Fanfic / Kwami Magi Homura Magica

After over eighty loops trying to save her friend from Walpurgisnacht, a chance conversation tells Homura of the existence of another means, of a power known as the Miraculouses. A pair of earrings and a ring that, when used together, could grant a wish to anyone. You just needed to obtain the power from its guardians: Ladybug and Cat Noir first. And if it takes over sixty times to do so, then so be it.

Kwami Magi Homura Magica is a crossover fanfic between Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Miraculous Ladybug telling the story of Homura seeking the Miraculouses from Ladybug, Cat Noir, and Monarch. Written by Crossoverpairinglover, the three chapter fic is considered complete. It can be read on Ffnet here and on Archive here.

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This fanfic contains examples of

• Ability Mixing: Alongside the use of multiple Miraculouses at once, Homura also combines them with her Magical Girl powers.
  • During her fight with Lady Miraculous, Homura uses her Time Stands Still powers to create a opening to attack with the Pig Miraculous, forcing Marinette to either get hit by the power and basically be a sitting duck or avoid it and give Homura time to set up booby traps.
  • Before the fight began Homura used the Mouse Miraculous to duplicate herself to mass produce Sentimonsters and bypass the one Sentimonster per person limitation. This allowed her to bring ten Sentimonster replicas of Witches alongside her to start the battle.
  • On Marinette's own end Lady Miraculous used the powers of the Otter, Vole, and Salmon Miraculouses to trap Homura in a time loop where she was constantly bombarded with busted weapon turrets dropped by pigeons, forcing Homura to use multiple Miraculouses to avoid being crushed.
• Achievements in Ignorance: During one of the time loops, Princess Fragrance leads Cat Noir into using his Cataclysm against one of Kyubey's clones, causing its damage to spread to every other Incubator in the universe, wiping them out from existence.
• Adaptational Achilles Heel: The Incubators are practically unkillable in the original Madokaverse, since they're a Hive Mind that can easily regenerate their bodies so that even if one of them dies, no loss actually happens. In the story, one of the timelines shows that the Cat Miraculous' Cataclysm spreads to all of the Incubators against only one of them, allowing them to be completely eradicated by complete accident.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: This story mixes the Madoka universe with the Miraculous Ladybug one, and as such, the characters from the latter end up going through the former verse's canonical suffering. In particular, at least one timeline shows the characters making contracts with Kyubey, which inevitably leads them to suffer so much that they turn into witches.
• Adaptational Badass: While many characters could be said to get this treatment, two characters stand above, each from one of the universes.
  • The first is Homura. In canon, she only has the time-rewind powers she got from her contract with Kyubey, and a perchant for firearms. In here, Sayaka's remark about the Miraculous ends with her going on a hunt for them across the timelines, eventually snatching the Peacock Miraculous from Felix before attaining every other Miraculous in the Parisian box bar the Ladybug and Rabbit, giving her access to ALL of their powers.
  • The second is Marinette/Ladybug. While she canonically did wield multiple Miraculouses, she limited herself to up to 3 at a time, and only within the Parisian box. In here, she ends up wielding the Miraculouses of the Native American Box in hopes of matching Homura to put an end to the conflict once and for all.
• Adaptation Expansion: In canon, Plagg is strictly connected to destruction and all things about it, while in here, he also has a connection with entropy, which he keeps in check.
• Adaptational Superpower Change:
  • In one of the timelines Homura sees in Chapter 3, Master Fu never came to Paris, so when Hawk Moth began causing trouble trying to get the Miraculous, the source of Paris's heroes is that of Kyubey, who contracts with Alya, Juleka, Marinette, Mylene, and Rose, making them Magical Girls instead of Miraculous users, granting them Flying Brick, Magic Music, The Power to Inspire, Green Thumb, and the Power to Dispel Negative Emotions as powers.
  • A universal scale change occurs due to Marinette's wish, which leads to the source of power of every Magical Girl since Atlantis to change, now gaining power from the Kwami instead of the Incubators.
• All for Nothing: You know all the suffering that the Incubators put girls through in order to prevent the heat death of the universe? Turns out, while entropy is a thing, it is also kept in check by Plagg, who will only let it go through if he wants the universe to be destroyed. Because he doesn't, everyone the Incubators have ever made a contract with suffered for no reason. Naturally, Homura, who has been in nearly a hundred and fifty time loops trying to save Madoka from them, is furious to find out. The only defense the Incubators have in this regard is that they cannot see Plagg, or any Kwami, and thus cannot tell that they are doing everything for no reason, or the fact them trying to save the universe is in fact breaking it.
• Alternate Timeline: Considering this is partially a Madoka story, this is inevitable. Alongside the canonical timelines that Homura went through that she experienced due to her own powers to rewind time, chapter 3 involves her seeing multiple more timelines completely separate from her own experiences, including one based on a salt fic, and one where instead of Kwamis, the Miraculous heroes are empowered by Kyubey, among other possibilities.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Two types.
  • The Miraculous users, as in canon, are all themed after the animal their Kwami resembles. Ladybug, Cat Noir, Rena Rouge, Bunnyx, etc.
  • The Gifted are also themed after animals, being wider recipients of the Kwami's powers that replaced Magical Girls in the new reality.
• And the Adventure Continues: Marinette and Homura's adventures are clearly shown to continue even in the new universe created by their wish, with Marinette, as the leader of not just the Parisian superheroes but the recreated Order of the Guardians and in charge of the Gifted all over the universe, continuing work to rebuild connections, find and train new Guardians to assist her at the task and working towards several goals, including reviving Emilie, investigating the Obsidian King and the 13 Hourkings of Neverspace as well as the Prison of Quantum, and looking into Tomoe Tsurugi's company. Homura meanwhile, not only gets a chance to befriend her friends all over again in a new reality without Magical Girls, but is appointed to train the new Guardian of Japan: Madoka, and be her right-hand, ending the story by approaching Madoka and showing her the Miracle Box she is going to be taking care of.
• An Arm and a Leg:
  • The first time Homura ever ran into Charlotte, the Sweets Witch bit off Homura's arm, forcing her to do the time loop with only one arm.
  • Walpurgisnacht battles have taken limbs, with one timeline leaving Sayaka and Mami both down an arm. Sayaka's regeneration powers, however, allowed her to start growing it back. The arm is partially regrown when we see that Sayaka and Mami again in Chapter 3, while Mami is using a ribbon-based prosthetic arm.
  • According to Homura, Sayaka also lost an arm to Suzune once.
  • Sayaka nearly lost an arm to Charlotte in another timeline, though she was saved by Ladybug and Ryuko before she could discover she could regrow lost limbs.
• Armor-Piercing Question: One particular jab Lady Miraculous sends Homura's way during their big fight in Chapter 2 really gets under Homura's skin, enough that the Lizard Sentimonster on her Soul Gem has to expel a massive amount of grief-based corruption out afterwards.
  Lady Miraculous: And I’m sure your friend must be happy seeing you destroy yourself for her sake! Breaking yourself, contorting yourself into someone completely different than who you used to be, torturing yourself in time loops, and getting into fights with supervillains and superheroes! That must make her very happy!
  Homura: She doesn't know who I am anymore!
• Armor-Piercing Response: How does Future Bunnyx get Alya to stop freaking out about the ramifications of 'Cat Blanc' and how that didn't require time intervention? By admitting she doesn't know why it didn't require intervention to fix.
• As Long as There Is Evil: As long as mana exists in the universe in one way or another, the Incubators cannot be truly destroyed. One time loop does show that they can be eradicated by the Cat Miraculous' Cataclysm, but this comes with its own unfortunate side effects.
• Asshole Victim: Kyubey loses everything and ends up in a much lesser position in the new universe but considering he and his kind have been corrupting little girls in order to turn them into monsters to allegedly fight back against Entropy, it's very hard to feel anything but satisfaction when he gets outplayed in the end.
• Atlantis: Atlantis was a human civilization openly influenced by the Incubators that dominated ancient humanity before the creation of the Miraculouses and the Order of the Guardians, who waged war against it. Like in Ladybug, the war ended in Plagg destroying Atlantis and established a long history of antagonism between the Guardians and Magical Girls and Incubators.
• Awesome, but Impractical:
  • A Mami-taught, and Kyoko named, supermove from the third timeline, Hellzone Grenade, is one of Homura's most powerful techniques. Using her Time Stands Still powers, Homura detonates bombs around a target while time is frozen, striking the victim with multiple explosions at once, before re-freezing time after they get flung around and setting more bombs, continuing the process until the target can no longer be struck with more explosives. It's very brutal and damaging, and it manages to put her on the path to defeating Cat Noir and is one of her more solid hits on Lady Miraculous. However it eats through bombs like crazy, making it far too resource intensive to use in most circumstances. The Rooster Miraculous being used to replicate any spent weaponry circumvents this problem.
