Janis

"Geez, maybe I'm having a dream."

- Janis

Janis is the main character for the game Secret of the Divine Jewel. She is an American exchange student, who is the reincarnation of the daughter of the late god Datara.

History
Before that Janis has a strange dream back as she saw cherry blossoms and demons, and one god that she never saw: Datara. Janis and her family moved to Japan when her father got a new job. When a friend of hers, Kagome Higurashi, was absent from school, Janis went to Higurashi shrine to visit her, and came to the wellhouse where she was attacked by a yōkai who emerged from the Bone-Eater's Well, and rescued by the mysterious Monk Sen. Later, Janis followed his advice to go to the feudal era through the well and looked for Kagome. After passing through, she felt surprised that she's not in the modern era anymore, she's in the feudal era. She saw the Sacred Tree that she's feels familiar, when she entered the village, she met Kaede and surprised that she knew Kagome as she and the others are at Mikage Creek as she heads out where she had a first met with Miroku, Sango and Kirara, until she found Kagome with Shippō, she's surprised to Kagome that she's pretending to be sick. Once she touched a shard of the Shikon no Tama, it blended in with her body and awakened her Kamui powers. She agreed to accompany them on their journey until she was able to remove the Jewel Shard from her body. At the end of the battle the mysterious Monk Sen instructed her to go into the well because that's where Kagome was, and as her fate. After meeting Inuyasha and the gang she inadvertently absorbed a jewel shard and soon after she developed special powers that were awakened by the jewel shard and later traveled to Mount Habaki that she was given a naginata to wield by the God of Habaki. At Jurobei in Sakata Village when she and her friends spend the night, Janis has a same dream. Eventually she came to Datara's shrine so she released Datara and his servants Mitsurugi and Sugagaki opens a portal to take them to travel through time back to another 500 years to 1000 AD in the and learns that she possesses the Kamuitama because she is the reincarnation of a girl named Tsugumi, who was the human bride of the god of storms Datara. Being Datara's bride Tsugumi possessed some of his powers. Soon she learns Tsugumi's tragic tale where she was forced to seal her own husband and on her wedding day because Datara possessed by a cursed demon mask and had been forced by a cat hanyō Gorai, Lord of the Northern Lands, and in order to thwart Tsugumi's attempts to stop him he held their infant daughter hostage. Tsugumi died after destroying her husband, a scenario very reminiscent of Kikyō and Inuyasha, 50 years ago. Janis learned that defeating Datara and returning her powers was the only way to free the shard from her body thus stopping demons from hunting her. After she defeated Gorai, Datara and freed him of the cursed demon mask, she was allowed to speak with Datara and Tsugumi where she learns that she is not Tsugumi's reincarnation but in fact the reincarnation of their infant half-god child. With the jewel shard out of her body and her powers gone Janis was unable to return to the feudal era, but before she left the Higurashi shrine and get ready to return to America, she did see Kagome and Inuyasha one last time, and returned to America shortly after the events.

Personality
Initially, Janis is a little cold and standoffish to other people such as Yuka, Ayumi, and Eri. Her only friend was Kagome, but still retained a slightly friendly demeanor. She also appeared to have a caring side, such as when Kagome didn't show up for three days (she was in the Feudal Era), she decided to go visit her. She's also seemed to be adventurous, when she mentioned that the Feudal Era seemed to be dangerous, but "kind of fun" as well.

Physical Description
Janis is a young woman with long, curly blonde hair, pale skin, and blue eyes.

Outfit
Janis wears an academy uniform with a blue top with a red tie in a gold trim, white stockings and penny-loafers similar to Kagome's, and a grey skirt. She also has a red clip for her hair, and white pearl earrings.

