Aqua

**Aqua** (アクア, *Akua*) is one of the main protagonists of the *KonoSuba* series and with whom Kazuma started his party. Before life in the Parallel World, she was a goddess of water who guided humans to the afterlife; within, she is worshipped by the Axis Order.

## Appearance

Described by Kazuma as possessing beauty no human could match, Aqua has light blue hair and eyes, a slim figure with large breasts, long legs, wide hips, and blue waist-long hair that is partially tied into a loop with a spherical clip. Her B-W-H measurements are 83-56-83 cm (33/22/33 in) and she is 5'2" (157 cm) tall.

Aqua uses a sleeveless dark-blue vest with white trimmings, a short dark blue miniskirt, a green bow around her chest with a blue gem in the middle, a translucent purple underskirt, and detached white sleeves with blue and golden trimmings. She wears thigh-high blue heeled boots over white stockings with blue trimmings.

Sometimes Aqua wears a divine relic in the form of a translucent pink hagoromo, which can disappear and reappear around her at her will. Her hair clip resembles an H2O molecule.

## Personality

Aqua has an interesting yet troublesome personality. She is high-spirited, cheerful, and carefree, but rarely thinks about the consequences of her actions. While she doesn't force her beliefs onto others, Aqua always acts or speaks on her whims. As a result, she can behave very inappropriately in many situations. It is also very easy to taunt Aqua with jeers or lure her with praises. Since Aqua, as a goddess, thrives on praise/worship points, she usually performs good deeds, but then immediately ruins her own merits by seeking praises aggressively and persistently. Also, while many of her 'good deeds' turn out fine, Aqua is very short-sighted, and some of these 'good deeds' turn out to be complete disasters.

One of Aqua's positive personality traits is her "honesty." She is incapable of lying, or more precisely, she has no concepts of lying and she is so bad at it that her lies give themselves away. When caught lying, all it takes are pinches to her cheeks for Aqua to reveal everything. On the other hand, she is very gullible and does not believe people can lie to her. When Aqua is being stubborn though, others may also fib a little to make Aqua more agreeable. While Aqua thinks very highly of herself, she has a business sense that is equal to or worse than Wiz.

Contrary to popular belief, Aqua is not completely stupid. Aqua can be very observant and knowledgeable when she wants. At times, she and Megumin serve as the team's walking encyclopedias. Aqua simply lacks the basic analytic skills and self-awareness to use her knowledge effectively. She can be very tolerant, and will easily accept and forgive other people's imperfections and mistakes. Part of her understanding nature, though, is an extremely bad short-term memory, as she sometimes forgets her own identity as a goddess when enjoying her new life too much. Also, despite her apparent vanity while seeking praises, Aqua is unaware of the true greatness of her artistic and priestess abilities, as she had nonchalantly performed many extraordinary, nearly-impossible feats.

Due to her traumatic experiences with giant toads and brutal alligators, Aqua acts very cowardly against tough monsters. She will often make up lame excuses on why she cannot fight or that she is "urgently" needed elsewhere.

She also has very negative opinions of the undead and demons and will be very cold and aggressive to them, although not to the same extent as Eris. She is capable of getting along with the undead after enough time to get used to them, as seen with Wiz.

## History

*For Aqua's history, see her History tab.*

## Abilities

As a Goddess, Aqua's power is directly correlated to the devotion of her followers. Due to how fanatical the members of the Axis Order are, Aqua's mana has been stated to be infinite, being way superior to Megumin's, for example. Despite her strength being drastically weakened after having to forcibly descend into the mortal world, weakening some skills like her omniscience, she is still very powerful, having all her stats maxed-up, except for Intellect and Luck, which are pretty low. She also possesses absurd talent, giving her enough skill points to learn all Arch Priest-class skills at once, spending the following points on Party Tricks.

**Holy Magic**: Upon descending into the mortal plane, Aqua takes up the role of an Arch Priest for the party, using all types of healing spells, support buffs and holy magic. However, although she is highly effective against undead and demons, she is useless against normal creatures as Giant Toads.

* **Heal**: Instantly heals a person's wounds.
	+ **Sacred Highness Heal**: Greater healing spell. It can restore erased memories.
* **Turn Undead**: Creates a light that sends the undeads to the afterlife.
	+ **Sacred Turn Undead**: A more powerful version of Turn Undead, which, when cast upon, can release a powerful spell that can purify even a lich.
* **Exorcism**: Summons a pillar of light that drives away demons. Powerful enough to stop a possessed Darkness in her tracks.
	+ **Sacred Exorcism**: A stronger version of Exorcism. Aqua fires it like a laser from her forehead (she holds two peace signs to her forehead while doing this). This spell is potentially powerful enough to destroy an Archdemon like Vanir.
* **Break Spell:** A spell that can dispels magic and curses.
	+ **Sacred Break Spell**: A stronger version of Break Spell. It can break magical barriers.
* **Cure Poison**: A spell to detoxify a person.
* **Refresh**: A spell that lowers the person's body temperature.
* **Supporting Buffs:** Aqua can cast several supporting spells to greatly increase the resistance, speed, and strength of the one she cast her spell upon:
	+ **Blessing**: A spell that increases luck.
	+ **Powered**: A spell that increases strength.
	+ **Protection**: A spell that increases defense. Aqua uses it in Konosuba: Fantastic Days.
	+ **Haste**: A spell that increases speed.
* **Reflect**: A spell that reflects an opponent's attacks back at them.
* **Force Fire:** Draws the attention of monsters towards the user.
* **Magic Seal**: Seals someone's or something power. Used in a Sacred Treasure and in the Devil King. It is so powerful even an Archdemon can't break it.
* **Divine Circle**: Aqua can draw magic circles that repel ghosts, undead, demons, and monsters. She has also created protective barriers around the mansion to capture demons and keep them from entering the mansion (however, extremely powerful demons can still breakthrough).
* **Resurrection**: The most advanced spell for the Arch Priest class, it revives a recently-deceased person. Usually one person can just be revived once, but due to her seniority over Eris, Aqua can even violate that rule and resurrect the same person multiple times. However, she cannot resurrect those whose physical forms have been completely digested or destroyed.

