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She was a friend and teacher to Sayaka, but never revealed her secret after becoming the Culexus Malal. During her time of service, she delivered the most accurate preognostications of all Culexus, even accurately predicting time and location of the appearance of the witch Charlotte, as well as the fact that somebody would be found inside.
 
She was a friend and teacher to Sayaka, but never revealed her secret after becoming the Culexus Malal. During her time of service, she delivered the most accurate preognostications of all Culexus, even accurately predicting time and location of the appearance of the witch Charlotte, as well as the fact that somebody would be found inside.
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===Kharn Flashback===
 
===Kharn Flashback===
Malal delivers the morning call to her Warmaster Kharn along with "other Warmaster type stuff", politely ignoring the naked blonde in her superiors bed. The days schedule consists of meeting the Third Officio's Warmaster to discuss an incident involving Girl A killing three squads of their magical girls, deciding on Girl A's fate, and informing the Fourteenth Incubator about his Warmaster's whereabouts, the latter still sleeping next to Kharn. Malal decides to relay that they don't know where she is and leaves to make preparations.
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As Kharn's Equerry, Malal takes care of everyday business and paperwork. She accompanies her Warmaster to an interrogation of Girl A, who killed three allied squads during a joint mission. Kharn listens to her report and decides to give her a new identity and take her as a personal subordinate.
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During the meeting with the Third Warmaster, Malal tries to stay reasonable, but agrees with Kharn that Ahriman's demands are outrageous. Kharn decides to purge the Officio and together with Murderface they kill the hundred magical girls present. Erebus keeps them from attacking Ahriman directly until she is taken care of, but the Warmaster is empowered by her golden weapon and the blood sacrifice by then.
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While Kharn takes care of Erebus on another floor, Malal faces Ahriman's magic while protecting Murderface, but is eventually defeated and rendered unconscious.
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<spoiler show="Full Chapter Summary" hide="Hide Full Summary">Malal delivers the morning call to her Warmaster Kharn along with "other Warmaster type stuff", politely ignoring the naked blonde in her superiors bed. The days schedule consists of meeting the Third Officio's Warmaster to discuss an incident involving Girl A killing three squads of their magical girls, deciding on Girl A's fate, and informing the Fourteenth Incubator about his Warmaster's whereabouts, the latter still sleeping next to Kharn. Malal decides to relay that they don't know where she is and leaves to make preparations.
  
 
Somewhat distressed, she takes a short break in her room, quickly locking the door after stepping out again to prevent anyone from looking inside. She accompanies Kharn to breakfast, briefing her on her appointments. Girl A, found six months ago in a witch barrier by Mami Tomoe and Sayaka Miki, has been allowed to participate in missions with her guardian. Two days ago, she murdered 21 Eversors from the Third Officio during a joint purge mission. The Third Incubator demands her death, but Kyubey is leaving judgment to his Warmaster.
 
Somewhat distressed, she takes a short break in her room, quickly locking the door after stepping out again to prevent anyone from looking inside. She accompanies Kharn to breakfast, briefing her on her appointments. Girl A, found six months ago in a witch barrier by Mami Tomoe and Sayaka Miki, has been allowed to participate in missions with her guardian. Two days ago, she murdered 21 Eversors from the Third Officio during a joint purge mission. The Third Incubator demands her death, but Kyubey is leaving judgment to his Warmaster.
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The Culexus procures firearms from Murderface's shield, unloading everything onto Ahriman, and screams at Kharn to get back up before her barrier is penetrated by a bolt of lightning, breaking several of her ribs. Ahriman lifts Malal up and tears her arms from her body, sending the Culexus into a fit of tormented spasms that render her unconscious.
 
The Culexus procures firearms from Murderface's shield, unloading everything onto Ahriman, and screams at Kharn to get back up before her barrier is penetrated by a bolt of lightning, breaking several of her ribs. Ahriman lifts Malal up and tears her arms from her body, sending the Culexus into a fit of tormented spasms that render her unconscious.
  
