Sayuri Mihara

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***Sayuri Mihara*** (三原 小百合, *Mihara Sayuri*), otherwise known as ***Joseph Bernstein*** (ジョセフ・バーンシュタイン, *Josefu Bānshutain*), is the 36th Pioneer participating within the 10th Cycle of the Pioneer of the Universe Program. Her status is that she is still alive. She bears the title of **"Eyes that Forsook Heaven for the World"**.

A person of average birth yet boundless avarice, Sayuri likes being in control of the situation and craves power, often attempting to manipulate things to her favor and the Pioneer Program gave her the power to do exactly that. The only times where she was shown to lose with grace is when she wanted to lose in the first place, though she is not prone to lashing out when defeated fairly.

Her Stand, We Are One, mirrors her character near-perfectly; a feeble weakling who relies on loyal puppets and mindless drones to do most of the dirty work and leave her safe from harm. However, her nature as a "feeble weakling" is mostly counterweighed by her cunning and perceptive mind.

## General Information

### Pioneer Status

**[TITLE: Eyes that Forsook the Heavens yet Loved the World]**
**[LEVEL: 086]**

**[RANK: Senior Pioneer]**

**[CHOSEN ABILITY: Stand Power]**

**[CHOSEN ITEM: Infinite Space Small Bag]**
### Gensokyo, Touhou Project

To the denizens of this version of Gensokyo, Sayuri exists as Joseph Bernstein; an enigmatic person originating from the Outside World. Nobody knows how she had entered into Gensokyo, with perhaps the exception of Yukari, and the people who know of them simply reasoned that she was spirited away there just like the many Outsiders who find themselves lost within the land of illusions.

After a week of zero contact, Joseph reveals what took their time; a magic experiment that aside from giving them more spirit familiars and spells to work with, had incidentally ended up with her vast change in appearance. Many are suspicious that the experiment had turned her into a fully-fledged magician or that it was premeditated to cause such a result, though there exists no evidence to support them. On the topic of her change, she insists upon being called by the name "Mihara Sayuri" instead of her original name.

She does not have a singular line of work, though she often collect magical components for her friends, Alice Margatroid and Marisa Kirisame. She lives in seclusion within the Forest of Magic although by no means are they hermit-like. Like Marisa, Joseph is a human magician— and a very fast learner at that, one specializing in summoning and enchantment magic with a notable skill in elemental and spiritual magic, although these are not all they have in terms of magic. Last but not least, they also have a rather keen focus and proficiency with weapons.

### Earth, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

To numerous people within this version of Jojo's "original universe" (as the fandom of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* had coined it), Sayuri— otherwise known as **Kain Abel Heinlein**, **Maria Heinlein**, and **Valeria Stracci** to list a few of their fake names used in lieu of their true name within this world— is many things: a friend, a fellow warrior, an aristocrat, and a criminal kingpin.

As Kain Heinlein, they are the heir to (and eventual patriarch of) the House of Heinlein— a British noble house— and a companion to Jonathan Joestar. As Maria Heinlein, they are the (fake) child of Annalise Heinlein, second-oldest member of the Heinlein name, user of Hippocrates, and one of the Stardust Crusaders.

As Valeria Stracci, they are the mysterious Don of the Stracci crime family (named after the mafia family of the same name in *The Godfather*), the user of Magus Skoteinos, and a renowned terror within Stand user circles, ranked either right under or above the marine professor Jotaro Kujo, the user of Star Platinum: The World.

## Appearance

### Pre-CQI

Before their debut as a Pioneer, Sayuri is a slender man, with straight black hair, black irides, average Asian appearance, and a pale skin tone. But after becoming a Pioneer, their hair turns brown and their eyes become blue along with the slight tanning of their skin and they adopted European-like features instead of Asian. They also became a 15-year-old boy as per their request.

### *Challenge Quest Incident*

When impersonating Kain Heinlein, they have shoulder-length blond hair and azure eyes. During their first meeting with Speedwagon prior to the events of *Phantom Blood*, they wear clothing similar to Father Gascoigne of the *Bloodborne* fame. When Jonathan confronts Dio for his poisoning of George Joestar and during the events of *Battle Tendency*, they wore an elegant four-piece suit: a white frock coat, a black waistcoat (with a blue necktie in BT), a white shirt and white trousers. After the confrontation, they changed this for an attire similar to one belonging to Olgierd von Everec from the *The Witcher* series.

