Tohru Kobayashi

Tohru Kobayashi (小林トール, Kobayashi Tōru) is a dragon and a special class Ghoul Investigator. She is one of the main characters in Dragon Maid and one of the main protagonists for Tokyo Ghoul: Dragon Quinx (東京喰種トーキョーグール: ドラゴンクインクス, Tōkyōgūru: Doragon Kuinkusu). She is Kobayashi’s former lover and a newly beloved friend of Shouta, now becomes his fiancée. After Shouta's parents and relatives including her lover Kobayashi had died after a ghoul murder incident, she is on a quest to recover Shouta's Conduit powers that were seized by a member from Legion, in which she also has to keep Shouta’s true identity hidden as he had become an artificial one-eyed ghoul. Previously, before she and Kobayashi reunited with Shouta, she was exiled from her dragon faction for neglecting her life as a dragon. In which her father, Damocles, detract her magical dragon powers (excluding her ability to transform into a dragon or human) and banish her to Earth as a punishment. However, she did not care, she decided to live her normal life with Kobayashi and Shouta.

Currently, Tohru is the leader of the Kobayashi Squad and the commander of the Kaneki faction. She was declared by Juuzou Suzuya as The Next Haise (次のハ琲世, Tsugi no Haise), the new leader of Quinx Squad.

Appearance
In her human form, Tohru has long blonde hair with flaming orange tips and red-orange eyes with dilated pupils, and a buxom figure with large thighs and plump, bouncy breasts, claiming to be a D cup (for dragon size). She magically transforms her scales into a maid outfit, copying the uniform from a maid cosplay cafe (Maid Cafe Cozy) after flying to Kobayashi's apartment the first time.

While in the private comfort of Kobayashi's apartment, Tohru wears her tail out, and on occasion, her wings. Outside, she hides both her tail and wings but retains her horns. Anyone who notices usually chalks it up to a form of cosplay. She still has her maid headband on as a Ghoul Investigator and wears a Quinx uniform. A white dress with dark grey clothes as well as a small white string tie. A white belt with dark coloured shoes and dark socks. During her training, she notices something odd that her breasts enlarges 4cm big. She always wear a choker featuring a blue gem, given to her by Shouta as a token of the moment when he promised that they will be together.

During the A-Period, Tohru wears an S3 Squad Uniform during battles. Whenever she works in the TLF office, she wears a dark cyan clothes consisting a white string tie. She also wears a dark blue long skirt in order to have enough space to whip out her tail.

In B-Period, as a member of the Kaneki Faction, she wears a black trench coat similar to Shouta. She no longer wears her maid headband as well as she untied her two ponytails that hangs on her side. When she is not wearing her coat, she wears a long coat, knee-high boots, and long clinging gloves covering the entirety of her arms before reaching her shoulders. Underneath is a tight form-fitting suit with a cutout revealing her lower back and her cleavage is visible to see. She also had an engagement ring given by Kobayashi on her right hand after putting Kobayashi's ring on Shouta.

Tohru's dragon form appears as a big green European dragon with black wings and a light green underbelly. The height of her dragon forms towers over Kobayashi's old apartment that's four stories high.

Tohru's hair is given an extra shade of pink and purple at the tips.

Personality
Tohru is an exiled dragon in this alternate universe, whose powers and skills are stripped away as a punishment for disobeying the Chaos Faction's rule. She was seen to hate humans until she met Kobayashi. She is now cheerful and kind to every human she meets, except for those who are real, or as it is in most cases, imaginary, a threat to her love interest in Kobayashi. She is also quickly influenced by what she sees on the television or the Internet, and shares a fiery relationship with her rival, Elma.

After the ghoul incident, after finding Kobayashi and her companions are all murdered by a ghoul, but leaving only one survivor, Shouta, Tohru is completely traumatized. She begins to have a shift of personality. Even though Tohru now cares about humans and no longer sees them with hatred, it is seen that she is too afraid to fight. She is still way too nervous about Shouta's life and appears to be very protective of him as he is the only one alive. Tohru is shown to be a fast-learning young lady, though. It's seen that her ability on her quinque changes a lot while Amon is teaching her. After her training, she no longer becomes scared of fighting as she is brave enough to take on a ghoul.

