Shizune Hakamichi

> "*I'm glad it only took us a paragraph to realize he was screaming at the top of his lungs to a deaf girl.*"
> ― Thomas, to Trevor, about Kenji
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## Shizune Hakamichi

### Relatives

Hideaki Hakamichi (brother), Jigoro Hakamichi (Father), Mayoi Hakamichi (Mother, deceased), Lilly Satou (Maternal Cousin), Akira Satou (Maternal Cousin), Uncle Daisuke (Paternal Uncle)

## Biographical information

### Date of birth

May 6, 1989

Shizune Hakamichi is the current heiress to the Hakamichi Clan. The Hakamichi Clan being a powerful and widespread yakuza family operating in southern Japan. She was born deaf, much to the annoyance of her father.

## Background

Shizune was born 1989 to an overbearing but protective father and a presumably loving mother. At some point Mayoi, Shizune's mother, died and that left the aggressive and boorish Jigoro as Shizune's primary influence. Jigoro gave Shizune every advantage and opportunity except having a parent that loves/attempted to understand their child's disability even if only in passing sign language. Their competitive natures clashing and Jigoro's borderline emotional neglect of Shizune has caused a rift between then that's lasted up to and through highschool.

Due to her mother's status of Hakamichi née Satou, Shizune is closely tied to Lilly and Akira Satou, with the two frequently planning outings and other activities with her and her brother, Hideaki. More reason still is the fact that the two families are branches of each other. Legends tell that the Satous and Hakamichis descend from some common ancestor but both families would rather mass suicide than admit the fact. Further complicating things is that they're both in the same business(es). Profiteering, racketeering, smuggling, extortion, gambling.

Crime. It's crime. They're yakuza.

## History

### Yamaku Beginnings

Being an heiress to her family's birthright, Shizune has been provided for scholastically her entire life and to that end, Jigoro provisioned a spot for her at Yamaku Academy on his own dime. Whether or not the schooling is top of the country is up to debate but it will provide for her disability so she'll be seamless when it comes to her time to ascend to her position.

Shizune's competitive nature and need to dominate nets her a Student Council position early on in her school career. The state of affairs being as they were, the Council was mostly vestigial. Not doing much real work but giving students the ability to participate in school policy and get involved. Once Shizune became President, she was having none of that. She demanded more responsibility placed on the council and while that placated her, it drove the rest of the student body away, especially due to her attitude. By the third year, Shizune and Misha, her VP, were all that was left. Fun as it is having the weight of the world on your shoulders, Shizune was constantly doing recruitment drives for more members especially those with drive.

### Hisao

Shizune landed upon Hisao, the weird new nerd in class who transferred in early in the year. Latching on to him using Misha as a mediator and mouthpiece, she funneled him into the SC, giving him whatever duties she felt like delegating. Mostly drudgework. The first few months of the year were filled with preparation and anticipation of the school festival. After this time, Hisao and Shizune were drawn to each other with the latter only finding out Hisao had been approaching Misha for rudimentary JSL lessons.

Her time leading up to the Tanabata festival was spent getting yelled at by people who don't know she's deaf, Zanpakuto battles with Lilly as the two heiresses clash, and piledriving Hisao into being her model man.

### Live Grenade Arc

Shizune leaves for a week to visit her family and decides to bring Hisao along since dominance hasn't been established enough and she's a man eater. Hisao got to meet the people she has zero respect for and Hideaki, her ~~twink~~ brother. Hisao then learns where she gets it from as he's nearly bisected on the daily for mildly inconveniencing Jigoro. This visit is marked by Hideaki trying to establish himself as a player and killing her sister's boyfriend with a grenade he found. His bluff was called and since he owns more pairs of tights than sense, he proceeds to carry around a live grenade for the next forty-eight hours.

Her cousins Lilly and Akira arrive to generally fuck things up, do battle, and fish. Shizune saves Hisao's bacon several times more over the visit from both her father and brother. The former for daring to insult him with the manlet's presence and the latter because Hideaki is in middle of his proving. Shizune decided the grenade is no longer worth dealing with no matter how funny, rips it from Hideaki's hands, and threw it in a neighbors yard, probably maybe slightly causing casualties. The vacation is punctuated with having primal ball slapping sex with Hisao in her uncle's bed to further sleight her father.