During the events of *Stardust Crusaders*, as Maria Heinlein they have waist-length bright orange hair and blue eyes like their previous form. They wear a frilly white dress accessorized with a light brown fashion corset, their head adorned with a brown hood tied by a red ribbon, a red scarf around their neck, two rings of sapphire and jade locking their hair into two tails and a pair of brown leather boots.

And finally as the infamous Don Valeria Stracci they have a hip-length, messy bundle of orange hair. They wear their old frilly white dress yet without the corset covered by her old ornate greyish overcoat with tyrian highlights, a wide-brimmed brown hat (the very same hat they used when meeting with Speedwagon) adorned with four colored feathers, their red scarf, white pants and again a pair of brown leather boots.

### Post-JJBA

After returning to Gensokyo, Sayuri did not bother with changing their full appearance and merely settled for a set of Japanese attire in order to blend in better. She wears a black kimono adorned with white and red floral patterns above a white shirt and white pants.

## Name Etymology

As for their current User Name; her first name, Sayuri (小百合), is a common female Japanese name meaning *"small lily"*. Meanwhile, Mihara (三原) is a Japanese surname that translates to *"three plains"*, and shares the name with the city of the same name in the Hiroshima Prefecture, the city's railway station, the Mihara Castle and even the Mihara Yassa Festival.

The etymology of their previous first name comes from *Ioseph*, the Latinized form of Greek *"Ιωσηφ"* (*Ioseph*), which was derived from the Hebrew name *"יוֹסֵף"* (*Yosef*) meaning *"he will add"*, from the root *יָסַף* (*yasaf*). Within the Old Testament Joseph is the eleventh son of Jacob and the first with his wife Rachel. This name also occurs in the New Testament, belonging to St. Joseph the husband of Mary, and to Joseph of Arimathea.

Bernstein is a surname derived from the German word for amber (from Middle Low German *bernen* "to burn" + *sten* "stone"; it was thought to be created by burning, although it is in fact fossilized pine resin). Although it references Rugal Bernstein, it shares the name with a place named Bernstein, of which there is one example in Austria, one in Alsace, France, and another in Poland. Yet these probably get their German names from the notion of "burnt stone", for example in brick making, rather than from the usual modern meaning of "amber". The name may also be a metonymic occupational name for a craftsman/dealer in amber.

## Quotes

For this is your ancients speaking through words etched onto a mask of stone.

Do you wish for power?
The power to fulfill some of your wishes that will not come true?
The power to protect you, your family, and your friends?
The power to live a youthful life for many years to come?
The power to gain riches for you and your significant others?
Or to exact justice upon those who have wronged you or others?
Maybe the power to be famed, known by many all over the world?
Perhaps the power to be loved by your beloved one for years to come?
Don this mask, for if you want power...
This mask shall grant it for you.

But as always, reality comes by knocking.
Great power comes at a price.
Nothing good comes from something without one.
Are you ready for it, young one?
To shed something of yours to gain more.
This is the purpose behind the Stone Mask's existence.
Are you willing to risk the loss of something belonging to you?
Please think before you don this mask,
For once you wear it, there will be no turning back.

*Main article: Sayuri Mihara/Personality and Relationships*
## Personality

With a cold and rational mind, Sayuri is frequently manipulative with an attitude often carefully tailored to put whatever plan she had crafted into motion.

Some of her most recognizable characteristics would be her great avarice and her lust for power. If given proper reason to, she will answer that power "soothes (her) troubled heart more than anything in the world ever could, save for the reassuring love of (her) parents" and she will do anything she could afford— dropping any semblance of morality to multiply the breadth of options she has— into preserving this state of mental peace. Using tailored truths, deception, seduction, or outright violence, she ruthlessly claws her way to positions of great power and make it as unassailable as she possibly could before concerning herself with others. On the contrary, the mere fact that there existed people far stronger than her disturbed her deeply though she took a measure of solace in another fact that as long as she did not cause anything to grasp their attentions then they would leave her be out of ignorance or disinterest.

