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[Character Name] Yuuko Ichihara
[Canon] xxHOLiC
[Point Taken from Canon] After Chapter 182
[Age] Centuries old, but look 30ish
[Gender] Female
[Sexual Orientation] Heterosexual
[Eye Color] Crimson
[Hair Color] Jet black, long and layered
[Height] Unknown (5’10’’ most likely)
[Other] none
[Clothing] It’s canonically established that she never wears the same thing. Still, she tends to dress with rich, well-accessorized kimonos and yukatas. Here some examples. She sometimes wears Western-style clothing as well. Here other examples. Yes, boys and girls, she's always dressed that sexy <333 When she’s granting great wishes, she usually wears her Time and Space Witch attire.
[Background] Beware the tl;dr ahead XD
In the past, on her deathbed, her loverfriend, the very powerful Clow, wished so hard for her to open her eyes one last time that her ‘time’ was halted, causing a terrible rift through time and space. The witch never knew if Clow had prevented her from dying using his power and breaking the most important taboo in magic (to bring someone back to life) consciously or not. Even so, the pair had to pay for their sin and knowing how it would impact on the future, they prepared for ‘that moment to come to pass’. They created the Mokonas (one white, one black), talking creatures that could perform extraordinary feats like traveling through dimensions and time, amplify or seal magic powers and 108 other secret powers (including being able to consume massive amounts of alcohol without getting drunk). Clow leaves Yuuko to take care of one of his relative, Sakura, in the Clow Country while Yuuko leaves for a world much like ours, presumably Tokyo, Japan.
There she sets up a shop where she can grant wishes, if you pay the right price. Her shop is built within her halted time, and you can only see it if you have a wish to make. If you don’t, all you can see is a deserted field in between two tall buildings. She also creates Moro and Maru, soulless beings that act as guardians of the magic surroundings of her shop, including the barrier around the shop. There, while waiting for the ripples of her sin to get to that time, she grants wishes and collects magical and rare objects that may or mat not help her in her task.
Then the first ripple finally hits her. In Clow Country, Fei Wong Reed (the villain and a distant relative of Clow) has found a way to kill Sakura and Syaoran (the good guy and a not-so distant relative of Clow) makes the wish the turn back time so he can find a way to save Sakura. Yuuko grants his wish, taking his freedom as a price. But by turning back time, as the same soul cannot coexist in the same world, she creates Syaoran’s ‘twilight brother’, Watanuki. As part of the bargain, she promises to watch over the child and brings him back to her world.
The child grows older and becomes a tormented young man. As his existence itself is a rarity, his blood, soul and body attract all sorts of spirit to him and he is plagued with ghosts trying to eat him alive. One day finally, he stumbles upon Yuuko’s shop and she welcomes him, straightforwardly telling him that giving your name to a stranger is giving a lot of information, so she never gave him her real name. Yuuko Ichihara is a fake name. In exchange for his services as a maid/cook/helper with the shop/overallslave, Yuuko promises Watanuki she will get rid of his affliction of his soul being a delicious snack to the spirits. From Watanuki’s point of view, this how her strange relationship with the young man starts, as she tells him that everything is ‘hitsuzen’ or fatality. There’s nothing happening at random in the world and that their meeting was fated to happen. What Yuuko doesn’t tell Watanuki is that he has already came to her before and has given up his memories of their first meeting and of everything before in order to help Syaoran in his quest to save Sakura.
On Watanuki’s first week of work, she lets him look through the mirror on a sunny raining day (The Fox Wedding Day) and she cryptically says they must prepare for ‘their’ arrival. Moments later, four strangers appear in her backyard. For each of them a wish she makes come true, in due time, against the right price. For the boy and the girl, memories in exchange of the mean to cross over dimensions and time, the White Mokona. For the mage, the chance to always move forward and never go back to his world against tattoos that restrains his magical powers. For the ninja, the mean to go back to his princess, to his duty, to his world against the memento of his great family. She watches the group leave for their task, keeping the Black Mokona with her, in case the group needs her help again, as the two Mokona can communicate with each other. The second ripple of her sin has found her then.
