#mabayu

i may have gotten a little carried away with this one ..

Mabayu wearing something appropriate for her age. No more panty window!

But i think the question is…. Who would it have been? The biggest answer is Itzli, and also Waplurgis because of her colours (but honestly its way looser…) but Im focusing on Itzli to start.

I think its a no. I honestly think Mabayu’s film theming was just a gimmick, a stunt to get people guessing. But when you look at other aspects of Itzli they just dont line up at all.

‘a magical girl who came from the end of the galaxy’ you could reeeaally stretch this to say the end of the galaxy is Mabayu’s loops but i really dont think this is right

‘she has shown herself here to forget about all the magical girls from this universe’ works in Mabayu’s favour. Shes sick of being stuck and forced into a bunch of magical girls business she honestly has nothing to do with but HAS to help because she literally has nothing else. But its the universe bit that doesnt work. It honestly makes me think of Ultimate Madoka more. She, of course, has seen magical girls across the universe. Mabayu has seen… five

Her labyrinth is absolutely a point for Mabayu, its a theatre damn it. But its very obvious so I neednt delve

One thing against Mabayu is that Itzli has a pretty clear clover theme. Its the kind that you’d imagine her magi having it as her soul gem or something. Its on her kiss, hairclip thing and Kyubey states she uses clovers all over the world to spy on others. Mabayu completely lacks this. Witch abilities always link to their magi, it wouldnt just pop out of nowhere. (Ophelia can multiply, oktavia has a sword, candeloro has ribbons, you get it)

Another thing in Mabayu’s favour is that Itzli is clearly linked to Homura. Homura is the first magical girl to meet her and Kyubey states that Itzli has grown strong because of Homura. Mabayu and Homura have a clear link in scene zero and she remembers Mabayu at the start of new loops. They do have a connection and yes, Mabayu did grow stronger as a magical girl because of Homura.

Its certainly tricky cause there are things for and against her… I have a terrible feeling they DO want her to be Itzli but are like ‘oh lets just retcon those things we confirmed before to make it work’ (unless Mabayu is an alien after all??? Eh, that could explain her mama’s abilities..? And maybe why she didnt want anyone to see her in the hospital cause the jig would be up? Now thats a theory..!) im still hung up on the clovers though. Came from a clover planet??

But one thing that has been rattling around in my head is this… Mabayu cant become a witch. Why? Because every time she dies, she just starts the loop over. She cant die so we’ll never see her witch. This could be a hundred percent wrong because i havent seen all of scene zero but its my hunch so far

Themes

Cozy, movies, the feeling of drinking melon soda (if that makes sense)

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