Tsubaki Yayoi

"In my right hand, I carry the sword of judgement and in my left, the scales of justice. I serve the wings who govern the heavens. I am their word and their sword made flesh."

Major Tsubaki Yayoi is a soldier of the Novus Orbis Librarium and the heiress to the Duodecim's Yayoi family. She wields the Sealed Weapon Izayoi and is very close to Jin Kisaragi, Noel Vermillion, and Makoto Nanaya. To Tsubaki, Jin means everything, and she strives to bring justice to the world.

Tsubaki first appeared as an NPC in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger before becoming playable in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift. Her alternate form is Izayoi.

Heart to Heart, Remix Heart, Variable Heart, Spiral Shift, The BLUE
One week after meeting Noel and Makoto, Tsubaki met Mai Natsume and they became good friends very quickly. She went to the Ars Magus aptitude test which was presided over by Estella McKenzie; she was noted to be great at all subjects and areas, but not excelling in any particular one. Like Makoto, Tsubaki warned Mai to not eat Noel’s cooking that evening, but watched as she did, startling her. It was at this point that Tsubaki learnt of Mai’s super taste ability and helped to look after her after she fainted in the girl’s changing rooms. It was also at this point that she met Kajun Faycott. The Torifune Festival soon followed, and Tsubaki applied to be a part of the student council. She was also introduced to Taro Sasaga'e and Akane Teruhiko, the latter of whom noted her to be attractive. She participated in the main tournament of the festival, having used a strategy created by Kajun and Mai. She made it to the finals but Kajun interrupted and won, telling Tsubaki that she would spend less time with Jin if she became the 'Izanami'.

The girls travelled down to the lower levels of Torifune to find watermelons for Mai. They found themselves in a thick cloud of seithr and sought refuge in a nearby mansion where they were attacked by a mutated watermelon - Mai saved them, and they all found the Evolution Grimoire. The girls decided to name themselves Team Remix Heart. They were soon ordered to clean Estella's room as a part of spring cleaning, and when they did so, they found a secret room and the Ammit Cryas - they gave the Grimoire back to her, but were ordered the maximum penalty for having gone through her belongings. As the sports festival came, Remix Heart competed, with Tsubaki using Ars Magus to protect Makoto as she bruised her way past the competition; they discovered that they would have to find the Conversion Grimoire. They made their way to the lower levels of Torifune, arriving in a desert area. While there, they found the Guardian after Makoto fell into a lion ant pit and was saved by Mai. Under Tsubaki's brief advice, they passed his second trial and were awarded the Conversion Grimoire, although they discovered that they came last place in the festival.

Due to Taro, Remix Heart and Jin were thrown to a beach near Torifune when its weather system had broken down. There, Tsubaki used Golden Angel supplied by Kajun, and they discovered the Regulation Grimoire. Together they fixed it, and the weather system returned to Torifune. She would soon find Mai sleeping, having a dream created by the Hypnagogia Grimoire, and attempted to wake her by drawing Hakumen and various Pakumen, but Tsubaki, Makoto, Noel, and Kajun had to fight them off. In her dream, Mai saw a vision of Tsubaki becoming Izayoi, but did not say anything when she finally awoke. When Mai lost her memories, the tears of her friends were the only way to bring them back, so Tsubaki cried for her by not blinking, being relieved when her memories returned. Eventually, the girls decided to go to the lower levels of Torifune in the pursuit of the Azure Grimoire, even against Tsubaki's initial protests. There, using various Grimoires that Noel had stolen, they managed to get past a challenge for cooking, but were soon separated from Mai. After completing a challenge that involved laundry with Noel, Makoto, and Kajun, they soon found Mai next to the Aedsqui Grimoire, and returned to the higher levels, disappointed that the Azure Grimoire wasn't there. Tsubaki also learnt that Mai had become the Intermediary Grimoire, and that she had kissed Taro - she only came to realise that Mai had passed on Noel's cooking to Taro when she was bathing with the other girls, realising that Jin would be in danger; her advances were stopped by Shiori Kirihito and Chachakaka. She fell for Shiori's lies that she was frail, and went to help Jin recover from his consumption of "death dinner".

Tsubaki watched as Shiori and Noel worked together to create porridge for Akane, Jin, and Taro to eat in the hopes of them recovering. She watched as Jin went berserk with Yukianesa, and as he begun to swing for Mai, being relieved when he was finally stopped by Cypher Albar. This would be the only time she ever saw him act like this. As she was somewhat involved in the incident, she had to watch over the icebergs created, but was attacked by a Torifune panda that Kajun removed from her, being embarrassed that Jin saw her squirming while it was under her swimsuit. She soon helped Mai dress up for her date with Taro, helping wash her hair. Tsubaki, along with all of Team Remix Heart, berated Taro for being late. When survival training came for the first years, Tsubaki was paired with Noel and Makoto, and managed to find the body of the mountain jellyfish. They defeated it when they reunited with Shiori, Kajun, and Mai, and arrived in first place for their achievement.

Mai fell into an alchemy-induced coma, and Tsubaki helped round up the strongest Ars Magus users in the Academy to cure her of her condition under Cypher's orders, but was trapped into having their Ars Magus aptitude drained from them, only to be saved by Chachakaka, who also revealed that Mai was the male heir of the Hazuki family using the Ammit Cryas. Mai awoke from her coma, and saved Team Remix Heart from being crushed by Cypher. Tsubaki hugged Mai, recognizing how difficult it was for her to hide her secret. After seeing Shiori and Mai teleported away by the professor, Tsubaki helped round up the strongest Ars users in the Academy to foil Cypher's plan of creating a Burning Red Grimoire. They succeeded, and Tsubaki was forced to deal with a lot of paperwork surrounding the incident.

