Alma Karma

Alma Karma, also known as the "first womb", is the person responsible for the birth of the Third Exorcists.

Appearance
As of the current event in the manga, Alma is shown to be quite disfigured, presumably from his life or death fight with Yu Kanda before the events of D. Gray Man. He looks like a young man with huge scars down the left side of his face and body. He has long leg length hair and an inverted triangle over his stomach area.

In the most recent Chapters of the manga, Alma as a child was the same height as Yu Kanda, with shorter hair than his 'brother' and with a constant smile on his face as opposite to Yu Kanda's constant frown.

Personality
Alma when he was alive and as a young boy was a kind and happy person, eager to help out and please others. He would get upset quickly if he felt he had done something wrong or if he felt someone was being horrible to him. Yu Kanda called him "creepy" and often said he couldn't stand Alma or figure out why Alma was always following him around. The two would often get into fights, like real brothers do, and it would take many members of the science department to restrain them. The two however did eventually become closer, so much so that when Alma overheard Yu was going to be put to death after he started having "visions", Alma knocked out Yu's minders and carried him away, sobbing that he had only just made a friend and wasn't going to lose him. Alma also showed that he could feign innocent in acts of mischief as he pretended to be hungry and interested in a mutated fish, when really his only goal was to distract and knock out Yu's attendants so that he could rescue his friend.

As of the current events in the manga, Alma has just been awakened through Wisely's manipulation of Kanda's memories and his hatred. He was "dead" and had shown no signs of life or consciousness. However, it seemed like he was simply in a deep sleep or brain dead.

Background
Like Yu Kanda, Alma is a Second Exorcist but was an unsuccessful creation and was put into the Third Exorcist program. Rouvelier claims the reason he did not tell Kanda that Alma was alive was because they were "friends".

History
As a boy, Alma was the first of the Second Generation Exorcists to awaken with Yu coming next. The two were forced numerous times to try and bond with Innocence, with each attempt tearing them to pieces. They would survive thanks to their regeneration abilities. Alma and Kanda later in the winter and proclaiming it's freezing. Alma states he won't lose to "winter" (referring to Winter as a person) and continues his daily routine of greeting all of their unawakened brethren.

Later when Alma hears that Yu will put to sleep, he knocks out Yu's attendants and carries Yu away, not wanting to lose his only "friend" whom he'd just gained. However as they enter a sewer system, they are caught up with by "Crows." Crow uses talismans to stop the two but before they can be fully activated, Alma kicks Yu over the edge down into the canal telling him "if (he's) lucky (he) might get outside," before Crow knocks him out.

When Yu was recaptured, Alma tore out of his restraints and attempted to save Yu, eventually falling down a shaft into a room where several corpse cocoons were kept. When Crows caught up and attacked, he somehow grew a blade from his right arm and killed them, but he also sliced open the cocoons, revealing the bodies of other "Second Exorcists". After Road (who, with Allen, and was not part of the world of memory) explained the truth of the project, Alma was seen at the end of the chapter with tears (perhaps of anger) in his eyes.

Alma killed the previous Asian Branch Sixth Institute after learning the truth of the Second Exorcist program. When Yu saw the massacre, Alma stabbed him and asked him to join him in death, hoping to end their misery as "Second Exorcists" and have the Black Order learn their mistake of using them as tools. Yu learns that Alma committed the murders in order to protect the person he loved. However, Yu then stood up and slashed Alma in half with his own bonded Innocence, as Yu desired to live to see that person once more, even if it means to killing his best friend. Alma screamed in anguish as he died.

Mystery of Kanda arc
When Johnny Gill and his colleagues were introduced to Alma Karma, it made Master Zhu cry over the body and Johnny vomit in disgust. After the Noah Family invaded the American branch headquarters, Cyril Kamelot used his powers to move the body of Alma Karma, having his ducts-arms to attack Allen Walker. The Noah have revealed that they intend to awaken Alma, ignoring Zhu's pleas. After that, Alma and Yu Kanda's history was revealed by Wisely via his Demon Eye to Allen and Road Kamelot.

Alma Karma is seen to have completely awaken after Allen Walker, Road and Yu Kanda breaks out of Wisely's Demon Eye powers. Alma is seen to be inside a huge entity after Allen Walker, Yu Kanda and Road had their minds returned to themselves. The huge entity then attacks everyone, including Allen after he broke out of the hypnosis, then is seen to break out of the Headquarters. The large entity then drops Alma Karma and he is seen to return back into the Headquarter in his new form, unlike the other 3rd Exorcists, Alma Karma has a form of an Akuma, having resemble a Level 4, having what seems to be and outer shell which also resembles armour, and also pattern/symbols on his body the way Level 4 has it, and although similar but different, he has a disk, instead of a halo, floating upon his head. Alma Karma then looks at the ruins in which is the Headquarters, destroyed by the huge entity, and ask if Yu is there.

Powers and Abilities
Alma has the power to make any part of his body into a weapon. These weapons are laced with Innocence which makes his entire body an anti-akuma weapon. It is currently unknown if this is a type of parasitic Innocence or something else entirely. Alma can not completely control his powers because of his unstable personality.

Trivia

 * Alma's favorite food is mayonnaise.


 * "Alma" and "Karma" have meanings connected with soul where:


 * "Alma" in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese literally means "soul".


 * "Karma (Hinduism and Buddhism) is the theory which states that the effects of a person's actions determines his destiny in his next incarnation.


 * Some fans believe that Alma is a reincarnation of the woman that Yu Kanda sees in his "flashbacks"/memory due to striking similarity in appearance and manners.