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In order to protect his identity Fumiya is often forced to disguise himself as 'Yami', a young girl. This is possible due to his naturally feminine appearance. His disguise includes a number of defensive options, such as being made from bulletproof materials, allowing the clothing to double as a type of basic body armour.<ref name=":4" /> |
In order to protect his identity Fumiya is often forced to disguise himself as 'Yami', a young girl. This is possible due to his naturally feminine appearance. His disguise includes a number of defensive options, such as being made from bulletproof materials, allowing the clothing to double as a type of basic body armour.<ref name=":4" /> |
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Revision as of 16:13, 14 January 2021
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| Introduction |
Kuroba Fumiya (黒羽 文弥) is a member of the Kuroba Family, a branch family of the Yotsuba and a former candidate in being Maya's successor.[1]
He has an older twin sister, Ayako (亜夜子). They both first appeared briefly during the Reminiscence Chapter at a ball their father, Kuroba Mitsugu (黒羽貢) organized.[2]
Appearance and Personality
Fumiya has a pair of large pupils within his almond shaped eyes with a finely shaped set of red lips beneath a straight, narrow nose which makes him look adorable. As a result, he often has to cross-dress during missions, which irks him greatly. Although he is already a high school student, there is still no sign that he is physically unable to continue pretending to be a girl, having not gone through puberty yet.[3]
Born in June 2080, Fumiya is described as a cheerful, very serious young boy.[2] Sometimes, he has difficulties handling his sister Ayako.[4] Fumiya is someone who is open-minded and is able to understand that Tatsuya is more than just a guardian. He also admires and respects Tatsuya, even overestimating him.[5]
Relationship with the Shiba Siblings
They have a good relationship with the Shiba siblings since their childhood. They even visit the Shiba siblings' residence for casual talk session and exchanging information.[4]
Childhood
One of the reasons Fumiya adores Tatsuya is because he taught Ayako her Perfect Diffusion spell that established her name, Kuroba Ayako, among the Yotsuba Magicians. At the same time, this became one of the reasons for the Kuroba twins to overestimate him.[5]
Reminiscence Arc
Unlike the other members of the Yotsuba, he views Tatsuya as someone worthy of his respect and admiration. He calls him "Tatsuya-niisama" and is happy to see him. He even dislikes that his father views Tatsuya as only a mere guardian, and not a member of the Yotsuba Family.[2]
Double Seven Arc
He wanted to go in First High to be with the Shiba siblings, but was ordered to enter Fourth High, as Maya thought it could possibly endanger the secret of Miyuki and Tatsuya.[4]
Steeplechase Arc
In order to establish the fact that the twins and the Shiba siblings were complete strangers, they introduced themselves publicly, calling him "Shiba-senpai" and asked for guidance for engineering in order to set up an excuse to meet later.[5]
Abilities
Perception Abilities
Fumiya has an inherently high sensitivity to pushions as well as psions because of having a high aptitude for Mental Interference magic. But is still inexperienced and has a way to go to master the skill of distinguishing those who are close by. [6]
Although modern magic places the emphasis on altering phenomena and so has a tendency to put off improving perception abilities, the Kuroba Family sends more time developing perception abilities than normal magicians as they responsible for gathering intelligence for the Yotsuba Family.[6] This tendency to focus on perception abilities is further shown by the fact the Kuroba family inherited a school of Ninjutsu, a type of Ancient Magic known to include a number of ancient information gathering techniques.[7]
Additionally, Fumiya has been show to be able to track a person's residual trail in the Idea when they use magical and supernatural abilities. It is sufficient to allow him to pursue a target, without ever losing sight of their whereabouts despite losing line of sight literally.[8]
Magic Abilities
As one of the candidates to being the Yotsuba heir, Fumiya is both skilled and powerful. In the Nine Schools Competition of 2096, in the Monolith Code event, he single-handedly took down First High School's team in the rookie division, a team that was undefeated prior to its match against Fourth High School's team and a team that included Shippou Takuma[9] who was able to fight both Saegusa Kasumi and Saegusa Izumi at the same time to a standstill.[10]
Systematic Magic
- Mock Teleportation (擬似瞬間移動)
- Mock Teleportation is, as the name suggests, a spell which allows the user to move almost instantly to any location within range via the creation of a vacuum tube. Fumiya is highly proficient at the spell Mock Teleportation, though that is by normal standards as compared to his sister Ayako he still has a long way to go. Because Ayako has the greater level of mastery, she is the one who will usually cast Mock Teleportation on their missions, but Fumiya can fully utilise the spell when operating solo.[7]
- Fumiya has been shown to be able to use this magic to collect all the gas from a smoke bomb into a ball and then eject it from a room by means of a window.[11]
- Diffusion (拡散)
- This is a spell which targets sound which Fumiya uses to move stealthily. By setting an area of effect, the magic expands to obstruct sound whilst not preventing the average noise from passing through. This allows one to move around whilst anyone nearby will only hear the background noise rather than silence which could tip them off. As such the magic is designed to be indistinguishable.
