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Oriko Mikuni is a the titular character from the Puella Magi Oriko Magica manga and games.
A mysterious magical girl. Her magic allows her to see into the future. Her first vision was one where a powerful witch attacks Mitakihara City. She is the mastermind behind the magical girl killings. Her wish was for a reason to live.
In the AWA fics, due to the AWA gang's interference, her tragic fate was averted. Oriko is a student at the AWA Academy.
Appearance[]
Oriko is a young girl with a waist-length luscious ash-blonde hair and had green eyes. She is currently wearing a white long-sleeve blouse over a blue knee-length skirt, white socks and black shoes.
Personality[]
Oriko's ability to foresee the future gained her the understanding that magical girls can become witches, and because of that, a terrible future could await the city. Due to that vision, as well as her upbringing as the daughter of a politician, Oriko feels responsible to prevent that possible future, at all costs. Oriko smiles as she lies to Yuma, to manipulate the young girl into contracting with Kyubey. She convinces her close friend Kirika to do the dirty work of killing other magical girls. Oriko feels those means are justified by her end goal of protecting the peace she has achieved in her life with Kirika, as well as bringing peace to the world. She seems to be highly influenced by her political family in her ability to exercise Machiavellian tactics with much personal charisma, all for the sake of a lofty goal.
Oriko shows a gentler side in her personal nature with her close friend Kirika. She enjoys teasing Kirika, but deep down, Oriko cares greatly for her. She'll even let Kirika sleep in her lap after a battle. Oriko also shows devotion to her family, from when she was a little child helping out her father in his campaigns to now doing what she can to help make her father's dream of a peaceful world come true.
Sadness Prayer explores more of her feelings and motivations from Oriko Magica and shows how she became more cold and ruthless as a result of the death of one of her close friends. In Symmetry Diamond, however, where she does not commit such extreme crimes nor have her close friend die, she is much friendlier and downright heroic in comparison.
In the AWA fics, thanks to Chizuru Tachibana, Oriko's evil personality was averted.
Abilities[]
Oriko's main power is to predict the future.
Oriko is physically weak, and thus asks Kirika to do her work as she would not be able to withstand a direct attack.
She can summon multiple spheres, patterned with what appear to be vines. She can send these at her enemies to attack with blunt force at high speeds. In Symmetry Diamond she uses these spheres to blast magic at her enemies in an attack called Oracle Ray.
Trivia[]
- In the AWA fics, Oriko along with Kirika Kure moved to Normal Earth.
- Despite being the titular character, Oriko is not featured on the first volume cover of Oriko Magica. She does, however, feature on the cover of Extra Story and the cover of Sadness Prayer's first volume.
- Kirika and Oriko are exactly 121 days and 3 hours apart in age. Oriko being the older of the two.
- Oriko was the student council president and top member of her class in Shirome Middle School.
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