Rei Kiyota

Rei Kiyota is a side character in Aether-Akasha/King's Agency. A member of the Kiyota House of Tsunian Nobility, Rei denies her role as a noblewoman destined to be married off, and in her rebellious declaration of independence, has become an Advanced Magical Learning student in the Yggdrasil Zone Academy of Arcane Pursuits

Physical
Rei is an average heighted girl with fair skin, flowing black hair and an attractive physique. Thanks to her Kiyota heritage, Rei also has a bunch of other distinct features that separate her from the Human characters:

Her skin has small patches of sharp, serrated, skin-coloured scales on her arms, shoulders and legs that are extremely rough when stroked backwards. She has ears, but they're inside her head and covered by skin. This does mean sound isn't as crisp for her as it is for us, but Rei wears special earrings that stops her earholes from closing. The skin regenerates quickly, so it's not much of a problem. Her nails are more similar to claws: they don't stop growing, and they start a lot further down the finger than Human nails do. She exhibits gill-like slits on the sides of her neck which allow her to breathe underwater. If Rei is on land, she has to keep them moist with a veil of gel-like Water Magic. This veil covers her entire body as a matter of fact, otherwise she'd dry up like a fish in a desert.

Clothing
Revealing outfits that stops her avoid them getting soggy from her veil. But, traditional Kiyota garments include giant dresses that cover up the entire body but don't actually make skin contact, allowing for the wearer not to worry about getting their clothes wet when on land.

Personality

 * Tends to objectify people and judge them by what's on the outside.
 * Skewed ideas of friendship and love. Thinks being someone's friend give you the right to make them do whatever you want.
 * Straight up lies to make herself seem more interesting.
 * Straightforward and to-the-point about everything she does.
 * Likes getting what she wants when she wants it and being told "no, you can't do that" is enough for her start a fight.
 * slightly overwhelming
 * Likes her claws to be the same length as regular nails.
 * Very easily put off food.
 * Enjoys fun things that she isn't normally allowed to do: Funfairs, gardening, talking to regular people, doing things unsupervised, and excessively swearing all come to mind.

Backstory
Rei is a member of the Distinguished Kiyota House, not the daughter of the heads or anything, just a relatively regular noble. Since a young age, the adults in her life always acted like they knew what was best for her, rarely lettering Rei make any of her own decisions. What she wore, what she ate, who she talked to, what she does as hobbies: all of it was pre-picked by either her parents or the heads of the House.

Logic leads Rei to decide that who she falls in love with is entirely up to her, or at the very least, not something adults can choose for her. But almost as if on queue, her parents began not-so-subtly introducing her to the sons of men of status, trying to set her up to be married off for the sake of political gain. So I guess Rei just gives up on actually trying to control anything in her life and she copes with it by toying with people's feelings and manipulating them into doing whatever she wants them to.

Rei enrol in YZAAP's AML course against the wishes of her entire House? Even though she's an amazing fighter, her parents tell her to forget about that and focus on the social side of life. She rebels, ignores her family and does what she wants.

Magic
Rei has a Water Affinity and no True Power.

Magical Prowess
Being a Kiyota means that Rei has access to the Magic System of the Mer Arkin that preceded her entire family on top of the Flow System. This allows her to manipulate ACTUAL WATER, not just Water Magic. One of the perks of being a Mer, but even amongst them being able to do anything beyond carrying the contents of a swimming pool takes years of training.

I will be referring to both systems from this point forward.

Gates
Rei's Gates are nearly as complex as a Greenman's. The ones on her lips are curved spikes, flowing and sharp like locks of hair. The Gates on her hands are Henna patterns. Two unique Gate patterns is unprecedented. Patterns that complex are usually the sign of centuries of training. Rei's just super talented.

Style
She can literally make people dizzy by shifting around the fluid in their ears using her other Magic System. But other than that she specialises in taking over control of other people's magic.

Combat
Prior to her time in the Capital Academy, Rei has no combat experience whatsoever. If you ask me she's probably about strong enough to give Mmanuell Matsuda a hard time.

Weapons
Rei has no Weapons and doesn't use any Artifacts.

Relations with Others
Morgana Beryllia: Rei finds it fun to flirt with, tease, boss around, and (kind of) bully Morgana, especially since she's so innocent and pure that she thinks that Rei is just being friendly. But as Rei comes to realise that friendships shouldn't be so one-sides, the two become actual friends. Maybe about a year after that Rei ends up full on catching feelings for her. Morgana is actually in love with her too, but her naivete prevents her from discerning romantic love from friendly love. Rei becomes the CEO of r/watchpeopledieinside, but there's a whole arc where these two sort their feelings for each other out so don't worry.

Shoto Kawauchi: Agents of chaos. Shoto was the first regular person her age Rei talked to when the story began, and the two became best friends after Shoto didn't realise Rei was a member of a Distinguished house (she was wearing a hoodie and had her hands in her pockets). The two have similar tastes in humour and enjoy taking the piss out of people, so it wasn't hard for them to get along at all. Rei lied to Shoto about a lot of her life in order to make herself seem more interesting, but when the truth eventually got out, Shoto was absolutely fine with it. He understood why she'd want to, but it never matter since they're friends in the present and if her life sucked in the past, then they just have to enjoy themselves even more in the future.

Trivia

 * Rei's placeholder name was "Water girl" for like an entire year.