Fuyumi Tsukihime

**Fuyumi Tsukihime** (月姫冬美, *Tsukihime Fuyumi*) is the main female protagonist of the *Sengoku-jidai* series. The heiress of the Tsukihime Family of the Three Great Families, she is an second-year student at Hiei Academy and the one who introduced Ieyasu Tokugawa to both the supernatural world and his heritage.

## Appearance

Fuyumi is a beautiful young woman of average height with a beautiful face, white skin, and light blue eyes. She has long untied pinkish-silver hair reaching her waist. She has a bewitching body, with both large breasts and a voluptuous figure. Ieyasu likens her appearance to that of *a painting of a goddess*, comparing her to the original Kaguyahime, and that her beauty *left no room for wicked lust*.

Although she has worn various types of clothing throughout the series, Fuyumi's most commonly worn outfit is the Hiei Academy girls' school uniform, which consists of a white long-sleeved, button-down shirt (short sleeves for spring/summer), with a black ribbon on her shirt collar worn under a black shoulder cape and a matching button-down corset, a magenta skirt with white accents, and brown dress shoes over white crew-length socks.

## Personality

Fuyumi normally displays a calm demeanor, preferring to remain quiet when around others. However, she is prone to outbursts whenever faced with inappropriate situations such as finding erotic magazines under Ieyasu's bed (despite Fuyumi herself being on top of them while he slept). Despite this, she is also caring and affectionate as she appreciates the kindness from Ieyasu, Ren and Ryujirou, as well as the protection that Ieyasu and the Shiranui family promised despite the danger the family maybe put in.

It is later revealed that Fuyumi has deep claustrophobia, as shown when she was buried alive by Jajima and his minions in Volume 17.

## History

Fuyumi is the fifth daughter and heiress of the Tsukihime Family of the Three Great Families, being the daughter of Taketori and Himeko Tsukihime, and the younger sister of Kamehime, Natsumi, Harumi and Akimi Tsukihime. As a child, Fuyumi's magic powers and *ki* were overly powerful, as she couldn't control it and was frozen many times in the process of mastering her powers.

## Powers & Abilities

**Immense Spiritual Power:** Fuyumi has exceptional spiritual power even for a member of the Tsukihime family. Both Zhang Fei and Oujima has noted that even without training, she has the potential to become an Onmyōji of the highest class relying solely on natural talent alone.

**Aka Manah:** During her battle with second battle with Fu Xiaoli, Fuyumi reached her Innate Awakening and became a Aka Manah, a being that has broken the chains of fate. As a Aka Manah, she can increase her mana and ki capacity, with her techniques receiving a boost of power.

* **Angra Aka Manah:** In her fight with Gogyo, Fuyumi entered this rare second form, having seen Ieyasu's head crushed. Due to crossing the lines between humans and demons, Fuyumi attained enormous power at the cost of losing her humanity.

**Senjutsu Expert:** Fuyumi is proficient in the use of senjutsu, able to control her *ki* to strengthen both her internal and external body and her techniques; and detecting others nearby based on their auras. She has shown to be able to control nature around her as well, in Volume 13, she could turn the mud around her from hard to soft to seal the movements of Fu Xiaoli.

* **Touki** (闘気, *Fighting Spirit*):
* **Kasha** (火車, *Burning Chariot*):
* **Nurikabe** (塗壁, *Plaster Wall*):

**Master Magician:**

* **Ice Magic** (氷魔法こうりまほう, *Kōri Mahō*):
* **Plant Magic** (植物魔法しょくぶつまほう, *Shokubutsu Mahō*):
* **Fairy Magic** (妖精魔法ようせいまほう, *Yōsei Mahō*):
* **Wind Magic** (風魔法かぜまほう, *Kaze Mahō*):

* **Trackless Step**:

**Flight:**

### Fuyuzuki

**Fuyuzuki** (冬の月ふゆづき, *Fuyudzuki*?, lit. *Winter Moon*) is Fuyumi's A+-rank Technique. The traditional Technique of the Tsukihime family, it gives Fuyumi the ability to create and control freezing winds capable of causing snowstorms and blizzards. The winds have proven to be extremely powerful, capable of freezing even a Nine-tailed Fox's flames and the cursed flames of Onimaru. Not only that, Fuyumi has also proven to be extremely proficient in the use of this Technique.