Background
Tohru was raised to believe that humans were evil, inferior and foolish beings, which explains her initial distaste towards the human race and her alignment with the Chaos Faction. She was heavily injured by a god (Who later revealed to be Taka's father in Dragon Quinx) leading a human army (Before they transformed into Dire Ghouls) in her last battle, forcing her to retreat to the modern world to hide where she meets Kobayashi, who rescues her from the verge of death. On that same day, she falls in love with Kobayashi and takes her up on her offer to live with her as her maid.

However, due to her having living among humans, she was exiled from her faction, having her dragon abilities stripped away and banished to Earth as a punishment, never granting her access to meet her father again. However, she likes it that way as she can live happily with Kobayashi, alongside Shouta's new family, Kaneki and Touka, after reuniting with him.

History
During a flashback about 6 years ago, Tohru and Kobayashi were living peacefully in their apartment until Shouta knock in to inform them about his parents being murdered by Brooke Augustine. While Kobayashi talk with some investigators at their front door, Tohru comforts Shouta by hugging him who was crying over the death of his parents while looking at his family photo. The next day while Kobayashi heads off to her company, she is requested by her to look after Shouta. She asked if Lucoa could look after him instead, Kobayashi denied as she states to her that having Lucoa looking after him would have a chance that she would seduce him instead.

Shouta while lying on the sofa, listened to the news of the D.U.P taking over the first city, Tokyo. Tohru went over to him and placed his head on her lap, stating that 'it will be alright' as she strokes his head as if she is treating him like Kanna Kamui. The next day when Tohru is brings Shouta to school, Shouta confesses his feelings for Tohru that he is in love with her because of her kind and wise nature but only by saying "precious" and that he also stated that she is the only dragon that he trusts. Without turning back, Shouta heads off into his school, while Tohru, stunned, her heart felt heavy when Shouta confessed to her.

One night when Shouta isn't around, Tohru starts behaving seductively towards Kobayashi stating that she wants to consummate with her. Tohru pounced on Kobayashi and kissed her as Kobayashi slowly starts to strip off Tohru's maid dress. She told her that Shouta was an "idiot" for calling her "precious" as she is heavily obsessed with Kobayashi a lot.

Not realizing that Shouta had arrived home with a flower to give to Tohru, the two were shocked to see him witnessing the two kissed, which resulted of him breaking down in tears. Tohru tries to convince to him that she really doesn't mean to do it with Kobayashi. It resulted Shouta starts packing up and running away from them. Tohru pursued Shouta but eventually gave up because of the rain. While Kobayashi followed, Tohru gradually breaks down to tears, reflecting on what she had done.

Epilogue (The Start of Dragon Quinx), Prologue arc
In the epilogue of the When Smoke Meets Rain novel, Kobayashi and Tohru saw the news of Shouta, who is 18 years-old, liberated Tokyo from the D.U.P after he possess Conduit powers. Finally after 5 years of searching for his whereabouts, Kobayashi and Tohru emotionally embraced as they can finally start to find him in Tokyo. After their journey to Tokyo, Kobayashi and Tohru gathered informations on where Shouta is currently living in. And that they met Hina Amano, who finishes her school, they asked if she knows where Shouta lives. Hina replied to them that Shouta is currently living with the Kaneki family in Ward 23. She asked them why, Kobayashi states to her that they are Shouta's beloved close ones. Hina suddenly remembers Shouta telling her about them a month ago. After knowing where Shouta is living at, the two heads to Ward 23 looking for Shouta's apartment. The two looked everywhere and doesn't appears to them that Shouta is around at the moment. Soon as it is getting late, Kobayashi tells Tohru that they should return home and continue searching for him the next day. However, Tohru refuses to as she desperately wants to find him. Luckily, the two spots Shouta who is seen helping his adoptive parents, Kaneki and Touka on carrying boxes of his belongings from his previous home after his adoption.

