Leivinia Birdway

**Leivinia Birdway** (レイヴィニア＝バードウェイ *Reivinia Bādowei*?) is a character originally introduced in the Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Stiyl. She appeared sporadically in Toaru Majutsu no Index: Kanzaki SS and in the main *Toaru Majutsu no Index* novels. It is not until the advent of *Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index* that she gets a much more prominent role.

A haughty and powerful boss of the largest magic cabal in London,[1] Leivinia Birdway is the catalyst to the involvement of several science side characters into the magic side, just so she can contend against GREMLIN. Her involvement with several unfortunate circumstances, leads to estrangement with her relationship with Kamijou Touma and his self-doubt, in spite being saved by her.

## Appearance

She is a 12-year-old girl with short blonde hair, blue eyes and a petite figure who wears a white dress, with black stockings.[2] It is referred to as chic, and her dress gave out a grand piano-like impression.[1]

Still a child, her bosom has yet to develop, much to her chagrin.[3]

## Personality

Leivinia is a capable leader, able to lead an entire cabal on her own full of adults. To Leivinia everything is about the cabal, according to Mark Space, to Leivinia, her subordinates are nothing more than small gears within a large plan, and their survival is not a necessary part of that plan's success.[4] She would also manipulate people she thinks would be useful, like Kamijou Touma and the rest of his ilk during Hawaii.[5] She exudes confidence, showing no fear when Touma had a drill on her head, knowing that she could escape it if she wished.[6]

However, despite all her haughtiness, there is more to Leivinia than a powerful and confident leader of a magic cabal. She is still a child despite all of this, arguing with someone like Fremea Seivelun,who thinks Santa Claus exists, sleeps with a nightlight on, as well as despises being reminded that her bosoms is underdeveloped.[3]She doesn't like panties with a large rabbit on them or anything spicy.[7] For her all manipulativeness, she can dish it out but she herself cannot take it. When she discovers that Touma himself has manipulated events into his favor, she becomes strung up on the subject, and becomes easily irritated when the subject is brought up. According to Touma's observations, Leivinia is a person who loves effort and does not turn away from hard work, charming people who support her large organization with something other than her words.[8] She is also fond and protective of her younger sister, as shown when she orders Mark Space to go and rescue her, despite not wanting to involve herself with Exit of the Evening Dusk's operations.[2]

## Abilities

As a leader of Golden-style she should be able to create a temple following set laws and the quality, element, and directionality of the power being used is decided on. Once that is done, Hebrew letters are used to provide imaginative power and a temporary guardian that possesses Telesma is prepared.[4]

She seems to personally cast aside such processes for her magic. However, Leivinia's magic is apparently spontaneous or does not rely on the strict techniques of spells or ceremonies, and instead she uses shortened and simplified techniques. However, these are all calculated actions, where Leivinia Birdway accurately repeats the proper technique, arranged to cover her weaknesses and limits. Using precise movements that are actually magic symbols and repeatedly training, Leivinia can boost her magic through those movements.[8]

Her magic name is *Regnum771* which means "kingdom" in Latin. With this, it seems to fit in quite well with the philosophy of her cabal, which is to analyze the leaders and charismatic people in order to search out the best course with which to seize the core of world.[9]

### Symbolic Weapon

Her **Symbolic Weapon** (象徴武器(シンボリックウェポン) *Shōchō Buki*?, lit. "Symbol Weapon") known as the**Wand of Swords and Cups** (剣と杯の杖 *Ken to Hai no Tsue*?) is a wooden wand that Leivinia Birdway uses to cast magic based on the four elements.

It initially looks like a wooden wand that opens up like a flower (continuing with Haimura's theme of plant-like wands), and can change from a wand into a cup, a sword, and a disc, to use elemental magic of fire, water, wind, and earth respectively. It also seems to work even when it is broken.[73]

