Delphine

"*I felt a great disturbance in the Force… as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.*"

## First Appearance

### Manga Debut

Blue Ghost Tales

**Delphine**, affectionately referred to as **Delphi** by her younger sister and partner in crime, Kimana, is one of Nina's few close friends. It is eventually revealed she is the infamous assassin known as **'The Black Death'**, an assassin whose face was never seen by others due to wearing an odd and secreted mask.

## Personality

Delphine is sassy and, depending on the situation, can appear sickly. It is gravely implied that Delphine suffers from some kind of incurable illness, which limits the use of her quirk gravely and causes minor heart attacks. However, she thinks little of it and prefers to joke about it a lot, much to the chagrin of her sister.

Delphine, in a word, is obsessed with Kimana, doing anything just to get her attention. This ranges from pretending to be sick to bringing up various video games for Kimana to play. She even mentions that her first priority is always Kimana and that she has a plaque to prove it. Kimana, however, is able to see through Delphine's attempts easily, which often annoys her as a result.

She cares about Kimana more than anyone in the world. She is also shown to be rather playful and energetic. Despite her more childish side, she is also quite a competent assassin, and can be quite serious when she wants to be.

## Powers and Abilities

### Quirk

**Finéssence**: Delphine can create, shape and manipulate the essence of Death, which is present in all mortals throughout the universe and is the opposite of Life-Force; whereas Life-Force is the essence which allows life to flourish, Death-Force is that which causes things to wither, rot, weaken, and eventually die. She can sense and manipulate the essence that allows Death, Destruction, and Decay to exist throughout the universe, allowing her to control decayed matter or to request assistance from the dead.

#### Applications

* **Aura Reading**: Delphine can perceive and read auras, normally invisible fields of energy that surround every living thing; this can be used to see a target’s emotions, health status, power level, or moral alignment.
* **Death Sensing**: Delphine can sense the coming of death, determining when someone is dead or dying or if others have died in a specific location. This extends to seeing the names and lifespans of those whose faces Delphine sees.
* **Life Resilience**: Delphine is immune to all death-force and death inducing abilities.
* **Manipulating Diseases**: This is the ability to manipulate all forms of diseases, including their severity, contagiousness, methods of spreading, etc. Delphine can control the organisms that spread diseases, including germs, bacteria, virus or other pathogens on a cellular level, including bacteriophages, microorganisms (microscopic organisms), retroviruses, cells that abnormally grow to make cancerous tumors and cysts, and pathogens that produce genetic mutations. The amount of viruses and germs being quite strong, that they infect the atmosphere, and are highly lethal. It can be said to be a natural enemy to humans, who are based upon living in groups. However, with the sensibility of not unreasonably inflicting illness, she herself doesn't have that sort of intention of using it often at all; this is probably due to being tormented with the experience of having inflicted disease on attacking humans in the far past.

* **Manipulating Death**: This is the ability to, without exception and without permitting any resistance, end the life of any living being, whether it be human or not. The only kind of creatures immune from this are Immortals. Clearly and simply, it is an unusually and dreadfully powerful ability.

* **Manipulating Departed Souls**: This is the ability that enables her to manipulate ghosts and spirits. It's unclear what one is exactly able to accomplish with this ability.

### Weaknesses

* **Immortals**: Immortals have various levels of resistance/immunity. Absolute Immortals have complete immunity.
* **Vitalum Vitalis**: Kimana's quirk, Vitalum Vitalis, is the counter.
* **Life Resilience**: Those who have life resilience are immune.
* **Headaches**: There's a limit to how long an aura can be seen due to risks of headaches.
* **Own Death**: Delphine cannot sense her own death.
* **Disease Immunity**: Those who have Contaminant Immunity and Disease Immunity are either immune or highly resistant to her diseases.
* **Illness**: Due to her situated incurable illness, Delphine can only use her quirk for a set amount of time per day. Trying to go past this limit may cause nausea, breathing problems, fatigue, hallucinations, fainting, headaches, heart attacks, and many more unknown symptoms.

## Trivia

* Her name, Delphine, literally means 'dolphin' in French. The name has two nature associations; the dolphin and the delphinium, a bluebell-like flower, a well as to the ancient city of Delphi, which the Greeks believed to be the womb of the earth. Delphine's nickname is also Delphi.
* Delphine has a belly button piercing.

## Quotes

* *"No, don't worry about me... The flame of life is about to be snuffed out..."*
* (To Kimana) *"You can be such a party pooper, Kim."*
* *"Some people just want to watch the world burn."*
* (About Kimana) "*How is my dear sister?"*
* (About Kimana) *"Don't put the cart before the horse. My top priority is always Kim. Always! I have a plaque to prove it."*
* (About Kimana) *"Grr, if she wants a doll to dress up, she could do it to me to her heart's content."*
* *"\*exaggerated cough\* So... is this where my "illness" takes my life...?"*
* (About Kimana) *"Perhaps my sister and I could have a picnic here... all alone."*
* *"I shall take up arms, and defend my darling sister!"*
* *"I am pretty good, aren't I?"*