Hanabi Kochiya

## Hanabi

*"I don't care if I become a goddess or not. But if you say you want a fight with magic, you'd better be."*

*"I see. Then, maybe you should watch and consider the power of a living god or wizards...The divine power to cause miracles!"*

- Hanabi Kochiya

## Occupation

Hanabi occupation as a Wind Priestess means to be the priest to worship the god of wind. However, while causing miracles of wind and rain to come about through a secret technique with many secrets, since she herself is treated to the same level as gods, and has become one who gathers faith, she is also a living god. Furthermore, since Hanabi is a deity while at the same time being a "human", even if she loses all her faith, she can continue to live as a human.

## Appearance

Hanabi wears a blue and white outfit similar to a shrine maiden's, with the blue areas covered in light blue polka dots and stripes. She has long light green hair, and yellow eyes. In *Mountain of Faith*, she wears a snake-shaped hair accessory wrapped around her hair on one side, and a blue headband with a frog's head on it, she has instead worn a hair clip shaped like a frog's head. She carries a gohei with straight paper decorations as opposed to the typical gohei. In *Ten Desires* her hair color is slightly paler, and she wears a shorter skirt with maroon-colored boots instead of aquamarine-colored shoes as she is an attractive beautiful girl and has a voluptuous body.

## Personality

She is confident and a laid-back personality as she is shown to be very humble, polite, gentle, energetic and dutiful woman, sometimes too much so, and tends to get carried away easily or have trouble thinking for herself. She is sometimes energetic and athletic girl, she’s not one for subtlety in her thinking, only able to think in a straightforward manner.

She also appears to be something of a geek, making references to popular culture and having knowledge of advanced scientific concepts. As someone who grew up in the Outside World, much of Japan seems strange and novel to her; as she also may have somewhat of a complex about herself as an incident resolver, thinking foes won't take her as seriously.

## Backstory

Hanabi is a immortal human, but is also a distant descendant of the god of the wind. Her role at the Shimo Shrine is similar to a shrine maiden, but with her inherited power she has also become a minor deity herself. Originally from the Outside Human World, Hanabi migrated to Japan with the shrine and its two resident with her magic parents, her father was an american magician and her mother was a shrine maiden for the god of wind in the shrine called the Shimo Shrine in Shimo-Suwa at Japan.

As a result, she is rather knowledgeable about the outside world and modern living, although her attempts to explain scientific concepts usually just confuse the locals. Her knowledge on things like the youkai of Japan, on the other hand, seems a bit lacking for a shrine maiden during her child year and so her mother enrolled her to the magic realm academy that she heard about so she can approve her magic, maiden, and her miracle powers.

Hanabi childhood was shaped by the many powerful figures in her life. She swept the floors of the Shimo shrine for her mother, and learned about her connection to the fox spirit. Her father was a famous magician, and her mother was their swordmaster and a shrine maiden for the gods of wind. As such, Hanabi trained in the magic realm academy, whom her maiden teacher also instructed.

Hanabi was treated with great welcoming, with her childhood friend name **Aristo** and **Kristos** being especially fond with each other since they met during elemental school the magic realm. They shared a love of mischief, filching sweets from the kitchen and pulling pranks on anyone too stuffy to appreciate their humor but mostly towards Aristo the most as Hanabi grew love feelings towards since middle school in the magic school and hope one day Aristo can be the love of her life like Taylor and Brady.

## Etymology

* Her full name is Hanabi Kochiya (花火 東風谷)

* Hanabi (花火) is the Japanese name for fireworks. Fireworks were originally used to ward off evil spirits and have now become an important part of Japanese summer festivals.
	+ Her last name *Kochiya* (東風谷) "eastern wind valley". "east" (東) , and the same "wind" (風) in the title of *Mountain of Faith* (風神録).

## Capabilities

The Wind Priestess of the Moriya Shrine and a distant descendant of Suwako, Hanabi Kochiya is a demigod with power to cause miracles to occur. In battle she summons avatars of her goddesses to assist her, and utilizes wind, water, omikuji, and miracles to combat her foes. Hanabi is quite intelligent and is very knowledgeable about physics and science (such as cold fusion).

