A (currently partial) list of characters appearing in Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights, a Magical Girl Massive Multiplayer Crossover/Crisis Crossover.
This page will contain unmarked spoilers for both the fic and its five component universes. It's recommended to familiarize yourself with the events and characters of Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, the first ten or thirteen Pretty Cure series, Lyrical Nanoha, and Puella Magi Madoka Magica before continuing.
Beware of Spoilers. Spoilers from up to the Battle of Azabu-Juuban Arc are unmarked.
The Morning Lights
The Big Five
Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon - The First
Callsign: Mochi
AMP Device: Imperium
The Magical Girl Warrior Trope Codifier, champion of justice, Princess and future Queen of the first and second Silver Millennium respectively, and evil's worst nightmare.
Five years after the final battle with Galaxia and Chaos, with no sign of the Crystal Tokyo future coming to pass, Usagi has settled into a happy, mostly normal post-school life. Now twenty-one years old, engaged to and living with her beloved Mamoru, she thinks her Sailor Senshi days are long behind her... until she gets a panicked call from Rei at the Hikawa Shrine, and is reluctantly drawn back into battle once more.
Her AMP Device, Imperium, is a diamond crescent moon, attached to her brooch when she is transformed and acting as an extension to the Moon Stick when activated. It features dual modes, Guardian and Soldier. Guardian Mode is defensive-based, and Soldier Mode is offensive-based.
- Action Girl: The story takes place five years after the defeat of Shadow Galactica in her home series. Usagi has long since gotten a handle on her Senshi powers and defeating the forces of evil, even five years out of practice and Brought Down to Badass... as evidenced by her clearing out an army of Monsters of the Week in the battle in front of the Osa-P Jewelry Store.
- Brought Down to Badass: Joker's time manipulation has reverted her back to her original "Prism Power" form, but as seen above, she's still able to kick ass.
- Flechette Storm: One of the functions of Imperium, her AMP device, converts her classic Moon Tiara Action attack into a volley of smaller discuses, in a new technique called Moon Tiara Shuriken.
- Happily Married: Engaged to Mamoru and living together with him at the start of her story.
- Stepford Smiler: Remembering the multiple deaths of her loved ones and herself from two conflicting timelines has done a number on her, adding to the PTSD that her many battles inflicted upon her. Usagi being Usagi, however, she keeps on plugging. After all, she's Seen It All.
- Wave-Motion Gun: With Imperium, Usagi's new attack is Moon Diamond Absolution, a Nanoha-esque massive energy beam.
Sakura Kinomoto / Cardcaptor Sakura - The Second
Callsign: Strength 8
AMP Device: Arcana
The Cardcaptor, personally selected by Clow Reed to become not only his successor but the one who would surpass him.
Sakura is sixteen years old, attending Seijo High with her best friend Tomoyo and her boyfriend Shaoran. Life since the NOTHING's rampage has been ordinary, apart from the presence of Kero and her Cards. All that changes when two-thirds of the Cards are suddenly altered, and when Tomoyo attacks Shaoran in an uncharacteristic fit of mad jealousy later that night. Joker, the culprit behind both of these strange events, soon makes himself known to her... and after he takes both Tomoyo and Shaoran from her, Sakura is forced to flee the subsequent destruction of her hometown, Tomoeda, along with Kero, Toya, Yukito, and her remaining Cards.
Her AMP Device, Arcana, was a pair of red fighting gloves bearing her wing emblem. Arcana's Immaterial was infused with Sakura's love for her Cards during its construction process, and was designed to take back one of the stolen Cards with every blow she landed on Joker, by reminding them of that love. After fulfilling its function and holding together for Sakura's coup de grâce, Arcana exploded in Joker's face.
- Balance Between Order and Chaos: Joker discovers that Sakura's Seed is neither a Chaos nor a Cosmos Seed, but a perfect balance between both. Thus, Sakura is a living representation of the Morning Lights' mission to bring Chaos and Cosmos back into balance.
- Brought Down to Badass: She's down roughly a third of her Cards, including most of the aggressive and combat-oriented ones, but with the clever thinking she gained from her trials, she's learned to use her remaining Cards in some very unexpected ways. See Heart Is an Awesome Power below.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: She took out Octavia von Seckendorff in one hit via a creative usage of the Sweet Card.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Sakura's caring nature and empathy for everyone is one of the reasons Joker targeted her personally, in hopes that he could Break the Cutie. He hasn't succeeded. Yet.
- Took a Level in Badass: She was never much for fighting in her home series, but being tutored by her black-belt karateka brother and Nanoha Takamachi is giving her an excellent education.
Nagisa Misumi / Cure Black
Home Series: Futari wa Pretty Cure
Callsign: Crosse
AMP Device: Yang
One half of the original Precure duo, and the appointed leader of all the Precure groups collectively when they gather.
A month after the end of Max Heart and the final defeat of the Dark King, Nagisa, Honoka, Hikari, Hikaru, and their fairy partners intend to enjoy the rest of their lives free of conflict. A distortion in time and space spoils their happiness, erasing Hikari, Hikaru, Porun, and Lulun from existence and from the memories of all that knew them. Mepple and Mipple are weakened by the same distortion, changed back to their original forms from the start of the conflict with Dusk Zone. Nagisa and Honoka suspect that the Dark King's evil has returned yet again... only to find that the old mansion remains gone. Two psychotic magical girls from another universe attack them, seeking the Prism Stones, and in the ensuing fight, Honoka is captured by Dead End, leaving Nagisa mode-locked as Cure Black, unwilling to detransform lest Honoka be left defenseless, wherever she is. Nagisa finds herself as the leader of all the remaining Precure teams, trying her best to endure without her beloved partner.
- Action Girl: One of the original Precure Action Girls, in fact.
- Brought Down to Badass: Nagisa and Honoka both lost their upgraded forms from Max Heart, but she still has her Precure form's Super-Strength, endurance, and hand-to-hand combat skills.
- Determined Defeatist: Even moreso than in her home series. Losing her best friend and sidekick? Stuck in her transformed state? Mepple largely unable to speak? Losing Iona to Dead End? Her entire universe subjected to a Time Crash? Nagisa will yell "I don't believe this!", grouse and cry about it... and then get right back up and keep fighting.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Being separated from Honoka means no more Marble Screws for the time being, so Nagisa is forced to rely on her Precure form's Super-Strength, endurance, and hand-to-hand combat skills. Her AMP Device, Yang, helps mitigate this.
- I Will Find You: Her primary motivation is to get Honoka back, no matter the cost.
- Mode Lock: Since Honoka was abducted by Dead End while still transformed, Nagisa can't change back into civilian form for fear of leaving Honoka depowered and at Dead End's mercy. The effect of being transformed so long is extremely taxing on both her and Mepple.
Nanoha Takamachi
Callsign: Lyrical
Device: Raising Heart
The TSAB's Ace of Aces, feared by her foes as the White Devil, one of the most powerful, brilliant, and unstoppable mages of her era.
