Benten

**Benzaiten** (弁才天, 弁財天) (also known as **Benten**) is a Japanese Buddhist goddess ànd like her husband, she is worshipped in many different regions of East Asia under different aliases. She is the oldest of the Seven Lucky Gods, being almost as old as the Kotoamatsukami themselves. In addition to being the oldest, she is also the founder of the divine septenity, with her Alter Ego - Bishamonten, acting as the leader.

She is the Shinto Goddess of Literature, Music and Love. She's also the wife of Amenominakanushi and is also a friend of Choronzon, Satan's wife, Satanael, the Governor-Queen of the Grigori and Titania, High Queen of the Fae.

She is the mother of the Kamiyonanayo: Kuninotokotachi, Toyokumono, Suhijini, Uhijini, Tsunugi, Ikugui, Otonoji, Otonobe, Omodaru and Ayaka Shikone, as well as the 'grandfather' of Izanagi and Izanami. As she is Benzaiten and Bishamonten is her, the share the same roles in all stories.

She's a deutragonist in the story *Highschool DxD: Mightverse* and the main heroine of the side-story: *The Flower and the Cosmic Gardener.*

## Overview

Referred to as *Sarasvatî Devî* in Sanskrit (meaning "Goddess Saraswati"), Benzaiten is the goddess of everything that flows: water, time, words, speech, eloquence, music and by extension, knowledge. The original characters used to write her name read "Biancaitian" in Chinese and "Bensaiten" in Japanese (辯才天) and reflect her role as the goddess of eloquence. Because the Sutra of Golden Light promised protection of the state, in Japan she became a protector-deity, at first of the state and then of people. Lastly, she became one of the Seven Gods of Fortune (*fukujin*) when the Sino-Japanese characters used to write her name changed to 弁財天 (Benzaiten), emphasizing her role in bestowing monetary fortune. Sometimes she is called **Benten**, or *Benzaitennyo* (弁才天女), where the final *tennyo* (天女) translates as "goddess".

When Kisshoutennyo is counted among the seven fukujin and fellow fukujin Daikoku is regarded in feminine form, together with Benzaitennyo all three of the Hindu Tridevi are represented in the fukujin.
Benzaiten in Japan (above) is often shown holding a biwa, just as the Hindu goddess Saraswati (from whom she is derived) is often portrayed with a veena in India and Bali (Indonesia).

Her temples are more common on islands and coastal regions of Japan.
In the Rig-Veda (6.61.7) Sarasvati is credited with killing the three-headed Vritra also known as Ahi ("snake"). Vritra is also strongly associated with rivers, as is Sarasvati. This is probably one of the sources of Sarasvati/Benzaiten's close association with snakes and dragons in Japan.

She is enshrined on numerous locations throughout Japan; for example, the Enoshima Island in Sagami Bay, the Chikubu Island in Lake Biwa and the Itsukushima Island in Seto Inland Sea (Japan's Three Great Benzaiten Shrines); and she and a five-headed dragon are the central figures of the Enoshima Engi, a history of the shrines on Enoshima written by the Japanese Buddhist monk Kōkei (皇慶) in AD 1047.

According to Kōkei, Benzaiten is the third daughter of the dragon-king of Munetsuchi (無熱池; literally "lake without heat"), known in Sanskrit as Anavatapta, the lake lying at the center of the world according to an ancient Buddhist cosmological view.

Earlier documents such as those recorded by Buddhist monks link the periodic appearance of comets with the goddess Benzaiten. For example, the comet that appeared in 552 AD, and again in late 593 AD were associated with deity Benzaiten. These records suggest that the exchange of cultural and spiritual ideas from Buddhism and Hinduism in India to Japan, through deities such as Benzaiten, occurred well before the 5th century.

Two qualities of Saraswati that were transposed to the Buddhist version of Benzaiten are music and wisdom. She is sometimes referred to as Myoonten "goddess of wonderful sounds."

## Appearance

Benzaiten is described as one of **Takamagahara's Great Beauties**, alongside **Shishioka Yukine** and **Amaterasu** and is thus very popular amongst the male gods. It is said that even as she was born from the Spirit Chakra Lotus of the first love-making in Japan, Benzaiten shone with purity and paralyzing beauty. A level of charm only later achieved by Aphrodite and Freyja. Baby Benzaiten was so beautiful that the Outer Goddess Star Mother grew envious and cursed with horrible looks.

She spend her childhood and teenage years with a deformed and unappealing look for which she was mocked and bullied and shun away. After risking her own life to save an Indian begger, Benzaiten's positive chakra hearts opened, turning her into a Buddha and breaking the curse.

