Minami Yuko

**Minami Yuko** (南 優子 *Minami Yūko*) or **Aristeia Lieselotte Renascentia** is the heiress queen of Renascentia Family. She is the older sister of Fujimori Nikki. Yuko is also a S-Rank Mage and the Student Council President at Sacrament Fatus. She is also a student in Class 2-A1. Yuko participates EstelleS as the founder along with Okada Reiyuki.

She was also the student coucil vice president at Hanatosaki Academy.

## Appearance

Yuko is a tall girl with fair skin. She has long wavy liver chestnut hair reaches her knees with soft bangs framing her face, she's often seen wearing a single braid on her left side. Her eyes are aquamarine with some shades of sapphire blue.

## Personality

Yuko is a calm, mature, gentle person, she hard to hate someone and also hard for anyone to hate her. However, she's also a very strict person in studying and practicing, she will only stop doing it when she get the goal she wants. Yuko often criticizing the bad behavior and habits of the other members, causing most of them to apologize, fearing that they might invoke her wrath. Yuko rarely angry at anyone, but she can turns to cold or condescending, make the others frightened at her.

## Powers and Abilities

### Natural Abilities

**Genius Intellect**: Yuko can essentially be considered a genius by ranked S in intelligence. Being the heiress queen of Renascentia Family, she must learn much knowledge such as leadership, foreign languages, economics, international law, and diagnostic medicine.

**Eidetic Memory**: Yuko have a photographic memory and perfect recall. She can remember all of the student basic information though she stated that it was just a student council president duty. However, Reiyuki stated that if the memories aren't being touched often, Yuko might forget it.

**Superhuman Eyesight**: Yuko possesses extremely sharp eyesight, being able to analyze and accurately predict her opponent's next movements, attack and abilities by simply observing the subtle shifts of their movements.

**Weapons Mastery**: Yuko possesses great mastery skills in weapons and her skills are of the highest caliber. She can skillfully wield several weapons to use against her opponent, for both offensive and defensive purpose.

**Enhanced Restoration**: Family work, student council work and lots of magic while using Tree of Life all at the same time cost Yuko a lot of energy. Despite that, Yuko possesses an impressive restoration so she can always work perfectly. She recovers her strength through mere sleep, Reiyuki stated that Yuko only needs 15 minutes sleep to recover all of her strength and energy.

**Immense Strength**: In a very young age, Yuko has shown to have a physical equivalent to Annka, even without the aid of Gevurah.

**Enhanced Speed**:

**Immense Magic Power**: Yuko possesses a great magic power which is demonstrated by being able to use Tree of Life fluently.

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatants**: Despite her powerful, ranged Magic attacks, Yuko has proven herself to be a skilled hand-to-hand combatant.

### Magic Abilities

**Tree of Life - Sephiroth**: It is a powerful Lost Magic based one the structure of Kabbalah. When she use Tree of Life, her left eye appears as a golden, inorganic clock face. The sefirots’ abilities will be active depends on where the clock wises point at. Yuko can only use 2 different sefirots’ abilities at once time. The hour-hand represents the main power and the minute-hand represents the support power that she uses. Different sefirot combinations equals different abilities.

**Keter** - "Crown": Allows Yuko to replicate or materialize different objects, such as weapons and tools except from living things. In order to create something, she needs to understand the molecular structure of what the material/object is made of.
**Chokhmah** - "Wisdom": Enhances Yuko's intellect by analyzing and predicting possible cases and coming up with the best strategies.
**Binah** - "Understanding": Allows Yuko to read everyone's minds by gaze deeply into their eyes. She also have telapathy ability, allows her to be able to talk with other people through their thoughts, converse over long distances, and hear thoughts.
**Chesed** - "Kindness": Healing Magic, create things such as shield or barrier preferably in defensive, she can also reduces the damage of attacks.
**Gevurah** - "Severity": Enhances one's own or another's strength for a several time, also increased the damage and range of attacks. Disintegration ability.
**Tiferet** - "Beauty": Grants Yuko the power to create, control the nature elements, also be able to warp and transmute matter into anything he wished, she mostly use this ability to turn into a specific element or properties, preventing both physical and magical attacks harm her.
**Netzach** - "Victory": Yuko is capable of bending worldly laws to her whim but incapable of manipulate the reality. She stated that the Magic is kind of science related. Yuko can also create highly elaborate physical simulations and illusions.
**Hod** - "Splendor": Grants her the ability to alter the size, weight of both living and non-living things. Yuko has also shown to manipulate something as simple as a weapon to more complex things, such as specific parts (i.e. targeting wounds and cellular masses for medicinal purposes) or all of the biological anatomy of a person.
**Yesod** - "Foundation": Allows Yuko to put her target in a state where they are are forced to obey all of her commands. However, it states that she can't give orders that require complex brain activity, such as talking or thinking, meaning she cannot make them write down information from their memory. Despite that, her powers still make her an effective long-range specialist, as she can send her mind control minions to do her work while she sits back from afar.
**Malkuth** - "Kingdom": It is a powerful Magic that allows Yuko to use the properties of spatial and time. She has shown to have a space called "The Void", it's an endless space that Yuko usually storages many unknown origin things like an old train is still running.

## Etymology

**Minami** (written: 南 lit. " south") is both a Japanese surname and a female Japanese given name. Other possible kanjis could be 美波, which means "beautiful wave", and 三波, which means "three waves".

**Yuko**- **Yu**(優) means "excellence, superiority, gentleness" and **ko**(子) means "child".

**Aristeia** is a name meaning "the best".

**Liselotte** is a name of German origin which means "God is my oath".

**Renascentia** in Latin meaning "rebirth".

## Trivia

* Yuko is very good at many traditional activities such as archery, flower arrangement, tea ceremony,...

* She can play many instruments.
* Yuko can speak, read, and write many different languages.

* She is ambidextrous but she often write with right hand.
	+ It stated that Yuko practices being left-handedness by herself.

* Yuko's surname **Minami** is based on Kotori Minami from the Love Live! series.
	+ The name **Liselotte** is inspired by *Liesel Meminger* from the historical novel - *The Book Thief.*

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minami\_(name)
2. ↑ https://www.behindthename.com/name/yuko