Several years after the end of the Book of Darkness Incident, Nanoha was greivously wounded on what was supposed to be a routine TSAB mission by a swarm of deadly Type-IV Gadget Drones. Compounded by the accumulated stress of overtaxing her body over extended periods, she was confined to a hospital for almost a year, enduring grueling surgeries, with the TSAB's medics telling her that she would be lucky to even walk again. Her story begins after a period of prolonged rehabilitation, including being limited to a mobility chair. She is no longer the invincible powerhouse she was before, but Nanoha is determined to not only walk but fly again, dreaming of one day resuming her duties. Her first attempt to spar with Fate is interrupted by an attack from two of the Wolkenritter, their trusted allies... and the culprit is Viluy, a woman from another universe, wielding nanotechnology that allows her to easily best Fate in combat and tear out one of her eyes. Out of options, Nanoha uses a Starlight Breaker sans safety limiters to incinerate Viluy and escape with the wounded Fate, but that's only the beginning of their struggles.
- Handicapped Badass: Nanoha's story picks up in the aftermath of the "Gadget Drone Incident" from her home series. At the start of her universe's invasion, she's on the cusp of finishing her rehab with a mobility chair, and her mana output is severely stunted. Nevertheless, as Moebius 90, Hadenya, and Walpurgisnacht would attest, she's still capable of holding her own when it counts.
- Little Miss Badass: Thirteen years old as of this story, making her the youngest of the Big Five. And as anyone who knows her home series can tell you, definitely badass.
- Red Right Hand: Her hands have severe burns from firing a Starlight Breaker sans safety limiters, and are healing slowly.
- These Hands Have Killed: She vaporized Viluy after the latter took Fate's eye. The fact that Viluy came back through cloning hasn't lessened her guilt over using lethal force, even if it was an emergency.
Madoka Kaname - The Third
Callsign: Swan
AMP Device: Solace
The meek, unassuming Puella Magi archer who ascended to goddesshood as the Law of Cycles through a complex series of circumstances, and thereby became the concept of hope itself.
Madoka has wonderful friends, a loving family, and an enjoyable school life, everything she could ever want. Little does she know that her peaceful world is a Gilded Cage created for her by Homura Akemi, who has stolen her powers and rewritten her memories. The illusion comes crashing down with the arrival of Joker, who exploits Homura's human weaknesses to torment them both and forces them to flee their universe. Over Homura's objections, Madoka regains her powers as a Puella Magi, but she remains unaware of her best friend's betrayal, and she can't be shielded from the truth forever...
Her AMP Device, Solace, is a red ribbon tied around her wrist, which can extend on command. Its powers are based on the concept of empathy; it allows Madoka to "connect" to other people, and is able to heal wounds and identify both conventional and supernatural maladies. It also allows Madoka to "full dive" into a person's mind when necessary, at a substantial risk to both that person and Madoka herself.
- Locked Out of the Loop: This is Post-Rebellion, it's a given. Horribly Subverted after "the entity" reveals Homura's betrayal to the multiverse.
- The Empath: Her AMP's functions revolve around empathy. In addition to empathic abilities, it also grants her the ability to "full dive" into a person's mind if neccesary. Deconstructed: despite possessing empathic abilities, she seems remarkably unable to grasp why Homura acts the why she does.
Morning Lights - The Initial Group
Rei Hino / Sailor Mars
Home Series: Sailor Moon
The Sol System Senshi's beautiful and passionate Miko.
Due to the merging of the two primary Sailor Moon timelines (i.e., the 90s anime continuity and the manga/Crystal/Eternal/Cosmos continuity), two very different versions of Rei Hino appeared in the same reality: one cool, elegant, and serious, and the other hotheaded and Tsundere. Both Reis were "real", and both had the powers of Sailor Mars. When the two joined hands after Rei 1 was mortally wounded, a time distortion joined them back together as "Fusion" Rei, who has elements of both personalities and a radically altered appearance. Because of this fusion's unstable nature, Rei must remain composed and focused to keep herself together.
- Doppelmerger: The 90s anime and manga/Crystal versions of Rei merged into one when Rei 1 (i.e., 90s) was mortally wounded and touched hands with Rei 2 (i.e., manga). This fusion is unstable, causing Rei to "waver" at times and changing her appearance.
- Locked into Strangeness: In civilian form, Rei has flaming red eyes and glowing, fiery streaks in her hair, which smoke and give off embers on occasion. As Sailor Mars, the streaks burst into Hot Wings when she uses her abilities.
Minako Aino / Sailor Venus
Home Series: Sailor Moon
Callsign: Utada
AMP Device: Comeback Tour
Modern-day Earth's original Sailor Senshi under the identity of Sailor V, and leader of the four primary Inner Senshi.
Now an internationally-known Idol Singer, Minako returns to Japan along with Artemis to assist the Sailor Senshi when Dead End's forces attack Azabu-Juuban. She manages to inflict a permanent X-shaped scar on Joker himself with her Holy Blade... but Joker then steals her voice from her in an act of petty revenge. Undaunted, Minako still gives her all as a member of the Morning Lights, using other methods to communicate.
Her AMP Device, Comeback Tour, is a bronze star worn attached to a choker. It functions as an artificial voice box.
- Lost Voice Plot: Joker used the Voice Card on her in revenge for scarring him, which rendered her mute. She primarily communicates via text messages, and later with assistance from her AMP Device, Comeback Tour.
Usagi "Chibi-Usa" Small Lady Serenity Tsukino / Sailor Chibi-Moon / "Neo" Sailor Moon
Home Series: Sailor Moon
Callsign: Faraway
AMP Device: Diana P
Usagi and Mamoru's time-traveling daughter from the 30th Century CE, and Princess of Crystal Tokyo.
Chibi-Usa, now (physically) a teenager attending Usagi's former junior high school, has her peaceful life with her girlfriend Hotaru stolen away by the appearance of the Time Reaper. Having grown from an Adorably Precocious Child into a Deadpan Snarker befitting of her physical age, Chibi-Usa still struggles with feelings of inadequacy toward Usagi and Neo Queen Serenity, in particular worrying over her eventual destiny to take up the mantle as the second Sailor Moon.
Her AMP Device is Diana P, a smaller balloon fashioned in the manner of her childhood toy and companion, Luna P. Like its "sibling", Diana P has many functions, including an array of sensory and communication equipment, the ability to transform into a wand or other useful objects, and an autonomous Attack Drone mode.
- Dual Wielding: Her AMP Device, Diana P, can transform into a wand to compliment her Pink Moon Stick, allowing Chibi-Usa to perform a double Pink Sugar Heart Attack called Pink Moon Heartbeat, or combine the two into one wand for another technique, Pink Moon Diamond Reaction.
Michiru Kaioh / Sailor Neptune
Callsign: Paganini
Home Series: Sailor Moon
The cool, elegant artist and violinist of the Sol System's Outer Senshi.