#### Forms

* **Wand:** It is the initial form of her symbolic weapon. Spinning the wand once allows for flames to be shot out along a path, which will then grow into a giant wall of fire.[41] It was in this form, as well as having a pocket watch coiled around it that allowed Leivinia to defeat Cendrillon using fire to represent dawn.[16]
* **Cup:** Leivinia can change the weapon into a cup in order to use water magic. Also representing one of the suits in the minor arcana of tarot, Leivinia can summon a wall of swirling water that stretches upward. Once it reaches a set height, it stretches out in an even disk, which can look like an umbrella or a tree. There, it then shoots out water daggers that fall in every direction around Leivinia.[41]
* **Sword:** Leivinia can transform her weapon into a sword, which represents wind. When swung down, a wind sword appears and can apparently even sever a human arm from the body.[41] If needs be, Leivinia can amplify the wind sword with powerful magic.[8] Also, she was able to compress the blazing wind created by the Muspell around her sword and neutralize it by using the following chant: *"The color is yellow, the shape is a dagger. With the action of defense and the symbol of flow and change, one of the five great internal symbols of my temple shall be contained in my hand!!"*[74].
* **Disc:** Leivinia can presumably change her weapon into a disc, as she was able to summon a stone pillar from the ground,[42] as well as stone daggers, an attack where she blend a real knife into, in order to catch her opponent off guard.[41]

### Major Arcana Tarot Cards

Leivinia Birdway is apparently able to use the full set of Major Arcana Tarot. A combo of all 22 cards starting from the Fool up to the World can apparently temporarily boost her parameters and allow her to make supersonic movements.[43]

#### Cards

* **The Hanged Man** (吊られた男(ハングドマン) *Tsuraretaotoko (Hangudoman)*?): Currently the only known card that Leivinia has shown to use. Through the use of Aleister Crowley's version of the card, it's the symbol of the death of the Son of God, who represented an age. It was originally not a symbol of execution, but Leivinia can intentionally misinterpret it, thus making it compatible with things like piercing the body, such as bullets. It is used by Leivinia to divert the damage done to her by guns towards the tarot card instead.[19] Presumably, any piercing damage that is dealt on her if she chooses to use the misinterpretation of the card is diverted towards it.

### Other magic

* **Summoned Explosion:** using accurate intuition and measurements made by eye rather than relying on accurate theories and calculations, she is able to accurately use the right amount of Telesma without giving it form to create a series of dome-shaped explosion attacks.[75] It is said that without the proper knowledge, a magician using this kind of magic will probably be swallowed by their own attack.[41]
* **Steel Blade:** Leivinia summons a steel blade that rotates a like a giant electric fan to attack the opponent.[8]
* **Electric attack:** Leivinia summons an electric attack that bounces like a pinball in an area.[8]
* **Food Creation:** Leivinia can create food like biscuits with magic. She does this by quickly drawing an exceedingly simplified charm into a memo pad and then tapping her finger on the center of the charm. According to her, inferior magicians like the ones from Exit of the Evening Dusk need to sacrifice three whole children just to make a single similar charm, while it only takes her about 15 seconds to draw one.[76]
* **Gungnir**: Drawing on the knowledge of Index's grimoires, Leivinia was able to construct a version of Gungnir fine-tuned for human use, lacking many of the powers that Gungnir possesses. Referred to as an**Imitation Divine Technique** (無重力生体影響実験室 *Mujūryoku Seitai Eikyō Jikken-shitsu*?), it is only capable of recreating a high-quality phenomenon regarding Gungnir's use as a throwing lance. In order to recreate this phenomenon, she has to draw out information on it from the minds of those know it by continually receiving knowledge from Index's grimoires despite the danger they pose - interrupting the connection will destroy the lance. If it successfully reproduced the phenomenon of the throwing lance, the world would likely be destroyed, as with the real Gungnir.[77]
* **Cannibalization**: A hybrid technique which Leivinia developed using aspects from Africa in order to save her sister from Sample Shoggoth. Aspects of the technique include the consumption of body parts to restore sick corresponding parts and the use of corn dolls as sacrificial substitutes. It grows a corn-based organ within the user's body, a fruit to be fed to another once ripe to heal them and like corn starch used to close wounds in medicine, break down and fuse naturally, not needing to be removed later. An animal dress based on the story of **Nya-Nya Bulembu** (ニャニャブレムブ *Nyanyaburemubu*?) is also worn to foster growth while providing defense and concealment. The growth of the organ puts a strain on the user's body that threatens their life, likely killing them as it reaches completion.[58][59][60][64]

### Equipment

* **Flintlock pistol:** Disliking modern guns from the science side, Leivinia prefers to use a Flintlock pistol, apparently liking its contours,[4] and the time she spends loading the bullet.[78]

## TMNT X Pokemon

Leivinia Birdway is one of the many villains you will face throughout the game. She is hard but easy on the difficulty scale.

