Liyué Futsunomita Mei

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**Mei** (柳美・布都御魂 *liǔ měi futsunomitama*) is the protagonist and antihero of the Infinity project. She can give tremendous power to her companions, despite not being able to hold a single Ether Allogene type.

Mei's main motivation is to seek a place in Eynsof, and whether the world would accept her and give her a role in this place. She goes on a psychological, philosophical and spiritual journey across the world of Eynsof to find purpose in her life. On her way, she meets numerous people that end up sticking to her side, despite her repulsive and double-sided nature.

## Appearance

Mei is a hybrid between a succubi-daemon and a weapon-object. The latter is a race very exclusive to the Futsunomita Clan, which she is part of. She is technically, two thirds daemon and one third weapon, making her not human at all.

* Mei has prominent horns and a tail that are imbued in Pink Ether, much like most daemons (not shown in current artwork).
* She has a tanned skin with white hair that ends into pink, tied into a curly ponytail with a large ahoge.
* Her eyes are star-shaped, which is a common Liyué Daemon Clan trait.

Mei, as part of the Futsunomita, and the larger Fujitoshin Clan, is capable of turning into any objects and notably weapons to be wielded. Usually, each family member would only have a single transformation type, however Mei is not limited thanks to her daemon blood's shapeshifting powers.

As she progresses through the story, it is revealed that just like her mother Shu, she has an advanced demon appearance she can take on. When assuming this form, Mei is directly exposed to demon instincts and mannerisms. She has much larger horns, a pale pink skin but keeps her white hair and pink eyes.

## Origins

Mei, as pointed by many during her journey, is a bastard child between two clans. Indeed she does not bear the famous traits of the Futsunomita Clan which are known to have bright, fiery red hair and eyes. Meanwhile the Kusanagi, the Mikazuki, Murakomo, Amagasaki and Yoshimitsu Clans have all their respective traits, which all of them are cousins of each-other, consolidating into the larger Fujitoshin Clan (藤刀身). Most of her traits are indeed coming from her first mother Shū, who is a daemon.

* The Futsunomita Clan, are known to have red traits, and be masters of the Pyros allogene. That is the case for Nakatsukumi.
* The Kusanagi Clan, are known to have orange traits, and be masters of the Geos allogene.
* The Mikazuki Clan, are known to have purple traits, and be masters of the Electros allogene.
* The Murakomo Clan, are known to have green traits, and be masters of the Aeros allogene.
* The Yoshimitsu Clan, are known to have blue traits, and be masters of the Hydros allogene.
* The Amagasaki Clan, are known to have white traits, and be masters of the Cryos allogene.

Mei's first mother, Liyué Shū was childhood friends with Futsunomita Nakatsukumi, Mei's second mother. She saved Shū's life during a mission in their teenage years. This is around the time where the two of them fell in love with each other in secret. Nakatsukumi purposefully took on dangerous missions to Lunastella so she could see Shū from time to time.

Later on, Nakatsukumi is pressured by the Clan to conceive a child with Shū, because they found out that the succubi's shapeshifting powers could be a potential key into achieving the Clan's ultimate goal: create a Clan member with all of the Futsunomita powers consolidated and refined.

The contact between humans and daemons is strictly forbidden and taboo, therefore Shū sheltered herself in the Futsunomita Domain alongside Nakatsukumi, so they could look for a way to conceive a child together, while being secluded from society. The Fujitoshin Clan was aware of it and encouraged it, but kept it secret from all of Shandian.

Shū's shapeshifting powers would be transferred to Mei, alongside the Futsunomita Clan's powers from Nakatuskumi.

After Mei's birth, Shū and Mei had to live more secretively in the Domain, due to curious people visiting the place as the news about Nakatsukumi's new child broke out across the region. Mei was mostly raised and educated by Shū, while she learnt the art of combat and weaponship with Nakatsukumi. She has a deep sense of affection towards the two. While Mei can shapeshift into looking like a Futsunomita, she refuses to do so because it would let people know that Nakatsukumi entered into contact with a demon, which only the clan is aware of, as she cannot fully hide her daemon traits.

## Background

Mei, never left the Futsunomita family domain, and was raised by her mothers, which one cannot go outside due to being a daemon. As Mei is a bastard child, it would have become widepsread news that the Fujitoshin Clan have diverted from their pure-blooded lineage, and even discover that a daemon is living alongside them, which is highly taboo in human society.

Amagasaki Helena, an adopted member of the Amagasaki Clan, becomes friend with Mei, and is the only child that desires to see her, as the other have implied disgust for Mei not being pure-blooded and not like them. Helena became very close friends with Mei during their childhood and their early teenage years. They had plans of being together forever, as best friends, but it did not go as they planned. During a comet shower, 15 years ago, Helena disappeared. Nobody has found a trace of her ever since. This event funnelled Mei into losing any sense of outward personality and harbour a certain hatred for the world within herself. She started wearing exclusively black and white clothing past this point, while bearing a blank, lifeless stare in her eyes.

Deeply saddened by Mei's growth, Shu in particular tried to preserve Mei as she was feeling losing her after the event, giving tremendous care for her. Unfortunately, Nakatsukumi was always on missions and rarely saw Mei after her training was complete, therefore a certain feeling of distance started to settle in Mei towards Nakatsukumi, but still regards her as a strong and admirable person, someone that she cannot be.

Mei's agitation made her almost kill her family, but was not able to lay a single finger on her mothers, and was actually scared of Nakatsukumi's rage upon her arrival. Shu on the other hand, asked Mei to kill her, as a rite of passage into adulthood which is a standard ritual amongst daemons, but Mei refused. Shu tells Mei her dream; to see humans and daemons coexist, and eventually, all the other races as well. Mei onwards decides to travel across the world, so she could bring an answer to her mother, and see if the world would accept her. She would destroy it, may it not accept her.

