Yuna Hanamura

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* Drawing
* Gacha Life 2
* Berserk

### Allies

Locaster Helios, Ashton Khanh (neutral), Shay Hanamura, Damion Halloreen, Fēng Xu, Hideko Inazuma (neutral), Hikage Ishuko, Veena Lu, Nabi Haluška, Cherry Amana, Windflower Amana, Shizuka Ikami (neutral), Kahori, Lyria Emerith, Shiah Bereng, Colbalt Majmua, Soul Kawasaki, Crimson O'Connel

### Enemies

Crow Watanabe, Caius Astrada, Akuji Hasegawa, Cassian Packard, Shítǐ, Ashton Khanh (formerly), Hideko Inazuma (formerly), Shizuka Ikami (formerly)

## Portrayal

### Voice Claim

Hinatsuru (Anairis Quiñones)

**Yuna Hanamura** is a major supporting character in *Challenge of The Shadows.* She the distant cousin of Locaster and Shay's older sister. She is revealed to be an enhanced herbalist who aids people around her and the group of shard users, including his brother and distant cousin to reunite the Demon Gems. Yuna's main occupation is a herbalist and potion-maker after she adopted the trait from her mother, who was a herbalist that sold herbs during harvest season.

Yuna and her brother were original members of Team Strelitzia, joining soon after assisting Windflower and Cherry Amana from Black Sun ruses after nearly being captured by their forces during the Black Sun's takeover of many small villages and kingdoms. As the main healer of Team Strelitzia, Yuna acts as the healer and a defense fighter, though can switch to being an offense fighter in urgent scenarios.

## History

Yuna was born in Theoso, a southern province in Leiden. Her family worked as crop sellers who often trade with neighboring provinces and kingdoms in order to make ends meet. Despite being at a rather low status, Yuna's family was a bright and easy going family who ensured that she would have a better future and told her to pursue education.

Four years later, her younger brother, Shay, was born. Yuna had begun multitasking with pursuing what she wanted to be and learning how to be a proper sibling in order to have a strong bond with him. When he got older, Yuna started showing affection towards him and the two started to have an unusually good sibling relationship without arguing with one another about pointless things. Due to their strong bond, Yuna and Shay often times worked together without much issues despite some minor bickering they do and some small play-fights they occasionally had.

The both of them were described as hard workers while being the opposite personality wise, as Yuna was a more gentle and carefree child who often worked hard with little interest in adventure, while Shay was an adventurous yet quiet and determined to try anything new that comes his way, but he too also was a hard-worker, being described as a keen intellect for his age.

At the age of twelve, Yuna started to grow an interest in potions and herbs after her mother had treated her brothers wound with a specific kind of ointment that healed his scar after tumbling into a thorny bush. She began learning from her mother at first by studying with the books her mother had and eventually learned more about herbs and potions in school, studying and practicing her herbal skills intensely, while her brother studied about the military due to his infatuation with the military and wanting to be a soldier when he grew up.

Though, at this age, her demon abilities started to develop much earlier than expected due to female demons developing much quicker than male demons. Soon realizing her new abilities and features, Yuna was expected to cover her claws with gloves and her horns with a cape that had a hood attached in order to not get spotted by guards due to the peak of demons being murdered solely because of their species because of the rate of homicides rising in both Leiden and Myria. Even though she was rather peeved by this new rule, she was understanding of her parents motivations to protect her so she could pursue what she longed to be, and not have her life ended so early all because of her species.

Despite this, Shay and Yuna had a fairly good childhood without much problems or difficulty with one another or having strained relationships with either one of their parents, the both of them having high amounts of intelligence with bright minds. Unfortunately, one day Yuna and Shay were allowed to play outside for sometime, but accidentally exceeded the time limit from when they need to go back, and once they had arrived home, their parents were murdered by soldiers of Leiden, specifically the Demon Hunter division that were hunting for demons because of the persecution period they were facing in Leiden.

Yuna was spotted by the guards without her gloves or hood on and the soldiers quickly begun to chase her and her brother, constantly having to use her magic in order to tackle some of the guards down to move farther away from the southern district. Because of the energy required to use larger and larger spells, Yuna eventually got tired and the siblings were surrounded by many of the troops in the Demon Task Force. Before they were about to seize Yuna, Shay had created a loud bird squawk that resulted in the task forces ears bleeding and causing them to retreat.

As a result, Yuna only had partial ear pain momentarily, but unfortunately for her brother, he lost his hearing entirely in order to save her from getting caught by Leiden's guards. Eventually, she discovered that Shay's vocal cords were also damaged heavily and had low chances of speaking: She was, at first, heartbroken that her brother would not be able to hear or speak and blamed herself for not defending herself further, despite the deep appreciation she had for her brother at that time: However, Yuna started to harden herself and attempted to learn things she never initially had done before, such as sign language. Instead of talking to Shay normally, she had adapted into writing her responses to him in a little notebook while studying sign language and teaching it to Shay.

