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* ShoutOut: The game ''Kaguya Super Contract Z'' has two. Princesses are created by [[Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter growing them out of bamboo shoots]], and fight Shadows using [[Franchise/SailorMoon Moonlight]].
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* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler:After escaping, Madoka and Sayaka make it to Mami's apartment and run into Kyoko, who tells them that Mami was killed by a witch that Kyoko killed afterwards. After examining the remaining grief seed, Sayaka reveals to her that the witch ''was'' Mami]].
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* KilledOffScreen: KaizoTrap: [[CruelTwistEnding An utterly cruel one at that.]] [[spoiler: Homura has finally saved Madoka from contracting and fighting Walpugisnacht, and Madoka actually forgave her for kidnapping her and is willing to become friends…and then a pane of glass slices Homura in half as she's about to hug Madoka, forcing Madoka to contract to save her and force a timeline reset]].
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:After escaping, Madoka and Sayaka make it to Mami's apartment and run into Kyoko, who tells them that Mami was killed by a witch that Kyoko killed afterwards. After examining the remaining grief seed, Sayaka reveals to her that the witch ''was'' Mami]].
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:After escaping, Madoka and Sayaka make it to Mami's apartment and run into Kyoko, who tells them that Mami was killed by a witch that Kyoko killed afterwards. After examining the remaining grief seed, Sayaka reveals to her that the witch ''was'' Mami]].
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* KaizoTrap: [[CruelTwistEnding An utterly cruel one at that.]] [[spoiler: Homura has finally saved Madoka from contracting and fighting Walpugisnacht, and Madoka actually forgave her for kidnapping her and is willing to become friends…and then a pane of glass slices Homura in half as she's about to hug Madoka, forcing Madoka to contract to save her and force a timeline reset]].
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* {{Yandere}}: Homura kidnaps Madoka. She also shoots [[spoiler: Sayaka]] when she tries to break her out.
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* {{Yandere}}: Homura kidnaps Madoka. Madoka with the intention of keeping her safe from Kyubey and Walpurgisnacht. She also shoots [[spoiler: Sayaka]] [[spoiler:Sayaka]] when she tries to break her out.
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* NoodleIncident: The game ''Kaguya Super Contract Z'' was created as a result of another contract. Homura mentions that she has no idea who or what created the game, only that it exists.
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* {{Yandere}}: Homura kidanps Madoka. She also shoots [[spoiler: Sayaka]] when she tries to break her out.
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* UnwinnableByDesign: ''Kaguya Super Contract Z'', a game modeled after the Magical Girl-Witch magical girl/witch system meant to show Madoka what's going on. It turns out the game was created as a result of another contract as a NoodleIncident. Homura mentions that she has no idea who or what created In the game, only that it exists.
bamboo shoots appear on the screen and can be clicked on to turn them into Princesses, which are then sent out to fight Shadows using their Moonlight. A Princess who runs out of Moonlight will become a Shadow herself and must be defeated by creating more Princesses, but all the Princesses will eventually be overwhelmed by Shadows
* {{Yandere}}: Homurakidanps kidnaps Madoka. She also shoots [[spoiler: Sayaka]] when she tries to break her out.
* {{Yandere}}: Homura
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* KaizoTrap: [[CruelTwistEnding An utterly cruel one at that.]] [[spoiler: Homura has finally saved Madoka from contracting and fighting Walpugisnacht, and Madoka actually forgave her for kidnapping her and is willing to become friends…and then a pane of glass slices Homura in half as she's about to hug Madoka, forcing Madoka to contract to save her and force a timeline reset]].
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Homura willing to go as far as to kidnap Madoka to keep her away from becoming a magical girl, but is good at acting like the shy, awkward, clumsy girl she once was many timelines ago, which takes suspicion off her when Madoka goes missing.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Homura willing to go as far as to kidnap Madoka to keep her away from becoming a magical girl, but in public she is good at acting like the shy, awkward, clumsy girl she once was many timelines ago, was, which takes suspicion off her when Madoka goes missing.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Homura willing to go as far as to kidnap Madoka to keep her away from becoming a magical girl, but is good at acting like the shy, awkward, clumsy girl she once was many timelines ago, which takes suspicion off her when Madoka goes missing.