And so Yuuko continues to take requests at her shop and keeps Watanuki close to her, always using him or implicating him in granting the wishes of her customers. She also always clues him how to get rid of his affliction by himself. The first clue she gives him is in keeping close to him his least favorite person in his school, Doumeki Shizuka. She even goes as far sending him on several errands with his rival until she shows them what Doumeki can truly do. Coming from a family of priest and exorcists, Doumeki has the ability to banish spirits with his Ki. And so Yuuko advises Watanuki to keep Doumeki close to him, making him see that each actions the archer takes for him needs to be rewarded (always paying the fair price principle). She looks over their tumultuous friendship; trying to give both of them the right advices so that they would both change enough to be ready for ‘that final moment’.
During her brief absence from the shop, as she had to go away to create two Gods as part of a request from a customer in another dimension, Yuuko tells Watanuki to be careful, knowing too well his knack to get into trouble easily. Unfortunately, when she comes back, she finds that he almost died wouldn’t it have been for Doumeki. She tells Watanuki that if he doesn’t regret the decision that led to his near death, then it was the right decision. And that he should realize that the archer had made a similar decision, even if he knew that decision would end up hurting Watanuki. A few weeks later, she grants Watanuki’s wish to have his eye taken instead of Doumeki’s when the pair angers a spider, explaining to the archer that only Watanuki alone must realizes that sacrificing his well being only hurt those that care for him. When the archer makes a wish in case the seer is unable to get his eye back from the spider spirit, she takes half of Doumeki’s right eye (as well as the proper payment for extracting it) and gives it to Watanuki. She then reveals to him that no one belongs to themselves, that all people are connected and those connections are the reason why the world is so interesting and so sad at the same time and why love actually exists. Although she never tells him directly, Yuuko hints often at Doumeki to be prepared for ‘that moment’ and the two of them seems to share a better understanding of the importance of keeping Watanuki alive and well.
Months later after the visit of the first Syaoran, a second one appears in Yuuko’s shop. She was expecting him, of course, and grants his wish to go back to where his left eye is. She doesn’t take compensation, saying that the price has already been paid. The third ripple has come to her and all she wishes is that all what was done until then would only help protect ‘the two futures’.
Yuuko also tells Watanuki that Himawari is not his ‘Lady Luck’, again hinting the young man on things that could happen to him. But Watanuki refuses to listen to her and Yuuko is forced to watch him move towards a dangerous point of his life. Since it is against the rules to interfere, the Time-Dimension Witch can only prepare herself for the inevitable. As Himawari’s powers are to bring bad luck to those around her, except for Doumeki, Watanuki falls prey to that power and literally falls off the window of his school’s second story. Yuuko calls Doumeki to bring back Watanuki to her shop instead of calling the ambulance. Once they get to her shop, she saves Watanuki’s life, aided by the price paid by Doumeki (his blood), Himawari (Watanuki’s scars) and Syaoran (his freedom). She comments that those who were not in need to be in her shop (Doumeki and Himawari, as they never had wishes to be granted) were now able to enter. She tells Watanuki that the price to pay to make Himawari ‘normal’ is too high to be paid, as it would equal taking away all what makes her happy. Received as a payment from Sakura of TRC, she gives both Watanuki and Doumeki eggs. Watanuki’s gives birth to a small yellow bird that the young man gives to Himawari so that she would never be alone. But Doumeki’s doesn’t hold any magical power, but she tells the archer to keep it on himself at all time, to hold on to it and to never hesitate to use it when ‘that moment comes’.
After Watanuki’s accident, she reflects on the difference of magic and how things have change dramatically because of Fei Wong Reed. Everything has come to be what it is because of the man’s desire to bring someone back to life, just like Clow did. But Yuuko explains to Black Mokona that all she does is in order to counter that dream of Reed’s. The magical barrier around the shop is starting to fail, even if Moro and Maru try their best to maintain it. Yuuko tells Mokona that it is because the others are making their decision and that it affects the universe, the future being only determined by their choices. Yuuko shares that both Watanuki and Doumeki have changed since she met them and since they met each other. Sharing their right eyes as well as mixing their blood has giving Doumeki the ability to see what he wouldn’t have seen before. The witch confesses that it is important that the archer would be able to see so that the ‘final moment’ would not be final. Moments later, Doumeki and Himawari arrives at her shop with an unconscious Watanuki. Yuuko gently scolds him and orders him to spend the rest of the week at her shop, not telling him that the ‘final moment’ was coming soon.
