Dumisani Sango

**Dumisani Sango** (参豪 ドゥミサニ, *Sangō Dumisani*?), formerly called **Dumisani Mavundla**, is a pivotal character of the entirety of the *Apparition Tales anthology*. He was once an Umoya of the prestigious **Mavundla Clan** in the Yin-Yang Civilization and came to the countries of ??? and ??? to build up his strength, became the strongest Apparition and his species' strongest sorcerer.

It is later revealed to Dumisani in a dream by both Qamatha, the creation deity of Xhosa religion and Olorun, the chief Orisha of the Yoruba pantheon, that they both bestowed immense powers to him. After hearing this, through their guidance, he mastered the god-like powers within his Umoya physiology, thereby becoming the strongest of all apparitions.

Dumisani was credited for and is the founder of and ancestor of the Sango Clan, one of the Big Three Clans (also consisting of the Tsuchimikados and the Xulins), in the Apparition world.

At some point in his life, he founded the organization known as the Day-Night Bureau (昼夜寮, *Chūyaryō*?) to fight the fiends that plaque the human world and the Ying-Yang Civilization.

## Etymology

* Dumisani's given name means "praise, give praise, honorable" in Zulu and Ndebele. His surname "Mavundla" means either "rabbit" or "wisdom" in Zulu origin.
	+ In Japanese, his full name is completely comprised of either hiragana characters or katakana characters (depending on who writes it), thus having no semantic properties.

## Appearance

Throughout most of the anthology's first story, Dumisani is a tall, South African adult man with a muscular-athletic physique, cocoa brown skin, and slightly wide yet sharp obsidian black eyes whilst wearing a strict expression. He possesses black neck-length hair that he tied in a man bun at the back of his head.

Dumisani wore a brown kimono tucked into black hakama pants held up by a grey uwa-obi around his waist. He also wears traditional brown colored tabi socks, and a pair of light-colored zōri with black straps.

After awakening from his near-death from his first battle against Yuzuha, during their rematch halfway into their fight, he showed his first use of the Yin-Yang Body that his reincarnations would later use, where his skin turns takes a violet coloration except for the eye and mouth area, giving it a ski-mask-esque appearance on his face with irises of similar violet coloration and purple sclerae. In this state, his hair is still black but with violet outlines.

During his wedding ceremony with his wife, he wore a black kimono tucked into grey-colored hakama pants held up by a black uwa-obi around his waist, a darker black knee-length haori with the "Wisteria 02" crest printed on its left and right breasts, while also sporting white tabi socks and zōri with black straps on his feet.

During the Annual Clan Head Meeting in 2016 in the Ying-Yang Civilization, he wore a short-sleeved dashiki patterned shirt and black pants with an Ankara patterned cloth strapped to his right waist of his trousers that reaches above the knees.

## Personality

Dumisani is known to be an individual with a strong personality, a person who can give advice and one who understands other people because he knows how and what true suffering is like.

## Abilities

### Overall Abilities

Dumisani is the strongest Umoya and is known to be the pinnacle of overall strength and power in the Umoya hierarchy, along with being the first Umoya and the strongest of his kind, along with ranking the highest than any Umoya known. The author of the anthology further stated that Dumisani's overall physical and sensory abilities were at the absolute peak, comparing it to Toji Fushiguro's (from Jujutsu Kaisen) peak overall physical and sensory abilities but multiplied by two. He demonstrated in his battle against Yuzuha Kijin by being able to back her into a corner when his overall power was enhanced by two-fold with Reikōbō but was eventually defeated. After fully understanding his abilities and what he is in perfect detail during his suspended death state, he returned to the battle and absolutely dominated the fight during their rematch. After that battle, he would remain as the undefeated and strongest Umoya to exist, with only a several few so close to defeating him in battle with one able to succeed in it twice.

**Tactical Intellect:** Due to his upbringing in his country and later his initial warrior training, Dumisani became a highly tactical and calculating individual in battle.

**Terrain Compatibility:** Due to his upbringing and living in the African continent, he became adapted to the terrain in the region, enabling him to adapt easily to the land formations of Japan, and later the Spiritual Civilization.

