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The '''Mirror Witch''' ({{Runes|MIRRORS}}) is a [[witch]] whose barrier is a stage in the mobile game [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]. The Witch's real name was revealed to be '''Winchester''' ({{Runes|WINCHESTER}}). Her barrier and the copies her Familiars create are the stage for the PvP feature of the mobile game. 

According to the [[Magia_Record_Mirrors_Story|Mirrors Story]] that plays as players delve deeper into the barrier and the event [[Magia Record Story Scattered Flowers Melancholy Chapter|The Flowers’ Lament]], the Mirror Witch was once a Magical Girl from Daito Ward named [[Mikoto Sena]]. Mikoto was friends with [[Hanna Sarasa]] and had the ability of suggestions, essentially hypnotizing others, including Witches and their Familiars, to do her bidding (although this ability had its own limitations). She later became a Witch and Hanna used the hypnosis ability she had copied from Mikoto to influence the Mirror Witch into staying in Kamihama and wreaking havoc on as many people as possible.

A year before the main events of Magia Record, this Witch was responsible for [[Breakpoint|a string of attacks]] against Magical Girls through its disguised Familiars. Through its fascination with mirrors, the Witch was lured from wandering around Kamihama City to an abandoned house on the city's east side, where it now permanently resides. [[Mitama Yakumo]] was chosen as an overseer of the house and the labyrinth within, charged with the duty of keeping the public away and giving explanations and warnings to Magical Girls who wish to enter.
==Witch==
{{Card
|name          = Winchester
|runes         = WINCHESTER
|image         = File:Winchester card.png
|japanese_desc = 鏡の魔女　その性質は『隠遁』
その性質ゆえ、結界は幾重にも重なる階層から成る。
ひっそりと隠れていたいだけの臆病な魔女であるため、
人や魔法少女の殺害によって魔力を集めるようなことはせず、
結界内に入ってきた魔法少女たちの魔力を僅かに吸収することで、
自分の身を守る層を形成してゆく。
侵入者が増えれば増えるほど、結界の構造もまた、複雑に発展してゆく。
|english_desc  = Official website: The Mirror Witch is defined by her reclusiveness.
As such, her Labyrinth is made up of many overlapping levels.
She's a cowardly Witch whose only desire is to hide from the world, so she does not gather magic by killing people or Magical Girls; rather, she simply absorbs a little bit of magic from Magical Girls who enter her Labyrinth, which she then uses to form more layers in her Labyrinth to protect herself.
The more intruders there are, the more complex her Labyrinth becomes.

In-game description: The witch of mirrors. Her nature is seclusion.
Because of this nature, her Labyrinth is built from countless layers that stack and overlap each other.
As she is a cowardly witch that only wants to hide away quietly, she does not gather magic by killing humans or Puella Magi. She instead absorbs faint traces of magic from the Puella Magi that enter her Labyrinth, which she then uses to construct more layers to defend herself with.

|type          = Mirror Witch
|nature        = Seclusion
|episodes      = [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record]]
}}

{{Card
|name          = Sarah Mirabilis W
|runes         = SARAH MIRABILIS W
|image         = File:Mirror witch card.png
|japanese_desc = 鏡の魔女　その性質は『隠遁』
幾重にもなる結界を作り続けている、使い魔から成長した臆病な魔女。
周りを警戒し続けて右往左往しながら、小さな屋敷をどうやって効率的に広げるかを考えているうちに、いたる所を見渡せる目とグルグルとした殻を手に入れていた。
親である魔女の存在を感じ取ると、積極的にその巨大な屋敷と繋がって大きくなろうとする節があり、その機会を常にうかがっている。
自分が狙われるたびに使い魔に守ってもらっているが、攻撃の際に聞こえる銃声がとても苦手なので、本当は使うのをやめて欲しいと思っている。
|english_desc  =
A cowardly witch who grew from a familiar, and is who constantly engaged in building her manifold Labyrinth. She spends her days glancing back and forth, constantly on guard against her surroundings, while pondering how she can most efficiently expand her tiny mansion. Over the course of doing so, she obtained eyes that can survey everything there is to see, as well as a twisting spiral shell.
Upon sensing the presence of her parent witch, she actively attempts to grow larger by connecting to the parent’s gigantic mansion, and is constantly on the lookout for an opportunity to do so.
She summons familiars to protect herself when threatened, but she’s terribly discomforted by the gunshots they make when they attack, so she’d honestly prefer it if they stopped using them. 

