#* canon: ichihara yūko

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»»        * 𝐼CHIHARA 𝒴ŪKO    ஐ🪽 . . .      people are always more likely to do something once it has been forbidden. and after they have crossed that line, there is no telling what else they are capable of doing to get what it is they want. the things that a person wishes for often reveal more of them than they like.

         ▍   note:   yūko is an incredibly op muse but also her curse makes it so even if she is aware of the future she is not allowed to directly interact or change an outcome. her knowledge is her biggest asset and also what haunts her most. she will know things about your muse without being told, i will use my discretion with this ability but it is important to keep in mind.

» DOSSIER.

full name: ichihara yūko ( 壱原 侑子 ) true name: agehana (揚花) titles: the dimension witch, the space-time witch, the far-east witch age: unknown ( appears to be in her 30s ) birthplace: unknown current residence: tokyo, japan gender: cis female ( she / her ) sexuality: bisexual ethnicity: mixed japanese/han-chinese/manchu-descent birthday: unknown occupation: shop keeper, granter of wishes languages: limitless… most spoken are: japanese, mandarin, cantonese, korean, mongolian, and rarely english

» APPEARANCE.

hair: endlessly long inky black, tapers off at the bottom of her calves eyes: switch between a warm gold and wine red depending on the day height: 5'9" / 175 cm body type: slender and elongated limbs, yūko is tall but also incredibly curvaceous, she has an hourglass figure and the personality to match it behaviors: prone to drinking heavily and smoking without end, she can be seen doing both in tandem more often than not, she lounges about often and finds no greater pleasure than eating and gossiping, she has a temperament that can change at the drop of hat: ranging from direly serious to completely ridiculous and child-like from one moment to the next.

» ASSOCIATED MOTIFS.

the swallow-tailed butterflies, peacocks, wolves, chrysanthemums, spider lilies, lotus flowers, the crescent moon, curling smoke tendrils, the wheel of fortune arcana

» HISTORY.

       yūko is the owner of a mysterious shop in tokyo. she is a dealer in wishes as she will grant the sincere wish of anyone who is willing to make an appropriate sacrifice in return; the price is always equivalent to the weight of the wish, no more, no less. a sorceress of immense power thus she is one of the few people with the ability to send people to multiple worlds, such that she has been aptly named the dimension witch. yūko herself possesses knowledge across multiple timelines and can traverse through time and worlds though she tends to keep to her own corner of the universe.

       despite her immense power the witch is an eccentric wine aunt to her core. yūko is often seen as a cryptic deeply puzzling figure within the confines of her canon, she speaks in a manner akin to riddle and also comes off as a person with little care other than indulging in her vices. underneath her enigmatic persona is a deeply sorrowful woman with a loneliness with no cure. many years ago she was cursed with immortality by her former lover. in her last moments he wished for her life to continue on and since then she has been frozen in time.

       currently her role is that of maintaining the cosmic balance of the universe. all the while she trains... and tortures her apprentice watanuki and sends him on mystical errands to held test the limits of his skills. she is a guardian to cursed objects, a collector of memories, a keeper of worlds. her work is that of tending to a multiversal garden; to steer fate but not directly oppose it.

» ABILITIES.

wish-granting: all of yūko's customers must pay a price in order to grant their wishes, which can be no more or no less than the one demanded, or else harm will come one's way. she is not one to tell her customers the most direct way to solve their problems because in the end, it can only be solved with that person's own realization and resolution to change themselves. often if the person lacks the sincere determination to change themselves, a karmic disaster that cannot be stopped will inevitably befall them.

dimensional travel: most relevant to canon is how she can send other people through time at her own behest. yūko herself can traverse through other dimensions, parallel or otherwise, and often does so in order to obtain materials related to her shop or fulfill the wishes of others across the multiverse

time travel: similar to her ability to transport herself to other dimensions yūko is also able to travel through time although on a daily basis she uses this ability to help channel her precognitive abilities. it should also be noted that she does not perceive all the timelines, all the time, all at once. rather she can channel specific moments when needed though it is possible for her to perceive multiple universes at the same time it is an ability that requires more focus than she can afford daily.

