Shirayuki Honokami

**Shirayuki "Yuki" Aurum-Honokami** is the leader of the party, Memento Mori and one of the protagonists of Memento Mori. Yuki is the rival of Kaguya Tsukuyomi, the leader of Celestia. She is a fox kin from Alfheim whose first encounter with Embla nearly ended in her being mauled by a Sabyr. It is later revealed in that she is the daughter of Mizore Honokami, one of the Twelve Sages and Alfheim's Queen, making her the Princess of Alfheim.

## Profile

* Volume I
* Volume II

*Despite the name, her personality is the complete opposite of what one might expect.*
*A responsible leader with a good head on her shoulders and has a furious temper.*

*Her past has now come to confront her after her unwilling exile from her home. Chained down by regret, she pushes on to reach the light of the ones she cares for.*
*And at the climax of the annual gathering of Yggdrasil's strongest fighters, the apex of her regrets shall appear, bringing Setsuna's transient light into the frigid Eternity of her illusion.*

## Appearance

Yuki is described by Embla to have the typical Alfheimer appearance. She is a fox kin, a race of beastmen who take on the appearance of foxes. She has long white hair, reaching down to her back and piercing red eyes. Atop her head are a pair of fluffy fox ears and she has two tails. She is slightly shorter than Embla, being only one inch shorter than she is.

Yuki wears a standard shrine maiden outfit that is white in color. With it, she has a pair of light red furisode-like sleeves, black pants with a hakama tied around it, and black tabi.

Red notes that she is extremely beautiful.

## Personality

Presenting herself as capable and polite, Yuki is the de-facto leader of the adventuring party, Memento Mori. She is rather responsible with her duties as leader. Yuki is in charge of negotiating with clientele and formulating plans and strategies. She has an analytical mind and a logical way of thinking. Yuki is shown to be dissatisfied with the current way that Guild handles parties, especially the hoarding of quests by higher level parties that prevents the growth of smaller parties. Yuki has shown herself to be horrible with money as Red had to stay behind and pay the correct amount to guild staff.

As a person, Yuki is generally kind to those around her. She is also rather trusting and generous as she offered Embla a place to stay. Yuki believes in paying people back, part of why she allowed Embla to stay in their home after their second encounter in the city of Yggdrasil. As team leader, Yuki will not hesitate to put her well being on the line for her party members, seeing as she was ready to use a Burst that had negative after effects.

According to Pandora, Yuki's polite and regal personality is explained by her upbringing. In her words, Yuki is a "hoity-toity rich girl". Her upbringing is used to explain her polite speech pattern and her lack of savvy in handling money. According to Cal, he surmises that Yuki spends as if she has unlimited amount of money in her pocket due to her royal upbringing. In a flashback, this is shown when she went around with a wallet filled with at least 1000 bullions due to her lack of understanding of prices in the market.

She has a strong sense of responsibility as well, feeling the need to go out and understand her people to better lead them. In addition, Yuki has a strong sense of justice. After seeing the way that the infected in Alfheim were dealt with, she decided to go into this matter herself. However, her sense of justice tends to make her do things alone, believing that she can handle this without help.

Yuki has a rather violent temper. She gets easily offended when people refer to her as a furry or when people don't give straight answers. During her interrogation of Albert, Yuki had to be held back by Red to prevent her from killing him before they got information. She has also displayed some slight sadistic traits such as stepping on wounds. In addition, Yuki is also rather brutal, not even hesitating to break the jaw of someone while asking for information.

When confronted about her past, Yuki becomes secretive and snappy. She does not like talking about her life in Alfheim. Yuki also dissociates herself from her true identity. To her, her title as the Princess is an entirely different person and she does not think of it as herself. Due to her mother's presence and the hatred of her retainer, Yuki has adopted a colder personality, becoming easily angered when her party isn't giving their all in training. Her animosity against her home country and her parents combined with her inability to open up to her friends has placed her in a volatile state. This side of her has brought much concern to her party mates, especially Red, who is her childhood friend.

## History

Shirayuki Honokami is the oldest child of Mizore Honokami, one of the Twelve Sages and the Queen of Alfheim. She is the childhood friend of Red Magdaros and Kaguya Tsukuyomi, with the former being her personal guard and the latter being her lady in waiting. Yuki stated that her life was akin to living in a cage with no way to see the outside world and for that, she said that her ability to rule would be weak. During one of her studies, Yuki snuck out with Red to Alfheim's capitol, Gimle. During her time there, she experienced many things and for the first time saw the faces of the people who would entrust their nation to her.