**Leadership Skills:** Due to him descending from great and powerful chiefs, Dumisani has shown exceptional leadership skills that are second to none to most individuals. He is described to be one of the wisest of the Umoya due to his decisions having logic in them.

**Indomitable Will:** Dumisani has a strong and unwavering will which has remained unchanged for centuries. This is from his principles taught to him, the culture and race he comes from.

**Supernatural Senses:** Dumisani five senses of sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste are within the realm of supernatural. Although already supernatural, he trained them further to increase their full potential past their peak capabilities, even increasing much higher to be nigh-absolute when enhancing them with his Qi. His current supernatural senses can even surpass the limits of even fiends as strong as SSS rank.

### Physical Abilities

**Immense Durability:** Dumisani's supernatural body has immense levels of toughness that is considered the highest durability feat out of all Umoya with a body seemingly almost as strong as steel. Before his battle with Yuzuha, Dumisani was able to be gravely injured and was brought to near-death. During their rematch after receiving an awakening, his durability skyrocketed to the one seen throughout the anthology as only shallow cuts can be made into his skin. His durability is increased by two-fold when using Reikōbō, by three-fold (its absolute) when in his Great Spirit Body and by fivefold when using both techniques simultaneously.

**Immeasurable Strength:** Dumisani demonstrated his possesion of immense levels of physical strength, even capable of rivalling Yuzuha Kijin. During his training, he was able to carry a boulder the size of a door effortlessly. His strength combined with devastating punches, chops and kicks are stated to cause immense damage to both human and phantom opponents and obliterate them. When punching with killing intent was able to punch through Yuzuha Kijin's chest and skull despite her immense levels of durability, while also causing a mini-earthquake and crack the ground whilst causing a dense dust cloud twenty-five meters high.

**Immeasurable Speed and Reflexes:** Dumisani speed in his normal state after fully realizing his power is clocked at 3054 miles per hour, meaning that he can't be tracked by the naked eye of humans and most phantoms alike. When adding temporary limiters to his speed, he is half as fast at 1527 miles per hour. Also in his temporary limited state, he was still fast and flexible to fight strong-levelled phantoms for long periods and even overpower them in different time intervals, and can increase his already supernatural speed with Qi manipulation that he is capable of running at supersonic speeds that can kick up a dust cloud behind him. His speed to normal people appears as if he has teleported. When combined with his Great Spirit Body, he can break the sound barrier.

In terms of reflexes, Dumisani is capable of weaving through the high-speed and seemingly endless attacks from powerful phantoms. During his rematch with Yuzuha Kijin, he was able to dodge Yuzuriha's blood manipulating Phantom Arts that is stated to move twice as fast as the speed of sound.

**Unlimited Stamina and Endurance:** Dumisani possesses unlimited stamina and endurance due to been an Umoya by birth and as the first Umoya in existence. When reinforcing with Qi, Dumisani's stamina is greater and increased by a long margin to combat phantoms much faster and for longer but in a shorter time and can even combine it with his supernatural physiology. Due to this, he can fight for unlimited periods of time and equal grounds against the full might and the seriousness of individuals like Yuzuha Kijin and has even overpowered said individual at different times.

### Umoya Abilities

**Great Spirit Body:** After awakening from his near-death from his first battle against Yuzuha Kijin, during their rematch halfway into their fight, he showed his first use of the Elemental Manifestation that future Umoya would use, where his skin turns takes a violet coloration except for around the eye area and the mouth which have a gold coloration with a black four-pointed star on the center of his forehead, with irises of similar gold coloration and purple sclerae. In this state, his hair is still black but with violet outlines.

**Biological Absorption:** Dumisani has displayed the ability to absorb biological matter into his body through physical contact, mainly as an alternative method for consumption. This is only when he is eating his food or absorbing solar energy and qi into his body.

**Nigh-Absolute Regeneration:** As the first Umoya, Dumisani possesses the fastest regeneration feats of every Umoya in existence that even surpasses Yuzuha Kijin's, with his wife's regeneration coming in second. He can heal within a range of 0.2 seconds to 1 second and even grow lost limbs and organs in the same time frame, even going as far as regenerate immediately a wound is made on his body. His regeneration is great that he heals immediately an injury is made, even when a weapon is still in his body, his flesh still regenerates around it. When combining it with his Qi, his regeneration is increased to be much higher that he is able to heal almost instantly.