Dead End's attack split Michiru from her beloved Haruka, separating the dream team and perfect couple who had endured together for so many years. For Michiru, recovering her partner is her first priority and everything else is secondary... an attitude which leads to dire consequences when she and Alph put together a plan to make that happen.
- I Will Find You: As with Nagisa/Cure Black, she's searching for her lost partner... in her case, Haruka/Sailor Uranus.
Hotaru Tomoe / Sailor Saturn
Home Series: Sailor Moon
Callsign: Cassini
AMP Device: Messiah
The Senshi of Ruin who years ago became Chibi-Usa's best friend, and later her partner.
All the chaos of Hotaru's early years seemed to be behind her when Dead End attacked. Like Chibi-Usa, she is physically a teenager, attending Juuban Municipal Junior High. As the most dangerous of the Sailor Senshi, Hotaru must balance her desire to fight alongside the Morning Lights with the risk of the enemy gaining control of her awesome power.
Her AMP Device, Messiah, is a pink bunny head charm worn on a silver necklace. Its appearance belies the fact that Messiah is the most dangerous AMP ever constructed: a weapon of last resort, it uses a controlled vent of the Power of Destruction to guarantee the slow, horrible, agonizing, and permanent death of its target, at a cost of one year of Hotaru's life per usage.
- Apocalypse Maiden: As always. Her potential to easily destroy planets as both Sailor Saturn and Mistress 9 is why she was kept on the sidelines until Act III.
- Cast from Lifespan: Messiah's Amethyst Morendo will inflict inescapable death on its target... but its tradeoff is that each use of it takes a year from Hotaru's life.
- Deader than Dead: The other function of the Amethyst Morendo. Anyone or anything hit by it is gone once it dies, never to return.
- Moth Menace: Amethyst Morendo takes the form of a giant moth with space-patterned wings, which splits into a swarm of hundreds of identical smaller moths when in range of its target.
- Polyamory: Forms a polyamorous relationship with Madoka and Homura.
Tsubomi Hanasaki / Cure Blossom
Home Series: HeartCatch Pretty Cure!
Callsign: Frontier
AMP Device: Mugen Star
The shy, quiet, flower-loving leader of the Heartcatch Precure.
After being attacked by a resurrected Dark Precure and a corrupted Cure Moonlight, Tsubomi, Erika, and their fairy partners were forced to leave their homes, families, and worlds behind to take shelter in the Lighthouse. All of this, in addition to losing Itsuki / Cure Sunshine along the way, was a major blow to Tsubomi's self-confidence, and it took Erika's pledge of undying support to help her manage her guilt and grief.
Her AMP Device, Mugen Star, takes the form of a patchouli pouch, clipped to the larger pouch that holds her Heart Perfume.
- Berserk Button: Don't EVER harm plants and flowers around her. Hadenya's tank learned this lesson the hard way.
- Caring Gardener: Naturally. As a coping mechanism, Tsubomi recreates her grandmother's greenhouse in her room at the Lighthouse, tending it faithfully... though all the plants in it are made of Immaterial, and thus are devoid of true life.
Erika Kurumi / Cure Marine
Home Series: HeartCatch Pretty Cure!
The loud, quirky, and exuberant fashionista of the Heartcatch Precure.
Erika was just as affected by leaving Kibougahana and her loved ones behind as Tsubomi was. However, Hot-Blooded as she is, her method of doing something about it was very different. She was one of the most enthusiastic supporters of Alph and Neptune's secret rescue mission plan, codenamed "Operation Batman", and joined those two and six others in attempting to infiltrate Dead End's palace.
The mission went disastrously wrong and almost resulted in Joker's certain victory... but poor Erika paid more of a price than most. While he had her at his mercy, Joker smashed her left kneecap with a sledgehammer, and complications from the injury left the Arthra's medical staff with no choice but to amputate it above the knee once she was recovered.
As of Act III, Erika is in rehab in preparation for receiving a permanent prosthetic leg, which will be built using cybernetics from the Nanohaverse. Despite the difficulties inherent in learning to walk again, Erika's fiery spirit is irrepressible.
- An Arm and a Leg: Joker shattered her kneecap with a sledgehammer when she and the Operation Batman team members were captured. The damage and contamination from Jamanen's fluid was so severe that the Arthra medical staff were forced to amputate her leg from the end of her shin down.
- Artificial Limbs: As of Act III, Erika is in rehab, in preparation for receiving a cybernetic leg from Doctor Atenza.
- Hot-Blooded: Of course, it's Erika. The other Morning Lights quickly take note of her boisterous personality, which seems to clash with her Cure form's signature element.
- Knee-capping: A tragic victim of this, courtesy of Joker and a sledgehammer. See An Arm and a Leg above.
- Physical Therapy Plot: Much of Erika's presence in Act III is one of these, as she must strengthen her body to ensure she doesn't hurt herself with her prosthetic.
Yayoi Kise / Cure Peace
Home Series: Smile Pretty Cure!
Callsign: Hongo
AMP Device: Miracle Driver
The timid and sensitive Otaku and manga artist of the Smile Precure.
Of all the Precure that exist, Joker's greatest ire is directed toward the Smile Cures, the team that defeated him and his master. His assault on the Smile Cures was particularly brutal, resulting in the death of Candy and four of the five Cures corrupted into a new group of Bad End Precure. Yayoi alone was rescued and taken to the Lighthouse, where it appeared she would be lost to despair. Thanks to Yui's intervention, though, Yayoi got much-needed emotional support from a certain other blonde, crybaby Magical Girl... none other than the real, flesh-and-blood Usagi Tsukino, Sailor Moon herself, one of Yayoi's childhood heroes.
Her AMP Device, Miracle Driver, is a belt that mimics the Typhoon worn by the original Kamen Rider, Takeshi Hongo. When activated, it temporarily supercharges Yayoi's speed and strengh, and enables her to perform her own variation of the iconic Rider Kick.
- Arch-Enemy: To Joker.
- Break the Cutie: Subject to a devastating example. Joker singled her out, as she was part of the team that defeated him the first time.
- Official Couple: Yayoi and Yui quickly establish a relationship when they bond over their similarities, and they become full-fledged girlfriends near the end of Act II.
- Otaku: Yayoi was a huge fan of magical girls and superheroes long before she became one herself. What she never expected was that somewhere in the multiverse, her hero Sailor Moon would be real, and that the two of them would have a chance to not only meet, but become friends and sisters-in-arms. See Tears of Joy below.
- Tears of Joy: Her reaction to meeting the genuine article.
Iona Hikawa / Cure Fortune
Home Series: HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!
The overachieving martial artist of the Happiness Charge Precure, who formerly bore a huge chip on her shoulder.
