A Certain Magical Index/Characters/Gremlin

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A new organization that emerged from the remains of WWIII that was formally introduced in New Testament 2. They are a group of Magicians that are going against the Science Side, who are considered the victors of the war after Fiamma's defeat. 

A new generation of the occult that had only started being passed down by humans once the concept of machines had been created, in that world where the winners of World War III, the Science side, had greatly spread, a type of occult that would devour it had been born.

GREMLIN

Tropes common to the organization:

  • Attack Its Weak Point: Gremlin hates and yet fears Touma so much that they have either crafted or gathered spells specifically to use against him.
  • Colony Drop: They attempted to drop Radiosonde Castle on Academy City.
  • Hostage Situation/I Have Your Wife: They LOVE this.
  • It's Personal: They hold Kamijou Touma responsible for losing everything during the war and have marked him. They went so far as to level mountains and rivers to change the ley lines of the planet in order to track him down.
    • Subverted as of Volume 3 of New Testament, where it is revealed in the end that the members who have a personal grudge against Touma and the Science Side are actually a front for the real GREMLIN and have no idea of the organization's true intentions. Not much has been revealed as of yet, but apparently it has something to do with Gungnir.
  • Meaningful Name: They called themselves GREMLIN due to the fact their magic and tactics are specifically developed to combat Touma and the Espers of Academy City, like how stories of gremlins involve the creatures disrupting technology.
  • The End of the World as We Know It: They would have caused an Ice Age that could wipe out the world if they had dropped Radiosonde Castle.
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: They were willing to cause an Ice Age in order to either destroy Academy City and the Espers, or just to track down Kamijou Touma.
    • And they even had the foresight to predict that there was a chance of him surviving it and left a message.
      • It's implied that they planned for the Colony Drop to fail just so that they could locate/determine the existence of Touma. It's remarked upon by Kaori when she's fighting Mjölnir that the enemy seems rather apathetic and isn't opposed to destroying large portions of their own weapon during the battle, which indicates that they didn't put much stock in the attack actually succeeding.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness


One-Eyed Othinus

One-Eyed Othinus is the one behind GREMLIN and currently holds the title of current Majin (Magic God). It's just Odin to friends.

  • Badass: Without contest.
  • Blessed with Suck / Cursed with Awesome: She has infinite potential as a Majin, however her success rate is always 50/50. While she may defeat the strongest opponents 50% of the time, she might also lose to the weakest opponents 50% of the time. She wants Gungnir to overcome this problem.
    • Funny enough, this proves to be a formidable advantage when battling Imagine Breaker, and later, the Invisible Thing; since Touma has very bad luck, it tilts the scales in her advantage, to the point where victory is deemed miraculous.
  • Big Bad: At least for the coming volumes.
  • Chekhov's Gun: Gungnir has been at the center of one short story, although it was a replica--what Othinus wants is the real deal.
  • Eyepatch of Power
  • Eye Scream: She is missing an eye, as expected of Odin, and wears a patch to cover it up.
  • Last-Episode New Character: Was mentioned by Ollerus in the last line of Volume 22.
  • Manipulative Bastard: She tricked people that were loose members of GREMLIN into doing her bidding so she and her close affiliates didn't have to show themselves.
  • Meaningful Name:Othinus is the Latin name for Odin. It is used in the book Gesta Danorum, which tells Danish history using Norse Gods as characters.
    • Prophetic Name:Othinus symbolizes the Norse God Odin, much like Ollerus does; and from what we know, this carries over to their relationship, as that also symbolizes how Ollerus temporarily took Odin's throne--hell, Ollerus has the power of Hliðskjálf, which is the name of Odin's throne for crying out loud! But then, Odin reclaimed the throne--much like how Othinus claimed the title of Majin by stealing it from Ollerus.
  • Names to Run Away From Really Fast
  • Necromancer: She is able to create Einherjar by inserting gold into corpses.
  • Norse Mythology/Rule of Symbolism: Her Evil Plan relates to crafting Gungnir, the legendary spear of Odin.
  • Physical God: She's a Majin--the highest position next to The One Above God Fiamma attained briefly. Not only does she take on the weakened Fiamma and Ollerus, but also goes against Touma then the Invisible Thing.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Destroys Dáinsleif, since the end of the world would ruin her plans.
  • Samus Is a Girl
  • The Unfettered:Consider the Radiosonde Castle incident in which entire mountains were flattened just to track Imagine Breaker, and the fact she had her puppets make Kilauea erupt so Dvergr could use it as a forge to get closer to crafting Gungir, and you've got a case in point. Don't even get started on the whole "theocratize the United States" plan.
  • The Usurper: She stole the title of Majin from Ollerus.
  • Winds of Destiny Change: If she gains Gungnir, she will be able to control her success rate and change it to a 100% chance of victory, making her pretty much invincible.

