Shikome-Hime

**Shikome-Hime** or **Princess of Yomi** is the bastard child of Shinigami and Shaurash-ho, making her the niece of Amenominakanushi, Musubi, Takami-Musubi, Kami-Musubi, Umashiashikabihikoji, Amenotokotachi and Shishioka Yukine as well as the granddaughter of Cthulhu and Idh-Yaa.

She was previously a great demon that used to wreck havoc in Shinto Faction, but after being defeated by Takami-Musubi and later Izanami, she became too weak to pose an actual threat to the Kotoamatsukami and instead became Izanami's Vice-Captain.

## Overview

***Yomotsu-shikome*** (黄泉醜女, lit. "Ugly-Woman-of-the-Underworld"), in Japanese mythology, was a hag sent by the dead Izanami to pursue her husband Izanagi, for shaming her by breaking promise not to see her in her decayed form in the Underworld (Yomi-no-kuni). Also recorded by the name ***Yomotsu-hisame*** (泉津日狭女), the name may have been a term referring collectively to eight hags, not just one.

The hag appears by the Yomotsu-shikome (or Ugly-Female-of-the-Underworld") name in the eldest Japanese chronicle *Kojiki*. But either eight demon-hags (female oni) or a woman/women named Yomotsu-hisame hunted after Izanagi according to the *Nihon Shoki,* which frequently gives different readings from alternate sources.

Izanagi was fleeing the Underworld with Yomotsu-shikome in hot pursuit. Izanagi first cast down his black headdress, which turned into a kind of grapes and slowed the hag's advance as she devoured them. Next he broke off his comb Yutsu-tsuma-gushi (湯津爪櫛) and cast them, and the broken piece (the teeth?) turned into bamboo shoots, slowing her down again as she pulled them out and ate them. But the hag was now joined by a large army 1500 strong led by eight Thunder-deities. Izanagi brandished his Totsuka-no-Tsurugi (十拳剣) but still they pursued, until he climbed atop the "flat slope" or "Even Pass" at the entrance to the Underworld, and flung three peaches, whereby the pursuers retreated. After this, Izanami herself came in pursuit, and Izanagi blocked the entrance at the slope with a boulder.

Apart from the variant name and the possibility of multiple hags ("eight Ugly Females of Yomi,") are some minor discrepancies, such as the lack of mention of the Thunder god and the army and the peaches. As Izanagi reached the entrance, Izanami was already there. According to one telling, Izanagi urinated at the large tree, so that the water swelled into a river, and before Yomotsu-hisame could cross it, Izanagi reached the entrance named the "Even Pass of Yomi".

## Appearance

A young girl in her late teens. The picture of a conservative woman who always stands behind her husband. A beauty that makes you think of a japanese doll.

The true form of Shikome-Hime is a mire of the ulgiest physical and spiritual compositions known to men, to the point where glancing upon it, can cause mortal anxiety and paralysis in the nervous system of men and lesser divinities.

Even Izanagi who was a powerful Kami, felt an increase in his initial panic after he saw Shikome-Hime in her true form chasing him down. The only beings who can communicate with her in her true form are Izanami and Kotoamatsukami, as well as Yamikami.

To not disturb the other Shinigami, Shikome-Hime distorts reality so she can appear as a pretty highschooler in her late teens with dark purple hair, ominous red eyes and a nun outfit.

## Personality

She is noted to be a model Shinigami, being kind to fellow Shikome, never causing trouble, and frequently preforming her duties.

Despite her mild and passive personality, she is the type that cannot stop on her own accord after straying once. Due to lacking some type of sensation, she cannot truly experience things despite having knowledge and common sense. Compared to Izanami who lacks a sense of existence, Shikome is someone who is similar yet different. According to Takami-Musubi, she is "an existence unfit for society, who found pleasure in coming in contact with death". The reason she walks onto the bridge is in order to feel beating of the memorable summer rain.

Shikome-Hime always possessed a mental instability that made her lash out in violent spurs of rage. This was because her Outer God lineage tried to overlap her divine lineage, creating a conflict within her. She had omnicidal urges and could not be tamed by anyone, except Takami-Musubi who managed to defeat her.

Shikome-Hime was also convinced that destroying the Kotoamatsukami was her life goal, but Izanami showed her that she could co-exist with them without any conflicts by indirectly serving them through her. Shikome-Hime shows a begrudging loyalty towards Izanami, who also defeated her for control over Yomi. She does not respect any of the other Shinigami, but she is willing to tolerate their presence and at least work with them to achieve a shared goal.

In battle, Shikome-Hime does not share her colleagues' focus and is mostly disoriented, but that is due to her own power affecting her.

## History

Shikome-Hime was born from the unholy union of Shinigami and Shaurash-ho. She was an abomination with seldom rational thought that ravaged the Shinto universes. Kami-Musubi managed to manipulate her to directly attack Takamagahara with her and Amatsu-Mikaboshi. However, her assaults were impeded by Takami-Musubi who fought with her for a day, ultimately coming out victorious and leaving Shikome-Hime weakened.

Shikome-Hime failed to free herself from Soku when Yamikami were releasing the great demons sealed by Kotoamatsukami. However, she awoke when Izanami fell in Yomi and was promoted to Shinigami's former rank. Angry that her father was going to be replaced by 'some harlot', Shikome-Hime challenged Izanami for authority over Yomi. Izanami agreed and the two fought. Because Izanami was yet to become an experienced supreme-class Grim Reaper, she and Shikome fought on even grounds, but Izanami ended up as the victor. Shikome-Hime's wounds were so deep that she was weakened twice more. With her decrease in power, Shikome-Hime had barely any other choices than to swear her loyalty to Izanami.

She serves as her Vice-Captain and commands the affairs inside Yomi while Izanami is away.

## Powers and Abilities

**Great Divine Power**: Shikome-Hime once had Primordial-level Divine Power that could scare away several lesser Archangels and her passing through the sky would leave a foul miasma that overshadowed the constellations. However, she was severely weakened after losing to Takami-Musubi and Izanami. Takami-Musubi speculated that the reason she lost so much power is because she was never used to having it, so when her form became unstable, her power leaked out like blood from a wound and was lost to her forever. However, Shikome-Hime currently has great control over her Divine Power, allowing her to fight beings with Immense Divine Power. She is also slowly regaining some of her old strength back.

**Immense Strength**: Shikome-Hime is one of the most powerful of the Shinigami and often the most unpredictable. Even weakened, her strength inside Yomi was great enough to fill Izanagi with anxiety and attempt to distract her by growing berries out of the ground, which she stopped to eat. In her prime, she could hold her own against the likes of Takami-Musubi and Izanami for pretty long, even though she was beaten. Takami-Musubi called her one of her greatest opponents since the end of the Creation Wars, a testament to her prime power. She was shown to be capable of keeping up with Philip Morax, an Ultimate-Class Devil with Satan-Class strength, while sleepy and she toyed with him before killing him.

**Immense Durability**: Shikome-Hime could take on attacks from Takami-Musubi and Izanami in her prime and keep fighting. Even in her weaker state, attacks from a being with Satan-Class strength and God-Class Magic could not inflict signifcant injuries. She was also shown capable of taking heavy punishment from the Six Wardens of Diyu. When she and her Yomotsu-Shikome were blasted by Maitreya who betrayed the Shinto Forces, Shikome-Hime was revealed to her survived the attack even though it appeared as a blast that could blow away entire galaxies.

**Immense Speed**: Shikome-Hime could keep up with Takami-Musubi and Izanami in her Prime. Even now, she is able to match Satan-Class beings with ease while being sleepy. She could also react to and evade the attacks of the Six Wardens of Diyu while fighting six of them at once.

**Youjutsu Expert**: Shikome-Hime could control and manipulate Youjutsu, the ability to unique to yokai that allows her to cast powerful spells of spiritual energy. Her Youjutsu manifests as tiny ghost girls with hollow black eyes and black grins.

**Master Magician**: Shikome-Hime was shown to have great magical skills and has claimed that her skills put the magic of Ultimate-Class Devils and half of the magic goddesses in existence to shame. She was especially used to using magic thanks to having an abundance of it from her mother's side of the family. Izanami said that her and Shikome clashing in Yomi nearly broke the realm apart because Shikome's magic could match up to Izanami's immense strength.

* **Death Magic**: Shikome-Hime can utilize powerful spells which can cause any living thing to die, either instantly or eventually**.**
* **Anti-Magic**: Shikome-Hime can utilize power that nullifies others' magic, disabling their magical prowess. She can even rebound/counter enemy Anti-Magic.
* **Sacrificial Magic**: Shikome-Hime is able to utilize a form of magic associated with sacrifices. By making offerings, she can obtain mystical abilities like manipulating supernatural energies and/or spell casting.
* **Magical Energy Absorption**: Shikome-Hime can absorb magical energy into her body and use it to fuel either her own magic or some other enhancement. This can render her functionally immune to magic if she's capable of absorbing incoming magical effects, otherwise she may only be capable of preventing other magic users and objects from producing magical effects by robbing them of their power source.
* **Illusion**: Shikome-Hime's true expertise lies in her illusions and illusion-type powers that can put even a Primordial Deity in a state of confusion. She made Izanagi perceive her as she was in her prime, further increasing his desire to flee Yomi. She put Six Wardens of Diyu under a supreme-level Genjutsu that made them believe they were tormenting her, when in reality it was an afterimage of her own power which she concentrated into one space to resemble her.

**Reality Warping**: As an Old One, hybrid, Shikome-Hime's true form could bend reality in her area. In some human video blogs, where Shikome-Hime was caught unleashing her true form for just two seconds, crazy things began to happen. Merely gazing at her true appearance makes mortals and lesser gods freeze with fear, horror and disgust. Okito Souji noted that when Shikome-Hime released her true self in the Warden Universe of Diyu, that entire world was fell into murky darkness and a sea of black, greasy hair.

**Summoning**: Shikome-Hime could summon her Yomotsu-Shikome servants, lesser creations of Shinigami. She always has eight of them accompanying her in spectral form and uses them for extended field of range and awareness. In battle, especially if she is in Yomi, Shikome-Hime could summon from twenty to hundred to even a thousand Yomotsu-Shikome, with each one possessing High-Class strength.

**Expert Scythe Wielder**: Shikome-Hime could boast great skill in her scythe ability, able to cut off the limbs of Philip Morax in just three smooth swings.

**Master Knife Wielder**: Though she didn't have an assassin's intuition, Shikome-Hime possessed great skills in wielding a knife, as it was her favorite weapon to cut apart her victims in many brutal ways.

**Immense Senses**: Some lights can only be seen by eyes that lost their lights. Strictly speaking, this is the psychic ability Clairvoyance. It’s not the same thing as the Clairvoyance Amatsukami use (Senrigan). Depending on how she uses it, she can have a bird-eye’s view of the scenery, making it distinguishedly compatible with Mystic Eyes of Distortion.

**Eight Ugly Women of Hell**: Shikome-Hime summons 'an ocean of ugly old hags' that form a spiral around herself. The old hags sing a horrible song of pain and suffering while increasing the velocity at which they spin. Eventually, their forms break down and their collective essence makes it look like Shikome-Hime has a pair of large demonic wings. Shikome-Hime absorbs all of it into her eyes and activates **Mystic Eyes of Distortion** at the same time. Any universe or pocket reality/dimension she is present in, completely breaks down like a broken mirror glass and is in a state that Shikome-Hime describes as 'being forever lost from the warm embrace of Amenominakanushi'.

## Equipment

**Grim Reaper Scythe**: Shikome-Hime has used the standard Grim Reaper scythe in battle.

**Knife**: While hunting mortals, Shikome often uses a large kitchen knife to mutilate her targets.

**Ropes**: Sometimes, she hangs her victims to make it look like a case of suicide.

**Death Note**: As a high-ranked Shinigami, Shikome-Hime also has a Death Note in her possession. It allows her to write down the name of anyone she choses and kill them on the spot. However, she cannot alter the fate of someone else via the Death Note, or the Death Note will claim her existence instead.

**Death Traps**: Shikome-Hime could set up deathly traps using her reality distortion abilities to subtly push her enemies right where she wants them to be.

**Mystic Eyes of Distortion** is amongst the Mystic Eyes of the highest grade. A superpower among superpowers, a rare item among rare items. Regardless of being organic or inorganic, it perceives and twists "anything that exists as physical matter" as if a single printed image - spinning and severing it regardless of hardness・scale.

## Quotes

* *"One, two, three... Shouldn't you have brought a few more?"* - Shikome-Hime to Okita Souji.
* *"I'm stronger than you!"* - Shikome-Hime to Izanami in past.
* *"Plese, hold still. Quit squirming."* - Shikome-Hime to a young man.
* *"What a violent bunch... I don't like you."* - Shikome-Hime to Ayakashi.
* *"You have called me forth as a Shinigami. Just like Okita Souji, I am a disposable force that is allowed to exist only while the world has ended...correct? Ahem. Let me say this so that there is no misunderstanding. I don't hate being as I am now. That's why you should hold your head up high as well.*" *-* Shikome-Hime to Camellia Haruka.
* *"You want to know how the Mystic Eyes of Distortion work? These eyes of mine capture and comprehend things as flat objects. And when I concentrate and look at them directly, the objects appear to look like they are drawn on pieces of paper. After that, I just pick up that piece of paper and twist it. That's why...I'm a bit troubled. Well you see, lately...you look like a person painted on a canvas..."* - Shikome-Hime explaining Mystic Eyes of Distortion to Philip Morax.
* *"A girl born with an abnormal ability... Our powers are quite different, but I feel like she isn't completely a stranger to me. Besides, her outfit is cool, and don't you think we're similar, given that she can twist dimensions by turning a key? Maybe I can open up a channel myself..."* - Shikome-Hime about Ota Mayuko.
* *"What I like... Well if I had to pick, it would probably be horror movies. They teach me quite a lot of human emotions. And it's so exciting seeing the screen turn red, don't you think?"* - Shikome-Hime on what she enjoys.
* *"Happy birthday. But I must apologize...Since I don't go out much, I only have some rice crackers lying around...Oh, how about a massage? It grabs and twists you from within, leaving you feeling unbelievably refreshed."* - Shikome-Hime to Shishioka Yukine.

## Gallery

*Shikome-Hime**Chibi Shikome**Shikome-Hime in school uniform**Shikome-hime in Soku**Shikome on Earth**Shikome-Hime and Izanami**Shikome-Hime uses Mystic Eyes of Distortion**Shikome-Hime's reality-distorting powers**Shikome-Hime after killing Philip Morax**Maitreya injures Shikome-Hime**Shikome-Hime as Princess of Yomi**Shikome-Hime in Takamagahara**Shikome-Hime gets weakened by Izanami**Shikome-Hime's eyes begin to bleed**Shikome-Hime is the Princess**Shikome-Hime and Izanami are about to fight**Shikome-Hime is defeated by Izanami**Shikome-Hime Cover**Shikome-Hime and Izanami fight side by side**Shikome-Hime inspects the corpses of her enemies**Shikome-Hime activates Mystic Eyes of Distortion**Battle of Mystic Eyes**Shikome-Hime breaks reality**Shikome-Hime's True Power*

## Trivia

* Her appearance is based on Fujino Asagami from *Kara no Kyoukai*.
* Her height is [157cm] and weight [48kg].
* Her birthday is on May 20.
* Shikome-Hime's Old One lineage manifests in her true form as an oozing and deforming hairy blackness that disfigures and corrodes her own appearance.
* Shikome-Hime is the first hybrid child of a Primordial God and a Great Old One in the history.
* Shikome-Hime is ironically a religious person and attends churches. However, she prays to Jesus Christ for salvation instead of Izanagi.
	+ In relation to how she describes Jesus Christ, one could assume that to her, Jesus Christ is on the same level, if not more important, than God Himself.

* Shikome-Hime was spotted by several Archangel scouts in the past who thought she might be a rampaging Great Old One let loose.