Bishamonten

**Bishamonten** (毘沙門天) or **Vaisravana** is the Shura (deliberate from **Asura**) Incarnation of the Buddha-Kami, Benzaiten. She is essentially her darker alter ego which she developed after asking El to make changes to her mind and personality, creating an entirely seperate entity that shares the same body as Benzaiten. She only appears as a final trigger in case Benzaiten is put into a corner.

Bishamonten is an armor-clad goddess of war and punisher of evil-doers. Bishamon is portrayed holding a spear in one hand and a small pagoda in the other hand, the latter symbolizing the divine treasure house, whose contents she both guards and gives away. She is also the actual leader of the Seven Lucky Gods and the strongest amongst them.

She is the 'Father' of the Kamiyonanayo: Kuninotokotachi, Toyokumono, Suhijini, Uhijini, Tsunugi, Ikugui, Otonoji, Otonobe, Omodaru and Ayaka Shikone, as well as the 'grandfather' of Izanagi and Izanami. As she is Benzaiten and Bishamonten is her, the share the same roles in all stories.

## Overview

***Vaiśravaṇa*** (Sanskrit) or ***Vessavaṇa*** (Pali; Tibetan: རྣམ་ཐོས་སྲས་, Lhasa dialect: [Namtösé], simplified Chinese: 多闻天王; traditional Chinese: 多聞天王; pinyin: *Duōwén Tiānwáng*, *Bishamonten* (毘沙門天)), is one of the Four Heavenly Kings, and is considered an important figure in Japanese Buddhism.

The character of *Vaiśravaṇa* is founded upon the Hindu deity Kubera, but although the Buddhist and Hindu deities share some characteristics and epithets, each of them has different functions and associated myths. Although brought into East Asia as a Buddhist deity, *Vaiśravaṇa* has become a character in folk religion and has acquired an identity that is partially independent of the Buddhist tradition (cf. the similar treatment of Guanyin and Yama).

*Vaiśravaṇa* is the guardian of the northern direction, and her home is in the northern quadrant of the topmost tier of the lower half of Sumeru. She is the leader of all the *yakṣas* who dwell on the Sumeru's slopes.

She is often portrayed with a yellow face. She carries an umbrella or parasol (chatra) as a symbol of his sovereignty. She is also sometimes displayed with a mongoose, often shown ejecting jewels from its mouth. The mongoose is the enemy of the snake, a symbol of greed or hatred; the ejection of jewels represents generosity.

In Japan, **Bishamonten** (毘沙門天), or just **Bishamon** (毘沙門) is thought of as an armor-clad god of war or warriors and a punisher of evildoers. Bishamon is portrayed holding a spear in one hand and a small pagoda in the other hand, the latter symbolizing the divine treasure house, whose contents he both guards and gives away. In Japanese folklore, she is one of the Seven Lucky Gods.

Bishamon is also called Tamonten (多聞天 lit. "listening to many teachings") because she is seen as the guardian of the places where the Buddha preaches. She is believed to live halfway down Mount Sumeru. She is also associated with Hachiman. Especially in the *Shingon tradition* that gives some place and worth to this hybrid character of Bishamon although most Mahayana temples have Bishamon and her counterpart as guardians at the entrance gate.

In Tibet, *Vaiśravaṇa* is considered a lokapāla or dharmapāla in the retinue of Ratnasambhava. She is also known as the Queen of the North. As guardian of the north, she is often depicted on temple murals outside the main door. She is also thought of as a goddess of wealth. As such, *Vaiśravaṇa* is sometimes portrayed carrying a citron, the fruit of the *jambhara* tree, a pun on another name of her, **Jambhala**.

The fruit helps distinguish him iconically from depictions of Kuvera. She is sometimes represented as corpulent and covered with jewels. When shown seated, her right foot is generally pendant and supported by a lotus-flower on which is a conch shell. Her mount is a snow lion. Tibetan Buddhists consider Jambhala's sentiment regarding wealth to be providing freedom by way of bestowing prosperity, so that one may focus on the path or spirituality rather than on the materiality and temporality of that wealth.

