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Homura Akemi

Hailing from the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Homura is a rushdown/trapper who revolves around her constantly-depleting Soul Gem meter.

Neutral Special -- Desert Eagle
She pulls out a gun and fires it. It's a simple special. It has a hitbox on the gun, which leads to some fun close-range combos. Holding back while firing it in the air gives her backwards momentum, so it doubles as a movement tool--try using it as a combo ender!

Neutral Special II - Howa Type 89
If you tap up during the initial frames of Desert Eagle, you can use Howa Type 89, an aerial kill move that stalls your fall. You can also drift with it. It's very powerful, but it costs meter.

Side Special -- Grief Seed
She throws out a Grief Seed. Shooting it with Neutral Special creates a large explosion, and the explosion applies the Witch's Kiss status, which increases the Soul Gem meter gained on hit and interacts with her Up Special.

She can cancel it on startup with a roll, just in case you accidentally start to throw it out offstage.

Up Special -- Timestop

She briefly stops time--to the untrained eye, it appears to be a teleport. This special is very useful, but consumes the Soul Gem meter.
If the opponent has the Witch's Kiss effect applied, she teleports to them. (Technically, she uses the opponent as the anchor for her teleport and it can still be angled as usual, but that's harder to explain, so if you don't understand this part, she teleports to them. That's it.)
If you hold B before the teleport, she goes further. This allows for cool distance mixups!

During the teleport, the Mortar Rocket becomes frozen in place--look at Down Special.

She can cancel it on startup with a roll/airdodge.

Down Special -- Mortar

She briefly stops time, and places down a mortar tube. Using Down Special again fires it. It explodes on contact with an opponent or with the ground.
To cycle this steam description, shooting it with Neutral Special causes the bullet to ricochet off of it in the direction of the opponent.

Check out her stage, the Dessert Witch's Labyrinth, at https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2997847520 !

Fun tidbits:
--Ftilt is invincible during its active frames.
--The Witch's Kiss effect is a unique design, based off of ____lilly's two Witch's Kisses. You can see a certain someone's face in the effect if you play really close attention...
--She had a scrapped Dspecial where she'd call down a nuke...Hmm. That wasn't a very good idea, I think.
--She had a scrapped Fspecial which was just Snake's C4. I don't want the code I wrote for it to go to waste, but I really don't think I'll use it, like, ever...
--If you use Down + Taunt in practice mode, her meter stops, as though frozen in time--it cannot be gained or depleted in any way.

Special Thanks:

--Artist of Seer, for really good feedback

--Delta Parallax, for really good feedback and letting me steal his sound effects

--Rosar, for making Neutral Special and Neutral Aerial, and also providing animation feedback throughout the whole creative process

--DarkDakurai, for coding her voice line setup stuff and masking stuff

--JPEG Warrior, for letting me steal his Palutena's magic sound effects which are stolen from Smash

--Bar-Kun's Tester base