First it was Tomoe Mami.

She felt light as she was dying, and she knew it had value.

Mami was the student that introduced Madoka into the world of Puella Magi for the first 'time.' She was a girl Madoka looked up to, the one who had made being a Magical Girl seem fun. But the fun ended when she died a gruesome death from Charlotte, with no corpse to remind Madoka of her.

Despite the fact she was dead, Madoka wanted something to give Mami to remember her by, and so she placed the sketches that they laughed at, the sketches of Madoka's Puella Magi form.

Then went Sayaka, followed by Kyoko.

She didn't regret making her wish for someone else.

That was the Sayaka Madoka knew since they first met, but times changed. Slowly yet surely, Sayaka drifted off, forgetting what she wished for entirely.

She lost control of her emotions. While saving a few, she lost herself, and realized what it meant to be a Puella Magi.

The last words spoken by Sayaka, the words that signified her grief, the words that turned into Oktavia von Seckendorff, a Witch defeated by Kyoko shortly after its barrier was made.

She told Madoka to protect what she loved until the very end.

The words Kyoko spoke before she sacrificed herself to save Madoka's friend, even if she was un-savable, kept Madoka going.

Now Homura wanted to undo that, to undo all the sacrifices everyone had made to fulfill her wish of saving Madoka. She reached for her dial, hoping to reset back to the time before she officially 'met' Madoka, but she was stopped.

"Kyubey!" Madoka calls out, hoping to get the cat like creature's attention. "I'm finally ready."

Understanding what Madoka meant by that, Homura asked her to stop.

Walking up to Homura, Madoka spoke to her. "If someone tells me that it's wrong to hope, I'll tell them they're wrong every time." Turning the almost black Soul Gem back to its original purple, Madoka turned her attention back to Kyubey.

What is your wish, Madoka?" it asked.

"I wish to erase all witches from existence before they're even born. Every witch in the universe, from the past and the future, with my own hands"

Kyubey granted her wish, turning her into a goddess while breaking its own system. Now becoming an idea, Madoka was erased from existence, with only Homura remembering her.

Since she was an idea now, she understood what Homura had gone through. All those different timelines, just to save the one she had love, and in each, she had failed.

Any being might call this timeline another failed timeline, but it wasn't. Madoka was now omnipresent, which allowed her to help Homura overcome everything in her path.