Yagyuu Towako

**Towako** Yagyuu (やぎゅ **うとわこ**) is the protagonist of Onmyo Knight Towako.

A rogue but noble Onmyoji Knight, who is able to fight demons and criminal Onmyouji with her powerful Dog Spirirt **Vanargand**.

## Personality

Towako while working as an Onmyouji, is **rude**, **aggressive** and talks in a **very informal** way fitting the trope of a "**Yankee Girl**".

She is able to control herself, but will be relentless and brutal if need to be. While not working as an Onmyoji or when in the presence of her butler Shiki Reika, she tries to **act** really **polite** and **lady-like** but tends to slip up, sometimes reverting to her rude ways if annoyed. She is loved by her neighbors, that wish to protect her as they only know her soft side. Towako is able to play around, but is also driven to find the murderer of her former mentor.

Towako is actually very intelligent and has overwhelming strength, but because of her direct approach and arrogance, runs into trouble when she tries to do things alone.

### Relationships

 Kondo | Towako had a good though odd releationship with Kondo, he would call her Tow-wy and she would call him Issy. Using his information network to find out multiple thinks, Kondo has a debt to her parents he can never lift. Kondo wants to go on a date with Towako, after being taken over by Yuyami, he acts cowardly and will not inform anybody about Towako's capture and location. While Towako needs to use her charm on him to even send a message out. Though he has proven not to be the most reliable, he isn't malevolent just simple minded.

## Appearance

She has long blond hair and cyan eyes.

While on the job she wears a black miniskirt, black west, white shirt and thigh-high socks

## History

Towako is a Human and became an Onmyoji at the age of 13. At the age of 14. She became the youngest Onmyoji Knight ever with the Inugami (Dog God) Vanalgand as her Shikigami Spirit, and was called a girl genius.

Trained by her sensior Yuko Sakura, in the Onmyo Agency, to be the very best. Her Onmyoji parents owned a private library called "Shinmachi Paperback, Private Library", which has a huge collection of old books and scrolls from across the world collected. Her grandfather was Abe Yumei the most powerful Onmyoji and one of the leaders in the Agency.

One day her parents died in a terror attack, unknown to Towako at the time, the criminal Yuyami was responsible for the explosion of the plane that killed her parents. Towako became bitter towards her grandfather Abe Yumei, which had distant himself as a result, fearing his powers had not been enough to save Towako's parents. Towako came more and more into conflict with the agency and was suspended, though she made many friends in the agency that still support her, like Rodrico Nakatomi. At present, she works as a freelance Onmyoji Knight, while also taking care of her normal academic needs. After school, she works as a librarian at her parents "Shinmachi Paperback, Private Library", together with her servant/guardian Shiki Reika. Towako is a former scoundrel girl who had a troubled adolescence and comes across as very brutal at times, something that Reika tries to train out of her, so she can become a normal lady. She is famous among her neighbors as a beautiful female student librarian, and only people of the criminal world know of her more rough and rude side.

At the beginning of Onmyo Knight Towako which plays a few years after the death of her parents, Towako hunts down Yuyami for the first time. Yuyami had captured and possibly killed her mentor Yuko Sakura, as the Onmyo Agency was unable to save Sakura with their agents dying. Towako made her way alone to the abandoned church of that Yuyami was using as a small base. Killing some minor demons, which also had to be summoned by Yuyami as well. All this was a plan to lure in Towako, as she was part of Abe clan, which held a secret unknown to even Towako. Yuyami and Towako fought however, unlike Yuyami planned Towako was much stronger even alone, and forced her to flee.

Towako waited for the rest of the Agency Onmyoji, which like a police force sealed up and investigated the area further. Learning from Rodrico Nakatomi and Abe Koso, about Yuyami's criminal group and the huge number of skinned bodies in the church's basement, Towako feels pushed further to investigate on her own.

Afterward, Towako sought out information from the pushover mafia boss Isamu Kondo, for additional help. Kondo was a friend of her family and in their dept, making pushing Kondo not really needed, even if Kondo sneaked in a possible date with Towako as a reward. Towako stopped herself from beating up Kondo also thinking about Shiki Reika, which would have gotten angry with her for such violence. Returning home, to Reika, and being polite to the often visiting Mikio Ooe. Towako learned not much afterward from Abe Koso, an adopted son of her grandfather, about Byron a man connected to Yuyami's group and slave trader.

