Yukime

"The winner will be you, Mr.Shadow, and it will be I."

- Yukime, to Shadow

Yukime (ユキメ) is the ruler of the White Tower in the Lawless City, known as the Spirit Fox (妖狐). Yukime also controls the pleasure district and the president of the Snow Fox Corporation. She was the fiancée of Gettan.

Appearance
As a Beastkin Fox, Yukime possesses the natural traits of her people, which are her long fox ears and nine tails. Yukime was recognized as a bewitching beauty, with a beautiful face with long snow-white hair, blue eyes, and a curvatuous figure. Yukime covered her horrendous scars behind her back by hiding it inside her kimono. After the end of the Trade Conflict, Shadow healed her properly and removed the scars.

She is dressed in her illustrious kimono colored snow-white as well, with fur on the shoulders, has gold accents on the cuffs, and blue lines accompanying them. The kimono is held together by her Obi, a sash around the belly, where she also keeps her two iron war fans for self-defense.

She has a Japanese style ornamentation: ribbon knots in her hair, bracelets in her hands, rings on her fingers, a pair of Geta sandals. a blue necklace accessory worn at her waist, and Japanese rings near the tips of her nine fox tails. These rings seem similar to Buddhist prayer beads, denoting some measure of spiritual or magical meaning.

Personality
"Verily, I wish for us to get close, Mr. Shadow."

- Yukime, to Shadow

Yukime is an aloof beastkin who uses vulgar language and a very strong woman who has built her current position as the ruler of the White Tower, based on her firm determination.

As the leader of the White Tower, Yukime is an intelligent, cold and ruthless woman that will destroy anyone that gets in the way. Being a former prostitute, Yukime also has a seductive personality as she would often use her beautiful appearance and teasing personality to entice men to lower their guard, particularly towards Shadow who most likely attempts to persuade him to join her.

Although Yukime is in charge of the pleasure district, she actually cares for her ladies to which when she meets Shadow for the first time in the Crimson Tower, the first thing Yukime does is to thank him for saving them from the ghouls. She's also a shrewd businesswoman who runs a legitimate company outside the Lawless City.

Long ago, Yukime was once a kind and loving girl but after her entire peaceful life was taken away from her, she dramatically changed, becoming a calculating and manipulative woman. She is even willing to use others to achieve her goal of revenge. Even so, Yukime seems reluctant when doing so because her kind heart still lingered as she's quite ashamed for deceiving those she genuinely respected as her equals and truly cared for her subordinates.

Despite this though, Yukime still has feelings for Gettan and after Shadow comes to save her, she is back to her old self.

Background
Yukime was born to the daughter of the Spirit Fox tribe's leader. One day when Yukime was age 14, a rival Beastkin tribe invaded the village, and she was about to be taken by them as a slave. That is until Gettan, the son of the Dire Wolves' Elder, rescued her and slaughtered the attackers. Yukime and Gettan fell in love ever since then. The Spirit Fox and Dire Wolf tribes chose to form an alliance to better defend themselves against the upcoming war by having Yukime and Gettan get married which is something both of them were happy to comply. However, Yukime had to reach the age of 15 before they could officially get married.

When the war had occurred, both tribes fell victim with only Yukime and Gettan the only survivors. While Yukime tried to comfort her fiancée, Gettan pushed Yukime away and revealed that he tried to save their tribes by gaining aid from a cult but Yukime's mother refused leading to Gettan murdering her. Yukime tried to flee but unfortunately, Gettan brutally attacked her and left slashed marks on her backs. Before Gettan could continue the assault, a mysterious figure intervened. Yukime was unconscious but she felt the figure's magic healing her. When she woke up, Yukime found that not only Gettan was gone but the invaders had been killed. Yukime found her mother's corpse, confirming what Gettan had done.

With her mother and tribe gone, Yukime only had revenge against her former fiancée. She became a battle prostitute and worked her way up till she finally became the leader of the White Tower, also owning countless brothels at the red-light district.

Red Moon Incident
Yukime took part in fending off the Vampire and Ghouls forces during the Red Moon to protect her girls that she is not wanting to lose any more girls again as several of them have been killed. On the way, she has a brief skirmishing with a battle crazed Juggernaut before Shadow arrived and the three agreed to work together in stopping Elizabeth's revival and the resurgence of vampires. Before entering, Yukime ran into White Demon and was passed over him after he found out who she really was, since Juggernaut open the Crimson Tower gate before Shadow killed him.

Once inside, Yukime is able to reach the tower room top floor just in time to battle the Blood Queen, Elisabeth. However, due to her immense amount of magic, she gets severely injured and becomes unable to fight her. However, Shadow later arrives and is able to defeat her.

After the crisis was averted, Yukime heard news about the conflict that had occurred in the Midgar Kingdom. Knowing that her ex-fiancé was involved in the conflict, Yukime asked her servants to secretly invite Shadow to her White Tower since she believed that he is still in the Lawless City by giving him a proposition, aiming for an alliance between the two of them after witnessing his strength which would later be useful for her revenge plan.