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* StockholmSyndrome: Madoka towards Homura, and she's aware of it. Unfortunately, she doesn't know how to process the fact that her captor has bona fide magical powers and everything she's told turns out to be completely true.
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* ButterflyOfDoom: In chapter 18, Homura is furious [[spoiler:finding out that her kidnapping Madoka lead Sayaka to wish for the power to find her best friend rather than heal her crush Kyosuke, as that led her to finding Madoka and breaking her out of Homura's basement]].
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* MistakenForPedophile: [[spoiler:When scanning the city for any adult puella magi to help explain to Madoka and Sayaka's families and loved ones about Walpurgisnacht, Sayaka shudders as she finds the only matching case is right where Homura is standing, making her see Homura even more of a creep than before. Of course, Homura's "age" is the result of [[GroundhogDayLoop constantly traveling in back for hundreds of failed attempts to save Madoka]]]].
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* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Mami transforms into a witch after Sayaka goes missing, and is then killed by Kyoko.]]
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* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler:After escaping, Madoka and Sayaka make it to Mami's apartment and run into Kyoko, who tells them that Mami was killed by a witch that Kyoko killed afterwards. After examining the remaining grief seed, Sayaka reveals to her that the witch ''was'' Mami]].
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* LadyAndKnight: [[spoiler:Sayaka is the knight wanting to rescue her lady Madoka. In Chapter 10, Sayaka hesitates in being intimate with Madoka as a knight [[CourtlyLove must court their ladies in a pure matter least they be distracted]], though Madoka argues that since they love each other there shouldn't be any reason they shouldn't be closer]].
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* LetMeAtHim: When Sayaka is passing by a StorefrontTelevisionDisplay about Madoka's kidnapping, a man says to his friend, "I bet whoever's got her is taking some cute pictures of his own." It takes a manager, a nearby worker, and two waitresses from the café next door to pull Sayaka off him.
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* AntiInterferenceLockUp: Homura kidnaps Madoka and keeps her locked to stop her from being found by Kyubey and contracting.
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* AdultFear: Madoka has been kidnapped, and her parents react appropriately.
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Not to be confused with ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11339239/1/ Perfect Crime]]'', another Madoka Magica fanfic with similar main idea but different plot points and writing style.
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* {{Yandere}}: Homura kidanps Madoka. She also shoots [[spoiler: Sayaka]] when she tries to break her out.
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Capitalization was fixed from FanFic.Persephones Waltz to Fanfic.Persephones Waltz. Null edit to update page. Page may need a mojibake cleanup after the fact
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* YourFavorite: Creepy version. Not a food in this case, but rather a special soap Madoka likes, the presence of which makes her realize ''this is not a prank'', Homura has been stalking her, and has been inside her home.
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* YourFavorite: Creepy version. Not a food in this case, but rather a special soap Madoka likes, a pink one in the shape of a strawberry. Its presence of which makes her realize ''this is not a prank'', Homura has been stalking her, and has been inside her home.
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* BunkerWoman: Poor Madoka is imprisoned by Homura in a basement completely terrified of her.
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* CuttingTheKnot: The entire premise. Homura has failed to communicate how dangerous the situation is so many times, now she just decides to take Madoka by force.
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* SanitySlippage: Homura is outright insane by this point, despite remaining externally emotionless. The few chapters from her point of few have erratic prose that barely differentiates from thought and speech, and eventually turns into quoteless rambling.
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* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Mami transorms into a witch after Sayaka goes missing, and is then killed by Kyoko.]]
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* RewatchBonus: In the last chapter, [[spoiler:Homura]] comments offhand that she sometimes stops time to cry on Madoka's shoulder. Chapter 5 is narrated by a different person, but contextual clues [[note]]her rapid switch between emotional states, the inexplicable wetness on Madoka's sleeve[[/note]] indicate that she was doing this during the conversation about Amy.
