Hanayome

Seen as the true antagonist of the Black Crown books, Hanayome—whose true name is Daisy Lucifer—is the cause for the events detailed in each book. After being betrayed by Senma at their wedding, Daisy was killed by Dumuzid; however, before she could die, she used a combination of Soul Magic and Death Magic in order to save her spirit and haunt Senma until he would pass away.

In the year 1980, nearly two-hundreds years after her death, she was able to completely revive herself and set to motion her plan to revive the Three Dragon-Gods, which was also the goal of her husband, Senma. As a result, the events of the Black Crown books occurred.

## **Appearence**

As detailed in Senma's flashbacks, Daisy had crimson-red hair and eyes, which was natural for the Underworld's Royal Family. When she got older and was official introduces to Senma after his victory in the Annual Mage Tournament, she cut her hair a bit short until it only reached the middle of her back.

In her appearence in Book 10, as well as her other small cameos throughout the series, Daisy no longer has her original look, and simply appears as a faceless bride wearing a white wedding dress; additionally, she is seen carrying around a bouquet of colorful flowers.

## **Abilities**

* **Nature Magic**
* **Stardust Magic**
* **All-Magic**
* **Mugen System Access**

## **Background**

Not much is known of Daisy's past. When she was younger, she would often visit poorer cities in an attempt to understand how she could help them when she inevitably took the throne.

One day, when out in one of the poorest cities in the Underworld, Daisy met a young boy who was out fishing by a lake using his Chain Magic, which instantly caught her attention. Asking him what he was doing, the boy—who introduced himself as Senma—explained that he was gathering food for his siblings; in response, Daisy used her Stardust Magic to help him gather twice as many fish as he usually did.

Before she left, Daisy requested that Senma write letters to her detailing his adventures, to which he agreed. As they grew older, the two would consistently write back-and-forth, until the events of the Annual Mage Tournament, where Senma would win by himself after brutally beating down all of his opponents, which frightened the Princess.

In order to save his city from a strange sickness, Senma would then agree to marry Daisy in exchange for their healing. As a result, the two attempted to get closer to one another, however, Daisy would quickly find herself disgusted by Senma's darkening personality, leading the two to hate each other; regardless, they went on with the arranged marriage.

At her wedding with Senma, which was later deemed as the "Blood Wedding," she would be killed just after their official union by the Dragon of Death, Dumuzid, which had been summoned by the groom. Before she would die, however, she used a combination of Soul Magic and Death Magic, which she had absorbed from Dumuzid using the Mugen System, in order to preserve her spirit.

For the next two-hundred years, Daisy would use a power known as the Bride's Curse in order to influence events in history, and eventually revive herself in 1980, where she would then go onto cause the events of the Black Crown books.

## **Personality**

### **Pre-Tournament**

Much like Senma, Daisy was seen as someone who was very humble and generous, especially for a Princess of the Underworld's Royal Family. In her spare time, she visited poor cities and used her magic in order to try and help some of the citizens there.

When she met Senma, though he was poor and had nothing of value, she offered him friendship and even traded letters with him throughout the years, keeping in contact with him until they met again at the Annual Mage Tournament.

### **Post-Tournament**

After reuniting with Senma, Daisy begun to show more of her stubborn and judgmental side. When asked by Senma to hear him out, Daisy insists that he goes back to the way that he use to be, and that she dislikes the way he has become—such as this fighting style and his seemingly dark intentions.

Once she realizes that Senma will not return to his old ways, Daisy states that she despises him, and that if it weren't for her father's instance, she would banish him from the Underworld. From there on, Daisy would play a facade in front of her family, pretending to still love Senma; however, behind them, she would refuse to speak to him.

### **In-Series**

In Book 10, as well as her other cameos, Daisy is portrayed as a broken figure who is nearly emotionless. No longer having a face and simply appearing as a bride in a wedding dress, Daisy—who is referred to as Hanayome, the wielder of the Bride's Curse—seeks to revive in the Three Dragon-God's, much like Senma, in order to end reality, which would in turn end all of the suffering and pain she had witnessed over the past hundreds of years.

At the end of the series, when confronted by Black Crown, Daisy's kindness shows once more, and she allows humanity to keep on living after witnessing the sincerity to protect the magical world by the guild.

## **Grand Plan**

Daisy's "Grand Plan" in order to revive the Three Dragon-Gods and end reality is seen as the catalyst for the events of the Black Crown books, and is essentially what caused them to occur. In order to fulfill this plan, Daisy took inspiration from Senma's own plan.

### **Tower of Babel**

The first move that Daisy took was to reactivate the Tower of Babel and create The Players, a guild of mages that would work to use the tower in order to break through infinite layers of reality and reach the Dragon-Gods; additionally, they would be responsible for fulfilling the Hachacole Ritual, which could revive Senma for Daisy's manipulation.

### **Project God-Slayer**

Years later, Daisy would gather the most intelligent scientists within the Underworld and instruct them to create God-Slayers who could "defeat the God in Heaven," however, her true intentions were to create mages who could gather enough suffering and magical power in order to fulfill the Dragacole Ritual, which would summon the Three Dragon-Gods. This event was later known as **Project God-Slayer**.

### **Threats & Black Crown**

After successfully creating four mages for the ritual through the project—Vahntrius Griffith, Umbra Geass, Afeus Clover, and Ivior Gurren—Daisy would soon identify the greatest threats to her plan: Caloris Azathoth and Akira Shirogane.

The first of the two, Caloris, became aware of a plan to revive the Three Dragon-Gods after searching through the Dragonal Plane; in turn, he would attempt to open a portal to the Absit Lands and also recover the power of the Seven Dragon-Kings. As a result of this, the events of Book 2 occurred.

