Mai Tokiha

Mai Tokiha is the main protagonist from the Mai-Hime anime and manga.

Mai is a ginger haired girl charged with the care of her sickly younger brother Takumi. Both of their parents are dead. It emerges that Mai and Takumi's mother was killed in an attempt to save him from drowning, with Mai living with the guilt of blaming herself for this occurence.

In the AWA fics, Mai is a student at the AWA Academy and is part of Class 4.

Appearance
Mai has short ginger-colored hair and has grayish-purple eyes. She wears an orange vest with white linings over a white sleeveless yet collared white blouse, gray school skirt, white socks with red lines and brown loafers.

Personality
Due to her enforced self-reliance, Mai is a talented chef (her ward Mikoto Minagi is certainly appreciative of her culinary efforts) and she enjoys karaoke, though a running joke throughout the series shows her increasing frustration about her seeming inability to indulge. She is unwilling to reveal her problems to others but ever willing to help them with theirs. She bottles up her negative emotions to the point of explosion.

Abilities
Mai's elements are a set of 4 golden rings with magatama around her wrists and ankles. The rings allow her to use fire-based attacks and the power of flight. Mai also is capable of creating barriers around herself to block attacks. Mai's HiME mark is located on her right breast, which is said to be controlled by Cancer, her Zodiac sign.

Her Child is Kagutsuchi, a dragon-like creature capable of expelling destructive fire balls and laser-like thermal blasts. Named after a Japanese god of the same name, it is also somewhat associated with whales and dolphins (hence the fin-like protrusions on its face and the sounds which it communicates with). Another obvious reference is the legendary bird phoenix as Kagutsuchi is shown to be able to be reborn from fire (the fiery feathers it shed on an occasion and the general connection to fire further confirm that). Kagutsuchi also is capable of melee fighting, and has a jet mode which allows it to travel at high speeds. The sword in its head, the Sword of Sealing, made by the Obsidian Lord, acts as a seal on its powers, allowing the Obsidian Lord to suppress it when needed. During the final battle, the HiME's attack on the HiME star weakens the Obsidian Lord and destroys the sword, loosening the control and allows Kagutsuchi full access to all its power to destroy the Obsidian Lord within Reito.

Trivia

 * Mai is one of the nicest characters in the story and absolutely refused to fight the other HiME. However, even she has her limits, like fine china: fragile as she is beautiful; and when she  cracks, boy oh boy does she ever CRACK.
 * She has a small lick running across her head, but she's by no means stupid.