Hina (氷菜 Hina?) was the mother of Hiei and Yukina. Sometime in her life, she left the Glacial Village, where her kind live, and conceived children with a male. This resulted in the birth of twins, Hiei and Yukina. Although Yukina was born an Ice Apparition (氷女, Kōrime) like her mother, Hiei was born male, and a fire demon.
Appearance[]
In the manga, Hina's appearance is never depicted as she was already dead. The anime shows her to resemble an older Yukina with mint-green hair worn in a ponytail in the lower back and longer bangs on opposite sides of her face. She wore a white kimono like most of her kind.
Personality[]
Hina begging for the elders to give Hiei back to her
Though not much of her personality was revealed, one can assume that Hina was different from other Ice Apparitions in that she was willing to break their laws and find a man. Moreover, in spite of Hiei's gender and dangerous power, she still loved him deeply enough to plead for her elders to spare him.
History[]
The elders of the village deemed Hiei to be a danger to their society and declared that he must be destroyed. Rui, Hina's closest friend, was instructed to drop Hiei from the Glacial Village into the depths of Demon World. In the anime, Hina's pleas to her friend and the elders to spare Hiei fell on deaf ears and she was restrained from stopping Rui from letting her son fall, much to her anguish.
In the anime, Hina committed suicide shortly after Hiei was cast out. In the manga, however, it was said that she died shortly after giving birth to her children.
Etymology[]
- The name Hina means "ice, hail" (氷) (hi) and "vegetables, greens" (菜) (na), a common suffix for girls' names.