Not long after, Kharn wakes her up with knocks on several body parts, Ahriman lying dead nearby. She realizes her arms missing, mentioning how this is going to suck and keeps joking around with her friend until the evacuation teams arrive.
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Not long after, Kharn wakes her up with knocks on several body parts, Ahriman lying dead nearby. She realizes her arms missing, mentioning how this is going to suck and keeps joking around with her friend until the evacuation teams arrive.</spoiler>
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===Midori & Miracle Midori===
 
===Midori & Miracle Midori===
In Siberia, Chiaki tries to interrogate Mirai Wakaba, but the Tenth Incubator forces his agent to witch out, trapping Chiaki in a barrier. Inside, Malal somehow still exists and encounters Mirai. Being mysteriously well informed as she always is, Malal explains the situation and convinces her to help in trying to find the fragments of Chiaki's psyche.
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Malal exists inside Chiaki's barrier for unknown reasons. She meets Mirai and convinces her to join the search for Chiaki's fragments. They encounter the armored fragment but have to retreat and meet Midori, who already gathered two other fragments. Together they face the armored fragment again and Midori manages to calm t down and convince her to join their cause and even drives off Kharn, who refused to talk to Malal and set her ablaze.
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When they encounter the fourth fragment, Midori is killed by the first attack. Malal and the others face the fragment's servants until one fragment defeats the leader and Midori miraculously manifests again to reunite all of them before disappearing again. Mirai asks Malal to use her soul gem to save her friend and the Culexus forces her way to the Blessed Lady and Midori to demand the exchange.
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<spoiler show="Full Chapter Summary" hide="Hide Full Summary">In Siberia, Chiaki tries to interrogate Mirai Wakaba, but the Tenth Incubator forces his agent to witch out, trapping Chiaki in a barrier. Inside, Malal somehow still exists and encounters Mirai. Being mysteriously well informed as she always is, Malal explains the situation and convinces her to help in trying to find the fragments of Chiaki's psyche.
  
 
They wander the place and arrive at the reflection of the Hanegawa ramen restaurant. Scouting outside they fight a fragment of Chiaki, but can't reach out to her in the rain and decide to try again later.
 
They wander the place and arrive at the reflection of the Hanegawa ramen restaurant. Scouting outside they fight a fragment of Chiaki, but can't reach out to her in the rain and decide to try again later.
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She tells Midori that she left a package for Chiaki with Kharn that will explain a lot of things she doesn't have time to do herself. The Blessed Lady calls them and hands Midori her restored soul gem. Malal suggests not crying when she thanks Mirai and the Blessed Lady explains that her body will be healed enough to sustain life, albeit still injured.
 
She tells Midori that she left a package for Chiaki with Kharn that will explain a lot of things she doesn't have time to do herself. The Blessed Lady calls them and hands Midori her restored soul gem. Malal suggests not crying when she thanks Mirai and the Blessed Lady explains that her body will be healed enough to sustain life, albeit still injured.
  
She asks for any  last words and Midori hugs both of them before thanking them and promising to take care of Chiaki before being enveloped by light and disappearing, leaving Malal and the Blessed Lady behind.
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She asks for any  last words and Midori hugs both of them before thanking them and promising to take care of Chiaki before being enveloped by light and disappearing, leaving Malal and the Blessed Lady behind.</spoiler>
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===Malal Flashback===
 
