Hyakkimaru (Dororo)

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Hyakkimaru is a male character who features in Dororo.

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Biography

Hyakkimaru (百鬼丸, Hyakkimaru) was the male offspring of Kagemitsu Daigo (醍醐 景光, Daigo Kagemitsu) and his wife Nui No Kata (縫の方, Nui no kata) during a time when his father was Lord of Ishikawa and vassal to the governor of Kaga Province. At the time, his domain was suffering from a variety of problems including drought and conflict leading to his position being weakened along with his people suffering. To rectify this, Daigo decided to forge a pact with a number of demons that had been sealed in a temple in his territory. He offered them his new born son in exchange for prosperity for his kingdom and a return to power. The demons accepted these terms and each of the 48 beings took a single body part from the new born leaving the child blind, deaf, mute and devoid of skin or features. Unknown to anyone though, the child gained demonic powers as a side effect of the claiming of body parts. Kagemitsu was marked by the demons to indicate the pact was claimed and the Lord of Ishikama decided to have his child killed. Whilst taken to the river, the midwife took pity on the child and instead decided to put the boy in a boat and set adrift as she let the fates decide whether the new born would live or not. The boat drifted down the river where it was discovered by the travelling doctor Jukai (寿海, Jukai) who found the child within and was shocked at the boy's appearance though determined the new born was alive. Jukai then decided to care for the child as if he was his own and decided to name him Hyakkimaru.

Overview

Personality and attributes

He was named Hyakkimaru by his adoptive father Jukai after the man found the new born child adrift.

Powers and abilities

Originally, Hyakkimaru was a ordinary healthy human child until his father made a pact with the 48 demons. This saw them each claim one part from the boy leaving him barely alive as they took his eyes, nose, ears, throat, skin, arms, legs, spines and other parts of his body. A side effect though of this theft of his body was that Hyakkimaru gained some element of demonic powers such as the ability to see into the soul of others which served as a form of vision for him. This allowed him to be able to see demons and people by the aura of their souls though he lacked true sight. By the time he was a teenager, he came to learn that if he slayed one of the demons that took his body then he gained back the stolen body part. These magically returned to him in a painful moment as they mystically reformed in his body. However, initially, he lacked most of these parts and instead made do with the artificial limbs and parts made by his adoptive father Jukai.

Notes

  • Hyakkimaru was created by Osamu Tezuka where he featured in the setting of Dororo.

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