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Daigo (
Appearance
Daigo's appearance is that of an average boy of his young age. He has short, messy dark hair that is tied in a single knot high on the back of his head and a dark eye color. Kofuku once commented that he looks somewhat similar to Daikoku.
Daigo wears multiple sets of clothing throughout his appearances, but most of the time he's seen wearing a Hanten over a kimono. Both of these are made of patches of differently dyed fabrics, implying they were handmade for him by Daikoku or Kofuku.
Personality
Daigo's personality is typical of a young boy, being generally cheerful and playful, as well as very curious. Although he has never realized that he had died; his unusually keen perception has allowed him to notice even the more subtle differences between himself and the regular people he was surrounded by. An example is how people in his circle typically forget about him unless he interacts with them frequently enough.
Synopsis
Sakura Arc
After having Daikoku as her shinki for some time, Kofuku noticed how much he wanted to raise a child. She found the uncorrupted soul of a young boy, named him Daigo, and brought him into their "family". Daikoku's initial reaction to Daigo blighted Kofuku, realizing how Daigo (who also immediately called him "Daddy") was a child that had died unnaturally at such an early age. However, Daikoku still smiled and accepted Daigo as his son.
The three lived together for about one hundred years as a happy family, to the point that Daigo never realized that he was actually dead as a human. His perceptive nature, however, did make him realize how inexplicably different he was from the people around him. For example, how his human friends and their parents grow up and age while he and his parents don't, and how his pet dog's age and pass away while he doesn't even grow. Naturally, Daigo turned to his father to give him the answers as to why he is so different from others. Daikoku always avoided answering, unable to tell his son that he is actually dead.
After noticing the pain that Daikoku's internal struggle over this was causing him, Kofuku decided to release Daigo and send him to Takama-ga-hara. But releasing Daigo only made Daikoku devolve into a more unstable emotional state, subjecting Kofuku to severe blight. Realizing that he is putting his god's life at stake, Daikoku, under Kazuma's advice, found Yato and begged him to cut his ties to Daigo. Yato agrees to do as Daikoku asked, saving Kofuku and Daikoku, who swears to one day repay him. In reality, however, Yato was not yielding a shinki at the time but a regular knife - which means that he did not actually do anything to sever their ties, and Daikoku and Kofuku managed to overcome the loss of Daigo on their own.
In present day, Daikoku confirms that Daigo was taken in by the Heavenly Guard, likely under a new name.[1]
Trivia
- The kanji character used for Daigo's true name, 吾 go, is a possessive meaning "one's own" or "our".[2]
- The additional character used to make Daigo's given name, 大 dai, means "big" or "great".[3]
- Daigo's given name is constructed in the same manner as Daikoku's - using the vessel reading and with the additional character attached in the beginning rather than in the end.