Shiraishi Koto

Made by ZonalDoor

*"You do not know what you are dealing with, child."*

*"Oh, I know exactly what I'm dealing with.*

*I'm dealing with another puppeteer.*

*I know your tricks.*

*You may have gotten Sakura and Yukika at one point, but I'm not an easy target!"*

*– Koto's encounter with Decay*

**Shiraishi Koto** is an Out!Code created by Krimps (AKA TheTwichMan) which debuted in the beginning of VoidVerse.

## Backstory

Koto lost his mother at the age of 5, meeting Sakura a little bit before that, and father at the age of 12. After his father's death, he started living with older sister, who was 17 at the time, later on, they moved to Turkey under the fake identities of Kris and Amber in an attempt to live a better life. He then fell into the Underground shortly after in an attempt to save a kitten on top of Mt. Ebott.

## Profile

### Appearance

His silhouette is slender and tall as well as flexible and athletic, making him agile and easy to lose track of. His hair is long and straight, the color being a medium brown. His right eye is a bright green while his left eye is a bright orange. He also has a pair of orange tails with white tips at the end, similar to those of a red fox as well as orange fox ears at the top of his head, both of which he hides in public, sometimes even when in the Underground.

Koto tends to wear a red sweater with a black shirt underneath, paired up with a pair of black jeans that contain a couple of tears, and a pair of dark blue sneakers with white shoelaces and white base, replacing the red sweater for a brown, fur trimmed coat in winter, which he also tends to follow up with a red scarf that is roughly tied around his neck. He also has a brown cross-body bag in which he stores most of his possessions.

For his school uniform, he wears a buttoned dark red suit with a white collared shirt underneath with a navy blue tie paired with royal blue trousers and black flat shoes.

### Personality

Koto is an energetic and mischievous person, often playing pranks on others with his magic abilities, he's also stubborn, one might say too stubborn for his own good, sometimes even neglecting he's in the wrong. There's a soft and shy side to him as well, which is usually shown when being flirted with or complimented about something he tries to actively improve, revealed in a few of his interactions with Char, usually getting flustered whenever she attempts to flirt with him.

His view on laws and rules is mostly negative, not really caring if he breaks any as long as he doesn't hurt anyone he cares for.

Despite his rebelliousness and recklessness, he's kind and caring, trying to see good in everyone and protecting his friends even at the cost of his own health.

### Abilities

* **Illusion:** The user creates a fake image of a living being or object, even going as far as making them corporeal, which means he can make various weapons.
* **Invisibility:** The user makes light pass through themselves like glass, making them invisible to the eye.
* **Invert:** The user inverts the colors that the target sees.
* **Mirror:** The user makes the target's sight mirrored, swapping left with right.
* **Pyromancy:** He's able to create fire using his own body heat and mass as fuel.
* **Shapeshifting:** Due to being a kitsune, Koto is granted the ability to change into any animal or creature imaginable.
* **Sharpened Smell:** Koto's sensitive nose allows him to scent smells that are very vague or unnoticeable for a normal human.
* **Sharpened Hearing:** Koto's ears are sensitive to sound, making him be able to hear things at a much larger radius as well as a larger range of frequencies.
* **Pyrokinesis:** The user can control and shape fire in any way they like, even being able to turn it into a weapon if they wish.
* **Regeneration:** The user can speed up the bodily process of healing to near instantly while also giving the body everything needed to heal the injury. It does exhaust the target's body, though.
* **Barrier:** The user raises a barrier made from pure magic, the more force the barrier is faced up against, the more it drains the user's Soul.
* **Green Soul:** The user makes the target's Soul green, making them unable to flee, run or teleport and forces them to block incoming attacks.
* **Determination:** His Determination is strong, yet not strong enough to be able to save and load. What it does let him to do, though, is cheat death, his Soul igniting in his final moments to let him have another shot at life.

### Occupations

 Cashier
 Vice President (Temporarly) | Due to Sakura overworking herself and wearing inappropriate clothes for the cold weather, she became sick, Koto took the responsibility and took over her role in the Student Council for the time being.

## Inventory

### Weapons

* Steal Rapier (Lightfoil)
* Judge's Magnum (Sheriff's Verdict)
* Shinai (Tsuyosa)

### Accessories

* Red Scarf (Ragged Cloak)
* Heart-Shaped Locket
* Friendship Bracelet
* Sapphire Ring
* Black Hoop Earrings

### Other

* Lockpicking Tools
* Erroristic Guitar
* Electric Guitar
* Journal
* Yuriko's Diary
* Old cross-body bag
* Thermos (Usually containing Linden Tea)
* Pen
* School Keys
* Shard of Distortion

## Relationships

### VoidVerse

#### Lost!Dust

Lost and Koto knew each other for a long time, meeting when Koto just fell into the Underground.

They both enjoy a good laugh and tend to spar with each other, Lost always coming out on top, which resulted in Koto making a bet with him, stating he'll defeat Lost before he dies.

Lost is also the main person that keeps bailing Koto out of trouble which he's prone to getting into.

To this day, Koto remembers his bet, not knowing if Lost himself still remembers

#### Marc

Marc was the first person Koto ever met in the Underground, trusting each other with everything.

