Yoshihide::House of Spiders

Yoshihide: Yoshihide is a woman who’s build around average she wears black simple tracksuit she possesses red eyes that able to glow and shine sometimes, Yoshihide possesses black coloured bob-cut hair that is straight and loose on her shoulders, she carries bit odachi on her back. Yoshihide is a smoker she always smokes but not around her daughter Araya. Yoshihide has an individualistic, free-spirited, and somewhat sadistic personality. She feels little obligation to uphold common courtesies like politeness or attentiveness, and near the beginning of the game, the majority of her comments are hostile or violent in nature. If someone who she likes/loves will ask her to do she’ll be narcissistic about it but will do it anyway. Yoshihide is often cold-neutral towards her Nursefathers but often hostile towards her blood mother Shiomi Yoru. Sometimes Araya calls her Ryoshu, Yoshihide can be named Ryoshu as well.

Araya: Appearance In her youth, Araya had dark hair with blunt bangs, with two long side bangs reaching her shoulders. Her hair features three distinct blue strands, one on each side bang, and one on her straight bangs. She has large, black eyes, and wears a dark blue kimono featuring a pattern of golden bows in sets of large and small patterning it. Her obi is a darker blue hue than the rest of her kimono. She wears short loafers on her feet.

When first found by her mother, she wore a plain white hospital gown, and carried a pillow

Personality As a child, Araya was a sunny girl, frequently smiling with a cheery attitude, even while surrounded by the Nursefathers, or the air of violence that surrounds them. Though she primarily lived in the House of Spiders, rarely ever shown outside of Ryōshū and her's shared room, she managed to spend plenty of time outside the house, enjoying her time in school while socializing with peers, always making sure to teach her mother the slang of her age. Even with the air of misery that haunted the House of Spiders, she became a light for Ryōshū, who sought a better world for her to live in.

Rien: Appearance Rien is a tall man with pale skin, black hair with silver strands, and a right eye featuring a golden pupil. He wears a black suit jacket with golden buttons and an Index symbol on its left shoulder, with two similarly gold chevrons beneath it. His dress pants and shoes carry the same color as the rest of his suit, with the soles of his shoes having golden trim. Beneath his suit jacket, he wears a plain white dress shirt and black tie. He wears white gloves on his hands.

In combat, he wields a golden vial with a chain on it, which allows for a ferrofluid-like liquid to transform into various weapons based on his assigned Prescript.

Personality Rien is a composed individual, acting with simplicity and speaking gently even while harming himself or others. Though he acts with grace, he carries a sinister air, tormenting people both physically and mentally. Due to his allegiance to the Index, he shows extreme devoutness to orders of the Prescripts, going as far as maiming himself to prove the completion of his orders.

Among the Nursefathers, he was the one who most readily assumed the role of father towards Yoshihide, reading books to her, reminding her to take care of her wounds, and even expressing a form of discontent in hearing of Valencina's physical abuse of her. Since Yoshihide's youth, he tended to treat her as younger than her actual age, which would annoy the girl; even when meeting her again during the main story, Rien's behavior towards her appears unchanged, with him often referring to Ryōshū as his "darling daughter" despite Ryōshū's unwavering will to sever herself from the Nursefathers. Out of the Nursefathers, Rien is also the most dedicated towards his task of perfecting Ryōshū into the perfect wielder of Arayashiki, rejoicing upon seeing her enter the state of non-self, and describing her as the House of Spiders' masterpiece.

Despite his unflappable demeanor, Rien harbors mixed feelings regarding the Prescripts. As it is due to them that he could indulge in sufferings and the pleasures of the City, Rien is thankful for the chance they allow him to enact great violence onto others; however, he conceals a resentment towards them, having harbored a genuine attachment for his previous family, which he had allowed to die by following the order of the Prescripts. Rien also grew attached to his second daughter Ryōshū, to the point that near the end of his life, he was finally willing to defy the Prescript to attempt to convince her to return to her family in the House of Spiders, believing them to be able to protect her from the rest of the Fingers. While Rien returned to following the Prescripts after making his escape from the House, he eventually commits one act of true defiance in refusing to recite a poem that had been assigned to him by a Prescript, and deciding to take his own life instead.