Buddha Benzaiten bears the appearance of an adult woman, with a slender figure, delectable hips, sexy big bust, and dark blue eyes. Benzaiten's hair is blonde, and goes down to her waist in length. It is kept free and is rather wavy. Her fringe is kept just above her eyes, and she has three sets of bangs; first going down to her upper-jaw, second, upper-neck, third, chest-length.

Benzaiten's attire is a green and peach-colored dress, with the top being a dark green that has gold lining on it, and being sleeveless, as well as revealing a considerable portion of her cleavage, covered through a veil of sorts. She has a ribbon on her neck, which is red in colour, and has detached upper-arm portions of her dress's sleeves and has frilled gloves on her hands.

Currently, Benzaiten prefers to use a much less sexually arousing form, as it makes it easier for her to directly communicate with those attracted to the female body. as a very petite young girl in a pink sweater and a short dark skirt, though sometimes she may appear in a gothic-esque school uniform. Benzaiten says this is her preferred human form since it isn't as 'eye-catching' as her goddess form, which lets her communicate comfortably with males. Amenotokotachi however claims she likes it because her husband can give her easy piggy back rides. On the rare occasions that she becomes jealous of another woman, Benzaiten will take on a much more mature and alluring form.

Benzaiten has the same serene aura as her husband, though Issei notes her presence is much more gentle and warm.

During the second war with the Outer Gods, Benzaiten's true goddess form remains the same. Her attire differs as she wears a green, revealing dress with black lining that runs down to her upper ankle known as the Wind Dress. The dress has a high slit, separating the dress area into two cloths showing off Benzaiten's legs. There is a black line that runs from below Benzaiten's chest to near the bottom of the front cloth. The back cloth is jagged decorated with two light green outlines and x-markings. On her neck is a cloth decorated with a green X button and four green jewels. At the waist is two green buttons which holds two black straps that act as a belt, and a teal colored sash. She wears black heels decorated with a green button, held with black straps that reach her upper ankle.

After the war, her goddess attire reverts to its usual format.

## Personality

Benzaiten is a sweet, honest and sometimes childish young lady who can be simplified in just two words: 'artistic housewife'. She welcomes people openly and is willing to immediately befriend anyone who compliments her sacred flower garden, something which Amenominakanushi reprimands her for. Benzaiten is also a sucker for human romance stories, good music and beautiful plants, especially flowers.

Benzaiten isn't the best judge of character, as contrary to her husband, she tries to assume the best of people first and doesn't take precautions. This makes her gullible and vulnerable to manipulations, which is why her husband is overly-protective of her. This is also her best trait however, as she can't be misguided by bias. Benzaiten is a very kind and mature woman who often plays the maternal role of the CPUs due to not having a sister herself. she is shown to be very caring to others and very wise, but can also be playful at times as well. She is shown to be the most level headed out of the goddesses at most times.

She has a cheerful and optimistic personality, but can also be somewhat naive. She can be oblivious to certain things and indecisive when making certain decisions. Benzaiten seems to be very determined and strong-willed in the worst scenarios and doesn't mind any mean comments thrown her way by any of the gods. Despite such situations, she usually responds to all of the Kotoamatsukami with kindness.

Benzaiten loves Amenominakanushi, often to the point of being a clingy and a childish nuisance to him. She also has a slight competitive side to her which she only shows when she and Choronzon are talking about their husbands or when Amenominakanushi is talking to a beautiful or cute lady such as Nyx.

## History

### Origin

Benzaiten bloomed from the first act of love between the primeval yokai that were created by the Kotoamatsukami Takami-Musubi and Kami-Musubi. After the two yokai mated their shared bodily fluids and spiritual connection crystallized into a lotus sprout. Upon blooming, the lotus flower send out a resonance of harmony and love across Creation, giving momentary peace to all of existence for an instant. Inside the lotus was a baby girl that 'shone with the beauty of a thousand flower gardens'. Her aura was so vast and beautiful and harmonic that the universe itself nurtured her with its energy. However, this caught the attention of Star Mother, an Outer Goddess ruling the stars, whose consorts fled from her to go after the baby. Struck with envy, Star Mother used her powers to inflict a curse on the infant that turned it deformed and displeasing to look at. Everything that was once attracted to the lonely infant abandoned her after she lost her ethereal beauty.

For an unknown amount of time, the infant was standing in the now wiltered lotus flower. While the Kotoamatsukami were too busy with their celestial duties, the common first-generation Kami simply ignored her cries out of repulsion and diffidence. The Dragon King of Munetsuchi, when he saw her, was more than happy to take care of the baby. He gave her her original name **Ichikishima-hime**, which would later be changed to **Benzaiten** due to her growing spiritual wealth.