Iona had long since resolved her guilt and trauma over losing her older sister Maria / Cure Tender to the forces of darkness when Pikarigaoka was attacked again... with Tender going after her personally. The resulting battle left Megumi / Cure Lovely corrupted and Yuko / Cure Honey captured, forcing Iona to retreat with Hime / Cure Princess, the only other Precure left. Upon making contact with the Stranger and opening the door to the Lighthouse, Hime sacrificed her chance to escape with her, pushing her through the door and staying behind. Slipping back into her stern and serious persona, Iona's determination to rescue both her sister and her teammates led her to join the rescue team for Operation Batman.
Tragically, Iona would not make it back from that mission, as she was captured and assimilated into a Slime Girl "Drone" by Jamanen Model-JLX. With her new body under Jamanen's control, she was forced to use all her strength and skill to beat the stuffing out of Nagisa / Cure Black while aware and helpless to stop herself, before Jamanen suppressed her personality altogether to complete her subjugation. Now just as Nigh-Invulnerable and dangerous as her mistress, it's unclear if the Morning Lights will be able to restore Iona to her true form...
- Curb-Stomp Battle: As Drone Fortune, both times when she's forced to fight Cure Black, she wins easily, thanks to her martial arts skills plus her new Nigh-Invulnerable Rubber Man body.
- Sacrificial Lion: Her capture and assimilation marks the point when the rescue mission ultimately falls apart, and proves the undoing of the Operation Batman team.
- The Stoic: Losing the rest of her team and her beloved sister (again) made Iona slip back into her cold persona from the beginning of her series. She becomes a full-on Emotionless Girl as Drone Fortune when Jamanen suppresses her personality.
Kirara Amanogawa / Cure Twinkle
Home Series: Go! Princess Pretty Cure
Callsign: Gucci
The Princess Precure's Workaholic fashion model, and Towa's girlfriend.
Thanks to the Stranger, Kirara narrowly escaped from Noble Academy with Towa / Cure Scarlet and Yui Nanase in tow. Bearing a personal grudge toward Queen Nehelenia for her attempt to turn Towa back into Twilight, and with a desire to rescue her friends and stop Joker before Towa's condition deteriorated any further, Kirara joined the rescue mission in secret, as one of the first people Alph confided in about the plan.
- The Nicknamer: Carrying over from her series, Kirara comes up with cute nicknames for all her fellow Morning Lights.
- Stepford Smiler: She shows signs of this after the Operation Batman team is recovered, and it takes supportive words from Yuko to get her to express her grief over all that's happened.
Towa Akagi / Cure Scarlet
Home Series: Go! Princess Pretty Cure
Callsign: Concerto
The elfin princess of Hope Kingdom, a former brainwashed villain turned fiery Princess Precure.
Towa had her literal worst nightmare resurface when her world was attacked: the specter of her brainwashed other self, Princess Twilight. Queen Nehelenia tried to reawaken Twilight's buried essence within her, but Kirara's quick action saved her. Unfortunately, Kirara's attack severed Nehelenia's hand and left it inside Towa's Dream Mirror, and its presence is slowly turning her hair to a familiar shade of silver... Towa fights to keep Twilight under control, with the support of Kirara and later Rei, who has a similar problem.
- Locked into Strangeness: The silver streaks in Towa's red hair are a sign of her struggle against the essence of Twilight.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Twilight is hers, and Nehelania's actions reawakened the Dysdark Princess within her. With the help of meditation training from Rei, Towa is keeping Twilight at bay.
Fate Testarossa Harlaown
Home Series: Lyrical Nanoha
Callsign: Red Dog
Device: Bardiche
The product of Project Fate, the TSAB's Ace of the Navy, and Nanoha's partner.
After spending a year at Nanoha's side, helping her recover from the injuries she sustained from the Gadget Drone Incident, Fate was prepared to resume active duty alongside her partner. The return of the Book of Darkness and Viluy's attack on Carnaaji brought those plans crashing down. Paralyzed by Viluy's Nanomachines, Fate was helpless to stop Viluy from plucking out her right eye. Nanoha was forced to kill their assailant to get the both of them to safety, and thus a new period of recovery and adjustment began for both of them.
- Eyepatch of Power: As of Act II, Fate wears an eyepatch over her empty right eye socket. She later sews a red paw print over it, in memory of Alph.
- Fragile Speedster: Fate's Sonic Form makes an appearance when she fights Hadenya. Hadenya takes note that in that form, one good hit will be the end of her. Fate doesn't give her the chance.
Alph
Home Series: Lyrical Nanoha
Fate's unfailingly loyal Familiar since childhood.
Alph immediately rushed to Fate's side once her eye was stolen, and was onboard the Arthra when it was brought to the Lighthouse. Leaning that the Witch responsible somehow came Back from the Dead and had a part in wiping out the TSAB awoke in her a burning need to make Viluy pay, no matter what. She and Michiru hatched a plan together, gathering seven others for a secret rescue mission to Dead End's headquarters.
While Alph succeeded in exacting her bloody revenge on Viluy, it came at a tragic cost: before she died, the former Death Buster managed to inject her with a pseudo-virus tailored specifically for her physiology. Initially this only increased her aggression, but the passage of time and the multiple traumas to which she was subjected accelerated its effects and led to a rapid degredation of her sanity. Eventually, Fate was forced to release her from her contract, which granted her a quick and merciful death.
- Revenge: Once she learns that Viluy is alive, killing her and avenging the loss of Fate's eye becomes Alph's sole focus.
Homura Akemi
Home Series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Callsign: Jean
AMP Device: Chandeliers d'Argent
Once a weak and sickly but ordinary girl, then Madoka's sworn protector, then a grim and traumatized soldier lost in time, then the champion of Madoka's memory in the new world, and finally the Devil.
After the events of Rebellion, Homura spent an unknowable period of time keeping Madoka and the other Puellae Magi in a Gilded Cage. Joker's invasion of her "paradise" should have been easy for her to deal with. However, the harlequin somehow found a way of rendering himself immune to her powers, and his actions threatened to expose Madoka to the truth. While engaged in a vicious campaign of psychological warfare against her, Joker pushed Homura to her limits and took advantage of her distraction to bring first the Incubators' Hive Mind and then Mami, Kyoko, and Sayaka under his control. Panicked and running out of options, Homura froze time in her universe and escaped with Madoka to a Void Between the Worlds, where they were noticed by Fantine and brought to the Lighthouse by the Arthra.
Homura wants no part in the war against Dead End; her sole concern is for Madoka. As the threat to reality grows ever greater, though, she finds that neither of them may have a choice but to involve themselves, and that she may need to face the consequences of her actions after all.
Her AMP Device, Chandeliers d'Argent, is a silver shackle worn around her wrist. When activated, the shackle serves as a Morph Weapon capable of taking on a variety of shapes, including shields, swords, and polearms.
- Big Damn Heroes: Homura accomplishes the near-impossible by rescuing the Operation Batman team from certain doom with nothing more than an immense display of power to serve as a distraction and a fingernail-sized pebble. Said pebble is aimed at a solid object and accelerated to within a few digits of light speed...
- Love Martyr: Like in her home series, there is almost nothing Homura wouldn't do for Madoka's sake.
