How does Rikuhachima Aru's true personality differ from her villainous facade?
Rikuhachima Aru maintains a villainous front. However, when teased or pressured, she reveals her true nature as a caring individual and a shy artist. Despite her outward persona, Aru is dedicated to expanding her knowledge of the criminal underworld.
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What role does Rikuhachima Aru play as the self-proclaimed leader of Problem Solver 68?
As the self-proclaimed leader of Club Problem Solver 68, Rikuhachima Aru accepts a variety of quests, regardless of their legality, as long as they're paid sufficiently. However, she has often failed several of these requests, giving a bad reputation to her club. Although she maintains a cool, villainous facade, she frequently breaks character, exposing her caring and meticulous nature.
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What weapon does Rikuhachima Aru use?
Rikuhachima Aru uses a Sniper Rifle, specifically a PSG-1 Sniper Rifle named "Wine Red • Admire".
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Introduction[]
The self-proclaimed “Boss” (i.e. president) of Club Problem Solver 68, Aru is a 2nd year student at Gehenna Academy. She conducts her illegal business however she pleases. While Aru always puts on a cool, beauteous, and villainous facade, she has a habit of breaking character often and exposing her true personality when teased or pressured. Despite the vain and conceited persona she wears, Aru is meticulous and caring for the people she is close to. There is definitely more to her than she lets on.
Personality[]
Rikuhachima Aru, the leader of Problem Solver 68 club at Gehenna Academy, is a second-year student with a knack for accepting various quests, legal or not. She puts on a cool, beauteous, and villainous facade but often breaks character, revealing her true caring and meticulous nature when teased or pressured. Behind her mischievous personality, Aru is a shy artist, striving for perfection. She has a thirst for knowledge and constantly seeks to expand her understanding of the criminal underworld, enhancing her problem-solving abilities. While not exceptionally intelligent, her unwavering determination and focus on her goals make up for it.
Aru persists relentlessly until her tasks are thoroughly accomplished, though she can also be goofy and prone to panicking when things don't go according to plan. Her true goal is to make Problem Solver 68 a reputable criminal organization. She constantly tries to impress Sensei on many occasions, and frequently asks them to become a member of Problem Solver 68, despite their constant refusals. She indulges to her obsessions of portraying a delinquent and idolizes the image of a criminal without comprehending the true nature of such individuals.
Appearance[]
She has long, straight shoulder-length pink hair with bangs that cast shadows over her eyes. This lends itself to her trait: the appearance of a villainess or a demon queen. This is augmented by her haughty and pretentious smile and the horns that grow out of the rear of her head. Said horns are wine red, with symmetrical golden accents.
Halo[]
Aru's halo has a smaller circle slightly slanted to her left. A larger disfigured circle with dashed edges and stripes on both side surrounds the first circle. The second circle resembles a crescent moon. When looking at the inner and outer circle together, her halo somewhat resembles an eye.
To the left and right sides of her halo, horizontal lines jut out sharply like spikes.
Uniform[]
Aru wears a red Captain's coat with golden buckles, a long-sleeved collared white shirt, white gloves, a red ribbon around her neck, and an office skirt with gold-strapped high heels.
Firearm[]
Wine Red • Admire
She uses a three-tone PSG-1 sniper rifle with a gold handguard, pistol grip, and stock. It has a black cheek rest and barrel. The rest of the receiver and most of the Hensoldt ZF riflescope is painted in maroon. Some short maroon belts wrap parts of the handguard. A gold rose decal can be seen on both sides of the receiver. The Handyman 68 insignia is stamped on right side of the cheek rest.
Aru's favorite luxury wallet. It is a luxury item made of high quality materials, but the color has faded and there are scratches here and there due to long use. It was given to her by Haruka, Kayoko, and Mutsuki after she first set up her own handyman business, and is an irreplaceable treasure for Aru.
Rikuhachima means "six" or "land" (陸) depending on pronunciation, "eight" (八), and "demon" (魔), loosely creating the phrase "land of the 8th demon" but combining to form the written pun meaning "68th demon."
Trivia[]
Aru's Japanese voice actress is Kondō Reina. Some of her recognizable roles include Ronie Arabel from Sword Art Online: Alicization, Hana Ichinose from Slow Start and Kazano Hiori from The Idolmaster: Shiny Colors.
Aru regularly suffers from DQN chunibyo, given her a delusional, surface level obsession of looking like a delinquent and glorifying the image of being a bad person herself while carrying none of the heart or understanding of why bad people are how they are.
Her EX-Skill's name, Hardboiled Shot derives from the 1992 Hong Kong action film Hard Boiled.
She bears a resemblance to the TF2 Sniper in their role as a sniper who works for hire. Additionally, they both possess a professional nature in their work, adhering to their own standards and mottos. However, they also have a different side beyond their professionalism, where Aru often acts silly or panics, while Sniper behaves wildly under certain circumstances, cherishing his Jarate (jar of urine) and throwing it at his enemies despite it being impolite.
See Also[]
Star IconCategory:testStar IconCategory:testStar IconCategory:testStrikerAru (New Year)
MAX SKILL LEVEL
EX
Obtain 0.7 Skill Cost per evil deed. (Evil deeds are reset). Deals 340% of ATK as DMG to 1 enemy, then ricochets to nearby enemies to deal 340% of ATK as DMG (up to 11 times).
6
N
Deals 321% of ATK as DMG to enemies in a round-shaped area every 30 sec.
P
Increases MAX HP by 26.6%.
Sub
Accumulates 1 evil deed for every 6 enemies defeated by an ally. Up to 6 evil deeds can be stacked, and each evil deed decreases DEF by 5.3%.
Star IconCategory:testStar IconCategory:testStar IconCategory:testStrikerAru (Dress)
MAX SKILL LEVEL
EX
Increases CRIT.DMG by 83.4% for allies other than self (30 sec).
3
N
Recovers 151% of HEAL as HP for 1 ally with the lowest HP excluding yourself every 50 sec.
P
Increases ATK by 26.6%.
Sub
When attacking, has a 30% chance to decrease CRIT.RES by 15.3% for 1 enemy (CD: 13 sec).
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