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''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/577310/chapters/1035515 Persephone's Waltz]]'' is a fanfiction of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' written by [=SailorPtah=]. Taking place during one of the later time loops, Homura has become so exhausted by the repeated failures that she's kidnapped Madoka and locked her in a basement, intending to hold her there until Walpurgisnacht has come and gone. [[ForegoneConclusion It doesn't go well]].
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''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/577310/chapters/1035515 Persephone's Waltz]]'' is a fanfiction of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' written by [=SailorPtah=].Creator/ErinPtah ([=SailorPtah=]). Taking place during one of the later time loops, Homura has become so exhausted by the repeated failures that she's kidnapped Madoka and locked her in a basement, intending to hold her there until Walpurgisnacht has come and gone. [[ForegoneConclusion It doesn't go well]].
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I must have missed that part.
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** It turns out the game was ''actually created as a result of another contract as a NoodleIncident. Homura mentions that she has no idea who or what created the game, only that it exists.
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* UnwinnableByDesign: ''Kaguya Super Contract Z'', a game apparently created by Homura modeled after the Magical Girl-Witch system meant to show Madoka what's going on.
**on. It turns out the game was ''actually created as a result of another contract as a NoodleIncident. Homura mentions that she has no idea who or what created the game, only that it exists.
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Kyoko provides Sayaka a grief seed moments before her witch transformation.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: Too many to count. [[spoiler: Sayaka apparently comes in at Homura's mercy, but then reveals that she came in intentionally. Kyoko provides Sayaka a grief seed moments before her witch transformation.]] But the one that tops the entire list is [[spoiler:''Kyuebey,'' who brings Sayaka's Soul Gem back to her so they can break out.]]
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* PublicSecretMessage: Madoka tries to hide a clue to her kidnapper's identity in a message to her family. [[spoiler: Homura sees through it instantly]].
* SanitySlippage: Homura is outright insane by this point, despite remaining externally emotionless.
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* PublicSecretMessage: Madoka tries to hide a clue to her kidnapper's identity in a message to her family. [[spoiler: Homura sees through it instantly]].
instantly, but lets her rewrite the message]].
* SanitySlippage: Homura is outright insane by this point, despite remaining externally emotionless. The few chapters from her point of few have erratic prose that barely differentiates from thought and speech, and eventually turns into quoteless rambling.
* SanitySlippage: Homura is outright insane by this point, despite remaining externally emotionless. The few chapters from her point of few have erratic prose that barely differentiates from thought and speech, and eventually turns into quoteless rambling.
* TookALevelInBadass: Sayaka, thanks to Mami's notes given to her after her death, gets to do some amazing things with Mami's posthumous training. Such as actually hurting [[spoiler:Walpurgisnaut...''solo,'' which was more than Homura could do. And with Kyouko's help, they manage to actually kill the mega-witch, something only Madoka was capable of doing.]]
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* YourFavorite: Creepy version. Not a food in this case, but rather a special soap Madoka likes, the presence of which makes her realize ''this is not a prank'', Homura has been stalkingher.her, and has been inside her home.
* YourFavorite: Creepy version. Not a food in this case, but rather a special soap Madoka likes, the presence of which makes her realize ''this is not a prank'', Homura has been stalking
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* ExactWords: Homura states all of her friends have died. "Have died", not "are dead".
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* HearingVoices[=/=]FreudianTrio: To deal with her isolation, Madoka (Ego) talks to mental versions of her mother (Superego) and Sayaka (Id).
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''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/577310/chapters/1035515 Persephone's Waltz]]'' is a fanfiction of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' written by [=SailorPtah=]. Taking place during one of the later time loops, Homura has become so exhausted by the repeated failures that she's kidnapped Madoka and locked her in a basement, intending to hold her there until Walpurgisnacht has come and gone. [[ForegoneConclusion It doesn't go well]].
