Koga Kitamikado

* Normal
* Human
* Battle
* 4-Koma

**Koga Kitamikado** (北御門 煌牙, *Kitamikado Kōga*) is one of the romanceable characters in Ayakashi: Romance Reborn. He belongs to the Dawn Faction.

## Profile

Known throughout the city as an intrepid entrepreneur, Koga works tirelessly for the betterment of the Capital. He’s a thoughtful young man who loves to laugh and he is often looked at as the “big brother” of the group.

## Appearance

Koga is a tall young man with black hair, red eyes, and gold oni horns.

In his normal form, he wears a red kimono with a gold pattern and acessories, a black obi, pants, and boots. Underneath his kimono, he wears an undone black shirt.

On his chest is a red tattoo.

## Personality

Koga is a proud man, a good man and a big brother to some people. He can be stubborn and says he can take care of everything.

## Biography

**Spoiler alert! Major spoilers beyond this point.**

Koga was born in the capital. His father was an oni ogre like him who worked in the army, while his mother was human. It was shown that she loved her husband and son. Later, when Koga was orphaned, Teach' took him in and brought him to mountains, keeping him away from the capital. Koga met Kuya, Toichiro Yuri, and Shizuki, while he was with Teach'.

While Koga was still with his parents, Koga's mother gave him daily medicine that was said to help avoid the "carnage" - a state of uncontrollable aggression that torments the Oni. She also told him that this power that he has should be used to save people. One day Koga arrived home to see his house on fire. He lost his parents that day. However, seeing his home and family destroyed, woke up the "carnage" in Koga. When Koga regained consciousness, he was covered of blood and was holding a dead young man in his hands. This young man turns out to be was Masanobu's big brother, which makes Koga protective of Masanobu due to causing his loss, but at the same time is uncomfortable when the boy states he's like big brother to him. Sometime later Koga met Yura, and the latter started to help him by providing medication for the "carnage", since it is however a temporary solution, he also asked to promise him that Kuya would kill him, when he loses himself to "carnage".

## Abilities

**Weapons:**
* **Blade:** he has a Katana as his main weapon.

**Ayakashi abilities and power:**
* **Ayakashi transformation:** He can change his appearance into human and Ayakashi.
* **Carnage:** **(Spoilers)** When he is in danger, Carnage might be unleashed, which makes Koga a lot more powerful at the cost of him losing control. While in this state, he will attack everyone near him.

## Relationships

**His Parents**
He was orphaned in his youth. He however clearly states that he loves them and he is proud to be their son.

**Masanobu**
Masanobu is a kid that Koga knows. Their relationship is similar to brothers, but Koga does not like calling them such due to past occurences. Still, Koga is very protective and caring of Masanobu.

**Kuya**
He met Kuya when Teach took him in. Koga trusts him and lets him to live in his manor for free. When Kuya caused trouble at some point, the oni went to repair the damage in his stead but atill forced him to apologize.
He also entrusts a task to Kuya to kill him if his "carnage" overcomes him.

**Ginnojo**
Koga respects Ginnojo, sometimes he invites him to drink.

**Aoi**
He accidentally mistook him for a girl, something that makes Aoi angry. Sometimes Koga teases Aoi, which annoys Aoi, but it lacks any malicious intent as Koga sees Aoi as a good kid.

**Yura**
Koga trust Yura, they've known each other for a long time and Yura provides him with medicine that Koga needs.

**Futaba Saotome**
He's suppotive of her when she feels bad or sad and Koga will do everything to take her a smile or make her feel better. He can sometimes jealous when Toichiro is with her and Koga is seen to interrupt Toichiro's pranks. However, his protectiveness can be overbearing in Dawn Book as it conflicts with Futaba's goal until he is forced to acknowledge her stance and let her handle things.

**Toichiro Yuri**
Both meet when they were young, and they consider themselves rivals. Ever since they were children, Koga would challenge Toichiro to games and such. Toichiro likes to give him peaches that Koga hates.

**Mototaka**
They met as business partners. They get along very well.

## Story

 There are some parts of different stories like Twilight and Dawn clarify that in the past, both was in a relation to his and Futaba's past incarnations. In his route it can be seen how he loved her by the way that he cried and the fear of letting her die.

 Koga dreamt often of the death of a girl that was similar to Futaba. In his route, he was tormented by the dreams that he hurt her, but the girl from his dream forgave him anyway. Futaba makes a promise to him that she will find the cure of his Carnage, and if there wasn't one, she would keep trying to find a way to cure him.
Koga is happy to meet Futaba again and is determined to never let her die like it happened in the past.
She gives him a special sachet, as he claims he's just not sleeping well, and the sachet is supposed to protect him too, in this case avoid the carnage.
When Aizen threatened Futaba, Koga was angry and caused a fight with the soldiers but the battle was interrupted by animals possessed Wraiths. The other ayakashi appears because Toichiro and Shizuki warned them that a dove on unknown origin were following them, something that made Ginnojo suspect about that it might be a familiar. The group starts to deal with the Wraith, but Akiyasu appears and takes Futaba. Koga however trusts in her abilities and opts in to clear the Wraiths first.
Finish dealing with the possessed, they try to find Futaba but Major Aizen gets in their way. He orders soldiers with a strange power to kill the others while he intends to kill Koga with a special blade capable of killing oni ogres.
During the battle Koga loses the sachet that Futaba gave to him. The Oni Ogre tries to recover it but Aizen prevents him. A wound from the blade awakened his carnage. He tries to resist.
Kuya goes to find Futaba and brings her back. She tries stop Aizen but he orders to kill her along with Koga. Fortunately, Koga breaks free from the carnage and saves her. Then many Wraiths appear, but Futaba uses her Onmyoji powers to purify them. For they have saved Aizen and his soldiers, he leaves the place without any further hostilities.
As the situation is resolved, Futaba returns to a peaceful life - she goes to school as an ordinary student again. She's however not enjoying the ordinary life much, because it means that she doesn't patrol with the Ayakashi and especially Koga, so she decides to go to see him. She finds him with Masanobu, the Oni Ogre admits that they're together. Koga take her to the Twelve-stories tower to talk and they both confess their feelings to each other.

## Etymology

* The name **Koga** means "glitter, gleam, twinkle" (煌) (**ko**) and "be clear, serene, cold, skillful" (牙) (**ga**).
* Koga's surname **Kitamikado** means "north" (北) (**kita**), "honorable" (御) (**mika**) and "gate" (門) (**do**).

## Trivia

* Koga doesn't like to eat peaches.
* Koga's favorite food is beef hot pot.