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oceansoftime) wrote2031-05-06 08:45 pm
oceansoftime) wrote2031-05-06 08:45 pm
MEMORY REGISTRY
◊ = feel free to give!
♦ = please hold off on giving!
✓ = regained!
MEMORIES
Significant Positive
✓ Madoka (and Mami) to the rescue! Attacked by bizarre things on her way home from school, Homura is in a tight spot--until that nice girl from her class comes to her aid, wielding magical powers.
✓ The battle against the witch Patricia. Homura's first big fight with a witch! In time rewind #1, she plays an instrumental role in Patricia's destruction by hurling one of her pipe bombs into the witch's skirt. Usefulness ++, Enthusiastic Praise from Madoka +++
✓ Don't give up. Homura wanders through a demon-haunted wasteland, her own powers exhibiting signs of corruption. But she hears Madoka's voice in her ear, urging her on.
Trivial Positive
✓ Meeting Madoka for the first time. Homura has just returned to school after a long bout with her illness, and everything's a little overwhelming. Her class' health rep, one Kaname Madoka, helps her find the nurse's office during a break period. Kaname-san is awfully informal and also effusive with her praise, which makes Homura feel awkward, but there's something about her . . .
✓ After the rescue. At Mami's apartment, Homura asks Madoka what it's like to be a magical girl. Madoka's confidence and bravery are stirring!
✓ Meeting Madoka for the second time. In time rewind #1, Homura's a lot less nervous as she introduces herself to her class. In fact, she's so excited that she immediately goes to Madoka and announces she's a magical girl too . . .
✓ First witch hunt (headcanon). In time rewind #1, Homura heads out to search for witches and familiars with Madoka and Mami. Homura doesn't end up doing much against the familiar they find, but kyaa kyaa witch-hunting with Madoka! (Plus witch/familiar/Grief Seed exposition from Mami.)
✓ Meeting the family. In the final timeline, Homura runs into Madoka's little brother and parents in a park, where they discuss . . . imaginary friends. :'D
✓ I'll go with you wherever you want, Madoka. Oriko timeline; a rare moment of tranquility as Homura hangs out with Madoka, Sayaka, and Hitomi.
Significant Neutral
✓ The contract. Madoka died and the city is in ruins in the wake of the Walpurgis. Homura makes a wish of her own--to redo her meeting with Madoka, so that she can protect Madoka the way Madoka protected her! Homura's contract with Kyubey is formed, and she travels back in time . . .
✓ No one believes in the future. In the wake of the horror of Madoka Death #3, Homura resolves to save Madoka herself, without relying on anyone else.
✓ Confession. During a late-night visit, Homura ends up breaking down and telling Madoka everything. (Edging towards negative; starts from Homura's "there's no way you could understand . . .")
✓ Madoka's Wish. Madoka finds Homura just in time to stop her from becoming a witch, but to Homura's dismay, announces she'll become a magical girl. Vowing she won't let Homura's work go to waste, Madoka lays down one Hell of a wish . . .
✓ Believe in me. Madoka assures Homura that she doesn't bemoan her own fate. She tells Homura that now she can see into all possible realities, she understands what Homura's been doing for her all this time. She gives Homura her hair ribbons as a memento, and tells her they'll meet again.
✓ I'll fight on. Homura talks about the old universe with Kyubey, and monologues about her determination to fight for the world that Madoka wished to protect.
✓ It's normal not to be remembered. Homura meets Madoka at Mami's apartment building and talks to her about the fate of magical girls.
✓ A stitch in time saves nine (headcanon). Following the events of the Oriko Magica spinoff manga, Homura makes a point of killing Mikuni Oriko and Kure Kirika before they can pose a threat to Madoka.
Trivial Neutral
✓ Magical girl training. In time rewind #1, Homura demonstrates her powers for Madoka and Mami. It's a mixed bag--Homura's a little happy at her ability to do something physical without fainting! However, she still tires easily, and Mami says she's still got a ways to go.
✓ You can find anything on the Internet! In time rewind #1, Homura takes Mami's advice to heart and decides to find a way to get the most use out of her time stop powers. Her solution: look up bomb-making instructions on the Internet and immediately start making pipe bombs.
