Satsuka Gushiken

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

## Character Information

### Epithet

The Cobra Ace (Ahane)
Mr. Undetectable (Amane)
Player with no presence (Tendō)
Vice-Captain-san, Vice-Captain-kun, Senpai (Tsukishima)
Pillar of Support (Kochō High)
The most annoying Ace (Shirabu)
Satsuka-nee-san (Kochō High)

### Also Known As

The Cobra Ace (Ahane)
Mr. Undetectable (Amane)
Player with no presence (Tendō)
Vice-Captain-san, Vice-Captain-kun, Senpai (Tsukishima)
Pillar of Support (Kochō High)
The most annoying Ace (Shirabu)
Satsuka-nee-san (Kochō High)

### Height

182.3 cm (5'11. 8") - 2012
183 cm (6'0) - Jan 2013

## Background Information

### Family

Satsuka Gushiken (Older Sister) † Ume Gushiken (Twin Sister)
Mentioned Grandmother
Mentioned Grandfather
Amiya Honda (Girlfriend) †
Rintarō Suna (Husband)

### Likes

Chuupet (jelly fruit sticks)
Volleyball
His position
His teammates
Anime
Slice of life Anime
Ocean Eyes

### Dislikes

Being mistaken for a girl
His first name
His parents
Remembering his older sister`s death
Missing volleyball practice
Being sick
The Promised Neverland
Horror Anime
Sad Songs

## Professional Status

### Occupation

High School Student (2nd Year, Class 2) - 2012
V.League Division 1 Player

### Teams

Yako Junior High (Former)
Kochō High (Former)
Black Shadows (Current)
Japan National Team (2021)

### Number

5 (Junior High 3rd Year)
9 (High School 2nd Year)
1 (High School 3rd Year)
1 (Black Shadows)
10 (2021 National Team)

### Position

Outside Hitter
Vice-Captain (High School 2nd Year)
Captain (High School 3rd Year)

## Seiyu Information

### English Actor

Cherami Leigh

**Satsuka Gushiken** (Japanese: **具志堅 ()  颯花 (さつか)** , *Gushiken Satsuka*) was a second-year student at Kochō High and the ace for the school`s volleyball team. He was known as one of Japan`s best high school aces, as well as its best mixed defensive/offensive ace and was invited to the All-Japan Youth Intensive Training Camp. As of 2018, he is a member of the Black Shadows, a professional volleyball team in Division 1 of Japan's V.League. He has also become a member of the Japan National Volleyball Team, and he participated in the 2021 Olympics alongside many of his former teammates; while still in high school he was the vice-captain of the Kochō High Boys` Volleyball Team, becoming the captain during his third year. He is the twin brother of Ume Gushiken and a younger sibling to Satsuka Gushiken, his older sister, for whom he was named after. The husband of Rintarō Suna; the two began dating after Satsuka asked Suna out during the ball held for the current Kochō High Graduating Class during their third year in high school.

## Appearance

Satsuka has dark, brilliant plum-colored hair that he wears pulled back into a ponytail. He also has side bangs. His eyes are a similar shade of plum to his hair. Though he is biologically male; he has been mistaken as a female and even poses as a female in order to alleviate the suffering of his parents, having a similar body to that of his deceased older sister. He appears to be one of the tallest males on his school`s boys` volleyball team. Most notably, he has such soft facial features and a lack of hair of any part of his body, that most people don`t know he is a male until they spot his physique.

During matches; Satsuka dresses in his school`s boys` volleyball uniform, which consists of a plum sleeveless top with white details and the number 9 emblazoned on the back below his name, plum shorts with a white strip down the side, black elbow-padded sleeves, black compression kneepads and black shoes with plum details. Outside of matches, he is seen wearing the standard plum and white colored jacket, white shorts with plum and black details and standard white-colored running shoes with plum details on them. During school hours, he wears a dark-colored plum blouse, white dress shirt, and a lavender-colored knee-length pleated skirt. His choice of shoe wear is a pair of knee-high lace-up white boots with tan soles, heels and toes. In school, he wears white uwabaki.

Post-time skip, Satsuka`s appearance has changed as he now wears a metal arrow pin on both sides of his head, with his hair being styled into braids and being pinned up in a bun at the back of his head. Most notably, he has grown a little taller than he used to be in high school.

