Sōten

Soten, also spelled "Souten," is the last remaining member of the Thunder Demon tribe.

Species: Thunder Demon

Gender: Female

Age: About 5 years

Name meaning:

== History == Soten appeared in the episode 68, "Shippo Receives an Angry Challenge." She sought revenge on Shippo, Kagome, and Inuyasha, who killed Manten and Hiten, her brothers, by luring them into a trap. Soten used an elaborate scheme to separate Shippo from his friends, and then devised a plan to hinder each of them. With Shippo singled out, she captured Shippo and threatened to kill him. At this point Soten noticed Shippo's crayons. The two agreed to duel for ownership of the crayons.

Soten and Shippo were equal in strength, as shown in their attacks: Thunder magic against fox magic, laughing acorns against weeping mushrooms, and lightning return against fox fire. Eventually, both were exhausted. Kagome and Inuyasha ended their match when Kagome, believing Soten to be a boy, picked her up and cuddled. Soten then revealed herself to be a girl. Shippo, realizing how awkward and pointless their fight was, walked away and gave her his crayons.

Soten was last seen happily drawing and coloring a picture of Shippo as a young beautiful man using the crayons Shippo gave her, revealing her crush on Shippo.

Personality
Soten behaves in a tomboyish manner and a has a bit of a high of opinion of herself sometimes, which causes Shippo to initially believe she's a boy. She also tends to acts like she's tougher than she really is. However, she is not foolish enough to directly face Inuyasha and the others, showing she knows her limits and aware that her level of power (which is more or less the same as Shippo's) cannot hope to compete with that of Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, or even Kirara. Soten also has a short temper and has been shown to be easily fooled at times, despite calling herself a genius. And judging by her reaction to Kagome's affections and kindness, she might have been often given attention about her cute appearance. Soten has also been seen acting just extremely childish as shown when Shippo was playing with one of his toys. Also, when she saw Shippo's drawings, she wanted his crayons and threw a fit when Shippo wouldn't give them to her.

Relationships
At first, Soten hated Shippo, believing him to be her brothers' killer; however, near the end of the episode when Shippo gave her his crayons, she developed a crush on him, blushing when he gave them to her. She also drew picture of Shippo as a young man, admiring it, which further suggest her feelings for Shippo.
 * Shippo

Soten is presumably related to the Thunder Brothers. Koryu is Soten's friend and familiar although she tends to treat him like more like a servant and yell at him whereas Koryu thinks his mistress to be childish and is often exasperated by her pushy attitude
 * Hiten and Manten
 * Koryu

Appearance
Soten looks like a boy and she has an appearance which resembles that of Hiten.

Attacks and Skills
Soten is weak and so she uses schemes and tactics to win her battle, her tactics seems to be effective as it was able to achieve almost what she wanted, however, in the end she didn't anticipate that only the real Kagome can use the spell "Sit!", despite this she also had some attack moves of her own

Lightning return: a ball of lightning that have the same effect snd damage as the foxfire


 * Thunder Magic: Unlike the Thunderbros thunder magic, her thunder magic acts like Shippo's fox magic which are like illusions
 * Falling Doruma: Soten uses a hammer and whacks the Doruma at its opponents at full force
 * Laughing Acorn: Similar Shippo's Weeping Mushroom, but instead it's an acorn and it laughs.

Anime/Manga Difference
Soten never appeared or mentioned in the manga version. She only appears in the anime.

Quotes

 * That's an awfully nice plaything you've got there...
 * I want [those crayons]! Give them to me!