Tohru starts tearing up, as she can finally reunite with Shouta face to face again. Kobayashi, on the other hand, changes her mind on letting Tohru have Shouta as her second lover. The two then visits the Kaneki family's house, knocking on the door, Kaneki shows up. Kobayashi and Tohru introduces themselves and asked if they could see Shouta for a moment. Kaneki then calls Shouta down, as he arrives, Shouta told Kaneki that he didn't invite any guests into the house until he saw Kobayashi and Tohru at their doorstep which left him speechless. Tohru began to be emotionally in tears, Kobayashi allows her to go forth and apologize to Shouta. She darted towards him and hugged him. As Kobayashi interacts with Shouta's new family as Kaneki and Touka has heard about her, Tohru went towards depressed Shouta and reaching out for his hand. However, he starts walking away from her. Tohru starts reflecting on her own actions.

For a few days, Tohru tries to talk to Shouta, but he ignored her. When Shouta isolates himself in his room, Tohru entered and confesses to him that she is a 'stupid dragon'. She then burst into tears, feeling miserable about what she had done and begs Shouta one last time for forgiveness. Finally, Shouta went over and hugged her, stating that he forgives her. Tohru then talks with Kobayashi telling her that she is already forgiven. Kobayashi then advised Tohru that she needs to "give him love" after all that he had been through.

Kobayashi
Tohru is deeply in love with Kobayashi. She does her best to serve Kobayashi as her maid every day and hopes that someday they'll share feelings. Throughout the story, she attempts feeding Kobayashi her tail (without success) after detoxifying it. Kobayashi and Tohru somehow agrees to get married. After hearing the news upon the death of Shouta's parents, she was requested by her to look after while she is away to handle her business problem. Tohru asked Kobayashi if she could let Lucoa to come over and take care of him instead, but she explains that her comfort would not work on him as she might seduce him rather than putting him at ease.

Right when Shouta was not around that night, Tohru tells Kobayashi she called Shouta an 'idiot' for calling her precious. When Shouta heard what Tohru had said, she realized what she had done made his heart fall.

After Kobayashi and Tohru reunites with Shouta, Kobayashi states to Tohru that the two should provide him with a lot of comfort, even though he had been through a lot. Kobayashi asked her if she likes Shouta, in which that made her flushed and giddily replied that she likes him a little after he made his first confession. The two realized that Shouta had spent five years being alone without comfort. One day when Kobayashi proposed to Tohru, she asks Shouta if she and Kobayashi could get married which he allows. However, after the wedding ceremony, Kobayashi and Tohru felt deeply sorrowful for Shouta after all he had been through. Kobayashi thanked Tohru for providing her with all the love she gave and states that she needs to "give him love", in which Tohru will find a way to satisfy Shouta.

Shouta Magatsuchi
Tohru had never interacted with Shouta before. However, it is her first time that she interacts with him when he ran to her and Kobayashi's private apartment to inform them about his parents dead. Having him sobbing uncontrollably, Tohru comforts and embraced him to ease his grief. After being praised by him only being called "precious", her heart felt heavy as she starts to grow closer to Shouta as she begins to befriend with him.

Tohru had deep feelings for Shouta after he attempts to confess his feelings for her. She genuinely felt terribly guilty for 'breaking his heart' when she called him an 'idiot', causing Shouta to run away from them. Upon seeing Shouta packing up, Tohru tries to convince him that she doesn't mean to kiss Kobayashi and called him that. But Shouta lost trust on Tohru, eventually leaving their apartment. Tohru painfully broke down to tears, feeling shameful for what she had done.

