Hibiki Shikyoin✿♡

**Hibiki Shikyoin** (ひびき *Shikyoin Hibiki*) is a character who debuts in the second season of PriPara as the main antagonist. Hibiki is a first year in high school and the grandchild of one of Paprika Private Academy's chairman investors. Her alter ego in PriPara is the "**Thieving Genius**" (怪盗ジーニアス *Kaitō Jīniasu*), who makes her first appearance in Episode 57 stealing Dressing Flower's PriTickets. Her preferred brand is Brilliant Prince.

## Appearance

Hibiki is a fair-skinned young individual with sharp, long-eyelashed, lime-green eyes. Hibiki has short, silver hair worn in a short boyish cut that frames the face. The bangs are long spikes that slope to the side. Her voice is much like a male voice. As a child, her hair was much longer and were in curly locks. She retained her boyish voice, except it was a bit higher.

## Portrayed by:

### Korean

* Lee Seon (S2)
* Danielle Lynn Segoine (S3)
* Moon Ye-won (S4)
* Honey J (Idol Land PriPara, 2023)

## Relationships

* **Falulu** - Calls her "Princess Falulu." Often at night, Hibiki would go to see Falulu in her Phantom Thief outfit and ask her to join her Dream Team. Before knowing her real name, Falulu called Hibiki "Mr. Magician," which later became Maho-chan after her debut. Later on, she joined **Hibiki** and Fuwari in Tricolore.
* **Fuwari Midorikaze** - When Fuwari was running around the Palps singing, Hibiki's horse Maxi ran away from Hibiki to go to Fuwari. Hibiki then met Fuwari and asked her to be a princess. Because of how free-spirited Fuwari is, Hibiki had admired her since that moment, since her image contrasts a lot with Hibiki's cynical outlook of the world. Later on, she sent Fuwari to Parajuku to perform in PriPara and become the 'Ultimate Princess'. Their relationship dropped when Fuwari turned down the Princess Candidate, but she later joined **Hibiki** and Falulu in Tricolore.
* **Meganii Akai** - Hibiki replaced Meganii and turned PriPara into CelePara. However, the title was soon returned to Meganii and PriPara turned back to normal.
* **Andou** - Hibiki's butler. Sometimes Hibiki asked Andou to enter PriPara to do some of her work. Also Hibiki and Tricolore's assistant manager in PriPara.
* **Leona West** - Asked Leona to stand-in for a movie rehearsal in order to answer his question "Why do you dress up as a guy?" in Episode 74.
* **Mirei Minami** - Accepted Hibiki's challenge in Episode 73.
* **Ajimi Kiki** - Calls Hibiki, 'Kurukuru Chan. She knew Hibiki from childhood. Ajimi tried every day to become Hibiki's friend but Hibiki didn't believe in friends and thought they were a lie.
* **Sion Todo** - Hibiki asked her on a date in Episode 62, later asking her to join her dream team, CelePara Opera Company.
* **Non Manaka** - Hibiki probably thinks she has a lot of energy, potential and skill; placing Non not in the Idiot pile or the Genius pile, but the "ぴちぴち" pile, which roughly translates to "lively".
* **Laala Manaka** - Hibiki considers Laala her enemy in Episode 71.

## Significant Coords

* Brilliant Prince Cyalume Coord - Every time she Cyalume Changes (Episode 73 - Episode 114) and her Casual Coord (Episode 50 - Episode 73).
* Military Look Coord - Her Casual Coord (Episode 73 - Present).
* Thieving Genius Coord - The coord she used to steal the other team's coords.
* Super Cyalume Hibiki Coord - Her Super Cyalume Coord.
* PriParis of Flowers Rouge Coord - Tricolore Unit Coord.

## Etymology

* **Shikyōin** (紫京院) can be split up into three parts. *Shi* (紫 *murasaki*), means purple, keeping up with the S2 main characters' color theme. *Kyō* (京) means capital city and *in* (院) means institution.
* **Hibiki** (ひびき) means to echo or resound, representing the sense of hearing.

