Tina Sprout

Tina Sprout is one of the main characters from the Black Bullet anime and light novels.

A Cursed Child/mechanized soldier and Ayn Rand's Model Owl Initiator. She was sent to assassinate Seitenshi by Ayn, but was foiled by Enju and Rentaro. She was placed under special treatment and kept under surveillance under orders by Seitenshi. She was later paired with Kisara after her release and joined the Tendou Civil Security Company.

In the AWA fics, Tina is a student at the AWA Academy.

Appearance
Tina Sprout is a ten year old Initiator who first appeared in a set of pink pajamas. She has short platinum blonde hair. However, her main attire consists of a long green and black dress, which she wears during her assassination attempts. She also carries an earpiece in order to listen to her orders.

Personality
During her first introduction, Tina seemed to have the traits of a child, such as calling Rentarou a superhero. Tina is a nocturnal Initiator, and relies on caffeine tablets to stay awake. However, it is later revealed that she seems to be a proficient sniper with an IP Ranking of 98. She seems to have no form of hesitation when following orders, portrayed when she attacks a police officer under orders from her master, and eventually attacking Seitenshi. Albeit, it is later revealed that Tina is reluctant when it comes to killing; as her entire body shakes violently when aiming to take someone's life. Following her fight with Rentarou, and after being taken in by Kisara, Tina seems to have returned to her lively child traits and start to adapt to daylight lifestyle. She now seems to get along with both Enju and Kisara, although she tried to kill them beforehand.

Much like Enju, Tina happens to be a nice girl at heart as mentioned by Sumire.

Abilities
Initiator: Controlling the Gastrea blood in her body, Tina gained superhuman abilities. She is a Model Owl Initiator.

HYBRID: As one of the mechanized Initiators, she had enhanced ability compared to normal initiators. Tina is able to control the bits (which is an aerial scouting device), using the thought-driven interface, Shenfield, which is installed in the neurochip that is implanted in her brain.

Night Vision: Tina is able to see very well in the dark and is able to aim her sniper accurately at Seitenshi from not more than 1 km. Her ability to shoot from not more than 1 km is confirmed by Miori, which is she correctly predicted that Tina shot from 992.01 metres.
 * Initiator's Ability: Agility: Tina has displayed her agility during her assassination attempt on Kisara. She successfully dodged Rentarou's and Kisara's attack.
 * Initiator's Ability: Recovery: Being an Initiator, Tina possess the ability to recover quickly from injuries like all the other Initiators.

Equipment

 * .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle: Tina was seen carrying a large sniper rifle, that is seen to be able to shoot for miles, and seems to contain explosive shots as well. She is seen to be very skilled with it, such as her shots would have killed Seitenshi almost instantly, although Rentarou ducked her from the first shot and Enju kicked away the second shot that would've killed her. It easily broke the limo's window and destroyed it soon afterwards with an explosive shot.
 * Minigun: A secondary weapon carried by Tina during her assassination attempt of Kisara Tendou. This machine gun is capable of firing thousands of rounds of ammunition per minute and can eviscerate everything from human targets, to buildings, to vehicles and even large Gastrea. Tina also used this weapon to hit Kisara back to a wall, however the weapon was destroyed by Kisara herself shortly before being blunted by the weapon.
 * Shenfield: A thought-driven interface that enables Tina to control the aerial scouting device, which gives her the target's location, temperature and humidity of the environment, and the wind speed. She is able control three of the scouting device in one go. The interface also enable her to controls multiple anti-material rifles against Rentarou during the fight between her and Rentarou.

Trivia

 * Bright flashes or light temporarily blinds her as evident with the discharged flash bang (or the sudden flash of light from a Molotov cocktail in the light novels). It contributes to her defeat at Rentarou's hands.
 * One of the main antagonists of the second volume, working under Ayn Rand's orders to assassinate Seitenshi. She gets out of this after she is defeated by Rentarou.
 * She does have the blue eyes, blonde hair appearance of an American. However, her personality is completely opposite from the typical American stereotype from the Japanese viewpoint.