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Player & Age: Mae ( 25 )
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Character & Canon: Yukina ( Yu Yu Hakusho )
District: Whitewood

Personality:

Anyone who has even heard of an ice maiden knows that they are cold, emotionless, and by all means of the definition, heartless. Particularly to everyone other than their own kind. Their fear of men has guided their ways and left them to shun the world, surviving amongst themselves on the floating island of ice and snow above Makai. But Yukina was not like the rest of her kind. While others were cold to strangers, she is warm and smiles in welcome to them. While they judge she merely accepts people for who they are. When they hate, she loves. Yukina is everything that the ice maidens she had once lived with are not. She is unlike any koorime anyone has ever seen.

The koorime is a kind and caring demon who likes humans, which is something of a surprise all things considered. Due to her kind nature animals see no reason to fear her. Birds tend to be a constant companion of hers and had been her only friends at the time of her captivity. Despite her life on the island she shows kindness to others no matter who they are. Instead of jumping to conclusions she prefers to make her own decisions about a person. Some may call it being naive, and sometimes she can be, but in her case it has allowed to make friends with the most unlikely of people.

To those who have been cruel to her she has shown mercy. Even in the case of Tarukane, the human who had tortured her for her tears, she had begged Hiei not to kill him. She doesn't see what can be achieved by killing someone nor would it change anything. Instead, she chose to live with those memories and move on with her life. She didn't want to see anyone else die because of her. No matter who they were.

Her sweet disposition makes it easy for her to get along with just about anyone. She has made friends with humans and non-humans whom she has become close to. Keiko, Shizuru, and Botan are the ones she spends the most time with when she returned from the island and went to the tournament. They were the ones to find her wandering the tournament grounds and took it upon themselves to make sure she got inside safely. Yukina spent the most time bonding with them, becoming close friends, even considering them to be like sisters. They were the first female company she had that was not her own kind. From them she was able to learn more about the human world and what it is that humans do. Not to mention she could rely on them for help understanding some of matters Kazuma would ramble on about. Another human worth mentioning is Genkai, who after the events of the tournament, allowed for Yukina to come stay with her at the temple. While the relationship between them isn't seen often on screen, based on the OVAs and the movie, Yukina helps the older woman take care of the temple grounds. It is easy to assume that the pair gets along just fine since Genkai has yet to yell at her for doing something stupid or idiotic.

When it comes to Kazuma, he is one of the people she trusts the most. Granted he seems a little odd to her, particular since the concepts of "romance" and "love" tend to go over her head, but she finds him to be endearing and sweet. Not only was he a part of the team that rescued her from Tarukane, but Kazuma was the one who could see what happened to her and understand the pain she had suffered. His concern for her touched her deeply. She even assured Kazuma that she didn't hate humans at all, despite what Tarukane had done, and has since then wanted to help him and Yusuke for everything they had done for her. Their relationship is a sweet, adorable, and a little clumsy, but despite his bizarre tendencies she has relied on him for help.

The only other person who had puzzled her the most at first though was the imiko, Hiei. Ever since she first met him upon her rescue she has always felt as if she should know him, which is certainly saying something since he was the brother she had been searching for. While others may have warned her to be careful around him she always felt comfortable in his presence. After all, he had saved her life on more than one occasion. How could someone who has helped her so many times before be a bad person? Having the utmost respect for him, Yukina put her trust in him as she had Kazuma and the others. Even though he had repeatedly told her to give up on her search for her brother she would thank him for his advice with a smile but refuse to give up. Towards the end of the series, when she had given him the tear-drop stone that had been given to her by her mother, the ice maiden asked him to give her brother that necklace should he find him. She had recanted the story of her twin, or at least the little that she knew, to him and how she felt about her people. It was than that he scolded her and gave her advice that, once he was finished, she made a point to say that those words of his sounded like the advice a sister would normally hear from her brother.

However, she does have a stubborn streak. Her determination and well-meant intentions had motivated her to learn all that she could in the matters of healing. It was her way of saying thanks to those who had rescued her, as well as to make up for her own insecurities. Disobeying the rules of her people she left the island a second time, but this time by choice. Knowing full well of the consequences that would come she still decided to abandon her people to seek out her missing brother as well as to assist Yusuke and the others. She walked away from the other koorime without any intention of going back. She wanted to live her life as she saw fit. One that was not cut off from the world she had grown fond of.

It can be noted though that despite her kind nature, her own heart is cold when it comes to that of her people. Unable to forgive the women of the island for what they had done to her brother and not finding it possible to agree with their way of life, she felt nothing for them. The only ice maiden she had ever allowed herself to let into her life was Rui, her mother's closest friend. But even then it was a fragile relationship.