Thor

Thor (トール) is a character introduced in Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index. He is a true member of GREMLIN, and once was its representative combat member. His first appearance has him recruit Touma to save Fraulein Kreutune in order for her not to get involved with the fighting that GREMLIN and Ollerus' group would come to do.

Etymology
His name is derived from a god of Norse mythology with the same name, associated with thunder, lightning, and storms, among others, who wields the legendary hammer Mjölnir.

Appearance
He is described as a thin white-skinned boy with a feminine look to him. His dressed in primarily yellow and black. He wears a tight-fitting shirt and pants as well as a dark stole around his shoulders. He has blue eyes and blond hair tied in a long ponytail.

Moreover, he wore fingerless gloves, with an unusual marking on its palms. He wears two belts that cross each other, and his belt buckles look like two goat heads, representing Thor of Norse mythology's two goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr who pulls his chariot. Designs by Kiyotaka Haimura model the belt and gloves after Thor's Megingjörð and Járngreipr respectively.

Personality
Thor is very casual, even when it comes to enemies, such as Kamijou Touma, discussing their plans over a burger snack that he paid for himself. Moreover, despite being the specialist in war, Thor is not a pervert that gets turned on with bloodshed, and prefers to avoid unnecessary conflict that includes innocent people such as the one with the invasion of Hawaii and the supression in Baggage City, and would rather forego using preemptive attacks.

He thinks Touma is a wonderful enemy for the sole fact that he is willing to go all out to save people, even if there is more to the story or if someone has some other goal.

Background
Not much his know about him prior to being seen in Academy City, but it can be presumed that he took the name of Thor when he joined GREMLIN. However, after entering, Thor became disappointed in what he had found, for despite the large scale of their actions, they did not pay much heed to the hierarchy of the organization.

He is apparently left out of the loop by Othinus in regards to her plans, which is probably a deliberate if she knows how Thor would react to it.

Hawaii Invasion Arc

 * Main article:Hawaii Invasion Arc

Thor, using the Free Compound Eyes, observes Kamijou Touma and Misaka Mikoto's arguing just before Touma abandons her and the rest of his itinerary.

Ichihanaran Festival Arc

 * Main article:Ichihanaran Festival Arc

Eve of the Festival
Thor first appears with a dejected a Marian Slingeneyer and a worried Mjölnir. Here, he instructs Marian no to make any pre-emptive attacks, though she only gives a half-hearted response.

Thor later leaves Marian to meet with Kamijou Touma, disguised as Misaka Mikoto. He fools Touma completely, and hits him with his fists, acting like a Mikoto who got stood up and abandoned in Hawaii. Touma asks him if it was right to place a friend in a position where they are likely to bear the full brunt of an attack from the people that were involved in Hawaii. Thor however, reveals his identity towards him, and attacks using electric arcs that cuts through the turbine behind Touma. Thor is impressed by Touma learning how to dodge instead of just defending using his right hand. Touma has realized that he is not Mikoto due to his action of hitting him with his fist instead of what Mikoto usually does, which is to attack him with electricity. After some swift movements, Touma manages to grab hold of Thor and demand to know who he is. As Thor's disguise breaks apart, Thor tells Touma who he is and that GREMLIN is already in the city.

