Kushinada Amaterasu

**"If you don't want to die...think!"**

**Kushinada-hime Amaterasu** (Japanese: **クシナダヒメ天照大神**, *Kushinadahime tenterudaijin*) was a second year at Fukurōdani Academy, and she was the volleyball team's manager and promoter. As of November 2018, she is staying at her shrine.

## Appearance

### Human Form

Kushinada is a very beautiful fair-skinned girl who seems to simultaneously capturing the hearts and attention of every supernatural creature she comes in contact with mid-thigh length black hair (her black hair came from her human father's side of the family) that has bangs swept to the right, red eyes with a tint of the color desire and rosy cheeks.

Kushinada and Momiji "Amaterasu" (Kushinada's mother) bear similar resemblance except that Momiji has a lighter brown hair color and a lighter brown eye color than Kushinada, but their smiles and eyes are both very similar.

She is normally seen in her school uniform, but also occasionally wears dresses, blouses and pants, kimonos and formal wear. A true "diamond in the rough", her grace, charm, inner and outer beauty draw the eye of demon and human alike when she is dressed exquisitely.

### Kami Form

Amaterasu appears to be a young girl of petite appearance. She has light-colored skin, hair, and eyes with (usually) non-visible pupils. Sometimes her eyes would be shown as red, yellow, blue lace agate or blue chalcedony.

## Personality

As the Highest Goddess, she seems to put the best interests of Heaven above anything else, although she still listens to her fellow Gods and Goddesses. Kushinada has a kind, gentle, understanding and caring heart for those around her, even if they are bad people or Yokai. She often cries when things get too hard or when someone is hurt or in trouble, and it has been noted that her crying has had its effect on humans and Yokai alike, who don't fancy it when she cries or is upset.

Her idealistic belief that humans and yokai can live and love together in peace is a constant source of contention between Kushinada and Veena, who believes such ideas are human-centric and foolish. Partly out of a stubborn drive to change Veena's mind but mostly out of her earnest desire to help others, she orchestrated and continues to support the love affair between Viarrah (a tengu yokai) and Nagisa Urashima (a human boy).

As noted by Veena, although Kushinada appears to be a weak human, her spirit is strong. Because of this spirit, Kushinada tends to land herself in a lot of trouble without even trying. She also tends to have a lot of courage (though she can be a hothead at times), and tends to stand up for herself and others. She also doesn't give up, and is very "stubborn" as shown when she didn't beg Veena to save her, even though she was hanging on for her life up in a tall tree. Even though she is human, she will do whatever she can to help those she cares for and those in need.

## Relationships

**Bishamon**: Bishamon has really been there by Amaterasu since the start. Veena has been there for her ever since she was a baby. Maybe not always there physically, but she's watched her grow up until her parents died. By the time they died Little Amaterasu was already knowing about her powers. Little Tsukuyomi was just around 2-3 years old so he didn't what was happening.

## Plot

Kushinada-hime Amaterasu is the reincarnation of the Queen Kami and the Ruler Of The Highest Heaven, Amaterasu Omikami. Amaterasu decided to restart her life, she wanted to know what it was like to feel human emotions again. After millions of years she lost her will to live, so one of her Sacred Treasures, Tsubaki Tsurugi suggested a "restart." Bishamon, her other Sacred Treasure was completely against with his suggestion. While the last treasure, Miruko Hōseki just wanted Her Excellency to be happy,, so by default she agreed with Tsubaki. Before she was reincarnated, she entrusted Bishamon with taking care of her and the two other Treasures,

## History

### In Japanese Lore

Amaterasu is the supreme Japanese deity, having been created by the divine couple Izanagi and Izanami. She and her siblings were born from Izanagi when he was purifying himself upon entering Yomi, the underworld now ruled by his former wife Izanagi, after breaking the promise not to see dead goddess and being chased by her and her army "Yakusan-no-ikaduchigami". Amaterasu was born when Izanagi washed out his left eye, Tsukuyomi was born from the washing of the right eye, and Susanoo from the washing of the nose.

Izanagi set Amaterasu up as the ruler of the High Plains of Heaven, Tsukuyomi as the ruler of the night and Susanoo as the ruler of the seas. It was written that Amaterasu had painted the landscape with her siblings while she created ancient Japan. Originally, Amaterasu shared the sky with Tsukuyomi, her husband, and brother until he killed the goddess of food out of disgust. This killing upset the highest goddess, causing her to label Tsukuyomi an evil god and split away from him; separating night from day.

Her brother Susanoo insulted Amaterasu, claiming she had no power over the higher realm. When Izanagi ordered him to leave Heaven, he went to bid his sister goodbye, who grew suspicious but accepted Susanno's challenge to prove his sincerity. Each of them took an object belonging to the other and from it, birthed deities. Amaterasu birthed three women from Susanoo's sword while he birthed five men from her necklace. Claiming the gods were hers because they were born of her necklace and the goddesses were his, she won the challenge. His defeat angered him enough to go on a rampage, destroying much of the heavenly and earthly realms and killing one of her attendants. In fury and grief, Amaterasu hid inside the Ama-no-Iwato ("heavenly rock cave"), plunging the earth into darkness and chaos until she was persuaded to leave the cave by eight hundred Kami threw a party outside of the cave. Though Susanoo was punished by being banished from heaven. Both siblings later amended their conflict when Susanoo gave her the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi sword as a reconciliation gift. This causes the sun to become visible again during this event.

## Abilities

* **"Limited" Immortality**: Aside from supernatural means, Amaterasu cannot be killed or even lethally injured by average means that would normally kill a regular human such as poison, explosions, drowning, being bludgeoned to death, shot to death, and so forth.
* **Master Swordswoman:** She won a fight against Tsubaki taking form with Tsukuyomi, who is known for his amazing skills in combat. According to Miyuki and Bishamon, he used to be even much stronger in the past.
	+ **Severance (Zetsu):** Using his Shinki, Yato has the ability to sever the ties of people, be it with other humans, gods, or specific memories in general. It has been implied that she specializes in this ability.
	+ **Rend (Zan):** Using his Shinki, Yato is able to use this ability to exorcise and destroy Ayakashis. This ability is first seen when Yato uses Tomone to destroy the Ayakashi outside Mutsumi's school.
* **Teleportation:** Yato is able to teleport to any location he has an active connection to. If he is currently on the phone with someone, he is able to teleport to the caller's location. This ability is used by Yato in order to get from job to job more quickly. Once he has his own shrine, his shrine's connection to Heaven allows him to teleport there freely.
* **Divine Possession:** Yato is capable of controlling a human body by temporarily substituting/taking over the soul. As possession is performed one could catch sight of two visual notable changes: the possessed person will have little golden crown sitting on his/her head and Yato's eyes.

## Etymology

* Kushinadahime. Goddess of rice, agriculture, marriage, love, childbirth, and child rearing. Susanoo and Kushinadahime, by Yoshitoshi. Other **names**.

* Means "shining over heaven", from Japanese *天 (ama)* meaning "heaven, sky" and *照 (terasu)* meaning "shine". This was the name of the Japanese sun goddess, the ruler of the heavens. She was born when Izanagi washed his left eye after returning from the underworld. At one time the Japanese royal family claimed descent from her.