Sakibasu Ryouu

**Sakibasu Ryouu** (咲蓮涼雨, *Sakibasu Ryōu*?) is the mother of Sakibasu Yuri and representative of Blue Blood, introduced in *Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS3*.

## Appearance

Similar to her daughter, Ryouu has long silky black hair, mostly straight but curling at the ears. She is described as having a curvy figure, but with youthful skin and eyes, the result of a myriad of beauty treatments. She wears a black silk party dress with an exposed nape, patterns on the shoulder sections, and no pockets, as well as high heels.

## Personality

Sakibasu Ryouu is a rather arrogant, pretentious and cold elitist who is solely focused on achieving her own goals and cares nothing for the suffering it could cause others. She has shown to have little-to-no tolerance for failure and will always demand good news from her subordinates, as displayed by her frustration at Riot's failure to assassinate Misaka Mikoto. Moreover, she is also extremely cautious and unmerciful, willing to sacrifice her own comrades to prevent any of their secrets from getting out, as shown when she dispatches Inoue Kasha to silence Riot after she is capture by Anti-Skill to avoid any future complications.

However, despite this, Ryouu displays a soft side to her. She deeply cares about her daughter Sakibasu Yuri, and claims that all her actions are for the sake of her happiness. She also treats Acid and Counselor in a similar fashion.

## Background

Sakibasu Ryouu is the mother of Sakibasu Yuri, a new member of Shokuhou Misaki's clique who made her family incredibly wealthy after inventing a new card game when she was 5. Overwhelmed by their new status and her intense worry for her daughter's future, Ryouu ended up founding Blue Blood, a secret organization obsessed with social status and bloodlines.

## Chronology

### Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS3

*Main article: Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS3*
## Abilities

Sakibasu Ryouu has no special powers but is a very skilled violinist. She apparently has enough clout to make the card game created by her daughter become incredibly popular. She also proves to be a capable leader and tactician, shown by her leadership of Blue Blood.

While she dosen't have any powers of her own, Ryou has the Stativarius Tam Lin and uses it to cast magic. She can use its violin strings to produce explosion-like shockwaves that can throw away people and smash several industrial computers around itself, powerful sound-blasts and even use the sound to cast various magic spells that summon and manipulate the four elements of fire, earth, air and water (which includes ice). Specifically, it showed a spell that creates a tsunami of fire with enough radiant heat to scorch a human body.

Tam Lin is also able to take the form of a shadow-like figure with a giant upper torso and two giant arms that extends from Ryouu's own shadow. It can also control the body of its wielder like a marionette and communicate by vibrating the strings of the Stativarius. Damaging or destroying the shadow body is meaningless as Tam Lin's real body is the Stativarius violin. Additionally, Tam Lin can prevent mind-controlling powers that only affect humans like Shokuhou Misaki's from affecting Ryouu, as its non-human mind gets in the way.