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All that fancy armor, and you're just a scared, little boy!
~ Nomura showing her arrogance while taunting Jim Lake Jr.
Not kill. Take!
~ Nomura telling Jim what she wants to do with him before knocking him out.

Nomura, or Ms. Nomura, is a supporting character in the Tales of Arcadia franchise.

She is a Changeling troll who swapped places with a familiar, sent by Gunmar to spy on the human would while being disguised as a woman, and a member of the Janus Order conspiring to break Gunmar free from the Darklands. However, after being tortured by Gunmar for his sick pleasure, she finds the value of friendship and helps the Trollhunter, Jim Lake Jr, defeat Gunmar once and for all. She is also Draal's love interest.

She is voiced by Lauren Tom.

Appearance[]

Toby:She's a monster, Jim! I saw her face! It wasn't natural! She's, like, some sort of troll.
Jim: What?
Toby: But one of us. Like a weird half-breed thing, man.
~ Toby describing Nomura to Jim.

Nomura she appeared to be a beautiful woman of japanese origin. and was tall with shoulder-length black hair in her human form. She was dressed in a purple jacket, an ankle-length skirt, and high-heeled black boots.

She was a slim troll in troll form with cat-like emerald eyes and purplish-fuchsia skin. She carried a pair of twin khopeshes and walked on legs with stifle joints. She had a very sharp jawline and long, black hair that fell down to her thighs.

Personality[]

Originally conceived as a tough adversary for Jim and Toby to take down in the fifth episode of the series, Nomura's evolving character stole our hearts (by ripping them out of our chests) with her amazing design, attitude, and her ability to wield two totally sick glowing scythes. She was too much fun to play with, so she eventually found her way into the Darklands with Jim to become an unlikely ally. And can you blame us? Even Draal loved her. And he hates everyone
~ Chan Quandt and Aaron Waltke explaining Nomrua's character in The Art of the Trollhunters.

Like the majority of her fellow changelings, Nomura began as a cruel, sarcastic, and nasty changeling. She would hurt anybody who attempted to stand in her way since she was dedicated to Gunmar and wanted to bring him into the human realm to sow mayhem. She moved with a swagger and was haughty. Before she was drawn into the Darklands, she was continually making fun of Jim and Draal during their meetings.

But after Gunmar tortures her in the Darklands for "entertainment," she changes her mind. This is especially true once she befriends Jim while they are both imprisoned together. After Jim assisted her in leaving the Darklands, she formally redeemed herself. Despite maintaining her snarky and merciless demeanor, Nomura becomes a devoted and valued comrade to Team Trollhunters as a result of her newfound feeling of optimism and companionship.

Biography[]

Nomura is at least 250 years old, claiming to have attended the premiere of the musical Peer Gynt as a child, placing the year of her birth somewhere around 1868. Since that time, she idolized the composer Edvard Grieg, being especially fond of the piece "In the Hall of the Mountain King", the melody becoming something of a "battle tune" she would hum while engaging or stalking a foe.

She was known to be sadistic and intimidating. She often taunted her enemies before finishing them off, which was proof of her arrogance. For example, she tells Jim that she is just a scared boy while preparing to kill him, only for Jim to point out that her arrogance can get her killed as he causes her to be overrun by Goblins. She was willing to free Gunmar no matter the cost, despite the fact that he sees Changelings as inferior to him.

However, in her own words, Nomura reveals to Jim that Gunmar had her "tortured for entertainment". After this, she loses all hope of herself, covering herself in despair and that she is meaningless. When she and Jim are freed by the latter's friends, she leads them through the Darklands, but became willing to hold off the Gumm-Gumms so they can escape. After Draal rescues her, she finds the value in having friends, and discovers that there is still hope in the world.

Following her experience in the Darklands, Nomura loses all respect for Gunmar completely, and she and Stricklander do secret training to increase Jim's violence by making him inhale Grave Sand so he could kill Gunmar because the latter doesn't fight fair, believing that Jim's humanity will eventually kill him. After Blinky points out that their way of training is wrong, Nomura eventually fully redeems herself and fights off against Gunmar's forces during Morgana's Eternal Night, and leaves to find a new Heartstone in New Jersey with her friends after Gunmar and Morgana are defeated and the Eternal Night is vanquished. Despite this, Nomura still retains her sarcastic personality, as shown when she tells Toby that she still doesn't like him, even though she is clearly smiling and giving him a hug before leaving, which means that she does miss him.

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