Aoba Hamorebi

**Mimei Futamigawa** (二見川 未明, *Futamigawa Mimei*) is a grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer and founding member of the vigilante group Saku alongside Mimei Futamigawa. She is a former fourth year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High that was expelled for siding with Mimei Futamigawa when he was condemned for his research into Cursed Restriction techniques.

Though she was not accused directly herself, Aoba shared Mimei’s vision and founded Saku alongside him, with the goal of tracking down and defeating Nazar. As a consequence, she too was branded as a criminal and one of the biggest threats to the stability of the jujutsu community in the eyes of Jujutsu Headquarters. She is one of the main protagonists in Jujutsu Kaisen: Samsara.

## Personality

Aoba has a serious and very direct character that is often perceived as intimidating at first glance. In combination with Mimei’s more light-hearted personality, this can create a sort of ‘good cop, bad cop’ dynamic whenever they confront someone together. In reality, Aoba is a very caring and ideal-driven person, who followed Mimei because she agreed that his goals were for the benefit of the world, and because he was her closest friend and she wanted to protect that. She would give her life for any member of Saku and often puts herself in danger to protect them without even thinking about it. Aoba strives to be someone that is both strong and kind, that can set an example for others by showing the importance of protecting those you love.

Having had a childhood where she felt weak and powerless in face of all the violence that was happening within her family, Aoba made it a point to train as hard as possible to never experience that feeling again. Nevertheless, like Mimei, she believes that humans are fundamentally good beings, and disagrees with the worldview spread by the higher-ups of Jujutsu Headquarters.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overal Skill Level**:

**High Tactical Intellect**:

### Physical Prowess

**Master Swordswoman**:

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**:

**Immense Strength**:

**Immense Speed**:

**Immense Endurance**:

### Jujutsu

**Great Cursed Energy:** Aoba has remarkable levels of cursed energy, even in comparison to other grade 1 jujutsu sorcerers. She can keep her innate technique active for long periods of times without tiring, even while communicating with her allies and reading the intentions of her opponents in battle simultaneously. When brought close to death by Nazar, Aoba was still able to use her innate technique to wound the special grade curse greatly, something that had not been accomplished in over 50 years, when all of the jujutsu sorcerers in Japan collaborated to fight against it. She can control her cursed energy to reinforce her hand-to-hand combat or her sword strikes to great efficiency, granting her enough raw power to break through most defences and hurt curses. Aoba trained for years to reach a high degree of control over her cursed energy, allowing her to beat jujutsu sorcerers or cursed spirits with larger reserves of cursed energy than her in one-on-one combat.

* **Black Flash:** A technique that creates spatial distortion when a user connects with an impact of cursed energy within a span of 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit. The phenomenon causes cursed energy to flash black, creating an attack that is equal to a normal hit to the power of 2.5. Aoba has utilized Black Flash at multiple occassions, most famously to win the Goodwill Event of her third year, knocking out both opponents she faced in individual combat with Black Flashes.

#### Innate Technique

**Empathy** (共感, *Kyōkan*): Aoba’s Innate Technique allows her to create ‘bonds’ with anyone she choses, giving her the ability to read their thoughts and feel their intentions. She uses this technique in battle to predict her opponent’s movements, allowing her to ‘see the future’ up to a certain point. She can also use this bond to allow others to hear her thoughts, making it so that her allies can communicate with her without anyone else being able to hear. Secondly, she can use Empathy to ‘share pain’, reflecting wounds she has sustained onto the target of her choosing. She does not replicate the injury exactly, but proportionally, allowing her to gravely injure opponents of a much higher level when she is gravely injured as well. This was shown in Saku’s battle against Tōtetsu and Nazar, where Nazar almost killed her and she was able to bring it as close to death as herself with the technique. Empathy has no effective range limiting its effectiveness, but functions through Aoba’s primary senses, which means that if she is unable to perceive someone (through sight, sound or touch), they cannot be targeted.

There are two other prominent weaknesses of Empathy that have been shown: firstly, it works by reading the target’s mind and emotions, which means that if the opponent has particularly cruel or gruesome thoughts Aoba will bear the full brunt of it. Although she has steeled herself to be largely unaffected by this, particularly evil beings, such as Ignorance Spirits, are too traumatizing for her to use Empathy on. Secondly, through Empathy Aoba also feels all the pain and distress of her allies, and if it concerns people that are particularly important to her, such as the members of Saku, she can experience their pain even more than the persons themselves. This is one of the reasons she doesn’t hesitate to sacrifice herself for her friends in battle, as she will feel the consequences either way.

