Nazuna Nanakusa

Nazuna Nanakusa (ナズナ) is the deuteragonist of Call of the Night. She's a vampire who entered a deal with Kou Yamori to drink his blood.

Appearance
Nazuna is a reasonably short woman, standing just a head or so higher than a middle school boy. Her body is skinny, with pretty spindly arms, which hide her immense vampiric strength very well.

Her hair is a very light purple, appearing almost grey. She keeps it long enough to reach the middle of her back; however, she keeps it in two long braids that she then curls up and pins to the rest of her hair, making two large rings. She has bangs that go down almost to her eyes, covering her eyebrows, and two medium-length tufts of hair that hang down from the middle of her head, framing her face and ending just at her mouth.

She has fierce blue eyes. Instead of standard irises and pupils, her eyes have an almost target-like appearance with black rings that intersperse sections of her irises, getting smaller as they get to the middle until they reach the pupil. This gives her a piercing gaze that varies between uncanny and uncomfortable depending on how she looks at someone. She wears light-red eye shadows.

Nazuna can most often be seen wearing a large piece of clothing resembling a cross between a cloak and a hooded jacket. This large piece of clothing covers nearly all of her body, going down to the middle of her calves and leaving only her hands exposed.

Underneath the large cloak, Nazuna's general attire is a pair of black denim shorts that go down to just past her upper thigh and a black leather cropped keyhole shirt with no sleeves. Unlike other keyhole tops, hers has a collar that goes up higher and covers a good portion of her neck. It also has a similar back hole showing her shoulder blades. Hers is also very cropped, short enough that it ends just beneath her breasts and leaves a large section of her stomach and back uncovered. She also wears a pair of thigh-high leather boots and occasionally leather gloves to complete her distinctive look.

Just like any other vampire that has appeared, she is described as pretty or cute.

Personality
Nazuna is a very laid-back individual. She is not overly friendly but has a very relaxed presence in most situations. She's willing to talk to just about anyone and prefers keeping on good terms with almost everyone, though there are exceptions like Nico Hirata and her clique, who she finds very annoying and wasn't interested in being on good terms with until later.

Nazuna gets along really well with people who enjoy the night and love to show people new to the town's nightlife. Despite pretending to know everything about the night and having fun, Nazuna spends most of her time drinking alcohol and playing video games and feels very bored actually. Her adventures with Kou, although awkward, were fun in the end and made her forget her monotone life.

She doesn't advertise that she's a vampire; however, she's more open about it than expected. This is because she does not drink from people who do not consent to it. Sometimes this means telling them she's a vampire; other people are just into that sort of thing. Unlike other vampires she has little to no interest in creating underlings, actively trying to remain unpopular. She cares a lot about not being a bad person and wanted to leave Kou because she felt guilty about pretending to be someone she wasn't.

Nazuna is often defined by her strong immaturity, being less mature than a middle-schooler. She is very open about sexual things, has no problems discussing them, and loves to make dirty jokes. However, she is very romance-averse and reacts strongly in embarrassment to the word "love" when used in the romantic sense.

10 years before the story started, Nazuna was very different from the person Kou knew her as. She was gloomy, inexperienced, lacked common knowledge and quickly accepted anything someone told her about the world, much like a child. Her first friend (and attempted underling), Anko Uguisu, served an important roll in shaping the personality she would develop later.

As the story progresses, Nazuna undergoes noticeable change and growth, becoming more serious, responsible and also more sociable.

Kou Yamori
Initially, Nazuna was solely interested in Kou's body (his blood), thinking of it as extraordinarily delicious, and got embarrassed whenever Kou mentioned anything about romantic love. As time went on, she grew more attached to him, became more honest and intimate with him and very protective of Kou, threatening to kill someone should they threaten Kou first, even willing to risk her own life for him. Despite not minding the thought of Kou being with human girls or even having sex with them, Nazuna becomes possessive when he seems to be getting intimate with a vampire, getting annoyed when Kou told her that another vampire beside her sucked his blood. She came to trust him so much that she screamed for his help when Kiku tortured her and seems be falling in love with him, which poses a problem because, according to a theory/unspoken rule, a human will die if the vampire who sucks their blood is in love with them.

Anko Uguisu
Nazuna first met Anko (Kyouko Meijiro) when she entered her school's literature room. She would read books on Anko's recommendation and they would share their love for the detective genre. They quickly became friends and Nazuna became very emotionally and physically affectionate, even offering to make Kyouko her first underling, despite never having wanted underlings before. After Anko's family got destroyed, Nazuna tried to reach out to her, but Anko would disappear to become a vampire hunter. The moment Nazuna first heard of the vampire hunting detective, she thought of Anko as a possibility but didn't want to accept it. She didn't want to believe that her first friend devoted 10 years of her life solely to hatred and killing and a part of her hoped that she somehow managed to find happiness.

When they met on Halloween, Nazuna tried to talk peacefully with Anko but was forced to defend herself from Anko's attacks. After Anko announced that she would kill Kou, Nazuna threatened to kill her but was still holding back and actually felt relief when she saw that Anko jumped from the third floor of their old school and didn't get harmed. Anko eventually pretended that she invited Kou to her location so she could kill him but Nazuna noticed that Anko's behavior was strange, deducting that she didn't actually want to kill him, especially since her senpai never would do something like that in the first place. However, Anko reassured Nazuna that she would kill Kou, which motivated Nazuna to become very aggressive in combat. Despite Anko being defenseless, Nazuna begged her to stop and broke out in tears as she didn't want to kill her. When Kou actually came, Nazuna felt like she had no other option left than to kill Anko. Anko shortly after held Kou at gunpoint and Nazuna regretted that she wasn't able to kill her, even though she threatened Kou's life.

After Kou revealed that Anko was trying to provoke Nazuna as a form of suicide, Nazuna stopped and started to cry. They eventually reconciled and, despite the awkwardness, Nazuna was very happy to be reunited with her old friend, insisting she drink beer with her. Nazuna also reassured Anko that, even though her family consisted of amoral people, her father genuinely loved her. Their friendship and banter reverted back to the dynamic they had when they still went to school.

Kabura Honda
Nazuna is very annoyed by Kabura in a way that a daughter would be of her mother. She was raised by Kabura and was very clingy to her initially, according to Nico Hirata, but can't remember those times because she didn't suck enough blood to form memories. Nazuna gets goosebumps and feels on edge when she sees Kabura and thinks of Kabura as arrogant. Her feelings for her are still more or less the same and while she thinks of her as gross, Nazuna acknowledges that Kabura was genuinely trying to be her mother.

Abilities

 * Vampiric abilities: Like all vampires, Nazuna can regenerate wounds fast, has superhuman strength and speed, can phase through solid objects and can levitate through the air. It is worth noting that she is stronger than Seri in terms of strength.
 * Combat: Nazuna is highly aggressive and ruthless while fighting, noted by Seri to not hold back whatsoever, which leads to the latter being quickly defeated by Nazuna.

Trivia

 * After meeting Kou, she stopped working for a month to spend time with him.
 * Nazuna has been the same size since she was an infant.
 * Nazuna's eye color is inconsistent in Kotoyama's art. Sometimes she is drawn with her typical blue eyes, sometimes with brownish grey eyes.
 * Nazuna is the only known vampire that is born as one, unlike other vampires.
 * Like many other Komori vampires, she is named after one of the seven herbs of spring, shepherd's purse or nazuna(ナズナ). Appropriately, her mother's name Haru Nanakusa is a reference haru no nanakusa(春の七草), the Japanese name for the seven herbs of spring.