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Naomi Shiori Reynolds is a student of Domino City High School and the childhood friend of Yugi Muto. She is the only daughter and child of spiritual medium, Ryland Reynolds, and I.T. manager, Runa Minamoto-Reynolds.

Often hanging out at her best friend, Yugi Muto's place, Naomi got pulled into the game of Duel Monsters rather quick. Within a short amount of time, she became quite the duelist, specializing with Spellcaster-type monsters. She has parttaken in quite a few dueling tournaments, having attented when her father had to leave the country for work.

Physical description
Naomi is a slim girl of average height and weight with black hair dark and light pink highlights and gradient coloration, and amber-gold eyes. She later reveals that the black part of her is natural, having inherited from her mother, Runa, showing she is a mixture of her parents. Her ears are pierced, which she has a pair of earrings and necklace, both styled after her Zodiac sign, Leo.

Personality
While she holds a neutral expression on her face 90% of the time, Naomi uses it to observe everything around her. She watches and waits, before doing anything. Though she has a neutral expression, that doesn't mean she can't use emotions, which she does. Like others, she too has emotions, it just takes her a little while to bring them out.

She is, however, firecly protective over her friends and Duel Monster cards. The latter is mostly due with her connection to seeing Spirits, which she keeps a deep secret, even from her closest friends. It is noted, that she nearly threw herself at Seto after he beat Grandma Muto, and later saved his prized "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" card. She saw it's spirit crying out and reacted on instinct.

Powers

 * Spirit perception: Born into the Reynholds family, Naomi gained the hereditary ability to see, hear, and be aware of spirits around her. She is most often seen talking to her Duel Monster Spirits, namely "Silent Magician LV4".

Skills

 * Dueling proficiency: With her best friend's grandfather owning a card game store, Naomi got into the gae rather quickly. In the short amount of time, she's become quite the duelist, practically able to tackle anything that's thrown to her. She later becomes quiet skilled and knowledgeable in using Spellcaster-type monsters, and later Fusion Monsters upon gaining her "Starblaze" deck.
 * Multilingualism: Naomi is fluent in both Japanese, English, and Canadian French, knowing both her parents' native languages. She is know for adding Canadian French into her speech when something surprises her, or shocks her.

Equipment

 * Deck case: Naomi's deck case is silver-blue in color, and she keeps it on her left hip.
 * KaibaCorp Duel Disk: In Season 2, Naomi recieves the new KaibaCorp Duel Disk; hers was modified to fit her right arm, given she is lefthanded.

Seto Kaiba
The exact relationship between Seto and Naomi is... confusing to say the lease. Considering Naomi is with Yugi 90% of the time, you would think he would dislike her. However, that isn't the case. Perhaps it's Naomi's wide-known skill in Dueling Tournaments, that he has some respect for her. Who knows.

Prior to Battle City, it is noted that Naomi and Seto's relationship had changed slightly, mostly on Mokuba's part. Their relationship change might have been the reason why Seto had Naomi's new KC Duel Disk to be customized for her right arm.

Ryland and Runa Reynolds
Naomi has a close relationship with her parents, Ryland and Runa. Despite her mother's long hours as an Computer Analyist, Runa makes sure she is home on time to see her family. Ryland is the most aware of Naomi's adventures with Yugi, and doesn't mind entirely. As long as she is not in serious danger, Ryland is alright. He also knows that Naomi can take care of herself.

Kylie Reynolds
At the start, Naomi wasn't that close to her youngest second cousin, mostly due to Kylie being only four during Naomi's "adventures" and living in Norway. Following Atem's return to the Afterlife, Naomi and her family went to visit her cousin Devon and his family, officially meeting Kylie and Blake.

Between the end ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Reboot and the Trials of Darkness'', Naomi visited her cousin, quite often, along with Skyping when she was busy during the League Season. Between both, Naomi was able to form a bond with her youngest cousin, Kylie. When Kylie would visit Blake in Domino City, Naomi and she would meet up and just catch up and hang with each other. This allowed them to form a rather close cousin-relationship.

When Yugi's deck goes on tour, Naomi is the one to who goes to Duel Academy, mostly due to Yugi having to take care of something at the time. Naomi used it as a way to see her cousin and see how she was doing at Duel Academy (mostly for Blake's sake on the latter). When Yugi's deck went missing, Naomi went with Kylie and her friends to find the thief. She then watched Jaden duel against Dimitri, and was mildly impressed with how the Slifer was doing against Yugi's deck.

Etymology
The name Naomi is of Japanese origin coming from 直 (nao) meaning "straight, direct" and 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". The name Shiori comes from the Japanese 詩 (shi) meaning "poem" combined with 織 (ori) meaning "weave". The name Reynolds is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Reynold", where the given name of the father, "Reynold", or "Reginald", was a Germanic name meaning "Powerful Ruler" (possibly an alteration of the Old French name Reinold).

Trivia

 * Naomi identifies as asexual demiromantic.
 * Though she doesn't openly reveal it too often, Naomi is lefthanded.