Yuuma

**Yuuma** is one of Ketsume's Puppets, who has gone rogue and ran from her creator. Previously camping out in the forests surrounding Jikain Village, only ever coming down into the village once every few weeks to attempt trading with the villagers, they now instead reside in a guest room in the Kokanezawa family's house; besides Sho's bedroom. Yuuma is not her real name, and was instead given to her by Chinami.

## The Hermit

### Nickname(s)

The HermitThe Recluse

The Mountain Man

## Professional Status

### Affiliation(s)

Jikain VillageKetsume (Previously)

Jaisper City (Previously)

## Personal Status

### Status

Deceased (As a human)Alive (As a reanimated puppet with Ketsume's Nen Ability)

## Appearance

### As a Puppet (Currently)

Yuuma has the appearance of a young woman of average height, with tanned skin and long messy blonde hair, which is tied into a large ponytail. She has greyish purple eyes which are hollow and lifeless, similarly to all other known puppets.

Yuuma previously wore an old, ragged, greyish brown hooded cloak, with multiple rips all over and a pointed hood. Along with her hooded cloak, she wore a pair of black leather gloves, and underneath her hood was a mask made of steel, held to her face using a simple cloth strap. The top part of the steel mask covered the bottom, and is chipped on it's jagged edge. It is unknown how she saw through the mask. She wore nothing else, but, was usually seen with an iron lantern (most trades she make are for more lantern fuel) to see at night, and a large hiking backpack to carry all of her various items.

Yuuma currently wears a silver dress which exposes practically all of her top back and the majority of her chest, covering her breasts and pointed up to her necklace, which it connects to. Her necklace is a grey metal eye with a dark red pupil. She wears a sort of grey corset with dark grey outlines which covers her stomach, along with two open silver sleeves (separated from her top) that are held shut with thick grey strings. There are grey triangular parts on the top of the sleeves which bare more dark red eyes, along with swirls underneath them. With all this, she wears a silver layered ruffle skirt which goes down to just above her knees, along with black thigh-high socks and dark red pointed dress shoes.

#### As a Human (Previously)

It is unknown what Yuuma looked like when she was a human, however, it can be assumed that she was similar to how she looks now but with slight changes to her physical appearance and probably heavy changes to what she wore.

## Personality

Similarly to Ketsume's maid Calanthe, Yuuma is rather different when compared to the other puppets. While she isn't exactly welcoming, being incredibly defensive and speaking in a cold, emotionless tone, she doesn't outright attack people. While she holds an obsession for eyes like all the other puppets, she controls and rarely acts on her feelings, instead enjoying just looking into people's eyes. In the end, compared to the majority of Ketsume's other puppets, she is much more passive, which likely meant she was often ridiculed by the others at Ketsume's hideout.

Despite running away from him, Yuuma doesn't dislike or hate Ketsume in any way. In fact, she respected him greatly, and held a great amount of loyalty towards him. However, as she found the whole ordeal of taking peoples eyes, and subsequently killing them, usually, to be both unpleasant and rather depressing, she decided to leave, thinking she could do better on her own. While she has stuck to her own morals and no longer takes anyone's eyes, she has grown to be paranoid of other puppets that might be lurking around, although they'd likely have absolutely no idea who she is if she ever did run into another one of Ketsume's puppets.

Yuuma also seems to be suffering from amnesia, as she is incapable of remembering many things about herself, including her real name and how long it's been since she ran away from Ketsume.

## Background

Nothing is known of Yuuma's life as a human. In fact, Yuuma isn't even her real name, and was instead given to her by Chinami. She was most likely a young woman who lived in Jaisper City, and one day met Ketsume, probably at one of his performances during a festival. From there on, he likely befriended her before luring her back to his hideout, where he eventually took her eyes and killed her, disposing of her real body and creating a puppet modelled after her, using her eyes to bring the puppet to life. It is unknown how old she is, both as a puppet and as a human, and whether or not she had any living family before she died.

She lived in Ketsume's hideout at one point, however it is currently unknown what she did for him there, besides helping take eyes for him to make puppets with. At some point, despite her loyalty and respect for Ketsume, she one day decided to run away, coming to find the practice of forcibly taking people's eyes from them disturbing. She has been on the run long enough to have travelled from Jaisper City to Jikain Village, but as she has made many stops on the way, it's still hard to estimate how long she's been travelling by herself for.

## Plot

While in Jikain Village trading one night, Yuuma and Chinami run into each other, the former knocking the latter over. After helping her up and asking if she's okay, an embarrassed and confused Chinami claims she's fine, before hurrying off. While she had never seen Yuuma, then known as The Hermit, before, she had heard about them from others, and so decides to follow them out into the forest back to their camp. Thinking she can catch a glimpse of Yuuma's face at the very least, she instead only ends up getting herself into severe danger. Inevitably however, thanks to the help of Sho, Chinami comes out unscathed, and they both try to talk her into coming back to stay in a guest room at Sho's house. Chinami wanted nothing but for Yuuma to be safe, while Sho's intentions are likely more nefarious (considering he didn't care about Yuuma at all before he knew she was a girl). Despite this, they eventually succeeded, and she now currently resides in a guest room besides Sho's bedroom.

## Equipment

**Lantern:** Yuuma used to carry a lantern made of iron with her everywhere, helping her see better out in the dark. Requiring lantern fuel to run, most of Yuuma's trades were made for lantern fuel.

**Hiking Backpack:** While unknown what exactly was in there, Yuuma used to carry around a large hiking backpack, helping her transport her belongings much easier

## Quotes

> "*I do not have a name. I am no one. Now, I ask again, who are you?*"
> ― Yuuma; asking Sho and Chinami for their names, while refusing to say her own
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## Trivia

* When Yuuma spoke of her "countless brothers and sisters", she was likely referring to Ketsume's other puppets, possibly seeing them all as her siblings, and Ketsume as their father