long time ago. As Corbeau yells out once more to Minou asking her why she can't understand how much she loves them, Minou shatters Corbeau's soul gem and tells her she doesn't love her any longer. Corbeau falls forward, calling out her sisters' names as she dies. Minou tells her that at the very least she will tell Lapin that Corbeau died honorably in battle. Tart angrily demands she explain herself as Riz calls her heartless. As Minou summons a portal, she giggles and says it'll be something to look forward to as she gathers Corbeau's body and takes it back with her, leaving the heroines alone in the woods. The two turn to go, knowing the battle isn't over yet.}}<br />
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After the coronation of the Dauphin Charles, many of his courtiers were celebrating this triumphant moment when several of the women in attendance suddenly ignite in flame as the lights cut out. Isabeau suddenly appears without warning accompanied by Minou. As Charles stammers and crawls away from her, he begs Tart to save him and demands she kill the queen. At his word Tart rushes forward and stabs her sword straight through the queen's heart as she stands there. Charles initially laughs at this display, but the queen smiles as a white miasma escapes from the queen's wound and she merely stands there smiling. Tart leaps back, certain she had injured the queen but thinking to herself that it didn't feel like she had stabbed her. Riz summons her shadowy tendrils and ties the queen up as Elisa and Melissa both swing their weapons directly at her. Isabeau merely smiles more broadly, completely unharmed from both their attacks. She raises her finger and shoots a beam of magical energy at the two girls, causing them to be knocked away hard. As Minou knocks Riz away with her whip, Tart unleashes her “La Lumiere” attack on Isabeau. However Isabeau remains completely unharmed. As Minou begins to admonish Charles, Isabeau faints, prompting Minou to catch her in her arms. Isabeau whispers to Minou, who declares to all that in one year’s time death shall befall Tart. Minou and Isabeau leave through Minou’s portal as Charles cries and the magical girls tend to their wounds. From here on, the four magical girls travelled the lands of France for several months, possibly years in search of Isabeau’s stronghold in order to thwart her plan to spread grief seeds throughout France and allow them to hatch into witches. With the chaos brought on by these incidents, Isabeau planned to deliver these lands into the hands of the English army and their allies and thus bring the country under her influence.<br />
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In May 1430 in Compiegne, Tart, Riz, Melissa and Elisa arrive at a witch’s barrier just outside of the town. Minou greets them from inside the barrier as she calls their daily battles ultimately futile. Minou then summons her portal and lets through an army of mind-controlled magical girls. She raises her hand and several brands drop down onto the girls, causing them to be consumed by despair and transformed into witches. She commands the witch army forward as she declares this to be the appointed time at which death would befall La Pucelle. As the four magical girls fight off this army of witches, Minou watches the battle rage on before her and decides that this small contingency of witches won't be enough to stop them and turns to where Lapin now stands. She tells her this is her chance to avenge the death of their sister Corbeau as Lapin stands there seething, promising to tear them limb from limb. Lapin demands revenge for the death of her sister, having been told by Minou that it was Tart and her friends who ended Corbeau’s life. Despite having defeated Lapin’s human and witch form once more, Lapin only reappears each time with her soul gem cleansed. Minou laughs to herself, as this is just the outcome she had hoped for. As Riz tosses a grief seed to Melissa to replenish her magic, Minou lashes with her whip and knocks the grief seed away. She then summons a portal beneath Melissa as Elisa races to protect her. Minou smiles and transports both of them away to an unknown location. As Tart calls out for her friends, a worm-like witch lashes at her with its tongue but Riz cuts it down with one of her daggers. She warns Tart not to lose focus as they try to cut their way out of the throng. <br />
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Melissa and Elisa look around for Tart and Riz as they stand inside a witch's barrier. Minou appears behind them as she promises they won't be bored here and summons several more magical girls from her portals. Once more, she raises her hand and several seals burn despair into the magical girls, causing them to transform into witches. The two girls begin to fight off the second horde of witches, Minou watching them and applauding their efforts. Elisa growls at Minou, incensed at her words. Minou laughs and readies her whip in order to "apologize" for her words when the ceiling of the barrier begins to crack and rain down on them. As Minou summons her portal, she can't believe that anyone would be able to dispose of so many witches, much less her sister Lapin as well. She looks inside her portal and sees Tart on her knees crying. She admires her for having been the only survivor and both Melissa and Elisa are stunned at these words. Despite having lost her only other sister, Minou is not bothered in the least and instead looks forward to what will come. As the barrier continues to shatter, she promises to allow Melissa and Elisa to spectate during La Pucelle's final curtain call, a battle that Minou intends for Tart alone. As the barrier dissipates, Tart is left alone to a small battalion of troops who capture her as a prisoner. It is after the Chamberlain advises King Charles to allow Tart to be sold off to the English to their advantage, it is revealed that {{spoiler|he had been working under the orders of Minou and her sisters for some time.}}<br />
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Following the capture of Tart and her subsequent selling to her enemies in England, she is held capture in a prison tower in the town of Rouen near the border channel between England and France. Minou walks into the prison cell, followed by Isabeau and two maidens who hold the train of Isabeau's gown. Minou lashes at Tart and Kyubey with her whip, mocking them and accusing them of being the source of their troubles. Before she can continue to torture them, a large booming noise rings out causing the walls to shake. A soldier opens the door to the cell, informing Minou of reports of a French attack. She orders him to get rid of them, but the soldier informs her that it was a larger assault than they had expected since it seems there is a concerted effort throughout France to recapture Tart. She apologizes to Queen Isabeau for the disturbance and vows to go forth herself to handle this trouble. As Minou deals with the French forces outside, Elisa and Melissa fight their way towards her prison cell, disarming soldiers and sentries along the way.<br />
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Isabeau makes her way outside, Minou humbling herself before her. Isabeau waves her hands before her which causes the troops to collapse to their knees, their strength being sucked out from them. As she aims her hand forward, a magic circle having formed around it, Tart stabs a standard into the ground before her and blocks her next move. Minou orders the magical girl slaves she brought with her to stop Tart, but Elisa and Melissa hold them off so Tart can race in towards Isabeau. Once more her sword attacks seem to have no effect on the queen. Isabeau raises her hands once more and fires a beam of magic directly at her. As the dust settles, Tart looks up from behind her shield to find that [[Pernelle]] has blocked the attack with her own magic circle, explaining to Tart that Isabeau is immune to attacks due to someone else’s wish. <br />