In a span of two years, Shay became more fluent with sign language and was able to read lips to anyone that was talking to him, being able to communicate with his sister while still having to adjust to new accustoms. The squawk had also damaged Shay's vocal cords and restricted his speech, meaning he can only say a couple words at a time without feeling excruciating pain. As Shay started to adjust to sign language, Yuna begun to live her life normally after the both of them had built their shelter, Syuna, which would house and keep them safe for a long time. She would eventually take a potion that would hide her features in order to pass as human, still having her magic and other abilities under the guise of an unassuming individual in the Northern and Southern kingdoms, where she would eventually take the occupation as a herbalist and healer, residing in the Northern and Southern Kingdoms for a brief time.

Eventually, they recruit Windflower and Cherry Amana who were residing in the Northern and Southern kingdoms in a struggle for shelter, taking them in and making them their protégés, training them both in the heart of healing, creating a permanent home for them prior to the Invasion of the Northern and Southern Kingdoms by the Black Sun.

## Appearance

Yuna is a tall woman of Tswana and Japanese descent with a lean, yet delicate stature, being taller than Ashton by one inch and Locaster by six inches. She has wavy, silver hair that extends to her lower back and two different colored eyes, one eye being white and one eye being a light gray tint with two black stars in the center. On top of her head is a flower crown with light blue and white roses held by thin branches that are not visible.

Yuna wears a black cloak that covers most of her body with a light blue and white bodysuit-type shirt and a long, white skirt that covers her legs entirely with a matching belt that has a white flower on it. Underneath, she wears white socks that go up to her thighs and brown geta sandals.

When she reveals her demon abilities, two horns are now present on the sides of her head and black, enlarged claws with purple outlining form on her hands. In this state, her powers enhance to a great extent. Purple markings on her face also appear when entering her Berserk form.

## Personality

Yuna, despite usually staying inside her home of Syuna, is described as a very gentle and carefree woman with a welcoming aura. She has been described as intelligent and educated by her brother and many of the members in the group, being able to gather information in the blink of an eye and is rather descriptive with what she says. According to Shay, Yuna is very protective to those around her, especially her close companions and family, mainly her brother and Locaster, and shows a motherly love to the group. Her maternal instinct is usually proven through her interactions with other characters, such as when she shields Nabi from nearly being attacked by Crow, and overused her magic in order to heal Locaster's wound on his back.

Similar to her younger brother, Yuna is also quite shy and speaks in a relatively soft voice to ease those around her. Being a herbalist, she is mostly hospitable to others, allowing certain people in her hideout to give them advice or to heal them and treated everyone around her like her equals. According to Shay, Yuna had a curious and adventurous personality, often traveling between kingdoms with Shay and tended to explore cities and certain provinces with him, unlike other demons who hid and secluded themselves from kingdoms. It is noted by Shay that Yuna is fond of opportunities, taking any one that is in front of her, seen when she begins working as a herbalist in the Northern and Southern kingdoms to aid in supplies and funds.

Yuna demonstrates to have a fear for scary stories, as she had gotten frightened when Veena explained the legend of Mr. No-Face, opposite from her younger brother, who takes a keen interest in horror stories without flinching. She is often teased for her scared demeanor, but justifies her fear after implying she has intrusive thoughts about sorts of horror stories that she heard when she was a child. According to Shay, Yuna has an odd fear of jack-o-lanterns because of their scary faces that are carved into them or anything she finds remotely frightening, jumping and clinging onto her brother whenever seeing frightening acts. Regardless, Yuna is compassionate. Sympathizing with Hideko after the loss of his mother and having to watch her be murdered, demonstrates this as she gives him comfort and her sympathy.

Yuna has demonstrated to get extremely flattered when shown chivalry by any individual, immediately being charmed at any sort of affection being shown directly to her and seemingly takes a keen interest in mannerisms from those around her. According to Shay, Yuna is a very easily smitten person and is able to get swayed with by just a few words, given by her sensitive nature and being easily flustered by compliments or signs of affection. Though, she is sometimes described as rather quiet and often prefers to work with close friends or simply with her brother because of her having difficulty starting conversations with other people besides those around her.

Being a herbalist, Yuna has an extended knowledge about herbs and potions, and puts all her attention and concentration into them, though is not fanatic about them. She is sometimes described as Shay as being obsessed with them due to her endlessly researching new potions and herbs, causing her to stay inside and somewhat act like a recluse to others. Yuna enjoys researching and often does so alone so no one can distract her, and as noted by Hideko, she is somewhat of an introvert despite interacting with the group when necessary. Along with being a profound healer, she was shown to be skilled enough to remove the drug Akuji had given to Locaster during their time detained in Lyakon.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities:** As a healer, Yuna is both an exceptional combatant and skilled healer, despite being described as having a delicate figure. Taking an interest in potions and herbs when she was younger, she often includes those skills whenever in combat due to her having the incapability of inflicting physical attacks and opts to use her magic and herb skills combined to make up for her inexperience in some forms of combat. She has also exemplified to have great navigational skills, being able to sense the Lyakonian soldiers coming from each direction in order to tell the designated members patrolling the area if they are planning on an ambush. Yuna has proven to be more of a defense and navigator than an offense fighter and is often attributed to when having to heal others.