- De-power: Because of the insane risk of the above Big Damn Heroes moment, an incensed Fantine drains Homura of her stolen powers at the climax of Act II, leaving her back in her first Puella Magi form. The combined traumas of being made mortal again, having her secrets exposed to all reality, and losing Madoka's trust nearly do her in.
- Morph Weapon: Chandeliers d'Argent is unique in its construction, being made of more Immaterial than any other AMP Device. As it's essentially an amorphous mass of liquid metal when activated, Homura can shape and harden it into armaments that make up for her usual lack of close-range combat options. Its shapes are limited to a total of five kilograms of mass, however... anything larger than that runs the risk of it tearing itself apart.
- Second Love: It's revealed at the climax of Act III that Homura is in love again... with Hotaru, who sought her out after she lost everything. To her shock, as the two spent more time together, Homura's feelings turned romantic in nature, culminating in her belief that it would be healthier for both Madoka and herself to try to move on from her 'obsession'. Homura internally resolved to try to let Madoka go and to keep her love for Hotaru to herself, for fear of slipping back into her old mistakes. When events in Professor Tomoe's lab forced a confession from her, however, she was caught completely off guard by Hotaru's positive response, as well as by her suggestion as to how to move forward.
Later Recruits and Other Characters
Mami Tomoe
Home Series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Callsign: Peach Pie
AMP Device: Eleganza
The Puella Magi Holy Quintet's mature big sister figure, who hides deep trauma underneath her constant smile.
Her AMP Device, Eleganza, is a series of interlocking golden rings which encircle the hairclip that houses her Soul Gem. It serves as a database of sorts, allowing Mami to make more complex constructs with her magic ribbons.
- Face–Monster Turn: Joker turned her into a Hybrid-Witch along with Kyoko. Both of them were healed thanks to Sailor Chibi-Moon. During the Battle of Uminari, however, Mami was hit with this again when Rubeus's Dark Crystal transformed her into a Great Youma and extracted the Rainbow Crystal Joker hid inside her.
- Macross Missile Massacre: Using Eleganza, she can construct a missile box from her ribbons, allowing her to do this as a new attack, Tiro Crescendo.
Kyoko Sakura
Home Series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Callsign: Apples
AMP Device: Psalm 23
The wild child of the Holy Quintet, a homeless orphan who only looked out for herself.
Her AMP Device, Psalm 23, is a bronze cross attached to her Soul Gem. It restores and enhances Kyoko's illusion powers, which were lost after the death of her family. In particular, it upgrades her "Rossa Phantasma" attack to summon Hard Light holographic clones, which are capable of speech and independent movement.
- Berserk Button: Sayaka, after being stabbed. Kyoko does not take the news that her friend has voluntarily joined Dead End well.
- Face–Monster Turn: As with Mami above, Kyoko was forcibly turned into a Hybrid-Witch.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Sayaka demonstrated that she was Not Brainwashed by stabbing Kyoko through the stomach.
Yuko Omori / Cure Honey
Home Series: HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!
The warm and gentle rice-obsessed Team Mom of the Happiness Charge Precure. Initially captured during the invasion of Pikarigaoka, Yuko was put on the Merry-Go-Round and subjected to unbearable, unending pain. To the rescue team's horror, they found that removing victims from the Merry-Go-Round by force inflicts brutal injuries... While she was rescued, brought back to the Lighthouse, and given intensive medical care, the extent of the damage rendered Yuko unable to transform.
In Act III, Yuko is confined to a wheelchair, undergoing physical therapy while the damage to her limbs heals.
Hayate Yagami
Home Series: Lyrical Nanoha
Callsign: Round Table
The TSAB's "Living Lost Logia", currently the strongest mage in her universe.
In the invasion of the Nanohaverse, Hayate was captured first and put under the control of a Relic by Viluy. With a restored Book of Darkness in hand, Hayate commanded a Unison of herself with the Will of the Book of Darkness, using herself as the latter's mana battery. The result was a catastrophically powerful Person of Mass Destruction, see below.
Thanks to direct intervention by Fantine, Hayate was returned to the Lighthouse with her free will restored... but without her Devices to help her control her massive stores of mana, she was relegated to a support role.
Nagisa Momoe
Home Series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Callsign: Wallace
A young Puella Magi turned infamous Witch turned Madoka's messenger. Her Witch form was lost in a space-time tear, rendering her Ret-Gone, but her essence survived as part of the Stranger. She split off from the Stranger in Act III to save her honorary big sister, Mami.
Rikka Hishikawa / Cure Diamond
Home Series: Doki Doki! PreCure
Callsign: Tsubame
AMP Device: Gerogero
The hardworking medical student of the Doki Doki Precure.
Her AMP Device, Gerogero, is a futuristic laptop which appears to be carved from ice. It features a 3D holographic screen and a customizable liquid-crystal keyboard interface.
Ayumi Sakagami / Cure Echo
Home Series: Pretty Cure All Stars
Callsign: Sankeien
Initially a shy and timid Precure fangirl, Ayumi became a special, "phantom" Precure who appears in times of great need. Her unstable existence made her part of the Stranger. Like Nagisa, she split off from the Stranger in Act III.
Makoto Kino / Sailor Jupiter
Home Series: Sailor Moon
The Big Guy and Team Mom of the Inner Senshi, graduated and living her dream as the owner of a cake shop. During the initial invasion of Azabu-Juuban, she was struck with an Evil Nut and corrupted into a Pseudo-Witch. Madoka used her AMP Device, Solace, to dive into her mind and restore her true form.
Yui Nanase
Callsign: Keeper
Home Series: Go! Princess Pretty Cure
The Princess Precure's Badass Normal trusted confidant.
Alongside Kirara Amanogawa and Towa Akagi, Yui escaped from Noble Academy after the school came under attack by Queen Nehelenia. She may lack powers of her own, but she more than makes up with it in support roles. These included bringing Yayoi out of a deep depression over the loss of the rest of her team... an action which led to a budding romantic relationship between the two of them.
Sailor Iron Mouse
Home Series: Sailor Moon
The former lowest-ranking Sailor Animamate of Shadow Galactica.
Initially resurrected as part of Dead End, Sailor Iron Mouse surrendered to Sailor Mars and Cure Twinkle during the rescue mission and begged them for asylum. She was fed up with being a Chew Toy for the rest of Dead End's forces and utterly terrified of Joker, considering him worse than Sailor Galaxia ever was.
- Chew Toy: Seemingly the only reason Dead End resurrected her in the first place was to have someone they could all treat like garbage. After her defection, she shifts to become more of a Butt-Monkey.
- Defector from Decadence: Once Mars and Twinkle come across her on the rescue mission, she immediately surrenders and places herself in their custody as a means of getting as far away from Joker and Dead End as possible.
- Little Bit Beastly: Naturally, she has a mouse's ears and tail.
- Nervous Wreck: Which is understandable, given what position she was in when she was with Dead End, and what Joker and his forces put her through.
