Takatou Nagi

## Abilities

### Esper Power

**Floral Scale** (植物防除(フローラル・スケール), *Shokubutsu Bōjo (Furōraru Sukēru)*, lit. "Botanical Report"?)

### Power Level

Level 3
Level 4.9 (with Black Wings)

## Media

### Appears In

Toaru Majutsu no Enforcer

**Takatou Nagi** (高遠凪, *Takatō Nagi*?) is a 2nd-year student who attends Daishizuma Highschool with Tanaka Shuyo. She is the main subject, and the only successful experiment in Project Sinkhole, giving her superhuman strength, durability, and regeneration. After her escape from the lab, she becomes a part of Kamirai's Group.

## Profile

### Appearance

Nagi is a high school girl of average build and height. She has brown eyes that are usually pitch dark, though the irises become much brighter when she is surprised or shocked. Her hair is black and is sometimes colored with a purple tint. Her hair reaches the middle of her back and she wears it in two low twin tails, making it appear shorter. After participating in Project Sinkhole, her appearance changes somewhat. Her hair is usually worn loose, multiple scars appear across her left cheek and nose, and her eyes became yellow with a spiral pattern within them.

She wears the same school uniform as the rest of the girls in her class. The uniform consists of a long-sleeved button up shirt worn beneath a pinafore style dress with a pleated skirt that extends below the knee, a bow at the collar, a wide belt at the waist, and black, knee-high socks. She also wears sneakers.

After Project Sinkhole (Hair tied)After Project Sinkhole (Hair down)
### Personality

Nagi is initially a quiet and unsociable girl. She dislikes her classmates, frequently wishing they would drop dead and spurning any offers of friendship, and she would prefer to study over making friends. She later realizes that she was truly jealous of her peers, and wanted to fit in with them as well. After the events of Sinkhole Arc, she gets a second chance at life and resolves to live more selfishly, to have the things she desired, like friends and a boyfriend. Nagi admits she used to not care if she lived or died, but when she is later saved by Misaka, she realizes she is glad she isn't dead and is no longer as negative towards other humans. Despite wanting to live more selfishly, Nagi is fairly altruistic, putting herself in harm's way to save others even when she is afraid. She wants to believe that as long as her heart is in the right place, it's okay to make mistakes. However, she still tends to assume the worst of others, often interpreting actions and intentions of others as being more mean-spirited than they actually are.

Though she considers it, Nagi can't murder a person in cold blood, as she is obsessed with following the rules and doing the right thing. However, Ukiyo believes that, like most humans, she can throw away her morals under the right circumstances, like starvation. She later admits that she has no idea what is right or wrong, and that her decisions are driven by an attempt to avoid making mistakes. Despite her efforts, her choices almost always end with disastrous outcomes.

She can be extremely socially inept in novel situations for her, such as romance and going on a date. She believed that going to the library to learn everything about ocean facts, so she could recite them while on a date at an aquarium, would make them easily fall in love with her. She also believed that boys can fall for a girl easily as long as they are shown a fraction of a good time. This also shows how Asa can be falsely self-assured and overconfident in situations. When showed no inclinations towards her and was ditched to look at penguins, she was confused, believing he should have fallen for her by that point because of her plan, and refused to admit that the reason the date wasn't working was because she was boring. She later admits that the reason she's a "total bore" is due to her not knowing what is right and wrong. Her attempts of trying not to make mistakes often leads her to make them.

### Background

Nagi and her younger brother Kouki grew up in Western Tokyo. Orphaned at a young age, Nagi moved to Academy City due to the independence that most of the students experience there, where she participated in the Power Curriculum Program to provide financially for her brother. Wanting her brother to live without worries, she would use her paycheck to buy whichever educational books or snacks her brother desired. She continued to support her brother with paychecks from her part time jobs and experiments she participated in until Kouki got accepted into Nagatenjouki Middle School. Afterward, she used the money for herself and continued her contract work into the present.