**Immense Speed & Reflexes:** Like most demons, Yuna has proven to be incredible fast and agile, speeding over to Locaster after his wings were ripped off in order to asist him and dodging the Lyakonian soldier's bullets while being injured. She was also able to evade most of Lilith's attacks from when they were trying to separate both her and Arcana from their soul. She has also proven to have fast reflexes, dodging most of the Lyakonian soldiers attacks and managing to surprise attack them without much difficulty and out-pacing Crow in his steps.

**Immense Strength:** Despite having weak arms, Yuna possesses inhuman-like strength. His is shown when she was able to land on the ground with ease after falling off of Shay's back due to him getting shot. She has also proven her strength when she nearly punches Akuji in the face, leaving a small dent on his cheek after. She was able to nearly take out Crow without difficulty, almost landing a severe hit that could have killed him, but missed.

**Immense Durability:** Despite not being the strongest, Yuna's body has proven to be incredibly durable, withstanding fatal attacks from Cassian after she attempts to shield Shay from getting hurt further and managed to overcome a bullet wound to the leg, still having the ability to run while having a large wound.

**Unlimited Stamina & Endurance:** Yuna possesses an incredibly high level of both stamina and endurance, never getting tired or exhausted when in combat and manages to remain in the same physical and psychological state. She was able to outnumber waves of attacks being launched at her by Crow as if it were nothing. She showed near complete immunity to one of The Dark Entity's many attacks that would have killed her and managed to remain standing for the remainder of the battle.

**Tactical Intellect:** Studying herbology and potions since she was twelve, Yuna displays to have incredible intelligence and coordination skills. He was able to use the information from many books and knowledge from her brother in order to make potions and sometimes explosives to coordinate her attacks against her opponents. Yuna was able to successfully inject a lethal poison into Shítǐ in order to weaken him and was able to correctly guess many of his next attacks when doing so. With her knowledge in herbs, she managed to make a potion that would heal up most of Locaster's wounds after Akuji had ripped his wings off.

**Healing:** Like Hideko, Yuna's blood contains unique properties, where if she feeds someone a portion of her blood, she is able to heal them in an instant. Though, larger wounds tend to require larger quantities in order to heal entirely.

## Magic Abilities

**Umbrakinesis:** Being half shadow demon, Yuna has proven to have powerful umbrakinesis. She is able to control masses of dark magic, seen when she is fighting off the Lyakonian soldiers with large ink vines that were able to destroy multiple trees in the forest. Her dark magic is more advanced than her brothers, seen when she is able to summon the vines from her palms instead of through the ground.

**"Berserk":** Yuna, like Locaster, has a "berserk" form. When she fully awakens her powers, her horns and claws reveal themselves. Her physical abilities increase immensely after she activates her "berserk" form: In this form, she gains ink-like claws, longer horns and markings on her face. She was able to knock down Crow effortlessly when using this form and nearly managed to kill him. She does not use her berserk form as much because of how much energy it requires.

**Demonic Entity:** Though only displayed once, Yuna has the ability to summon a drawn-like demon entity with large horns and white scribbly eyes that was able to drain the energy out of the Lyakonian soldiers. Though, this spell requires extreme concentration and energy. The entity has the capability of making a shockwave energy blast via a large screech it can deliver, but this ability still has yet to be seen in the story.

## Weaknesses

**Overuse:** Yuna is prone to overusing her magic without realizing, especially using larger spells that require large amounts of energy to use. She exhibits more severe symptoms such as coughing up blood or getting dizzy.

**Lychees:** It is revealed that Yuna is allergic to lychee's, often getting hives or nearly suffocating due to their presence. If she is shownn a lychee or comes into contact with one, she will display extreme allergic reactions that, according to Shay, nearly caused her to pass out.

## Relationships

### Shay Hanamura

Being the older sister, Shay and Yuna exhibit a unique sibling relationship. He often protects her, despite Yuna being the older sister. After their parents death, Yuna was his only family and caretaker, having to teach him basic and advanced sign language, while also caring for him and teaching him how to read lips. Yuna is very protective of her brother, getting overly defensive if he is injured or in grave danger.

Yuna is mostly playful around Shay and manages to maintain a strong sister-brother relationship with him. Shay is the same way around her, except he is slightly more protective because of her being the only family he has left: He shows this when he scolds Hideko for lying about Yuna being his wife and with child to lighten their sentence in Lyakon, though he later on found it humorous. Yuna has a strong connection with her brother and does not leave anywhere without him, protecting him at all costs.

### Locaster Helios

Locaster is Yuna's distant cousin, being related to him through his mother's ancestry. As she considers him family, Yuna acts motherly to Locaster and cares about him deeply. She immediately remarks to him that she thought Locaster was familiar, only to find out both were distant cousins. Though a bit shy towards her at first, Locaster eased himself into her soft aura she carries and manages to befriend her without difficulty. Yuna shows an immense amount of affection towards Locaster, often checking up on him during the times he fainted when activating his berserk form and assisting him by giving him herbs to speed up his recovery process.

Locaster and Yuna mutually respect eachother during their first time meeting: Locaster shows his respect by calling her "Ms. Hanamura," because of her older status, but overtime calls her by her first name to show their familiarity with one another.