Midori

Midori — The Blooming Shade is the Green Current general of the Ninth Wave (Earth + Water -> Wood). She wins by shaping terrain, misdirecting attention, and turning “order” into quiet occupation.

• Role: One of Okashira’s Eight Currents; Wood-element general (Blooming Shade).
• Faction: Ninth Wave.
• Elements: Wood (fusion of Earth + Water); illusionist/battlefield control.
• Story position: Early-arc antagonist proving Ninth Wave leaders are human, motivated, and dangerous.

• Silhouette: Light, mobile, deliberately unarmored—“dancer in a war zone.”
• Markers: Short dark-blue hair, green eyes, fox-fur mantle over a long cape (emerald lining); practical outfit for rapid pivots and vertical movement.
• Palette: Greens/browns—reads as forest dweller rather than uniformed officer.

• Composed, curious, strategic—tests how people behave under pressure and misdirection.
• Cruelty as procedure: harm delivered as “process,” not rage.
• Youth as blade and shield: confident exterior with taught overconfidence beneath.

• Living misdirection: controls space, footing, and attention via Wood affinity.
• Signature techniques: Log Substitution (short teleports with clones), Ambush Teleport (behind targets or interactables), Star Shard Barrage (fan of sharpened wood), Love Spell AOE (brief stun), Wood Golem ultimate (arena shift).
• Style: Punishes aggression, rewards patience; anchors casts to bamboo/log points and environmental cover.

• Runs the Bamboo Thicket operation: enslaved workers mass-produce Hagane Bamboo canes for fortification.
• Introduces the hostage pattern: keeps a private captive, turning the fight into a moral constraint.
• Sets tone: Ninth Wave are sentient and calculating; “truth can be present and still be obscured.”

• Human antagonists: interiority, doubts, pride—more than rank insignia.
• Order as control: labor ritualized; efficiency masking occupation.
• War as procedure: cruelty executed as routine rather than spectacle.

• How she chose the Ninth Wave (debt, oath, ideology?).
• Origin and what was lost before her rank.
• Why she keeps a personal hostage (leverage, mirror, punishment?).

• Ninth Wave (faction) · Hirogawa (location) · Bamboo Thicket (operation/encounter)
• Hagane Bamboo (material) · Elements & Ki (Earth + Water -> Wood)