History: Kirika started out life as an optimistic, friendly person. Life was good. She had a best friend, Erika. Nothing could go wrong. Then her world got shaken. Her best friend betrayed her.
The years passed. Gone was the energetic girl. Without a friend, without someone to place her afffection on Kirika grew withdrawn. She would skip school often and when she did go she would stay away from her classmates. Jealous at the people who could go about life so freely, Kirika's anger at the world grew.
One day, she went to the store. It was like any other trip until she dropped the money to pay for her purchase. Kirika was slow to pick up the change - the stares of the people around her made her even more timid. The people behind her were getting impatient. It took so long, in fact, that staff of the store were trying to get her to pick up the money faster.
A person appeared out of the blue to help her. This person was Oriko Mikuni, the daughter of a congressman. Oriko gave her the money and left. This one act of kindness would change Kirika's (and the rest of the city's) fate for good.
Kirika never introduced herself to the girl. So, day after day she would go looking for Oriko. She skipped school often enough before so stopping all together to search for Oriko didn't bother her. It became a fixation.
She was about to catch Oriko's attention one day. Kirika stopped herself. Oriko wouldn't remember her, she thought. Who would remember someone so bland and timid? Certainly not the vibrant person who saved her.
At the train station, someone did find her. It was a strange white cat-like creature named Kyuubey. He offered her a chance for one wish. She took it: she wished to change herself. Kirika Kure became a magical girl in exchange for that wish.
During roughly the same time, Oriko became a magical girl herself. Due to the suicide of her congressman father (who's corruption was brought to light) Oriko's own situation wasn't quite stable either.
Oriko's magic was that of predicting the future. She had a single vision when she became a magical girl: a powerful monster called a witch would destroy Mitikihara City and then the entire world. She also learned that magical girls became witches at the end of their life. The witch that destroyed the world once had been a girl named Madoka Kaname.
Sometime after their meeting and the relization that they both were magical girls Oriko formulated a plan. They would either stop Kyuubey from making Madoka Kaname a magical girl or kill her before he had a chance.
They tried this in two different ways. Oriko tried to distract Kyuubey with a girl named Yuma Chitose who was younger than most magical girls but had enough potential to become one. (That would only lead a magical girl named Kyouko Sakura after Oriko.)
Failing that Oriko relied on Kirika to do her part which was, simply, kill other magical girls in a series of murders to distract Kyuubey and keep the rest pre-occupied.
It was working. That is, until Mami Tomoe got involved. Mami wasone of the most powerful magical girls in the area - making an ally out of her would make things much more simpler.
Whether Kirika was supposed to kill or recruit her is unknown but Oriko sent her out to meet Mami. On the way Kirika lost a stuffed animal. She focused more on finding it than on the task - until the person who found it was Mami herself. Kirika was overjoyed and started calling Mami 'savior' for that.
Kirika buys Mami a crepe for finding the stuffed animal - though she was curious to wonder why Mami only wanted a crepe for such a 'heroic' deed. They talked a bit. It was going quite well. Until Mami unknowingly said that she (Kirika) must have great fondness for whoever gave her the toy.
This sets Kirika off. She gives a monologue about how important love is and how people who constantly say terms such as 'like' or 'affection' simply Don't Get The Point. Mami is a bit... put off by this display to say the least.
Kirika Kure | Puella Magi Oriko Magica | Not Reserved 2/?
The years passed. Gone was the energetic girl. Without a friend, without someone to place her afffection on Kirika grew withdrawn. She would skip school often and when she did go she would stay away from her classmates. Jealous at the people who could go about life so freely, Kirika's anger at the world grew.
One day, she went to the store. It was like any other trip until she dropped the money to pay for her purchase. Kirika was slow to pick up the change - the stares of the people around her made her even more timid. The people behind her were getting impatient. It took so long, in fact, that staff of the store were trying to get her to pick up the money faster.
A person appeared out of the blue to help her. This person was Oriko Mikuni, the daughter of a congressman. Oriko gave her the money and left. This one act of kindness would change Kirika's (and the rest of the city's) fate for good.
Kirika never introduced herself to the girl. So, day after day she would go looking for Oriko. She skipped school often enough before so stopping all together to search for Oriko didn't bother her. It became a fixation.
She was about to catch Oriko's attention one day. Kirika stopped herself. Oriko wouldn't remember her, she thought. Who would remember someone so bland and timid? Certainly not the vibrant person who saved her.
At the train station, someone did find her. It was a strange white cat-like creature named Kyuubey. He offered her a chance for one wish. She took it: she wished to change herself. Kirika Kure became a magical girl in exchange for that wish.
During roughly the same time, Oriko became a magical girl herself. Due to the suicide of her congressman father (who's corruption was brought to light) Oriko's own situation wasn't quite stable either.
Oriko's magic was that of predicting the future. She had a single vision when she became a magical girl: a powerful monster called a witch would destroy Mitikihara City and then the entire world. She also learned that magical girls became witches at the end of their life. The witch that destroyed the world once had been a girl named Madoka Kaname.
Sometime after their meeting and the relization that they both were magical girls Oriko formulated a plan. They would either stop Kyuubey from making Madoka Kaname a magical girl or kill her before he had a chance.
They tried this in two different ways. Oriko tried to distract Kyuubey with a girl named Yuma Chitose who was younger than most magical girls but had enough potential to become one. (That would only lead a magical girl named Kyouko Sakura after Oriko.)
Failing that Oriko relied on Kirika to do her part which was, simply, kill other magical girls in a series of murders to distract Kyuubey and keep the rest pre-occupied.
It was working. That is, until Mami Tomoe got involved. Mami wasone of the most powerful magical girls in the area - making an ally out of her would make things much more simpler.
Whether Kirika was supposed to kill or recruit her is unknown but Oriko sent her out to meet Mami. On the way Kirika lost a stuffed animal. She focused more on finding it than on the task - until the person who found it was Mami herself. Kirika was overjoyed and started calling Mami 'savior' for that.
Kirika buys Mami a crepe for finding the stuffed animal - though she was curious to wonder why Mami only wanted a crepe for such a 'heroic' deed. They talked a bit. It was going quite well. Until Mami unknowingly said that she (Kirika) must have great fondness for whoever gave her the toy.
This sets Kirika off. She gives a monologue about how important love is and how people who constantly say terms such as 'like' or 'affection' simply Don't Get The Point. Mami is a bit... put off by this display to say the least.