Denji

"The ladies love me! They really love me!"

Name: Denji
Alias: Chainsaw Man
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Species: Human-Devil hybrid, Chainsaw Devil
Sexuality: Bisexual - very heavy female lean

Abilities: When Denji pulls the ripcord on her chest, she sprouts chainsaws from her arms and her head changes to something resembling a chainsaw with sharp teeth and a long, reptile like tongue. From the moment she pulls the cord, Denji begins to loose blood. Drinking blood of devils as she fights allows her to go for longer, but once she's lost too much blood, she can fall unconscious or worse.

History: Denji lived alone with her father, who owed significant amounts of money to the yakuza. After a while of living in this extreme poverty, her father could no longer take it and comitted suicide. Even though she was still a child, the yakuza turned to her to pay back the exorbitant amounts of money. While she was certain she would be killed immediately, she encountered someone who would change her forever. She met a devil - an orange dog with a chainsaw sprouting from his face, a handle on his back, and a ripcord-like tail. Denji was fine with letting the devil kill her, but to her surprise, the devil collapsed. It was severely injured. She offered it her arm, knowing human blood could heal devils. That action led to a contract between the pair, where they would help each other survive.

Denji was able to make her first payment to the yakuza by using the devil, Pochita, as a weapon to slay a minor devil. She grew older, struggling to get by between contracted devil hunts, odd jobs, and cutting down trees - even selling her eye and one of her kidneys when desperate enough. Through this time Pochita was her constant companion, and the two became quite close. Every meal was a blessing and no matter how little she had, she always shared with Pochita.

One day, the yakuza told her they had a special job. Denji was lured to a warehouse, where the zombie devil made itself known. It had told the yakuza to bring Denji to it to kill as it hated devil hunters. Ambushed and outnumbered by the devil and its zombie minions, Denji soon fell. She died in that warehouse, chopped to bits and thrown into a dumpster with an injured Pochita.

Devils have the ability to take over human bodies and become fiends. Denji knew this and promised Pochita that when she died, Pochita should take over her body. That way Pochita could live out the rest of his life happily, even if Denji wasn't there to see it. Pochita, remembering this promise, began to merge with Denji. However, he did something different. He gave his body up so that Denji may live, literally becoming her heart.

When Denji awoke, fully healthy with her eye and kidney regrown, Pochita was gone. All that remained was a ripcord on her chest. Seeing that the yakuza members has been turned to zombies as well, Denji pulled the ripcord and began to fight. The slaughter lasted until morning, where Denji was found exhausted and covered in blood. The woman who found her, Makima, invited her to become a devil hunter or else she would be killed. Denji, on the verge of unconsciousness, agreed to become an offical devil hunter.

Now, Denji works to hunt devils with her teammates Aki and Power while swearing loyalty to Makima.

Personality: Denji is both brash and naïve as a result of being unable to have a formal education and socialize due to living in severe poverty. Her personality comes off as rude and harsh in an almost childish way. However, she has a good sense of empathy towards other people, willing to save those in danger as much as she could, showing she is a kind-hearted person despite her shortcomings. While Denji doesn't necessarily possess the highest intelligence, she is capable of clever ideas to take down devils.

Denji also harbors a fear that her seeming lack of empathy and attachment after her transformation is a sign that she is losing her sense of humanity.

While transformed into her hybrid form, Denji becomes extremely ruthless, aggressive, bloodthirsty and sadistic, releasing her most deranged side while facing other devils, to the point of enjoying killing them. She also displays a twisted and sarcastic sense of humor.

Denji is emotionally damaged, and desperate to love and be loved by someone.

Fun facts:
- Denji once agreed to eat a cigarette for 100 yen (around 0.74 usd). She spat it out once she got her money and the man had left.
- Denji is not picky about food at all, eating whatever she's given. She also happily eats with her hands if no utensils are availble no matter how messy.
- Despite being a woman, she prefers to be known as Chainsaw Man. In her words, all the other name ideas sounded stupid.
- Most of the time, she refuses to take orders from men even if they're her superiors as she "only takes orders from ladies".
- Upon meeting Aki, both she and Power refused to take orders from him or respect him at all. He bribed both of them with a piece of gum and they immediately behaved.
- She wants to have some form of education at some point.

Ships: Makima, Reze, suggest others! I'm also open to other gender swaps.

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