Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Mar 2, 2010 22:43:44 GMT -5
Full Name (Enjin): Enjin Hiizumi
Full Name (Gin): Gin Nanami
Nicknames: n/a
Age: ? (Somewhere in his twenties)
Height: 179 cm (approx. 5’ 8”)
Weight: ? (Average due to muscle, technically slightly underweight)
Gender: Male
Race (Enjin): Human (to as much of a degree as a member of the Hiizumi clan can be)
Race (Gin): Satori (a sort of mind-reading demon)
Alliance: Chaotic Evil
Home: The Afterworld (for both, though Gin became attatched to Sakurashin Town during his stay there)
Franchise: Yozakura Quartet
Physical Description: This description applies to both Enjin and Gin despite it being Gin’s body due to the nature of the possession.
Enjin almost passes as a normal human with his appearance. In fact, there’s really only one part of it that keeps him from passing as human, and it’s the small catlike ears on his head. They’re actually antennae, and they allow him to receive and send thoughts and signals out from them, which form the basis of his mind reading and interference abilities. The ears are white, just like his hair.
Enjin’s hair itself is long and stringy. It doesn’t fall very neatly on his head, and is typically rather unkempt, and tends to fall in large clumps on his head. Enjin also has dark blue eyes, instead of the red many people would expect demons to have.
There is one bit of Enjin’s physical appearance itself that was only gained after Enjin gained control of Gin’s body. There is a large scar extending on Enjin’s chest that goes over his left shoulder across the left side of his chest. This scar was formed when Enjin’s spirit entered Gin’s body, and appears to be a link to what remains of Gin’s spirit within said body, as at one point, Enjin managed to threaten Gin’s sister with disposing of Gin by threatening to stab that spot.
Enjin’s preferred clothing is a large black overcoat, black pants, and black shoes. The overcoat has a fur collar to it that hides most of Enjin’s neck. There’s a similar fur lining around the ends of the sleeves and the bottom of the coat. He doesn’t wear a shirt underneath the coat.
Since taking over Gin’s body, Enjin has fallen into a habit of wearing glasses despite the fact that Gin has 20/20 eyesight and doesn’t need them. It’s mainly just an old habit from back when Enjin had his own body.
Weapons: Enjin doesn’t carry any particular weapons on him. At one point he used a box cutter as a makeshift knife, but other than that, he never really bothers with weapons.
Abilities/Powers (Enjin): Since Enjin is a member of the Hiizumi family, Enjin can perform an ability known as tuning, though his abilities are nowhere near as strong as those of a main branch member. Tuning has many uses, though the main one used by the Hiizumi family is sending a demon from our world to the Afterworld, their true home, since a demon’s abilities are highly unstable in our world. The Hiizumi family considers this “killing” demons, as it cuts off any connection a demon has to our world, and thus they tend to avoid using it for that purpose. Enjin mainly uses this use of the ability to teleport him between the Afterworld and the world of the humans, allowing him to quickly escape from areas.
One other prominent use of tuning is causing humans and demons to “fall”, which turns them into even stronger, even nastier monsters. Humans that survive this process become half-demons, but it’s almost impossible to save a human that is dropped. Animals and demons have to be killed, though. Just a note: any demon can drop a human, but only a Hiizumi can drop a demon.
The final prominent use of tuning is forcing one’s spirit out of their body. By using tuning on someone’s body and spirit directly, it forces the spirit out of the body. Though this is mainly used by the Oyakume to force whatever demons have dropped a human or animal out of the person’s body, Enjin uses this to take over other peoples’ bodies. The side effect of this body snatching process is the formation of a large scar over the spot that he tuned to do so, and because powers are linked to the spirit, if Enjin wishes to keep the powers of whoever’s body he has taken over, he has to keep the spirit within the body.
Just a note: if Enjin uses his powers too much in a short period of time, he will become out of alignment with that dimension, which isn’t what you would call a “good thing.” It’s not too good for his health either (though it’s even worse for main branch members.)
