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[Character Name] Nigihayami Kohaku Nushi or just Kohaku
[Canon] Spirited Away
[Point Taken from Canon]Post-Movie
[Age] Unknown, probably thousands of years old
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] Probably Hetero
[Eye Color] Olive Green
[Hair Color] Forest Green
[Height] 5'7
[Clothing] http://tigerangel.deviantart.com/art/Spirited-Away-Haku-and-Kohaku-7062449
[Background]Nigihayami Kohaku Nushi is a river spirit, the spirit of the river that bears his name, the Kohaku River. For thousands of years, he presided over his river, taking care of it. However, soon his river was drained to make way for apartment complexes, and he was forced to leave.
Soon, probably no more than six or seven years before the movie takes place, he encountered Yubaba, the greedy witch, and requested to learn magic from her. She agreed, but only if he would take a job as her assistant. When he agreed, Yubaba stole his name away from him, and Nigihayami Kohaku Nushi became just "Haku." Soon, without his name, he forgot all memories of his past and what his old name was.
Haku is first seen in the movie on the bridge. When Chihiro looks over the bridge to watch the trains, Haku sees her and urges her to leave before she and her parents get trapped in the spirit world. He distracts the lamp-lighters with a spell so they won't see Chihiro, but his efforts are in vain; the entrance to the spirit world vanishes, and Chihiro is left there, along with her parents, who were turned into pigs.
When she begins to disappear, Haku helps her again, convincing her to eat a berry to stop her from disappearing. He also decides to help her further, and takes her to the bathhouse Yubaba controls. He urges Chihiro to get a job in the bathhouse so Yubaba won't be able to hurt her. Finally, he tells her to remember that he is her friend.
He is then seen when Chihiro takes a job and becomes "Sen" just as he became Haku. Unlike his earlier helpful, kind-hearted behavior, he is very gruff, aloof and cold towards her now. However, this is just so Yubaba doesn't figure out that he helped Sen.
The next day, Haku takes Sen to her parents, helps her remember her name, and tells her that oddly enough, even though he can't remember his own name, he remembers her name. As he's leaving, we learn that Haku's real form is an enormous, silver-blue Oriental dragon.
Then, when No Face, a type of spirit wraith, starts terrorizing the bathhouse, Sen sees Haku being chased by paper birds that are somehow doing serious damage to him. She manages to get to him and save him from being killed by Zeniba, Yubaba's twin sister, but he is still dying. Using a pill a water spirit gave her, Sen heals Haku, but he remains comatose, so she simply makes him comfortable.
After Sen gives Zeniba back the seal Haku stole from her and leaves No Face with her as an assistant, Haku returns to her, fully healed, to take her back to Yubaba so the witch won't notice she's gone. As she rides him, Sen remembers an incident from when she was young and fell into a river, and how the water seemed to carry her. She realizes Haku is that river spirit that saved her, and once she tells Haku this, he remembers his name and past, and can free himself from Yubaba at last.
When Sen frees herself and becomes Chihiro once more, Kohaku escorts her out of the spirit world, assuring her that they would see each other again someday. What happens to him after this is unknown, but it is assumed that he broke free of Yubaba and remained in the spirit world under his own power.
[Personality] To people who first meet him, Kohaku seems very cold, blunt, aloof, and gruff. He rarely shows emotion at all, and often makes comments that seem to spring from an uncaring nature. However, around people he cares about, such as Chihiro, his whole nature changes. He becomes friendly, kind-hearted, and helpful. He doesn't seem to like humans much, since they destroyed his river, but he puts his dislike aside for Chihiro once he figures out that she's a good person.
The two different sides of him are so different and distinct from each other that Chihiro asks a worker in the bathhouse if there are two of him.
But essentially, Kohaku is a good person with a kind heart, although he usually doesn't show it.
[Specialties/Abilities] As a powerful river spirit and a student of a powerful witch, Kohaku is quite the powerful opponent. His most readily apparent powers are his powers of flight and his ability to transform into a large, silver-and-turquoise Oriental dragon; the dragon is his real form.
But he seems to have a myriad of magic abilities, having learned them from Yubaba. Some include a distraction spell that involves a large amount of white, translucent petals, a stunning spell, some telekinetic ability, water and wind control, and unbelievable speed. It is also assumed that he has more abilities, but has no need to use them.
He's not much of a physical fighter; he doesn't fight physically in his human form, and he can only claw and bite in his dragon form. But his incredible magic power more than makes up for it.
[Affection] Kohaku's not really the affectionate type if he barely knows you, but if you're a close friend or something of the sort, he'll be friendly, allow physical contact, etc. In terms of relationships...well, he's a thousand-year-old water spirit; who'd want to date that?
[Fighting] Kohaku is an unbelievable magic user, and can claw and bite with his claws and teeth in dragon form. He'd fight people if compelled, but he doesn't pick fights.
[Other Facts] He can turn into a friggin' DRAGON. 'Nuff said.
