Serina Himekawa

Serina Himekawa (姫川 せりな) is one of the main heroines of Kindred Hearts: Omega Fury who is also Gabbie's friend and former rival. She is also a member of CLOVER, a group of four formerly rogue Esper girls fighting together against the Deviant crime lord Zaphiel Bleck and his Serpentine Cartel.

Her title is "Violet Claws of Fury" (怒りの紫爪 *Ikari no Murasaki Tsume*)

## Appearance

Serina is an Esper martial artist with a dirty blonde side plait hair and a pair of dark ember eyes, almost looking like a pair of freshly cut topaz. Her physique is slightly toned and her breast size is ample, considering that she's a martial artist. She's usually clad in a loose white button-up blouse with a black skirt underneath and matching fingerless gloves. She sometimes wears a purple sports bra and black spandex shorts or her white judo gi with black belt during training, and when she does she usually goes barefoot.

## Personality

Loud and brash, Serina enjoys causing trouble. Completely tactless, she has a natural (inadvertent) talent to press people's buttons and provoke them.  Quite petty herself, she often loses her own temper and will often hold grudges for even minor offenses (though, she usually ends up forgetting about them after a while/finding other people to be angry at).  Very sadistic and vicious, she enjoys fighting so that she can both torment and humiliate other girls.  Both prideful and wrathful, she despises losing, and often pursues revenge against those who beat her.  While seemingly simple-minded, she does have very good natural instincts, making her deceptively hard to outmaneuver.

## Abilities

* Omega Factor: a special strain of Sigil possessed by only a very small number of Espers, which allows them to change their attributes at will. To do so, Serina drinks special energy drinks manufactured by Turquoise which awakens her Sigil and its attribute for a certain time before reverting back to its neutral phase. Each energy drinks has different flavors and attributes. Turquoise Foundation researchers are actively researching this mysterious Sigil strain. Omega Factor may or may not come with EX Skills, depending on the awakened Sigil's attribute.
* Amateur martial arts prowess: Although Serina took judo as a kid, much of her actual fighting style is just her brawling.  Her short temper but great strength tend to lend itself to more straight-forward tactics, rather than rely on finesse. Unrepentant and petty, she focuses most of her attacks at her opponent's face, tits, or crotch, as she feels that's where it hurts the most (generally it is).  That said, she will still fall back on her judo skills in a pinch, which are pretty impressive considering how rarely she uses them.

## Trivia

* Serina does not resemble any of the main Kindred Hearts characters, but her role is similar to Cathy, being the early sidekick and both Serina and Cathy being proficient martial artists. In early designs dating back from 2016-2018, she was going to be Alfredo's girlfriend for a Kyoryuu Tamers story (to commemorate Jurassic Park's 25th Anniversary and Jurassic World Alive's release) and was going to be a character for her own story called Dark Requiem, but all of them were cancelled.
* Her personality and appearance are inspired by Yuzuki Seo from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Shizuri Mugino from To aru Kagaku no Railgun, Kaito Kumon from Kamen Rider Gaim, Luka Millfy from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, Ken Hisatsu from Juken Sentai Gekiranger, Kobushi Kuroi from Tokyo ESP and Nene from Samurai Warriors.
* Serina's birthday is 25th of October 1995, same date as her Legacy Era's self debut in AFW. Her image animal is a leopard.
* Serina may be a brash yet hot-blooded Esper, but to her friends she's actually kind and generous, especially to her fellow CLOVER members. She was disowned by her parents for being a troublesome child, and she was left to fend for herself, living as a rogue Esper. She viewed everyone as her foe back then, including other Espers. Even Hiroki was concerned about Serina's behavior, and and she had the potential of becoming a highly-dangerous Esper.
* Serina's favorite energy drink flavor is pineapple, which allows her to possess a yellow-colored Electricity-based Sigil. Her awakened Sigil is basically a nerfed version of Rachel's Kinetic Jolt. She really loves convenience store food and snacks, especially discounted bentos. She usually stays up all night just to get them at half price, and she'd share them to Gabbie, Lucy or Daiki whenever they feels hungry.

## External Links

* Serina's AFW-verse self from the Legacy era (special thanks to k0hryuu)
* Serina's AFW-verse self from the Rebooted era
* Serina's old bio on DeviantArt from the Downfall era