Yoshika Hakata

Yoshika Hakata (墓田美香 Hakata Yoshika) is one of the deuteragonists in Claire: Chronicles of the Carmine Blood.

Appearance
Similar to Megumi, Yoshika appears to be a teenaged girl aged 14-16 who has a fair complexion, mauve short curly hair with an ahoge that sides to the left, and pink eyes. They display an emotion that can be considered to be "baka" (idiotic) by CaraPrincess. They wear a light pink jumper with two mauve stripes on each sleeves. Over the shirt they wear a purple sleeveless jacket similar in design to Megumi, also with yellow buttons. They wear a mauve sash that is somewhat of the same tone as the stripes on their shirt, which holds their arrows. They also wear brown sandal-like shoes like Megumi, and they have shorter wings than Megumi, which meant that they are a normal Angel, who is different from Megumi, who is an Archangel.

Personality
In contrast to Megumi Kiyono's calm and collected personality, Yoshika is energetic and is somewhat of a ditz. Still, they still have a sense of duty to their comrade and superior, Megumi, as well as to God. Also in contrast to Megumi's fondness of religious culture and "high culture", Yoshika is enthusiastic about popular culture, referring a lot about anime and manga in their dialogues, as well as their attack skills, making them somewhat of a nerd who is interested in popular culture. They also found punishing evildoers interesting, but their ways of punishing them are considered to be things that were made by a "bumbling idiot" due to their excessive use of popular culture references in these "punishments".

In contrast to Megumi, who tends to show their kindness towards others by showing mercy to the others and comforting them, they tends to show their kindness towards all beings by encouragement and lend them a hand when things got very tough for them. Their candid attitude towards everyone makes everyone who need help, regardless of they know them or not, trust all of their help towards them. CaraPrincess stated that while Megumi is the type of person who supports others by helping them find a "relief in their mind and hearts", Yoshika is the exact opposite, who helps others by "relieving the suffering that they receive physically" and "empowering their determination".

They can be seen as childish, and sometimes can be stupid at times. Most of the beings of Heaven called them “baka” (lit. “idiot”), alluding to their immature way of thinking, affectionately. While most found their somewhat stupid personality annoying at times, some found that their childishness “cute”, such as Megumi, even though they sometimes can be stupid, and can act as a hindrance to others.

Create medications using “divine life essence”
They have the ability to create medications using a kind of spiritual energy called “divine life essence”, which is exactly what God uses to bestow life to any being in the world. They can create virtually ANY kind of medicine, from simple medications that cures simple diseases such as headaches, to medications that can cure terminal illnesses. In the series’ canon, according to CaraPrincess, they are the person who taught humans how to make medicine since the antiquity. Since their medicine are made using a kind of energy that can bestow life to any life forms, there are rumors that they CAN actually make medications that can resurrect people or averting the death of people. However, it is unknown whether Yoshika can make such medications. They, together with Megumi, are the ones who responsible for guiding people to survival in the times of outbreaks.

Copying others' attack skills
Similar to Marisa from Touhou, who is one of their major inspirations, they are able to learn and copy attack moves from others, most of them come from attacking moves of anime, manga and video game characters that they know. For instance, their basic attack "Hallowed Lux Streal Piercing" is said to be Yoshika's replication of an attack move of Decidueye from the Pokémon series, Spirit Shackle.

Occupation
They are an Angel who works as a comrade and servant to Megumi Kiyono, and serves as one of the Messengers of Love and Peace to mankind, with her being the "Lesser" Messenger, whose role in spreading love and peace to the world is less significant than that of their comrade Megumi, who is the "Greater" Messenger.

Similar to Megumi, they are also the guardian angel of some of the faithful, specificially those who are weak and frail and those who are undetermined in life.

