Keiki Haniyasushin

埴安神 (はにやすしん) 袿姫 (けいき) haɲijasɯɕiɴ keːki Keiki Haniyasushin
Keiki Haniyasushin in Wily Beast and Weakest Creature The Sculptor God Crafted by Utter Isolation More Character Titles
Species	God (Divine Spirit)
Abilities	Ability to create idols
Location	Primate Spirit Garden
Music Themes
偶像に世界を委ねて 〜Idoratrize world (Wily Beast and Weakest Creature)
Appearances
Official Games
Wily Beast and Weakest Creature (Stage 6 Boss)
Print Works
Strange Creators of Outer World (Who's Who of Humans & Youkai in Gensokyo - Everlasting Edition) (Article)

"You built up this whole plan, and now you flee in the face of the enemy...! Truly the height of idiocy. Don't think for a second that I'll let you escape after you violated my sacred territory to this extent. I'll destroy your body of flesh, and build you anew from soil and water! You shall be an idol without a single flaw, told of for ages and ages to come!"
— Keiki Haniyasushin (Wily Beast and Weakest Creature Stage 6.)

Keiki Haniyasushin (埴安神 袿姫, Haniyasushin Keiki) is a god summoned by human spirits and acts as the main antagonist of Wily Beast and Weakest Creature.

General Information

Keiki debuts as the final boss in Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, acting as a force of opposition to the animal spirits possessing the protagonists.

Personality

Keiki is quite polite and doesn't fight if she can avoid it, but this attitude presented seems to mostly extend to only humans. On one hand, at first, she tries to convince the protagonist that fighting her would be against their interests. On the other hand, she also boasts of thinking no one was left to defeat her in battle and is quick to engage the possessed protagonist once finding out about the animal spirit's plan to invade and relinquish her control over the Primate Spirit Garden. However, despite her intention to liberate the human spirits and act as a venerable force, she still expresses that she was planning to cooperate with the animal spirits in a conversation with Yachie, suggesting more reasonable intent, which Yachie subsequently rejects.

Abilities

Ability to create idols

She can craft idols, which are animated by faith directed into them. It seems that's not their only objective, as they can act as stand-ins, play with you, or decorate your home. Wily Beast and Weakest Creature indirectly compares this ability to the creation of a goshintai. Keiki herself indirectly suggests she could do a goshintai for Reimu.

Aside from haniwa, idols crafted by Keiki can also take the form of other objects associated with kofun burials, such as bronze bells, mirrors, swords, and magatama. According to Mayumi, anything Keiki crafts will end up with a soul inhabiting it, but Yachie Kicchou's profile contradicts this statement.

Backstory

In the Animal Realm, where the strongest is who reigns and the weaklings are subjugated to them, the human spirits couldn’t compete with the strength of the beast spirits. They lived as slaves at the mercy of beasts, especially after the latter created organizations. That way, the human spirits lived in the Primate Spirit Garden, a place for them created by the beast spirits.

However, the human spirits looked for a way to get free of the beasts’ control. That way was asking and praying for a savior. After praying, Keiki was born and she told them to deposit their faith in the idols she created. They did as she told them and the idols became the true governors of the garden and they started to conquer the Animal Realm. As they don’t feel tired or sick, they were the perfect warriors. Furthermore, the beast spirits couldn’t touch them, as the idols were only hurt by physical attacks. But the beast spirits didn’t stand there with their arms crossed. They thought about a plan in which they would bring an invasion of the surface to attract a human with flesh and a body who will fight against the idols and Keiki, invasion that provoked the events of Wily Beast and Weakest Creature

Character Design

Origin

Keiki seems to be based on Haniyasu (ハニヤス), a Shinto god of soil, agriculture, and pottery. According to the Kojiki, when Izanami died after giving birth to the fire kami Kagu-tsuchi, multiple gods emerged from her bodily remains. Two gods of soil were born from her feces: a god named Haniyasubiko no Kami (波邇夜須毘古神), and a goddess named Haniyasuhime no Kami (波邇夜須毘売神). Both of these gods are often conflated into a singular entity known as Haniyasu. In the Nihon Shoki, only one deity is born this way instead, a goddess called Haniyamahime.