Naturally, Sayuri is an incredibly selfish person— only looking over her interests and overlooking those of others at best or trampling over them at worst— and held no illusions of her arrogance, deeming it perfectly natural yet also a mark of shame. Due to her ability to remain composed even under duress, she can and will openly offer herself to any gender or walks-of-life, as long as the person suits her present desires. Due to this same selfishness, Sayuri would admit as much that she could not truly love someone without looking at them as if a pawn to be used and discarded.

When interacting with someone, Sayuri will constantly try to manipulate them and sway them into her side, using a veneer of nicety and affability to make people like her. For instance, she acts the nice and polite "onii-san" towards Flandre Scarlet to endear herself, and she spoke of her unwillingness to bring Gensokyo to harm in order to lower Yukari Yakumo's guard. Perhaps the only person who she failed to charm would be Sanra Shirami, though this was in part intentional.

Sayuri approaches obstacles and problems in a number of ways depending on the situation and her mood. Usually, she was careful and methodical in accomplishing her goals. With her subordinates, Sayuri would take a laissez-faire approach, only sending them to remove problems while she took care of other, far more important issues. However, the known legacies of many people taught her to always be wary of her enemy, thus she would use various tactics to delay and hamper her opponents as much as possible without mercy. Against those she knew little about, she frequently alternate between meticulous approach and reckless offensives.

## Relationships

### Family

* **Sayuri's father**: Although only seen interacting with him once, Sayuri loves her father and wishes to not cause unwanted grief to him.
* **Sayuri's mother**: Despite the lack of appearance, it is shown that Sayuri loved her mother enough that her untimely death had left a painful imprint upon her mind.
* **Diana Channing**: As her sister, Sayuri is fiercely protective of her as she is to her family. Any perceived actions of ill-intent towards Diana will be punished immediately, if it was done even after her warnings.

### Allies

* **Sanra Shirami**: Oftentimes Sayuri sees Sanra merely as a pawn to use, but it is also shown that the vampire does care about the holy-weapon-turned-human, being fiercely protective of her when she is under threat.
* **"Senri Tsurubami"**: Being one of her own "magnum opus", Sayuri cares a lot about Tsurubami, yet she is also confident in the homunculus' abilities and as such often trusts her with odd jobs. Sayuri often tries to improve Tsurubami when the homunculus herself couldn't, as she is one of Sayuri's trump cards and most beloved work.

*Main article: Sayuri Mihara/Abilities and Equipment*
## Vampiric

Becoming a Vampire through the power of the Stone Mask, Sayuri is granted fantastical, esoteric abilities; explained as the expressions of the full, unbound potential of the human body. Like all Vampires, Sayuri is capable of body modification; which she used to copy other vampiric powers she witnessed and come up with her own abilities.

