Yugure Hoshino

**Yugure Hoshino** (星乃夕暮, Hoshino Yugure) is a recent Jujutsu High alumni and grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer. She is close friends and former schoolmates with Aoi Toudou.

## Appearance

Yugure is a tall young woman with wild black hair, styled with a large lock covering one eye with the rest flowing freely down her mid-back. Her eyes are a piercing yellow, which Nobara compares to a perfectly-cooked sunny side up egg. She has a large jagged scar running from her collarbone to hip.

She wears three traditional folklore masks, resembling a kitsune, oni, and a kabuki. The kitsune and kabuki mask are on either sides of her head, with the oni mask on the back. While extravagant, the masks are directly linked to her innate ability, so it is not arranged for aesthetics.

Yugure wears a navy kimono with red flower patterns decorating the bottom hems, fastened with a red sash.

During her student days, she wore the standard uniform along with her masks.

## Personality

To get along with incredibly eccentric individuals such as Toudou, Yugure is a very grounded and down-to-earth person, with an unshakeable character. She is relatively quiet and standoffish, but is more than capable of being outspoken or snappy.

But truthfully, she is a protective and caring friend, and a team player, always looking out for her peers and allies. She showcases this when lending Nobara, a younger sorcerer she was concerned for, one of her masks despite it weakening her overall abilities. The mask’s abilities ended up saving Nobara’s life.

Despite her kindness, Yugure also has a spiteful side that holds deep-seated grudges. She can become incredibly vengeful when riled up, and takes her opinions to the grave. She has quite the stubborn streak and can argue like no one’s business. Surprisingly, she is a competent debater and actually wins most arguments.

When she meets Toudou as a second year, with him as a first year, she immediately hits it off with him after she realized they both shared the same daring attitude. When Toudou demanded her type in women, or men, she gave an infamously ridiculous answer that made Toudou laugh so hard he passed out from asphyxiation. Now, Toudou refuses to recall her answer as it would put him at risk of another bout of uncontrollable wheezing.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Abilities:** Yugure is an incredibly versatile and spirited fighter, who’s skill managed to enroll her as a grade 2 as a first year, and a semi-first grade through the first semester of her second year. By the end of her second year, she had already been approved of her grade 1 ranking.

Her adaptability makes her a well-rounded and balanced sorcerer who can take on many different missions, be it stealth or head-on combat.

But most of all, Yugure excels in quick, assassin-like operations, silently exorcising a curse before they can recognize her presence. She’s infamous for her unique silhouette, the masks on her head a dead giveaway. Less experienced or weaker sorcerers find her shadow an immense relief, further displaying her renowned reliability.

**Master Hand-to-Hand-Combat:** With a natural knack for combat, Yugure incorporates her fluid and sharp fighting style with martial arts, easily confusing and incapacitating curses. She claims all her classmates were better than her, and trained her relentlessly until she was on par with them. She is triple joined in her shoulders, which makes more incredibly flexible dodges and attacks.

**Immense Speed & Reflexes:** Yugure is a gifted runner, which reflects in her combat as well. She is described to be "as swift as a fox", which she finds ironic as one of her masks is a kitsune mask. She uses her speed as her main offensive trait, as she can easily weave between multiple curses and bring them down one by one. Paired with the Kitsune Mask, she can exorcise a curse without it knowing she was even there.

**Indomitable Will:** Perhaps due to her stubborn streak, Yugure has an iron will and an insatiable desire to survive, which made her a perfect fit for a job as dangerous as a Jujutsu Sorcerer. Her sheer will could pull her through the worst of situations, which baffles those around her.

**Immense Endurance:** Yugure is rarely seen tired or visibly strained, and her steadfast presence earned her a respected reputation among sorcerers, especially for her young age. Even after being mortally wounded by Mahito, she continued to fight, and later withdrew to rejoin with the others.

### Innate Technique & Other Techniques

The masks appear to be made of conventional materials, but bleed when slashed or broken into pieces. This is because the masks are directly linked to Yugure’s soul, so any “injuries” the masks sustain will reflect on her body. When her fourth mask was crushed when she was only a child, she sustained a large slash and if not for a sorcerer finding her, she would’ve died.

If a mask is destroyed or broken beyond usage, Yugure can consume cursed energy to restore them. If the destroyed mask has been destroyed for more than a day, she will lose it forever.

She imbues her masks with cursed energy to make them more durable. Even without reinforcements, the masks are relatively tough. Throwing them around will not break them.

## Background

Yugure is an orphan who was adopted by a kind foster family. She is very close to them, and her foster dad ran a traditional mask hustle as a side gig. She often spent her time at the stall admiring the painted masks, until one day she found four masks that weren't there previously. It was the manifestation of her innate technique, but Yugure, oblivious, shrugged it off.

One day, when moving the unsold masks back into her family's garage, a green scaly mask rolled out of the bin and was caught under the garage door as it closed. Yugure was only relatively bothered and was prepared to apologize to her father, only to unexpectedly sustain a massive slash across her body. She was rushed to the hospital, and it was revealed the only reason an eleven year old like her survived such a mortal wound was because her cursed energy subconsciously eased the blow.

A sorcerer scouted her and her foster family was fed a coverup story.

## Trivia

According to the Jujutsu Kaisen fanbook:

* Enrollment method: Scouted
* Notable Hobbies: Painting
* Favourite food: Sour candies
* Least favourite food: Bland-tasting meals
* Cause of stress: Pulling all-nighters

* Her MBTI is ENFJ.