Fox (Hanako Azumaya)

### Relatives

Anoe Azumaya (Younger Sister, Deceased, 9 in reference to current age)Sakura Kayochi (Adoptive Older Sister, Deceased)

Kohota Azumaya (Older Sister, 20 in reference to current age, alive)

Atsureki Azumaya (Older Brother, 22 in reference to current age)

Hiroto Azumaya (Older Brother, Deceased, 25 in reference to current age)

Four unnamed siblings

Parents:Yikoyo Kyovera (Mother, alive)Tori Ishiba Azumaya (Father, deceased)

### Affiliation

The Roundtable (Current)Order of the Kaoto (Past)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Rose

Fox is a sixteen-year old warrior and mage from the eastern woodlands of Fortunata. She travels the vast world trying to help as many as she can and training to unlock her mana core. Despite having a traumatic past both in the real world and Fortunata, Fox is never seen without a soft and gentle smile. Although having a severe lack of physical strength, Fox specializes in thrusting and piercing attacks. She wants to increase her mana strengths and protect herself from ever being hurt again. She also wants to help everyone around her with her healing magic and protect them with her wintry-still fighting style.

## Appearance

Fox is a petite young woman with pale skin and shoulder-length dark light hair. Her eyes are lacking of any true sparkle and currently the color of bright pink sakura, making her eyes appear cold and emotionless. Three white streaks in her hair are kept

in braids and she wears four kanzashi hairpieces, each styled after a different flower in the back of her head. She is often seen with fresh flowers braided into her kanzashi pieces. A large scar runs from her upper right jawline through her nose and is considered the only distortion on her skin that Fox cannot fix. She is very short in stature and although appearing weak, can be quite powerful when using piercing attacks or thrusts.

She wears a loose, pastel pink shirt tucked into gray hakama pants. She wears a green-lined undershirt that is visible underneath the pink one. A thinner-style obi waist sash is tied into a bow and hangs down past her mid-thighs in the colors of pink and green. She wears pink bandage ties on her legs that lead down to traditional wooden sandals.

## Personality

Fox is an extremely closed-off and indecisive individual. Seeing as she lacks the ability to feel emotion or pain, she acts only when given true orders and doesn't decide many things for herself. To Fox, nothing matters in the world because there is nothing left for her to care about. She represses any possible emotion for fear of attachment. As shown per flashbacks of her younger self, Fox's true personality showcases a calm and gentle demeanor with bright sparks of happiness every so often. Fox is rarely seen without a smile as her adoptive sister told her shortly before dying to continue smiling and helping as many as she could. When angry or unable to repress her storm of emotions, Fox is shown to have an extremely explosive and volatile nature, taunting her opponents and attacking ruthlessly. Her lack of ability to feel pain allows her to continue fighting for long periods of time without rest. Despite her closed and indifferent demeanor, Fox is a truly kind and gentle person who wants to help everyone. Her gentle soul can be said to put certain people at ease. Usually she isolates herself from everyone who tries to help her, as she sees them only as people who could die, and therefore she would shatter again. Fox describes her lack of personality as shattered glass that absorbed into the ground a long time ago. Every time she gets attached, the glass grows into a delicate sphere of happiness. When they die, the sphere shatters and leaves Fox broken for years.

## Abilities

#### Overall abilities:

Fox is the disciple of deceased fighter and healer Sakura Kayochi. She seems to have gained incredible combat knowledge and skill in both healing magic and fighting through harsh training. Her body appears to be at the physical limit for her petite size and shape, with a considerable amount of muscle for someone of her stature, seeing as she trains 10-15 hours each day to practice her combat skills. Sakura has noted before that Fox wasn't naturally gifted at either talent but rather accomplished both by a strong drive to get as strong as she could.

#### Medical knowledge:

Having trained under master healer Sakura, Fox appears to have considerable talent when it comes to healing physical injuries. She's written before in a diary that she's been able to heal broken bones and even a crushed skull, although she passed out both times from the sheer effort. Fox was able to use healing magic even before she unlocked her mana, but she's mentioned that everything she's done before is amplified now due to magic.

#### Enhanced eyesight:

Fox has immensely strong eyesight due to a regiment of training exercises that allow her to see more than the usual human eye can. She can detect subtle movements in one's muscles that can seldom help her predict the opponent's next move. Her eyesight is one of the few things she's proud of, along with her sword and reaction speed. Once she unlocked her mana, her vision got even stronger. It's one of the reasons Fox is considered a good fighter. She's noted that she needs it to accompany her quick and intense fighting style.

#### Fast reflexes:

Fox has quick reflexes that allow her to react quickly in battle. They're the primary reason she can preform her attacks without injury. Similar to her eyesight, she's proud of her reflexes and has trained many hours to get the reactionary speed she currently holds. Although not the strongest, Fox considers herself one of the fastest and most flexible individuals she's ever met. They accompany her fighting style, the style in question that utilizes her reflexes, speed and flexibility to make up for lack of physical strength. It's the singular reason as to why she can hold her own in a fight, at least according to her diary.

#### Flexibility:

Not much is known about Fox's flexibility, but it can almost be compared to that of Mitsuri Kanroji (Kimetsu No Yaiba). She built it up by repetitively using her final form over and over until she was flexible enough to perform each action with little to no pain. As all other training regimens created by Fox, the methods are harsh and repetitive, often taking hours at a time to complete one regimen.

