Yuki-onna

Yuki-onna, or Snow Lass, is a character in Phantom Tales of the Night. Yuki-onna is based of a well known bakemono, or youkai, in Japanese folklore. 
Because Yuki-onna was afraid of her husband, she asked Owner to be the mediator between her and Yama-no-oni for their marriage.Phantom Tales of the Night Manga Volume 2 (pt. 4). After many years of content marriage, which she attributes to Owner's threats, Yama-no-oni dies and Yuki-onna returns to Murakumo Inn with the intent to repay Owner with her secret. Yuki-onna confesses to Owner that she actually did love her husband, though she did not tell him because she believed he hated her. With this, Owner shows her Yama-no-oni's flame and she melts to death within it, revealing to her the secret that her husband had loved her all along. 
==Appearance==
Yuki-onna appears as a woman in formal kimono. In colour illustrations she has turquoise hair, however in the manga she is said to have "skin and hair as white as snow".Phantom Tales of the Night Manga Volume: 2 (pt. 7). Matsuri frequently changes character's colour palettes in illustrations, so both can be taken equally to be true. 
==Abilities==
In the bonus manga page All Kinds of Reproduction, Yuki-onna is shown to produce children by making snowmen, which leaves her husband wondering why he's there at all if she can reproduce asexually.Phantom Tales of the Night Manga Volume: 2 (endpage). It is unclear if this is intended to be canon or just for comedy. Additionally, she is shown to cry tears of ice. 
== Quotes ==
"At the very least, I want to be with him until one of us dies." (About Yama-no-oni)Phantom Tales of the Night Manga Volume 2 (pt. 37).
"I thought I wouldn't be able to fall in love with someone who was so completely different from me." (To Owner about Yama-no-oni)Phantom Tales of the Night Manga Volume 2 (pt. 27).
== Trivia ==
* This enigma frequently features red camellias, which in hanakotoba symbolize being in love, or perishing with grace. They can be seen on pages 3, 12, and 19.
File:Yukionna2.jpg|Colour illustration
File:FifthEnigmavol2.jpg|Yuki-onna and Yama-no-oni
File:Yuki-onnachildren.jpg|Yuki-onna with her children