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| “ | Ideals without power to back up are just idle daydreams and power without ideals is just empty. | „ |
| ~ Rimuru Tempest |
"Great Demon Lord" Rimuru Tempest 「"大魔王" リムル・テンペスト, "Dai Maō" Rimuru Tenpesuto, formerly known as Satoru Mikami, is the titular main protagonist of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.
A partner and best friend of the True Dragon Veldora Tempest, Rimuru is the founder and King of the monster country Tempest of the Jura Forest. He is regarded as one of the strongest Demon Lords among the mighty Eight Star Demon Lords and also the only proper Great Demon Lord currently as well as the leader of the Twelve Guardian Lords.
He is voiced by Miho Okasaki in Japanese and Brittney Karbowski in English.
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Personality[]
He has a kind heart and a quirky personality. Even though he is quite laid back and wants to avoid troublesome situations as much as possible, he actually works very diligently when there is a task needed to be taken care of.
With the heart of a hardworking salaryman and a beloved senior co-worker, Rimuru has a hard time rejecting someone if they plead him to help, leading in him often ending up with more work than he can handle, which his boss from his previous life used to reprimand him for.
Being the very Satoru Mikami himself, he also believes himself to be a KY-persjuston (Kuuki Yomenai) who makes jokes at the wrong time.
Rimuru tends to react very severely when there is a danger to his close ones, such as his countrymen, subordinates, (possibly due to the soul-link he shares with them), good friends, and students (he cannot stand children suffering). One might say he overreacts to these cases, but it simply shows how deeply he cares for them, as a stark contrast with his usual cheerful self.
He has no problems with decimating any forces who dare to harm his subordinates and his country, regardless of their numbers, realizing full-well about the deed he's done.
After a mishap of subsidies, Rimuru tends to quickly revert back to his laid back self and mentally (or even in actuality) scratches his head at the scenery he caused.
He is described as cautious and cunning by other fellow Demon Lords, unaware that it is simply a means of him trying to prevent troublesome situations from going out of hand. As he progresses through the story, he slowly becomes more and more like an actual Demon Lord, and as he adjusts to the rules of the new world and understands the capabilities of his subordinates, he begins to let them handle tough situations on their own instead of voluntarily diving in first to patch stuff up.
Powers and Abilities[]
Thanks to his dying words as Satoru, Rimuru was granted many advantages in his new life by the Voice of the World; thus why he became a slime instead of a human. His magical power is also enhanced thanks to being named by Veldora, and sharing a family name with him. Upon his evolution to Demon Lord, Rimuru's magic multiplied by ten times.
Powers[]
- Predator: Obtained by accident when Satoru mumbled about going after girls in his next life after having no luck with romance. This allows Rimuru to consume anything he wishes. He also gains the powers of what he eats. It evolved into Gluttony after absorbing the Orc Lord's ability Starved. Upon becoming a Demon Lord, it evolved into Beelzebuth. He can choose whether to take the shape of what he eats or recycle it; destroying Clayman and turning him into magicules.
- Mimicry: Rimuru can copy the form of whatever he eats. After eating Shizue's corpse, Rimuru gained the ability to take a form like hers; though as slimes are genderless, his "human" body takes on a slightly androgynous appearance.
- Shapeshifting: Rimuru can alter or partially transform his body; creating wings or using armor to protect his body.
- Poison Gas: Rimuru can create various gases. He can use it for paralysis or melt things. The latter is NOT a very pretty sight to behold; the victim was so badly melted it was censored in the manga and anime.
- Thread: Rimuru ate a monster spider. He can create Sticky Thread or Steal Thread. Rimuru used it a lot as his main offense before gaining a human form. It falls out of use once he starts using magic more often.
- Sonic: Allows him to speak and hear; Gained from eating a monster bat.
- Thought Communication: A telepathic ability, Rimuru uses it for long-distance communication. He gained it from eating Ranga's Father, who was the former dire wolf chief.
- Intimidation: A skill that was also gained from eating the dire wolf chief. Conveys his hostile intent.
- Icicle Lance: Gained from eating one of Elen's spells. He can use a multicast Icicle Shotgun with it.
- Degenerate: (formerly) A skill Shizu originally had. It allows the user to break apart and combine what they wish. Great Sage sacrificed this skill to evolve into Raphael.
- Black Flame: A powerful skill Rimuru created using Degenerate to mix fire with water and lightning.
- Levitation: Gained from eating Charybdis. Rimuru can float on his own will.
- Mimicry: Rimuru can copy the form of whatever he eats. After eating Shizue's corpse, Rimuru gained the ability to take a form like hers; though as slimes are genderless, his "human" body takes on a slightly androgynous appearance.
