Yotsugi Ononoki

Yotsugi Ononoki is one of the main characters from the Monogatari Series series.
== Charactah Account ==
Yotsugi is Yodzuru's assistant of sorts and acts as her shikigami. She is very unemotional and during her first appearance she tacks her catchphrase "so I said photogenically" onto things, though she later decides this is lame and abandons it in favor of making peace signs.
Possibly due to the circumstances surrounding her creation, Yotsugi is seemingly void of any obvious personality traits. Her facial expression almost never changes from neutral and she speaks in a flat, monotone voice. Throughout the series she explores her identity by adopting various signature phrases and gestures. In her first appearance, she frequently ends statements with "Boku wa kimegao de sou itta", roughly meaning "I said, with a posed look", notably using the masculine "boku wa" to refer to herself. She would later drop this phrase out of embarrassment and regret, indicating her ability to express such emotions in her own way. When Koyomi Araragi mentions the subject he is immediately hushed by her and told never to bring it up again.
Yotsugi retains a mannerism of referring to anyone as an older sibling, even in situations where she's technically older. She refers to Koyomi as "oni no onii-chan", often translated as "devilish big brother" or "devil boy," referencing his relation to vampires since they're commonly considered to be demons. She has been shown to address Deishuu Kaiki as Kaiki-onii-chan as well, greeting him with a peace sign hand gesture and the words "yay" and "peace", much to his annoyance. She seems to keep the "yay peace peace" mannerism from then on.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Koyomimonogatari
* Monogatari Series: Second Season
* Nisemonogatari
* Okitegami Kyouko no Bibouroku x Monogatari
* Owarimonogatari
* Owarimonogatari Second Season
* Owarimonogatari Second Season Recaps
* Tsukimonogatari
* Zoku Owarimonogatari
=== Light Novels ===
* Monogatari Series: Final Season
* Monogatari Series: First Season
* Monogatari Series: Monster Season
* Monogatari Series: Off Season
* Monogatari Series: Second Season
=== Video Games ===
* Monogatari Series Puc Puc
* Wazamonogatari
== Trivia ==
* Yotsugi's first name literally means "cotangent", which shares a similar theme as Yozuru's name, which means "cosine". Her surname means "axe in a tree".
* The "ki" in "Ononoki" is the same "ki" used in "Kaiki." Yozuru seems to imply this was due to his influence when naming her.
* In the novels, Yozuru is originally only described as ever standing on Yotsugi's shoulders when they travel. After the anime adaptation depicted her as standing on her finger, it seemed Nisio Isin wanted to integrate this into the novels as well when he has Koyomi stand on her finger in Koyomimonogatari.
* In the TV version of Mayoi Jiangshi in Monogatari Series Second Season, a scene ends with Yotsugi smiling while requesting Koyomi Araragi to ask Hachikuji if she's happy living as a ghost. In the blu-ray version however, the smile was removed for a more common, neutral expression. This marks the first instance of her smiling in the TV series. In the novel, she's explicitly described as being expressionless during this moment.
* In the fighting game BlazBlue: Central Fiction, a skin with an Ononoki color pallet is available as DLC for the character Racheal Alucard.
* Despite being female, Yotsugi refers to herself with the first person Japanese pronoun boku, which is more commonly used by men.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Yotsugi Ononoki at Bakemonogatari Wiki
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