They both used to work together in Grillby's as co-workers, using the bar as their main hangout spot.

After Marc's death, Koto swore to avenge Marc, creating a makeshift grave for him.

#### Elias

Together with Chara, Koto serves as a protector for Elias, making sure Elias gets the childhood he himself never got to experience.

Koto is the main person to teach Elias about different topics, sometimes with difficulty, since Elias tends to be curious about difficult topics.

#### Pale

Pale and Koto used to be sworn enemies due to Pale believing Koto will let out Infinite out of his cell, but then they started to be on friendly terms, seeing each other as pals rather than enemies.

#### Char

Char and Koto met in Grillby's, where Koto asked to sit next to her, resulting in the two of them starting to talk with each other, they exchanged contacts and then started to hangout as friends.

Soon enough, they started dating, but broke up after a week, agreeing that they don't see each other that way, becoming friends instead.

Later on, Koto started calling her "Charcoal" in a teasing way.

#### SS!Chara

Grillby's seemingly being a great way to find a new friend, Koto met Chara there and instantly became friends.

After Koto found Elias, they both decided to take up the role of his guardians, which in turn made them grow affectionate towards each other, the feeling blooming into love.

It took a while for them to confess, but after that, they are happy with their relationship so far.

Koto really wants their relationship to surpass the march of time until they can get married.

#### Blue

Koto met Blue when in being a Deltarune timeline.

They were both acquaintances, after Koto returned to the Omega Timeline, he haven't seen Blue again.

He wishes to see him again, maybe have a spar with him.

#### Red

They met in the True Lab, after enough persuasion, Red agreed for a spar with Koto, warning him that she's rusty.

Seeing Red fighting ignited a fire of inspiration for Koto, making him see Red as a role model due to her motivation and care for others.

#### Phantom Papyrus

Papyrus was obsessed with shipping, and Koto being interested in love stories, they both teased Lost about his relationship with Red, that is before he was teased about his relationship with Chara by Papyrus and a couple of other friends, in the end, Koto and Chara did start dating (it's unknown if all that teasing and shipping was related to it).

Safe to say, he hopes to joke around with him again.

#### Care

The both of them are good friends, being more comfortable with insulting each other in a teasing way. But in the end, they'd protect each other nonetheless.

#### Zero

Koto dislikes Zero and his way of disregarding his ambitions to be a hero.

He knows Zero is right in a way, no matter how strong you are, SAVING everyone can be impossible, but Koto believes motivation is more important than strength, and actively tries to prove it to him.

Other than that, he thinks he's a good sparring partner.

### Springfield High

#### Kanato Sakura

Sakura and Koto knew each other since they were 4, always doing everything together.

When they were 11, Sakura had to move out to South Korea with her family due to her father finding a new job there, they'd still talk with each other through the internet, but that'd stop once Koto fell into the Underground.

After the events of VoidVerse's first season, Koto worked day and night, searching for a way to contact the AU he met Sakura in. Now they're both living together and attending the same class.

#### Sosuke Shizuki

Shizuki and Koto don't interact much, their relationship being mostly business related.

Shizuki helped Koto with clearing Yukika's criminal history, after which they started to become somewhat acquainted with each other.

#### Ryuna Yoka

Yoka's and Koto's energy are really similar to each other, meaning they both tend to spar with each other.

They used to both represent the school in kendo tournaments.

After Sakura's disappearance, Yoka was slightly suspicious of Koto, but still decided to stand by his side, claiming Sakura and Koto are too close for him to have hurt her.

### Other

#### Shiraishi Yukika

His older sister, and someone he learned a lot from, he subconsciously treated her like a mother, until he turned 9, then they started to have less of a protector-protectee relationship, and more of a brother-sister relationship.

He no longer lives with Yukika, but does visit her often and helps her with chores.

## After VoidVerse(Season 1)

After receiving the teleportation device from Lost, Koto used it to search for a way to return to the AU he started to treat like his home, where Sakura and Yukika were in, he succeeded, moving back to Tokyo with Yukika and finally reuniting with Sakura after what felt like a decade, despite only being a year or two.

They both enrolled into Springfield High, the school Yukika used to attend and led a normal life.

Koto found his locket with Marc's and Lost's picture in it, and decided to visit VV again, being already 15 when doing so.

## Trivia

* Despite being only 16, Koto already learned how to shapeshift thanks to previously learning illusion magic, often using it to disguise himself meant he got a better understanding of anatomy.
* Koto uses shapeshifting to add himself a second tail despite only having one.
* Koto doesn't know what a lava lamp is.
* Koto has Thalassophobia, the fear of large bodies of water.
* Koto is left-handed.
* The way Koto transforms into his "Flaming Swordsman" phase is through being extremely passionate about something, in a similar fashion as Determination would work, making him cheat death, though, the longer he's in said form, the smaller his soul becomes due to it slowly burning away until it's nothing but ashes.
* His favourite music genre is Rock.
* Koto occasionally sketches some random ideas that come to his mind in his Journal.
* He used to have Arachnophobia, but doesn't anymore.
* The reason as for why his alibi is "Kris Water" is unknown.
* Koto's favourite dish is Psari Plari.
* The reason Koto's underweight is him often using pyromancy as well as his fast metabolism.