Yuki Mori

Yuki Mori is tenacious and able to deal with difficult and seemingly hopeless circumstances, including the personal challenges of losing her memories and enduring the ongoing struggles of a long war. She also has a strong sense of justice, as she demonstrates in defending Admiral Okita from Susumu Kodai's anger over the death of his elder brother under Okita's command. She is equally willing to stand up for aliens as for Earthlings.

Mori is sensitive to the emotional states of those around her and is able to easily bond with a wide range of people. She often tries to help others through their predicaments. Despite her great empathy however, she was initially closed off or even rude to those she considered to be hotheaded, bad-mannered, or too invasive, but she matured out of this more childish behaviour during the journey to Iscandar.

Her initial antagonism toward Kodai slowly evolved into a respectful relationship between colleagues and then friendship, and became a romance only after sharing many trials together during the mission to Iscandar. Until late 2202, she and Kodai were engaged to be married, but she temporarily broke off their relationship when he tried to leave her behind on Earth during the Yamato Revolt to protect her. Wanting to prove to Kodai she would always be there to support him, she boarded Yamato illegally. The two soon rekindled their relationship, and she would go on to become Kodai's primary support during the Gatlantis Campaign and as he faced the guilt of his actions after their return from the higher dimension and during Yamato's third journey. Their love for each other is strong enough that even at a time when Mori had lost her memories of Kodai, she was still ready to give her life to protect him. When with him, she tends to act in a more carefree and playful way, but she also often chastises him when he falls back into his tendency of shouldering all of his responsibilities and baggage by himself.

Mori developed friendly relations with most of her fellow crewmembers, most notably Akira Yamamoto, despite the two initially being love rivals, and the young Yuria Misaki, who greatly looks up to Mori as her superior. She also grew close to Princess Yurisha Iscandar, who connected with her on a psychic level following the incident in which both of them were severely injured. In the year after her incident, she had a father-daughter bond with Admiral Hijikata, her legal guardian, and often looked for him when in need of advice. She also sometimes looks up to Doctor Sado as a source of wisdom.

Appearance: Yuki Mori is an Earthling woman with shoulder-length, wavy blonde hair and purple eyes. When wearing a spacesuit or flight suit, she keeps her hair in a ponytail and holds it up with a hair clip. She stands almost 170 cm (approximately 5'6") tall and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Iscandarian princess, Yurisha Iscandar.