Botan Shishiro (AWverse)

**Botan Shishiro** is a beastwoman who is the leader of the Kageyama Clan’s Westa Branch. She is also friends with Nene Momosuzu for a long time already.

## Appearance

Botan has long and messy silver hair and gray eyes. A pair of lion ears are on her head and the left one has two piercings.

She wears a sleeveless black shirt with white stripes that exposes her navel and a short black skirt. A black fur coat is worn over her clothes but she often exposes her shoulders. She also wears a golden necklace and wears a ripped sock on her left leg.

If she activates Primal Awakening, marks would appear all over her skin and her eyes would turn red.

## Personality

As the leader of the Kageyama Clan’s Westa Branch, she is very responsible and cold. She also values her friends very much to the point she was willing to fight for Nene.

She is also confident in her strength and would “warm up” by toying with her opponents. Botan also prefers a total victory where she would win against her opponent who fought at their full power.

## History

### Serial Murderer Arc

Botan was troubled by the Familiaran’s declaration of war when one of their executives was killed and they thought the Kageyama Clan was behind it. She willingly cooperated with Amelia Watson, Mikage Kamishiro, and Temma Kishido’s investigation and even prepared a list of her clansmen’s alibis.

### Idol Fan Tournament Arc

Botan was Nene’s champion for the 69th Idol Fan Tournament.

In the first round, she fought against Noel Shirogane. At first, she used human martial arts since Noel wasn’t fighting at her full power. She then found out the that the reason why Noel wasn’t fighting her seriously was because the captain noticed that Botan wasn’t also fighting seriously.

She then switched into beastman martial arts and even used beastmen abilities to evenly fight against Noel. Botan then used Primal Awakening to defeat Noel.

However, Noel decided to use both of her arms in swinging down her mace and created a strong gust of wind that knocked Botan out of bounds causing her to lose.

During the celebration party of the Idol Fan Tournament, Botan was talking with Nene.

## Powers and Abilites

**Human Martial Arts:** Botan is able to fight using martial arts for humans. Her enhanced physical capabilities as a beastwoman helped her in dealing dangerous strikes.

**Beastman Martial Arts:** Botan is a master in beastman martial arts and defeated countless foes using it. Her skills in it caused Shien Kageyama to notice her and make her be the person who would lead the Kageyama Clan’s Westa Branch.

**Beast Art:** Botan can also use magic for Beastmen known as Beast Art and is quite proficient in it. Combined with her martial arts, she is a formidable opponent.

* **Beast Art: Claw Nails:** This magic would make the user’s nails glow. The glowing nails would be as sharp as a sword and as touch as mithril making it a good weapon for beastmen. Combined with Beastmen Martial Arts, it can be a very powerful technique.

**Primal Awakening:** This is a state of frenzy that beastmen would sometimes have. In exchange for becoming more bloodthirsty, their strength and speed would be multiplied several times. Botan is one of the skilled beastmen who can willingly enter that state and maintain control.

## Trivia

* The reason why Botan is the leader for the Kageyama Clan’s Westa Branch was because Cenonn tried to find any badass beastmen Hololive Vtubers (his other options were Korone, Okayu, Mio, and Fubuki but none of them quite fit the bill).

## Quotes

* (To Noel)*“I’m just warming up. How about you? Are you done?”*
* (To Noel) *“Yeah. I want a total victory. If I win because you were not fully ready, then it’s not a satisfying victory.”*