Homura has begged Madoka's forgiveness time and time again in these countless cycles--I'm sorry I couldn't save you--please, forgive me!
In those timelines in which Madoka is still able--when she lies broken on the ground, just barely clinging to life, but not yet gone; when she cradles a void-black Soul Gem in her trembling hands, moments away from shattering and turning witch--she always replies It's all right or You did your best or Thank you for being here--for being my friend or some other words of kindness; even lying at death's door and caught in the jaws of despair, she still forgives.
Madoka might find it harder to forgive, Homura thinks, if she remembered the misery and death of all the timelines in which Homura has failed; even if, somehow, Homura finds the path that leaves Madoka alive and whole, Homura doesn't know if she'll ever truly forgive herself.
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In those timelines in which Madoka is still able--when she lies broken on the ground, just barely clinging to life, but not yet gone; when she cradles a void-black Soul Gem in her trembling hands, moments away from shattering and turning witch--she always replies It's all right or You did your best or Thank you for being here--for being my friend or some other words of kindness; even lying at death's door and caught in the jaws of despair, she still forgives.
Madoka might find it harder to forgive, Homura thinks, if she remembered the misery and death of all the timelines in which Homura has failed; even if, somehow, Homura finds the path that leaves Madoka alive and whole, Homura doesn't know if she'll ever truly forgive herself.