Asahi Arisa (有紗 陽, Arisa Asahi) is the main protagonist of The Water Dragon's Bride.
Appearance
Personality
Bubbly, Kind, Caring, Gentle
History
Plot
Asahi is first seen sitting on a chair in a dress with a bright smile on her face. Her mother says that her hair and eyes look like that of her grandmother. Her dad calls her out to look at a decoration he put out and she says it looks tacky. Her mom calls her back inside to eat cookies. When both of her parents aren't looking, the pond pulls her in.
When she swims out of the pond, she finds herself in a lake surrounded by trees. She calls out for her dad and as she walks through the forest, she begins to cry and trips on a stone. This is where she first meets Subaru. She cries about how she can't find her parents and how she didn't even eat the cookies.
Skills and Abilities
Rain Summon
Blessing given by the Water God, she can summon rain by crying. Says it “Stole her ability to cry alone.”
Relationships
Subaru
Raised alongside him somewhat after being taken from her time. Asahi was sacrificed by his mother to be the Water Gods bride after suddenly appearing. He developed a crush on her during their childhood.
Water God
Wife to the Water God due to her being sacrificed.
At the start of the series, they get off on a rocky start. When she first meets the Water God, she thinks that he is cosplaying and calls him a pervert because he said he would make her his bride. After he takes her voice, she seems to take a great disliking to him. And after being starved due to the Water God's lack of knowledge about humans, she finds him scary.
She comes to love and appreciate him and he comes to love and appreciate her. Since he's really uneducated in the ways of humans, he often doesn't realize that the things he does makes Asahi flustered.
Both of them will risk their lives to save one another and care for each others well being. When Asahi learns that The Water Dragon God will disappear and learns that he might survive if he "devours" her, she gladly says that she would do it.
Unnamed Parents
She and her parents had a good relationship. When she disappeared, her parents were devastated. After she came back, instead of asking where she's been, they know that she has been living a happy life. They care for her a lot and she seems to too.
Haruki Arisa
Haruki does hold some ill feelings towards Asahi, but he's still very protective of her. The reason being is because of their mother. He seems afraid that if she leaves again, their mother will be devastated.
At the end, he and Asahi have a brother-sister relationship and he doesn't seem to have any ill feelings towards her.
Quotes
People cannot wield the power of a God, however...Each person has the ability to reach out and help one another. Rather than relying on a power you can't see, help the people around you in need, with your own two hands. If each of us held out a hand for someone in need, it would be enough.
The only hands that I can offer your highness...are my own two hands. The hands of the water god are not hands that you can take hold of.
Trivia
- Her name means "Morning Sun."
- She returns to her home three times during the manga.