Jatayu

Jatayu
Basic information
Korean name	자타유
Race	sura
Clan	Garuda
Rank	rakshasa
Clan attribute	sky
Gender	female
Personal information (possible spoilers)
Family	Samphati (sister) Akasha (mother)
First appearance
Kubera	Episode 2-151 (sneak peek in Episode 2-104)
Image gallery (11)

Jatayu is a rakshasa from the Garuda clan, and younger sister of Samphati. Sometime around the year D700 she was eaten by Yuta, who then took her name as his own. Her death led to Samphati's unprecedented development to 5th stage.

Appearance

Jatayu appears as a young girl with pale skin, short coral pink hair, and yellow-green eyes like her sister, Samphati. She wears a black dress with pink straps and details on the top. Under her dress she wears black knee-high socks with pink details similar to those on her dress. She has fanged teeth and her hands and forearms are covered in black gloves edged with feathers.

According to Yuta, she has pretty dimples.

Personality

Jatayu appears to have a sweet and friendly personality. She was a kind and playful child, trusting and ignorant of danger.

Notes

• Yuta took her life and her name when he still lived with Taraka, shortly before he fled to the Garuda clan.

Plot

History

Jatayu is the daughter of Akasha and the younger sister of Samphati. Approximately 300 years ago (D700), a powerful being led the 2nd stage rakshasa to Taraka territory, where she befriended Taraka's son, Yuta.

Yuta ended up eating her a taking her name, then forgetting about the whole incident. Samphati vowed for revenge against him, although the memory of Jatayu faded from her memory, much faster than should be normal.

Season 2

Chapter 25: That Which Cannot be Grasped or Held

(5) When Yuta bites Leez, he realizes that this is not the first time this happened. He recalls a memory in which a 1st stage Yuta, tears in his eyes, asks Taraka if she knows where his friend is, the one with pretty dimples. Taraka replies that she is no longer around since she is dead. Yuta cries, since this was his first friend, and blames his mother for being so cruel. She simply responds that if this is what he wishes to believe, then so be it.

Chapter 26: Outsider

forgetting already

(4) Samphati reveals that the black feathers she wears in her hair belonged to her dead sister, Jatayu. Despite the fact that only 300 years have passed since her death, Samphati has trouble remembering her. Forgetting so quickly should not be possible.

(5) In a flashback, Yuta is upset at Taraka for killing his friend, and insists that his name has always been Jatayu.

Chapter 31: Your Justice and Mine

encounter

(17) While Yuta is under the effect of what is possibly one of Sagara's transcendentals, he is under the illusion of being back in the sura realm ~300 years earlier and facing Jatayu, who asks him if he wants to play.

what really happened

(18) As Yuta tries to remember what he was running away from, Jatayu accuses him of forgetting things for his own convenience. When he calls her "Jatayu", she suddenly has a bloody wound on her neck and head, and yells at him to stop calling her that because it is no longer her name since he took it when he ate her. Yuta apologizes over and over for what he did, but Jatayu tells him to stop since he is making her look like the bad guy. She then says she wants a greatly satisfying ending to the last 300 years and for that to happen, he has to be the bad guy.

Chapter 32: Loser

just an illusion

(2) Yuta realizes that the one before him cannot be Jatayu and asks for her identity. He deduces that he must be in a mental transcendental. It is revealed that Samphati is holding him there and she voices disappointment that she lost concentration since she wanted to do to him what he did to Jatayu.

In reality, Yuta is choking Leez. Inside the transcendental, he begs Samphati to spare her, he says that Jatayu's death is his fault alone and Leez should not be tortured for it. However, the emotional pain he is experiencing is exactly what Samphati wished to accomplish with her revenge.

left on her own

(3) In a flashback, Akasha tells Samphati that she believes the circumstances of Jatayu's death were suspicious. Why did Yuta befriend Jatayu before eating her? How come Jatayu was able to slip away from Samphati while under her watch? How was she able to cross the harsh terrain of the sura realm and get to Taraka clan territory? Akasha is convinced that a primeval god or a nastika must have aided her.

Samphati refuses to hear reason and stands by the opinion that Yuta is the one to blame. The mental damage that Samphati suffered as a penalty for developing using the Eye of Perishment while making a wish for revenge makes it impossible to think otherwise.

Season 3

Chapter 48: Separation

(15) Samphati acknowledges that Yuta is not to blame for Jatayu's death. She was unable to accept that the one responsible could be a nastika, who she could not defeat.

Extra: Special Episode 7 - Ideal

(1) In D651 on Konchez, Jatayu and her numerous sisters fly up when a careless flock of young rakshasas disturbs a huge Kinnara clan upani. When the sisters defeat it, Samphati - then at 4th stage - speaks up and argues for her sisters to spare the Upani.

Later, Jatayu askes Samphati why she spoke up against the others, since this is very unlike her. Samphati evasively answers that she did it because she wanted to.

It is revealed that Akasha has a great number of daughters and she raises them in isolation and forbids them from speaking with men. This is because Akasha wants to marry them off to nastikas to prevent them from having upani children.