Shizuka Ikami

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### Allies

(All Neutral) Locaster Helios, Veena Lu, Damion Halloreen, Hikage Ishuko, Shay Hanamura, Yuna Hanamura, Soul Kawasaki, Hideko Inazuma, Ashton Khanh, Nabi Haluška, Fēng Xu, Cherry Amana, Windflower Amana, Kahori, Lyria Emerith, Shiah Bereng, Colbalt Majmua, Crimson O'Connel

### Enemies

Crow Watanabe, Locaster Helios (formerly) Soul Kawasaki, (formerly) Shítǐ, Akuji Hasegawa, Cassian Packard, Caius Astrada, Shítǐ

## Portrayal

### Voice Claim

Revy (Maryke Hendrikse)

**Thank you so much to HazyFacade for the drawing! Coloring done by me.**

**Shizuka Ikami** was one of the main antagonists in *Challenge of The Shadows*. She is one of the main high ranking lieutenants of the heinous Black Sun, and had held a grudge towards Locaster and the shard users for a brief amount of time during her mission in attempting to capture him and potentially his friends because of her immense dislike for them.

With her being a lieutenant for the Black Sun, she was mainly an antagonistic force that attempted to get in the way of many of Locaster's missions and perceived him as nothing but a target. However, after she started to aid him, she manages to improve on her behavior and retired from the Black Sun, joining Team Strelitzia in the processs.

Shizuka is a control demon and was abandoned by her mother at a young age because of her specie and was perceived as an unwanted child due to her mother's affair with her biological father. Because of her being abandoned, she was then adopted by Hideko Inazuma, her now older adoptive brother.

## History

Shizuka was born and raised in the slums of Lyakon with mentally and emotionally unstable parents. Her mother was extremely negligent and had an affair with Shinji Ikami, her biological father who was a control demon unbeknownst to her and her mother before she was born. After months of her affair on her then husband, she had eventually conceived on accident, leaving her in somewhat of a shock that she had a child growing inside of her.

Despite her conceiving, Shinji was not upset about it and was in a sense supportive, but was rather unsettled when having the thoughts of raising a child due to his inexperience with children as a whole, but attempted to be there for her mother so he would not leave her alone with a child to raise, despite him being aware that she had a husband before him.

Shinji had not fully abandoned her mother while she was pregnant, but both came to agreement where he would be visiting his child on a monthly basis or less due to the incredibly high crime rate in Estelar, meaning he would have to cut off visits for a short or long amount of time depending on the day. Though, despite all the troubles, Shinji was an extremely devoted individual and would always try to be there for his child when she would be birthed, and promised that he will try his best to be there for his child in any part of their life.

Shizuka's mother had always wanted to discard her from the beginning, but she could not bring herself into doing so due to her immense love for Shinji. After the birth of Shizuka, Her mother found her "beastly" and put her to the side while her biological father occasionally visited and cherished his child by playing with her and learning how to be a father, while her mother and husband were negligent of her and did not seem to give as much attention to Shizuka, While Shinji was more of a parental figure to her than her mother and human father.

Though, after a few months during the war with Leiden and Myria, her biological father had stopped visiting her due to the crime rates in Estelar becoming significantly higher, making her saddened as the only parental figure who cared for her could not visit as often because of where she had lived. After many years, Shizuka seems to both remember and forget about her biological father from time to time due to a memory problem.

After her fathers' absence, Shizuka had grown up in poor conditions, as she would have to starve for days on end and often had illnesses that most of the population had caught and died from, rendering her immune system to be weak and frail, as even one toxin could have made her cough violently. She had started to show signs of mental instability at the age of five, as her neglect became much more frequent and usually had to play by herself outside in the yard when her parents were unconscious or arguing about their troubles to one another, and began becoming desperate for the attention of her mother by stoning mockingbirds on the porch and present her the organs, to which she had expressed immediate disgust for and began berating her for her "erratic behavior" and would at times result to physical violence.

