Ningyou

ALIAS: Ningyou
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BIRTH NAME: Akako Ogawa
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GENDER: ♀
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SEXUALITY: Greysexual panromantic
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CHRONOLOGICAL AGE: Unspecified, at least over 28, could be over 90, depends on year.
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BIOLOGICAL AGE: Forever stuck in her late 20's, but she looks few years younger.
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HEIGHT: 5'2
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WEIGHT: 84 lbs
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RACE: Demon (Specifically, a voodoo demon)
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PERSONALITY: Quiet, careful, observant, vengeful, jealous, protective, competitive.
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LIKES: Pretty stuff, chilling, eating mean humans
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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 life–sized doll
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BLOOD DEMON ART:

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 „poppet 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 — 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 — 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 — 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.

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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 „forces" her partner to try Steampunk style.

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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 Users repeatedly attack their opponent from the above.

Second form: Pollution Users rapidly dash forward, disappearing behind the cloud of dust and attacking opponent from behind.

Third Form: Fumarole 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).

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BACKSTORY

Ningyou took a while learning „how 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 hates the idea of a scary guy, bossing her around and always being afraid of accidentally pissing him off and getting killed. 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.

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EXTENDED VERSION

Ningyou's blood demon art allows her to turn into a human temporarily, as long as she can find the hair strand that left her head, while she was still a human.


This is how she had biological son — Thomas (born during Reiwa era) with her partner, when they turned into humans for an year.