Index

Index(インデックス Indekkusu) is the eponymous character of Toaru Majutsu no Index. Also known by her full name of Index Librorum Prohibitorum, she is the main female character of the series and is considered the main heroine of the Magic Side. She is a member of Necessarius and has a Photographic Memory. She holds within herself 103,000 magical texts known as grimoires.

Background
Much of her background is currently unknown because of the periodic memory loss that was brought upon her. It is not known if 'Index' is her true name or if it is a name given to her because she holds within her the 103,000 grimoires. It is confirmed that Index was specifically chosen as the vessel for the 103,000 grimoires because she has the ability to perfectly memorize things and also because she is unaffected by the books' madness-inducing effects, since she possesses no mana and therefore cannot use the grimoires. Though this does not explain how Index CAN still somehow use magic, it is thought some sort of "programming" in addition to Johann's Pen has been implanted into Index to allow her to use magic without being affected by the grimoires. In the manga it is shown that the ritual of transfer was performed in the Vatican by Necessarius.

Later, after becoming the vessel of the grimoires, she was given partners as a means of protection. Three years prior to the start of the series, she was the partner of Aureolus Izzard, then a year later, Stiyl Magnus. Index's relationship with her partners is unknown because of her periodic memory loss, but it is implied that both Aureolus and Stiyl care for her deeply. In Aureolus' case, he was Index's teacher during his time with her. It is confirmed that Kanzaki Kaori was best friends with Index before Index's memory was erased.

The church told lies to Kaori and Stiyl, as they planned to make the grimoires harder to access by telling their underlings to perform "maintenance" on her mind at one-year intervals once her memory had reached its "limit;" that way, she would not remember her close friends and accidentally or purposely reveal the contents of the grimoires. Laura Stuart was the one that came up with this plan, as the alternative was to cut off all of Index's limbs and lock her inside London's Clock Tower to ensure absolute safety of Index Librorum Prohibitorum's knowledge from magicians that would misuse it- and to prevent her escape.

Index came to Japan a year before the start of the series, although she had already lost her memories prior to arrival. This was done as part of Stiyl and Kaori's plan to keep Index away from magicians that would misuse her knowledge, as Japan was seen to be a place with little history of magic according to them. Both Stiyl and Kaori believed it was for the best if Index spent the year running away from magicians as opposed to living through a year full of happiness, as then it wouldn't be as painful (for both themselves and Index) when her memory had to be erased. Index eventually ended up in Academy City as she was being chased by Stiyl and Kaori, because it was once again time to erase her memories. Moving from rooftop-to-rooftop during Academy City's unforseen power outage, she slips and falls, landing onto the apartment balcony of the ever-unfortunate Kamijou Touma..........

Appearance
Index is small in stature, has a petite build, and, much to her chagrin, a flat chest. It can be assumed that she is very young. She has thigh-length, silvery-blue hair, and large green eyes. She is often seen wearing her "Walking Church," a white, modified nun's habit with gold highlights. It offered Index ultimate protection from most attacks, however, it was destroyed by Touma's right hand. She still wears it, though saftey pins are now needed to hold it together. She is noted by Touma to be a "gaikokujin" (foreigner), and it is likely that her nationality is english.

Personality
To complement her childish look, she also displays a childish personality. She is often elated by things that an adult would find mundane and is slightly ignorant and curious of modern technology. She is usually gentle and polite with people and has a kind nature, as shown when she picked up a stray kitten and took it home, although Touma initially refused. She can be easily irritated in a similar manner to how a child reacts to something they don't like- especially when it comes to Touma, who usually ends up angering her in some way as a consequence of his own bad luck. He is often bitten by index as punishment. She also has an extreme appetite as shown when she met Accelerator and forced him to spend all of his money treating her to food. Index has taken a liking to the anime Magical Powered Super Android Girl Kanamin and once cosplayed as her.

Abilities
Her sorcery name is Dedicatus545, "The lamb is devoted to protecting the wisdom of the strongest."


