Osakabehime

Osakabehime (called Ms. Osakabe in the "Saikaku Shokokubanashi" and Osakabe in "Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki") was a yokai who was enshrined as a jinushigami, a deity for the land of Himeji.

In modern days, she is known as the creature who took up residence in the tower of Himeji Castle.

Height/Weight: 158cm, 51kg

Origin: Legend

Region: Japan (Himeji Castle)

Alignment: Chaotic-Balanced

Sub-Attribute: Earth

Gender: Female

What could be sweeter than staying indoors and the forbidden fruit of online shopping? Buying e-books by the dozen and painting figures is like sinking into a cozy morass. Real-life friends? None.

She may look like a black-haired, prim and proper maiden, but on closer inspection, one can see she is a gloomy, listless, and naturally lazy girl. She may act like a princess, but because her communication skills are frankly abysmal, she tends to just behave according to whatever tropes she knows offhand.

If you ask her whether she's malicious or not, she'll say she is, but she's really just playing at being a little devil. At worst, she'll max out your credit card.

Chiyogami Technique: EX

She can manipulate origami at will. She uses this technique to create decoys of various shapes that combine attack, defense, and transformation.

Morph: A+

She took many forms whenever she appeared before humans, such as a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman wearing a twelve-layered ceremonial robe, or a fierce god about three meters tall.

It's not the flashiest skill out there, but she's one of Japan's very best transformers.

Castle Apparition: A++

The collective name for creatures who moved from a shrine to a castle. It has even been said that Osakabehime is the true master of Himeji Castle.

According to myth, merely seeing her will put a curse upon you...or even result in instant death!

On the other hand, she gets pretty weak if she sets foot outside her castle.

Actually, she is really a three-hundred-year-old fox, but a certain fox-type, good-wife Servant posted the following on some "creatures-only" social networking site: "We are WAY too similar, so you're going to do something about it. (Liberal translation to preserve some measure of elegance.)" After an atrocious flame war, she chose a bat motif when appearing as a Servant.

Taking off her glasses is a princess-like move. If she's in a place where it's okay to have her gloominess turned up to eleven, she keeps her glasses on.

『The Great Hachitendou of Hakuro Castle』

Rank: A+

NP Type: Anti-Fortress (Self)

Range: 1

Maximum Targets: Himeji Castle maximum occupancy÷7

Hakurojyo no Hyakki Hachitendou-sama.

A powerful magecraft that manifests a miniature version of Himeji Castle. This magecraft is superficially similar to a Reality Marble.

Making use of her famed beauty and dignity, she provides mental support to her embattled allies. Were Osakabehime a more aggressive sort, she could easily turn the castle into a terrifying weapon. Thanks to her being a complete and total shut-in, though, it pretty firmly remained in the realm of defensive Noble Phantasms.

Osakabehime left managing the castle to its warriors, and met with the caretakers only once every few years to give them half-hearted criticisms, all so she could enjoy her hikikomori life. Wars and even whole ages passed her by, and one day she realized that she was all alone.

Her position as a castle lord was gone, and those who recognized her had vanished as well. At least for the first few years she relished her new carefree life, but eventually she realized in a panic that, if nobody is aware she exists, that would be nearly the same thing as being dead.

Osakabehime protected Hakuro Castle, or Himeji Castle, through multiple wars. She did so despite knowing that it was pointless. She did so without being praised or feared. Even if some might acknowledge her existence, there was no one who could confirm she was truly there.

...Which...is basically the same as being dead.

Quite suddenly, and quite unnoticed, Osakabehime disappeared. Ultimately, she became something that was neither an anti-Heroic Spirit nor Heroic Spirit, and at around the same time she started to immerse herself in internet culture, becoming the Osakabehime we know today.