✓ Stealing from the mob. In time rewind #2, Homura starts looking for more precise weapons than bombs. Her solution: steal guns from the Yakuza.
✓ After the witch hunt. In the main timeline, Homura follows Madoka, Sayaka, and Mami around while they go on witch hunts. Mami offers to share a Grief Seed with Homura; Homura refuses.
✓ And that's why you should give up. Homura meets with Madoka and explains about magical girlin', and how being a selfless type is basically doom.
✓ Arcade summit. Homura meets with Kyouko to tell her about the coming of the Walpurgis Night.
✓ It's not like you just to watch. Homura and Kyouko watch from a distance as Sayaka fights a witch (and nearly dies).
✓ Planning with Kyouko. Kyouko and Homura meet in Homura's house to talk about the coming of Walpurgis. Then that dick Kyubey shows up 8|
✓ Being cool. Montage of main-timeline moments of Homura being fucking awesome at everything at school.
✓ Oh and by the way. Homura comes to Madoka's window to deliver creepy late-night advice.
✓ I don't know, and I don't care. Oriko timeline; Homura tells off Mami when Mami tries to ask her about the magical girl who kills other magical girls.
Significant Negative
✓ Madoka Death #1. Mami and Madoka try to fight the mighty witch known as the Walpurgis Night. Mami falls; a terrified Homura urges Madoka to run away, but Madoka plunges back into the fray, and is killed herself.
✓ Madoka Death #2: The Terrible Truth. In time rewind #1, the Walpurgis comes again, and again, it all ends in disaster. Mami dies, presumably, and Madoka's power is exhausted. Before a horrified Homura's eyes, Madoka's Soul Gem becomes a Grief Seed, and she transforms into a witch.
✓ Things fall apart. In time rewind #2, Sayaka becomes a witch. Kyouko and Madoka try to reason with her, but to no avail. Homura takes matters into her own hands, destroying Witch-Sayaka with a bomb. As if that weren't enough, Mami snaps in the wake of the battle, killing Kyouko--only to be killed by Madoka before she can turn her gun on Homura. Homura and Madoka are, once again, the only magical girls left to face the Walpurgis.
✓ Madoka Death #3: FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU--! In time rewind #2, Madoka and Homura exhaust their powers in the battle against the Walpurgis, leaving both on the verge of becoming witches. Madoka, however, produces a last Grief Seed she'd been saving, using it to purify Homura's Soul Gem and begging Homura to save her from being tricked by Kyubey into becoming a magical girl . . . and to keep her from becoming a witch now. Homura shoots Madoka before she can change.
✓ Soloing the Walpurgis. Homura makes her first attempt to fight the Walpurgis Night on her own, and it doesn't go too well. Madoka, unable to sit back and watch, makes a contract with Kyubey--not hearing as Homura screams to her not to be taken in by his offer. Madoka annihilates the Walpurgis in a single blow, and Kyubey explains there's nothing left for her to do but become the most terrible witch of them all. Homura rewinds time . . . again.
✓ That's the answer. Homura shows up to save Madoka from witch-Sayaka, leaving Kyouko to end the battle in a suicide attack.
✓ Soloing the Walpurgis Plus Alpha. Homura goes all the fuck out, unleashing an army's worth of heavy firepower on the Walpurgis, to no avail. Despair starts to overcome her, her Soul Gem fading steadily to black . . . and then Madoka shows up!
✓ Madoka's Ascension. Homura awakens as the universe is reorganizing itself in the wake of Madoka's wish. She beholds the horror of the Ultimate Witch spawned by the wish. Madoka quickly takes care of it, but even that monster isn't as bad (in Homura's eyes) as Madoka's ultimate fate . . .
✓ We have met the enemy, and she is us. For once, Madoka doesn't die in the battle with the Walpurgis--instead, she's killed by Mikuni Oriko, a magical girl with prophetic powers who spearheaded a conspiracy to murder other magical girls. Homura resets the timeline . . . again.