There is one ability Enjin has that isn’t related to his tuning ability, and it’s the ability to manifest illusions, which he usually uses to make it look like he’s moving teleporting during fights by using an illusion to take his place while using Gin’s mental interference to keep the others from noticing him. The fact that these illusions can still speak and such helps the illusion greatly. The illusions also serve to confuse his enemies, as he can easily confuse them by, oh say, making a copy of a one of a kind mystical weapon that the person fighting him uses. The illusionary weapon is mostly harmless. Mostly because Enjin believes in having something substantial behind his illusions, like a knife.
The ability to manifest illusions like this isn’t something Enjin was naturally able to do, and he developed it by combining some of his own abilities and Gin’s abilities as a satori.
Abilities/Powers (Gin): As a satori, Gin can pick up on thoughts with his ear-like antennae. This allows him to read whatever is currently on someone’s mind if they are in proximity. At the same time, he can send out signals of his own to interfere with other peoples’ thoughts. It’s a simple degree of mind control, but most the most the ability amounts to is “avoid this spot” or “don’t go away from here” or “pretend this place doesn’t exist”. It’s more draining the more people he uses it on.
This interference ability also allows him to block his thoughts from being read by other mind readers.
The larger scale version of this ability is referred to as Satellite, and it simultaneously allows him to interfere with a large scale of people or read a large scale of peoples’ minds. This ability is incredibly draining and if he uses it at too large of a scale he will pass out for several minutes.
Skills: Does manipulation count as a skill? Because he’s certainly quite good at it.
Personality (Enjin): The best way to describe Enjin is dark and manipulative. He seems to always know what buttons to push with people, the best ways to manipulate them to his side. One of the ways he likes manipulating people is by showing a very uncanny knowledge of what they’re going to do. It helps that he has a satori’s mind reading powers now that he’s using one’s body. He’s very goal-oriented, and doesn’t mind crushing people who get in his way.
He tends to get very stubborn and almost hysterical when he gets mad. In fact, if you want a good reference for how he acts when he’s mad, just look up the fight with Naoya in Devil Survivor during Amane’s route, and I hope you don’t mind spoilers. Enjin pretty much acts a lot like Naoya does during that part of the route when he gets mad.
Personality (Gin): In contrast to Enjin, Gin was the sweet, protective older brother type figure. He was always kind, and it took a lot to make him mad. He was the reliable type too, and always very dependable when it came to doing things. He was the kind of guy one would find hard not to like.
However, one would be hard pressed to see this personality in this body now. Because Enjin has complete control of Gin’s body, there is no Gin showing through. In fact, his spirit is so fully suppressed that not even another demon could sense the Gin within the body. It still shows through in other ways, like how Enjin cuts his cakes and a bit of influence on Enjin’s thoughts, but it’s not enough to fully stop Enjin.
History: Enjin’s history starts many years ago, back when demons were beginning to gather in the world and the Hiizumi family had begun to make names for themselves as “killers” of demons. During these times, tuning, the process of sending demons back to their own worlds, had a high failure chance. If the tuning failed, a demon would disappear from both the Afterworld and the world of the humans, which meant a real death. The Hiizumi family began to seek a way to make the tuning more accurate, and decided that the way to do so was to use a landmark that existed in both the Afterworld and the world of humans as a way to create a space that would make tuning much more accurate. A solution was found, what ended up happening was Enyou Hiizumi, the head of an offshoot of the main branch of the Hiizumi family, was forced, along with his entire family, into becoming living pillars to create a better space for tuning. Enyou’s family were then tuned against their will by the current Oyakume, Oushu Hiizumi, and sent to the Afterworld. Enyou grew resentful of the world he had been born in, and sent seven spiritual pillars to Sakurashin Town, where they became the town’s landmarks. These seven pillars would eventually bloom, and when they did, the two dimensions would be integrated. This would cause the demons of the Afterworld to flow into the human world and the density of the worlds to change. Demons would likely lose control of themselves, or in a worst case scenario, die. It would cause mass chaos among the humans, and would be the perfect revenge for what the humans had done to Enyou’s family.