 * Photographic Memory: She is capable of perfectly memorizing anything, such is one of the reasons why she was chosen as the vessel for the 103,000 grimoires, magic books that are poisonous to the mind. This made Yamisaka Ouma wonder if Index is even human.
 * Johanns_Penmode.jpgJohann's Pen: According to Index, she is incapable of magic, however, when under Johann's Pen Mode, she is capable of accessing the grimoires in her memories, including once performing a complex magical ritual that healed her of all her injuries. It is unknown whether or not she was capable of performing magic before losing her memories. Her self-protection system will use the "Feather of Light" to force a reset on Index's own memory should a manual reset fail to be performed.
 * After Touma negated the runic symbol that was meant to destroy her mind, while in Johann's Pen Mode, she was capable of using several very powerful spells:


 * 1) St. George's Sanctuary, a high class defensive spell which tears apart the space of her surroundings, generating a void.
 * 2) Dragon's Breath, a high class offensive spell that has the same amount of power as the legendary dragon of Saint George. This spell casts a beam of light at the target, destroying everything in it's path. It has been shown to have very long range, like when it destroyed Academy City's satellite that housed the supercomputer, 'Tree Diagram', in outer space. It is also shown that the first level of this spell is enough to surpass Kamijou Touma's Imagine Breaker and at it's second level, is enough to blow away Innocentius with ease. The after-effect of this spell is the Feather of Light.

She can also cast two other magical abilities that don't consume any mana energy whatsoever:
 * Spell Intercept, it uses notalicon codes to hijack the spell formula that the caster has been conjuring in their head and causes the magic to go berserk or be outright cancelled. Index used this ability against Sherry Cromwell's golem and to save Last Order from the computer virus that forced her to manifest 'FUSE=Kazakiri'.
 * Hell Fear, is an ability that points out and impeaches the contridiction of the basis of the religion or theory of magic that has been cast and causes a break down in the enemies mind.

List of Books in Index
There are 103,000 grimoires hidden within Index's memory, however there are only a few instances where the names of several books have been explicitly stated. Below is a list of the books that have been named thus far:
 * The Book of Eibon
 * The Lesser Key of Solomon (Lemegeton)
 * The Book of the Dead
 * Necronomicon - In reality is a fictional grimoire created by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft for his stories, it is unknown if the same applies to the Toaru Majutsu no Index universe. Seeing as it is one of the books stated that are contained within Index, it is assumed that their version of the Necronomicon is genuine in their universe.
 * Momotarou - According to Index, the story is actually of occult nature and was disguised as a simple fairy tale told to children.
 * The Tetrabiblos
 * Houbokushi - is a grimoire from China with a way to become an immortal written inside it. Within the book is the way to learn Rentanjutsu, it's said a person can create a miracle drug to cure any illness or curse using that technique.
 * Book of the Law - Book written by Aleister Crowley, according to both Laura and Stiyl she can only memorize the undeciphered code within the book and cannot interpret it.
 * The Moon and the Rabbit
 * Time related to Life and Death

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun
Index only makes a small appearance in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun. Apart from her brief appearance in the 2nd opening where she was seen chasing someone (probably Touma), she appears in episode 17 of the anime where she met Tessou Tsuzuri during her patrol. Here, she introduces herself as a sister and not a student and is seen fighting against a cleaning robot who "ate" her donut. She later appears in episode 19 when Touma is looking for her. Her appearance in this part is somewhat obscured though she is seen eating food prepared by the Tokiwadai Dormitory for their visitors, and it is implied that she is the glutton that Tsuchimikado Maika was referring to earlier in the episode.

She is last seen in the epilogue of the last episode of the anime where she is drinking a soda with Touma.

Index and the Church of Necessary of Evil
Index meets Touma on his balcony, demanding him of food. Index introduces herself as a nun of Necessarius known as Index and that she is being pursued by magicians, as they after the grimoires that she has. Touma was skeptical of the existence of magic, but was quickly proven of it as he destroyed Index's "Walking Church" using his right hand. Index decided to leave Touma, as she didn't want him to get involved, forgetting her headdress while leaving. Because of this she needed to return to Touma's apartment to retrieve it, but was attacked by Kanzaki Kaori, who seriously injured her.

During Touma's battle against Stiyl, Index falls under Johann's Pen Mode. She aids Touma by telling him that Stiyl is using runes that are helping Stiyl. After Stiyl's defeat, Touma takes Index to Tsukuyomi Komoe, as she was not an esper and was capable of performing the ritual to heal Index. Index, still under Johann's Pen Mode, finished the healing ritual with Komoe by summoning a replica of an angel, while chanting, she then falls unconscious.

