The Gardener (Shimeji Simulation)

The Gardener is a character in the 2019 manga Shimeji Simulation. She is a mysterious person who is firstly met by Shijima Tsukishima in Chapter 7, who has a deep obsession with "fixing" things around the world by attempting to establish stability within the world's reality, albeit childishly, going so far in criticizing over things that are not considered "normal" for her within the established world's reality.
It is revealed in Chapter 30, however, that the Gardener has known about Shijima's sister's motives within the town of West Yomogi.
==Appearance==
The Gardener is a young girl who wears a white cap with two protruding horns on it, as well as a white gown. She also has a hip-length hair and has heterochromia. She is always seen with a two-pronged staff that acts as her own tool to "fix" anything wrong around her.
==Personality==
While the Gardener is known for being mysterious, she is often known to be childish and deeply rooted with the ideals of stability and reality, often calling out on objects that are not in their usual form. This includes in Chapter 27 where she fixes the three irregularly-bent street signs in front of her, before lashing out rather childishly, calling the roads a "complete and utter mess".
==Background==
===Shimeji Simulation===
The Gardener is firstly seen in Chapter 7 of the manga, "What Will Shimeji do on Her Break...?", when Shijima Tsukishima firstly encountered her slamming her own two-pronged staff into the ground, under the pretense of "fixing all the wrong things".
She later makes another appearance in Chapter 20, "How Deep, Does This Hole The Hole-Digging Club Go...?", when she sees Shijima, Majime, Mogawa-sensei, and Sumida falling down after dropping from a huge, mysterious hole from their school, where it later leads right to her home: a beach. Later on, she is seen holding her two-pronged staff that is emitting a trace of some mysterious energy, before pointing it into the mysterious black statue. The Gardener later proceeds to whack Mogawa lightly with it, before the Hole Digging Club advisor later realizes she temporarily gains the power of sand manipulation, allowing her to form a sand sculpture from the circle-shaped rod.
In Chapter 21, "The Usual Morning Sight...?", the Gardener makes a brief appearance, who later pins the blame to the members of the Hole Digging Club for the appearance of a cake-shaped sand formation into the mysterious hole, which turns out to be the same passageway into the Gardener's home.
She is seen again in Chapter 27, "What Makes a Friend...?", where she is seen by a lost Shijima while fixing three distorted street signs, before she criticizes the roads in front of her as a "complete and utter mess".
In Chapter 30, the Gardener is responsible for throwing a group of vehicles towards Shijima's sister, before a brief battle happens the two, with the Gardener revealing that she has been causing all the goings within West Yomogi. Despite the Gardener's attempts to stop the motives of Shijima's sister, the latter only responds that no one can stop her, not even Gods including the Gardener.
==Powers==
*Omniscience - The Gardener is known to be omniscient, as she has a habit of surveying the current state of Shijima's world and sometimes act upon it when things are not considered within her own interpretation of reality.
*Psychokinesis - In Chapter 30, the Gardener is later shown to have psychokinetic power, as she is seen hurling a group of vehicles towards Shijima's sister during her sudden appearance in the chapter's intro.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*There are a few instances where the Gardener is theorised to be a deity, including in Chapters 20 and 27 of Shimeji Simulation:
**In Chapter 20, the Gardener's two-pronged staff is seen to be emitting a faint trace of unknown energy, before she uses it within the mysterious black statue. The same chapter later shows the Gardener smacking Mogawa-sensei lightly with her staff to her head with the same energy as before, before the Gardener tells Mogawa that it temporarily gives her the ability to manipulate sand through a circle-shaped rod.
**In Chapter 27, the Gardener is seen using a power, with what appeared to be reality manipulation, as she fixes three irregularly-bent street signs from its original forms.
**In Chapter 30, the Gardener warns Shijima's sister about her motives, before the latter responds with the following: "I can't...? Says who? The architects of the town? God?", which implies she refers to the former.
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