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## Powers and Abilities

Benzaiten wasn't that strong from the beginning and she is even referred to as 'a trivial goddess' by some. At first, she wasn't even able to properly use her godly magic and was almost as defenseless as a lesser yokai. However, from the many eons she has spent with her husband, she was able to learn new skills and tremendously increase her power level. She has extraordinary pacification abilities which are found commendable even by Asherah.

### Natural Powers

**Immense Strength**: Benzaiten is relatively weak as a goddess compared to the rest of her family, but she is capable of preforming impressive feats such as breaking concrete walls with ease and manhandling mid-ranked demons with no effort.

**Immense Speed**: Due to her usually preferring to avoid fighting, Benzaiten focused on her speed far more than her strength. Thus she is easily able to keep up and dodge attacks from much more powerful beings than her. Her extraordinary speed were found commendable even by the God Hermes and Mercury. She was able to evade Ayaka Shikone's attacks and even lose her in a chase.

**Immense Durability:** As a goddess, Benzaiten can survive a lot of things. She has be said to be comparable to Amenotokotachi herself, who can shrug off attacks from any being below Chief Deity-class.

**Immeasurable Divine Power**: Benzaiten is often described as a mysterious and odd entity by many, baffling the Greek Protogenoi the most by how vast her true divine power is. Eris has compared her to an invisible sinkhole: "harmless at first sight, but close to bottomless in truth". When she came to be, her aura could resonate with the entire Cosmos and nature, like a perfect ambient sound. Most of the supernatural world could feel her presence, though most had believed a sudden feeling of joy had simply washed over them, when in truth that was caused by Benzaiten's near-limitless harmonic echoes. Dragon King of Munetsuchi mentioned how even when she was young and helpless, her divine power was already stages above the level of a regular Chief God-Class Being. When she obtained Buddhahood and later honed some of her powers with Amenominakanushi's help, her divine power raised exponentially to the point where Kami-Musubi grew almost fearful of her. According to Nyx, even when her divine power is completely dormant, Benzaiten could still rival any of her daughters, with Amenominakanushi adding with a statement that his wife had a large untapped potential. That potential has temporarily been demonstrated when using Driuna Power, putting her far ahead most Primordial Entities, Outer Gods and Dragon Gods and above any of the Shinto Gods, except Amenominakanushi, Musubi and Amatsu-Mikaboshi.

**Nigh-Omnipotence**: Benzaiten is far more powerful than Celestial Princes (except Satan and Castiel), Second-Generation Primordials and Heavenly Dragons. Though not as great as Driuna, she does have the abilities harmony, negation, ascended celestial, endless power and others. She is described as an absolute goddess unaware of her own power by those aware of her existence. She is confirmed to be more powerful than Takami-Musubi and Kami-Musubi. Benzaiten is only equated by Bishamonten and Amatsu-Mikaboshi, and surpassed by Shishioka Yukine. If she is able to fully realize her true potential on her own, no one except the Primordials can stand a chance against her or overcome her.

**Primordial Light Manipulation**: Benzaiten can control the primal light that brought about the dawn of creation, representing the warmer, brighter aspect of primal creation, alongside the Darkness, both being two halves of the same coin, yet stand opposite and in perfect balance. Due to its primordial nature it goes beyond concepts of good, evil or even neutrality.

* **Omnidirectional Light Waves**: Benzaiten can release massive amounts of light in every direction at once for almost unlimited scales. This ability allows the user to dispatch many foes at once and destroy large area like villages.
* **Pure Light**: Benzaiten can generate Pure Light - light in its purest and holiest form that is extremely effective in dispersing Pure Darkness or Shadows.

**Touki**: Benzaiten has one of the highest *ki* in the world with its potential being fully realized while Bishamonten is in control. Nevertheless, even in dormant state, her ki is overwhelming and massive enough to actually cause temporary paralysis to an army of minor gods. By combining her nigh-endless Touki, Youjutsu and Senjutsu she can even hold her own against that are much more powerful than her.

**Senjutsu**: Benzaiten, having lived with Amenominakanushi for eons, learned how to utilize Senjutsu to its utmost effeciency. Her skills with using Sage Arts far surpasses that of any of her descendants and she is capable of preforming several high-tier techniques with no effort at all.

**Youjutsu**: Benzaiten is also a master of Youjutsu, as well, and is more than capable of using Level 900 000 and above Youjutsu Attacks with ease. Benzaiten has also learned how to use her Youjutsu mastery in tandem with Eternal Flow, allowing her to navigate her opponent's Youjutsu against them. When Xinyan tried attacking her with several illusiory Youjutsu techniques at the same time, Benzaiten was able to reverse the effect on her and have her fall under her own illusions. Kami-Musubi has called her the "Youjutsu Counter" due to the fact that she can bend the basic rules of Youjutsu.

**Prosperity Embodiment**: Benzaiten acts as the physical representation or personification of prosperity, as such, she has limitless control over all forms of prosperity on all levels over lands (making them fertile), people etc.

