Sonohara Azusa

## Abilities

### Esper Power

**Sequential Hermaphroditism** *(順次雌雄同体 Junji Shiyūdōtai, lit. Bisexual Transition)*

### Power Level

3

**Sonohara Azusa** *(園原梓 Sonohara Azusa)* is a student at Nagatenjouki Academy and Kihara Eiichiro's classmate and best friend alongside Hashimoto Akuto. For convenience sake, Azusa will be referred to as a girl. She was the primogenitor of the currently discontinued Gender Therapy Project, and the prime target of The Sisterhood, in their efforts to rid the entire world of the male gender. She became a member of CERBERUS on her own volition after the conflict between CERBERUS and The Sisterhood, and doesn't like to be kept in the dark in regards to Eiichiro at all.

She is a gemstone who was born with the ability to switch between sexes for any situations. Initially, she identified herself as a male due to her two best friends Akuto and Eiichiro. Later on identifying herself as female after completely falling in love with Eiichiro.

## Personality

Azusa is laid-back, and carefree. She primarily cares about the present situation than worrying about the future, however she ironically really likes to think about the past a lot. Thinking of what went wrong, what could have happened, and how it should have happened. Especially when things go wrong, and regret taking things really lightly.

Despite that, the one thing she treasures the most and takes seriously are her two best friends: Eiichiro and Akuto. She values their friendship, and would do anything to keep the three of them together as the supposed "Three Princes of Nagatenjouki Academy", however she refers to her and friends as the "Three Idiots". When it comes to the two of them, she likes to keep them in a place where she can still be with them and she really hates when any of them tell secrets to one another, such as the time when Akuto kept a secret about dating their chemistry lecturer or the time she felt completely heartbroken and cried when she found out that Eiichiro was keeping her and Akuto in the dark in regards to his dangerous duties as a mediator between the Science Side and Magic Side.

She is also very over-protective of her two best friends, openly glaring to those who insult Eiichiro for being so apathetic and the girls who try to come closer to her (this could just be her jealousy). She is also willing to keep Akuto's affair with Tsunozaki Aiko, their Chemistry Lecturer, to avoid him from being openly mocked and Aiko loosing her job as a teacher. She is clearly in love with Eiichiro since she first met him, but this evaded Eiichiro's intelligence for a while thanks to her own intelligence.

## Appearance

### Child

Being born with the gemstone ability of being able to switch between biological sexes freely, she was born slightly different than others. Upon being born, she had no gender. She lacked any form of characteristics that distinguished her from either male or female. She had no reproductive organs, and the hormones in her body were fluctuating. Researchers determined that she was a biological mutant, however the researchers at Academy City stated that she manifested her Personal Reality as an infant and classifying her as a Gemstone to be researched in Academy City.

As she grew up a little more, she begin to show signs of having characteristics of both biological sexes, essentially becoming a pseudo-hermaphrodite. She manifested the ability to switch between the two genders when her Esper Level reached Level 2, at the tender age of 10.

### Male

As a male, Azusa has unruly short taupe-brown colored hair, with bangs that reach just below his eyes. Her eyes are asparagus-green in color. She has been described to be one of the three princes of Nagetenjouki Academy, along with Kihara Eiichiro and Hashimoto Akuto. In this form, she's athletically toned with just the right amount of muscles.

### Female

As a female, Azusa is a very cute young girl of average height with straight mid-back length black hair that she sometimes wears in a rough high ponytail, bangs that are cut straight across her forehead that covers her eyebrows, she still maintains her green eyes, a shapely figure and she is principally seen in the school uniform.

## Powers and Abilities

### Sequential Hermaphroditism

**Sequential Hermaphroditism** *(順次雌雄同体 Junji Shiyūdōtai, lit. Bisexual Transition)* is Azusa's in-born esper power. Basically, she can freely switch between the two sexes for different situations, and at times combine the two together when the situation calls for it (however she is unable to do it all the time).

Sequential Hermophroditism can also be called dichogamy in botany. It's a trait that is present in many fish, gastropods, and plants. In regards to other species, they can undergo the changes of sex from one sex to another do so as a normal event within their reproductive cycle that is usually cued by either social structure or the achievement of a certain age or size. However with Azusa, she can freely switch between it since she was a child. Like many animals and species that possess the trait of Sequential Hermophroditism, Azusa can achieve different sex changes, however with one minor difference. Unlike the animals that can achieve sex changes such as: Male to Female (protandry); Female to Male (protogyny), Female to Hermaphrodite (protogynous hermaphroditism), and Male to Hermaphrodite (protandrous hermaphroditism). However Azusa is only capable of achieving Protrandry and Protogyny, switching between male and female. Each sex change is optimized for different situations and even changes her thought process to fit the sex she is in, something that Azusa utilizes with great efficiency during combat, and even when not in combat.