## Fighting Style

Fox uses a unique mana technique that she calls "Winter Sakura." It mostly revolves around frigid, wintry magic that she incorporates into her fighting forms.

#### "Iridescent Snow"

A fleeting attack that’s blindingly fast. The user runs forward and delivers three upward slashes followed by a low-cut blow. The blade seems colder than usual and cuts easily through warm and living forms. It’s an introductory attack that can be performed multiple times with ease.

#### “Gentle rainfall”

A slower attack that brings more force than Iridescent Snow. The user delivers two slashing blows that cut horizontally, first right and then left. The form utilizes all muscle arm strength and is usually used only once or twice. It only takes a moment to recover from the force required and makes the blade more powerful the more times it is practiced.

#### “Biting Frost”

The attack is the fastest one that Fox can perform without injuring herself. Using a burst of speed, the user jumps and delivers as many strikes as possible consecutively before delivering a thrust final attack. The more strokes preformed the more powerful each stoke becomes. The final thrust imbeds poison into the opponent’s internal organs. The ice from the blade attack freezes the insides, making the poison able to spread easily.

#### “Morning Dew”

This attack helps Fox regenerate the strength she used in other forms. Starting with a fast forward run, it’s a triple thrust attack that delivers poison to the neck, chest, and stomach. The thrust is followed by one curving slash that varies on the opponent’s weak point. The attack is weaker than most but can help spread poison while Fox is able to recover a bit of strength.

#### “Fleeting Sunlight”

This attack, although not the fastest, requires the most of fox’s energy. Fleeting sunlight features five curving slashes whilst still in midair from a high jump. During the jump, fox can aerodynamically stop herself from hitting the ground too early, making her attacks more powerful than her actual physical body. She shifts her body weight equally so she’s lighter than normal, an attack only she can perform. They give her muscles more enhancement so that they’re equal to a person of quite a bit more size and strength.

#### “Dance of the Sakura”

Fox’s most powerful attack, not counting the final form. It features a flurry of fifteen consecutive attacks featuring alternating thrusts and curving stikes. the attack works also as a defensive move and can inject three times the lethal dose of poison each time it is fully used. The curving strikes rotate the blade whilst being used to deliver the most damage possible. Fox can use her breathing to make her body so light and agile she weighs between ten and fifteen kilos during the attack, less than half her normal weight. This makes it near impossible for her to get hit. If done improperly, fox can easily end up detaching her limbs as the sword strikes are faster than possible without her breathing.

#### “Midnight Silence”

This attack allows Fox to see the world slower than it actually is, making her able to sense the opponent’s shifts in muscle and breathing. This is a defensive attack and can help her predict what they plan to execute next. When used offensively, it features a single sword slash that curves in the opposite direction midair. The sword slash is more powerful than most of her others and takes a bit of her energy to perform whilst seeing in slow motion. If she uses the breathing effect for too long, her eyesight deteriorates.

#### “Fluctuating Shivers of Icy Darkness”

Fox can alter her body weight so that she weighs less than the gravity around her. Therefore, she is able to move wherever and however fast she desires. Weighting less than zero kilos, she is practically untouchable in this state as she can move as fast as she desires. She can also jump incredibly high and stay in the air for long periods of time. When done for too long, her entire body can rip in half from the gravity around her that’s trying to warp back to normal.

## Backstory (TW: Abuse, Manipulation, Gore, Death)

Since the day Fox was born in the real world, her parents abused her to the point of where she was always bruised and sickly. Never allowed inside, she was chained in the yard like a dog for eight years of her childhood. Her parents only came out to take out their anger on her, until the point where one day Fox awoke, unable to feel pain or emotion at all. She could always see Atlas locked in a shed from where she was chained, and they invented a form of sign language to talk without their parents hearing. When Fox met her little sister Anoe, she was so excited to meet another person. Anoe cried a lot, as she had wounds that Fox couldn't fix. Fox's parents killed Anoe right in front of her. Fox was shattered once again. When she was nine, her parents sold her to the entertainment district of Yoshiwara. At the time, Fox was so beaten and bloody that they couldn't even tell how she looked, and the house master bought her out of pity. Upon discovering that Fox had a nice fact underneath the wounds, the woman gave her proper treatment and Fox healed quickly enough. The only reason she did this was because she knew Fox had a high chance of becoming a high-ranking cortsean with her unique eyes, golden with brown tips at the time. The woman instructed Fox to call her "Mother" and treated her nicely for the first few months. After she noticed Fox's lack of desire and passion, she began to get angry with the passive young child. The beatings Mother gave Fox were nothing in comparison to her previous abuse, so Fox endured it without even a change of expression. Fox was often confined in her room for days at a time, and although she considered it better than being trapped outside, she longed to run through a meadow as she had seen other children do all the time. Eventually Fox escaped Yoshiwara unscathed and stayed on the run for just over a year. Eventually bounty hunters caught up to her and when Fox was running, she got caught on the face with a knife, scarring her deeply. All remaining emotion left her as Fox hurled herself off a cliff only to wake up in the arms of Sakura Kayochi.