Yanhui

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**Yanhui** (雁回, *Yàn huí*?) also known as **Sahei** (佐兵衛, *sahei*?) is one of the main protagonists of the Jujutsu Kaisen series. She is a professional rhythmic gymnast as well as a student of both the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet and the Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College. She is the daughter of Mary and an unnamed father and was living in Russia prior to Sukuna's vessel being found.

## Appearance

Yanhui is acknowledged as being incredibly attractive by other characters in the series numerous times. She has a thin, toned, hourglass figure, noted by many to be much too skinny as a result of bulimia. She looks like the wind will blow her over and has incredibly long legs that she takes pride in. She possesses rather long, slightly wavy silvery-purple hair and curtain bangs. Yanhui's skin is extremely pale, almost ghost-like, since she actively avoids the sun and stays indoors as much as possible. Her hair is usually divided into two sections wherein all the hair on her scalp is braided as large, slightly messy fishtail braids, with Japanese braided cords woven into them. The braids are tied off with the excess cords and styled into loops, with more excess cording tied into bows. Her eyes are pearly white and overladen with silver, bioluminescent, complex clock faces that glow in the dark. She is also seen wearing buns numerous times, done in a traditional Chinese fashion.

All her outfits whilst residing in Japan resemble either a qipao or hanfu, exemplified in her two uniforms for summer and winter. Her summer uniform consists of a white dress with split sleeves and an extremely high mandarin collar, leather pankou adorned with the trademark Jujutsu High golden buttons along black piping, a short tennis-like skirt with a closed lotus bud embroidered on the right corner, a Chinese infinite knot braid hanging off the waistline, and knee-high white cloth boots, embroidered with flowers in the style of Chinese ink paintings.

Her winter uniform is more simple, with long, flowing sleeves resembling those of a hanfu, and two parts of fabric that meet and cross together in the middle of her torso. This is tied off with a thin, black sash, having a short hanfu skirt flowing from beneath that ends above her knees. She wears black leggings with this.

## Personality

Yanhui is a very energetic person with a taste for dark humor that has proven to make others uncomfortable, such as laughing when someone told her their uncle with war PTSD couldn't recognize his own mand called her the devil. She is also too hyper, thanks to her ADHD, constantly feeling as if she could run ten marathons and also fall asleep any second. She is extremely talkative and clingy, crossing personal boundaries with her friends and always taking a chance to hug them, lay on them, or cling to their arms. She has gone as far to say that if she were to be supplied with money, affection, validation, and good attention for the rest of her life, she could die happily.

She is morally corrupt, although she herself insists that she is simply morally gray. She complains to Kenjaku’s group that if they'd simply reached out to her and asked her for help, she would've helped in a heartbeat, saying she joins the side that is most entertaining. She proves this with a Binding Vow. She does not care for things she labels as "uninteresting" and commonly hyper fixates on "entertaining" things before losing interest in a short amount of time.

She thinks of life as something to play around with and has no regard for it, deeming it as nothing short of a toy. She will not go out of her way to harm an innocent life, but if they get in her way, she will kill them in cold blood; this is shown during the Shibuya Incident where she massacred multitudes of people without a care.

She does not understand nor wish to understand the thoughts of the heroes, but still has come to greatly care for her fellow first-years. In battle, she loves taunting and confusing her opponents and toying with them before killing them. She greatly looks down on those who don’t put up a fight and respects those who try their best to defeat her even whilst knowing they cannot. If engaged in what she judges to be an entertaining battle, she enters a crazed, even more sadistic state.

She is not as arrogant as most would think, never bragging about how she is a force of nature. She wisely says that “a dog will never have to tell you it’s a dog”. She constantly makes fun of Gojo Satoru for calling himself the honored one, commonly referring to him as the honored one and treating him with over exaggerated respect. She does, however, coin her own saying in the middle of an exhilarating battle with a cursed spirit representing Death from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, putting a spin on a poem from Su Shi, a famed Chinese poet .