On the night of his birthday, Yuuko appears in Watanuki’s dream and the young man finally makes the link between the symbol of a butterfly from the seer he had seen at the beginning of the series and the butterfly Haruka, Doumeki’s grand-father, was talking about: a butterfly that spend its life dreaming while waiting. He realizes that the butterfly is in fact Yuuko. When Watanuki shows concerns for Sakura and Syaoran’s dire situation, she tells him that being able to show concern for total strangers proves that Watanuki has made his decision and that he has changed and that changing one’s personality is the power to change one’s future. Watanuki wonders if he’s in his dream or hers and Yuuko tells him that it doesn’t really matter since all dreams are connected.
She meets him yet again in another dream where Watanuki confesses that he is afraid he’s just a dream, as he can’t seem to recall the name of his parents or anything before he met Yuuko at the shop. What the Witch can’t tell him is that she’s the one holding his memories as he used them to pay to help Syaoran and Sakura. She reveals to the young man why Syaoran paid to keep him alive, as they are closely linked (without revealing how close they are). She tells him that despite how he feels, he is still human that all he has lived in his reality, the good and the bad, only makes him strong to realize his dream. She asks him if he has a wish and Watanuki replies that he has, but he won’t ask anything now, believing that Yuuko will tell him everything in time. He then proceeds to surprise the witch by asking her if she has a wish to be granted. The young man tells her that he will do anything in his power to grant it. All Yuuko does is to hug Watanuki.
Later on, she takes away Kohane’s exorcist power, revealing that she was holding one of Sakura’s feathers from TRC and Yuuko lets the Black Mokona seal it inside his blue earring, alongside Watanuki’s memories.
Sometime after helping Kohane, a new customer comes to her shop and Yuuko takes in the young woman’s request to learn how to cook. Of course, she decides without consulting Watanuki that he is the one that is going to fulfill her wish. She also teaches the young man that eating can be a very frightful thing to do. She explains that when one cooks, not only the ingredients used make the flavors. She thinks that Watanuki’s flavor is very much like his father, and similar to ‘an old family relative’, oblivious thinking of Clow.
While Watanuki spends his time at Doumeki’s, Yuuko walks to the room where she keeps all of the magical items she collected over the years, including the tattoo Fay gave her in the beginning as well as the true Star Scepter, given by CCS!Sakura, to protect her son and his replicate, Watanuki. Yuuko explains that both her and Syaoran changed their appearance and their names so that neither Watanuki’s nor their true son’s, Syaoran, existence would be erased. They chose to name their son’s replicate Watanuki out of the old tradition to remove the padding in one’s child kimono, on April 1st, so that they would be protected against the bad spirits, as the padding would play the replacement bait for the spirit. All along, Watanuki’s true parents and true has been hidden in a watch, the one that he gave Yuuko when he first met her, in order to hide his existence from Fei Wong Reed, so that the young man would not become a tool to the villain’s schemes. She says that, even though Watanuki does not remember it, his body and heart understands that he is not suppose to exist and that, aided by the regret of loosing his parents as they tried to protect him, makes his destiny unsure. She explains that feeling the need ‘to bring back to one the path that has been divided’, Watanuki had unconsciously tried to erase himself from his world by actually jumping that window at school. When Maru and Moro express the want for spending more time with the young man, Yuuko answers them that more than one person is feeling like that and that Watanuki had reacted to those feelings. She tells them that the young man is now wishing ‘to stay here’ and that if he wishes strongly enough, his wish may come true, and change the future.
After having troubles with the customer he’s supposed to teach how to cook, Watanuki comes to Yuuko for some advices. She tells him that it was okay for him to tell what he told his customer, because perhaps it was what she needed to hear. Since she was able to enter the shop, the young lady Watanuki is working with was able to meet the young man. Yuuko tells him that she let him grant her wish because Watanuki understood well what the young lady was going through. She adds that even though the shop was made in order to prepare for ‘that moment’, if it has become a reason for Watanuki to stay, it makes Yuuko happy to know it. She tells him that people meet the people they must meet, because everything is inevitable, just like farewells are. Watanuki reaches for her, feeling that she’s saying goodbye and notices that she’s wearing a kimono that he has seen before, something that never occurs since she never wears the same clothes twice. Yuuko gently smiles, saying that the dream was coming to an end before dissolving into millions of cherry tree petals. When Watanuki wakes up, he tries to find Yuuko in the shop, but it seems like she has disappear, as if ‘they couldn’t meet anymore’. A few days later, Watanuki finds out that nobody but Doumeki and him remembers who Yuuko is. Not his new client nor old ones of Yuuko’s, which she took care of when they first met. Desperate to learn what is happening, Watanuki rushes back to the shop, but as soon as he passes the magical barrier, he finds himself in another dream, or so he thinks. There’s only him and darkness until a voice calls him out. Yuuko is there with Watanuki, slowly being pulled into the darkness. She tells the young man that this is no dream, that this is reality, that this is now. She says that the time that was haltered has now begun to move forward again, and since that time is not Watanuki’s time, it explains why he cannot move at all.