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|style="padding:10px; background:#fff;"|Kyubey and Pernelle explain to Tart that Isabeau is now part magical girl, part witch, and part incubator thanks to her and Lapin’s wish. Minou declares to all that she wished for Isabeau to be undefeated by any magical girl. Isabeau transforms into her witch state as the empty shell of her human body sits cradled in an enormous hand jutting from the ground nearby. As Tart, Elisa and Melissa continues the struggle against the witch Crepuscule de la Reine (Twilight of the Queen), all of their attacks having no effect on the witch. Tart’s soul gem grows black with impurities as she reaches her limit, when she suddenly hears the voice of Riz reminding her of her sword training back in her home village. From before Tart, Riz's soul gem materializes from a shadow as Riz tells her that her final vow was for her soul to remain with her from that day forward. Even if Riz's body was lost, her soul remained behind like her shadow, always by Tart's side. Tart’s gauntlet turns black with Riz’s soul gem encased on the back. As Tart’s soul gem crackles with impurities, she slashes her sword down and successfully injures the witch. Due to Riz’s wish, Tart’s soul gem has been prevented from transforming into a grief seed, making her more than just a magical girl. Enraged, Minou threatens to tear Tart apart for having dared to hurt her mother. She lashes her whip repeatedly at Tart, who blocks the whip with her weapon. Minou continues her assault, not letting up for a second as Tart advances towards her, continuing to block each blow. She swings her sword down at Minou who is knocked backwards by the might of the attack. Before Tart can finish her off, Isabeau's body begins to shake as a larger body emerges from underneath, a second larger witch form that causes the cathedral to crumble under the size and might of this new body as everyone gazes up in terror at the true form of Crepuscule de la Reine. However, Tart remains determined as ever as she faces down her foe. Isabeau begins to charge her cannon and aims it at Tart who immediately summons her standard and smashes through the center of it, causing the cannon to crumble. As Isabeau flies above the ruined cathedral, Tart summons a massive magic circle in the sky above her in an attack known as the Gate of Heaven. The center of the circle slides open like a gateway as crosses of light pierce Isabeau and hold her in place. Tart leaps up and swings her weapon down at the witch, slicing the massive body in half and then half again. As the pieces of the witch's corpse fall back to earth, the gate closes and disappears. Tart's shadowy gauntlet also begins to dissipate as Riz's soul gem crumbles. Tart thanks Riz for protecting her until the very end.<br />
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{{spoiler|Pernelle hands the girls a grief seed to Tart but before they can do so, they're interrupted by the lamentations of Minou who stands over her mother's human yet empty body. Melissa and Elisa prepare themselves to defend Tart as Minou threatens to kill them herself no matter what may happen. Suddenly, Minou's soul gem shatters. She demands answers and Pernelle provides them: having been created by an imperfect creator she lost her powers the moment Isabeau was destroyed. Minou is devastated by the news and orders her soldiers to capture and kill them all. La Hire urges his men to pull out but Tart instead walks quietly towards the enemy soldiers with her hand over her chest. Minou promises that Tart will be the first to die and urges her men to kill her, however Tart instead offers herself as a prisoner in exchange for the lives of the French soldiers. Melissa begs her not to do this, but Tart holds Melissa's hands in her own and smiles. Tart turns back to the enemy soldiers and once more offers herself as prisoner on the condition they take no acts of aggression against anyone else. Minou cackles gleefully at the thought of at least being able to execute the "criminal who defiled mother". Alone, Minou knocks Tart to the ground and pins her down, promising her a merciless execution in which her sins will burn through her body until nothing but ash remains. The last scene of Minou shows her crying longingly over the empty body of her mother.<br />
|}<br />
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===Minou in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===<br />
See [[Minou in Magia Record]]<br />
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Minou is one of the secondary antagonists in the three Tart events that were released for Magia Record. In it, she plays much the same role as she does in the original manga. She relays orders and information to and from Isabeau using her teleportation and orders the mindless Magical Girls that Isabeau has enslaved to further their plans. Her element is light. During the first event, Minou and her sisters go into Tart's dreams in order to cause Tart to lose hope and lose the fight for France. During the second event, Minou and her sisters attempt to rewrite history so Iroha and Yachiyo never exist and don't travel back in time to thwart their plans. During the final event, Minou attempts to erase Tart's memories so she'll be powerless to stop them. <br />
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For more information, see [[Magia Record Story The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time|The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time ''(NA: The Maiden of Hope)'']], [[Magia Record Story Rebel of a Dawnless Land|Rebel of a Dawnless Land]], and [[Magia Record Story End of a Legend, the Limits of Light|End of a Legend, the Limits of Light]].<br />
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==Powers and Abilities==<br />
Minou is able to summon various instruments of torture as her weapons, such as a cat-o-nine tails whip and a branding iron. The cat-o-nine tails can also transform into a large sword.<br />
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Minou has demonstrated the ability to create portals, which she uses to travel long distances. She can also corrupt the soul gems of other magical girls.<br />
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==Observations==<br />
Minou is the youngest sister of the three daughters of Isabeau and the last to be defeated. She speaks elegantly and never loses her cool, however she hides a dark soul and twisted mind as Corbeau has noted that torture and "information extraction" were Minou's specialty. Like her sisters, she wears an animal themed mask based on her name similar to the kind worn at masquerade parties. Until the final volume, Minou's face remained hidden from view even when she was not in her magical girl state.<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
* Minou is the French word for "kitty".<br />
==Gallery==<br />
<gallery><br />
Minou Lapin pageBIO.png|Minou's character bio from ''Tart Magica'' volume 4 (also featuring Lapin)<br />
File:Minou.png|Colour page from volume 2<br />
File:Tart3bonus.jpg|Colour page from volume 3, showing the villainous magical girls unmasked (Left to right: Minou, Corbeau, and Lapin)<br />
File:Minou lapin corbeau.jpg|Volume 4 colour insert<br />
File:Minou lapine corbeau childhood.jpg|Minou, Lapine and Corbeau as children<br />
File:Minou cat o' nine tales.png|Minou attacks with her cat o' nine tails whip<br />
File:Minou witch stamp.png|Minou conjuring a branding iron that causes soul gems to corrupt. Note the English lion on the seal<br />
File:MinouSG.jpg<br />
File:MinouDoodle.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1140272739766304773 Source]<br />