Many years passed, and the Hiizumi family continued to live in the Afterworld, having rejected the world they originated from. Enjin Hiizumi grew up hearing stories of how the main branch of the family had wronged them, and like the rest of his family, wished revenge upon the humans that had sent them to this world where their powers were as out of control as a demon’s in the other dimension, though he had no idea how to obtain his revenge until a satori named Gin Nanami arrived in the Afterworld from Sakurashin Town. Gin had left his sister Ao in order to come to the Afterworld and track down whatever Hiizumis were still living there in hope that they could stop the integration of the two dimensions.
Enjin took his chance when Gin went to contact the Hiizumi branch in the Afterworld family and ask their aid in stopping the integration of the dimensions. Enjin then attacked Gin and forced his spirit out of his body before taking over Gin’s body itself. Enjin’s lifeless body was found later on, without any explanation as to why it had suddenly died. It was assumed a demon had killed him; the others were unaware that he had possessed Gin Nanami’s body.
For the next year or so, Enjin began developing his plans. He eventually figured out how to go to the other world using his tuning abilities, and eventually did so, where he observed the actions of Sakurashin’s young mayor Hime Yarizakura and her compatriots, especially a certain Akina Hiizumi, the latest Oyakume, and one whose body Enjin would need to possess in order to give the final push to the dimensions, thus integrating them. Enjin taunted Hime’s group of friends for a while, first appearing to Ao while she was relaxing on top of one of the pillars and giving her a bit of a scare, then by causing a dog Hime was taking care of to fall so far that it couldn’t be saved anymore. Eventually, Enjin used an illusion to disguise himself as an old man and worked with the mayor of a nearby town to attempt to dispose of a potential rival for the mayoral election, Hime’s cousin Kohime. Enjin was really only using Morino, the mayor of the neighboring town, to his own devices to weaken Akina and hopefully get close enough to him to possess his body. After revealing himself to Hime’s little group, Enjin revealed his plans to jumpstart the integration of the dimensions using Akina’s stronger tuning abilities. Akina attacked him, but only got a knife in the stomach for his trouble. Unfortunately for Enjin, this caused the entire group to attack him, as it was believed that Akina had been killed by the knife. Touka and Kyosuke, a pair of oni siblings, attacked him with a car and a telephone pole, respectively; Kotoha, a half-demon kotodama user, crushed him with air pressure, and Hime attempted to beat the everloving shit out of Enjin before being stopped by Shidou, a demon police officer. Enjin managed to get away during this time, while the others discovered that Akina was alive thanks to holding one of Hime’s memos underneath his shirt, which stopped the blade from reaching his stomach.
Soon after this, Enjin met up with a rather large group of demon hunters, and managed to convince them to join his side, since if the dimensions became integrated, there would be many more demons for them to hunt. However, because Enjin was using the body of a demon, the demon hunters hated Enjin. He didn’t mind; he hated them too.
On the way out of the demon hunters’ hideout, Enjin decided that it wasn’t worth taking any risks so close to the hideout of a group of demon hunters, and tuned himself, attempting to go back to the Afterworld. But something went wrong when he tuned himself, and the dimensions distorted a tad bit too much. Enjin ended up failing and not tuning himself to the world of the humans or the Afterworld, but to a totally different dimension altogether.
Other: The above sections have a crapload of unmarked fanon in them due to the fact that I’m pulling Enjin from shortly after the fifth volume of the manga, which isn’t really the best place to pull the main antagonist, but I refuse to use the anime as a source for the character due to the amount of adaption decay between the two of them, plus there’s the whole fact that Enjin and Gin are split at the end of the anime oh you should know that of course they split it’s the end of the anime.
Also, in case you’re wondering, Enjin’s a pretty major expy of Naoya from Devil Survivor. Technically, Naoya’s the expy; Yozakura Quartet came before Devil Survivor did.
Also, since I'm using the Del Rey translation for Yozakura Quartet as my source, I use the term Afterworld, which is what they use in their translation, instead of Otherworld, which is what the main Yozakura Quartet scanlation uses.
