Ibuki-Douji

Ibuki-Douji.

Another name for Shuten-Douji, specific to the Ibuki Mountains in the Omi region. Ibuki-Douji, born in most unnatural circumstances, being a child of oni, grew up in the mountains, eventually gaining frightful supernatural powers.

It is said that she migrated to Mt. Ooe and became the great monster Shuten-Douji, who gorged herself on blood and plunder in the capital...

Height/Weight:

First Ascension: 133cm (Overall 200cm), ???kg

Second and Third Ascension: 180cm (300cm during combat), ???kg

Origin: Shuten-Douji Emaki, Otogizoushi, etc.

Region: Japan

Alignment: Chaotic-Good

Sub-Attribute: Heaven

Gender: Female

She is another aspect of Shuten-Douji, the anti-hero, as well as a Divine Spirit.

Her divine aspects are quite prominent, and she is very aware that she is part of nature. As such, she tends to act on her own primal urges. Accordingly, she has no intention of integrating or establishing relationships with the world of human culture and civilization. Though she may create the impression of a certain naivete, an ignorance of the pleasures of alcohol, a lack of experience with the finer luxuries of life, or even an innocence of the madness that so often takes people in the course of their lives, the moment she loses herself to her desires, she proves to be entirely unstoppable. So long as she is not provoked, she remains quite harmless, though she is at the same time far more dangerous than Shuten-Douji.

The moment she shows interest in something, she grows extremely attached. As long as the object of her affection continues to exist, she is prone to simply staring at it for extended periods. More often than not, when she so much as touches her obsession, she destroys it. At the very least, she brings such profound unhappiness to it as to end in the poor unfortunate's death. As her other aspect is an oni, she is especially drawn to other oni. Additionally, beings of the same types as her (children of divine dragons) tend to draw her keen interest as well.

The above purports to be a description of Ibuki-Douji's nature, but the version of her which has manifested in Chaldea has proven to be a bit...different.

She has been...completely beguiled by the modern world.

Her divine nature makes it largely impossible for her to see the world in the same manner as humanity does, but she tends to present herself as a big sister of sorts, behaving as if she has perfectly acclimated to the modern world. She seems to have studied a great deal about what it means to be human. She may even try to tempt or provoke those around her, including Master. Sherlock Holmes believes she either studied modern society somewhere, or met a Heroic Spirit who had, like her, grown more acclimated to the modern world. He believes that she was then able to use Chaldea's unique summoning system to her advantage to somehow bring that information with her into this manifestation. The truth, however, remains a mystery.

The moment the True Name of her Noble Phantasm is revealed, however, she reverts immediately to her more divine aspect. Even so, she seems to tremendously enjoy her persona as a carefree "big sister snake."

As a side note, when she is in her juvenile form (her First Ascension), her manner of speech and behavior are a mixture of her "big sister snake" and more divine personas. Her warnings about being "dangerous when she molts" likely refer to this more divine part of her aspect.

Core of the Serpent God: A

A compound skill that includes Divinity. It should be inconceivable for her to possess Divinity since her legend says she is part human...but since Ibuki-Douji is also the child of Yamata-no-Orochi, she retains this skill at a high rank. Should she be reduced to an oni, she loses this skill, and it is replaced by a lower-ranked Divinity.

Octo-Pulsing Billow: B

A skill that inherited the nature of the flood deity, one of the aspects of Yamata-no-Orochi. It represents Ibuki's unchanging physique which destroys all things with its raging aggression.

Fingertips of Defilement: A

The loss of purity, a lack of honor, and finally death. Anything Ibuki-Douji touches is rendered impure, and may not exist in the presence of gods or humans. This skill may be categorized as an offensive skill, but it also grants additional effects against the dead, Demonic Beasts, and fallen gods even in conversation.

『Sword of Gods - Kusanagi-no-Tachi』

Rank: A+

NP Type: Anti-Army/Anti-Fortress

Range: 1 - 60

Maximum Targets: 500

Shinken - Kusanagi-no-Tachi.

According to the "Kojiki" and "Nihon-shoki," a man called Susanoo-no-Mikoto, who was exiled from Takamagahara, came to the nation of Izumo where he saved a woman named Kusanadahime from being sacrificed, and killed a giant monster in the process. That monster was the eight-headed, eight-tailed, red-eyed creature Yamata-no-Orochi...a gigantic serpent whose body spanned over eight valleys and eight peaks. It was Japan's largest rampaging dragon.

Susanoo-no-Mikoto managed to defeat this giant serpent and obtained a divine sword from its tail. The sword was called Kusanagi-no-Tachi, also known as Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi, and Tsumugari-no-Tachi. It was later kept at Atsuta Jingu as one of the three sacred treasures of Japan.

Ibuki-Douji wields this divine sword that was inside her father, Yamata-no-Orochi, as her Noble Phantasm. Upon its True Name release, the sword becomes a weapon so terrifying that, a single swing of it cuts open eight valleys and peaks and creates eight great rivers. However, according to Ibuki-Douji, the Noble Phantasm only wields a tiny fraction of the divine sword's brilliance, and temporarily at that.

In her original form, Ibuki-Douji wouldn't recognize the Master who summoned her as anyone special. Maybe she still sees all humans as the same. Her behavior would probably change after she learned to distinguish individuals. Should she take an interest in you, it would be wise to exercise caution rather than see this as a cause for celebration. Her touch is the touch of a god, and not even poison defense magecraft or anti-poison skills can completely neutralize its effects. That said...ever since she materialized at Chaldea, she's been acting as though she and Master are very close. Okay, in fairness, she's been acting that way with everyone. She'll probably need to deepen their relationship considerably if she's ever going to be able to tell Master apart from anyone else. In that sense, it's safe to assume that Ibuki-Douji's true nature hasn't changed.

Apparently, she once met Sakata Kintoki in Ashigara a very, very long time ago. The story goes that she ran into him while he was wandering aimlessly around Ashigara as the child of neither human nor oni, and soundly defeated him in a sumo match. Shortly following this encounter, Ibuki-Douji disappeared. That's not to say she died, though. Rather, she simply transformed both her mind and body, changing into a different aspect of herself: namely, Shuten-Douji, the great monster.

After piecing together testimony from both parties, it seems Ibuki-Douji and Shuten-Douji came into existence by trading places with each other for a defined, or sometimes undefined, length of time.

"It's my turn now."

"Then it'll be my turn next."

And so on...