* **Superhuman Strength**: Sayuri can handle getting thrown into walls at breakneck speeds and rise up to her feet with no more lasting effect than slight dizziness, lift up cars with one hand, forcibly walking up on stone walls and smash through them with a single strike.
* **Superhuman Speed**: Sayuri is capable of traveling at a speed beyond what a human could achieve.
* **Superhuman Senses**: Sayuri have inhumanly sensitive senses.
* **Regeneration**: The body is able to live even after having its vital parts amputated. It will regenerate and the body parts can reattach themselves. Sayuri can also control detached body parts. However, she can still die if her brain is damaged sufficiently.
* **Space Ripper Stingy Eyes** ((空裂眼刺驚) スペースリパー・スティンギーアイズ, *(Kūsakume Toge Odoroki) Supēsu Ripā Sutingī Aizu*, lit. "Space Splitting Eyes Spiked Surprise"): Creates two pressurized fluid jets from the eyes. Strong enough to cut cleanly through a stone column.
* **Vaporization Freezing Technique** (気化冷凍法, *Kikareitōhō*): An ability Dio created after learning of the Ripple energy and the great danger it presents to him. By vaporizing the moisture in his body, he can absorb heat from any living being he is in physical contact with and freeze them. This ability can be circumvented by Ripple being channeled through items and fire.
* **Fusion**: An ability that allows a vampire to graft parts of different organisms together. Dio displays this ability by creating animal/human hybrid zombies as his pets and later on grafting his disembodied head on the decapitated body of Jonathan.
* **Flesh Buds** (肉の芽 Niku no Me, *Spores*): Introduced by Dio in Stardust Crusaders, with this ability Dio is able manipulate his hair to create parasites that he can insert into a human's head. The Flesh Bud will pierce through the skull into the part of the brain, making the afflicted compliant to Dio's charisma. The parasite will then gradually eat the inflicted's brain. If someone tries to take out the spore, which can prove fatal if it's not carefully removed, the Flesh Bud will sprout tentacles in an attempt to invade the intruder's brain. If the vampire wants, he can give permission to someone to activate the spore's tentacles anytime he wants if close to it. The spores possess another effect in case Dio himself ever dies; according to Keicho Nijimura, his father who was implanted by the spore underwent a mutation into a greenish animalistic form by having Dio's cells inside his body. Presumably, this is a side effect that the rest of the surviving Stand users that Dio had implanted his spores inside of would suffer from.
* **Nerve Worms** (神経の寄生虫, *Shinkei no Kiseichū*): Inspired by the game *Plague Inc.* and its Neurax Worm, with a little bit of experimenting, Sayuri had transformed Dio's Flesh Buds into her own Nerve Worms. This version is more effective in controlling people's minds at the cost of the inability to kill its host directly on its own, though it can manipulate the host to be aggressively murderous or hopelessly suicidal. Nerve Worms also require some time to grow as it cannot immediately control someone's mind unlike a Flesh Bud.
* **Hypnosis**: This ability was once demonstrated by Dio to hypnotize Poco into luring Jonathan into a trap. This ability is possibly nullified by the Ripple, because of the fact that Poco's consciousness appears to return after being subjected to it.
* **Acidic Discharge Technique** (酸性廃棄法, *Sanseihaikihō*): Based off Baoh's Meltedin Palm Phenomenon (バオー・メルテッディン・パルム・フェノメノン, *Baō Meruteddin Parumu Fenomenon*), this ability allows Sayuri to secrete corrosive gastric acid from their hands, melting through wood and human flesh handily (also capable of melting steel over time). In actuality, Sayuri could feasibly use this ability on anywhere on their body, but they prefer using it with both of their palms.
* **Death Bone Dance** (死骨舞, *Shikotsumai*): An ability copied from Kimimaro, a character from *Naruto*. It is a power that gives its wielders the ability to manipulate their own skeletal structure, changing its properties and growth to their liking.
	+ **Shining Slip Blades** (輝彩滑刀, *Kisai Kattō*, lit. "Gleam Colored Slide Blades"): Based off Kars' **Light Mode** (光の(流法)モード, *"Hikari" no Mōdo*), Sayuri is able to produce bladed appendages from the bones of their arms and legs and use them to reflect blinding light toward their enemies. The light comes from the blades themselves, and it is from the reflections of these that gives Sayuri's bone blades their shining intensity. Sayuri's blades are sharp enough to cut through several objects, including a greatsword and several bullets at blinding speeds.
* **Blazing Hair Arrows** (燃える髪の矢, *Moerukami no Ya*, lit. "Burning Hair Arrow"): Based off Baoh's Shooting Bees-Stingers Phenomenon (バオー・シューティングビースス・スティンガー・フェノメノン, *Baō Shūtingu Bīsusu Sutingā Fenomenon*), it turns Sayuri's hair into needle-like projectiles that burst into flames due to their altered chemical composition upon contact with the targets body heat.
* **Arclight Reactor Technique** (弧光炉法, *Kokōrohō*): Based off Baoh's most powerful ability the Break-Dark-Thunder Phenomenon (バオー・ブレイク・ダーク・サンダー・フェノメノン, *Baō Bureiku Dāku Sandā Fenomenon*), where Sayuri's body produces upwards of eight hundred volts of electrical energy in the same method as an electric eel.

### Weakness

However, all of these abilities are riddled with the problem that her body is incapable of surviving direct exposure to sunlight or any ability utilizing sunlight or UV radiation, at least until she gained the ability to resist sunlight through her enchanted items. Sayuri is also incapable of the levels of body modification that a Pillar Man would.

