Futaba Saotome

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My Sweet Doll (Yakumo Koizumi)

**Futaba Saotome** (早乙女 双葉, *Saotome Futaba*) is the protagonist and player character. Her name is changeable by the player.

## Profile

Futaba is an *onmyouji* (a diviner), possessing a *kagura* bell wand used to banish wraiths. After discovering her powers, she herself is discovered by Major Aizen, who brings her to work under his command to handle the city's growing challenges due to wraiths.

Futaba lives with her father, Mototaka, and her pet cat, Tama. Up until the events of the main story, she would sometimes run errands for her father to help with his antique business, Futaba Antiques.

## Appearance

Futaba is a light-skinned girl with chest-length pink-red hair that is tied by a green rope with bangs hanging over her forehead and pink-red eyes.

She wears a *kimono* with a light blue gray and white Yagasuri and flowers. She also wears a red *hakama* with black and white tape underneath, and dark boots. She has a bracelet on her right wrist.

## Personality

Futaba is a kind woman that consistently seeks to help others. She departs, to an extent, from highly submissive *otome* protagonists, showing significant strength, courage and some degree of self-determination throughout the course of the story.

## Biography

### **Present Life**

She is born in Meiji era, where she lives with her father, Mototaka, and her mother died a long time ago. Futaba never knew that she had spiritual powers; during her youth, her powers were still sleepy. Futaba lives as a regular student that runs errands for her father’s business. She always dreams of ten men with certain appearances, ever since when she was a child.

But one day she goes to a manor that belongs to one of the customers of her Father, Toichiro Yuri, delivering a kagura bell wand. She also meets three men, Toichiro's valet, Shizuki and two friends, Koga Kitamikado and Kuya. Toichiro said that her delivery was incorrect: she argues that she was completely sure that she takes the correct box, but the aristocrat calm down her and offers her tea, making her stay in the manor for a few minutes.

She returns back home with the Kagura Bell Wand, her cat, Tama, was waiting for her. Tama jumps onto her, causing the bell wand will fall out of the box. She picks up the antique wand, and get in her house, but she notices that the house was dark. Futaba sees that her father was waiting her in the entrance room and goes to greet him, but he attacks her. Tama attacks the old man and transforms into a boy. Tama, now in his new form, takes Futaba and flees into an alley. Futaba doesn't recognize him at first, but soon realizes that he is her cat Tama, because he says that Futaba accidentally beat his tail in the morning and that she promised to give him sardines. She realizes that all this time her cat was an ayakashi named Nachi.

Nachi tells her that she can save her father with her spiritual power by defeating the wraith. Mototaka follows them but fortunately, Toichiro and Koga appeared and attacked him. However, Futaba decides to exorcise the wraith with her Onmyoji power. Nachi explains to her that she would have to use the Kagura Bell Wand to exorcise it. From that day, Futaba's life starts to change.

### **Past Life**

**Spolier Alert! Major spoilers beyond this point.**

In the Twilight Faction, Gaku and Yura reveals that in her previous life, Futaba lived apart from her family. Gaku and Yura recount that twins carried inauspicious connotations in that era, particularly when one twin was female. Hence, Futaba grew up away from her twin brother, studying the Divine Arts. Over the course of her previous life, she likely met and contracted several *ayakashi*, including Koga, Ginnojo, Aoi, Yura and Kuya, the latter presumably after Kuya's transformation to a *tengu*. This first set of contracts were signified by a lotus bell wand. Eventually, she also obtained the contracts of her twin brother, making her the master of Toichiro, Gaku, Kuro, Shizuki and Oji as well. At some point, Futaba‘s past life promised Gaku and Yura that she would break their curse, but passed away before she succeeded.

In Dawn Faction, Koga's route, Futaba had a vision of her past life‘s death: she had overspent her powers in battle, and passed away with Koga by her side.

## Abilities

#### **Weapons**

* **Kagura Bell Wand:** Futaba's main weapon.

* **Talisman:** Futaba use it to use some divine arts like familiar.
* **Katashiro Doll**

#### **Onmyoji Divine Arts**

* **Presence**: Futaba can feel the presence Ayakashi or Wraith.
* **Familiar**: Futaba can create a butterfly familiar and she used it to send messages.
* **Purification**: Futaba can purify with her contracted Ayakashi or her brother's contracted Ayakashi.
* **Protective Barrier**: With a Talisman, Futaba can create a barrier that protect her or the others.
* **Exorcise Wraiths:** Futaba can vanish them but they come back later.
* **Illusion**: Futaba can create illusion with talisman.

## Relationship

### ***Family***

**Mototaka**
Mototaka is Futaba's father whom she loves him and worry about where they have a promised that is that both have to eat together.

**Spolier Alert! Major spoilers beyond this point.**

During the first chapters of the Dawn Faction , Major Aizen arrests Mototaka because he was possessed by wraith. Futaba was worried about him, and she gives a box with food and a letter to Major Aizen, so that he could deliver it to her father.

After the revelation of Akiyasu and his plan. She and her contracted Ayakashi thinks that he would kill Mototaka, so Futaba felt bad, blaming it on the death of his father and wished to saw him one more time.

After defeating Aki and purifying Taira no Masakado, Futaba finds out that her father is alive, and she runs to find him, hugging him with a cry of happiness.

