Kiku Takamori

“I'd like you to try to understand me.” Kiku Takamori (貴守 きく) is regarded as a powerful magical girl. She is quite shy towards people but nonetheless is kind towards them, especially if they are less experienced than herself. She works as a writer when she isn't busy fighting witches. She is the protagonist of Puella Magi Kiku★Magica

Appearance
Kiku is a petite young girl with gentle beige eyes and long red hair that is styled into a braid that usually rests upon her shoulder. She is twenty years of age so she does not wear any school uniform and looks much more mature as a result. Her casual wear is a long reddish-brown turtleneck dress with long sleeves as well as thigh-high socks and yellow mary jane shoes. In her hair, she wears a circular pin which in the centre features a diamond. As a magical girl, her outfit can best be described as 'floaty'. She wears a red dress that the outer layer splits in the centre. Tied around her neck is a ribbon that floats out behind her and big red boots When transformed her Soul Gem transforms into an earring in the shape of a wing on one of her ears.

Personality
Despite having much more perspective and experience than many of the magical girls, Kiku is very shy and quiet, even scared of others at times. It is unknown if this is a result of the injury that led her to make a wish when she was younger or perhaps the fact she can't bear to see friends turn into witches or even die from fighting witches due to inexperience. It seems to be the latter as she seems to be progressing worse in this anxiety and the darkness of her soul gem seems to be on the brink of her transforming into a witch herself, especially due to her age. She is rather cowardly and while in her heart she knows she will soon be lost in an abyss of despair, she does not want to admit it to herself.

She is shown to have great athletic ability, able to run far and fast without getting out of breath, a valuable asset to fighting witches with. Mostly though she enjoys writing books however, she mostly writes fantasy books that are based on her adventures as a magical girl.

Experience as a Magical Girl
Kiku first made her wish when she was 13 years old after she was hospitalised from the abuse she had received by her parents which had left her on the brink of death.

Over time she has defeated a total of 33 witches and collected a total of 24 grief seeds to purify herself with but yet she still cannot get rid of the darkness in her soul. Due to this number Kozue regards her as a rival as they share similar counts however Kiku does not reciprocate this so-called rivalry.

She has great magical potential and is way more powerful than Kozue, however, she does not recognise the power she holds and the devastation when she inevitably transforms into a witch.