- This technique is also a strong point of his sister Ayako the same as Mock Teleportation and, although not to his sister’s degree of perfection, Fumiya's mastery of ‘Diffusion’ far exceeded the level of the general combat magician due to being in a position to observe his sister's mastery.[12]
- Jump (跳躍)
- A simple spell to allow one to jump to superhuman heights. Fumiya uses this to launch himself into the air when the need arises, such as during the pursuit of a target.[8]
- Self-Acceleration (自己加速)
- A spell to enhance one's own speed, Fumiya uses this to accelerate his movements when needed, such as during the pursuit of a target.[8]
- Anti-Object Shield (対物シールド)
- A defensive spell, this technique allows Fumiya to erect a barrier around himself which causes objects entering it to lose kinetic energy and fall to the floor. The spell is powerful enough to stop both thrown weapons such a shuriken and knives, to projectiles such as the bolts from a crossbow.[6]
- Air Blade (飛空刃 ひくうじん)
- This spell Fumiya uses is a variation of Air Bullet which fires a mass of thinly compressed air at high speed. It is a highly lethal spell able the literally shred a target and cut deeply into a human body.[6]
- Hot Air Blade (熱風刃 ねっぷうじん)
- A similar spell to Air Blade, Hot Air Blade is a variant with a lower lethality as energy is used to heat the air whilst the spell is being compressed, which lowers the speed. However, due to the heat posing a fire risk, the spell's use can be restricted due to the environment where causing a fire is an issue.[6]
Ancient Magic - Ninjutsu
The Kuroba Family inherited a school of Ninjutsu and as such it's operatives are trained in the techniques of this ancient school of magic.[7]
- Shouinkyou (照陰鏡 しょういんきょう)
- Shouinkyou, meaning 'Mirror to Illuminate the Unseen', is based on Shoumakyou, meaning 'Taikoubou’s Mirror of Illumination' which discloses the self’s true colours. As ninja place the importance of escaping from an opponent rather than killing them, they developed this technique to ‘sense of the thirst for blood’ and it is bequeathed as a special technique. The ability allows Fumiya to sense the killing intent of people in range, allowing him to identify hostile people within the vicinity and track down potential targets by allowing him to sense their location from a distance, regardless of any physical barriers between then.[7]
Outer-Systematic Magic
Like Miyuki, as one of the members of the Yotsuba Family, he was born with an innate ability which has the trait of unique Outer-Systematic Magic.[9]
Among the living members of the Yotsuba family, he is one of the two (Other one is Tsukuba Yuuka)[13] who has the highest abilities in mental interference magic. Although their skills were still inferior to their parents' generation, in terms of talent and potential, these two competed for 1st, 2nd place among the whole family.[14]
- Direct Pain (ダイレクト・ペイン)
Fumiya using Direct Pain
- This is Fumiya's innate ability and as with all innate ability, it can be used at a high speed even without a CAD. With this ability, Fumiya can directly "imprint" pain into another person's mind. Fumiya is able to control the level of pain his opponent experiences and can slip this ability in with another magic to fool his opponent about the source of his or her pain.[9]
- Evil-Eye (凶眼)
- As an MI user, Fumiya is able to use a the spell Evil Eye, referred to as the 'True' Evil Eye. This spell is a magic to cause emotional attachment to feelings of avoidance in other parties by means of one’s gaze, to the point of inducing panic. At its greatest output, this magic that can drive people to suicide in a state of panic.[11]
Non-Systematic Magic
- Phantom Blow (幻衝)
- A flashy but intangible attack that can incapacitate the opponent by causing concussive-like symptoms using a single Psion shock wave.[9]
Equipment
Knuckleduster CAD
Fumiya's CAD
Fumiya's CAD is a knuckle with a button by the index finger slot to activate his magic Direct Pain
Needle Gun Armament Device
When Fumiya is on a mission he is often required to hide his true abilities. On way he does this is by using a Needle Gun Armament Device which fires needles by means of movement magic and act as a medium for his spell Direct Pain to hide the fact he is using Mental Interference Magic.[7]
Combat Knife
Fumiya is proficient at knife combat and often uses a knife for close quarter fighting. Fumiya's proficiency is al a level where he can use knifes to fight with professional assassins in close quarter combat.[6]
Flash Grenades
A gimmick his father added to Fumiya's equipment after reading about them in a Western novel, Fumiya's combat outfit includes flash grenades disguised as decorative buttons which he can rip off and throw to stun the enemy.[6]
Cross Dressing Disguise
Fumiya disguised as Yami in the Anime
In order to protect his identity Fumiya is often forced to disguise himself as 'Yami', a young girl. This is possible due to his naturally feminine appearance. His disguise includes a number of defensive options, such as being made from bulletproof materials, allowing the clothing to double as a type of basic body armour.[12]
Trivia
- Ayako and Fumiya are the third pair of twins featured in the series, other than the twins Kasumi and Izumi, and Shiba Miya and Yotsuba Maya.
References
- ↑ Volume 8, Chapter 3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Volume 8, Chapter 4
- ↑ Volume 12, Chapter 4
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Volume 12, Chapter 9
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Volume 13, Chapter 5
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Plan to Assassinate Tatsuya Shiba, Volume 1, Chapter 10
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Plan to Assassinate Tatsuya Shiba, Volume 1, Chapter 6
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Plan to Assassinate Tatsuya Shiba, Volume 1, Chapter 9
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Volume 13, Chapter 6
- ↑ Volume 12, Chapter 14
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Plan to Assassinate Tatsuya Shiba, Volume 1, Chapter 7
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Plan to Assassinate Tatsuya Shiba, Volume 1, Chapter 8
- ↑ Volume 16, Chapter 2
- ↑ Volume 22, Chapter 1