## Personality

Calm, composed, gentle but firm when needed; Satsuka is a generally collected person, rarely ever showing anger outwardly or even aggression, with both of those emotions being firmly shelved in order for him to pay attention to the needs of his teammates over his own needs. His underclassmen admire his gentle and firm approach to preventing them from getting out of control, with him even being able to calm members from rival teams by calmly talking to them. In comparison to his teammates, he is more withdrawn and has an introverted nature, fearing being rejected by other males simply because of his female-looking appearance even when he is biologically a male.

Despite his general calmness; Satsuka is not afraid to throw his opinions directly at his teammates and is prone to lightly scolding his teammates when they get too rowdy or out of control, with his words being described as "confidence-crushing" and "disappointing" to receive. He is also shown to have a fervent fear of windows; refusing to sit near one on airplanes, trains, cars, among other places.

## Background

Before attending Kochō High, Satsuka was a student at Yako Junior High and played as a ace there. In his middle school, his volleyball teammates saw him as a "freak" and often excluded him from outings, with only Atsumu and Osamu befriending him. However, after one incident (during his last year in middle school), where his volleyball teammates (excluding Atsumu and Osamu) pushed him out of a second-story window, his parents chose to home-school him before sending him to Kochō High.

## Plot

### **Tokyo Expedition Arc**

Satsuka`s official appearance and debut occurs during the weekend training camp at Nekoma High when he comes down from Kochō High in order to help train all of the teams present at the training camp for Nationals. Upon his arrival, he is mistaken as a manger and only manages to rectify the mistake after a rushed video call with his team`s coaches; he is summarily informed that his team`s staring Middle Blockers, Takumi Yako and Norman Yako are already on their way to assist with training the teams for Nationals due to their respective experiences. After the call; he is left visibly exhausted and falls asleep in the gym, only to be gently shaken awake by Takumi`s hands. During dinner that night, the teams are introduced to Satsuka and his teammates, with him being mistaken for a female by several of the camp`s volleyball players. Tsukishima goads Satsuka into confessing his true gender, though Takumi punches him extremely hard in the ribs for goading Satsuka while Norman simply enjoys the ensuring fight that results from it. During the second camp, he is with Takumi Yako and Norman Yako during a free practice when both of them are practicing their blocks against Satsuka`s spikes. First-years; Norman Mackenzie, Daiki Kenzō,
Cypress Christodoulopoulos, Juniper Christodoulopoulos, Nicholas Angelos and the two second-years Demetria Agathangelou, Noel Accambray, the female managers: North Sallow, Storm Sallow, Winter Sallow, Whit Sallow, Wren Sallow, Wynter Sallow, and the male managers (those of them who were not already attending normal serving practice): Douglas Christoforou, Nas Doukas and Rudolph Galanis were additional people who showed up at the camp, in order to aid the teams in stretching exercises, as well as to help train inexperienced members of the teams, as well as their first-years. During their own practice; Daiki provides many sets for his teammates, though they are less aggressive than what most of them prefer. To this end, Daiki is replaced with Demetria who is used to the more aggressive tendencies of her teammates, who begins setting aggressively to her normal teammates who take the entire thing in stride and even encourage it. While they are in the middle of said practice, they are interrupted by Akaashi, Bokuto, Kuroo and Tsukishima; while his teammates insist on insulting them, Satsuka reminds them that he will punish them with a personal volleyball training regime written up by himself until they stop insulting them, which causes them to stop instantly.

The following night, Satsuka is with his teammates with them attempting a new yet-to-be-unveiled attack; the sheer force between the attack instantly forcing him to drop to his knees. Satsuka points out the imbalance between the sheer force used to launch the attack across the net to his side of the net and the disadvantages at having to adjust the force of the attack in order to aim it properly. This prompts another round of arguing from his teammates at which point Satsuka tells them to quit down or they might annoy somebody, when they finally come to a conclusion, Yukie and Suzumeda appear to inform them that the dinner area is about to close.

During the next free practice, Satsuka constantly coaches the first-years, to be more specific Daiki to set more aggressively even showing him extensive compilations of the type of setting required and needed for their teammates due to their more aggressive natures; while Demetria scorned his efforts pointing out that "he [Daiki] is less than aggressive, it will never work. He has such a weak sense of determination", Satsuka endeavored to have him set aggressively and in a similar style to Demetria. His teammates were less than impressed with the progress made and advocated against making Daiki the starting setter by the time he became a third-year, with all of them refusing to acknowledge the efforts he made in order to get far. They are soon surprised when Daiki in a fight of rage, spurred on by Lev Haiba aggressively sets the ball and Demetria accidently spikes it in the face of Satsuka. His teammates are immediately stricken with laughter and even the normally emotionless Demetria allows herself a coy smile; they however start panicking after Satsuka`s nose starts bleeding.