Trivial Negative
✓ Behind in her studies. Having been absent for a long stretch due to illness, Homura can't keep up with her math class--which is made embarrassingly evident when she's called to the board to do a problem.
✓ (Starting Memory) Sitting out of gym class. Thanks to her condition, Homura can't even make it through warm-up exercises . . .
✓ Will I stay like this forever? Walking home from school in the evening, Homura questions her self-worth. And then, strange things begin to happen . . .
✓ Nobody's listening! In time rewind #2, Homura tries to warn her fellow magical girls--not just Mami and Madoka, but Madoka's friend Sayaka as well--about what she learned last time around. Sayaka not only doesn't believe it, she's downright hostile, suspecting Homura is trying to turn them against each other. Mami and Madoka are more sympathetic, but don't really seem to take the warning to heart either.
✓ Kyubey hunting. In the series' main timeline, Homura hunts Kyubey through the shadowy back halls of a shopping mall, trying to keep him from making contact with Madoka. Every time she seems to destroy him, however, a new one pops up, forcing her to give chase--until, at last, a Kyubey-body she only manages to wound makes its way to Madoka.
✓ Worst. Exposition. Ever. In the series' main timeline, Sayaka has succumbed to despair and become a witch (again). Homura pulls Kyouko (who's recovered Sayaka's human body) from the witch-world. The two encounter Madoka, and Homura explains the terrible truth about where witches come from.
✓ gj Homerun! Kyubey explains his hypothesis regarding Madoka's immense magical potential: that it's all Homura's fault due to her time rewinds.
✓ The warning. In the main timeline, Homura transfers in for the billionth time. Under the pretense of going to the nurse's office, she leaves class with Madoka. Trying hard to swallow her emotions, she delivers a cryptic warning to Madoka: to "stay herself" if she doesn't want to lose everything.
✓ Rooftop confrontation. In the main timeline, Homura asks Madoka if she now intends to become a magical girl. Madoka asks Homura what she wished for.
✓ Dammit Mami! In the main timeline, Homura confronts Mami at night. The two have a tense conversation about Madoka becoming a magical girl, in which Mami completely misunderstands Homura's motives.
✓ And then Mami died (again). In the main timeline, Homura follows Mami and Madoka into the witch Charlotte's barrier. She tells Mami to leave this one to her, but Mami imprisons her magically and runs off with Madoka, only to buy it fighting Charlotte. Homura finishes Charlotte off.
✓ And then Mami died (aftermath). After killing Charlotte, Homura delivers a harsh lecture to Madoka and Sayaka.
✓ Sayaka makes a bad choice. Homura arrives at the end of Sayaka's first magical girl battle.
✓ Ally to the calm. Homura breaks up Sayaka's fight with Kyouko and grumps at Madoka about getting involved.
✓ Madoka makes a bad choice. Homura shows up to stop Kyouko and Sayaka from being stupid again, but Madoka manages to do something stupid first--she throws Sayaka's Soul Gem onto a passing truck. Homura races to retrieve it.
✓ Maybe it's because I'm no longer human. Homura and Madoka discuss Sayaka and the magical girl condition on the school roof. Madoka demands to know how Homura can always be so cold when talking about it . . .
✓ I will end you!! Homura confronts an exhausted, near-witch Sayaka, at first offering to help her--but when Sayaka calls her on her lack of true sympathy, she reveals she's just doing it for Madoka's sake and threatens to kill Sayaka. But then Kyouko shows up!
✓ Close call. Homura shoots Kyubey just as Madoka had been about to make a wish. When Madoka is unhappy about this, Homura sort of breaks down. Madoka leaves; Homura then pulls it together and lets Kyubey know he won't have his way!
✓ Kyubey is a dick. Homura talks to Kyubey about Kyouko's attempt to save Sayaka. Kyubey's response: lol.
✓ Madoka's visit. Lead-in to the confession, in which Madoka arrives at Homura's apartment in episode 11. Madoka doubts Homura's ability to take the Walpurgis alone! Spun out as its own thing to avoid spoilers re: Kyouko and Sayaka.
