Madoka Kaname

Kaname Madoka is one of the main villains of Holy Quintet x Lyrical Pretty Cure!. Her cure form is Cure Destiny and her witch form is Kriemhild Gretchen.

Skills
She is a very average school girl both at academics and sports. While she doesn't have special skill or anything like that, she likes to help others and that's why she took the initiative of being the infirmary officer.

Before succumbing to despair
She was originally a kind and friendly everyday girl before becoming a precure. One day, a voice leaded her to a glade in the forest with four other girls, with one of them being her friend. The voice explained to them that there is a evil being named Kyubey who wants to plunge the world into despair. However, at half of the explanation, the voice began to sound farther and farther until they didn't heard it anymore. The communication was lost. Then, the world began to change and they were trapped in a witch's labyrinth. They were almost attacked but a fairy who called himself Yousei save them and gave them precure power. And so, they began to fight witches for several months.

As a half-complete witch
At school, she is exactly the same that she was before. However, she is void and empty. Nothing is reflected in her eyes. She thinks that the world will be plunged in despair and that she can't to anything about that. Moreover, she thinks that this will be heaven. As she thinks that it is fortunate, she wants to quickly defeat the precure to spread despair across the world with the other witches. She does remember her time as Cure Destiny, however she doesn't remember what she was feeling at that time, mostly the hope. Sometimes she questions herself why she was acting like that, wanting to bring hope to everyone. Throught the serie, she will sometimes remember some bright thinking from her precure time, but she will try to erase these feelings as soon as she remembers them.

Appearance
In civilian form, she has pink middle length hair attached in twintails with red ribbons and pink tareme eyes. She is rarely seen in anything else from her school uniform.

In half-witch form...

Personality
She is a naive and gentle girl. While being shy sometimes, she is very friendly and likes to help other. She always thinks of her friends before herself. That makes her as a very good friend and that's why she easily makes friend. However, as she is a naive person, she can be easily manipulated with her overkind personality and that makes her weak. However, her weak side is not her true self. Her true self is only revealed after late in the anime.

Kriemhild Gretchen
"Hope who will bring the world to heaven, Kriemhild Gretchen!"

This is Madoka's dark alter ego and appears for the first time in the first episode. She is the witch of salvation.

Cure Destiny
Not revealed yet.

Relationships
Akemi Homura - She doesn't know a lot of her and while she admires her, she finds her mysterious and a little scary. However, she finds her familiar, or rather she can't let her alone and can't help being kind with her. After becoming a half-witch, she doesn't care anymore of her personality and acts all friendly and energetic with her. She thinks of her as the one who will help her to plunge the world in despair.

Miki Sayaka - She was a close friend of her and they were often together. She thought of her as her best friend with another girl. After becoming half-witch, she continued to act friendly with her but unconsciously became distant with her, as if they were superficial friends.

Tomoe Mami - She was on good terms with her. She considered Mami as a wonderful and strong senpai, but also as a very good friend.

Etymology
As Kaname Madoka a character from another anime, her name doesn't have anything to do with the serie.

Kaname: This is written with the kanji for deer (kana) and eye (me). However it can be written with "vital point.pivot", a reference to the fact that she is the vital point of all the timeline created by Homura in the original serie PMMM.

Madoka: The name Madoka can be written with several different kanjis. It can be written with "circle", a reference to the cycle of magical girl and with or to the timeline revolving around Madoka. It can also be written with "wish", refering to the process of becoming a magical girl being of making a wish. All of these reference are of course in the os PMMM.

Cure Destiny - It can be a reference to the original serie where she is the central character of all of Homura's returning to the past but also to when she become the goddess. In the fan serie, it can be reference to her witch form's thinking way with the fate being the world in despair but also to her human form wanting to change the fate.

Songs
Madoka's seiyuu, Aoi Yuuki,  has participated in several image songs for her character.

Solos

 * Hope's destiny♥
 * Despair is salvation?
 * Walk in the blur ~Hope Ver.~

​Duets

 * Unmei desu ne✧ -along with Saitou Chiwa (Homura)
 * Wakaranai Grief -along with Kitamura Eri (Sayaka)
 * Heaven Sky in tomorrow -along with Tamura Yukari (Nanoha)

Groups

 * New Friends Forever -along with Kitamura Eri and Mizuhashi Kaori (Mami)
 * Walk in the blur -along with Saitou Chiwa, Kitamura Eri, Mizuhashi Kaori and Nonaka Ai (Kyouko)

Trivia

 * Madoka is the second villain to be a former cure, followed by her teammates
 * She comes from Puella Magi Madoka Magica (or Mahou Shoujo MM)
 * For most of the serie, she is only a half-witch as the process to become complete witch take several weeks
 * The same for her teammates
 * She shares many similarities with the serie's protagonist, Takamachi Nanoha:
 * They have pink magic
 * They have middle-length hair kept in twintails
 * They are kind and naive girl
 * They are leader of their respective team
 * They are both understansing people wanting to help them