Benihime Inari Shrine
A small shrine to the fox kami Benihime, located in southeastern Tokyo, near Asakusa. The shrine was founded in the Taishou era and Benihime Inari gained a following by granting small wishes and protecting children during air raids on the city in World War II. These same children now bring their families to the shrine to pray for luck and safety. The shrine is currently managed by the Hachikuji family who inherited it from their mother.Hachikuji Nana 八九時なな
- Name Meaning: "eight nine temple," the old word for "July" with her nickname being the phonetic spelling of "seven"
- Classification: ikiryou, human
- Pronouns: she/her, uses "atashi" or "watashi"
- Age: 22 (1999)
- Blood Type: O+
- Job Title:
- Practice:
- Specialty: Shinto purification, divination
- Affiliation: Benihime Inari Jinja (Benihime Inari Shrine)
- Alignment: Neutral Good
The head of Benihime Inari-jinja and the eldest child of the Hachikuji family, Nana is a bit too timid to make any kind of matriarch. However, she is a caring and thoughtful person who can put her anxiety aside to take care of others. She is one of Junna's oldest friends and can often be found cleaning the shrine grounds between telling fortunes and selling omamori.
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- Keep Tryin' [Utada Hikaru]
Hachikuji Shigoro 八九寺四五六
- Name Meaning: "eight nine temple," "four five six"
- Classification: ikiryou, Human
- Age: 21 (2000)
- Blood Type: O+
- Job Title: Onmyouji
- Practice: Onmyoudou, Shingon Buddhism, Shugendou
- Specialty: illusion magic
- Affiliation: Hachikuji Family, works as Takara Takuto's partner
- Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
The middle Hachikuji child, his place in the family actually holds an unpleasant secret. He was trained in onmyoudo by his father and alongside the Takara triplets and also dabbles in illusion magic very similiar to the abilities of a kitsune. Currently, he works as an exorcist alongside Takara Takuto. He is affable on the surface but cunning and manipulative as well.
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Hachikuji Hifumi 八九寺一二三
- Name Meaning: "eight nine temple," "one two three"
- Classification: ikiryou, human
- Pronouns: she/her, speaks in third person
- Age: 12 (2009)
- Blood Type: O+
- Job Title: junior high school student
- Practice: n/a
- Specialty: ghost sightings, intuition
- Affiliation: Benhihime Inari-jinja
- Alignment: Neutral Good
The youngest Hachikuji child, quiet and mysterious. She is autistic and rarely speaks to people she doesn't know well. Because of her quirks, she has a hard time at school and often stays home, doing her work on her own time. She has a bad habit of staring.
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Benihime Inari 紅姫 稲荷
- Name meaning: "red princess," "fox spirit"
- Classification: ikiryou, kami (Inari Kitsune, a fox spirit serving the kami Inari)
- Pronouns: she/her, uses "uchi"
- Age: ~150
- Specialty: kitsune magic (illusions, barriers, luck spells)
- Alignment: Neutral Good
A benevolent kitsune who answers prayers with small amounts of supernatural protection and luck. She was born in the Meiji Era and earned most of her tails during the early Showa Era when she protected children who lived near the shrine from air raids during the second World War. These children still patronize her shrine, now bringing their own children and grandchildren.
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Kajiyashiki Kei 鍛冶屋敷 ケイ
- Name Meaning: "black smith mansion," phonetic name
- Classification: ikiryou, human
- Pronouns: he/him, uses "ore"
- Age: 35 (1986)
- Blood Type: O+
- Job Title: photographer, camera store clerk
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- Specialty: ghost photography, paranormal research
- Affiliation: Benihime Inari-jinja
- Alignment: Neutral Good
Warm and friendly, he has acted as a guardian for the Hachikuji siblings since their parents died (he was and old friend of their father). Easy-going and reliable, can be an enabler. He works at a camera story in Shinjuku and also has a photography business on the side. He can see ghosts, but his sense for the supernatural isn't very strong. He was an underclassman friend of Hachikuji-papa, which is how he's connected to the family.
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Doikawa Shrine
A temple dedicated to the mysterious Doikawa-no-Kamisama (or "Doikawa-sama" more casually"), an ancient deity with little known iformation about it. The current head of the temple is Doikawa Touko, a descendant of the famous onmyouji Abe-no-Seimei. The name "Doikawa," written with the characters for "earth well river" might hold a clue as to the nature or origin of kami housed there. The item that supposedly enshrines Doikawa-sama is an old mirror. The shrine doesn't have any particular specialties, but offers the usual fortune-telling and a wide array of omamori.Doikawa Touko 土井川 東子
- Name Meaning: "earth well river," "east child"
- Classification: ikiryou, human
- Pronouns: she/her
- Age: 35
- Blood Type: B+
- Job Title: Kannushi (head priest) of Doikawa-jinja
- Practice: Shinto
- Specialty: purification and exorcisms
- Alignment: Lawful Good
The head of Doikawa Shrine and a descendant of Abe-no-Seimei. She has a serious personality and can be strict, but her heart is not hardened. Her sense of justice is strong. Her current goal is completing, or at least updating, a codex of the supernatural. She was a mentor to Junna, not old enough to be teacher but not young enough to be an upperclassman.
