Petra

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Petra** (Japanese: **ペトラ** *Petora*) was previously a third-year at Izumite Junior High and the vice-captain and middle blocker in the girls` volleyball team. As of 2013 she is currently a first-year in High School with Kiku her childhood friend being members of the girls` volleyball team. As of 2014, she is now a second-year in High School, and the current vice-captain, middle blocker, and wing spiker of the girls` volleyball team. It is said that her unusual hair color and eye color make her an oddity among her classmates and adoptive family. She is assumed to be an orphan as she has no last name, having taken on her adoptive father`s first name of Eita. It is later revealed that Petra is Semi and Shirabu`s biological daughter, and that the purple-haired setter of the Karasuno High Volleyball Club is Petra`s biological twin brother; Ritsuka and thus Semi and Shirabu`s biological son.

## Appearance

Petra is depicted with an average height, a small build, and has a unsteady posture due to playing gaming most of the time. She has many startling features, including her warm golden-yellow eyes, and dark-magenta hair. At school, and when gaming; she dresses in a sailor-style uniform with a mainly black attire, a light-blue stripes and a dark-cobalt tie. She also takes off her earrings when gaming, complaining that they quote on quote "bother my ears". While outside, Petra dresses in a black dress-shirt, black dress pants, and a dark-blue/cobalt sweater-vest, with black dress shoes and dangling silver cross earrings. She is usually seen carrying a portable game console and a cellphone with her.

## Personality

Petra has a perceptive and inferiority complex personality. She often has mental breakdowns, much to the eternal displeasure of her parents and is a bit clingy though this is due to her past. As she was abandoned by her parents for her more talented brother; Petra strove to earn their respect only to learn that they had deemed her a "failure of a child." Her teammates are very over-protective of her, and shield her as best as they can. She is very harsh on herself and has developed anxiety as a result of her countless mental breakdowns. Even Yura is careful with her words around Petra and tries to keep them from sounding hurtful. She has shown an affinity for being overly blunt as shown by her tendency to hurt somebody else`s feelings without meaning to. She is serious, stoic, calm, and level-headed; all extremely good qualities for a Vice-Captain.

## Background

Petra, together with the rest of the Izumite Junior High`s Girls` Volleyball Team made an unanimous decision to go to Karasuno High. When they got accepted, their upperclassmen`s skills and expertises allowed them to hone their own abilities, thus allowing Petra to be the Vice-Captain by her second year, Kiku to become Captain by her second year, and Yura to become the back-up ace. They would face off against Nekoma High, Aobajohsai High, and Shiratorizawa`s Girls` Volleyball Team in the training camps soon to follow.

## Plot

### **Interhigh Arc**

On the first day of the Interhigh, Petra and the rest of Karasuno runs into Date Tech in the hallway. The two teams attempt to taunt each before their respective captains and vice-captains use their most menacing looks on their respective team members to get them to stop. Their parents are sitting in the respective sections of the school they once attended, and many of them wince when Yale mentions Petra`s eye kick, earning her a strong kick to the stomach which winds her. They quickly win due to the combined efforts of Yura and Jade; their two aces. Advancing into the second round, Petra takes charge as Kiku is having anxiety problems and is forced to reorganize her team to best compensate for their weak points. Losing her cool in the middle of the first set, Petra is substituted out to cool her head which succeeds. However, her injured leg presents problems causing her to over-exert herself and tear her muscle in her injured leg; that subsequent event leads to her being substituted again.