**(Limited) Chaos Manipulation**: Due to slivers of Chaos essence which remained fully ingrained in Benzaiten's being, Benzaiten is capable of manipulating chaos energy to a limited extend, somewhere on Eris's level, allowing her to spread confusion and hysterial throughout small areas. She can also use it to alter her songs to something that could hurt and torture other beings, something she used on Xa'ligha and Tru'nembra.

**(Limited) Erasure Immunity**: Benzaiten has proven to be immune or at least resistant to attacks that can completely erase regular supernaturals from existence. With slivers of Power of the Primordial Chaos in her, Benzaiten can even resist weaker attacks from Nyx and Chaos.

**Power of the Primeval Buddha**: In Chapter XXX, it is revealed that Benzaiten is a Buddha who achieved her Buddha status way before Gautama Buddha, as he had yet to be born. However, because Benzaiten left no text books and did not pass down her knowledge, the religion of Buddhism did not start from her, but from Gautama Buddha. She possesses all the attributes and abilities of the Buddha.

**Flow Manipulation**: Benzaiten can psychically manipulate the power and direction of flow, including the flow of any fluid (water and other liquids), gas (including breathable air), energy (such as heat, electricity and sometimes kinetic energy and light). Some higher level Benzaiten can even manipulate the flow of time.

* **Eternal Flow**: Benzaiten has the ability to harness the power of the **Eternal Flow**, which is an alternative name for an ability that only Buddha and Bodhisattva can access. She can have an absolute control over everything that flows, be it speech, water, imagination, feelings and even music. This means she can utilize the primeval harmonic energies of love, joy and peace through doing trivial things such as singing, playing music and other things.
	+ **Cosmic Lullaby**: Benzaiten can preform majestic musical plays that can put beings into deep slumber. The limits of this are unknown since Benzaiten has sometimes been able to lull away Outer Gods and Primordials with her plays.
	+ **Alter Ego Creation**: Benzaiten can create one or more alter egos and switch between them. She can create/develop abilities, skills, habits, thought processes, personalities and other parameters based around her created alter egos. One such alter ego of hers is Bishamonten.
	+ **Omnitone**: Benzaiten has the ability to speak, sing, whisper, yell, hum, etc. in any pitch or tone. She can speak in an extremely low pitch or a very high pitch.
	+ **Positive Emotion Manipulation**: The mere presence of her goddess form can spread joy, harmony and love in the minds of those around her, which then serve to empower her and encase her in a protective aura.
	+ **Emotional Manifestation**: Benzaiten can reach into a person's mind and create pixies from that person's emotions. These pixies will either serve as a stress-reliever for their progenitor or as bodyguards to Benzaiten.
		- **Madness Inducement**: As they embody emotions these Pixies can literally drive a person to insanity by overflowing them with joy, love, lust, hatred, sadness and others.
	+ **Paradox Manipulation**: She is able to surpass and ignore the laws of reality, logic, common sense, etc, making them able to cause anything to happen or not happen.

* **Liquid Manipulation**: She can create, shape and manipulate anything that is liquid, the only state of matter with a definite volume but no fixed shape. A liquid is made up of tiny vibrating particles of matter, such as atoms and molecules, held together by intermolecular bonds.
	+ **Liquid Attacks**: She can release/use liquids to attacks of various shapes and/or intensities, either projected, used as a part of melee attacks, etc.
	+ **Liquid Constructs**: She can turn liquid into tools, objects, weapons and other items, create semi-living constructs and/or create structures/buildings of varying permanence. She who have mastered this ability can use it for almost any situation, creating anything they need. Exact properties of the construct depends on what liquid is being used.
	+ **Liquid Current Defiance**: She can defy/ignore water/liquid currents and turbulence, allowing them to move through the water/liquids without liquid currents and turbulence affecting their movement.
	+ **Liquid Solidification**: She can solidify or give solid-like properties to liquids with the level of solidity going from loose jelly to metal-like hardness or beyond.
	+ **Liquid Transformation**: She can transform any/all liquids, whether organic or inorganic, into any other fluid/liquid and change a liquids inherent properties such as turning water into acid or even make something like soda poisonous. Any liquids transformed by this power would have all the properties of the liquid they become.
* **Water Manipulation**: Benzaiten can create, shape, and manipulate water, inorganic compound with liquid, gas (steam, water vapor), and solid (ice) states, including changing them from one state to others. More Skilled and powerful She can use water-related weather such as blizzards and rainstorms.
	+ **Water Attacks**: She can release/use water to attacks of various shapes and/or intensities, either projected, used as a part of melee attacks, etc.
	+ **Water Detection**: She can sense the presence of water and possibly gain detailed information about the water they are sensing, including the amount/size of water they are sensing and whether it is hidden.
	+ **Tidal Wave Generation**: She can call forth huge water waves to crash down at their targets, washing everything away in a powerful torrent. Note that various fluid elements can be used to generate the tidal wave, including lava, sand, and blood.