During the final day of the training camp, the members of Kochō High play a practice match against a combined Karasuno and Nekoma High. During the duration of the match, Satsuka`s spiking skills allow him to make incredible hits from nearly impossible angles, easily hitting it past Kuroo with little effort. When faced with impossible odds, Satsuka managed to land a service ace in the shared Karasuno and Nekoma side of the court.

### **Spring High Preliminary Arc**

#### **Karasuno vs Wakutani South**

Satsuka and Demetria are shown watching Karasuno`s match against Wakutani South on Demetria`s iPhone; commenting on Hinata`s successful rebound as "heartening" and both of them ponder whether he remembered what they had taught him as well.

#### **Karasuno vs Shiratorizawa**

Satsuka is referred to when Hinata mentions having practiced and learned several new attacks, as well as attack angles, and maneuvers from him during the summer training camp. Kageyama becomes jealous upon hearing this and in a pointed voice reminds Hinata that he is nowhere near close enough to becoming the ace of Karasuno.

#### **Kochō vs Riverstone**

During the match, the Riverstone blockers kept everybody including Satsuka, on their toes, trying to figure out their attack patterns and counter them. Having spotted their glaring weaknesses, Satsuka took advantage of their tiring blockers and scored several service aces throughout the remainder of the game, giving Kochō the lead in terms of points.

### **Skills**

* **One Person Time Difference Attack**:
* **Toss Rebound**:
* **Jump Serve**:

## Relationships

### **Kochō High**

* **Ilma Yamaguchi**: Satsuka has a close relationship with Ilma, having been friends since their middle school years. They know each other very well and rely on each other to the same extent that Régine and Satsuka rely on each other; due to the amount of trust the two hold in each other, they are almost always in complete synchronization with each other on the volleyball court, which allows Ilma to cover for the receives, digs, spikes, serves, and blocks that Satsuka, Régine, or any of their other teammates cannot get. Due to the fact that the entire team lives together, Ilma and Satsuka are constantly around each other, having learned to adapt to the moods of each other, as well as compensate for some areas of their playing styles where the other person is slightly weaker or stronger in order to elevate their respective and unique playing styles by combining them together in something akin to a dance. As she is his captain, Satsuka is extremely respectful towards her and acts as the voice-of-reason for her during difficult decisions, among other things. After Ilma decided to retire from her position as the captain in their third year of high school, thus making Satsuka the new captain (by anonymous decisions), he is shown doubting his abilities as the newly-elected captain; believing that there are more worthier choices than him. After both of them graduated, they became members of the Black Shadows, a professional volleyball team in Division 1 of Japan's V.League, as well as members of Japan`s National Team. Due to their affinity for volleyball, they are ranked as one of the most powerful pairs in Professional Volleyball as of 2021.
* **Demetria Agathangelou**: Satsuka`s fellow classmate and the team`s current setter. The two were once only acquaintances at best, though they later grew into much closer allies over the course of their first year of schooling at Yako Junior High, later growing into such close friends that they decided to move in together with their future volleyball teammates when they were both accepted to Kochō High. As part of the current 2nd-years, they serve as an encouraging force to the 1st-years. Upon the 1st-year setter; Daiki Kenzō joining the first-string for the team, Demetria points that his efforts to shape Daiki into the "new Demetria" isn`t working as he can not spike aggressively, block aggressively, or even do a jump serve, an integral part of the moves that a setter is supposed to be able to preform at their level of athletics. Though the two seem to have a hatred of each other, they are actually playfully teasing the other in their own way.
* **Aiyuki Riseki**: The two appear to not get along that well despite their position as teammates. Satsuka dreads speaking to Aiyuki as he finds his personality quite "drab" and "boring" in comparison to Régine or Ilma`s personalities, yet despite stating that he doesn`t like him or his personality at all, Satsuka does care for him in a "motherly-like" way and sees him as part of his "family". The two would later become teammates on the Black Shadows, a professional volleyball team in Division 1 of Japan's V.League together.
* **Régine Shibayama**: As a result of their similar personalities, Régine is Satsuka`s closest and most dearest friend. Aside from nonstop teasing, the two are an oiled and precise pair of team players. The two have been playing volleyball together since the later years of their childhood and are extremely close. Régine is typically the one person who can get Satsuka to abandon his filter and start spewing profanity. Despite being frequently annoyed with Régine not taking care of herself, Satsuka deeply cares for her as she is extremely close to him as his best friend, often scolding her for overworking and cheering her up when she is sad. Whenever Régine starts to doubt herself, Satsuka berates her and reminds her of the places her strengths and abilities as the starting libero has brought their team to. The two are always in complete synchronization with each other on the volleyball court; a feat of incredible volleyball prowess that Oikawa and Iwaizumi didn`t completely achieve. This allows them to compensate and cover for the holes in the other person`s playing styles; as Satsuka is slightly a bit weaker in receives and digs, Régine covers for him in that area and due to the nature of Régine`s position of libero, not allowing her to spike or block balls, Satsuka covers for her in that area. Such a system has allowed them a great amount of success during actual gameplay and the two are able to cover for the holes in other members` playing styles as a synchronized pair of players. Satsuka and Régine have been through a lot since their first meeting, Régine always having to look out for Satsuka due to his tendency to **always**  land himself in trouble (somehow). Due to the nature of their relationship, as well as Satsuka`s physical appearance, they are naturally assumed to be boyfriend (Régine) and girlfriend (Satsuka).
* **Azumi Ahane**: His former captain, the two had a strained relationship as Satsuka disliked his brisk and often overbearing personality when it came to perfection during volleyball practice. After receiving the news of the death of Azumi during a car crash, Satsuka seemed to be shocked as despite having not hated his personality, he didn`t hate him enough to want him to die. It seems that even mentioning Azumi or even seeing his grave makes him crumple into depression and blame himself for having not been there to save him from dying. He is said to blame himself for Azumi`s death, having called himself the "root" of the crash that led to Azumi`s death; how much of that is factually true is unknown even to the people who were present at the site of the accident.
* **Katana**: Though not overly close with Katana, he still cared for her nonetheless and seemed extremely hurt as well as furious by her betrayal of them. Having seen her as his 'little sister', he became furious when he learned of the atrocities that she made to commit during the time that she was manipulated and became incredibly joy-filled when he learned that she was coming back home to them. Though not overprotective of her like his other teammates, he doesn`t enjoy when males come up to her trying to make Katana into their girlfriend. After her death, Satsuka is shown to experience mental instability, breakdowns, nightly terrors, and referenced possible PTSD. He is noted to often compare the personality of Makomo Fukunaga to the personality of Katana during the time she was alive, becoming shocked upon realizing that she was actually his reincarnated teammate.
