Mandalay

Mandalay(マンダレー; Mandarē), previously known as Botan(牡丹; Botan) is a secondary character in DxD: Apøcrypha and the current guardkeeper and supervisor of the Zodiacs of the Kanto Region under the command of Yasaka nd Kunou.

An elder Nekomata, Mandalay is the sole survivor of the massacre of her village by Ichijou Tsukino and Berolina Paimon and, unknown to the rest of her faction, a spy and a double-agent under the Paimon family in order to keep an eye on the Youkai faction from inside, a deal between them and herself after their spared her life during the massacre.

Appearance
Mandalay is a fairly tall, fair-skinned older nekomata of modest measurements and silver eyes which are described of always having a sort of unstable and melancholic bright onto them. During her time as a guardkeeper of Zodiacs and a member of the Kanto Youkai Faction, she has the habit of wearing black-coloured kimonos with red sashs and golden flower-like hair decorations and geta sandals, however when under her devil captors, she tends to wear black-coloured low-cut western dresses and veils in order to conceal her face, all in star-shaped motif and black heels.

Being a nekomata, Mandalay possesses a pair of cat ears on top of her head and two tails hanging from her derriere, one of them which is always wrapped on a ribbon in order to hide a derranged scar she got during the massacre of her village.

Personality
Mandalay, unlike her fellow nekomatas, is considered a coward, a traitor, a weak-willed and sly woman who puts herself and her survival above anything and anyone. While able to pull a calm, composed and polite façade for her comrades and supposed allies, Mandalay is in fact quick to scare and react, fleeing from danger without a second thought and leaving anyone, even her own friends, by themselves. She's also quick to change sides and do anything in order to secure her own life, as seen that she immediately sided with Berolina and Ichijou after being rended the only survivor of her village, without a single thought for her friends and family and harboring no ill feelings for them since she was able to survive. Ichijou claims that, because his Sacred Gear, Mandalay's loyalty towards them will never weaver because she's the easiest target for it.