Da Ji (Smite)

"I want to conquer this land, and I always get what I want!"

- Da Ji arrival

"These gods will soon feel the most excruciating pain!"

- Da Ji's arrival (2)

Da Ji also known as the legendary Nine-Tailed Fox is a villlainous playable God in the MOBA Smite. She is a sadistic demon fox who serves as an Assassin class of the Chinese Pantheon expert in unleashing pain through torture upon her victims.

Born in 1076 BC, Da Ji was a demon fox who served the Goddess Nu Wa as a "punisher" for those who dared to ruin her image. However, Da Ji later revealed her true malicious intentions of bringing eternal pain and suffering to humanity to satisfy her twisted and sadistic desire to enjoy the pain of all living being for all eternity. She was the consort of King Zhou of Shang and later became oppressive and tyrannical Empress of the Zhou Dysnasty until her downfall. Following the defeat of her empire, she took participation in the Great God War involving all mythological pantheons of the world just to delight in the cries of agony of other Gods and mortals.

Historically, Da Ji was the first Femme Fatale to ever exist and served as the base to countless inspirations of black widows throughout history.

She was voiced by Mallorie Rodak, whom also voiced Solution Epsilon in Overlord.

Official Description
"Blink forward and torture your foes with bleeds, burns and cuts."

- Quote about Da Ji's style of playing. Emperor Zhou of the Shang Dynasty had a mad lust for the goddess Nu Wa. She constantly rejected him, but Zhou simply would not stop, going so far as to slip into her temple and defile it with declarations of love. Drained of her patience, Nu Wa decided to punish the emperor. She summoned the most conniving and wicked fox spirit she could find and gave it a mission to spiral his life into misery. That would turn out to be her greatest mistake.

The nine-tailed fox spirit had been biding its time to eventually satiate its own lust. It then took form of the woman named Da Ji, becoming close to Zhou and manipulating him to increase his madness and sadism, delighting in the torture of men and their screams of pain.

The atrocities she committed eventually drove the people to rebellion and overthrew Zhou. Cornered in his bed chamber, Zhou committed suicide. But Da Ji managed to sneak away. Now, free from the commands of the gods, Da Ji only has one plan for the war between gods: inflict pain and anguish upon any deities she comes across, satiating her endless lust for pain.

Personality
Da Ji was considered to be the incarnation of evil itself when her crimes were exposed by the population of Shang and was remembered as the single most cruel non-deity entity of the world.

Da J in Smite is a psychopath from the worst level who cares only for wealth and comfort in her palace. She is also a sadistic individual who loves war and death - she demonstrates that she is different from many other deities through the story, as she commits acts of atrocities against humanity simply for her twisted fun and has little care for the lives of her subordinates and people. She is also a mature woman, but possesses the mind of an narcissistic and sadistic spoiled child. At her core, Da Ji relishes death, suffering, despair, fear, chaos, pain and destruction to her lands solely to enjoy the suffering of mortals for considering them inferior to her superior existence.

She is known for her BDSM fetishes and often tries to make her enemies suffer with brutal methods of torture just so she can make them beg to die before killing them. She also has a great sarcastic wit and treat everything like trivial matters when they are not related to luxurious jewels and expensive diamonds.

Lore
Emperor Zhou's desire for the Goddess Nu Wa was considered an obsession, perhaps even madness. She sent signs and missives to reject him, but Zhou would not be dissuaded. At night, he slipped into her temple and scrawled poetry across the walls espousing his undying love. This defilement could not go unanswered. Nu Wa summoned the most conniving and wicked Fox Spirit she could and thrust it upon the Emperor with intent to spiral his life into misery. Little did Nu Wa know what she had just unleashed.

For thousands of years the nine-tailed Fox spirit had lived, biding its time, honing its malicious appetites. Finally in human form, it assumed the irresistible guise of Da Ji, and to Emperor Zhou, she could do no wrong. With free reign of the empire and its people, Da Ji reveled in torture and malice. She took delight in their screams of pain and she danced to playful music composed at her command, the musicians trembling for every note.

So grievous did these atrocities grow that the people rose up and overthrew their ruler. they stormed the gates, toppled the throne, and pursued Zhou to his bed chamber, where the crazed emperor finally took his own life. Yet, Da Ji managed to escape and conceal herself. Now she joins the fray, not to save the universe, nor empower her pantheon, but instead to soak up every last cry of anguish from her enemies.

Abilities

 * Passive (Torture Blades) - As an assassin, Da Ji is known for her deadly physical attacks that infects her targets with Torture Blades that burns her targets for a period of time and reduce their movements.
 * Horrible Burns - Da Ji heats up her claws, causing her next successfully hit Basic Attack to burn the target.
 * One Thousand Cuts - Da Ji lashes out with her claws at nearby enemies, executing 4 strikes that damage all enemies in range and apply the Bleed from Torture Blades.
 * Trickster Spirit - Da Ji selects a single allied or enemy target and teleports to their location after a short delay. Upon arriving at the target, she lashes out with her claws.
 * Paolao - Her ultimate; Da Ji Summons her signature torture device, the Paolao. As she hovers above the device she may fire up to 3 shots. Enemy gods hit take damage and become Chained and Slowed. At the end of her ability Chained enemies are pulled to the Paolao becoming stunned.

Quotes
"My body may perish, but the fox spirit lives on."

- Death

"What a joy it is to slay such creatures!"

- When killing a Jungle Boss

"I might stop killing you, but it's just so fun!"

- When in a Killstreak

"I'd like to slice you open and see what makes you tick!"

- Taunt

"I'm sure you'd love to spend a night with me, but I doubt you'd survive it!"

- Taunt

"Only when subjected to extreme pain do you see someone's true nature."

- Taunt

"I learned long ago that compassion gets you nowhere!"

- Taunt

"Want to know how to torture a male god? Ignore him."

- Joke

"What do you give the girl who has everything? You give her more!"

- Joke

"You have yet to see the meaning of cruel!"

- Using ultimate

"I will never grow tired of this!"

- Killstreak

"I can't wait to kill you, slowly!"

- Taunt

Trivia

 * The Smite version of Da Ji transformed her into a pure devilish entity who only sought to bring sheer despair and terror to the world, unlike the original Da Ji from Fengshen Yanyi. In the original mythological Chinese tale, Da Ji became a fox spirit when she witnessed her relatives getting skinned to deatb. Other factors like her her genuine love for her children and care of young innocent.
 * While being an evil spirit, Da Ji was a direct servant of Nu Wa in Smite and served her as one her inquisitors to punish those who dare to taint her image.
 * In her Seductress skin, Da Ji was remodeled after Marilyn Monroe.
 * A controversy related to her Cyberfox skin came out when her design was extremely similar to Sombra from Overwatch just when recently a skin of Ravana based in Scorpion from Mortal Kombat series was removed from the game after the company sued by the original creators of the character.
 * The Deadly Desire skin transformed her into a Succubus as a tribute for her Femme Fatal title that curiously served as base for the trope for many centuries to come.
 * After her defeat,the Song dynasty, fox spirit cults, including those dedicated to Daji, became outlawed, but their suppression was unsuccessful.