You are my best friend
You are my best friend is a tag used for illustrations related to Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
Overview
Spoiler Warning: Spoiler details may follow
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As Homura Akemi fought desperately, alone with Walpurgisnacht, her magic powers depleted haflway during the battle, resulted in her defeat.
As she tried to turn back time, she was reminded that by doing so she will ended up adding a heavier karma on Madoka Kaname. From there, she hesistated.
From the despair she slowly realized from there, slowly polluted her Soul Gem...and when all things looked grim, her hand is reached by a warmth that she felt familar...
Madoka Kaname came, and offered to become a Puella Magi,
seemly disobeying Homura's wish. However, for Madoka, who is filled with confidence on her face, wished to Kyuubey :
「I wished for every witch that exists from any universe to be erased from existence」
Madoka thus transformed into a Puella Magi, blazed through each and every corner of the space and universe, and saved all the Puella Magi that were under the transistion, and thus prevented them from turning into a witch. With her actions, she has turned into a Goddess that defies the law of the universe.
Homura, who witnessed all these, broke into tears, considering that her wish resulted her to be erased from existence in any universe. However, Madoka appeared and consoled Homura, telling her that she has seen through everything, and anything that happened to Homura all these while, and thus told Homura :
「You are my best friend」
Upon the end of the conversation, she passed on her ribbons to Homura, and disappeared.
From there on, a new universe is formed. While everyone there seems to forget about Madoka, only Homura does not. While wearing the ribbon Madoka passed on to her, and from there on, she keeps fighting on as a Puella Magi, with now her new opponent, the Magical Beast, lurks from the shadows...
Usage
For a show which was full of despair and grim dark, the episode itself brought many emotional reactions from the fans : from crying, to heavy sighs (sigh of relief or sigh of bittersweets). It is also considered to be a countertag to Desperation even with struggling and Chidamari Sketch.
This tag is especially tagged with illustrations that depicts Ribbon Homura with Goddess Madoka, while other variants exist.
Related Illustrations
Related Tags
You are my worst friend - a countertag to "You are my best friend", hillarity ensures and also a mood breaker to otherwise a very touching scene.