Shiyue

* Seasons 1-4
* Timeskip
* Be Forever Yorozuya
* Genderbent

**Shiyue** (诗玥, *Shīyuè*?) is one of the main protagonists of the Gintama series and a member of the Yorozuya. She is an overseer of all Altana flowing throughout the universe and a former amnesiac. She is the crown princess of the Japanese empire.

## Appearance

Shiyue, as a parody of a cliche shoujo manga female lead, is stated to be a gorgeous girl - so stunning, in fact, that she radiates a golden aura and has a terribly bright face, a running gag in the series. She has green eyes and rather long, slightly wavy silver hair. Her hair is akin to that of a pearl, having the same luster and shine, but is alike an altana crystal in which her hair glows-in-the-dark and is iridescent. When reacting to altana, her hair turns a deeper, shimmery hues of all majestic shades of green, making it seem as if her whole body is glowing. She styles her hair in ancient Chinese hairstyles, changing them up constantly.

She dresses herself in **hanfu** (汉服, *hànfú*?), the clothing worn by the ancient Chinese, not to be confused with the kimono. she wears two rings that she’s fiercely protective of despite not knowing why. they were formerly too big for her, but she got them adjusted. these were revealed to be her and li jie’s wedding rings, and she goes into a murderous rage whenever they’re taken from her.

Shiyue wears **plum blossom makeup** (梅花粧, *méihuā zhuāng*?) or **huadian** (花钿, *huādiàn*?) on her forehead at all times, changing up the designs occasionally. her default designs are very basic, including simple flowers, stars, or scales. In the very beginning, she always wore moon designs on her forehead, representing loneliness and longing. In battle, she wears flame based ones, representing destruction. However, during the *Joui War*, she wore star designs, representing hope. During *Yoshiwara in Flames*, she wears a poppy design, representing remembrance. During *Courtesan of a Night* and miscellaneous moments in the arcs afterwards, she wore a solar eclipse, representing the overthrow of the natural order of things. During the *Fake Time Skip* and *Kintama* Arc, she wore the star of discord, the symbol of chaos. In the *Shogun Assassination Arc*, she wore dual red spider lilies, symbolizing death, final goodbyes, and sad memories. In *Rakuyou*, she wears a lotus, representing enlightenment - even when its roots are in the dirtiest waters, the lotus produces the most beautiful flower. During *Farewell, Shinsengumi,* she wears a wilting chrysanthemum blowing its petals away, symbolizing goodbyes and sadness. Right before the Odd Jobs split up, she wears a black rose, meaning the end of a significant life event or relationship. After the time skip, she wears a phoenix, representing renewal and another chance after failure. At the end of the series, she wears a butterfly flying away, representing spiritual rebirth and hope.

As a seventeen-year-old in *Be Forever Yorozuya*, she wears her hair more loosely and dresses in flowing robes, her huadian now a forget-me-not design. Shiyue gained an ample, hourglass body shape, something Gintoki notes.

## Personality

Shiyue, modeled after cliche shoujo manga main characters, is incredibly innocent and naïve, at first and is incredibly easy to fluster and charm, with her appearance automatically triggering shoujo manga situations e.g. kabedon. She falls in love very easily and a common gag is her blushingly spouting off romantic lines to random people or objects, infecting them with her romantic aura. However, she quickly blackened via *Gintoki* and *Kagura’s* influence, albeit still maintaining her naïve self. She has a immense love for dark humor and never refuses to crack jokes in the worst situations possible such as after someone’s death, making her a bit insensitive. She lacks the ability to take things seriously and heavily relates to K*atsura*, who she affectionately calls mother, and in turn, he calls her his son. After regaining some of her memories, she’s a bit less naïve, but still retains her personality.

She appears to be a bit unintelligent as well as unintentionally sadistic, making fun of people and berating them, but despite her heinous actions, she has a heart of gold and a brain of mush, but is incredibly clever when need be. She unintentionally manipulates nearly everyone with her magnetic character and easily gets away with things, skirting away from consequences. At times she acts like a deity such as Buddha or Jesus, shining brightly and acting benevolently, preaching useless words, able to have everyone in the vicinity hearken to her words.