SKILLS
Mundane
✓ Athletics: Several time repeats' worth of practice have allowed Homura to hone herself into peak athletic shape for a girl her age, to the point where she's shown breaking prefectural records in gym class.
✓ Academics: Similarly, Homura is skilled in advanced math (and possibly other subjects) thanks to having had a lot of time to study.
✓ Basic Marksmanship: A skill Homura begins to pick up when she starts stealing guns from mobsters. This skill covers proficiency with handguns, shotguns, etc.--"everyday" guns.
◊ Advanced Marksmanship: Homura also demonstrates that she knows her way around more exotic weapons. This skill, unlikely to be of much (or any) use in Aather, covers bazookas, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, mortars, the precision guiding of oil tanker trucks into giant witches, etc.
✓ Bomb-making and Use: Thanks to the magic of the Internet, Homura learns how to make her own pipe bombs. This skill also covers using explosives in combat without blowing herself up.
✓ Hand-to-Hand Combat: Homura can handle herself okay in a close-in fight too; she doesn't have many weapons for it, but she demonstrates that she knows how to knock people out, etc. (as in episode 6 when she takes down Sayaka).
(Extremely) Basic Cooking: Homura lives on her own, so it figures she'd know at least a little about feeding herself--salads, stir-fry, noodle dishes, etc. (basically acquired in Aather via practicing with Bones)
Special
✓ Magical Girl Transformation: Homura has made a contract with Completely Benevolent Cute Mascot Kyubey, allowing her to become a magical girl! The transformation grants her a neat costume, plus increased physical potential.
✓ZAA WARUDO Time Stop: One of Homura's trademark magical girl powers, this allows her to freeze time for everyone but herself and objects or people she's touching.
✓KIRAA KUIIN Time Rewind: Likely to stay perma-locked Unlocked but pre-emptively powercapped into uselessness, this power allows Homura to reverse the flow of time, negating all events that took place in the rewound period (but not removing her memories of them).
✓ Energy Shield: Homura's buckler, besides containing the mechanism that drives her time powers, can also project a larger shield of magical energy to block attacks.
✓ Energy Blasts: Homura can fire little bursts of concussive force, as shown during her Kyubey hunt.
✓ Buckler of Holding: Homura can store objects in a sort of dimensional pocket behind her buckler; this is where she puts her guns and bombs.
✓ Self-healing: Magical girls can use their magic to repair their zombiebodies! Homura also uses this at one point to fix her eyes.
Other
n/a
♦ = please hold off on giving!
✓ = regained!
MEMORIES
Significant Positive
✓ Madoka (and Mami) to the rescue! Attacked by bizarre things on her way home from school, Homura is in a tight spot--until that nice girl from her class comes to her aid, wielding magical powers.
✓ The battle against the witch Patricia. Homura's first big fight with a witch! In time rewind #1, she plays an instrumental role in Patricia's destruction by hurling one of her pipe bombs into the witch's skirt. Usefulness ++, Enthusiastic Praise from Madoka +++
✓ Don't give up. Homura wanders through a demon-haunted wasteland, her own powers exhibiting signs of corruption. But she hears Madoka's voice in her ear, urging her on.
Trivial Positive
✓ Meeting Madoka for the first time. Homura has just returned to school after a long bout with her illness, and everything's a little overwhelming. Her class' health rep, one Kaname Madoka, helps her find the nurse's office during a break period. Kaname-san is awfully informal and also effusive with her praise, which makes Homura feel awkward, but there's something about her . . .
✓ After the rescue. At Mami's apartment, Homura asks Madoka what it's like to be a magical girl. Madoka's confidence and bravery are stirring!
✓ Meeting Madoka for the second time. In time rewind #1, Homura's a lot less nervous as she introduces herself to her class. In fact, she's so excited that she immediately goes to Madoka and announces she's a magical girl too . . .
✓ First witch hunt (headcanon). In time rewind #1, Homura heads out to search for witches and familiars with Madoka and Mami. Homura doesn't end up doing much against the familiar they find, but kyaa kyaa witch-hunting with Madoka! (Plus witch/familiar/Grief Seed exposition from Mami.)