A few weeks after Yuki returned to town with Kaguya and Red. After taking in the sights, Yuki is met with the sight of one of the Imperial Guards detaining an elderly woman and her grandson. Dropping her disguise, Yuki demanded to know what the guards were doing. It was there that she learned of the plague going around Alfheim. Determined to see how the infected were treated, Yuki went to the Quarantine Zone.

Since her first visit there, Yuki began sneaking out of the palace in order to help out. She employed the help of her handmaiden, Kaguya, during one of the visits in order to determine what the head of the Zone was up to. While Kaguya snuck into the captain's tent, Yuki continued to inspect the camps under a disguise. It was then that one of the patients turned, having been fully corrupted by whatever illness gripped him and tried to attack her. Yuki's life was saved when the Valkyria intervened and dispatched the infected.

After returning, Yuki read the contents of the letter that Kaguya stole. After deeming that something was odd about the letter, she confronted her parents on the letter's contents. Her parents brushed her off, forcing her to think of a different way. After learning of a supposed Panacea called Idunn, Yuki and Red snuck back into the Quarantine Zone while Kaguya distracted the guards. They were able to successfully make off with one serum and returned to the palace. There, Yuki and her friends tested the serum on a bird chick. After a few hours of waiting, Yuki saw the true effects of Idunn. Idunn was a serum designed to suppress any visible symptoms while accelerating the conversion rate. Due to this horrific realization, Yuki determined that the Health Comission and the Gentry were using this plague to line their pockets using a fake cure. As she went to confront her parents and force their hand on the matter, Yuki was stopped by her aunt. Before she was able to do anything, Yuki was knocked unconscious and taken from the palace by Red.

At some point, Yuki and Red arrived in Alfheim and started the party, Memento Mori.

## Combat Information

### Combat Statistics

**Key:** Vol I Yuki

**Dimensionality:** **3-D**

**Attack Potency:** **Small Building Level** (Superior to Embla, Caelum, and Pandora. She is comparable to Red, who is capable of reducing a full grown man into charcoal, requiring this amount of energy) | At least **Small Building Level** (Should not be weaker than her Vol I self. She was capable of damaging and dealing the killing blow to the Alpha Sabyr, who was mutated. The Alpha Sabyr was capable of creating a crater the size of a "small lake" in the middle of the forest. The sabyr was weakened however. She is stated to be stronger than Embla, Cal, and Pandora)

**Speed:** At least **Supersonic** (Should be as fast as Embla, who is capable of moving faster than human perception),**faster** with Shadowless Flight and Enhance Parameter

**Lifting Strength:** At least **Class 1**, **higher** with [Enhance Parameter]

**Durability:** **Small Building Level**, **higher** with [Enhance Parameter]

**Stamina:** Yuki has a considerable amount of stamina, allowing her to fire off shot after shot as well as fight multiple opponents at the same time for extended periods of time.

**Powers and Abilities:**

* Vol I
* Vol II

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Enhanced Senses (Fox Kin have naturally enhanced hearing and smell. Her skill, Hyper Sensory, is nearly constantly active, further enhancing her senses to drastic levels), Acrobatics and Surface Scaling, Ice Manipulation, Pseudo-Flight (Using the Frost Skill, Yuki can fly across the air by creating jets of ice that propels her at high speeds, allowing her to escape gravity's grasp for a certain period of time), Danmaku via Icicle Raid, Fire Manipulation, Chi Manipulation (Prana is energy located within the body that is produced by bodily and chemical processes. Prana can be used to activate Martial Skills as well as enhancement of one's physical abilities), Magic, Statistics Amplification via Prana and Mana, Skilled Hand to Hand Combatant, Skilled Swordswoman

All previous abilities including Surface Scaling and Illusion Creation (Yuki is revealed to be skilled in creating realistic illusions, allowing her to alter her appearance and become someone else. Her level of skill is high enough to fool even the trained guards of Alfheim's army and Kaguya)

**Intelligence:** High. As the leader of Memento Mori, Yuki has shown herself to be a capable leader, being able to formulate strategies and adapt to situations. She is quick on her feet and is capable of reading the situation and people. As it was revealed in Vol II, Yuki is the First Imperial Princess of Alfheim and is widely knowledgeable in a wide number of subjects, ranging from politics to economics. After much investigation, she was able to deduce that the Idunn Serum was not used to cure the Plague, but suppress its symptoms in order to allow it to spread to more people.

**Weaknesses:** She is bad at handling money. Red states that World of the Gleaming Moon is extremely strenuous to her and can possibly cause her bodily harm if she uses it. Yuki states that even just the act of preparing to use the Burst is enough to send her to her knees.