|type          = Mirror Witch
|nature        = Seclusion
|episodes      = [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record]]
}}

== Minions ==

{{Card
|name          = Kirico Keepers
|runes         = KIRICO KEEPERS
|image         = File:MagicaRecord KiricoKeepers I card.png
|japanese_desc = 鏡屋敷の防犯装罟だが、お屋敷は不審者不遜者大歓迎。危険物条約検疫ノー審査で通してくれるため、その機能は監視というよりもお客様の複製を作るための情報収集という形で生かされている。お客様を見つけるとキスのごあいさつでおもてなしする。
|english_desc  = Minions of the witch of mirrors (I). Their role is to be Bellgirls.
One of the house keepers at the Manor of Mirrors. Like its brethren, it loves to entertain guests. When it finds a guest, it rings a bell, and then gives them a big welcoming hug. Its body is made of canvas that can copy the vital information of the guest it embraces. This stolen information is used to make a copy of the guest.
|type          = Mirror witch's minion I
|task          = Bellgirl
|episodes      = Magia Record
}}
{{Card
|name          = Kirico Keepers
|runes         = KIRICO KEEPERS
|image         = File:MagicaRecord KiricoKeepers II card.png
|japanese_desc = 鏡屋敷の防犯装置だが、お屋敷は不審者不遜指大歓迎。お客様に貴賎なし。より遠くにいるお客様の姿も精密に撮影するため望遠レンズを強化したらしい。そのおかげで遠くのお客様にもキスのごあいさつを投射できるようになった。
|english_desc  = Minions of the witch of mirrors (II). Their role is to guard.
A security device in the Manor of Mirrors. In Mirrors, however, everyone is welcome, suspicious or not. It has had its telescopic lens enhanced so that it can film guests in the distance more clearly. Thanks to this enhancement, it can now project a greeting kiss to guests from afar.
|type          = Mirror witch's minion II
|task          = Guard
|episodes      = Magia Record
}}
{{Card
|name          = Kirico Keepers
|runes         = KIRICO KEEPERS
|image         = File:MagicaRecord KiricoKeepers III card.png
|japanese_desc = 鏡屋敷にいるハウスキーパー達のひとり。お客様をおもてなしするために白身の体の中でゼリー人間を製造できる他、クオリティの高いお客様の複製をつくることも可能。ただし、精巧な複製お客様を作るにはゼリー人間よりもかなり時間がかかってしまう。
|english_desc  = Minions of the witch of mirrors (III). Their role is to be copiers.
One of the Manor of Mirrors' house keepers. It can create a jelly man inside its body to entertain guests. It can also make high-quality copies of guests, but that takes far more time than just crafting a jelly man.
|type          = Mirror witch's minion III
|task          = Copier
|episodes      = Magia Record
}}
{{Card
|name          = Kirico Keepers
|runes         = KIRICO KEEPERS
|image         = File:MagicaRecord KiricoKeepers IV card.png
|japanese_desc = 結界の外でミラーズ・鏡屋敷への招待状を配って回る手下。魔法少女を見つけると殺傷能力のある招待状を投げつけてくるが、ご招待したい気持ちは本物。ただ、死んでいた方が運びやすくて便利くらいに思っている疑惑はある。
|english_desc  = Minions of the witch of mirrors (IV). Their role is to solicit.
A Familiar that waits outside the Manor of Mirrors handing out invitations. When it spots a Magical Girl, it throws a lethal invitation letter at her. That said, it genuinely wants to invite people to the Manor. Some suspect it just believes it is easier to carry the body than actually get a living Magical Girl to go inside.
|type          = Mirror witch's minion IV
|task          = Solicitor
|episodes      = Magia Record
}}
==Powers and Abilities==
Its Familiars are capable of duplicating not only the physical appearance of a Magical Girl, but their abilities and memories as well. Some Familiars are copied so faithfully that even the [[Kyoko_Sakura_in_Magia_Record#Winter_Outfit|copies are not always aware that they are not the original]]. The Witch, or its labyrinth, also has the ability to entrance Magical Girls who have entered its labyrinth, instilling within them a desire to continue venturing deeper into its endless expanse at the expense of their own safety. Such victims will act and speak strangely, and will exhibit this hypnosis even when outside of the labyrinth.