## Abilities

**Overall Skill Level**:

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Utilizing a perfected body from ingesting so many power-up items and having been trained by the best martial artists in fictional worlds, it is suffice to say that she is the second best martial artist in the series, Kieran being first. She remains second due to her refusal to learn any techniques that are not Chinese. She mixes these sophisticated techniques with moves that cannot even be classified by techniques, only going by her instincts and using dirty tricks - a unique style that she formed and that has stuck with her due to her life as a homeless child in a crime-filled city. She can copy any and all actions after observing them performed once, making her masterful of almost anything and incredible at what she does by combining several forms and movements in rhythmic motions instead of using the same routine over and over.

She’s able to fight against seemingly, overwhelming odds with ease, decimating enemies single-handedly and with a supernatural finesse that overshadows the skill of more experienced fighters, being a military force in herself with tactical brilliance and overwhelming strength. She’s as deadly at long-range combat as she is in close quarters, to the point where she can perform any physical act without difficulty. She also possesses extraordinary reflexes that are entirely involuntary that allow her to flawlessly coordinate her movements, automatically achieving maximum efficiency in any action. Because her body moves without the use of her brain, she is free to strategize and can dodge a wider variety of attacks, even in a weakened condition. Since her body moves on reflex and not reaction, feints and illusionary techniques are useless against her.

**Master Weapon Proficiency**: She can wield different types of weapons with supernatural proficiency in speed, power, and skill, allowing her to perform seemingly impossible feats with ease. She can use all and any objects at hand as well to enact innumerable damage and reverse the moves of opponents and attack with her own counter moves, break and overcome almost every type of defense with her weapons, fight intensively with less energy than what is usually required, quickly draw her weapon with precision and respond to a sudden attack, draw her weapons and cut her opponent faster than they can register, slashing them before they have a chance to even react, capable of wielding multiple different blades in combat.

**Superhuman Condition**: Sapphire, having consumed many mystical objects and gone through intense training, can no longer be called human. She posses highly advanced mental and physical condition, incredible judgement, knowledge, creativity, imagination and other cognitive and brain-related abilities, as well as being able to lift heavy vehicles and massive boulders, being immune to nigh-fatal damage and harm, and performing at peak performance without tiring for long periods. She is one of the greatest minds in the world, strong enough to punch through steel, fast enough to move at subsonic speeds, agile enough to leap over small buildings and dodge supersonic attacks, durable enough to withstand bullets, grenades and low-to-medium explosives. She’s an all-rounder that is superior overall to practically all other members in her species and **almost** all beings in her universe. The only downside to this is that she must eat large amounts of food to sustain herself. Combined with brute strength, just one move from her could shatter a normal human’s bones and send them flying through multiple fortified walls.

**Enhanced Athleticism:** Having been a student of one of the best ballet academies, if not the best, and being set to join Russia's Olympic rhythmic gymnastics team, Sapphire possesses unmatched coordination, balance, agility, flexibilty, and dexterity. She frequently uses this in her daily life as well as combat, incorporating difficult acrobatic moves such as multiple twists when jumping through the air, jumping and leaping to extreme heights, doing roll-outs, multiple backflips, vaulting, saltos, pikes, round-offs, hand-springs, other tumbling skills, contortion, etc. She is able to carry out these feats on seemingly the most impossible surfaces, such as a wire or an incredibly slippery surface. This makes her combat style much more dazzling and flashy, something she has claims she does not do on purpose.

**Supernatural Stamina**: Using her time abilities, she halts the tiredness of her body so she becomes glaringly more durable than regular beings, having said that she once ran three marathons in a day.

**Absolute Speed**: Once again using her time abilities, she can either speed up the time of her own body, or slowing down time around her and remaining normal so she appears much faster. She can travel anywhere from supersonic to hypersonic speed or even lightspeed and infinitely beyond. She can process information at incredible speeds, allowing her to analyze and come to conclusions at an unprecedented rate and perceive everything at a faster time frame.