- The So-Called Coward: As spineless as she generally is, when the Lights discover that the Merry-Go-Round pods can only be opened by a Dead End operative willing to both endure pain and betray Joker, Iron Mouse steps up to assist. Likewise, scared to death of Joker she may be, but when the Operation McGinnis team has him pinned, she stands up to his abuse and tells him to his face that Galaxia would have kicked his ass.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She hates cats.
Fantine
The mysterious, reclusive, and apparently omniscient entity who serves as Keeper of the Lighthouse, the interdimensional sanctuary for the survivors of Dead End's rampage through the multiverse.
Fantine is reclusive to the point of paranoia, refusing to divulge anything about herself or her origins for fear of her powers being misused. She normally appears in the form of a holographic avatar, a tiny spark of light with feathered blue wings.
- Guardian of the Multiverse: In her own words, Fantine sees everything from every timeline and every universe... but apart from sheltering refugees from each of them, she confines herself to being The Watcher. This is out of fear, justified or not, that she's corruptible, and that her phenomenal powers would be all too easy to misuse. She segues into a more active role once Joker unleashes "the entity", sacrificing all but a fraction of her powers to prevent it from causing more destruction. From then on, she pledges her support to the Morning Lights.
- Neutral No Longer: Joker unleashing "the entity" is what finally pushes her over the edge and forces her to act to save the multiverse.
- Spark Fairy: Her holographic avatar is a ball of light with blue feathered wings.
The Stranger
A being composed of the combined remnants of those who don't exist in or have been erased from the normal flow of space-time.
The Stranger is Fantine's companion at the Lighthouse, the only one allowed to enter the Keeper's sealed chamber and interact with her true form. At various points in the story, the Stranger appears in the forms of Chibi-Chibi / Sailor Chibi-Chibi from the Sailorverse, Ayumi Sakagami / Cure Echo from the Precureverse, Alicia Testarossa from the Nanohaverse, and Nagisa Momoe from the Madokaverse. She is normally capable of shifting between their forms at will, but she shifts randomly when agitated or in distress. Unable to speak for herself, the Stranger communicates exclusively via empathic telepathy and body language.
- Mysterious Waif: She serves as this throughout Act I in her various guises.
- The Speechless: The Stranger never speaks, having no voice of her own, but she can project images and emotions to others via telepathy.
Honoka Yukishiro / Cure White
Home Series: Futari wa Pretty Cure
Cure Black's lost partner.
During the invasion of Wakabadai, Honoka and her fairy Mipple were captured by the Souju Twins. When she next woke up, Honoka was imprisoned on the Merry-Go-Round and face-to-face with none other than Joker himself...
Some time later, after the Merry-Go-Round's prisoners were scattered to the Vertices, Honoka awoke again in an unknown location. Somehow, she escaped from her pod and began a long and ardruous search for a way home, which eventually led her to a Dead End research outpost in the Mu Scorpii system...
Sailor Galaxia
Home Series: Sailor Moon
The scourge of Sailor Moon's universe, Sailor Galaxia made a shocking return to Earth, arriving just in time to finish off Walpurgisnacht with her bare hands. What followed was far more shocking still: Galaxia came to request an alliance.
- The Dreaded: So feared, in fact, that even Joker is worried and frustrated.
- Villainous Rescue: Saves the Morning Lights from Walpurgisnacht’s World-Wrecking Wave by suddenly appearing to finish off the Witch.
Dead End
Leadership
Chaos
Home Series: Sailor Moon
The Sentient Cosmic Force behind all evil and darkness in the multiverse. There's a lot more to it than meets the eye.
- Adaptational Abomination: Chaos was already a cosmically powerful God of Evil in canon, but here it's a Multiversal Sentient Cosmic Force and a truly Lovecraftian entity. Just reading Joker's first meeting with it reads like a Cthulhu Mythos story
- Eternal Recurrence: Fight the forces of good and lose, everytime, for all time... Chaos, understandably, snaps and rebels the minute someone suggest a different result.
- The Sacred Darkness: What it's supposed to be, instead of being an omnicidal God of Evil, but is a fic build around Murphy's Law after all.Fantine: "You already know about Chaos. We know for sure now that it's the cosmic force that's empowering Joker and allowing him to wage his war. What I haven't told you is that Chaos has an opposite number, a force of light and creation and order: Cosmos. I can't say for certain if Cosmos is on our side or not. It's not like Chaos… Chaos has always been and will always be alone, a singular entity with its own mind. Cosmos is… spread out, let's say. It—and I say 'it' for convenience, but as much as pronouns even apply, it could easily be called 'they'— is a collective, a part of you, me, everyone and everything that lives. Nothing you could ever see or quantify or measure, but it's there. It's always there. Even Joker has a tiny spark of it, though he probably doesn't know."Sakura: "Is that… is that where the 'Seeds' he talked about came from?"Fantine: "Yes, but I suspect it wasn't always that way. Usagi, when you sacrificed yourself at the Galaxy Cauldron to disperse Chaos… I believe that action had a ripple effect that spread throughout the entire multiverse, backward and forward through all of time and space. In simple terms, you changed the system. You gave birth to the rarest and most priceless thing that exists: an idea. An idea that not everything is absolute, not everything comes down to black versus white or good versus evil. As things are now, everything that lives and thinks for itself has a Seed inside them. Joker was right about that. But he was wrong about the absolutes: no Seed is a pure Cosmos or Chaos Seed, not even his own. No matter who you are or what your alignment is, every Cosmos Seed is at least partially a Chaos Seed, even if it's just a fraction. The same must be true in reverse… otherwise, how could he turn one into the other? That he doesn't realize this is just more proof of how insane he really is. So, here's my theory: all Seeds have the potential to become their opposite alignment, but that doesn't necessarily mean that having a Cosmos Seed is good or having a Chaos Seed is bad. My theory is that, of the five of you…" (Fantine pivots to each in turn) "... Usagi, you and Nagisa have Cosmos Seeds. Your powers are fashioned around the idea of restoring order in your universes. Nanoha and Madoka, yours are both Chaos Seeds. You've both enacted great change on your worlds, for good and ill. That's what Cosmos and Chaos really are, I think: the concept of preserving what is, and the concept of changing what can be."
- Screw Destiny: When Joker offers it a way to escape the Eternal Recurrence.
- Sentient Cosmic Force:Chaos is, in Fantine's words, not a living thing that can be killed or an organization that can be defeated, it's the concept of the absence of being, a fundamental force of the universe, and it's decided to rebel against its role. Hence, the reason she has no intention of letting the heroes try to fight it.
- Omnicidal Maniac: As in canon, wants to reduce everything to nothingness, it's kind of depressed about the lack of progress.
- You Can't Fight Fate: It's going to try though.
Joker
Home Series: Smile Pretty Cure!
The most dangerous enemy of the Smile Cures, and The Heavy of Dead End.
