Hakkyoufutatabi

Hakkyoufutatabi's inner world appearance.

## Hakkyou

Hakkyoufutatabi (破鏡再び, *Repeatedly Broken Mirror*) is the manifested spirit of Yomichi Okikiba's Zanpakutō.

## Appearance

Hakkyoufutatabi takes the physical appearance of a beautifully, tall and slender woman, completely naked, with a mirror hair piece tying up her bun. A white veil similar to a wedding veil drapes behind her body, as it is tied to the hair piece.

Hakkyoufutatabi wears black lipstick, and appears to have one eyeball replaced as a mirror. She wears her hair in a losoe, large bun, with her side bangs completely loose, and a streak of her frontal bangs is white, and tied as a braid, an wraps around to one side of the hand.

There is a small, chest plate on her chest, just under her collar bones, which is a small mirror and acts as a home to her Zanpakutō.

In the **Zanpakuto Rebellion,** Hakkyou appears as a eerie, ghost-like yet majestic being, fully covered by a veil that cannot be seen through, and she usually floats everywhere. The only parts that are visible is when she exposes her arms and legs under the veil. She can choose to wear her own creation of a type of underwear and boots if needed.

When viewed from outside her Inner World in Yomichi's bankai state, Hakkyoufutatabi is recloaked and can be seen lurking in the mirrors, like a vengeful ghost, as she is completely covered by a veil that only reveals a light which her mirrored eye is reflecting.

## Personality

At first glance, Hakkyoufutatabi is not ashamed of her nakedness when meeting Yomichi. She will freely expose herself in front of Yomichi in her inner world, compared to the outside, where Hakkyou keeps herself completely covered.

Originally, Hakkyoufutatabi did not speak. She is soft-spoken, and her voice eerily echoes, soothly, calmly, but with a bone-chilling factor to it. Hakkyoufutatabi can have a burst of anger at random intervals with causes her voice to shriek and crack her mirrors. She was discovered to sometimes have a no-tolerance for statements Yomichi might have used to provoke her in order to defeat her. Hakkyou's inner world being full of mirrors, Hakkyou would often kick Yomichi out after one single wrong attempt to find the real Hakkyou in a mirror. Hakkyou would purposely make Yomichi take several years to even achieve her Bankai, let alone Shikai.

Hakkyoufutatabi is rather a cold and cruel Zanpakutō, who has a playful and amused aspect to her personality. She will attempt to lure in her "prey" by showing them visions and such in her mirrors, as she's showed Yomichi several **reflections** in order to provoke her or disturb her mind, and expose any weaknesses she may have. This was also known to be, as Yomichi describes her Zanpakutō as "cruel" and "remorseless**"** as Hakkyou's main ability is capable of damaging it's user. After learning her temptations do not affect Yomichi, Hakkyou learned to cooperate with her master instead, since it was practically useless to not do so.

Hakkyoufutatabi will become serious when it's comes to the times of death for herry opponents, her usual grin will disappear and she will feel more sinister, striking fear into those whose face her as she ultimately pulled them in toward their deaths.

Hakkyoufutatabi is also known to have fears, specifically of weights, and things that are capable of utterfly crushing her such as Zanpakutō like Wabisuke and Tenken.

## Trivia

* Hakkyoufutatabi is inspired of Japanese mythological mirrors such as Ungaikyo and Yata no Kagami.
* Hakkyoufutatabi's name comes from the Japanese proverb, **落花枝にかえらず、破鏡再び照らさず** [らっかえだにかえらず、はっきょうふたたびてらさず, rakka eda ni kaerazu, hakkyou futatabi terasazu] fallen flowers do not return to their branches, a shattered mirror does not reflect again; things done cannot be undone (note that the second half of his proverb is often used after a wife has filed for a divorce)
* One of her abilities is inspired of Kanna of Inuyasha, where Hakkyoufutatabi can destroy opposite attacks with her mirrors.
* Hakkyou, while durable, is physically fragile and her skin will break and crack when too much force it used against her.
* Hakkyoufutatabi pulls her Zanpakutō out of the mirror on her chest.
* Sekihan's interpretation of Hakkyoufutatabi is "A derange, sinister spirit that is trapped in a mirror which she haunts, the mirror casted aside and left in isolation for all eternity. The spirit itself has gone insane, and has nothing but evil intentions to those who stand in front of it.":
* Hakkyoufutatabi's design is inspired of Corpse Bride, except she is trapped in a mirror.

## References

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1. ↑ https://yokai.com/ungaikyou/
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yata\_no\_Kagami