File:FjtXzpIVsAAFPzZ.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1601970945878421504 Source]<br />
File:FNQs99tVgAMDeTW.jpg|Elisa, Minou, and Riz as modern day high school girls (referencing Volume 5's bonus content and the [[Magia_Record_Story_The_Masked_Student_Council_Strikes_Back_(Holy_Maiden_Academy_Edition)|event based on the same]].) [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1500874375364431876 [Source]]<br />
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<div>{{Infobox_character<br />
|name=Lapin<br />
|image=[[File:Minou Lapin pageBIO.png|250px]]<br />
|jname={{lang|ja|ラピヌ}}<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Lapin'''|ラピヌ|Rapinu}} is an antagonist in ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]'' alongside her sisters [[Corbeau]] and [[Minou]].<br />
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==General Info==<br />
{{Magical Girl Details<br />
|eyes=Pink<br />
|hair=Light Pink<br />
|soulgem=Oval around the neck<br />
|weapon=Scythe and floating rabbit-shaped discs<br />
|witch=Enfant Terrible<br />
|powers=Can transform back into her Magical Girl form after transforming into a Witch<br />
|wish={{spoiler|{{Q|I want my mother to return to how she was.}} &ndash; referring to Isabeau}}<br />
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}<br />
|relatives=[[Corbeau]] (younger sister), [[Minou]] (youngest sister), [[Isabeau]] (mother), [[wikipedia:Charles VII of France|Charles]] (older brother), additional siblings not shown <ref>Although the official English translation of Tart Magica suggests that Isabeau adopted Corbeau, Minou and Lapin, [[:File:EB43-BDE2-AB93-4-B39-BD33-D765-E31-B5-EA0.jpg|this is not the case in the original Japanese]]</ref><br />
}}<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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==Story==<br />
===Backstory===<br />
{{Spoilerbox|<br />
As a young girl, Lapin was chosen alongside her sisters [[Minou]] and [[Corbeau]] to be among the first magical girls [[Isabeau]] contracted due to their closely interwoven fates.<br />
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Isabeau grew to become like a mother to the three girls she took in. However, she eventually turned into a witch and was poised to kill the three girls, of whom only Corbeau had as yet contracted to become a magical girl. This lead to Lapin making her wish for her mother to "return to how she was." Since the transformation from magical girl to witch is irreversible, her wish lead to Isabeau's witch mind inhabiting the now empty husk of her former physical body. Isabeau was no longer mindless and now retained her original powers that were granted to her from her own wish. Even so, she still retained her witch's ambition to destroy all of France.<br />
}}<br />
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===During ''Tart Magica''===<br />
Lapin first appears in Chapter 5, standing with Corbeau and Minou as they finish slaughtering the soldiers of Orleans, a stronghold that held four thousand soldiers. She jeers and taunts the last of the injured soldiers as Corbeau threatens him and Minou cuts off their retreat with her cat-o-nine tails. She's later seen singing and walking along the edge of the outermost walls of the city as she kicks the dismembered limbs of the dead soldiers off into the distance. Minou appears with [[Flèche and Lame|Flèche]] and relays orders from their mother, informing Lapin that she and herself are to return for a short time and to leave Corbeau along with Fleche to handle [[Tart]], who is about to arrive at Orleans. Despite being upset that Corbeau "get(s) all the fun!", she complies with orders and returns home through Minou's portal. Back at the castle later that evening, Lapin is seen having a bath along with her two sisters and is overjoyed at the possibility of fighting Tart and her friends herself.<br />
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Several months later at the city of Patay, Minou, Corbeau and Lapin stand at the head of the English forces as Lapin relishes the idea of 'playing' with the French forces opposing them. Before Minou can say anything, Lapin had already began her attack on Tart, [[Riz Hawkwood|Riz]], [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]], and [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]]. Unfortunately, the four magical girls are able to deflect most of Lapin's initial attacks, hitting her with their weapons several times and causing Lapin’s soul gem to darken. Her soul gem transforms into a grief seed and hatches Lapin’s witch form.<br />
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After transforming, Lapin activates her ability to possess any and all weapons in her vicinity, including that of her English allies (with the exception of Tart and Elisa as their weapons have magical abilities imparted on them by [[Pernelle]]. She telepathically causes them to fly at her enemies and damaging them. She even forms a towering sword-like shape composed of the weapons she's amassed and drops it at the opposing magical girls. Tart is able to deflect this massive attack on her friends even as Lapin activates her secondary ability: the ability to cause magical girls to lose their magical girl state temporarily. As Lapin in her witch form continues to battle the magical girls, Corbeau takes this opportunity to continue her fight with Riz earlier. Elisa and Tart attempt to coordinate a surprise attack on Lapin, but the eyes on her cape have the same ability as her rabbit eyes and they both revert to normal girls temporarily. Despite this, the two girls are eventually able to distract Lapin and successfully defeat her with Elisa's rifle-turned-canon. However, her defeat only causes her to revert back into a magical girl, owing to the nature of her wish and the abilities it granted her. Minou retreats with an unconscious Lapin into one of her portals as Corbeau unleashes her ''Danse Macabre''. {{spoiler|After Corbeau's subsequent defeat at the hands of Tart, Minou finishes Corbeau off in the woods and tells Lapin that it was Tart that killed their sister.}}<br />
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A considerable time later, Minou has summoned an army of magical girls and subsequently transformed them into witches all of whom are poised to kill Tart and her friends. Minou has also summoned Lapin to this battlefield where she informs her of her chance to take revenge for the loss of their sister. Lapin is enraged and more than eager to tear them limb from limb. She begins by summoning her rabbit-shaped discs and impeding their magical girl transformations. Despite this, Riz is easily able to dodge her attacks and slashes at her rabbit-shaped discs as Lapin is not used to combat the way her sister Corbeau was. When Riz informs Lapin that it was in fact {{spoiler|Minou who killed her sister,}} this causes Lapin to snap with rage and abandon all thinking. Riz aims to shatter Lapin’s soul gem in order to prevent her from transforming into her witch form, but the news she received and the subsequent despair it caused her has instead only accelerated the impurities of Lapin’s soul gem. It is too late, as Lapin quickly becomes a witch continues her attacks on the girls.<br />
