Asura | Genderbend

Asura is a hot-tempered, stubborn, reckless, and often times impulsive demigoddess by nature and is known for charging head on at the enemy without a second thought. A powerful combatant and warrior, Asura displays both a strong will and an absence of fear in less-than-positive situations and will fight her adversaries relentlessly until she is victorious. Due to her stubborn nature, Asura rarely accepts the aid of others and prefers to remain self-reliant, preferring to get out of messes on her own. Asura is also shown to be quite ruthless, since she had no qualms about killing her former demigoddess allies and slaughtering countless members of her own former forces in her crusade to rescue her daughter, sometimes doing so in rather brutal ways.

Asura's most defining psychological trait is her extreme, unbridled anger and wrath, which is mostly linked to her Mantra of Wrath. She is irritated by anything that triggers her anger, and will stop at nothing to destroy whatever makes her mad. Due to this, she is also shown to have immense anger management issues. Nonetheless, in spite of her terrifying rage, Asura is not entirely indiscriminate and savage in its exertion, even at her most enraged state. Even when subjected to the mindless rage of her Wrath form, Asura still possessed enough focus and control over herself to avoid attacking innocent humans and civilian demigoddesses, instead focusing her wrath on the Gohma and the Shinkoku military. She exercised her 'righteous fury' not only to deliver retribution against those who wronged her, but also to fight against the wrongs and pain brought by higher powers upon humankind and Gaea itself, be it the Gohma, her former companions, and most importantly Chakravartin. Throughout the story, Asura showcased a godly portrayal of wrath, as if she was wrath incarnate. It is strongly implied that Asura is the Goddess of Wrath. (See below for more)

While Asura feels anger for the world suffering, at the same time she also feels anger towards the world itself and has no real interest in protecting it. She cannot stand the world's unfairness and has expressed this anger on several occasions, and she cannot forgive the one who created such a world either. Despite her wrath, Asura is capable of developing strong bonds and perceiving others as friends. This is proven by her friendship with the mortal girl who accompanies her after her second return from Naraka and by her companionship with Yasha and Augus.

However, despite her negative faults, Asura at her core is a good-hearted warrior with a strong moral code and gets angered when she sees an act that goes against her morals. Asura values the lives of the innocent (be they mortal or demigoddess) and does not believe in sacrificing the innocent for any reason, whether good or evil, as she greatly disapproves of the Gohma's attacks on Gaea, Deus' plan for the world, and the Seven Deities' method of collecting Mantra by slaughtering humans. Asura even stated that, "there is no need for gods that only take" and was horrified and furious to discover how many human lives her ex-partners had taken in order to get more Mantra to fight the Gohma. Asura was often shown to hate those who value themselves over others, as she is against Augus' philosophy about fighting and one's own pleasure being all that matters in life.

Asura is a caring family woman whether it is outside or within the battlefield. In Episode 7: A Mother's Duty, Yasha states that perhaps Asura keeps her rage active to protect her family from the Gohma and their ongoing attacks. Asura loves and cares deeply for her husband and daughter; Durga and Mithra. She shares a very close bond with her daughter Mithra. Such a bond is so great that upon learning that the Deities had ceaselessly made her suffer after they orchestrated her downfall, Asura slaughtered everyone standing in her way, including the very armies that once revered her. Asura is shown to be in intense pain when she hears her daughter crying. Her only real weakness is seeing her daughter cry and wants nothing more than to see her happy and smiling. However, despite her maternal love, Asura also showed discomfort, anxiety, and shyness around her family due to lacking more amicable social graces and parenting skills. She sadly recounted that the only thing she knows how to do is "punch anything that makes Mithra cry."

She also bears an uncannily strong sense of morality beyond simply helping the innocent and punishing the wicked, so much so that she was not one who flexed her divinity in order to garner worship and power for herself like her fellow deities; in fact, this facet of her godhood irritated her to no end - so much so that she was visibly repulsed at the mortals she saved from a Gohma attack for bowing down and worshipping her, showcasing a much more humble and down-to-earth persona than other gods who boasted of their holy status and haughtily used their divinity as a means of getting their way and slaughtering mortals for more power. Asura simply viewed herself as an individual who was above any sense of self-debasing praise, seeing as her only real motivation was wanting her family to be happy, healthy, and safe. As such, the notion of becoming an all-powerful cosmological entity with a severe god complex like Deus, the other Seven Deities, and Chakravartin, who were all entitled to having everything go their way due to their sense of supremacy, was intolerable to her.

Individuals like these, beings with absolute power yet with extraordinary laziness and domineering character, constantly forcing others to do what they cannot do for themselves particularly peak her ire. It is for this reason she never prays to any higher power but at the same time, refuses to ever be worshipped or prayed to by others. It is this ideology that makes her resent her status as a Demigoddess/Goddess, so much so that she visibly expressed her anger when the dark fighter Akuma addressed her as such; this showcases an intensely misotheistic side to her persona, specifically, around the time she fought the Seven Deities - like with Wyzen who constantly boasted about how Asura should kneel before her if she wanted anything, growing madder and madder at her blustering, and again with Kalrow when she nonchalantly slaughtered innocent villagers by getting them to sacrifice themselves for her, or Olga when she cruelly massacred countless innocent mortals, calling her "a goddess who only takes," culminating in her pushing her over the edge of maddening fury. Her ire is directed at Deus and Chakravartin in particular, whose lust for power, scheming, and domination proved every reason as to why Asura hated her former comrades and the status of deity, both others' and her own. She‘s also never flowery with her language. She’s blunt, gruff, and honest with her language, never trying to sugarcoat anything.

Appearance: Asura is a humanoid demigoddess in appearance, bearing markings and tattoos and her body as well as being heavily built and muscular, looking much like what an elite demigod warrior would be. Asura normally has spiky hair that is white in colour, and her skin is of tanned complexion. Asura's eyes are white and often emit a white or red glow (occasionally her irises become visible, though they do not have pupils). Before Asura's resurrection however (normally, when she is not driven by wrath), she had red eyes and pupils, which returned just prior to her death. Her age of appearance is stated to be 28. Asura wears torn, black hakama trousers with a red flame pattern and a torn, golden waist sash hanging that is tied with a red obi belt. She also wears golden, intricately designed ceremonial greaves with one leg of her trousers tucked into the greave of her right leg and the other leg covering her left greave.

Gaea, an Earth-like world where humans, demigods, and the demonic Gohma reside.