Secondly, Akira Shirogane—a Shinigami working with the Death Corps—had become alerted of her resurrection through his ability to see images and visions of the future, witnessing her grand plan if it were to succeed. In order to prevent it from happening, Akira would influence history—similar to Daisy—by time-traveling around and fixing certain events, which led to **the gathering of Black Crown**.

Realizing that Akira had created a massive threat to her plan, Daisy would change her routes and attempt to eliminate the guild, as well as the Underworld, which leads to the events of the books happening.

### **Books 1-10 (Akira vs. Daisy)**

In order to sabotage and stop Akira's plan, Daisy would target Zane Euphoria and Amber Lucifer by unleashing the beings of Absalon and Gilgamesh.

The first of which, a fire Demon-God, would invade Zane—who Daisy discovered was the latest Host of Unus—and try to kill him early in his childhood; luckily, through the cooperation of Unus and Cassie, Absalon would fail.

The second, Gilgamesh—the Dragon of Destruction—would raid the Underworld and nearly succeed in destroying it; however, he would be stopped by the current Lucifer and sealed away within Amber, granting her the power of Destruction Magic and access to the Babylon Chains. In the end, both assassination attempts failed, and the powers of Absalon and Gilgamesh would eventually be used against Daisy.

#### **Book 1**

In the year 2020, realizing that Zane Euphoria and Amber Lucifer—as well as each member of Black Crown—were getting closer to meeting each other, Daisy would unleash her first weapon: **Vahntrius Griffith**. Convincing the White God-Slayer that he was a holy being destined to save the world, Daisy manipulated Vahn in to infiltrating the ranks of the Realm of Fallen Angels.

After he succeeded, Daisy would instruct Vahn to raid the Underworld using the combined forces of the angels and fallen angels; however, this attempt was unsuccessful, as Vahn was eventually defeated by the combined forces of Zane Euphoria, Kieron Bernard and Rowan Chambers.

Watching the events unfold, Daisy realized that she had also found two new threats to her plan—Divinos, a Storm Dragon-Slayer with the power of the Sacred Staffs who had obtained tremendous power that surpassed Senma and her other weapons, and Afeus Clover, whose intelligence had begun evolving rapidly.

#### **Book 2**

Following the defeat of Vahn, Daisy would visit Ivior Gurren—another one of the survivors of Project God-Slayer—soon after in order to use him against Black Crown; however, she discovered that Ivior had become kind-hearted and humble, whose stubbornness led her to taking more time to convince him than she thought would be needed.

Due to her inability to convince Ivior in time, Caloris Azathoth would make his move at the Annual Mage Tournament, seeking out the mages who wielded the power of the Seven Dragon-Kings, as well as an artifact known as the White Bird—which had been created by Senma. Fearing that Caloris would succeed and preform the Dragacole ritual in order to seal her, Daisy assisted the Dragon-King Alliance in defeating him.

#### **Book 3**

After Caloris's defeat, Daisy would once again attempt to get Ivior to attack Black Crown; even so, she would fail once more as Afeus Clover—who had gained a will of his own—discovered her plan. Instead of using the Dragacole ritual to seal her, however, Afeus created his own plan and then unleashed an army from Tartarus in order to destroy the societies of the Underworld and Earth.

At first, Daisy believed that is plan would fail; however, she soon watched as Afeus quickly made progress and took over the Underworld's capital, as well as defeating a majority of the SZ and SX-Class Mages. In order to stop him, Daisy turned to Byakuya Dierenji—Divinos, who Daisy had once warned Afeus of.

Using the power of the Bride's Curse, Daisy reminded Divinos of the promise he had made to Kristina and the other members of Black Crown, which eventually led him to seek out and battle against Afeus. In turn, Daisy sought to use the battle between the two to eliminate the both of them, as well as create a battle large enough to affect reality, which could then be used to summon Hylax.

While the battle was mostly successful, as Afeus was defeated and an opening for Hylax had been created, Divinos had survived.

#### **Book 4**

With Vahn, Caloris and Afeus all defeated, Daisy instructed Ivior to make his move at his own will, trusting that he had enough power to defeat Black Crown and eventually challenge both Divinos and Reaper Kurosami. Though he got off to a good start, badly injuring Zane Euphoria and causing Daisy to realize a rift had been created between the Host of Unus and the Underworld's Princess, Ivior would soon discover the tear in reality that had been created after the fight between Divinos and Afeus.

Though Daisy attempted to convince Ivior that it was nothing to worry about, the Iron God-Slayer—who was actually a Creation God-Slayer—turned his attention towards the rift, realizing that it would allow a godly being known as Hylax to invade their world. As a result, Ivior would attempt to convince Black Crown to destroy the Underworld before Hylax could be summoned.

Eventually, Ivior fails and Hylax is finally brought into Dimension-173 for the very first time, though his power is limited until he can absorb more magic and suffering. Greatly satisfied and believing that she had finally succeeded, Daisy decides to once again go into slumber so that she could retrieve more of her magical power.

As she slept, however, Hylax would end up slaughtering Ivior after a three-way battle between the two of them and Zane Euphoria, leading the Host of Unus to nearly kill the god. In order to recover his power from the fight, Hylax would slip down into the Underworld and force Lucifer—as well as everyone in the capital—out of it, meanwhile the god would attempt to merge with the entire dimension.

Through the combined efforts of Zane and Amber, who channel the powers of Absalon and Gilgamesh, Hylax is ironically defeated and banished through the Dragacole Ritual, preformed by Divinos using the Sacred Staffs.