The Mud Doll Woman (Female Raider)

The Mud Doll Woman has long, dark hair styled into multiple segmented tassels or ties — giving it a doll-like or artificial quality that mirrors her puppet-based combat style. She is frequently depicted with a wide, unsettling grin and large dark eyes with faint triangular shadows or markings beneath them.

Her outfit is the standard Raiders' quilted or checkered combat vest, worn with a hooded cloak and high boots. During the basement ambush, she carried a purple Raider lantern. She carries her spade as her primary weapon and instrument.

The Basement Ambush — vs. Zanka Nijiku

The trap began before the fight: she sculpted a mud decoy of a Sphereite survivor in Chapter 12, drawing Rudo and his escort into a basement expecting a rescue. When she and Konza revealed themselves, she engaged Team Akuta with specific attention to Zanka — noting that Cleaners who spend their careers fighting Trash Beasts are structurally unprepared for human opponents who fight differently.

She liquified the basement floor with her spade, creating a mud pit, and swarmed Zanka with an continuous stream of mud puppets — volume and environmental control as the primary tactical approach. She taunted him throughout, taking visible pleasure in what she described as her "vexatious little tactics."

Zanka spent the engagement observing. When he had identified the pattern and found his opening, he delivered one massive strike with his Vital Instrument and ended the fight. She acknowledged him as a decent fighter before going down. The acknowledgment came at the point where it was the only thing left to say.

Posthumous — The Imitation Trash Beast

Her spade appeared in the pile of Vital Instrument offerings that Zodyl Typhon collected and used to evolve a defective Watchman Series piece into the Imitation Trash Beast deployed during the Raiders' operations toward the Border. She did not choose to contribute it. It was taken after her defeat. Her instrument became part of a weapon she never consented to build.

Vital Instrument — Spade

Her Jinki is a large spade — a digging and shaping tool — which she imbues with Anima to produce environmental and puppet-based combat effects. The instrument's origin in earth-moving work is consistent with her abilities: she does with a spade what a spade does, at Anima scale.

Mud Puppets

By channelling Anima through the spade, she can summon dozens of humanoid clay and mud dolls to swarm, grapple, and overwhelm targets. The puppets are mindless and disposable — she creates them in volume and deploys them continuously, using attrition and pressure rather than individual puppet quality. The contrast with the Cleaners' belief in imbuing objects with soul is deliberate: her dolls are empty, created for disposal rather than for sincerity.

Environmental Liquification

She can strike the ground with her spade to convert solid flooring into viscous mud — trapping opponents who sink into the surface, removing their mobility, and creating the environmental conditions her puppets exploit most effectively. This is her most tactically significant ability because it removes her opponent's ability to manoeuvre before the puppet assault begins.

The Tactical Principle

Her core approach is identifying what an opponent is not prepared for and providing it. Against Cleaners: she noted they fight Trash Beasts, not humans, and that the difference in combat style would catch them off-guard. Against Zanka specifically: immobilisation and volume, to prevent the single-focused strike that is the natural response to a skilled opponent. Zanka's response was to observe rather than react until the pattern was visible — which worked. Her tactics were sound against someone who responded to pressure immediately. He did not.

• Her name is unknown. She is identified by her fighting style — mud dolls — which is the series' most consistently applied naming convention for unnamed antagonists: the thing they do becomes the thing they are called.
• Her observation about the Cleaners — that they spend their careers fighting Trash Beasts and are therefore structurally unprepared for human opponents — is one of the series' more perceptive antagonist assessments. It is accurate. The Raider conflict as a whole demonstrates this gap: the Cleaners are elite at their job, and their job is not what they are being asked to do when Raiders are involved.
• Her defeat required Zanka to use the specific discipline of observation over reaction — spending the fight watching rather than engaging until the pattern was clear. This is not how Zanka's Vital Instrument is typically deployed. She forced a different mode of engagement and still lost, but the engagement required more from him than a standard encounter would have.
• Her spade appears in the pile of Vital Instrument offerings in Chapter 156 — confirming that the Raiders collected the instruments of defeated members and used them as raw material for the Imitation Trash Beast. Her contribution to the beast was involuntary and posthumous to her active role in the series.
• Her mud dolls — empty, mindless, created for disposal — are the direct thematic opposite of the Gachiakuta power system's core argument: sincerity toward objects produces Anima, and objects imbued with genuine care accumulate soul. She creates the negative image of this. Her puppets have none of what the series says matters. They are effective anyway, up to a point.