Lesley Ukai

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Lesley Yamaguchi** (Japanese: **山口 レスリー** *Yamaguchi Resurī*) is a third-year student from Aobajohsai High; she is the volleyball team`s ace, captain, a wing spiker, and starting setter. She is also Tadashi`s "support pillar", and is the one that usually encourages him.

## Personality

Lesley is a quiet and stoic individual, rarely ever speaking and often maintaining a fierce or emotionless look on her face. She is immensely confident in her skills, and is excited when people most specifically her enemies try new tactics against her, though that doesn`t usually translate to her facial expressions, only expressed through her body language. Like Ushijima, she has a tendency to  bluntly say what is on her mind, causing her to come off as tactless or rude. She does not seem to be able to read people, and often takes the jokes and figurative language from others literally. Despite this, it is noted that when Lesley does give actual praise or support, it is completely sincere as she never sugarcoats or minces her words. Due to the fact that Tadashi gets overwhelmed at the slightest upset, Lesley is usually the one who orders her to stand up. Lesley has incredible eyes, and notices when somebody has great potential. She is noted to have a cowardly personality, when off the court and Heather is usually the one who bluntly points that out.

## Plot

#### **Karasuno High Team Formation Arc**

Ushijima gets featured as the number one ace in Miyagi prefecture in a volleyball magazine that the Aobajohsai High players are reading, with Lesley commenting that he seems scary much to the amusement of her fellow third-years. Yasufumi Nekomata later arranges for a second practice match to be done with Aobajohsai High`s Girls` Volleyball Team due to their experience with dealing with quick attacks and setter dumps; among all of the female volleyball teams, they are noted to have the most experience having gone against Shiratorizawa for several years. When they arrive, Lesley comments that Nekoma is intimidating causing Heather to sweatdrop and comment on how much of a coward she is causing looks of amusement to pass between the team. Lesley then slumps over with a depressed aura and Heather sighs before roundhouse kicking her. Noticing their Aobajohsai Jackets, Daichi tenses before Nekomata calms them down saying that they are the Girls` Volleyball Team before they hear Heather scolding their team`s captain a depressed air hanging about the captain and the rest of the team sighing before Gale comments that they look like idiots before Heather serves a ball into the back of her head with a loud shut the hell up!

#### **Aobajohsai High Practice Match**

Just then, the club advisor, Takeda rushes in, announcing a practice match against Aobajohsai, one of the prefecture’s top four teams. On the day of the match, Karasuno arrives at Aobajohsai and Kageyama wanders off with Tanaka, Yamaguchi, and Tsukishima. They encounter Kindaichi, who mocks Kageyama. However, Kageyama doesn’t retort and simply walks away. The match begins and Hinata’s immediately overwhelmed. Lesley sweats and said that she`s hoping that he will alright and asks her teammates if he needs a burial site with her teammates staring at her in disbelief scooting as far away as possible. After the match, Lesley comments that she was confident that they could win with the rest of her teammates giving her really? glances out of the corners of their eyes.

#### **Interhigh Arc**

On the first day of the interhigh, Lesley stops in the middle of the hallway with the rest of her team, as Date Tech and Karasuno are staring down each other. The team decides to stretch while they are waiting, before running past Date Tech with Lesley telling Heather to save her energy for their match against Date Tech and Heather telling her captain to get off her back and stop acting like a mother bear. The Aobajohsai High male`s volleyball team hurries into the stadium and is able to catch the first few minutes of the match. Heather`s speed and mid-air combat capabilities puts her at odds with several of the wing spikers on the Date Tech Girls` Volleyball Team. As the match continues, Heather`s boundless stamina proves to be more than a match for Date Tech`s blocking techniques. By using powerful plays, to wear down the mental and physical abilities of the opposing team and switching out one of their own wing spikers for one of their pinch servers, Aobajohsai is able to score many points allowing them to win the first match easily. They then call a time-out to allow the players some rest time and to tighten the straps on their legs, as well as stretch a little. Substituting Heather back into the starting line-up and putting her in the setter position allows Lesley to strike powerful spikes which seemly throw off the other team, with a moderate success rate. In the end, Aobajohsai wins the second match and the final match; this allows them to advance.

#### **Karasuno vs Date Tech**

Interested in the news about Karasuno`s quick attack, Lesley with the rest of her team decides to head down and check it out. Impressed by their playing style, Lesley says that she wishes that Heather could set like that and that she is jealous of Karasuno because they have an awesome first-year setter. Heather is righteously enraged and kicks Lesley in the stomach winding her. Her fellow underclassmen laugh quietly at her miserable state, while her fellow third-years berate their underclassmen and Heather. When Oikawa notices them, he shouts at them in a loud voice. The girls are notably upset, with Heather walking to Oikawa and roundhouse kicking him in the stomach, winding him causing amused laughter, along with provoking smiles directed at him. Karasuno is notably confused, with many of it`s members quietly looking back and for between the girls and boys sitting on either side of the stadium. Heather quietly comments that Oikawa is a loud-mouth annoyance handing out candy to her fellow teammates. When Oikawa, Iwaizumi and their team come across Lesley and the rest of her team in the hallway; Oikawa comments that Heather is a big meanie to which Heather responds that his face is stupid and he has a crappy personality with a condescending smile before the girls` team files into the gym to have their match.

#### **Unnamed Team vs Aobajohsai**

Advancing into the second match, the opposing team attempts to stop Heather`s scarily accurate sets only to be shut-down every time by the blockers on the girls` volleyball team. They win both matches easily, with Lesley commenting that she feels like crying because it was far too easy. Her teammates comfort her and say that their girls` team is strong.

#### **Karasuno vs Aobajohsai**

During a timeout the players who were just on appear incredibly exhausted to Yamaguchi, but he claims to be jealous, and that he's sick of being the only first year who never gets to play. Seeing Yamaguchi being switched in as a pitch server, Lesley claims that he must be skilled only to be disappointed when he messes up his serve. Seeing potential in him, Lesley comments that he could be an incredible pinch server one day and then decides to leave with her team. Keishin, her father notices her watching them with the rest of her team critically eyeing the other players. Tapping her on the shoulder, he motions that he wants to talk to her and she agrees waving her team ahead. Taking her to see her team, Lesley says that Tadashi is too nervous and that he has the potential to grow into a incredible pinch server if he would put a little more effort in his abilities. Her team who had been listening step into the gym, saying that she is far too blunt before offering to take them out to dinner as their treat. Heather comments that Nishinoya is amazing much more so than Oikawa with his crappy personality the last comment earning a lots of laughs from Lesley`s team with one of the underclassmen commenting that Heather has a strong kick and that Oikawa got what he had coming by insulting them. Lesley then takes them out to dinner and they leave soon after.

## Relationships

#### **Aobajohsai High**

* **Heather Honda**: Heather seems to be Lesley`s closest friend, besides Tadashi and is shown to be support pillar. She tends to be practically violent towards Lesley often referring to her as a "cowardly captain" much to the amusement of their fellow teammates.
* **Victoria Grace**: Heather`s private secretary of some sorts, who is actually the manager of their team; the two are best friends and often sit together at lunch, discussing strategies for their next volleyball game.
* **Tadashi**: Lesley`s other best friend, she is a calm-headed, and collected person who gets flustered easily. Lesley has a huge crush on her and is very shy around her, causing Heather to roundhouse kick her.

### **Other Schools**

* **Tetsurō Kuroo**: The two are stated to have a one-sided rivalry with Lesley not even noticing that they have a rivalry with one another.