Winter Nakashima

**Winter Nakashima** is the deuteragonist of *The Chronicles of Japan*. She is a demon and the younger sister of Fritz Nakashima and one of the two remaining members of the Nakashima family. Formerly a human, she was attacked and transformed into a demon by Envy Kibutsuji.

## Characteristics

### Race

* Human (Initially)
* Fiend

### Age

* 10 (Physically)
* 12 (Chronologically)

### Hair color

* Black (Human)
* Red and Black (Fiend)

### Eye color

* Dark Green (Human)
* Dark Red (Fiend)

## Affiliation

### Partner(s)

* Oliver Tanaka
* Omar Takahashi
* Ichika Nakumara
* Fritz Nakashima

## Personal Status

### Relatives

* Wendy Nakashima (Mother)
* Fritz Nakashima (Older Brother)
* Nadea Nakashima (Older Sister)

## Appearance

Winter is a petite young girl with fair skin, visibly large, prominent fangs, and sharp, stiletto nails with a base color of light pink and ombre fading to a red-pinkish color at the end where they point. Her hair is short, black, and wavy. It reaches just below her waist, turning a red-black color as it passes her elbows, and appears to be crimped into large, straight ridges, worn side-swept drastically to her left. She has soft-looking, dark green eyes that appear a lighter color around the rims of their irises, slanted downward toward the sides of her face and framed by notably long eyelashes, the pupils of which can appear slit as she transforms. In the manga, Winter can sometimes be shown with more than one bow. According to Fritz Nakashima, Winter was known as a great beauty in their hometown.

As a human, she had a very similar appearance, the only differences being her lack of demon-like traits, vermilion hair, and dark green eyes. Instead, Winter had fully black hair, worn tied back in three low buns, decorated by pink ribbons, and eyes of a dark red color that only appeared pale pink around their lower irises.

## Personality

Winter's original personality as a human was that of a kind and caring girl who thought of others before herself much like her older brother, Fritz. Additionally, she was a responsible elder sister to her younger siblings and often put their needs first rather than her own. Winter is, however, not afraid to get in harm's way, protecting her friends from demons even after being returned to a human state. It is also shown that Winter's humane, laid-back demeanor supports this fact after Fritz apologized to her. While Winter initially starts off like any other demon, bloodthirsty and hungry for human flesh, after seeing her brother’s desire to protect her from being killed by a Fiend Slayer despite her being a demon, she changes completely and becomes fiercely protective of him. Winter seems to have forgotten a good portion of her memories as a human, besides those related to her family, and thus doesn't retain the exact personality she had before transformation, instead acting akin of a child.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities:** Despite not being a member of the Fourteen Kizuki, Winter is a very powerful demon. Her most prominent trait is her extraordinary growth rate, possibly due to the high amount of blood she received from Envy Kibutsuji when he turned Winter into a demon and the fact that she doesn't need to consume human blood to survive. This was shown across many battles in the course of the series where she could defeat her enemies despite being overwhelmed by them in the beginning. She has shown to defeat her enemies by increasing her own physical capabilities, enhancing her regeneration, or developing her own Fiend Blood Art in dire situations.

**Abnormal Demon Physiology:** Winter has several unique demonic traits that set her apart from all other demons. Most notably, Winter can continuously restore her power without consuming any human blood like any other demon would need to do. Instead, she recovers her strength through sleep alone, though she would have to spend a lot of time sleeping in order to recuperate and regain her power. Moreover, Winter has an extraordinary growth rate, as shown multiple times when she grows stronger without any training or consuming humans. This ability is shown to trigger even in the midst of battle and with huge power boosts. This is best exemplified during her battle against Kiugi where her foot was blown by the Temari fiend's ball attack, but after regenerating she was able to face her in an even match kicking the ball and eventually surpass her.

