Manjusaka

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**Manjusaka** is an antagonist in Scissor Seven introduced in Season 3. She is a member of the Shadow Killers.

## Appearance

Manjusaka is a short, beautiful and slender woman with shoulder-length red hair that has white strips while her hair hangs on the right side, red eyes with thin eyebrows and she has red polished nails.

She wears a black keyhole turtleneck under a short, indigo off-the-shoulder hanfu robe with a white trim. Over the robe, she wears a purple fur coat with diamond-shaped silver charms running down the sleeve. Her black leggings have a triangular cutout on the upper thigh and she wears white or pale blue platform boots with black soles.

## Personality

Manjusaka appears to fall in love easily since she claims affection for many people such as Black Bird, Green Phoenix and Seven. However, she can also be possessive of the people she likes. She became jealous of the Girl In White that Seven was close to, and killed her after he disappeared. She also tries to kill Seven, since he never returned her feelings and she didn't want him to be with somebody else that isn't her. She seems to enjoy beautiful things, to the point of calling Xiao Fei's transformed muscular appearance ugly. She also claims that she dislikes being violent, but is able to fight hand-to-hand using her metal fan as a knife.

Though Manjusaka is skilled at fighting, it seems like she prefers to use other people to do the fighting for her. She is shown to be very observant, and figures out Thirteen's connection to Blue Phoenix when she uses his technique and understands how Thirteen managed to take advantage of Black Bird's style and disarm him. It is possible that she is manipulative, as Black Bird's plan to kill Seven and give the reward to Manjusaka is unique compared to the slightly hostile interactions seen between other Shadow Killers.

She tends to like everyone, but this is not true, she just seems to lie about her feelings a lot, this is mentioned in a Dubbing Trivia with the director, it is also mentioned that she is self-sentimental.

Due to this information, it is theorized that she may have lied about presumably killing The Girl In White. Since the director had mentioned she often lies, it is theorized that she may have lied solely to see the reaction of Seven.

## Character History

### Before Season 3

Manjusaka appears as a background character in Two Heroes, where she is masked and standing with the other Shadow Killers when Seven is accepted into their ranks.

At some point before the last episode of Season 3, she claims to have killed the Girl in White.

### Season 3

Manjusaka first appears in Farewell, where she is in a tea shop. She overhears three other assassins gossiping about how Seven supposedly killed Redtooth. When they begin mocking Redtooth and the Shadow Killers, she kills them with her Spiderlily darts.

She appears again in Who Is the One You Want to Protect where she sneaks up on Thirteen and reveals Seven's past association with the Girl in White. She then tries to kill Seven because "if [she] can't have him, nobody can", but Thirteen blocks her darts. When Black Bird appears to try and kill Seven, Manjusaka stops fighting and watches the battle. She gains a new respect for Thirteen when she persists and manages to land a hit on Blackbird.

### Season 4

After Blackbird's death, Manjusaka appears disappointed on the way he died, using an unknown spell to give him a more peaceful expression. Using her poison darts, she knocks out Seven and almost takes out Thirteen as well before Dai Bo and Xiao Fei appear to distract her and successfully rescue Seven. Unfortunately, Thirteen is unable to escape and collapses from her wounds at the end of S04E03, and is captured instead for Manjusaka's newest order.

In S04E10, Manjusaka uses an unconscious Thirteen as bait to lure out Blue Phoenix, who was trying to assassinate the Killer League Leader. He goes to save his apprentice but also gets poisoned in the process, escaping before Manjusaka could attack. Not long after, Stone Gate and Manjusaka track down Blue Phoenix and attack him for trying to kill her leader, Manjusaka managed to stab Blue Phoenix in the shoulder with her fan but he was faster than her and stabbed her in the stomach with his sword. She subsequently fell to the ground due to her injuries, leaving it in doubt if she is still alive .

## Abilities and Techniques

### Spiderlily Darts

Manjusaka's primary weapon is a set of darts shaped like red spider lily flowers, which suck the life out of her enemies when they are pierced by them. The spider lily darts at first look like spider lily buds, but bloom when they touch her target. They can also release red powders to incapacitate her enemies, with a range of effects such as paralysis, toxicity, and demon-repelling.

### Increased Stealth

Manjusaka is shown to be extremely fast and stealthy. In S03EP10, Thirteen was completely unable to sense her presence when she appeared, and when Thirteen tried to attack her, she appeared to teleport, or otherwise move so fast that it looked like she did.

### Floating

Unlike many Xuanwuans, Manjusaka is able to float noiselessly a few inches above the ground. This may contribute to her stealth.

## Relationships

### Seven

   Manjusaka seemed to be quite obsessed with Seven as she killed the Girl in White, whom he was very close to out of jealousy.

In S03E10 she tries to kill Seven, thinking that if she can't have him, nobody should.

### Black Bird

Manjusaka appears to be very close to Black Bird, to the point that Black Bird would rather give the reward for killing Seven to Manjusaka instead of keeping it for himself. This may be because she thinks he's handsome, as she says so after his defeat, but she respectfully gives him a more dignified appearance after his painful death.

### The Girl in White

In S3EP10, Manjusaka mentions that she killed the Girl in White out of jealousy.

### Redtooth

Manjusaka appeared displeased when other assassins ridiculed Redtooth's death. Whether this is because she's friendly towards Redtooth or couldn't stand the Killer League being slandered is unknown.

### Stone Gate

Though Manjusaka joins Stone Gate in the clearing where he found Seven, they do not interact. They seem to be in some kind of rivalry where Stone Gate wants Seven's bounty, which Black Bird wants to give to Manjusaka. In Season 4, the two seems to have come to an agreement to work together to kill Blue Phoenix for his traitorous behavior.

### Blue Phoenix

Manjusaka was able to recognize Thirteen's use of Moon's Reflection of the Twin Phoenixes as Blue Phoenix's technique. She mentions that she likes Blue Phoenix a lot, even offering him an antidote to her poison in exchange for a kiss, but is quite willing to kill him after he appears to scorn her.

### Thirteen

When the two first had a meeting, Manjusaka proceeded to tell Seven's history to her, however, not to mention that he was a Shadow Killer. She didn't care for Thirteen and didn't care if she had died. However, after Thirteen saved Seven, she later recognized Thirteen as Blue Phoenix's disciple. She didn't bother fighting Thirteen and had asked Blackbird instead. She then observed their battle and slightly complimented her. After Thirteen had landed a hit on Blackbird, Manjusaka had said she was beginning to like Thirteen now, whether it was out of respect or romantic is unknown. However, it is suspected that it was out of respect, seeing how Manjusaka went ahead and used Thirteen in a trap for Blue Phoenix.

## Trivia

* The red spider lily flower, which Manjusaka is inspired by, traditionally represents death and evil.
* Manjusaka is the first major antagonist that has not been defeated/killed in the season they were introduced.
	+ She is also the first main antagonist to not have a proper fight with Seven, sending out Black Bird instead to attack him and Thirteen.