## Abilities & Powers

**Overall Skill Level**: Yanhui, despite being a Grade 3 sorcerer, likes to say she has transcended the moniker of special grade and beyond. After consuming pills from Kieran, she has obtained a supernatural physique and can nigh-perfectly control her cursed energy. She was able to go toe-to-toe with the literal embodiment of death formed from fear of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Utilizing a perfected body from ingesting so many power-up items, she is extremely proficient in close quarters combat. She mixes sophisticated Chinese techniques with moves that only utilize by her instincts and using dirty tricks - a unique style that she formed and that has stuck with her due to her life as a homeless child in a crime-filled city.
She’s able to fight against seemingly, overwhelming odds with ease, decimating enemies single-handedly and with a supernatural finesse that overshadows the skill of more experienced fighters, being a military force in herself with tactical brilliance and overwhelming strength. She’s as deadly at long-range combat as she is in close quarters, to the point where she can perform any physical act without difficulty. She also possesses extraordinary reflexes that are entirely involuntary that allow her to flawlessly coordinate her movements, automatically achieving maximum efficiency in any action. Because her body moves without the use of her brain, she is free to strategize and can dodge a wider variety of attacks, even in a weakened condition. Since her body moves on reflex and not reaction, feints and illusionary techniques are useless against her.

**Master Weapon Proficiency**: She can wield different types of weapons with supernatural proficiency in speed, power, and skill, allowing her to perform seemingly impossible feats with ease. She can use all and any objects at hand as well to enact innumerable damage and reverse the moves of opponents and attack with her own counter moves, break and overcome almost every type of defense with her weapons, fight intensively with less energy than what is usually required, quickly draw her weapon with precision and respond to a sudden attack, draw her weapons and cut her opponent faster than they can register, slashing them before they have a chance to even react, capable of wielding multiple different blades in combat.

**Superhuman Condition**: Yanhui, having consumed many mystical objects, can no longer be called human. She posses highly advanced mental and physical condition, incredible judgement, knowledge, creativity, imagination and other cognitive and brain-related abilities, as well as being able to lift heavy vehicles and massive boulders, being immune to nigh-fatal damage and harm, and performing at peak performance without tiring for long periods. She is one of the greatest minds in the world, strong enough to punch through steel, fast enough to move at supersonic speeds, agile enough to leap over small buildings and dodge supersonic attacks, durable enough to withstand bullets, grenades and low-to-medium explosives. She’s an all-rounder that is superior overall to practically all other members in her species and **almost** all beings in her universe. The only downside to this is that she must eat large amounts of food to sustain herself. Combined with brute strength, just one move from her could shatter a normal human’s bones and send them flying through multiple fortified walls.

**Enhanced Athleticism:** Having been a student of one of the best ballet academies, if not the best, and being set to join Russia's Olympic rhythmic gymnastics team, Yanhui possesses unmatched coordination, balance, agility, flexibilty, and dexterity. She frequently uses this in her daily life as well as combat, incorporating difficult acrobatic moves such as multiple twists when jumping through the air, jumping and leaping to extreme heights, doing roll-outs, multiple backflips, vaulting, saltos, pikes, round-offs, hand-springs, other tumbling skills, contortion, etc. She is able to carry out these feats on seemingly the most impossible surfaces, such as a wire or an incredibly slippery surface. This makes her combat style much more dazzling and flashy, something she has claims she does not do on purpose.

**Supernatural Stamina**: Using her time abilities, she halts the tiredness of her body so she becomes glaringly more durable than regular beings, having said that she once ran three marathons in a day.

**Absolute Speed**: Once again using her time abilities, she can either speed up the time of her own body, or slowing down time around her and remaining normal so she appears much faster. She can travel anywhere from supersonic to hypersonic speed or even lightspeed and infinitely beyond. She can process information at incredible speeds, allowing her to analyze and come to conclusions at an unprecedented rate and perceive everything at a faster time frame.

