Benzaiten

**Bohdisattva of Music**, *(ミョンー 菩薩, Myon̄ bosatsu)*
**Benzai**, *(ベン ザイ)*

**Benny**, *(ベニー, Benī)*

**Benten**, *(ベンテ ン)*

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**Benzaiten** *(弁財天)* is the younger twin sister of Kōjin, the Daimyo of the Land of Islands. Benny has always been known for being gentle, kind and dainty. Though, despite her caring personality, no child had ever wanted to befriend Benzaiten for the simple fact that for the most part, Benny is blind. This allowed Benzaiten to see from an early age that people can be vicious and the children that were labelled as so-called innocents were as equally vicious as the gossiping women from the village she lived in.

## **Background**

From birth, Benzaiten was separated from her mother and older twin brother. Her father had taken Benzaiten away and the two of them lived peacefully with no direct troubles. Benny's father had been truthful and told her that she did indeed have a mother and a brother, but he would rather she never looked for her mother. Benny's body had always been small and frail since birth on top of being born "blind" so she never had any intention of leaving her fathers side.

While Benny had made multiple attempts at making friends with people of all ages, she had never succeeded. This was all thanks to the human nature and the 'monkey-see-monkey-do' that came with being a parents child. At first, the children didn't care that Benny was blind and some children of the village even quietly left snacks on the bench beside her and ran so that she wouldn't be able to know who did it. However, this eventually stopped. The nature of a woman to stand with other women and gossip was something that hadn't changed no matter the era and Benny was the unfortunate victim of the ladies gossip in their village. Because of this, the gossip had rubbed onto the children of those ladies and even the children who used to bring her snacks had began to disdain Benny.

As an outcast, Benny instead decided to befriend music. She discovered that the small vibrations that she heard when out and about could be amplified with music. These vibrations also helped her understand herself. Although she was blind, her hearing was probably ten times better than an average person.

By the time Benzaiten was twelve years old, she was dubbed 'The Blind bodhisattva of Music' by a traveller that had been resting in the house beside Benny's. He was her first friend. While Benny was able to play five different instruments by the time she was twelve, this man introduced her to more instruments that belonged to other countries and even taught Benny how to read using brail. Benzaiten's father asked this man to be Benny's tutor but he unfortunately turned them down due to his travels. Instead, he promised to bring back two instruments from each place he visited and would return to Benzaiten once every three months.

This lasted for five years and the nickname she was given by the man seemed fitting for the now seventeen year old girl who could play almost any instrument she came across, she memorised over two hundred songs and even created a total of 37 songs herself. While no one in the village gossiped about her anymore, they would also avoid her.

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## **Personality**

Benzaiten had always been portrayed as showing an emotionless face, seeming more secluded from everyone, including the children of her village. After she met a male traveller, she developed a happier demeanour. She is obsessed with music to the point of learning every instrument and song she comes across until she fully masters the instrument and/or song without a hint of giving up. Benny cares very deeply for all things, whether they are humans, animals or nature and it is noted that she is the child her father is most proud of.

As she has spent nearly all of her life in isolation, she is somewhat naïve and lacking in worldly experience as well as being socially awkward. Despite this, she knows about a wide variety of subjects due to her education from the traveller and her father, and she is especially knowledgeable about historical figures. Because Benzaiten in blind, she constantly feels inferior to everyone she has ever come across.

As she got older and began to see through the nature of others, Benzaiten developed a very impulsive and headstrong personality. Her father had been known to describe her as very passionate about everything she does and notes that Benny is a strong believer in "the end justifies the means". Despite being the younger of the twins, Benny is described to be very 'motherly' by nature, perhaps because she never had a mother that she worked harder to take care of the people she cared about. Benny will go as far as to scold people when they are in the wrong and praise them when they are in the right. She is known for being very proud of people close to her and makes them feel warm.

Benny's impulsiveness often makes her act first without fully considering the consequences. But even then, because she is so naïve she sometimes won't grasp just how large those consequences can be. Benny happens to be a huge military fan and appears to be quite knowledgeable on things like guns and just about anything pertaining to military equipment but refuses to stray from her path of music and as such, simply admires the military instead.

Despite all of this, as an adult, Benzaiten seems to have two personalities. The second being something that only slithers out when her dojutsu is at work and for a period of time afterwards. Benny's second personality prefers to be called **Benzai** and Benny belives that Benzai is incapable of distinguishing between love and lust. While Benny is not embarrassed of Benzai, she is embarrassed by Benzai's style and actions. Benzai is also know to be a "healthy" mix of **"Yandere/Tsundere"** but as of yet, has found no one to truly obsess over as Benzai seems to have extremely high standards.

Benzai is often found to carry a pocket mirror and cosmetic and will always be seen taking delicate care of her appearance. Benzai loathes the clothes that Benny is satisfied with and Benzai has a much more provocative nature and loves to show off her body. While Benzai is a master of flirtation and seduction, she hates being chased and desired by others and has never been romantically interested in anyone.

Benzai is arrogant and sarcastic. However, in front of her older brother, it is said that she acts as if she is a baby that needs to be coddled, taking full advantage of her brothers love for her.

Because Benzai rarely comes to the surface, not a lot is known about the rest of her personality.

## **Appearance**

Benzaiten had always been known for her angelic face as a child which only became more defined as she grew, eventually losing it's angelic grace and becoming more of a devilish trap. While the blindfold around her eyes covered most of her face, it's was obvious that underneath lay other-worldly features. Benzaiten's icy-blue eyes sand out the most against her dark skin and deep-blue hair, though not many have a chance to see these eyes because of Benzaiten's Dojutsu.

As a constantly active Dojutsu, the only people known to have seen her eyes are her victims that describe their soul being pierced by sharp swords of icy-blue as well as her family. Due to the nature of her Dojutsu, it won't work against people who have Benzaiten's blood running through their veins.

While she is described as being blind, it is more accurate to say that she can not see like other people. During the day when the sun is out, Benzaiten is completely blind to anything that does not have a heat-signature of freezing temperatures and below. Meanwhile, during the night, Benny can see anything with a heat-signature of any kind. The blackout blindfold helps Benny to keep the heat-signatures away and so, when the blind fold is on, all that remains is pitch black. Benny much prefers to 'see' and hear the vibrations of people and objects rather than heat signatures which is another reason she keeps the blindfold on.

As a child, Benny had long curly hair but after having it forcefully cut by her captors, not a curl remains. There are a lot of rumours regarding Benzaiten, some being that while her skin looks soft and human-like, it actually feels like snake scales. Others say that they have seen Benny with a forked tongue as if she were a snake in disguise. Most of the rumours have not been confirmed nor denied due to the fact that Benzaiten never allows people to become close enough to her.

Benny doesn't wear a range of outfits as she is happy in whatever she wears. Benzai on the other hand has a wide range of flashy and exposing outfits and will sometimes wear more than four outfits within a single day.

## **Trivia**

* Benzaiten was named after the white snake Goddess due to being the hot of a certain snake.