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The magical girls coordinate their attacks and unleash Melissa’s ultimate destructive move on Lapin. But it is not enough and Lapin reemerges from the bottom of the crater formed by the explosion, now human and her soul gem cleansed. Minou then causes a portal to appear beneath Elisa and Melissa and transports them to a different part of the castle in which they are battling. Tart and Riz are left to fend for themselves against not only Lapin's witch form, but the army of witches that are left from earlier. Tart and Riz begin to grow weary from the fighting and the amount of magic they've spent, causing Riz to charge her soul gem's power and throw a dagger at Lapin's feet. Shadows emerge from the dagger and wrap themselves around Lapin, effectively immobilizing her. As Tart calls out to her, Riz summons her ultimate attack, ''Gates of Hell''. {{spoiler|A large marble doorway comes up from the ground, skeletons adorning its framework. As the Gates of Hell begin to crack open, shadowy hands reach out from inside each of them grabbing at a different part of Lapin. She cries out for them to let go of her but they continue to hold on relentlessly as more hands reach out from the gate and grab at the witches in the area and pull them into the dark void that lurks behind the doors. Lapin continues to strain at the shadowy hands, crying out that nothing Riz does will make a difference since she'll keep coming back over and over again, returning to normal only for her to kill Riz no matter how many times it takes her. Riz acknowledges this, and informs her that she will be joining Lapin inside the black void of the gates to prevent her from escaping as the doors can only be opened from the outside. As Riz walks into the gate, Lapin is pulled into the darkness with her and the doors snap shut behind them, effectively ending Lapin's life.}}<br />
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===Lapin in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===<br />
See [[Lapin in Magia Record]]<br />
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==Powers and Abilities==<br />
Lapin has the ability to turn back into a human after she turns into a witch. While in magical girl form, she uses a handheld scythe as her weapon and can summon rabbit-shaped discs that float about her. When the discs flash, magical girls lose their ability to remain in magical form for a limited time. <br />
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While in witch form, Lapin is able to summon all weapons in the vicinity to her side and is able to manipulate them at will, for example creating a wall of shields or raining various weapons down on her enemies. Her eyes can cause any magical girl to lose her ability to remain in magical girl form as well as the eyes on her cape.<br />
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==Observations==<br />
* Lapin is the eldest of the three sisters despite her childish personality and physical looks and is very fond of her younger sisters. <br />
* However, she may in fact be the most powerful as her ability to transform to and from her witch form makes her incredibly difficult to defeat. <br />
* While in witch form, she is able to speak in coherent french with an elaborate font. This is in contrast to other witches, many of whom do not speak and when they do it is in Runes. <br />
* Her favorite sister may be Corbeau, as she often asks her to scrub her down during baths and has no problem hugging and burying her face in her sisters' chest when she hugs them.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* Lapin's live2D model in Magia Record initially lacked the soul gem on her chest, even though her profile image and battle sprite had it included.<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
* In the original Japanese, her name is spelled "Lapine". Lapine is the French word for a female rabbit.<br />
** However, in the official English translation of Tart Magica, her named is changed instead to "Lapin", which is the French word for a male rabbit.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Lapine character bio.jpg|Lapin's character bio in the original Japanese. Note that here it is spelled "Lapine".<br />
Minou Lapin pageBIO.png|Lapine's character bio from ''Tart Magica'' volume 4 (also featuring Minou)<br />
File:Tart3bonus.jpg|Colour page from volume 3, showing the villainous magical girls unmasked (Left to right: Minou, Corbeau, and Lapin)<br />
File:Minou lapin corbeau.jpg|Volume 4 colour insert<br />
File:Minou lapine corbeau childhood.jpg|Minou, Lapin and Corbeau as children<br />
File:Lapin attack .png|Lapin's attack<br />
File:Lapine battles Riz.jpg|Lapin battles Riz<br />
File:Lapin witch form.png|Witch form<br />
File:EIJgRyMWkAAD_vI.jpg|Lapin dreams she's older. [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1189619118351085568 Source]<br />
File:FjtXzpIVsAAFPzZ.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1601970945878421504 Source]<br />
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<div>{{Infobox_character<br />
|name=Corbeau<br />
|image=[[File:Corbeau pageBIO.png|220px]]<br />
|jname={{lang|ja|コルボー}} (Koruboo)<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Corbeau'''|コルボー|Korubō}} is an antagonist in ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]'' alongside her sisters [[Minou]] and [[Lapin]].<br />
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==General Info==<br />
{{Magical Girl Details<br />
|eyes=Grey<br />
|hair=White<br />
|soulgem=Upside down triangle above the chest<br />
|weapon=Feathers, hand-to-hand combat<br />
|witch=Plaisir<br />
|witchlink=Corbeau in Magia Record#Doppel Description<br />
|powers= Magic usage redirection<br />
|wish= To become a magical girl specialized in fighting magical girls, so her sisters wouldn't need to fight<ref>https://twitter.com/amashin/status/1127445734729457665</ref><br />
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}<br />
|relatives=[[Minou]] (younger sister), [[Lapin]] (older sister), [[Isabeau]] (mother), [[wikipedia:Charles VII of France|Charles]] (older brother), additional siblings not shown <ref>Although the official English translation of Tart Magica suggests that Isabeau adopted Corbeau, Minou and Lapin, [[:File:EB43-BDE2-AB93-4-B39-BD33-D765-E31-B5-EA0.jpg|this is not the case in the original Japanese]]</ref><br />
}}<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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==Story==<br />
===Backstory===<br />
{{Spoilerbox|<br />
As a young girl, Corbeau was chosen alongside her sisters [[Minou]] and [[Lapin]] to be among the first magical girls [[Isabeau]] contracted due to their closely interwoven fates.<br />
Isabeau grew to become like a mother to the three girls she took in. However, she eventually turned into a witch and was poised to kill the three girls, of whom only Corbeau had as yet contracted to become a magical girl. This lead to Lapin making her wish for her mother to “return to how she was.” Since the transformation from magical girl to witch is irreversible, her wish lead to Isabeau’s witch mind inhabiting the now empty husk of her former physical body. Isabeau was no longer mindless and now retained her original powers that were granted to her from her own wish. Even so, she still retained her witch’s ambition to destroy all of France.<br />
}}<br />
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===During ''Tart Magica''===<br />
Corbeau first appeared in Chapter 5, standing with Lapin and Minou as they finish slaughtering the soldiers of Orleans, a stronghold that held four thousand soldiers. Corbeau threatens the last of the injured soldiers as Lapin jeers and taunts them and Minou cuts off their retreat with her cat-o-nine tails. Before Corbeau can finish off the commander of the troops, someone fires an arrow at her. [[Etienne de Vignolles |Etienne]] appears, having been searching for Jean and assists him to stand. Minou notices what is happening and lashing at them with her whip, but the two are able to limp away to safety. <br />
