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| “ | This is a greeting from the Freshmen. Make this enjoyable, Graduates. | „ |
| ~ Umidori Kuroyoru to Accelerator and Hamazura |
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" which caused the experiment's bankruptcy 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 is always seen wearing gothic lolita clothes with a white trench coat hanging on her head.
Personality[]
Umidori displays an extremely rude, condescending, sadistic, and arrogant demeanor, often boasting about her role as a "villain" and being a member of the "darkness". Her personality is shown to be heavily influenced by Accelerator's thought patterns that were inserted into her as part of the Dark May project. Accelerator even compares her to a younger version of himself. She's willing to sacrifice her own subordinates, treating them like disposable pawns, and tends to look down on others such as Kinuhata.
Despite her ruthless persona, Umidori can still behave like a child. She likes stuffed dolphins and usually carries one around with her. After being defeated, Umidori reforms and becomes a better person.
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.
Abilities[]
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".
