Karen Matsumoto
Karen Matsumoto is a one of the main characters and antagonists of █████████████████████, and leader of the Eastern Yōkai Alliance. Being the daughter of the infamous Tamamo-no-Mae, Karen is extremely talented at using her demonic powers and able to draw on power beyond her years. To oppose what she sees as the fall of Eastern power to Western culture, Karen created the Eastern Yōkai Alliance of creatures across East Asia to take down leaders from every demonic species in Europe. Karen is personally invested in killing the Nosferatu, the female leader of the vampires, to prove her dominance.
Appearance
In her sealed form, Karen embodies the appearance of the perfect Japanese woman—Yamato Nadeshiko—long, straight, black hair; snow-white skin; perfect proportions. In her down time, she likes to wear elaborate, floral patterned kimono of crimson and gold.
In her hybrid fox form, her hair changes from jet-black to light blonde and her eyes from black to a dark golden color. Her fingernails also grow slightly, forming sharp claws.
Personality
At her core, Karen is easy-going and jovial, but this is often obfuscated by the stern, business-like demeanor she projects as leader of the Alliance and her enormous pride and desire to the be the world’s strongest.
Powers & Abilities
Physical Abilities
As a yōkai, Karen’s physical capabilities are superhuman in nature. Her physical abilities can be further enhanced through usage of her demonic aura (妖気, Zh: yāogqì, Ja: yōki).
- Superhuman strength: Karen is able to lift a boulder as tall as her over her head with ease.
- Superhuman speed: Karen’s speed exceed that of human perception, appearing behind her opponent and catching them off-guard often undetected until too late.
- Superhuman reflex: Karen developed her reflex to be able to respond to opponents capable of keeping up with her high speed.
- Superhuman durability: Karen’s base defensive capabilities are higher than the average yōkai, and it can be further improved through the use of demonic aura as armor.
- Enhanced olfactory sense: Being a fox spirit, Karen inherits a fox’s enhanced sense of smell.
Demonic Arts
As a demon fox, Karen’s aura has the fire attribute, allowing her to conjure flames from any part of her body and manipulate them at will.
- Demonic aura armament: Karen can use her demonic aura to coat specific areas of her body to bolster her defensive capability or improve her strikes.
- Fox fire (狐火, kitsunebi): Being a fox spirit, Karen’s demonic aura naturally has a fire attribute. With each additional tail released, her flames grow hotter, from red to green to blue then white. In her base form, her flames are golden, a characteristic shared with her mother.
- Karen also possesses a second type of fire called the Flame of Destruction (破壊の炎, hakai no honō), a black flame that doesn’t emit any heat but still burns anything that it touches—even that which shouldn’t be able to be burned.
- Flame Wheel (火炎車, kaen guruma): fox fire takes the form of a spinning ring of fire that charges at the opponent
- Transformation: Karen is capable of transforming into any living or non-living being. Although there is no apparent physical differences between the real thing and Karen’s transformation, she cannot fully conceal her demonic aura, and thus can be detected by a skilled sensory user.
Quotes
- “Trust is very important in a collaboration. If I can’t trust you, then how can I be sure you won’t betray me? Unlike my followers, I can’t use force to subdue you, so I can only rely on trust.”
Inspiration & Trivia
- The kanji used for Karen’s name (可憐) means “pretty” or “lovely”.
Karen Matsumoto
Dark gold (unsealed)
Light blonde (unsealed)
Professional Status
Personal Status
Kurama (father)
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