Benzaiten

**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 amongst the Second-Generation Primordials and is the creator of Enoshima Island of Japan.

Worship of Benzaiten arrived in Japan during the 6th through 8th centuries, mainly via the Chinese translations of the *Sutra of Golden Light*, which has a section devoted to her. She is also mentioned in the Lotus Sutra and often depicted holding a *biwa*, a traditional Japanese lute, just as Saraswati holds a veena.

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, Baroness of Hell, 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, Tsunugui, Ikugui, Otonoji, Otonobe, Omodaru and Ayaka Shikone, as well as the grandmother of Izanagi and Izanami.

## 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 and Malkuth. She is also very protective over her friends as shown when she almost killed Nyarlathotep after he put Malthael in a coma.

## History

Benzaiten bloomed from the first act of love between the primeval yokai that were created by the Kotoamatsukami (with the indirect assistance of the Primordial Goddess Eros). When she was born, she was found by the Dragon King of Munetsuchi who raised with the rest of his children. After becoming full grown, she left her father's protective guidance and walked around the world, helping people with their problems. Because of looks and kindness, she gain the attention of the Kami of Takamagahara, especially Amenominakanushi of the Kotoamatsukami who decided to speak to her himself.

When he first saw her, he fell in love with her in an instant and even requested her to come with him to talk which she agreed which caused her and Amenominakanushi to teleport away from the mortal realm into the realm for the Kotoamatsukami. It's unknown what she did with them for the most part, but she does help Amenominakanushi and his fellow Kami preserve through their lowest time.

After hiding away with Amenominakanushi, she married him and they became soul-mates. Sometime between hiding away and the present, created the Enoshima Island and threw it over a rampaging five-headed sea dragon, crushing him underneath it.

Benzaiten would often follow Amenominakanushi around, even assisting him in his celestial endeavors. Like her husband, she would also often sneak into different worlds, but with the sole purpose of having a nice time and chatting with the other supernatural beings. This has earned her many friends. Other times, Benzaiten will spend days or years in her sacred garden on island Enoshima.

## 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.

**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. She is said to currently possess power similar to that of a true Archangel, above even the Titans of Greek. She could even destroy one of Nyx's weaker barriers with a simple kick.

**Immense Divine Power**: Benzaiten possesses the spiritual power of a Buddha. Her spiritual pressure is surprisingly large in comparison to her raw power and looks like a multi-colored polymorph lotus flower. The release of her aura causes everyone around her to fall into tranquility, supressing and weakening all negative chakra flowing inside them. When he first saw her aura, Amenominakanushi felt as if he was being embraced in the warmest, most romantic hugs in existence. Her aura color is pink and blue.

**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.

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

**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.

* **Paradox Manipulation**: Benzaiten 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.

* **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.

**Light Manipulation**: Like her husband, Benzaiten possesses a level of great expertise when it comes to controlling light. Though her light is usually soft and mostly harmless, if she is extremely angry, it becomes almost as deadly as her husband's light, as seen during her fight with Nyarlathotep.

* **Sparkle Bomb**: Like her husband, she can create tiny bombs of primeval light.

* **Pigeon's Eggs**: Benzaiten can alter the cosmic light to take the form of a large pigeon that rains down eggs upon Benzaiten's allies. The eggs crack open, releasing massive waves of protective energy.

* **Light Blast**: Benzaiten snaps her fingers, sending an immense blast of light towards her opponent. She can target specific points such as the eyes or the mouth. While enraged, she was able to incinerate 994 of Nyarlathotep's manifestations with ease.

**Elemental Magic**: 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.

**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.

**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.

**Artistic Reality**: Benzaiten can transform, control and create reality through artistic means, sculpting, painting, writing, sketching, etc. reality to conform her view/inspiration. This way, she is able to ignore conventional durability and defensive powers.

* **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.

* **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.

* **Empathic Song**: Benzaiten can manipulate the emotions of other sentient beings through her voice. She usually uses this power with the intention to soothe and smother their negativism, as shown when she easily quelled her husband's anger by singing a few notes. However, Benzaiten can also spread immense fear and despair into the hearts of others, as she sang a song of hatred for Nyarlathotep, giving the Outer Gods nightmares for months to come.