**Transformative Blood:** Like Yuzuha can create phantoms using their blood, Dumisani can create other Umoya with his blood by either them ingesting their blood or being born from him or his descendants directly.

* **Umoya Memory Access:** Dumisani, like Muzan and Yuzuriha, can also access the memories of the Umoya he created.
* **Umoya Empowerment**: Dumisani can amplify the abilities of a Umoya from anywhere in the world or country without even giving them his blood, due to his shamanism combined with his demon abilities, he can know the location and actions of every Umoya and demon.
* **Umoya Power Nullification and Revocation:** Dumisani can nullify and even revoke any Umoya of their powers and abilities, turning them back to human or to an Umoya with no abilities.

**Nigh-Unlimited Qi:** Dumisani Mavundla known within the Umoya world as the strongest Umoya ever. He earned this alias due to the immense amounts of Reiqi he possesses. His energy is vast enough to use a multitude of Fujutsu all at once least almost endlessly in one day, while most Umoya can only use it severally. Dumisani has excellent control over his Reiqi, capable of activating techniques and further abilities in a split second, increase his regeneration by milliseconds and even combines all five elemental attributes his energy possesses.

Due to having the highest abundance out of all Umoya, he is able to continuously use many Spiritual Art at once throughout his battles without exhausting himself in the slightest. He has master and unmatched control over his Reiqi, being exceptionally proficient at manipulating his energy being able to even use Fujutsu and his Breathing Styles simultaneously. His amount of Reiqi far surpasses other Umoya and even members of all the Umoya clans and future Umoya kings.

* **Matter Alteration and Acquisition:** After further training his Reiqi, Dumisani is able to disassemble anything he touches, as well as reassemble it in any configuration he desires, effectively giving him full control over matter as long his body or his Reiqi has touched his target. This is demonstrated in his battles against a few demons when he disassembled his opponents to kill them or when healing injured individuals or himself by reassembling them at their injured places to heal their wounds. This extends further when he is able to acquire the properties of an object made from any respectable matter by touching it instantly with either his Reiqi or any of his external body part for as long as 3 seconds. After further improving this ability, he can acquire the matter and composition of anything almost instantaneously.
* **Reiqi Constructs:** Loyiso's peerless control over his Reiqi allows him to freely shape and reshape it into any form of construct, mainly into invisible projectiles he can use against he opponents.

#### Qi Techniques

* **Reiate** (霊当, *Reiate*?, lit. "Spiritual Strike") - Dumisani launches his Reiqi in the form of invisible projectiles at their targets from a distance or at close-range that are strong and powerful enough to cause major damage from within their desired targets body.
* **Tengoku Hahen** (天国破片, *Tengoku Hahen*?, lit. Heaven Splinter) - The user creates a seemingly unlimited number of Reiqi orbs around them to launch them as projectiles towards their intended target that cause the opponent to suffer internal damage when hit from them since the orbs are created from Reiqi.
* **Rapid Laceration** (急速裂傷, *Kyūsoku Resshō*?) - Dumisani shapes his Reiqi constructs into invisible slashing and stabbing attacks of any amount he desires that can in most cases be unavoidable if aimed at and used on the desired target. They can cut down any object irrespective of their durability and toughness.

**Decapitation Immunity:** Like every Umoya, Dumisani possesses the immunity to decapitation by Nichirin weaponry.

**Sunlight Resistance:** Like all Umoya, Dumisani possesses the ability to resist the sun's burning effects.

**Solar Energy and Qi Absorption:** Dumisani and every Umoya get their power from absorbing both solar energy and qi into his body to boost and rejuvenate his power and Reichi.

**Levitation:** Due to his unparalleled grasp over his knowledge of Reichi, Dumisani is capable of levitating into and flying through the air by manipulating the qi in the atmosphere with his Reiqi, giving him the ability of flight in a way.

**Flesh Manipulation:** Like all phantoms and Umoya, Dumisani possesses the ability to manipulate his own flesh to a high degree. He is able to change his body composition at will. This goes further by being capable of moulding weapons from his own flesh and blood. He rarely does this since he has Qi.

