towa👁‍🗨🦀

• towa's hatveil is fused with her body and cannot be removed. you may notice its eyes blink and shift every now and then...
  
  
• her shackles are magic in nature and also cannot be removed. she's worn them for many years!
  
  
• she has no memories of who she was before merging with her hatveil... but her original species was a cat!
  
  
• loves hunting and eating small critters - you can often find her chasing down seagulls and crabs by the seashore and gobbling them up. she also loves shrimp and any sort of fish.
  
  
• her teeth are all very sharp!
  
  
• she is a few hundred years old! exact number unknown...
  
  
• lives in tune with very dark/occult energies. she is channeling the most toxic evil spirits imaginable... she's the joker baby!
  
  
• towa is said to be an omen of bad luck. simply being around her may cause misfortune... this is beyond her control, so if she likes you enough, she may keep her distance!
  
  
• she has lots of bad blood within the spirit realm, so she spends most of her time in the mortal world, watching people from afar.
  
  

neither diety nor mortal,towa is something else entirely: an chaotic entity that belongs nowhere. she seems to follow her own whims and go wherever she pleases.

she is the fusion of an ancient power and a rough-hewn girl. her presence itself is an omen - misfortune and bad luck follow all of her encounters, like a black cat crossing your path...

simultaneously blunt and cryptic, towa is always one step ahead of others. there is a cruel edge to everything she says, and she seems to revel in her own mystery and power. she loves to be offputting and disturbing, yet undeniably right and smarter than you.

despite that, towa can always be counted on to tell the truth, and is oddly reliable in her own way. she enjoys observing the world and the people within it, as if an outsider. she's very gluttonous and carefree.

there was once a scrappy orphan that was tossed into the ocean.

in some versions of the story, it is said that the sea ate her alive and spat her out, leaving her cursed for the rest of eternity as a treacherous and hated creature.

others say that the ocean loved her as its own, and thus gave her the gift of a new life. she became as volatile and torrential as the sea itself, a proxy of its nature.

towa does not remember who she was before. she awoke one day with a vengeance, two beings merged into one, and simply was.

as a newborn entity with uncontrolled power, her early life was capricious and callous. she unleashed herself on the world, berserk, wreaking havoc wherever she could. it was short lived: towa quickly got herself imprisoned in the spiritual realm, bound and shackled so that she could do no more harm.

with little else to do in her confines, towa learned patience. her life is sustained by very dark energy, difficult to control, and she needed that time to get ahold of it. she became sharp as a blade, as if broiling in a slow cooker, just waiting to one day be free again...

it took many years. in the end, her escape was by pure stroke of luck: it came in the form of a bumbling attendant, a complete accident.

the girl's name was nana. feeling that she owed her a favor, towa began to watch her from afar, and naturally became quite fond of her. though she couldn't do much for her, afraid of the powerful sprit that kept her soul, she'd check on nana's wellbeing in the spirit realm often, and would create trouble for those that bullied her.

unfortunately, though towa kept her distance, nana's fortune was still altered by towa's presence. she wracked up lots of bad luck unknowingly... though nana's luck had never been much to speak of in the first place.

towa has lived a very, very long life. endless. in all her years roaming the mortal world, she continued to encounter but one even match: the diviner aura, her lifetime adversary. they've faced off in many battles of wits; petty fueds; intervening in each other's plans countless times.

the real battle is one of endurance: which will outlast the other? towa will go without seeing aura for ten years, twenty, thirty - only to find their fates colliding once again. it is great fun for her.

when nana is freed by nagisa, towa takes notice. nana's memories of serving in the spirit realm are removed, so towa appears before her as a stranger, deciding to look out for her in her new life.

it is to her surprise to find aura also monitoring nana and nagisa... and a new chapter begins for them once more.