Skuld (Oh My Goddess!)

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Skuld
Skuld and her Angel Noble Scarlet
Species:	Goddess
Rank:	Second class, first category, limited license
Gender:	Female
Age:	12
Seiyū:	Aya Hisakawa
Voice actress:	Pamela Weidner (OVA) Sherry Lynn (Movie) Annice Moriarty (TV)
Height:	1.50m (4'11")
Weight:	43.09kg (95 lbs.)
Hair color:	Black
Eye color:	Brown
Dimension:	10th (Yggdrasil)
Elemental Affinity:	Water
First Appearance:	Chapter 32
Angel:	Noble Scarlet

Skuld (スクルド Sukurudo) is a character in the anime/manga Oh My Goddess! and is the younger sister of Belldandy.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Debugging mallet 2 Personality 3 External links

[edit] Biography

Skuld is Belldandy's younger sister and is the third Goddess to appear to Keiichi Morisato. Skuld has a Goddess second class, type one, limited license, a category similar to her eldest sister Urd. Her true age is unknown, but her appearance is that of a girl in her early teens.

Skuld is one of Yggdrasil's system debuggers. She compensates for her lack of magic power with her innate talent for invention which is known throughout Heaven. Skuld recharges her energy by consuming ice cream and travels via warm or hot water. She bears the emblem of the future.

Skuld is an engineering genius, capable of building just about anything out of the most mundane parts under most limited resources. Sample gadgets have included: explosives, a neutrino detector, glasses that allow user to see invisible "computer bugs," and even a device for removing a miniature black hole from Keiichi's body. Banpei-kun RX and the converted mannequin Sigel are "living" proof of her talent. She can compute equations and redesign even the most complex engineering blueprints in no time. All too frequently, though, she forgets to include instructions with her devices, which can create havoc if someone unsuspecting of their true power (such as Keiichi) interferes with them. Other times, she will concentrate too much on one aspect of a device (usually power) and forgets to compensate by boosting other aspects of the same device, making many of her inventions rather unstable.

In the manga, she also developed the ability to imprint words (usually insults) on the surface of her targets, a power she often uses when expressing frustration with Urd and Keiichi.

She travels to Earth after Belldandy's proximity to Keiichi started creating an increasing number of bugs in Heaven's supercomputer Yggdrasil. At least that was her official excuse, as she believed Belldandy was living with Keiichi against her will. She tried to convince Belldandy to return to Heaven to resolve the bug problem and at the same time with the ulterior motive of alleviating her loneliness. After realizing that Belldandy's relationship with Keiichi was not going to end any time soon, Skuld decides to stay on Earth and act as Belldandy's unofficial chaperone.

Skuld regularly clashes with her sister Urd, particularly when it comes to Belldandy's relationship with Keiichi. However, the two sisters do love each other and will work together to solve a problem or stave off a mutual threat.

In the manga, Skuld's engineering skills made her a minor celebrity around the Nekomi Tech campus, especially when she engaged in a "Robot Wars" competition with Keiichi's sister Megumi Morisato. Keiichi's friends are aware of Skuld's existence and of her living with Keiichi and Belldandy; however, they do not know of her "goddess" status.

Unlike Belldandy and Urd, Skuld did not possess an angel when she was first introduced. Later on Skuld accidentally ingests an angel egg, leading to the premature appearance of her angel, Noble Scarlet. Because of Skuld's lack of magic power, Noble Scarlet lacked the unequivocal obedience an angel must have for her goddess. After interfering with Skuld's budding relationship with Sentaro, Urd turned her back to egg form with the promise that they'll meet again when Skuld has gained enough power. In the meanwhile Skuld wore the angel egg mounted on a necklace. Later on the promise is fulfilled when Skuld calls forth Noble Scarlet in the fight against the Angel Eater. At this time, Skuld had gained the necessary power to control the angel and the only thing lacking was the desire to truly be with her.

[edit] Debugging mallet

Skuld generally carries her debugging mallet, used against Yggdrasil bugs (eight-legged rabbit-looking entities), as a precaution wherever she goes. Yggdrasil bugs can cause adverse effects to the surrounding area such as making it snow on a single house and causing the holy steed Sleipnir to temporarily show up in the temple, and the only way to counter such effects is by debugging. One way to debug is through squishing the bugs with a mallet. Other ways include various gadgets Skuld has built, such as the Mr. Bug Zapper.

[edit] Personality

Skuld is overprotective of Belldandy and interprets anyone having any kind of intimate relationship with her an attempt to steal Belldandy from her. She makes an effort to limit Belldandy's and Keiichi's relationship. It's also implied that Skuld may have a crush on Keiichi; the 2nd special episode of the 1st TV series (where she's grown up for a day) explores this angle by placing Skuld and Keiichi in situations where they appear as a couple.

Skuld also doesn't appear to get along with her oldest sister, Urd perhaps because Urd is somewhat the opposite of Belldandy. However, it is slowly revealed that Skuld and Urd share a complex love-hate relationship, and so even when they are gambling violently over rights to the television, it is obvious that they are "the very best of friends."

Being the inventor that she is, Skuld loves anything technical, but hates inefficiencies, flawed creations, and useless mechanics (such as toys). This is Urd's favorite way of punishing Skuld whenever she touches or breaks any of Urd's potions and such, by making her create gadgets that do absolutely nothing useful. She has a tendency to get carried away fixing or improving anything she sees inefficient. Even when her original intention is to destroy it, she always ends up with something much better, (and usually more destructive). Most of her inventions, more often than not, have extra functions that make situations more complicated, including a self-destruct device in almost everything (including her Robot Wars robot...).

[edit] External links

• (Japanese) Skuld at Official Ah! My Goddess website
• (English) Skuld at Oh My Goddess! wiki
• (English) Skuld at NobleScarlet.net

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