Rumia

Rumia Hashimoto was a Japanese magic user and shrine maiden of the Hashimoto family shrine, where her family hid segments of a broken mezzite within special jewels that gave the user animal-based spells. She was one of a long line of shrine maidens and masters to protect the mezzite shards, known by the Hashimotos as "hahan", which are gifted to family members after demonstrating a purely selfless action or saving someone's life.

Rumi was gifted with the Nezumi shard within a necklace.

### History

Born in Kiryū in the Gunma prefecture to Yui and Masashi Hashimoto, Rumia became the shrine maiden of Mount Akagi Hashimoto Shrine, where numerous fragments of the broken Dōbutsushō mezzite known as "hahan" are stored, each shard imbedded with a fraction of the Dōbutsushō's power over a variety of fauna.

For centuries hunters, mages and Akuma (neohumans in old Japan) sought the fragments and in 1720's the shrine was broken into and most of the fragments stolen, it took hundreds of years for the shards to be returned to the Hashimoto's and many are still missing.

Rumia is the latest in a long line of protectors of their shrine, and as she grew had to balance school life with magic and the Hashimoto's unique Buddhist-Shinto traditions, she has two brothers, the oldest Oda is the current bearer of the Ōkami pendant, while her other brother Noba seems to be more interested in life away from the family and showed limited magic ability little interest in tradition.

When Rumi was 14 she saved the life or her grandparents and several shoppers nearby from a strange swarm of wasps, the creatures were large and oddly intelligent, but her bravery gave her the opportunity to be given the mezzite shard named Nezumi.

Shortly after the Hashimotos were visited by Supersamurai who were investigating the insect attacks and how they may be linked with Midori Bioscience, and in particular the altered wasps used to cybridize Hachi. As Asahi took samples of wasps back for analysis, he asked Rumia to join the team. At first her father and brother were insistent that the family's efforts in protecting the mezzite was priority, but when Supersamurai promised to hand any mezzite they may find on their missions over to the family, Rumia joined the team.

### Personality

Rumia was an extremely sweet, sometimes a little naive, but highly intelligent and resourceful girl, and is known for her reassurance and empathy but who often suffers from body image issues herself.

### Appearance

Rumi was a short, chubby Japanese girl who appeared to wear mostly short, bobbed hair that was in fact mostly tired into long braids, that ended in a small hoop. She was often seen wearing traditional shrine maiden clothes or her school uniform and rarely would she feel comfortable wearing anything else.

### Powers and Abilities

**Powers**

Rumia was one of a handful of humans with the ability to 'tune' that let her sense and ultimately manipulate magical 'mana' to cast spells and incantations.

**Makijutsu**: Like all of the Hashimotos, Rumia was a practitioner of traditional Japanese scroll magic artes that used magically imbued scrolls to create certain effects when an incantation is read. Usually a special, ancient ink is used to write down certain spells on "kamiju" a type of paper that is receptive to mana so that spells can be performed and sustained much more efficiently without the possibility of damaging the user. Makijutsu also involves several sub-artes.

