Hiou Yoruan

**Hiou Yoruan** is an agent of the moon and an emissary to the lunarians, as well as being a prince, though not an heir due to being younger than their siblings. They frequently collaborate with Choko and work together on bizarre projects or research, particularly when such research concerns the Gems, a race they are interested in due to having been born only a millenium before the Gem War.

They receive strange visions in their sleep. Their body is misaligned with their soul due to being experimented on by higher powers, which is the "reason" as to why they're transgender.

## Personality

When dealing with other lunarians, Hiou does not... like to do that. They are a lone operative, seeking to avoid the lunarians' methods which they see as outdated. Additionally, they are not fond of all of their traditions and values. They spend most of their free time working with old technology in a warehouse in a secret location on the outskirts of the lunar capital, where they maintain a lab of sorts. Evidently, their main interest is in engineering. They find it easier to work with earthlings such as Choko, probably because they have similar ideals.

## History

They were born a *loooooong* ass time ago. They observed the Gem War, and may have participated in it at some point, although not enough to really make any kind of impact. Early in their training, they were able to pick up and utilize the null blade that was the lunarians' ceremonial sword, which nobody could activate the powers of due to the youkai intelligence within. They focused exclusively on using this sword, as well as channelling their connection to the Shadow World through psychic powers of sorts, shaping raw emotions of darkness into maneuvers that they blended with their spellstrike and spell combat abilities.

At some point they came into contact with Choko and started talking to her, and due to their similar interests and personalities, they got along and agreed to trade technology and stuff for business purposes. This was how Choko's city became so advanced faster than everyone else.

## Relationships

### Choko

Hiou's colleague. They met a long time ago, and work with each other regularly on anything tech-related. Hiou was the one who allowed Choko to make PM01 in The Magnum Opus. Hiou and Choko have good romantic chemistry, but neither of them ever really seek romance. They're both level-headed, sensible people who can get things done, and they respect each other for that.

### PM01

Despite being their co-creator, Hiou doesn't think much of PM01. PM01 also doesn't think much of them, and so they don't really recognize each other on a personal level.

### Perseus

Hiou thinks she's cool and convenient to talk to. Percy feels the same way that Choko feels about him.

### The Worshiper

The Worshiper thinks Hiou is cute and fairly cool with how they blend arcane and martial techniques together. Hiou thinks the Worshiper is *pretty* and kind of treats her more like Choko's hot mom than anything else.

## Abilities & Skills

They are skilled in stealth and spellcraft, and know some stuff about autohypnosis, talking to others to resolve arguments, decieve others and intimidate them into a course of action. They know a little bit about first aid. Physically, they are quite nimble and strong, and can climb, maneuvers through tricky situations and do stuff like swimming and flying with great skill. They are knowledgeable in the disciplines of arcana, engineering, martial lore and high nobility, and their long life gives them an advantage in terms of recalling historic events. In terms of raw abilities, their strength and intelligence are their strongest attributes, followed by their wisdom, their dexterity and constitution which are matched, and finally their charisma.

Hiou has innate shadow magic which forms part of their soul and makes up a portion of their physical form. This gives him all of the same powers afforded to Suji for her link to shadow, including turning invisible and creating mirror images in darkness, regenerating wounds in darkness, seeing in darkness, teleporting in darkness, general ability increases in darkness, and so on and so forth. Additionally, he has all of the powers of a lunarian, which is... for the most part, identical to a human, except that as long as he maintains his purity and rejects the cycle of life and death, he is "immortal" and free from aging and disease. As well, his arcane powers strengthen and dim in accordance with the moon reflecting light on the Earth, gaining increased abilities during a full moon and diminished abilities during a new moon.

As a Harbinger//Magus, he channels dark emotions to initiate maneuvers. This darkness enables them to perform great feats of violence, claim the spirits of others with a malevolent curse, decieve divination magic used to detect the magical aura of their belongings, and move *incredibly* fast, apparently more or less "arriving" anywhere than actually moving towards it. They also gain supernatural flight and swimming, relating to the idea that there are oceans on the moon. Their favored disciplines are Cursed Razor and Scarlet Throne, but they are known to use Riven Hourglass and Veiled Moon maneuvers as well. They can channel magic through their null blade, and fight with spells and swords at the same time. They cast arcane spells in a similar manner to a wizard, but with only the strength of a spiritualist, psychic warrior or bard, so they do not have access to the highest forms of the art. They are skilled in the art of iaijutsu, and focus on using their katana to perform deadly critical strikes in the blink of an eye.

### Equipment

As a lunarian prince, Hiou has access to some high end equipment. Their cloak functions as a robe of stars, their crown allows them to speak to others regardless of language and detect evil and their jewellery gives them minor emergency teleportation abilities and weak regenerative powers. Under the first layer of their clothes, they wear an incredibly fine chain shirt imbued with the power of the heavens. Their most prized possession, however, is their null blade, which was created from a katana. It is an older model compared to the one forged for Choko in The Magnum Opus, but it has all of the same powers, including disrupting technology and magic and being effective against constructs. As a black blade, it carries a youkai intelligence within that seeks to subjugate the gem race, as well as some other mysterious motives. The blade whispers to Hiou in their sleep. They are incredibly skilled with using this blade and all of its powers, so much so that their fighting capacity is diminished when using other weapons as their muscle memory would cause them to activate abilities that other weapons don't have.

## Trivia

* Their pre-scratch counterpart is Tsukiko and Hiou Yoruan.     Pre-scratch Hiou was never very fleshed out, but they were essentially a lunarian shade who did 'hacker-y' stuff in a small, dark apartment of sorts. They were likely still friends with Choko. Pre-scratch Tsukiko was the agender princet of the moon. They had the power to manipulate dreams, the materials of the moon, and the aether itself, and were in possession of a Stand and the Space Stone, because again, my old lore just made no fucking sense whatsoever. To get post-scratch Hiou, essentially what happened was that the soul of pre-scratch Hiou was placed into the body of pre-scratch Tsukiko. Thus, post-scratch Hiou is transgender because their feminine body doesn't align with their masculine soul, because of this strange soul phenomenon.
* Tsukiko used to be friends with someone named Inazumako, who possessed... Stormbreaker... and the powers of the god of thunder...?
* Tsukiko would continuously be mistaken as female by a particular individual, and this carried over into their post-scratch self having a female body.
	+ Pretty sure this particular individual was also trying to ship their OC with them, or something...
* Their wings, which are a result of their royal and moderately divine bloodline, are decayed and non-functional, but they flap anyways when Hiou flies via Grim News;Dark Wings.
* Given that they are explicitly into Choko and The Worshiper, it seems fairly likely that they are straight.
* They speak Japanese, Abyssal and Celestial as a result of their education. They also learned Quori through Choko and Terran through studying the Gems' language.