Great Trading Company Conflict
Soon after, Shadow went to Yukime request as she informed him of the detail situation regarding Mitsugoshi Company and the Great Commerce Alliance have currently been engage in a covert trade war, plus telling him that she also ran a company on her own. Yukime secretly invited Shadow for assisting her in executing the plan to deliver a huge blow after both sides have been weakened whilst waiting for the right time, without telling him her real reasons. Shadow ended up agreeing to help her, with the favor that will help him get a new outfit, without revealing his identity as such, to which Yukime agreed.

As the two corporations battle for power, Yukime and Shadow, now taking the identity of John Smith devise ways to usurp both factions. It was at that time that John proposed to cause a "counterfeit notes" to Yukime, and after she understood how credit works as such, she agreed, and they both began to manufacturing counterfeit money in spreading counterfeit money to the citizens and carrying the stolen gold from the Lawless City to the secret headquarters where Shadow's older sister, Claire Kagenō had been held captive becomes the site of a counterfeit money printing factory. As time passes, Yukime decides to reveal to Shadow the reason for requesting his aid is to kill Gettan who is a leader of the Great Commerce Alliance.

After their victory is assured, Yukime confronts Gettan and the two former lovers' battle. Despite being in her most powerful state, Yukime lost the fight. Thankfully, Shadow arrives to turn the tide and declaring to Gettan that Yukime was special to him. This touches Yukime, believing that Shadow came to her aid out of love for her. After Gettan was defeated and Shadow healing her past wounds, Yukime then learns that the Cult of Diablos were responsible for Gettan's actions from Alpha and chooses to form an alliance between her faction and Shadow Garden, both organization desiring to end the cult.

Powers & Abilities
Being the ruler of the White Tower of the Lawless City, Yukime is considerably powerful because her strength is based on the sum of her 9 tails, making her even more powerful than other Spirit Foxes. Yukime is arguably on-par with high-ranking members of Shadow Garden, with only Juggernaut standing as her equal within the city. Still, she is far inferior to being like the Shadow and Elisabeth, the latter of whom she could barely keep up with even though she had backup.

As the president of Snow Fox Corporation, Yukime has considerable power.

Physical Prowess
Yukime, being a ruler and a member of one of the strongest tribes of beast-men, possesses incredible dexterity and supernatural abilities, which are hidden and deceived, due to her beautiful and apparently fragile appearance for some, which at the same time In the end, it usually becomes the downfall of the one who underestimates.

Like everyone from her tribe, Yukime has many abilities such as supernatural hearing, night vision, partially sensitive smell, among other well-developed senses and physical abilities, such as taste and touch.

Strong Intelligence
Yukime demonstrated to have a strong intelligence and cunning, to be able to direct all her servants and employees, like every leader and president that she is, since at the same time, she also runs a company, outside the Lawless City and inside it. this. Yukime has shown to be very calculating and observant when it comes to doing business, but she herself has shown that she is still a long way from being considered someone of the highest caliber among bosses and businessmen. Since when she raised her plans and methods with John Smith, she was overwhelmed with fear by the test (according to what she believed), that John was doing to see how strong her voluptane was to see if her enemies could get information from her. , in the unlikely event that she managed to elude her enchanting beauty, and they only had to deal with her personality itself, and natural beauty.

Beauty of the Spirit Fox
Through the training of her magic, plus the development of her body and the awakening of her true power, Yukime awoke and acquired a beauty and seduction so strong, both natural and supernatural, belonging to her clan, that it makes almost any man, regardless of his race, be it Human, Beastman, or even an elf, he feels strongly attracted to her, without putting up any resistance as such, at all. Yukime usually uses her beauty as if it were a double-edged sword, in order to fight her enemies and at the same time, while doing her job as a prostitute, making them lower their guard, in order to finish them off.

The beauty that Yukime fires is so great, that just by looking into her eyes, a person already begins to feel attracted to her, in the light novel, and in the anime, Yukime uses her tremendous charm, as a way of making her opponents to drop their guard or be unable to resist her, which allows Yukime to finish them off without much trouble.

Despite its incredible, powerful, enchanting and deadly beauty that could be considered divine, it has been shown that certain beings or races can oppose strong resistance to its charm abilities, to the point of being immune to its beauty; like the ghouel, who have lost all moral judgment and conscience, since they are only interested in feeding on anyone, vampires, since they have also shown to use certain ignotic charm abilities, and therefore a charm ability, can in certain degrees to oppose resistance to the other.

The only 2 men, at the level of the human race, who were able to show strong resistance, to the point of being immune to Yukime's beauty, are Juggernaut and Shadow, although in the past, Juggernaut was apparently initially attracted to Yukime, while Shadow was not affected by anything to Yukime's charms and beauty, due to his training in all areas, including the magic part.

With the passage of time, while Yukime walked the path of prostitution, she learned the arts, disciplines and charms of a seductive woman, which allowed her to further increase her beauty on a natural level, which are Charms, Persuasion and Seductions, both on a verbal level, as well as on a personality level, which makes it easier for her to be able to make her clients tell her things, even secret ones, which allows yukime to know, what on the outskirts of the Lawless City, like all their subordinates hunting, without revealing his true intentions.