===Malal Flashback===
In a flashback episode taking place five years prior to the quest events, Malal travels to Varrigan City to save a kidnapped rookie. Varrigan City is a dangerous place filled with criminals and refugees, augmented humans and rogue magical girls and said to be one of the worst places in the world. Malal literally coerced Kyubey into allowing the mission and refused his support to make use of her own connections.
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The rookie Ekaterina Valnikov was kidnapped and declared dead, but Malal refuses to accept it and sets out to save her, supported by Xiaomei Baocun from the Seventh Officio. She heads to Varrigan City to meet a local contact, meets her friend Nicole Touchdown and saves Enyo Karasawa from a local biker gang on the way.
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Malal trades samples of her blood for Ekaterina's location from Fran Madaraki, who also explains what her Warmaster has done to the girl and tells her to ask Souji for help once she finds Ekaterina. Fran then heads back to her Officio's flagship to oust Warmaster Strauss while Malal makes her way to where the girl is kept as a test subject.
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She convinces Souji that she wants to help Ekaterina and escapes the Blood God's Arena with the unconscious girl and the young scientist. They encounter Strauss and one of her experiments on the way to the docks where the Thirteenth Officio's flagship waits as their evacuation unit, offered by the new Chief Director Madaraki.
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Malal destroys the experiment with her magic bow and encounters an apparition of a black haired girl with wings that haunted her dreams in the past and tells her how she will die from her bad decisions. Malal ignores her and continues to the docks, picked up by Madaraki's hired bodyguard Odette on the way.
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Madaraki treats Ekaterina on the flagship, and while the berserk devices are removed, the alterations to her body and soul gem are permanent. Malal can't restore her personality and has to piece something together from the few scraps that are left after the torture.
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<spoiler show="Full Chapter Summary" hide="Hide Full Summary">In a flashback episode taking place five years prior to the quest events, Malal travels to Varrigan City to save a kidnapped rookie. Varrigan City is a dangerous place filled with criminals and refugees, augmented humans and rogue magical girls and said to be one of the worst places in the world. Malal literally coerced Kyubey into allowing the mission and refused his support to make use of her own connections.
  
 
After a rough trip with Kyubey's teleporter where she had to force herself out of the warp near the end, she arrives in Downtown Varrigan City and is contacted by her support, Xiaomei Baocun from the Seventh Officio, via her suits communication device. She takes cover on a nearby rooftop to avoid any unpleasant surprises and has the disgruntled Xiaomei refresh her memory of the mission target.
 
After a rough trip with Kyubey's teleporter where she had to force herself out of the warp near the end, she arrives in Downtown Varrigan City and is contacted by her support, Xiaomei Baocun from the Seventh Officio, via her suits communication device. She takes cover on a nearby rooftop to avoid any unpleasant surprises and has the disgruntled Xiaomei refresh her memory of the mission target.
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Strauss, assuming she is talking to Madaraki, tells her that Malal is approaching the docks and wants the crew to use the ship's cannons to kill her for taking out Butterfingers. Malal enjoys telling the angry woman that she is fired, who only believes her when Madaraki explains that she is no longer fit for the position due to her unethical research methods and abuse of Officio resources. Strauss screams in rage that the Officio belongs to her and how Malal killed Butterfingers, but Fran only replies that the Culexus has treated him more humanely than the Doktor. She also decides to let her live instead of blasting the city into smithereens as an act of mercy before ending the call.
 
Strauss, assuming she is talking to Madaraki, tells her that Malal is approaching the docks and wants the crew to use the ship's cannons to kill her for taking out Butterfingers. Malal enjoys telling the angry woman that she is fired, who only believes her when Madaraki explains that she is no longer fit for the position due to her unethical research methods and abuse of Officio resources. Strauss screams in rage that the Officio belongs to her and how Malal killed Butterfingers, but Fran only replies that the Culexus has treated him more humanely than the Doktor. She also decides to let her live instead of blasting the city into smithereens as an act of mercy before ending the call.
  
Madaraki then leads Malal to the operation theater to help with Ekaterina's treatment, explaining that she will introduce her to one Misaka later, who wants to meet a Culexus. Malal also decides to write this day's events down in some way and to get a tablet PC back home.
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Madaraki then leads Malal to the operation theater to help with Ekaterina's treatment, explaining that she will introduce her to one Misaka later, who wants to meet a Culexus. Malal also decides to write this day's events down in some way and to get a tablet PC back home.</spoiler>
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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
 
*As this worlds Madoka, her character design is based on Madoka Kaname from Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
 
*As this worlds Madoka, her character design is based on Madoka Kaname from Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

Revision as of 16:48, 9 December 2013

"Now, this isn't the way I would have handled it, Kharn, but you're the Warmaster here. What say we do this by the book for a change, eh?"