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Back at the outskirts of Orleans, at the fort of Saint-Loup, Lapin is busy singing as she walks along the edge of the outermost wall, kicking the dismembered limbs of dead soldiers out into the distance. Corbeau asks her to go easy with the gore, claiming she's making a huge mess. Minou appears and relays orders to her sisters, leaving [[Flèche and Lame|Flèche]] with Corbeau to take care of [[Tart]] as Minou takes Lapin back home for the time being. A short time later, Corbeau is seen speaking with the English military commander, John Talbot, letting them know they can leave the fort to the French if need be. When the English Captain William Glasdale contradicts Corbeau, she orders Flèche to fire her arrows at him, killing him in the process. She then orders the soldiers to leave as she wants Tart all to herself. <br />
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As the French soldiers began their assault on the fort, Corbeau causes black feathers to fly at the soldiers, impaling several of them. She leaps down from here viewpoint on the tower and, after knocking Tart away, challenges [[Riz Hawkwood|Riz]]. As they struggle against each other, Riz notes that Corbeau’s soul gem has not darkened despite the magic she is using to heal herself of her wounds. {spoiler|It seems that Corbeau is pushing her own impurities onto Riz’s soul gem, causing it to darken that much faster.}} As Tart attempts to join the battle, Corbeau orders Flèche to aim her arrows at Tart. Corbeau then uses her feathers to pin Riz’s shadow down, immobilizing her. Before she can strike, Etienne attacks Corbeau, causing her to throw him face first into the ground. As [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]] rushes to his side, Corbeau orders Flèche to finish Etienne, which she does by conjuring a large spear-like arrow. As she unleashes her attack, Tart steps in to block it, taking the full brunt of the damage and collapsing from her wound. It is at this point that Melissa contracts with Kyubey in order to save Tart and her father from their fatal wounds. Melissa then begins to attack Corbeau with her newfound powers, even going so far as to use her anti-matter bomb in an attempt to destroy her. But the attack misses, leaving a large gaping hole where a bridge formerly stood. Corbeau is unfazed by this, and is confused when she encounters Kyubey as she had never met him before. As she’s distracted, Riz pulls Tart and Melissa into her shadow realm to formulate a plan. A few moments later, the girls come out of the shadows and coordinate a two-pronged attack against Corbeau between Riz and Melissa as Tart continues her battle with Flèche. Corbeau is surprised to find that her soul gem is now accumulating impurities due to {{spoiler|Riz and Melissa handing their soul gems to Tart, who is battling outside the range of Corbeau’s magic.}} As Tart incapacitates Flèche with her “La Lumiere”, Minou appears and calls out to Corbeau to use *that* while the English soldiers are away. Minou and Corbeau leave in one of Minou’s portals after Minou brands Flèche, causing her to transform into a witch and leaving her behind to continue her attack on Riz, Melissa, and Tart. <br />
Back at the castle later that evening, Corbeau is seen having a bath along with her two sisters as Lapin is overjoyed at the possibility of fighting Tart and her friends herself. <br />
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Several months later at the city of Patay, Minou, Corbeau and Lapin stand at the head of the English forces as Lapin relishes the idea of ‘playing’ with the French forces opposing them. Before Minou can say anything, Lapin had already began her attack on Tart, Riz, Melissa, and [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]]. Unfortunately, the four magical girls are able to deflect most of Lapin’s initial attacks, hitting her with their weapons several times and causing Lapin’s soul gem to darken. Her soul gem transforms into a grief seed and hatches Lapin’s witch form. After transforming, Lapin activates her ability to possess any and all weapons in her vicinity, including that of her English allies (with the exception of Tart and Elisa as their weapons have magical abilities imparted on them by [[Pernelle]]. She telepathically causes them to fly at her enemies and damaging them. She even forms a towering sword-like shape composed of the weapons she’s amassed and drops it at the opposing magical girls. Tart is able to deflect this massive attack on her friends even as Lapin activates her secondary ability: the ability to cause magical girls to lose their magical girl state temporarily. As Lapin in her witch form continues to battle the magical girls, Corbeau takes this opportunity to continue her fight with Riz earlier. As Corbeau and Riz trade blows, Riz is able to aim a high kick at her face. As Corbeau is distracted by this, Riz aims a high kick at her face which connects. As her shadows tie down Corbeau's feet, Riz somersaults at her and grabs her by the head as she lands, twisting it completely backwards. Corbeau lands on the ground as Riz lands a few feet away. Melissa congratulates her for defeating Corbeau, but Corbeau is still alive and begins to struggle to her feet. Riz and Melissa watch as Corbeau stands and realigns her head, Melissa surprised that she's still alive even after such an injury. <br />
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Elisa and Tart attempt to coordinate a surprise attack on Lapin, but the eyes on her cape have the same ability as her rabbit eyes and they both revert to normal girls temporarily. Despite this, the two girls are eventually able to distract Lapin and successfully defeat her with Elisa’s rifle-turned-canon. However, her defeat only causes her to revert back into a magical girl, owing to the nature of her wish and the abilities it granted her. Minou retreats with an unconscious Lapin into one of her portals as Corbeau unleashes her ''Danse Macabre''. Reaper-like skeletons fly out of the magic circles Corbeau summoned, black feathers flying out from their eyeless sockets. Everyone begins to double over in pain, wondering what's happening to their bodies. Riz looks at the tumor-like boils on her hands and recognizes it as something she's seen before. Corbeau laughs and reminds Riz she told her this fight would be a massacre and tells them all to show her the dance of death. As both the French and English forces alike lay doubled in agony, Corbeau beats down the weakened magical girls. Tart struggles to her feet and attempts to fight Corbeau, but is too weakened to do more than swing her sword feebly. Corbeau picks her up by the neck and mocks Tart’s attempts to fight back. As Tart warns her that she’s hurting her English allies as well with her magic, Corbeau scoffs and responds that she doesn’t care since her magic will kill everyone who comes near. She demands to know what it matters since everyone must die eventually, just like Tart’s sister. At these words, Tart's soul gem shines brightly and Corbeau's fingers are bent backwards as the force of Tart's magic caused her to be released from her grip. Tart glows with the power of her magic and an immense magic circle of Tart's doing appears in the sky overhead, casting light down on the soldiers below. As the light bathes the battlefield, all of the soldiers and magical girls both English and French alike begin to stand and realize they've been healed of plague as well as their wounds. Corbeau is enraged by this and as she demands to know who Tart really is, Tart leaps up and slashed down her sword with full force at Corbeau, ultimately defeating her as the force of it knocks her into some nearby woods. She lands against the trunk of a tree and falls to her knees, greatly weakened. Tart aims her blade at Corbeau, telling her this is the end as Corbeau tries to stand. But all Corbeau can think of is her two sisters, Lapin and Minou. Before she can deliver the finishing blow, a portal appears behind Corbeau and Minou steps through. {{spoiler|While Corbeau is overfilled with joy at the sight of her sister, Minou kneels down and takes Corbeau’s soul gem in her hands, informing her this is the end. Confused, Corbeau asks her why and if she doesn't see how much she loves her and Lapin. Minou confirms that this is what she suspected and says she stopped serving their benefactor a long time ago. As Corbeau yells out once more to Minou asking her why she can't understand how much she loves them, Minou shatters Corbeau's soul gem and tells her she doesn't love her any longer. Corbeau falls forward, calling out her sisters' names as she dies. Minou tells her that at the very least she will tell Lapin that Corbeau died honorably in battle. Tart angrily demands she explain herself as Riz calls her heartless. As Minou summons a portal, she giggles and says it'll be something to look forward to as she gathers Corbeau's body and takes it back with her, leaving the heroines alone in the woods. The two turn to go, knowing the battle isn't over yet.}}<br />
