Marii Yukari

Marii Yukari is the deuteragonist of Qualia the Purple and the central figure around whom the story revolves. She is a junior high school student with wavy, voluminous hair and fair features, and she possesses a unique perception of the world: to her, all living beings other than herself appear as robots. Her eyes are a distinctive light purple, and she was named after that color.

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Marii Yukari
Bisexual
Origin
Origin	Qualia the Purple
Creator	Hisamitsu Ueo
First Appearance	Qualia the Purple Episode 1
Characteristics
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Pronouns	She/Her
Sexuality	Bisexual
Age	14 in the Present
Birthday	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Ethnicity	Japanese
Status	Alive
Alignment	Neutral Good
Archetype	Reality-Bender, Doomed Fate
Occupation	Unknown
Time Period	Modern Time
Language	Japanese
Homeworld	Earth
Relationships
Affiliations	Hatou Manabu, Tenjou Nanami, Alice Foyle
Enemies	Tokyo Ripper

Background

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Early Life Yukari was born with distinctive purple eyes, and her parents named her after their color, using the character for "purple." As a child she could not smile or express emotions at all, because every other human looked like a robot to her and robots do not display facial expressions. She also could not understand the concept of a facial expression. Her first friend, Tenjou Nanami, taught her how to laugh by pinching her, stealing her lunch, tickling her, feeding her sweets, and showing her her own expressions in a mirror. Nanami and Yukari were best friends until an accident in which Nanami fell from a jungle gym that collapsed on top of her. Yukari rebuilt Nanami's body using parts from the jungle gym, but Nanami was awake for the process and was traumatized. Nanami then grew distant and began treating Yukari cruelly. At some point Yukari was asked by a friend to explain what she saw, and after she answered, that friend drifted away from her. In art class she drew a robot portrait of another friend, who saw the drawing and began to hate and bully her. Yukari learned to hide her perception from others and to work hard at appearing normal. Meeting Hatou Manabu In junior high, Yukari could not tell whether her classmate Hatou Manabu was a boy or a girl, since robots have no gender and Manabu's name, voice, and figure were ambiguous. Wanting to avoid saying something rude in the future, Yukari followed her around to find out. When Manabu turned a corner unexpectedly, the two collided and accidentally kissed. Yukari cried and explained herself, and Manabu learned her secret. Manabu began backing her up whenever she got into trouble, and the two grew close. Yukari became dependent on Manabu and frequently let herself be hugged, though she never understood why Manabu called her cute. Tenjou Nanami and School Life Yukari still considered Nanami a friend and hoped they would reconcile, even as Nanami teased and antagonized her. At school Yukari was well liked and treated as a class mascot because of her cuteness and harmless oddity. She discovered the class president's talent for weather prediction by asking her about the weather, and she advised her track friend Shou to take up running because of the "rollers and Vernier Thrusters" she saw on his feet. When Manabu asked what kind of boy she liked, Yukari answered "Kasoku-kun," citing his "amazing drill." The Tokyo Dismemberment Murder Yukari became preoccupied with news of the Tokyo Dismemberment Murder and, after seeing the apprehended suspect, called the police to say the suspect did not look like the murderer. Two men connected to the police visited her home and showed her crime scene photos and suspect records. Yukari identified a girl in a sailor uniform as the true culprit. Her identification was later vindicated. The Kidnapping The culprit later kidnapped Manabu as bait to lure Yukari out. Yukari came alone to the warehouse and was questioned by the culprit, who revealed that she saw humans as bags of flesh and wanted Yukari to confirm that humans and robots were no different. Yukari answered that there was no difference, and the culprit concluded that life and souls did not exist. Yukari countered that just because humans and robots were alike did not mean humans were not alive or had no souls. Animated plastic model robots then swarmed the culprit. Yukari repaired Manabu's severed left arm using parts from a cell phone, and the culprit later turned herself in. From then on, Manabu's left hand could function as a phone at night. Alice Foyle and the Transfer After summer break, Alice Foyle transferred into their class and announced she had especially looked forward to meeting Yukari. Alice had been sent by Jaunt to recruit Yukari. Yukari was fond of physical affection, and Alice stayed close to her, linking arms and spending as much time with her as possible. Alice told Yukari that Jaunt protected special children, that there were other children like them hidden from the world, and that at Jaunt Yukari would not have to hide her eyes and might even learn the mystery behind them. The Decision to Transfer Yukari was torn about staying, because she feared her eyes would bring trouble to Tenjou and Manabu. She believed she needed the strength to survive on her own, and she took Manabu's approval as the deciding factor. She waited until the third school term ended before transferring, and she went alone to the Jaunt school without her family. Life at Jaunt and Death The adults at Jaunt had aimed for Yukari's eyes from the start and had tricked Alice into luring her over. They asked her to use her eyes to observe the whole Earth and to remodel the world, and she refused, saying the world was fine as it was. She rejected their arguments that the world was dying and needed mechanical management. The adults isolated her, threatened to kill her family, and she retreated into herself, becoming like a robot and eventually refusing meals. Jaunt then decided to dissect her brain to study qualia. In the original timeline, Yukari died in this experiment, and only a small portion of her remains was recovered. Rescue and Survival In the final timeline, an FBI raid prompted by a leaked tip arrested the Jaunt adults, and Yukari was rescued. She was hospitalized in serious condition from malnutrition and had not spoken to anyone since her rescue. Her family, Manabu, Tenjou, Alice, and the other children were on their way to her, and Alice and the others had refused to leave her side. When she awoke, she saw a plastic model robot near her pillow and called out to "Gaku-chan," revealing that she could perceive Manabu even in her transformed, unobservable state. She told Manabu that no one but Yukari herself had the right to change her fate, and she kissed the robot in her hands, which helped Manabu remember her true self and return to normal.