## Trivia

* Hibiki is the first main character to be initially an antagonist until she becomes a protagonist because of her love for PriPara.
	+ However, she is technically the 2nd main antagonist in the entire series. The first would be Gloria.
* Hibiki is the first known celebrity type Idol.
* Hibiki is the first Pretty Series character to be canonically nonbinary.
	+ The information was given out in a special interview with the producer of PriPara.
	+ Hibiki simply enjoys deceiving the world while not considering herself neither a man nor a woman.
		- This began when she was mistakenly scouted as a male model when she was younger.
		- Hibiki revealing herself to be a woman is part of her attempting to deceive the world.
		- This ties in with Hibiki's mischievous side in general.
	+ Hibiki doesn't mind whether she's perceived as a man or a woman, but personally considers herself to be neither.
* Hibiki is the second oldest out of the main characters.
* Hibiki is the second character in the Pretty Rhythm/PriPara franchise to be named "**Hibiki**", the first being Hibiki Toudou from Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream.
* Hibiki's silhouette can be seen in Dream Parade alongside Fuwari and Ajimi (and temporarily Falulu).
* She was named "The Greatest Prince" (最高のプリンス *Saikō no Purinsu*), having won the "Mr. Universe World Prince of the Year" tournament.
* She was looking for idols who fit her ideals in order to create her own Dream Team. In the end, she chose Falulu, Sophy, Sion, Mikan, and herself, represented as figurines on a model of the Dream Theater.
* Hibiki was revealed to be a girl in Episode 73.
* She is the first character to use a Cyalume Coord for a debut live.
* She is the first character to have a Cyalume Coord as her first casual coord.
* She is the first character to make a Cyalume Fairy change outside the Dream Theater.
* Hibiki is the second idol with a mistaken gender. The first was Reona.
	+ Ironically, they were mistaken for the opposite gender of each other.
* As of episode 74, her rank in PriPara is "Charismatic Idol," the fourth level of the Top Idol Class.
* Hibiki's birthday falls on March 27th.
	+ March 27th is World Theatre Day, which relates to Hibiki being an actor.
	+ Her Zodiac sign is Aries.
	+ Her birthday fell on Easter 2016.
* She replaced Meganii Akai in off voice in Episode 78.
* She is afraid of Ajimi because of her erratic personality, which resulted in her cutting her hair into a boy's cut to look boyish enough to not be recognized as a girl by Ajimi or anyone else.
	+ As a result, she's one of the characters to show the most fearful expressions so far.
* She used to be called "Kuru Kuru-chan" by Ajimi.
	+ This is because of the long, curly hairstyle she had when Ajimi met her.
* As of Episode 84, Hibiki's backstory was explained by Ajimi.
* Hibiki explains to Falulu that she wants to become a Vocal Doll in Episode 84.
* She is the second main character not to wear a Paprika Private Academy uniform.
* In Episode 89, Hibiki did her first proper Cyalume Change.
* Hibiki in the game is the only one available to do Platinum Airy.
* Originally, before her designs were complete Hibiki had a red and gold color scheme and longer hair.
	+ Her name was also going to be Gladiolus.
* She is the only Unit leader to receive her Super Cyalume Coord last.
* It can be assumed that Hibiki considers Chili a genius or prodigy. In episode 134, a figure of Chili can be seen in a box labeled tensai, meaning genius or prodigy.
* She shares some physical traits with Rei Kizaki from the Aikatsu Stars Series.
	+ These two characters are also very "prince-like".
	+ They are also told to be a "prince" by some characters from their respective animes.
	+ Both have platinum grayish colored hair.
	+ Both have light green eyes.
* She also shares the same charismatic & prideful traits with Tsubasa Otori from Metal Fight Beyblade (manga version)
	+ They both have the same role as one of the main protagonist
	+ They both also have the same hair color (also applies to the anime version of Tsubasa)
	+ However, Hibiki's VA's (Mitsuki Saiga) role in Metal Fight Beyblade (anime version) was not to voice Tsubasa, but instead to voice Chi-yun Li (during Metal Masters (anime) Metal Fight Beyblade Explosion & Metal Fury Metal Fight Beyblade 4D)
* She shares her given name with Hibiki Todo from Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future.
	+ She also shares it with Hojo Hibiki/Cure Melody from *Suite Pretty Cure♪*.
	+ She also shares it with Hibiki Tachibana from the *Senki Zesshō Symphogear franchise.*
	+ She also shares it with Hibiki Ganaha from THE iDOLM@STER.
	+ She also shares it with Hibiki Tenshō from Aikatsu! Friends.
* She is the second character in the Pretty series that is masked and talks about revolution
	+ The first would be Prism Ace
* Based on the movie PriPara: Everyone's Longing! Let's Go PriParis!, her sentence ender is "-pri."
* She shares her voice actress with Solulu from Kiratto Pri☆Chan.
	+ She also shares her voice actress with Meiko from the same series.
* She shares her voice actress with Shine from KinPri.
	+ Shine's alias happens to be **Hibiki** Wataru.
	+ They also both share similar goals, but that could just be superficial or a trend with Pretty Series villains.
	+ Both of their image songs are also relate to the concept of a certain love, and swords.
* Her favorite food is apparently gâteau au chocolat.
* She won the Mr Hunky Prince of the Year contest.
* Hibiki had been crowned the ultimate prince by the queen of Plutoniean countries.