As her parents quarrels had also began getting more physical, she was also being targeted and had objects thrown at her, even to a point where her mother had thrown a chair and had broken the front of her skull, hitting the frontal lobe and rendering her unconscious for an hour. As a result of this injury, Shizuka was now unable to tell what decisions she made were good or bad, causing her to start acting out by killing animals in the yard by stoning or using a sharp object, and began showing her parents animal bones and carcasses much more often.

Because of her frail mental state, Shizuka was not being capable to see the consequences of her actions, as her parents had began resenting her more and more as it would result in her usually getting scolded by her parents with threats of being put in the National Army and even being disowned from the house-hold. Intimidated, she had attempted to stop acting out whenever her parents were in a quarrel, but due to her frontal lobe injury her decisions were becoming uncontrollable and would have angered outbursts by telling them to stop or begins to scratch them, almost leading her mother into killing her, but she could not bring herself to do so due to her resemblance of her actual father.

Shizuka's mother had attempted to subdue her into acting more like a regular child, but failed to bring her to a proper stability rate because of her violent and brain-scattered behavior. Shizuka was neglected to an extent where she would have to eat bugs or dead animal remains for weeks at a time due to her lack of knowledge on how to fend for herself in the slums: Though to her surprise, she had quickly recovered: Her parents did not question on how she recovered so fast because of her weakened immune system at the time due to them both paying little attention to her.

Shizuka's magic had begun to develop after she had tried to catch a squirrel to eat and when trying to grab it, she realized it had stopped moving and discovered that she could control its movements. Surprised by her new found powers, She had begun using them to hunt down animals that she could eat and eventually had managed to tame her magic, but was unaware that she was a demon, speaking of so she never knew what demons were due to her hardly experiencing a life outside of her home.

As soon as she discovered the extent of her magic, she started to control the insects and animals around her and became more distant from her negligent family while still retaining her mental problems and sensitive, brain-scattered personality while gradually becoming colder and more aware about the world around her, adapting to her parent's constant quarrels and fights while having to see disturbing things that happened outside of the slums when watching things outside of the windows whenever she was locked in a small room by her father for misbehaving.

Shizuka's problems had begun spiraling out of control when she was nine, as she had begun breaking objects in her home, physically attacking her parents by scratching, hitting or kicking them whenever they argued and inflicting harm on herself and on other animals besides birds. Her parents arguing had filled her brain to a point where she would begin yelling and screaming for hours at a time: Whenever they had gotten physical with each-other, Shizuka could not help but look tearfully, not realizing that her powers can be used on humans and not only animals.

One day when her parents we're arguing, Shizuka held her hand out and closed her fathers throat so he could not yell at her mother anymore, hoping that the both of their woes could be solved and they could pay attention to her: Shizuka's mother realized that she was a demon soon after and quickly discarded her from her care by kicking her out and forcing her to live on the streets at the age of nine.

During her time on the streets, Shizuka was heavily mistreated by those around her and was seen as a scapegoat by other children: like Ashton, her horns were also sawed off by a group of and used as weapons due to their unusual sharpness: She was constantly mistreated by those around her all for her species, while a good portion of children used her to steal supplies from other sanctuaries set up in Estelar, but if she did not do what was asked of her, she would be discarded and abandoned by those who she had thought cared for her.

Because of the way the children had been treating her, Shizuka had stopped trying to look for shelters, but instead attempted to go home with her mother, but to no avail due to forgetting her location. At times, she would have to sleep near garbage cans or under cardboard boxes whenever it was raining, and she would often have to relocate frequently because of her fear of getting attacked. Because of her unstable living situation, she never had the ability to fend or look after herself.

Eventually after a couple of years, Hideko, her then-to-be older brother, had found her and took her to his shelter. She at first did not seem to trust him too much and was rather shy and reclusive around him, but overtime, she started to bond with him and acted like his younger sister more than a child he simply took in. She was often protected by Hideko and learned many concepts that she was never aware of before, and begun to learn how to express her emotions in a more sufficient manner. When she was trained in combat and stealing, the both of them would go on missions to steal from the capital, with Hideko usually doing the stealing and Shizuka using her telekinetic abilities to stop the soldiers from chasing him.

