Kujaku

The Peacock Soul, also known as *Oiran Kujaku* is a supporting antagonist in the series, *Warped Eternity: Living Destruction's Abyssal Remnants* and is first seen in the flashback of the Trap of the Century Glass Arc, one of the arcs in the second part of Warped Eternity. She is one of the Haunted Souls, and is known as one of the prettiest Courtesans in the Tatralian Pleasure District.

Her real name was *Kujaku Haga,* and she is seen as one of the Blood Lotus' Shadow Commanders, alongside taking the role of Lower God Six herself, and is seen as one of the Unredeemable Souls by the Prophecies. She was also one of the second-hand vessels of the truly evil one, Tsumi who was the one who forced and manipulated Daiki and Luka Odayaka unknowingly to form the Black Blood's Symphony for the curses of humans for their own amusement. Like the others, she too is completely clueless about the existence of Tsumi and thus, has no knowledge of the fact that she was tempted and manipulated by her obsession. She also unleashes the Seven Manifestations formed by Daiki and spreads clones of them. She also manipulates the Seven Serpent Tongues from the Panirates, and corrupts them from their noble culture to further form more Shentan and curse the supernaturally-eyed people. She is also known for her massive experiments and manifestations of stages on supernaturally-eyed people.

## Appearance

Kujaku is seen as a long teal-haired woman, with her possessing hyogo-styled hair with one pigtail above it, symbolizing her as a courtesan. Her kimono is seen to have the style of a peacock, and is edorned with multiple feathers seemingly fluttering. Her kimono mimics and looks like the skin of a peacock, but her obi's design is edorned with the fluttering feathers of a peacock. Alongside her kimono, Kujaku possesses tattoos of fluttering feathers scattered around her arms and one on her leg as well. She poses in a regal and unshakable posture, seemingly looking down on others and looking from the class of royalty. Her hair was further edorned with golden hairpins, further adding to her arrogant and deceptive nature. According to others, she is considered the goddess of peacock because of her beauty and peacock-like patterns.

As a corrupted soul, Kujaku possesses a complex outfit made for warfare, with the back of her kimono holding scabbards to carry her fabric and whiplike lancing weapons.

## Personality

As described by Katakura Tsuma, the courtesan, known as Kujaku was a vile and corrupted woman who was known to be hypocritical and well-disliked. Kujaku, on the outside, exudes the grace and beauty of a peacock further deceiving others to her advantage and captivating others with her grace. Despite her regal and graceful posture, Kujaku possesses an extremely two-faced demeanor far worse than that of Kenzu Fuyuki's occasional two-faced demeanor and tendency to manipulate human beings. When no one looks, she often belittles others, most specifically other courtesans and humans, and seems to lack empathy towards them. This was often due to her denial to appreciate others, and also due to the fact of her continous betrayals in the past. She was very unforgiving and always seemed intimidating, aloof, and cold to others, except those she truly cares about. She often treats people with belittlement and disrespect, and disdain. She often becomes hypocritical, and cruel, and can be seen as selfish very often.

However, this was soon revealed to be a facade as she is trying to be rude, cold, and intimidating to push others away from herself. She hates forming more relationships

As seen in her flashbacks and her appearance in the anime, Kujaku was a very two-faced woman who had no qualms about betraying strangers and others who she deemed unworthy of her attention and her trust. This was proven when she didn't hesitate to betray the suspecting Ryuga, Ayumu, Kiyoko, Rei, Li Xiangyu, and Hanae in their disguises, often using them for her cunning and cruel tactics. She also was two-faced especially with humans as she was very unfeeling towards them, even more so than Vivienne and didn't really care that much about the lives lost when accomplishing her plans. However, she is still somehow decent and wouldn't really betray the Warped Domain's Lords as she shares her goal with them to eradicate humans.

Furthermore, Kujaku possesses an obsession with her fiance, Alejandro, simply due to the losses she faced throughout her life. Having faced a similar case like Mirai Ayano's, she truly lost everyone she cared for, which led to her becoming selfish and uncaring of others. Her obsession with Alejandro was because of the fact that she already lost everyone she loved, and was betrayed multiple times by her closest loved ones in her life. It was also revealed that this was the case due to her time in the Twelfth Age where she was born in a world full of cruelty and was exploited for the selfish desires of people, mainly a cult for their own selfish reasons. Kujaku also possessed her selfishness and narcissistic complex due to the depression she faced, and her view that all people are naturally filled with cruelty and selfishness. Her unfeeling and narcissistic attitude caused her to also be self-destructive as she didn't know she was losing more things in the process such as the truly valuable and non-materialistic things, something Tsumi manipulated her for to further his own goals of creating a warped eternity.

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