**Light Manipulation:** Benzaiten can create, shape and manipulate visible light, commonly referred to as light, is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye, and is responsible for the sense of sight.

**Master Magician**: Benzaiten created an entire island in the past. She is a master water manipulator, as she rejuvenated a huge dried out reed field in less than a second in front of Issei.

* **Elemental Magic**: Benzaiten can utilize different elements as a form of magic. She can use different spells to formulate their elemental quantities and energies for many uses. She was once able to create and drop thousands of small islands to knock out an armada of Imugi sent by Doumu to attack Shinto Pantheon. She is also capable of cancelling out elemental powers of heavenly/hellish lords and kings with ease using her elemental magic. After realizing 2/3 of her true potential, Benzaiten is capable of using Elemental Magic on Takami-Musubi's level with ease.

* **Kabbalah Magic**: The main Magic System of Jewish Mysticism. This is the first Magic System created by Raziel for humans to wield, with immense power over the manipulation of reality and the elements. This is the most powerful amongst the three main Magic Systems wielded by the three Abrahamic Factions, as well as the hardest and most complex in nature. This type of magic was taught to her by El.

**Artistic Creation**: Benzaiten can create any sort of being, object (including weapons, tools, buildings, vehicles, etc.), power, etc. by using art. She can create other and or different superpowers in anyway she feels or just thinks it.

**Book Imprisonment**: Benzaiten is able to create pocket dimensions within books and other literary texts to imprison targets.

**Animation**: Benzaiten can give life to inanimate objects/substances, animating them to act/move on their own accord out of her control; however, they do seem to work in tandem to their animator.

**Artistic Genius** (芸術の天才 Geijutsu no tensai): Benzaiten is the 'Artistic Genius'. She is the one who can pick up the value of art, games and creativity and extend them to a cosmological level, making her an unpredictable minx that can win in any situation through perfect creativity and imagination.

**Music Embodiment**: Benzaiten becomes a physical manifestation or personification of music. As a result, she has limitless control over it.

* **Musical Regeneration**: Benzaiten can use music to regenerate her body, with the amount of music used defining the speed of healing.
* **Sound Empowerment**: Benzaiten can become stronger, faster and more durable when she comes in contact with any type of sound or the concept itself, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing the existing powers. She is also able to bestow boosts of power while carrying out a well-timed tune.
* **Musical Attacks**: Benzaiten can release/use music to attacks of various shapes and/or intensities, either projected, used as a part of melee attacks, etc.
* **Holy Music Manipulation**: Benzaiten can create, shape and manipulate holy music that are highly effective against the supernatural, such as demons and/or angels. She would be able to do all kinds of holy things with her music, which in question, can range from trapping and/or immobilizing to outright banishing or killing supernatural threats. Furthermore, divine music may have other properties and abilities, such as healing, resurrection, angels and/or spirits of the deceased from Heaven to the material plane.
* **Music Spell Casting**: Benzaiten can use musical instruments to cast spells and manipulate reality in a small area. She can summon objects and creatures from the sky, enhance or debuff the abilities of others in the area, and empower herself. The instrument can also kill or heal targets around the area. Also effects the weather and time of day around the world.
* **Life Music Manipulation**: Benzaiten can create, shape and manipulate creative/life music that is capable of creating/giving/granting life. This allows her to not only create and give life with her chords, but even grant it sapience/sentience and possibly even free will/soul of its own.
* **Conceptual Music**: Benzaiten can alter reality through the usage of musical mediums such as tunes, rhythms, songs, etc. and be able to cause a variety of effects with this utilization.

**Hypnotic Song**: Benzaiten is capable of emitting astonishingly beautiful and enchanting singing voice that is capable of summoning/luring anyone who hears it to come towards her.

* **Musical Instrument Manipulation**: Benzaiten can create, summon, manipulate and use any/all of musical instruments with perfect skill and use as weapons.
* **Sonoportation**: Benzaiten can move via sound, either merging with or transforming into sound waves and reappearing elsewhere, effectively teleporting.
* **Esoteric Music Manipulation**: Benzaiten can manipulate the esoteric side of music with special properties and a mystical nature to it. With mastery, Benzaiten can use the esoteric chords for a variety of magical effects.

* **Ultimate Sonic**: Benzaiten can produce sounds capable of affecting anything, including things that would normally absorb, nullify or be protected by sounds/sound waves. She can generate sound inside of a complete vacuum and don't require a medium to travel through or they can travel through metaphysical or supernatural mediums such as the fabric of reality.
* **Sonokinetic Combat**: Benzaiten is able to infuse sound with physical attacks, using sound waves to influence and disorient opponents and strengthen attacks.

