Koh Taeyang

* Bio

	+ Gukgong Koh *(father, deceased)*
	+ Dowager Duchess Ko *(mother, deceased)*
	+ Second Duchess Ko *(stepmother, deceased)*
	+ Third Duchess Ko *(stepmother, deceased)*
	+ Fourth Duchess Ko *(stepmother, deceased)*
	+ Fifth Duchess Ko *(stepmother, deceased)*
	+ Sixth Duchess Ko *(stepmother, deceased)*
	+ Seventh Duchess Ko *(stepmother, deceased)*
	+ Eighth Duchess Ko *(stepmother, deceased)*
	+ Ninth Lady Ko *(stepmother, deceased)*
	+ Tenth Lady Ko *(stepmother)*
	+ First Young Lady Ko *(older sister, deceased)*
	+ Second Young Lady Ko *(younger half-sister, deceased)*
	+ Third Young Lady Ko *(younger half-sister)*
	+ First Young Lord Ko *(older brother, deceased)*
	+ Second Young Lord Ko *(younger half-brother, deceased)*
	+ Third Young Lord Ko *(younger half-brother)*
	+ Yi Moon *(fiancée, deceased)*
	+ Koh Myeong *(ward; adopted family)*
	+ Koh Ha-neul *(ward; adopted family)*
	+ Koh Nabi *(ward; adopted family)*
	+ Koh Nouel *(bodyguard; adopted family)*

**Koh Taeyang** (高태양, *Koh T'aeyang*?) is a first-year student at North Academia and a member of the nobility, intially being heiress of the Koh household, before becoming the head of the House of Koh by assassinating her father at the age of fifteen. Though she seems stern and ruthless at first glance, she give her enough time and she will gradually warm up to you.

## Appearance

Taeyang wears a snow-white satin with an outer drape of cloud-patterned silver silk, the standard uniform of the Champion Duelists of North Academia paired with white boots, as Champion Duelists usually wear white for ease of indentification in case of emergencies.

She is always dressed in white, leading to several nicknames by the Academia's fellow Champion Duelists, such as "White-Clothed Calamity", "White Dragon Queen", "Big Mantou (white bun)", "The White Lady".

She is also described as tall (likely estimated to be 178cm - 180cm, though conflicting descriptors in the novel do provide for some confusion), with long legs and a strong but slender waist.

## Personality

The youngest of North Academia's Champion Duelists, Koh Taeyang. She is a workaholic and was subject to pressure from a extremely young age, being the second eldest daughter of her father's favored wife. One might attribute her to perfectionism when pertaining to work, causing many of their employees to resign but in reality, she has a strong sense of responsibility and tenaciousness inherited from her grandfather. Her sense of hard work and disdain towards those who would look down on honest workers are well known amongst the Champion Duelists, with Taeyang being considered the highest-regarded and revered workaholic of the Champion Duelists.

She believes in upholding justice and fairness, insisting on receiving a punishment of confined magical study for 200 years and manual labor even as the esteemed heiress of the Koh noble family and bearing an injury from an ill-fated duel with another Champion Duelist, stating that she does not receive the full punishment (due to whipping civilian members of the Rivenhead family out of anger over their immoral actions) that she would not have the face to punish others in the future.

Koh Taeyang is keenly aware of being placed onto a pedestal and idolized to an unrealistic degree by others, often being mistaken as ascetic. Conversely, she has low self-esteem, referring to herself as ugly, bad-tempered, and unlikable. She is particularly insecure about her appearance going as far as looking at the mirror and making negative comments about her features. Despite the harsness of her words, her aura of complete honesty and sterness that radiates off her at all times often directly or indirectly contradict her actions.

Despite her sharp tongue, she has a soft heart regardless of situation, she would never allow her fellow students or fellow Champion Duelists to be put in danger. Instead, she protects and keeps them safe, often causing herself to be badly injured. Nevertheless, she isn't quick to praise her fellow Champion Duelists or encourage them to come up with theories or explanations during solving a case. In short, she is a great tsundere, this earns a lot of misunderstandings from people around her.

She has a thin face and is easily embarassed, and does not like to talk about or express her emotions. Koh Taeyang hates people showing affection to each other in front of her. She can also be awkward at times, especially when she is at the center of attention.

When greatly enraged, Taeyang is shown to adopt a far more hostile and unrelenting attitude towards subduing her enemies and prefers to adopt a kill-first, ask questions later policy. Riddle Rosehearts, who had once met her as a small child, calls her an "enigma" but a hard worker as she is a Champion Duelist, one of the hardest positions to attain in North Academia.