Picture: Design sketch from manga
Anime screenshot
Enjin’s scar
Full Name (Gin): Gin Nanami
Nicknames: n/a
Age: ? (Somewhere in his twenties)
Height: 179 cm (approx. 5’ 8”)
Weight: ? (Average due to muscle, technically slightly underweight)
Gender: Male
Race (Enjin): Human (to as much of a degree as a member of the Hiizumi clan can be)
Race (Gin): Satori (a sort of mind-reading demon)
Alliance: Chaotic Evil
Home: The Afterworld (for both, though Gin became attatched to Sakurashin Town during his stay there)
Franchise: Yozakura Quartet
Physical Description: This description applies to both Enjin and Gin despite it being Gin’s body due to the nature of the possession.
Enjin almost passes as a normal human with his appearance. In fact, there’s really only one part of it that keeps him from passing as human, and it’s the small catlike ears on his head. They’re actually antennae, and they allow him to receive and send thoughts and signals out from them, which form the basis of his mind reading and interference abilities. The ears are white, just like his hair.
Enjin’s hair itself is long and stringy. It doesn’t fall very neatly on his head, and is typically rather unkempt, and tends to fall in large clumps on his head. Enjin also has dark blue eyes, instead of the red many people would expect demons to have.
There is one bit of Enjin’s physical appearance itself that was only gained after Enjin gained control of Gin’s body. There is a large scar extending on Enjin’s chest that goes over his left shoulder across the left side of his chest. This scar was formed when Enjin’s spirit entered Gin’s body, and appears to be a link to what remains of Gin’s spirit within said body, as at one point, Enjin managed to threaten Gin’s sister with disposing of Gin by threatening to stab that spot.
Enjin’s preferred clothing is a large black overcoat, black pants, and black shoes. The overcoat has a fur collar to it that hides most of Enjin’s neck. There’s a similar fur lining around the ends of the sleeves and the bottom of the coat. He doesn’t wear a shirt underneath the coat.
Since taking over Gin’s body, Enjin has fallen into a habit of wearing glasses despite the fact that Gin has 20/20 eyesight and doesn’t need them. It’s mainly just an old habit from back when Enjin had his own body.
Weapons: Enjin doesn’t carry any particular weapons on him. At one point he used a box cutter as a makeshift knife, but other than that, he never really bothers with weapons.
Abilities/Powers (Enjin): Since Enjin is a member of the Hiizumi family, Enjin can perform an ability known as tuning, though his abilities are nowhere near as strong as those of a main branch member. Tuning has many uses, though the main one used by the Hiizumi family is sending a demon from our world to the Afterworld, their true home, since a demon’s abilities are highly unstable in our world. The Hiizumi family considers this “killing” demons, as it cuts off any connection a demon has to our world, and thus they tend to avoid using it for that purpose. Enjin mainly uses this use of the ability to teleport him between the Afterworld and the world of the humans, allowing him to quickly escape from areas.
One other prominent use of tuning is causing humans and demons to “fall”, which turns them into even stronger, even nastier monsters. Humans that survive this process become half-demons, but it’s almost impossible to save a human that is dropped. Animals and demons have to be killed, though. Just a note: any demon can drop a human, but only a Hiizumi can drop a demon.
The final prominent use of tuning is forcing one’s spirit out of their body. By using tuning on someone’s body and spirit directly, it forces the spirit out of the body. Though this is mainly used by the Oyakume to force whatever demons have dropped a human or animal out of the person’s body, Enjin uses this to take over other peoples’ bodies. The side effect of this body snatching process is the formation of a large scar over the spot that he tuned to do so, and because powers are linked to the spirit, if Enjin wishes to keep the powers of whoever’s body he has taken over, he has to keep the spirit within the body.
Just a note: if Enjin uses his powers too much in a short period of time, he will become out of alignment with that dimension, which isn’t what you would call a “good thing.” It’s not too good for his health either (though it’s even worse for main branch members.)
