Talk:Misaka Mikoto/@comment-27455673-20160702124800/@comment-25431873-20160703185335

I disagree. Accelerator is the representative of the science side in the novels. The arc where both him and Mikoto were introduced didn't have her as the "lead", originally she was just "a" heroine for the novel the same as Inded and Himegami were before her in the previous volumes. Furthermore, chronologically speaking, Accelerator became a protagonist of the Science Side in OT5 (and arguably OT8, in which both him and Touma took a backseat as supporting characters to Kuroko, while Mikoto herself did not much of note in the arc besides calling Touma for help), before the Railgun manga even came out, and so was the first proper science side hero instead of "a" main character like Mikoto was before Railgun.

Accelerator using magic has no relevance whatsoever to his status as a Science representative. Mikoto has used magic (sort of) as of the latest novel, does that dethrone her from her status too? Accelerator's adventures are still mainly about the Science Side, most of his allies and supporters are also from the science side, and so on and so forth. He is not even an actual magic user since he used it sparingly and still mostly rely on his science based powers.

My final verdict: Accelerator and Mikoto are both representatives of the science side, though Mikoto has more exposure due to having her own series while Accelerator only has a few books exclusively on him as the hero. That said, with the Accelerator manga, this might change.