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| “ | This is a greeting from the Freshmen. Make this enjoyable, Graduates. | „ |
| ~ Umidori Kuroyoru to Accelerator and Hamazura. |
| “ | Isn’t it obvious? I’m definitely happy. I’M REALLY HAPPY HERE!! THIS IS THE PINNACLE OF THE WORLD. TO BE ABLE TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE I CAN RELEASE EVIL, THIS IS WHAT I EVER WANTED!! NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY IS OFFERED, I’LL KILL. THERE’S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO LIFT THEIR CHINS AS THEY LOOK DOWN ON PEOPLE. AND WITH THIS CYBORG, MY BODY, THE WAY I LIVE, THEY’RE EVEN MORE OUTSTANDING THAN ANYONE ELSE LIVING IN ACADEMY CITY!! I SHOULD BE HAPPY ABOUT THIS, RIGHT!!? | „ |
| ~ Umidori's speech to Accelerator. |
Umidori Kuroyoru is a major character in the A Certain Magical Index franchise.
She is a Level 4 esper and the leader of Freshmen, a mysterious organization belonging to Academy City's Dark Side created to defeat intruders in the city. Like Saiai Kinuhata, Umidori is one of the former subjects of the Dark May Project. However, unlike Saiai, who was considered an "honor student" who perfectly followed the program, Umidori was viewed as a "delinquent" due to her rebellious attitude.
She is voiced by Anzu Haruno.
Appearance[]
Umidori Kuroyoru is a 12 year old girl who has black hair with yellow dye on the end of the bangs. She has black eyes with white slits in her irises. She is always seen wearing gothic lolita clothes with a white trench coat hanging on her head.
Personality[]
Kuroyoru's personality is heavily influenced by Accelerator's thought patterns that were inserted into her as part of the Dark May project. As such, she is extremely rude, arrogant, sadistic and morbid, craving only death and destruction. She has an unstable and malicious demeanor, taking any opportunity to proclaim herself as a "villain" and boast about enjoying evil. Accelerator even compares her to a younger version of himself. Due to her pride, Umidori is quite overconfident in her abilities and looks down on others such as Saiai Kinuhata or Ringo Yuzuriha.
As leader of Freshmen, Kuroyoru takes pleasure in eliminating anyone deemed "graduates", having no qualms with causing collateral damage and is more than willing to kill anybody who stands in her way. Moreover, she's quite willing to discard her own subordinates, treating them like disposable pawns to utilize and sacrifice on a whim. In spite of her recklessness, Umidori is rather strategic, being capable of formulating an efficient plan in order to achieve her goals.
Despite her ruthless persona, Umidori is still a child and naturally behaves like one. She likes stuffed dolphins and is usually seen carrying one around with her. She can also throw tantrums, as shown she started crying after being tormented by Misaka Worst during the mission in Hawaii. After her defeat, Umidori becomes less sinister but still retains an immature and cocky attitude. During the Agitate Halation Arc, Umidori displays the capacity for selflessness, as she protects Fremea Seivulun from Rensa, despite having no obligation to do so. In addition, Kuroyoru develops a close relationship with Shiage Hamazura to the point where she felt genuine guilt about not trusting him and nearly getting him killed during their battle with Rensa.
Biography[]
Umidori Kuroyoru was a test subject of the Dark May Project, alongside Saiai Kinuhata and Ringo Yuzuriha. The Dark May researchers performed inhuman and vicious experiments on her and her "classmates" in order to try and turn them into copies of Accelerator. Unlike her fellow "classmates", Umidori was considered a "delinquent". Eventually, she slaugthered all of the researchers and bankrupted the entire project.
At some point in time, she became leader of Freshmen, an organization belonging to Academy City's Dark Side created to defeat intruders in the city.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Bomber Lance: Kuroyoru's Level 4 esper power which allows her manipulate nitrogen, similar to Kinuhata's Offense Armor. However, unlike Kinuhata, Umidori uses her power to create 3m spears made of compressed nitrogen from her palms to cut or pierce objects with enormous pressure. She has also shown to be able to use her ability to manipulate air currents around her, allowing her to do things like slow down a fall from a high place to land safely, travel from a building's roof to another and go from street level to a building's roof by using them as boosters combined with walljumping. If she loses control of the nitrogen spears the torrent of nitrogen will expand with tremendous force as if the spears had become small bombs or grenades. She can also detonate them in purpose, though this is a mostly ineffective attack and a double-edged sword that will also harm Umidori, so she is unlikely to use it.
- Cyborg Enhancements: Umidori has received cyborg enhancements, mainly focused on her arms, though she can regulate her own metabolism to some extent or bring herself into a suspended animation state. She can detach her arms at will.
- Extra Arms: Umidori carries with her an inflatable dolphin doll. Inside this doll, there's a large number of robotic arms, stated by Umidori to be a type of biochemical robot developed by the Kiharas. The hands are small like a kid's, but the arms themselves are more than 1m long. These arms hidden inside the dolphin doll are actually remote controls that attach to her body and work like an antenna to allow her to control thousands of similar "slave" hands. These "slaves" are normally controlled by specific programs and can move independently from each other, but they'll follow the signal given by the master, and thus become part of Kuroyoru's body. Because Umidori is a cyborg, what counts as her body is quite vague, and through these additional arms she can bypass the 2 spear limitation imposed by only having 2 arms, drastically improving her power, as she's multiplying the output as much as she wants. While Umidori's normal Bomber Lance spears weren't able to harm Saiai, she was capable of sending her flying several meters and slightly damage her clothes with just the arm controllers attached, and she sent her flying hundreds of meters when she added the thousands of slaves. The same attack also destroyed the entire rooftop they were fighting on. Though the individual spears are still 3m long, she can make them overlap with each other to create a larger, longer and more powerful spear, or combine hundreds of them to form a pseudo-barrier to block enemy attacks.
Trivia[]
- Her surname "Kuroyoru" can be roughly translated as "Black Night", and her first "Umidori" can be translated as "seabird". Roughly, her full name means "Seabird of the Dark Night".
