Magase

Magase (曲世 愛 Magase Ai) is the main antagonist of Mado Nozaki's novel series Babylon, as well as its manga and anime adaptations.

She is a mysterious yet beautiful woman who manipulates several powerful figures who got involved in the "Shiniki Initiative Conspiracy" by disguising herself as several beautiful women to do her bidding. Befitting the "Whore of Babylon" theme, Ai Magase is a warped individual who intends to sow the seeds of chaos across the world starting by manipulating one of Shiniki's mayoral candidate, Kaika Itsuki, to legitimize suicide law, a law that is considered taboo even for Japanese people. Befitting the Whore of Babylon theme, Ai Magase herself is depicted as a beautiful woman who loves to disguise as several other women in order to manipulate people to commit several heinous acts or at the very least, acts that are considered taboo in the society such as suicide. However, Ai Magase's most consistent appearance is that she is a beautiful woman with a long hair that has a combination of dark blue and purple color, a magenta eyes, pink lipstick and a black or nearly dark blue dress. In her junior high school days, Magase wears a regular sailor fuku uniform and has a ponytail hair.

Each of Ai Magase's disguises had one similarity with each other which is the creepy and off-putting smile that she put everytime she disguises as another person. Her most prominent disguise are the likes of Emiko Hiramatsu and Kanae Kuyou. As Emiko, Magase appears as a woman in Mid to late-20s, has a long black hair and a businesswoman suit. As Kanae Kuyou, she is a young woman with a seemingly stoic behavior on her face, a long green hair and wearing a white dress with a white shirt tucked inside of it. Ai Magase can be described as a mysterious yet dangerous woman. This is because Ai Magase is a manipulative sociopath who willingly tried to spread misery and mayhem across the world by making several powerful figures or other people bend knees to her to get what she wanted. Even during her childhood days, according to her adoptive uncle, she has an irresistible yet charismatic aura surrounding her that made people wanting to commit depraved acts or at the very least making them traumatized.

In addition, Magase can also be described as a woman with a warped point of view of the world and morality itself, using it to screw with other people including Seizaki himself. Despite her claims saying that she wanted to become a hero that could make other people happy, in the end, Magase embraces her evilness with the atrocities that she had done just to make one person suffer. She also has no hesitation to use several taboo subject such as suicide law while twisting the morality of it so that she could see the world burn in the end. Not much is known about Ai Magase's past. However, according to Magase's adoptive uncle, Kurauzu Sakabe, Magase was adopted by his brother when she was 7 years old from an organization that supported adoption method due to his brother's inability to have a child. It is stated that Magase is a terrifying sociopath with seductive powers ever since she was a child.

This was revealed when she started to shown her evil tendencies when she was 15 years old. During that time, Magase seduced 7 middle school boys in her own school which resulted on them getting a counseling by Sakabe himself. Most of the students who were counselled by Sakabe were revealed to be traumatized by Magase due to them being figuratively "raped" by her despite never performing a sexual intercourse towards them.

The incident also happened with Sakabe during his attempt at counselling Magase as everytime he saw her, he always got aroused by Magase due to her appearance, her voice, her movements and her eyes that has an excessive smell like a strong perfume as if she beckoned him to do immoral things towards her despite being his adoptive niece.

Due to this, Sakabe then tries to have Ai getting counselled at the hospital where he worked which she accepted for half a year although it was revealed he did this because he is unable to control his lust everytime Magase is around. Due to this, Sakabe had no choice but to close his clinic and ran away to Kyoto to prevent himself committing more immoral things thanks to Magase's strong influence.