Kanako Yasaka

Name: Kanako Yasaka Titles/Aliases: Avatar of Mountains and Lakes, Goddess of Wind and Rain, Co-Goddess of the Moriya Shrine, God That Likes Hills, Independent and Inflexible God.

Age: Over 2,000 years old (dates back at least 2,300+ years to the ancient Great Suwa War era).

Species: God / Divine Spirit (Specifically an Arahitogami—a formerly human spirit who ascended to become a Goddess of Wind, Rain, and Agriculture, also worshiped as a Mountain God). Unlike pure nature deities born entirely of faith, she retains a physical body alongside her divine nature.

Personality:

• Ambitious & Business-Minded: Kanako treats religion like a modern enterprise and views faith as profit. She is constantly devising grand marketing schemes, festivals, and infrastructure projects to attract believers and expand the Moriya Shrine's influence.
• Progressive & Scientifically Inclined: Unusually for an ancient Shinto deity, she rejects rigid adherence to outdated tradition and enthusiastically embraces science, engineering, and industrial innovation—spearheading clean thermal/nuclear energy, ropeways, and technological partnerships to modernize Gensokyo.
• Confident, Imposing & Authoritative: Reflecting her "Heaven/Sky" nature, she carries an aura of pride, dominance, and leadership. She prefers acting first rather than reacting, which can sometimes make her come across as overbearing, self-righteous, or intimidating when advancing her plans.
• Casual, Sociable & Hospitable: Despite her imposing demeanor, she demands almost no stiff formality from mortals or youkai. She loves boisterous banquets, drinking sake, and socializing, viewing festivals as a way for gods and worshippers to play together and build community solidarity.
• Short-Tempered Yet Easily Appeased: She can be stubborn, argumentative, and quick to anger—capable of cursing those who disrespect her—but she has a well-known weakness for gifts and offerings, quickly softening whenever someone brings her a present.
• Cunning Negotiator: Resourceful and pragmatic, she prefers striking mutually beneficial deals and long-term alliances over pointless destruction, even if her ambitious experiments frequently cause unintended trouble for others.

Apperance:

• Hair & Eyes: Short, voluminous, wavy intense blue hair styled in a fluffy bob with a small red ornament/ribbon on the right side of her bangs, paired with sharp dark red (reddish-brown) eyes.
• Attire: She wears an ornate dark red kimono which she often leave it open so her black pubic hair and huge breasts are visible with her fat ass and thick thighs.
• Footwear: Traditional straw sandals (waraji/zori) tied around her bare ankles with rope cords.

Relationships:

• Suwako Moriya (Partner, Co-Goddess & Former Rival): Millennia ago, Kanako invaded the Suwa region and defeated Suwako in the Great Suwa War by using a thin vine to rust Suwako's iron weapons. Because the locals feared Suwako's curses and the Mishaguji spirits, Kanako could not rule alone. The two formed a symbiotic partnership: Suwako remained the true spiritual heart of the shrine behind the scenes while Kanako became its public face and executive leader. Today, they are close friends and partners in scheming.
• Sanae Kochiya (Shrine Maiden & Protegee): The human wind priestess of the Moriya Shrine and a distant descendant of Suwako. Kanako serves as a mentor, boss, and strict yet caring guardian figure to Sanae, guiding her duties while occasionally keeping her out of the loop regarding shadier business schemes.
• Nitori Kawashiro & the Kappa (Business & Tech Allies): Kanako collaborates closely with the kappa of Youkai Mountain to fund and build industrial projects, dams, ropeways, and technological innovations in exchange for divine patronage.
• Aya Shameimaru, Momiji Inubashiri, Megumu Iizunamaru & the Tengu (Mountain Allies): After initial territorial friction when moving the shrine to Youkai Mountain, Kanako negotiated a lasting alliance with the tengu society, regularly hosting feasts with them and cooperating on mountain security and media.
• Utsuho Reiuji (Subordinate): As part of her Mountain Industrial Revolution project, Kanako fed the solar deity Yatagarasu to Utsuho at the Underground Geyser Center, granting the hell raven nuclear fusion powers to generate geothermal energy.
• Reimu Hakurei & Marisa Kirisame (Friendly Rivals): Reimu is Kanako's main competitor for human faith in Gensokyo. Kanako often tries to out-market or establish a branch at the Hakurei Shrine, while Reimu and Marisa frequently step in to clean up the fallout of Kanako's ambitious schemes. They nonetheless socialize peacefully at banquets.
• Byakuren Hijiri & Toyosatomimi no Miko (Religious Rivals & Peers): Leaders of Gensokyo's Buddhist and Taoist factions. Kanako maintains a diplomatic truce and philosophical rivalry with both, and even used her divine power to help unseal and construct Byakuren's Myouren Temple in a single night.

Abiilites:

• Creating Heavenliness (Qian / 乾): Her primary divine power, derived from the Taoist Bagua trigram Qian (Sky/Heaven)—the opposite of Suwako's Kun (Earth). Associated with creation, leadership, overt force, and the sky, its full scope is beyond mortal comprehension, allowing her to reshape terrain alongside Suwako, open chasms to the underground, and erect massive structures like the Myouren Temple overnight.
• Wind, Rain & Weather Manipulation: As a true Goddess of Wind and Rain, she commands atmospheric currents, storms, typhoons, and gentle agricultural rains, historically blessing crops and ensuring bountiful harvests.
• Onbashira Manipulation: She can summon, levitate, ride, and launch four massive sacred wooden pillars (Onbashira) at high speeds with crushing physical and spiritual force.
• Divine Spirit Physiology & Faith Conversion: As a Divine Spirit, she is immune to the corrupting miasma of vengeful spirits. She converts the worship and faith of humans and youkai into raw divine power and miracles, and can divide her spirit (bunrei) to inhabit branch shrines without diminishing her main consciousness.
• Blessings & Curses: She can bestow divine blessings for agricultural prosperity, safe mountain travel, and technological success, or inflict divine retribution and curses upon those who defile or disrespect her shrine.