The witch finally tells Watanuki the truth about herself. She is merely a being that a certain person wished to remain and his feelings were so strong that it haltered her time and she became trapped in that halted time, for the sake of two worlds, of two futures. But now that choices had been made, she is able to move forward in her own time and disappear like she was supposed to long ago. When Watanuki snaps and yells that he doesn’t want any decisions he hasn’t made affect the life of someone he cares for, Yuuko smiles and replies that it’s only fair that he feels that way, but she was also already dead before the young man was born. She can only thank him when he tells her that he has changed because of her. Yuuko finally grants him his wish, saying that once she would disappear, spirits and ghosts would not bother Watanuki anymore, as they would stop being attracted by his blood and Watanuki is not going to be able to see them anymore. Yuuko tells Watanuki how precious he is to her and because of that, she is not going to lie to him about her fate. In a last attempt to keep Yuuko from disappearing, as the darkness is still pulling her in, he tells her that he still hasn’t grant her wish. The Witch replies that all she wants is for him to go on living. The last thing she hears is Watanuki promising to stay in the shop, so that he can wait for her return, as he is going to wish hard to see her again. Yuuko then is completely engulfed by the darkness, from where she is brought to Somarium.
[Personality]
Yuuko appears on the surface as a very carefree and even at some point immature character. She loves to drink and eat Watanuki’s homemade cooking and is a very demanding woman, seemingly to be high maintenance. The young man is also her favorite target to tease and torture. She often appears as flirtatious, having no problem to do so with both genders. Her temper may seem fickle and can get easily annoyed if you don’t respect traditions and don’t share equally. She is absolutely execrable when having a hangover. She is a very sociable character and doesn’t have any difficulty in meeting new people and voicing her opinion to strangers.
But in truth, Yuuko is a very mature character. She is extremely knowledgeable of the mystic world and is a very powerful, very respected Witch. She is very observant but tends to stay on the sidelines, because it is against her principles to actually intervene unless she is directly asked to. She can easily be compared to a chess player, as most of her moves are made strategically and thought out several moves beforehand.
Yuuko strongly believes in Hitsuzen, in how nothing happens at random and that everything and everyone is connected together. She also believes in the ‘fair equivalence’ when granting wishes, meaning that she will always ask for a price equivalent to the importance of the wish. Even though she had the power for it, she will never take a life, as the burden of killing is too much of a weight on a soul for her to do it. Finally, even if at times it seems to frustrate her, Yuuko will never interfere in the affairs of others, unless one makes a wish about it. It doesn’t stop her from giving advices and playing more or less the role of a sage.
[Specialties/Abilities]
Yuuko is a powerful Witch. Her magical abilities are the only ones that rival with those of Clow. She can bend Time and Space and can move through dimensions. She can grant any wishes, though she will not kill nor change anyone’s feelings towards someone else, as it would go against on how the universe is constructed (as per her beliefs).
In Somarium, she keeps her abilities but is not going to bend either Time or Space as well as moving through other dimensions, as the price for it would be too high. She will not grant any wishes that would go against the Overlord’s law and authority (meaning that I will talk to the mods if a character asks for something that I think might request the mods approval). She will neither grant wishes that would allow a character to leave the world of Somarium or one that would bring in a new character in, as the price, again, would be too high to pay for anyone asking.
[Affection]
Yuuko loves to flirt! Male, female, it doesn’t really matter. And the more awkward you are, the more she’ll push it. She has no problem being touchy either, though most of her affection would be passed on Mokona. She’s not looking for a life partner, but since she believes in Hitsuzen, nothing happens at random and well, you never know what can happen. She’ll happily be friends with everyone though.
[Fighting]
Though she probably has the power to kick some serious ass, Yuuko is never going to engage in a fact. Starting one means to interfere, as well as stopping one (unless she’s asked to). If someone attacks her, she’ll probably use only defensive spells and get the hell out of there (or talk down her attacker). She will never kill anyone or anything, as the price of taking a life is too heavy to bear on one’s soul.
