Black★Matagi (Black★Rock Shooter)

"Wow, that was my weakest shot."

- BlackMatagi

Black★Matagi is a  from  and is a member of the, thus is officially recognised as an  of.

Appearance
Matagi is a pale-skinned, purple-eyed girl, with short black hair. She is relatively short among the Black Squad. Her eyes have a concentric circle pattern.

Her upper clothes are similar in nature to a sailor uniform with a white collar, long sleeves, a short pleated skirt and a predominant black colour scheme. She appears to wear a blouse with thin shoulder straps under her outfit. Matagi also wears a pair of knee-high high-heel boots. Her accessories are a pair of headphones and a white armband with a black pentagram design. She wears an eyepatch over her right eye.

Personality
Matagi is a quiet girl with an analytical nature but is not beyond resorting to force.

Policies

 * Matagi upholds the but has been rather quiet about 's methods of punishment, including throwing people out of high windows by s, which caused serious damage to the people involved.
 * Matagi upholds the but has been rather quiet about 's methods of punishment, including throwing people out of high windows by s, which caused serious damage to the people involved.

Powers
Shooter Powers
 * Matagi has Shooter powers that are permanently active.


 * Chain Control
 * Matagi 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
 * Matagi is capable of sending her cannon into Hammerspace, if she is in contact with it.

Talents
Arms
 * Matagi is somewhat experienced in small arms combat but works best with her large and long sword artillery cannon.

Melee
 * -wise, Matagi is an above average melee fighter but is one of the weaker melee fighters in.

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

Armament

 * Sword Artillery Cannon
 * Matagi wields a long sword artillery cannon capable of ranged and close combat.

Matagi was reunited with and joined the  as an  of.

Matagi, along with fellow Black Squad member, accompanied Black who's responsibility at the time was to chase down the , that had recently broken though  , and secretly prevent Gensokyo from seizing its technology. Black was granted command of the Akagi and a es unit. 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. After ordering Matagi to fire a warning shot at an that was ignored by the Gensokyo escort, 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. Remilia confronted the crew of the , Matagi holding her off for Black to answer a call from who ordered Black, before she could reclaim the Thunder Child, to retreat back to Yamaha waters in preparation for the reactivation of  to be done right after. Matagi lost the fight with Remilia, a battle Black had to take over. 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-
Matagi 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 , normally kept in check by the powerful Gensokyo administration. Matagi 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.

, 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 Black.

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 Matagi, 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. Matagi 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.