* **Meta Music Manipulation**: An ability that Benzaiten achieved after completing her training with Asherah. She can manipulate music without any limit, allowing her to manipulate the world and beyond as if it were simply a theme/notes/verse of a song along with its aspects. She can create epics through her music/musical themes and can control the principles of the world she creates or live in, along with the infinite possibilities. Allowing her to view the world as a singular grand/great song that all things are mere notes, tones, or harmonies in.

* **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.'

**Madness-Inducement Immunity**: Benzaiten was once able to glimpse into the true form of Takami-Musubi, Erebus and even Angra Mainyu 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.

**Concord Manipulation**: Benzaiten has the power to manipulate accord, cause concord/agreement/compatibility between others to organize individuals/groups or cause internal harmony.

**Order Manipulation**: Like her husband, Benzaiten can create, shape and manipulate order on a literal, symbolic, conceptual and physical level. She has ability to recognize, discern, envision and understand overt and/or underlying patterns and structure of anything physical, social, mental or natural and know their weaknesses, strengths and all other information and how to use them to reach the wanted goal. Her control over it however is far beneath her husband.

**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.

* **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.

**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.

## Equipment

**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.

**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.

**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

* *"Wake up. Wake up Malt-chan. You are fine now."* - Benzaiten to Malthael after the latter was healed from her comatose state.

* + *"Benzaiten, is that you? What happened...?"* - Malthael to Benzaiten.

* + - *"You were in a coma for centuries after the Great War. After you and Yaldabaoth was attacked by Nyarlathotep, I, Kanu-kun and the entire Grigori and Archons found you. Yaldabaoth was fine enough when he taken by his Archons but you... \*Tears started to fall out.\* you weren't."* - Benzaiten to Malthael before the former started to tear up.

* + - * *"Benzaiten! Are you ok? Why are you crying?"* - Malthael after seeing Benzaiten crying.

* + - * + *"I saw your state after the attack. You were barely holding on... Your wounds were so bad. If Azazel-kun didn't put you in the healing chamber of the Grigori, you wouldn't have lived on. I had some much pent up emotions; horror at your condition, sadness that I may have lost you and \*Her energy started to spike up\* absolutely hatred towards that Outer God. If Kanu-kun didn't stop me then and there, I will rip that damn **monster** piece by piece till there was nothing.. \*Calms down after Malthael touched her check\* left."* - Benzaiten to Malthael.

* *"You have a thousand incarnations? Well, that's just perfect for me...on behalf of my friends, Nyx-chan's older brother and everyone else you've hurt, I will kill you a thousand times before you can find peace among the stars!" -* Benzaiten giving into her hatred for Nyarlathotep.

## Gallery

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## Relatives

Chaos (Progenitor)Amenominakanushi (Husband)Bishamonten (Other Self)Takami-Musubi (Sister-in-Law)Shishioka Yukine (Sister-in-Law)Amaterasu (Great-Granddaughter)
## Trivia

* 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 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.
* Like Amenominakanushi, Benzaiten is a Japanese figure that occurred thanks to Chinese influence in Japan.
* Benten and Benzaiten are the same being in the original myth. There, she is one of the Seven Fortune Deities.
* Benzaiten prefers her human alias over her divine name.
* Benzaiten's height varies, but she is often the shortest female in the room, which suits one of Amenominakanushi's prefrences well.
* She occasionally jams to **Rap God** from Eminem.
* Benzaiten has written quite a few 'Satan x Ameno' and 'Amatsu-Mikaboshi x Nyx' fanfictions.
	+ It is rumored that she did write one about herself and Malthael, much to the latter's embarrassment.
* Benzaiten's normal appearance is based on Yui Komori from *Diabolik Lovers*. Her Goddess Form is based on Vert from **Hyperdimensional Neptunia**.
* Her theme song is Zero Eclipse by Hiroyouki Sawano.
* Benzaiten's usual height is [163cm].
* Benzaiten's usual measurements are B93-W61-H87.