Name Meaning

Marii's name is based off the thought experiment "Mary's Room" and the "Yukari" comes from the color of her eyes.

Appearance

General Description: Marii is a young girl with a pale complexion and a slender build. She has long, messy, olive-green hair that flows wildly around her. Her eyes are large and notably purple.

Clothing/Outfit: A loose, dark gray long-sleeved blouse with puffed sleeves and a ruffled hem. A dark brown, wide-brimmed scarf or tie is knotted around her neck. A dark, pleated skirt. Dark tights or socks and dark shoes.

Personality

• Beliefs: Marii believes all living things asides from herself are robots, the comparisons being a red apple is red but one cannot explain the color other than calling it "red".

• Tries to be Normal: Yukari keeps her belief of everyone being robots to herself and Manabu, trying to blend in and pretned she's not special at all.

• Absentminded: Yukari tries to hide the thing about her eyes but she's so absentminded that she keeps letting things slip every now and then.

• Hates Violent Shows: Yukari cannot watch Robot Anime as they're so violent as she imagines in her head what kind of robots they must be and what they must do.

Relationships

Hatou Manabu

Hatou and Yukari first met when Yukari was tailing her as she saw her as a pretty masculine robot and wanted to see if she was a girl or boy, their bump in caused them to accidentally kiss.

Hatou and Marii are friends where Hatou notes to truly be her friend one has to take her word for it that she believes all things look like robots, believing being a friend is all about believing things their friend believes unconditionally no matter how hard it is.

Hatou wants Marii to be aware of the fact that she's cute as she worries since Marii pays so much attention to others but is totally clueless about herself, trying to show with her actions and tell her with her words to have more confidence in herself.

The many times of Hatou spending with Yukari had Yukari start to rely on her more before they became close with Hatou noting Yukari was her first kiss.

Hatou calls Yukari a dear friend and notes she wants to learn more about her and once she does she wants to be better friends with her.

When Hatou learns the truth about Marii that she can reattach people's body parts through using different appliances, she still states it doesn't matter because she views Marii as a friend.

Hatou at one point suggest to Yukari to accept Alice's proposal of going to Jaunt at the idea of thinking Yukari deserves to be free to not hide herself, keeping in touch with her by phone. Though due to the time difference, they had to switch over to letters, the first letter had Yukari note she can't keep in touch regularly anymore.

Eventually she learns Yukari died while under Jaunt and fights tooth and nail to be apart of the investigation to find out what happened to Yukari.

Hatou eventually learns she is able to change the past, though she loses everything in her present through doing this yet still goes through with it in order to revive Yukari.

She tries her hardest to protect her in this new world but unfortunately she is abducted and killed. She keeps going into the past to try to find anyway to save Yukari but she would keep ending up abducted.

Tenjou Nanami

Tenjou used to be friends with Marii until one day where Tenjou fell from the jungle gym and had a horrible accident, with Marii repairing her by fixing her body parts with parts of the jungle gym. This in turn freaked out Tenjou and made her resent and hate Marii.

Tenjou can be seen as Yukari's bully, however it's noted that her acts fall more into a playground fight than actual bullying; others don't stop Tenjou from messing with Yukari ahs Yukari will defend Tenjou.

Tenjou notes to Yukari if she's ever had the idea that instead of seeing humans as robots, her eyes are actually showing her the truth, being that they all mistakenly think they're humans but they're in reality robots, perhaps even ones sent to infiltrate human society or the leftovers from a war. Yukari notes back to this that she never once thought what she saw wasn't real.

Yukari notes she allows Tenjou's bullying as she hurt her in a way that she has every right to hate her for. Yukari also notes she still sees her as a friend and hopes that her and Hatou can be friends one day too but Hatou is against it.

In the final timeline, Nanami is mostly friends with Yukari again as much as she won't admit it.

