Shizukumi Ibaki

**Shizukumi Ibaki** (旋 (いば)季 (き) 姿 (し)津 (づ)汲 (くみ), *Ibaki Shizukumi*?) is a supporting character in the *Jujutsu Kaisen* series. She is a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer who works independently to exorcise Cursed Spirits. She is the older sister of Makizuchi Ibaki. Some time ago, she also served as the former mentor of Tokyo Jujutsu High students, Makizuchi Ibaki and Kotone Tsuzaki, as well as the former mentor of the Kyoto Jujutsu High student, Hikari Yoru. Prior to their respective enrollments.

## Appearance

Shizukumi is a tall, curvaceous young woman, with a fairly muscular build. She has fair skin and sharp, white eyes framed by thin, standing eyebrows. She has long, straight black hair, reaching down to her waist, she has multiple fringes of hair framing her forehead as bangs and two small patches over her shoulders.

As a Jujutsu Sorcerer, Shizukumi wears a dark black jujutsu uniform, consisting of a button-down jacket, with silver buttons that reach all the way to her stomach, and a pocket at the side of her chest. Additionally, there's a hollowed point that exposes some of her neck at the collar. She wears a matching-colored black skirt that goes down to her knees. She also sports black, waist-high tights and black shoes.

During the fight with Dagon Shizukumi suffered major injuries and had large chunks of her body bitten off by the Special Grade's shikigami, including her cheek, arms and legs and her body and clothes were severely bloodied.

Her casual wear consists of a cyan kimono with floral designs and a blue fabric around her waist.

## Personality

Initially, Shizukumi is outwardly kind and extroverted, she has a jovial nature and strong sense of justice. She actively greets others with a bright smile. She appears very playful and happy almost to no end she always wears an ecstatic smile.

Shizukumi shows an entirely different side against Cursed Spirits her sympathy towards them being second to none. Almost as if she despises them, she becomes disgusted whenever she sees a curse, only when they're killing or devouring a person, this is reinforced given how she spoke with contempt and hostility when she saw Dagon vomit the bones and corpses of multiple non-sorcerer victims. When it comes to low level curses, Shizukumi tends to get carried away when toying or provoking with them, she could have easily killed the curses on one of her missions, but instead of killing them right away, but got too carried away taunting them to where didn't notice a Grade 1 curse's attack. Given how she acts towards curses, Shizukumi is as merciless and cold-bloodedly ruthless towards them as the next person.

Shizukumi is also incredibly callous, despite working as a Jujutsu Sorcerer, which itself is a very dangerous job. She seems very straightforward about it. Shizukumi also tends to disregard certain qualities, despite being stated to become an exceptional Jujutsu Sorcerer by her father, Shizukumi states herself that she only became a sorcerer for the sake of it, rather than her own potential.

When faced against powerful adversaries, Shizukumi acts as an entirely different person, when sent on her first Special Grade Class case, Shizukumi encountered a Special Grade cursed spirit. When said curse began to overpower her and wound her in battle. Instead of showing signs of pain, she began laughing maniacally, despite bleeding profusely, almost to the point of being masochistic. She deemed the curse "worthy" of exorcising.

Shizukumi despises using tactics or methods that would otherwise, make things much less difficult for her, in spite of the fact that said methods not being considered cheap or dishonorable. When Shizukumi inherited a Special Grade Class Semi-Cursed Tool, she considered using said weapon as "taking the easy way out" and chose to not use unless absolutely necessary. Even after mastering a Domain Expansion of her technique Shizukumi only truly ever uses it under rare circumstances, even against Special Grade cases, Shizukumi would still hardly use her domain.

In battle, Shizukumi is also cold-blooded and tenacious, threatening to kill a wounded Dagon in his cursed womb state if he didn't answer Naobito's question, even reinforcing such after Dagon evolved into a Disaster Curse. She also blatantly provoked the curse on numerous occasions and was even insulted when he casted Domain Expansion and mocked her for something she criticized him for earlier and was even more determined to exorcise him after.

Shizukumi chooses to use her own strength above anything else, always wanting to go through an obstacle instead of around it, she is so insistent on this mindset that she can almost be considered stubborn about it. She ruthlessly slaughtered several curses during the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons despite it clearly being stated she didn't even need to arrive, as her intervention wouldn't have drastically changed the outcome anyways. During her first Special Grade mission, Shizukumi was badly injured by the curse but could've easily fled from the battle at any point but instead, persisted on fighting until the very end. However, said stubbornness can also work in her favor. Because of her refusal to withdraw from the battle, Shizukumi was able to cast Domain Expansion for the first time.

Despite her seemingly laid-back, childish, and playful behavior. Shizukumi is a level-headed and well-rounded individual who shows clear devotion in her job as a Sorcerer devotion so strong that she is very passionate to complete her missions, even to the point of impressing more experienced sorcerers like Mei Mei and Yuki with how determined she can be. Shizukumi also appears to very confidential in her abilities as a Demon Slayer, assuring that everyone is safe so long as she is around. Furthermore, Shizukumi also formerly mentored three different Sorcerers who are currently students at their respective Jujutsu High schools. Despite hardly acting the part, Shizukumi is capable of teaching others as well.

## Abilities & Powers

**Overall Skill:** Shizukumi is a grade 1 sorcerer, notorious and revered by many lower-ranked sorcerers. She has shown on several occasions that she is a very capable fighter. Shizukumi's strength was even commended by the likes of Satoru Gojo once and he believed her to be strong, a comment the strongest sorcerer himself doesn't hand to others often. Shizukumi's skill as a Sorcerer has also been acknowledged by the likes of other female sorcerers like, Mei Mei and even Yuki Tsukumo, the latter being one of the only known four Special Grade Sorcerers, further proving her prowess as a Sorcerer.