Joker was the right-hand man of that series's Big Bad, Emperor Pierrot. Instead of dying upon sacrificing himself to fully revive Pierrot as in canon, Joker's consciousness survived within Pierrot's body throughout the final battle, aware, immobile, and utterly helpless. Joker could do nothing but howl in impotent rage as Pierrot, the one he devoted his every action to serving, was killed by the Cures' final attack without even putting up a fight.
That should have been the end of the story.
Instead, Joker met Chaos and resisted rejoining with it, openly defying the force of nature and calling it a coward. This impressed Chaos enough to spare Joker, reincarnating him to serve as its Heavy in the mortal realm and wage the war on reality.
Joker is, to his very core, sadistic and nihilistic... to a degree that terrifies even the many numerous sadists and nihilists of Dead End. He stands alone as the most depraved monster of them all, willing to go far beyond even the most despicable acts he committed in his own series. However, Joker is also intelligent and calculating, making schemes within schemes within schemes and keeping secrets from even his most trusted underlings.
- Even Evil Has Standards: There are lines even Joker won't cross. To wit: while he may have brainwashed and corrupted his five greatest enemies, all teenage girls, into his fanatically loyal servants, his "games" with them are "strictly chaste".
Word of God puts him as asexual acknowledging love and sex as another set of useful tools for causing his victims pain, but totally uninterested in experiencing them for himself. As Kanna makes clear, these standards do not necessarily apply to his underlings. - Go Mad from the Revelation: Chaos showed him exactly how many magical girls there are in the multiverse, and just how pointless and insignificant his first life's mission was on a cosmic scale. The resulting fit of pure existential terror would have killed him, had he not already been dead at the time. Instead, it broke him and made him far worse than before, graduating him from Hope Crusher to Omnicidal Maniac.
- Monster Clown: With an emphasis on the "monster". Joker's appearance may be deceptively harmless-looking at first glance, but he may well be the most thoroughly vile villain in Precure history, and in this story, he outdoes anything he ever did in his series' canon. The other Joker, Kefka Palazzo, and Hazama were all inspirations for this version of him.
- Resurrective Immortality: After hijacking the Incubators' Hive Mind, Joker now shares their ability to regenerate new bodies for himself whenever his current one is killed.
- Sadist: Negating the existence of the multiverse isn't enough for him. Everyone and everything that can think for itself needs to suffer first, and embrace the same nihilism that he does.
- Scars Are Forever: Sailor Venus's Holy Moon Sword left an X-shaped scar in his mask that ignores his Healing Factor and persists even when Joker's current body is destroyed.
- Screw Destiny: His refusal to accept the Eternal Recurrence kickstarts the plot. As he puts it, if Chaos can never win in the cycle, then the cycle itself needs to be destroyed.
The Forces of Dead End
The Time Reaper
Joker's most closely-guarded secret weapon.
A skeletal, scythe-wielding figure in a black hooded cloak, made in the image of the most infamous one, the Time Reaper is the weapon that allowed Joker to wage his war on reality. Capable of phasing in and out of normal space-time at will, the Reaper disrupted countless timelines at Joker's command and wreaked havoc across the multiverse. Eternally silent and enigmatic, it seemingly exists without a will of its own, acting only on the orders of Joker or his chosen subordinates.
- Canon Character All Along: Initially hinted to be a generic Eldritch Abomination under Joker’s command, It later turns out to be Setsuna Meioh/Sailor Pluto... or more specifically, the upper half of Pluto's skeleton, Stripped to the Bone yet somehow still alive, with a needle of Malefic Black Crystal shoved through her Sailor Crystal disrupting her ability to truly die or live again.
- The Grim Reaper: It's the spitting image of the classic one: In the Hood, Black Cloak, Sinister Scythe and all.
- Reforged into a Minion: In an unknown but undoubtedly gruesome fashion.
- Stripped to the Bone: All that's left of poor Setsuna beneath the cloak is the still-living upper half of her skeleton with her Sailor Crystal bolted inside the ribcage.
Viluy
Home Series: Sailor Moon
The head scientist and researcher of Labyrinth Division.
Cold, calculating, and obsessed with technology, Viluy of the Witches 5 abandoned the Death Busters to serve under Labyrinth instead, which brought her closer to her beloved machines than ever before. A truly nasty piece of work, Viluy is behind many of Dead End's scientific advances, her knowledge gained through all manner of horrific experiments done in the name of "gathering data".
- Hate Sink: Viluy seems to have been written to be as despicable as possible, from her betraying the Witches 5 because Labyrinth had better resources and tech, to experimenting on many things from Pure Heart Crystals to Heart Flowers. Safe to say, not even the rest of the Witches 5 mourned her death at Alph’s hands.
The Unisoned Will of the Book of Darkness
Home Series: Lyrical Nanoha
The Person of Mass Destruction embodied.
In Nanoha's world, the Book of Darkness was a catastrophically dangerous Artifact of Doom which caused the destruction of entire dimensions and countless inhabited worlds whenever it awakened, chose a new Master, and rampaged out of control before falling dormant and repeating the cycle. The Will of the Book of Darkness (also called Reinforce) is the Book's Master Program fully manifested and given physical form, only appearing once all the Book's pages are filled and another rampage is due to begin. Hayate Yagami was intended to be the Book's final Master... Instead, she reprogrammed the Book and purged it of its corrupt self-defense program, Nacht Wal, with the help of Nanoha Takamachi, Fate Testarossa Harlaown, and the TSAB. Their actions led to the Book's complete destruction... or so it seemed.
The Time Reaper helped Dead End acquire the Book in its completed form, prior to Hayate's reprogramming. Worse still, Viluy was able to use a Relic on Hayate, which compelled her to perform a Unison between herself and the Will... only with Hayate as the Will's Device instead of the other way around. The result was the Unisoned Will of the Book of Darkness: a being with all of the Book's tremendous destructive power plus Hayate's own, and with the latter's gargantuan mana supply as fuel. A heretofore-unprecedented SSS+-class Mage, she was able to tear apart the entire Dimensional Navy by herself without a scratch, crippling the Bureau's ability to fight back against Dead End.
Eas (formerly Sestuna Higashi / Cure Passion)
Home Series: Fresh Pretty Cure!
Labyrinth's most devoted follower.
A denizen of Labyrinth, which is the name of both a ruling faction and a world in which all aspects of life were controlled by an immense artificial intelligence called Moebius. Eas was one of Labyrinth's generals, tasked to find the Infinite Memory which would allow Moebius to extend its control to every dimension. Eas is steadfastly loyal to her cause... but that cause is Labyrinth, not Dead End, the latter of which absorbed the former at Moebius's insistence. Even after the deaths of both Moebius and Viluy, her superior, leave her as Labyrinth's Commander, Eas wishes nothing more than to carry on as her beloved ruler would have wanted.
- Red Herring: A lot of foreshadowing is given that she is breaking free of Joker’s control and rebelling against him. Turns out that Sayaka did her research when acting as The Mole.