  • An advanced technique performed with the Rabbit Miraculous known as the Time Chain. With it, the user constantly pops in and out of the current time period, returning to it constantly until there are multiple temporal incarnations of the user present. With it, the user essentially can multiply themselves into an army of duplicates separated by seconds of time. However keeping track of where and when each version of oneself is in the chain from the earliest to the latest point in time is mentally exhausting even for a veteran like Bunnyx or a prodigy like Lady Miraculous, and because each of the versions of oneself is the same person if any one of the duplicates is harmed the harm will be passed on down the user's linear time, injuring the rest of the duplicates. Also if you do it for too long you start talking backwards. Ultimately despite its effectiveness Lady Miraculous can only use it until the Sentimonster Witches are defeated, after which she is unable to use it further in her fight with Homura.
• Back from the Dead:
  • Miraculous Ladybug can revive victims of supervilian attacks from the dead, and both Ladybug and Bunnyx speculate that it could revive Monarch after defeating Homura, just without his Miraculouses. Bunnyx speculates he might just keel over again from the wound he received in Destruction afterwards. We don't get to see this, as a Miraculous wish is made instead, and the changed timeline means that he was never attacked by Homura to begin with, and was instead defeated as Shadow Moth instead of Monarch.
  • It's shown in the final alternate timeline Ultimate Madoka shows Homura that Miraculous Ladybug can restore defeated Witches to their Magical Girl selves. We see this happen with Nagisa, Yuuri, and several offscreen Witches, including Elsa Maria.
  • In the new timeline, several characters who were dead are back, such as Kanae Yukino, Komaki Asako, and Yuuri Asuka.
• Beneath Notice: The reason that Homura was able to timeloop and create such a mess with Madoka's karmic overclocking despite Bunnyx is because Walpurgisnacht was always going to destroy Mitakihara, and minor changes caused by Homura trying to stop it either didn't register or anything drastic, like a later Madoka witchification, were reversed too quickly for Bunnyx to notice. As a result by the time Homura showed up in Paris for the first time and alerted Bunnyx to something being amiss, the sheer temporal chaos made the problem hard to diffuse without drastic temporal repercussions from the amount of karmic potential built up.
• Better the Devil You Know: This is part of what makes Homura's decision to try wish the Incubators away a controversial idea; nobody really likes them, some even agree that they're the worst, but they've been around for so long and have influenced so much of human and galactic history that the consequences of wishing them away could potentially be catastrophic, and the chance of them being replaced by something equally as bad, if not worse, is also present as a possible problem.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • In one of the previous timeloops, Rose manages to wipe out the Incubator race by tricking Monarch into akumatizing her back into Princess Fragrance and giving her the power of Voyage and tricking Cat Noir to use Cataclysm, which she then re-directed on an enthralled Kyubey, after she and Juleka had contracted and Juleka had turned into a Witch.
  • Homura references this in regards to Ladybug after she discovers who her mother is via an alternate timeline and Ultimate Madoka gently warns her to not try anything with that information. Homura points out that when Ladybug wants to help her, just not by letting her make any wish she wants and with the expectation that she repays her and Cat Noir for attacking the latter, she makes her point with extensive force, and actually pissing her off by kidnapping her mother would be rather unfathomable to imagine what Ladybug would do to her for doing it.
• Bittersweet Ending: A mostly sweet ending with some bitterness to keep it from being perfect. In the end Homura gets a better reality where her friends and all Magical Girls are no longer in danger of becoming Witches, instead gaining their powers from the Kwami as Gifted. She's able to have a new, more stable chance to befriend them all again, showing the start of the process of re-befriending Mami, Sayaka, and Madoka, gains a Kwami partner in Nooroo, and has Marinette also clearly willing to help her as well. She even has a new role as Madoka's mentor to give her something to do now that her task is done. Meanwhile Marinette and the heroes of Paris managed to defeat Gabriel as Shadow Moth, preventing Monarch from happening and preventing Future Hawk Moth from coming to pass. However in order to get this, Homura forever earned the ire of at least two Kwami, Plagg and Duusu, who are not going to forgive her anytime soon for attacking their human partners, with the implication that other Kwami will also never trust her due to her actions, she has to do something to make up with Cat Noir for attacking him, and the old reality was completely rewritten to both create the Gifted system and repair the damages to reality the Incubators caused, which was a more extreme effect than Homura expected, while the end results are still not perfect as the Incubators are still causing trouble as the Balancers, still up to their schemes even in a diminished state, Kyoko is still in a bad place in the new reality, just a different one as she is consumed by a drive for revenge instead of self-centeredness, Fu, Su-Han, and Monk are dead as a result of the changes in the new reality, and Adrien has to deal with the legal and public ramifications of his father being exposed as Shadow Moth.
• Both Sides Have a Point: How the conflict between Homura and Ladybug is painted as. Homura's within her right to want to wish the Incubators away, and her idea to use the wish to do so is solid, if a little hasty. At the same time, Ladybug's right to be wary of the idea since the wish is a very dangerous technique to wield so lightly, and trying to use it to get rid of something that's been intricately connected to humanity for eons, along with countless other species in the universe, could cause the universe to unravel.
• Brick Joke: After being delayed from shooting Gabriel because of his spartan lack of pillows to silence the gunshot, Homura mentions the possibility of needing to stock up on pillows in her armory in case she needed to shoot him in any future timeloops. In the new reality afterwards, among her arsenal includes several pillows.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: The Kwami transformation phrases. Due to the mass use of Unification, we don't get to hear any of them for the Native American Miraculouses. We do, however, get one new one.
  Nooroo, Bright Wings Rise!
• The Cameo:
  • H.N Elly briefly appears in a time window in the Burrow in a previous interaction the Box Witch had with Homura and a previous timeline Madoka.
  • Nathalie appears during the reactions when Nadja is interviewing Homura, outside a private hospital room, giving the screen a Death Glare and thinking to herself about how Gabriel's mad quest for power and hurting his own son because he was Cat Noir and because of this, Gabriel's dead and the now-orphaned Adrien is in surgery for extensive injuries after Nathalie woke up to a knock on the door and found the boy who she loved like a son incredibly injured.
  • The PV version of Felix and Bridgette appear in one of the alternate timelines Homura sees.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Unfortunately, this trope is what makes the situation with the Incubators that much more complicated; nobody really likes them, and many people would be more than happy to get rid of them, but they've become so essential to the evolution and development of human society and the witch system that simply removing them from the equation can lead to, at best, witches and magical girls running wild, and at worst, the entire universe unraveling.
• Canon Welding: A natural part of a Fusion Fic.
  • Homura's time travel wish is, like Cat Blanc, a unexpected change to time that diverted the normal flow of time. The intended timeline is the one where Mami and Madoka killed Walpurgisnacht at the cost of their own lives. Bunnyx doesn't know what caused either of these events, but it is later revealed to be a consequence of the Incubator's attempts to stop entropy backfiring, destabilizing the universe as the excess energy being injected into the universe leaks back out.
  • Why did Plagg destroy Atlantis? Because of the war between the first Miraculous users and the Incubators who dominated the city.
  • Future Bunnyx, Timetagger, Future Hawk Moth, Future Ladybug, and Future Cat Noir's home time is the future set after Mami and Madoka died defeating Walpurgisnacht when Homura hadn't contracted yet.
  • Affinity for Miraculouses and the potential to be a Magical Girl are similar. While anyone can use a Miraculous, those who can use more of them have a particularly high potential as Magical Girls. Madoka's is so large due to the timeloops that she could theoretically use entire Miracle Boxes of them at once safely.
  • Magical Girls, Witches, and Incubators are among the forces that the Order of the Guardians formed to fight.
  • Tart was given the Ladybug Miraculous by Liz, combining her own story with that of Miraculous Ladybug's own take on Joan d' Arc.
• Chairman of the Brawl:
  • One of the things that Homura used to subdue Felix and steal the Peacock Miraculous from him was a chair.
  • When Bunnyx explains that Monarch died before any of Team Miraculous could get proper justice for everything he did to them and is considering the possibility of bringing them back to the past to do so with Gabriel after Marinette puts the Homura fight to an end and uses Miraculous Ladybug to revive him, one of the things that Marinette imagines in such a beatdown is future Juleka armed with a chair.
• Character Catchphrase: Nadja tells Homura "Don't be bemused, it is just the news." at the start of her interview with the magical girl.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Alongside the canon Mirakung Fu that lets ordinary people overpower Miraculous users, there also exists Magikung Fu, a art designed for use against Magical Girls in the same way. Using it, Su-Han was nearly able to kill Homura before Ladybug and Cat Noir intervened.
• Clark Kenting: This trope in regards to Magical Girls is questioned by Nagisa, who asks Homura how Magical Girls kept their identities secret without a mask with magical protection like a Miraculous user or Gifted has. Homura says they were stealthy about it, to which Nagisa asks if that meant they're ninjas. An idea that actually made Homura snort. Though this stealth can only get them so far especially if not actively kept up, as it didn't take even a half hour for Nadja Chamack to dig up Homura's identity and a decent chunk of her pre-wish backstory from seeing her in the mayor's office.