After reuniting with him after five years, Tohru tearfully tries to apologize to him but he ignored her. While she decides to have a private time with Shouta, she burst to tears and blames herself a 'stupid dragon' and therefore begs Shouta one last time for forgiveness. Eventually, Shouta finally forgives her, knowing that the guilt is too much.

Tohru deeply adores him a lot the same way she loves Kobayashi. Promising Kobayashi that she'll do everything she can to save him from the pain he had suffered over the years. Tohru is rather very doting and protective of him, she often treats him like a 'big sister' and also loves to tease him. As he has the same personality as Kobayashi, she would often call him 'Mr. Kobayashi', much to his embarrassment. It is seen when Tohru and Kobayashi often stumble upon him where ever they goes, he would have his school friends with him. Tohru often pounce on Shouta and hugs him, which leads him to embarrassment and discomfort as his friends watch him and calling him 'lucky boy'. Whenever he's depressed, she will always give him hugs or laying her forehead on his in order to demonstrate her love for him, just like how Kobayashi showed her affection for Tohru. During her first fight with Elma, she start to have romantic feelings towards him after he saved her from getting killed, second after Kobayashi.

When they were in a coffee shop, Tohru asked if he is single, which make him flustered. During the Bloodshed Period, Shouta finally confessed his feelings to Tohru saying that he truly loves her because of how precious she really is. Fortunately as he knows that Tohru is still in love with Kobayashi, Tohru also expressed her feelings for him. Tohru proposed to Shouta with a silver ring (Once used to be Kobayashi and Tohru's engagement rings), placing it on his finger. She explained that these rings are engagement rings that were once used to be hers and Kobayashi's but now it is for Shouta, stating that she will remarry with him to fulfil Kobayashi's promise.

Another example is when the two were in a hotel room, she explains to him that she promised Kobayashi only to protect him, but however, she also wants Shouta to be happy. Tohru thanked him for saving her life during her first fight with Elma. He starts shedding to tears stating that without her, he will be lonely as she meant a lot to him. She felt incredibly touched and sad as the two embraced as they both wept. Realizing how much pain he had been through, Tohru gives him a kiss for the first time, which results the two consummating their relationship, accepting Shouta to be her second lover after Kobayashi. Shouta then burst to tears as he starts apologising to her after their copulation. During Akira and Amon's wedding, Tohru later then gives him a ring which symbolizes his former ancestor who is revealed to be a Greek God, featuring a phrase 'sic parvis magna' (meaning: Greatness from small beginnings). Tohru becomes much more closer to him, seeing him like Kobayashi is residing in his body, yet still having his own spirit. Tohru reveals to Shouta that she is pregnant, he starts to feel guilty and embarrassed for getting into this relationship with Tohru in which he himself doesn't want to as it might break Kobayashi's heart, Tohru then stated to him that Kobayashi wants him to 'have this life he wanted'.

Amon Koutarou
Tohru is very loyal to Amon. As her mentor, she respects him a lot and does everything to try to impress him. She first dislikes Amon for pressuring her on her first day of training to be a Ghoul Investigator. However, at the end, he compliments her fighting skills and sets off to be the first female dragon Ghoul Investigator. As Amon congratulates Tohru for successfully joining the Tokyo Liberation Front association, Tohru starts to have kindness in him.

Tooru Mutsuki
Tohru met Mutsuki the first time when she was attacked by Shouta who had transformed into an artificial one-eyed ghoul. She dislikes him after stabbing Shouta in the shoulder with his quinque. After Mutsuki sees Tohru being part of the Quinx Squad, he congratulates her and warns her that if she fails them, she'll face the consequences. However, the two didn’t seem to have started a fight as they were about to. Tohru warned her to not get into Shouta and Tohru’s way or else Tohru had no other choice but to kill her.

Mutsuki always seems to be suspicious of Tohru and Shouta on what’s with them, he would frequently ask Tohru why she’s bringing Shouta to recover his powers for. Tohru however didn’t explain but told him that this doesn’t involve him and to mind his own business as she excused "family matters".