The Mirror Witch is capable of connecting its barrier with the barrier of its Familiars that have matured into more copies of their master Witch; effectively, a matured Familiar's barrier becomes an extension of a massive shared barrier spanning many different locations at the same time, and there can be multiple instances of the Mirror Witch within that barrier at once. This includes barriers of other Mirror Witches from other universes, as seen in the [[Magia Record Story Chocolatier in Mirror Country|Chocolatier in Mirror Country]] event. {{spoiler|In Arc 2, the [[Promised Blood]] faction use this to their advantage: a copy of the Mirror Witch lives in Kamihama's abandoned prison, and Promised Blood can travel through its barrier into Kamihama without detection.}}

The Witch's labyrinth is also capable of connecting to the past and future of the timeline it resides in, and other timelines and/or universes entirely, as seen in the [[Magia Record Story The Witches' Paradox Extermination Battle|The Witches' Paradox Extermination Battle]] event. Because of this, time paradoxes may also occur via its labyrinth, for which the Mirror Witch acts as a corrective function to resolve: if a paradox were to occur as a result of its connection throughout time, and if a portal that would allow for the timeline to be corrected were to be removed or destroyed, the product of the paradox would be instantly destroyed; for example, an object from the past that is brought to a future, that is then unable to return to the past when the portal is was brought through is destroyed, would be instantly destroyed. Because the Mirror Witch appears to be searching across all of time and space to find a more habitable place to migrate to, this could theoretically result in the destruction of Magia Record's timeline if it were to do so.

Similarly, in the [[Magia Record Story Magia Clash! ~Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation~|Lyrical Nanoha Magia Clash!]] event, a Familiar that copied [[Shizuku Hozumi]] became much stronger than the original through a magical orb that increased its wielder's strength via the harnessed power of the Mirror Witch, and was thus able to use Shizuku's ability to teleport via connection different places in space to open multiple portals to another universe entirely, one where her native Magical Girl system does not even exist.

==In Magia Record==
* The Mirror Witch plays a central part in the following events: 
** [[Magia Record Mirrors Story]]
** [[Magia Record Story Breakpoint|Breakpoint]]
** [[Magia Record Story A New Beginning]]
** [[Magia Record Story Chocolatier in Mirror Country|Chocolatier in Mirror Country]]
** [[Magia Record Mirrors Story New Mirrors Ranking Held!|New Mirrors Ranking Held!]]
** [[Magia Record Story The Witches' Paradox Extermination Battle|The Witches' Paradox Extermination Battle]]
* An iteration of this Witch {{spoiler|is also used by the Promised Blood faction to infiltrate Kamihama City without detection}} in Arc 2. It is implied that some of the other factions have also taken advantage of this to quickly return to their hometowns.
* This Witch also appears in the following events:
** [[Kyoko Sakura in Magia Record#Winter Outfit|Kyoko Sakura's Winter Outfit]] story
** [[Madoka-Iroha|Madoka-Iroha's]] personal story
** [[Meguru Hibiki|Meguru Hibiki's]] personal story