* **Full Demon Form:** Winter has the ability to enter a berserk state where she becomes more demonic in appearance, transforming into an adult version of herself with vine-like tattoos that circle her body, a single horn protruding from her right forehead side. This awakened form greatly enhances Winter's physical capabilities as well as increasing her regeneration level to match that of the Upper Ranks'. When she first awakened this ability in her fight with Eden, she became frenzied in battle, lost her usual restrain to human blood, and the only way she could revert back to normal is to have Fritz sing her a lullaby. During the Fiend Slayer's fight against Hantengu, Winter manages to control this form at will, allowing her to fight more effectively while maintaining her usual composure and restrain from feeding on humans.
* **Sunlight Resistance:** During their battle against Upper Rank Four, Hantengu, Winter developed immunity from sunlight, a feat thought impossible for demons, even by the Demon Queen herself. With this immunity to sunlight, she is able to completely walk and go about in the daytime without being burnt to ash, prompting Envy to shift his goals to hunt and absorb her to conquer the sun himself.
	+ **Blood Manipulation:** In addition to her Fiend Blood Art, Winter has shown in her Awakened Form to have immense control of her own blood. When her limbs and head were all severed and she was going to be cut into pieces by Eden, Winter managed to control her severed limbs and head by instantly congealing and solidifying the blood spraying from them before the streams could break apart. With this, she was able to command her limbs to grab and stop Eden's sashes, and, even though it was done with floating, severed limbs connected by blood, she was able to do it with such strength that the sashes were stopped dead in their tracks. She was then able to pull all of her limbs back together through those blood streams, allowing her body to regenerate.
	+ **Immense Regeneration:** As a demon, Winter has enhanced regenerative abilities that allow her to heal in the blink of an eye. When she first became a demon, her regeneration was relatively slow compared to other demons, taking a while to heal slash wounds. However, once in her awakened state, her regeneration ability evolved to the point it matched the caliber of the Upper Ranks, allowing her to reconnect her whole torso and body parts as well as regrow her arms and legs instantaneously. Eden noted that Winter's regeneration then surpassed her own.
* **Immense Strength:** Winter possesses naturally enhanced physical strength as a demon. Even at the start of the series when she first became a demon, she was strong enough to decapitate another demon with a kick. Winter also punched the Swamp Demon so hard that he coughed up blood, even overwhelming the demon with powerful punches and kicks. As she has no combat experience, Winter relies on brute strength, using her legs as her main weapon to deliver fast and strong kicks. Winter has also shown to increase her strength in battles during dire situations, like strengthening her legs to kick back Kiugi handballs despite having her legs torn off by them earlier. In her awakened state, she could pierce through the back of an Upper Rank demon with a kick and hold down the clones of Upper Rank Four, Hantengu. She was also capable of stopping an awakened Eden's obi with her bare limbs. This same Obi was powerful enough to wound Fritz Nakashima and wreak massive destruction upon multiple buildings.
	+ **Size Alteration:** Upon being transformed into a demon, Winter displayed the basic ability to change and alter her body's size and height. She was able to shrink herself into the physical size of a small child in order to fit inside a small box or a basket in order to hide from sunlight when traveling through during the daytime with Fritz and could enlarge herself into a much bigger form, in order to be able to battle against demons.

## Fighting Style

**Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Winter's fighting style mainly revolved around the use of her powerful legs and sharp nails. Since transforming into a demon, she has been a major contributor to battles fought by Fritz, frequently assisting in the occasion that he is overwhelmed by an opponent. She was skilled enough to fight back the likes of the Upper Rank demons in the Fourteen Kizuki, and numerous demons before that. She doesn't use her Fiend Blood Arts as often, as using too much blood could make her fall asleep.

### Fiend Blood Arts

* **Pyrokinesis:** Winter's Blood Demon Art allows her to generate and manipulate special demonic flames created from her blood that are pinkish in color. Her flames have a special property which makes it only harmful to demons and objects of demon origin while being completely harmless to humans and other objects. This was shown when her fire could burn Yua's threads, Yui's dream spell, Eden's body, Hantengu's manifestations of emotion, and Genya Shinazugawa who had consumed demons but unable to affect Fritz and the Mugen Train. These flames of purification have been noted to hamper the regeneration of demons to an extent too, as shown with Eden's sustained burns took much longer to heal than traditional wounds, needing to heal with aid from her brother's stronger healing.

### Techniques

* **Exploding Blood**: Winter can ignite the blood that has exited her body, turning it into crimson-pinkish flames that is harmful to demons.