When Touma returns she tells him the existence of the Church of Necessary Evil, also known as Necessarius. Later, she and Touma go to a bath together where she reveals that she has lost her memories of the previous year, however, she assumes that Touma is angry about this and runs away. She later discovers that Touma has been beaten to unconsciousness and that he has been sleeping for awhile. She then discovers that Stiyl and Kaori have come for her, but believes that they are after Touma, and she tries to defend him, only for them to leave.

While she is resting, Touma discovers the hidden mark within her that could destroy her if her memories aren't periodically erased. Touma touches the seal with his right hand and causes Johann's Pen Mode to activate. Index the attacks Touma, Kaori and Stiyl using Dragon's Breath. Kaori and Stiyl discover that they've been tricked by their church into believing that they needed to erase her memories. With the efforts of Kaori and Stiyl, Touma is able to defeat Index (and in the process, destroy Tree Diagram accidentally) but with the price of Touma losing his memories.

Index visits Touma in the hospital, where the frog-faced doctor tells her that his memories have been erased. Even then, Index pleads to Touma to remember her, asking him things that had happened between them recently and that she loves him. However Touma surprises her that his memories were not really destroyed and that his right hand had fixed the problem, however Index becomes upset at this and bites him and then leaves him. However, it is revealed that Touma was lying about his memories so that Index wouldn't cry, meanwhile Index is walking away, truly happy in believing that Touma remembers her.

Himegami Aisa: Deep Blood
Index and Touma go to a restaurant with Tsuchimikado Motaharu and Aogami Piasu where they meet Himegami Aisa. Index argues with Aisa after the latter claimed that she was a magician, however, their argument was cut short when Aisa's teachers came to pick her up. When walking home with Touma, she discovers an abandoned cat and decides to take care of it, much to Touma's disapproval. The cat runs off and she tries to give chase, though suddenly, she notices someone applying a magic spell and decides to investigate, leaving Touma alone. When she returns to Touma's apartment, she carried with her the cat and named it Sphinx, Touma disapproved at first, but somehow allowed Index to keep Sphinx, much to Index's delight.

After Touma left Index ate the pudding in Touma's refrigerator, when Touma calls her he scolds her for it but later disregards it. Later when Index is taking a bath she remarks on how Touma simply disregarded her eating the pudding and decided to go find him. Index later arrives to the Misawa Cram School where she meets Aureolus Izzard though he is familiar with her, she has no idea who he is as her memories of him were erased, Index is later struck unconscious and slept through the whole battle between Aureolus (who is planning to turn her into a Vampire)and Touma somehow dreaming blissfully of Touma and telling him that she is hungry.

Index with Aisa later visits Touma in the hospital bringing with her Sphinx, she tells him that the church is going to take care of Aisa from now on. She proceeds to eat the apples that Stiyl gave to Touma before Sphinx wreaks havoc on Touma's hospital room.

The SISTERS Arc
Index with Aisa try to find ways to get rid of the fleas that are infesting Sphinx until Touma comes home along with Misaka 10032, much to Aisa and Index's chagrin. Misaka 10032 helps get rid of the fleas on Sphinx using her electrical abilities and proceeds to lecture Touma on how disinfect their room of the fleas before leaving. Index decided to go to Komoe's house for food, seeing as Touma has yet to return home. During their time in Komoe's house, Index helps herself to her food as Komoe explains to Index and Aisa on how esper powers work using Personal Reality. Komoe uses a chocolate ball inside a box to demonstrate this to Index, where the latter is frustrated that she can't figure out what the box holds.

They later go to a public bath drink milk and enjoy a massage chair. Komoe continues to explain to Index and Aisa esper powers and the strange occurence of Level 0's in the city, she inadvertently revealed that many "naughty" things happened with Touma while blushing, which irritates Index and Aisa.

After Touma's battle with Accelerator, she once again visits him in his hospital room. She bites him and then hugged him, stating that she was worried about him. She asks him what he fought for this time, which Touma says that he fought for himself.

Angel Fall
At Komoe's insistence, Touma and Index go to the beach for a vacation until the heat on them by "higher-ups" goes down. Index shows off to Touma her new swimsuit and gives him a jellyfish to the face, confusing it for a hat. Index later becomes disappointed when she discovers that Touma's parents arrival will be delayed, but Touma calms her down.