Malal
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Also Known As... Madoka Kaneda
First Appearance Thread 43
Organization Ninth Officio
Rank Culexus Rank Leader
Occupation Magical Girl
Ability Anti-Magic Aura
Weapon Combat Knife, Crowbar, Animus Speculum, Rose Bow
Height 153 cm
Date of Birth

Character Summary

Malal was the Culexus Rank Leader and Equerry as well as a friend to the Warmaster of the Ninth Officio Assassinorum during Valnikov Kharns reign, serving as the reasonable balance to her superiors lazyness and bloodthirst. She was also friends with Chiaki Matsuda during her days as Murderface. Her true identity, this worlds Madoka Kaneda, is kept secret, only known to a select few individuals.

Physical Description

  • Malal always wears her Culexus hard suit around others, so not much is known about her appearance.
  • She has short pink hair and crimson eyes.

Personality

  • Malal is your typical delinquent turned serious, putting up a professional front until provoked.
  • She remains mostly calm and polite but is prone to swearing.
  • According to Kharn, Malal has never been seriously angry.
  • She hates wasting time. This often leads to bad cases of road rage.
  • Malal dislikes the concept of honor, more people die from it than are saved.

Character History

Before her contract, Madoka Kaneda was a delinquent and later a runner for small time Yakuza in Mitakihara. She became an enforcer after killing a magical girl sent to take out her boss. Ever since her early childhood she had clear dreams abot her future. For a while they were haunted by a winged girl with black hair in a black cocktail dress who told her she would die for a pointless reason.

Kaneda flipped her off and decided to form a contract with Kyubey to do what she needs to and to write down what needs to be done after her death. Due to her earlier dreams she knew exactly how she had to form her wish to get what she needed. She never saw the girl again and her dreams were replaced by perfectly clear visions of the future she must prevent and how to do it, including her death.

She was a friend and teacher to Sayaka, but never revealed her secret after becoming the Culexus Malal. During her time of service, she delivered the most accurate preognostications of all Culexus, even accurately predicting time and location of the appearance of the witch Charlotte, as well as the fact that somebody would be found inside.

Kharn Flashback

As Kharn's Equerry, Malal takes care of everyday business and paperwork. She accompanies her Warmaster to an interrogation of Girl A, who killed three allied squads during a joint mission. Kharn listens to her report and decides to give her a new identity and take her as a personal subordinate.

During the meeting with the Third Warmaster, Malal tries to stay reasonable, but agrees with Kharn that Ahriman's demands are outrageous. Kharn decides to purge the Officio and together with Murderface they kill the hundred magical girls present. Erebus keeps them from attacking Ahriman directly until she is taken care of, but the Warmaster is empowered by her golden weapon and the blood sacrifice by then.

While Kharn takes care of Erebus on another floor, Malal faces Ahriman's magic while protecting Murderface, but is eventually defeated and rendered unconscious.

Midori & Miracle Midori

Malal exists inside Chiaki's barrier for unknown reasons. She meets Mirai and convinces her to join the search for Chiaki's fragments. They encounter the armored fragment but have to retreat and meet Midori, who already gathered two other fragments. Together they face the armored fragment again and Midori manages to calm t down and convince her to join their cause and even drives off Kharn, who refused to talk to Malal and set her ablaze.

When they encounter the fourth fragment, Midori is killed by the first attack. Malal and the others face the fragment's servants until one fragment defeats the leader and Midori miraculously manifests again to reunite all of them before disappearing again. Mirai asks Malal to use her soul gem to save her friend and the Culexus forces her way to the Blessed Lady and Midori to demand the exchange.

Malal Flashback

The rookie Ekaterina Valnikov was kidnapped and declared dead, but Malal refuses to accept it and sets out to save her, supported by Xiaomei Baocun from the Seventh Officio. She heads to Varrigan City to meet a local contact, meets her friend Nicole Touchdown and saves Enyo Karasawa from a local biker gang on the way.

