Mallory Kiana

> *❛Somehow I feel the people I care for and those important to me will still be alive tomorrow. But that's just my hope and there's no way I can promise that with any certainty. Why do people... believe such things?❜*
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## Personal Information

### Relatives

Ashiya Dōman (Ancestor)
Abe no Seimei (Ancestor)

## Professional Information

### Affiliation(s)

The Butterfly Mansion

**Mallory Kiana** is an Onmyōji whose also a college student with no interests in being an Onmyōji or Yokai. But after a chain of events, she's roped into this world anyway, a world she's been wanting to avoid for years.

## Personality

For many years, Mallory continued to show little emotion or desire. She doesn’t seem to have any interest in interacting with Yokai.

Mallory's approach to life is very practical, focused on learning to survive in whatever way her environment demands her to and avoiding trouble. Being raised in the red light district led her to develop exceptional street smarts. Calm, mature, and sharp-witted, she is rarely tricked or charmed by others. Her mindset has helped her come to terms with matters that many would find concerning or even scarring.

As she has learned that her focus on survival and avoidance of trouble requires her to act with caution, she never acts rashly and follows commands without outward protest. In part because of her own self-preserving attitude, she finds people who will help others to their own detriment painful to watch.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Onmyōdō**: An advanced type of Fujutsu based on spells cast through the usage of paper talisman and shikigami dolls. Spells are usually triggered by rituals, incantations, hand seals, or any combination of the three.
* **Talisman**: A paper with writing and a symbol that is made by an Onmyōji.
* **Katashiro Doll**: Katashiro are human-shaped dolls and are a tool that an Onmyōji can use. They are usually made of paper, but sometimes of wood, straw, or metal. There are different shapes and designs of katashiro to suit the many purposes they serve. Specifically they are used as a substitution for a person during a ritual. They are commonly used in purification rituals, where a person’s sins are transferred into the katashiro. Katashiro are also frequently used to ward off evil in a similar fashion.

## Relationships

### Iyoku

Despite her outward irritation towards the man, she cares about him to some degree—she was disturbed when she realized how self-sacrificial he could be for her sake.

### Masaki Gitsune

While she acknowledges his extraordinary beauty, Mallory is one of the few people to be unaffected by Masaki’s charms. She finds both his attention-grabbing looks and his clinginess towards her to be bothersome. She tends to express her aversion towards him through body language; for example, she often looks at him with an expression that people describe as the way someone would look at a bug.

## Trivia

* The name Mallory means "Unlucky", which in kanji is 不運 which is read fuun.
* Kiana is from the Japanese 宣 (ki) meaning "declare, announce, proclaim", 亜 (a) meaning "second, Asia" combined with 南 (na) meaning "south".

## Quotes

* *❛I wanted to protect her. I wanted to risk my life for her. I wanted to go home together.❜*
* *❛People born into this world can feel joy, sadness, rage and other emotions so strongly they tremble. But that's all a mystery to you isn't it? You've never felt happiness. Felt enjoyment. Felt pain. Felt bitterness. In fact, you're nothing but an empty shell. It's quite comical, it's so stupid. Why were you even born?❜*