Haru Nanakusa

Haru Nanakusa (ハル) is a side character in Call of the Night. She was a vampire and the mother of Nazuna Nanakusa, whom she fathered with her husband Danna, a human. After giving birth to Nazuna, she passed away because her body was too weak according to Danna, leaving her care to her underling, Kabura Honda.

Appearance
Haru looked identical to her daughter Nazuna. Their only difference was their eyes, preferred clothes, and hairstyles. Haru had yellow eyes and shorter hair which she usually tied to a very short ponytail or wore completely loose and tied to a single braid when it grew longer. She was often seen in a classic nurse outfit and wore clothes like a dress, a white shirt, and a Tangzhuang, also known as a Tang suit, outside of work.

Personality
Haru was described as very energetic and an extremely intelligent, caring, and affectionate person, devoting a lot of her time to a young Kabura, to whom she provided both physical and emotional support. She was very philosophical, asking Kabura questions that made her fundamentally question herself and her life and also very perceptive as she knew about Kabura's love for her before the former even confessed her feelings, although she did not reciprocate those feelings, and made her a vampire so that Kabura didn't have to suffer anymore.

When upset, Haru was capable of explosive anger. After finding out that Kabura's friends talked about Kabura behind her back, her rage was so intense that she proposed to kill them.

Like her daughter, she was very fond of alcohol, her thirst not satiated after visiting several pubs in a single night, though she also smoked tobacco sometimes.

Haru also seemed to be relatively impulsive. When asked why she married a human, her reason was that she just thought it would be fun. She also didn't expect to get pregnant and had no idea how to raise a human-vampire child, regretfully asking Kabura to take care of her daughter before she died.

She had many doubts about life and the life of vampires, whose existence was so different from that of any other life form, wondering whether they were truly alive. After meeting with other vampires, she seemed to have changed and wanted to do things typical of humans. Haruka revealed that she even wanted to become human again through unknown means.

It is revealed indirectly that she didn't suck her husband's blood ever since she met him, indicating her love is actually serious, unlike most vampires.

Trivia

 * As deducted by Anko Uguisu, she had a close relationship with Kiku Hoshimi, which explains why Kiku had Nazuna's umbilical cord at her disposal.
 * Haru is the only known vampire that is married and had a child.
 * She is named after the haru no nanakusa (春の七草), or seven herbs of spring, one of those herbs being shepherd's purse or nazuna (ナズナ), the name of her daughter. Many of the Komori vampires are named after these herbs.