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Name: Annaya Hakurei
Aliases: The Hakurei Goddess. The former shrine maiden. The Deified Miko. The Goddess of seals. The Goddess of barriers.
Race: God
Abilities: Annaya is an expert on creating advanced and complex seals while in combat. She usually uses seals to immediately disable her opponents while in combat. She even has made some seals that can actually harm, or outright kill someone if they get hit by her seals. Annaya is also capable of creating powerful barriers that can even stop the most developing of attacks.
Annaya is also able to utilize the divine power that can be channeled from Shinto Gods, and Goddesses. She can use this power to augment her strength and spiritual power while fighting.
Annaya is capable of manipulating her own aura to her advantage when fighting youkai, and other demonic entities. She can emit an aura of holiness which makes youkai, and demonic creatures uncomfortable near her, and Annaya is also able to turn off this aura whenever she wants to. Annaya is also able to use telepathy, heal people with her aura, sense auras of other people, and read their auras.
After becoming the Hakurei Goddess, a lot of Annaya's abilities were amplified. She can create the most complex seals instantly without any effort, and already knows the 1000 forbidden seals that sealed Trihexa. Instead of channeling divine power given to her by a Shinto God, Annaya can fully utilized her own divine powers to the fullest extent.
Annaya's manipulation of aura is much more powerful, and when she emits her aura of holiness, youkai, and other demonic entities will be in extreme pain, when they are standing by her. Annaya also gains new aura abilities such as directly infusing her divine aura to people, absorb someone's own aura to heal her own aura, create aura armor around her body, and be able to see through even the most powerful illusions.
Unlike other gods and goddesses Annaya doesn't run on faith to keep herself from fading away. Due to this, the former shrine maiden doesn't require faith to stay alive and keep herself from losing her powers.
Personality/Appearance: Annaya is described as a stern and serious person when she doing shrine maiden work like exterminating youkai. She also originally considered youkai as beings that needed to be destroyed, but after meeting several friendly youkai she realized they weren't that bad.
Annaya is very affectionate and loving toward her husband Ryūjin, after they were married. Annaya also doesn't care about gathering faith or donations at all, since she cares more about raising her daughter Reimu, and being with Ryūjin.
Annaya wears a standard shrine maiden get up which includes a red hakama, and a white kimono robe. She also originally had brown hair and brown hair. Annaya's appearance changed after she became the Hakurei God, her eyes glow red, and six Ying Yang Orbs float behind her.
Possessions: Annaya owned a pair yo-yos during her childhood years that she played with. After she became the Hakurei God, she modified it, so she can use it for combat. The twin yo-yos are able to inflict heavy damage on her enemies especially on youkai since it is imbued with holy magic. She is also able to lengthen the string of the yo-yos, and manipulate the trajectory of where her weapons in any direction.
Backstory: Annaya was born into the Hakurei family clan, and didn't even know what happened to her parents. She was taught to always consider youkai as evil beings, and she thought so as well.
While training as a shrine maiden trainee, Annaya met an unnamed youkai that didn't attack her at all, and she started to question if what she's been taught about the youkai has been a lie.
When she became a full fledged maiden at 18, she ended up fighting Mima, and managed to defeat her by sealing the vengeful spirit with strong seals to keep her in hell. She also fully mastered her skills in aura manipulation, and has been able to call divine powers from the different Shinto Gods & Goddesses. And just like the previous mikos before her she doesn't know who the Hakurei God is….yet.
While Annaya was busy cleaning up the Hakurei Shrine, she ended up getting a visitor, who called himself Ryūjin. Ryūjin came to the shrine to donate, because he wanted to give a donation to her for her services with dealing with the supernatural. She gladly accepted the donations not out of greed, but because this is the first time someone actually recognized. Ryūjin is also considered to be Annaya's first ever friend.
In the next 10 years, Annaya and Ryūjin would become married with each other in private. 11 months after the wedding, Ryūjin ends up telling the shrine maiden that he isn't just a man, but the Dragon God. Despite being told of this now, Annaya still considers Ryūjin to be her husband.