### The Troubles

Trying to end her school career by leaving a mark and having fun with her friends, Shizune is under more pressure to recruit at least *some* younger students into the council she so carefully burned to the ground and remade in her image. Meanwhile, Misha distances herself from the couple due to her complete inability to stow her lesbianness, deciding that leaving them be is better.

Depending on the current status of the Heartbreaker timeline, Shizune notices that either one or both of her friends are slipping away from her for no apparent reason. In the former, she reignites her passion, sucks Hisao through fifty feet of rubber tubing, and discovers that Misha is giving it her all to attempt a future other than mediocrity. In the latter, she reflects that her competitiveness, even in love, has been putting a wedge between her and everyone and decides to burn what little of her relationships she felt she had and take a break from the world. With the first timeline, Shizune and her two other musketeers vow to meet again after they establish themselves in the world.

### De-Kadia Ascending

Some time after the collapse of Heartbreaker's timeloops, Shizune discovered that her father was killed and Hideaki was twinknapped into another universe. She considered it must have something to do with Akira being targeted weeks prior. She was barely named the 79th Head of the Hakamichi Family before creating a warpath to find the culprits. Using Lilly's help and a portal that was in the basement of Yamaku (for some reason), they lead an assault on the other side. While there, Shizune quickly found Hideaki under the thumb/care of Thomas who had been (ab)using him to gain access to the Hakamichi Family Zanpakuto, Soragiri. She battles for her clan's sword, honor, and least importantly, her brother with her own Zanpakuto, Tsubame no Nari. Far more significant things were happening at the time so Hideaki and the sword were given up after only a few near deaths. After Lilly finished her side of battle, they all retreated to the portal, and with the help of Yamaku's Dean (who was here for some reason), they all escaped.

Once home, Shizune, reinvigorated by pitched battle, and with the recent death of her father and her ascending to clan head, she establishes her reign over the empire she inherited.

## Relationships

### Jigoro

Where Shizune gets it from. Jigoro is a gorilla in a man suit with the attitude of a tiger shark. Their relationship is strained due to the lack of him being unable to take out his aggression on anyone else since his wife died. That hardened Shizune's skin and will into diamond but it sacrificed their longterm relationship, which I guess if you ask Jigoro, Mission Accomplished. He doesn't want a daughter, he wants an heir to his throne once his testosterone poisoning claims him.

### Lilly

Maternal cousin who orbits in and out of her life though in recent years has had ample opportunity due to them being in the same school. They are both heiresses to their respective dynasties and their expected demeanor colors their interactions. Despite their cattiness, they do occasionally play nice and go on outings especially if another family member is there to mediate like Akira Satou.

### Hideaki

Her twink brother. Has some drive to be like his sister but almost no assertiveness. In his proving, he attempted to kill someone with a grenade, pussied out, and Shizune had to come in and save him which really just summarizes their relationship. He looks up to her and she looks down on him. Balance.

### Akira

Due to her aggressively laid back demeanor, Shizune doesn't mind Akira's presence and in some cases prefers her to her sister Lilly. Though she is quick to try to defuse Shizune's attempts at stoking conflict, which takes the wind out of her sails.

### Misha

Complicated. They are thick as thieves when in the Student Council together and Misha acts as her mouthpiece when communicating with hearing people. At some point during their stay at Yamaku, Shizune had to turn down a confession from Misha. While this didn't torpedo their relationship outright, it plant a rift that grew over the next few years and depending on the timeline, it was capable of rending them apart due to Misha's feelings boiling over. They were able to patch things up in the other timeline and vowed to meet again in the future after Yamaku.