* **Raven Blake**: Satsuka doesn`t know what is wrong with Raven but he is actually quite scared to go near her, as he can smell a constant rage just seeping off her body and filtering into the air; he notes that though she may seem like a nice person, he has no intention of going near her as he doesn`t feel like dying yet. He describes her constant rage-filled state as "highly dangerous" and that it makes him too scared to go near her. After the two are once more introduced to each other, Satsuka is shaking the entire time and describing the experience as "life-ending", vehemently refusing to go anywhere near Raven after that encounter. Upon growing up tired of Satsuka`s antics, she cornered him in the mixed-gender bathroom and tickled him until he told her the reason why he avoided her; after that encounter the two are stated to be good friends, as she usually guides him around unfamiliar places and schools during practice matches, as well as takes him to new baking stores in order for them to buy baking equipment. Seeing as all of the volleyball teams share a single house, they are always in close-quarters with one-another and thus the two are even closer friends than they used to be at the start of their first year of schooling at Yako Junior High. While Raven retired from volleyball after graduating high school, Satsuka continued and she is often shown cheering him on. When Satsuka learns of Raven`s death, he is visibly shocked and reduced to utter tears.
* **Israel Yamaguchi**: One of his upperclassmen, Israel was the former captain of Kochō High before Azumi Ahane was even a first-year, having died in a car accident during her freshmen year of college. Satsuka knew Israel due to having befriended both Luka Yamaguchi and Ilma Yamaguchi; both younger siblings of Israel Yamaguchi. They were stated to have a rather friendly personality with each other, as they are often showing bantering together and addressing each other by their first names in flashbacks of their time spent together in the Yamaguchi Household.
* **Luka Yamaguchi**: One of his underclassmen, Luka was slated to become a defensive and offensive switch player for the volleyball team. The two were fairly close as Ilma referred to her as "Lulu-san" and Satsuka instantly became defensive, asking what she was trying to pull by saying her name out loud, since she [Luka] was a not-to-be-spoken-of topic, especially in front of Satsuka who took her death the hardest.
* **Takumi Yako**: How close they are is largely left up to debate by their teammates, but the two seem to get along with each other extremely well and seem to have a somewhat brotherly nature whether on the volleyball court or on it. As they play positions where they take damage as well as deal it out, they seemed to have developed a way to ask each other their health without talking to each other through the usage of subtle nods and simple touches on head, shoulders, and crossing their hands together. While Takumi is one of the team`s Middle Blockers, Satsuka is the Ace of the team, requiring the two to spend a lot of time together during serving practice. Takumi is a close friend of Satsuka and the two of them commonly coach Daiki Kenzō; Satsuka`s underclassmen and prospering student in unique setting techniques that were developed at their school by some of their graduating setters from years past. As of 2019, Takumi has joined the Japanese V. League 1 team, the Black Shadows as one of their starting Middle Blockers and a substitute manager until they can find another manager.
* **Norman Yako**: Another one of the team`s starting Middle Blockers; the two have a close relationship as they are often getting into trouble together. They are described as the "trouble duo" by the team`s resident pinch server and substitute server; Aiyuki Riseki, due to their habits of provoking other players together by riling them up, a habit that Aiyuki later shamefully admitted came from him. They don`t seem to have a solid reason for their source of friendship other than sending memes to each other, harassing others, and generally causing trouble for the people around them. Despite this, their chemistry on the court allows them to function as a powerful duo and even a powerful quadruplet group, comprised of a majority of the players on their side of the court. They function well as a duo in order to keep people away from their managers, seeing fan girls as both a distraction and also highly irritating to deal with; as shown when Satsuka rudely shoved a girl away from Norman as he was getting uncomfortable as the girl was getting ***way*** too touchy-feely with him.
* **Norman Mackenzie**: The starting 1st-year pinch server, Norman and Satsuka have a slight friendship with each other, having become friends as soon as they spotted the other person. As a student of Demetria; the school`s starting setter for the boys` volleyball team, he was accepted to the school on a sports` scholarship and is a hard-worker, aiming to refine his Jump Serve to the point where it can be launched from extremely high up. Satsuka is often shown teasing Norman on how everybody has to use his last name because one of their Middle Blockers has the same first name as him, to which Norman replies that at least he doesn`t bother Aiyuki which prompts a dramatic response from the 2nd-year student. As of 2019, Norman has joined the Japanese V. League 1 team, the Black Shadows as one of their substitute setters and pinch servers; with Norman having become a closer friend to Satsuka and is often shown teasing him about his short stature.
* **Daiki Kenzō**: Satsuka`s student and the future starting setter after the graduation of the current 2nd years. While the rest of the current 2nd years, the current 3rd years, and even an overwhelming majority of the current 1st years believe that Daiki is less 'aggressive' than the current starting 2nd year; Demetria Agathangelou, he believes in him even more so after he aggressively sets a ball for Demetria, the first time he had done so. He is stated to have a large amount of belief in Daiki and his flourishing skills as a setter, hoping that he will keep them retain their position and entrusting him to become a wonderful captain after the 2nd years graduate. During Satsuka`s graduation, Daiki is shown crying alone in a bathroom, and mourning the loss of the graduating 3rd-years. As of 2019, Daiki has joined the Japanese V. League 1 team, the Black Shadows as one of their substitute setters and pinch servers. They seem to have more of a relaxed relationship than what they used to have during school, as both of them have been shown addressing the other by their first names rather by their surname. Most notably, they are often shown teasing each other whether by way of practical jokes or biting quips meant to make the other person laugh, as shown in an extra chapter of the Haikyuu Manga during Halloween. Daiki comments on how cold it is, with Satsuka saying that it was his fault that he wasn`t built like Ushijima , making their teammates who had been listening to their conversation started cackling with laughter. Now notably embarrassed, Daiki threw a weak quip at Satsuka which just made him and their other teammates start howling in laughter.
