Liyun

Liyun
by Botanicaxu
Died
Abilities	Nightmare
Titles	Warden-nimi
Profession	Kihomaban
Nationality	Torish
Homeworld	Komashi
Universe	Cosmere

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Liyun is the kihomaban, or warden, of the yoki-hijo Yumi. She was killed by the father machine, but her soul persists as a nightmare.

Appearance and Personality

Liyun is a tall woman who often wears a severe black tobok with a white bow, usually keeping her hair tied up. She often wears fashionable shoes and is very serious about her job as a warden of Yumi. She is very strict and believes strongly in her purpose, which is to make sure that Yumi does her duty well. From Nikaro's view Liyun treats Yumi very unfairly and is very demanding, as well as often using backhanded compliments, yet deep down she wants to help. As a Nightmare, she has a dark wolf-like form with white eyes and legs that bend the wrong way. When she becomes fully stable, her nightmare form grows to eleven feet tall and has teeth.

Attributes and Abilities

As a nightmare Liyun can be almost entirely incorporeal, and can pass through solid substances such as walls. Liyun though was able to become nearly stable, almost able to take on the color of flesh. Being a nightmare she is capable of detecting thoughts, most notably fear, which is also capable of giving her more form and substance, as she feeds on them. As a nightmare she can also feed upon Investiture.

History

Liyun was born in Torio, on the planet Komashi. When Yumi was young, Liyun began acting as her warden, raising her under the strict rules of traditional yoki-hijo, and hiding from her the existence of the reform movement.

When the father machine activated, it consumed Liyun's soul, but then released her from the shroud to join Yumi in reliving the same day for seventeen hundred years. During each night, while Yumi slept, Liyun became an insane nightmare drawn to the imaginations of the people of Kilahito. Liyun sometimes acted under her own control and sometimes acted under the control of the Machine, such as when she and other nightmares destroyed Futinoro. When Hoid came to Kilahito, he began seeing events from Liyun's perspective. After Yumi managed to free a hijo from the Father Machine, the hijo followed Liyun into Kilahito, where they encountered Nikaro, who stopped Liyun from killing a boy. Liyun escaped before Nikaro finished painting her.

The hijo then Connected Yumi to Nikaro, which stopped Yumi's memories from resetting each day. As a result, Yumi and Liyun continued from that point in a recreation of Gongsha Town, instead of repeating the usual day in Ihosen. As Yumi and Nikaro traded places, Liyun interacted with Nikaro as if he was Yumi. Over the next several weeks, Liyun continued to serve and advise during Yumi's supposed malady. As a nightmare, Liyun became stable and attacked Yumi, but she was driven off by Nikaro's painting again.

Liyun went with Nikaro and Yumi to confront the scholars about the machine. During the confrontation, the scholars activated a device that made Liyun revert to her nightmare form.

When the scholars ended the Connection between Yumi and Nikaro, and Yumi's memory reset, Liyun was less strict and more scatterbrained than usual. She left Yumi for a time and visited Nikaro as a nightmare. She retained some awareness during the interaction and spoke to Nikaro, explaining how they had existed over the centuries and warning him of an upcoming nightmare invasion. Nikaro gave a Liyun a painting Yumi painted, and Liyun delivered it back to Yumi.

During the Battle of Kilahito, Nikaro painted Liyun back into a human form, and she stayed in the form until she evaporated with the destruction of the father machine.

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