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Or Junko connected to Homura based on deja vu memories of her daughter, then learned she basically has no family, and adopted her.
 
AuraTwilight said:
Or Junko connected to Homura based on deja vu memories of her daughter, then learned she basically has no family, and adopted her.
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That works, considering her family was never covered in canon and is usually presumed dead. Or too busy to properly care for their child.

(Man, how many factors went into Homura's decline and fall?)
 
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There's a pretty good headcanon I've seen that in Homura's childhood, she was a ballerina with anorexic tendencies that had to quit due to her heart condition.
 
I found the headcanon in full. Spoilered for length.

Homura Akemi was a ballerina with an eating disorder.
Her "strange heart disease" and lengthy hospitalization were really due to her eating disorder. Perhaps it was really a mental health hospital, or maybe she really did have a heart illness, but it works fine either way. Her mother, an ex-ballerina who was already strict towards her and controlling of her behavior, abandoned her due to the shame of having a child that developed a mental illness, as well as the "pain" of losing her last chance at success once Homura is made to leave her ballet classes. Fatherless, Homura lived alone soon after that event. It is likely that Homura wasn't particularly good at ballet (her Transformation Sequence did seem a bit sloppy), but kept going to make her mom proud in spite of the bullying she endured in her class. Eventually the stress of wanting to be perfect, coupled with her mother's extremely controlling and overbearing behavior on top of the bullying drove her to slowly developing an eating disorder for some semblance of control. Eventually, things got out of hand, and she either a) developed a heart illness due having gone too far or B) snapped under pressure and grew so unhealthy that she was eventually put in a recovery/mental hospital. This makes sense as a Backstory because dancers who fail at a move simply redo it until they've perfected it. Her mother, who'd failed as a prima ballerina herself, used Homura as a "redo" at success (and also centered her life around her in an unhealthy manner, as Homura would eventually come to do with Madoka). These were factors she'd dealt with from a very young age, and eventually, she grew to believe them to be ideals. This is why she views her constant time resets as an acceptable manner of dealing with essentially everything, or maybe even an admirable one. Since the first part of The Movie essentially goes on inside her head, it makes sense that she'd view the girls as dancers (as seen in their transformation scenes):
  • Mami is a figure skater because of her grace and elegance, but also because figure skaters have to remain very poised, and almost always smiling. Homura herself essentially calls Mami a fake and speaks poorly of her.
  • Kyoko does a tribal dance to emphasize her feral nature. Homura has no commentary about Kyoko, but it seems based on similar circumstances that she views her as Not So Different after all. Otherwise, her Flanderization in the film could symbolize Homura's negative views on gluttony and laziness in general.
  • Sayaka is breakdancing because she herself is unpredictable, prone to putting herself in danger, and brash as all hell; traits that Homura despised. It seems as though the dances emphasize traits Homura dislikes in the other girls, except...
  • Madoka. She's performing a cute, J-pop style dance not necessarily because that's how she is, but because that's how Homura wants her to be. Homura wants her to remain the cute little Plucky Girl she was when they first met - the one who knew nothing about suffering and loved everyone. Madoka's sequence includes a small part where a line of Madoka "copies" are dancing together in harmony. It really gives off a "mass produced doll" type of vibe.
In the film, Homura's fixation on killing Bebe is really metaphorical; she wants to kill "food," or at least the forces and negative feelings of hunger. Her witch form contains a skeletal ribcage that highlights her emotional emptiness but also supports the "eating disorder" theory. The shout-outs to The Nutcracker and Princess Tutu in are not hard to miss, and can easily attribute to my "ballerina" theory as well. Her small stature is essentially a side-effect of her eating disorder; her growth is stunted because of her poor eating habits from a developmental age. Her disturbing focus on Madoka is another factor of her deteriorating mental health - she constantly needs to be focused on something, anything, or her life isn't worth living (as seen by how pathetic she felt when she was walking home after her first day at school). First it was dance and her mother, then her eating habits, and eventually Madoka. Without an object to obsessively focus on, Homura loses all semblance of "self." When her final object of focus was taken away, part of the reason that her soul gem started to darken is because the event triggered her feelings of the past again. In the end, she becomes so desperate for an object to focus on that she decides to do so by force, and rather than controlling one object, she aims a bit higher.

It's from Rebellion's WMG page on TVTropes.
 
Personally, I don't think that Homura had anorexic tendencies, but she suffering from malnutrition of some sort(eating disorder possible, but not likely). She only got those after she fully accepted her lichdom in the endless loop of trying to save Madoka:
 
AuraTwilight said:
I found the headcanon in full. Spoilered for length.