**Masterful Tactician:** By being able to look into the future and peek into other timelines, Yanhui is always able to make the best decisions that ultimately always turn out in her favor. She takes notes of smal

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**Immense Cursed Energy**: Yanhui possesses cursed energy so great that it has been said to be able to power the sun for centuries. Even unlocking the full amount of her cursed energy greatly harms her body despite her containing a superhuman physique. Her cursed energy, even when being restricted by a large amount, it still considered to be quite abundant, leaving Yuji’s hair to stand on end when he first met her despite not knowing much about cursed energy.
Her energy possesses a certain quality, and that is that it is ice cold and feels terribly, terribly numbing. She says this is from her constantly mixing her cursed energy with the energy of time that is begun to take on qualities of the energy of time. When her cursed energy hits, it hits faster than the speed of light due to the nature of time and its speed.

**Withering Wind** (木 (こ) 枯 (が) らし, *Kogarashi*?): Kogarashi does not have a real English equivalent and literally translates to "tree wilting wind", signifying the early beginnings of a bitter winter. This restricts her cursed energy output to about 95% to prevent her from dying due to the sheer amount of cursed energy she possesses. To break the vow, she must feel that she or others are in grave danger or that someone she has some affection for has been killed in combat. Once the conditions for the vow have been fulfilled, her output is changed to 100% before falling back to what she considers a low level after the danger has passed.

**Stasis**, **Spring Flowers and the Autumn Moon** (春花秋月, *Chūn huā qiū yuè*?), or **Eternity** (永 (えい) 遠 (えん) , *Eien*?): Yanhui's Innate technique allows her complete and absolute manipulation over the fourth dimension; time, with the use of physics and the Buddhist idea of Kālacakra . She can create, shape, move, control, interact and manipulate time, the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future, in the general area or for a specific target in various ways. From stopping time to even time traveling, she's able to perform all feats pertaining to time. It should be noted that, due to this being an innate technique, she has personally named all her moves.

**Time Energy** (時 (じ) 間 (かん) エネルギー, *Jikan enerugī*?): An extension technique that allows her to condense time into a quasi-tangible form and utilize it for more physical usage such as forming constructs and firing blasts. The fast currents of time energy can deflect attacks at amplified velocity and cause victims to disintegrate due to their physical body being unable to keep up with the flow of time. By constantly flowing it through her body, her cursed energy has fused with it. The only working constructs she's made with this are a road roller and road sign.

**ab aeterno**: Yanhui is able to manipulate the timestream, the very embodiment of time itself as a flowing body of water hidden in a dimension that only she can easily access. She's able to select the parts that will surely kill someone or at least irreparably damage them instead of the helpful sections that can do things such as heal or restore youth. To quickly access the dimension or summon water, she coats her forefingers with time energy and draws a triskelion in the air. Using it freely takes ample amounts of cursed energy that she does not have without breaking her Binding Vow.

**Stop** (止 (と) まれ, *Tomare*?): This technique allows Yanhui to completely freeze time, be it an area or certain objects. When freezing an area, she takes care to always resume the flow of photons, air molecules, and sound waves so she is not deaf or blind. She is the only one able to act during the duration of stopped time and can choose whether or not to reinstitute the time of other objects. All force applied by her during the time stop continues to exist after time moves once more. She can stop time indefinitely with no limit. Whenever using this, she always makes sure to chant the words: **The World, stop time!** (世 (ザ・ワ) 界 (ールド) ,時 (じ) よ止 (と) まれ) (*Za Wārudo, toki yo tomare*, *****The World, stop time!** (世 (ザ・ワ) 界 (ールド) ,時 (じ) よ止 (と) まれ)***?). This has endless possibilities, including but not limited to stopping time around a certain area around a target to render them blind, unable to breath, and deaf, stop someone's blood flow or organs, completely stop the movement of molecules to create absolute zero temperatures, stop something's movements, the progression of an injury or disease, etc.

**Fast-Forward** (早 (はや) 送 (おく) り, *Hayaokuri*?): Yanhui can accelerate time for herself or others up to practically light speed while still moving normally. She can also speed up the timeline of something or someone by taking it to the end of it's lifetime, speed up how quickly someone can process things and fry their brain, speeding an attack's time up to when it has already happened so it never really happens, speeding up molecules to generate heat, increase cellular activation to regenerate or give someone cancer, accelerate someone with so much speed and energy they spontaneously combust, etc.

