Akiko Yosano

Akiko Yosano (与謝野 晶子,) is a member and personal physician of the Armed Detective Agency. Her ability is a rare healing ability, Thou Shalt Not Die.

Appearance
Yosano is a young woman who takes care of her appearance. She has straight, dark hair cut into a bob that reaches past her chin and bangs. Her eyes are magenta.

She wears a white button-up blouse with puffy sleeves that end in the middle of her forearm. Her shirt is tucked into a plain black skirt that flares out above the knee. She wears gloves that reach past her wrist, a black tie, and black tights. Yosano wears red high heels and a golden butterfly hairpin on the left side of her head.

When she served as a student surgeon for the military during the Great War, she wore an apron over her military clothes.

After the Armed Detective Agency is framed as terrorists, she wears a riot gear with black boots and black gloves, originally belonging to the military police.

Personality
Yosano carries herself with grace and dignity. She prides herself on being both a strong woman and a capable doctor, which is why she does not take too kindly to those who belittle her in both respects. She is a feminist who believes that now is the age of equal rights for men and women. She is almost always depicted as calm and composed, but when angered she is quite the force to contend with, often sadistic in her retaliation.

She's prone to prominent sadistic and aggressive tendencies, which are amplified by her ability's conditions. As a result, most members from the Agency flee when in her presence and as much as possible, avoid getting injured even in the slightest to not have to experience her unique brand of “treatment”.

As the sole doctor of the Detective Agency, she highly values human life and is significantly averse to meaningless deaths and killings. She will violently admonish those who believe otherwise and is very keen on doing so without much hesitation.

Out of all of the Armed Detective Agency, she seems to be the closest to Ranpo as he was the one who introduced her to the Agency.

On a side note, she loves shopping to a great extent, and when not working is often shown buying large amounts of clothes and forcing other agents to carry them for her.

Ability
Yosano has a rare ability among ability users, Thou Shalt Not Die (君死給勿,), which allows her to heal all external wounds as long as they are fatal or the person must be "half-dead". Due to this, her ability is inconvenient for healing minimal wounds since she needs to fatally injure that person first.

Upon activating her ability, several butterflies appear to come out from her body and land on the surroundings. When touched by them, the injured will have their injuries healed instantly.

Skills
Yosano is quite skilled in close combat, showing proficiency in wielding a large cleaver that she occasionally uses.

Appearances
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Quotes

 * "You want to know what death is? I'll tell you. Death is the loss of life. Despite everything doctors like me attempt... a patient's life can still fall through our fingers. You think death lies in the apex of science? Anyone with such little regard for life will die by my hand." (to Motojirō Kajii)

Etymology

 * The name Akiko means "clear, crystal" (晶) (aki) and "child" (子) (ko), which literally means "Crystallite" altogether.
 * Akiko's surname Yosano means "bestow, participate in, give, award, impart, provide, cause, gift, godsend" (与) (yo), "apologize, thank, refuse" (謝) (sa) and "field, wilderness" (野) (no).

Namesake

 * Akiko Yosano (1878-1942)
 * One of the most influential female poets in Japanese history. Yosano is famous for her poems' expressions of feminine sensuality. Yosano was also staunchly anti-war - her poem "Thou Shalt Not Die" was written for her brother fighting in World War II. It tells him no to throw his life away for a country seeminlgy all too eager to sacrifice its people.

Trivia

 * The real life 's birthname is Shō Hō (鳳 志やう,).
 * Yosano is named after a feminist pacifist poet whose work was considered controversial in her time for portraying and encouraging female sexuality. Her ability is likewise named after one of the real 's poems, which was addressed to her brother and published during the height of the Russo-Japanese war. It was subsequently made into a song and sung in protest to the war.
 * Yosano says the obituary is the most interesting section of the newspaper, as it judges people "the most fairly," to which Dazai agrees.
 * Yosano reveals that she and Ōgai Mori had a connection long ago. This also applies to their real-life counterparts, as Mori assisted her in finding travels outside Japan; Yosano was a member of one of Mori's poetry groups and also asked him to name her twin daughters.

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