She is capable of invoking miracles through her godly heritage, and many of her spell cards are themed after miracles of various religions or odd events. It's mainly the manipulation of weather, and also seems to use it in prayers for rain. The "miracles" that she can invoke are not related to good or bad fortune – they are merely events that have a very low chance of occurring. Before invoking a miracle, she needs time to prepare it proportional to how unlikely the miracle is. Simple ones can be invoked with a single word, while the most complex can take days.

Before invoking a miracle, she needs time to prepare it proportional to how unlikely the miracle is. Simple ones can be invoked with a single word, while the most complex can take days. Ability to cause miracles due to her godly heritage, she is capable of invoking miracles to make events that have a very low chance of occurring happen, such as sudden, miraculous rainfalls in response to prayers for rain. She uses this power to control the weather and invoke winds and rain. While simple miracles can be invoked with a single word, more complex and unlikely miracles need days of preparation.

## Skill/Spell Cards

#### **Skill Cards:**

* **Cobalt Spread** - She can throws a cluster of charms that bury underground and explode.

* **Omikuji Bomb** - She can throw explosive omikuji at her opponent, which deal varying damage depending on their fortune.

* **Sky Serpent** - She can throws a charm, which transforms into a white snake that weaves its way towards her opponent.

* **Star Falling** - Little stars come into existence above her head, and then fly towards her opponent.

* **Wave Calling** - She can creates waves of rushing water that sweep forwards.

* **Wind Calling** - She can calls down a divine wind, forming a tornado.

#### **Spell Cards:**

* **Esoterica "Forgotten Ritual"** - She can creates a large star-shaped seal that protects her while attacking her opponent.

* **Esoterica "Gray Thaumaturgy"** - Projecting the shape of a star, she attacks her opponent with light from each point.

* **Esoterica "Nine Syllable Stabs"** - She can slashes the air with her gohei, causing nine boundaries to appear all across her surroundings, each separated from each other by damaging lasers.

* **Miracle "Daytime Guest Stars"** - She can materializes a small star above her opponent's head that fires a sprinkling of stardust danmaku at them.

* **Miracle "Night With Overly-Bright Guest Stars"** - She can create a star-shaped seal that floats up into the sky and bathes the area above her with a burning, white hot light.

* **Omikuji "Random Omikuji Barrage"** - She can randomly flings omikuji at her opponent, dealing a differing amount of damage each time. As she doesn't know what's in the omikuji, she might end up hurting herself.

* **Prayer "Charm of Good Commerce"** - She can fires a large amount of ofuda at her opponent.

* **Sea Opening "The Day the Sea Split"** - She can summons a torrent of undulating waves that spread out from her position.

* **Sea Opening "Moses's Miracle"** - She can disappears, and then reappears in the air and strikes her opponent from above, causing water to flood out from the ground around them.

## Possession

**Gohei:** Hanabi carries a gohei, also known as a purification rod, with her on incidents. She mainly used it to perform incantations and act as a bludgeoning weapon.

## Powers

**Spirit Magic:** She is able to use spirit magic, that revolves around channeling, summoning or using the power of spirits to achieve their goals. She can summon spirits, use spiritual weapons, or channel a spirit into her body to gain physical enhancements or gain completely new abilities; example: channeling a fire spirit gives Hanabi Fire Manipulation.

**Miracle:** Hanabi has the ability to induce and manipulate miracles; an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs. Miracles are considered to be a divinely natural phenomenon with an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment which she has under her command. She can control how they'll turn out, depending how powerful the miracles can be, etc.

**Probability:** She can cause miracles to occur, though this is limited to a certain set of unlikely events and she needs time to prepare more significant miracles proportional to their likelihood of happening.

**Power Modification:** Her Spell card are capable of changing the traits of any attack or ability by naming it, being able to turn ordinarily lethal attacks into nonlethal ones, or severely restricting the potency of an ability by 'modifying' it.

**Weather Control:** It allows her to fully control the weather, not just manipulating existing phenomena, but also creating new out of nothing. For example, you can create a powerful lightning falling from a completely clear sky (not even need to create a thundercloud).