• Clipped-Wing Angel: For most people, using or even wearing multiple Miraculouses is incredibly dangerous. Marinette not suffering severe damage beyond some unsteadiness in Kwamibuster is considered remarkable, Monarch's misuse of them in Evolution is noted, and Trixx speculates that Chloé gave herself brain damage in doing so in Miracle Queen when she wore a ton of them at once (Wayzz disagrees, believing doing so damaged Chloé's soul, not her brain). Everyone has different levels of tolerance to multiple Miraculouses, and this cannot be changed. However due to the accumulation of karmic potential caused by Homura's time traveling, initially just to Madoka but spreading to others around her and Homura after the accumulated power reached a critical mass, started increasing the potential of everyone, and between how long Homura has been timelooping and Marinette's already high affinity has led to the both Homura and Marinette being able to avoid this problem even when wielding near-entire Miracle Boxes. A feat that Su-Han dubs both of them monsters for.
• Create Your Own Hero: The Incubators didn't create the Miraculous Holders, as the Mage was making them regardless. In fact their actions ensured that the Miraculouses were never truly completed until Marinette used the Miraculous Wish to ensure they were completed. They did create Homura however, and not just by giving her power as if their actions hadn't damaged space-time, Homura would never have been approached to contract as history was not meant to go that way. Everything that Homura sought to accomplish in their complete destruction, and what ultimately led to the Incubators suffering tremendous losses in power and effectiveness is all on the Incubators creating the conditions for Homura Akemi to become a Magical Girl.
• Cultured Badass: Marinette can speak French and Italian, Mami can speak Japanese and Italian, Cat Noir can speak multiple languages including Japanese and French, and Homura can speak multiple languages she taught herself out of boredom and some level of need including Japanese, French, and at least one Central Asian language. All are badasses in story with two of them able to kill Walpurgisnacht in single blows and the other two able to fight it out in a battle on a scale that outright disturbs Su-Han.
• Dance Party Ending: This is how the final timeline Ultimate Madoka shows Homura ends, with the Miraculous heroes, the Magical Girls of Mitakihara and Asurano, and several revived witches all partying together to celebrate victory over Walpurgisnacht.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: Per Madoka, too many to count. However a few Ladybug characters also have them
  • One version of Su-Han was killed by Homura, Ladybug, and Cat Noir defending the former from him.
  • A Juleka who contracted with Kyubey in an earlier timeline turned into a Witch.
  • In two different alternate timelines completely disconnected from Homura's time loops, both Chloé and Sabrina contracted and became Witches.
  • Master Fu is dead in the new reality instead of a retired amnesiac. Similarly while it is not directly said, due to the changes to how the Order of the Guardians was destroyed in the new reality Su-Han and Monk are certainly dead as well.
• Death Glare: Homura gives one to the off-camera mayor when she's issuing her ultimatum to Marinette after he asks "A wish? Like on a star? Is that what Monarch's..." He flinches and whimpers in fear and shuts up. Later on, during Nadja's interview with Homura, Nathalie gives the screen in the hospital one after learning the whole thing is due to Gabriel.
• Deconstruction Fic: To the fanon idea of Bunnyx being a Time-Traveling Jerkass who doesn't try to fix things even they clearly go wrong despite knowing everything. Bunnyx fully admits that she doesn't get why the events of Cat Blanc, which didn't originally happen in time happened, and thus the trauma Marinette got from it changed the future, didn't break the future, nor did the related opening up to Alya and having her become her Secret-Keeper break the future despite that also being a divergence from history, and that she doesn't know why some things can be changed and others can't for both good and ill. She hates the idea that she doesn't know what can change and what can't, because she is terrified of the idea that trying to fix problems like Rose's death end up being the opposite and the idea of having to 'fix' such a thing back to how it used to be mortifies her. Her own future is a pretty good one by most accounts: the ice caps got fixed, the worst of the looming extinction crisis in biota was averted, space travel is developing well, and she's seen how easy it is to screw that up, so she's protecting not her own interests, but protecting a genuinely good future and, having seen more than a few takes on a Bad Future and how easy it is to get that and how rare a good future is, wants to keep it safe as much as possible.
• Defeating the Undefeatable: Homura believes that Cat Noir's power can defeat Walpurgisnacht, just as Madoka could in the second and third timelines. She's correct, he had in fact done it ten timelines before the current one, and she later sees a second Cat Noir take out the witch in a single strike thanks to Ultimate Madoka. Mami also is able to defeat Walpurgisnacht when freed of her self-limits by the Eagle Miraculous, slaying it with Tiro Aquila Finale.
• Deliberate Injury Gambit: When Lady Mirauclous manages to get in close and uses a Miraculous Homura didn't recognize, the Goose Miraculous, on her at close range that used light, Homura deliberately detonated stun grenades in her eyes to temporarily wreck them, preventing her from being affected by the Goose Miraculous. Homura herself isn't particularly affected as she is used to using magic to heal her eyes to remedy her short-sightedness each timeloop, while Marinette ends up not just down one Miraculous (which are mostly one use per battle), but two when she needs to use another one to heal herself from being close to two stun grenades going off. The move also has a psychological impact as Ladybug is more than a little disturbed by the tactic.
• Demographic-Dissonant Crossover: While both Ladybug and Madoka are Magical Girl shows, they are very different examples of the genre. Ladybug is a very upbeat, cheerful show that mixes magical girls and superheroes with a very goofy world seemingly filled with anything, while Madoka is the Trope Codifier for the Magical Girl Genre Deconstruction genre that stays grounded in a specific dark aesthetic. Naturally Homura is often baffled by elements of Miraculous Ladybug when she has to deal with them and the Miraculous cast finds the Madoka elements to be rather disturbing.
• Demoted to Extra: Gabriel/Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch is the main antagonist of Miraculous Ladybug, but he's reduced to a very minor character here that Homura deals with fairly quickly. He gets more of a role in the third chapter when his ghost shows up while Marinette and company are displaced beyond space, time, and death.
• Discard and Draw: In one of the earlier time loops involved in the crossover, Kyubey contracts with Juleka and Rose to replace their stolen Miraculous powers with Magical Girl ones.
• Do Not Adjust Your Set: How Homura gets Ladybug's attention after acquiring Felix's, Monarch's, and Cat Noir's Miraculouses. She breaks into the Mayor's office and hijacks the emergency alert system to deliver her ultimatum.
• Doorstopper: The story fits this trope pretty well despite only being three chapters long, with the first two chapters clocking in at about 20k words and the third and final one being a whooping 50k+.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: Just as in canon, Madoka is able to remember past timelines in dreams. Even the Miraculous wish can't overcome this, as she had a dream about Homura fighting supervillains and monsters, likely meant to be Witches before Homura wakes up in the new timeline.
• Dying Declaration of Hate: Su-Han gives Marinette one in one of the earlier timelines where the Bunnyx brought him back to Paris to give Ladybug and Cat Noir advice on Homura, only for him to go immediately after her and end up dying in battle after Ladybug and Cat Noir defend Homura.
  A Guardian protects humanity from….from monsters. Those who are human, those who were human, and those who were…never human. That is the purpose…of the Miraculous since….Atlantis. Witches must be….destroyed….before they kill innocent….You…you were never a true Guardian, and now you save…evil. You are a heretic Mar…. (Su-Han wheezes, unable to name Marinette) ....The….the Sixteenth….Heretic…..you will be…wiped away like the rest….enemies of the Order of the…all of you…
• Ear Ache: Nooroo yanks on Homura's ear to keep her from shooting Oriko. Homura is more stunned by someone doing it than actually thrown off by the pull, allowing Nooroo to remind Homura that this is a new reality and she can't keep up her habit of shooting Oriko in it.
• Earn Your Happy Ending:
  • For Homura, after nearly a hundred and fifty timeloops she finally gets a world where Madoka can't become a Magical Girl, and on top of it all saved every other Magical Girl from their fates, including herself. She gets a chance to make a better first impression with Mami, Madoka, and Sayaka and a genuine chance to have proper friendships with them again and is in fact assigned by Marinette to be Madoka's teacher and assistant as the Guardian of Japan with Nooroo as her Kwami partner.
  • For Nooroo, not only is Gabriel as Monarch killed and he's able to apologize to Paris for being used against them, but in the new reality he's saved even sooner, this time from Shadow Moth, and gets to have a much more moral partner human in the form of Homura. He also gets to act as Homura's parole officer, and is able to actually steer his partner away from morally dubious actions instead of ineffectively begging them not to as with Gabriel.
  • For Mami, who as a Magical Girl has suffered for over a hundred timelines, as a result of Homura and Marinette's wish, she is no longer a Magical Girl suffering in silence, but a public superhero Gifted named Capranastro whose heroics are beloved by Mitakihara at large. With Ziggy as her Mentor Mascot instead of Kyubey, not only is Mami much better off mentally, but she was also introduced to Nagisa by Ziggy, taking her fellow Gifted of the Goat in and helping with her loneliness. She also gets a chance to teach Madoka again as an assistant mentor alongside Homura, and with that two new friends in the form of the Guardian of Japan and the last Magical Girl in the universe.
• Enemy Mine: Tikki and Plagg ended up working with 'Cube' during the events of Tart Magica, a team-up neither particularly was happy about.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Kyoko has little patience for rookies and their various hiccups, but is willing to give Homura in the alternate version of timeline three a pass for being scared of Walpurgisnacht. Walpurgisnacht is something to be scared of.
