Kaguya Meigetsu

Kaguya is a white-skinned teenage girl with yellow cat-like eyes and waist-length midnight blue hair that she usually keeps tied in twin-tails with black ribbons. Her bangs are rather long, some of which are swept to the side, while the rest fall between her eyes. She also often likes to wear either a gold crescent moon-shaped or star-shaped hair ornament in her hair.

Compared to other girls her age, she is less developed than most and is often mistaken for a grade schooler at first glance since she is fairly short and looks deceptively young.

At school, she wears the standard Obelisk Blue uniform, though wears black, thigh-high stockings instead of regular socks. She also wears a black garter with her deck case attached around her upper thigh.

When not wearing the school uniform, she tends to wear mostly black clothing. One of her outfits is a black cold-shoulder turtleneck top with a dark blue pleated miniskirt, and black ankle boots with black, thigh-high stockings. She also wears a frilly black and white Gothic Lolita-style dress with detached black sleeves with white frills at the ends, black thigh-high stockings, a black garter with white frills, and black and white calf-length boots.

As she is left-handed, she wears an Academy-issued Duel Disk on her right arm while Dueling.

Kaguya speaks softly and uses polite vocabulary and grammar almost all of the time. She has a reserved and somewhat monotone-sounding voice that rarely changes even when she’s happy, though she does make an effort to try to show a bit more emotion and liveliness when she’s around those she is close to and cares about.

Kaguya’s family name is comprised of the kanji for “dark” (冥 mei) and “moon” (月 getsu), while her first name contains the character for “shining, sparkling, radiant” (輝 kagu) and “night, evening” (夜 ya). She is named after Princess Kaguya from the monogatari called The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.

Kaguya comes from a wealthy and highly renowned family of musicians. She was known for her skills at playing the violin, considered by others to be a child prodigy. However, due to her parents' high standards and demands, she eventually grew to hate performing in public concerts and events, often getting anxiety attacks due to thinking she would never be able to live up to their or other people's expectations. Sensing her stress and discomfort, it was her older brother Kazuya who got her into Duel Monsters when she was six, teaching her how to play as a way to unwind and lighten up, and she quickly fell in love with the game.

While attending a social function with her family when she was eight, Kaguya met Chazz Princeton, a boy her age, and the two hit it off after bonding over a shared interest in Dueling and similar feelings of being pressured by their families. They soon became friends and would go on to see each other often throughout the years. Somewhere down the line, Kaguya started developing a crush on Chazz but has yet to fully admit or act on her feelings.

After a particularly bad anxiety attack after one of her concerts when she was eleven, Kaguya hit her breaking point and decided to give up her music career in favor of becoming a Duelist. When she did, she was met with disapproval from her parents, who practically disowned her for her decision. While their parents did not approve, Kazuya supported Kaguya full-heartedly, letting her move in with him and helping her enroll into Duel Prep School and then eventually Duel Academy by paying for her tuition so she could be free to pursue her dreams.