When everyone's physical appearances are switched due to Angel Fall, Index switches appearances with Aogami Piasu, much to Touma's horror. For the most part of the arc, Index gets abused by Touma for looking like Aogami Piasu and coming on to him. When they return to normal, Index derides Touma for her abuse at his hands and punishes him by biting him.

The Fake Date and the Kamijou Faction
While Touma is in his fake date with Mikoto, unbeknowngst to Index, she is watching and anime called Magical Girl Kanamin intensively until Touma calls her, asking her if she is alright and that a magician is in the city. She aids Touma by telling him the nature of the weapon the magician is using that he is wearing a disguise. He is cut-off from her before she can berate Touma again.

Yamisaka Ouma (Toaru Majutsu no Index Manga and Light Novels only)
Index and Touma go to a diner while Touma is working on his homework, Index lectures Touma on what he is working on, and that it is a veiled occult book and one of the 103,000 grimoires within her before getting attacked Yamisaka Ouma. Despite Touma's efforts, she is kidnapped by Ouma.

During her captivity, it is revealed that Ouma is trying to pull a book from her that will cure any sort of ailment because of a woman he had fallen in love with. Index pleads with him to stop as it would be harmful to Ouma, all the while Touma hears the events unfolding using the cellphone Touma gave to her.

Touma arrives just in time and stops the ceremony before any further damage could be done to Ouma. Here, he proposes to remove the curse that the woman Ouma fell in love with using his right hand.

Accelerator and Last Order
Accelerator passes through Touma's dorm where Index and Touma are arguing before he blocks the sound out with his vector manipulating powers.

Kazakiri Hyouka and the Imaginary Number Sector
Index follows Touma to school because she is worried that she will not get lunch, she successfully finds Touma's classroom but is then swiftly told by Komoe to go home. Index meets a mysterious person named Kazakiri Hyouka, who helps her use a vending machine. They become fast friends and Hyouka helps Index fit in by giving her a school gym uniform to wear. Their fun is, however, cut short when Touma accidentally walks into them. Index introduces Touma to Hyouka and that they are friends, she also warns Hyouka of Touma's tendency to attract women before they are interrupted by Komoe and Hyouka suddenly disappears. Index is later seen depressed because she believes that Touma is angry with her and that he hates her, Hyouka, however, consoles her tells Index that Touma is angry for her sake because they are friends. Touma finishes his class and keeps his promise of going out with Index, he also invites Hyouka to come along.

Index is very enthustiastic when they visit the underground mall. Index and company eat and also play games, and once again, Touma accidentally sees them wearing revealing clothes, which Index promptly punishes him for. Their fun is cut short when they are forced to evacuate due to a disturbance by a terrorist. However, they learn that it is a magician. Touma decides to protect everyone with his right hand, but Index is against this because it is her job to go against magicians. When they hear footsteps approaching, Index and Touma trip on each other. Index then meets for the first time Misaka Mikoto and they do not get along very well, both of them demand answers from Touma on why the other is hanging out with him. Touma asks Kuroko about the situation and says that there is a terrorist in the underground mall and that, as a member of Judgment and being a teleporter, it is her duty to evacuate civilians. Touma asks Kuroko a favor to teleport Index and Hyouka away but Index disagrees since Mikoto would have time with Touma, Touma then asks Kuroko to teleport Hyouka and Mikoto but disagrees since he would have time with Index. Because of this, Kuroko is prompted to teleport both Index and Mikoto away.

Later outside, Mikoto and Index complain about the hot weather. There, Mikoto asks Index why she is wearing a habit under such weather and then asks why her garment is ruined, to which Index replies that she doesn't want to remember why it got ruined. Suddenly, Sphinx runs away and prompts Index to give chase, leaving Mikoto behind. However, Index comes face-to-face with a golem by Sherry Cromwell, whose target is now Index. Even if Index cannot perform magic, she is successful in holding back the golem by intercepting the commands given by Sherry to the golem using the safety pins from her clothing. However, the golem no longer receives commands from Sherry and has now began moving automatically, making Index's situation grim as she can no longer disrupt the golem's movements. Just then, Index is saved by Hyouka who reveals to Index that she is not really a human and that monsters should be fighting monsters. Even with Hyouka's vast amount of power, she is unable to hold-off the golem, although she is saved by Touma who finally destroys the golem.