  • Sayaka of the Law of Cycles doesn't like Homura much, but is willing to give her some slack for 'some' of her behaviors. Homura has legit tried to communicate fully before with everyone, which went badly, while her stalking Madoka is warranted due to Kyubey and the various Magical Girls like Oriko who would legit be after her. Also she considers Homura's explanation of why she would not attempt to hold Ladybug's mother hostage a valid one.
• Evil Knockoff:
  • According to the author, Madoka's akumatized form was a evil-colored Palette Swap of her Magical Girl outfit with similar powers, with her bow being made from her ribbons, which held the akuma.
  • Nooroo fears that his past use of his powers without a Miraculous in blessing alien species with super abilities may have inspired the Magical Girl system.
  • Homura considers the Magical Girl Rose and Juleka of an alternate timeline as this compared to Ladybug, as while one can purify Akumas and the other can use Magic Music to repair and heal Paris and Parisians harmed by then, it's at the cost of two victims of Kyubey compared to one Ladybug.
  • The Branded appear to be this to Magical Girls and Witches in the new reality, being their replacements created by the Incubators, now calling themselves the Balancers, to fulfill the roles of both. However due to no longer having access to the best candidates and having those best candidates and the Miraculous users opposing them, they have proved far less effective.
• Fantastic Racism: The orthodoxy of the Order of the Guardians is to kill Magical Girls on sight, seeing them as inhuman and only as the Witches they could become and not victims. While Su-Han subscribes to this, Fu seems to lack this viewpoint, and several others have broken away from the order in disgust with this viewpoint in the past. Future Ladybug did so again in the future as well according to Bunnyx.
• Flawed Prototype: As Marinette determines herself while trying to figure out the true meaning of the Lucky Charm object that her and Scarabella kept getting against Walpurgisnacht, and grappling with the reveal that the Lucky Charm isn't about defeating Walpurgisnacht, as it is the same regardless of the fight's outcome, Marinette eventually determines that the Miraculouses themselves are this, having been rendered incomplete as a result of the war with Atlantis requiring them to be rushed into service for combat and not having time to finish them after the lengthy conflict concluded. They were simply as good as the Mage could make in a limited time to help the Kwami, and the various hiccups were things that could have been ironed out with more time. Therefore, when Marinette realized she had to make a wish with the Miraculouses that would also restore the damage inflicted on the universe by the Incubators, the idea came to make the Miraculouses complete, with the goal of also using their complete status to counter the Incubators. This solution would lead to the creation of the Gifted.
• Foil: Lines are drawn between Marinette and Madoka as two ordinary girls with ordinary lives who have incredible potential. However where Madoka has always been in a massive time crunch due to Walpurgisnacht limiting her to only a month and a bit to develop, Marinette has had many months, nearly an entire year, to learn not just how to use her powers, but deeper aspects of her role, the larger history of the magic she's involved in, and learn and practice leadership. Madoka's mentors are limiting factors by either time and frequent deaths (Mami) or ill intent (Kyubey), while Marinette's mentors, like Fu and Tikki, aren't perfect, they had a lot more time and a lot more moral motives. Marinette's also had time to continue to develop her hobbies and interests, which Madoka never quite developed to the same level as Marinette. These hobbies also allowed Marinette to look at the problem with the Magical Girl system from a different angle than Madoka did, as while Madoka was focused on the end result because of Kyubey and her lost friends, Marinette could see the start of it via her artist and crafting perspective as well as Tikki and Bunnyx's explanations, so while Madoka's wish with Kyubey was focused on bettering how Magical Girls ended, Marinette's Miraculous wish was focused on how Magical Girls started to creating a better overall system. As a result, Madoka would get a chance to grow beyond the limits she was trapped in thanks to being designated as a new Guardian of the Miraculous in the new reality and given a Miracle Box and mentors unshackled by time limits, allowing her to more fully develop her potential as Marinette had.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: According to Bunnyx, Homura didn't contract in the original timeline and remained an average citizen of Japan after Mami and Madoka's deaths, but time changing randomly a la what occurred with 'Cat Blanc' led to the creation of the Homura Akemi who would do anything to save Madoka and had the power to travel back again and again in order to try and do so, eventually getting to a point she could wield nearly an entire Miracle Box's worth of Miraculouses in a feat that terrifies Su-Han to witness.
• Fusion Dance: Unification is featured here just like in Miraculous canon, with Homura at various points using combinations of the Peacock and Butterfly, Peacock, Mouse, and Rooster, and all of the Chinese Miraculous but the Rabbit and Ladybug, though she doesn't give the resulting forms any names. Rabbit Noir and Lady Bunny are mentioned, with Lady Miraculous being a combination of all but one of the Native American Miraculouses, the Ladybug, and the Rabbit. Pegabug shows up in the new timeline.
• The Gift: Alongside Madoka's canonical status as being an unusually potent Magical Girl candidate, Marinette is noted as having an unusually strong affinity for Miraculouses, with Bunnyx noted these gifts are the same meaning that Madoka would have an astonishingly high tolerance for multiple Miraculouses and, unstated due to how Incubators avoid Guardians, Marinette would be a powerful Magical Girl. Just as in Madoka Magica these innate affinities were enhanced by Homura's time travel, as the karmic potential of Madoka not only reached the level of potential apotheosis, but started to leak into others for a similar effect. People like Madoka would become the new focus of Marinette's Guardian recruitment drive in the new reality.
• Great Offscreen War:
  • The war with Atlantis between the Guardians, the first Miraculous users, and the Prodigious user of the time on one side, against the Incubator-dominated Atlanteans and their Magical Girls on another, which ended in the destruction of Atlantis itself by Plagg. After the wish, this war, while ending the same way, would instead see the origin of the Gifted and the phasing out of Magical Girls across the universe.
  • Before then the Kwami had opposed the Incubators with their full, uncontrolled powers. We only hear talk of this in the form of some of the terrible consequences this caused, with locations described as 'the Shadowed Planet', 'the Solar System-spanning Hell Jungle', or 'the Undying Planet'.
  • The Guardian Heresies, civil wars amidst the Order of the Guardians typically brought on by Guardians who disagreed with the policy of immediate extermination of Magical Girls. There were fifteen of them before Fu accidentally wiped the order out, with the tenth occurring during the Hundred Years War. The Sixteenth Guardian Heresy, which will wipe out the Order of the Guardians for a second time in the future, is referenced by Bunnyx and is implied to have been led by Future Ladybug.
• God's Hands Are Tied: The Visitor is not lacking in power, but the Law of Cycles is unable to interfere with worlds that have 'stories beyond our own', i.e crossover universes. She can only step into temporary gaps, such as the one Lady Miraculous and Homura accidentally create, and help indirectly, by talking with Homura.
• Hard Truth Aesop: Being truthful about what happens to Magical Girls practically never goes well, with the better outcomes involving things like Mami being possessed and running around in a pope outfit. Homura specifically never talks about this part, even when she is breaking the masquerade on French television, for this reason. The Homura from the alternate timeline where Team Miraculous came to help struggles with this hard, with Ryuko being blunt about how telling the truth about it will do nothing good. Sabine is a lot nicer about it from the perspective of a person who had been kept in the dark when she gives her own perspective on the matter.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Several of the more offbeat Miraculouses show themselves to be particularly effective in this story
  • The Pig Miraculous, whose power is to show a target's innermost desire, is not the most flashy power. However not only does it have the potential to be a one hit knockout (Homura uses it as a distraction because if it does work she wins, but if Lady Miraculous also knows to avoid it for this reason and thus gives Homura time to set landmines), but as demonstrated by Pigella in one of the alternate timelines, its nature as being powered by the Kwami of Jubiliation means it naturally counters despair. Pigella can use it to not only refresh Soul Gems, but also destroy Familiars who form in part from a Magical Girl's despair even those of Walpurgisnacht.
  • The Eagle Miraculous, which has the power to remove a target's limitations, is mostly seen as what it can do when used by evil characters, as removing the personal self-control of superheroes can be destructive. Eagle meanwhile gets a chance to demonstrate its use for good in several alternate timelines, where using Liberation of the traumatized Madoka characters is able to help them get through their issues and remove their self limits. Using it on Kyoko allows her to regain the use of her illusion powers after suffering a trauma-induced Depower, using it on Homura not only makes her more open to others but it outright lingers through timelines (this power is the reason Homura is on a full name basis with Sayaka and Mami in earlier timelines but is back to calling them by their first names at the present one), and when used on Mami she's able to kill Walpurgisnacht with her Broken Bird status removed.
  • Marinette thinks the Woodpecker Miraculous is a very strange power, but she cannot argue with the results. The power of Alleviation involves the odd use of the Woodpecker's tools, a spout and receptacle, to basically tap a person like a tree for harvesting raw syrup. In this case the 'sap' is the target's fatigue and ill health. The first result of this strange concept is reinvigorating any target and curing them of ills, with this power being among the ones that can remedy dulled Soul Gems even at the brink of turning into a Witch. The second part of the power is then having someone consuming that fatigue, purified into a golden syrupy substance from its original gray. In doing so the person is powered up by however severe the fatigue, illness, and pain the tapped target had been. This very strange set up results in Lady Miraculous, having used it on herself after a long and brutal fight with Homura, more or less entering a Super Mode state that very quickly defeats Homura in combat.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door:
  • Depending on the timeline Homura frequently alternated between being an antagonist by the Miraculous Heroes perspectives and being on their side. The timeline before the one where she defeats Felix and Cat Noir and kills Monarch she had been a ally to both Ladybug and Cat Noir in both Paris and Mitakihara. In the new reality she is firmly on their side.