[Neo] Bad End Precure
Home Series: Smile Pretty Cure!
Joker's original nemeses.
Minus Bad End Peace (see below), the second group of Bad End Precure are not mere Psycho Rangers anymore... they are Miyuki Hoshizora / Cure Happy, Akane Hino / Cure Sunny, Nao Midorikawa / Cure March, and Reika Aoki / Cure Beauty, corrupted by Joker into twisted mirrors of themselves.
Bad End Peace II has different origins and is listed below.
As of Act III, the four of them have chosen new civilian names to fit their new identities. Happy is now Sachi, Sunny is Higure, March is Yori, and Beauty is Yumi.
Sayaka Miki
Home Series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
The fallen knight.
Once one of Madoka Kaname's oldest and most trusted friends, Sayaka's suffering was supposed to have ended once Madoka came to claim her as the Law of Cycles. When the Incubators captured Homura during the events of Rebellion, however, Madoka chose to return to the physical world, entrusting Sayaka and Nagisa Momoe with her memories and portions of her godly powers. Everything came crashing down when Homura, broken by her torture at the Incubators' hands, stole those powers and rewrote the universe again to give Madoka a happy, normal life whether she wanted it or not.
Initially, Sayaka was but another of Homura's puppets in the new world, an unknowing prisoner of the Gilded Cage, just as Madoka was. When Joker used Sailor Mnemosyne's power to give her back her powers and memories, all hell broke loose: Sayaka immediately joined Dead End for the sake of making Homura pay. It soon became clear that Sayaka was Not Brainwashed, as she even turned her swords on her former friends of her own free will.
The climax of Act III reveals that Sayaka actually gained self-awareness from having her memories restored, enough to realize all the mistakes she made in her past lives. Deciding to play up her notorious bull-headedness and Black And White Insanity, she made herself appear to be Joker's willing, loyal soldier in order to get inside Dead End and gather information. During the chaos of Operation McGinnis, Sayaka makes her decision to defect to the Lights' side, and finally reveals her true colors before her stunned ex-teammates and a furious Joker.
- Face–Heel Turn: Joins up with Joker after having her memories restored out of spite towards Homura. Though the truth is quite the opposite.
- Fake Defector: The real reason she joined forces with Joker was to play The Mole and give Madoka and Homura an opportunity to escape his grasp. Restoring all her memories of every timeline showed Sayaka all the mistakes she had made, and all the times her stubbornness and Black-and-White Morality got her killed or turned into a Witch. With that self-awareness, she knew she was the only remaining member of the Holy Quintet who could possibly earn Joker's favor.
- Not Brainwashed: Sayaka makes clear to Mami and Kyoko that she's not being controlled or manipulated; she truly did choose to be on Joker's side. The truth turns out to be a case of Exact Words.
- The Political Officer: In Act III, Joker puts her in charge of making sure the rest of Dead End stays loyal. In this position, she was able to gather intelligence about which of her "comrades" would be likely to switch sides.
Sailor Iron Mouse
See above, under "Morning Lights Allies and Others"Jamanen Model-JLX
Home Series: Sailor Moon
The uplifted Slime Girl.
The original Jamanen was a mere Monster of the Week, one of hundreds that the Sailor Senshi cut down in their many battles. This Jamanen, Model-JLX, is a unique individual who has been given a personality, substantial upgrades, and full autonomy by Viluy. Immeasurably more dangerous than her predecessor, Model-JLX is capable of full Shapeshifting and assimilating her prey in addition to being a Nigh-Invulnerable Blob Monster, and is sadistic enough to make the cruelest possible use of all of her new abilities.
Kanna Kise / Bad End Peace II
Home Series: Smile Pretty Cure! (semi-OC)
The ordinary girl broken to insanity.
An Alternate Self of Yayoi Kise (see above), one who never met the other Smile Cures and subsequently never became a Precure. Joker had Kanna Kise kidnapped from her home and spent an unknowable amount of time breaking her into his most loyal servant. The result: a Psycho Electro Perky Female Minion with an unstable mind, no conversational filter whatsoever, and knowledge of the fourth wall. Kanna is the Harley Quinn to Joker's, well, Joker, endlessly devoted to her master and obsessed with winning his favor.
- Alternate Self: Of the Yayoi Kise from the "prime" timeline. Kanna was a perfectly ordinary girl who had no contact with the supernatural at all, and who never had her fateful meetings with Miyuki and the other Smile Cures.
- Break the Cutie: She was on the recieving end of some of Joker's most vicious and personal torment, which broke her completely.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Most of the fic's innuendo and sexual content comes from her.
- Fourth-Wall Observer: A dark take on this trope. At first, Kanna treats the existence of the Fourth Wall with indifference. After losing against Yayoi in Uminari and subsequently being punished by Joker, her knowledge of it progressively disturbs her more and more as she realizes the implications.
- Mad Love: She loves Joker, who at best sees her as another weapon in his war on reality, and at worst is totally indifferent to her.
- Original Character: Played with, see Transplant below. Kanna's design and powers are identical to the original Bad End Peace as seen in Smile Precure, but her backstory and personality are original.
- Psycho Electro: Her Shock and Awe powers are an even match with Yayoi's, and she's definitely unstable.
- Talkative Loon: Kanna has an impressively foul mouth and no conversational filter, in contrast to Yayoi's shyness and timidness. Even the other soldiers of Dead End, many of whom have a sketchy relationship with sanity at best, think that most of what she talks about is absurd nonsense.
- Transplant: Of a sort, per Word of God. The original version of Kanna, Kanna Kirai, was a purely comedic character who sprung from the author's now-defunct Tumblr RP blog. Kanna Kise has an entirely different backstory and is a far more dramatic take on the concept.
The Witches 5
Home Series: Sailor Moon
The Death Busters' underlings.
The Witches 5 were assigned to watch over the Azabu-Juuban area, specifically the ruins of the Game Center Crown and Professor Tomoe's subterranean laboratory. Viluy abandoned the group for Labyrinth prior to the beginning of the story, but Ptilol was promoted to a full-time member in her old spot, and she and Cyprine both ascended to the rank of Magus. Cruel, devious, and ruthless to a one, the Witches were close to pure evil and gave Strike Team Tiger a hellish fight.
Professor Souichi Tomoe
Home Series: Sailor Moon
The Mad Scientist.
As Hotaru feared, her father was alive and well and had joined Dead End willingly. But to her shock, he was not entirely the sociopathic traitor to humankind of one timeline, nor was he the Daimon-possessed victim of the other... and his reasons for allying himself with Joker were more complex than anyone suspected.
Walpurgisnacht
Home series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
The infamous Witch feared throughout history as an unstoppable force of destruction.
- Adaptational Wimp: Surprisingly, despite her fearsome power, Walpurgis fails to kill a single Magical Girl.
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Act III’s climax sees Joker’s control of the Incubator hive mind break, his minions betraying him and the damage to the multiverse he inflicted begin to be undone. And then this appears…
