Acrobatic Silky

Acrobatic Silky (アクロバティックさらさら Akurobatikku Sarasara) is a character from the Japanese manga series Dandadan. She is the primary antagonist of the Acrobatic Silky arc.

Characters Consumed

 * Ken Takakura
 * Aira Shiratori
 * Momo Ayase

Personality
Acrobatic Silky is incredibly hostile and emotionally unstable. Due to tragically losing her child when she was alive, Acrobatic Silky is obsessed with finding a "child" to nurture and to call her "mother", specifically Aira Shiratori. To this end, she will violently attack anyone who stands in her way and tends to behave irrationally when denied her desire. However, she also has a genuine motherly love as she ultimately sacrificed herself to bring Aira back to life.

Motive
She does not seem to devour other beings out of hunger, but rather out of pragmatism and impulse brought on by emotional anguish. She devours Ken to stop his interference, and then devours Aira and Momo out of frustration when they defy her.

Background
As a human, Acrobatic Silky's daughter was kidnapped by human traffickers and she ultimately killed herself out of despair. As a yokai, Acrobatic Silky lost all her memories and when a young Aira Shiratori mistook her for her mother she came to believe she really was her mother.

Dandadan, Chapter 14
Several years after her initial encounter with Aira, Acrobatic Silky realizes that Aira can see her again and attempts to abduct her. However, her efforts are impeded by Ken Takakura and Momo Ayase who try to stop her and rescue Aira. During the battle, Acrobatic Silky is quickly able to catch Ken in her mouth and, despite Momo's attempts to stop her, she swallows him whole. With Aira in her grasp, she tries to get her to call her "mother", but when Aira proclaims that she must destroy all monsters like her, Acrobatic Silky swallows her out of sorrow. Blaming Momo for corrupting her "daughter", Acrobatic Silky fiercely attacks Momo and binds her with her hair. She tells Momo she will forgive her if she calls her "mother", but Momo refuses and Acrobatic Silky swallows her too.

Shortly afterwards, Momo uses a lighter to ignite a strand of Acrobatic Silky's hair that she had swallowed, setting her stomach on fire. Consequently, Acrobatic Silky is forced to regurgitate the three youths. Acrobatic Silky is then defeated in battle by Ken. Afterwards, Acrobatic Silky discovers that Aira has died as a result of her eating her and sacrifices her life to resurrect her.

Method of Consumption
Thanks to her large size and wide maw, Acrobatic Silky is able to engulf and swallow her victims whole, and she can capture her victims in a number of ways. Thanks her great strength and speed, she can simply lunge at her prey with her jaws wide open and catch them in her mouth. She can also restrain them with the strong grip of her arms or her prehensile hair before feeding them into her mouth. Her body also seems to have an extradimensional nature to it as she was able to swallow three teenagers whole without any outward change to her body.

Appetite
She evidently does not eat people out of hunger and receives no physical satisfaction from it, but she will still devour her victims as she feels necessary. There is no apparent limit to how much she can eat, but she was able to swallow three teenagers without difficulty.

Status of Swallowed Prey
In the case of Ken and Momo, they are still conscious inside her stomach and mobile enough to effect an escape. However, Acrobatic Silky's stomach is apparently quite difficult to escape as even the super-powered Ken could not escape without outside help. In the case of Aira and other ordinary humans, they are almost immediately killed after being eaten. It is unknown what eventually becomes of Acrobatic Silky's victims while in her stomach, but they are presumably eventually digested or absorbed into her body.

Quotes
"I'll never let you have Aira" (said to Ken before swallowing him), Arang Scans fansub

"Aira-chan...what...was that? (said to Aira before swallowing her), Arang Scans fansub

"I said say it, dammit!! Say 'Mommy'!! You little...!!" (said to Momo before swallowing her), Arang Scans fansub