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Yoichi Asakawa is one of the many Survivors currently featured in Dead by Daylight.

While he originates from the 1998 Horror movie, Ring (Japanese: リング, Ringu), Dead by Daylight's Yoichi is an adult re-envisioning of the character, who was only a child in the movie.

Yoichi Asakawa is a brilliant marine biologist and psychic whose knowledge and abilities allow him to protect himself and assist others.

His personal Perks: Parental Guidance , Empathic Connection  & Boon: Dark Theory, allow him to hide from Killers, call out to injured Survivors, and help others move faster.

Lore[]

As a child, Yoichi gained an interest in the supernatural from his father and mother when an inexplicable curse claimed both their lives. As an adult, Yoichi graduated with top honours in marine biology from a university in Tokyo, and, following in his father’s footsteps, became the youngest professor in the school’s history. But his career began to unravel when two of his students disappeared while doing research in Izu Oshima. The mere mention of Izu Oshima triggered painful memories from his past. Deep, hidden memories bubbled up from the murky, black depths of his subconscious. Blurred faces on images, twisted mouths, inexplicable deaths suddenly filled his mind. The shouts of people calling him a monster. And then… the monster… Sadako rose from the abyss to let him know the curse was not over. It would never be over.

With a cry, Yoichi shut his eyes and slowly released his fear. When he opened his eyes again, Sadako was gone, but something had returned. Something ominous and otherworldly. He could feel an unnerving presence near him, breathing deeply like the heaving sea. Was Sadako tormenting him? Was a spirit trying to warn him? Or was it something else? Something that consumed people. Something that made people disappear. Yoichi wasn’t sure. He had spent his life trying to understand his psychic abilities and the supernatural. His instincts told him the answers somehow lay with water. He had, after all, dedicated his life to studying intelligent life and unexplored realms within the ocean. Perhaps he needed to readjust his definition of intelligent. Or his definition of life.

Thirsting for truth, Yoichi entered a frenzy of research into the fringes of parapsychology, cryptozoology, theology, folk history. The more he expanded his field of expertise, the more he was ridiculed and ostracized. Once viewed as a brilliant young mind, Yoichi was now considered an eccentric and a liability. In mere months, the university terminated his position. Undeterred, Yoichi sought professorships at other schools, but no reputable college in Japan would take him. As a last resort he approached media outlets, and by some twist of fate, the company where his mother had worked at as a journalist offered to fund his research in exchange for articles and first publishing rights to his story.

During this difficult time, Yoichi's father returned to him—his spirit silently goading him to continue the course he had chosen. And so, working around the clock in his tiny Tokyo apartment, he allied himself with other researchers in the paranormal field. Within months, he came across a story that mirrored the disappearances of his students: four vloggers had mysteriously disappeared near a lighthouse in Scotland. With a great sense of urgency, Yoichi took the first flight he could to Glasgow. A professor at a local university had come to many of the same conclusions as he had nearly seventy years earlier when a film crew disappeared near the very same lighthouse. There was some kind of intelligence in the water—some kind of darkness calling from the sea like an ancient siren. As Yoichi examined the research, his father suddenly appeared to let him know he was on the right path.

Guided by his father, Yoichi chartered a fishing boat and headed toward a small cluster of islands known as the Seven Hunters. Darkness fell as they approached the isles. The lighthouse, now automated and controlled remotely, sputtered and winked out of existence like a dying star. The ocean began to stir violently, lightning flashed, and the fisherman begged Yoichi to turn back, but Yoichi refused. He was too close and would not be deterred. As they argued the ocean raged and tossed the ship high and low. Then one giant wave lifted the boat as high as a house and dashed it to pieces against dark, jagged rocks.

Yoichi didn’t remember much after that. He remembered falling into the water. He remembered swimming to the landing where he saw his father standing on the gallery of the lighthouse beckoning him. He remembered staggering through thick black fog as he climbed the stairs. He remembered the water level rising with every step until the frothing mouth of the raging ocean swallowed him whole.

Perks[]

Parental Guidance[]

You have inherited the ability to hear the dead — and now the dead warn you of danger.

  • After stunning the Killer by any means, Parental Guidance suppresses your Scratch Marks, Pools of Blood, and Grunts of Pain for the next 5/6/7 seconds.

Empathic Connection[]

Your presence psychically projects itself to those in danger.

  • Whenever another Survivor is injured, they can see your Aura when within 32/64/96 metres of your location.
  • You heal other Survivors 10 % faster.

Boon: Dark Theory[]

Your obsessive study of the paranormal has given you unprecedented knowledge of other Realms and planes of existence.

Press and hold the Active Ability button near a Dull or Hex Totem to bless it and create a Boon Totem.

Soft chimes ring out within a radius of 24 metres.

Survivors inside the Boon Totem's range benefit from the following effects:

  • 2 % Haste Status Effect.
  • This effect lingers for 2/3/4 seconds after leaving the Boon Totem's range.

You can only bless one Totem at a time.

All equipped Boon Perks are active on the same Boon Totem.

Trivia[]

  • The island of Izu Ōshima (伊豆大島) mentioned in Yoichi's lore is a real volcanic island in the Izu archipelago situated 14 miles east of the Izu Peninsula and 63 miles off Tokyo Bay. It is the largest and closest of Tokyo's outlying islands.
  • Likewise, the term Seven Hunters refers to the Flannan Isles, a small island group in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, located 20 miles west of the Isle of Lewis.
    • The lighthouse mentioned in Yoichi's lore is also a real structure located on Eilean Mòr, one of the islands of the archipelago, known for the mysterious disappearance of its keepers around 1900.
  • The name Yoichi (陽一) consists of the characters (陽), meaning "sun", "positive" or "open", and ichi (一), meaning "one".
  • The last name Asakawa (浅川) consists of the characters asa (浅), meaning "shallow", and kawa (川), meaning "river".
  • Yoichi is the first licensed survivor to be completely designed by BHVR (both lore and aesthetically) and not rely on other preexisting sources.

Character Creation[]

  • Yoichi' is an adult re-envisioning by the Developers at BHVR of the child Yoichi from "The Ring".
    • Ringu licence-holder Kadokawa allowed BHVR to create new Lore for Yoichi that did not exist in the original franchise.
    • BHVR wished to ensure that the re-envisioned Yoichi would go into a science field, like his father.
      • Since Yoichi knows that Sadako might be living in the water in the open sea on the coast, they oriented him towards studies related to the ocean.
    • Yoichi's background lore, traits, looks, and personality were created based on the events of the story of what happened to his parents.
      • BHVR imagined a mix of both his father and mother in terms of looks, as they could be seen in the 1998 movie.

Lore[]

  • The island of Izu Ōshima (伊豆大島) mentioned in Yoichi's lore is a real volcanic island in the Izu archipelago situated 14 miles east of the Izu Peninsula and 63 miles off Tokyo Bay. It is the largest and closest of Tokyo's outlying islands.
  • Likewise, the term Seven Hunters refers to the Flannan Isles, a small island group in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, located 20 miles west of the Isle of Lewis.
    • The lighthouse mentioned in Yoichi's lore is also a real structure located on Eilean Mòr, one of the islands of the archipelago, known for the mysterious disappearance of its keepers around 1900.

Name[]

  • The name Yoichi (陽一) consists of the characters (陽), meaning "sun", "positive" or "open", and ichi (一), meaning "one".
  • The last name Asakawa (浅川) consists of the characters asa (浅), meaning "shallow", and kawa (川), meaning "river".
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