## Appearance

Bishamonten has purple eyes and her hair remains long and is of different shades of green. It is kept in a ponytail, her fringe is normally seen above her eyes and her bangs are thick and caress her face. Her attire is a white bodysuit that is open in the middle, exposing her stomach and underside of her breasts. Her sleeves are detached and are white and black in the entirety. Her gauntlets are longer than the other CPUs with it covering the majority of her forearms with ease.

Bishomanten's attire in her Vaisravana Form differs from her normal form as she wears a black one-piece bodysuit. It still reveals a lot of her breast and stomach.

Bishamonten is noticably taller than her Buddha Incarnation, her breasts significantly large and her proportions being perfect amazonian that can make any man swoon once they see her in action. She is the most beautiful warrior goddess in all of Japan.

## Personality

El had constructed Bishamonten to be a complete war machine, with no attachments to trivial things such as art, music, nature, other people, etc. Even the most basic traits of Benzaiten are removed once Bishamonten awakens.

Bishamonten is said to be the complete inverse of Benzaiten as a character. As a Goddess of Asuras, she is prone to violence and does not hesitate to attack those in front of her. She is cold and crude and is almost emotionless in nature, similar to Ophis. Her one drive is exterminating all threats in front of her with brutal precision.

Bishamonten has no bonds with anyone and feels detached from everyone, except Amenominakanushi, whom she loves as much as her Buddha Incarnation. She also has a habit of calling everyone around her 'vermin' or 'trash', expressing universal detestion at the whole world, except her beloved of course.

Bishamonten can also act independantly and could choose to not give control back to Benzaiten. There is also a high probability rate for her to go on a rampage. The only sure way to reverse the Benzaiten-Bishamonten transformation is if she had sex with the one she loves.

She is a great contrast to Benzaiten, providing an interesting depth to her character.

## History

Benzaiten saw that Amenominakanushi has been overexerting himself lately. She was worried for his health and she felt really guilty, as she believed that she was part of the problem, since Amenominakanushi always came to her rescue whenever she was in deep trouble. Not wanting to burden her husband, Benzaiten asked her mentor and mother-figure El to help her create an alternative personality that Benzaiten could use as her self-defense mechanism. Their experiment worked, though Bishamonten was unstable and immediately attacked Asherah and the heavenly court of ladies.

After that incident El had Bishamonten train with Trihexa to improve her combat ability. When she had enough self-control, Bishamonten went to Umashiashikabihikoji to train with him. After defeating him on the seventh day of their sparring, she went to Takami-Musubi. After defeating her too she finally approached her husband and though she lost, she put up a great fight. The two mated passionately during the night after their fight, accidentally creating a thousand forest wisps in the process.

When the legendary beast **Atama Go Mizuchi** was released from his restraints by the Yamikami they used it to attack the underwater palace of Munetsuchi at the time of Benzaiten's meeting with her retired guardian, the Dragon King of Munetsuchi. Seizing the opportunity that the Atama Go had created amidst its chaotic assault, Emperor Sutoku assasinated the Dragon King and consumed his powerful dragon soul. While Benzaiten was frozen in shock, Raijin and Fujin attacked her in a cowardly manner, nearly killing her. Benzaiten survived thanks to Bishamonten, who was so enraged that she destroyed Raijin, Fujin, Suteko and the sea beast. Because Amata Go didn't have Ayin's curse mark, its death was permanent.

## Powers and Abilities

**Immense Strength**: Bishamonten's physical strength is greater than even that of Umashiashikabihikoji, who was said to be physically the strongest being in the Shinto Pantheon. When Sutoku forcefully transformed Amatsu-Mikaboshi into her true form, Bishamonten was able to grab and throw her far away from the Central Palace to prevent any interferences with Amenominakanushi's battle with Shishioka Yukine. Later on, she was able to obliterate Raijin's skull with one kick and overwhelm a worn out Shishioka Yukine.

* **Determined Strength**: She can fight and defend oneself at full strength even after being nearly killed or near death, allowing her to fight even when she shouldn't be able to (such as crippling/massive or mortal injuries, missing limbs, missing/removed organs, major blood loss, etc.).

