Tsukiyo

## Tsukiyo Onizuka

Tsukiyo is the leader of an elite team of chimeras.

## Appearance

Tsukiyo looks like an average adult woman with dark blue hair and bright blue eyes. Her physique is moderately athletic, but she usually has a sleepy or bored expression and body language.

Tsukiyo's civilian attire consists of formal clothing: a blouse, trousers or a skirt, a tie, and often a blazer, plus mid-calf boots.

## Personality

At the beginning of the story, Tsukiyo is apathetic and unfazed by everything around her, and she has a blunt and insensitive way of speaking, when she chooses to speak at all. She is always low-energy and slightly irritable, but seems willing to go along with what others expect of her, including living up to her assigned role of a hero by navigating labyrinths and fighting monsters with great tactical competence. Eventually, it is revealed that she's chronically tired due to soul exhaustion, and as she recovers her emotional energy, she becomes more prone to teasing her friends and less prone to stabbing them.

## Background

Tsukiyo was the youngest person in history to survive Awakening to her magical powers and becoming a chimera at the age of 7, when the first monsters appeared in Sawayama City and killed the rest of her family (along with a high estimate of 90k other city residents). This was an important piece of evidence that magicule pollution was affecting the entire region and affecting the groundwater.

She nevertheless grew up as a cheerful and energetic girl, who quickly took to experimenting with magic and learning everything she could about her powers. She easily made friends and was known as a warm, strong, and dependable leader. However, she was prone to hiding her stress and emotional burdens, because people expected her to always be brave and cheerful. Chief among her allies was her second-in-command, Hizashi Horikoshi.

Shortly before the beginning of the story, countless giant god-serpents attempted to destroy the magic tree in the middle of the city, bringing destruction in its wake, and Tsukiyo intended to lead every chimera who volunteered to help. But Tsukiyo and Hizashi had a bitter fight over whether their priorities should be to kill the serpents or save the city, and because they both refused to back down, they parted ways while letting the group choose who to follow. Hizashi's faction, to Tsukiyo's surprise, was bigger, but her own faction consisted of those who were strong and brave enough to challenge some gods. Neither was able to flawlessly complete their mission, and both believed that if the other party had joined them, they would have been invincible. In desperation, Tsukiyo attempted a final sacrifice against the god-serpents, while trying to ignore the civilians dying around her that she instead could have tried to save. However, she miscalculated and survived, at the cost of almost the entirety of her soul, as well as her right eye.

After leaving the hospital, Tsukiyo recruited all survivors among the people who had chosen to join her.

## Plot

Tsukiyo buys a house and moves in with her team, and then has a series of slice-of-life and slicing-of-life yuri adventures.

## Abilities

Tsukiyo is statistically a jack-of-all-trades combatant with balanced physical and magical power, but more agility than defences, and she's generally capable of taking on any combat role with reasonable competence. She is a capable mage, with the ability to wield all four classical elements. However, her specialty is being a spellblade-type melee fighter.

She uses an arming sword or naginata in battle. With her naginata, she generally focuses on physical attacks, sometimes imbued with magical energy, and switches to launching offensive spells at a distance when out of range. She can work with her teammates to rapidly cut down powerful enemies. However, in one-on-one fights, she's generally considered scarier to duel with when using her sword. She weaves together weak magical effects from the elements—slowing the enemy's charge with wind, blinding and distracting the enemy with bursts of heat and flame, and changing the footing beneath the enemy's feet with mud and tripping hazards—while simultaneously expertly executing attacks and parries with her sword. She can also use a bow at range, but she's not especially skilled at it; she can just shoot fast and usually hit the target.

Her right eye has been replaced with a demonic eye. Although she believes she is blind in this eye, she appears to have some sort of blindsight, although the eye does not only perceive the physical world. Her eye can also release destructive magical energy as an attack of last resort. This appears to permanently destabilise the fabric of reality, so she tries not to do it too often.

## Trivia

* Tsukiyo is a good cook, but is too lazy to actually do it most of the time.