Shizuka Ōtsutsuki

## Name

大筒木シズカ *(Ōtsutsuki Shizuka)*

Grand Priestess (大尼僧, *Dainisō*)
Queen of Heaven (天后, *Tenkō*)

## Nature Type

 Earth Release
 Fire Release
 Lightning Release
 Water Release
 Wind Release
 Yang Release
 Yin Release

## Jutsu

* Destruction Truth
* Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven
* Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms
* Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack
* Four Truths Sage Mode
* Four Truths Technique
* Gathering Truth
* Gentle Fist
* Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion
* Musō
* Localised Reincarnation Explosion
* Path Truth
* Shadow Clone Technique
* Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion
* Suffering Truth
* Tenka
* Tenpenchii
* Tenseigan Chakra Mode
* Truth-Seeking Ball
* Yomotsu Hirasaka

**Shizuka Ōtsutsuki** (大筒木シズカ, *Ōtsutsuki Shizuka*) is a member of the Ōtsutsuki clan. Shizuka was originally paired with another member of her clan to cultivate God Trees as the lesser member of the duo and treated as their slave. However, Shizuka was liberated when the pair attempted to reclaim the Earth, as Ushishiki Ōtsutsuki killed her superior and offered her sanctuary in his domain if she stood down.

Now affiliated with Ushishiki, her powers have grown and she has taken on the role of the **Grand Priestess** (大尼僧, *Dainisō*) of the Moon, being fiercely loyal to Ushishiki as his highest ranked subordinate. The people of the moon also fear her as the **Queen of Heaven** (天后, *Tenkō*).

## Background

Shizuka was born into the Ōtsutsuki clan. Little is known about her youth, though Shizuka was said she was trained to become a warrior to allow for the power of her clan to continue to expand. Shizuka has indicated that she was shown no love as a child, and to be loved in the proper Ōtsutsuki clan is abnormal at best

When she came of age, she was paired with Mikashiki Ōtsutsuki to begin cultivating God Trees across the various habitable planets of the universe. Due to possessing only the Byakugan, she was considered inferior as Mikashiki wielded the Rinnegan as well. This placed her as his subordinate as they began their celestial voyage.

Shizuka suffered much abuse under the rule of Mikashiki, who forced her to be the trigger to turn various Ten-Tails in God Trees to cultivate chakra fruits. Shizuka was able to survive through the usage of Kāma seals placed on citizens. Due to Shizuka being more kindhearted than many of her clan, she generally targeted criminals on the planets to be able to constantly revive. This led to her being mocked by Mikashiki, as well as attacked for taking up time. This led to one of her horns being broken, a great disgrace amongst thee clan.

Eventually, Mikashiki sought to target the Earth and reclaim it from its defeat years prior to the beginning of this journey. As such, he dragged Shizuka with him to support him. When they arrived, they were interceded by Ushishiki Ōtsutsuki, who told them to stand down. Mikashiki refused and begin battling Ushishiki, commanding Shizuka to support him throughout the battle. Eventually, Mikashiki was slain by Ushishiki, who turned his attention to the female Ōtsutsuki. Shizuka showed a combination of emotions: joy from finally being freed from Mikashiki's abuses and fear for the fate that awaited her.

Despite her fears, Ushishiki extended an olive branch. So long as she didn't attempt to avenge her partner and lived soundly on the Moon, Ushishiki would provide her sanctuary. Hesitant at first, she used her Byakugan to look at Ushishiki's clan, surprised to see a happy, thriving settlement. Ultimately, she would agree to this proposition.

From there, she worked with Ushishiki closely to learn the nature of his clan and how to best live amongst the people. While the people of the Moon seemed to fear her, Ushishiki told her to pay them no mind and that she would be accepted eventually. Seeing the kindness of the man, Shizuka soon came to fall in love with him. Her loyalty also allowed her to be promoted to the role of the **Grand Priestess** (大尼僧, *Dainisō*), the first to not be born on the Moon to achieve it. With it, Ushishiki led her to the Energy Vessel and instructed her to make contact with it. In doing so, the energy poured into her body and made her far more powerful. It also granted her the Tenseigan, which she used to finally repair her broken horn.

## Abilities

### Ninjutsu

#### Yomotsu Hirasaka

Shizuka possesses the extremely rare and powerful Yomotsu Hirasaka, a kekkei mōra that serves as the ancestor for all modern space-time ninjutsu. Shizuka gained it after absorbing energy from the Energy Vessel. Shizuka can use Yomotsu Hirasaka to open rifts within the fabric of space and time to allow herself to instantaneously transport herself, be it parts of her or her entire being, anywhere by using the rifts. While her body may be in one location, she can use the portals to strike someone with her arm from a different direction. She can also use it for surprise attacks, such as lunging at someone with Gentle Fist, only to shove her arm through a portal last second to strike them in the back instead. Shizuka is able to open several portals at onne. This allows her to be less predictable, as she can move through this network with speed and ease. This also allows her to release large-scale attacks from various points. She can use this defensively, as a means of catch projectile attacks and releasing it elsewhere or back at the foe. She learned this more defensive style through training with Ushishiki Ōtsutsuki.

### Dōjutsu

#### Byakugan

Being born to the Ōtsutsuki clan, Shizuna possessed the power of the Byakugan from birth. While it typically looks like a plain off-white eye, the blood vessels around her eyes swell and the pupil becomes more distinguished when it is active. The powerful eyes grants Shizuka a nearly 360° field of vision, with only a single blind spot at the upper thoracic vertebrae. This makes hitting her in close-range combat quite difficult. Further, she can focus her vision into a single direction, allowing her telescopic vision for 35 kilometers. It also grants Shizuka x-ray vision to see through the vast majority of construct and the ability to see the chakra pathway system, including the tenketsu. Shizuka's Byakugan has been called incredibly pure by other members of the Ōtsutsuki clan.