* **Cypress Christodoulopoulos**:
* **Juniper Christodoulopoulos**:
* **Nicholas Angelos**:
* **Noel Accambray**:
* **North Sallow**: A female manager of the school boys` volleyball team, she holds a friendly relationship with Satsuka, only teasing him about changing his name or joining the school girls` volleyball team. Though they are close friends, Satsuka is often shown getting extremely flustered by her constantly teasing him about his crush on Rintarō Suna, as noted during their annual get-together over the weekends, upon being teased about his crush on Suna, he becomes extremely flustered and denies having a crush. Due to their similar temperaments, they are a good team and are capable of coming up with good training regimes as North`s father is a retired volleyball player and the coach of the college volleyball; the Northampton Lions. Likewise, North`s mother used to be a world-class Olympic figure skater and is currently a figure skating teacher, allowing her to gain more guidance on the importance of proper regimes. Likewise due to Satsuka training in figure skating underneath the guidance of North`s mother, North and Satsuka grew up as close friends and even competed as a pair in several figure skating events together when they were children. At one of these events, Satsuka received the best Male Elementary School Figure Skater of Japan Award while North received the best Female Elementary School Figure Skater of Japan Award. After Satsuka quit figure-skating as his injury prevented him from doing figure-skating every again, the two fully committed themselves to volleyball. As of 2018, North has taken up figure-skating on a Professional level, having chosen Ume Gushiken (Satsuka`s younger sister) as her partner-of-choice. It is later revealed that the two know each other through the mutual friend; Fuyu Tsuyuri, a retired figure skater and Satsuka`s former skating partner. Satsuka and Rin`s adoptive daughter; Aviva Tsuna, would also begin taking lessons from North.
* **Fuyu Tsuyuri**: Fuyu and Satsuka seem to be very close friends throughout the series. In elementary school, after Satsuka lands wrong during the completion of his last quad during one of their figure skating competitions, Fuyu is the one to comfort him when he expresses his unhappiness at never being able to compete again with her. She compliments him on never giving up despite the nature of their shared sport and encouraged him to try harder, the two of them would later receive two of the highest scores in their respective figure skating competition, becoming the runners-up for the competition. After Fuyu experienced a bad hip injury that developed into a facture, she was forced to take several months off to recover, during which she recommended North Sallow, a fairly experienced and skilled figure skater to be Satsuka`s replacement partner. After Satsuka was badly injured and taken off the ice to recover, Fuyu learned that Satsuka would be unable to return to doing figure skating ever again and neither would Fuyu. They eventually chose to pick up ballet, acrobatics, S.T.E.P, and soccer among other sports in order to improve their abilities and skills in order for the start of volleyball session come the beginning of Junior High. The two of them are seen standing together in their year of Junior High while the coach introduces himself to the team and mention their shared goal of simply obliterating in addition to crushing their enemies. While Hoshiumi is confronting Hinata by the t-shirt stand at the Spring Tournament, Satsuka and Fuyu are shown quietly asking the people around them how to get to a certain stadium, before Hirugami shows up to tell Hoshiumi off from insulting a reporter lady.
* **Storm Sallow**:
* **Winter Sallow**:
* **Whit Sallow**:
* **Douglas Christoforou**:
* **Nas Doukas**:
* **Rudolph Galanis**:
* **Oki Suna**: Though he hadn`t initially talked to her before, he had heard of her through a personal friend, Aoi-chan, he seems to have a high opinion of her medical skills, even comparing her to the famed Australian nurse, Alice Ross-King, who served during the period of World War II. Rintarō (Oki Suna`s older brother), has also mentioned her in passing; since their graduation, the two have worked together in order to promote the health of athletes, throughout Japan`s various volleyball leagues.
* **Sanemi Kuguri**:
* **Alix Ōsado**: As Alix is his team`s coach, Satsuka respects her judgement even if he doesn`t always agree with it. Seeing as she was the one to inspired him, taught him, and coached him into a stellar player, he holds her in high regards and even congratulates her on the successful birth of her youngest granddaughter, August Ōsado. Alix in turn holds Satsuka in the highest regards and becomes extremely upset when he fails to meet her expectations. In a way, they serve to push the other into doing things and growing into a better person; after graduating from high school and joining the Black Shadows, he is depicted dialing Alix`s number and telling her all about his tryouts. They are shown to keep in touch and Alix sometimes has Satsuka, as well as several select members of the Black Shadows come into the school, in order to refine the spiking, blocking, digging, receiving, and setting techniques of the current team`s players. Satsuka, Alix, Akimoto, June, and Kaji as well as the rest of the Black Shadows watch the game between the MSBY Black Jackals and the Schweiden Adlers. During the game, Satsuka shouts thinly-veiled insults at the players, while her former volleyball coach and current teammates watch on in amusement. During the 2021 Olympics with Japan going Argentina; the former coaches are introduced to the cheering crowd, with all of the Japanese volleyball players` former schools being invited to the actual game itself with exclusive V.I.P tickets.