There is one ability Enjin has that isn’t related to his tuning ability, and it’s the ability to manifest illusions, which he usually uses to make it look like he’s moving teleporting during fights by using an illusion to take his place while using Gin’s mental interference to keep the others from noticing him. The fact that these illusions can still speak and such helps the illusion greatly. The illusions also serve to confuse his enemies, as he can easily confuse them by, oh say, making a copy of a one of a kind mystical weapon that the person fighting him uses. The illusionary weapon is mostly harmless. Mostly because Enjin believes in having something substantial behind his illusions, like a knife.
The ability to manifest illusions like this isn’t something Enjin was naturally able to do, and he developed it by combining some of his own abilities and Gin’s abilities as a satori.
Abilities/Powers (Gin): As a satori, Gin can pick up on thoughts with his ear-like antennae. This allows him to read whatever is currently on someone’s mind if they are in proximity. At the same time, he can send out signals of his own to interfere with other peoples’ thoughts. It’s a simple degree of mind control, but most the most the ability amounts to is “avoid this spot” or “don’t go away from here” or “pretend this place doesn’t exist”. It’s more draining the more people he uses it on.
This interference ability also allows him to block his thoughts from being read by other mind readers.
The larger scale version of this ability is referred to as Satellite, and it simultaneously allows him to interfere with a large scale of people or read a large scale of peoples’ minds. This ability is incredibly draining and if he uses it at too large of a scale he will pass out for several minutes.
Skills: Does manipulation count as a skill? Because he’s certainly quite good at it.
Personality (Enjin): The best way to describe Enjin is dark and manipulative. He seems to always know what buttons to push with people, the best ways to manipulate them to his side. One of the ways he likes manipulating people is by showing a very uncanny knowledge of what they’re going to do. It helps that he has a satori’s mind reading powers now that he’s using one’s body. He’s very goal-oriented, and doesn’t mind crushing people who get in his way.
He tends to get very stubborn and almost hysterical when he gets mad. In fact, if you want a good reference for how he acts when he’s mad, just look up the fight with Naoya in Devil Survivor during Amane’s route, and I hope you don’t mind spoilers. Enjin pretty much acts a lot like Naoya does during that part of the route when he gets mad.
Personality (Gin): In contrast to Enjin, Gin was the sweet, protective older brother type figure. He was always kind, and it took a lot to make him mad. He was the reliable type too, and always very dependable when it came to doing things. He was the kind of guy one would find hard not to like.
However, one would be hard pressed to see this personality in this body now. Because Enjin has complete control of Gin’s body, there is no Gin showing through. In fact, his spirit is so fully suppressed that not even another demon could sense the Gin within the body. It still shows through in other ways, like how Enjin cuts his cakes and a bit of influence on Enjin’s thoughts, but it’s not enough to fully stop Enjin.
History: Enjin’s history starts many years ago, back when demons were beginning to gather in the world and the Hiizumi family had begun to make names for themselves as “killers” of demons. During these times, tuning, the process of sending demons back to their own worlds, had a high failure chance. If the tuning failed, a demon would disappear from both the Afterworld and the world of the humans, which meant a real death. The Hiizumi family began to seek a way to make the tuning more accurate, and decided that the way to do so was to use a landmark that existed in both the Afterworld and the world of humans as a way to create a space that would make tuning much more accurate. A solution was found, what ended up happening was Enyou Hiizumi, the head of an offshoot of the main branch of the Hiizumi family, was forced, along with his entire family, into becoming living pillars to create a better space for tuning. Enyou’s family were then tuned against their will by the current Oyakume, Oushu Hiizumi, and sent to the Afterworld. Enyou grew resentful of the world he had been born in, and sent seven spiritual pillars to Sakurashin Town, where they became the town’s landmarks. These seven pillars would eventually bloom, and when they did, the two dimensions would be integrated. This would cause the demons of the Afterworld to flow into the human world and the density of the worlds to change. Demons would likely lose control of themselves, or in a worst case scenario, die. It would cause mass chaos among the humans, and would be the perfect revenge for what the humans had done to Enyou’s family.