## Background

**WARNING! This page section contains story spoilers. Read at your own risk.**

### Family

Koh Taeyang is from the northern tip of the furthest nation on Lemuria's continent, Egaria, which is the closest nation (location-wise) to the Western Kingdom of Ancient Lazzo. Her mother was the first and the most favored wife of her father, the Gukgong Koh, whom she still regards with a harsh view even to this day. Due to the womanizing tendencies of her father, Taeyang often slayed her own relatives in games of power manipulation and information gathering in order to retain her position as the heir of her father after the deaths of her two fully related older siblings. This is a driving motivation towards her cruel tendencies towards those who would abuse her power and the cause of her tense relations with her Heartsblayul cousin, Finnian Windsor. Her current stepmother was a priestess from the merfolk that lost her magical powers and abilities, leading to her becoming an ordinary human. Her entire family is full of mages that held multiple occupations throughout the ages. Before the loss of her magic, her stepmother was the most powerful person in the household only rivaled by Taeyang herself, Taeyang's biological late mother, and Taeyang's late siblings. Taeyang has multiple younger half-siblings to the point where she once jokingly claimed that her father's offspring from unwanted pregnancies could rival the years she spent as an infant, suggesting that he only legimetized some of his children.

### Childhood

As a child, Taeyang was a prodigy in the field of swordsmanship but fell short in the field of magic, dutifully studying hard in order to achieve even half of the power that her older siblings effortlessely flaunted around. Her dismay over her lack of magical prowess led to many of her current self-esteem issues as she felt useless in regards to her magic, leading to her being shunted into the care of the famous magical prodigy Miyuki Sato. In the end, she advanced enough underneath Miyuki's tutelage that she became capable of preforming extrodinary feats with magic. At the age of 10, she graduated from underneath Miyuki's tutelage and was selected to become part of the Kagemusha Program, a government-run program that recruits members of noble families in order to make them in political body doubles for important politicial figures. She would shadow the Kagemusha Program's headquarters for many years as the unofficial, and later on official body double of General Kamizato Kanao, the youngest General of Egaria's military forces. From then on, Taeyang was raised by Kanao (only 27 at the time) and became her adoptive younger sister, despite her family being higher-ranked than Kanao's family.

When Kanao was killed, Taeyang retreated into a shell of her former self and became incapable of making decisions with Kanao's help, with even her voice changing to become emotionless, almost like how an actual robot would respond. To migitate this, she was given an old coin that had long fell out of usage with Egaria's government as a way for her to make decisions on her own terms. This was a parting gift from Kanao who had wanted to take her to a coin-printing facility as a birthday gift, before officially handing the role of politicial body double to her. Horrified by what his daughter had been reduced to, Taeyang's family and that of the Kamizato rallied for her to be instantly released from military service.

## Skills and Magic

Possessing both a fast-paced magic invocation speed as well as precise control over her vast basins of magical power, makes her capable of both attacking and defending from other magical users. The currently strongest Champion Duelist of North Academia's entire freshman class, she is a unique existence and has been at North Academia for thousands upon thousands of years.

### Unique Magic

**Ancient Sun of Judgement** (古代の審判の太陽, *Kodai no Shinpan no Taiyō*?): The Unique Magic of Taeyang, it converts sources of heat into burning flames or any type of heat source. With it, Taeyang is capable of generating, shaping, and unleashing blistering flames of unmaginable strength, ferocity, and intensity with her being capable of adjusting those parameters. As one of the Champions Duelists of North Academia, she has had extensive training in the usage of her Unique Magic and possesses a unique degree of control over it, that many students at the Academia don't at the moment.

### Techniques

* **Endless Burning Flames** (果てしなく燃える炎, *Hateshinaku Moeru Honō*?): A quick-draw iado technique that involves quickly drawing the sword from the sheath and sheathing it after delivering a quick, single strike to an opponent's vital spots. Taeyang has further enhanced it by generating flames to run up and down the entire blade while delivering the strike, burning her opponents' alive from the outside as well as the inside at the same time. It can also be unleashed as a sword glare, capable of engulfing most liquids (within reason) in searing flames ranging from 1100°C to 1200°C degrees celcius.
* **Sun's Embrace** (太陽の抱擁, *Taiyō no Hōyō*?):

## Quotes

* (To her father) "*Once upon a time, I loved you but now... I only view you as an embrassment on the hallowed hallways of our family's ancestral home. It is only right to remove your presence from these hallways for the sake of my loved ones and for my late mother whom you shamed!*"
* (To Finnian Windsor) "*The only people that I will acknowledge as family, are those people that have supported me no matter what.*"

## Trivia

* Koh is the author's birth/biological surname.
* Taeyang is the Korean word for "sun".
* Taeyang draws her character inspiration from the image of a traditional "evil queen" trope, as she is manipulative, somewhat lacks impulse control (killed her father), and is greatly vengeful towards people who wrong her or her loved ones.
* She has a low alcohol tolerance/threshold, to the point where her fellow members keep alcohol away from her.
* Egaria is one of nine nations that are part of the Nana Continental Alliance; a alliance that binds nine nations as historical allies and that has led to multiple marriage alliances.
* She has the physical appearance of a 16-year-old humanoid but has the mental physicality of a long-lived entity.
* North Academia has a preculiar system with their grades, Taeyang despite having been at the Academia for many milleniumn is still a freshman and will only advance to being a sophmore after she completes her Heavenly Tribulations trials.

1. ↑ Book 1, Chapter 6