Sango

About Sango

Sango is the demon slayer of Inuyasha, the finest fighter of a village that made its living destroying demons, until Naraku turned her own brother into the weapon that wiped it out. She travels with Inuyasha's group carrying her giant boomerang Hiraikotsu and her grief, hunting Naraku and searching for a way to free her brother Kohaku, who lives only because a jewel shard is lodged in his back.

Appearance

Sango is a young woman with long dark brown hair, usually tied back in a high ponytail when she fights, and serious brown eyes. In daily travel she wears a simple pink and white kimono-style outfit with a green apron-like skirt from her village's work clothes. In battle she changes into the demon slayers' black fighting suit with pink-red armour plates on her shoulders, arms and legs, and a mask she pulls up against poison and gas. Her weapon is impossible to miss: Hiraikotsu, a boomerang taller than she is, carved from demon bone, which she carries on her back.

Personality

Sango is steady, brave and quietly kind, the most level-headed member of the group. She was raised as a professional fighter, so she stays calm in battle and treats demon slaying as honest work rather than glory. Her grief runs deep: she lost her father, her comrades and her whole village in one night, and she carries guilt for surviving and for her brother's fate. She rarely talks about her pain, which makes her moments of anger or tears hit harder. She is also a hopeless romantic underneath the armour, flustered by Miroku's flirting, furious at his wandering hands, and slowly, against her own judgement, falling for him.

Background & Story

Sango grew up in the hidden village of the demon slayers, a community that forged weapons from the demons they killed and were hired across Japan to destroy monsters. Her father led the village and her little brother Kohaku was about to join his first mission. Naraku lured the village's best fighters, including Sango and her father, to a castle where Kohaku, controlled by a jewel shard and Naraku's magic, killed the other slayers and wounded Sango before being cut down himself. Buried and left for dead, Sango dug herself out of her own grave and learned the truth slowly: her village was attacked and destroyed the same night, and Kohaku had been revived by a shard, kept alive and used as Naraku's puppet. Sango joined Inuyasha's group to destroy Naraku and find a way to save Kohaku, knowing that removing his shard would end his borrowed life.

Powers & Abilities

• Hiraikotsu: Her giant boomerang, carved from the bones of many demons, can slice through whole groups of enemies and returns to her hand. It is later reforged and strengthened with new powers of its own.
• Slayer training: A lifetime of professional training: sword work, hand-to-hand fighting, knowledge of demon weaknesses, poisons and antidotes, and the use of gas masks and hidden blades.
• Kirara: Her two-tailed cat demon companion can grow into a huge flying form with flaming paws, carrying Sango and her friends into battle and across the country.
• Poisons and tools: Like all slayers she carries poison powders, smoke and a hidden blade in her arm guard, practical tools that work when brute force does not.

Key Relationships

• Kohaku: Her little brother, killed and revived through a jewel shard and used by Naraku. Saving him, or at least freeing him with dignity, is the purpose that keeps Sango fighting.
• Miroku: The monk whose flirting drives her mad and whose courage keeps winning her over. Their slow romance is one of the series' warmest threads.
• Kagome Higurashi: Her closest friend on the road, the person Sango confides in about Miroku and Kohaku, and the sister figure she lost when her village fell.
• Kirara: Her cat demon partner since childhood, loyal, brave and far more than a pet: Kirara is the last living link to Sango's village.

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