[Other Facts] None at the moment.
[Canon] xxHOLiC
[Point Taken from Canon] After Chapter 182
[Age] Centuries old, but look 30ish
[Gender] Female
[Sexual Orientation] Heterosexual
[Eye Color] Crimson
[Hair Color] Jet black, long and layered
[Height] Unknown (5’10’’ most likely)
[Other] none
[Clothing] It’s canonically established that she never wears the same thing. Still, she tends to dress with rich, well-accessorized kimonos and yukatas. Here some examples. She sometimes wears Western-style clothing as well. Here other examples. Yes, boys and girls, she's always dressed that sexy <333 When she’s granting great wishes, she usually wears her Time and Space Witch attire.
[Background] Beware the tl;dr ahead XD
In the past, on her deathbed, her loverfriend, the very powerful Clow, wished so hard for her to open her eyes one last time that her ‘time’ was halted, causing a terrible rift through time and space. The witch never knew if Clow had prevented her from dying using his power and breaking the most important taboo in magic (to bring someone back to life) consciously or not. Even so, the pair had to pay for their sin and knowing how it would impact on the future, they prepared for ‘that moment to come to pass’. They created the Mokonas (one white, one black), talking creatures that could perform extraordinary feats like traveling through dimensions and time, amplify or seal magic powers and 108 other secret powers (including being able to consume massive amounts of alcohol without getting drunk). Clow leaves Yuuko to take care of one of his relative, Sakura, in the Clow Country while Yuuko leaves for a world much like ours, presumably Tokyo, Japan.
There she sets up a shop where she can grant wishes, if you pay the right price. Her shop is built within her halted time, and you can only see it if you have a wish to make. If you don’t, all you can see is a deserted field in between two tall buildings. She also creates Moro and Maru, soulless beings that act as guardians of the magic surroundings of her shop, including the barrier around the shop. There, while waiting for the ripples of her sin to get to that time, she grants wishes and collects magical and rare objects that may or mat not help her in her task.
Then the first ripple finally hits her. In Clow Country, Fei Wong Reed (the villain and a distant relative of Clow) has found a way to kill Sakura and Syaoran (the good guy and a not-so distant relative of Clow) makes the wish the turn back time so he can find a way to save Sakura. Yuuko grants his wish, taking his freedom as a price. But by turning back time, as the same soul cannot coexist in the same world, she creates Syaoran’s ‘twilight brother’, Watanuki. As part of the bargain, she promises to watch over the child and brings him back to her world.
The child grows older and becomes a tormented young man. As his existence itself is a rarity, his blood, soul and body attract all sorts of spirit to him and he is plagued with ghosts trying to eat him alive. One day finally, he stumbles upon Yuuko’s shop and she welcomes him, straightforwardly telling him that giving your name to a stranger is giving a lot of information, so she never gave him her real name. Yuuko Ichihara is a fake name. In exchange for his services as a maid/cook/helper with the shop/overallslave, Yuuko promises Watanuki she will get rid of his affliction of his soul being a delicious snack to the spirits. From Watanuki’s point of view, this how her strange relationship with the young man starts, as she tells him that everything is ‘hitsuzen’ or fatality. There’s nothing happening at random in the world and that their meeting was fated to happen. What Yuuko doesn’t tell Watanuki is that he has already came to her before and has given up his memories of their first meeting and of everything before in order to help Syaoran in his quest to save Sakura.
On Watanuki’s first week of work, she lets him look through the mirror on a sunny raining day (The Fox Wedding Day) and she cryptically says they must prepare for ‘their’ arrival. Moments later, four strangers appear in her backyard. For each of them a wish she makes come true, in due time, against the right price. For the boy and the girl, memories in exchange of the mean to cross over dimensions and time, the White Mokona. For the mage, the chance to always move forward and never go back to his world against tattoos that restrains his magical powers. For the ninja, the mean to go back to his princess, to his duty, to his world against the memento of his great family. She watches the group leave for their task, keeping the Black Mokona with her, in case the group needs her help again, as the two Mokona can communicate with each other. The second ripple of her sin has found her then.