Mjölnir

Mjölnir is a magician who was at first mistaken for a spiritual item but in actuality has optimized their physical body into various the forms of the hammer. Guarded Radiosonde Castle and fought with Kanzaki Kaori on even ground for a time.

Cendrillion

A magician of GREMLIN who appears in New Testament 3. She uses Cinderella as the basis of her magic, and attacked Kamijou and the group in the airport before being defeated by Birdway.


Saronia A. Irivika

A Russian magician of GREMLIN who appears in New Testament 3. Her powers initially appear to revolve around mind control. She's also indirectly responsible for Robert Katze going AWOL, as her machinations tipped him off to the occult taking over the American government.

“It truly is frightening,” the magician (Saronia) whispered. “All I had to say was that I would have you tear your head apart like a frozen orange and he was ready to do it.”

  • Kick Chick
  • Manipulative Bitch
  • Revenge/Revenge Before Reason: She wants to get revenge on the nations and individuals who profited from World War 3 while Russia was torn apart, even if it means going after Olay Blueshake, GREMLIN's apparent client/sponsor in the invasion of Hawaii, and Touma.
  • Rule of Symbolism: Her ability is based off the legend of the Leshy, a male woodland spirit of Slavic mythology. The Leshy is the ruler of the forest and the king of all animals that live there, and loves gambling.


Marian Slingeneyer

A Dvegr and a member of the true GREMLIN.

  • Body Horror: Her human reshaping magic, used on Mjölnir and later Cendrillon. In fact her primary form of fighting revolves heavily upon this.
    • And I Must Scream: Does this to everyone she doesn't kill.
    • Bloodier and Gorier: Part of the reason she creates so much carnage is to get a psychological advantage over her opponents.
    • Cruel and Unusual Death: What she does to everyone she does kill. One example is when she fused both of a Mook's hands together and turned them into a faucet. Then she turned the faucet on and let him watch helplessly as all the blood drained from his body.
  • Can't Hold Her Liquor
  • Cool Sword: Dáinsleif - an incredibly dangerous weapon linked to Ragnarok which Marian is forbidden from unsheathing.
    • Artifact of Doom: If the blade is unsheathed completely, it will trigger Ragnarok.
    • Emotion Bomb: When the blade is unsheathed slightly, it causes a foe's heart to stop out of fear of what would happen if the blade was fully unsheathed... It doesn't work on Touma, even without Imagine Breaker, because he does not fear it at all.
    • Gravity Master: The scabbard can be used to create a miniature black hole, which sucks things in until the wielder decides to release it as a powerful blade due to the pent up energy.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Morally absent or not, she didn't take Bersi AKA Kihara Kagun's death well.
    • Unstoppable Rage: In response to Bersi's death she tried to summon the Apocalypse!
  • Meganekko
  • Razor Wire: Loki's Net.
  • Summon Magic: She's able to summon her creations using gold as a conduit.
  • Talking the Monster to Death: While fighting Touma, she gets so angry and frustrated over how well Touma is doing that she threatens to draw Dáinsleif completely and trigger Ragnarok. Touma counters that if she had the guts to do that, she would have done it immediately. Marian then realizes that she is too afraid to draw the sword.
  • Vapor Wear: All she wears are overalls with nothing underneath.
  • White-Haired Pretty Girl

Bersi

Bersi is a magician, a member of the true GREMLIN, and a former Kihara named Kagun.

  • Badass Longcoat
  • Badass Teacher: Was a teacher in Academy City right before he left.
  • Death Seeker: He became this after killing an attacker manipulated by another Kihara.
  • Genre Savvy: When he finds a girl who seems to be in a situation way over her head, he tells her to find Kamijou Touma if she wants to live, as girls around him tend to do inexplicably fine, irregardless of the situation.
  • Laser Blade: His sword, Whitting, manifests as one of these.
  • Man in White
  • Near-Death Experience: His field of study when he was a researcher.
  • White Sheep: The 'Black Sheep' of the Kihara clan.

Útgarða-Loki

One of the true members of GREMLIN who was sent to oversee the events in Baggage City.

Sigyn

One of the true members of GREMLIN who was sent to oversee the events in Baggage City.

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