Yin & Yang

**Yin & Yang** (陰陽 *Onmyō)* is an inherited technique passed down within the Ando Family. This technique brings the concept of "**the Yin & Yang balance**" into reality, allowing the user to manipulate and distort the inner balance of an animate, and inanimate, object at will.

While any member of the Ando Family can hereditarily gain this technique, there are ways to learn the basics of the Yin & Yang technique. Hikaru Ando is one of the students under the teaching of the Elders.

Although this cursed technique died out ages ago in the Ando clan's history, which ultimately caused the untimely ruin of the Ando. This technique, in and of itself, is destructive and complicated to use. As such, once the user is voluntarily dependent on it, their own technique will destroy their inner balance, resulting in them being *Imperfect*. Staying in the Imperfect state for too long will result in the user's death. The Yin & Yang technique is definitely a *cursed* technique which has yet to be fully discovered, with underlying dangers and systematic faults.

## Description

### Neutral Yin & Yang: Creation

**Creation** (創造, *Sōzō*) is the base state of the Yin & Yang and is essentially the power to create. The Yin & Yang technique operates the same way opposites do in nature. Creation is the opposite of destruction, anything that is made by the use of Creation destroys and assists the user to clear their path. This is because the technique takes a finite amount of glucose from the user's body to create slim sticky sheet with a slimy residue. With this sheet, which are referred to as talismans, the user is able to stick it on what ever, or, who ever their target is and distort the 50-50 balance among their victim. While their Yin and Yang balance is unstable, their state of being is referred to as the Imperfect. As previously stated above, being in Imperfect for too long causes a persons death.

To activate their ability, the user would have to do some sort of physical action, like clap their hands or snap their fingers, the action needed to work their jujutsu depends on the users. They are also require to think of the effect they want the talisman to create. There is no absolute number of effects, as long as the user is able to think of it, and define the way it works, the talisman will create it.

Though this may seem simple, the planning, coordination and math that goes behind the technique certainly isn't. If this technique is used to much, the user puts their strain on their brain, and heavy pressure on their body. They also put their own life as risk, as glucose is a natural source of food for the human body, and it needs it to function, to create energy for the body to move.

### Strengthened Yin & Yang: Destruction

**Destruction** (破滅, *Hametsu*) is the **Cursed Technique Ruin** which comes in different forms for all users. While Creation is known for the ability to create or birth a new object, Destruction is as it's name suggests. Destruction is used by stealing the Cursed Energy from the user's opponents, not only putting them in the state of Imperfect but also draining them of their ability to fight.

This jujutsu is also talisman based. The talismans created by stolen Cursed Energy rests in the enemy's body. The base state of these talismans never take physical forms, but this also differs to the different manipulations of Ruin. These talismans collect Cursed Energy from the body it is in, each talisman has a certain limit to how much Cursed Energy it can hold. Ones that are created in the spur of the moment hold little Energy while ones made over a longer period of time, hold a bigger fill of Cursed Energy. And at the right time, as the talisman fill its own capacity of Cursed Energy, it explodes inside the body is rests in.

The sudden release of Cursed Energy inside of a sorcerers/ Cursed Spirit triggers the resting state they are in, Imperfect. Causing the body to deteriorates from in the inside. The enemy collapses on itself.

### Reversed Yin & Yang: Law

**Law** (法律 *Hōritsu*) is the **Cursed Technique Reversal** of Yin ang Yang, which essentially makes everything into a balanced scale. This allows the users to take something from reality and store it within a talisman to draw out for later use. This technique doesn't have a physical manifestation, so it is rarely mastered by most Yin and Yang users.

A common use for Law is to "heal" wounds by storing them in talismans, the talismans can be later withdrawn and applied to enemies to inflict the same wounds to them. Absorbing enemy attacks is also another useful way to put this technique to work. These uses both require the Law of Balancing, which allows the sorcerers to store anything within talismans, living and non-living things alike, as long as they use/ unleash the items from the talisman later on.

## Possessive Techniques

Possessive techniques are cursed techniques branched out from the Yin & Yang cursed technique. These are altered ways to utilize the entire technique in itself since the range is very vast. Sorcerers that possessed the Yin and Yang technique made up their own ways to execute, making their own way of combat with cursed technique. With that said, it is suggested you keep in mind that not every user has their own techniques and that all of them vary upon each user.

#### **Kikonu Ando**

* **Planetary Devastation** (地爆天星, *Ji Bakuten Hoshi*): Kikonu's use of Ruin. It is the first Ruin sub-technique ever documented. Stealing Cursed Energy repeatedly from one area of the body from their enemy to temporarily paralyze the enemy from that area of their body.
* **Devil's Wish** (悪魔の願い, Akuma no Negai)
* **Death Scythe** (死の大鎌, *Shi no Ōgama*)

#### **Iwao Ando**

* **Macabre of Webs** (不気味なウェブ, *Bukimina u~ebu*): Iwao's use of Ruin. Stealing Cursed Energy to make invisible spiderwebs to trap and immobilize their enemy. As the webs are created with the opponents Cursed Energy, it is easier for them to miss and pass off as normal residuals of their fight.

#### **Haruyo Ando**

* **True Kizmet** (真のキズメット, *Shin no kizumetto*): Haruyo's use of Ruin. It is the strongest manipulation of Ruin. Continuously storing their opponent's Cursed Engery in talismans to deploy their Domain Expansion. The Domains/ jujutsu cast with this Cursed Energy is both infused with Haruyo's and their opponent's jujutsu affecting both their embers in harsh Imperfect conditions.

