Appearance

Konan's full appearance.

Konan was a relatively tall woman who had short, straight blue hair, grey eyes (amber in the
anime) with lavender eye shadow, and a labret piercing. Konan's eyelashes are shown to be a
diagonal line at the bottom corner of her eyes, but in the anime, they are shown to be distinctive
lines. She has worn a large light blue paper flower in her hair since she was a child. Her facial
expression was usually neutral, though usually protested or looked worried when Nagato
performed a technique that would debilitate him. She wore the Akatsuki cloak and her Akatsuki
ring on her right middle finger, the kanji on it meaning "white" (, bya). She also wore orange
nail polish. Although she never removed her Akatsuki mantle, it was revealed that underneath it
she wore a revealing navy blue robe, with a large hemline on the front, and exposed her arms,
her back, the lateral part of her breast, and her belly, with her navel being surrounded by four
more piercings; instead of the standard sandals and leg-warmers, she wore a pair of blue pants
that also functioned as her shoes, with white high heels, inverting the organisation's standard
colour scheme.
As a child, Konan was seen wearing an array of simple clothing. When living with Jiraiya, she
was seen wearing a karate top and skirt bottom, with a pouch she wore at the front of her outfit to
carry her paper. When Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato began to make Akatsuki, Konan wore a black
cloak with purple stockings and high heels, as well as a mid section guard similar to that of
Samui, and an Ame forehead protector, that being the only time period Konan's been seen
wearing one.

Abilities

Konan using multiple paper clones.

As an S-rank criminal, Konan was a very powerful kunoichi whose skills were held in high
regard by her partner, Pain, and even highly praised by her former teacher, Jiraiya. She
demonstrated her prowess in battle by defeating Sasori, an extremely powerful shinobi who
wielded his most powerful puppet, without getting any injuries. During their battle, Obito highly
underestimated Konan's abilities, leading him to lose his right arm and half of his mask in the
process.[10]
Ninjutsu

Konan using her paper as wings.

Even as a child, Konan had shown a natural talent for origami and even developed it into her
fighting style, able to infuse her chakra with it and develop paper ninjutsu. This form of art
caught the attention of Sasori by the time they fought. She had created a unique transformation
technique called Dance of the Shikigami, which turned her entire body and clothing into
thousands of sheets of paper, which she could control at will and form into any shape or
colour.[11] To travel long distances, she could fold them into butterflies or planes for powered
flight. To attack, she hardened the sheets to the point where they were as hard as steel and folded
them into arrows, spears, and shuriken. She could also restrain opponents by blanketing them in
sheets, thus restricting their movements and asphyxiating them. Befitting (and likely inspiring)
her title as Angel (, Tenshi), the papers could also form large wings for further weaponry,
though she was capable of hovering without them. She could also make chakram-like weapons to
attack foes and, in the anime, was skilled enough to make two and control them with great ease
using them to corner her targets from opposing ends.

Konan using her paper shurikens.

Despite being made of paper, Jiraiya's Fire Release: Flame Bullet, which was empowered by oil,
didn't even damage her. The power of the paper attacks could even overpower a fire attack.
Konan was susceptible to oil-based attacks that prevent her paper from unfolding. However, she
was not hampered to the same extent by water, as shown when Pain had his summon use Water
Release: Wild Bubble Wave on her to wash the oil off, as well as her use of it in her home
village where it always rains. Konan could make paper clones to fight in her place and hide
explosive tags in them so that they would explode, and catch an enemy off guard. Konan's
ultimate technique, the Paper Person of God Technique, could split a large lake,[12] and contained
six hundred billion explosive tags that would explode for a full ten minutes, which forced Tobi to
use Izanagi to survive since his intangibility only lasts for five minutes.[13]

Konan makes a tree from her paper ninjutsu.

Konan had been shown to be able to produce and fold enough paper to mimic environmental
surroundings, allowing her and those of her choosing to hide in places one normally wouldn't be
able to.[14] Konan's favoured origami form were flowers; she wore one in her hair, covered the
bodies of Yahiko and Nagato in them, and gave a bouquet to Naruto as a sign of peace.
Nature Transformation

Konan had proficiency in Wind, Water, Earth, and Yang Release.[2]

Intelligence

Konan had a very keen intellect as she was able to quickly understand the process and reason
behind the hop in, hop out system Jiraiya had created for them. In later years, she studied Tobi's
space-time techniques, accurately deciphering how they worked and then did countless
simulations in order to find the perfect way to kill him. Even Tobi expressed surprise that he was
forced to rely on the forbidden Izanagi to survive her final assault at the cost of his left eye.[15]