MamiHomu

"Tomoe Mami never once held my hand"

- Homura in The Different Story

MamiHomu is the femslash ship between Homura Akemi and Mami Tomoe from the Puella Magi Madoka Magica fandom.

Early timelines
Mami along with Madoka saved Homura from getting killed by a witch. After that they become friends but sadly Mami got killed by Walpurgis.

Magical girl Homura meets with Mami and Madoka again. But because of Homura's ability is time manuplation, Mami suggested that she can use other weapons. Upon this Homura robbed the yakuza. After that Homura, Mami and Madoka started to train together.

After defeating Oktavia, rest of the magical girls couldn't believe what happened. Mami snapped and shoot at Kyoko. Then she tied Homura up with her ribbons and directed her gun to her. Luckily Madoka shot with her bow and saved Homura.

Current timeline
In current timeline due to Homura's coldness and Kyubey's manipulation, Homura and Mami oftenly have conflicts. Right before fighting with Charlotte ,Homura tried to warn Mami about her death. Unluckily Mami understood it wrong so she tied Homura up until she will return but she never returned and after her death the ribbons started to melt. Homura squeezed melting ribbon in her hand knowing Mami's fate.

Rebellion
At the beggining of rebellion Mami introduce Homura to rest of the group. They all were good friends at the start. After Homura realized this is a fake reality,she blamed it on Bebe who used to be Charlotte on the current timeline.At the evening Homura, Mami and Madoka were having tea at Mami's apartment as they had on the earlier timelines. As they were chatting Homura wanted more tea from Mami to distract her so she can attack Bebe easily.But while she attacking Bebe, Mami stopped her and warn her saying she didn't wanna fight with Homura but if Homura is so determined to attack Bebe she had to. Homura remained her silence.So they started to fight.It was a tie but when Mami tought everything was finished, Homura pulled out a gun and shot herself. Mami tried to stop her,unaware that it was a trick. Homura stopped and directed her gun at Mami's face. But she couldn't bring herself to shot at Mami who she looked up to and was her friend.So she lowered her gun and shot at Mami's leg but it was a trap. The Mami she shot at was actually a fake Mami made by her ribbons. The ribbons caught her and Homura found herself tied up. Mami noted that Homura's power isfearsome but it has no use in a fight if Homura keeps acting like she has the upperhand. Mami also noted that Homura could kill her but she didn't meaning that Homura must still care about Mami's well being.

Wraight Arc
After Homura went Mitakihara school as transfer student once again,she met Mami and Kyoko at the roof. They three had a talk about the upcoming giant. And Mami stated that even tough Homura likes to work alone,if she saw the giant she should report them. However when Homura confronts the giant and instead of telling Mami and Kyoko, she fought with it all by herself causing her to faint.

Later that night Mami and Kyoko found her unconscious. So Mami took her to her house.After Homura woke up, Mami came in and complained how Homura didn't listen to her. Then Homura said that if wraith was all alone she could defeat it but she said she didn't know there were other strong wraiths. Mami apologized for giving lack of information and said that Homura shouldn't trust much to her ability while fighting wraiths.Homura remained her silence. Mami added that Homura's safety is more important than anything and she could Homura's wound. After that, Homura attempted to leave but Mami said that she has more things to say to her. Then wanted Homura to be a magical girl and try to take her weapon. Homura was confused but she did it. Then she realized she couldn't take her weapon. Mami explained that Wraiths must stole some of her powers. Homura denied it at first but then she realized that Wraiths stole her Madoka memento. Homura got irritated and asked Mami how she can recover her powers. Mami was suprised due to Homura shook her a bit but she said she didn't know. Homura wanted to fight with the Wraith but Mami refused it and said that Homura should trust her and Kyoko more. Homura was silence a bit then she thanked Mami and left her house.

At the same night Homura encountered the wraith-Kyoko. She didn't understand that at first but later she was saved by Mami. They both had to fight with wraiths together. Mami wanted Homura to go due to her lack of weapon but Homura brought her bomb bag. They started to fight.

The Different Story
Trough the story they both don't have much interactions. Altough, at the last chapter Homura went to Mami's apartment to state about Sayaka and Kyoko's situation but mostly teaming up for Walpurgis. At first Mami was concerned about Sayaka and Kyoko and asked Homura about them.After talking about this, Mami finally realizes Kyubey's real nature and threatens to kill him. But Kyubey's word put her in despair resulting her to want Homura to kill her. Homura slapped her saying that even if Mami killed so many witches she also know she saved many many more lives. Then Homura said that if Mami will give up now, everything she fought to protect will be stolen awa from her. She adviced Mami to recognise her own limits and started to told her story superficially. She also noted she must bear some responsibility for failing to save Kyoko and Sayaka. She said they changed a fate she believed to be unchangeable (Mami's death) and said that's why she wants Mami to keep living. Homura also noted that Mami was the one who always teach things to Homura.However Mami made a promise with Madoka and while Madoka becomes a magical girl, while Mami's soul gem broke.Homura was upset about it.She explain it with "Tomoe Mami never once held my hand".

Fanon
HomuMami is mostly a rarepair in the fandom, however there are still amount of fans. This ship sailed mostly because of their fight in rebellion and the spin-off manga "Mitakihara anti-materials". This ship is oftenly rivaled with HomuMado, tough there are people who ships Homumadomami or Poly Quintet who ships them together.

Fandom

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Trivia

 * It is shown that in The Different Story,Homura sometimes thinks about first timelines where Mami,her and Madoka being a trio.