Thor treats Touma to a snack, much to his surprise, where he discusses to him how he knows about Mikoto, and how he has the power to change his form into that of girls. More importantly, Thor discusses with him about the latter's discussion with Ollerus a while back. He tells Touma that he knows that he is afraid of being made to fight according to someone else's wishes such as with Leivinia Birdway during Hawaii or Kihara Kagun in Baggage City. Thor tells Touma that just because Ollerus opposes them doesn't mean he is wholly good, moreover, tells Touma that someone who uses violence to resolve a problem should not be completely referred to as good and just, a statement that hits Touma completely. Thor tells Touma that Ollerus did not come alone to Academy City, and states that he had brought along Silvia, Fiamma of the Right, Brunhild Eiktobel, and Leivinia Birdway, all extremely powerful beings, and with the likelyhood that they will clash GREMLIN, makes Academy City the primary battlefield, something that Ollerus' group could have avoided by preventing GREMLIN from reaching Academy City or Japan in the first place. Thor bluntly tells Touma that it is because they are using Academy City to carry out their objectives. Touma however, begins to doubt Thor after he explains on how Thor really doesn't know Ollerus true intentions, as well as that of Othinus. Thor tells Touma that he never said that he should trust him, and just tells him not to rely on too much information from just one side. Thor tells Touma that the both of them will fight eventually, and that he would like to fight him with no reservations, but he wants the situation surrounding him to be solved beforehand. Thor say that both Ollerus and Othinus are fighting over something similar, and says that he happens to know of a way to dumbfound of them, which involves rescue. Thor states that Othinus wants a person who has yet to be dyed by magic or science, and have a high durability that will allow the person to survive whatever modifications Othinus puts her through. Though he doesn't know the specifics, Thor states that the person, Fraulein Kreutune, is still alive, is in Academy City withing the Windowless Building, and that she was kept and imprisoned there as a last ditch effort to contain her as she is an existence that goes agains the wishes of the city's leader. Thor basically tells Touma that they need to open the way into Academy City's most impregnable fortress, free Fraulein, and do it before any of the other can do so. Touma asks Thor if they can really pull it off, to which he replies that he has an idea and that the only Touma needs to do is to make up his mind. Thor says that he is not Touma's ally, and that he should have no worries about betrayal, because that is indeed an inevitability. To make it even, he tells Touma that he can abandom him if he doesn't need him anymore. However, Touma falls silent, but Thor continues to press for his answer.

After thinking for a while, Touma says that he cannot possibly trust Thor because he has nothing to substantiate what he said. Thor sighs, and mocks Touma's misgivings. Thor assaults Touma, shoving his head down on the table they were eating on as witnesses gather round their scuffle. Thor then throws Touma off, slamming into tables. Thor continues to mock Touma's doubts as he kicks him around, saying that a girl named Fraulein Kreutune is being imprisoned. That simple fact should normally be enough for Touma to save her. He tells Touma that he has survived for so long in a world full of experts is because he always acted on his desire to save someone whether succeeded or not, and that if he loses that his fist will only become a tool for his own selfish desires. As Thor tries to kick Touma again, he blocks it, and tells Thor to shut up. Touma tells him of his hesitation, and blames him and his group for starting this nonsense in the first place. Thor however, does not buy into Touma's excuses and continues to kick him. He tells Touma not everyone in GREMLIN supported what Othinus has done, and that he dislikes Othinus methods, as such, it is the reason why he has betrayed GREMLIN for this mission. He tells Touma that he was better when he was still reaching his hand to help any girl he saw, despite being tricked by everyone around him. As Touma stood, he tells Thor that he doesn't know how many people were caught in the little wars they have fought in Hawaii and Baggage City, and states that there is nothing wrong with being cautious. Thor however, replies that hesitation doesn't make the best decisions, and attacks Touma with his electric arc blades, noting that if that is how he acts, to abandon someone because of his fears, then he is a true villian. However, Touma easily dispatches the electric arc blades. Touma tells Thor that he doesn't have any kind overarching plan as well, then slams his knee into Thor's guts. As Touma continues to beat Thor, he continues to beat into his head that he is sick of trying to save someone and causing more suffering as a result. But Thor turns the tables around, and starts beating Touma, and continues lecturing him. The fight continues to a brawl, with no side overpowering the other. In a lull, Thor asks Touma if he wants to help or not, to which he states that if Fraulein is really suffering, but tells him that he will crush Thor if he ends up using him for his own ends. Thor tells him to do as he pleases, and says that he is taking action tonight, and that he doesn't care what he does as long as he ends up saving Fraulein Kreutune. He leaves after giving the rendezvous point to Touma.