Alice Foyle

Alice introduces herself saying that she has been very eager to meet Marii Yukari.

She acknowledges Marii and likes her due to Marii having a special ability with her eye, classifying her as a genius.

She asks Marii to join her organization that finds people like her and Marii and takes care of them.

Depending on the timeline, Yukari usually goes and dies with Alice being too afraid to confront Hatou about it.

In the final timeline Hatou decides to stay with Yukari and Hatou instead of going back to Jaunt.

General Information

Name: Marii Yukari

Origin: Qualia the Purple

First Appearance: Qualia the Purple Episode 1

Latest Appearance: Qualia the Purple Episode 18

Company

• Light Novel: ASCII Media Works, Dengeki Bunko
• Manga: ASCII Media Works, Dengeki Daioh

Creator: Hisamitsu Ueo

Actor: N/A

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual (Yukari likes both guys and girls. Through helping Hatou acknowledge herself as Hatou Manabu she brought her back down from being a nonexistent entity outside of the Theory of Everything back to a girl by both of them remembering their first kiss)

Pronouns: She/Her

Handedness: Right-Handed

Age: 14 in the Present (Around the same age as Hatou where she noted there was a world where Nanami and Hatou saw each other again at a reunion which was eleven years after the present where they were 25)

Birthday: Unknown

Time Period: Modern Time

Timeline: Varies on Probability, Final Timeline

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Japan

Story Role: Supporting Protagonist

Legacy: Varies on Probability (Noted in some probabilities that Hatou revealed Yukari's powers to the world)

Influence: Multiversal Influence (Her view of robots has a deep rooted effect and influence on the quantum world)

Language: Japanese

Ethnicity: Japanese

Religion: Possibly Buddhism (As she refers to Hatou's ascendence as buddhist englihtenement)

Classification: Student, Genius

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Unknown

Occupation: Unknown

Combat Style: Familiar Summoning

Affiliations: Hatou Manabu, Tenjou Nanami, Alice Foyle

Enemies: Tokyo Ripper

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Initially Deceased, becomes Alive due to Hatou changing the past (Changed the past to make it where Yukari never died), though would eventually become Deceased again, ultimately Alive in the Final Timeline

Date of Death: Unknown

Alignment: Neutral Good (Yukari is a well-meaning girl that only wants her friends to be happy)

Protection Level: Street Protector

Potential

• Type(s) of Potential: Transcendental Potential
• Level of Potential: Transcndent
• Description: Geniuses with talents can change the world all on their own and shape it due to their talents.
• Limitations: Nothing notable.

Archetype: Reality-Bender / Doomed Fate

Codex Statistics

Grade: S

Tier: 10-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: Observation

Attack Potency: Average Human level

Durability: Average Human level

Striking Strength: Average Human Class

Lifting Strength: Average Human Class

Travel Speed: Average Human Speed

Attack Speed: Average Human Speed

Reaction Speed: Average Human Reactions

Stamina: Average

Range: Standard Melee. Multiversal+ with Observation & Transcendental Perception (Tenjou notes that Marii's ability likely comes from quantum mechanics where whatever she sees undergoes some sort of change on the micro level so one's body changes that way. When testing to see if Marii observing them could give them abilities from the robots, Hatou was suddenly able to shoot lasers out of her eyes. Despite Hatou erasing herself to an extent to where she could not be observed as she was outside of the Theory of Everytihing, Yukari could still fully see and acknowledge her existence and tell who she was)

Intelligence: Metagenius Intelligence (It's noted by Alice that Marii is a genius.Yukari has a knack for machinery, as long as she has the parts she can even fix a fridge or an air conditioner. After easily answered college entrance exam-level questions she notes that Yukari's intelligence is greater then even hers)

