Tohru

**Tohru** (トール, *Tōru*) also known as **Tohru Kobayashi** (小林トール *Kobayashi Tōru*) is one of the main characters in the series *Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon*.

Tohru is a female dragon with the ability to transform into a human girl. After Kobayashi rescues her, she falls in love with her and decides to work for her as a maid. She is the daughter of Damocles.

## Personality

As a Chaos Dragon, Tohru was raised to hate humans and was supposed to be a fierce and dangerous force of evil with nothing other than destruction in mind. However, this all changed when she met Kobayashi. She is now cheerful and kind to every human she meets, except for those who are a real, or as it is in most cases, imaginary, threat to her love interest in Kobayashi. She is also quickly influenced by what she sees on the television or the Internet, and shares a fiery relationship with her rival, Elma.

As Kobayashi's maid, Tohru is a hard worker and cares deeply for the household, tending to all aspects of daily life, although this will often lead to trouble such as when Tohru tries to feed her tail to Kobayashi, or molests Kobayashi's dirty laundry. Even still, Kobayashi always shows her appreciation for Tohru's efforts, and does her best to guide Tohru in the ways of modern life and human culture on Earth. Tohru is very protective of Kanna, and is essentially her mother figure and big sister combined.

Having been accepted by Kobayashi even in her dragon form, Tohru quickly fell deeply in love with her. Even faced with Kobayashi's stoic character and often unrequited advances, Tohru never fails to make her unending love for Kobayashi known. Tohru's equally strong sexual attraction to Kobayashi often drives her to trickery, such as making a chocolate heart with a love potion secretly added, or finding different ways to make Kobayashi eat her tail.

Overall, Tohru is warm, loving and responsible. Although she retains much of her dragon-like powers and strength, she is more than happy with her life on Earth, and loves Kobayashi so much that she would rather stay and inevitably outlive her rather than return to her homeworld.

## Background

Hundreds of years ago, Tohru was raised to believe that humans were evil, inferior and foolish beings, which explains her initial distaste towards the human race and her alignment with the Chaos Faction. She was heavily injured by a god leading a human army in her last battle, forcing her to retreat to the modern world to hide where she meets Kobayashi, who rescues her from the verge of death. On that same day, she falls in love with Kobayashi and takes her up on her offer to live with her as her maid.

## Powers and Abilities

**Overall abilities**: Tohru claims that she is one of the more powerful dragons capable of bringing about the Armageddon. She appears to be capable of opening portals to other worlds or dimensions with ease, a rare ability seeing as both Kanna and Elma, despite the latter being equal to Tohru in terms of power, do not possess this particular skill. Lucoa, a former deity, has this ability as well, after implying that she frequently travels between the two worlds to check up on Tohru. Her tail is apparently poisonous, but seemingly not to either her or other dragons in general. Throughout the season, Tohru is shown to have control over the fire "element", unleashing a burst of flame enough to sweep away clouds. Unlike Kanna, who summons her energy through her hands, Tohru breathes fire from her mouth. Tohru’s fire can come out in a variety of ways, a large blast of flame, to an incinerating beam, to a small burst of pure destructive energy that destroys anything Tohru wants to get destroyed. Tohru is shown strong enough to compete with fellow dragons Fafnir, Quetzalcoatl, and Kanna in a destructive all-out game of dodgeball (all dragons eventually tired one another out, ending the game/fight in a draw). Elma states she is as strong as Tohru - with Kanna noting the last time the two dragons fought, three islands disappeared. Tohru was shown to be able to compete with her father, Damocles, in their battle.

Throughout the manga and anime, Tohru has displayed several powers and abilities:

* **Immense Strength**: As a Dragon, Tohru possesses immense physical strength. A single punch from her was enough to leave a crater after striking a purse-snatcher. She is shown to even grapple with Kanna and Elma.

* **Immense Health**: Tohru states as a dragon, she never gets sick or unhealthy.

* **Immense Speed**: Tohru used super speed to catch up to a purse snatcher while shopping with Kobayashi.

* **Immense Reflexes**: During her fight with Elma in Episode 21, Tohru manages to match Elma's extremely fast barrage of punches blow for blow.

* **Regeneration**: Tohru can regenerate her tail after she cuts it off in an attempt to feed Kobayashi her tail meat.

* **Immense Durability**: She survives for a while after being hit with a sword from one of the gods of her homeworld, albeit she would've died had Kobayashi not saved her. Tohru also suffers no major wounds after her battle in Episode 21 with Elma, who is equal in strength to Tohru.

* **Unlimited Stamina**: Dragons do not require sleep to function, with Tohru only getting sleepy during the cold season. Tohru also states that back in her homeworld, she often had to continuously fight without sleep for many years.

* **Shapeshifting**: Among all dragons so far, Tohru and co. can shapeshift as humans with any outfit of their choice. While her tail and horns are mostly visible, this is purely by her choice.

* **Fire Breath**: Tohru's primary method of attack. She breathes fire. Her fire breath has been shown to be strong enough to sweep clouds away with ease. Her fire can be unleashed in a variety of ways including a large blast of flame, an incinerating beam, and even a small burst of pure destructive energy.

* **Flight**: As a Dragon, Tohru can use her wings to fly. She can also use magic to propel herself through the air in her human form, as seen during her battle with Elma in Episode 21.

* **Sharp Teeth**: As a Dragon, Tohru possesses razor-sharp teeth.

* **Sharp Claws**: As a Dragon, Tohru possesses razor-sharp claws.

* **Cleansing Saliva**: Tohru states she produces saliva that can remove stains and grime.

* **Portal Opening**: A rare skill that allows Tohru to open portals to other worlds or dimensions with ease.

* **Poison**: Tohru's tail is apparently poisonous. Though she is shown to be immune to it whenever she ingests her tail.

* **Clairvoyance**: Tohru can use this power to see through objects. She mostly uses it to check the pockets of Miss Kobayashi's clothes when doing laundry.

* **Perception Blocking**: This power allows Tohru to render herself or others invisible.

## Trivia

* Tohru’s name was translated to « Thor » in the French translations of the manga and anime.
* Kobayashi assumes Tohru is named for Thor, Norse god of thunder. Tohru herself states that she was named for a real-world author, likely to be J.R.R. Tolkien (Japanese: **トール**キン).
* Since she was a member of the Chaos Faction, she disliked humans, but she did have a human friend in the dragon world.
* Tohru is considered as the only Maid-Dragon in the series, since Lucoa is considered as a guardian of Shota