Homura Akemi was a ballerina with an eating disorder.
Her "strange heart disease" and lengthy hospitalization were really due to her eating disorder. Perhaps it was really a mental health hospital, or maybe she really did have a heart illness, but it works fine either way. Her mother, an ex-ballerina who was already strict towards her and controlling of her behavior, abandoned her due to the shame of having a child that developed a mental illness, as well as the "pain" of losing her last chance at success once Homura is made to leave her ballet classes. Fatherless, Homura lived alone soon after that event. It is likely that Homura wasn't particularly good at ballet (her Transformation Sequence did seem a bit sloppy), but kept going to make her mom proud in spite of the bullying she endured in her class. Eventually the stress of wanting to be perfect, coupled with her mother's extremely controlling and overbearing behavior on top of the bullying drove her to slowly developing an eating disorder for some semblance of control. Eventually, things got out of hand, and she either a) developed a heart illness due having gone too far or B) snapped under pressure and grew so unhealthy that she was eventually put in a recovery/mental hospital. This makes sense as a Backstory because dancers who fail at a move simply redo it until they've perfected it. Her mother, who'd failed as a prima ballerina herself, used Homura as a "redo" at success (and also centered her life around her in an unhealthy manner, as Homura would eventually come to do with Madoka). These were factors she'd dealt with from a very young age, and eventually, she grew to believe them to be ideals. This is why she views her constant time resets as an acceptable manner of dealing with essentially everything, or maybe even an admirable one. Since the first part of The Movie essentially goes on inside her head, it makes sense that she'd view the girls as dancers (as seen in their transformation scenes):
  • Mami is a figure skater because of her grace and elegance, but also because figure skaters have to remain very poised, and almost always smiling. Homura herself essentially calls Mami a fake and speaks poorly of her.
  • Kyoko does a tribal dance to emphasize her feral nature. Homura has no commentary about Kyoko, but it seems based on similar circumstances that she views her as Not So Different after all. Otherwise, her Flanderization in the film could symbolize Homura's negative views on gluttony and laziness in general.
  • Sayaka is breakdancing because she herself is unpredictable, prone to putting herself in danger, and brash as all hell; traits that Homura despised. It seems as though the dances emphasize traits Homura dislikes in the other girls, except...
  • Madoka. She's performing a cute, J-pop style dance not necessarily because that's how she is, but because that's how Homura wants her to be. Homura wants her to remain the cute little Plucky Girl she was when they first met - the one who knew nothing about suffering and loved everyone. Madoka's sequence includes a small part where a line of Madoka "copies" are dancing together in harmony. It really gives off a "mass produced doll" type of vibe.
In the film, Homura's fixation on killing Bebe is really metaphorical; she wants to kill "food," or at least the forces and negative feelings of hunger. Her witch form contains a skeletal ribcage that highlights her emotional emptiness but also supports the "eating disorder" theory. The shout-outs to The Nutcracker and Princess Tutu in are not hard to miss, and can easily attribute to my "ballerina" theory as well. Her small stature is essentially a side-effect of her eating disorder; her growth is stunted because of her poor eating habits from a developmental age. Her disturbing focus on Madoka is another factor of her deteriorating mental health - she constantly needs to be focused on something, anything, or her life isn't worth living (as seen by how pathetic she felt when she was walking home after her first day at school). First it was dance and her mother, then her eating habits, and eventually Madoka. Without an object to obsessively focus on, Homura loses all semblance of "self." When her final object of focus was taken away, part of the reason that her soul gem started to darken is because the event triggered her feelings of the past again. In the end, she becomes so desperate for an object to focus on that she decides to do so by force, and rather than controlling one object, she aims a bit higher.

It's from Rebellion's WMG page on TVTropes.
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In other words Homura is a metric fuckton of psychological issues rolled into one tiny package.
 
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Knightfall said:
In other words Homura is a metric fuckton of psychological issues rolled into one tiny package.
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As if we didn't know that already. :rolleyes:
Unfortunately, we also know (and that theory corroborates) that Homura doesn't take good care of herself and isn't terribly good at lateral thinking or handling surprises- her time powers are the ultimate crutch she uses to just bludgeon her way through the Groundhog Day loop by trial and error and bullshit her way out of jams. And that'd work just fine across a hypothetically infinite number of loops as she deadens to trauma, but for chaos butterfly fluctuations between loops and the Karmabomb, which Kyuubey somehow learned in advance this go around and is holding in abeyance to crush her spirit at the worst possible moment (which is why we must win this loop: if Kyuubey drops the Karmabomb and we fail, Homura will despair).

We're already doing a fairly good job of trying to get her to maintain her body, share the load, trust others, and accept new ideas, all things considered. I just really wish we didn't have to tread eggshells around her for fear of her withdrawing back into her shell.
 
Always Happening said:
As if we didn't know that already. :rolleyes:
Unfortunately, we also know (and that theory corroborates) that Homura doesn't take good care of herself and isn't terribly good at lateral thinking or handling surprises- her time powers are the ultimate crutch she uses to just bludgeon her way through the Groundhog Day loop by trial and error and bullshit her way out of jams. And that'd work just fine across a hypothetically infinite number of loops as she deadens to trauma, but for chaos butterfly fluctuations between loops and the Karmabomb, which Kyuubey somehow learned in advance this go around and is holding in abeyance to crush her spirit at the worst possible moment (which is why we must win this loop: if Kyuubey drops the Karmabomb and we fail, Homura will despair).

We're already doing a fairly good job of trying to get her to maintain her body, share the load, trust others, and accept new ideas, all things considered. I just really wish we didn't have to tread eggshells around her for fear of her withdrawing back into her shell.
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In other words she's Batman.
 
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