**Immense Divine Power**: As the Great Asura-Kami-Deva and Queen of the Universe, Bishamonten possesses insane amounts of divine power. Her aura is close to Amenominakanushi to the point where Izanami confused the two for a moment. Doumu claims she is the strongest Seven Lucky Gods (on par with Kichijoten with her individual power alone), and her power is feared amongst even gods like Amaterasu and Eris, who have great divine power. Gautama Buddha considers her a monster in the Buddhistic Pantheon on the same level or perhaps above Toyokumono. As a true testament to her power, she was able to easily throw Amatsu-Mikaboshi's true form around like a ragdoll and later nearly defeated a worn out Shishioka Yukine.

* **Deus-Ergokinesis:** Bishamonten is shown to be very skilled at manipulating her divine energy.
	+ **Divine Constructs:** She could create various forms of weaponry from her divine energy, ranging from close-ranged such as daggers and swords to long-ranged such as bows and arrows.

* **Telekinesis:** Bishamonten possesses powerful telekinetic ability, which allows her to control objects with just the power of her mind. She could use her telekinesis to control the directions of her long-ranged attacks, as well as the trajectory of her ammunition, such as bullets, arrows, etc.

* **Deification:** Bishamonten could turn mortals into minor deities, with their domains being parts of those within her jurisdiction.

**War Manipulation:** As the Shinto Goddess of War, Bishamonten possesses divine authority and immense control over all forms of conflict, including both mental and physical, regardless of the area and numbers involved. She could also draw energy both from the conflict alone, as well as the dying. Amenominakanushi claimed that she is the greatest Gods of War, even more powerful than more younger Gods of War such as Horus, Ares or Verethragna.

* **War Inducement:** Bishamonten could manipulate people and events to induce war and chaos within an enormously large radius, ranging from a city to an entire country.
* **Army Manipulation:** Bishamonten can control the collected minds of an army within the Shinto territory. She possesses amazing abilities fitting for training, controlling, and leading an army. She could also summon forth his personal army of over 500,000 warriors to her side.
	+ **Morale Manipulation:** She could manipulate the morale of his troops, bolster their willpower, and inspire them to fight. Those with their morale boosted their morale have their strength, stamina, and battle prowess greatly increase. She could also lower the morale of the opponents to lose their will to fight, thus reducing their combat-effectiveness and making them doubt their chances of victory.

**Damage Resistance**: The intensity of Bishamonten's Divine Aura also acts as a sort of armor, making it impossible for her to be harmed by anyone not at least at her level of power. This is first demonstrated when she faced an exhausted Shishioka Yukine. Despite being hit by numerous high-tier attacks, she barely shows signs of strain.

**Master Magician**: Bishamonten possesses a mastery over Magic, capable of utilizing many different mythological and existential spells without tiring. She was taught by El how use her own Magic to its utmost potential, giving her further verstility as a deity. She can use her magic to control the likes of Minamoto-no-Raikou, as well as Indra, a very powerful Deva.

* **Elemental Magic**: Due to her magic expertise, Bishamonten is skilled at using natural elements like lightning, thunder, ice, fire, water, wind, and etc. for specializing in long-range and bombardment to send them against her enemies.
* **Summoning Magic**: Bishamonten is skilled at summoning, able to replicate and cancel out enemy summoning circles. She could summon an army of Asura under her control with a single huge magic circle to combat Doumu.
* **Badala Magic**: The magic art of the Four Heavenly Kings. Usually called **Badala Magic**, it is translated directly to **Retribution Magic**. The way this Magic works is that the pain and damage the opponent causes to others, including Bishamonten, can be reflected back at them, empowering Bishamonten's own attacks. Beings with extreme levels of defense may be able to completely ignore this Magic, but the increase in strength would still provide benefits for Bishamonten in battle. Using this ability, she and Umashiashikabihikoji were able to wipe out fifty Asura Kings in one skirmish without the help of Indra or Trimuti. No one else has been able to learn this type of Magic, as it is something specific to the nature of the Four Heavenly Kings.