Towako followed Bryon through town, and got even slightly molested by strangers but remained as she thought unnoticed for the most part. However, reaching the Tower of Pleasure, she saw Abe Koso and more, surprising Yuko Sakura. Blowing her cover, trying to convince Sakura to return, it turned out that Yuyami had killed Sakura and used her skin as a disguise at this point. Towako unknowingly ran into a trap by Koso that worked with Yuyami and was captured, losing against the combined force of both of them.

Koso suggested killing Towako, but Yuyami wished to corrupt her and use her as a weapon against her own grandfather. Put through training, by the Incubus brothers Byron, Meynard and Ian. Towako is able to remain sane even with an Incubus curse draining her mind and torture in the tentacle room. Able to send out a message with the help of Kondo, which would help to save her friend Reika. Reika herself had trouble with another Incubus of the group, Shuten Douji, that had been disguised as Mikio Ooe the whole time. Thanks to the help of the Onmyo Agency agent Rodrico Nakatomi, the curse on Reika was lifted, and she was able to act again. Shuten was captured and used to find the Tower of Pleasure and get to Towako. The group of Incubus were killed, and both women escaped their fate Towako's curse was broken by Rodrico just like he did for Reika.

However, before they were able to leave the dangerous streets in front of the Tower of Pleasure, they were stopped by both Abe Koso and Yuyami. Towako once more fought against Yuyami, while Reika took care and killed Koso. Yuyami's body was destroyed in their battle but because she had sold her own soul to her Shikigami Spirit, she had become a monster and revived herself on the spot. Towako's grandfather, Abe Yumei arrived and because of his power, is able to force Yuyami to flee for the time. Explaining that the family Towako is part of, is meant to protect a seal holding down the White-faced, Golden-furred, Nine-tailed Fox. A creature of unknown origin, sealed now under the Onmyo Agency branch HQ by the life force of Yumei and hopefully one day Towako, his successor. Yuyami, or more so her Shikigami Jormungand, was a servant of the fox. Which wished to kill the family line to break the seal.

Afterward, Towako worked once more in her Private Library but unlike before, her grandfather would visit her more often as their relationship started to improve.

### Timeline TABA

While her servant Shiki Reika appears in normal story events also as an old friend of Fuuma Tokiko. Towako appears only in her own "What If" events, in which she is captured by Fuuma Kotaro. Given some of the statements within the "What If", which confirm that Towako is still suspended and on bad terms with her grandfather, TABA's events could play out before Onmyo Knight Towako or after.

Towako indirectly also appears during an event, where the UFS and Japan have a Halloween party, that both Towako and Shiki Reika attend. Fuuma Tokiko appears and asked Reika for help, as the UFS had attacked multiple Fuuma Organization bases, and she needs help to rescue her master Fuuma Kotaro. Towako is only mentioned, as a woman that Reika serves and is asked off-screen by Reika if she can leave the party to help Tokiko, which she agrees to.

### Timeline RPGX

Towako's status in this game is unknown, but does probably exist. Both Bryon and her grandfather appear artwork wise but seem to be different people or in the case of her grandfather an illusion or husk.

Onmyoji have become more of a focus in recent events. Including Gogyo Academy a training school for Onmyoji but Towako herself has yet to appear. Shiki Reika does appear as a teacher and agent of Gogyo Academy, and it is still mentioned that she serves the Yagyuu family as a butler.

## Powers/Abilities

**Main Weapon**: Summon Paper and P100 submachine gun

* **Familiar**: Vanargand (Vanargandr), is her to summon the Inugami (Dog God).
	+ **Equal Power:** One of Vanargand's abilities it that it gives the user extreme physical power equal to himself, unlike other Onmyoji, Towako can physically fight spirits, with physical power.
	+ **Emotional Fueled**: The abilities of her and Vanargand are proportional to her will power or rage she feels.
	+ **Beast Mode**: An alternative form of her Familiar powering it up a lot, able to hit enemies with a certain kill move and control spiritual power to a degree.
* **Basic element magic:** She can create light and strong long distance attacks.

## Media

* Onmyo Knight Towako
* Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena

## Trivia

* Her hobby is stated to be headshots.
* In terms of strength, she would be able to keep up with most Taimanin.
* The school she goes to is unnamed and the design has not appeared since.
* Had fewer cameos than Shiki Reika.
* Called Towako Kiryu in Taimanin Collection Battle Arena but it is unclear how it can translate to Kiryu.
* Her height can be seen in one of CGs, on a note next to her head, showing 168cm. Though, the note also includes the measurements the quality is sadly to low to make it out.

## Gallery

Concept Art 1Concept Art 2Concept Art 3With Curse MarkConcept ArtTABA