Name: Akako Surname: Ogawa Age: 28 Gender: Female Sexuality: Pansexual Height: 5'2 Weight: 84 lbs Occupation: Demon hunter Rank: Tsuchinoto Sword color: Maroon Additional equipment:Corset that helps her regulate breathing, without it she has trouble using breathing techniques, all thanks to asthma she had as a kid. However, corset eventually helped her get used to constantly breathing properly and master concentration breathing without even realizing it. Poisoned darts that allows her to paralyze enemy for a few seconds and approach safely. Akako does not specialize in concocting drugs and poisons, she merely coats her arrows with crushed wisteria liquid. Breathing style and techniques: Mist breathing, first and third forms only. Fighting style: Akako is considered as a strategic fighter, since she is barely strong enough to decapitate her opponent, when her sword is sharpened enough. She mainly ambushes demons and attacks when they are too distracted by watching their prey. She is too slow to catch up with opponent's speed without paralyzing them beforehand, but her evasive reflexes can be incredibly quick, when she is being attacked. Messenger: Grumpy male crow, Shou. Secretly enjoying treats and belly scratches.
Her life as a civilian
Akako's father left when his daughter was still little. He remarried another woman and never contacted his old family again.
Akako experienced intense emotional abuse daily, mainly coming from her own mother. Despite her miserable living conditions, Akako was not thrilled by the idea of arranged marriage, unlike other women her age. She chose to scare away her suitors and stay with her psychotic mother, until she could afford her own house or meet someone tolerable enough to marry.
Things changed after random female demon invaded their house and killed Akako's mother in front of her. Akako tried her best to help her mother, despite always wishing her death deep down. Akako was not saddened, but she felt intense fear, after stabbing her enemy with a knife multiple times and realizing that she was not a human.
Luckily for Akako, the sun had already risen and her enemy was not wise enough to keep her mouth shut, so Akako realized she could easily kill her by opening curtains.
Few seconds after Akako killed the invader, two young demon hunters stormed in, witnessing the demon's last struggles.
Becoming a demon hunter
Akako did not hold grudge against every demon, she already got rid of the one who ate her mother. She was not the type to risk her life for others, either.
The reason she became a demon hunter was her desire to track down more demons and learn the secret of immortality. Akako was fascinated by the creature she killed: With the regenerative ability like her, Akako would not have to fear sickness, bullying or inevitable death that follows aging.
She spent two years performing experiments on the weak demons she caught, pretending that she was just looking for more weaknesses to destroy them. Eventually, after seeing that she had no progress whatsoever, Akako gave up on experimenting, however she continued hunting demons, since it was the stablest job she managed to find.
Becoming a double agent
Akako came across one of the most powerful demons when she expected it least. She was instantly bewitched by his beauty, but of course the demon showed no intention of leaving her alive.
Noticing Akako's interest in him, he subtly flirted back however, in order to distract the opponent and catch her off guard. Somehow, the demon got carried away with his plan to seduce opponent and accidentally ended up taking a bit of interest in her.
Eventually, once the demon realized that she did not really mean threat, he allowed her to meet him sometime, if she would agree to become his spy.
The demon's intention was to use his eccentric plaything for his deranged plans and eat her when he would grow bored of having fun with her. Akako was aware of his malicious intentions, but she allowed him to manipulate her like a marionette, anyway. She could not help doing anything just to be around him.
In the end, it did not go as the demon had planned; instead of getting bored of his puppet, he grew more and more attached to Akako to the point that he fell in love with her, despite being in denial.
In public, Akako dated a human guy who was merely there to drive her to her unlikely ally. They kept meeting secretly until Akako's lover was killed by other demon hunters. After learning that the man of her dreams was no longer alive, Akako tearfully attacked random demon hunters in a blind rage, revealing all of her secrets. She massacred most of her colleagues around, because they were caught off guard, not expecting attack from their ally. In the end Akako was left to die with multiple fatal injuries, they decided that the disgusting traitor like her did not deserve quick death.
Her body was found by the demon king, after her heart stopped beating, however, her brain was still functioning. He decided to save Akako's life by turning her into a demon, thinking that her vengeful rage could be useful to get rid of their mutual enemies, thus, Ningyou was created.
Alias:Ningyou Birth name: Akako Ogawa Sexuality: Greysexual panromantic Chronological age: Unspecified, at least over 28, could be over 90, depends on year. Biological age: Forever stuck in her late 20's, but she looks few years younger. Personality: Quiet, careful, observant, vengeful, jealous, protective, competitive. Likes: Pretty stuff, chilling, eating mean humans Dislikes: Daylight, wisteria, hurting innocent people, going outside, socializing, anyone going near her love interest for any reason, children clinging to her because she looks like a lifeโsized doll
๐ Blood demon art: Sacrificial poppets (Ability of resurrection and necromancy. Some kind of reverse voodoo spell.)
Ningyou's only ability, Sacrificial Poppet art is quite handy.
Ningyou only needs a hair strand, which is pulled out while its owner is still alive. Once said hair strand is pinned to her sacrificial poppet, the puppet is activated and its appearance changes accordingly.