**Nigh-Omnipotence**: While not as great as Phoxotl and El, she does have the abilities creation, eternity, endless power and others. She was described as both omnipotent and unbeatable by those aware of her existence. Bishamonten is only equated by Amatsu-Mikaboshi and Benzaiten, and surpassed by Shishioka Yukine. No one below the Primordials can stand a chance against it and will never overcome it. She is confirmed to be more powerful than Toyokumono and Kuninotokotachi.

**Great Asura Physiology**: Usually, users who have this ability are or can transform into an Asura, an antipod to the Buddha/Bodhisattva. They are power-seeking barbaric creatures often associated with addictive passion, bloodlust, wrath, pride and boasting. However, Bishamonten is what's known as a **Great Asura** - a being superior to all other Asuron in existence in intellect and power. Bishamonten is astronamically more powerful than any regular Asura to the point where the factions of the world are unsure if she should even be associated with the Asuron, due to the tremendous difference. According to Kami-Musubi, the reason for Bishamonten's unnatural strength growth is the fact that she isn't a natural born Asura and thus does not possess the 'Curse of Buddha', which restricts all Asuron from achieving power higher than that of any faction's chief deity.

* **Animal Imitation**: Bishamonten can use/imitate animal powers, she can run like an ostrich, swing like a monkey, sprint like a cheetah, move like a cat, take the strength of an ant, track like a dog, hide like a turtle, constrict like a snake, etc. She cannot transform into animals, as this power only enables the user to mimic animalistic traits while still in their original form. Some users can mimic multiple animals at once.
* **Anger Empowerment**: Bishamonten becomes stronger, faster, more durable, etc. through anger/rage whether her own or others, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing her existing powers and as a bonus she can suppress pain to great lengths. She is able to draw sustenance from the anger or even slow or stop aging. If angry enough she can also negate another's abilities/powers as seen when she effortlessly took on Fujin's wind attacks and punched through her defense, knocking her unconscious for a while.
* **Ultimate Invincibility**: Bishamonten is completely invincible in many different ways and activities physically, mentally, spiritually etc. making her supreme in one or several ways. She cannot be defeated by conventional means and have no weakness.
* **Raw Power**: Bishamonten can resist, breakthrough, and may become immune to powers/abilities, laws, natures, illness, etc, through sheer force and strength alone. Bishamonten may even become completely immune to weaker opponents. Strong enough users may be able to negate durability and possibly defy logic itself.
* **Mantra Manipulation**: Bishamonten can manipulate the flow of mantra, a sacred psychological and spiritual power based on a sacred utterance or numinous sound, words, phrases phonemes or group of words. This power can be expressed through prayers, wishes or even sacred songs. Bishamonten can even influence the mantra as a type of life force. Bishamonten can even influence mantra as emotions as well.

**Angel Wings**: If she is in a more tranquil state of mind, Bishamonten is able to summon her angel wings. These wings bring forth the power that she obtained during her training with Asherah where she mastered Holy Light magic. She is able to create gigantic blades of light. She can cover her light weapons in a deadly glow that inflicted major burns on Kassogtha's body.

**Weather Manipulation**: Bishamonten can sense, create, shape and manipulate weather, i.e. the meteorological patterns, creating rain, wind, hail, lightning, snow, sleet, fog, and temperature changes. This includes the ability to generate various natural phenomena or control the intensity of the weather in highly concentrated (inside room) or vastly extended (continental) areas.

**Thundercloud Manipulation**: Bishamonten can create, shape and manipulate thunderclouds, a variation of cloud that's associated with, and causes thunderstorms. This can also range towards different thunderstorm types, such as single to multi-cells, squall lines, to even the most powerful out of the four variations, supercells.

**Spatial Manipulation**: Bishamonten can create, shape and manipulate physical aspects of space within an area of her choosing, including an area and whatever is inside of that area. She can trap subjects or objects in space and push that space, throwing subject and object away from them or to create wormholes, paradoxes, and other strange events by warping spatial areas and twisting them around.

* **Portal Locating**: Bishamonten can locate open portals and possibly sense their destination while they're open.
* **Spatial Linking**: Bishamonten can link her own space with that of another (whether living or unliving), ensuring that she and the target never depart/go too far from one another. In other words, wherever she goes, the target goes as well.

