Fukushima Fumiye

+ Shi Wudu's Shizun (adoptive sibling, deceased)
	+ Shi Qingxuan's Shizun (adoptive sibling, deceased)
	+ He Yuan's Shizun (adoptive sibling, deceased)
* Lady Yashiro (first wife, deceased)
* Lady Yu (second wife, deceased)
* Lady Yuan (third wife, deceased)
* Lord Yuan (first husband, deceased)
* Yu Ai (son)
* Shen Qiao (son-in-law)
* Qi Fengge (daughter-in-law)
* Yuan Ying (daughter)
* Shi Wudu (martial nephew)
* Shi Qingxuan (martial nephew)
* He Yuan (martial niece)
* Luo Fenghua (shioxing, deceased)

**Fukushima Azusa** 「福島梓 (Fukushima Azusa)」, courtesy name **Fukushima Fumiye** 「福島ふぁみー (Fukushima Fami)」 is founder and current leader of the almighty Hashira and the former Shizun of rogue cultivators: Yu Ai, Shen Qiao, Qi Fengge, and Yuan Ying. She is a student of two of the fallen Olden Gods of Ancient Azusa (a contrast to the Olden Gods of Ancient Asuka), practicing the Ancient Azusa Mountain Sect style of swordsmanship as a result of her childhood training.

She is the second and the current Water Elemental Master amongst the ranks of the Hashira, remaining the group's strongest member to date.

## Appearance

Although she is middle-aged, Fukushima Fumiye's cultivation is strong enough that she still possesses the appearance of a nineteen-year-old.

Her facial features are orthodox, with a hint of rigidity around the edges. She typically wears an reserved expression in comparision to her first husband's typically gentle and compassionate facial expression.

Around her waist hangs her silver phoenix-engraved bell (a spiritual artifact), and her sword Qiu Binu (containing the sword spirit Lan Hong'er).

## Personality

Quiet and reserved by necessity, Fukushima Fumiye is atypical of what is expected of most sect leaders, leading to her having an extremely diminished presence in her own sect. Averse to getting in conflicts, she is often described as a respectful and obedient person, rarely if ever making decisions on her own. These traits eventually led to the growing rift between her rogue cultivator students: Yu Ai, Shen Qiao, Qi Fengge, and Yuan Ying and that of her clan's elders.

This however doesn't mean that Fukushima Fumiye is a pacifist, as she has shown a willingness to kill only if and when her precious people are threatened. Her high sense of morality and determination to never fall to the temptations of evil lends itself well to the Path of the Hunt from where she derives her power. Anchored in the power of Shi Wudu, the entity that rules over the Path of the Hunt, she is relentless in pursing her target and never stops until her target/objective is secured by her own two hands.

## History

### Mortal Life

Fukushima Fumiye was born to a prosperous militaristic-oreiented clan as one of the last scions of the power of the Path of the Hunt due to her mother Damiyo Fukushima posessing the same power in the Path as her. Due to this power, Fumiye was raised as the future ruler of her clan and it's surrounding territories, though she showed no interest in the warmonging of her relatives. From a very young age, she was engaged to marry the ruthless Lady Yashiro of the prosperous merchantile Yashiro family but harbored little interest in her at all, due to her unsavory personality towards his sworn and adoptive siblings. Lady Yashiro sensed that Fumiye was disdainful of their engagment and conspired to murder her, only for Shi Wudu to personally protect her as a sign of his favor for the young Damiyo.

Their family's prosperity gradually dwindled until Fukushima Fumiye's parents died when she was sixteen and the rest of the family fought for inheritance. Happy to finally escape the heavy militaristic-oreinted environment, Fukushima Fumiye took her sworn and adoptive siblings to the Xiulan He Sect where they trained underneath the Olden God of Time and the Olden God of Wind disguised as humans.

### Ascension

#### Middle Summer Festival

Although all of them had heard of her beforehand, Yu Ai, Shen Qiao, Qi Fengge, and Yuan Ying first met Fukushima Fumiye at the Middle Summer Festival held in celebration of the feats of Shi Wudu and Shi Qingxuan, her eldest martial nephews. She scathingly refers to Shi Wudu and acts disdainfully towards him, requiring the intervention of Shi Wudu's Shizun and Fumiye's youngest adoptive sister to immediately intervene. Shi Qingxuan's Shizun was also required to end the conflict between the two, although his Shizun bemoaned later the trouble it caused to the two cultivators' images.

## Trivia

* She taught the leading rogue cultivators: Yu Ai, Shen Qiao, Qi Fengge, and Yuan Ying, all four cultivators specializing in different iterations of the Path of the Hunt.
* One of her adoptive siblings (Hashira) was the notorious Shi Wudu's Shizun before perishing in a fierce storm, Fumiye harbors suspicion that Shi Wudu murdered his Shizun.
* She is the martial aunt of Shi Wudu, Shi Qingxuan, and He Yuan due to their respective Shizuns being Fumiye's adoptive siblings.
* Despite her low profile amongst all of the current Elemental Masters, Fumiye is still referred to as the Wind Master in common lore, much to her eternal despair.
* It is suspected that her sister's disciple Shi Wudu was named for the first Water Elemental Master, an Aeon by the name of Shi Wudu, who once fought closely with the forces of the Hashira centuries ago.