After Touma escapes Anti-Skill custody after his little brawl with Thor, he meets up with him at the rendezvous point. He tells Thor that he will betray him when he sees fit, to which Thor understands. He shows Touma some tools, which leads to Touma questioning him on how they are supposed to breakthrough impregnable Windowless Building using them, to which Thor answers by giving him instructions. Thor later reappears in the rendezvous point after Touma meets up with the real Misaka Mikoto, whom he mistakes for Thor. As their mission begins, Thor leaves Touma alone to prepare for something, as he observes the Windowless Building with the binoculars. As Touma confirms that there's no one around the area of the building, Thor has already set up remotely the truck bombs around the building. He detonates it later, though much to his concern, as Touma tells him that the explosion should be enough to shatter the glass in buildings and might injure people. Thor then tells Touma that everything went according to plan, despite the building remaining unscathed. He later sends Touma a map on where they should meet up next. Touma later meets up with Thor, and then walks towards one of the abandoned bases of Freshmen that was made as a security blindspot for the vast surveillance system of Academy City. Although they can only use it for twenty minutes before someone investigates the blankspot. With nothing to monitor them, Thor explains the reason he used the bombs on the building; the reason being, is that he needed to figure out the dyscrepancies in the Windowless Buildings' Calculate Fortress' shockwave dampening abilities as there are some shockwaves that the armor cannot fully escape. It was information that was provided by Kihara Kagun whilst he still lived. After fifteen minutes of having a powerful computer that they accessed through Kagun's backdoors analyze the data Thor gathered, Thor and Touma leave the base with tools. Thor later states that they have about ten to twenty minutes to act in order to break through the Caculate Fortress and free Fraulein. With the tools readied, Touma tells Thor that they should go now, impressing him.

After some preparations, both Thor and Touma start to jackhammer upon the surface of the building, and much to Touma's surprise, it actually starts penetrating the Calculate Fortress. As Thor tries to replace the spike of his jackhammer after it got broken, the Four Wings have come. Thor panics as they have no longer an escape route, and that threat of being attacked has increased. Touma says that they should retreat as they cannot save Fraulein if they are killed. Thor replies that they no longer have that option once GREMLIN and Ollerus group makes their move. As they have reached an impasse, the cracks on the wall of the Windowless Building starts expanding, creating a huge perfect square shape around the wall. It collapses, and out of the shadows comes Fraulein Kreutune. Immediately after, both he and Touma are somehow struck down by her. After coming to, Thor tells Touma that Fraulein has escaped, destroyed the Four Wings, and his views on how Fraulein's powers worked on them and on the Windowless Building. Even though Touma doesn't anything, Thor begins to mock Touma on how he wouldn't save Fraulein now after what she has done, since she is not like the other people Touma has saved. But Touma agrees with him, and says that he needs to befriend Fraulein quickly. Then, their attention is taken by the gaping hole that Fraulein has made, and they are tempted to go inside. Thor tells Touma that they will be "devoured" if they step inside, and Touma replies that he knows. Thor agrees with Touma's assertion that they need to get to Fraulein—they're top priority. Their objective is to get to Fraulein as quickly as possible as GREMLIN and Ollerus are not that stupid to have noticed the ruckus Fraulein has made.

Thor and Touma listen on as the Anti-Skill scramble to mow down Fraulein. Thor notes after Touma asks him who GREMLIN sent with him, that GREMLIN has clearly not moved yet, and that Ollerus is probably doing the same. However, Touma says that if Thor's assumptions are correct, then they are in doubt that Fraulein has escaped, and that they can still fool them if they can send them some fake information making them think it's a trap and that they should stay away, and have them keep away from Fraulein. Thor is intrigued, and asks what they need to do. Touma says that they need to scatter some bait before they get accurate information on Fraulein Kreutune, make them think it must be a trap. Touma and Thor later dress up as firefighters in order to escape the area that is surrounded by Anti-Skill. With that out of the way, Thor and Touma discuss on how they have no idea where everyone from GREMLIN and Ollerus. Touma asks why Thor doesn't even know where his comrades are, and that Touma has no way to contact Olleru. Touma says that the only way is to trap GREMLIN, and that should naturally raise Ollerus' attention, necessitating for him to send out a scout, and for them to set up a second trap. Thor sums up Touma's plan that they make GREMLIN think that Academy City and Ollerus are attacking them, and Ollerus think that Academy City and GREMLIN are attacking his group. Thor tells Touma about the difficulty of his gambit, to which Touma says that it has already become difficult the moment they stepped into the city. Thor accompanies to Touma to his high school to prepare for their trap. Due to the atmosphere of the festival preparations, Thor is intrigued by school life. Finally arriving at the computer laboratory, Touma and Thor set out to print some posters for some plans.