#### Male

Azusa's male form is primarily optimized for highly physically taxing movements, as the through the eyes of many fighting is considered to act of manliness, having to fight many forms of conflicts including mental, physical, spiritual, and even conceptual ones. Azusa primarily remains in her male form because of the threats of skill-outs and the other espers who are willing to do crime in Academy City, this puts her in a state in which she needs to protect herself. Not to mention that her female form is not optimized for combat and as such is easily susceptible to surprise attacks.

As a male, Azusa possesses an innate fighting instinct that she primarily utilizes in combat. She has an automatic response mechanism to win in any combat situation by overcoming limitations and adapting techniques or methods to ensure victory. She can adapt perfectly to all factors in battle, and achieve maximum efficiency in an offense, defense, evasion, and countering, ensuring optimal success as long as there is the slightest chance. This enables Azusa to resist fear and pain, maximize and surpass physical boundaries, utilize all of her skills in the most efficient manner, and continuously fight while unconscious.

When in male form, Azusa typically showcases physical capabilities that rival if not equal Eiichiro when he draws power from the entities within **Imagine Breaker Replica**. Although not nearly as strong as him, she can still fight on par with Eiichiro for at least several hours to a standstill before fully collapsing. A feat that was only achieved by people like Eve of the Bible, Mayu when awakened and to a certain degree, Faith. His recorded punch at half-power was enough to destroy an entire building.

#### Female

Azusa's female form is primarily optimized for highly complex mental calculations and high-speed thought process, as women have proven themselves time and time again to be incredibly intelligent, manipulative, and very clever throughout experience, making them smart and extremely dangerous because of it. She doesn't remain in this form due to the threats in Academy City, not to mention the amount of sexual harassers among the Skill-Out community. Currently, she uses her female form when in disguise, for intelligent battles and when going on a 'date' with Eiichiro.

As a female, Azusa has intelligence that is significantly above standard genius level intellect. She has displayed exceptional use of her brain, being more efficient and effective. Eiichiro compares her level of intelligence by itself to already be comparable to that of the supercomputer, Tree Diagram. Which is saying something, as Eiichiro had to go through multiple processes to achieve her intelligence (although he succeeded and went beyond it). She is also capable of learning a variety of essential skills and advanced capabilities in a short amount of time, which would take a normal person years to achieve mastery over, memorize any knowledge instantly without any mistakes, and process information at a much faster rate, possess amazing skills of deduction and reasoning, become a master strategist, possess an extensive scientific knowledge, etc., making them obviously superior among those of their own species.

Having simulation capabilities comparable to Tree Diagram, Azusa can generate simulations of any phenomenons to determine the best course of action to make or even alter the outcome of those phenomenons. She can have a scientific research and run any experiment without needing to physically run it, and is also able to emulate Eve's Hand of God ability since she can created an accurate image of her opponent and simulate thousands of combat patterns, without the need to fight nor see them fight even once.

## Trivia

Azusa's adoptive sister Sogahara Anri and her wife Musashino Takumi are references and a slight nod to *TSF Monogatari*, in which both of the characters of the same name undergo gender therapy. Takumi turned into a woman, Anri became a hermaphrodite a little while later. Which is an allusion to Azusa's esper power, **Sequential Hermaphroditism** *(順次雌雄同体 Junji Shiyūdōtai, lit. Bisexual Transition)*.

#### Some extra non-relevant information regarding Sonohara Azusa that were not added above:

* Her birthday is at April 1st.
* Azusa's currently lives with her Step-Sister and her Wife.
* She likes video games, anime, and manga.
* After a long time of being able to switch between genders, she has shown great proficiency in using capabilities of the two genders to the fullest level.
* Her talent is in cooking, and her favorite martial arts is MMA.

Once every four months, the members at CERBERUS undergo a physical check-up from Academy City and United Nations of Magic Society to record the health and status of the members. These are his recorded physical statistics:

#### (Male)

* Recorded Weight: 73kg
* Physique Classification: Mesomorph
* Genitalia Measurement: 5” Length • 3” Girth (Flaccid) 8” Length • 6” Girth (Erected)
* Recorded Physical Strength: [Unknown] (Note: Physical Strengths are Immeasurable)
* Body Fat Percentage: 12% Body Fat

#### (Female)

* Recorded Weight: 51kg
* Three Size Measurements: 82 (Bust) • 52 (Waist) • 80 (Hips)
* Recorded Physical Strength: 30kg (Squat) • 20kg (Hinge) • 5kg (Push) • 5kg (Pull) • 55kg (Carry)
* Body Type: Pear
* Body Fat Percentage: 20% Body Fat

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