And so Yuuko continues to take requests at her shop and keeps Watanuki close to her, always using him or implicating him in granting the wishes of her customers. She also always clues him how to get rid of his affliction by himself. The first clue she gives him is in keeping close to him his least favorite person in his school, Doumeki Shizuka. She even goes as far sending him on several errands with his rival until she shows them what Doumeki can truly do. Coming from a family of priest and exorcists, Doumeki has the ability to banish spirits with his Ki. And so Yuuko advises Watanuki to keep Doumeki close to him, making him see that each actions the archer takes for him needs to be rewarded (always paying the fair price principle). She looks over their tumultuous friendship; trying to give both of them the right advices so that they would both change enough to be ready for ‘that final moment’.
During her brief absence from the shop, as she had to go away to create two Gods as part of a request from a customer in another dimension, Yuuko tells Watanuki to be careful, knowing too well his knack to get into trouble easily. Unfortunately, when she comes back, she finds that he almost died wouldn’t it have been for Doumeki. She tells Watanuki that if he doesn’t regret the decision that led to his near death, then it was the right decision. And that he should realize that the archer had made a similar decision, even if he knew that decision would end up hurting Watanuki. A few weeks later, she grants Watanuki’s wish to have his eye taken instead of Doumeki’s when the pair angers a spider, explaining to the archer that only Watanuki alone must realizes that sacrificing his well being only hurt those that care for him. When the archer makes a wish in case the seer is unable to get his eye back from the spider spirit, she takes half of Doumeki’s right eye (as well as the proper payment for extracting it) and gives it to Watanuki. She then reveals to him that no one belongs to themselves, that all people are connected and those connections are the reason why the world is so interesting and so sad at the same time and why love actually exists. Although she never tells him directly, Yuuko hints often at Doumeki to be prepared for ‘that moment’ and the two of them seems to share a better understanding of the importance of keeping Watanuki alive and well.
Months later after the visit of the first Syaoran, a second one appears in Yuuko’s shop. She was expecting him, of course, and grants his wish to go back to where his left eye is. She doesn’t take compensation, saying that the price has already been paid. The third ripple has come to her and all she wishes is that all what was done until then would only help protect ‘the two futures’.
Yuuko also tells Watanuki that Himawari is not his ‘Lady Luck’, again hinting the young man on things that could happen to him. But Watanuki refuses to listen to her and Yuuko is forced to watch him move towards a dangerous point of his life. Since it is against the rules to interfere, the Time-Dimension Witch can only prepare herself for the inevitable. As Himawari’s powers are to bring bad luck to those around her, except for Doumeki, Watanuki falls prey to that power and literally falls off the window of his school’s second story. Yuuko calls Doumeki to bring back Watanuki to her shop instead of calling the ambulance. Once they get to her shop, she saves Watanuki’s life, aided by the price paid by Doumeki (his blood), Himawari (Watanuki’s scars) and Syaoran (his freedom). She comments that those who were not in need to be in her shop (Doumeki and Himawari, as they never had wishes to be granted) were now able to enter. She tells Watanuki that the price to pay to make Himawari ‘normal’ is too high to be paid, as it would equal taking away all what makes her happy. Received as a payment from Sakura of TRC, she gives both Watanuki and Doumeki eggs. Watanuki’s gives birth to a small yellow bird that the young man gives to Himawari so that she would never be alone. But Doumeki’s doesn’t hold any magical power, but she tells the archer to keep it on himself at all time, to hold on to it and to never hesitate to use it when ‘that moment comes’.
After Watanuki’s accident, she reflects on the difference of magic and how things have change dramatically because of Fei Wong Reed. Everything has come to be what it is because of the man’s desire to bring someone back to life, just like Clow did. But Yuuko explains to Black Mokona that all she does is in order to counter that dream of Reed’s. The magical barrier around the shop is starting to fail, even if Moro and Maru try their best to maintain it. Yuuko tells Mokona that it is because the others are making their decision and that it affects the universe, the future being only determined by their choices. Yuuko shares that both Watanuki and Doumeki have changed since she met them and since they met each other. Sharing their right eyes as well as mixing their blood has giving Doumeki the ability to see what he wouldn’t have seen before. The witch confesses that it is important that the archer would be able to see so that the ‘final moment’ would not be final. Moments later, Doumeki and Himawari arrives at her shop with an unconscious Watanuki. Yuuko gently scolds him and orders him to spend the rest of the week at her shop, not telling him that the ‘final moment’ was coming soon.