divination: for yūko this is more of a tool to help her hone in on her space-time skillset. it aides her focus and narrows her view point across the multiverse to access very specific information about very specific people. scrying is her preferred method of divining but she is capable of accessing information through other channels as well.

emotional perception: required for wish-granting, yūko knows the desires of anyone she comes across inherently. desires function as unfulfilled wishes or wishes that have not yet been realized therefore yūko is able parse out what lies in the depths others peoples hearts without having to be explicitly told.

telepathy: a conditional skill that has only been shown to work on those who have made deals with yūko. this isn't an ability she employs often and to be honest it is usually used to get a quick laugh out of her by scaring whoever's mind she manages to worm her way into.

» VERSES.

i'll come back and edit this once i have more detailed verses written out ! but or now a good rule of thumb for crossover interactions is the fact that yūko's shop can exist ANYWHERE in many different contexts and serving and infinite amount of functions. the shop is like it's owner a chamleon entity changing it's shape and name to suite it's environment

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Bracket update! Round 3 matches will begin going up tomorrow. Matchups are in text form under the cut.

Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All At Once) vs. Almalexia (The Elder Scrolls)

GLaDOS/Caroline (Portal) vs. Helen Richardson/The Distortion (The Magnus Archives)

Lady Barbrey Dustin (A Song of Ice and Fire) vs. Jennifer Check (Jennifer's Body)

Artemis (Greek Mythology) vs. Shego (Kim-Possible)

Morgana Pendragon/Le Fey (BBC Merlin) vs. Nimona (Nimona)

Ianthe Tridentarius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Lady Alcina Dimitrescu (Resident Evil: Village)

Vriska Serket (Homestuck) vs. Galadriel (Lord of the Rings)

Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond (Steven Universe) vs. Yūko Ichihara (xxxHolic)

Granny Weatherwax (Discworld) vs. Starlight Glimmer (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show) vs. Empress Phillipa Georgiou (Star Trek)

Dr. Pamela Isley AKA Poison Ivy (DCEU) vs. Reagan Ridley (Inside Job)

Marcille Donato (Dungeon Meshi) vs. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (House MD)

Han Sooyung (Omnsicient Reader's Viewpoint) vs. Nadja of Antipaxos (What We Do In The Shadows)

Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa) vs. Vermouth (Detective Conan)

Asuka Langley Soryu (Neon Genesis Evangelion) vs. Anthy Himemiya (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

O-Ren Ishii (Kill Bill) vs. Harley Quinn (DCEU)

Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs. Eve (Biblical Canon)

Marina (Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas) vs. Halea Haumea (Phantomarine)

Wu Zetian (IRL History) vs. Miranda Pryce (Wolf 359)

Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum (Adventure Time) vs. Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb)

Catra (She-Ra and The Princesses of Power) vs. Jasnah Kholin (Stormlight Archive)

Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight) vs. Any Female Praying Mantis (IRL)

Veronica Sawyer (Heathers) vs. Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Noi (Dorohedoro) vs. Rat God (Mad Rat Dead)

Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club) vs. Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd)

Lady Eboshi (Princess Mononoke) vs. Princess Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Samantha Groves AKA Root (Person of Interest) vs. Raphaella la Cognizi (The Mechanisms)

Yennefer of Vengerberg (The Witcher) vs. Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Gertrude Robinson (The Magnus Archives) vs. Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Romanadvoratrelundar (Doctor Who) vs. Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Aubrey (OMORI) vs. Dr. Olivia "Liv" Octavius AKA Doc Ock (Into the Spider-Verse)

The Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2) vs. Lucretia (The Adventure Zone: Balance)