Index later confronts Hyouka about this, but she simply hugs her, confirming to Hyouka on Touma's statements that she is still human regardless of what she is. After a talk about the untrue nature of Touma's powers, both she and Hyouka concluded that Touma's power can't be classified as magic nor esper, then Index says her farewell to Hyouka as she returns to the Imaginary Number Sector. She tells Index that she will still be on her side, even when she's gone and promises to meet Index again one day before fading away.

The Way of the Light and Darkness
August 31.

Lying on the floor of Touma's room with hunger, Index whines to Touma, but as soon as he tells her the menu will be soumen and noodles, she starts to complain about it. Then, when Tsuchimikado calls them to share the food Maika had just made for him, she rushes to Tsuchimikado's room along with Touma. After realizing the food was left for the time while she isn't there, Touma and Index devour the food.

Volume 21
Later during her stay at St. George Cathedral, the Necessarius headquarters, Index grows "Red Wings" and defeats Styil Magnus with ease, who tries to restrain her in vain, destroying the headquarters in the process and heads to Russia, though her purposes are still unknown.

Toaru Majutsu no Index-tan
Toaru Majutsu no Index is subjected to J.C. Staff's parodying, like Shakugan no Shana, Index is turned to a miniature version of herself albeit with a strange marking on her left eye called Index-tan. In the first sketch Index-tan reenacts her meeting with Touma but is then taken away by a bird and is presumed to have been eaten. Index-tan is later seen eating on top of Touma's head a'la Shana-tan and then proceeded to imitate Shana-tan, Index-tan later urges people to buy the Shakugan no Shana DVDs. During the part where Touma insert his right hand inside Index-tan's mouth to disable the magic within her, Touma says "such misfortune" after being vomited upon by Index-tan. Finally Touma and Index-tan watch a commerical featured by Motoharu and Aogami Piasu, asking Index-tan to be quiet after her amazement.

In the second episode, Touma meets Index-tan again and instead of being taken by a bird she is taken by a cat. When Touma is waiting for Hyouka and Index-tan in a changing booth, he comments on how they are mumbling the song they are singing as to go around copyright laws. When Touma is the hospital he is visited by Kuroko masked in black clothes (a play on Kuroko's name, as kuroko are black-wearing stagehands in traditional Japanese theatre) and Index-tan, who mistakes the antics of Touma's voice actor for his.

Shakugan no Shana-tan Revenge
Index-tan makes a cameo near the end, inserting herself in one of the sketches Shana-tan performs. Here Index-tan remarks that she is hungry while Shana-tan demands Index-tan to go back to her own show, they argue on how Index-tan was only asked to appear on her show. It later pans out to one of the characters of Shakugan no Shana remarking on the appearance of Index-tan and that she is an amateur (refering to her voice actress).

Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus
Index is an unlockable playable character in the game. Index joins your party after you defeat a fake Stiyl Magnus in the game, unlike many of the other playable female characters in the game, Index is more of support-type character using cards that are used in the game to aid the party.

Trivia

 * It is a recurring gag for Index to bite Touma whenever he has inadvertently annoyed or irritated her in some way, occuring even in serious situations or in front of important persons.Index_and_a_leek.jpg
 * Index is still wearing her Walking Church, even though it has lost its powers.
 * Index's "Dragon's Breath" is one of the few magic attacks shown so far to be able to surpass Touma's Imagine Breaker's cancelling speed.
 * Index is still the only girl to have confessed to Touma, however, Touma avoided answering by changing the theme of the talk because since he lost his memories, he has no idea about what kind of relation he used to have with Index.
 * Index's bust size has increased a little bit as evidenced in one of the illustrations of Volume 16.
 * During the Angel Fall arc,Touma and Index found out that she has her own Academy City ID, though neither remembers having applied for it. In the novel Touma thought it was possible using sophiscated equipment to obtain data like fingerprint, retina scans, voice imprint etc, though he doesn't know why anyone would do this. It is implied Aleister Crowley was the one responsible after making agreements with the Anglican Church to keep Index inside Academy City. Also in episode 15 of the anime Index's ID picture contained for some unknown reason Index holding a green onion. It is currently unknown what the intention of J.C. Staff was on this. Probably a reference to Vocaloid's Hatsune Miku.