On the night of his birthday, Yuuko appears in Watanuki’s dream and the young man finally makes the link between the symbol of a butterfly from the seer he had seen at the beginning of the series and the butterfly Haruka, Doumeki’s grand-father, was talking about: a butterfly that spend its life dreaming while waiting. He realizes that the butterfly is in fact Yuuko. When Watanuki shows concerns for Sakura and Syaoran’s dire situation, she tells him that being able to show concern for total strangers proves that Watanuki has made his decision and that he has changed and that changing one’s personality is the power to change one’s future. Watanuki wonders if he’s in his dream or hers and Yuuko tells him that it doesn’t really matter since all dreams are connected.
She meets him yet again in another dream where Watanuki confesses that he is afraid he’s just a dream, as he can’t seem to recall the name of his parents or anything before he met Yuuko at the shop. What the Witch can’t tell him is that she’s the one holding his memories as he used them to pay to help Syaoran and Sakura. She reveals to the young man why Syaoran paid to keep him alive, as they are closely linked (without revealing how close they are). She tells him that despite how he feels, he is still human that all he has lived in his reality, the good and the bad, only makes him strong to realize his dream. She asks him if he has a wish and Watanuki replies that he has, but he won’t ask anything now, believing that Yuuko will tell him everything in time. He then proceeds to surprise the witch by asking her if she has a wish to be granted. The young man tells her that he will do anything in his power to grant it. All Yuuko does is to hug Watanuki.
Later on, she takes away Kohane’s exorcist power, revealing that she was holding one of Sakura’s feathers from TRC and Yuuko lets the Black Mokona seal it inside his blue earring, alongside Watanuki’s memories.
Sometime after helping Kohane, a new customer comes to her shop and Yuuko takes in the young woman’s request to learn how to cook. Of course, she decides without consulting Watanuki that he is the one that is going to fulfill her wish. She also teaches the young man that eating can be a very frightful thing to do. She explains that when one cooks, not only the ingredients used make the flavors. She thinks that Watanuki’s flavor is very much like his father, and similar to ‘an old family relative’, oblivious thinking of Clow.
While Watanuki spends his time at Doumeki’s, Yuuko walks to the room where she keeps all of the magical items she collected over the years, including the tattoo Fay gave her in the beginning as well as the true Star Scepter, given by CCS!Sakura, to protect her son and his replicate, Watanuki. Yuuko explains that both her and Syaoran changed their appearance and their names so that neither Watanuki’s nor their true son’s, Syaoran, existence would be erased. They chose to name their son’s replicate Watanuki out of the old tradition to remove the padding in one’s child kimono, on April 1st, so that they would be protected against the bad spirits, as the padding would play the replacement bait for the spirit. All along, Watanuki’s true parents and true has been hidden in a watch, the one that he gave Yuuko when he first met her, in order to hide his existence from Fei Wong Reed, so that the young man would not become a tool to the villain’s schemes. She says that, even though Watanuki does not remember it, his body and heart understands that he is not suppose to exist and that, aided by the regret of loosing his parents as they tried to protect him, makes his destiny unsure. She explains that feeling the need ‘to bring back to one the path that has been divided’, Watanuki had unconsciously tried to erase himself from his world by actually jumping that window at school. When Maru and Moro express the want for spending more time with the young man, Yuuko answers them that more than one person is feeling like that and that Watanuki had reacted to those feelings. She tells them that the young man is now wishing ‘to stay here’ and that if he wishes strongly enough, his wish may come true, and change the future.
After having troubles with the customer he’s supposed to teach how to cook, Watanuki comes to Yuuko for some advices. She tells him that it was okay for him to tell what he told his customer, because perhaps it was what she needed to hear. Since she was able to enter the shop, the young lady Watanuki is working with was able to meet the young man. Yuuko tells him that she let him grant her wish because Watanuki understood well what the young lady was going through. She adds that even though the shop was made in order to prepare for ‘that moment’, if it has become a reason for Watanuki to stay, it makes Yuuko happy to know it. She tells him that people meet the people they must meet, because everything is inevitable, just like farewells are. Watanuki reaches for her, feeling that she’s saying goodbye and notices that she’s wearing a kimono that he has seen before, something that never occurs since she never wears the same clothes twice. Yuuko gently smiles, saying that the dream was coming to an end before dissolving into millions of cherry tree petals. When Watanuki wakes up, he tries to find Yuuko in the shop, but it seems like she has disappear, as if ‘they couldn’t meet anymore’. A few days later, Watanuki finds out that nobody but Doumeki and him remembers who Yuuko is. Not his new client nor old ones of Yuuko’s, which she took care of when they first met. Desperate to learn what is happening, Watanuki rushes back to the shop, but as soon as he passes the magical barrier, he finds himself in another dream, or so he thinks. There’s only him and darkness until a voice calls him out. Yuuko is there with Watanuki, slowly being pulled into the darkness. She tells the young man that this is no dream, that this is reality, that this is now. She says that the time that was haltered has now begun to move forward again, and since that time is not Watanuki’s time, it explains why he cannot move at all.