**Space Manipulation**: Benzaiten can create, shape and manipulate physical aspects of space within an area of one's choosing, including an area and whatever is inside of that area. She can trap subjects or objects in space and push that space, throwing subject and object away from them or to create wormholes, paradoxes, and other strange events by warping spatial areas and twisting them around.

**Sound Absorption**: Benzaiten can absorb sound waves, while removing it from the source, into her body and use it in various ways, gaining some form of advantage, either by enhancing herself, gaining the drained power, using it as power source etc., either temporarily or permanently.

**Madness-Inducement Immunity**: Benzaiten was once able to glimpse into the true form of Azathoth, Chaos and even God with her mind being unfazed by it. She was also able to comfortably speak to Asherah while the latter was in her true form. Psychological magic in general also does not seem to affect her.

**Love Manipulation**: Benzaiten's abilities allows her to bestow a power boost to the person whom she loves most by telling the recipient how much she loves them. The amount of power her loved one receives increases with the intensity of her love. Benzaiten can only activate her abilities once per day and the power boost will only last for a limited time.

**Essence Bond**: Due to spending many years close to her husband, Benzaiten's essence is eternally linked to His. She can immediately sense when Ameno is in danger. She will also keep healing no matter how grave her injuries as long as the concepts of 'Love', 'Music' and 'Harmony' exist in the multiverse.

**S Charisma**: In a similar fashion to her husband, Benzaiten has a high level of natural charm that allows her to unconsciously attract people and supernatural beings towards her, regardless if they themselves are aware of this effect or not. As a high-level Buddha and the true leader of the Seven Lucky Gods, Benzaiten is able to thread between the thin line of composure, relaxation and enthusiasm almost flawlessly. Her kind and sweet nature also prevents most beings from wanting to inflict harm on her out of malice or spite.

**Genius-Level Intellect**: Despite being gullible, Benzaiten is a very literate and mature person even though it may not seem like it at first. She can get a good gauge of someone's nature just by looking at them. She's also a skilled manipulator herself at times, given how she would use subtle feminine charms to drive her husband's attention from everyone else, mainly other women.

* **Master Tactician**: Benzaiten can actually be dangerously smart and deceptive when no one else is there to make strategies for her. Due to being seen as a simple-minded bimbo by everyone, except Amenominakanushi, she surpassed most of their expections by outwitting them in their own games with creativity and imagination. She can be as tactical as Kami-Musubi, but simply refuses to, because she wishes to be honest with herself and those around her and scheming and setting up traps simply goes against her nature.

* **Flawless Artistry**: Benzaiten possesses incredibly enhanced skill in artistry, meaning her creative skills are ideal to everything in their creative impulse/creativity by the conscious or subconscious response to create amazing art work directly from her imagination by any means such as drawing, painting, sculpture, music, film, etc.

* **Hypercompetence**: Benzaiten possesses powerful/incredible skill in one, several, or in some cases every possible field or discipline, whether intellectual or practical, formal or mundane: mathematics, cooking, strategy, sports, games, politics, fighting, mechanics, psychology, economy, art, medicine, investigation, etc.

**Master Cook**: Benzaiten's secretly one of the greatest chefs in the whole supernatural world. That is because she likes to see cooking as just another form of art and allows herself to be creative.

**Flight**: Benzaiten has shown the ability to stay afloat in mid-air.

### Chaos Powers​ (Formerly)​

**Power of the Primordial Chaos**: During a freak incident with the Ancient Book of Miracles and the Uchide-no-Kozuchi, Chaos was transferred into Benzaiten and due to the entity slumbering deeply at that time, she had to be brought out of Benzaiten. Thanks to her madness immunity, Benzaiten kept her sanity after receiving the immense power of Chaos, but her consciousness still saw mild altercations which had major consquences, i.e. she was more impulsive, chaotic and destructive. According to Chronos, the power of their mother was deeply disrupting Benzaiten's otherwise harmonic emotional state, which would have spelled irrepairable disaster for the whole of Creation and existence if the transfer was not reversed soon.

