User blog:Insanity Zones/Headcanon Inuyasha Character Bios

These bios are based throughout the years 1566-1569 in the feudal era and 2016-2019 in the modern era.

The Main Six
Inuyasha Taishō

Voiced By Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese), Richard Ian Cox (English)

Inuyasha is a 15-year-old dog hanyō from the feudal era who is the son of a powerful dog yōkai and a human princess as well as the main protagonsist. At the root of the hanyō, he was in conflict between his human and yōkai halves. The fear or anger at his lack of belonging caused him to feel intense loneliness. However, Kagome and his allies comforted him, and he was able to develop a strong and gentle disposition over time. Despite being a half-demon, he still ages like a human nevertheless, with the fifty years he was sealed to the Goshinboku as an exception.

Kagome Higurashi

Voiced By Satsuki Yukino (Japanese), Kira Tozer (English)

Kagome is a 15-year-old high school student from the modern era and Inuyasha's girlfriend. Her heart is pure and kind, always rich and sometimes uncontrollable, which is strangely similar to Inuyasha's lack of self-control. Because of her empathetic nature, she never hesitates to help those in need of it, treating all with warmth and respect. When she is involved in battles, Kagome uses her knowledge to the fullest and analyzes the situation to the best of her ability, unlike Inuyasha who most of the time just recklessly jumps in and acts instinctively. She is in training to become a topmost-ranking priestess.

Miroku

Voiced By Makoto Yasumara (Japanese), Ian James Corlett (English)

Miroku is an 18-year-old lecherous Buddhist monk as well as Inuyasha's best friend. He has a strong spirit that allows him to conduct himself in an easygoing manner, not showing his weaknesses and hiding his true feelings. As his body is in the service of Buddha, his soul is well-balanced. He is very brave, willing to sacrifice his own well-being in order to protect the lives of innocents and those he cares for. Basically, he is kind and friendly, but he can be impatient and can be somewhat short-tempered if others think ill of him. He sometimes shows completely different facial expressions than his usual calm one.

Sango

Voiced By Houko Kuwashima (Japanese), Kelly Sheridan (English)

Sango is a 16-year-old demon slayer and is Kagome's best friend as well as Miroku's fiancée. She has a strong sense of responsibility along with a brave heart. Although she is compassionate, she displays a bit more of a no-nonsense attitude than Kagome, thinks each matter through calmly and grasps situations logically. Her words and actions are efficient and accurate, and she always comes up with quick solutions. However, once she comes to a certain conclusion, she would not doubt or rethink it. One of her faults is dashing into things recklessly. Sango shows great intelligence in battle. In addition to the knowledge of her ancestors, she had experience battling numerous demons.

Shippō

Voiced By Kumiko Watanabe (Japanese), Jillian Michaels (English)

Shippō is a 7-year-old kitsune and the weakest, shortest and youngest travelling companion of Inuyasha's group. He has a small body but a strong spirit. Although Shippō is a yōkai, his pure spirit knows no corruption. He has only recently opened his eyes to love, but with his knowledge and bravery, his feelings for his comrades are first and foremost. His spirit is still growing so its overall size is small.

Kirara

Voiced By Tarako Isono

Kirara is a nekomata and is Sango's faithful companion who usually appears to be a small kitten-sized feline with two tails, but can become large enough to carry several passengers whenever the need arises. She is a spiritual entity, like the kitsunes; her full-sized form has fangs and flames, as well as the power to fly, while in her small form, she is small and cute. She demonstrates exceptional patience, often honoring the requests of the group and their various friends.

Occasional Allies
Kikyō

Voiced By Noriko Hidaka (Japanese), Willow Johnson (English)

Kikyō was an 18-year-old high-ranking specter priestess as well as Inuyasha's first love turned ex-girlfriend. She was given the task by demon slayers to guard and purify the Shikon Jewel before her first death five hundred and fifty years ago. After her resurrection as a specter, Kikyō could not move unless she had enough souls within her body. As such, she was accompanied by a group of insect-like yokai known as Shinidamachū who collected dead souls for her because she only retained a fragment of her original soul. Because of Kagome's relationship with Inuyasha, she grew jealous at first but eventually became her mentor on how to use spiritual powers. After her final death, she watches Inuyasha and Kagome live their lives together from the starry skies at night.

Sesshōmaru Taishō

Voiced By Ken Narita (Japanese), David Kaye (English)

Sesshōmaru is a 19-year-old powerful dog yōkai feared throughout the feudal era as well as Inuyasha's older half-brother whose true form is that of a giant red-eyed white dog. He wields two swords, being Tenseiga and Bakusaiga respectively and produces an acidic poison that is mainly released from his claws in the Dokkasō attack, which transfers to his fangs when he transforms. He viewed humans as no different than insects, which extends to Inuyasha due to him having a human mother. Sesshomaru began to see humans in a new light after he met a human girl named Rin, who tried to treat his injuries after he was defeated by Inuyasha. After Rin was slaughtered by wolves, Sesshomaru chose to resurrect her with Tenseiga and has taken her under his wing ever since. Jaken

Voiced By Yuichi Nagashima (Japanese), Don Brown (English)

Jaken is a small green imp-like yōkai who is extremely loyal towards Sesshōmaru, often praising his master's greatness although he is often ignored or sometimes abused by Sesshōmaru. Jaken himself is not especially powerful, but he wields the Staff of Two Heads, a fire-throwing staff that Sesshōmaru gave to him. Jaken was once a lord among similar demons.