Valencina:

Appearance Valencina is a tall, older woman with sea green eyes and long, dirty blonde hair that covers her right eye. She wears a Thumb uniform consisting of a rose-red jacket, trousers, wide brimmed hat and untied ribbon over an ivory shirt with the top buttons undone. The right lapel of her jacket has a golden pin with one arrow pointing rightwards. She is seen smoking a cigar, and has black gloves with light palms.

While not visible in her sprites, she is said to have the Relic "the Eye of Odin" in place of her right eye, a mechanical eye with a sea green iris and a segmented sclera.[2] As Ryōshū damaged the Relic using Arayashiki, the wound reopens when Valencina is in its presence, at one point causing a cascade of blood to cover her face. Her death sprite suggests she wears a black eyepatch over it, which has a golden cross printed on the front.

She carries two swords, one being a straight sword with a revolver barrel at its guard kept in a red sheath, and the other, a curved sword with yellow ribbons on its grip kept in an orange sheath. Both have golden, ribbed blades.

Personality Valencina is an arrogant, booze-loving woman with a violent, foul-mouthed personality. She has a short temper, immediately taking towards physically attacking Lucio following a perceived failure on his part, as well as frequently harming the young Yoshihide during their training sessions. While she aims to benefit greatly off the cultivation of Ryōshū's abilities, she generally regards the woman in contempt, even while she was still under the care of the House of Spiders. She remains extremely bitter about her expulsion from the Thumb and fall from grace, and is obsessed with making others give her the respect she's owed.

In her moments of lucidity during her deployment in the Smoke War, when she was unable to indulge in alcohol, she became a more committed member of the faction and the House of Spiders, where her verbal and physical abuse of Ryōshū minimized temporarily. However, she was brought back to ruin after a visit from the Consigliere of the Thumb, some time after the end of the Smoke War.

Matthias: Appearance Matthias is a bulky man, with dark skin and pure-white hair worn short with blunt bangs. He is typically seen wearing a pair of thick sunglasses, with a gold bridge between the lenses. He wears a white suit overtop a black dress shirt — unbuttoned and revealing a large scar on his chest — with a massive coat with the colors and pattern customary of members of the Middle worn over his shoulders. He keeps his Book of Vengeance on his left hip, with his opposite leg wrapped in golden chains. Notably, his right leg appears to shift through the use of his enhancement tattoos into a large claw, one he uses in combat. He wears white gloves. His body is covered in enhancement tattoos, similar in design to other members of the Middle. On his back rests an oversized metallic sword and scabbard.

The sword, Lævateinn, is bound by at least three layers of seals, taking the form of thick chains keeping each layer tightly bound. When revealed, the sword appears with a thin-tipped appearance and a red burning hue across the entire length of the blade.

Personality Typical of those in his primary faction, Matthias is deeply devout to those on his side and brutal to those not. He is shown to feature an intense excitement at the possibility of reuniting with Ryōshū, who he called "buddy" in her youth. He features a toy-loving attitude, which contributes to a short attention span likened to his destruction of new toys, as well as a tendency to buy and collect things he has no intention to actually use. Despite this somewhat immature personality, he remains highly capable in combat, able to fend off a variety of opponents at a time, with a litany of specific tools that assist his battles. Even with his boisterous personality, Matthias is a brutal and dedicated man who understands the goal of his side, never wavering when it is threatened or questioned.

However, at his core, Matthias is an intensely selfish man who only truly cares about short-term pleasure and indulging his hedonism. While he expresses affection for those under his watch, his understanding of parental care is highly superficial and neglectful, mostly involving flaunting his wealth and spoiling his "children" with no heed for consequences. Ultimately, he treats the needs of his peers as entirely irrelevant compared to his own, even fellow Middle members, and will even sacrifice them in a heartbeat if it benefits him.