In her second year, Tsubaki went to Jin's medal ceremony in the 2nd Hierarchical City of Iwatsuchi with Mai, Noel, and Makoto. She saw Kagura, but Makoto knocked him out, and instead met Hibiki. He put the girls to work, but they soon lost Mai. Tsubaki would not see Mai, Shiori, or Kajun again as they had disappeared from the Academy. She helped teach Noel and Makoto more on the Nox Nyctores, and was not initially happy with Noel graduating six months early. Eventually, this dislike festered more and more, but she hid this away from her friends.

Central Fiction
After having talked with Rachel, Tsubaki went off on her own to investigate on what she had meant. Before she left, she went to check on Jin, running into Celica who had just tended to his wounds after his battle with Ragna. She listened to Jin’s explanation of his relationship with Ragna, and his earliest memories, including the attack on the church, but they were eventually interrupted by Noel, and Tsubaki left to continue her investigation. She was soon sucked into the Embryo.

In the Embryo’s version of Kagutsuchi, Tsubaki was paired with Hibiki to find Jin, who had gone missing. Her memories were altered to believe that Kagura was now the Hero of Ikaruga, and that Jin had gone AWOL. She later found Noel knocked out by Litchi’s side, and started angrily asking questions before being calmed down by Litchi’s manners and answers. Bang nearly assaulted her but Litchi stopped him, and allowed Tsubaki to take Noel out of the sewers and above ground. She heard rumours that Noel had actually fought the Grim Reaper.

Kagura and Hibiki left the branch, and it came under attack by Hakumen. Tsubaki took over as head of command, taking control of the soldiers and ordered them across the branch with tactical precision during the attack. She was later transported by Nine the Phantom to Ikaruga and told to defeat Izanami to claim her piece of the Azure She found Makoto and began to fight her against her friend’s wishes, only just being repelled – her memories of being controlled before confusing who is friend and foe. Alone, and scared of her own memories, Tsubaki wandered around Ikaruga beating herself up over what she had done. Taokaka saw her, and decided to cheer her up, although she got carried away and felt her breasts, deciding afterwards to call her “average” person – she told Tsubaki that she fights for her friends and justice before leaving to find the “bad guys”. This left the soldier wondering what she is really fighting for.

Tsubaki was later ordered by Kokonoe to detain Ragna. She found him in a distorted version of Wadatsumi and battled him after explaining her dream for a world which Jin can help build. Her dream was rejected and taken by Ragna’s Soul Eater. She and Hakumen later responded to Kokonoe’s call, meeting with her and then being taken above the Embryo, and being deployed within it – there, she was split up from the others in her group (namely Ragna, Kagura, Ex Machina: Minerva, Noel, Rachel, and Jin), finding herself in Yabiko with Hakumen. They were met by an illusion of Izanami inviting them to find her and the Corpus Sepulcro: Requiem – if they did not, the world would be atomized. Hakumen reminded her much of Jin during her school days, and they headed out to Kagutsuchi’s Altar to find Requiem, finding data of Relius and Ignis Clover. She watched Hakumen battle the data until it disappeared. She felt Makoto dissolve into seithr, crying out for her afterwards.

In due time, Tsubaki and Hakumen found the Amaterasu Unit being warred over by both Jubei and Nu, assisting the beastkin in the fight, using the Izayoi form to do so. Ragna, Jin, and Noel came to assist them, and Tsubaki watched as Ragna defeated both Nu and Hakumen, and then was ordered to look after the Murakumo Unit. Terumi forced Nu to go insane, and she lashed out at Tsubaki, but the fatal blow was blocked by Hakumen, who defeated her soon afterwards. Tsubaki was forced to watch as Hakumen’s soul was shattered by Terumi and his body was taken over – the Yayoi heir became one of the few people to watch the resurrection of Susano'o, a true God. She attempted to fight him, but was easily defeated. Tsubaki stayed behind to watch over Jubei and Nu while Ragna, Jin, and Trinity embarked outside the Embryo to rescue Noel and stop Susano’o. Her dream was properly taken by Ragna, however, even though she did resist.

In the new world created by Ragna, Tsubaki returned as a member of the NOL’s infantry squad. She visited Noel and Lambda at a church with Makoto, having dinner with them and telling Noel that she has an open invitation to return back to the NOL at any time.

Tsubaki Yayoi
''The next head of the Yayoi Family of the Duodecim. She is a member of the Zero Squadron, Wings of Justice – the squadron in charge of policing internal affairs of the NOL.

''Though she was born into a prestigious family, she doesn’t flaunt her status. She excels in both the literary and martial arts, is reliable and takes matters seriously; although, some might say she’s too inflexible when it comes to rules.

''Jin and her are childhood friends, and she meets Noel and Makoto in the Military Academy. Despite her enlisting in to the services, she herself does not like fighting and believes her efforts will help establish order, which will eliminate war. For that cause, she is ready to soak her hands in blood.

''Tsubaki receives the order from commander in chief of the NOL, the Imperator, to terminate her best friends Jin and Noel for desertion. Her heart still torn, she takes her family heirloom, the Izayoi, and reluctantly heads to Kagutsuchi.

''Tsubaki tries to reason with her friends, but is instead consumed by her jealousy for Noel, falling victim to Hazama’s scheme. When she hits rock bottom and is blinded by her path, she is saved by the Imperator. Her loyalty becomes even stronger.

''She heads to the Coliseum to capture Ragna, but is intercepted by Jin, Noel, and Makoto. The three of them help her realize her true feelings, breaking Tsubaki free of the Imperator’s curse.