* **Thousand-Ri Heart** (千里心, *Senrishin*): An extension technique, Aoba can smell dense concentrations of cursed energy, such as within cursed spirits or sorcerers, over large distances. The greater the amount of cursed energy, the farther she can detect it. When Catarina Soares gained her abilities after the absorption of Tōtetsu by Nazar, Aoba could smell her from the other side of the world. Additionally, she can smell the cursed energy of people that she is close to at all times, and detect whether they are in danger or distress. Aoba can also look for specific profiles of jujutsu sorcerers using this technique, which she used together with Mimei to find sorcerers with specific innate techniques to recruit into Saku.

**Interminable Restriction Release: Earth Womb** (無間 呪縛放: 地蔵, *Mugen Jubakuhō: Jizō*): By releasing the binding that was placed on her, Aoba can access the massive amount of cursed energy that was sealed by the restriction, increasing her abilities up to 150%. In addition to her enhancing her physical abilities, her innate technique mutates into a different form.
* **Kanzeon** (観世音, *Kanzeon*) is the name of Aoba's Earth Womb. In this form, rather than creating bonds with humans, Aoba's 'empathy' allows her to form connections with the world around her and assume its properties. By creating a bond with air, she can become ethereal and faze through objects. By creating a bond with water, her body turns liquid. By creating a bond with iron, her body hardens to the point that physical attacks can no longer hurt her.

**Enhanced Speed:** In this form, Aoba's speed is vastly increased. She was able to outmanoeuver Tōtetsu's innate technique that had previously negated all of her physical and jujutsu-enhanced attacks and pierce the special grade through its forehead before it could react.
**Interminable Restriction Second Release: Death Womb** (無間 呪縛二放 死蔵, *Mugen Jubakunihō: Shizō*): A second release that is accessible only to those who have had multiple Interminable Restrictions placed upon them and thus currently unique to Aoba. When she releases it, she gains incredible power, enough to elevate her to the level of a special grade jujutsu sorcerer, but she also empowers the cursed spirit inhabiting her domain, leading to her having to fight a constant struggle for the control over her body while the technique is active. Mimei has stated that if she uses this ability too often, the cursed spirit will consume her and she will cease to exist as a human.
* **Tara** (多羅, *Tara*) is the name of Aoba's Death Womb. In her second release, Aoba’s Innate Technique becomes the ultimate incarnation of ‘empathy’. Aoba’s soul merges with the world and all living beings around her, turning her into a "Goddess of Compassion". Aoba can take on several different forms, identifiable by the change in color of her cursed energy, in order to deliver ‘salvation’ to all the souls she has merged with. Her technique affects everyone and everything around her indiscriminately, making it unsuitable to use when allies are around.
	+ **White Tara** (白の多羅, *Shiro no Tara*)
	+ **Red Tara** (赤の多羅, *Aka no Tara*)
	+ **Blue Tara** (青の多羅, *Ao no Tara*)
	+ **Green Tara** (緑の多羅, *Midori no Tara*)
	+ **Golden Tara** (黄金の多羅, *Kogane no Tara*)
* **Inner Cursed Spirit**: The process of the second Interminable Restriction caused a cursed spirit to be born within Aoba's Domain and haunt her, turning her into a cursed human. When she releases her restriction, she has to do constant inner battle with this curse to prevent it from taking over her mind and body. Little is known about the nature of her curse, but since Aoba is considered a special grade sorcerer during her second release, it can be presumed her inner curse is also a special degree cursed spirit.

#### Cursed Tool

**Persevering Evil-Crusher** (執拗破邪, *Shitsuyōhaja*): Aoba's cursed tool is a very long nodachi blade that she carries around and uses as her primary weapon. It was a gift she received during her second year at Jujutsu High from another jujutsu sorcerer after helping to defeat a first grade cursed spirit. It is a weapon that stores energy everytime its attack misses or is blocked, until it hits a critical point where the next hit unleashes a powerful explosion that is capable of overwhelming most opponents. This is not an ability that Aoba can control, but is determined by the sword itself, generally occurring after 4 or 5 unsuccessful attacks.

## Trivia

* Aoba (蒼波) means 'blue waves'. It stands in contrast with her partner's name, which means 'gray of morning' (未明, *Mimei*)
* Mimei's appearance was based on Kanzaki Kaori from A Certain Magical Index. All credits for the images used go to their original sources.