Yoemon

## 与右衛門 (Yoemon)

**Yoemon** (与 (あずか) 右衛門 (うえもん) , *Yoemon*β), also known as **Teikin Yoemon** (提琴 (ていきん) 与 (あずか) 右衛門 (うえもん) , *Teikin Yoemon*β) due to her constant use of a tiqin, is the half-servant and secretary of Mora.

She is an expert tiqin player and the only non-Einvald hellion able to change dimensions via her **Sarcophagic Technique**. Yoemon, often said to be weak, is a patient of an unknown disease of her NOKORIBI cells. She possesses NOKORIBI Cell Extraphysical Post-Expansion, rendering her almost completely incapable to fight actual battles. Alongside this, she also possesses some of its symptoms, including: nausea, intense pain, and extreme mental and physical weakness.

Yoemon was often referred to as one of the Blind God's undirect and non-biological offspring created from his body and mind, similarly to what some refer to as the "concept of existence" or the universe. However, this is not true, as her family members were all human.

## Appearance

Yoemon takes the appearance of a short, skinny woman with a noted great beauty. Yoemon possesses hellion-bred natural modifications, such as blood-red sclerae and bright pink irises. Yoemon also has shoulder-length, black hair. Her hair falls centrally down on her upper back, partially covering her face with messy straight bangs. Yoemon also always carries around a traditional Chinese tiqin, which is part of her **Sarcophagic Technique**.

Yoemon's tiqin appears black and brown. Originally, the *tiqin* is a two-stringed, Chinese, bowed, string musical instrument in the *huqin* family of instruments. Its neck is made of *suanzhi*. The *zhutiqin'*s sound chamber is made of a very large section of bamboo. Instead of snakeskin, the face is made of a piece of *tong* wood. The back of the sound chamber is made of the natural joint in bamboo, with sound holes cut in it. Overall, her tiqin possesses a dark wooden color, while its strings appear in an unnaturally strange black color.

## Personality

Yoemon is a rather mysterious, yet cold, tiqin player who displayed little emotion. She didn't speak unless necessary and, when she did, she was always straightforward and blunt, making her responses as short as possible. Yoemon shows herself to be genuinely loyal to Mora and obeys his orders with no hesitation or question, though she takes her position more as a normal friendship.

However, deep inside, Yoemon is frail and still mentally weak from her childhood and former life, showing and displaying a way less tough and tomboyish side of her when directly asked to answer about some things related to her childhood and overall previous life. She can also be seen displaying jealousy. This certain jealousy was shown with Schama about Mora liking Schama more than herself, displaying a certain sort of jealousy from thinking that Schama was being treated better than her. However, when Schama answered, Yoemon understood how much she was being spoiled by Mora and about how much he actually cared for her underneath his usually blank, solemn, or aloof façade. Upon being informed with this, Yoemon became way more considerate and kinder to Mora, citing to being grateful for what he did for her all this time and being sorry to not have "met his expectations" by taking his actions and words more seriously. Due to her past life where she was abandoned by her family and left to rot, Yoemon felt great relief and contentedness upon learning that Mora 'actually' cared for her, and was very much grateful for him to not have abandoned her like most things did with her. However, due to her aromatic and asexual behavior, Yoemon still does not really understand her own mind and does not know whether she likes Mora as a lover or as a friend, and is very complexed by that, shown by the mess she caused in her room while rummaging through it for a paper to write on for further explanations about her to herself.

## Synopsis

### Past

Yoemon lived in China in a casual family of humans. However, when she reached three years old, which is the age where all hellions develop their key features, she was abandoned by her family due to "looking inhuman" and being "the incarnation of the Devil" due to her blood-red sclerae and her devil-like features. After being abandoned by her family, Yoemon was reduced to a nomad, living off nothing and travelling from place to place for a possible habitation or place to reside in. However, once, on a rainy day, Yoemon found a tiqin in an alleyway, possibly abandoned here by its owner. The tiqin possessed a dark, almost black, wooden color, while its strings appeared in an unnaturally strange black color. Somehow, she felt a certain similarity with her and this tiqin, who were both abandoned and left to rot in oblivion. Upon finding this tiqin, Yoemon started playing it in public for money, quickly learning and adapting to this brand new instrument. After living for approximately 80 years without aging a year, Yoemon, still fully loveless and a virgin, came to Japan for a chance to be also known there. Upon doing so, she met a strange duo that shared similar traits as her and possessed a story approximately similar to hers. To them, she claimed to have a similar story from their own. After that encounter, the two were brought to YOZUKI, a place Yoemon knew about, where the duo would find a place to reside in and generally live in instead of surviving on the streets. Due to this, it was also shown that there were multiple places wherein oneself could enter YOZUKI.

As cited above, due to her past life where she was abandoned by her family and left to rot, Yoemon felt great relief and contentedness upon learning that Mora actually cared for her, and was very much grateful for him to not have abandoned her like most things did with her. However, due to her aromatic and asexual behavior, Yoemon still does not really understand her own mind and does not know whether she likes Mora as a lover or as a friend, and is very complexed by that, shown by the mess she caused in her room while rummaging through it for a paper to write on for further explanations about her to herself. Owing to her past, Yoemon is also a virgin and has never experienced true or actual love, having never loved any man or woman and having never been in a relationship due to her demonic appearance.

