Uzoi

**Uzoi** (ウゾイ *Uzoi*) is a harpy that travels with Haitora to find a cure for Haitora's chronic disease. While Uzoi starts off on bad terms with Somali, they eventually become good friends, traveling together until they part ways to continue their respective journeys.

## Appearance

Uzoi has tan skin, medium length, cyan-colored hair with white ends, and avian features such as white feathering around her large green eyes, and on the sides of her head, arms, and the lower back. Her pupils are white. Uzoi also has white feathering around her thighs, giving the expression of bird like legs, matching her tridactyl feet.

**Clothing**

Her clothing consists of a beige, sleeveless top with a high collar, a broad piece of fabric around the neck that vaguely resembles feathers. The top has an open back, and extents into a longer top with another piece of dark blue fabric tied around the waist with a blue bow in the front. She also wears a sark blue skirt-like piece of clothing with a light blue stripe in the middle that feathers out around her thighs.

## Personality

At first glance, Uzoi seems rather cold, easily irritable and argumentative. She is not afraid to voice her opinion, calling Somali annoying on multiple occasions and mentioning her lack of manners or consideration for others.

Deep down, Uzoi is a kindhearted and sensible soul that takes care of her surroundings, and that would do anything for the people she loves. She is easy to cry, which often leads Somali to tease her and call her a crybaby. That is followed by Uzoi lashing out on her similar to a sister.

## Story Overview

Uzoi asks for some corn ice cream as she reads a book in Winecup Village. She then proceeds to verbally fight with Somali over the last scoop left. With Haitora's intervention, she sits down at a table before first introducing herself and then Haitora. She curiously asks why Golem is searching for humans, before suggesting to Somali that she come with them across the desert.

By evening she is in a room with Haitora and reveals her motivation also came down to Somali having a similar smell as Haitora.

With sandstorms arising as they travel, Uzoi grabs ahold of her to stop her falling out. Identifying a sand shark, she throws a gun to Haitora.

Continuing through the desert, she helps prepare food by picking and skinning a cactus branch among other preparations. She brings out a crystal-finder which contains a caller stone, a crystal found in desert caves. This is used to locate a cave where they can spend the night.

She heads to gather glow bugs to borrow their light.

## Relationships

### Haitora

By the time they are introduced, Haitora has functioned as Uzoi's guardian since a very young age. Over time, Uzoi started to develope strong feelings for him, mentioning in a conversation with Somali that she, in fact, loves the latter. That, too, lead her to set her mind on finding a cure for his recessive disease. Her commitment to Haitora goes as far as that she is willing to kill Somali in hopes that her blood will cure Haitora in the long run.

After finding out about what happened to her mother, Uzoi is torn between her affection for Haitora and her now growing lack of trust in the sincerity of his feelings towards her. She takes some time to process the information about his past, but later decides that she wants to stay with him and that her feelings have remained the same.

Uzoi tells Haitora that the punishment for what he has done will not be death, but to stay alive by her side for as long as possible. To ensure that, their main goal remains to find a cure for his ongoing disease.

### Somali

The relationship between Somali and Uzoi starts of on a rocky base as both of them prove themselves to be quite stubborn and argumentative over the smallest things - especially food, as seen in their debate over ice cream when they first met each.

Their constant bickering gives of the impression of a sibling-like rivalry, but when Uzoi realises that the little girl is actually a human child in a disguise, her attitude rapidly changes. She invites Somali and Golem to travel along her and Haitora, playing nice but with the intention to intentionally kill Somali and use her blood to cure Haitora from his chronic disease.

When trying to carry out her plan, Uzoi soon realises that she can't bring herself to end an innocent life, and that she actually grew quite fond of Somali in the short time they spent together. As Somali tries to flee from Uzoi, she ends up falling into an underground lake. Uzoi saves the little girl from drowning, and the two end up having a conversation about Uzoi's feelings for Haitora. Somali forgives Uzoi, and even goes as far as to call Uzoi her friend. After that, the two grow visibly vloser to each other and sleep together every night. They still fight and argue, but their bickering reminds more of siblings than actual enemies.

Somali and Uzoi remain close to each other even as their time together comes to an end. Somali is visibly upset leaving her friend behind, but Uzoi reassures her that they'll definitely meet again.

### Golem

Golem and Uzoi seem to have a neutral, peaceful relationship with each other. After trying to attack Somali, it looks as if Golem is about to take matters into his own hands with Uzoi. But after Somali forgives her for what she's done, the two of them seem to be back on at least neutral, if not positive terms. It's noted that there are a lot of similarities between Haitora and Uzoi, and Golem and Somali.

### Biological Family

Unaware of who her father was, Uzoi states that young harpies are exclusively raised by the female harpies of their clan. Since her mother died when Uzoi was still very young, she doesn't seem to feel much of a connection to her.

## Abilities

**Wings**

With her wings, Uzoi is able to fly. She can also extend them to glide.

**Claws**

Uzois claws/nails were shown to be really sharp, even cutting through organic materials. She mostly uses them during direct combat.

**Heightened Senses**

Harpies are known to have heightened senses, particularly to sound. Uzoi notes on several occasions that all kinds of sound tends to annoy her greatly, as she can hear almost anything much more clearly than other species.