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===Corbeau in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===<br />
Corbeau was the primary antagonist of the special event [[Magia Record Story The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time|The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time]]. In the event, she fused some of Tart's hair into special candles that would allow her to invade Tart's dreams and mess with her mind, hopefully breaking her spirit so she could no longer lead France to victory. Her element is dark and her magia is named "La Danse Macabre".<br />
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She was later released as a playable character in the follow-up event [[Magia Record Story Rebel of a Dawnless Land|Rebel of a Dawnless Land]].<br />
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For more information, see [[Corbeau in Magia Record]]<br />
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==Powers and Abilities==<br />
Corbeau's abilities change from encounter to encounter. She can get rid of certain powers once her enemies learn to work around them {{spoiler|by forcing her servants to make contracts with Isabeau for her own benefit.}} For example, in Chapter 8, Corbeau had the ability to corrupt other soul gems in the place of her own within a 50 meter radius, but abandoned this power after [[Riz Hawkwood| Riz]] figures out and exploits the limits of that power. When she used this power, she warned Minou away lest her impurities accidentally get pushed onto Minou. <br />
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Corbeau's most dangerous ability is "La Danse Macabre", which gives her opponents the bubonic plague.<br />
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==Observations==<br />
Corbeau is the second eldest of the three sisters and the first one to step onto any battlefield. While Minou acts more as an intelligence gatherer and coordinates the three sisters and Lapin is more of a childish trump card, Corbeau is usually the one to do most of the dirty work in killing off armies of enemy soldiers and holding down the fort at Orleans where she was ordered to be rid of La Pucelle. However, she finds battles to be more of a fun thing and revels in anything that can give her even the slightest bit of challenge. <br />
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==Etymology==<br />
* Corbeau is the French word for "raven".<br />
==Gallery==<br />
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File:FlecheCorbeau.jpg|Flèche and Corbeau, from [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1140289886949277696 Twitter.]<br />
File:ES5LJHZU4AEEF21.png|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1238010015358697473 Source]<br />
File:FjtXzpIVsAAFPzZ.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1601970945878421504 Source]<br />
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===Manga pages===<br />
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File:Corbeau pageBIO.png|Corbeau's character bio from ''Tart Magica'' volume 2.<br />
File:Tart3bonus.jpg|Colour page from volume 3, showing the villainous magical girls unmasked (Left to right: Minou, Corbeau, and Lapin)<br />
File:Minou lapin corbeau.jpg|Volume 4 colour insert<br />
File:Minou lapine corbeau childhood.jpg|Minou, Lapine and Corbeau as children<br />
File:Corbeau formal wear.png|Corbeau in formal attire as Fleche stands behind her<br />
File:La Danse Macabre.jpg|La Danse Macabre<br />
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[[Category:Deceased Characters]]</div>0x99https://wiki.puella-magi.net/w/index.php?title=Elisa_Celjska&diff=146258Elisa Celjska2023-10-31T23:20:07Z<p>0x99: Fix double redirect</p>
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<div>{{Infobox_character<br />
|name=Elisa Celjska<br />
|image=[[File:Elisa pageBIO.png|250px]]<br />
|jname={{lang|ja|エリザ・ツェリスカ}}<br />
|surname=Celjska<br />
|magicalgirl=yes<br />
}}<br />
{{nihongo|'''Elisa Celjska'''|エリザ・ツェリスカ|Eriza Tserisuka}} is one of the main characters in ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]''.<br />
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==General Info==<br />
{{Magical Girl Details<br />
|birth=1413<br />
|age=18<br />
|agenote=by 1431<br />
|height=157cm<br />
|eyes=Red<br />
|hair=Blonde<br />
|origin=[[wikipedia:Buda|Buda, Hungary]]<br />
|soulgem=Two-barred cross (right earring)<br />
|weapon=Firearm, with sword and axe (Separate as a magical girl)<br />
|wish={{spoiler|{{Q|I want everyone to acknowledge my existence.}}}}<br />
|powers=Acceptance<br />
|witch=Ein Roter Drache<br />
|witchlink=Elisa Celjska in Magia Record#Doppel Description<br />
|pronoun={{nihongo||わたくし|watakushi}}<br />
|relatives=[[wikipedia:Barbara_of_Cilli|Barbara Celjská]] (mother), [[wikipedia:Oswald_von_Wolkenstein|Oswald von Wolkenstein]] (uncle)<br />
}}<br />
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==Story==<br />
===Backstory===<br />
The illegitimate daughter of the Holy Roman Empress and a member of the [[wikipedia:Order_of_the_Dragon|Order of the Dragon]]. Despite being hidden since birth, the Emperor found out about Elisa and exiled both her and her mother from court. Only her Uncle Oswald would have anything to do with her until the day Pernelle and Kyubey came into her life. It was then she made her wish and both her and her mother were forgiven and called back to court. Despite this, Elisa could never shake the feeling that one day she would be thought of as a burden. That is when she began to use her powers for the good of her country, the Emperor and her mother, working herself as hard as she could all in the hopes of being accepted.<br />
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===During ''Tart Magica''===<br />
Elisa is first seen in a flash-forward in Chapter 1, where she urges Tart and the others to hurry and get ready as they head out to save France. Upon arriving in a nearby village, they are met by [[Minou]], who is protected by her servant [[Flèche and Lame|Lame]]. Lame is transformed into a witch by Minou, who escapes from one of her portals. The girls then make short work of the witch, ending the flash-forward. <br />
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In Chapter 3, Elisa is witness to the large glow of light that envelopes all of France when Tart makes her contract. <br />