Activated puppet works differently on living and dead people:
If Ningyou used a hair of the dead person, taken from them while they were still alive, then said person will immediately resurrect where poppet is placed, causing activated poppet to demolish.
If she used a hair of the living person, nothing happens to the activated poppet, until said person dies. After their death, destroyed poppet appears at the place of demise, meanwhile the person is resurrected where their โpoppet twin" was kept.
Either way, resurrected person appears in the exact condition they were in, when that hair strand left their head, with no memories of what happened to them afterwards.
Ningyou can endlessly create new puppets without limits, except for one: She cannot keep more than
six activated poppets at the same time.
If activation fails, because amount of her activated poppets already reached its total number, it shall not take effect after one of the six activated poppets gets destroyed โ failed poppet stays failed forever, Ningyou will need to create another puppet for activation, when she has five or less activated poppets. That is not obligatory, but it is safer to use her own hair strand on as many puppets as possible, so she gets resurrected where the nearest poppet is hidden, if she will get killed.
Ningyou cannot feel when her poppet is destroyed. She keeps them hidden in shadowy areas and only visits them when she wants to destroy an old poppet to be able to create new (she does it to update hair strands, so she will not lose important new memories after her death). She always chooses different locations for hiding her poppets, because visiting same place continuously could make her poppets easily detectable.
To check whether or not her poppets are safe, Ningyou just tries creating a new poppet โ if it works, at least one of the six poppets was destroyed, if nothing happens, then they are untouched. However, this method does not guarantee her safety โ poppets might be merely moved to unsafe area (for example, a small cardboard box under sunlight), where Ningyou will continuously die right after resurrection until her final demise.
Ningyou is well aware of this weakness and she does everything to not have her poppets discovered.
Poppet activation will fail, if:
Ningyou pins the hair strands of two or more people on the same poppet.
Ningyou pins two hair strands of the same person, especially if they did not leave person's head very shortly after each other.
Ningyou uses a hair strand of the dead person, pulled out after their demise.
๐ Appearance:
Ningyou is a short, frail female demon. Her skin is mostly white, but top right part of her face is light grey, surrounded by markings that look like stitches. Her hair is black, with white streaks to the right side and red streaks to the left. Ningyou's eyelashes look like seamstress pins, while her eye orbs look like red, mismatched buttons ( x ) ( - )
Ningyou mostly wears maroon, red or monochrome kimonos, mainly with sakura pattern. Occasionally she puts on modern outfits, such as black or white trench coat dress with matching knee high boots or Mary Jane shoes.
After 1990's, she usually prefers Gothic Lolita Fashion, as well as occasional Guro Lolita outfits.
Ningyou adores pretty outfits and she even โforces" her partner to try Steampunk style.
๐ Fighting style:
Fighting style and abilities:
Ningyou uses strategy, traps, sneak attacks, manmade weapons and average demon strength in fight, since her Blood Demon Art is not exactly lethal.
She also uses Steam Breathing, only while her partner possesses her and takes control of her body, fusing their consciousness and powers together.
First form: Cloud of Fume โ Users repeatedly attack their opponent from the above.
Second form: Pollution โ Users rapidly dash forward, disappearing behind the cloud of dust and attacking opponent from behind.
Third Form: Fumarole โ Users dash forward, pretending to aim opponent's heart, unexpectedly slide down on the ground and attack from below, catching opponent off guard and cutting unprotected limbs.
They do not fuse often, because it takes too much time to join and divide, besides first few minutes are very painful for Ningyou, let alone their problem with synchronizing their movements. Ningyou also refuses to do it if their opponent is alone, she does not like unfair, 2 VS 1 fight, she believes that's a lowly thing to do (Ningyou is a demon with fairly high morals, or so she likes to think to feel better).
๐ Backstory
Ningyou used to be the demon hunter named Akako Ogawa. She was not faithful to the organization since very beginning, though, she joined to learn more about demons and become one of them. Later, after giving up on her hope and continuing to work for money, she met an attractive demon and became his spy, as long as he would date her in return. Eventually she learned that her lover was killed, which caused her to lose control and reveal her true colors. She was executed on the spot after attacking fellow demon hunters in a blind rage, however, she survived fatal wounds because her body was found and turned just in time.
Ningyou took a while learning โhow to demon". She had no idea how to figure out what was her Blood Demon Art (if she had any at all) and how to use it. Luckily she did not realize what she was capable of, until her master was eliminated, or he would definitely kill Ningyou to obtain her resurrection ability.
First thing Ningyou did after learning how to use her power, was resurrecting the demon she fell in love with, when she was still a human.
Until resurrecting her partner, Ningyou was one of three last remaining demons, now their total number is four (including the demon cat). Ningyou is strictly against resurrecting her master, because she fears him. Ningyou is actually pretty happy that he died.
Ningyou and her lover live in the house of the wealthy businesswoman, Satoko, after Ningyou resurrected Satoko's recently deceased son. Satoko is aware what they are and what they eat, despite being chronologically younger than Ningyou, she treats the demon like her endearing daughter, Satoko does not trust Ningyou's partner, though.
Ningyou and her partner are not officially married, but they sincerely refer to each other as a spouse.
