Higure Yami

**Higure Yami** (日暮れ 闇, *Darkness at Sunset*) is an antagonist in the Pacifist Series. He is the oldest son of Yoake Yami, who was casted aside to the mid Family Branch. Higure is the Older Brother of Yūgata Yami, Mizuki Yami, and Koyuki Yami, and the current head of the Yami Family, along with being the current King of the Kingdom of Kokuyo.

## Appearance

Higure is a tall, muscular man with tanned skin along with mid-length sleek black hair that reaches his hair and stretches back to the base of his neck. His almond-shaped eyes are sharp and piercing, like a hawk with jet black iris' and white pupils.

In casual attire, Higure wears a white t-shirt and black sweatpants, with matching sandals and a wrist-watch. While fighting or in formal attire, Higure dons a deep purple nagagi, with a dark, forest green obi wrapping around his waist under his dark olive green/brown hakama which reaches all the way down to his ankles. He wears white tabi socks under his sandals.

## Personality

Higure is a cool-headed, overly confident man who views himself at the top of the food chain, and doesn't sweat about the small stuff. He appears to hate small talk and meaningful, inspirational conversations, similar to that of an angsty teenager. Higure's arrogance, even as a child grew to unpredictable levels as he grew up around people lower than him. He looked down on all these people, as if they were not humans--seeing them as weaker and useless. Although, this is the vast majority of people that Higure comes across. Once he became the King, this view on people had grown, with him seeing everybody in the Kingdom as lower than him, and Higure at the top--the King. As a result, he demands those to not call him King, but lord, fueling his arrogance and narcissism. Higure has shown to be a selfish person, ignoring most people. This is only the case if the conversation at hand doesn't retain to Higure at all, a selfish personality trait. When talking to those older than him, Higure mainly treats them with disrespect, often calling them "Old People", or noting that they about to die soon, and to "get their act together". Higure maintains a rude appearance in regards to personality, often mocking someone when they point out the obvious in a sarcastic tone.

Upon meeting Tsuki Yami, Tsuki asked if he was the head of the family. Higure, on the other hand, reassured him that it was a stupid question, and asked him if "since he was of the mid-branch, he wouldn't be", giving Tsuki a sense of discomfort since he was of the Main branch, a branch known for being more popular and treated better than the mid and lower branch. As a child of the Mid-Branch, he felt as if he was looked down upon by those of the main branch, seeing as that they lived in the massive castle and they lived in one of the complexes inside the walls. As a result, he grew to hate those of the main branch, which included Tsuki Yami ⅠⅤ, Kaiiki Yami, Moya Yami, Kamoku Yami, and more. He views them as the arrogant pricks that "*think they are better than everyone else in the family.*"

With him viewing himself as inferior during his childhood, he pursued strength, physical strength, speed and extraordinary swordsmanship paired with unparalleled knowledge about all things relating to Spiritual Energy, The Core, and Zenki itself. This ideal that he has unparalleled strength, even to the point where he believes that people like Shizuka Yami and the legendary Wangetsu Yami, the father of Tsuki Yami ⅠⅤ, are inferior to him in all aspects, especially physical strength and swordsmanship. This higher view of power brings him down a brutal path that all Yami members experience. Often when fighting against someone weaker than him, Higure beings in the concept of physical and psychological torture, similar to that of Kaiiki Yami. In many instances, after his opponent have been defeated, he follows up with beatings to physically incapacitate his opponent. Higure mainly targets the legs and primarily the ribcage to disrupt their breathing and maybe kill them if he goes far enough. He has also shown to mentally incapacitate and psychologically break down his opponent far after their defeat, rendering them useless and essentially brain-dead, or simply and generally dead.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level:** Even among the vast majority of vigilantes in the Paramount Corporation, Higure is viewed as one of the strongest, despite him not truly being a vigilante, and only affiliated with the corps through business. Higure holds immense Spiritual Energy and a dangerously powerful technique; King's world to back it up. Many view him as on par with Kaiiki Yami, an Archon Vigilante. Higure has access to the pinnacle of techniques, Spiritual Release in surprisingly 2 and a half stages, along with him having exceptional swordsmanship.