### Current

Currently set as her job, Yoemon still plays the tiqin that she found so many years ago, being under the person of Mora and serving him as a secretary of some sort. She also acts as a dimensional carrier: a person who carries other people, or themselves, into other dimensions with the use of a technique or personal ability for either money or a general gain or prize.

## Abilities

**Natural Hellion Anatomy:** As a naturally-bred hellion, Yoemon possesses an anatomy way more powerful than a normal human's, making her speed, velocity, endurance, stamina, and strength dramatically more powerful than a human's. Due to her being a natural hellion, she also is more powerful than a normal hellion. However, she openly dislikes using her strength or overall physical abilities to her advantage, preferring to play it fair and square and simply use her tiqin. One of the reasons for these boundaries that she set to herself is that her physical or close-range ability to fight is very limited and unrefined due to her hating close combat or fighting on herself.

**Overall Abilities:** Despite not possessing any known fighting proficiency, Yoemon is nonetheless an extremely powerful hellion. She was capable of using her unorthodox Sarcophagic Technique to thwart the efforts of Lakshmi at attacking her by enslaving her in a different dimension. And, as cited above, she possesses NOKORIBI Cell Extraphysical Post-Expansion, rendering her almost completely incapable to fight actual battles.

**Immense Speed & Reflexes:** Yoemon is shown to possess a level of speed comparable to the deities, namely of Lakshmi and Grid, reacting to and successfully evading the former's **Amhara** technique and the latter's attacks.

**Talented Tiqin Player:** Yoemon is an expert at playing the tiqin, garnering attention from others when she performed while she was still a chronological teen and even to this day.

## Fighting Style

### Sarcophagic Technique

**Kogan (**子癌**):** Yoemon's Sarcophagic Technique takes the physical form of a normal-looking tiqin, a Chinese musical stringed instrument. This tiqin has the ability and power to swap certain places and spaces into one another: existential or pocket-dimensional. These dimensional spaces that houses a fortress of immense scale, the YOZUKI. As its owner, Yoemon possesses absolute dominion over the tiqin's powers, being able to manipulate and alter spaces at will by simply strumming the instrument. In the fortress, there are countless rooms with seemingly endless variety, like an open room filled with giant snakes where the fight against Yog-Sothoth took place; a flower garden and maze where the fight against Shub-Niggurath took place; and an impossibly-formed village of variating eras and periods where the fight against Mora took place.

### sinna

**Kogan (**湖岸**):** Via aging, Yoemon attained her sinna. However, due to her NOKORIBI Cell Extraphysical Post-Expansion, her michigai was generally incomplete. Her michigai cladded her shoulders and arm which acted like a flesh armor and bladed over her shoulder blades into long and large whip-like tentacles. The armor packed more punch into her attacks by enveloping more flesh into her tentacles and healed her wounds at a faster rate. Since she was an incomplete sinna, she had no control and fought like a blind berserker.

## Equipment

**Tiqin:** Yoemon is always seen carrying a two-stringed wooden tiqin on her lap. Her tiqin is used as a medium for her **Sarcophagic Technique**, as she is required to strum to instrument to use it. As a hellion, it is possible that her tiqin is fashioned from her bones, similar to other tools and weapons used by few hellions. However, it was later revealed to be an ancient tool that she used to originally play a hundred years or so ago when she still lived in China.

## Quotes

* (To Yozuina Kirikibishini after being asked to send her to Yojin) *Yes, yes, hm. And I hope you break a leg with the fall.*
* (To Schama about Mora) *What? You seem to really like him, honestly. I think you might as well just be in love,* *you know. You're really lucky, honestly. At least Mora likes you. He.. really likes you, doesn't he..? Anyways.. want to go somewhere..?*
* (To Sasaki and Sisika) *You know, outliving a certain being or whether — whether you loved them, liked them, adored them, or even hated them — it's always sad. Whether the reason is apparent or not, the death of a being always saddens another, regardless of whether they were hated or loved. It always comes the same way — around and around.*

## Etymology

* Her given name, **Yoemon** (与 (あずか) 右衛門 (うえもん) , *Yoemon*β), could possibly mean "river, tumbler, trespasser, oceanic language, culture, writing, formal river, literary, gentle," though its true meaning is unknown.
	+ One of the only notable and known people to possess the name of "Yoemon" was *Takemura Yoemon*, a swordsman during the Edo period of Japan. He was also possibly one of Miyamoto Musashi's adopted sons and was one of his students.

## Trivia

* Her favorite animal is the velociraptor.
* Her favorite named animal is the Beast of Exmoor, finding its myths fairly amusing.
* Her favorite color is "darkness."
* Her favorite smell is the smell of lavender mixed with roses, which is the exact smell the Yojin Castle possesses, though fainter and lighter due to the roses being the giant cherry blossom tree instead.
* She renamed her tiqin "子癌 (Kogan)", which means "cancer child (genetic disease)", due to having made a choice to "adopt" it and make it hers, calling herself a cancer to the people both around her and other people.