## Personality

Mei's personality, ever since her childhood friend Helena disappeared, has been degrading over time.

Mei has developed a legitimate and deep hatred for the world, and her actions reflect it, as she is not really capable of doing good deeds. She thinks that the world has taken her friend away from her, so she will never be good to the world in return. While it is a very childish mindset, she has developed it during her early ages of teenage, and was not able to make peace with the loss and grow from it. She shows traits of personality disorders, but it has not been made clear what she exactly has. Mei has become unable to express feelings or show any expression, as she bears a blank, lifeless and soulless stare all the times. She has a monotonous voice tone, even when agitated.

She has a hard time getting attached to people, and is very apathetic. She, however, does not refuse to be lead on, appearing as indifferent from everything. Mei does not seem to care or grasp the concept of consequences, responsibility and causes, as most of her actions are emotionally-driven and impulsive in nature, she does not recoil from making a mistake or doing something that would be considered as bad, implying that many social concepts may be foreign to her.

Shu explains that Mei has roughly two states, one of tranquility and one of agitation, which dictates her actions, reactions and her decision-making. However it can be difficult to know in which state she can be, as she remains composed, monotonous and lifeless across the two states. She however tends to be destructive and harmful in her agitated state, which is how it can be discerned. Sometimes, she mentions that she wants to change the world, and the other times, to destroy it, and constantly tips between the two. Mei can turn on somebody at any moment due to her impulsivity if she has feelings of anxiety, fear or stress coming from the person, she will express those in very harmful and destructive ways, which is what makes people distant from her. Her depression and stress within the family made her almost anihiliate the Clan by herself, due to how she was treated alongside Shū, when Nakatsukumi was away.

## Abilities

### Lack of Ether Allogene

Mei is born without an allogene. She was never able to control a single Ether element. This, is likely due to the fact that she is a daemon, which cannot possess an allogene. Ether allogenes are strictly reserved to mortal humans of great ambition. She is the only member of the Fujitoshin Clan to not have one, as even maidens and housewives have allogenes each.

### Shapeshifting

Her other use of Ether, can be found in her shapeshifting. Succubi daemons use Ether in order to shapeshift.

### Katana Performance: Phases of the Moon

> (剣舞—月の満ち欠け *kenbu - tsukinomichikake*)
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This fighting style is one that Mei conceived alongside Nakatsukumi, so she would have techniques that are fitted to her own body. Nakatsukumi uses the Blaze Performance variant.

This Moon-based technique initially had eight movements, paralleling the phases of the moon. Mei created a movement that was not initially part of the technique, known as the "Breeze of the Four Seasons", but she latter included it alongside the others, as the moon creates seasons in the world. As Mei perfected this technique by learning the Moon Ritual on Lunastella, she completes the technique by adding two movements, notably "ninth movement - lunar atmosphere" and "tenth movement - new moon".

Similar to many sword performances, the movements can be broken down in three categories:

* **Offensive-type movements**: they have the purpose of attacking the enemy, either head on (**melee**) or from afar (**ranged**). They can be followed with each other (**combo**), or can only be performed once at a time, as the latter requires a lot of force and stops the body's entire momentum (**breaker**).
* **Defensive-type movements**: they have the purpose of blocking the enemy's attacks, counter or neutralising the enemy.
* **Support-type movements**: they have the purpose of aiding the wielder or its allies, by either increasing focus, strength or resilience, or giving a field advantage or using a form of trickery.

additionally, Mei creates new movements as she matures her technique during her adventure, by notably using crystal magic to give new perks to otherwise purely physical attacks.

忒伊亚衝撃 *seia shogeki*
 Sea of Showers
雨海 *amagai*
 Ocean of Storms
風暴洋 *fuboyo*
 Syzygy
朔望 *sakubo*
*Type: support*

## Relationships

> *See also: Mei's Affinity Chart.*
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### Liyué Shū

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Shū is Mei's mother.

She is the one that raised her through her entire life while Mei's second mother, Nakatsukumi took care of her training. Shū is extremely kind and caring, she taught herself as a daemon not to eat people but only needing blood or seed, which is how she was able to live within the Futsunomita family. Mei has been taught this technique as well, and Shū made sure that Mei can become as inoffensive as she could be. Mei loses her destructive and agitated state of mind when Shū is around, which is why she has stuck around for her entire growth.
Shū as a pure blooded demon, cannot go outside of the house, while Mei is finally able to, for limited amounts of time. Shū tells Mei, that in order to become an adult daemon, she must kill her, but Mei refuses, and seemingly lacks the urge to do so unlike regular demons.
As Mei departs to discover the world, Shū tells her dream of seeing demons and humans live alongside each other, and Mei often shares the thought as well, while being pessimistic unlike her mother.

### Futsunomita Nakatsukumi

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Nakatsukumi is Mei's second mother.

She was mostly absent during Mei's late years, as she often embarks on missions to keep the Fujitoshin Clan and its many families afloat. During the early years of Mei, she used to teach her the ways of the weapons that the Clan had. The Futsunomita are renowned swordmen, so most of Mei's techniques, which were adaptations of the Clan's original Blaze Performance, are sword techniques. The other family of the Fujitoshin have also each taught their respective weapons, since Mei was able to turn into all of them, but her swordsmanship rests unmatched thanks to Nakatsukumi.

## Trivia

* Mei Liyué (mei liu), is the Chinese adaptation of the karihana's name.
* Mei is a self-insert, as she shares similar appearance and birthdate with karihana.
* The Fujitoshin Clan, have all names related to legendary blades in Japanese mythology, including the Futsunomitama.