Ouni

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**Ouni** is a character in *Children of the Whales*. He is the leader of the Moles, a group of troublemakers who constantly break the rules. He has the most powerful thymia on the Mud Whale.

He is a daimonas created on the Mud Whale, and his aura is identical to that of Miden, another daimonas.

## Appearance

Ouni has long, dark purple hair which he keeps in a messy ponytail. He has purplish-navy blue eyes and he wears a necklace with a rectangular pendant on the end. Mud Moths, the small, white, puffball-like creatures that glow blue in the dark, can often be seen near him. He wears a blue shirt with black markings, with a grey sash tied around the middle. He also wears dark pants and sandals. He is also known as the most beautiful and fashionable person on the Mud whale.

## Personality

He has a strong desire to see a world beyond the Mud Whale. He does not express his emotions very easily but it was noted by Chakuro that he truly cares about his friends and wants to protect those around him, but doesn't know how. He is also interested in fashion, because he did create fashion trend on the Mud Whale.

Ouni desperately yearns for acceptance and companionship. His greatest fear is being rejected by the Mud Whale’s citizens, especially by his friends, for being a daimonas. When shown a Nous- created hallucination of his best friend Nibi telling him that he wouldn’t have been friends with Ouni if he’d known Ouni was a daimonas, Ouni loses it.

## History

Ouni appeared on the Mud Whale one day, seemingly out of nowhere. No one knew who his parents were, and he did not belong to any of the groups on the island. One day, after getting into a fight with Nibi and being tossed into the belly of the ship with him, Nibi offers to help him fulfill his dream of seeing the world beyond the Mud Whale. That ignites a flame in Ouni's heart, and he joins Nibi's group of friends, who would later become known as the Moles.

## Plot

After the rainfall, he and the rest of his group, the Moles, are let out of the underground prison. Suou tells him how they found a girl from the outside world. While Chakuro is spying on the Committee of Elders' meeting with Lykos, Ouni drops down on top of him, grabs Lykos, and runs with both of them. He and Chakuro have Lykos show them her ship. Lykos leads them to the Nous Lykos.

Ouni is then thrown back into the prison after his escapade. During the attack, he senses something is wrong and gets Masoh to free him. He arrives to find that the apatheia soldiers have killed two of his friends. Enraged, he fights back and kills the intruders.

He captures some of the invading soldiers, and forces them to tell him about their plans. In this way, he learns that the soldiers of the Allied Empire plan to return in seven day's time. After Suou is kidnapped and Chakuro begs for Ouni's help, he appears to refuse, but secretly follows them. Shuan prevents Ouni from following them to the Nous, and the two fight.

Shuan withdraws after the plan to sink the Mud Whale fails. When Suou announces his plans to fight back against the invading forces, Ouni declares that he will help him. Before Ouni goes off to infiltrate Skylos, he hangs out with Nibi, who cries while thinking about their departed friends. Nibi says that he wishes he could never cry, like Ouni.

During the attack on Skylos, Ouni proves the most adept at taking out the enemy soldiers. When they reach the chambers of the Nous, he stays back with Nibi, Ginshu, and Chakuro to guard the opening. After hearing gunshots, Ouni, along with Chakuro, head for the inner chamber. There, Ouni takes Pagoni hostage, and holds a sword to his throat. However, he is then shot in the leg by Arachni. While Arachni threatens him at swordpoint, Arachni calls him a "daimonas of the Mud Whale."

Pagoni is then told to finish Ouni off, and slashes him across the chest and stabs him with a sword. However, before he can kill Ouni, Nibi appears and saves Ouni. Together, Ouni and Nibi manage to kill Pagoni, but Nibi is in turn killed by the imperial soldiers, and his lifeless body falls onto Ouni. Ouni then loses control and mindlessly lashes out with his thymia, which was not thought to be possible in the bellies of the Nous ships. He ends up directly killing several of the Nous soldiers along with the Nous itself.

Ouni also sees a vision of Nibi. After that, he passes out until Aíma shows Kókalo to Chakuro.

Later, when the twins are trying to convince people that they can steer the Mud Whale, Ouni jumps down on top of them. They taunt him, though they seem nervous around his dark aura, and he smashes their flag.

After the twins give up on their plan, Shuan confronts Ouni. He seems to taunt Ouni, saying how neither of them can ever leave the Mud Whale, and when Ouni is king there won’t be anyone left on the island except for Shuan. Fterna jumps down on top of the two, and Shuan walks away from her. Fterna comments that Ouni looks like a scared doll.

When the ghost ship crashes through the Mud Whale, Ouni collapses.

Chakuro, Lykos, Kuchiba, Ginshu, Nezu and Ro go into Miden's room to investigate Ouni's sudden condition. On the walls Miden's story is on the walls and once Chakuro finishs reading it Ouni wakes up. After he woke up, he has lost control of his daimones thymia (While it's not clear it's somewhat implied he is possessed by Miden.) He hurts Kicha and Suou and after being snapped out of it by Suou, he is sent to the belly. In the belly he is now able to use his daimones thymia, breaks out of the belly and goes to abandoned tower.

Suou and Chakuro go to try and convince Ouni that they love him and there is nothing to worry about, him refuses to leave, until the unmarked are taken as hostages, by the Duke. Ouni is convinced to go try to help everyone after he sees Masoh's ghost talk to him about being a hero.

Ouni then goes down and when when Chakuro has volunteered to become a soilder on the boat, Ouni used his daimones thymia to cause a scene and say all they need was one of him and didn't need the others, in an effort to protect them. Ouni then works together with the Ginshu, Fuzzy, Ro, Chakuro and others to help save the Unmarked. He comes up with the plan to pretend to comply with the demand that they fight the empire, and as slow as possible the Mud whale goes towards the empire's vessel.

## Relationships

### Nibi

Ouni's best friend. They've known each other since childhood. Nibi seemed to be the person that was closest to Ouni's heart. When Nibi died, Ouni cried for the first time, and stated that if it wasn't for him, he never would have had a reason to live.

### Suou

Ouni cooperates with Suou to fight against the Allied Empire. As time goes on, the two become friends.

### Shuan

Ouni initially disliked Shuan and sees him as someone meddling in his affairs. He dislikes the way Shuan constantly draws attention to the fact that Ouni is a daimonas. As time goes on, though, the two seem to form a bond over their shared status as daimonas.

### Kicha

Kicha is one of Ouni's childhood friends and who also has a one sided crush on Ouni and mainly just wishes he would open up.

### Taisha

Ouni is made of Taisha's emotions and love of the island.

### Orca

Ouni hates Orca, because of what he did to the Mud whale and got kidnapped by Orca after Orca used his knowledge of the daimonas to win against Ouni in a fight.

## Trivia

* Ouni is named after a color in Japanese (黄丹) meaning "safflower red"..
* Ouni’s aura is identical to Miden’s .
* It is rumored that the trend of male Marked on the Mud Whale wearing their sashes tied in a bow on the back with long ends was started by Ouni.
* He is the prettiest person on the Mud whale (He's gonna be the prettiest boy at the party.)

## References

1. ↑ Volume 1, page 192