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Elisa would not reappear in the story until Chapter 10, when she defeats the witch form of [[Flèche and Lame|Flèche]] from afar with the use of her rifle. Soon after, Elisa and her Uncle Oswald meet with Arthur de Richemont and talk about their possible involvement in the Hundred Year War. As [[Tart]], [[Riz Hawkwood|Riz]], and [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]] arrive at the town of Loches, they speak with the Dauphin Charles who has already heard of their exploits at Orleans courtesy of Elisa. She introduces herself to the girls, telepathically informing them of her involvement in destroying the witch form of Flèche. Out loud she informs everyone they were sent to verify if Tart’s powers were real and if so, they were to lend all possible aid to the Dauphin Charles. Having seen her abilities at Orleans, they pledge themselves in assisting him to claim his rightful place at the throne, despite the suspicions of the Chamberlain. Oswald assures the Chamberlain that theirs is not merely a token symbol of help since Lord Richemont is on his way with several thousand soldiers as well. Afterwards, Elisa challenges Tart to a friendly sparring match in order to test out Tart’s fighting ability for herself. Despite Tart’s overwhelming power, Elisa’s experience in fighting allows her to take the advantage and she is able to disarm Tart. She had assumed the rumors about Tart’s power were exaggerated and expressed disappointment in their match. Angered, Melissa challenges Elisa to a sparring match and proceeds to grab her by the cuff of her cape and throw her high and far into the sky until she is nothing more than a speck. Later that day Elisa sits pouting in her room as her Uncle Oswald and Melissa arrive. Melissa apologizes for letting her temper get the better of her. They ask her what Tart is doing, and Melissa informs them she is in a strategy meeting with the Dauphin. Elisa insists she be escorted to court at once, before she is reminded she is still in her dressing gown. Charles is prompted by the sudden appearance of his son to go to Reims under the guidance of Tart in order to be crowned King of France. The Chamberlain notes that Oswald and Elisa are well acquainted with the wife of Charles. <br />
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Several months later at the city of Patay, Minou, [[Corbeau]] and [[Lapin]] stand at the head of the English forces as Lapin relishes the idea of ‘playing’ with the French forces opposing them. Before Minou can say anything, Lapin had already began her attack on Tart, Riz, Melissa, and Elisa. Unfortunately, the four magical girls are able to deflect most of Lapin’s initial attacks, hitting her with their weapons several times and causing Lapin’s soul gem to darken. Her soul gem transforms into a grief seed and hatches Lapin’s witch form. After transforming, Lapin activates her ability to possess any and all weapons in her vicinity, including that of her English allies (with the exception of Tart and Elisa as their weapons have magical abilities imparted on them by [[Pernelle]]. She telepathically causes them to fly at her enemies and damaging them. She even forms a towering sword-like shape composed of the weapons she’s amassed and drops it at the opposing magical girls. Tart is able to deflect this massive attack on her friends even as Lapin activates her secondary ability: the ability to cause magical girls to lose their magical girl state temporarily. As Lapin in her witch form continues to battle the magical girls, Corbeau takes this opportunity to continue her fight with Riz earlier. <br />
Elisa and Tart attempt to coordinate a surprise attack on Lapin, but the eyes on her cape have the same ability as her rabbit eyes and they both revert to normal girls temporarily. Despite this, the two girls are eventually able to distract Lapin and successfully defeat her with Elisa’s rifle-turned-canon. However, her defeat only causes her to revert back into a magical girl, owing to the nature of her wish and the abilities it granted her. Minou retreats with an unconscious Lapin into one of her portals as Corbeau unleashes her Danse Macabre. Reaper-like skeletons fly out of the magic circles Corbeau summoned, black feathers flying out from their eyeless sockets. Everyone begins to double over in pain, wondering what's happening to their bodies. Riz looks at the tumor-like boils on her hands and recognizes it as something she's seen before: bubonic plague. Corbeau laughs and reminds Riz she told her this fight would be a massacre and tells them all to show her the dance of death. As both the French and English forces alike lay doubled in agony, Corbeau beats down the weakened magical girls. Tart, despite initially struggling to her feet, is able to summon a magic circle in the sky that cures both the English and French alike of their plague and wounds with her magic. Corbeau is enraged by this and as she demands to know who Tart really is, Tart leaps up and slashed down her sword with full force at Corbeau, ultimately defeating her as the force of it knocks her into some nearby woods. <br />
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As Tart, Riz, Melissa, and Elisa convene in the woods following the defeat of Corbeau, they are met by Pernelle who congratulates them on a French victory. Pernelle introduces herself to the group and asks how Elisa has been doing since she ran off to meet with Tart. Elisa for her part doesn’t trust Kyubey (or alchemists for that matter). At this point it is revealed that Pernelle created both the sword that Tart wields as well as the magic rifle of Elisa. She also tells them of a prophesy that has been spreading throughout France and attributes their victory to this prophecy. Elisa stomps her foot down and calls prophecies garbage, refusing to attribute their hard-won battles to something like that. She accuses Pernelle of spreading the rumor herself as Pernelle counters that no one wins an entire battle on their own. Tart agrees with Elisa, claiming she's not the only one fighting to save France: Riz, Melissa and Elisa, as well as every French soldier out there are also fighting for their homeland. Pernelle teleports away, warning them of the possible dangers on their journey. <br />
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During the celebration of the coronation of the Dauphin Charles, [[Isabeau]] and Minou appeared. Despite Elisa and Melissa hitting her directly with their weapons, Isabeau remained unharmed and was able to knock them away with a beam of magical energy. After even Tart and Riz are unable to harm the queen, Isabeau faints and has Minou declare to all present that Tart will die in one year’s time. <br />
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After several months of searching, the four magical girls are able to locate a witch’s barrier and enter it, finding Minou inside waiting for them. She summons an army of magical girls from her many portals and immediately brands them with her magical branding iron. The girls fall into deep despair and are instantly transformed into witches, which Minou unleashes on the unsuspecting heroines. Tart is prepared to summon all of her strength and defeat the army of witches alone but Elisa warns her to save her energy as she continues to take out witches one after the other with the use of her rifle. Minou watches the battle rage on and decides that the army of witches won’t be enough to stop them and calls her sister Lapin into battle. Riz takes on Lapin singlehanded as she realizes that Lapin has little experience in actual combat. Riz is unable to shatter Lapin’s soul gem before she transforms into her witch form. Elisa continues to fight off the horde of witches as Melissa attempts to destroy Lapin with her anti-matter magic. However, this only serves to change her back into her magical girl form. Minou then summons a portal beneath Melissa and Elisa and transports them to a different part of the barrier. Minou appears and summons a second army of magical girls that she proceeds to brand and cause them to transform into witches. The two girls begin to fight off the witches, Elisa firing her gun as Melissa swings her polearm. As Melissa is about to be hit by an octopus-like witch from behind, Elisa calls out to her and knocks her to one side, taking the brunt of the hit herself. Melissa cradles Elisa in her arm and with the other, she swings her polearm and makes short work of the witch. As she holds Elisa up, she notices blood on her hands and realizes Elisa is bleeding badly. She asks why Elisa would do such a thing, and Elisa responds that if anything were to happen to Melissa it would make Tart cry her eyes out. Elisa sways a moment as Melissa insists that all of them would be grief-stricken if anything were to happen to Elisa since the four of them are partners and can't lose even a single one of them. Elisa smiles to herself and admits it's true. The two turn to face the oncoming horde of witches and agree to break through the throng so they can meet back up with Tart and Riz. After the defeat of Lapin {{spoiler|and subsequent death of Riz}}, the barrier dissipates and Tart is left alone, surrounded by a small army of soldiers who capture her for the English. <br />
