Xochitl

Xochitl (ショチトル) is a side character in the Toaru Majutsu no Index series. She is an Aztec magician from Return of the Winged One.

Arts and Sciences City SS
She appears in the Liberal Arts City Side Story, where there is a conflict between the Aztec Organization and the U.S. At first, Xochitl threatens to kill Saten Ruiko in order to get her to help with a small task. Later, Saten gets caught up in the conflict and the U.S. side is about to kill her, but Xochitl saves her. The objective of the organization was to destroy the Stargate Project island and the facilities on it, and Xochitl was assisting with the plan, even fighting Misaka in the process. But in the very end, she ignores the organization's orders and teams up with Misaka and the others to solve the problem.

Because of betraying the organization, she is punished and sent to Academy City to kill the other traitor, Etzali, who left them. Her punishment is being shuffled into the 'dark side' of Magic VS Science conflicts, and had a Aztec grimoire forcibly pushed onto her. Over two-thirds of her body are grinded down to dust as the raw materials for the grimore, and it is replaced with artificial body tissues. Later in Volume 19 Etzali is horrified at her punishment, since he himself is a old-hand in terms of the 'dark side' conflicts and forcing a grimoire onto a person is unheard of.

After being sent into Academy City she somehow ended up as part of MEMBER, the team that serves directly under General Superintendant Aleister. The leader of MEMBER, Hakase (meaning professor), knows about her identity as a Magician.

Daihasei Festival Arc
She appears briefly in the Railgun manga, taking her first job as a MEMBER member with her disguise. Saten Ruiko tells her that she feels like they've met somewhere.

Battle Royale Arc
Xochitl first appeared in Volume 15 of the main series where she is sent to kill Etzali, then considered a traitor to the same organization.

She meets up with Etzali when GROUP decides to help Musujime Awaki when her old allies are targeted by BLOCK, and allows the rest of GROUP to pass when Etzali says he'll stay and deal with this. Before GROUP arrived Xochitl managed to kill off 50 mercenaries hired by BLOCK using her Aztec grimoire. Xochitl and Etzali fought, with Etzali victorious and takes her grimoire when it almost drained away all of Xochitl's life force, binding it to him and swears he'll take on this burden.

DRAGON Arc
Later in Volume 19, she makes a brief appearance in Chapter 1, talking to Etzali about the current state of the Aztec Organization. It's revealed that she was Etzali's kouhai, and calls Etzali "Onii-chan" again after a long time. After hearing Motoharu comment about Etzali picking up other girls (a reference to Etzali's pursuit of Misaka Mikoto), she gives Etzali death glares and says that he better not have left their organization for something like that.

It should be noted the reason for her to be secretly interned in a Hospital within Academy City, is likely thanks to Etzali's arrangements; this as to allow Xochtil to recover of her injuries (by it's nature, her grimoire damaged 2/3 of her body). However she is conscious of the fact that as she was hidden by Etzali and lost contact with her organization means that they would either label her as killed in action or as a betrayer to their cause.

Homecoming Arc
She reappears in volume 2, moved to a private room with her friend Tochtli. When Etzali came to visit, she asked why he was still using his disguise when he was alone with them. When Tochtli suggested that he was using it's good looks on ladies, Xochtil threatened him to take it off before she attempted to rip it off.

Magic/Abilities
Her magic originally is to retrieve a dead person's will, if they have not left one prior to their death. Her nickname is the "Corpse Worker" (死体職人), and it is said she knows a myriad of magic to do with 'death', albeit none of which can be used for attacking; she had the job of verifying if a person's will was correct after they had died

After her failure in USA she had a grimoire based on a derivative of the Aztec Calendar Stone (暦石) (the Calendar Stone holds the complex calendar the Aztecs use, and also records the process of how the world would destroy itself and its following rebirth). The grimoire works by grinding down her own body into dust, and as the dust is carried by the wind onto the opponent's weapons the weapons would be seen as part of her body to be controlled and forces the enemy to commit suicide with the weapon. The parts of the body that is used up will be replaced by obsidian, and magic is the only thing anchoring the user's mind and soul to the body.

She could also 'take faces' like Etzali by carving the skin off their victims and fashion it into a mask that can change their identity. She might also have magic that can create a 'hammerspace' to store her items, when she took out her 'macuahuitl' from seemingly out of nowhere when she fought Etzali.

In addition to her magic, she is shown to wield a 'Macuahuitl' マクアフティル, a jade Aztec sword made for crushing and sawing the opponent into two pieces with one blow. This weapon is used between the 12th and 16th century. Though Xochitl does not know about the saw function and ended up being defeated by Etzali due to that, since the macuahuitl is not a processed metal weapon that can cut easily. In the hands of a trained Aztec warrior Etzali would have been crushed by the physical force, but Xochitl doesn't have that kind of physical strength. Etzali remarked Xochitl isn't suited for that kind of weapon.

Design evolution
Xochitl's design remains static throughout the series. According to Haimura, he didn't really give much thought to her design.

Trivia

 * Xochitl's three sizes are (84, 45, 81), mentioned in the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS: Liberal Arts City. Saten is disappointed that she cannot beat Xochitl in any of the three.
 * The name 'Xochitl' is also a name of one of the Aztec gods, and in the Ancient Aztec language it means 'Flower'.

Quotes

 * (To Etzali, vol 15) “I abandoned everything to come take you out because you went over to Academy City’s side, you damn traitor!”
 * (To Etzali, vol 19) : “Now over two-thirds of my body is made of artificial parts. … So how did it go? You managed to perfectly take the grimoire from me while I was unconscious. Once again you made me see your skills and magnanimity as a magician.”
 * (To Etzali, vol 19) : “It’s nothing. When you speak of ‘comrades’ now, the first thing that pops up in your mind is definitely those guys that I don’t know of right?”
 * (To Etzali, vol 19) :“No, ara, what are you on about?” --“… Middle-school girls? Don’t tell me you betrayed the ‘organization’ for a reason like that”