Chise Hatori

**Chise Hatori** is the main female protagonist from the *Ancient Magus Bride* anime and manga.

Chise is the apprentice and future bride of Elias Ainsworth. Her father abandoned the family when she was young, taking her baby brother with him. Her mother committed suicide in front of her causing her to feel unwanted by her relatives. She allows herself to be sold into slavery so someone will take her in. She is sold for 5 million Pounds to Elias. He tells her she is a Sleigh Beggy, a special magus who can draw magic from her surroundings and from within herself. However, this severely strains their bodies, making Sleigh Beggys very weak, and fated to die prematurely. Hence, Elias bought her with hopes of preventing her early death in about three years.

In the AWA fics, Chise is set to appear in a future AWA storyline.

## **Appearance**

Chise is a fair-skinned girl in her mid-teens with chin-length red hair (Later on, her hair has grown up to shoulder-length) and wide green eyes. Her clothes vary, but she is mostly often seen with a red sweater, a green skirt and a green coat with knee-length brown boots.

She was gifted a necklace by Elias Ainsworth made from a cursed stone; whose hole was created naturally at the bottom of a river. By looking through the center, she can see the true form of Elias' acquaintances.

Another permanent addition, also a gift from Elias, is a ring she wears on her right index finger that was made by Angelica Barley. The ring keeps her from absorbing too much magic.

One of Chise's arms were later changed due to falling under the Dragon's Curse as her arm has been transformed into a more wood-like appearance, increasing in size from the elbow and forward as it's covered in bandages and other restrictions. As well as this, her left eye has been replaced with one of the eye of Cartaphilus. The transplanted eye has taken on her color and the arm has shrunken to its normal size since resolving the curses within her.

## **Personality**

Chise seems to be a typical teenage girl, though with a somewhat meek, subservient personality and issues with socialization, having had been considered an oddball by other children her age. She also tends to become attached to others quickly, particularly those who show her kindness. This exterior, however, belies a kind and courageous interior willing to go above and beyond in helping others, even at her own expense.

The story begins with Chise falling into severe depression and selling herself into slavery, not considering what may happen to her as a result and displaying no concern for her well-being. When bought by Elias, she seemed fine being viewed as his experiment because he took her in when no one else would. With time, however, it's apparent that she was worried that Elias would throw her aside.

From the beginning, she had little self-preservation and would place the well-being of others above her own health. She can be rash with magic, exhausting herself. Nevin mentions that by putting herself down, she degrades the worth of her actions and the people they affect. After speaking with Nevin and Lindel, she seems to have taken the steps forward to open herself up.

Despite her lack of self-confidence, Chise is extremely dedicated to her role as an apprentice and her studies. She is very intelligent, though is rather naive - best evidenced by the fact that she is often tricked by fairies and similar creatures, who derive joy from her confusion.

However, in recent developments, Chise has made up her mind to be an optimist, and displays newfound joy.

She is afraid of thunder, perhaps because she had to suffer it alone.

## **Abilities**

### **Sleigh Beggy**

Sleigh Beggy are individuals who are naturally absorb magic from their surroundings, so much so that it wears on their bodies and shortens their lives. It could be said that it was akin to having a lot of blood, but a weak heart to pump it.

Because of these traits, magicians are willing to pay a high price to have them as a tool. Because of the amount of magic stored within their body and the ability to expend it greatly, they were hunted in the past to be used for that purpose and often died. The College has made attempts to find a live one to study in the hopes of preserving them.

They also draw in fae and other supernatural entities, with Elias noting that those who weren't lucky enough to possess the Sight would be cursed with both good luck and bad, as they would not be aware of that they were attracting them.

### **Magic**

Magic is brought forth through the connection with the fae and one's own view of the world. Chise has been shown to be able to purify, fly, and create potions. As a Sleigh Beggie, Chise is favored by the fae, amounting to a large amount of magic potential, without the skills to control the massive pressure it has on her body.

### **Link To Mind and Memory**

The unconscious mind is a passage. Chise is gifted in traveling into the minds of others. Without the intention to do so, she has peered into the memories of Ruth and the stagnation, see the memories of the dragon she met in the nest of dragons, as well as speak to Cartaphilus in a dream-like state.

### **Skinwalking**

Using a magical pelt granted to her by Ashen Eyes, Chise can transform into animals depending on the situation., becoming a bear in order to track down Elias and Ethan and then a wolf when Elias leaves in a jealous fit. It should be noted that this skill has no relation to the American Navajo version and instead is more related to the Nordic-Scandinavian *Ulfhendar*.

### **Singing**

Like Lindel, Chise can imbue her magic through singing. This allows her to do various things, including being able to put Elias Ainsworth and the dragon Paulina to sleep using her songs.

### **Super Strength**

Since she has taken on the Dragon's Curse, she has gained the ability to lift around the weight of two people minimum. She mentions having to struggle to control her strength.

### **Enhanced Senses**

Since she has taken on the Dragon's Curse, she has gained a stronger sense of smell.

### **Immortal Curse**

Scene gaining Joseph's eye she has gained immortality it was was uncertain when her eye turned back to green this was however reveled in the manga by Joseph to be because she was controlling it and he said she couldn't undue it, and it was reveled by the principle the institute she is in fact immortal.

## **Trivia**

* The name **Chise** means "Little star, Current of wisdom" or "Torrent of wisdom".
	+ It can also mean "wisdom" (**chi**) and "generations" or "world" (**se**). That makes her name mean "the wise generation".
* Chise's surname **Hatori** means "wing of a bird".
* Later, it is revealed that Chise is the daughter of Yuuki Hatori and Chika Hatori and the older sister of Fumiki Hatori.
* Chise was bought by Elias for 5 million pounds. Because she sold herself into slavery, she ironically obtains half the money giving her a life savings of 2.5 million pounds which is what she planned on using during the auction of the dragon whelp.
* Chise's "wedding dress" is colored differently in the anime and manga; In the manga, Chise wears a black strap dress with a black neck choker while in the anime, the dress is a white full shoulder dress with a white neck choker and a veil that wasn't in the manga.
* Chise's nickname of "Robin" nickname can refer to her red hair and bird like name. The robin is a bird species with small size and redbreast color.
* In *Official Guidebook: Merkmal*, Chise's height is 155cm (5'1") and weight is 54kg (119lb).
* As far as it is known, Chise is of Japanese descent, Ashen Eye thinks that she also has some European ancestry due to her appearance.
* Chise has a hard time making sleep potions, but can easily put someone to sleep with a lullaby.

## **External Links**

* Chise Hatori at Ancient Magus Bride Wiki