Knowledge: Journeyman level

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Powers and Techniques

• Human Achievements
  • Yukari is a specialist at building model robots, with Hatou noting she should make a career out of it.
  • Yukari has a knack for machinery, as long as she has the parts she can even fix a fridge or an air conditioner.
• Social Influencing
  • Yukari's perspective makes her an oddball but people treat her as a mascot and find her cute with her being under the human beings natural instinct to protect.
  • Geniuses with talents can change the world all on their own and shape it due to their talents.
• Cosmic Awareness (Mary's eye abilities are noted to be related to quantum mechanics where whatever Mary sees undergoes wave function collapse to robots, or if going under the many-worlds interpretation it could be her eyes looking into alternate worlds where humans are robots)
  • Information Analysis (Marii seems to have a knack for being able to tell what one specializes in. Just from looking at the dossiers she can tell who the most likely murderer culprit is)
• Alternate Breathing (Wears a gas mask while painting so she does not pass out from the ink thinner)
• Supernatural Protection (Yukari implies that many of her abilities potentially due to when Hatou became a godliek being having reality favor her)
• Familiar (Has an entire army of model robots are her command that can easily separate one's body without them feeling anything, it is implied at the end of the story that Hatou had something to do with this)
• Observation (Tenjou notes that Marii's ability likely comes from quantum mechanics where whatever she sees undergoes some sort of change on the micro level so one's body changes that way. When testing to see if Marii observing them could give them abilities from the robots, Hatou was suddenly able to shoot lasers out of her eyes)
  • Transcendental Perception (Despite Hatou erasing herself to an extent to where she could not be observed as she was outside of the Theory of Everytihing, Yukari could still fully see and acknowledge her existence and tell who she was)
    • Existence Grounding (Through helping Hatou acknowledge herself as Hatou Manabu she brought her back down from being a nonexistent entity outside of the Theory of Everything back to a girl by both of them remembering their first kiss)
  • Bestowal
  • Biological Manipulation (Can completely detach one's body with them feeling no pain, no bleeding, and they can still talk despite just having their head, she can also reattach damaged body parts and reprogram someone's memories. Fixed Tenjou when she was in a state that Yukari described as "about to break beyond repair")
    • Healing
    • Severing
    • Fusionism.

• Resistance to
  • Hatou Manabu's Abilities (It's noted by Yukari the reason Hatou could never possess her or Alice is because she cannot observer or see what they see, having absolute parallelism thus her powers cannot work on them). These powers include:
    • Probability Manipulation (Can access alternate probabilities and worlds and choose whether to accept them or not, if Hatou at all dies in one world, she will be sent to one of the other infinite worlds where she never died along with getting all the memories of what she did in that world. All Hatou's infinite selves can follow the Fermat's Principle to where light travels to its destionation to the path that takes the least amount of time, to have Hatou's infinite selves focus on a single objective in all timelines and find out how to get their the fastest)
      • Possession (Hatou can abandon her sense of self allowing her to possess almost anyone that doesn't have a different qualia from a human effectively no longer being Hatou Manabu)
        • Personal Nonexistence
      • Erasure
        • Existence Erasure: Effectively removed her entire self from existence in order to make it where she could no longer be observed under the Grand Unified Theory.
      • Space-Time Manipulation & Time Manipulation (Hatou learns she is able to influence and change the past, creating contradicts that have causes lead to an effect such as training in the Naginata when she never had a reason too until learning about quantum mechanics much later and needing the Naginata training to get to Jaunt)

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Cell Phone

• Description: A standard old flip phone cellphone.
• Usage: For calls and texting.
• Function: Hatou and Yukari go out together to get matching flip phones.

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Equipment

Gas Mask

• Description: A standard Gas Mask.
• Usage: Used to block fumes or such from reaching Yukari.
• Function: Yukari wears it while painting models as when she paints for a long time she eventually passes out from the paint fumes.

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Notable Techniques

Robot Worldview

Yukari views all humans as robots and due to this she is able to easily fix them as if they were machinery, repairing removed limbs, or removing limbs seamlessly without causing any harm to the person.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Marii doesn't like fighting and the only time she has is directly against a serial killer.

Weaknesses: Yukari is scared of water. Due to viewing everyone as a robot, Yukari cannot understand facial expressions so she has never seen a human laugh or cry. Despite Marii's abilities she doesn't like fighting, which is likely what results in her getting killed all the time. She's observing her own death and only changes it once becoming aware of it.

Explanations

Jaunt

Jaunt is an organization that picks up people with special eyes/powers like Marii Yukari and Alice Foyle.

According to Alice, it's an organization made to protect and nurture special children, having a school made for them and left private and has the government supporting it.

The name comes from a novel by Alfred Bester that refers to a fictional power to move a human being instantly by force of will regardless of walls or distance ( teleportation), but it can also be a metaphor for a mode of rebirth that changes the world.

Jaunting is a dynamic symbol of a fierce drive for power, a way for people to reach new heights, an innovation, adaptation, and the signpost to an open future away from stagnation.

Through these principles they seek to protect and support rare talents so they are not buried by the world and that they can find a better future.

Jaunt was also an acronym made from the initials of the founders of the organization and is a nickname rather then the organization's official name.

Jaunt is later found to be a terrorist organization stealing young kids and using them for research purposes, being one of the first entities to get Yukari killed.

Trivia

• Hatou's story of trying to stop Yukari from dying no matter the cost is likely what inspired characters like Homura Akemi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. With Yukari effectively being similar to Madoka Kaname.

Gallery

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  Marii Yukari Episode 9
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  Hatou and Marii Artwork
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  Hatou and Marii Artwork
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  Hatou and Marii Artwork
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  Hatou and Marii Episode 1
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  Hatou and Marii Episode 2
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  Hatou and Marii Episode 3
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  Hatou and Marii Episode 4
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  Hatou and Marii Episode 7

Battle Records

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• Tokyo Ripper - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Unnamed Warehouse

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