### Hisao

Her ~~dildo~~ boyfriend who is an excellent stress reliever. They have a strong relationship mostly because Hisao was willing to do so much work upfront just to be her friend let alone lover and she was willing to reciprocate. They complete each other in a lot of ways considering she has enough chutzpah for the both of them and he drags her back down to earth and gives her more motivation.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

Shizune's soul abilities inherited from her lineage grants her amazing abilities and the ability to wield her Zanpakuto: Tsubame no Nari

* **Super-Human Strength:** Being under the training and tutelage of Jigoro from a young age, Shizune uses reiryoku to augment her strength to be on par at least with her gorilla of a father.
* **Super-Human Fitness:** Due to much the same reason, she can keep up with Lilly but loses to Emi and most of the faster students of Yamaku Academy.
* **Super-Human Durability:** A spartan birth assured that she was capable of shrugging off most damage that Jigoro could throw at her.
* **Above Average Intellect:** She's studious and excels in her schooling, putting forth less effort for the same results as the rest of the student body, grade-wise.
* **Super-Human Will:** Shizune locking horns with literally everyone who's ever crossed her and drive to get results that exceeds all expectation has sharpened her determination to a fine point. She has few weak spots, one being those closest to her.

#### Soul Reaper Abilities

* **High Spiritual Pressure:** Though not the highest in the school, that being Lilly's, Shizune's spiritual pressure can easily overpower lesser foes.
* **Flash Step:** The basic ability to move faster than sight. Not an expert by any means but still formidable.
* **Master Level Swordsmanship:** Shizune was born with a sword in her hand. Literally. Jigoro made sure the first thing she touched, even before the doctor, her mother's love, etc, was her future Asauchi. Currently she is the best swordsman in the school, far exceeding Lilly in technical prowess. She is on the shortlist of contenders for Swordmanship Shodan.

### Powers

#### Tsubame no Nari

(lit. Swallow's Promotion)

**Shikai:** Released with the command **Drop:Tsubame no Nari**, its Shikai form is an exceedingly long washing-pole type katana that takes an extraordinarily skilled swordsman to even hold. A gradient of shadow from its tip to searing light at its hilt, the sword is more effective the closer the cut is to the light. Ordinarily aiming to strike with any particular part of the sword (aside from simple stabbing) isn't necessarily accounted for. Inverting the swordsman instinct is difficult though Shizune has learned to use it effectively. Running someone through, thus exposing them to the entire gamut, is almost instant death though it is borderline useless with the sword's effectively blunt tip.

Positioning is paramount with Tsubame no Nari and to that end, on the initial release and every use of the command "Drop" after, Shizune is teleported anywhere, and in whatever position she pleases, within 15 meters of herself and but not within 15 cm of a target. Full teleportation at the expense of having to announce its use.

**Bankai:** **Tsubame no Tsukamaeru** (lit. Snatching Swallow): The blade retains all abilities of its shikai form but loses the blunt shadowy tip, becoming fully effective from any range. In addition, running through an opponent leaves a copy of the sword embedded within. The victim is under full control of the wielder and enjoys the benefits of teleportation. A victim with enough determination can try to pull the sword from their body before control is taken but the blade's brilliant light makes doing so without further dismemberment almost impossible.

#### Soragiri

(lit. Sky Render)

The Hakamichi Clan Zanpakuto. Used by Ryujin Hakamichi in a fated battle against a Satou, it is responsible for more than a few superstitions among the two families.

**Shikai:** Released with the command **Awe: Soragiri**, its Shikai form is almost imperceptible due to the blinding light emitted from the blade. The user is effectively blinded while using it but so is every sighted enemy. The light also heats and while not attuned with fire, it attains rather hot temperatures, capable of igniting objects with low flash points and searing flesh. The intensity can be increased to uncomfortable for the wielder levels but turns the surrounding area, up to 20 meters, into a rolling broiler of light.

**Bankai: Sorakiretsu** (lit. Sky Fissure): Sorakiretsu hones its light to a fine point of variable length. The gradation of immense energy tapers to nothing as the light melts into the air around it. The blade which has lost all surface distinction becomes a solid of zero width. The nigh unlimited light focused within has been compressed to a singularity capable of cleaving through space, any object in the way be damned. With its variable length and infinitely fine point, Sorakiretsu is capable of terrible destruction in the hands of an unskilled holder.

## Trivia

* Shizune is one of two heroines to be confessed to in the second act of Katawa Shoujo, the only other one being Emi.

1. ↑ At no point in KS canon is the status of Mayoi Hakamichi stated so we're going with dead. May as well be since no one seems to care.