Many years passed, and the Hiizumi family continued to live in the Afterworld, having rejected the world they originated from. Enjin Hiizumi grew up hearing stories of how the main branch of the family had wronged them, and like the rest of his family, wished revenge upon the humans that had sent them to this world where their powers were as out of control as a demon’s in the other dimension, though he had no idea how to obtain his revenge until a satori named Gin Nanami arrived in the Afterworld from Sakurashin Town. Gin had left his sister Ao in order to come to the Afterworld and track down whatever Hiizumis were still living there in hope that they could stop the integration of the two dimensions.
Enjin took his chance when Gin went to contact the Hiizumi branch in the Afterworld family and ask their aid in stopping the integration of the dimensions. Enjin then attacked Gin and forced his spirit out of his body before taking over Gin’s body itself. Enjin’s lifeless body was found later on, without any explanation as to why it had suddenly died. It was assumed a demon had killed him; the others were unaware that he had possessed Gin Nanami’s body.
For the next year or so, Enjin began developing his plans. He eventually figured out how to go to the other world using his tuning abilities, and eventually did so, where he observed the actions of Sakurashin’s young mayor Hime Yarizakura and her compatriots, especially a certain Akina Hiizumi, the latest Oyakume, and one whose body Enjin would need to possess in order to give the final push to the dimensions, thus integrating them. Enjin taunted Hime’s group of friends for a while, first appearing to Ao while she was relaxing on top of one of the pillars and giving her a bit of a scare, then by causing a dog Hime was taking care of to fall so far that it couldn’t be saved anymore. Eventually, Enjin used an illusion to disguise himself as an old man and worked with the mayor of a nearby town to attempt to dispose of a potential rival for the mayoral election, Hime’s cousin Kohime. Enjin was really only using Morino, the mayor of the neighboring town, to his own devices to weaken Akina and hopefully get close enough to him to possess his body. After revealing himself to Hime’s little group, Enjin revealed his plans to jumpstart the integration of the dimensions using Akina’s stronger tuning abilities. Akina attacked him, but only got a knife in the stomach for his trouble. Unfortunately for Enjin, this caused the entire group to attack him, as it was believed that Akina had been killed by the knife. Touka and Kyosuke, a pair of oni siblings, attacked him with a car and a telephone pole, respectively; Kotoha, a half-demon kotodama user, crushed him with air pressure, and Hime attempted to beat the everloving shit out of Enjin before being stopped by Shidou, a demon police officer. Enjin managed to get away during this time, while the others discovered that Akina was alive thanks to holding one of Hime’s memos underneath his shirt, which stopped the blade from reaching his stomach.
Soon after this, Enjin met up with a rather large group of demon hunters, and managed to convince them to join his side, since if the dimensions became integrated, there would be many more demons for them to hunt. However, because Enjin was using the body of a demon, the demon hunters hated Enjin. He didn’t mind; he hated them too.
On the way out of the demon hunters’ hideout, Enjin decided that it wasn’t worth taking any risks so close to the hideout of a group of demon hunters, and tuned himself, attempting to go back to the Afterworld. But something went wrong when he tuned himself, and the dimensions distorted a tad bit too much. Enjin ended up failing and not tuning himself to the world of the humans or the Afterworld, but to a totally different dimension altogether.
Other: The above sections have a crapload of unmarked fanon in them due to the fact that I’m pulling Enjin from shortly after the fifth volume of the manga, which isn’t really the best place to pull the main antagonist, but I refuse to use the anime as a source for the character due to the amount of adaption decay between the two of them, plus there’s the whole fact that Enjin and Gin are split at the end of the anime oh you should know that of course they split it’s the end of the anime.
Also, in case you’re wondering, Enjin’s a pretty major expy of Naoya from Devil Survivor. Technically, Naoya’s the expy; Yozakura Quartet came before Devil Survivor did.
Also, since I'm using the Del Rey translation for Yozakura Quartet as my source, I use the term Afterworld, which is what they use in their translation, instead of Otherworld, which is what the main Yozakura Quartet scanlation uses.
Picture: Design sketch from manga
Anime screenshot
Enjin’s scar