* **Pseudo Mana:** Being equipped with a Natural Interference/Elemental-type Technique, Fuyumi can absorb natural cold wind, then convert that to her own power as pseudo-mana, letting her use even more magic than normal.
* **Moon Gale** (月の風ムーン・ゲイル, *Tsuki no Kaze*?, lit. "Moon Wind")
* **Wind Barrier** (風の月結界ウィンド・バリア, *Kaze no Tsuki Kekkai*?, lit. "Moon Barrier of Wind")
	+ **Blizzard Barrier** (絶対零度の極夜ブリザード・バリア, *Zettaireido no Kyokuya*?, lit. "Polar Night of Absolute Zero")
* **Yuki-onna Hagoromo** (雪女の羽衣ゆきおんな はごろも, *Yukionna no Hagoromo*?, lit. "Snow Woman's Hagoromo/Raiment")
* **Kheimon Drakainatheaχειμών δράκαινᾰθεᾱ́** (冬空輪割り断つ魔姫の月鎌ケイモン・ドラカイナテア, *Fuyuzora wa-wari tatsu Mahime no Tsukikama*?, lit. "Winter Sky Severing Demon Princess's Moon Sickle"): Fuyumi's ultimate technique, Mistilteinn transforms into a sword made from both the cold wind and ice at that had a barely physical form, and can it reach a target more than a hundred meters away. Kheimon Drakainathea has soon grown powerful enough to freeze an enitre mountain over and permanently change the atmosphere.
* **Jigoku Fubuki** (*lit. Hellish Blizzard*):
* **Winter Maiden of the North** (冬の北方武姫ウィンター・メイデン・オブ・ザ・ノース, *Fuyu no Hoppō Buhime*?, lit. "Winter Turtle Princess of the North"): Fuyumi's Awakening, first used in her fight with Gogyo, having witnessed Ieyasu's head crushed.
	+ **Winter Maiden of the North: Primal Mode** (冬の北方武姫：饕餮ウィンター・メイデン・オブ・ザ・ノース：プライマル・モード, *Fuyu no Hoppō Buhime: Tōtetsu*?, lit. "Winter Turtle Princess of the North: Taotie"): The mode in which Fuyumi used when first using her Awakening and during her battle with Gogyo. According to Natsumi, Sanzou and Myrddin, it is the raw and primal power of her Technique, power comparable to Gods of Calamity and Demonic Beasts. In this form, her skin becomes covered with light brown feathers with white ones in some places, two horns are grown on her head, feathery wings sprout out from her back and a long snake-like tail has extended from her tailbone area.

## Equipment

**Mistilteinn** (氷魔王の刃ミスティルテイン, *Hyōmaō no Ha*?, lit. "Ice Demon King's Blade"): The holy-demon sword given to Fuyumi by her grandfather. An ancient Nordic holy sword, demonized by war and bloodshed by it's previous wielders. At first believed to be an normal holy sword, it took the form of an medieval European sword with an mistletoe handle.

During her fight with Fu Xiaoli, after learning of it's true name from Edelweiss, Mistilteinn changed into a larger silver blade, as tall as Fuyumi, with an handle and hilt made of mistletoe.

## Trivia

* Her first name Fuyumi (冬美) means "Winter Beauty".
* Her surname Tsukihime (月姫) means "Moon Princess".
	+ Her surname is derived from Lady **Tsuki**yama (築山殿; despite the difference in ideograms), Tokugawa Ieyasu's wife; and Kame**hime** (亀**姫**), Lady Tsukiyama's and Tokugawa Ieyasu's daughter.
	+ It is also an reference to her heritage with Kaguyahime.
* Like her siblings, Fuyumi represents one of the Four Symbols that appear in Chinese Mythology. In her case, she represents the **Black Tortoise** (玄武; pinyin: *Xuánwǔ*; romaji: *Genbu*). According to Wu Xing, the Taoist five-elemental system, it represents the water-element, the direction north, and the season of winter correspondingly. Thus it is sometimes called the **Black Tortoise of the North** (北方玄武 *Běifāng Xuánwǔ*; romaji: *Hoppō Genbu*).
* Her birthday is August 7th, which is the Japanese Star Festival according to Lunar calendar.