Ogami Family sketch (censored because I don't want to get nuked)
You all know Issei and Ume, so I'll be explaining everyone else: KON He grew up believing that power justified the price. He was never cruel, only proud, but seeing Haruko's suffering and feeling the weight of guilt for passing the curse on to his own son, he tried to rebel. Rumors say he sought purification rituals, monks, forbidden texts. At some point, he tried to break the bond with Shinobu, and the inugami reacted with spiritual violence. Kon disfigured his own face during a possession, an act that mixes self-punishment and mental collapse. He was institutionalized for a time in a psychiatric facility, officially for a "nervous breakdown." Unofficially, the family covered up the scandal, and when he returned, he was no longer the same. Today, Kon believes that the only way to survive is to deepen the curse and transmit it flawlessly.
HARUKO Coming from a traditional family, without direct involvement in spiritual practices, Haruko believed she was marrying an eccentric, yet harmless man. Kon never revealed the true nature of the Ogami clan. The pact with the inugami had been in the family's blood for generations, and Haruko only understood this too late. The marriage was not just a social union but a spiritual imprisonment. The curse began to erode her autonomy little by little, and the cheerful and curious young woman who enjoyed walking around the city and visiting art exhibitions disappeared. Today, Haruko hardly leaves home; for years she hasn't seen the world beyond the gates of the Ogami estate. During her pregnancy, Haruko tried to interrupt the cycle. She knew that child would inherit something terrible, so she tried to gather the strength to abort him, but she lacked the emotional courage to do so. After Issei's birth, in a desperate act to prevent the clan from producing another cursed heir, Haruko made an extreme decision against herself and ripped out her own uterus with a knife; she narrowly escaped death.
TORA At Tora's birth, something unusual occurred: the inugami manifested with abnormal strength, as if recognizing her or as if it had chosen her. From a young age, Tora demonstrated a rare strategic coldness. Intelligent, articulate and spiritually sensitive, she understood early on that the clan's power came not only from the curse, but from control over it. She believes that the Ogami are destined to occupy high positions and that individual suffering is an acceptable price for the continuity of power, and that breaking the pact would be betraying centuries of construction. She does everything to make things happen her way, and if they don't, she takes the necessary actions.
CHIBI Chibi is the main inugami of the family; she regulates the other spirits, stabilizes pacts, and ensures that the curse remains productive. She is an entity of maintenance and expansion of social power, but her hidden function is even more dangerous: She is the ultimate executor. If the clan is threatened, Chibi becomes a force of extermination. Other inugami fear her, they don't confront her. Chibi has a maternal presence; she cradled Issei as a baby, already holding him like someone holding a child in their lap. Her care is excessive, almost suffocating, she observes, watches, protects, and would never attack him (not out of unconditional love, but because it's necessary). With Tora, her relationship is one of absolute respect. Tora doesn't force her, doesn't neglect her, and always fulfills every obligation with precision. In return, Chibi is obedient and restrained, creating something rare between them: harmony. But beneath this maternal figure lies something brutal. When unleashed, Chibi abandons serenity and assumes a devastating, swift, and merciless form capable of massacring dozens of humans without hesitation. She is the "mother" who protects the house.
SHINOBU This inugami is a spirit of confrontation and imposition. It strengthens Kon's presence in disputes, intimidates adversaries, and ensures that obstacles are removed. Unlike Chibi, who thinks long-term, it acts in the moment; it is a spirit of victory. During Kon's youth, Shinobu pushed him to prove his strength, to dominate, to never back down. But when Kon tried to break the pact, the spirit reacted severely, as if its honor had been wounded. It is rigid, proud, and deeply bound to ancient codes of loyalty, sees the world as a battlefield, respects strength, and despises hesitation. When Kon wavered and tried to break the cycle, the inugami considered it treason, and the conflict between the two culminated in Kon's mental collapse. Shinobu, in turn, remains vigilant.
YUKI She is different. She was not made to expand power or to wage war, only to contain and imprison. She absorbs negative energy, suffering, and destructive impulses like a spiritual buffer. In Haruko's case, Yuki acts as both prison and anesthesia, containing revolts, suppressing the will to escape, and keeping her functional. Without Yuki, Haruko may have gone mad (or rebelled irreversibly and ended up destroying the Ogami family). She is quiet, observant, almost impassive, and shows no aggression, but there is something curious: despite being the mechanism that keeps Haruko submissive, there is a strange intimacy between the two (Haruko talks to her sometimes, as she is like the only presence that doesn't abandon her and seems to bear the same weight of her pain).
