臥煙伊豆湖
Gaen Izuko is a mentor and leader of sorts to the other "oddity" specialists in the [[Monogatari (series)|Monogatari series]]: [[Oshino Meme]], [[Kaiki Deishuu]], [[Kagenui Yozuru]], and [[Teori Tadatsuru]], who also comprised her "Occult Research Club" in college. She has a reputation for being powerful and knowledgeable in the series, and her catch phrase is "I know everything".  She is the younger sister of [[Gaen Tooe]] and aunt of [[Kanbaru Suruga]].

Appearance-wise, she has [[long hair|long]] [[brown hair]] that typically [[hair over one eye|covers one of her]] [[brown eyes]].  Her typical attire is hip-hop inspired, consisting of a [[green headwear|green]] and [[white headwear|white]] [[baseball cap]] as a [[hat]] (often [[sideways hat|worn sideways]]), a [[green shirt|green]] [[off shoulder|off]][[off-shoulder shirt|-shoulder]] [[t-shirt|t-]][[shirt]], [[red legwear|red]] [[pants]], and dark [[red footwear|red]] [[flats]] for [[shoes]].  For accessories, she usually wears red [[prayer beads]], a yellow [[star_(symbol)|star-shaped]] [[pendant]] [[necklace]], [[black_wristband|black]] [[wristbands]], orange and yellow [[headphones]] (usually [[headphones around neck|around her neck]]), and carries multiple [[smartphone]]s.


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