↑ D.Gray-man Manga Volume 21, Chapter 199,.
Not expecting Kanda to be so antisocial, Alma was easily hurt and enraged when Kanda called him names and shunned him, leading to them both getting into frequent fights. Alma was the first to meet Kanda after he had awoken, admitting he was a bit shy while telling Kanda his (Kanda's) name and introducing himself. Hoping they would all wake and become his friends, he memorized the names assigned to all of the 'sleeping' Second Exorcists and called them all by name while talking to them.
Having woken before his fellow Second Exorcist Yu Kanda, he would often spend his free time in the Second Exorcist birthing chamber, talking to the 'sleeping' Second Exorcists and telling them about his daily life to try to coax them into waking. Initially, Alma is seen as a happy and bubbly, albeit very lonely, young man. Young Alma has an overly happy personality. As an Exorcist, her uniform was a long dress and a waist-length jacket with a high collar, and she is vaguely seen wielding a staff-life weapon. In his previous life, before he had been turned into a Second Exorcist, Alma had been a young woman with long hair worn up in a ponytail with a band of cloth wrapped around the base near her scalp, and an Alice band, with two strands left to frame her face. As his transformation into his Akuma form became more complete, his hair snapped off to its original length, the scars on his face healed, and he gained tear-like markings underneath his eyes.
His limbs also somewhat lost their human attributes, the skin ridging in some areas and his knees becoming more joint-like. Īfter becoming an Akuma, several of the tattoos on Alma's body integrated more into his Akuma form, their coloring changing and becoming incorporated with several new markings. In this state, the left side of his head was covered in overlapping scars, while on the right side his hair, which had lightened, became excessively long. This process, along with Kanda's assault, resulted in his body, which aged as time passed, becoming heavily scarred and marred with tattoos on his wrists, ankles, and stomach. After he was heavily injured by Kanda when they were both children, his body was recovered by the Order, who placed seals on him to keep him unconscious but alive.
He also had thick eyebrows and a thin, scar-like mark across the bridge of his nose. As a Second Exorcist and child, his hair was dark, short, and unruly, with two longer strands framing his face. Alma Karma is a young man of east Asian descent.