Canon + Character overview
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moe_warriorTW for mentions of suicide and self-harm
Momoka Sakurai is a sixteen year old high school student (though I bump her age up to eighteen for some threads) trying to make it through the day. Her life has been hard since her mother killed herself when she was ten, and her father is very much an absentee dad who has to work overtime regularly to keep the lights on. Momoka likes video games, mecha anime, and doodling in her notebook. She doesn't have many super close friends, but she has people who tolerate her, more or less. She was doing okay at staying afloat despite some depressive episodes and life almost managed to stay normal, until a demon possessed some of her classmates and they tried to kill her.
So, not a great day, all things considered.
Fortunately, a strange magical creature named Usa-tan popped up and gave her a rundown on blood magic, which she used to become a magical girl, free her classmates from evil influence and save the day. (This is where the self-harm aspect comes in - her blood is the easiest thing to use for magic, so she's had to cut herself once or twice to get it going.) The demons aren't a random occurrence. They're being sent by a being called the Dark Lord who needs blood sacrifice to reenter the human world, which he wants to one day rule. The only thing that can keep him from succeeding are magical girls, who can prevent this by keeping possessed people from killing themselves and others.
Thus begins Momoka's adventures as Menhera-chan, a magical girl like her mother before her, here to save the day and repair the sadness in the world as best she can. The problem is, she's pretty sad herself. She's never processed the death of her mother, struggles to understand social interaction, and has a lot of fears about the future and what she's supposed to do with her life that only got amplified by her new magical girl status. She tries to be a brave and daring heroine. Momoka even manages that, a lot of the time. But sometimes she just wants to curl up in her room, play video games all day, skip school and eat sweets until she feels like she can deal with life again.
She's trying her best. Life is hard and unrelenting and cruel, but she keeps trying to make it better. Maybe that's what being a magical girl is, at the end of the day.
Momoka Sakurai is a sixteen year old high school student (though I bump her age up to eighteen for some threads) trying to make it through the day. Her life has been hard since her mother killed herself when she was ten, and her father is very much an absentee dad who has to work overtime regularly to keep the lights on. Momoka likes video games, mecha anime, and doodling in her notebook. She doesn't have many super close friends, but she has people who tolerate her, more or less. She was doing okay at staying afloat despite some depressive episodes and life almost managed to stay normal, until a demon possessed some of her classmates and they tried to kill her.
So, not a great day, all things considered.
Fortunately, a strange magical creature named Usa-tan popped up and gave her a rundown on blood magic, which she used to become a magical girl, free her classmates from evil influence and save the day. (This is where the self-harm aspect comes in - her blood is the easiest thing to use for magic, so she's had to cut herself once or twice to get it going.) The demons aren't a random occurrence. They're being sent by a being called the Dark Lord who needs blood sacrifice to reenter the human world, which he wants to one day rule. The only thing that can keep him from succeeding are magical girls, who can prevent this by keeping possessed people from killing themselves and others.
Thus begins Momoka's adventures as Menhera-chan, a magical girl like her mother before her, here to save the day and repair the sadness in the world as best she can. The problem is, she's pretty sad herself. She's never processed the death of her mother, struggles to understand social interaction, and has a lot of fears about the future and what she's supposed to do with her life that only got amplified by her new magical girl status. She tries to be a brave and daring heroine. Momoka even manages that, a lot of the time. But sometimes she just wants to curl up in her room, play video games all day, skip school and eat sweets until she feels like she can deal with life again.
She's trying her best. Life is hard and unrelenting and cruel, but she keeps trying to make it better. Maybe that's what being a magical girl is, at the end of the day.