**Water Magic**: As a goddess with the domain over water, Aqua possesses many powerful water-related skills. Aqua also can manipulate water from a distance, and breath under water.

* **Create Water:** Shoots a jet of pure and clean water from atmospheric moisture.
	+ **Sacred Create Water**: Summons a large torrent of water from the sky, that causes a huge flood. It is such a large amount of water that it could flood an entire city and destroy subsequent buildings and structures, as well as the city's wall.
* **Purification**: Purifies water from dirty and poison by touching. As a water goddess, Aqua can purify any liquid, from contaminated hot springs to coffee and tea, through mere contact. However, it seems this is something Aqua has no control over as any liquid she touches becomes purified, regardless of intent, while casting Purification simply increases the effect.
* **Holy Water**: All liquid she purifies is turned into holy water (known as *"Goddess Juice"*). Aside from this it can be used as weapon against the undead, her holy water can be used to enhance the quality of weapons and equipment, and protect against illness. Water generated directly from Aqua's body, like her tears, are especially potent against the undeads.

**Party Tricks**: After gaining any skills/spells useful in adventures, Aqua spent all her points on this entire skill tree. It is used mainly for the entertainment and amusement of people.

* **Nature's Beauty:** A skill that makes two fans appear on both hands and a pot of soil appear on top of her head. Spouts of water will emerge from each fan while a flower grows in the pot that will eject blossoms once fully grown.
* **Versatile Entertainer**: Turn the user or an ally into a super actor, mimicking anyone's voice.
* **Hundred Hazes**: The ultimate party trick. Once it is activated, it takes half of a day to finish.

**Master Artist**: As a muse of the arts, Aqua is an extremely talented artist, being able to repair a photo of Darkness's suitor with the bare minimum tools at hand, create detailed 1/12 clay scale models of Megumin and Darkness, create intricate sand drawings, soap scale figures, and even make handmade giant robot made out of milk cartons. While Kazuma has noted that she could make a living off these skills, she refuses to, and her greedy and lazy nature makes her unable to financially take advantage of these artistic talents.

**Construction Master:** Aqua is also a skilled construction worker. She is so talented working on construction that she is able to repair all by herself a giant wall damaged by Explosion Magic in a single day several times in a roll.

**Aqua's special abilities**:

* **God Blow**: A lethal fist that carries a goddess' rage and sorrows. It can both purify the undeads and cause physical damage at the target.
* **God Requiem**: A lethal hook, it's a goddess requiem of love and sorrow. Like God Blow, it can both cause physical damage and purify the target, being able of purify Arcanletia hot springs. It's an anime exclusive skill.
* **Holy Aura:** It causes pain for undead/demons that touch her, with prolonged exposure being lethal. Draining her vitality/magic is also poisonous for the undead. However, since the undead look *"for salvation"*, mindless undead are also attracted to her aura. Her holy aura also limits the effectiveness of lie-detecting magical items; they will only detect her lie if it is something she very strongly believes is false.
* **Night Vision**: Aqua can see as well in the dark as well as the daytime. That is a less powerful version of her omniscience as a goddess.
* **Undead/Demon Detection**: Aqua can also detect undead and demons by their scent.
* **Multilingual**: Aqua is able of speak fluently many different languages, from japanese, the Parallel World language and even elvish.
* **Divine Protection:** If anyone attempts to see her location/future/mind or attempts mind manipulation on her, it results in seeing a bright light that prevents it.

## Equipment

**Feather Cloak**: A holy item imbued with a variety of magic, it prevents all status ailments and is highly resistant. It can also fill with air like a balloon at her command and is used as short-range transportation for the team.

**Scepter**: She uses a staff that will fly towards her if summoned. When casting spells, the closed flower at one end will blossom and boost any spells cast.

## Trivia

* Aqua has a chicken that she claims to be a "dragon" named Emperor Zel.
* Aqua is Latin for water, which is reflected in her status as a Water Goddess.
	+ To add to her status as the Water Goddess, her hairpiece is designed to look like a water molecule.
* She is given a monthly allowance by Satou Kazuma.
* Aqua's hobbie is collecting stones, polishing them every day. That includes a Sacred Treasure able to summon random monsters Chris is desperately looking for.
* In order of not purify what she drinks, Aqua always pay attention so her bubbly or tea won't touch her lips while she drinks.
* Once, Aqua cried because she dropped a 100 eris coin down a sewage drain that was going to be used for ice cream (the coin, not the drain).
* Upon seeing their party for the first time, passersby consider her the most beautiful out of the three main girl characters due to her goddess-like appearance.
* Aqua's birthday is on 1st August.
* Unlike the novel and manga, in the anime, Aqua is not shown to be wearing underwear, resulting in popular belief that Aqua's underwear is invisible.
* Aqua is mentioned in Natsume Akatsuki other works *Combatants Will Be Dispatched!* and *Kemono Michi: Rise Up* as the "Water Goddess", in order to summon the "Aquans" and use the Blessing spell, respectively.
	+ The Kemono Michi character who borrowed Aqua's power to use her spell is also voiced by Sora Amamiya.

## References

1. ↑ Light Novel Volume 1, Prologue
2. ↑ Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 1
3. ↑ Aqua Q&A