==Trivia==
* The sign in her labyrinth reads "Welcome to Mirrors".
* Her name, "Sarah・Mirabilis・W", may originate from various sources:
** It is based on "Spira mirabilis" (Latin for "miraculous spiral"), another name for the [[wikipedia:logarithmic spiral|logarithmic spiral]], a self-similar spiral curve that often appears in nature. This alternative name was given to it for its unique mathematical property of being able to retain its shape with each successive curve even as its size increases.
*** The shells of several species of ammonites and nautiluses form such spirals, which her design thus resembles.
** [[wikipedia:Sarah Winchester|Sarah L. Winchester]] was the owner of the [[wikipedia:Winchester Mystery House|Winchester Mystery House]], which she had purposefully designed to be confusing and maze-like in an attempt to stave off vengeful spirits from finding and killing her.
*** Sarah Winchester's father in-law was the creator of the [[wikipedia:Winchester rifle|Winchester rifle]], which was often used during the war. Sarah built the house after a medium told her that the spirits of the victims of the rifle would haunt her, and she had to keep building the house in order to keep them at bay. The witch' familiars use Winchester rifles during one of the witch' attacks, and the description notes she's uncomfortable with it.
***{{spoiler|Winchester is the witch's real name; this was revealed in Arc 2 Chapter 12 (Part 5).}}
** The letter W is often used in Japanese [https://legendsoflocalization.com/why-the-letter-w-appears-in-japanese/ to signify 'double' or 'twice].' In this case, it may refer to the fact that the Witch fought in-game grew from a Familiar and is not the original Witch, or to its laterally symmetrical body.
** The initials of her name are also a reflection of those of her human identity, Sena (S) Mikoto (M).
** It could also originate from '''W'''inchester, the Witch the Familiar came from.
* Her name is unique among Witches and Doppels in the game for including dots that separate the different names, where other multi-word names (e.g. [[Oktavia von Seckendorff]] and [[Kriemhild Gretchen]], though dots are infrequently present in [[Runes:Episode 10|the Madoka Magica anime]]) most often lack them.
* The part of the Familiars' name, "Kirico" appears to be a modification of the Japanese word "kiriko" (切子), meaning "facet" or "face".
** [[wikipedia:jp:江戸切子|Edo kiriko]] and [[wikipedia:Satsuma kiriko|Satsuma kiriko]] are traditional Japanese crafts of cut glass.
* The humanoid figure that appears in one of the Witch's labyrinth backgrounds is a scrapped Familiar. Its concept art shown at the Shaft Art Exhibit reveals that its purpose was to explain how Mirrors worked and that it could speak. This idea was eventually scrapped and the Familiar's role was filled by [[Mitama Yakumo]] instead.
*The lower body of her true form resembles the calyx of a chinese lantern plant, which is a symbol of deceit. It is also associated with the Obon festival and it's supposed to guide the souls of the dead back to the afterlife, {{spoiler|which may be related to Mikoto persisting as a "ghost" after her death.}}

==Gallery==
===Official Art===
<gallery>
File:Kirico Keepers I-II - Magireco Archive.jpg|Kirico Keepers from the Magia Archive
File:Kirico Keepers III-IV - Magireco Archive.jpg
KiricoKeepers_FamiliarI_conceptart.png|Concept art of Kirico Keeper I
KiricoKeepers_FamiliarII_conceptart.png|Concept art of Kirico Keeper II
KiricoKeepers_FamiliarIII_conceptart.png|Concept art of Kirico Keeper III
KiricoKeepers_FamiliarIV_conceptart.png|Concept art of Kirico Keeper IV
KiricoKeepers_scrappedFamiliar_conceptart.png|An unused Kirico Keeper
File:Magireco kiriko 3 concept.png|Concept art of Kirico Keeper I
File:Magireco kiriko concept 2.png|Concept art of Kirico Keeper II
File:Magireco kiriko concept 1.png|Concept art of Kirico Keeper IV
</gallery>