Magic
Thanks to the training he did, practicing with his magic, he managed to awaken the half-forgotten magical techniques and abilities of his clan, before being completely lost to oblivion, when his clan and family perished, which allowed Yukime, to return once again. of the monarchs of the Lawless City.

Yukime's magic specializes in elements related to fire and wind, allowing her to perform powerful burst attacks in just a few moments.

Standard Equipment
Yukime fights with a pair of metal-ribbed fans, as she is mastering a dance-like fighting style.

Attack of 9 Tails
TBC

Secret Art: Power of the Fox
TBC

Shadow / John Smith
Yukime acted teasingly and unashamedly flirted with Shadow after he protected her prostitutes from the vampires. Upon witnessing his incredible strength, Yukime desired to gain his aid in order to bring down Gettan and the Great Commerce Alliance. She tried seducing him, but Shadow could tell what her motives were and dismissed the attempts. She finally got Shadow's aid with the promise of riches by collapsing both the Great Commerce Alliance and Mitsugoshi Company.

When the two worked together, Yukime was quite fearful of her partner as she learnt that not only did Shadow (now under the guise, John Smith) possessed power but also seemingly supernatural intelligence which kept her on her toes. Still, Yukime developed respect for John that by the time their plans were complete, she apologized to him for using him for her revenge.

Unbeknownst to her and John, the two had actually met years ago. When Gettan attacked Yukime for refusing to join the Cult of Diabolos, John came to her rescue and used his magic to heal her. Upon being rescued once more and healed of her scars completely by John in the present day, Yukime realized that John and her past savior were one and the same. Combined with the belief he rescued her out of care, Yukime fell in love with John.

When informed by Alpha that John had in fact used her to bring down the Great Commerce Alliance and protected Mitsugoshi Company (a Shadow Garden front), Yukime does not hold ill will towards him.

Gettan
Gettan was Yukime's hated enemy and her former fiancée. The two were romantically in love until Gettan betrayed her by not only attacking her for refusing to join the Cult of Diabolos with him but also murdering her beloved mother. Since then, Yukime solely wanted vengeance against her former fiancée, and she did it by destroying the Great Commerce Alliance which Gettan lead. When the two former lovers confronted each other years later, even though Yukime had Gettan beaten and was about to deliver the killing below, Yukime stopped herself.

Alpha
Yukime had a respectful working relationship with Alpha after the former become an ally to Shadow Garden. Although, Yukime admitted she was envious that Alpha was one of the people Shadow held dear.

Trivia

 * The name of yukime, usually makes reference, comparative or similarity (without meaning as such), to the name of a snow maiden, known as Yuki-onna, (who is a beautiful Yokai who handles the snow covered by an obi, of Japanese mythology).
 * Yukime's name is shared by another female character from another story by another author, named Yukime from "jigoku sensei cloud".
 * Both the design and the character of Yukime are inspired by the kitsunes, from mythology Japanese.
 * Both Yukime's beautiful appearance, behavior, and personality are speculated to be inspired by, or resemble, the famous mythical character, named Tamamo no Mae, from Japanese mythology.
 * In the Light Novel, Yukime's age was unknown. However, considering that she was 14 years old when a young Cid Kagenō saved her, it can be presumed she might be around her 20s.
 * Yukime's beauty, both natural and supernatural, is so strong that she finds it necessary to cover her face with a hat-smock to prevent her charm power from becoming a problem, with men that she doesn't want to deal with. in anime and game, which is counter-wise, since in the manga, Web Novel, and Light Novel, Yukime doesn't cover her face at all, regardless of the situation.
 * When Yukime met Shadow face to face, when he got in the way of his fight against Yugernaut, just like him, when he knew Shadow's name, he knew that he was someone well known but not how strong he was, until he saw him defeat alone, the vampire queen Elizabeth.
 * Yukime is one of the few people (if not the only one so far) who rejected the power of Cult of Diabolos, not wanting to take the red pills, which give more power, offered by her ex-boyfriend Gettan, since he suffered the loss of her family since she was little, until her adulthood, when she returned to confront her ex-boyfriend.
 * Yukime being a prostitute of the highest level, it is unknown how many men she has slept with, or how many have paid her very high or won the privilege of having a one night stand with her.
 * Despite the fact that Yukime has slept with many men, and put aside her purity, she is not allowed or wanted to have children from these men, until now, since she had other goals that were even clearer to achieve. (as is known)
 * It is unknown what method Yukime and the girls who serve her use, so as not to have children of the men, with whom they spend the night, (according to the Manga, Light Novel and Web Novel, the anime and the game remain to be confirmed).
 * Shadow so far, he is the only man who has refused Yukime's charms and lewd proposals, to her surprise and disappointment, though not in the end, not seeming to bother Yukime in part, since until now, he had to make a living using such means to gain power.