Veronica Ushijima

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Veronica Ushijima** (Japanese: **牛島 ベロニカ** *Ushijima Beronika*) is the only child and son of Kenji Bokuto and Meliodas Ushijima. As of November 2016, he has graduated from High School and become a University Student.

## Appearance

   Veronica is a teenage boy of average height and build. He has a fairly long, yet rounded face, and sizable, expressive, teal-green eyes. His eyebrows are sparse and often furrowed, making him seem troubled or annoyed. Veronica's hair is short and dark brown, with his bangs falling naturally into a middle-parted, curtain-type style. His complexion also seems somewhat tan. One year later, he grew his hair longer.

He is first seen wearing regular townsfolk attire, which consisted of brown trousers, a green shirt with string tassels at the collar, a maroon coat, and simple brown shoes. A few years before the death of his mother, he also wore a red scarf, which he gave to Alice Futakuchi the day they met. His casual attire consists of a long, beige shirt (identical to that which he wore on his first appearance) that is worn with a maroon sash about his waist, brown trousers, and brown shoes. He always keeps the key that was given to him by his mother around his neck on a string.

## Personality

He has a unnervingly stoic and calm demeanor developed from the birth of his mother, and which doesn`t allow him to show any signs of weaknesses. He is never shown being distressed or even angry, though he does admit to the aforementioned feeling surging within his body. In some ways, he acts more like a robot than an actual human and is bullied for it. Due to this, he has adopted a more blunt approach when speaking to people, having picked up his first cousin, Wakatoshi Ushijima`s style of speech. Additionally, he appears to have become less proud overall, thanking his friends for aiding him, something that he used to despise doing. He does not ever sugar-coat his words and rarely if ever gives compliments to people, usually asking Alice to escort them away. In his early years, he was a much kinder and gentler person, being very passionate about joining the Miyagi Prefecture`s Police Force like his parents had previously. The death of his mother drastically changed as, and he grew to despise everything including the murderers who murdered his mother and his father for failing to save her. As noted by Alice, "Ver was once a kind person, but he has fallen in despair". Veronica when asked about his mother describes her as a stern but loving mother who deeply loved him and his father.

## Background

He was raised in a kind and loving household, but resented his treatment by other people due to being first cousins with famed volleyball players, namely Wakatoshi Ushijima. Over the years, he grew passionate about his parents` jobs as police officers and often asked them if he could become a police officer. His parents often told him fabricated stories of about what a police officer does in their daily work-load, making him delusional as to the life of a police officer, as they were afraid to tell him the truth. One night when eating dinner at home with his parents, their target came into their house and stabbed his mother in a vital spot, seeing his father coming the target escaped without looking back at their family. That event was the catalyst for why Veronica has a unnervingly stoic and calm demeanor.