**Masterful Tactician:** By being able to look into the future and peek into other timelines, Sapphire is always able to make the best decisions that ultimately always turn out in her favor. She takes notes of smal

### Jujutsu

**Immense Cursed Energy**: Sapphire possesses cursed energy so great that it has been said to be able to power the sun for centuries. Even unlocking the full amount of her cursed energy greatly harms her body despite her containing a superhuman physique. Her cursed energy, even when being restricted by a large amount, it still considered to be quite abundant, leaving Yuji’s hair to stand on end when he first met her despite not knowing much about cursed energy.
Her energy possesses a certain quality, and that is that it is ice cold and feels terribly, terribly numbing. She says this is from her constantly mixing her cursed energy with the energy of time that is begun to take on qualities of the energy of time. When her cursed energy hits, it hits faster than the speed of light due to the nature of time and its speed.

 **Black Flash** (黒閃, *Kokusen*?): A technique that creates spatial distortion when a user connects with an impact of cursed energy within 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit. The phenomenon causes cursed power to flash black, creating a more potent attack to the power of 2.5 of a normal hit. She has performed this twice in a row.

**Withering Wind** (木 (こ) 枯 (が) らし, *Kogarashi*?): Kogarashi does not have a real English equivalent and literally translates to "tree wilting wind", signifying the early beginnings of a bitter winter. This restricts her cursed energy output to about 95% to prevent her from dying due to the sheer amount of cursed energy she possesses. To break the vow, she must feel that she or others are in grave danger or that someone she has some affection for has been killed in combat. Once the conditions for the vow have been fulfilled, her output is changed to 100% before falling back to what she considers a low level after the danger has passed.

**Stasis**, **Spring Flowers and the Autumn Moon** (春花秋月, *Chūn huā qiū yuè*?), or **Eternity** (永 (えい) 遠 (えん) , *Eien*?): Sapphire's Innate technique allows her complete and absolute manipulation over the fourth dimension; time, with the use of physics and the Buddhist idea of Kālacakra . She can create, shape, move, control, interact and manipulate time, the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future, in the general area or for a specific target in various ways. From stopping time to even time traveling, she's able to perform all feats pertaining to time. It should be noted that, due to this being an innate technique, she has personally named all her moves.

**Time Energy** (時 (じ) 間 (かん) エネルギー, *Jikan enerugī*?): An extension technique that allows her to condense time into a quasi-tangible form and utilize it for more physical usage such as forming constructs and firing blasts. The fast currents of time energy can deflect attacks at amplified velocity and cause victims to disintegrate due to their physical body being unable to keep up with the flow of time. By constantly flowing it through her body, her cursed energy has fused with it. The only working constructs she's made with this are a road roller and road sign.

**ab aeterno**: Sapphire is able to manipulate the timestream, the very embodiment of time itself as a flowing body of water hidden in a dimension that only she can easily access. She's able to select the parts that will surely kill someone or at least irreparably damage them instead of the helpful sections that can do things such as heal or restore youth. To quickly access the dimension or summon water, she coats her forefingers with time energy and draws a triskelion in the air. Using it freely takes ample amounts of cursed energy that she does not have without breaking her Binding Vow.

**Stop** (止 (と) まれ, *Tomare*?): This technique allows Sapphire to completely freeze time, be it an area or certain objects. When freezing an area, she takes care to always resume the flow of photons, air molecules, and sound waves so she is not deaf or blind. She is the only one able to act during the duration of stopped time and can choose whether or not to reinstitute the time of other objects. All force applied by her during the time stop continues to exist after time moves once more. She can stop time indefinitely with no limit. Whenever using this, she always makes sure to chant the words: **The World, stop time!** (世 (ザ・ワ) 界 (ールド) ,時 (じ) よ止 (と) まれ) (*Za Wārudo, toki yo tomare*, *****The World, stop time!** (世 (ザ・ワ) 界 (ールド) ,時 (じ) よ止 (と) まれ)***?). This has endless possibilities, including but not limited to stopping time around a certain area around a target to render them blind, unable to breath, and deaf, stop someone's blood flow or organs, completely stop the movement of molecules to create absolute zero temperatures, stop something's movements, the progression of an injury or disease, etc.