**Aura/Space-Time Manipulation:** Her spell card are shown to possess magic circles, which have the properties of slowing anything within their radius down to a near stop. Via the ability to name her spell cards, Hanabi spell card are able to distinguish things within space and time.

**Holy Manipulation:** As a shrine maiden, she can perform exorcisms and blessings.

**Hope Ray:** She is able to project beams of divine energy of variable size and range, capable of destroying large structures or areas and greatly damaging anyone caught in the blast range. She can fire a beam of pure hope into an entity's vessel at the speed of sound, emotionally influencing them to be optimistic and suppress all forms of negative feeling temporary. The rays from this beam are slightly warm, so prolonged exposure may cause first degree burning.

**Hypo Blast:** Hanabi is capable of casting a miniature blaster through her hand, firing a beam that will evaporate anything it touches. While this seems powerful, the first layer may be extremely minute, as ordinary human skin is composed of three layers.

## Friendship

**Astrea Kendra -** Hanabi appears to have a friendly relationship with the goddess of magic herself as she has been seen visiting her home on numerous occasions. She truly respects the mighty goddess of magic and spells; Astrea sometimes gives her great advice and tips from her so she can learn more things about her divine and miracle magic powers and Astrea sometimes gives her great advice.

**Aristo Kendra -** Hanabi frequently meets Aristo on her visits to the Shimo Shrine, and they seem reasonably friendly when they were young during that time, after they both sometimes being clumsy sometimes and she sometimes loves to enjoy his weird breakdance moves and his amazing DJ magic and music mix around her when they were kids when they first met each other during the magic school elementary ever since she been to train her shrine maiden magic powers. Hanabi cares for Aristo well-being as she was concerned for him when she stated he had bags under his eyes and seemed tired (she said this half-jokingly as a playback to the day before when Aristo said the same thing to her). They share a friendly and playful relationship, and both display that sort of upperclassman/underclassman relationship in a playful manner. After Aristo saved the Shimo shrine from an evil magic entity demon and yokai's that attacked her family and herself as Aristo saved, Hanabi became grateful of him and throughout their time together alone, she seems to have gained 'twisted' romantic feelings for him since they were kids in the magic playground. Hanabi teases Aristo by doing perverted things to seduce him and showing her masochistic side in his presence. In the light novel, it is shown that she had started to develop true feelings for Aristo since they are both same age together and immortal as well ever since they met each other during the magic elementary school together and while Aristo brother Kristos was in magical kindergarten school of their enrollment.

**Kristos Kendra** - She truly likes of Aristo little brother name Kristos, she sometimes likes to give him snacks, and care for him for Aristo little alien hip-hop brother. She likes how Kristos being a hip-hop DJ wizard powers that his raised adopted mother trained him to be a powerful wizard like his mother, Hanabi always be his motivator for him and cheers for him whatever he is down she always cheers him for him and gives him all her support, she even told Kristos that she is also fall in love with his older brother Aristo and she told him to keep it a secret to him and Kristos keep that promise to her.

**Slippy Noko** - She met Slippy for the first time in the sand dunes and they both have something in common, they both like to give luck and miracle to people. Slippy sometimes gives her tip and advice and train her miracle magic powers when she does her miracle magic when someone makes a wish in her own shrine, both of them are very great friends together.

## Trivia

* Hanabi is sometimes a geek when it comes to science and the cosmic itself and she wants to learn more about the outer space.

* She has the power of miracle and the elements.

* Hanabi snake accessory is portrayed as a living creature, sometimes changing its expression with her emotions.

* She is a deity shrine maiden, meaning Hanabi is a deity for the gods of wind for her mother's family generation.

* Hanabi hobby is she likes to read, listen to 80's and 90's music, music mixing, watching the stars and stargazing, magic shows, and watch the river and nature itself.

* Hanabi seems to have a relatively low alcohol tolerance compared to other characters. In one of the endings of the novel, manga and animated series, she gets extremely nervous when informed of the constant drinking parties the tengu will hold, with the narrator commenting she'll just have to put up with it, and in another novel and manga chapter, she's constantly distressed about being made to drink.

* Her sigil resembles the Star of David from Judaism.