  • As noted by Marinette, Oriko shifts between this between timelines, making a bit awkward when the heroes of the alternate timeline fights with Walpurgisnacht have both representatives from a timeline where Oriko and Kirika fought Walpurgisnacht, and the Mami and Kyoko from the timeline where Oriko killed Madoka. Ultimately, in the new reality Oriko is firmly on the side of good as a Gifted heroine.
• Hey, You!: Homura has a habit of calling Kyosuke 'The boy' when thinking about him.
• Hidden Depths:
  • If the alternate timeline afterparty is anything to go by, the magical girl who would become Elsa Maria can play the drums.
  • While Homura is apathetic towards giving herself a code name, she actually does show some skill at coming up with them during the fight between Guitar Villain and the Magical Girl alternates of the Miraculous heroes, and the writer implies that she would actually be good at creating names for herself if she wasn't so jaded by the timeloops.
  • For all of Nadja's tendencies towards reckless behavior as a reporter, it is at least partially her taking calculated risks. She knows that Ladybug can revive her if something goes wrong, and by taking on riskier assignments and thus bigger stories she can have more flexibility with her scheduling to be with her daughter more. She's also used to superhero situations due to having previously worked in New York. Homura also suspects that Nadja interviewing her is at least partially Nadja trying to help Ladybug by proving the heroine with as much information as possible, not knowing Bunnyx is able to provide the same information and more.
• I Am the Noun: When Lady Miraculous tries to get Homura to surrender so they can work together to defeat Walpurgisnacht and save Madoka the right way, Homura declares herself 'the right way'.
• I Hate Past Me: Homura is shown to not be particularly fond of who she was at the start of the timeloops. She spends much of the time while watching one of the alternate timelines putting down her equivalent self from Timeline 3.
• I Have Many Names:
  • The Incubators have gone by many names, changing what they call themselves based on their racial focus at the time. In previous eons they've been known as the Ponderous, the Surveyors, the Existing, and the Formed. In the new reality they go instead as the Balancers.
  • Homura lampshades the fondness for Miraculous users to do this more than a few times.
  So she was seeing a typical Parisian day then, when someone got turned into a supervillain by Monarch, or Gabriel Agreste, or Hawk Moth, or Shadow Moth, or Scarlet Moth (that was a thing, right?), or whatever he decided to call himself that day..
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Tart, who handled both the Cat and the Ladybug Miraculous at several points and never was tempted to use their power. Her pure nature is quite evident when she, Liz, Future Cat, and Future Ladybug appear in chapter 3.
• Ineffectual Loner: Homura can do a lot of things on her own, but there are just some things she can't do on her own, including defeating Walpurgisnacht and thus saving her friends. The Visitor specifically asks her to try to listen to what Ladybug has to say after their meeting is done to try and get something done together instead of apart. Being a Madoka who asks her this, Homura is willing to give it a try, and ultimately gets most of what she wants as a result.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • Despite everything that changed due to Cat Blanc, Bunnyx admits that things like Marinette's breakup with Luka, her bout of depression as a result, Felix handing Monarch the Miraculouses, and Monarch being injured by Cataclysm, all happened without Cat Blanc.
  • Despite the Miraculous wish changing a lot of the history of the Guardians, they are still wiped out around the time they were in canon. The only difference being it was by a Balancer conspiracy, not Fu's mistake. The Peacock and Butterfly Miraculouses are still lost, and despite the removal of the forced obedience part of the Miraculouses, Nooroo and Duusu still end up being tricked into helping Gabriel, this time by swearing an unbreakable oath of assistance before the evil monologues started.
  • Despite all the changes to the post wish reality, Alya still had to change her heroic cover to Rena Furtive. She just got to return to being Rena Rouge instead of losing the Miraculous to Gabriel this time.
• Intrepid Reporter: As in Miraculous Nadja Chamack, whose reaction to Homura delivering an ultimatum to Ladybug to hand over her Miraculous in an hour is to go and interview her fifteen minutes before the fight. Homura is naturally flummoxed by this, baffled by her lack of fear about interviewing someone with seventeen stolen Miraculouses who had just murdered the most feared man in Paris and hospitalized one of its two greatest heroes. Nadja has worked in Paris so long, and worked in New York before that, that not only is she bold enough to interview Homura before she fights Ladybug, but was even able to dig up some of Homura's history beforehand in barely half an hour. Homura, while remaining in disbelief, gives her an interview despite herself, partially just to screw with Kyubey.
• Irony: The Incubators are so dedicated to overcoming entropy by adding more energy to the universe that they are actually breaking the universe because entropy is restrained by Plagg, and that excess energy is damaging space-time instead.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Do to her bad history with Incubators, Homura defaults to calling the Kwami she takes from Felix and Monarch 'it', a habit she drops after they show themselves to be a lot more empathetic and kind than the Incubators. This process is also based on how nice they are to her: Duusu, who actively hates Homura for attacking Felix, gives her a lot more grief than Nooroo, and thus is called 'it' for a lot longer than Nooroo.
• It's Personal: Homura originally didn't see Monarch as her problem, just as someone to be wary of when she was in Paris trying to get Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses for her own wish. At worst she just had to avoid being akumatized by him and maybe afterwards she would be expected to help the two heroes take him down if Madoka insisted on it. Then Monarch followed her back to Mitakihara in the previous timeloop and started akumatizing people there, including Madoka. The very next loop, killing Monarch ends up on Homura's 'to-do list' for every timeloop going forward, and when she manages to get Monarch's identity out of Felix, Monarch only lives for as long as it takes Homura to get to his house and shoot him while he sleeps.
• Karma Houdini: Despite threatening the tear the universe apart with her reckless wish to get rid of the Incubators, Homura walks out of the story in a perfectly content position, being the appointed mentor of the new guardian Madoka in order to teach her about the Miraculous Box. Downplayed, in that Homura forever earned the ire of at least two Kwami, Plagg and Duusu, who are not going to forgive her anytime soon for attacking their human partners, with the implication that other Kwami will also never trust her due to her actions and she has to do something to make up with Cat Noir for attacking him.
• Karma Houdini Warranty:
  • Felix, for his part in giving Gabriel the Miraculouses and all that causes in canon and in the story, gets ambushed by Homura and, while putting up a fight, still gets shot, stabbed, hit with a chair, and eventually subdued and made to talk with the Peacock Miraculous's control of Sentimonsters. It's all but stated he didn't get Duusu at all in the new reality, never having the chance to get the Dog Miraculous and betray Ladybug to obtain it.
  • Kyubey not only ends up seeing evidence of the Kwami's existence on television thanks to Nadja's interview that seems to render him catatonic, but Marinette's wish is so audacious that it causes him to freak out so much that it clues Mami in that he's an Incubator, and thus she shoots him. Finally in the new reality the Balancers are outcompeted for the best contractors by the Kwami and not only are far, far behind on their mission, but the Gifted that replace them can outright steal the energy they do create back, rendering them far from the dominant position they inhabit in Madoka proper.
  • While Lila seems to mostly avoid it as Alya, while seeing her actions during Heroes Day after looking around the Burrow while Bunnyx is distracted and realizing she's evil, doesn't have time to act on it, once the universe resets Lila, now identified as a Branded, is outrighted noted to have been defeated by Ladybug and crew at some point and, per how Mami describes the Branded, loses her powers as a result.
• Last of Her Kind:
  • Homura becomes the last Magical Girl in the universe after her and Marinette's wish replaced the rest of them since Atlantis with the Gifted. She lampshades the irony, and does ponder if she even still counts as she no longer has a Soul Gem, but considers it semantics.
  • In the same situation Master Fu is truly this in the new reality as the history shown in 'Feast' did not occur. While he did train Marinette as best he could, there are simply things that were lost with him when he died.
• Mage Marksman: Homura's canon status of this is amplified by her stolen Miraculous, notably using the Rooster Miraculous to grant herself Bottomless Magazines. Per the author, in the new reality she can use the power of the Butterfly Miraculous via her guns, shooting people with the power of Transmission instead of using butterflies to spread the power the way Gabriel does.
• Make a Wish: The entire story is set off by Homura learning about the Miraculous, and the Wish in particular, and believing that she can use them in order to get rid of the Incubators once and for all.
• Man of Kryptonite: Cat Miraculous users are particularly dangerous to the Incubators, as their entire species is linked by a very intricate hive mind. It just takes a single one of them being hit by Plagg's power to wipe them all out, as an alternate version of Princess Fragrance pulled off in one timeline.
• Mathematician's Answer: How Kyubey answers Mami's question about what an Incubator is and why Homura wants to wipe them out.
  I cannot answer that question.
• Monumental Damage: Naturally the Eifel Tower gets involved in Lady Miraculous and Homura's big fight. In this case, Homura teleports it over her with the Dog Miraculous's Fetch power and uses it to block Lady Miraculous's turret-dropping time loop, having it constantly be struck with large falling objects.