* **Hair Manipulation:** Dumisani possesses the ability to manipulate his own hair, possibly as an extension of his flesh manipulating abilities. This is displayed when they braid themselves and style themselves to whatever hairstyle, changing hair colour, and using his hair as an extra appendage and as a weapon.

**Spirit Pact:** Dumisani has displayed that he use several Spirit Pacts (霊協定, *Reikyōtei*?) in his daily life. As another master practitioner of this supernatural ability, he is flawless with this ability that he has used it to increase the power output of his supernatural abilities and Spiritual Arts.

#### Spirit Pact Techniques

* **Card Reveal** (情報口外, *Jōhō Kōgai*?) - Dumisani uses this Spirit Pact to increase his Reiki output in exchange for vocally divulging how his abilities and Reijutsu functions. This in turn increases the overall power output by a really wide margin and increase the effectiveness of his techniques as well as mislead his opponents on how they works. The pact can still work when he divulges the same abilities to himself to make his abilities stronger.
* **Blood Vow** (血誓い, *Ketsu Chikai*?) - Dumisani can use this Reikyotei and is one of his occasional go-to Reikyotei since no one can break the conditions of this Reikyotei as it will lead to consequences should the other party break the set of conditions and rules that he, the practitioner, set.

### Supernatural Abilities

**Extrasensory Perception:** Due to his already supernatural five senses already trained to be above their average, Dumisani has a great senses that could pick events and happenings beyond the normal range of perception, capable of discerning a demon's aura and presence from a human's. His perception is the highest out of all the Umoya, even higher than Yuzuha Kijin. His perception is so advanced that he can perceive attacks even from places he is not looking at, allowing him to nullify the effectiveness of sneak attacks. His extrasensory perception is higher when he adds in his Seiqi, allowing him to even detect attacks that are considered untraceable to other individuals.

**Shamanism:** Dumisani had a natural talent for shamanism and was revered and respected, because his predictions with these abilities almost absolutely came true. He was stated to be able to converse with the already deceased spirits in the afterlife and in hell and still return and even let his soul transcend into both the world of loving and the world of the dead without any issue or worry.

**Clairvoyance:** Dumisani was stated by his parents to be a naturally born clairvoyant, a trait that neither of his siblings possessed and one that his great-grandfather had. With his clairvoyance, Dumisani can see everything that happened in the past and what happens in the future in perfect detail, as if he was watching a movie. His clairvoyance is even highly revered that he can look at someone and tell them their name, their ancestry, when they were born and even the atrocities they committed. In short, it will be extremely hard to lie to him for he can see you and all the things you did in your lifetime. This ability is said to surpass the Ubuyashiki's foresight ability. With his clairvoyance, Dumisani can make pre-determined tactics minutes ahead of time to overwhelm his opponents, even opponents as strong as Upper Rank demons or demons as strong as Muzan Kibutsuji and Yuzuriha Kijin.

* **Precognition:** An extension of his clairvoyant abilities, Dumisani is capable to utilizing precognitive abilities, including his senses that have evolved further to be able to predict up to 200 moves into the future, being capable of forseing actions and intentions of others merely through scent, even of non-living things.

**Telepathy:** Like his great-grandfather, Dumisani is a natural born telepath. With his telepathy, Dumisani can read the minds of people and see what they think with no difficulty and in perfect detail.

## Fighting Style

**Master Swordsman:** Dumisani is was a proficient swordmaster. His skill is said to be nigh-unparalleled among his species. Until the twenty-first century, his skill has never waned due to being a seasoned combatant for the Dark-Light Bureau while also training from time-to-time for centuries.

