A Certain Magical Index/Characters/Kamisato Faction

This page covers the Kamisato Faction, the group of characters based around Kakeru Kamisato that is first introduced in New Testament Volume 14. Note that there will be significant spoilers up to this point in the series, as it is otherwise impossible to describe the faction.

Kakeru Kamisato
Another self-proclaimed Ordinary High School Student, with a special power in his right hand - his, however, is known as World Rejector. Like Touma, he's compelled to help those in need, and has gathered a powerful group of girls he's previously helped. He first appears at the end of NT Volume 13, where he effortlessly banishes all of the surviving Magic Gods to a new world (save Nepthys and Othinus).


 * Alliterative Name
 * Brought Down to Normal:
 * Character Tic: In several appearances, he attempts to crack his neck joint, only to fail. This is actually an attempt to be more interesting, not having any meaning in itself. Interestingly, he first manages to do it successfully when
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: World Rejector lets him do this with far greater ease than Imagine Breaker does for Touma. In his very first appearance, he banishes both Nepthys and Niang Niang from the world, the former only "surviving" due to having her organs outside her body. And before that, he did the same to many other Magic Gods off-screen.
 * Foil: For all his similarities to Touma, there are also clear differences. World Rejector lets him send his target into their ideal world, essentially drowning them in an illusion. Contrast Imagine Breaker, which destroys illusions and forces the target to confront the world as it is.
 * Hoist by His Own Petard:
 * I Just Want To Be Normal:
 * Logical Weakness: World Rejector won't work at all on someone who has no conflicting desires in their heart.
 * Meaningful Name: His name has the alternate reading "the gods' village is broken".
 * Ordinary High School Student: Like Touma, he claims to be this, even in extraordinary circumstances.
 * Red Right Hand: Art of him shows that his right hand isn't as pale as the rest of his body.
 * Unwanted Harem: Very much so.
 * Walking Spoiler
 * The Worf Effect:
 * Effortlessly defeats two Magic Gods in his first scene, and mentions having done the same to many more.
 * When he clashes with Touma,

Ellen
Neither a magician nor an esper, Ellen is a specialist in tracking and analysis.


 * Lethal Chef: Because she tries experimenting in the kitchen, her "cooking" becomes something that terrifies the other members of the faction - the same people who'll take on Kaiju without hesitation.
 * Nerves of Steel: She isn't bothered when Sample Shoggoth attempts to attack her, merely commenting drily that it's dangerous.
 * Rapunzel Hair: It literally touches the ground.
 * The Smart Gal
 * Super Senses: Her sense of smell is good enough that she can detect specific hormones in a person's scent.

Claire
A Gemstone esper whose body is similar to a plant's.


 * Cyborg: Her constitution allows her to merge with technology and control it.
 * Good Thing You Can Heal: She can survive being cut in half - so, naturally, she's the one to suffer this fate at Salome's hands, to establish the latter's reputation.
 * Green Thumb: She can control other plants.
 * Healing Factor
 * Plant Person: Her body is similar to a plant at the cellular level. Large tropical flowers grow from her back and the sides of her head. She even wilts in hot conditions and needs watering.

Elza
A magician who utilizes something similar to a Kokkuri to control copper coins.


 * Japanese Delinquents: She tries to give off the image of one, but several aspects of her personality detract from this.
 * Noodle Incident: How she first became part of the Kamisato Faction. Apparently, she fell from the sky on top of Kakeru while missing her underwear, and said underwear became the key to solving the problem.

Salome
A magician whose magic is based around the Celtic sea god Manannan. She is an infamous mass-murderer, and is considered dangerous and uncontrollable by her own allies.


 * Ax Crazy: She has this reputation, though it borders on Informed Attribute. In her actual appearances, she's one of the saner members of the faction, even being willing to work with outsiders to prevent Kakeru from going too far.
 * Combination Attack: After absorbing the traits of multiple weapons, she can combine them into new types of attacks.
 * Cyborg: Her body is entirely artificial, with her original organs given as an offering to her god. Unlike most other examples in the series, her cybernetic body doesn't use any technology from Academy City. It gives her supernatural strength even without her magic, and lets her survive losing limbs or even the entire lower half of her body.
 * The Dreaded: She's feared even by the other members of the Kamisato Faction, to the point that she's normally kept sedated.
 * Enemy Mine: She allies with
 * Not Blood Siblings: She was raised with Kakeru but has no blood relationship with him. The latter part is lampshaded repeatedly, including by herself.
 * Power Copying: Her main power, called "External Offering". By destroying a weapon with her own hands, she gains its traits and can incorporate them into her own attacks. This even applies to weapons created by supernatural means, like Mikoto's iron sand swords. However, if she doesn't destroy a weapon for three minutes, she loses all her accumulated abilities.
 * Stripperific: Her normal outfit is a transparent raincoat. Supposedly, it's to protect her cyborg body from dust, yet it doesn't cover her legs (and that doesn't explain why it has to be transparent).
 * Won't Work On Me: Her cyborg body makes her immune to Yuiitsu's shockwave attack.

Fran Karasuma
A Gemstone esper who claims to have been abducted by aliens. She is the faction's information warfare specialist.


 * Animal Motifs: A rabbit. She has accessories that resemble a rabbit's ears and tail, and her favorite mascot is Bunny Grey.
 * Becoming the Mask:
 * Colony Drop:
 * Cuteness Proximity: She absolutely adores Bunny Grey, a British mascot, in the same manner as Mikoto and Gekota.
 * Enemy Mine: Allies with Touma in NT Volume 17,
 * Foil:
 * Foreshadowing:
 * Kill Sat: Her Bunny Grey Messenger is a less-lethal version of this. It can produce microwaves powerful enough to inflict a 55 degree Celsius heatwave on Academy City during winter.
 * The Mole:
 * Walking Spoiler
 * Walking Swimsuit Scene: She constantly wears a bikini, even after the heat wave in Academy City is over.

Luca Toyama
A pirate-themed magician specializing in voodoo, who uses the deity Legba Atibon.


 * Badass Driver: She can drive vehicles up to mid-sized motorcycles, with enough skill to deal with pursuit by
 * Enemy Mine:
 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Magic Knight: Fitting her pirate theme, she carries and uses a cutlass.
 * Older Than They Look/Younger Than They Look: Her control over subjective time lets her change her apparent age, becoming a child or an adult at will.

Maya Goryou
One of the more unusual members of the Kamisato Faction, Maya is a ghost.


 * Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever: She can grow to an enormous size, becoming capable of crushing buildings with ease.
 * Gag Boobs: They're mentioned to be so large she has trouble seeing her feet. This causes her to be more destructive than necessary in giant form, as she can't see where she steps.
 * Odd Friendship: With Olivia.
 * Our Ghosts Are Different: She has a physical body, and is capable of eating and drinking. Her existence normally depends on Censers, small drones that emit sound and aromas outside the range of human perception to create an artificial haunted ground.
 * Playful Hacker: One of her roles in the faction is information warfare.

Olivia Sawai
A cosplayer who makes use of both science and magic.


 * Cosplay
 * Flying Broomstick: She flies on a magic wand equipped with a jet engine.
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Magical Girl: She's dressed as Magical Powered Kanamin.
 * Odd Friendship: With Maya.
 * Post Modern Magick