## Personal

**Intelligence**: Although not a prodigal genius by any stretch, Sayuri is an extremely perceptive person; being able to see through people's veils with impunity. They also display their cunning and imaginative mind multiple times.

As a child and teenager, although they rarely aced in tests, especially in mathematics, they do pass school with flying colors.

Otherwise, Sayuri is a cunning manipulator and a proficient planner even when in combat. When they were stuck with a Challenge Quest forcing them to aid the protagonists of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* while not preventing any Part from being prevented from occurring, they had built a criminal empire spanning over several continents in 9 years flat. In a conflict, Sayuri is particularly foxy and perceptive, their ruthlessness allowing them to exploit cruel and downright inhumane tactics with no qualms; such as leading their enemies into traps, torture their enemies, using chemical weaponry like chlorine trifluoride, use hapless people as makeshift projectiles or cheap sources of energy, or plain old sneak attacks. They have a habit to analyze their opponents and quickly determine a weakness or counter to their strengths.

Naturally ambitious, Sayuri constantly seek to improve themself and meticulously studies their abilities to make the most out of them. As such, they developed Dio's powers as a Vampire alongside new abilities like weaponizing their stomach acid, rearranging the chemistry of their hair to be shot as projectiles, improving upon Dio's Flesh Buds and turning it into their Nerve Worms, develop an electric eels' electrocytes and improve them, and integrated their Stand into their own body to remove a critical weakpoint.

**Agility**: Even before becoming a Pioneer, Sayuri is an agile person, exemplified when they weaved through opponents in soccer and had a decently quick reaction time.

**Knowledge**: Although paltry in comparison to people with hundreds of years of experience behind their backs or to natural prodigies, Sayuri's knowledge is above-average when compared to the ordinary person. This is further reinforced by their hobby of reading books in their spare time and looking into the various researches conducted by the Speedwagon Foundation.

## Equipment

### Ophidia & Draconis

**Ophidia: Crimson Serpent of the Earth** (地球の紅王蛇(オフィッディア), *Chikyū no Kuōja(Ofiddia)*) and **Draconis: The Heavenly Golden Dragon** (天の金龍(ドレーコーニス), *Ten no Kinryū(Dorēkōnisu)*) are a pair of twin longswords acting as Sayuri's primary side armament if Weisshunde is not enough to defeat the enemy. They are a pair of steel and silver swords, mirroring the primary arms of a Witcher/Hexer in *The Witcher*.

On each of their blades are inlaid with the imagery of a red serpent and a golden Eastern dragon. Their hilts are the same, a pommelless cruciform covered in black-colored fabric with lozenge patterns.

Peculiarly, despite Draconis being built with *The Witcher* 's Aerondight as the main source in design, they share little in common beyond their "charge" ability. Ophidia meanwhile, were built off of the Draconis to be its "darker" sister sword. Each of the swords have a different yet symbiotic ability forged into them; Ophidia drains the enemy of their strength to fuel its wielder, while Draconis multiplies in attack power with each successful hit.

#### Abilities

* **Ophidia: Yin Blade**: With each bite of the enemy's flesh, however damaging, Ophidia drank upon their reserves of strength and stamina, empowering Sayuri till they have none left to spare, though by this point the foe would have already been defeated. If she wants to Sayuri may instead drink upon the life essence of her enemies to empower herself and heal her of any injuries she may have suffered over the course of the battle.
	+ This ability coats Ophidia in an ominous purple aura of magic, greatly improving the blade's effectiveness, more than Draconis ever could without its charges. However, Sayuri needs to be wary of enemies with resistance to magic, as Ophidia's Yin Blade is nothing but an exquisitely crafted club (that drains off their strength) to them as if it had suddenly blunted.

* **Draconis: Yang Blade**: With each successful hit, Draconis gradually increases the sharpness, durability and stopping power of its own blade as magical energy accumulated within the confines of its blade. This charge can then be ejected from it in small bursts, or all at once in one stroke or as a devastating ranged attack. Using up the charge once it reaches the sword's limits is necessary lest Sayuri wishes to destroy the sword in a last-ditch move.
	+ Being designed after Aerondight, Draconis shares its silvered blade although it does not give off a sense of true "divinity" nor "nobility". When Yang Blade is activated, a bluish aura coats the blade and improves its general strength, while unlike Ophidia's Yin Blade, Draconis suffer not any setback when attacking magic-resistant enemies; they work as any blade should.

