Yamata no Orochi

Yamata no Orochi (八岐の大蛇, Eight-Branched Giant Snake; in the English "Eight Forked Serpent") is a Shinigami who has abandoned the Soul Society after being wrongfully accused of treason and the killing of an entire Shinō Academy class. Eventually meeting Tarō, the rogue Shinigami found great darkness within Yamata and offered him a role within Yūi to which the "lost" Yamata accepted.

During his time in the Soul Society, Yamata no Orochi went by the name Suisuke Namida (涙 水出家, Namida Suisuke). Dropping his former name out of shame, he took up the name Yamata no Orochi to personify what his former home thought of him, a killer.