## Trivia

* According to the interview on Kazuma Kamachi featured in *"Toaru Majutsu no Index no Subete"*, he states that his favorite character is Leivinia Birdway.
* According to Kamijou Touma, Birdway's voice is somewhat similar to Othinus's voice.[79]

## Quotes

* (Index SS: Styl) *“Oh, do you know him? He kept going on about misfortune, so I decided to show him a thing or two about real misfortune. He turned out to be pretty tough and he’s fun to play with.”*--- To Styl as she refers about a certain "hot-headed idiot"
* (Index SS: Mark Space) *“Agh, shut up! I told you it wasn’t me. If you’re going to make so much noise, at least make it due to your screams. …Oh, I just can’t wait. Just imagining how the fool who defied me will twitch around is enough to get me excited.”*--- To Mark whom she is about to punish for insubordination
* (Index SS: Norse Mythology [Kanzaki SS]) *“Don’t tell me you think I would be defeated by some woman with huge tits? All she can do in battle is please men as they bounce around.”*--- Referring to Kanzaki in front of her
* (Volume 22) *"Now, the time has come for a bombardment of the people, by the people, and for the people!! Let’s make this flashy, baby!"*--- To the people as she helps in destroying Fiamma's golden arms
* (NT Volume 1) *"You’ve just keep prattling on, don't you? Before you start speaking so self-importantly, don’t you have the important job of bowing your head to those you need to bow down to? Really, how many people do you think you’ve made cry?"*--- To Touma after she just kicked him between his legs
* (NT Volume 1) *"I am Birdway... I am Leivinia Birdway of the Dawn-Colored Sunlight. As you can see, I'm the boss of a magic cabal... Welcome to the entrance to a new world, children who have been made ignorant by science."*--- To Hamazura and Accelerator
* (NT Volume 3) *"I don’t recall ever saying I stood on the side of justice, boy."*--- To Touma after all that happened in Hawaii
* (NT Volume 6) *"I have always wondered how Academy City is able to control someone like you. The biggest threat you hold is not the power of your right hand or even that which is hidden within. Nor is it the precognition you have gained from your past experiences. Even with a right hand that can negate supernatural abilities, a normal person would not be able to accomplish much. The hand itself cannot burn anything or gather any information. And yet you have left accomplishments behind. You did not join in because of that right hand. It was you who made use of the power residing in your right hand."*--- To Touma during their battle
* (NT Volume 6) *"...You need to be careful from now on. What you hold is not good or evil. You hold the seeds to a great wave that cannot be described in those terms. Perhaps it is the same thing that was once brought to bloom by the man who built up a city of steel and electricity or the woman who smiles thinly in the depths of an old cathedral. Or perhaps it is something that will swallow up even that giant flower. If you can completely grasp it in your hand, it will give you great power, but if you cannot, it will be indescribably disastrous for you."*--- To a Touma lying on the ground
* (NT Volume 8) *“Don’t be shy, boy. You actually want to head in the direction of more skin, but you’re hesitant to boldly suggest it yourself, aren’t you? Don’t worry. We will give you the justification you need. Okay?”*---To Touma in a state of panic
* (NT Volume 8) *"The color is yellow, the shape is a dagger. With the action of defense and the symbol of flow and change, one of the five great internal symbols of my temple shall be contained in my hand!!*"---As she changed her wand to a sword and countered the Muspell
* (NT Volume 10) *“I should have known. This is exactly the kind of person you are! Goddammit!! I was thinking about the fate of the world, the leader of Gremlin, when you had a chance to communicate with them, and what information you could have leaked to them! But now I feel like an idiot for taking it all so seriously!! Because she’s a ‘mere girl’, hm? You really are hopeless, dammit!!!!”*---To Touma after the fight
* (NT Volume 10) *“From the looks of it, he watched the destruction of the world. Yet even that wasn’t enough to change him.”*---Regarding Touma