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The main character of the series, Saya Otonashi is a seemingly ordinary teenage girl who was adopted a year before the start of the series by a Okinawan-American veteran who fought in the Vietnam War. Although she suffers of amnesia and has to receive regular blood transfusions to remain healthy, she is a bright, cheerful person. Her life changes for the worst the moment she finds out she is actually a vampire and is also on the top of those creatures hierarchy along with her twin sister, Diva. <br />
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Small and lithe, Saya stands at about 5'2" (157cm) and weighs no more than 89lbs (40.4kg). Her hair length changes depending on the time we see her in the anime and as such when she is staying at the "Zoo" her hair is kept long and flowing with a few short bangs fallling over her forehead while afterwards we mostly see her with a very short, boysh haircut, than during season 2 with chin-length curls that give her a more mature look. We also catch a glimpse of her with floor-length hair after she wakes up from her hibernation during one of her father's visits.<br />
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Saya's most intresting and unique feature are her color changing eyes, that turn from a rusty maroon to a intense, glowing red whenever she draws blood or feeds with blood. <br />
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Saya Otonashi (音無 小夜 ,Otonashi Saya) was born in 1833 from one of two objects taken from the belly of a chiropteran mummy, the other cocoon containing her sister Diva. Both are kept at the Zoo by Joel Goldschmidet, where Saya is treated as his daughter and Diva, who is left nameless, is confined to a tower. Saya does not learn about Diva's existence until 1863, when she hears Diva singing and finds her locked in a room at the top of the tower. Saya then names her Diva. In 1870, Amshel purchases a twelve-year old boy named Haji from his parents to become Saya's companion and friend. During a birthday party for Joel, Saya releases Diva so that she can sing for Joel. Diva, however, slaughters everyone in the Goldschmidt house while Saya and Haji are out looking for Joel's favorite flower. Recognizing that Diva is a monster, Saya spends her periods of activity hunting Diva to try to kill her, her chevaliers, and any chiropterans they have created.<br />
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Saya's trademark weapon is a long sword with a groove that begins at the upper base of the blade and then slopes downward to follow the length of the blade, branching out to the edge along the way. This allows Saya to cut her thumb on the top of the blade and let her blood flow into the channel, where it is distributed along the length. Once loaded with her blood, it is a deadly weapon against Diva and any chiropteran created from Diva's blood. After Saya's first blade is broken, David gives her a new one that has a red crystal at the base of its blade, symbolizing her membership in the Red Shield organization. The crystal is a piece of her adoptive father's body, which crystallized when she killed him with her own blood in order to spare him the fate of turning into a chiropteran. <br />
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After attacking the soldiers Saya heard Diva's singing and ran to find her. This led her to an empty container, which had presumably contained Diva, surrounded by chiropterans. Here she engaged Carl in combat with Haji who had come to assist her. She managed to cut off Carl's forearm with her blood soaked sword, forcing him to tear off the rest of his arm so that the crystalizing reaction would not spread to the rest of his body.<br />
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Carl then fled the battle leading Saya toward a small village. Saya, still in a frenzied rage, cut off Haji's arm when he tried to stop her and then proceeded to slaughter the villagers.<br />
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Once the battle had ended Saya fell back into hibernation. It was then that the dying David entrusted Saya to George Miyagusuku.