Azami

Azami (薊) / Azami (アザミ) is a being who is known in legends as the Medusa. She is the mother of Shion, wife of Tsukihiko and grandmother of Marry. She created the Kagerou Daze, the never-ending world, which was originally only for her and her family to live in.

Azami is also the creator of the real world, which she unintentionally made with the Snake of Combining Eyes as a setting for her to be able to understand herself.

Appearance

 * Azami has long and curly black hair that reaches down past her hips and grows as snakes. A red hair-band holds it together. Her eyes are colored in a crimson red with elliptical pupils. As for her clothing, she wears a white dress with a black and pink coat over it combined with white stockings and black shoes. There are snake scales on her cheeks.

Personality
She is a full medusa. Her hair grows as snakes, each possessing a unique ability. Because she is immortal, she thinks of humans as "dull creatures that die easily".

As all the humans she met feared her, Azami spent a large majority of her life alone. She recalls loneliness being the first emotion she remembers feeling.

However, she eventually fell in love with a young albino soldier named Tsukihiko, who was the first human to not fear her, and started a family with him. Human lifespans are short, and fearing that she might end up alone again, Azami combined the powers of the snakes to create a never-ending world where they could live forever.

Although she seems harsh and cold, Azami is a very caring individual who loves her family. She leaves them to the never-ending world in order to make them happy. When Shion joins her after being killed, she blames herself for their unhappiness. She has shown kindness to others who have entered the Kagerou Daze afterwards, such as Kido.

Eye Ability

 * Snakes: When she had the Snake of Combining Eyes, Azami was able to use the eye abilities of all of her snakes to an even greater degree of strength and control than even the most experienced members of the Mekakushi Dan and without suffering from any of the drawbacks that they have. While in the Kagerou Daze, she was able to use the abilities of snakes that she still had in her possession (such as Opening Eyes).

Songs
Main: Minor:
 * Shinigami Record
 * Outer Science
 * days
 * Kagerou Daze
 * Children Record
 * Konoha no Sekai Jijou
 * Losstime Memory
 * Ayano no Koufuku Riron

Trivia

 * Her favorite word is "xxx". In the fourth novel, she used this word in her diary entry, hinting as her ideal initial.
 * She uses "omae", a masculine pronoun, to refer to others in second person, yet she uses "watashi", a feminine pronoun, to refer to herself.
 * It is stated in the Children Record booklet that she is seen in the song Kagerou Daze, assumed as the laughing heat.
 * Her birthday is the same day as the Kagerou Daze occurred, August 15th.
 * Jin calls her a very irregular character or "the presence of the fantasy world".
 * Jin mentioned Azami's meaning in the language of flowers is "Independence", "Revenge" and "Do not touch". However, there also is the meaning "relief". He also mentioned the birthday flower for August 15th seems to be a sunflower, with the meaning, "I only have eyes for you."
 * The name "Azami" translated means "thistle". Tsukihiko named her after the flower.
 * While gorgon is the proper term for her species in mythology, Jin instead uses Medusa as the term instead.

Quotes

 * "I was a fool... I refused to acknowledge the natural order, and what's worse, even tried to involve you two... Somewhere inside, I knew. I knew everything would go wrong because I was here. If I were gone, you two could be happy in this world. If only I hadn't wished for my own happiness. I... just wanted to dream for a little while. To dream a fantasy that I could live with my family. You were dear to me. More precious than anything..." - Azami to Shion as she decides to enter the Heat Haze all by herself (Act 10: Kuusou Forest)
 * "How many more times will the three of us be able to greet summer together?" - Azami in her diary (カゲロウデイズ IV -the missing children-)