#### **Kazuki Ando**

* **Divine Judgement** (神の裁き, *Kami no Sabaki*): Kazuki's use of Ruin.
* **Evening Moon** (夕方の月, *Yūgata no Tsuki*)

#### **Nao Ando**

* **Crescent Rose** (三日月のバラ, *Mikadzuki no Bara*): Nao's use of Ruin.
* **Snowy Secret** (雪に覆われた秘密, *Yuki ni Ōwa Reta Himitsu*)
* **Seraphic Tales** (セラフィック物語, *Serafikku Monogatari*)

#### **Miyuki Ando**

* **Ivy Sun** (蔦太陽, *Rasahi*): Miyuki's use of Ruin. She steals the cursed energy of her opponent and create a dream-like paradise for them, allowing them to live how their subconscious secretly desires. This casts a haze like effect in their mind, they become unconscious of their moves. The manipulation of her opponent's cursed energy puts them in Imperfect. The opponent dies slowly living a glimpse of their could-be best life. Typically, used for curses/ curse-users who surrender.
* **Crescent Moon** (三日月, *Sengetsu*): Miyuki's second use of Ruin. She steals the cursed energy of her opponent and create a nightmare-like hell for them, allowing them to glimpse and endure their deepest fears. This casts a haze like effect in their mind, they become unconscious of their moves in reality. The manipulation of her opponent's cursed energy puts them in Imperfect. The opponent dies painfully living a purgatory hell of their phobias.
	+ **Full Moon** (満月, *Mangestsu*): Full Moon is a technique branched out of Crescent Moon, it is a modified version of the method. Miyuki doesn't take enough Cursed Energy from her opponent, allowing them live in the Imperfect state for longer, prolonging the effects of her technique.
* **Lily Pond** (ゆりの池, *Renshi)*: Miyuki dispels the Ember from a living being's body. This splits the person into two states; the physical state, the body, and the spiritual state, the soul. As cursed energy is closely linked to a soul, when you remove the soul from a body, the body becomes a husk of it's former self. The person/curse is rendered immobile and cannot make use of their cursed techniques any longer. If an Ember is weak enough, Miyuki is able to store them inside talismans to use like Curse Users.

#### **Hikaru Ando**

* **Aurora's Wind** (オーロラの風, *Ōrora no Kaze*): Hikaru's use of Ruin. The weakest manipulation of Ruin known to the Ando Clan. The ability to push and repel a certain degree of mass from Hikaru by manipulating his opponent's Cursed Energy.
* **Eos's Seduction** (イオスの誘惑, *Iosu no Yūwaku*): The ability to attract forces and anyone of a certain mass towards Hikaru.

## Catalysts

As there are many uses of talismans, sorcerers find it difficult to remember which talisman is used for what, or whether it holds a wound by using Law. To combat this is frustration, many Yin & Yang users tend to utilise catalysts to prompt their techniques or just to mark each talisman for it's respective use.

### Runes

When sorcerers first started using catalysts, runes became an easy medium. They first started off as small hand drawn seals to mark which talisman is used for, ultimately evolving into a automatic mechanism that marked each talisman once it was used for something. Each marking is specific to a sorcerer and totally dependent on what they find convenient.

The main problem with this catalyst was that once a rune was drawn on a talisman, you could not use it for another thing. For example, you could save a talisman to heal yourself using Law, once you drew the designated rune for Law, you were not able to use it for a Domain, Destruction technique, etc.

### Incantations

Sorcerers dedicated words to deploy certain techniques automatically. This is in similar fashion to how Domain Expansions work. While Runes restrict a talisman to just one purpose, with incantations it allowed the sorcerers to leave the talismans blank. When they needed to use their techniques they'd use the blank talismans to perform as needed.

### Hand Seals

Inspired by the Ten Shadows wielders, Yin & Yang users also adopted hand seals and signs to use as indicators for their cursed techniques. This is one of the lesser used ways to manipulate their techniques. Most sorcerers need their hands free at all times to engage in combat, especially with the Yin & Yang users who needed to wield talismans or other weapons, using hand seals was one of the least preferred catalysts.

### Blood

The Kamo and Ando clans often wed, most of the children born from these marriages would inherit the Blood Manipulation cursed technique that is passed down the Kamo family line. However, a few exceptions were born with both techniques, or the Yin & Yang technique with properties of Blood Manipulation.

These sorcerers were known to use blood as a compound to initiate their cursed techniques. Their blood was versatile, often used as a drawing medium for runes. They didn't require talismans and could easily project their techniques through their blood by lacing it with their cursed energy. In addition to their mix of techniques, these sorcerers had an easier time controlling their Embers from going into an Imperfect balance.

Descendants of the Ando main family, learned to use blood as a medium for catalysing their techniques through the aforementioned sorcerers. They were, however, unable to tame their Ember as well as them.

## Trivia

* The Yin & Yang technique is based off of Taoism. Taoism, or Daoism, refers to a Chinese philosophy, or a set of Chinese traditions and religions which emphasize living in harmony with the Tao. The Tao is generally defined as the source of everything and the ultimate principle underlying reality.
	+ The Reversed Cursed Technique Law is then representative of Daoism's opposite, Fǎ-Jiā (法家), Fǎ meaning standards, procedures rather than simply law. Fǎ-Jiā is therefore the expertise of statecraft and it helped to found and organize the first empire.