Awatsuki Maaya

Awatsuki Maaya (泡浮 万彬) is a minor character introduced in the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun sidestory. She is an Academy City esper with aquakinetic abilities of unknown level. She is often seen together with her friend, Wannai Kinuho.

Background
She is a Tokiwadai Middle School student, and is part of the swimming team of her school, along with her close friend Wannai Kinuho. She is also a classmate of Shirai Kuroko. She resides in the School Garden dormitory of Tokiwadai, just like Kinuho.

Appearance
She sports dark-bluish hair and eyes. Her bust size is large enough for Misaka Mikoto to be jealous over, though not larger than Kinuho.

Personality
She is shown to be kind, and is also considerate and forgiving of other's flaws. She is also seen to be respectful towards a senpai. She also has diverse knowledge on swimsuits.

Level Upper Incidents
She appears alongside Kinuho, when Shirai Kuroko and Misaka Mikoto were forced to clean the empty pool as punishment. As members of the swimming team, they were supposed to check the pool's filtration system, where they meet Mikoto for the first time, and along with Kinuho is excited by her presence. She later offers Mikoto a drink, which upsets Kuroko. They leave but returns shortly, where they witness Mikoto electrocuting Kuroko for being perverted, they leave after they see the awkward situation.

In the manga adaptation, they appear only after defeat of the AIM Burst; however in the anime, they appear before the existence of the Level Upper is even confirmed by the city.

Both Maaya and Kinuho appear again in episode 13 of the anime, where they recruit both Kuroko and Mikoto for a swimsuit modeling photoshoot. After many bizarre situations they are given duties to cook curry, however it is revealed that both of them don't know how to cook curry. They later ask Kongou Mitsuko (who lied to everyone that she can cook curry) to teach them; after suffering many inconveniences, Mitsuko finally told them that she does not know how to cook curry, they are somehow forgiving of her and later ask Konori Mii to help them. They were able to cook seafood curry and were able to become friends with Mitsuko.

Poltergeist Incidents
She and Kinuho reappear during the Tokiwadai Midsummer Festival, where it is revealed that they reside in the School Garden dormitory instead of the dormitory where the festival is being held. They were invited by Mitsuko to enjoy the festival. They later see Mikoto's violin performance.

Maaya later reappears during the swimming team's practice, giving Kinuho a towel and later both state the desire to visit Mitsuko in the hospital she was in (as she was injured by the Poltergeist occurences in the city).

They appear in the prologue of the anime adaptation, listening on how Mitsuko has apparently solved the Poltergeist Incidents.

Toaru Majutsu no Index
They appear in the manga during the morning of August 30, just after breakfast. Here, Maaya stops Kinuho from bothering Mikoto as she sees her in deep thought and is restless (actually thinking about the newest chapter of the manga she is following).

Ability
According to the booklet that comes with the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun DVD or Blu-Ray Disc, Maaya is an aquakinesist, able to mainpulate water, though it is not stated what level her power is.

Quotes

 * "We didn't see anything." -Maaya, after witnessing Mikoto torturing Kuroko.