**Deceased** **Mother**
During the story, it is mentioned that she died when Futaba was very young. In some chapters or events the onmyoji said that she miss her and love her.

**Nachi**
She never knew that his cat "Tama" was an Ayakashi until her father were possessed. They have a relation like a sister and best friend. She loves Nachi as her familiar.

**Futaba's Brother**
She wants to know more about him, despite never having met him. She is grateful because she met Ayakashi that were his friend in the past. She is grateful to met them.

### ***Contracted Ayakashi***

**Koga Kitamikado**
She admires Koga, and always want to help him because the Oni Ogre helps her a lot.

**Spoiler Alert! Major spoilers beyond these charts.**

**Kuya**
They don't speak a lot, but Futaba sees that Kuya is a good Ayakashi. She lets Kuya sleep on her veranda.

**Ginnojo**
In the beginning Ginnojo got mad at her because she got in his way while he was on a mission: this conflict was later resolved and he forgave her. Now Futaba and Ginnojo have a good relationship as comrades, they talk about books sometimes, this can be seen in the chapter "Where to today?" and the Ayakashi gives her good advice. He can stutter, become flustered and blush when she accidentally touches him.

**Aoi**
Futaba and Aoi have a good relation as comrades and friend. Sometimes she helps him in Raccord and asks him about the recipes that he makes.

**Yura**
Futaba respects Yura and she wants to help him and his brother with the curse. However, Yura refuses because he doesn't want Gaku and Futaba to suffer when finding the cure. Yura gives advice or helps her in social life problems or with the divine arts, sometimes giving her books that the twins have in their shrine.

**Toichiro Yuri**
Futaba respects Toichiro, but when the Kitsune Fox underestimates her, she gets mad and talks him in a rude way. This can be seen in one of the Twilight Faction Chapters.

**Shizuki**
They don't talk a lot but she can be worried of him.

**Kuro**
Both have a good relationship. Futaba admires Kuro, and she supports him, whenever they talk about something.

**Oji**
She sometimes helps him in Raccord when Aoi is out, or when she visits them. She sees Oji as a good person, and in some chapters, the old man helps her in a situation of a relationship.

**Gaku**
Futaba respects Gaku, and she promised him to break Yura's curse. Gaku has rough speaking tone, but she understands him. When Gaku gets mad with her, she give him some space, and sometimes she doesn't understand why he is angry with her. When Gaku is at Futaba's house, Futaba always provides him with spicy food.

According to Yura, in her past life, Futaba and Gaku were close.

### ***Friends***

**Tatsuomi Oyama**
Tatsuomi is her childhood friend, who she affectionately nicknamed 'Tatsu' and they have a relationship like a brother and sister. When Tatsuomi was going to join the army, she was sad because she will miss him.

**Yakumo Koizumi**
Yakumo is a friend of her father, and she sees him as a family friend. She never noticed that he is in love of her.

**Yukari**
Futaba and Yukari are in the same year. Both are good friends, and Futaba helps her to learn how to read and write. When Yukari goes back to the Satori village, both send messages to each other.

### ***Others***

**Kagemaru**
She is careful with him because he is a criminal.

**Akiyasu Kurahashi**
Akiyasu is her Divine Arts master and her friend. Futaba calls him Aki.

**Spolier Alert! Major spoilers beyond this point.**

He was her Divine Art master in Dawn Faction and Oji's route, but then become enemies because Akiyasu wants her as a sacrifice to revive his father and change the world, erasing the government.

**Kyonosuke Aizen**
She start working with Major Aizen when the attack of the red eyes started, and Futaba treats Kyonosuke with respect.

**Spolier Alert! Major spoilers beyond this point.**

In Koga's route, she get angry with Aizen: after the failed mission to capture Akiyasu, he orders to kill her contracted Ayakashi, because Koga got in the way to the government, so that he could prevent him from killing her.

**Chizuko Mifune**
Futaba is careful with her, because she doesn't want to pay a price after Chizuko provides her with a prophecy. She tries to avoid her when she approaches Futaba or tries to stop her.

## Etymology

* The name **Futaba** means "pair, set" (双) (**futa**) and "leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece" (葉) (**ha**/**ba**), which literally means "bud, sprout, two leaf/twin leaf" altogether.
* Futaba's surname **Saotome** means "already, now, fast, early" (早) (**sa**) and "virgin, maiden, girl" (乙女) (**otome**).

## Trivia

* Futaba's hobby is to read books.
	+ She said that she loves to read, and to read a book all day.
* Futaba is 15 years old.
	+ In Nachi Sunday Patrol Chats 3/3, the nekomata said he's the same age as her.
	+ In A Place to Call Home, Aoi said that his sister Yukari is one year younger (15) and Futaba said that she is the same age as her.

* Futaba has two Kagura Bell wands:
	+ One has the lotus emblem that is the Dawn Faction.
	+ The other has a moonflower that is the Twilight Faction.

* Futaba prefers to use her Japanese clothes compared to her western clothes.
* According to Futaba, Koga and Toichiro she is wearing sandals that are broken, but in many pictures she appears with boots. This is something that is a mystery and funny to the Fandom.
* Futaba's appearance doesn't appear during the chapters, but in some cards appears her hands or the kimono and hakama. In some CG Images of some routes appear but a bit appears her face.
* Futaba doesn't have a dignified Birthday, because she, as the MC and player, the player can select her Birthday.