MAI

ZEN'IN

GIVEN NAME

"genuine" (真 ma) + "rely on" (依 i) | JAPANESE

HAIR COLOR

black (M); dark green (A)

AGE

16

HEIGHT

5'7" (170 cm)

SURNAME

"meditation" (禪 zen) + "institution" (院 in) | JAPANESE

EYE COLOR

xxx

BIRTHDAY

January 20 (AQUARIUS)

CURSE

xxx

Personality

Like her twin sister, Mai was mistreated by the Zen'in clan growing up only for being a girl with little talent for jujutsu. Mai was content with living under their thumb as a servant and would rather do chores than fight. In contrast, Maki wanted to spite the clan and work as a sorcerer. The repercussions of Maki's rebellion forced Mai to study to become a jujutsu sorcerer. Mai detested the grotesque work exorcising curses entails and resented Maki for essentially thrusting them both into that life. Mai was an unwilling sorcerer who took out her frustrations on others, mainly her rivals and Maki. She has a snarky and rude personality due to her experiences. She's crude and likes to boost her own ego. While Mai doesn't particularly like Tōdō Aoi, she hangs around him to make herself look tougher than she is. Unlike how she treated the Tokyo students, Mai got along with her peers, for the most part, especially Nishimiya Momo and Miwa Kasumi. She also appears to be the only one who can tolerate Aoi and was visibly disappointed with Mechamaru when he betrayed their group. Although Mai's well aware of how physically gifted Maki is, she acted as if her twin sister is completely talentless. Mai barbed her directly during the lead-up to the Goodwill Event and targeted her juniors as well. Mai insulted Itadori Yūji, the dear friend of Fushiguro Megumi and Kugisaki Nobara who'd recently died, just to taunt the first years upon meeting them. She also told Maki that she was worthless because she couldn't even use cursed energy. Maki promised she'd stay with Mai when they were younger. When Maki left the clan and broke that promise, Mai began calling her a liar. She hated her sister for leaving and never told her anything like her first crush or that she had a cursed technique. When Mai lost to Maki in the Goodwill Event, she asked why her sister didn't fall down the hole with her. She was dissatisfied with Maki's answer and continued to hate her from that point. Mai was forced to put her feelings toward Maki aside when their own father attacked them. With both twins on the edge of death, Mai decided to sacrifice her life to give Maki the tools to live on. Mai always knew Maki was tough and acknowledged that she was only holding her sister back, openly admitting that the situation sucked. Mai suspected that she might have to make a tough decision one day and decided to go through with sacrificing herself so that Maki could reach her full potential. In a moment that took the twins back to their childhood, Mai asked her big sister to destroy everything in exchange.
  • Her hobby is taking care of cactus.
  • Her favorite dish is junk food.
  • Her least favorite dish is vegetarian food.
  • Mai's sexuality is unconfirmed, but it's mentioned in a volume extra that whenever she interacts with other female characters, it appears as if they're dating.

Backstory

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  • Currently a 2nd year. Enrollment method: family lineage.

Abilities

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  • Mai was stated to primarily use a Six-Shooter Revolver as a bluff in order to catch her opponents off-guard and take advantage of her innate technique's ability so that she can create an unexpected seventh round after exhausting her first six.

Headcanons

confession ▸ Mai sure has a hard time understanding herself, as well as her emotions towards everyone except her sister. But as soon as she realizes her unwavering feelings towards you, she wouldn't waste any time to express herself because she knows it'll be buried in her heart if she doesn't do it now. She'll come running right into your arms, shouting at the top of her voice that she's into you.stretch marks ▸ Oh, naw, she's too distracted at your bare thighs / body to even notice the stretch marks. Well, duh, she spots them, but she thinks it makes you stand out in all of your uniqueness. Her head is on fire. The definition of that Spongebob office on fire. "This is fine." And her hands are on fire, and she'd be lying if she said she wasn't dying to caress her hands on them just to feel it. She looked like she puts on too many airs but is actually just too shy to admit it. This girl is a whole-ass mess. Other than the fact that it's pretty, (and she kept staring at it and flushing randomly) it became one of her favorite things about you.killing a bug ▸ Tells you to kill it yourself while killing it. You know when you ask someone to grab something for you, and they say 'no' while grabbing it for you? That’s Mai in a nutshell. She doesn’t like doing things for others, but she’s soft for you! Not that she’ll admit it. She was planning on doing it anyway.