✓ Meeting the family. In the final timeline, Homura runs into Madoka's little brother and parents in a park, where they discuss . . . imaginary friends. :'D
✓ I'll go with you wherever you want, Madoka. Oriko timeline; a rare moment of tranquility as Homura hangs out with Madoka, Sayaka, and Hitomi.
Significant Neutral
✓ The contract. Madoka died and the city is in ruins in the wake of the Walpurgis. Homura makes a wish of her own--to redo her meeting with Madoka, so that she can protect Madoka the way Madoka protected her! Homura's contract with Kyubey is formed, and she travels back in time . . .
✓ No one believes in the future. In the wake of the horror of Madoka Death #3, Homura resolves to save Madoka herself, without relying on anyone else.
✓ Confession. During a late-night visit, Homura ends up breaking down and telling Madoka everything. (Edging towards negative; starts from Homura's "there's no way you could understand . . .")
✓ Madoka's Wish. Madoka finds Homura just in time to stop her from becoming a witch, but to Homura's dismay, announces she'll become a magical girl. Vowing she won't let Homura's work go to waste, Madoka lays down one Hell of a wish . . .
✓ Believe in me. Madoka assures Homura that she doesn't bemoan her own fate. She tells Homura that now she can see into all possible realities, she understands what Homura's been doing for her all this time. She gives Homura her hair ribbons as a memento, and tells her they'll meet again.
✓ I'll fight on. Homura talks about the old universe with Kyubey, and monologues about her determination to fight for the world that Madoka wished to protect.
✓ It's normal not to be remembered. Homura meets Madoka at Mami's apartment building and talks to her about the fate of magical girls.
✓ A stitch in time saves nine (headcanon). Following the events of the Oriko Magica spinoff manga, Homura makes a point of killing Mikuni Oriko and Kure Kirika before they can pose a threat to Madoka.
Trivial Neutral
✓ Magical girl training. In time rewind #1, Homura demonstrates her powers for Madoka and Mami. It's a mixed bag--Homura's a little happy at her ability to do something physical without fainting! However, she still tires easily, and Mami says she's still got a ways to go.
✓ You can find anything on the Internet! In time rewind #1, Homura takes Mami's advice to heart and decides to find a way to get the most use out of her time stop powers. Her solution: look up bomb-making instructions on the Internet and immediately start making pipe bombs.
✓ Stealing from the mob. In time rewind #2, Homura starts looking for more precise weapons than bombs. Her solution: steal guns from the Yakuza.
✓ After the witch hunt. In the main timeline, Homura follows Madoka, Sayaka, and Mami around while they go on witch hunts. Mami offers to share a Grief Seed with Homura; Homura refuses.
✓ And that's why you should give up. Homura meets with Madoka and explains about magical girlin', and how being a selfless type is basically doom.
✓ Arcade summit. Homura meets with Kyouko to tell her about the coming of the Walpurgis Night.
✓ It's not like you just to watch. Homura and Kyouko watch from a distance as Sayaka fights a witch (and nearly dies).
✓ Planning with Kyouko. Kyouko and Homura meet in Homura's house to talk about the coming of Walpurgis. Then that dick Kyubey shows up 8|
✓ Being cool. Montage of main-timeline moments of Homura being fucking awesome at everything at school.
✓ Oh and by the way. Homura comes to Madoka's window to deliver creepy late-night advice.
✓ I don't know, and I don't care. Oriko timeline; Homura tells off Mami when Mami tries to ask her about the magical girl who kills other magical girls.
Significant Negative
✓ Madoka Death #1. Mami and Madoka try to fight the mighty witch known as the Walpurgis Night. Mami falls; a terrified Homura urges Madoka to run away, but Madoka plunges back into the fray, and is killed herself.
✓ Madoka Death #2: The Terrible Truth. In time rewind #1, the Walpurgis comes again, and again, it all ends in disaster. Mami dies, presumably, and Madoka's power is exhausted. Before a horrified Homura's eyes, Madoka's Soul Gem becomes a Grief Seed, and she transforms into a witch.
