Miyuki "Amaterasu"

**"If you don't want to die...think!"**

**'*Miyuki "Amaterasu"*** (Japanese: **みゆき「天照大神**, *Miyuki `tenterudaijin*) is one of Kushinada's Sacred Treasure.

## Appearance

An impeccable beauty, Miyuki is a woman with lustrous jet-black hair and the face of a goddess. She has a golden iris, the other blue and horizontal split pupils, and on her waist are a pair of black angel wings.

Miyuki wears a pure white dress with silky gloves covering her slender hands and a golden spiderweb necklace that covers her shoulders and chest.

## Personality

Miyuki is a very friendly woman with a cheerful disposition. She is generally very lively and confident, always working hard with a smile on her face and facing new challenges with positive attitude. In general, she is a kind person who comforts those who need it and takes care of others. However, she is also rather quirky and a little odd, which is often pointed out by her fellow familiars who find some of her behavior confusing. At first, she called other familiars "rotten apples", randomly pulled knives on some familiars to make her point clear, and at one point nonchalantly let Bishamon destroy the shrines basement simply because Amaterasu explained they're training. She also tends to randomly appear next to her wife out of nowhere to give her advice, which sometimes startles her, and enthusiastically encourages her when she feel insecure. She is stated to be often even more enthusiastic than other familiars. She can be dense at times, and is described by Bishamon to be "easily absorbed" by things, to the point where she loses sight of her original goal.

Extremely loyal and in love, Miyuki is infatuated and needy/clingy with Amaterasu, often showing obsessive tendencies when it comes to his affairs. She is always vying for Amaterasu's affections, showcasing outbursts of jealousy whenever anyone else appears to be getting close to her. Yet despite this, she states that as the Supreme Ruler, it would be bizarre for her to only take one wife, implying that she would be content with her taking others as wives as long as she is the one she loves the most. Due to her nature as a succubus and how she was programmed by Amaterasu to be in love with her, Miyuki is quite assertive to a fault. She sometimes loses control of herself around what Amaterasu says to the point of going to extreme actions, such as almost raping her against his will.

Among all the Guardians, she is the most vocal when it comes to expressing her opinions. Miyuki will openly denounce any statement or action she deems inappropriate, reaching the point where Amaterasu sometimes considers it an annoyance. As the Overseer of the Floor Guardians, she is very levelheaded. Miyuki can make calm and collected judgments that even Amaterasu sometimes doesn't think of. She takes Amaterasu's orders as a top priority and absolute, punishing anyone, even a Floor Guardian, who'd dare to belittle or not take it seriously. According to Amaterasu, she can sense that Miyuki harbors hatred and hostility toward humans, whom she calls an inferior species.

Miyuki can easily lose self-restraint and go mad if Amaterasu is harmed, even by an attack that may not hurt her whatsoever. She becomes very emotional whenever Amaterasu is put under mortal danger, such as a life-or-death situation, or if she considers abandoning her.

## Etymology

* From Japanese 美 *(mi)* meaning "beautiful" combined with 幸 *(yuki)* meaning "happiness, good luck" or 雪 *(yuki)* meaning "snow". Other kanji combinations can also form this name.
	+ From Japanese 深 (Mi) meaning “deep, profound, dense, thick, rich, intense” combined with 雪 (Yuki) meaning “snow”
		- Mi (美) meaning beautiful or beauty, yu (友) meaning friend, and ki (希) meaning hope or wish.
			* **Miyuki** can be written using different kanji characters and can **mean**: 美幸, "beautiful fortune" or "beautiful happiness" 深雪, "deep snow" 美雪, "beautiful snow" 美由紀, "beautiful reason for history"
* Means "shining over heaven", from Japanese *天 (ama)* meaning "heaven, sky" and *照 (terasu)* meaning "shine". This was the name of the Japanese sun goddess, the ruler of the heavens. She was born when Izanagi washed his left eye after returning from the underworld. At one time the Japanese royal family claimed descent from her.
	+ **Amaterasu**, in full **Amaterasu** Ōmikami, (Japanese: “Great Divinity Illuminating Heaven”), the celestial sun goddess from whom the Japanese imperial family claims descent, and an important Shintō deity.