* **Nigh-Omnipotence**: As a mismatched combination, Chaos Benzaiten does not possess the full capabilities of Power of the Primordial Chaos and as such, she is still weaker than Chaos despite being able to use her power. She was able to catch Amenominakanushi off guard and easily overwhelm him. She was able to fight on even grounds with Tartarus without much difficulty, though when Nyx, Erebus and Chronos came to help him she was overwhelmed fairly quickly. Even though she was not as powerful as Chaos herself, Chronos did state that she could end all of existence if left unattended.
* **Chaos Dragon**: Upon activation, chaos powers ruptures a large area around the user, causing the ground to rise up in pillars, before rising into the air to form five enormous, light purple dragons above the user.
* **Reality Warping**: Benzaiten used the Power of the Primordial Chaos to control and bend reality to her whims, capable of altering something as tangible as physics and the universe to something inconceivable like logic.
* **Chaotic Energy Manipulation**: As a false personification of the primordial chaos, she could create and manipulate chaotic energy in various ways. However, the more chaos energy she used, the more pain she endured.
	+ **Mr. Wafflachaos**: Benzaiten was so happy to have her Mr. Wafflamunga back that she accidentally infused him with Chaos's power, turning him into a monster that reeked havoc on Mount Olympus and later on Svarga and Third Heaven, too.
* **Divine Authority**: With Chaos's abilities, even to a limited extend, Benzaiten has nearly as much authority over the divine aspects of the world as Asherah and El.
* **Chaos Perception**: She could see into the true chaotic state that makes up existence/reality, allowing her to know how everything in existence comes together and connects, see past any/all falsehoods and lies and anything that is normally hidden/obscured/unknown would be laid completely bare to her, including the true forms of any/all eldritch and cosmic other creatures/entities.

**Chaos Embodiment:** Fused with Chaos, the personification of the primordial chaos, makes her extremely unpredictable and uncontrollable and can cause others to become disorderly and disorganized.

* **Chaos Manipulation:** Benzaiten could generate and manipulate the chaotic forces in the universe, allowing them to manipulate probability or manipulate and even shatter reality. She is able to change, mutate, destroy, or otherwise manipulate any matter, space/time, living beings, organizations, or minds and spirits as well as containing it, so it doesn't spread or spreads only on her desired way.
	+ **Anarchy Manipulation:** She could create and manipulate strife and anarchy, causing conflict and disagreement between others to disorganize individuals or groups, or cause internal strife.
		- **Anarchy Inducement:** She possesses the ability to invoke an absence or lack of government over a large radius ranging from small villages to large cities to create mass riots, rebellion, and social disorder and disruption.

* **Butterfly Effect:** She could control, foresee, and even create the Butterfly Effect, i.e. all the different causes and their reaction that can have a huge net effect on the whole system. All the causes may be small and completely unrelated to each other in both space and time, yet they can cause many big things in the flow of time which no one can predict. That can be seen when she had a lion become a doctor and heal the zebra which he was hunting, which a bit later resulted in that same lion becoming self-aware of his own intelligence and iniating an entire feline revolution throughout Asia and Africa, which somehow ended up creating twelve massive black holes that tore apart the Earth.

## Equipment

**Heart of the Harmony**: Benzaiten possesses the 'heart' of Driuna, a fragment of her and Umbra which Umbra implanted into her after Benzaiten became the first being to achieve the enlightenment for which Gautama Buddha is praised for. She is the only Buddha who can become a vessel for Driuna and reach the true heights of Nirvana. This is the 'mysterious power' that Benzaiten holds which makes her more special than most divinities.

**The Divine Bubble Blower**: A simple pink bubble blower. She uses its bubbles as either scouts, trap bombs or hatching eggs for her Emotion Pixies. She also uses it to blow bubbles at people who annoy her which can be quite terrifying to others as these bubbles are faster than homing missiles.

**Lotus Sutra**: After fighting Guanyin, Benzaiten unlocks the Buddhistic ability to summon astral flowers that completely purge darkness and evil and no being associated with these concepts is fully immune to this ability, not even Amara or Ayin. Benzaiten's Lotus Sutra are twice as powerful as Guanyin's but she has less control over them and has only been shown sprouting them in a short wide AOE burst. Guanyin says that with this ability, Benzaiten does not even need to put effort in defeating or pacifying most demonic creatures - she can simple purge them out of existence with ease.

* **Echo of the First Female Buddha**: The first being who had achieved nirvana before even the invention of the Buddhistic pantheon was also the one who carried Nirvana's melody with the greatest efficiency. Hers is the song that reaches the end of the world and recalls the beginning of it. To deny the echo of her ethereal song is to deny one's own existence. The concept of self reflects on that very tonation. Perhaps letting it ring out in their head in peace will be more beneficial. This ability has been able to completely erase Primordial Gods through mysterious means that are unknown to everyone. The beings who try to deafen the sounds just magically disappear. Ironically, the song itself causes no ill effects. It just forces out their true nature and the state of their soul. The act of defeaning it is akin to an act of self-destruction. Thus, even Pre-Existential Entities may be beaten with this ability.

