Homura Akemi

""No matter how many times I have to repeat all of this, I'll protect you!""

- Homura to Madoka

Homura Akemi is both a protagonist and an antagonist of Madoka Magica. She is first seen by Madoka in a dream of her fighting a monster in a desolate landscape of skyscrapers. The day after the dream, Homura has transferred to Madoka's school where she gives her ominous warnings. In the Fighters of Lapis series, she is a key character in Fighters of Lapis 5 and 6, with her being one of the more major characters in Fighters of Lapis 6.

Background
Prior to the events of the TV anime, Homura was hospitalized for a long period of time due to heart disease. The whereabouts and status of her family is unknown, as they are never mentioned in the series. In the original timeline, Homura at this point is physically frail and weak most likely due to her illness.

Homura's time-loop officially starts on the 16th of the month in the anime (speculated to be sometime between March and April). She was released from the hospital on the 16th, and transferred to Mitakihara Middle School on the 25th. In the original timeline, she is attacked by a witch and saved by Madoka and Mami. Sometime during the next month, during Walpurgisnacht, she becomes a magical girl while wishing to redo her meeting with Madoka, thus gaining the power to pause and/or rewind time one month.

It is estimated Homura repeated the same month starting on the 16th nearly 100 times before the present timeline in the TV anime. Within these timelines, Homura was able to gradually improve her abilities and acquire items (such as ammunition and weapons from the Japanese military) to prepare for the battle with Walpurgisnacht. She was also able to memorize and deduce through statistics the major events that would occur within all timelines, giving her incredible knowledge about most of her adversaries. The corollary, however, was that Homura experienced the deaths of many of her friends repeatedly, often horrifically. As a general trend, Homura became increasingly distant to Madoka with each repeat of the month.

By the timeline of the TV anime, Homura appeared as a cold and calculating character who is distant from all the characters. She failed to save all of her companions (apart from Madoka), and by Walpurgisnacht, was forced to face the witch alone. She was subsequently defeated by Walpurgisnacht, and seemed just about to succumb to despair before Madoka appears and rewrites the Universe with her wish.

Fighters of Lapis 5
Homura appears initially as a enemy working for Ultron. She first appears in Madoka's class, following the storyline of the anime until the Fighters of Lapis defeat Ultron in the Great Maze II. She then begins a new timeline at the request of Ultron, where he is now ruler of the world, which is policed by him. Eventually, how she met Ultron and why she's working for him is revealed in a flash back in the cave. Ultron then grabs her shield and shakes it, creating a time vortex. Only Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and Hawkeye are able to stop the vortex.

Once Ultron has been defeated yet again, he annihilates a Madoka trophy and tells Homura to go back in time yet again, but the Fighters of Lapis reveal he was duped. With Madoka safe and Ultron blowing himself up after deeming he is the greatest threat to humanity, she goes back to the first timeline.

Fighters of Lapis 6
Homura, Mario, and the others begin to recruit more Fighters of Lapis after learning that Tabuu is back and with a group called The Brotherhood. As they take down Tabuu's ships, something goes wrong and Mario and Homura have to travel back in time, creating a new timeline.

Moveset

 * Standard Special: Revolver - Homura fires off a revolver that she got from inside of her shield.
 * Side Special: Time Dash - Homura briefly stops time and moves quickly and then allows time to flow as she finishes her run. Since it's so quick, it hurts anyone in it's radius. The time stopping only happens within a certain radius.
 * Up Special: Explosive Jump - Homura again, briefly stops time within a certain radius to set off a bunch of explosives, which launch her up. Anyone caught in the radius of the explosion will get hurt.
 * Down Special: Back to the Past - Homura reverses time within a certain radius, which allows her to undo mistakes.
 * Super Move: Night of the Walpurgisnacht - Homura sets up a bunch of explosives and guns with strings attacked to their triggers and as Walpurgisnacht appears, she sets them all off, harming anyone that gets hit, including Walpurgisnacht. But Homura fails, and has to create a new timeline, bringing all opponents with her.