Malal trades samples of her blood for Ekaterina's location from Fran Madaraki, who also explains what her Warmaster has done to the girl and tells her to ask Souji for help once she finds Ekaterina. Fran then heads back to her Officio's flagship to oust Warmaster Strauss while Malal makes her way to where the girl is kept as a test subject.

She convinces Souji that she wants to help Ekaterina and escapes the Blood God's Arena with the unconscious girl and the young scientist. They encounter Strauss and one of her experiments on the way to the docks where the Thirteenth Officio's flagship waits as their evacuation unit, offered by the new Chief Director Madaraki.

Malal destroys the experiment with her magic bow and encounters an apparition of a black haired girl with wings that haunted her dreams in the past and tells her how she will die from her bad decisions. Malal ignores her and continues to the docks, picked up by Madaraki's hired bodyguard Odette on the way.

Madaraki treats Ekaterina on the flagship, and while the berserk devices are removed, the alterations to her body and soul gem are permanent. Malal can't restore her personality and has to piece something together from the few scraps that are left after the torture.

Trivia

  • As this worlds Madoka, her character design is based on Madoka Kaname from Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
  • She always carries a tablet pc with her.
  • Kharn had Malal install a kill counter in her helmet to keep track of her Warmasters records, but had it removed again as her own count was always higher, causing arguments between them.
  • Malal promised Ekaterina Valnikov's mother to take care of her child when she was dying, hinting that she brought her into the Officio.

NECO Profile

Rookie

NAME: Malal
	"This isn’t a place for nosy kids. Go home before you get hurt.”
OFFICIO: Ninth, in Mitakihara City
RANK: Rank Leader Malal
BIO: A superpowered Callidus that joined the Ninth Officio recently. The circumstances surrounding her arrival are kind of sketchy, and nobody really seems to know where she came from. I heard she started pushing her own agenda from the moment she showed up, though…but maybe it’s for the best? Agendas don’t always have to be creepy and evil, right?
ABILITY: Standard Culexus ability – anti-magic – although Malal is super strong, even for a Culexus.
WEAPONRY: A crowbar and a special suit.
	STRENGTH	 C
	SPEED		 B+
	MELEE 		 A+(?)
	RANGED		 A(?)
	MAGIC 		 SS(?)
	TACTICS		 S+
	CHARM		 D(?)

TRIVIA
-To be honest I have a lot of questions about this one. It’s hard to catch her in action, though.

-It’s really suspicious, the way she swings that crowbar around. She’s pretty much some kind of gangster, right?

-She designed that special suit herself…So she’s a science officer, too? Where did she come from? The moon?

"...huh, there's a pretty big typo in this. can't remember if this was an accident or i didn't know the difference..." -NECO

Outdated

NAME: Malal
	"This isn't a recorded interview, is it?"
OFFICIO: Ninth, in Mitakihara City
RANK: Equerry of the Ninth, Rank Leader Malal
BIO: An enigmatic magical girl that seemed to appear out of nowhere about three years ago. She’s become a guiding force for the Ninth, with her tactical mind, technical expertise, and snappy wit. One could argue she’s the REAL leader of the Ninth, with Valnikov Kharn acting as a figurehead.
ABILITY: Standard Culexus ability – anti-magic – although Malal is extremely powerful, even for a Culexus.
WEAPONRY: A crowbar…and a tablet.
	STRENGTH	 C
	SPEED		 A
	MELEE 		 S
	RANGED		 S
	MAGIC 		 SSS(?)
	TACTICS		 SS
	CHARM		 D(?)

TRIVIA
- No one has ever seen her eat or drink, but food disappears around her when people aren't looking!

- Every other Culexus takes the name Alpharius or Omegon. 'Malal' is actually indicative of rank, as opposed to a name.

- Rank Leader Malal's tears can cure cancer. unfortunately, she's never cried.


Gallery

Artwork by Nicehatguy

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