**Uchide no kozuchi** (打ち出の小槌 "Tap-Appear Mallet"): The **Uchide no Kozuchi** is a mystery wand, mostly used by Benzaiten to help her create uncommon shapes and forms for her art projects; such as a biscuit man ballerina, a tofu bodyworker figure. The Magic Mace basically grants any wish the wielder makes, but only as long as it doesn't throw reality out of order. To give an innate example of how the wand functions: Benzaiten said:'I wish Nyx wore a pink floral dress' and it happened, but when Nyx took the wand and wished 'Benzaiten to as a child', nothing happened.

* **Concordia Pluma**: The Uchide no Kozuchi's true form and power is that of Driuna's ancient artifact - the Quill of Harmony. It has unknown properties at the moment though it holds magical power of immeasurable quality. It seems similar to Destiny's Pen.

**Heavenly Sutra Flute (天経フルート *Tenkyo Furuto*):** The **Heavenly Sutra Flute** (Flute of Harmony in the dub) is a divine flute that was made from the wood of the very first tree that grew in Takamagahara. It was a gift from her husband. During combat, this is her weapon of choices, which she uses in tandem with her immense musical talent to pacify her attackers.

* **Harmonic Resonance**: The slight undertones and overtones of her music dance in perfect duality, inviting the balance of the cosmos onto its vibrations and thus creating a peaceful melody that puts others to rest.

**Enoshima Island**: The **Enoshima Island** is the sacred island created and owned by Benzaiten, where she would often spend her free time in peace and joy. Besides serving as her 'villa', Enoshima also functions like a pocket world and a maze which is under the absolute control of Amenominakanushi and Benzaiten. Even some of the weaker Primordial Entities can get lost and eventually forget who they were if they're not careful.

**Seku-chan Fry Pan**: A fry pan with the logo of her favorite Vtuber 'Seku-chan', which she often hits the Kotoamatsukami with, especially her husband. It is a completely normal frying pan, yet it seems to be capable of incapacitating a Kotoamatsukami in one hit.

## Quotes

* *"You dare hurt me...? YOU WILL PAY!"* - Chaos Benzaiten to Tartarus.
* *"\*Giggle\*... You saw me, and now you're trying to flee...? Do you really think you can flee from ME?!"* - Chaos Benzaiten to Amenominakanushi.
* *"Being with you warms my heart, like a hot cup of tea. And just as I love tea, I love you. I want this moment in time to last forever, but perhaps that makes me sound selfish...?"* - Benzaiten to Amenominakanushi.
* *"In this school there's lots of people from many different origins. There's new bonds being formed all the time, and there's endless new stories to be told. I totally will not get tired of it, it really reminds me of when I was at Ashihara!" -* Benzaiten about being a teacher in Kuoh Academy.

## Gallery

### Benzaiten

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### Ai Hikari

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## Trivia

* Benzaiten actually plays a biwa in her myths, but because the author wanted to give her a more tranquil and romantic theme, he gave her a flute.
* Benzaiten's height varies, but she is often the shortest female in the room, which suits one of Amenominakanushi's prefrences well.
* In an omeka, it is revealed that Destiny is scared of Benzaiten and doesn't let her touch his book. Destiny has two buttons in his office, one tagged 'CODE: SUBJECT F' and the other 'CODE: FANFIC PANIC'.
* Benzaiten's ability 'Cosmic Lullaby' is based on the Servitors of the Outer Gods in Lovecraft Mythos that play their flutes to lull Azathoth to sleep. She even shares their title.
* Benzaiten prefers her human alias over her divine name.
* She occasionally jams to **Rap God** from Eminem.
* Benzaiten is considered to be one of the characters with the most rivals (Doumu, Eris, Malkuth, Idh-Yaa, Kassogtha, Tru'nembra, Guanyin, Despair, and Ycnágnnisssz) which is the most out of all second female characters.
* Benzaiten's role is similar to Historia Reiss or Chika Fujiwara.
* Her motif is Zero Eclipse.
* Benzaiten is the Number One writer on a supernatural fanfiction site called GodFic.
	+ Benzaiten has never inserted herself in any of her fics.
	+ Benzaiten has written quite a few 'Satan x Ameno' and 'Nyx x Malkuth' fanfictions.
	+ Recently, she wrote a very erotic one-shot with Hyoudou​ Issei​ and Female! Ameno, which gained some popularity. The plot and descriptions were so immersive and captivating that after reading it, Issei momentarily managed to confuse Amenominakanushi for his genderbent version and grew flustered when talking to him. Under heavy request from both of them, Benzaiten was forced to change their names to another pair of beings.
	+ Ironically, she's not at all a fan of the 'Nyx x Ameno NTR' ship, which has become one of the more notorious pairs amongst hardcore shippers in the supernatural world.
* Benzaiten's normal appearance is based on Yui Komori from *Diabolik Lovers*. Her Goddess Form is based on Vert from **Hyperdimensional Neptunia**.​