Callisto Appearance Callisto is a massive man seen wearing draped, white, robes with a gilded trim along their perimeter, silver-adorned, white high-heels better seen in his animations, and a large-brimmed hat featuring a litany of holes through its brim. His body is composed of sleek, full-bodied prosthetics with a metallic textures on his torso and a gust-patterned, white shell on his leg and shoulders. His body, visible through a gap in his robes, reveals some of his innards through glass panes. His arms feature large gaps in their centers, with sharp claws at the end of his hands. He carries a massive weapon composed of his own body known as Tibia, which features several large pointed notches along its blade.

Beneath his wide-brimmed hat, his brain is partially exposed due to a failed attempt to utilize his brain in an art piece.

Personality Common of members of the Ring, Callisto shows an interest in the macabre and brutal when framed through a lens of artwork, taking a primary interest in the human corpus. During Ryōshū's time with the House of Spiders, he showed a caring side towards the woman, mentioning his wish for her to wield what he considered his prized creation upon its eventual completion. While he carries a constant strive to experience the most extreme of arts, he is shown to yearn for a discussion with somebody in the terms of art, even if it becomes a matter of pure taste.

Shiomi Yoru: Appearance Shiomi Yoru wears an ornate white kimono that conceals almost her entire body. The kimono is blue-accented, with several blue ribbons tied to her headwear, wrists, and obi. Her pale face is covered by a veil adorned with a flower pattern, which is also visible on the outfit's sleeves and hem. She wears white gloves and a long, uniquely-knotted rope that hangs from her neck to her waist. The Dihui Star's hair is black with blue streaks, falling past her shoulders.

She carries an ōdachi with a dark blue blade and white-blue scabbard. This weapon, the Dihui Star's Blade, was a special "star-forged" sword said to always leave something behind in its wake, created with the purpose of "etching a mark into the earth".

Beneath her veil, her face is similar to Ryōshū's, though with longer hair with strands of blue strewn about.

Personality Little is known of Shiomi Yoru's personality prior to her joining of the House of Spiders, though she is shown to be a woman deeply mourning her loss of autonomy, which was taken away when the task of raising Ryōshū was forced onto her. Antithetical to her role as a member of the Pinky, she found herself bound to the House of Spiders, stuck without the freedom she desired.

Despite her own misery, Yoru was without sympathy for Ryōshū, since the child's birth all through her adulthood, and the Sinner often remembers Yoru belittling her or even threatening her through her pet Saru or Araya. Similar to the other Nursefathers, Shiomi Yoru carried a level of specific expectations for Ryōshū, most prominently during her time at the House of Spiders. Among the group, however, Shiomi Yoru treated her with a particular level of contempt, as Ryōshū seemed to her as a reflection of herself, and a constant reminder of the freedom and autonomy that had been forcefully stripped away from her.

She carried a bitter resentment of her protégé, choosing to openly admonish her for her connection to Araya, which reminded Yoru of her own connection to Ryōshū, as a daughter which she saw as a living fetter. Despite her burning disgust for Ryōshū and what she signified, she understood her own failings as a person and mentor, which she drilled into Ryōshū as something to avoid down to making a pinky promise with her, expressing bitterness and disappointment whenever Ryōshū failed to do so, and resembled her even in minor ways, such as smoking her same cigarettes and getting eye prosthetics that made her eyes resemble hers.

Through her pain and imprisonment in the House of Spiders, she understood her role as a stepping stone, showing grace—though tarnished with her hatred—even whilst being killed by the child she'd raised, egging her on to leave the House of Spiders and even seeing her own death as freedom. Even still, her distaste for the woman was all that remained following her death, haunting Ryōshū beyond Shiomi Yoru's time