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Sometime later, Elisa, Melissa, and Pernelle are able to break into the prison tower were Tart is being held captive by Minou and Isabeau. As an army of French soldiers attack the tower as a means of distraction, Elisa and Melissa make their way to Tart’s prison cell. There, Elisa tells Tart of her past and convinces her to continue fighting onward, for the sake of all the people who love her and are risking their lives to free her from this prison. As Tart vows to bring light to France, Melissa vows to go forth so that she can support Tart. Elisa vows to go for glory, not only for herself but for Tart as well.<br />
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At this point, Isabeau steps out from the prison tower and proceeds to use her magic to cause soldiers to collapse, sapped of their strength. Tart appears and stands proudly at the head of the troops, vowing to stand and fight alongside those who were kind enough to come to her rescue despite being called a heretic. Minou orders the magical girl slaves she brought with her to stop Tart before she can get near Isabeau. But Melissa and Elisa have joined the fray and take on the other magical girls, allowing Tart to race in towards Isabeau. Isabeau transforms into her witch state and attacks the girls. Elisa steadies her rifle and aims a shot at one of the caterpillar appendages, but it too does no damage despite hitting the creature squarely in the face. Elisa and Melissa can only watch as Tart battles with the witch {{spoiler|and ultimately defeats her. Melissa and Elisa race over to Tart, overjoyed that the battle is finally over and their greatest enemy defeated. But Tart faints, weak from the overexertion her soul gem has taken due to the battle. The grief seed Pernelle hands her does nothing as Tart’s soul gem has corrupted beyond repair. Melissa and Elisa prepare themselves to defend Tart as Minou threatens to kill them herself no matter what may happen when suddenly Minou’s soul gem shatters and she becomes an ordinary girl. Tart offers herself as a prisoner on the condition that the soldiers are allowed to go free and Minou agrees, despite the pleas of Melissa. }} <br />
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It is May 30, 1431 and both Melissa and Elisa are hurrying to the public square, racing against the clock despite their wounds not fully recovered. Amidst the throng of people, Tart stands tied to a wooden stake, her hair cropped short as she wears a simple white tunic. She looks up at the sky and holds her hands clasped in front of her despite her rope bonds. Melissa and Elisa push their way to the front of the crowds as a soldier lights the pile of kindle at Tart's feet with his torch. Elisa asks if there aren't any more wishes she would like to see fulfilled while she still lives, or if there are any regrets she'd like to correct. Tart tells them of a dream she had and thanks the girls for being there with her. Pernelle, Melissa and Elisa pray for their holy lady, La Pucelle as the flames begin to consume Tart. <br />
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Melissa sits on the back of Elisa's horse as the two girls quietly walk down a broad country field. Elisa asks if Tart left her life holding no grudges or regrets. Melissa knows they understood her last words and that there was no despair in her final prayer. Elisa agrees and comments that Tart was betrayed and lost hope at times, but kept fighting even when suffering near-mortal wounds. But those wounds were also proof of the battle she survived and the life she made it through. Even if both girls may become witches someday, they both agree to visit the village in which Tart grew up in.<br />
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===Elisa in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===<br />
See [[Eliza Celjska in Magia Record]]<br />
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==Powers and Abilities==<br />
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==Observations==<br />
Elisa is rather proud, seeing as she is the daughter of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. She's also a member of the Order of the Dragon, a high-ranking group that follows the command of the emperor. She often prefers to do things with a flourish, such as insisting on introducing herself to Tart in lieu of allowing the Dauphin Charles to do so (and twirling around in order to flourish her cape with the Order of the Dragon Crest embroidered on it). After meeting Tart, she insisted on sparring with her in order to gauge her abilities. After defeating Tart somewhat easily, Melissa became enraged and challenged Elisa to spar as well at which point Melissa grabs Elisa by the cuff of her shirt and throws her far and into the air. Afterwards, Elisa can be seen sulking in her room after her defeat. <br />
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==Etymology==<br />
According to her introduction, Elisa calls herself the daughter of [[wikipedia:Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor|Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund]] and [[wikipedia:Barbara of Cilli|Barbara Celjská]]. This implies that she is based off of [[wikipedia:Elizabeth of Luxembourg|the real-world Elizabeth of Luxembourg]].<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* The official English translation has her name spelled "Elisa", however the katakana shows it spelled ''za'' rather than ''sa''.<br />
* Her witch/doppel name is german for 'A Red Dragon'. A red dragon is also prominently featured in the Bible book of Revelation as being representative of the Devil.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
===Manga pages===<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Elisa pageBIO.png|Elisa's character bio from ''Tart Magica'' volume 3.<br />
File:Volume 4 color insert.jpg|Volume 4 colour insert<br />
File:Elisa fires her gun.png|Elisa firing her rifle<br />
File:Elisa second attack.jpg<br />
File:Elisa cape.jpg|Elisa makes her introduction (and shows off her cape)<br />
File:Elisa's soul gem.png|Elisa's soul gem<br />
</gallery><br />
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===Official Art===<br />
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File:EvAPs4dUYAMhNut.jpg|Elisa's uncle Oswald, as shown in the upper center part. [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1364608092223148033 Source.]<br />
File:FNQs99tVgAMDeTW.jpg|Elisa, Minou, and Riz as modern day high school girls (referencing Volume 5's bonus content and the [[Magia_Record_Story_The_Masked_Student_Council_Strikes_Back_(Holy_Maiden_Academy_Edition)|event based on the same]].) [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1500874375364431876 [Source]]<br />
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