• Mook Maker: Like Mayura, Shadow Moth, and Argos, Homura uses the Peacock Miraculous to create Sentimonsters to help fight her enemies. She notably uses the Peacock Miraculous to create ten Sentimonster versions of various Witches to assist in her fight against Lady Miraculous.
• Motor Mouth: Non-comedic example when Alya starts talking about the ramifications of Cat Blanc with the narration even saying "Alya was on a roll now, and that was not a good thing." She shuts up when Adult Bunnyx outright says she doesn't know why it didn't require intervention to fix.
• Mundane Solution: How does Homura figure out Lady Miraculous's position when she's using the Sasquatch Miraculous that not only makes her invisible, but also masks any sound? She blasts the area with a paintball gun, normally used to train Sayaka with, and figures out her position via where the paint isn't landing.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Su-Han is adamant that Lady Miraculous kill Homura immediately to retrieve the stolen Miraculouses and to prevent Homura from turning into a witch. As the Celestial Guardian is far away from Paris when the battle happens when he makes this demand, Lady Miraculous can't hear him.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Madoka is horrified about what Homura is willing to do to save her, and that is just without context. The Madokas with the context that they had asked Homura to save them from Kyubey and the request to Mercy Kill them first are horrified about what this did to their friend. The Madoka of timeline three requests Marinette to apologize to Homura for it, while Ultimate Madoka apologizes to Homura directly.
• Named by the Adaptation: Majestia and Ignoblia's alien species is given as the Superbians from planet Superbia.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • Homura was pointed in the direction of Felix as a holder of a Miraculous by the Cat Noir of the previous timeline. This, along with Monarch following Homura back to Japan and akumatizing Madoka, set the events of the story in question. While Bunnyx is more forgiving of that Cat for the slip up, as Homura did not present herself as threatening in that timeline, when that Cat Noir shows up Plagg, who got his Adrien seriously hurt because of this, yells at the previous timeline Cat Noir.
  • Part of the reason that the Kwami can't convince Homura to just use the Miraculouses to kill the Incubators conventionally is because she had seen Princess Fragrance do the same trick in a earlier time loop, which did not work out due to the fact that Madoka had already made a wish before Rose did her thing. In fact, with no fresh Magical Girls and thus Witches, this started to lead into a Grief Seed shortage like what had created Promised Blood, but on a universal scale. When this Rose shows back up in Chapter 3, she admits to the problem being on her.
  • A different alternate Cat Noir, one from a completely alternate timeline has it two-fold. The first was him attempting to approaching Chloe, who had contracted with Kyubey, about the truth while betting on both his friendship with Chloe as Adrien and his status as Cat Noir to get through to her. This backfires horribly, Chloe witches out, and when her lifeless body is found Adrien is the obvious suspect, there is basically no good way to solve the issue (Adrien ultimately settles on self-exile to hunt the Incubators down with the Cat and Horse Miraculous as the best solution), with the second being the clarification later that the Ladybug Miraculous can revive a girl who was turned into a witch, ultimately making his decision to go at it alone the worst possible choice he could have made.
• No Name Given: While the Kwami call her The Visitor and Homura notes her with a distinct title it is at most distinct as the Golden-eyed Madoka, versus just calling her Madoka, at no point does Ultimate Madoka name herself or clarify exactly what she is.
• Noodle Incident:
  • Some of Madoka's past wishes, according to Homura, have included breaking up fights, reviving cats, making Mami happy, knowing what to wish for, getting Sayaka and Hitomi to stop fighting over the boy (Kyosuke), paying off Kyoko’s food bill, and saving a retirement home.
  • Homura once convinced Hitomi to contract to try to keep her and Sayaka from fighting, which didn't go as well as the times Hitomi naturally contracts, or Homura just shoots Kyosuke, the latter being a timeline where Madoka used her wish to revive him afterwards.
  • Homura had tried to run away with an unwilling Madoka once. Not only did Madoka not appreciate being kidnapped and said things to Homura during it that Homura outright represses, but its implied that Sayaka wished for Madoka's return in that timeline, making the entire attempt fruitless. Homura never tried the strategy again.
  • The 68th iteration of Mr. Pigeon once overthrew the Mayor, though how this happened, or why Mr. Pigeon did so, was not elaborated on.
  • Bunnyx does not explain how Mr. Ramier would eventually become the Mayor of Paris, except that he didn't beat the current Mayor to do so.
  • Ladybug and Cat Noir were at one point attacked by a steamroller controlled by an akumatized supervillain.
  • We don't hear anything about both Bunnyx being stuck in a labyrinth for nearly an entire loop except that it happened and the duo no longer fight Homura in Japan because of this.
  • Why in two of the past timelines it was Scarabella and Kitty Noire who went to Mitakihara instead of Ladybug and Cat Noir isn't clear. Homura never asked and when those two sets show up again there are more important things to discuss than what happened there.
  • The Visitor has seen timelines where others have come up with solutions that are both better and worse than her choice that created the Law of Cycles, but other than the Magia Record gameverse, distinct from the anime version of the universe Homura is familiar with, we are given no details about what those other ideas are.
  • One of the worlds that The Visitor had seen was one where Homura used the Peacock Miraculous to replace Sayaka, Mami, and Kyoko with Sentimonster duplicates who were tasked to defeat Walpurgisnacht and protect Madoka while the originals were kept in a well-stock hideaway for their own safekeeping.
• Noodle Implements: When Homura is remembering how the Lucky Charm lets Ladybug and Cat Noir beat her as it always turns into the right item to do so, she remembers: stun grenades better known as flashbangs, a staple gun, a pogo stick, a jar of jumping beans, a pool noodle, a hockey puck, a Cat Noir figurine, a dancing game dance pad, a stick of licorice, a drink cooler, a cat-eared headband, and one of those giant American cars, the one that sounded like 'summer'
• No Social Skills: Homura's greatest character flaw according to Sayaka of the Law of Cycles, who describes Homura as having the social skills of a concussed tomato. Madoka is much nicer about it, but also agrees that Homura is not good with people.
• O.C. Stand-in: With Monarch having stolen most of the Chinese Miraculouses beforehand, and having Homura take them from him alongside Felix and Cat's Miraculouses, Ladybug opts to balance things out by borrowing the ones of the Native American Miracle Box. The story gives these Miraculouses, bar the Falcon, powers despite only existing as names from a writer comment as of Season 5.
  • The Thunderbird Miraculous, which grants the power of Admiration.
  • The Buffalo Miraculous, which grants the power of Manifestation.
  • The Bear Miraculous, which grants the power of Rejuvination.
  • The Wolf Miraculous, which grants the power of Communion, which also has links to the afterlife.
  • The Otter Miraculous, which grants the power of Levitation.
  • The Deer Miraculous, which grants the power of Negotiation, which manifests as a Geas that binds the targets to an agreement reached.
  • The Beaver Miraculous, which grants the power of Cultivation.
  • The Salmon Miraculous, which grants the power of Predestination.
  • The Woodpecker Miraculous, which grants the power of Alleviation.
  • The Raven Miraculous, which grants the power of Transformation.
  • The Owl Miraculous, which grants the power of Intimidation.
  • The Goose Miraculous, which grants the power of Inattention.
• Odd Friendship: During the afterparty in the alternate timeline where Walpurgisnacht was defeated by a mass team-up of Miraculous users and Magical Girls, Oriko and Polymouse hit it up with a detailed conversation about politics.
• Oddly Small Organization: The Order of the Guardians in the new reality are this, with the Unnamed Sentimonster not having existed and their destruction by the Balancers instead leaving only Fu to carry on the role for over a century, during which a lot of connections were lost. While training Marinette would ultimately begin to resolve this by the time Homura wakes up in the new reality he is dead and the organization is just Marinette and Alya, who is more Marinette's assistant than a fully fleshed out Guardian. With Shadow Moth defeated Marinette is focused on recruiting, but as the end of the story the Order of the Guardians, responsible for the Gifted throughout the universe, she's only set up a meeting with the United Heroez to look into Guardian candidates for New York City, planning to train Fei as the Guardian in Shanghai, and recruit Homura to train Madoka as the Guardian of Japan, leaving the Order of the Guardians with a theoretical count of six at most.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Many adventures are mentioned to have happened offscreen.
  • The nearly a hundred and fifty timeloops prior to the one focused on in the story are, at best, referenced. So events like Rose tricking Monarch into setting up the death of all Incubators, the battles with the akumatized citizens of Mitakihara, including Madoka, Homura's previous battles with Ladybug and Cat Noir prior to the story, and Mami killing Walpurgisnacht are not shown, only referenced or described.
  • We don't see Homura taking down Felix and taking the Peacock Miraculous, only that she mentions he did not go down quietly, fought back ferociously, and required her to use a Grief Seed afterwards.
  • The alternate timeline Miraculous heroes adventures with the Pleiades Saints. We only get the after action report and the latter's presence against Walpurgisnacht.
  • Both the alternate timeline Miraculous heroes and the heroes of Paris in the new reality defeating Shadow Moth.
  • Liz Hawkwood stole the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses from the Guardians, becoming a Cat Miraculous holder and giving Tart the Ladybug Miraculous.