* ***Hogomaki Ofuda:*** Traditional protection wards used in the form of paper talismans called "ofuda" to ward away evil and bad luck, however hogomaki was a type of "active ofuda" that had the ability to physically repel any negative or violent force or attack directed at it, especially other forms of magic.
* **Makijumon:** Literally "spell roll", a reel of a pre-written spell on a small spindle, usually used to bring to life pre-designed objects such as statues, dolls by inserting it into a slot; this acts as a mana battery to an object and if Rumia has written the spell herself it will obey her unquestionably. Writing certain spells in certain ways causes the object to act in a variety of different ways; incorrect, poorly-written or broken spell-lines can result in overly aggressive or weak animation or the object not listening to command. Likewise darker forms of makijumon can be used to hijack dolls or objects with makijumon slots and these spells are often always designed to be overly-powerful and destructive or even perform sabotage while acting no different as expected.
* ***Himaki:*** She can use disposable scrolls to ignite and create areas of flame or isolate each character '*火*' to create fireballs at her command. She can also use this ability to ignite anything she draws the character for fire upon. Sometimes these can be made into makijumon-like tubes that essentially create magical grenades of immense explosive power, although the scroll can have other elemental properties too.
* ***Nerumaki***: A spell that causes specially made, small scroll-ribbons similar to unravelled makijumon known as "nerucho" to bind an opponent where they cannot move and are unable to use any magic or special powers so long as they are bound. Like makijumon these mini-scroll ribbons have to be pre-made and then stored on her person, usually up her sleeves.
* ***Kamijutsu:*** She can use this spell to manipulate kamiju scroll paper to better place her spells, however the use of this spell is usually solely intended to place kamiju for a cast, rather than using it as a weapon itself.
* ***Sumijutsu*:** She is learning to manipulate magic ink to quickly write down protection spells, either on paper or scroll, like kamijutsu the manipulation of this ink is mostly for the creation of workable, active spells rather than use as a weapon itself, however sumijutsu has been used throughout history to blind opponents and form spell glyphs and characters directly on opponents; this, however takes considerable skill, concentration and practice.
* ***Kierumaki:*** A spell that lets her teleport by surrounding herself or others in nerucho ribbons with '消える' printed upon it in succession, the ribbon bursts into a purple flame that surrounds her or her targets in a spinning vortex before quickly vanishing to a new location. She learned to imbue her belt with this ability allowing her to teleport without relying on nerucho.

**Nezumi Mezzite**: In addition Rumia also possesses the Nezumi mezzite that gives her the ability to manipulate and create magic effects based on various forms of rodent, especially mice and rats without prior incantation or years of study.

* ***Rodent Link:*** The Nezumi shard connects Rumia to any nearby rodent, allowing her to sense the presence of rodents in the nearby vicinity and influence their behaviour, allowing her to essentially 'talk' to them and make them do as she wishes. As she grows more and more control her range and the amount of rodents she can influence increases. Her grandmother claimed to be able to summon rats and mice from for several miles around, forming vast mischiefs of tens of thousands, although Rumia is not quite at this level yet.
* ***Rodent Sense Sharing:*** She can see and hear through the senses of any rodent the mezzite links her with.
* **Nezuju:** Nezumi's signature ability that lets it create 'clones' of various nearby rodents from mana, that appear as glowing pink or purple constructs known as "nezuju", these manifestations can do things normal animals cannot such as phase through walls, act as a light source, fly, lift objects many times their size and detonate on command. As the nezuju are created from copying rodent living energies and combining it with mana, they will act as rats do, but are also slightly more intelligent on their own and very easy to command once mastered.

* ***Nezuju Kaijū:*** By compressing multiple Nezuju she can create larger, beast-like mana creatures, her grandmother was able to create two 'demon rats' twice as big as a car with enormous strength and durability.

**Abilities**

* ***Magic item construction:*** She has learned to make magic items necessary for use in makijutsu such as ofuda, kamiju paper and nerucho.
* ***Scroll Writing:*** She has spent years learning how to write complex spells on tiny scrolls to empower items such as bring statues of dolls to life, create gateways to certain areas and so on.
* ***Whip Mistress:*** She is an expert in the use of a whip, inside the handle of which can be inserted a makijumon scroll to imbue the whip with a certain power, often in Rumia's case, ice.
* ***Multilingual:*** Rumia is an exceptionally gifted linguist, able to speak and understand French, German, Norwegian, Swedish, English, Chinese, Cantonese, and Mandarin. She is especially gifted in comprehending regional dialects, and demonstrated that she could speak English fluently with either an American or English accent.
* ***Skilled Artist and Writer:*** Rumia writes various fanfics and draws a variety of anime characters for fun and for sale, many of which she shares and collaborates online with Volt and Robin.

### Limitations and Weaknesses

Rumia can be naive and not always confident in her skills and powers. She has issues with her chubby appearance and family expectations and has, in the past suffered from depression.