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Homura Akemi

Queen of time loops

Yet another victim of a codependent homoerotic teenage friendship

Best friend saved her from suicide only to die like a week later

Made a contract with an alien to exchange her soul for magical time powers so she could save her friend

Forced to relive her best friend dying over and over again

Lived the same month for 10 years

Discovered that even if magical girls don’t die, their souls eventually turn them into evil monsters called Witches

Accidentally made her best friend the most powerful Witch of all time

Best friend eventually breaks the time loop by becoming a literal god and vanishing from the physical plane

Forgot her best friend

Started hallucinating her friend after she disappeared

Her grief created a pocket dimension where she and her friends could be happy

Ended up breaking the illusion herself

Becomes a witch after being driven to madness from her grief and unrequited love

When her friend comes down as a god, she steals her power and becomes the devil

Creates an entirely new timeline where her friend can be happy and normal, but they can never truly be together

Claus/The Masked Man

Mother was murdered in front of him and his twin brother

Went to fight the dinosaur that murdered his mother, was immediately mauled

Near-dead body was picked up by the fascist regime that’s slowly taking over the island he and his family 

Was experimented on by the ruler of the regime and turned into a mindless cyborg soldier

Forced to fight his own twin brother without realizing who he is

Forced to reawaken the sleeping dragon under the island that will end the world

Forced to attack his father

Eventually faces his brother down again after his brother realizes who he is

Regains his memories and realizes that he’s fighting his brother

Uses his brother’s medallion that can reflect lightning magic to kill himself with his own attack

Dies in his own brother's arms