===Magia Record===
====Bio Cards====
<gallery>
File:Mirror Witch.png|Sarah Mirabilis W bio
File:Winchester magireco card.jpg|Winchester bio
File:Screenshot 2017-09-07-01-32-43.png|Kirico Keeper I bio
File:Screenshot 2017-09-07-01-32-55.png|Kirico Keeper II bio
File:Screenshot 2017-09-07-01-33-03.png|Kirico Keeper III bio
File:Screenshot 2017-09-07-01-33-08.png|Kirico Keeper IV bio
</gallery>

====Sprites====
<gallery>
File:Enemy 6211 l.png|Winchester (1st form)
File:Chara 6211 00 b.png|Winchester (2nd form)
File:Winchester FinalForm1.png|Winchester (3rd form)
File:Winchester FinalForm2.png|Winchester (Final form)
File:Doppel 104400 l.png|Doppel sprite
File:Enemy 6212 l.png|Sara Miribilis W sprite
File:Chara 6212 00 b.png
File:Enemy 6214 l.png| Winchester (Copy)
File:103304 mirror witch division2.png|Winchester (Copy) sprite
File:Chara 6215 00 b.png|Winchester (Copy) 2nd form
File:Enemy 7211 l.png|Kirico Keeper I sprite
File:Enemy 7212 l.png|Kirico Keeper II sprite
File:Enemy 7213 l.png|Kirico Keeper III sprite
File:Enemy 7102 l.png|Kirico Keeper IV sprite
</gallery>

====Other Art====
<gallery>
File:102704 mirror.png
File:Mirror Witch Battle.PNG|Sarah Mirabillis W battle scene
File:102704 ikumi attack.jpg|[[Ikumi Makino]] versus the copy witch
File:Memoria_1718_c.png|Kirico Keeper II at left
File:103302 jelly human.png
File:103303 witch handmirror.png
File:103303 witch handmirror gate.png
File:103304 mirror witch appear1.jpg|Winchester Attacking
File:103304 mirror witch appear2.jpg
File:103304 mirror witch limb.png
File:103304 mirror witch zoom.png
File:Mikoto game over.jpg|"Game Over" screen
File:Winchester real form 1.PNG
File:Winchester real form 2.PNG
File:Winchester battle 1.PNG
File:Winchester battle 2.PNG
File:Winchester attacks.jpg|Winchester using magia
File:Winchester magia 2.PNG
File:Winchester vertical attack 1.PNG
File:Winchester vertical attack 2.PNG
File:Winchester vertical attack 3.PNG
File:Winchester vertical attack 4.PNG
File:Winchester vertical attack 5.PNG
File:Winchester attacks 2.jpg
File:Winchester deferted.PNG|Winchester defeated
File:103304 puella gather.jpg
</gallery>

====Barrier====
<gallery>
File:Magia Record - Mirrors Entrance 1.png|The foyer of the abandoned house the Witch lives in.
File:Mirrors emblem.png|Witch's Kiss
File:103303 witch handmirror gate.png
File:Mirror barrier 3.jpg
File:mirror_barrier_1.jpg|Part of the witch's barrier. Notice the [[Kyubey]] painting.
File:mirror_barrier_2.png|Part of the witch's barrier. The [[Runes]] read "Welcome to Mirrors".
File:Bg adv 46211.jpg
File:Evt raid map00.png|Map of Mirrors used for Events
File:Evt raid map10.png
File:Bg adv 46213.jpg|Mirror Barrier during New Year Events
File:Chocolate Mirrors Barrier.jpg|Mirror Barrier during [[Magia Record Story Chocolatier in Mirror Country|Chocolatier in Mirror Country Event]]
File:102704 mirror witch division.png
</gallery>

==Memoria Cards==
{{Magia Record Memoria Header}}
{{File:Emiri 4x memoria.png}}
{{File:Rena Kaede Mirror Memo.png}}
{{File:Memoria 1400 c.png}}
{{File:Memoria 1401 c.png}}
{{Magia Record Memoria Footer}}

==External Links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ZeAf423Fs Recording of the Mirror Witch's battle animations]

==See Also==
*[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record]]
[[Category:Witches]]