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Since witches are actually magical girls who, when their soul gems are fully
tainted, become witches, that means that Walpurgisnacht was a magical girl.
Since Madoka in two realities became a witch that could destroy the
world/universe, that would mean there was a magical girl who was, at the time,
much stronger than Madoka (before Homura's trips to the past compiling
Madoka's fate and power).

Which magical girl became Walpurgisnacht? Were they like Madoka, and had their
fate compiled from overlapping timelines?


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Who is the magical girl who becomes Walpurgisnacht?


There is no information about who it was that became Walpurgisnacht. All we
really know is that Walpurgisnacht is, in some sense, a fusion of multiple
witches (or magical girls, I guess).

Official description from July 2011 Megami interview with Urobuchi:

> _In the last episode we saw the "Walpurgisnacht", but what kind of witch is
> it specifically?_
>
> It has the destructive power to bring about natural disasters powerful
> enough to blow away an entire town, but originally it was a single witch.
> It's a witch that has grown from the combination of countless other witches.
> Walpurgisnacht combines with other witches in the same way two powerful
> tornadoes are able to combine and become larger. It's essentially a
> "conglomeration"-type witch. Because it's so powerful, it rarely shows
> itself.

See the Madoka wiki for [more details](http://wiki.puella-
magi.net/Walpurgis_Night).


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I'd assume it was someone who had a lot of ties of fate, maybe one of the
queens of England, since her outfit would fit their attire. I'd also assume it
could have been the same situation that Madoka and Homura had, or she could
have wished to be the most powerful magical girl of all time, and turned to
Walpurgisnacht.


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I did a bit of research, and found that Walpurgisnacht is the conglomeration
of many witches into one. Akemi Homura may be a key element in Walpurgisnacht
since Walpurgisnacht appears out of nowhere. This could possibly be time
travel, and the witch that Homura turns into could have eaten/absorbed other
witches until she became Walpurgisnacht.


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All of the imagery associated with Walpurgisnacht is the same imagery
associated with Homura specifically.

  * When Homura turns into a witch and fights Kyubey, the images of her upside-down smiling is exactly the same as Walpurgisnacht's entrance.
  * Walpurgis is a fusion of two gears with two magical concentric circles surrounding her. Homura is always surrounded by gears, clocks, etc. because she is a machinist and a time traveler.
  * Walpurgisnacht appears in every timeline at the exact moment that Homura gives up on her quest to save Madoka. Bearing in mind that Sayaka's imagery was the same as a magical girl and witch (trains, music, swords, capes, mermaid transformation sequence, etc.), it would be logical that Walpurgis is either Homura **or** that Homura contributes the vast majority of Walpurgis' power with the inverse of her wish to change fate.


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Witch form of Homura (Homulilly) was presented in the PSP game and it looks
nothing like her witch form from Rebellion. One can say that this means that
depending on the circumstances witch form can change. Plus, Madoka's witch
form (Kriemhild Gretchen) also looks slightly different in different
timelines.

Nutcracker Homulilly lacks top of the head and on the concept art for
Walpurgis Night you can see that Walpurgis also does not have a top of the
head. Nutcracker Homulilly also has oldee-european style dress similar to
dress that Walpurgis has. Gears/clock theme that Walpurgis and Homura share,
similar conical silhouette, two streak hair (braid on PSP Homililly, just
streaks on Nutcracker and two-hat thing on Walpurgis), plus production notes
that say that "Walpurgisnacht's and Kriemhild Gretchen's silhouettes are
supposed to make a pair and they are meant to look like an hourglass". All
this pretty much cements Homura as Walpurgis. Regular designs of Homura and
Madoka are also make pair, with Homura being black and purple and Madoka white
and pink (purple being basically pink with a lot black and gray added to it).

Also, facts aside, thematically there is no reason for Walpurgis to be anyone
else beside Homura. If Walpurgis is Homura it creates dramatic irony of Homura
fighting with herself and more she grows stronger the stronger her enemy
becomes. And trying to save Madoka from her dark side Homura more and more
corners Madoka into basically suicide. From the literary stance Homura being
Walpurgis makes perfect sense, especially after "Akumura" is created. "Trying
to fix everything you only make it worse and probably things would be better
if you leave them alone" seems to be a theme with the series in general and
especially Homura.


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Basically, Walpurgisnacht is a Witch that is to be blunt like a Cluster of
Witches and it came to be from a single witch that was just either left to its
own devices until no solitary Magical Girl could handle it.

That is to say she appears and at that point she also attracts Magical Girls
to kill her as she is a reference to the gathering of witches. She is never
really explained but we know she isn't Homura nor has she been seen as a
Magical Girl. We do know that she could be like Madoka and have made a wish so
selfless it made a wish with a curse equally as big as her wish. For example,
a queen wishing for her countries prosperity and then she is hung or beheaded
by the very people she made a wish for.


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An interesting question... a late answer...

I strongly disagree with the interpretation of _Homura Akemi_ herself being
the Walpurgisnacht witch. The circumstances during her wish themselves prove
that _Homura's_ not the witch.

_Homura_ wished to re-live the time period when she met _Madoka_ for the first
time and protect her, instead of it being the other way around. She wished for
this, **only after** _Madoka_ (in the original timeline) died fighting the
Walpurgisnacht witch. So, it is evident that _Homura_ was **not even a magical
girl** at that point, so forget the possibility of her being the
Walpurgisnacht witch.

Also note that the Walpurgisnacht witch cannot be _Homura_ from the _"future"_
either, because each of the altered timeline universes created by virtue of
_Homura's_ wish are independent of each other.

> In actuality, the Walpurgisnacht witch is an amalgamation/(coalesced form)
> of multiple witches/familiars. _This can be supported by the scene where the
> witch disintegrates after Madoka's wish. It seems to suggest that it had
> resulted from 32 individual magical girls/witches..._

[![Multiple witches of the Walpurgisnacht
witch](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eV43U.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eV43U.jpg)


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