**Fear Manipulation**: Bishamonten is a Warrior Goddess of the highest order in the heavenly realms and her mere presence causes even the oldest of Demon Lords and Asura Kings to sweat in fear.

**Magic Resistance**: Bishamonten has high tolerance against Magic and can withstand ultimate-level Magic spells, too.

**Lightning Manipulation**: Bishamonten can create, shape and manipulate electricity, a form of energy resulting from the movement of charged particles (such as electrons or protons), allowing control over electric fields, all charge carriers (Ions, Electrons, Protons, and Positrons), and electronics.

**Primordial Light Manipulation**: Bishamonten can control the primal light that brought about the dawn of creation, representing the warmer, brighter aspect of primal creation, alongside the Darkness, both being two halves of the same coin, yet stand opposite and in perfect balance. Due to its primordial nature it goes beyond concepts of good, evil or even neutrality.

* **Omnidirectional Light Waves**: Bishamonten can release massive amounts of light in every direction at once for almost unlimited scales. This ability allows the user to dispatch many foes at once and destroy large area like villages.

**Flight**: Bishamonten has demonstrated the ability to stay afloat in mid-air and fly faster than the speed of light.

## Equipment

**Shichishito** (七支刀 "Seven-Branched Sword"): The Seven Branched Sword is an spectral green sword of pure divine energy, crafted by Tian's greatest blacksmiths, under Acting Jade Emperor Xinwang's orders. It was sent to Korean ports and then to Japan and Takamagahara as a sacred gift to his former teacher Amenominakanushi. The Seven Branched Sword was given to Kuraokami, the Dragon God of Rain who resided in the Divine Sakura Tree. After he was mortally wounded by Ayaka Shikone, Kuraokami sealed himself within the Shichishito. Nowadays, besides Amenominakanushi and Benzaiten, no one uses this special sword. It's abilities allow the user to create wind knives that can cut apart the country of Japan ten times over even if the user is using a fraction of the sword's true power. One powerful slash creates an entire rainy storm and every rain drops tries to destroy the enemies within that storm's reach.

**Seven Jeweled Spear** : The Seven Jeweled Spear is a Regalia/Artificial Gear Hybrid construct built by Amenominakanushi and Satanael. It's a jade spear that has both technological and ancient features. The polearm's most interesting trait is its seven jewels, from the bottom of the handle to the blade. Each of the jewels represent the Seven Lucky Gods, but they also represent the seven universal directions - north, south, west, east, up, down and point zero.