### Powers and Abilities

* Skills
* Bursts

* Magic Skills
* Martial Skills

### Magical Skills

Even as a child, Yuki was regarded as a prodigy within her social circle. Even her retainer deemed her to be too strong for her at the time. Her magical skill is implied to rival that of Pandora, knowing a plethora of magical skills and is capable of using them in creative ways. It is unknown whether she is capable of Complex Casting.

**Ice Affinity Magic:** Ice Magic allows the user to create and manipulate ice and cold. Yuki is seen using this the most out of every element. Her skill with Ice Affinity Magic is extremely high and she is capable of using it in unorthodox ways including flight. Even though Pandora is capable of using Ice in Complex Casting, Yuki's skill surpasses even that of Pandora's. Ice is Yuki's Natural Affinity.

* **Frost:** The most basic ice skill. It fires a stream of frost at the target.
* **Icicle Raid:** An Ice Skill that lets the user create multiple ice spears and fire them in rapid succession.
* **Icicle Barrier:** An defensive Ice Skill that creates a dome of ice around the user.

**Fire Affinity Magic:** Fire Magic is the ability to use magic to generate and control fire. Fire is stated to be common amongst Kin Races, particularly those of Fox and Dragon.

* **Fox Fire:** A skill uniquely belonging to the Fox Kin race. It allows for the creation of a blue flame hot enough to melt through steel.

**Illusory Magic:** Illusory Magic is magic regarding the interference of perception and the disruption of cognitive abilities. Yuki is capable of using Illusory Magic to change her appearance, allowing her to walk around Gimle undeterred as well as sneak into Alfheim's Quarantine Zone.

* **Physical Masking:** Physical Masking is a magical skill that allows the user to alter their appearance by applying a thin layer of mana around their bodies and changing it to make themselves look different.

### Martial Abilities and Skills

In comparison to her other party members, Yuki is highly adept at manipulating her own Prana, energy produced by her body's chemical processes. Her skill surpasses that of Embla's. Other than Red, Yuki is the most skilled combatant in the party, employing Alfheim Sword Arts and Martial Arts in combat. Due to her analytical nature, she is capable of fighting opponents that are physically stronger than she is with great ease and dispatching bandits at once.

**Skilled Combatant:** Possibly the strongest member of Memento Mori, Yuki is an extremely skilled combatant, matched only by Red. She is stronger than Cal and Embla with the latter only berating her due to her haughtiness. She is capable of taking someone with far greater physical strength than her as well as dispatching with dozens of armed oppponents. Her physical strength is strong enough to completely shatter a grown adult's jaw with a simple non-enhanced kick. Red states that Yuki is one of the only people in their party capable of taking on Kaguya, an Arts User, despite her attempts at rebuffing such a claim.

**Enhancement Skills:** Enhancement Skills are a series of skills that involve boosting the body's physical abilities.

* **Shadowless Flight:** A speed enhancement skill that drastically enhances the user's speed.
* **Hyper Sensory:** A unique self-enhancement skill. The user can keep this skill active with negligible effects on their prana. It drastically enhances their senses, allowing them to perceive more than possible. The user is also capable of seeing mana and prana while Hyper Sensory is active, which is constantly. This skill can be turned off by simply cutting mana to the five senses, returning them to normal.

**Unclassified Burst**

* **World of the Gleaming Moon:** World of the Gleaming Moon is a Burst that is used by Shirayuki Honokami. The effects of this burst are unknown. However, the backlash just from gathering the mana to use the skill is visible on Yuki's body, causing her to fall to her knees.

## Trivia

* Yuki's full first name means Snow White.
	+ Her inspiration is the character, Snow White. Both are Princesses of their own Kingdoms who ran away. However, the two fled for very different reasons. Snow White fled her castle due to the machinations of her evil stepmother while Yuki ran away due to a disagreement she had with her parents.
	+ Yuki shares the same naming scheme as her mother. Mizore in Japanese means "Sleet". Both names refer to cold weather phenomenon with Yuki's being related to snow and Mizore's being related to sleet.
	+ Her last name, Honokami, means God of Fire which is a reference to Kitsunes being naturally affiliated with fire.
* As a Fox Kin, Yuki is considered to be a late bloomer due to having less than three tails.
* Yuki's birthday is Tirr 10, which in real life is July 10.
* Yuki is ambidextrous.
* According to Pandora, Yuki is extremely bad with money.

## References

1. ↑ Vol I, Chapter VII
2. ↑ Vol I, Chapter VII
3. ↑ Vol I, Chapter VII
4. ↑ Vol II, Chapter II
5. ↑ Vol I, Chapter IX