Nagi Aylestone

> More. Give me more. This has to be taking me in the right direction. I can’t understand you at all as I am, so if I can overcome you, I can find the next stage I’m looking for!
>
> To a Mercury faction member during their confrontation.

**Nagi Aylestone** (ナギ・アイルストン, *Nagi Airusuton*?) is the current leader of the 13th Party, and has been codenamed Bolt Cloud after her Stigma ability. She became the leader of Class-13 after managing to unite the remaining 19 students for a last-ditch effort of killing God Surya. She is also the partner of Raul Lukman until he faked his own death to leave the narrative.

## Appearance

Mikoto has black hair and green eyes. She is also shown to have a complex regarding her chest, feeling inferior when compared to girls with bigger bust sizes. She wears a black and red hoodie over her school uniform, sporting white socks and brown sneakers with a white blouse and a grey skirt. She is also known to always wear shorts under every skirt and dress she wears.

## Personality

On earth she was known to be very outgoing and sociable, who has many friends in different classes. but has also been observed to be short-tempered, prideful, has an improper attitude with some slightly violent, masculine tendencies, and insecurities, a fact few people know of. Despite this, she is friendly and easygoing.

She often shows an incredibly immature and selfish side and displays teasing tendencies when her crush, Raul, insults her. To add to this childishness, she has a soft spot towards cute things. She has a very irrational and unexplained fear of bugs. She can also be hypocritical at times, getting angry at Raul for not calling her by her name despite never once calling him by his. While generally amicable and humble, Nagi is highly individualistic. She often prefers to be solitary and dislikes the idea of being restricted by rules and duties such as those of self-defense. She wishes to avoid endangering other people and relies on herself to try to solve problems on her own, often times despite her better judgment. She often goes to Green Mart to read manga for free in her spare time on Mondays and Wednesdays and goes to the bookstore on the 10th of each month. She's also good at playing the violin and teaches others how to play. Furthermore, Nagi naturally acts as a leader and becomes the center of attention by everyone, yet she cannot mingle with those people regardless of being the center. Raul states that Nagi is at the top and can defeat her enemies, but she cannot avoid making more enemies at the same time. Moreover, her states that the most important to her is someone she can feel is on the same level as her.

## Abilities

**Above Average Intellect**: Nagi has shown frequently to possess a very high intellect. For starters, her stigma ability is shown to require complex theories of electrical engineering to function at the level she wields it, with her being skilled enough in this field to come up with new applications on the fly during battle. She also appears to have a very good memory, as she has memorized every lecture and materials of every subject taught, allowing her to rank 1st in her class and 3rd in the entire school. After being transported to Alrum and being the leader of Class-13, she also starts to display clever strategies in battle, as when she was able to take out the Hound Dogs using firearms, which she utilized for the first time against them, along with exploiting her immediate environment and her enemies' psychological state to her advantage, without using her stigma ability.

### Stigma

* Nagi capable of causing blackouts with lightning strikes.
* Nagi capable of controlling the capacitance of storm clouds.
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Nagi's stigma is called **Capacitor** (容量者, *Yōryōsha*?), which allows her to manipulate capacitance; the ability of a physical body/material to hold an electric charge. Capacitance can be found functioning not only in capacitors and materials, but in the nervous system of living things. It is measured by the change in charge in response to a difference in electric potential, expressed as the ratio of those quantities. Commonly recognized are two closely related notions of capacitance: *self capacitance* and *mutual capacitance*. An object that can be electrically charged exhibits self capacitance, for which the electric potential is measured between the object and ground. Mutual capacitance is measured between two components, and is particularly important in the operation of the capacitor, an elementary linear electronic component designed to add capacitance to an electric circuit.

One basic application that Nagi often utilizes, aside from the obvious of making batteries, would be to pick two points as her 'system', dramatically increase its capacitance to allow it to store a massive amount of charges, and then decrease its capacitance again. Suddenly, there are large, opposite charges stored on two points, which no longer possess the capacity to store those charges there. The charges have to go somewhere, and the ideal would be for them to equalize, so they ionize the air to create a path through which to travel, creating lightning. Nagi utilizes this by turning herself into a capacitor, which constantly electrifies her body, allowing her to transfer positive charges to her target upon contact, while the negative charge in her own body is discharged without losing any electricity to the ground, creating a sure-hit lightning bolt, powerful enough to tear off limbs and explode her targets.

Given her level of finesse, Nagi is also capable of using her ability to call down real lightning, regardless of the season, with power enough to cause a city-wide blackout. Beyond a single lightning strike, she can call down massive thunderclouds with multiple lightning strikes occurring from within. She is one of only a few in Alrum capable of this degree of large-scale weather control.

Nagi's strong electricity can cause electrical breakdown and she has utilized it with the air for a number of purposes. When at high altitudes and supersonic speeds without the protection of a cockpit or life support systems, Nagi can open a 'hole' in the atmosphere by breaking air down, providing her with oxygen while also causing rushing air to naturally be redirect (as fluids flow from denser to less dense areas), preventing frictional damage. In the onslaught of the cursed corpses, a falling Nagi used her electric discharge in order to detonate air above the snow-covered ground below her, in order to cushion her descent and land safely. During her encounter with the Mercury Faction, on realizing the presence of microscopic dust of highly conductive metal filling the area (and causing a lot of static electricity), she intended to use a corona discharge to trigger electro precipitation.

Nagi could even alter the capacitance of the molecules in a substance to change the ease with which electrons move randomly to one side of a molecule to create a spontaneous dipole, which could increase the strength of Van Der Waals forces (the most common type of intermolecular force, seen in non-metals), increasing or decreasing the strength with which the substance holds itself together. This allows her to alter the melting and boiling points of a substance. She could also do this between the surfaces of two objects, creating an attraction between them and allowing them to stick together, essentially allowing Nagi to walk, and run up walls using static electricity.

Neurons in ones brain and body create electrical impulses in essentially the same way as a capacitor. By storing oppositely charged ions on two sides of a barrier; when an electrical impulse is needed, pathways are opened up in the barrier and the charges flow from one side to the other, equalizing the charge and releasing electrical energy. Then, active transport mechanisms are used to separate the charges again. So what would happen if you were to lower the capacitance of someone's neurons? You would prevent them from storing electrical energy by storing opposite charges, thereby preventing it from releasing that electrical energy to create an electrical impulse. Suddenly, the neurons can no longer fire. If you were to do this to the neurons in a part of the body, you would essentially paralyze it. If you were to do this to the brain, you would pretty much instantly kill the person, as their brain can no longer send electrical impulses. Given that is the basis for how the brain does pretty much everything, this would be devastating - you would essentially render the brain useless.