**Fast-Forward** (早 (はや) 送 (おく) り, *Hayaokuri*?): Sapphire can accelerate time for herself or others up to practically light speed while still moving normally. She can also speed up the timeline of something or someone by taking it to the end of it's lifetime, speed up how quickly someone can process things and fry their brain, speeding an attack's time up to when it has already happened so it never really happens, speeding up molecules to generate heat, increase cellular activation to regenerate or give someone cancer, accelerate someone with so much speed and energy they spontaneously combust, etc.

**Rewind** (巻 (ま) き戻 (もど) し, *Maki modoshi*?): She is able to rewind the time of anything, and this is reflected in her eyes - the clock hands of her right eye rewind to however far she reversed time. If what she's affecting is something tangible, intricate clock markings appear on it and begin rewinding. If it's something abstract, a clock-like magic circle appears under where it *should* be. She can use this in a variety of ways, be it rewinding the healing process and bringing back old wounds or ailments, continuously rewinding back to when someone was not near her, reverse cursed energy back to its full reserves, a person's mentality back to when they were an infant, cells, objects, people, and attacks to when they did not exist, reverse the evolution process and have someone turn into a monkey, etc.

**Adomania** (アドマニア, *Adomania*?): After reading Part 5 of "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", she became inspired and began perfecting this technique. She can choose any frame of time, be it 10 seconds or an hour, and erase and skip past it. She can choose to either remain conscious during this or not. When she does remain conscious, she is able to move about but cannot touch others trapped in the skipped time. They move as they would've if she hadn't skipped time and she chooses her movements by watching this. This specific period of time is erased from the timeline and Sapphire skips to when the actions committed in the duration of time have already ended. Others caught up in this are not aware of what has happened and can only gawk at the aftermath of the skipped time that still happened even though Sapphire erased the actions taken to the cause the effects via the power of fate. Simply put, she erases the "cause" and only the "effect" remains. An example would be someone throwing a punch at her and then somehow lying on the floor because Sapphire was fated to kick them in the skipped time. When using this, she never fails to shout: "**King Crimson!"** (キング・クリムゾン, *Kingu Kurimuzon*?)

**Veil**: Sapphire is able to create a barrier that separates a set space from the outside to hide her activities from the world by rendering the curtain's interior imperceptible to outside observers.

## Trivia

* According to the Jujutsu Kaisen Fanbook:
	+ Enrollment Method: Status.
	+ Her hobbies include watching shows, scrolling through Twitter, and Chinese dancing.
	+ Favorite food: Szechuan cuisine.
	+ Least favorite food: South Asian cuisine.
	+ Cause of stress: Being bored.
	+ She is a massive fan of TWICE and created a label just to manage them, time traveling to the past to recruit them. She currently manages BTS and Fetty Wap amongst others.
	+ She is matchless when it comes to Chinese dancing and playing traditional Chinese instruments, able to capture the undivided attention of all.
	+ She has few friends she knows in real life and has much more online friends.
	+ Sapphire has no alliance and will join the side that is most interesting, regardless of who or what they are doing.
	+ She is very proud of her Chinese ancestry and silently protests the Japanese government by wearing Chinese themed clothing all the time whilst living in Japan.
	+ If she wasn’t a sorcerer, she would be a pop star.
	+ Sapphire has severe ADHD.
	+ He isn’t fond of being a sorcerer but does enjoy a good fight.
* Kieran and both his parents are Brazilian, making him extremely fluent in Portuguese.
* Kieran has a British accent so good that he could pass as an actual British person.
* Her Japanese name, Ikuta, is masculine and was given by Sapphire from a keyboard smash she did. It is the name of the lover of an arsonist who was executed for her crimes after trying to start a fire to meet her lover again. 生田庄之介
* Sapphire has seen the entire life stories of Nobara, Megumi, Gojo and Itadori, and is only one who knows how the story will end and play out.
* Sapphire was nearsighted and wore glasses until she forced Kieran to give her 20/20 vision.

## References

*Jujutsu Kaisen* Manga: Chapter 23 (p. 12-15).
*Jujutsu Kaisen* Manga: Chapter 23 (p. 12-15).