**Unparalleled Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Dumisani was a skilled martial artist that learned the several forms of African martial arts way even before the colonization of the continent; such as the Engolo (a leg-based fighting style) from a region that would soon be modern day Angola, the Dambe (a boxing style martial arts) from the Hausa people of a region that would soon be Nigeria and the Musangwe (a bare-fisted boxing style) from his home region that would soon be South Africa that was practised by the Venda people in Chifude valley. All these made him an excelled hand-to-hand combatant in his country. After arriving in Japan and during his six-month training to be a Demon Slayer, Dumisani had learned the several types of martial arts Japan has to offer. Over his time as a Demon Slayer, he blended the African martial arts he was experienced in and the several bare-fisted martial arts he learned in Japan and the ones he learned from a Chinese martial arts practitioner, combining all three martial arts from the three locations to a new bare-fisted martial arts that blended all three forms of hand-to-hand combat from these three regions. He would later name it **Mugentaijutsu** (無限体術, *Mugentaijutsu*?, lit. "Infinite Body Techniques") and has even used it in his battles against demons and even to match the high-speed attacks of Yuzuriha Kijin. Dumisani also doesn't worry or hesitate about engaging his opponents up close. His combat prowess has increased and is refined since he uses hand-to-hand in tandem with his weaponry. His skill with Taijutsu was so great that he can throw singular blows that can knock opponents of sinful phantom-level strength out cold or to crush them with kicks and punches that can shatter their bones, rupture organs or decapitate them.

**Master Archer**: Dumisani became skilled in archery when training for six months to become a Demon Slayer. Due to his skill in using using the Bow and Arrow, he displayed using this skill whenever he manipulated and moulded his Qi into bows and and arrows to be able to shoot arrows for indefinite amounts of time. He was able to catch Yuzuriha Kijin, an extremely powerful demon who has a lot of combat and ability using experience over the years she has lived.

**Kusarigamajutsu:** Dumisani requested him to teach him Kusarigamajutsu and later he also became highly skilled in the weapon style.

**Polearm Proficiency:** A fighting style he learned on his spare time, Dumisani became highly skilled in utilizing this style of fighting.
Fighting Style===

#### Fujutsu

**Biokinesis:** As the creator of Spiritual Arts, Elemental Arts, Reiqi, and the first Umoya, Dumisani has powerful biokinetic abilities far surpassing even the likes of Muzan Kibutsuji and Yuzuriha Kijin. His biokinesis is noted to be the most refined biokinesis, since he can change into anyone, even take their voices and how they behave, and even change into animals, other demons and even into inanimate objects, making him an individual who cannot be tracked down so easily, nor someone who can be attacked or killed but he can attack or kill anybody the way he feels like it.

#### Element

**Five Element Art:** Due to creating Reiki by taking inspirations from qi in both Japanese and Chinese culture and taoism from Chinese culture, Dumisani is the first of his kind to manipulate all the five elements of the **Gogyo** (五行, *Gogyō*?) which is **Wu Xing** (五行, *Wǔ Xíng*?) in Chinese, that being Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water, thus granting him xylokinetic (wood manipulating), pyrokinetic, geokinetic, ferrokinetic and hydrokinetic abilities respectively.

## Trivia

* Dumisani descended from a long line of Sangomas or Inyangas, which were and are shamans, healers, priests, and prophets that have been the backbone of Bantu communities and culture, especially in the rural areas of Southern Africa for eons.
* Dumisani is closely related to the West African people due to his grandmother being part of the Bono people and his mother part of the Yoruba people.
* Before his birth, a prophecy by his grandfather was made to his human parents about one of their children who will be born with the gifts of the supreme god Unkulunkulu, possessing supernatural abilities to create and manipulate the elements, will leave his home to find his purpose in life, and will start a kingdom and legacy of his own.
	+ This prophecy was fulfilled with Dumisani's birth, him displaying an early form of Fujutsu, leaving for Japan plus later becoming the strongest Supernatural entity on earth.

* Dumisani was the middle child in his family overall, and the last born son of his two older brothers, while also having three younger sisters, showing he wouldn't inherit anything from his family.
* Dumisani is an omni-linguist.
	+ He used his clairvoyance abilities to learn many languages, including Japanese and the Amharic language, which is why he was able to speak fluent Japanese immediately he arrived in Japan.
* Dumisani loves writing and learning, which is how he is able to know the practices of different people in different cultures.
* Although no longer the Umoya King, Dumisani still remains the strongest Umoya for centuries after relinquishing his title as king and his skills and overall power was noted to be unmatched and still at their peak, an observation that Adebiyi Sango, his eldest son, noted in when they were sparring in the year 2013.