- Great Sage: Obtained by accident when Satoru made self-joke about his age. Kind of a secondary personality. It has all the information Rimuru needs. It evolved into Raphael after Rimuru became a Demon Lord by sacrificing Degenerate, and is finally separated into the second personality for Rimuru, being renamed into Ciel.
- Appraisal: Allows Rimuru to examine anything he touches or eats.
- Item Reproduction: Should Rimuru have the material, he can recreate anything he wishes so long as it has been examined in detail. Being it swords, Shizu'e mask or simply manga.
- Ability Reproduction: Can copy any ability Rimuru has seen or knows of.
- Thought Acceleration: Slows down one's perspection of time, making the world and all physical sensations last for an extended period. Rimuru can cast it on others; having done so to Clayman to ensure the pain of his beating lasted as horrificly long as possible.
- Magical Barrier: Copied from Guy Crimson. Unless the caster wishes it, nothing can leave or enter the barrier.
- Ability Creation: Can create ability and spells that do not exist, but are needed.
- Immortality: Upon becoming a Demon Lord, Rimuru became a being of agelessness, who cannot grow old and can (quite possibly) live forever.
Abilities[]
- Intelligence: Rimuru is known for his thorough planning and ability to think on his feet. Most often he is quick to turn situations to his advantage; even unexpected results. Having worked as a general contractor, he is also well-versed in urban development; allowing him to build his city in the Jura forest.
- Excellent Memory: Primarily focused on his manga and video game hobby as Satoru, Rimuru is able to use his memory to reproduce exact copies of manga he's read. Rimuru is also able to remember people he is rarely interacted with, such as Yuuki.
- Negotiation/Manipulation: Rimuru can use the desires of others against them; being an excellent smooth talker. Though primarily used to keep Shion and Diablo in check (as they go overboard to the point Rimuru gets exasperated), he also does so to keep Veldora and Ramiris cooperative by threatening to spoil manga for them. Rimuru prefers the carrot method over using the stick method.
- Swordsmanship: Rimuru was taught by Hakuro in the ways of the sword. Though he does not use a blade much.
- Evolution Inducement: Not unique to him, but Rimuru is capable of evolving monsters by giving them names. He was initially unaware that monsters tend to go nameless all their lives, hence why he gave all the goblins names (as since he was a former human, the idea of "people" going nameless was confusing). As a result, Rimuru causes anyone he names to jump to the next stage in their evolutionary line; since he cannot control how many magicules he gives. He can even name by accident, like with Gabiru.
- Slime Body: Obtained by accident when Satoru complained about losing blood as he died; the Voice of the World misunderstood his situation.
- Malleability: Rimuru can stretch and contort at will. His given mass is enough to cover an Orc Lord.
- Temperature Resistance: Obtained by accident when Satoru mumbled that he could not feel hot or cold as he died. Rimuru cannot be burned or frozen.
- Electricity Resistance: Obtained by accident when Satoru asked his co-worker to dump his computer in water to destroy it. Rimuru cannot be zapped or conduct electricity.
- Pain Resistance: Rimuru cannot feel pain due to his slime body; even dismemberment cannot cause pain.
- Poison Nullification: Rimuru cannot get drunk. Much to his anger; he likes good booze.
- Regeneration: Any damage Rimuru takes can be "buffed out"; plus he can re-absorb any severed pieces.
- Cloning: Rimuru is able to siphon off part of himself to create a clone to fool enemies. Gained from eating Ifrit. Used to escape Hinata.
Trivia[]
- After ascending as a Great Demon Lord, most of the Extra and Unique Skills Rimuru gains during the ascension are named after mythological or fictional deities.
- Even though he is sexless, Rimuru identifies as a male; due to being a human one previously.
- Thus he only has lustful thoughts towards females. Even though he cannot follow up on them.
- Rimuru never outright states this, so he is not prevented from bathing with women; so he gets the pleasure of seeing them naked a lot.
- Diablo and Adalmann worship Rimuru as their god.
- According to the elf fortune teller, Rimuru was destined to be with Shizue, with romantic implications. Though this applies in more than sense; given Shizue rests in peace within Rimuru's stomach, technically being with him.
- His expanding slime body and devouring ability are eerily akin to Majin Buu.
- Rimuru noticed Great Sage's evolution to Raphael due to it no longer beginning every sentence with "Notice:"
- The Dub peppers Rimuru's dialogue with goofy slang an otaku or hipster would use.
- Rimuru's human form takes gender characteristics based on the source.
- As the form originally came from Shizu, a female, if he wanted to up the girliness, Rimuru would look almost exactly like her.
- If he wants to look more masculine, it looks like Satoru Mikami as that's Rimuru's male identity.
- When Veldora inhabits Rimuru's body double, it turns into a heroic masculine warrior; which is what Veldora admires from reading manga.
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