The witch finally tells Watanuki the truth about herself. She is merely a being that a certain person wished to remain and his feelings were so strong that it haltered her time and she became trapped in that halted time, for the sake of two worlds, of two futures. But now that choices had been made, she is able to move forward in her own time and disappear like she was supposed to long ago. When Watanuki snaps and yells that he doesn’t want any decisions he hasn’t made affect the life of someone he cares for, Yuuko smiles and replies that it’s only fair that he feels that way, but she was also already dead before the young man was born. She can only thank him when he tells her that he has changed because of her. Yuuko finally grants him his wish, saying that once she would disappear, spirits and ghosts would not bother Watanuki anymore, as they would stop being attracted by his blood and Watanuki is not going to be able to see them anymore. Yuuko tells Watanuki how precious he is to her and because of that, she is not going to lie to him about her fate. In a last attempt to keep Yuuko from disappearing, as the darkness is still pulling her in, he tells her that he still hasn’t grant her wish. The Witch replies that all she wants is for him to go on living. The last thing she hears is Watanuki promising to stay in the shop, so that he can wait for her return, as he is going to wish hard to see her again. Yuuko then is completely engulfed by the darkness, from where she is brought to Somarium.
[Personality]
Yuuko appears on the surface as a very carefree and even at some point immature character. She loves to drink and eat Watanuki’s homemade cooking and is a very demanding woman, seemingly to be high maintenance. The young man is also her favorite target to tease and torture. She often appears as flirtatious, having no problem to do so with both genders. Her temper may seem fickle and can get easily annoyed if you don’t respect traditions and don’t share equally. She is absolutely execrable when having a hangover. She is a very sociable character and doesn’t have any difficulty in meeting new people and voicing her opinion to strangers.
But in truth, Yuuko is a very mature character. She is extremely knowledgeable of the mystic world and is a very powerful, very respected Witch. She is very observant but tends to stay on the sidelines, because it is against her principles to actually intervene unless she is directly asked to. She can easily be compared to a chess player, as most of her moves are made strategically and thought out several moves beforehand.
Yuuko strongly believes in Hitsuzen, in how nothing happens at random and that everything and everyone is connected together. She also believes in the ‘fair equivalence’ when granting wishes, meaning that she will always ask for a price equivalent to the importance of the wish. Even though she had the power for it, she will never take a life, as the burden of killing is too much of a weight on a soul for her to do it. Finally, even if at times it seems to frustrate her, Yuuko will never interfere in the affairs of others, unless one makes a wish about it. It doesn’t stop her from giving advices and playing more or less the role of a sage.
[Specialties/Abilities]
Yuuko is a powerful Witch. Her magical abilities are the only ones that rival with those of Clow. She can bend Time and Space and can move through dimensions. She can grant any wishes, though she will not kill nor change anyone’s feelings towards someone else, as it would go against on how the universe is constructed (as per her beliefs).
In Somarium, she keeps her abilities but is not going to bend either Time or Space as well as moving through other dimensions, as the price for it would be too high. She will not grant any wishes that would go against the Overlord’s law and authority (meaning that I will talk to the mods if a character asks for something that I think might request the mods approval). She will neither grant wishes that would allow a character to leave the world of Somarium or one that would bring in a new character in, as the price, again, would be too high to pay for anyone asking.
[Affection]
Yuuko loves to flirt! Male, female, it doesn’t really matter. And the more awkward you are, the more she’ll push it. She has no problem being touchy either, though most of her affection would be passed on Mokona. She’s not looking for a life partner, but since she believes in Hitsuzen, nothing happens at random and well, you never know what can happen. She’ll happily be friends with everyone though.
[Fighting]
Though she probably has the power to kick some serious ass, Yuuko is never going to engage in a fact. Starting one means to interfere, as well as stopping one (unless she’s asked to). If someone attacks her, she’ll probably use only defensive spells and get the hell out of there (or talk down her attacker). She will never kill anyone or anything, as the price of taking a life is too heavy to bear on one’s soul.
[Other Facts] None at the moment.