### **Fukurōdani Academy**

* **Kōtarō Bokuto**:
* **Keiji Akaashi**:
* **Tatsuki Washio**:
* **Yamato Sarukui**:
* **Akinori Konoha**:
* **Shūichi Anahori**:
* **Haruki Komi**:
* **Wataru Onaga**:
* **Yukie Shirofuku**:
* **Kaori Suzumeda**:

### **Nekoma High**

* **Tetsurō Kuroo**:
* **Kenma Kozume**:
* **Morisuke Yaku**:
* **Yūki Shibayama**:

### **Karasuno High**

* **Shōyō Hinata**:
* **Kei Tsukishima**:

### **Inarizaki High**

* **Shinsuke Kita**:
* **Ren Ōmimi**:
* **Aran Ojiro**:
* **Hitoshi Ginjima**:
* **Atsumu Miya**:
* **Osamu Miya**:
* **Rintarō Suna**:
* **Yūto Kosaku**:
* **Heisuke Riseki**:
* **Michinari Akagi**:

### **Other schools**

* **Tōru Oikawa**: Their relationship is extremely antagonistic even if that wasn`t evident from their first meeting with each other, as the two have extremely clashing personalities. They first met during their childhood, having once been childhood friends before Satsuka and his family moved away during the summer of their last year in elementary school before school started again after summer break. Due to this, the two grew apart and neither recognized the other when they next met during their Junior High Years; during this time, Satsuka often mocked Oikawa and made disparaging remarks about his "lack of finesse" and how "childlike" he was to his Yako Middle teammates who often encouraged such behavior. Fast-forward to their High School Years and Satsuka is even less impressed with Oikawa, calling him a "womanizer" and a person with a "extremely disgusting personality"; suggesting that while he acknowledges Oikawa`s abilities as a powerful and skilled setter, his personality is what makes Satsuka truly irritated with him. When he learned of Oikawa`s past as one of his closest childhood friends, Satsuka was even more disgusted with him, refusing to believe that his geeky childhood friend turned into his "most disgusting" rivals.
* **Kōrai Hoshiumi**:
* **Tsukasa Iizuna**:
* **Kiyoomi Sakusa**:
* **Motoya Komori**:

### **Others**

* **Nice Rodrigues**:
* **Heitor Santana**:
* **Pedro**:
* **Satsuka Gushiken**:
* **Mentioned Grandmother**:
* **Mentioned Grandfather**:
* **Ume Gushiken**:
* **Amiya Honda**:
* **Rintarō Suna**:
* **Akitomo Hoshiumi**: Satsuka, being both a friend and rival to Kōrai Hoshiumi, seems to have a not-so-high opinion of the latter`s older brother as he describes him as "irritating", a "complete prat" and the "absolute biggest twat that I have ever met"; all of these comments which Kōrai found justified. The two of them seem to hate the other`s guts with a great amount of passion, such as when Satsuka described all of the bloodiest ways that he would dispose of Akitomo`s body by way of Mother Nature much to the amusement of his teammates and the exasperation of Kōrai who reminded him of the rules against killing somebody, being met with an irritated smile from Satsuka. The two are now stated to be extremely close friends and drinking buddies, as Akitomo has become a certified medic for the Black Shadows and a close ally to Satsuka and his former high school teammates. This is shown when the two began ribbing each other for forgetting about the match between the Schweiden Adlers and EJP Raijin before June reminded them that she was streaming the game between the two V. League teams on her computer right now if they wanted to watch together.
* **June Hoshiumi**: Satsuka and June first met during Akitomo and June`s wedding party, where Satsuka happily greeted Akitomo and congratulated him on his marriage. The two are stated to be incredibly good friends, and know each other through Akitomo who is described as the 'middle man' in their blossoming friendship. They are often seen teasing each other, such as throwing harmless quips at one another and sarcastically commenting on their good fortune. She seems to trust him enough to babysit her eldest child; Kaji Hoshiumi.
* **Kaji Hoshiumi**: Kaji and Satsuka have a friendly relationship, as he sees Satsuka as an "older sister figure" and often tightly clings to her when around strangers such as June`s older brother; Katsu Matsukawa or June`s younger brother; Issei Matsukawa. He is often showing calling Satsuka "nee-chan", "nee-san", and several other variations of older sister. Upon learning that Satsuka is a male, he comments that at least he looks nothing like that "trashy" male [Oikawa] I saw the other day on TV.
* **Avia Tsuna**: Satsuka and Rin`s adopted daughter. The two were first introduced to each other at the Hope Orphanage where upon seeing the sorry state that Avia, then known as Aoi Feodorovna was living in, decided to adopt her right on the spot. The two are stated to be fairly close as he could understand his daughter`s rapid sign language with no problem.
* **Suguru Daishō**:

## Quotes

* *"I always wished for serenity but I received coldness and no affection."*
* *"Wishes are for the weak, that is what I always told myself. In reality, dreams are meant for everybody, to be accessed whenever they want, wherever they want."*
* *"So cold."*
* *"To quote Watt White; I am the eye of the storm. Inside I am silent and strong. Just waitin' for the right (right) moment to strike. Coiled like a cobra. All of those lyrics perfectly describe me; my presence on the court flies underneath the radar of far more skilled players but I am undoubtedly one of the most powerful players simply because of my sheer lack of presence. People are blinded by players such as Ilma or Aiyuki that they forgot about me; they assume that I am a mere benchwarmer when in all actuality I am a starter but my presence is null in comparison to all of my teammates. When they let their guard down; that is when I strike, I bare my fangs and strike at them. I remind them why I am feared; why nobody sees me and that they should know better than to let me strike at them, for when I strike, I strike to kill."*
* *"Those people who believe that I am merely a benchwarmer should get their eyes checked; despite having a fragile-looking build, I am as strong as Aiyuki or even stronger than him."*

## Trivia

* Favorite Food: Tamago Kake Gohan
* High school Concern: People keep mistaking him for a girl and get disgusted when he reveals his biological gender
* Post-timeskip Concern: His fans keep stalking him whenever he goes outside, when not in disguise
* His family is speculated to personally own and runs an exotic petting zoo, as Satsuka is said to own a horde of exotic pets including but not limited to: Lynxes, Arabian Horses, Pythons, and other nonvenomous animals.
* He was originally designed as one of the five pinch servers of the school`s boys` volleyball team but the idea was changed after the author realized that her school needed an ace.
	+ His character was then completely revised and became the ace of the team; a complete contrast to the author`s original idea.
* Upon learning that Satsuka was a male instead of a female, he commented that at least Satsuka had a better personality that the one "trashy" had, he was referring to Oikawa.
* He has two older siblings, a sister and a brother, aside from his one named older sibling; his older sister Satsuka Gushiken. He also has two younger siblings aside from his only named younger sibling, his younger sister Ume Gushiken.
* He deeply admires Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, as they are masters in Ice-Skating, his former sport of choice.
	+ After he obtained an extremely serious injury that prevented him from ice-skating every again, he fully committed himself to volleyball before the start of his Junior High schooling.
* Thus by virtue of the chronological events, it can be assumed that he obtained his injury in early March, as the term for Japanese schools starts on April 1st.
* When he was still a full-time figure skater, he had another skating partner before North.
	+ Their surname was later chosen by Cherrial Arctic as "Tsuyuri" while their first name "Fuyu" was chosen at random from a list of random Japanese male/female first names by the author`s older siblings.
		- Her middle name "Bellona" means Warrior Goddess of destructive warfare and is an Egyptian name, suggesting that Fuyu may be a hafu (Half Egyptian/Half Japanese)
* His adopted daughter; Aviva Tsuna is heavily implied to be deaf, leading to Satsuka using sign language to talk to her.
* NARUTO SONG -"Believe It" (Divide Music Ft. Zach Boucher), Satsuka refers to as his theme song.

**Nomenclature**:

* Satsuka (颯花) can be read as *"fierce"*.
	+ 颯 - gale, hurricane, blast, storm, squall, gust
	+ 花 - flower
* His family name Gushiken (具志堅) can be read as *"strong willed"* or *"of firm determination"*.
	+ 具 - ingredients/utensil/means
	+ 志 - will/motive/bear in mind
	+ 堅 - hard/resolute/unyielding
* Both his family and personal names were chosen to reflect his personality; though he appears as an inherently gentle person, he holds a certain quality of steeliness to his nature.