✓ Things fall apart. In time rewind #2, Sayaka becomes a witch. Kyouko and Madoka try to reason with her, but to no avail. Homura takes matters into her own hands, destroying Witch-Sayaka with a bomb. As if that weren't enough, Mami snaps in the wake of the battle, killing Kyouko--only to be killed by Madoka before she can turn her gun on Homura. Homura and Madoka are, once again, the only magical girls left to face the Walpurgis.
✓ Madoka Death #3: FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU--! In time rewind #2, Madoka and Homura exhaust their powers in the battle against the Walpurgis, leaving both on the verge of becoming witches. Madoka, however, produces a last Grief Seed she'd been saving, using it to purify Homura's Soul Gem and begging Homura to save her from being tricked by Kyubey into becoming a magical girl . . . and to keep her from becoming a witch now. Homura shoots Madoka before she can change.
✓ Soloing the Walpurgis. Homura makes her first attempt to fight the Walpurgis Night on her own, and it doesn't go too well. Madoka, unable to sit back and watch, makes a contract with Kyubey--not hearing as Homura screams to her not to be taken in by his offer. Madoka annihilates the Walpurgis in a single blow, and Kyubey explains there's nothing left for her to do but become the most terrible witch of them all. Homura rewinds time . . . again.
✓ That's the answer. Homura shows up to save Madoka from witch-Sayaka, leaving Kyouko to end the battle in a suicide attack.
✓ Soloing the Walpurgis Plus Alpha. Homura goes all the fuck out, unleashing an army's worth of heavy firepower on the Walpurgis, to no avail. Despair starts to overcome her, her Soul Gem fading steadily to black . . . and then Madoka shows up!
✓ Madoka's Ascension. Homura awakens as the universe is reorganizing itself in the wake of Madoka's wish. She beholds the horror of the Ultimate Witch spawned by the wish. Madoka quickly takes care of it, but even that monster isn't as bad (in Homura's eyes) as Madoka's ultimate fate . . .
✓ We have met the enemy, and she is us. For once, Madoka doesn't die in the battle with the Walpurgis--instead, she's killed by Mikuni Oriko, a magical girl with prophetic powers who spearheaded a conspiracy to murder other magical girls. Homura resets the timeline . . . again.
Trivial Negative
✓ Behind in her studies. Having been absent for a long stretch due to illness, Homura can't keep up with her math class--which is made embarrassingly evident when she's called to the board to do a problem.
✓ (Starting Memory) Sitting out of gym class. Thanks to her condition, Homura can't even make it through warm-up exercises . . .
✓ Will I stay like this forever? Walking home from school in the evening, Homura questions her self-worth. And then, strange things begin to happen . . .
✓ Nobody's listening! In time rewind #2, Homura tries to warn her fellow magical girls--not just Mami and Madoka, but Madoka's friend Sayaka as well--about what she learned last time around. Sayaka not only doesn't believe it, she's downright hostile, suspecting Homura is trying to turn them against each other. Mami and Madoka are more sympathetic, but don't really seem to take the warning to heart either.
✓ Kyubey hunting. In the series' main timeline, Homura hunts Kyubey through the shadowy back halls of a shopping mall, trying to keep him from making contact with Madoka. Every time she seems to destroy him, however, a new one pops up, forcing her to give chase--until, at last, a Kyubey-body she only manages to wound makes its way to Madoka.
✓ Worst. Exposition. Ever. In the series' main timeline, Sayaka has succumbed to despair and become a witch (again). Homura pulls Kyouko (who's recovered Sayaka's human body) from the witch-world. The two encounter Madoka, and Homura explains the terrible truth about where witches come from.
✓ gj Homerun! Kyubey explains his hypothesis regarding Madoka's immense magical potential: that it's all Homura's fault due to her time rewinds.
✓ The warning. In the main timeline, Homura transfers in for the billionth time. Under the pretense of going to the nurse's office, she leaves class with Madoka. Trying hard to swallow her emotions, she delivers a cryptic warning to Madoka: to "stay herself" if she doesn't want to lose everything.