Powers & Abilities

 * Summon Shikioni : Janis is able to summon Shikioni that are given to her by Monk Sen to defeat some weak yōkai during her journey. Similar to shikigami, shikioni are capable of protecting their owner from danger. When Janis meets Monk Sen for the first time after she was saved from a yōkai at the Higurashi wellhouse, Sen realizes that her body doesn't contain the Kamuitama and is concerned she would be defeated and get wounded from yōkai. Sen advises her to enter the Sengoku jidai and later gave her two shikioni to find her friend, Kagome. After Janis meet Monk Sen for the second time under the Goshinboku, she was able to use her Kamuitama by her own will. But the ability of summoning shikioni is not used after Sen takes them back.
 * Kamuitama : Commonly known as the Power of God, Janis obtains this mystical power from Tsugumi, the wife of Datara.
 * Lightning Arrow: Appears to be several arrow like shining lightnings which able to pierce some yōkai.
 * Infernal Meteor: About eight blazing meteors will drop down to the earth to crush whole opponents. It is also considered as an effective power to defeat opponents.
 * Heavenly Essence: Apart from destroying yōkai, Janis is able to restore an ally's health if they are injured.
 * Power Leaf: A power that can increase the strength of an ally.
 * Spiritual Awareness: An obvious side-effect of her high-level of spiritual power: the Kamui, Janis is able to perceive or sense things that are otherwise normally undetectable to ordinary humans (e.g. ghosts, spirits, and demonic or divine auras) similar to Kagome the priestess-in-training.
 * Time Travel: Janis could travel back and forth for five hundred years between the Feudal Era and modern day Tokyo through an ancient well called the "Bone-Eater's Well". Only she, Kagome, and Inuyasha were ever able to freely pass from one time to the other. While originally Janis needed some remnant of the Sacred Jewel, with her Kamuitama to traverse time through the Bone-Eater's Well, she, at least once, was able to do so without it in which that she has lost her powers.

Weapons

 * Akanemaru: A naginata with a red handle and silver blade that is given to her by the God of Habaki who lives at Mount Habaki. It does not have special powers, but it can still be used as an offensive tool against yōkai.

Relationships
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 * Kagome Higurashi

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 * Eri

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 * Yuka

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 * Ayumi

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 * Grandpa Higurashi

A dog hanyō...
 * Inuyasha

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 * Miroku

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 * Sango

A kitsune...
 * Shippō

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 * Kirara

The elder priestess of her village, and since she had a first met with Kikyō, she didn't know she's Kikyō's younger sister.
 * Kaede

She had a first met with Kikyō at the Abandoned Shrine and kind of scared when she gets closer, then she see met her again at Sara's Lair as she shows up about the Demon Blood Binding Spell that its come from the northern lands, so since the villagers of Yamasachi Village have been slave she asked her to save them, Janis answered she'll try she will save the villagers and send back to Yamasachi Village as everyone will be saved. Finally at Tempest Tower, as she told them that Monk Sen was also under control the of the Demon Blood Binding Spell, Janis felt surprised about to find Monk Sen's blood first, Kikyō said that it isn't job to find it, the rest is up to them to find the blood back at the Sen shrine in the Benten forest in the modern era.
 * Kikyō

She had a first met with Inuyasha's half older brother Sesshōmaru at the Mountain Pass who sensed her that "a human invested with the power of a god", and at the New Moon Cave they team up to stop a cat yōkai Sara.
 * Sesshōmaru

Jaken a vassal of Sesshōmaru's, she had a first met with him at the Mountain Pass, as she heard was "To have fallen so far as to rely upon the power of a half-hearted god, it is befitting of a half-demon like yourself." until Rin gets Jaken that he don't hurry, he'll be left behind.
 * Jaken

Rin a travel companion of Sesshōmaru's, she had a first met with her at the Mountain Pass, but she didn't get a chance to say hi to her but to follow him.
 * Rin

She had a first met with Kōga at the Lake Shore Path, as she knew that he's the friend of Kagome's.
 * Kōga

Enemies
She had a first met with Naraku an enemy of Inuyasha and his friends who killed Kikyō 50 years ago, and when they defeated him but it appears to be a demon puppet.
 * Naraku

Akagane is an another Naraku's incarnations...
 * Akagane

After the defeat of Akagane at Osore Valley, she had a first met with Kagura, an another incarnation of Naraku's as she didn't come to fight, but to get Kohaku and got away.
 * Kagura

Gorai, a cat hanyō, the Lord of the Northern Lands who who steals the cursed demon mask from the horoka shrine near Izayoi's mansion that it was defeated by a powerful monk long ago, and forced Datara to put the demon mask on during his attack in Shinonome Village as the interruption of Datara and Tsugumi's wedding in the year 1000 AD,.
 * Gorai

Trivia

 * Janis is the only American character to appear in the entire series or any of the games.
 * She is the reincarnation of the only known (半神) in the Inuyasha franchise.
 * Throughout the course of the game, Janis is often commented by other characters on her strange hair color, most of them finding it very pretty.
 * It is possible that in the feudal era people might associate her as a Goddess, as only yōkai have her unique features in skin tone, hair and eye color.
 * Despite attending school in Japan, Janis doesn't wear the like other schoolgirls in Tokyo. It's possible she's allowed to wear her old school uniform since there isn't one in her size available.