#### Upgrades

**Ophidia**:

* **Steel for Humans**
* **Owner-Exclusive Access**
* **Durability**: A
* **Automatic Reparation**: A
* **Attraction**

**Draconis**:

* **Silver for Monsters**
* **Owner-Exclusive Access**
* **Durability**: A
* **Automatic Reparation**: A
* **Attraction**

### Gae Amhranai

**Gae Amhranai** (Ir: "Gae Amhránaí", Eng: "Singing Spear/Singer's Spear") is a silver spear. Paying homage to the Eldar's Singing Spears, the Amhranai is an enchanted weapon capable of cutting through metal and resist all forms of physical damage, with the more esoteric abilities of being an effective mana foci and the power to return to its owner's grasp whenever beckoned.

### Liber Corcradonn

**Liber Corcradonn** (紫茶の書, *Shicha no Sho* lit. "Purple-Brown Book") is a grimoire used by Sayuri to record the spells she had witnessed and as an aid in casting spells of her own. She also uses it as a "surprise weapon", popping it out of her inventory for a quick cast before hiding it back.

#### Upgrades

* **Magic Foci**
* **Password-Only Access**
	+ **First Password** (Keyboard): Hint: "What is my true nature?" Answer: Correct Grimoire.
	+ **Second Password** (Keyboard): Hint: "Three brothers joined. Three Unicorns in company sailing in the noonday sunne will speak. For 'tis from the light that light will dawn, and then shines forth..." Correct Answer: 20°37'42.0" N 70°52'15.0" W, Eagle's Cross.
	+ **Third Password** (Multiple Answers): Hint: "Of which one doth the existence evanescent?" Answers: Schwalbe, Kranich, Phönix, Ammer, Spatz, Halcyon. Correct Answer: Kranich.
	+ **Fourth Password** (Keyboard): Hint: "Knowledge is Power. Guard it well." Correct Answer: Corvum Sanguinem.
* **Multiple Forms**
	+ Diary

### 10 Rings of the Sephiroth

#### Abilities

* **Kether**:
* **Malchuth**:
* **Chochmah**:
* **Binah**:
* **Hesed**:
* **Gevurah**:
* **Tiphereth**:
* **Nezach**:
* **Hod**:
* **Jesod**:

### Shouenken & Banhouken

**Shouenken** and **Banhouken** (逍燕剣/顢鳳剣, lit: "Loafing Swallow Sword"/"Thoughtless Phoenix Sword" respectively) is a pair of chokutōs sheathed in a twin ornate white lacquered wooden scabbards with a spherical pommel depicting a half-open eye decorated by red plumes. Unlike an ordinary chokutō, these two are actually gunswords; a combination of a one-edged sword and a pistol to be specific. How they could actually work, nobody but Sayuri knows, and she usually regarded the two weapons as more ornamental than practical.

To recognize one sword between the twins there exists a few major differences. The blade of Shouenken is onyx black with the white-colored inscription "酒嚢飯袋な単彩" while Banhouken's was silver grey decorated by an inscription of "天衣無縫の能天気" in emerald green. Aside those, the colour of Shouenken's hilt is as black as its blade meanwhile Banhouken's hilt was brown.

#### Upgrades

**Shouenken**:

* **Infinite Ammunition**

**Banhouken**:

* **Infinite Ammunition**

*Main article: Sayuri Mihara/Spellcards*
## Spell Cards

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List of Spell Cards

### Notes

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*Main article: Sayuri Mihara/History*

*Main article: Sayuri Mihara/Misc*
## Trivia

* Although it had been explicitly stated at the first chapter of A Bizarre Adventure, Sayuri is an author self-insert personality-wise, combined with several traits of the infamous villain **Dio Brando** from *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*.
* I, ChronoEntente, the author of ABAHEW, does not claim ownership of the image used on the Main Page. The image belongs to DeviantArtist LENK64/Miki Hiroyuki, all credits go to her. The link is here.
* Valeria's mafia family's name is directly ripped from the crime family of the same name from *The Godfather*.