Origins
Their name is somewhat similar to that of Yoshika Miyako from Touhou, but CaraPrincess stated that both characters have no relation to each other, and that her idea of thinking up the name "Yoshika" for this character is purely her own thought. However, as Yoshika adopted a ditzy personality, and the fact that they are a servant to Megumi, CaraPrincess now acknowledge the similarity of both Yoshikas’ personalities, which are both being stupid at times.

Alice Margatroid from the same series also influences the concept for this character. Both are characters who can use magic (however, the nature of the magic they use are different: Alice's magic is "supernatural" magic, while that Yoshika's magic is "holy" magic), both are able to create dolls and use them as her puppets (however, Alice's dolls are closer in nature to toy dolls or marionettes, while that Yoshika's dolls are papercraft dolls), and their appearances are somewhat similar: Both of them have short hair, both of them have similar clothing designs, and most of all, in their artworks, they are shown with an item that is most associated with them (dolls and a book for Alice; a bow and arrow for Yoshika). Both of them also have similar personalities, being very friendly towards humans and offers them care after they have been astray. This is seen explicitly for Yoshika in the Thaumaturgy series of web stories, where they offers a human lost in the Forest in Avalegione a stay in the makeshift cottage that they built during their mission on Earth to guide humans, and also lend them one of their paper dolls to play with. They also both accept the offer to battle with someone else if they requested them to do that, and in these battles, they both always got the advantage due to being outnumbered in terms of participants of her side.

Koishi Komeiji from the same series also serves as one of the major inspirations for Yoshika's character.

Despite their name's percieved association with Yoshika Miyako, their actual major inspiration is Toyosatomimi no Miko. Both have the same birthdate, both have similar personality (despite that like Megumi, Yoshika appears to be inexpressive), both are represented by the color purple, both wear capes (Miko start wearing a cape in fighting games from Hopeless Masquerade; while that Yoshika wears it at the start), and both wear purple. Miko is a saint, which can alludes to the fact that Yoshika is an Angel, which also made her become categorized as one of the "divine beings" (a saint is also considered to be a divine being). Also, both have similar clothing (aside from the fact that they both wear capes), but their hairstyles are different: Miko's hair is "quite short" but styled in a manner similar to horns or ears, while that Yoshika's hair is let down naturally, in a manner of her comrade Megumi. Both also use the same first- and second-person pronouns to refer to themselves and others: Miko uses the word "watashi" (私) to refer to herself, and use the word "kimi" (君) to refer to others; while that Yoshika use the word "watakushi" (with the same writing as the above) to refer to herself, and also uses "kimi" to refer to others.

They are also inspired by Marisa Kirisame from the same series. Both have similar personalities, both are kleptomaniacs (Marisa is shown explicitly to be a kleptomaniac, while that Yoshika is only shown implicitly to be such a kind of person). Both have the ability to use magic and the ability of flight, but there are many differences between how they use magic and how they use their flying abilities: For magic-using abilities, Yoshika's magic is "holy magic", magic that is empowered by the power of God, and its nature is more closer to miracles than magic; while that Marisa uses supernatural magic similar to that of wizards and witches. For flight abilities, Yoshika flies using their Hagoromo, which functions as their wings, while that Marisa flies with a magic broom. Also, both have the abilities to copy others' attack skills and use it as if they are their own.

Relationships

 * God: Like Megumi, God created Yoshika, and despite being created later than Megumi, He still care for Yoshika as much as His care and love for Megumi.
 * Megumi Kiyono: Being created later than Megumi, Yoshika considered Megumi to be a "big sister" to them, despite being not blood-related. They are also comrades to each other, together fulfilling God's task of spreading love and peace to mankind.

Trivia
Their birthdate is on February 7.


 * Their star sign is Aquarius.
 * This is also the birthdate of Prince Shoutoku, and to a lesser extent, the birthdate of Toyosatomimi no Miko, the character that serves as her inspiration.
 * Similar to Prince Shoutoku is said to own a flying horse, Yoshika, according to CaraPrincess, actually owns one.