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!!Persephone's Waltz contains examples of:
* AdultFear: Madoka has been kidnapped, and her parents react appropriately.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Kyoko provides Sayaka a grief seed moments before her witch transformation.]]
* CuttingTheKnot: The entire premise. Homura has failed to communicate how dangerous the situation is so many times, now she just decides to take Madoka by force.
* DiscardAndDraw: [[spoiler: Instead of healing Kyosuke, Sayaka wished to find Madoka, exchanging her usual healing powers for extrasensory abilities.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: This story takes place before the series, and ends with Madoka wishing to save Homura's life, and to repair her psychological damage. Homura does not succeed, and goes back in time again.]]
* TheGhost: [[spoiler: Mami is mentioned, but never appears in person, succumbing to despair during Sayaka's imprisonment.]]
* GildedCage: Madoka's prison is made as comfortable as possible, modeled after her own room, including stuffed animals and clothes she likes. [[StalkerWithACrush The implications of this only terrify her more.]]
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Mami, Kyoko, and Sayaka are dead, but Walpurgisnacht is destroyed with Madoka still alive and non-magical. Homura actually succeeded, just in time to get chopped in half by falling debris.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Mami transorms into a witch after Sayaka goes missing, and is then killed by Kyoko.]]
* SanitySlippage: Homura is outright insane by this point, despite remaining externally emotionless.
* SplitPersonality: Madoka suspects Homura has one due to how easily she switches between her current stoic personality and the original, meek one.
* StockholmSyndrome: Madoka towards Homura, and she's aware of it. Unfortunately, she doesn't know how to process the fact that her captor has bona fide magical powers and everything she's told turns out to be completely true.
* UnwinnableByDesign: ''Kaguya Super Contract Z'', a game apparently created by Homura modeled after the Magical Girl-Witch system meant to show Madoka what's going on.
* YourFavorite: Creepy version. Not a food in this case, but rather a special soap Madoka likes, the presence of which makes her realize ''this is not a prank'', Homura has been stalking her.
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!!Persephone's Waltz contains examples of:
* AdultFear: Madoka has been kidnapped, and her parents react appropriately.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Kyoko provides Sayaka a grief seed moments before her witch transformation.]]
* CuttingTheKnot: The entire premise. Homura has failed to communicate how dangerous the situation is so many times, now she just decides to take Madoka by force.
* DiscardAndDraw: [[spoiler: Instead of healing Kyosuke, Sayaka wished to find Madoka, exchanging her usual healing powers for extrasensory abilities.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: This story takes place before the series, and ends with Madoka wishing to save Homura's life, and to repair her psychological damage. Homura does not succeed, and goes back in time again.]]
* TheGhost: [[spoiler: Mami is mentioned, but never appears in person, succumbing to despair during Sayaka's imprisonment.]]
* GildedCage: Madoka's prison is made as comfortable as possible, modeled after her own room, including stuffed animals and clothes she likes. [[StalkerWithACrush The implications of this only terrify her more.]]
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Mami, Kyoko, and Sayaka are dead, but Walpurgisnacht is destroyed with Madoka still alive and non-magical. Homura actually succeeded, just in time to get chopped in half by falling debris.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Mami transorms into a witch after Sayaka goes missing, and is then killed by Kyoko.]]
* SanitySlippage: Homura is outright insane by this point, despite remaining externally emotionless.
* SplitPersonality: Madoka suspects Homura has one due to how easily she switches between her current stoic personality and the original, meek one.
* StockholmSyndrome: Madoka towards Homura, and she's aware of it. Unfortunately, she doesn't know how to process the fact that her captor has bona fide magical powers and everything she's told turns out to be completely true.
* UnwinnableByDesign: ''Kaguya Super Contract Z'', a game apparently created by Homura modeled after the Magical Girl-Witch system meant to show Madoka what's going on.
* YourFavorite: Creepy version. Not a food in this case, but rather a special soap Madoka likes, the presence of which makes her realize ''this is not a prank'', Homura has been stalking her.
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