**Rewind** (巻 (ま) き戻 (もど) し, *Maki modoshi*?): She is able to rewind the time of anything, and this is reflected in her eyes - the clock hands of her right eye rewind to however far she reversed time. If what she's affecting is something tangible, intricate clock markings appear on it and begin rewinding. If it's something abstract, a clock-like magic circle appears under where it *should* be. She can use this in a variety of ways, be it rewinding the healing process and bringing back old wounds or ailments, continuously rewinding back to when someone was not near her, reverse cursed energy back to its full reserves, a person's mentality back to when they were an infant, cells, objects, people, and attacks to when they did not exist, reverse the evolution process and have someone turn into a monkey, etc.

**Adomania** (アドマニア, *Adomania*?): After reading Part 5 of "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", she became inspired and began perfecting this technique. She can choose any frame of time, be it 10 seconds or an hour, and erase and skip past it. She can choose to either remain conscious during this or not. When she does remain conscious, she is able to move about but cannot touch others trapped in the skipped time. They move as they would've if she hadn't skipped time and she chooses her movements by watching this. This specific period of time is erased from the timeline and Yanhui skips to when the actions committed in the duration of time have already ended. Others caught up in this are not aware of what has happened and can only gawk at the aftermath of the skipped time that still happened even though Yanhui erased the actions taken to the cause the effects via the power of fate. Simply put, she erases the "cause" and only the "effect" remains. An example would be someone throwing a punch at her and then somehow lying on the floor because Yanhui was fated to kick them in the skipped time. When using this, she never fails to shout: "**King Crimson!"** (キング・クリムゾン, *Kingu Kurimuzon*?)

**Veil**: Yanhui is able to create a barrier that separates a set space from the outside to hide her activities from the world by rendering the curtain's interior imperceptible to outside observers.

## Trivia

* According to the Jujutsu Kaisen Fanbook:
	+ Enrollment Method: Status.
	+ Her hobbies include watching shows, scrolling through Twitter, and Chinese dancing.
	+ Favorite food: Szechuan cuisine.
	+ Least favorite food: South Asian cuisine.
	+ Cause of stress: Being bored.
	+ She is a massive fan of TWICE and created a label just to manage them, time traveling to the past to recruit them. She currently manages BTS and Fetty Wap amongst others.
	+ She is matchless when it comes to Chinese dancing and playing traditional Chinese instruments, able to capture the undivided attention of all.
	+ She has few friends she knows in real life and has much more online friends.
	+ Yanhui has no alliance and will join the side that is most interesting, regardless of who or what they are doing.
	+ She is very proud of her Chinese ancestry and silently protests the Japanese government by wearing Chinese themed clothing all the time whilst living in Japan.
	+ If she wasn’t a sorcerer, she would be a pop star.
	+ Yanhui has severe ADHD.
	+ He isn’t fond of being a sorcerer but does enjoy a good fight.
* Kieran and both his parents are Brazilian, making him extremely fluent in Portuguese.
* Kieran has a British accent so good that he could pass as an actual British person.
* Her Japanese name, Ikuta, is masculine and was given by Yanhui from a keyboard smash she did. It is the name of the lover of an arsonist who was executed for her crimes after trying to start a fire to meet her lover again. 生田庄之介
* Yanhui has seen the entire life stories of Nobara, Megumi, Gojo and Itadori, and is only one who knows how the story will end and play out.
* Yanhui was nearsighted and wore glasses until she forced Kieran to give her 20/20 vision.

## References

 It should be noted that the story behind the poem is that Su Shi sent the poem to a trusted friend who then wrote “fart”, the Chinese equivalent of “bullshit”, on it and sent it back. Su Shi angrily stormed into his friend’s house and demanded to know his reasoning for his actions, to which his friend replied that the eight winds couldn’t move him yet a single fart could.
*Jujutsu Kaisen* Manga: Chapter 23 (p. 12-15).
*Jujutsu Kaisen* Manga: Chapter 23 (p. 12-15).