Tsubaki Mikoto

Tsubaki Mikoto
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Japanese Name	美琴椿
Age	Around 20
Weapon	Katana

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(Note: As all chapters post-volume 1 are currently only available in Japanese, most of the post-volume 1 info below comes from rough translation and interpretation of events. Thus, some of the information may be incorrect, so please do not treat anything as 100% accurate.)

Tsubaki Mikoto (美琴椿, Mikoto Tsubaki) is a supporting character in Puella Magi Suzune Magica. She only appears in flashbacks, but has a major impact regarding the events of the story.

General info

Eye colour: Either blue, light purple, or violet
Hair colour: Either dark blue, dark purple, or black with a blue/purple sheen.
Japanese pronoun: Watashi (私)
Soul gem: Circular gem on the back of her left hand.
Wish: Unknown.
Known relatives: Suzune Amano, her adopted daughter; she was also the surrogate mother for the Hinata twins.

Personality

A kind and caring woman who adored and took good care of the girls she was responsible for. She was a maternal figure to Suzune Amano, Matsuri Hinata, and Kagari Hinata.

Tsubaki took care of Suzune after the her parents' death at the hands of a witch, and treated her like her own daughter. She is also seen encouraging Matsuri to be a kind person and listen to her father and Kagari. She often told the Hinata twins stories.

Story

Tsubaki only appears in the backstory of Suzune Magica, as she is dead before the story begins. Nothing is currently known about her past or wish.

She apparently became a witch because she put Suzune's health before hers, always giving grief seeds to her first, and became a witch when she couldn't handle the state of her own corruption anymore.

Powers and Abilities

Tsubaki had fire-elemental powers. One of her fire spells was named "Fire Dance" (舞炎, Maien), a rain of many sword-shaped flames.

As Suzune absorbed her powers after her death, it can be assumed that Tsubaki had all the same spells that Suzune uses.

Observations

Tsubaki's hairstyle is the same as the infamous "doomed anime mom" hairstyle, named because mothers with such a side-tie ponytail tended to die sometime in the story, usually early on or in the backstory.
Tsubaki's appearance may have been reused from one of GAN's original characters, Sanae.
Tsubaki appears to have a traditional Japanese theme: her magical girl outfit resembles that of a miko's, which is a type of shrine maiden; and she wields a katana, a Japanese sword.

Trivia

Tsubaki's first name is spelt with the kanji "camellia". Her last name, Mikoto, is spelt with the kanji for "beautiful harp". "Mikoto" could also mean noble, precious, or revered.
Tsubaki is named after a flower, along with Matsuri and Kagari.
Trivia tweets by GAN: 1, 2, 3, 4. (Translations needed.)
Tsubaki is one of the oldest magical girls in the Puella Magi franchise. She is also one of the only adult magical girls, the other being Suzune.