  • Master Fu saving all but the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculouses in the new reality, instead of just one Miracle Box, keeping them all safe for over a century without issue despite being just one man.
  • The adventures of Future Cat Noir and Ladybug, Tart and Liz are given a tantalizing description, but nothing more.
  “If it helps, the entire time you’ve been out dealing with this crisis we’ve been to twelve hostile alien planets, twenty-four that were not hostile but required us to save the day from certain doom, three distinct dimensions from the one we all inhabit, traveled sideways in time, bested three simultaneous break outs of Ignobilia and the Inmates of Quantum in the 1420s, 2070s, and 2220s, and got to see the fabric of the universe from behind.” Future Cat Noir sounded like he had seen things he couldn’t unsee, for good and for ill. “We’ve been a little busy."
• Oh, Crap!: Too many to count, but a few include Plagg shaking his head "no" when Adrien asks him if Gabriel's okay, Adult Bunnyx suddenly appearing behind Marinette and Alya right after the latter has told Marinette that it'll be okay because Bunnyx isn't there and Homura's reaction when a Woodpecker-powered Marinette grabs the bullets that Homura fires at her.
• Phantom Zone: The Prison of Quantum, with its ties to Ignobolia, is hinted to be the Quantumverse equivalent of the Phantom Zone.
• Pet the Dog: While Homura's not the nice one between her and Ladybug, she is nice about a few things.
  • She's quick to be nice to Nooroo after taking possession of him from Monarch, accepting his good nature despite her suspicion that he, like all Kwami, are basically the same thing as an Incubator. She even uses Nadja's interview with her to let him apologize to Paris for being used by the villain.
  • Unlike most who Nadja tries to interview, Homura doesn't try to kill or brainwash her and answers her questions while waiting for Ladybug to show up.
  • Despite going out of her way to make a point, she doesn't out Cat Noir or Monarch's identities when she declares her defeat of both of them in her ultimatum, a detail Marinette catches. This is for Cat's benefit specifically.
• Pillow Silencer: Homura uses this to kill Monarch while he sleeps. She actually complains about his lack of pillows, requiring her to look for one to do the deed in his mansion first.
• Point of Divergence:
  • The story happened entirely because in one timeline, Sayaka talked about Paris's heroes where Homura could hear her.
  • If not for the same processes that created Cat Blanc, Homura would have remained a unpowered citizen of Japan, not a Magical Girl.
  • In the new reality created by the wish, the Mage had more time to work on the Miraculouses, which led to a very different situation where potential Magical Girl candidates were given power by the Kwami instead of the Incubators, leading to a reality where the Incubators are not able to continue their game due to being outcompeted, forcing them to change tactics to a less efficient, readily combated form of energy gathering as the Balancers and their new creations, the Branded.
  • Due to Master Fu being able to save all of the Miracle Boxes and all but the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculouses when the Order fell, Marinette and the heroes of Paris had access to a lot more Miraculouses to hand out. On top of the existence of the Gifted, this led to a different heroic roster in both members and identities.
  • Because Mami had Ziggy as her mentor instead of Kyubey, her life outside of her work in the new reality is a lot healthier, and alongside an implied better relationship with Kyoko, she also has a companion in the form of Nagisa before she met Homura, Sayaka, and Madoka.
• Poor Communication Kills: Literally, during one Loop, Su-Han immediately going after Homura to kill her without telling Ladybug and Cat Noir what needed to be done with Homura led to Ladybug and Cat Noir killing him.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Bunnyx, stressed from an ever escalating situation with Homura and needing to vent, gladly gives one to Gabriel's ghost, giving him a long overdue rant about how he can no longer hurt her friends and how he ultimately doomed himself while stabbing him with her umbrella. Marinette, Alya, and Alix also pitch in.
• Refuge in Audacity: Homura is so stunned by Nadja Chamack approaching her for an interview after she very publicly broadcasted an ultimatum at Ladybug that she grants it despite herself, partially to screw with Kyubey and give Nooroo a chance to apologize to Paris for what Hawk Moth did with his powers.
• Riddle for the Ages: How did Nadja make it to the top of the Eiffel Tower? It's implied that someone flew her up there, somehow.
• Rookie Red Ranger: Madoka becomes the Guardian of Japan, and thus the boss of all of its Gifted superheroes in the new reality and in charge of an Miracle Box despite not having powers or experience herself. This is due to her massive latent potential that remained even with Homura and Marinette's wish, though it is acknowledged that she will need a lot of help to do so, which is why Homura is appointed as her partner and mentor, who can both teach her the ropes and be the iron fist to Madoka's velvet glove, and Mami is more than willing to help out wherever she can with training her new boss.
• Rousseau Was Right: Marinette is pretty firm in the belief that the vast majority of people, albeit not all, are inherently good, having seen the best of people as Paris's hero. Having seen not just the city at large, with only a few outliers like Monarch and Lila, stand up against evil in events like Heroes Day, but former bullies and rivals like King Monkey and Miss Hound be brave heroes, Marinette is quite firm on this. Homura actually doesn't inherently disagree, having had people help her across multiple timelines. She just finds this tendency aggravating because, due to her time traveling and everyone else not, they always try to help without 'knowing' what they should be doing.
• Sailor Earth: In addition to the Native American Miraculouses confirmed by the writers of Miraculous, three more were added by the author to bolster the known total to bring it more in line with the Chinese Miracle Box.
  • The Rattlesnake Miraculous, which grants the power of Cessation.
  • The Sasquatch Miraculous, which grants the power of Discretion, which is Invisibility that also masks the users sounds.
  • The Vole Miraculous, which grants the power of Direction.
• Say My Name: Marinette lets out an "HOMURA AKEMI!" after going into her Super Mode after she uses the Woodpecker Miraculous.
• Second Super-Identity: As per Ladybug tradition, when different combinations of Miraculous are used, Ladybug and Cat Noir take on different identities. When Ladybug shows up to fight Homura with all but one of the Native American Miraculouses, the Rabbit, and the Ladybug Miraculous, she uses the title Lady Miraculous. Lady Bunny and Rabbit Noir are mentioned, and in the new reality Ladybug first shows up as Pegabug.
• Sanity Has Advantages: A noted flaw of akumatized villains is their negative emotions render most of them crazy and unable to focus on a specific task. This is one of several flaws of Gabriel's plans noted by the heroes when his ghost shows up in Chapter 3.
• Secret Identity:
  • As common with Miraculous users. The story ends up occurring because Homura manages to learn the secret identity of Monarch and things spiral from there to have her learn Cat Noir's.
  • Homura doesn't care to keep one out of apathy, with the fact this means that there is no way she is going to transfer into Madoka's class as a result is acknowledged, as well as the fact she may end up on a watch list afterwards due to Nadja revealing the upcoming transfer into Madoka's class on live TV.
• Secret-Keeper:
  • Rose joins Alya as one of Marinette's in the timeline she becomes a Magical Girl, partially out of necessity due to the Incubator genocide rendering Tikki her only means of keeping her Soul Gem clean.
  • In an alternate timeline shown to Homura by Ultimate Madoka, Sabine and Tom were informed of Marinette's secret identity after the defeat of Shadow Moth.
  • Homura ends up learning Gabriel and Adrien's identities, and keeps them to herself out of respect for the latter even when she makes it clear to Paris she knows them. She manages to guess that Ladybug is Marinette thanks to the final two timelines she is shown and is still this in the new reality.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Alya manages to deduce that Cat Noir is probably Adrien when the topic of '"Cat Blanc'' comes up, though she doesn't pass this onto Marinette by Adult Bunnyx's request until Chapter 3 when past versions of Cat Noir start showing up. Adrien himself doesn't realize this for the rest of the current reality.
• Sequel Hook: The story ends with several clear paths to follow should it be continued.
  • Madoka learning the powers of her Miracle Box and its Miraculouses and finding partners for each Kwami, including a partner for herself.
  • Homura's exact method of recompense for attacking and injuring Cat Noir and taking his Miraculous.
  • Homura and Mami training Madoka as the Guardian of Japan as well as the possible recruitment of more Guardians.
  • A Kamihama City arc.
  • Eventual intervention in Kyoko's hunt for the Branded who had been part of her father's ministry.
  • Ladybug's various tasks on her to-do list.
  • The fuller repercussions of Marinette and Homura making a wish, as we only see a limited perspective from Homura about the the state of the universe afterwards.
• Shout-Out:
  • Plagg references a Furmanism, specifically the 'like some predatory bird' one when describing Gabriel.
  • The alien races that Nooroo lists as having been affected by the Incubators are those from Resonance Days. Tart mentions meeting the Calliopes in Chapter 3, and Homura is implied to have met some of them in the new reality in the Temple Dimension.
  • While she's not outright named, its pretty clear that the blonde Ladybug user that Homura sees in another timeline is Scarlet Lady, who references Marigold during a rant of hers.
  • When Tikki confirms Homura is a Magical Girl, Alya immediately references Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Nanoha.
  • When Adult Bunnyx first shows up, she says that Alya forgot the part about time being wibbly and wobbly.
