Black★Gold Saw (The Black★Rock Shooter Anime)

"I want to know why we're retreating without achieving our objective."

- BlackGoldSaw

Black★Gold Saw is a human from  and is a member of, thus is officially recognised as an  of , considered one of the more powerful of the group.

Appearance
Gold is a pale-skinned, red-eyed girl, with long flowing black hair. She is noticeably tall aiding by the presence of red tipped devil horns on her head. A red flame shoots out from her right eye that can be controlled. Her eyes have a concentric circle pattern.

Her clothes consist of a buckled bikini top under a black jacket. The jacket has a white jaguar emblem with three whites stars above it on her right side of the torso. She also wears a pair of tight-fitting shorts, mounted claws, and black mid-calf-high boots.

Personality
Gold is a quiet girl but is very confident in her skills as a fighter and can come over as anti-social, especially after being annoyed at having to obey orders from as part of, who is considered to be physically weaker than Gold. During, Gold came to realise her strength and power was far surpassed by many others in this new world, especially the members of the administration and her self-esteem dropped substantially. She came to realise that as the leader of the Black Squad, Black suffered from the strain of responsibility, scrutiny and hate, none of which Gold wanted, leading Gold to appreciate Black for what she was worth.

Policies

 * No Failure
 * As someone who dominated in her own world, Gold is not used to and does not react well to her own failures. She believes that all failures can be avoided, a belief that does not go well with her lax nature.


 * Gold follows, happy that it essentially protects her from more powerful s.
 * Gold follows, happy that it essentially protects her from more powerful s.

Powers
Shooter Powers
 * Gold can activate her powers by igniting a red flame from her right eye.


 * Chain Control
 * Gold can summon chains from solid surfaces to latch onto a target.


 * Checkerboard Environment
 * When fighting another being that possesses Shooter powers, including, the ground turns into a brittle ceramic material and gains a clean black and white checkerboard pattern.


 * Limited Hammerspace
 * Gold is capable of sending into Hammerspace, if she is in contact with it.

 Powers
 * After Yamaha's exploration of the underwater city of, Gold made use of the stores of s there to give herself various superhuman powers including freezing and causing rage. However, these have had negative effects on Gold's health, physically and mentally. It is not known if or  have removed these bad side-effects yet.


 * An causes the target to attack anyone in the near vicinity.
 * An causes the target to attack anyone in the near vicinity.


 * A temporarily freezes the target, allowing them to be shattered.
 * A temporarily freezes the target, allowing them to be shattered.

Talents
Arms
 * Gold is capable of using small firearms to an extent but prefers physical attacks.

Melee
 * Gold is a very strong melee fighter, stronger than both Black and White, at least in their normal forms.

Swordplay
 * Gold is very skilled in heavy swordplay. She owns a long heavy and two-handed sword, called, which she has no difficulty wielding.

Armament

 * is a long heavy and two-handed sword that Gold has no difficulty wielding.
 * is a long heavy and two-handed sword that Gold has no difficulty wielding.

Gold was reunited with and joined the  as an  of.

, Post-
Yamaha explored the underwater city of, Gold making use of the stores of s there to give herself various superhuman powers including freezing and causing rage.

Gold was onboard the aircraft carrier  along with Black★Rock Shooter and, following the  that broke though  crossing  that caused a fight to break out between the ship and a small but powerful group of Gensokyo's forces. After the Thunder Child fled the scene and The Hakurei Barrier had been reformed, Black was ordered to approach the area, with in the vicinity deactivated, again on the Akagi to communicate with the Gensokyo task force and convince them the Thunder Child had been commandeered and would require both Gensokyo and Yamaha to intercept. agreed to a temporary alliance and the Barriers between the two kingdoms were deactivated.

From that point, Gold's responsibility under Black was to chase down the Thunder Child and secretly prevent Gensokyo from seizing its technology. Black was granted command of the Akagi, a es unit and was accompanied by Gold and fellow Black Squad member Black★Matagi once more. However, Gensokyo insisted on accompanying Black's group with a more powerful force, captained by who was given control of ', its fleet of s and was joined by her younger sister,, and  with the original '. Upon catching up with the Thunder Child, which was again being remotely controlled by, it became apparent that Remilia was unwilling to lose possession of the Thunder Child, using the far larger Arsenal to skewer the smaller ship and prevent the Thunder Child from heading north, back towards Yamaha territory. Black realised the only way to regain the Thunder Child was to fight Remilia's group. Using the power of a remote to make the Akagi temporarily invulnerable, Black had the Akagi ram into the Thunder Child, freeing the warship. However, Nitori prevented the Thunder Child's escape. On seeing Flandre board the Thunder Child, Gold also boarded to prevent any potential progress and the two fought, destroying the port side of the ship. Before Black could reclaim the Thunder Child, ordered her group to retreat back to Yamaha waters in preparation for the reactivation of The Sonic Barrier to be done right after. Uninformed about The Meltdown Directive, Black did as she was told ordering Gold's return to the Akagi. Gold froze Flandre and caused her to rage, allowing Gold to be airlifted away by without retaliation. On returning back to Yamaha waters, Black was given new orders by to redirect the Akagi towards  revealing that The Meltdown Directive was created to allow Yamaha to take over.

Original Events, Pre-
Gold was one of many stationed in the United States to establish order in Yamaha's new territory but was not prepared for the strong resistance by the American branch of, a massive group of people devoted to the collapse of The Three Kingdoms, normally kept in check by the powerful Gensokyo administration. Gold and the rest of The Black Squad were rounded up and imprisoned but not before destroying their Black Squad access cards, preventing The Anti-Humour Society's access to many high security buildings, especially.

Gold confessed that Black was the better leader of the Black Squad, convincing Black to remain as the leader.

, a sentient crystal ball, was briefly released from statis in to allow Haruhi to examine him for danger. As an, he was deemed a harmless object but was placed back in statis just in case. However, in the time he was free, he digitalised the surrounding area, making the statis ineffective. The digitisation spread throughout the universe, including Gold.

Yggdrasil's digitalisation reached the edge of the universe, inadvertently granting digital access, who infected the world with. This affected all non-immune humans including Gold, placing them under the control of The Director, recognisable by yellow eyes.

, including who had also been freed by the digitalisation, agreed to stage a fake war to coax  to feel true fear, the last missing emotion of, to allow them to return to their original worlds. Under the guise of a difference in ideals between Haruhi, Miku and Reimu, were refounded. Gold joined Gensokyo, said to want a unified world with a single country. As part of the plan, Gensokyo declared war on Yamaha and North High.