## Abilities and Powers

It has been later found out by the researchers at Project Sinkhole, that her intelligence was more based on memorization than information processing. They stated that she could memorize an entire book and still remember it's contents clearly 60 years later, however her ability to process the information and understand it wholeheartedly is what's bringing her down. As espers must completely understand a certain law and use that in conjunction with the bypassing of the Uncertainty Principle to bring about the phenomenon, however she can't wholeheartedly process information and completely understand the underlying nature behind said nature to produce an esper power. However, because her esper power is in the field of biology rather than physics (like most other esper power), she can reach level 3 from just memorizing facts about the biology of plants.

### Esper Power

Nagi is a level 3 esper with the ability **Floral Scale** (植物防除(フローラル・スケール), *Shokubutsu Bōjo (Furōraru Sukēru)*, lit. "Botanical Report"?), which allows her to influence and accelerate the growth of plants, causing them to mature with supernatural speed, grow to unusual size, and produce in abundance. Nagi can cause plants to grow from seeds to mature plants in moments, cause them to flower and produce fruits, seeds, etc. outside season, cause a cut plant to grow roots and other similar feats. Nagi could usually only cause rapid growth when she is touching a particular plant, but a much slower acceleration also happens merely because Nagi is in the area. This happens due to her AIM diffusion field "leaking" her esper power into the surroundings. Causing her very presence to be enough to create life.

Nagi is valued by Academy City's botanical researchers, as her ability to influence crops while also being at level 3 is exceedingly rare. One of the biggest paychecks that she is living of off is the experimental crop growing to advance agriculture to produce bountiful crops, and accelerate experiments related to genetically modified crops. She also takes advantage of her ability by making her own small garden of fruits and veggies.

#### Awakening

During the climax of World War III, Nagi had been cornered by multiple magicians. Combined with her continued contact with magic after joining the Kamirai Group; having been given small tidbits of the mechanics behind Ukiyo's Saint's Arm as well as the array inscribed on it, and she herself experiencing the fatality of an esper trying to use magic, Nagi manifested a pair of black spiral wings. Losing almost all control of herself and begins to speak in the garbled language of the angels. The wings gives her the ability to understand laws that are hitherto unknown and unexplainable to normal science, and no longer needs contact with plants in order to influence them.

In this state, her power is renamed to **Disaster Plants** (植物災難(ディススター・プラント), *Shokubutsu Sainan*, lit. "Botanical Calamity"?), as under the wing's effects, she could not only grow plants, but control them. She can sprout wood from the ground for defense and support, grow flowers that release harmful pollen to bloom instantaneously, manipulate tree branches to use them as whip-like weapons, bring plants back to life and make them sprout seeds/fruits/berries, and use plant chemicals to heal people. As the wings are able to perform high-level calculations on it's own, Nagi becomes comparable to a level 5.

### Tardigrade Reagent

After participating in Project Sinkhole, an experiment that is attempting to splice the genes of humans with animals, Nagi's body was augmented with a tardigrade template, giving her the attributes of tardigrades. Tardigrades are a type of micro-animal with specimens sighted all over the world, small and harmless they are best known as some of the most durable organisms ever discovered, able to live in practically any environment. From hot springs on top of the Himalayas, to the deep sea; from the polar regions to the equator; under layers of solid ice, and in ocean sediments; in lakes, in ponds, in meadows, while others can be found in stone walls and roofs. Tardigrades are.

Nagi can recover quite easily from injuries and even severed body parts. The regeneration is so powerful that it can be comparable to immortality where she can withstand extreme temperatures from near absolute zero to 500 degrees C, radiation several times the lethal dose for humans, 30 years without food or water, tremendous pressure and even the vacuum of space. She can regenerate any wounds minor or major such as having rebar penetrated through her body. It seems it may take some time but is rather quick. Her immense regeneration also allows her to use 100% of her muscle strength, while this would still tear muscle tissue, ligaments, tendons and break bones, all damage would be quickly healed. Her 100% muscle usage grants her a perceived super strength capable of killing dozens of people quickly and easily with just her bare hands. For example, she could rip an arm away with ease, even if she did not mean it.

## Trivia

* Nagi's appearance is based on Asa Mitaka from Chainsaw Man.
* The Tardigrade Reagent and the name Project "Sinkhole" is a reference to Distant Sky. Where entire cities have fallen into gigantic sinkholes, and to increase human's survivability, scientists give humans the attributes of a tardigrade.