Furthermore, Shizukumi inherited the hereditary technique Time Manipulation at birth and has used it very efficiently since. However, Shizukumi doesn't like over-relying on her technique, so she trains herself to be able fight without it, making her an even more deadly opponent in close-quarters as well. Shizukumi became so proficient to the point where she can easily overpower Grade 2 curses with basic Cursed Energy Manipulation and hand to hand combat.

**Immense Strength:** Shizukumi is inhumanely strong despite her frame and build, she is deceptively muscular and has shown impressive feats of strength even without Cursed Energy. She destroys walls like nothing and can exorcise hordes of curses with just a single attack. Shizukumi managed to stagger Dagon, a special-grade disaster curse, with a single kick while he had evolved, exorcised multiple of his shikigami with just one blow of her sword, while under the effects of his Domain Expansion, meaning his cursed techniques would have amplified considerably and even swung her blade with enough force to cut him, despite his durability.

**Immense Speed and Reflexes:** Shizukumi possesses great amounts of speed as shown in the fight against Dagon, a Special Grade curse, she moved so fast at the beginning of the battle that Maki, a talented Sorcerer, and Nanami, an experienced Grade 1 Sorcerer, were unable to perceive, only being one step behind Naobito, the second fastest sorcerer after Satoru Gojo. When implementing her cursed technique into her fighting style, Shizukumi can move much faster. Shizukumi was able to move so fast that she could exorcise hordes of shikigami at once in quick succession. However, due to her technique's strict limitations, Shizukumi was unable to surpass the like of Naobito's Projection Sorcery technique but is still deemed as one of the fastest sorcerers when using her cursed technique.

**Immense Durability:** Shizukumi's durability greatly surpasses that of average sorcerers, having recovered from a direct attack from a Special Grade Cursed spirit and even withstood several attacks from an incessant swarm of shikigami.

**Immense Stamina:** In conjunction to her other physical abilities, Shizukumi possesses vast stamina and is capable of still fighting no matter how injured she is, when she was beaten up by the first Special Grade curse she's ever encountered, instead of showing signs of fear or discomfort, she simply laughed off the pain and outputted enough Cursed Energy to cast Domain Expansion for the first time. In the fight with Dagon, Shizukumi received significant injures, such as having several chunks of her body bitten off by shikigami and survived nearly drowning to death, despite this, Shizukumi continued to fight and even rebounded back to the battle after Megumi Fushiguro entered the domain with his own to help them.

**Master Armed Combatant:** Though she rarely shows it, Shizukumi is an exceptional weapon wielder. Shizukumi only possess one weapon, her Special Grade Semi-Cursed Tool, she hardly defaults to using it, because she herself believes that doing so would make her missions too easy. Shizukumi only chooses to use her weapon against Grade 1 curses or higher, or when it's a group of low-class curses like during the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons. According to Shizukumi herself, no curse can survive a single blow from her sword unless they're first-grade level. Which is why she applies such limitations in the first place.

**Master Hand-to-Hand-Combatant:** Shizukumi is a very skilled user of martial arts. Most curses are proven no match for Shizukumi's combative abilities. She has defeated countless curses just with nothing but raw combat alone. Such proficiency in combat, allows Shizukumi to overwhelm and even exorcise curses by just applying simple Cursed Energy Manipulation in conjunction with her combat. Shizukumi has also mastered using her technique, Lightspeed for half-second intervals, allowing her to combat speeds to exceed their normal limits and fight even better.

**Great Tactical Intellect:** As a Grade 1 Sorcerer, Shizukumi has loads of battle experience against all kinds of curses and is very effective when dealing with them. Despite how rather impulsive and straightforward Shizukumi appears when fighting them, Shizukumi is more than capable of deciphering and analyzing the abilities of more complex Cursed Spirits effectively.

Shizukumi was entrusted with the role of squad co-leader with Nanami during the Shibuya Incident and tasked with exorcising transfigured humans inside the veil and relocating with the assistant supervisors. During the fight with Dagon, Shizukumi remained mostly calm throughout the fight, even after the Special Grade evolved from its cursed womb form and became a full-fledged cursed spirit. Shizukumi also was the trainer of three different students, meaning she has enough expertise into jujutsu to be able to teach others the basics and fundamentals.

## Battles & Events

**Shibuya Incident Arc**

* Jujutsu Sorcerers vs. Dagon

## Trivia

* Shizukumi's surname name contains the kanji for "rotation, go around" (旋 (いば), *iba*?) and "seasons, seasonal, year" (季 (き), *ki*?), Her given name contains the kanji for "figure, form, shape" (姿 (し), *shi*?), "haven, port, harbor, ferry" (津 (づ), *zu*?) and "draw, ladle, scoop, pump" (汲 (くみ), *kumi*?).

## See Also

Shizukumi Ibaki in the Jujutsu Kaisen Ultimate Fanon Wiki

1. ↑ Jujutsu Sorcerers vs Dagon (Part 1)
2. ↑ Jujutsu Sorcerers vs. Dagon (Part 2)
3. ↑ Jujutsu Sorcerers vs. Dagon (Part 2)
4. ↑ Jujutsu Sorcerers vs. Dagon (Part 2)
5. ↑ Jujutsu Sorcerers VS Dagon, Part 1
6. ↑ Jujutsu Sorcerers VS Dagon, Part 2