* **Mahat Bivhuti** (Great Wealth and Prosperity): A passive ability of the spear that is active at all times. The probability of victory or success for Bishamonten is automatically increased by 25%. The % is reduced by 0.2% depending on the overall gap between Bishamonten and her opponent. Against someone like Chaos, the probability boost is decreased to 5%. Ther is also a 40% for the enemy to make an uncharacteristic mistake every one 15s.
	+ **Wealthy Lady**: For every successful combo attack, Bishamonten gains a stock of abstract golden coins. Upon reaching a certain treshhold like 50 gold, 100 or even 1000, Bishamonten can use or empower greatly her other powers. The golden coins are stored in the pagoda that Bishamonten carries on her hip.
* **Seven Jade Beast Woman: Asura Mode**: After gaining 100 Gold, Bishamonten can unlock her 'Final Asura Mode'. Her attire changes to a black tight form-fitting bodysuit, where her arms and legs are completely covered with the exception of a small portion of the front and back of her upper thighs. Her front and backside are completely exposed, with the suit’s chest area protruding from the sides as opposed to from the top to cover the center of her breasts, baring their tops and bottoms. Around each wrist is a glowing green ring segment, while at her neck, hips, feet, and on top of the glove is a glowing green circle. The transformation gives Bishamonten +300% bonus for all of her stats and a 1000% increase in divinity, allowing her to bend reality to her will as if it was a child's play.
	+ **Primordial Jade Wings** (50 Gold): Bishamonten gains a set of mechanical wings that increase her flight speed to unimaginable levels. She can also use them to transmit signals that break apart illusions and pocket realities.
	+ **Six Arms of Asura** (30 Gold): Bishamonten gains four spirit arms that carry spirit swords and rods. The sword-carrying Asura hands provide additional reach while Bishamonten attacks, while the rod-carrying Asura hands will summon barriers whenever someone tries to exploit Bishamonten's openings.
	+ **Blessing of the Above** (100 Gold): Bishamonten gains the ability to directly interact with and harm the other forms of Primordial Entities.
	+ **Conquer** (25 Gold): Every 10s, the spear glows brightly, indicating that Bishamonten can preform a CRITIKAL STRIKE. One CRITIKAL STRIKE can deal immense damage even to opponents above her. She was able to nearly incapacitate Amatsu-Mikaboshi with several CRITIKAL STRIKES.
	+ **Central Mistress Rakurai** (30 Gold): Bishamonten gathers divine electricity in the palm of her hand and punches the enemy, sending them flying while also paralyzing and burning them. Later on, she's able to infuse some Divine energy to achieve an even greater effect. This was first used against Shishioka Yukine to push her away from her defeated husband. The Chaos version of the attack was later used to easily break Chronos's 1**00 Timelines Dome.**
	+ **Seven Jade Rings of the Universe** (300 Gold): Displaying her mastery over both divinity, cosmology and polearms, Bishamonten sends seven whirlwinds of destruction around her. The nados will her for so long as the ability persists, dealing immense damage to all enemies in its path. The seven Nados possess elements associated with the Seven Lucky Gods: Water, Fire, Light, Earth, Nature, Wind, Electricity.
	+ **Vanati Upazamyati Sarve, Anuzaya Vevesti Sarve** (Love Heals All, Hate Consumes All) (1000 Gold): The ace-in-the hole move. Bishamonten flies high up in the stars, gathes the energy of the Universe in a similar manner to her husband and dives down like a world-ending comet. Upon impact with any solid surface, she creates an explosion of energy that can blow away nearby mountains. Her enemies receive massive amounts of damage, with half of that damage being used as a Heal for her allies. If all of her special abilities are active while she preforms the final move, the results would be ten times greater.

## Quotes

* *"Aren't you too reliant on me on work recently? No, I do not mind, but if this continues I'll be a little worried for Kanu-kun."* - Bishamonten to Benzaiten.

## Gallery

BishamontenBisha casual wearBuddha and AsuraBishamonten's designPrimordial Jade WingsBisha greeting Ameno in their bedroomBisha's silent sorrow after her adoptive father deathBishamonten approaching Amenominakanushi in front of all the godsBishamonten winking at AmenominakanushiBisha in a wedding dressBishamonten with Asherah DressBishamonten captured by YcnagnnissszBisha's Y-costumeBisha's X-costumeBishamonten and Ebisu fending off Old OnesBisha's ASURA-costumeAsura ModeBishamonten transformationBishamonten summoning her spearBishamonten dodging Mikaboshi attacksAsura transformationBisha throws her spear at SutokuBishamonten attacks Amatsu-MikaboshiBishamonten in swimsuitChaos Drive Bishamonten*Bishamonten senses Meghanada*Bishamonten warning Shishioka Yukine to leave her man alone*Bishamonten's Spirit Bow**Bishamonten use Central Mistress Thunderbolt**Bishamonten pushes Shishioka Yukine with the force of Central Mistress Thunderbolt*Bishamonten Defeated by IsseiBishamonten showing jealousy at NyxBishamonten was rubbed by AmenoBishamonten gives the ability her SpearBishamonten with Angel WingsBishamonten in School UniformBishamonten wearing Santa CostumeBishamonten playing a sports gameBishamonten as a Bunny GirlBishamonten sits and waits for AmenoBishamonten is seducing AmenoBishamonten asked Ameno to sleeps with herBishamonten made a love shaped handBishamonten is looking at AmenoBishamonten and Benzaiten*Bishamonten's reaction to Ameno x Nyx fanart*

## Trivia

* Bishamonten's appearance is based on **Green Heart**, the Goddess Form of Vert from *Hyperdimension Neptunia*.
* In a side note, the author confirms that between Hachiman and Bishamonten, Hachiman is the stronger war deity.
* Bishamonten's role is similar to Artoria Pendragon Alter (Saber) and Kiana Kaslana (as Herrscher of the Void).