MamiMado

MamiMado is the femslash ship between Mami Tomoe and Madoka Kaname from the Puella Magi Madoka Magica fandom.

Pre-series
It is known that Madoka and Mami were fellow Magical Girls as they fought together in order so save Homura before the time travels. However, it is unknown how they really meet.

Series
In the anime's present timeline, Mami met Madoka when she was looking for Kyubey went to save her and Sayaka from a witch. After that, Mami invited Madoka and Sayaka to her house and cooked a cake for them. Mami explained to them about the magical girls and that they are born after making a contract with Kyubey so he would make their wish come true. He also warned them how dangerous it is to be a magical girl and that they could risk their lives fighting witches. So, she offered them to go on a witch hunt to see what it's like to be a magical girl.

The next day, when Madoka and Sayaka saw Mami fighting against a witch, Madoka really admires Mami's effort to save a person to die, motivating her to become a magical girl so she can be useful and help others. After the fight, Mami asked Madoka if she already had a wish on mind, and Madoka didn't answered, which Mami found understandable as it is always a very rough decision. The Madoka asked Mami what she wished, and though Mami didn't directly answered that she wished to save her life, she answered that she didn't have much time to think and she had to make a wish inmediately, while Madoka and Sayaka are lucky to still be able to think about it.

The next day, Madoka, Sayaka and Kyubey found a Seed of Suffering and Madoka kickly went to ask for help to Mami. When Mami and Madoka finally arrived to fight the witch, Mami said that she would have scolded her for trying too hard, but it was Sayaka's idea anyway for Madoka to go find Mami. Then Madoka confessed to Mami how useless she had felt all her life, and that she always saw herself as a nuisance rather than a help to people, but when she saw Mami figthing for others that motivated her to do the same, so her only wish was just to turn into a magical girl, so she could be proud of herself. Mami told her again how hard it is to be a magical girl, telling her that she would get hurt and also lose time to have fun. Then he told her that she is not as perfect as Madoka thinks, and that although she appears to be fine, she is actually afraid and does not know how to talk about her problems to others. Madoka told Mami that she was not alone anymore, and suddenly Mami emotionally grabbed her hands, asking her if she would really fight and be by her side, to which Ayukawa replied yes. Mami told her again that she was on a special occasion to make a wish, proposing many ideas and saying that they will ask Kyubey for a cake and would have a party to celebrate that they are on the same team when everything is over. During the fight with Charlotte, Mami was very excited to have Ayukawa by her side, thinking that she had never been so happy in a fight, that she was no longer afraid and, most importantly, she was not alone. However, Mami died and ended up being eaten by Charlotte, leaving Madoka crying in shock.

After her death, Madoka keep thinking on how Mami died in front of her, so she could hardly eat or breath and cried in front of her family. At the end of the day Madoka went to visit Mami's house, left her notebook and apologized to Mami for being too weak in tears. When Madoka left the houde, Homura told her that she was blaming herself too much and that even if she had not intervened Mami's fate would not have changed. When Homura told Madoka that Mami will be considered missing and people won't care because there was no one close to her, Madoka was very sad about how Mami had fought so hard for people and said that she would never forget her.

Moments

 * In Rebellion, Madoka and Mami are shown combining her powers

Fanon
MamiMado is a rarepair, but it is well known in the fandom. It sailed due to their emotive scene during the chapter 3 before Mami's dead, though lost popularity after Homura's story was revelated and HomuMado become the fandom's most popular ship. It is still a well liked ship overall, and a pretty popular ship for Mami as well. A very common fan theory is that Mami's wish was not to die alone, and she in fact didn't because Madoka was by her side until the end.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION