Shibara Kōsoku

**Shibara Kōsoku**, (*縛ら拘束, Kōsoku Shibara*) is a pro hero hailing from the infamous Kōsoku Clan residing in Kyoto, Japan. She became a pro hero after graduating from Shiketsu High School, working under the alias of **Spiderlily**.

## Appearance

A young woman of particularly short stature, Shibara Kōsoku's height falls just under 5 feet tall, measuring up to precisely 4'10"; a petite girl of slender proportions, she weighs only 84 lbs. She has a feminine body shape with proportional width dimensions in correspondence to her height. She has thin arms and legs, and a slim waist with a tight stomach. Her breasts are slightly above average in size and are considered notably above average in proportion to her height, but not necessarily large. She has small hands and feet, and a small—but defined—posterior.

With a pale complexion, Shibara's milky-white skin is soft and delicate. She has fine features and a pretty face. As a result of her quirk, she has two physical alterations: Black, eyeliner-like markings around her eyes, and burgundy-red colored lips. Her crimson-red eyes almost seem to glow in the dark and her jet-black, chest-length hair is usually worn in a pair of loose pigtails; her bangs frame the sides of her face and she has a middle-parting which exposes a bit of her forehead.

Shibara's hero costume reflects that of her clan's legacy: A member of the prestigious and infamous Kōsoku Clan, she traces her family origins back to the shinobi of the Sengoku Period. Appropriately, Shibara's hero costume is a short, burgundy-colored kimono, complete with a black obi tied around her waist. The kimono has long, hanging sleeves. Underneath her kimono she wears a black hadajuban, which provides extra protection and added support. Underneath her hadajuban, she wears a fishnet bodysuit which extends past her kimono skirt and appears to look like a short pair of fishnet leggings. Wrapped around her left leg are a few white and grey bandages which hold a small tool pouch to the side of her thigh. On her feet, Shibara wears a pair of black shinobi sandals which expose her toes and heels; her sandals have 1**½** inch block heels which boost her height to 4'11½". Fastened to her obi behind her waist is another small tool pouch. Tucked comfortably into her kimono's left breast pocket and held in place by her obi, she conceals a tanto. Underneath her kunoichi attire, Shibara wears a hishi karada made from her very own spider silk thread.

During her years at Shiketsu High School, Shibara wore her school's prestigious uniform, sporting their white-collared shirt, dark skirt, and hat. She also wore the Shiketsu uniform jacket during cooler seasons. However, she never wore her hat when in her hero costume. She wore black socks as opposed to white. She often wore her hishi karada under her school unform.

Shibara's "casual" apparel is usually quite fancy, given her wealthy, noble, and traditional background. She can usually be seen wearing a hanfu-styled outfit consisting of a white, red flower decorated top with long, hanging sleeves, and a crimson or black skirt that either reaches down to her knees, or slightly above her angles (during cooler seasons). Sometimes, the top is crimson-colored with white dragons and white trim. She often wears black, knee-high socks, or simply doesn't wear socks; some of her socks have toes and heel cutouts. She'll either wear black heeled sandals, black pumps, black wedge flats, black heeled boots, or varying styles of black, open-toed kunoichi sandals. On ocassion, she wear a black choker with a silver buckle, or red a flower; sometimes she'll wear a pair of black restraint cuffs around her wrists. She is usually wearing her hishi karada underneath her outfit; sometimes she opts to use her premium hemp rope instead of her spider silk. She sometimes decorates her hair with crimson ribbons.

## Personality

The daughter of the current Head of the Kōsoku Clan, Shibara grew up in conditions vastly different from her peers. From a young age, she was taught traditional manners and ettiquette. As a result, the way she speaks and conducts herself is seen as incredibly prim and proper. Those around her consider her language to be old-fashioned and strange-sounding, yet refined and beautiful. She naturally includes honorifics in her speech, wears quality clothing, and interacts delicately with the world; a simple action like sitting has its rules, and seiza is one of her most employed sitting positions.

Due to her upbringing, Shibara is incredibly disiplined and mature. She knows when to show restraint and when to act. During her years at Shiketsu High School, she was an avid student and consistently scored near the top of her class. She took her academics seriously and managed her time wisely; the same can be said for her hero-work. She's an adept strategist and a clever tactician, capable of producing an executing plans quickly: Creativity with her webs shines through when combined with her intellect. Shibara is notably patient, but doesnt like being ignored or having her patience tested. She has a strong sense of duty, justice, and honor. She doesn't like doing things out of their "natural order," and doing so makes her uneasy. She's also tremendously respectful and humble, although prideful of her Clan.

While known to be a humble and modest girl, when it comes to her Clan, Shibara takes pride in her noble lineage. She isn't afraid to brag about the history or tenacity of her Clan, although she remains mindful of other people's feelings; not everyone wants to hear a little rich girl spark off about how pretigious her family is. However, it's common for Shibara to bring up the values of her Clan, or to do things in the name of her Clan, or for her Clan's honor. She's extremely loyal to her Clan and often puts it before herself.

Despite her prestigious background, noble lineage, and high-born lifestyle, Shibara is a very sweet girl. She kind, caring, and considerate of others and their feelings. If she feels she's done something wrong, or made a mistake, she's quick to apologize for her actions and will seek to make ammends. She'll go out of her way to encourage others and support them. She can be both realistic and idealistic, depending on the situtation, but talking down to others usually comes with her trying to teach them a lesson, rather than to simply make them feel bad.

Although Shibara is usually quite confident in herself and her abilities, she has been shown to beome timid and shy on occassion, usually when stepping outside of her confort zone, or doing things she's not comfortable with. She gets flustered and embarresed by indecent or improper things, particularly things she considers to be "*lewd*". This is all in stark contrast to her usual composed and level-headed self. She becomes irritated if people tease her too much, especially in regards to her height.

A sexually open, yet reserved individual, Shibara isn't afraid of talking about her sexuality. Identifying as bisexual, she finds both men and women to be attractive. It took her several years to discover her attraction to women, but in time, she became able to understand and eventually express her true feelings. Her ideal type are feminine women like herself, and effeminate or masculine men. She doesn't like to admit it, but she has a small thing for cat boys. A closely guarded secret of her's, she likes to read yuri and yaoi mangaka.

One of Shibara's weaknesses, she's quite the masochist. She doesn't want to admit her "shameful behavior," but her feelings often betray her. She takes pleasure in small amounts of physical pain, being reprimanded, degraded, or embaressed, and being submissive to others. She reguarly practices shibari and likes being tied up. Although she is very reserved, she is a very sexual person, she just needs to become comfortable enough to open up to others.

With regards to Shibara's hobbies and passions, she likes to practice caligraphy and watercoloring. She finds japanese and chinese history, art, architecture, and music all to be facinating. She sings soprano and can play the shamisen, as well as the guqin. When she's not training her quirk, she trains her kunoichi skills, such as her martial arts, weapons skills, stealth, and rope escape techniques. She makes it a point to mediatate at least once a day. Shibari (more specifically, kinbaku) is one of her favorite pastimes and she uses it for both mediation and sexual stimuli. It's important for her to practice her tying skills, as the effectiveness of her quirk relies on the same skillset. She frequently engages in self-tying excerices and similar play.

## History

Born into the wealthy and powerful Kōsoku Clan, Shibara was raised by her mother and father to be the next clan head. From a young age, she was instructed on ettiquette, given private lessons in various art forms, and taught skills most other young girls never learned. Despite her age, she was instructed in her her clan's shinobi arts, learning taijutsu and bukijutsu in addition to other techniques. At the age of 3, Shibara's quirk manifested. A common quirk from her clan and one that her mother shared, Spiderbind allowed her to create and manipulate spider silk threads. The techniques held highest by her clan, the binding techniques, were only taught to her after she unlocked her quirk. She continued to practice and perfect these techniques all throughout her youth.

Academically, Shibara was enrolled in pretigious private schools where she excelled. Shortly after graduating middle school she was accepted into both UA and Shiketsu High School. After discussing her future path with her parents, the decision was made that she would attend Shiketsu, especially due to how close it was to home. During her time at Shiketsu, Shibara honed her skills as both a kunoichi and quirk user, finding more advanced ways to integrate the two into one distict style.

When the time came for Shibara to seek an internship, she wanted to intern under Eraser Head, but wasn't considered. Instead, she opted to train with Best Jeanist, the user of the Quirk: Fiber Master. Under Jeanist's tuleage, Shibara learned to better use her silk thread and dicovered new ways to use it to interact with the environment. She became much better at setting traps and binding opponents. Jeanist's charisma, selflessness, and noble character left a strong impression on Shibara.

After recieving her provisional license, Shibara's second internship was with her mother, the former villain: Arachne. While under her mother's guidance, Shibara saw a very different approach to hero work in comparion to her time interning for best jeanist. Unlike Jeanist, her mother was far more darwinistic and utilitarian. However, such apathy also tended to yield more effective results. Additionally, Shibara learned all about the mentality of villains, their different goals, their tactics, and their varying levels of morality. Her mother also instructed her in the most advanced spider silk thread binding techniques. By the end of her internship, Shibara was skilled enough with her quirk that she became able to manipulate people like puppets.

After graduating from Shiketsu High School and becoming a hero, Shibara became an official pro hero and reformed her Clan's old villain headquarters, turning it into a hero agency. As a pro hero, Shibara usually works alone, given the nature of her work, however, she is sometimes assisted by members of her clan. She specializes in stealth and espionage missions, being a master of infiltrating, spying, and getting out unseen. She's a brilliant fighter, able to perfectly integrate her quirk and kunoichi skills in order to create a devestating combat style. The strength of her webs also make her ideal for rescue and natural disaster missions, as she can prevent entire buildings from collapsing, and pull people out of harms way. However, she is weak in scenarios involving fire, as her webs are suceptible to flame.

In the present day, Shibara is a young and blossoming hero with amazing potential! She upholds the honor and integrity of her Clan, and helps those in desperate need. She's amassed quite the following and has is becoming increasingly popular, being occassionally invited onto talk shows and celebrity gathering. She's also particpated in charity events and modelling opportunities, sometimes appearing in popular magazines. Despite her rising popularity, she isn't the most outgoing hero and doesn't care for attention; she just does what she she enjoys.

## Abilities

Shibara is a hero who's capable of producing webs and spider silk thread. In addition to this quirk, she is also a gifted kunoichi and possesses a versatile set of skills ranging from martial arts, to stealth and espionage.

### Natural Strengths

* **Intelligence**: Shibara is notably perceptive, knowledgeable, and quick-witted. During her time as a student, she consistently ranked near the top of her class.
* **Agility**: Shibara is exceptionally nimble and light on her feet. She is more of a speed type than a strength type.
* **Dexterity**: Shibara is capable of avoiding most attacks and physically reacting quickly to different scenarios. She is also incredibly flexible. Her smaller hitbox also increases her elusivity.
* **Stealth**: A trained kunoichi, Shibara is capable of moving quietly and remaining unseen.
* **Martial Arts**: Skilled in the art of hand-to-hand combat, Shibara is proficient in a variety of fighting styles (mostly Japanese), most notably: Ninjutsu, Karate, & Chángquán kung fu, however she also has studied Aikido, and some Judo. She is also capable of performing advanced acrobatics and gymnastics.
* **Bukijutsu**: Shibara is expertly skilled in Tantōjutsu, and adeptly skilled in Kenjutsu and Bōjutsu. She's also capable of using a Jōhyō in the form of an improvised meteor hammer.
* **Escape Artist**: Shibara has thoroughly practiced the art of bring able to escape from various types of bindings, particularly rope. She's also demonstrated the ability to escape from various grappling holds.

### Natural Weaknesses

* **Strength**: Shibara isn't physically strong. She is more of a speed type than a strength type.
* **Constitution**: As a result of her smaller dimensions, lesser strength, and lighter weight, Shibara is far more delicate and fragile compared to other heroes; she cannot take nearly as many hits.
* **Stamina**: While she is capable of fighting for extended durations of time, Shibara will likely tire out much faster than her opponents.
* **Charisma**: While Shibara's "old-fashioned" behavior makes her quite admirable, she isn't seen as a leader-type personality. Her hero work is also more subtle and covert when compared to more out-in-the-open type heroes, given her tendencies as a kunoichi; this puts her out of the spotlight. However, she is still a popular and well-known hero, she just isn't one that inspires hope in the same way others do.
* **Masochism**: Unlike many of her peers, Shibara has the tendency to derive pleasure from her own pain or humiliation. She is susceptible to her concupiscent emotions and they oftentimes get the better of her.

### Quirk

Spiderbind (蜘蛛縛り, Kumo Shibari) is the name of Shibara's Quirk. It allows her to create and shoot spider silk threads from her body. Specifically, she can produce her threads from the skin of certain parts of her body, limited to the areas of her ankles to her toes, her elbows and knees, as well as her wrists to her fingertips. She can also produce threads from her mouth.

Shibara is able to create both sticky and non-sticky silk; with training, she has managed to increase the already-potent stickiness of her webs. Her webs at base strength are considered five times stronger than steel; with training this multiplier has been increased slightly. Due to the non-rigid composition of her webs (the ability to bend, twist, flex, etc), her webs are highly resistant to blunt force damage. Breaking or cutting a certain string of the web, does not dissolve the whole web; the damage is contained to only that particular strand, and the rest of the web maintains it's shape.

Although Shibara is capable of producing her own spider silk threads, she is just as vulnerable to the stickiness of her own webs as anybody else is. The only exception to this are her hands and feet, which have an oily coating that protects against adhesion; the webs will still be somewhat adhesive (for grip). She also has a limited reserve of spider silk that she can use before running out for a short time. With training, she has managed to increase her maximum capacity and shooting speed.

Overusing her quirk causes Shibara's arms and legs (but not mouth) to become increasingly numb. If this progresses far enough, she will become unable to stand, walk, or use her arms effectively for a short period of time. Forcing herself to contiue producing webs beyond this point can result in her becoming unable to feel her limbs entirely for up to an entire day.

Shibara mostly uses her quirk for capturing and binding her opponents in combat, as well as rescue. Her webs can bind the strongest villains and can even stop entire buildings from collapsing.

### Super Moves

* **Spiderweb Binding**: Using her silk, Shibara can directly bind and capture her opponents.
* **Itsy-Bitsy**: By releasing a small amount of thin, nearly invisible, and sticky spider silk threads from her feet (or hands), Shibara can climb and run up walls.
* **Swinging Spider**: Using her spider silk, Shibara can latch onto nearby walls, surfaces, or other objects, and swing over to them, enabling her to traverse terrain quickly, gain higher ground, and to essentially "fly".
* **Widow's Nest**: By creating a series of webs stacked between her and her opponent, Shibara can create a difficult-to-pass terrain that can stall, hinder, or potentially entangle her opponents. It serves as a good defense for protecting herself and others, as well as a useful technique for slowing down pursuers.
* **Human Ballista**: By attaching her webs to the surrounding area, Shibara can slingshot herself forward. This allows her to propel herself in a straight and linear direction at a surprising and explosive speed.
* **Marionette**: From her fingertips, Shibara creates sticky threads which she latches onto people, creatures, and objects. Doing so allows her to manipulate them as one would a puppet, enabling her to control their movements with her fingertips. Not only is it useful for taking control of the bodies of those in harms way, but it's also useful for assuming control of an opponent's body. She can use other people's bodies as human shields, or even go on the offense with them.
* **Tripwire**: Shibara can set a trap with her webs where, upon a single thread being moved, cut, or otherwise disturbed, a chain reaction of threads will spring into action, binding and capturing the victim of the trap.
* **Web Flower**: Shooting spider web nets from her mouth (sometimes in rapid succession), Shibara is capable of quickly ensnaring opponents, or connecting two disjoint items. The size of the technique depends on how much web Shibara is willing to use.
* **Meteor Hammer**: By attaching a string of spider silk to a nearby rock, Shibara can essentially use an improvised meteor hammer in combat. The hammer can cause devastating blunt force trauma, as well as entangle, bind, or disarm opponents.
* **Bolas Binding**: By attaching two rolled up balls of web with a silk thread, Shibara can create a sticky bolas. She can throw it at opponents in order to bind them and restrict their movements. The sticky nature of her bolas makes them incredibly difficult to remove.

### Stats

Shibara's stats, according to the Ultra Analysis Book
## Equipment and Weapons

**Kunoichi Kimono**: A kimono constructed from Shibara's spider silk, it is just as flexible as ordinary fabric, but incomparably stronger, having a base tensile strength five times greater than steel. Light and breezy with good breathability, and natural tear-resistance, it's also somewhat bullet resistant and effectively knife-proof.

**Hadajuban**: A black hadajuban worn underneath Shibara's kimono, it serves as an additional layer of protection. Like her kimono, it's similarly crafted from her spider silk and is incredibly durable and resilient. During warmer seasons, or less dangerous missions, Shibara forgoes this item.

**Fishnet Bodysuit**: Underneath her hadajuban, Shibara wears a fishnet bodysuit which is made from a thick weave of her own spider silk. Thus, it's incredibly strong, yet flexible and comfortable; in some ways, it resembles the effectiveness of wearing chain-mail without any of the drawbacks. Since she doesn't wear ordinary lingerie, this bodysuit helps provide bust support in place of a bra. This sleeveless body suit reaches down to her mid-upper thighs, and extends to her upper body where it loops around her neck in a halter-like fashion.

**Ninja Tools**: Inside the ninja tool pouch tied to her left leg, Shibara carries a few smoke bombs and shuriken. The smoke bombs are used for concealing her position, and the shuriken are used mostly for distraction and non-lethal attacks. Inside the ninja tool pouch fastened to her obi, Shibara carries three kunai, a first aid kit, and caltrops. The kunai have rings at the end of them which can be used in conjunction with her silk thread to make traps. The first aid kit can be used to administer emergency, on-site care. The caltrops are used for area denial. These tool pouches have magnets for easy opening and closing.

**Vibro-Kaiken**: The tanto that Shibara uses, or more specifically, a kaiken, is a traditional-looking Japanese dagger without any ornamental fittings. It has no hand-guard, and no wrap for a grip. However, it is far from a simple knife: Shibara's kaiken blade is capable of vibrating at an incredibly high frequency, increasing it's cutting ability. She uses this knife to cut her own webs and spider silk threads if she needs to, since she can't cut them herself once they leave her body.

**Kunoichi Sandals**: Shibara has a wide variety of sandals to choose from, however she's most commonly-seen with a pair of shinobi sandals that are constructed with the toes and heel areas exposed, allowing her to emit tiny silk threads from her feet and wrap them around the sandals; this enables Shibara to effectively walk and run up walls through use of her quirk. Additionally, they are specifically designed to increase traction when moving, in order to maximize the control of mobility Shibara experiences. This is especially helpful when landing from high places. Her sandals are also light and quiet, especially when compared to other heroes' shoes. This allows Shibara to move with her speed uninhibited, move quietly, and to utilize her skills in martial arts to the fullest extent. Furthermore, they are quick-to-dry, don't squeak, and aren't negatively affected by water.

## Trivia

* The name "Shibara" means "tied up" in Japanese.
* The surname "Kōsoku" means "restraint" in Japanese.
* Despite her high level of formality when speaking, Shibara prefers to be addressed by her first name.
* Aside from Japanese, Shibara is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and adept in Korean.
* Shibara's kunoichi theme was heavily inspired by the series: Naruto.
* Shibara's running style during serious situations appears to look like the "Naruto Run," which is a reference to the Naruto series.
* Shibara's personality type is the assertive advocate: INFJ-A (This was determined via the author taking a personality test).
* Shibara's mother, Villain Name: Arachne, served prison time before Shibara was born. She's since given up her old villainous ways, focusing her attention to her Clan and daughter.