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AnE OC - Kojika Fujiwara

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I just realized that the file said Kojika was the second youngest of six, when she's really the second youngest of five (including her dead sister), so I changed it. Sorry~

I also changed granny's and the younger twin's name, keeping up the pattern of how I've named the girls of the family and making it easier for people to know who Kojika is talking about when she says 'Sei-nii' and 'Shin-nii'.
Besides, 'refined second son' doesn't fit the rebellious twin at all, so I went with 'true second son' instead.

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Kojika was born into the Fujiwara family of the Kasuga-taisha, or Kasuga grand Shrine, and comes from a long line of Miko and powerful Itako ([link]). Being the only Fujiwara child born completely blind, much like her grandmother, qualified Kojika for the task of being the next generation Itako of her family and she was trained from a rather young age instead of normally starting at only twelve.

Being the only one among her siblings that was born blind and was constantly being taken away from the large family shrine by her grandmother to train was hard on Kojika, but she always had her older sister to run to. Chouko, the eldest child of of the Fujiwara family, was the one that was closest to Kojika due to them both being the only daughters of the household and Kojika being rather insecure as a child.

Chouko would spend as much time with her younger sister as she could while taking care of her duties at the shrine, but ended up suddenly becoming ill one day when Kojika was only about ten years of age. Her and her grandmother were called back home to the shrine, finding that the illness was being caused by a demon when an exorcist called Shiro Fujimoto showed up. He had a young boy at his side to observe how to properly draw a demon from one's body, said boy being none other than Yukio Okumura.

Despite Father Fujimoto being the one who Exorcised the demon that had invaded Chouko's body like a foul poison, the damage had already been done; Chouko wouldn't live much longer...knowing that, the eldest Fujiwara child requested that her family be with her when she passed on. Especially Kojika. Though Kojika wasn't too sure about what was going on, she was eager to be by her sister's side instead of being forced to stay away from the room.

In Chouko's final moments, with her pregnant mother, warm father, unusually stone-faced grandmother, and obnoxious younger twin brothers crying, the eldest daughter let Kojika rest her head against her chest. She sang to her family, right to her very last breath, and died with a tender smile upon her face.

Kojika took her sister's death rather hard, taking up hand-to-hand combat training from her father and older brothers to try to get stronger on her own. Despite getting her butt kicked and being scolded by her mother and grandmother, Kojika didn't stop until her heightened senses only became sharper to aid her movements. When she had accidentally pulled a small demon into her body during her Itako training, however, Kojika not only realized that she had an ability that could prevent demons from hurting anyone else, but she also came to see that she couldn't do everything on her own.

When she was cured by Father Fujimoto, Kojika went back to her Itako training full time and was able to be wedded to a god by the age of thirteen. The deity that had possessed her body during her Kamizukishiki was Ame-no-Koyane-no-Mikoto, a Shinto Deity considered to be an ancestor to the Fujiwara clan. Ame-no-Koyane promised to help guide Kojika along the path she wanted to walk, along with her familiar, as long as she would only use the powers she was blessed with against evil.

Kojika told Ame-no-Koyane that he didn't have to tell her to use her powers for good, because had planned to do so the day her sister had died...Kojika wanted to become an exorcist for the sake of keeping those dear to her safe, preventing demons from trying to kill the people around her. Impressed by her ambition and knowing that becoming an Exorcist would be difficult for the girl, Ame-no-Koyane agreed to help as best he could.

It took a while, even with Ame-no-Koyane's help, but Kojika managed to talk her family into letting her attend the Cross Academy Exorcist Cram School when she was fifteen. It would be difficult, given that she had such a handicap as blindness, but if she pulled it off Kojika would become the first Itako to make it as an Exorcist.

Along with her natural Itako ability to channel spirits, and the rare ability bind demons with the beads of protection she's had to wear since she was an infant, Kojika uses the assistance of her deceased sister's Haraigushi ([link]) and her familiar. The Haraigushi is a tool from the Shinto religion used to purify an area, which is what Kojika uses it for to prepare a small area before she does her thing.

Kojika's familiar, Chie-Hime, is the spirit of a Sika Deer (which are believed to be the messengers of the gods in Japan) that had turned into a being of nature and has been with Kojika since she was born. Chie had come into the shrine/home mere hours before Kojika was born, simply lying beside her mother and watching her in utter silence. This isn't unnatural for the current generation of Fujiwara family, however, seeing as members of her mother's side of the family usually are found by a familiar or animal guide in the earlier years of their life.

The markings on the doe's forehead, ears, and around her eyes are an extremely light green that become luminescent in the dark, while the four points upon her forehead look like simple dots until she takes the offensive in protecting Kojika. When that happens, the four rounded points quickly become four deadly horns.

Being a nature spirit as well, Chie has the ability to grow plants. However, it isn't quite as controlled as a Greenman's ability (the 'demons' in which some nature spirits are easily mistaken for due to many similarities) to grow plants from its body. If the doe steps upon the ground, she usually leaves a trail of squishy moss, soft grass, and flowers in her wake.

Kojika is aiming to become a Tamer and a Doctor, or a Tamer and an Aria...or all three, due to her potential as a Tamer and an Aria, but her desire to want to be a doctor has her conflicted.

With her family, despite some worries about her being an Exorcist and the loss of her big sister Chouko (died at 16), it's a happy family. Her parents, Kazuo and Chikako (44 and 42; happily married for 23 years, despite it being arranged), are both caring and loving people, along with her over-protective and obnoxious older brothers Seiichi and Shinji (19; twins), her sweet and slightly clingy younger brother Saburo (5), and of course...Granny Inoshishiko (63), the appearingly sweet little old lady, but damn scary woman.

Kojika also has a penpal that's of the Wiccan religion, who is currently traveling around the world and calls but mostly sends letters that Kojika has to ask someone to read to her.

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Yup, here she is, my Ao No Exorcist OC Kojika Fujiwara!

And before you bother asking, no, neither of these were made from someone else's base!!! (and you can tell, the full body pose is so...awkward DX)

I just learned the hard way that I'm better at using Paint with a smaller scale than a large one, and if you're going to be doing a full body picture with a weird freaking pose, the amount of references you need are going to KILL you. It took me almost an entire month, five different anatomy books, and tips from my cousin to get the full body to look somewhat decent and there are STILL an ass load of problems with the pose! But, seeing as this is as good as I'm gonna get until I practice to get good enough so it looks natural, I can't complain too much.

Making the doe in that pose was freaking hard too, but that aside, this was fun.

...though I hate how the picture of her shoulders up looks, but that's my usual style when I do things that size and I wanted to do something to show her colors so ^^'

Anyways, about Kojika, I don't whether to pair her up with Yukio, Bon, or, lord smite me where I stand for even thinking this...Mephisto >_>

I think it may be Bon, though (and I'm willing to fight you for him, :iconstelth9: ), because I think Kojika and grumpy Bon would be such a great couple together XD

Btw, Kojika's name means 'Fawn', thanks to her familiar being a doe~

I'm debating on whether making IKZO's 'Itako Girl' ([link]) or Ai Otsuko's 'Cherish' Kojika's theme song.

Kojika Fujiwara and the pictures done on paint (c) me! (I might make the full body picture into a base without the doe, if I feel like it~)
Ao No Exorcist student/exorcist for template (c) :iconlolitaii:

I did a lot of research on this one; can you tell?
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Wheelzzz's avatar
FFFFFFFFF
She's so adorable! QnQ

It's too bad she's scared of dogs, though.