Urd (Oh My Goddess!)
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- For the Norse mythology deity see Urd.
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Urd (ウルド Urudo) is a character in the popular Oh My Goddess! manga and anime, voiced by Toma Yumi (冬馬由美).
Biography
Urd is Belldandy's older sister and is the second Goddess to appear to Keiichi. Urd ranks as Goddess second class, management category limited license, similar to her youngest sister Skuld. She is the Yggdrasil System Administrator and Manager.
Although her powers exceed those of her sisters, she was relegated with a second class ranking due to, what she claims, her tendency to lie; however, the real reason that she dropped the first class license examination is because she was asked why she wanted to be a first class goddess. She only wanted power to protect her sisters, not power to protect all beings (as a first class goddess would do). Urd has extensive knowledge of potion lore. Urd recharges her energy by drinking sake and travels via television screens. She bears the emblem of the past.
Urd fancies herself a Goddess of Love, although the unpredictability of her magical potions and her general lack of restraint tend to complicate, rather than stimulate, Keiichi and Belldandy's love life. She came to Earth to spur Keiichi onward with love potions and well-meaning, but deceitful advice, but as punishment for deserting her post and for using her powers on Earth without authorization, The Almighty banished her from Heaven until further notice.
As she demonstrates in the manga, she can exercise immense control over her powers despite her second-class status. She was able to draw her personal sigil using first-class lightning magic on her first attempt, a task that required First Class Goddess Peorth numerous attempts to successfully complete.
Urd shares a common father with her younger sisters (Belldandy, Skuld), but has a different mother, the Demon Lord Hild. Because of this Urd is half-Goddess and half-Demon, reflected in the half-white, half-black appearance of her Angel, World of Elegance. Perhaps due to her Demonic heritage, Austrian Polka (in the manga) or Enka (in the TV series) instantly puts Urd to sleep and she is unable to awaken until the music ceases.
Personality
Unlike her younger sister Belldandy, Urd is very impulsive and headstrong. Belldandy describes Urd as being very passionate about everything she does. Urd is a great believer in the idea that the 'End justifies the Means', although, as Belldandy puts it: "...she gets so wrapped up in the means that she forgets what the end was."
Thus, Urd is impulsive, often acting first without fully considering the consequences. She is also a constant meddler, seemingly unable to leave well enough alone. Finally, Urd is short tempered, and is rather easy to irritate and anger. Urd is also prone to lying, something a goddess supposedly can't do. Although she's not a pathological liar, she's more than willing to distort the truth if needed to accomplish an objective. She is also shown as very sexual, first appearing to Keiichi Morisato in a semi-pornographic video.
For a goddess, Urd seems to have an amazing tendency to have her plans backfire. Quite often, something will happen to louse up whatever scheme she's currently cooked up. Examples including: drinking one of her own love potions, trying to help Belldandy bake a cake and blowing up the kitchen, trying to help Keiichi build a motorbike and blowing up the garage, trying to dispel a number of computer "bugs" and blowing up the house, and so on. Usually, Urd's unlucky predicaments manifest from an excessive use of raw power to solve any problem.