✓ Rooftop confrontation. In the main timeline, Homura asks Madoka if she now intends to become a magical girl. Madoka asks Homura what she wished for.
✓ Dammit Mami! In the main timeline, Homura confronts Mami at night. The two have a tense conversation about Madoka becoming a magical girl, in which Mami completely misunderstands Homura's motives.
✓ And then Mami died (again). In the main timeline, Homura follows Mami and Madoka into the witch Charlotte's barrier. She tells Mami to leave this one to her, but Mami imprisons her magically and runs off with Madoka, only to buy it fighting Charlotte. Homura finishes Charlotte off.
✓ And then Mami died (aftermath). After killing Charlotte, Homura delivers a harsh lecture to Madoka and Sayaka.
✓ Sayaka makes a bad choice. Homura arrives at the end of Sayaka's first magical girl battle.
✓ Ally to the calm. Homura breaks up Sayaka's fight with Kyouko and grumps at Madoka about getting involved.
✓ Madoka makes a bad choice. Homura shows up to stop Kyouko and Sayaka from being stupid again, but Madoka manages to do something stupid first--she throws Sayaka's Soul Gem onto a passing truck. Homura races to retrieve it.
✓ Maybe it's because I'm no longer human. Homura and Madoka discuss Sayaka and the magical girl condition on the school roof. Madoka demands to know how Homura can always be so cold when talking about it . . .
✓ I will end you!! Homura confronts an exhausted, near-witch Sayaka, at first offering to help her--but when Sayaka calls her on her lack of true sympathy, she reveals she's just doing it for Madoka's sake and threatens to kill Sayaka. But then Kyouko shows up!
✓ Close call. Homura shoots Kyubey just as Madoka had been about to make a wish. When Madoka is unhappy about this, Homura sort of breaks down. Madoka leaves; Homura then pulls it together and lets Kyubey know he won't have his way!
✓ Kyubey is a dick. Homura talks to Kyubey about Kyouko's attempt to save Sayaka. Kyubey's response: lol.
✓ Madoka's visit. Lead-in to the confession, in which Madoka arrives at Homura's apartment in episode 11. Madoka doubts Homura's ability to take the Walpurgis alone! Spun out as its own thing to avoid spoilers re: Kyouko and Sayaka.
SKILLS
Mundane
✓ Athletics: Several time repeats' worth of practice have allowed Homura to hone herself into peak athletic shape for a girl her age, to the point where she's shown breaking prefectural records in gym class.
✓ Academics: Similarly, Homura is skilled in advanced math (and possibly other subjects) thanks to having had a lot of time to study.
✓ Basic Marksmanship: A skill Homura begins to pick up when she starts stealing guns from mobsters. This skill covers proficiency with handguns, shotguns, etc.--"everyday" guns.
◊ Advanced Marksmanship: Homura also demonstrates that she knows her way around more exotic weapons. This skill, unlikely to be of much (or any) use in Aather, covers bazookas, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, mortars, the precision guiding of oil tanker trucks into giant witches, etc.
✓ Bomb-making and Use: Thanks to the magic of the Internet, Homura learns how to make her own pipe bombs. This skill also covers using explosives in combat without blowing herself up.
✓ Hand-to-Hand Combat: Homura can handle herself okay in a close-in fight too; she doesn't have many weapons for it, but she demonstrates that she knows how to knock people out, etc. (as in episode 6 when she takes down Sayaka).
Special
✓ Magical Girl Transformation: Homura has made a contract with Completely Benevolent Cute Mascot Kyubey, allowing her to become a magical girl! The transformation grants her a neat costume, plus increased physical potential.
✓
✓
✓ Energy Shield: Homura's buckler, besides containing the mechanism that drives her time powers, can also project a larger shield of magical energy to block attacks.
✓ Energy Blasts: Homura can fire little bursts of concussive force, as shown during her Kyubey hunt.
✓ Buckler of Holding: Homura can store objects in a sort of dimensional pocket behind her buckler; this is where she puts her guns and bombs.
✓ Self-healing: Magical girls can use their magic to repair their zombiebodies! Homura also uses this at one point to fix her eyes.
Other
n/a