Haise Sasaki/Ken Kaneki
Not much interaction is shown between them. But it is seen that Kaneki asked Tohru to bring his daughter and his youngest son to his brother-in-law, Ayato. After he died, Kaneki can be seen in Tohru’s visions as he encourages her to help Shouta be prepared and ready for whatever that is coming to them. As Haise Sasaki, Tohru didn’t know that Kaneki was also Haise Sasaki after killing a ghoul that had seen Haise’s actions in the past. Tohru first interacted with Haise when she was still in training, Haise pressures Tohru to not give up while trying to destroy a metal dummy with only a wooden sword.

Touka Kirishima
Tohru deeply respects Shouta's adoptive mother as seen helping Touka and Kobayashi getting groceries from the supermarket. Though, not much interaction is shown between them yet.

Ichika Kaneki
Tohru finds Ichika very cute. She often interacts with her everytime. Tohru had deep fondness with Ichika, she deeply loves her so much like an older sister.

Kuki Urie
As her Ghoul Investigator squadmate from the Quinx squad, Tohru is kind to Urie treating him with loyalty and respect. She idolizes Urie for his fighting skills but however, Urie always gets annoyed when Tohru always disturbs him. After Tohru reveals to Urie that Kaneki is dead, Urie seems to have acquired a more respectful attitude towards Tohru by expressing condolences to her. He first told Tohru that Kaneki or Haise was not quite a good mentor after the death of one of his comrades, Ginshi Shirazu, accusing Kaneki/Haise of not being there for them. However, Tohru praises Urie that he will become a good leader in the Quinx Squad and therefore would never let them down. Urie eventually starts trusting Tohru as he sees slight improvement in their squad.

Saiko Yonebayashi
As she is intensely in love with Shouta because of his handsomeness, Tohru seemed troubled by Saiko. Tohru still convinces her that she is only taking Shouta to restore his powers, not calling their attention to women and children. However whenever Tohru takes Shouta with her, Saiko will still get angry. Saiko will always yell 'My Shouta!' as an indication that Shouta is extremely fascinated with her. Somehow, Tohru has to assist Saiko with her fascination with Shouta, since Tohru is the only one Shouta will ever trust as the only survivor.

Juuzou Suzuya
First off, Tohru despised Suzuya for wrongly accusing Shouta of being a ghoul. However after sparing them and making Tohru continue her job as a Ghoul Investigator, Tohru eventually goes soft on him. Tohru begins to have goodness in him when they get along together. Suzuya begins to act the same way as when he was in :re with Haise Sasaki. When he sees Tohru as the new Haise Sasaki, he continues to bring back the fascination with sweets. He has a habit of inspecting Tohru's clothes anytime Tohru and Suzuya meet; for Tohru, she knows that Suzuya has a habit of snacking and often brings them for Suzuya. Owing to his androgynous look, Tohru misinterprets Suzuya as a girl.

Hina Amano
Tohru and Hina have a really complicated relationship with each other. It seems Hina doesn't like Tohru a little bit because of her massive breasts. Hina often got mad at Tohru whenever she spoke to her while bouncing her breasts. Tohru would end up teasing Hina for fun, calling her "flat".

However, upon hearing the death of her brother, Tohru gave her some spare clothes and felt deeply sorrowful for her loss as she embraced Hina.

Makoto Shichiro
Although she does not know him well, Tohru and Shichiro had a conversation about trying to recover back Shouta's missing body in his dragon form. Shortly after that, Shichiro had gone out of the topic where he asked when did Tohru start falling for Shouta. She confessed that she fell for him after he rescued her and stating that he will be lonely without her, which she felt deeply sorrowful for Shouta after he lost both his parents.

Powers and Abilities
As a punishment for disobeying her faction, Tohru had her dragon powers and warrior spirit taken away by her father. However as a Ghoul Investigator trained by Amon Koutarou, she has the expertise to fight.


