Rion

Rion is a supporting character in Hanyō no Yashahime’s second season. She is the only child and daughter of Kirinmaru the Beast King of the East, and the niece of Zero, though the identity and whereabouts of her mother remains a mystery.

History
Rion had accompanied her father when he was fighting enemies that came to challenge him. On one occasion, she watched as Best King Tōga of the West defeated her father by cutting his horn and right arm in one fell swoop. This made her at a young age to see the ugliness of fighting. Tōga, not wanting to kill her father in front of her decided to spare her father and warn him to "never bring a child in the battlefield." After the battle, they returned to the ship as Zero was surprised that she was scared. She had a first met with his father's first incarnation Riku.

For the next six centuries, she had been secretly placed in a deep sleep on the shielded demon mountain Musubi at the behest of her own father. Once finally awakening, she befriends the Half-Demon Princesses and gifts Towa with her fully demonic-empowered weapon- the sword Zanseiken- by willingly presenting the half-cousins with a mystical demonic Kyūyōkon Root that she had held in her possession for many, many years.

Personality
She is a kind and considerate individual, even more so than her own father and aunt.

Physical Description
Rion has the appearance of a young woman with short cherry red hair, blue eyes and fair skin. She has a pair of brown fawn ears resting atop of her head and red markings at the bottom of her eyes.

Powers & Abilities
Though it is implied that is indeed a hanyō, she possess very much the exact same superhuman abilities that other yōkai do; namely peak-level superhuman condition and further sharpened senses, as do half-animal demons Inuyasha, Shiori, Towa and Setsuna.

Blood Relatives

 * Kirinmaru

Her father. The two had a healthy relationship until it became complicated, as she was disgusted and horrified at just how far her own father was willing to go to achieve his selfish needs upon the living world that she most cherishes.


 * Zero

Her paternal aunt who comforted her after she learned that Rion had been the sole witness to of the fight between the two beast kings of the East and West provinces within the two major realms dominated by incredibly strong demons of all sorts.

Acquaintances

 * Riku

Her father's first incarnation via the horn that was cut off during the battle that she herself had witnessed from afar.

Upon her reawakening from the glowing green scale, on which she had slept deeply for six hundred-and-fourteen long years, Rion had befriended Moroha the Demon-Killer, of whom she was immediately interested in meeting. She tried to reassure the quarter dog-demon girl that the others would be fine; yet if they did not prove themselves worthy to the unusually strong demonic energy shield all around Mt. Musubi, the half-demon twins would not be capable of penetrating the shield, let alone leave Mount Musubi. She advised Moroha to utilize her ever-developing/magnifying spiritual powers that she, Rion, had detected within the feisty quarter dog-demon girl to easily penetrate the demonic barrier to pass her own personal trial to find her precious twin half-cousins. Once they had overcome the personal trials that the autonomous demonic shield had presented them with, Rion expressed at how pleased she was to see them. She introduces herself as the daughter of none other than Kirinmaru himself, yet willingly gives Towa one of the ancient and powerful mystical roots she had kept.
 * Towa, Setsuna, & Moroha

Trivia

 * Rion is the second humanoid character to have animal ears, the first being Inuyasha.

Media Appearances

 * Episode 27 (Hanyō no Yashahime)
 * Episode 28 (Hanyō no Yashahime)
 * Episode 29 (Hanyō no Yashahime)

Rion