  • Mami taking Homura shopping in the new reality after Homura admits to only having her school uniforms and hospital clothes is an admitted one to a scene with Rarity and Sci-Twi in Aftermath of the Games.
  • The name of Homura's Finishing Move is Hellzone Grenade.
  • When Adult Bunnyx describes how Homura fights with stolen weapons and freezing time, Alya mentally adds ''and the odd streamroller, which Kid Bunnyx quickly clarifies to not be the case.
  • Two previous Cat Noirs, one in Homura's flashback after saving Madoka, a second in the space beyond time, space, and death, use some of All Might's quotes, paraphrasing It's fine now. Why? Because I am here! as Don’t worry, everything’s going to be alright! Because I am here! in the former and being cut off before saying Holy...stinking...SUPERCRAP in the latter.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Trixx and the Goose Kwami, Downn, don't get along. Their powers have similar uses, but they see the other as a hack. Trixx, whose powers create illusions, thinks Downn's power to just make people dumber is too easy and lacks any skill to use, while Downn thinks Trixx's powers are too complicated and prone to misfiring.
• Speak of the Devil: Alya tries to calm down Marinette after Homura's ultimatum by pointing out that Bunnyx isn't here, so it can't be the end of the world. Then Bunnyx shows up and confirms that it is, but admits that Alya does have a point and Marinette should remember that in other situations.
• Spotting the Thread: Mami is able to piece together parts of Homura's interview and figure out that she's 'Yellow'.
• Stating the Simple Solution: As Alya points out, instead of supervillains Gabriel could have just found someone who wanted to undo one thing, give them time powers, and save his wife that way instead of tormenting everyone with supervillains to try and steal the Miraculouses. She even admits that if she had been offered time powers, she'd have jumped at it if the guy hadn't been using the power to create supervillains out of her friends and family.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: As a result of Homura's ultimatum towards Ladybug, both Alya and Sayaka think Homura wants to commit genocide against a farming tool (Incubator), mistaking Kyubey's race for the machines used to hatch eggs.
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham:
  • Noted by Mami to Homura in the alternate version of timeline three, who notes that while it would be nice to have their help against Walpurgisnacht, but as superheroes they have their own problems to deal with, as do Magical Girls. Fortunately for Mitakihara, in this timeline the heroes of Paris had just defeated Shadow Moth and were looking for new ways to help the world, so when Homura made a late night post on the Ladyblog about what was going on, they were more than happy to help.
  • The United Heroez are apparently busy with a similarly dangerous, non-witch problem when Walpurgisnacht attacks.
• Super Mode: Marinette basically gains one of these after she drinks the pain she accumulated when she uses the Woodpecker's Alleviation Power. It makes her stronger and faster and allows her to easily hand Homura her butt on a silver platter.
• Support Party Member: The Lizard Sentimonster that Homura creates can't fight, but it is does act as a permanent Grief Seed attached to her Soul Gem, continuously purifying it to prevent Homura from ever running low on magic or falling to corruption. A massive amount of them are created in the alternate timeline where Team Miraculous comes to help the Magical Girls after defeating Shadow Moth to ensure the Magical Girls of Miktakihara and Asurano don't have to worry about running out of magic.
• Storm of Blades: Sayaka's Mami-taught supermove, 'Tempesta Di Spade' takes the form of a barrage of cutlasses.
• Take a Third Option: The Incubators have to be stopped because their attempts to "save" the universe are doing more harm than good, but just destroying them with a Wish like Homura wants could just lead to something as bad or worse taking their place, if it doesn't crash the universe outright, and other methods of destroying them don't do anything about Walpurgisnacht or other Witches and Magical Girls. So what does Marinette suggest? Wishing that the Mage who made the Miraculous had time to complete them, allowing the Kwamis to beat the Incubators to their best Magical Girl victims as the Gifted.
• Take That!:
  • One of the alternate timelines Homura sees in Chapter 3 clearly is a Salt Fic universe. Neither she, the Visitor, Ultimate Madoka, or the Homura of that universe, are impressed by those in it, considering them not who the heroes and citizens of Paris are supposed to be.
  • There are also a few potshots taken at season 5 of Miraculous Ladybug. While Bunnyx admits the events of it had to happen, she always makes it clear it is something to bear with, not to enjoy. It's very telling that both of the clearly better ending realities are ones where the heroes defeated Shadow Moth, never allowing Monarch to happen.
• Tempting Fate: Towards the end of Chapter 1, Alya gets Marinette to calm down by telling her that Bunnyx isn't here, Marinette can easily beat Homura and reclaim the Miraculouses and have Plagg give Cat Noir his back in the hospital and that's the way time travel works. Marinette is cheered up and tells Alya "You're right!". Cue this:
  Adult Bunnyx:...Well she technically is, but she forgot the part of time that's wibbly and wobbly. Good speech though.
  Marinette and Alya freeze up as they turn around, finding the adult Bunnyx standing behind them.
  Adult Bunnyx: Like seriously, that would actually work with stuff like Monarch, and you should make that argument more often for regular turns for the worst, but things have kind of gone beyond just regular bad. In fact, we probably passed the end of the world a while ago. Into the Burrow with the three of you, we have a mess to sort out. Bunnyx waves her hand behind her as a time portal opens up behind her. Oh and if it helps…this mess really is on me, and now we're all in big, big trouble.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Ladybug considers using the power of the Miraculous of the Rattlesnake, which would instantly kill anything its tool, the Whip, hits as the absolute last resort for both moral reasons and the fact that killing Homura could very easily create a massive explosion of chaotic time energy.
• The Unmasqued World: While Homura was already pretty blunt about what she was in her ultimatum to Madoka, it is Nadja Chamack's interview that really blows the masquerade away when Homura clarifies exactly what she is. However, because the Miraculous side of the crossover already has superheroes, magical jewels, ghost attacks, robots, and aliens, this doesn't really stun anyone on that end that much.
• The Unreveal:
  • We don't get to hear Bunnyx explain to Alya if the Egyptian Gods that Pharaoh was trying to sacrifice her to were real or not, and by extension if gods other than the Kwami exist in the Quantumverse.
  • While Marinette equips the Falcon Miraculous, we never see it used or have its power mentioned in any way, leaving its abilities undisclosed.
• Villainous Breakdown: Two in Chapter 3.
  • The first comes from Gabriel's ghost, who gets two. The first when realizes he's dead, and the second time when Marinette makes it impossible to deny he screwed up with saving his wife and that it is all on him.
  • The second comes from Kyubey when Lady Miraculous declares her plan to use the Miraculous wish to change the source of power for Magical Girls from the Incubators to the Kwami to starve them out of victims. This leaves him freaking out as badly, if not worse, than canon, and it is so bad it clues Mami into the fact that he's an Incubator, the very same beings that Homura had talked about. Mami then immediately shoots him.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist:
  • No one in-universe has a problem with Homura wanting to wipe out the Incubators. Everyone who knows what they are agrees they are the worst beings in the universe, and even the Kwami, who are generally hesitant to relish in the death of Monarch, are fine with wiping them out. The problem they have with Homura's goals is her solution is making a wish with the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses to do so, which will at minimum wipe out the current reality to do so and at most destroy reality as it remakes itself due to how much the Incubators have gotten their hooks into everything.
  • The Order of the Guardians are against the creation of Witches and the damage they can do to innocent people. Their solution to it is to kill any Magical Girl on sight to prevent them from turning into Witches.
  • The Incubators, as always, are trying to stop the heat death of the universe. However not only are they unable to see Plagg, who controls destruction, and thus can't tell that this effort is pointless, this is only damaging the universe.
• Wham Line: One from Kyoko of the 53rd timeline of Homura interacting with the Miraculous cast that upends everything Bunnyx thought she knew about things and made discussing what the constantly same Lucky Charms created in battles with Walpurgisnacht means.
  "Because Spots over here got the same Lucky Charm, seconds before Fluffles over there hit the witch with Cataclysm."
• What If?: Homura discovering the Kwamis, and that the Ultimate Miraculous Superpower might help her get rid of the Incubators once and for all, just shy of twenty timeloops before the one seen in the canon Madoka series.
• Wish Upon a Star: Brought up by the mayor when Homura mentions her wish during her ultimatum.
• Wrong Context Magic: Homura's time travel powers are this because the Incubator's power is not a natural part of the universe the way that Miraculous powers are. The build up of karmic potential that supercharged Madoka is not something that can be done with the Rabbit or Snake Miraculouses without trying to break the universe, and the effect of increasing a person's inner potential, initially to just Madoka but after over a hundred timeloops spreading the effect to everyone around them whom they frequently interact (Magical Girl and Miraculous hero alike), is something Tikki bluntly says should not be happening, and Su-Han outright calls Homura and Marinette monsters for the end result (two beings able to use over a dozen Miraculous at once without killing themselves).
• You Fool!: Plagg yells this at a previous timeline's Cat Noir in Chapter 3 for telling Homura about Felix, setting the events that led to the events of the story in question.
• You Killed My Father: Adrien doesn't take Homura shooting his father in his bed that well, and is so furious when he finds her he doesn't even register that he's in a supervillain lair, or that the captured Kwamis are trying to get his attention. All he can think of is making Homura pay for killing his only remaining parent.

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