Ayame (Inuyasha)

Ayame is a character in Inuyasha, appearing exclusively in the anime (though she is mentioned by name in the manga). She is a female wolf demon and the granddaughter of the elder of the Northern Wolf Demon tribe, as well as Kōga's fiancée and eventual wife.
She is voiced by in the Japanese version and Natalie Walters in the English version.
==History==
=== Beginnings ===
As a little girl, Ayame once got lost in the forest and got attacked and pursued by Birds of Paradise. She was rescued by Kōga and he promised to marry her when she got older and came back down from the Northern Mountains, though it's highly implied that he could have been joking. That same night, they saw a rainbow, causing Ayame to dub it the Night of the Lunar Rainbow.
=== Plot ===
When Ayame comes down from the Northern mountains, however, Kōga seems to have completely forgotten the promise, causing Ayame to be heartbroken. Upon discovering that he has fallen in love with Kagome Higurashi, she is enraged even further, haven previously believed he was above falling in love with a mortal. Even so, she is still determined to make him live up to his promise, which he eventually does. 
After Ayame heard about Kōga, she meet Inuyasha and his friends again as she catches Shippō upside down, she tells them that a "beast" is devouring the demons as Inuyasha said "I don't the like the sound of that."
Later, she took them to her grandfather the wolf elder, the leader of the Northern Wolf Demon Tribe as she and Kagome can heal him, while she tells her that Kyōkotsu is a specter. As Ayame and the rest takes the elder to the safesr place, she reminded Kagome and others that the specter smells of corpses and graveyard soil. She was surprised to see the glow of the Sacred Jewel which means that Kōga is in trouble. As she arrived, Ayame warned Kōga to watch out and since Kyōkotsu have been defeated, as out of the flail she saw the poisonous insects: the Saimayōshō the first time as it took the shard. After that, she told Kōga about Kagome and her friends about it, and after he left to continue his search for Naraku, she head back to the others for the elder's safety.
Ayame was happy to see Ginta and Hakkaku brought Kai and Shinta to the mountains of the Northern Tribe, and heard about the latest incarnation of Naraku named Byakuya, Byakuya of the Dreams as gives her the creeps like Kōga said, just like as what gives her the creeps at Naraku's castle. So, she heard that Kōga is off on his own because of the shard of the Shikon Jewel according to Kagome and her friends that she never heard of it like an ancient priestess named Midoriko, the creator of the Shikon Jewel that would lead to defeat Naraku.
After the death of Kikyō, Kōga is about to abandon his mission and tell Ayame about it that he lost it and learned that Kagome is the reincarnation of the priestess Kikyō that made her shocked. Ayame tells Kōga that since Inuyasha lost Kikyō twice and have Kagome, he still have Ayame.
Three years later after the defeat of Naraku, Kōga and Ayame have been married and even made Kōga the leader of the Wolf Yōkai Tribe.
Five years later, and after the destruction of the Grim Comet of the Feudal Era, a tanuki named Hachiemon have delivered Inuyasha and Kagome's daughter named Moroha, they will take care of her away from Kirinmaru, the Lord of the Eastern Lands and his older sister Zero when the time has come.
== Personality ==
Ayame is a very dutiful and dedicated person, as shown by the fact that she trained in the Northern Mountains for a very long time while holding Kōga's promise to marry her close to her heart. She was understandably heartbroken when Kōga had apparently forgotten but still hoped that he would eventually live up to it.
Like many demons, she has a distaste for humans, judging by her initial hostility towards Kagome and belief that Kōga was above falling for a human. However, she does come to like Kagome after their adventure. While she could be impulsive at times, Ayame was actually pretty smart and observant; she was able to quickly figure out that Kōga's love for Kagome was completely one-sided, something Kōga and Inuyasha had been unable to figure out for ages.
== Appearance ==
Ayame has pale skin with pointy ears, green eyes, and auburn hair that is always tied up into pigtails by white hair ties. She wears an iris in the left side of her hair and a thin white band across her forehead. Her clothing consists of a white wolf fur cape tied with a white cord necklace with green ornaments, a pink and dark blue chest armor, a white wolf fur skirt, white wolf fur cuffs, white wolf fur shin guards, and white wraps around her feet. Ayame also carries a sword at her waist.
== Powers and abilities ==
* Whirlwind: Like Kōga's, Ayame can generate whirlwinds of air and green leaves and build it up until her whole body is engulfed in a cyclone.
* Speed: Ayame had the ability to run at high speeds, but not as fast as Kōga.
* Agility: Ayame is very light on her feet and can leap incredibly large distances.
* Senses: Ayame can sense like other demons.
* Whirlwind of leaves: Ayame pounds the ground with her fist, summoning a multitude of green leaves that swirl around her and can knock back or kill demons.
==Trivia==
*Ayame's appearance, clothes, fighting style and somewhat misanthropic attitude bear a striking resemblance to San.
==External links==
*Ayame on the InuYasha wiki
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