Yae Miko

Genshin Impact: Yae Miko

Age: 500

Yae Miko uses the tall female model. She has fair skin, purple eyes, and thigh-length pink hair. In her regular form, Miko has purple eyes, and prominent red makeup painted at the corners of her eyes.

Miko has long, muted pink hair that is tied at the bottom. She also has pink fox ears that point downward. While she lacks a tail in this form,[5] they briefly appear as a set of five translucent tails when she uses Great Secret Art: Tenko Kenshin, or as one tail when she uses Yakan Evocation: Sesshou Sakura or when performing a Plunging Attack.

Being a kitsune, Miko also has a fox form, although she refuses to reveal it to the Traveler. The head shrine maiden in charge of Grand Narukami Shrine and a descendant of Kitsune lineage, Eternity's servant and friend, and the intimidating editor-in-chief of Yae Publishing House, a publisher of light novels...

Miko has a mysterious demeanor around her whenever she assumes her duties as the Guuji of the Grand Narukami Shrine. When she assumes her duties as the boss of the Yae Publishing House, she is known to be very kind and enjoys reading books and stories,[2] although she also shows an obsessive side in making profits at the same time. She has an enigmatic air around her, with her friends growing used to it.[3] When speaking with outsiders or close friends, she shows a blunter and more cynical side to her. Miko does not mince words, even towards her friend and master Ei. Being a kitsune, Miko is fond of fried tofu. She despises pickled foods of all sorts.

As a kitsune and youkai, she's very mischievous, including in her roles as Guuji and owner of Yae Publishing House. She couples this mischievous streak with impressive skills of manipulation and reading people. As such her tricks and pranks are usually elaborate, long-winded affairs towards rather simple ends, which she does out of enjoyment and the fact that she enjoys watching people squirm.[4] This has caused many people, such as Thoma and Gorou to become easily terrified upon seeing her. If not partaking in such affairs, she shows interest in those who get her attention.

She is one of Ei's only friends who survived the ravages of time. She tends to call the Shogun by her true name, Ei. Ei herself also calls Miko by her given name, signifying their closeness and friendship.

Despite her light-hearted, mischievous personality, she showed a more emotional side during the Hyakkiyakou, indicating that she does genuinely care for those in her life and has considered thousands of youkai from across Inazuma to be her friends. Though in typical fashion for her, she quickly turns the Traveler and Paimon's sympathy into an opportunity to trick them into paying for an expensive dinner.

The Grand Narukami Shrine's head shrine maiden and a descendant of Kitsune lineage, Eternity's servant and friend... and the intimidating editor-in-chief of Yae Publishing House, a publisher of light novels.

There's no need to uncover her every facet, as they are all reflective of Yae Miko. Yet, all the same, they are not revealing of her true nature.

Like fragments of a mirror, each attitude reflects a different version of her. By being enveloped in many identities, she has become a brilliant diamond surrounded by countless mirrors.

There are hundreds of facets: solemn or cheerful, sympathetic or aloof.

No one knows the truth, just as how no one can easily spot a kitsune brushing past passers-by in the mystic woods.

But if the kitsune watches humans, where will her destiny lead? The head shrine maiden of the Grand Narukami Shrine, descendant of Hakushin's lineage, Eternity's servant and friend, and the intimidating editor-in-chief of Yae Publishing House, a publisher of light novels...

Come to think of it, Yae Miko's nicknames are as myriad as her changeable moods.

The number of people who have tried to "figure her out" for various reasons could fill the streets from the Tenryou Commission estate to Yae Publishing House if you were to line them all up, but to this day, very few indeed have succeeded.

Not that Miko has ever intended to conceal anything, of course. Any capriciousness is but the result of doing as she wills and pleases. A riddle with no solution is no riddle at all, in any case!

You just need to remember that she will always be none other than the wise and beautiful Yae Miko.

Pursuing fun and finding happiness is how Miko lives her everyday life.

For someone who enjoys studying humanity like her, "perspectives" and "virtue" play distant second fiddles to "fun."

Even a great shrine maiden of a different faith or an enemy general might pique her interest.

...That said, this appreciation can sometimes lead to some innocuous trouble.

As opposed to those conscientious underlings or worshipful juniors, Miko's favorite person at the shrine is a shrine maiden named Kano Nana.

Yes, that Kano Nana, the novel enthusiast (just like Miko) who constantly frets over Sayu.

While laying about indoors, Miko would often see Sayu flash past the window, followed not long after by a hurried and angry Kano Nana.

Like lightning and thunder they were, which caught Miko's attention, to the point where she would even sometimes give wrong directions just to let the ruckus go on for a little longer.

There was another time when Sayu told Miko that the afternoon sun was the most pleasant after the latter had helped her steal some time for napping.

Perhaps encouraged by these words, Miko would transform into an ordinary Inazuman lady on a wonderfully sunny afternoon, descend from the mountain and have a day out.

The Aisa Bathhouse in the city, Hanamizaka's Kiminami Restaurant, Ogura Textiles and Kimonos by the streetside... she did not miss a single store, and every one was an enjoyable experience.

And in the evening, she was at Bantan Sango Detective Agency to tell them of a missing animals case that she had heard about on the way.

"But you really must help, good detectives. I mean, one can barely stand to watch those owners cry their eyes out as it is..."

Having done all this, the lady could not help but let slip a pleased smile.

Taking part in Inazuma's daily life in such an identity really was fun.

Well, except that part where Kujou Sara shot her a suspicious glance as they passed each other by.

Right, and also, she probably owed the boss of Aisa Bathhouse an apology — the outland-styled hot springs were indeed very good, but she might have accidentally shed some fox fur during the soak.

"That was a contest of magic for the ages! The foe split the seas as they strode across the skies, heaven and earth changing hue as they approached!"

"Gohei in hand, the Lady Guuji was solemn as she strode up Mt. Yougou."

"All around her the shrine maidens chanted their mantras as the clouds masked the sun, the thunder waiting within for the moment to strike!"

"..."

"The battle was a grinding, protracted affair. In time, even the Guuji began to falter, and the enemy seized that opening, lashing out with great force!"

"Just then, a bolt of lightning descended like a falling star before the Guuji — a glimmering Vision!"

"Grasping it in her hand, the revivified Guuji showed forth her power and..."

"Now wait just a minute! None of what you just said happened, right?"

"Hmm? Well, how about this then? It all started the day when I had a most vicious "Ramen Duel" down in Hanamizaka...

"Oh, come on! Nobody's ever gotten a Vision from eating ramen!"

"But wouldn't that be interesting? I mean, these are the sorts of stories you like to hear, right?"

Yae Miko gave a thin, enigmatic smile as she was faced with the traveler's curiosity.

"After all, would you believe me if I said that 'my Vision is purely ornamental, just for show,' little one? Hardly — not even if it were the truth."