Thor calls Marian Slingeneyer to tell her to meet up with him in a plaza in front of the District 7 station in order to have more firepower in capturing Fraulein. As Marian tries to search for Thor, she discovers a poster of a bulletin board declaring her to be a dangerous person involved in Baggage City, and that she should be reported to Anti-Skill. Marian reports this to Thor as Marian scrambles away. Thor tells Marian that they can crush Academy City and Ollerus' group, but not at the same time. After Thor agrees to Marian's plan on moving to another location, it is revealed that it was all just a ruse made up by Touma, who used the bulletin boards that are used for the festival announcements for his plan, and using Thor's transformation abilities to change into Marian for the photo. Thor asks Touma if he really is going to do it with the second trap on the scout, to which Touma says that Thor should stay out of the way, as the others would get suspicious, and the fact that he is the only one capable of recovering from Fraulein Kreutune's attacks, making him the trump card. He then asks Thor to give him the water based pen as he writes something on his hadnbook and makes it appear smudged. Touma asks what if Marian is going to use her magic while running away, to which Thor replies that she probably won't as she doesn't want to cause a commotion. Touma asks what Marian might do, to which he says that Marian can likely create decorations based on Norse mythology to make the wearer's body invisble, like Tarnkappes, though the user themselves will not be able to know if has actually been rendered invisible or not. But Thor reassures him that he has added some spells the moment Marian entered the plaza in order to prevent her from making herself invisible as so Touma can follow her. And with that, he takes the handbook that he smudged on purpose, and tells Thor to go ahead without him if he can't meet up with him.

Abilities
He uses magic based around the legends of Thor. As the combat representative of GREMLIN, he is probably more than capable of handling battles such is with the likes of Touma to be impressed by his skill even during battle.


 * Female appearance borrowing: The spell is based on the myth when the thunder god had his weapon stolen, he disguised himself as the goddess of beauty, Freyja, in order to lure out the thief. It is like Etzali's, but how it is performed in order to gain the form of another is not explained. It has the limitation that it can only do so takes the appearance of a girl, such as Misaka Mikoto or Marian Slingeneyer.
 * Electric arc blades: A magic spell that forms five electric arcs at the tip of Thor's fingers that he masterfully wields to the point that it can be considered a part of his arm. It can be made to cover several meters. It is sharp enough to cleanly cut through a wind turbine column. The arcs can apparently be replicated by Misaka Mikoto if she preferred.
 * Invsibility spell surpression: Thor has the ability to add some sort modifications to a certain area in order for a invisibility spell to not work without the user noticing.

Character Art Designs
According to Kiyotaka, Thor was originally to have a yellow and black coloring, he accepted this, up until he realized that Kumokawa Maria already had the same coloring scheme.

Kiyotaka ignored the instruction and decided to make his own version of Thor's coloring scheme, which resulted in dark purple and purple scheme with stripes. This Thor was unrefined, specifically, his hair was unkempt, Kiyotaka decided to refine it, and later tried to follow the instructions given to him. He later finishes his design of Thor after removing most of the striped theme on him.

Initially, he had a greater concern for him looking much more like Accelerator than Maria's color scheme. His concerns are later allayed by the 6th NT light novel illustrations of him in his final design.

Quotes

 * (To Touma from NT Volume 5) "Even if we are enemies and we must fight eventually, I think we should have everything settled beforehand so we can fight with no reservations. To be honest, the situation surrounding you is pretty pathetic. Everyone is desperate to lead you around like a trained monkey so they can use your right hand’s power for their own benefit. A fight with you under those circumstances wouldn’t be any fun. What is your view of the situation?"
 * (To Touma from NT Volume 5) "My enemy certainly has become pathetic."