 * Swordsmanship: Using Haise Sasaki’s quinque, Tohru has the similar movements like Haise to be as swift as water, being able to slice through a ghoul's kagune.
 * Yukimura 1/3: A B-rate koukaku quinque passed down from Arima to Sasaki then from Sasaki to Tohru, having a considerably long blade which can easily slice through objects

Trivia

 * Tohru is additionally dubbed as ‘The Next Haise’. In which she is viewed by each Ghoul Investigators as she is like the “successor” of Haise Sasaki.
 * Tohru’s quinque is actually Haise’s quinque from Tokyo Ghoul:re, the former user of this quinque was Kishou Arima.
 * Tohru’s age is currently unknown for a dragon like her. Dragon ages are more likely around a thousand years old or older. After five years when Shouta reunites with Tohru, he sees her like the same age as him.
 * Tohru changed her sexuality from lesbian to straight (heterosexual) after she was rescued by Shouta during their first fight with Elma. However, her relationship with him is non-canon only from Dragon Maid.
 * Tohru clearly likes hugging people whom she trusts a lot, she refuses to shake hands.
 * Tohru doesn’t actually mind letting anyone she trusts touch or fondle her breasts.
 * Tohru likes drinking sake and coffee as sake lets her remember Kobayashi and coffee lets her get close to Shouta.
 * Tohru adopted the name ‘Tohru Sasaki’ after Haise Sasaki.
 * Tohru loves to touch Shouta’s muscular biceps and abdominals. She also often likes to stroke Shouta’s hair.
 * She has a habit of thrusting Shouta’s face against her breasts whenever Tohru sleeps with him.
 * Tohru is voiced by Yuki Kuwahara. English voiced by Sarah Wiedenheft, who also voiced Saiko Yonebayashi in english.

Quotes

 * To herself: "This is a tragedy..."
 * To Shouta: “You’ve been… protecting me this whole time… No matter how much pain you’ve suffered just to risk your life to protect me… I can’t let you die.”
 * To Saiko: “It’s the end of the world, life here is about to go extinct. I can’t do this alone. C’mon Saiko, you need us. We need you too.”
 * To Kobayashi: “I’m never gonna forget you. I want to see you smile as you and everybody else are watching over us. I miss you, Kobayashi. And I will do everything to keep him safe.”
 * To herself: “Humans, Conduits and us dragons live in one society. But when one starts to fall out, all hell breaks loose.”
 * To Suzuya: “Shouta would never hurt a human! All the people of Tokyo know who he is! He’s a hero! Yes, he might be a ghoul. Since he is now, he would never hurt a human! He’ll fight with us! He’ll fight like a Ghoul Investigator!”
 * To Suzuya: “The reason why I’m joining this is because a ghoul had killed my closest ones, it was no ordinary ghoul. This kind of act is unforgivable. That’s why me and Shouta are trying to put an end to this.”
 * To Shouta: “Just let me hug you… just please… just this once…”
 * To Ayato about Kasuka Mado and Dire Ghouls: “It was not human, not dragon, not Conduit… it was something else, something… unimaginable, threatening, something that would cause… war.”
 * To Shouta: “Shouta, you’re… you. No matter who you are, I'll always be by your side.”
 * To Akira about Shouta: "He's family, and I love him."
 * To Kasuka Mado: “Kasuka Mado! Wherever you go, even if you try to hide away from me, I will find you! I will rain down every violation and suffering upon you! Parading your cold corpse from every corner of every city! My claws is the last thing you see and the pain of starvation is the last thing you’ll feel before you die! That is my promise!”
 * To Shouta: “Whatever happens, let’s be together.”
 * To Shouta after giving him the engagement ring: "After all of this is over, I want to remarry you, Shouta-kun. If that's what Kobayashi wanted you to have, we'll do it for her."
 * To Shichiro about Shouta: "Whenever he felt pain, I felt it too. It's like we're both... connected somehow, he is like Kobayashi to me. He said that he'll be lonely if I am dead or not around. I... don't want him to feel that way, it just... hurts."