In the next year, Annaya gives birth to her daughter whom Ryūjin named Reimu Hakurei.
When Reimu was six years old, several powerful wild youkai attacked the Hakurei Shrine, and during the battle Annaya was severely wounded to the point of death. However, before the youkai can finish her off, Ryūjin came in, and killed them all.
Before Annaya died from her fatal injuries, Ryūjin saved her by filling her body up with divine energy which turned her into a god, more specifically the Hakurei God.
After this event, Annaya still took care of Reimu, but she and Ryūjin moved into his Dragon Palace in Heaven. During this point in time Annaya decides to retire, and now trains Reimu on how to be a shrine maiden.
While Marisa and Reimu were off dealing with the culprit behind the Lotus Land Incident, Annaya was confronted by her former enemy Mima. When questioned why she wanted to talk with her in private, Mima told Annaya that, she checked her affinity levels, and said that she was filled to the brim with divine power. The retired shrine maiden tells the vengeful spirit that she was now the Hakurei God, but don't tell Reimu that, because she wanted it to be a surprise for her daughter. After explaining they talked like old friends do after being separated for so long.
Annaya helped Ryūjin with freeing his brother Trihexa from his seals that God from the Bible placed him in. She decided to help, because the deified miko wanted to repay the Dragon God for what he has been doing for her. After unsealing Trihexa Annaya, then sealed a fake body of the apocalypse dragon created by Ryūjin with the same seals used to seal him. When asked why, Ryūjin said it was to fool anyone who wanted to release the apocalypse dragon, and waste their resources.
During all the major incidents in Gensokyo, Annaya secretly helped Reimu with her battles by giving her divine power to the new miko.
When Ryūjin revealed himself to all of Gensokyo's populace during the Dragon Incident so did Annaya as the Hakurei God. All of the Dragon Incident Teams decides to team up and fight the both of them, but they had support such as Trihexa, and several of the Dragon Messengers to help.
After the Dragon Incident, Annaya assisted her daughter Reimu in helping the shrine get popular. Both because she wanted Reimu to stop complaining about getting money & donations, and also to settle the odds with her rival Kanako Yasaka.
Relationships:
Ryūjin: The Dragon God is Annaya's husband, and she loves him with all her heart. She cares a lot about him, and was willing to actually help free his brother Trihexa so as to repay him for all the things he has done for her. She lives with him in the Dragon Palace.
Reimu Hakurei: Reimu is Annaya and Ryūjin's daughter. During the miko's younger years both of them took care of her to the best of their ability. During all the incidents that Reimu has participated in Annaya gave her daughter some of her power to help with the battles she faced off. Currently Annaya is helping the new shrine maiden with getting donations and visitors, because she cares for her and to stop the miko from complaining anymore.
Genji: During Annaya's younger years, the old turtle assisted her with learning on how to be a shrine maiden. In present times, she checks up on Genji to see how he's doing.
Mima: Annaya and Mima used to be former enemies when the former was still a shrine maiden. The former shrine maiden considers Mima a friend even when she almost killed her, back then. The two of them also spar against each other, whenever they are bored, and also to not rust their skills.
SinGyoku: The of them are the embodiments of the Ying Yang Orbs that Annaya used in combat. They were originally Annaya's protectors when she was still a shrine maiden, now they serve as her two servants.
Kanako Yasaka: Annaya's assistance to help the Hakurei Shrine to grow in popularity for the first time in centuries, inevitably led to her being rivals with Kanako. Kanako is also envious of Annaya since she is able to live out the rest of her normal divine life without needing faith to prevent herself from dying.
Trihexa: Annaya was the one responsible in freeing the apocalypse dragon from his seals to free him. Trihexa is forever grateful for the former shrine maiden for freeing him from his prison. She is also his sister in law.
Theme Song:
Japanese Fantasy Music - Honō no Megami (炎の女神)