[Canon] Spirited Away
[Point Taken from Canon]Post-Movie
[Age] Unknown, probably thousands of years old
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] Probably Hetero
[Eye Color] Olive Green
[Hair Color] Forest Green
[Height] 5'7
[Clothing] http://tigerangel.deviantart.com/art/Spirited-Away-Haku-and-Kohaku-7062449
[Background]Nigihayami Kohaku Nushi is a river spirit, the spirit of the river that bears his name, the Kohaku River. For thousands of years, he presided over his river, taking care of it. However, soon his river was drained to make way for apartment complexes, and he was forced to leave.
Soon, probably no more than six or seven years before the movie takes place, he encountered Yubaba, the greedy witch, and requested to learn magic from her. She agreed, but only if he would take a job as her assistant. When he agreed, Yubaba stole his name away from him, and Nigihayami Kohaku Nushi became just "Haku." Soon, without his name, he forgot all memories of his past and what his old name was.
Haku is first seen in the movie on the bridge. When Chihiro looks over the bridge to watch the trains, Haku sees her and urges her to leave before she and her parents get trapped in the spirit world. He distracts the lamp-lighters with a spell so they won't see Chihiro, but his efforts are in vain; the entrance to the spirit world vanishes, and Chihiro is left there, along with her parents, who were turned into pigs.
When she begins to disappear, Haku helps her again, convincing her to eat a berry to stop her from disappearing. He also decides to help her further, and takes her to the bathhouse Yubaba controls. He urges Chihiro to get a job in the bathhouse so Yubaba won't be able to hurt her. Finally, he tells her to remember that he is her friend.
He is then seen when Chihiro takes a job and becomes "Sen" just as he became Haku. Unlike his earlier helpful, kind-hearted behavior, he is very gruff, aloof and cold towards her now. However, this is just so Yubaba doesn't figure out that he helped Sen.
The next day, Haku takes Sen to her parents, helps her remember her name, and tells her that oddly enough, even though he can't remember his own name, he remembers her name. As he's leaving, we learn that Haku's real form is an enormous, silver-blue Oriental dragon.
Then, when No Face, a type of spirit wraith, starts terrorizing the bathhouse, Sen sees Haku being chased by paper birds that are somehow doing serious damage to him. She manages to get to him and save him from being killed by Zeniba, Yubaba's twin sister, but he is still dying. Using a pill a water spirit gave her, Sen heals Haku, but he remains comatose, so she simply makes him comfortable.
After Sen gives Zeniba back the seal Haku stole from her and leaves No Face with her as an assistant, Haku returns to her, fully healed, to take her back to Yubaba so the witch won't notice she's gone. As she rides him, Sen remembers an incident from when she was young and fell into a river, and how the water seemed to carry her. She realizes Haku is that river spirit that saved her, and once she tells Haku this, he remembers his name and past, and can free himself from Yubaba at last.
When Sen frees herself and becomes Chihiro once more, Kohaku escorts her out of the spirit world, assuring her that they would see each other again someday. What happens to him after this is unknown, but it is assumed that he broke free of Yubaba and remained in the spirit world under his own power.
[Personality] To people who first meet him, Kohaku seems very cold, blunt, aloof, and gruff. He rarely shows emotion at all, and often makes comments that seem to spring from an uncaring nature. However, around people he cares about, such as Chihiro, his whole nature changes. He becomes friendly, kind-hearted, and helpful. He doesn't seem to like humans much, since they destroyed his river, but he puts his dislike aside for Chihiro once he figures out that she's a good person.
The two different sides of him are so different and distinct from each other that Chihiro asks a worker in the bathhouse if there are two of him.
But essentially, Kohaku is a good person with a kind heart, although he usually doesn't show it.
[Specialties/Abilities] As a powerful river spirit and a student of a powerful witch, Kohaku is quite the powerful opponent. His most readily apparent powers are his powers of flight and his ability to transform into a large, silver-and-turquoise Oriental dragon; the dragon is his real form.
But he seems to have a myriad of magic abilities, having learned them from Yubaba. Some include a distraction spell that involves a large amount of white, translucent petals, a stunning spell, some telekinetic ability, water and wind control, and unbelievable speed. It is also assumed that he has more abilities, but has no need to use them.
He's not much of a physical fighter; he doesn't fight physically in his human form, and he can only claw and bite in his dragon form. But his incredible magic power more than makes up for it.
[Affection] Kohaku's not really the affectionate type if he barely knows you, but if you're a close friend or something of the sort, he'll be friendly, allow physical contact, etc. In terms of relationships...well, he's a thousand-year-old water spirit; who'd want to date that?
[Fighting] Kohaku is an unbelievable magic user, and can claw and bite with his claws and teeth in dragon form. He'd fight people if compelled, but he doesn't pick fights.
[Other Facts] He can turn into a friggin' DRAGON. 'Nuff said.