Shizuka eventually learned the power of the Gentle Fist from Ushishiki's branch family of the Ōtsutsuki clan. This allows her to take full advantage of being able to see tenketsu, being abla to strike and block them to prevent the target from being able to mold chakra. This is seen most masterfully with the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms to strike multiple tenketsu in the her target's body in a flowing barrage of attacks. She is also able to use the Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven to release chakra from all of her tenketsu at once in a spiralling manner, acting as a powerful defense from incoming attacks and powerful offense for those caught within it.

Finally, Shizuka is able to use the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack. This allows her to form countless chakra arms in the air to attack from great distances. These arms can block tenketsu from a distance and combat giant beings such as the tailed beasts or Susanoo. Her precision makes this an incredibly versatile and deadly technique. She can also use them as gauntlets, increasing her physical strength greatly.

#### Tenseigan

Upon absorbing energy from the Energy Vessel, Shizuka's Byakugan evolved into the Tenseigan. Ushishiki Ōtsutsuki says this is because of the purity of Shizuka's eyes, saying the eye is remarkably rare amongst his branch of the Ōtsutsuki clan. When it is active, Shizuka can skill use all of the Byakugan's powers, though she has remarked her blindspot disappears when the Tenseigan is active. Further, Shizuka gained four remarkable abilities with the Four Truths Technique.

The first of the truths is the Suffering Truth. With it, she gains power of attractive and repulsive forces, similar to that of the Deva Path. With Musō, she can draw anything and everything in towards her, so long as they cannot resist through some means. The can draw everything in from all directions or focus the technique to bring in something from one direction. She can adjust the power of the technique to bring in something as small as a staff to as large as a building. Conversely, she can use Tenka for its repulsive power. Likewise, she can use it in an omnidirectional blast or in a singular direction. Shizuka has used it to demolish buildings into nothing when they fell out of usage or its inhabitants plotted against Ushishiki. Shizuka has called Tenka the greatest offensive power of the eye.

The second of the truths is the Gathering Truth. It is considered the strongest healing ability and usable only by a mastered Tenseigan. With it, Shizuka can repair any damage done to her body to bring it to its prime state. With it, Shizuka was able to repair her damaged horn back to its original state. In protecting the Earth from foreign threats, Shizuka has shown the ability to close major wounds and regrow entire limbs as well. The amount of chakra used depends on the size and nature of the wound. While it is a powerful healing ability, Shizuka has to actively will it to activate, as it is not a passive healing ability.

The third of the truths is the Destruction Truth. With it, Shizuka is able to absorb chakra in a manner akin to the Preta Path. Functionally, it works by coating Shizuka's hand or a part of her body in teal energy that consumes any chakra used against her and allows her to make usage of it. Shizuka has said it is inferior to the Preta Path. However, Shizuka can project the chakra absorbing energy outwards, allowing the Destruction Truth to be more flexible and versatile overall. She can also use the absorbed chakra to create a powerful explosion.

The final truth is the Path Truth, the pinnacle of the Tenseigan's many great powers. With it, she can absorb and harness natural energy endlessly, though she has to actively activate it first. With her mastered Tenseigan, she is able to access the Four Truths Sage Mode. The chakra of a mastered Tenseigan is remarkably similar to that of Six Paths chakra, allowing the Four Truths Sage Mode to be nearly identical to Six Paths Senjutsu. This transforms her cloak into one with blue lining and a flower-like symbol appears on her back, as well a circular symbol with black bars coming out of each side on her shoulders. She also gains a black pigmentation on her skin to form a line in her chin, a diamond mark on her forehead, and a ring-like markings on her middle fingers. This form allows Shizuka's strength, stamina, durability, speed, and reflexes to become greatly heightened as it gives all the benefits of Sage Mode. However, much like the inferior Tenseigan Chakra Mode, she also gains the Truth-Seeking Balls. Eight of them form behind her back in the form of a "halo" (頭光, *zukō*), while a ninth one forms as a bident with two rings on each prong for four rings total. She can can manipulate these orbs and bidden into a variety of shapes and forms, such as massive barriers to devastating swords. These spheres are immune to the the effects of all ninjutsu and can all be damaged consistently by other forms of senjutsu. These spheres are a combination of her natural energy with Earth Release, Fire Release, Lightning Release, Water Release, Wind Release, Yang Release, and Yin Release. Further, Shizuka can infuse the chakra of her Four Truths Sage Mode into the Truth-Seeking Balls. This allows her to create a great golden sword of pure natural energy that is capable of cleaving through great structures, with Ushishiki saying it could cut through the moon itself. She can also conjure a silver tornado of natural energy that is capable of tear structures asunder with the great power it possesses. While it is not a Tenseigan ability inherently, Shizuka can use her ability to manipulate natural energy with the Path Truth to use the technique of Tenpenchii. With this, she can manipulate the weather over a large area, bringing about all manners of weather conditions.

## Trivia

* Shizuka's name can translate to "quiet" or "calm" (静). Her name is derived from Shizuka Gozen, the most famous mistress of Minamoto no Yoshitsune. This keeps her in line with the Ōtsutsuki typically having names related to folklore and mythology. Further, her name was rendered in Katakana to match other members of her clan.
* Shizuka's moniker of **Queen of Heaven** (天后, *Tenkō*) is a reference to a role shared by many goddesses in antiquity. These are generally goddesses that have power over the sky, weather, or divine laws.
* Shizuka's favorite word is "faith" (信義, *shingi*), as she believes it is something people should hold in one another more as to help build the future into a better place and better than the past.