Rin

Voiced By Mamiko Noto (Japanese), Brenna O'Brien (English)

Rin is an 8-year-old orphaned human girl and one of Sesshōmaru's travelling companions alongside Jaken. Despite his established contempt for humans, her smile changed his opinion on them. Sesshōmaru continually protects Rin for the rest of the series, even showing genuine grief when Rin's soul got lost in the netherworld, though his mother is able to save her. Throughout the series, she is known for her kindness and loyalty to Sesshōmaru, and develops a good relationship with Kohaku over the course of the series. After Naraku is defeated, she lives in Kaede's village to get used to living among humans.

Kohaku

Voiced By Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Aidan Drummond (English)

Kohaku is Sango's 12-year-old younger brother. He was once possessed by Naraku and killed all the demon slayers in his village with the exception of his older sister. After several encounters with her friends, he recovers his painful memories and seeks to atone all the sins he commited while under Naraku's control by doing whatever he can to kill him. He will restart a new generation of demon slayers after Sango's retirement from demon slaying at some point in future.

Kōga Ōkami

Voiced By Taiki Matsuno (Japanese), Scott McNeil (English)

Kōga is a the 15-year-old leader of the Eastern wolf yōkai tribe. He first met Inuyasha as an opponent in battle, but becomes a reluctant, occasional ally despite maintaining a strong sense of rivalry about their relative combat strengths and the courtship of Kagome. Kōga and Inuyasha didn't get along, but the two do team up whenever Kagome's life is in danger, or whenever they face Naraku or his underlings. He is accompanied by his fellow wolf-demon comrades Ginta and Hakkaku, who are fiercely loyal to him and vice versa. He later wields a powerful clawed weapon named Goraishi (五雷指) that generates yellow lightning, and carries a sword that he took from a human as mere "decoration".

Kaede

Voiced By Hisako Kyōda (Japanese), Linda Darlow (English)

Kaede is a 60-year-old priestess as well as Kikyō's younger sister who assisted her with various tasks such as gathering herbs or holding her quiver of arrows. After Kikyō's first death, Kaede grew up as the headwoman of a village as well as an unusually strong shrine priestess in her own right and defends said village against demons. She is highly respected by the villagers and the members of Inuyasha's group, and she often advises them about demons and other spiritual anomalies. Though Inuyasha is easily annoyed by her, he listens to her when necessary and does not hesitate to protect her from a threat. Kaede lost her right eye sometime during her life and wears an eyepatch over it. Supplementary information states that she lost her older sister and her right eye when Naraku wounded them.

Myōga

Voiced By Kenichi Ogata (Japanese), Paul Dobson (English)

Myōga is a flea demon who gives Inuyasha information on current events, foes and shard of the Shikon Jewel. He enjoys drinking demon blood and actually saved Inuyasha's life at one point by drinking a spider demon's venom out of his blood. He can save the others in a similar manner, but often gets slapped for drinking their blood without permission.

Tōtōsai

Voiced By Jōji Yanami (Japanese), Richard Newman (English)

Tōtōsai is an elderly yōkai blacksmith as well as the creator of both Tessaiga and Tenseiga which he forged from the fangs of his old friend Inu no Taishō who entrusted him to help his two sons. As Inuyasha grew stronger and Sesshomaru grew more compassionate, they become more capable of mastering their respective swords, which Tōtōsai strengthens accordingly. He spends most of his time at his forge inside a volcano, but sometimes travels elsewhere on a flying three-eyed ox named Mo-Mo. He often appears to be a cowardly, absent-minded old man, but he has the strength to pause an attack from Sesshōmaru long enough to allow Inuyasha to get away; he can breathe fire and his long forge hammer can open large fire pits in the ground.

Antagonists/Enemies
Naraku

Voiced By Toshiyuki Morikawa (Japanese), Paul Dobson (English)

Naraku was a spider hanyō as well as the arch-rival of Inuyasha and his allies. He was directly responsible for Kikyō's two deaths, the seal placed on Inuyasha, Kohaku's posession and first death, Miroku's father and grandfather being sucked and nearly all the other characters' misery, something that he really enjoyed because what makes him happy is what makes everyone else upset. Naraku desired the Shikon Jewel, a jewel that would be able to grant him near-invincibility should he acquire all the pieces of it. He desired the jewel to purge his half-human self from his body and enhance his strength even further. Close to the end of the story, Naraku gained all Shikon Jewel shards and made the Shikon no Tama whole again which resulted in him fully transforming himself into a spider yōkai shortly before his defeat and death by Inuyasha's hands.