Many Haniyasu shrines are located in the Fukuoka prefecture, which is also known for its unique, elaborately decorated burial mounds (装飾古墳). Some of the painted decorations found in them resemble the patterns on the edge of Keiki's dress and sleeves.

Keiki's outfit is based on a variety of so-called "priestess haniwa," thought to represent clergywomen or mediums, and usually used as the basis of reconstructions of Kofun era women's clothing. Both the asymmetrical outerwear and the headkerchief Keiki wears are common features of this type of haniwa.

Her necklace consists out of magatama, comma-shaped beads produced between the Jomon and Kofun periods, initially worn as ordinary jewelry, but viewed exclusively as ritual objects and symbols of divinity in later times.

Name

Her full name is Haniyasushin Keiki (埴安神 袿姫). Her surname is Haniyasushin (埴安神). Haniyasu (埴安) is taken from the name of the kami on which she is based, and comprises the characters for "clay" and "ease". The last character, shin (神), loosely means "god", and is present in the names of various kami throughout Shinto mythology.

Her given name is Keiki (袿姫). The kei (袿) refers to uchigi, a colorful robe that was often worn in several layers as part of a jūnihitoe, a formal dress worn by ladies-in-waiting at the Japanese Imperial Court during the Heian period and are also worn at important ceremonial functions such as weddings and enthronements. The character ki (姫) means "princess" or any lady of noble birth. Thus, Keiki (袿姫) roughly means "uchigi princess".

Design

Keiki's design seems to be based on reconstructions of Kofun period clothing. She wears a green headkerchief, similar to these commonly seen on the so-called "priestess" haniwa, and a yellow dress and green apron likely also based on haniwa outfits. The spiral decorations on her dress are similar to paintings from some of the ornamented kofun from the Fukuoka prefecture. Her necklace consists out of a number of multicolored magatama, comma-shaped beads often used as a symbol of divinity, and described as a frequent offering for the gods in early Japanese chronicles. She also holds a variety of contemporary sculpting tools in her hands and has more in pockets at waist height.

Appearances

Games

Keiki's sprite in WBaWC

Wily Beast and Weakest Creature

The final boss of the game. She immediately recognizes the animal spirit that took possession of the protagonist, but wonders why it has the form of a human. After seeing that she is facing a human under the influence of an animal spirit, she sees through the animal spirits' plan, mocks it, and tries to convince the protagonist to side with her. After the latter doesn't give in (or, as in Youmu's case, thinks back and forth for too long), Keiki attacks them.

Unbeknownst to both the Protagonist and the animal spirit that took control of the protagonist, the entire conversation with Keiki was merely used to stall time so Keiki could charge up her sculpturing arts, by which every single beast spirit was defeated. Upon realizing this, the animal spirit that took control over the protagonist panics and urges them to flee, which causes Keiki to start chasing them out of the Primate Spirit Garden, the ensuing battle occurs throughout the escape through said garden, until they make it back to the city of the Animal Realm, where Keiki is then only defeated after an overwhelming force of animal spirits come to the protagonists' aid.

Relationships

Mayumi Joutouguu

Mayumi was pottered by Keiki as the leader of her Haniwa army. She doesn't talk about her creation in her dialogues, but since Mayumi is clearly more elaborate and human-like than the idols they both use in their battles, Keiki seems to have made an effort with her. There's also nothing to say that she didn't give her a real personality. Mayumi shows a lot of loyalty and respect towards her.

Yachie Kicchou and other animal spirits.

Keiki looks down on animal spirits and titles all three options with insults - Keiga (strong-teeth) have more teeth than brains, Kiketsu (onimeisters) stink, and the Gouyoku (festive spirits) have no abilities other than pride. Later, however, she converses quite amicably with Yachie, but she dismisses this matter-of-factly and sees Keiki as out of place in hell.

Minor Relationships

Saki Kurokoma

Keiki does not mention Saki in her dialogue, as Saki is introduced after Keiki. However, Saki admires the goddess's strength, despite their mutual rivalry.

Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame

Keiki acts friendly towards the protagonists in the endings, and offers to craft a goshintai for the Hakurei god and a figure of Marisa. Marisa appears to have a positive opinion about Keiki, as she isn't sure why the beast spirits hate her, and visits her domain after the events of the game.

Gallery

Covers

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  Cover of Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, featuring Yachie, Keiki, and Saki's silhouette.

Illustrations

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  Keiki from Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Everlasting Edition

Other

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  One of the background textures used during Keiki's spell cards, which appears to be Woolworth Building in New York City.

Spell Cards

Spell Cards

Name	Translated	Comments	Games	Stage
Total: 11
方形「方形造形術」	Square Shape "Square-Shaped Sculpting Art"		WBaWC	St. 6: E/N
方形「スクエアクリーチャー」	Square Shape "Square Creature"		WBaWC	St. 6: H/L
円形「真円造形術」	Circular Shape "Perfect Circle Sculpting Art"		WBaWC	St. 6: E/N
円形「サークルクリーチャー」	Circular Shape "Circle Creature"		WBaWC	St. 6: H/L
線形「線形造形術」	Linear Shape "Line-Shaped Sculpting Art"		WBaWC	St. 6: E/N
線形「リニアクリーチャー」	Linear Shape "Linear Creature"		WBaWC	St. 6: H/L
埴輪「偶像人馬造形術」	Haniwa "Horse-and-Rider Idol Sculpting Art"		WBaWC	St. 6: E/N
埴輪「アイドルクリーチャー」	Haniwa "Idol Creature"		WBaWC	St. 6: H/L
「鬼形造形術」	"Oni-Shaped Sculpting Art"		WBaWC	St. 6: E/N/H/L
「ジオメトリッククリーチャー」	"Geometric Creature"		WBaWC	St. 6: E/N/H/L
「イドラディアボルス」	"Idola Diabolus"		WBaWC	St. 6: E/N/H/L

Additional Information

• Keiki appears on the jewel case of Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, along with Yachie Kicchou and Saki Kurokoma.
• In the Strange Creators of Outer World interview about Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, ZUN states that Eika's title purposely ties into Keiki's idolatry theme. This might be a nod to gods they're based on being siblings according to the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki genealogies.

Fandom

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Official Profiles

Wily Beast and Weakest Creature - omake.txt

○６面ボス　 　　孤立無援が誂えた造形神 　　埴安神 袿姫（はにやすしん けいき） 　　Haniyasushin Keiki 　　種族：神様 　　能力：偶像を作り出す程度の能力 　　霊長園の人間霊が、起死回生をかけて招喚した神様。 　　精巧な偶像を作り出すことが出来る。 　　彼女の作る偶像は、信仰心を集めたり、身代わりにしたり、一緒に遊んだり、部屋に飾ったり出来る優れものだ。 　　彼女は霊長園を支配し、動物霊から酷い扱いを受けていた人間霊を保護していた。 　　畜生界の動物霊達も、人間霊を尊重できるのなら共存しようと考えていた。 　　しかしまさか動物霊風情が、偶像を破壊しに地上から人間を連れてくる、という策に出るとは思っても見なかった。 　　人間霊の奪取作戦に、騙された人間が参加するとは、これまさに畜生の所業。

Stage 6 Boss The Sculptor God Crafted by Utter Isolation Keiki Haniyasushin Species: God Ability: Capable of creating idols A god summoned by the human spirits of the Primate Spirit Garden to pull them back from the brink of disaster. She is capable of crafting elaborate idols. The idols she creates are excellent items that can gather faith, act as stand-ins, play with you, and decorate your home. She took control of the Primate Spirit Garden and extended her protection to the human spirits being treated horribly by the animal spirits. She believed that they could coexist with the animal spirits as well, if they could come to respect the human spirits. However, she never thought that the likes of the animal spirits would come up with a plan to bring over a human from the surface to destroy her idols. Tricking a human into participating in their strategy to wrest control from the human spirits... what a truly beastly act.