The two had become inseparable, never leaving each-others side and assisting one another when needed. Though the both of them would have their share fair of bickering matches, Hideko and Shizuka had gotten along well and the both of them protect one another efficiently. Hideko mainly protected Shizuka because of her being the younger one and also because of his fear of losing other loved ones. He often kept her close and prohibited the other children from playing rough with her out of fear that she would get injured severely and was mostly in Hideko's protection.

Two years later, the siblings eventually found Ashton and took him in after he was having a difficult time finding shelter. When taking him in, Shizuka resonated with him because of Ashton also being abandoned by his parents and became curious of him. When finding out he was a demon, Shizuka and Hideko supported him, causing her and Ashton to become closer to one another. Even though Shizuka was close with Ashton, she taught him about survival and maturity, having to be fit in order to survive in the slums and taught him how to tactfully sneak his way around soldiers guarding the market areas at night. With her teachings, Ashton and Shizuka became close, where both would view each other as siblings despite not being related, and aided him, along with Hideko, in sharpening his skills.

Eventually, the three became a trio and were listed as enhanced thieves in the slums. With their combined magic abilities, they were able to steal faster and quicker, managing to get a surplus of food, coal and fresh water, something that the slums did not provide. Because of their combined efforts, they managed to take care of the children in Hideko's shelter without difficulty and went out of their way to steal for other people.

## Appearance

Shizuka is a woman with a slender build that has gray-ish skin with teal eyes and long, silver hair that extends to her lower back. On the sides of her head are two, uneven stubs due to her horns being sawed off. She is mainly seen wearing a dark teal cloak with a white bow attached to the lower part, a murky-blue body suit shirt with silver and black armor covering her chest and a belt that has a sword pocket with a small machete inside, and garners dark blue military pants, a pair of light gray gloves with sharp tips and gray boots with darker soles.

Though, after being ambushed by Crow with a crescent moon blade that hit her deep into one of her nerves, it had resulted in her losing her left arm and wears a silver, human-like prosthetic arm that works exactly like her other arm.

## Personality

Shizuka is shown to be dead calm, polite, yet apathetic and extremely distant, hardly talking or socializing with any of her peers in the Black Sun and usually remained stern and somewhat hostile towards those who were lower in ranks. Despite her quiet demeanor, she is very intelligent, mainly due to her being educated by her older brother and by commanders in the Black Sun. Her intelligence is high enough to a point where she had managed to wipe out several armies on her own without assistance or needing to bring in more troops that will aid and assist her. Shizuka has demonstrated to be in a sense compliant with her tasks and orders, managing to get everything done in minutes and has demonstrated to be merciless: She does not spare any soldier from punishment or death, and can be referred to as a killing machine, getting the job done without wasting any time or giving mercy.

With her wits and strength, Shizuka has demonstrated to have somewhat of a soft spot for children, especially those working in the Black Sun, as she is seen to act more gentle and kind around them, acting like a mother to those who never had one, especially to a small child named Sariel, whom she treated fairly well unlike the lower-ranked soldiers, who she dismisses harshly and has little to no care for the soldiers around her. Whenever she was off duty, she would visit Sariel and express her sympathy to the young child, speaking to her gently and giving her orders out with a kinder tone by usually giving her small gifts as a gesture, but does not do this with other soldiers or individuals in her division.

Shizuka has shown to be bold and sharp-tongued, telling Akuji that he was a coward for hiding in a tree and demanded him to come down to show himself. She has demonstrated to have the ability to articulate her words in a demanding and concise manner without sounding too aggressive nor too demanding. According to Ashton, she has shown to sometimes have a foul mouth and sometimes throws curse words out of the blue, surprising people as she is perceived as someone who does not curse. Though, she often watches her mouth whenever she's around higher ranking soldiers and shows them respect, talking to them cordially without having to raise her voice.

Initially being captured by the Black Sun at a young age, she is seen as somewhat brain-scattered to a point where she had forgotten that she was adopted, let alone not being aware that she was adopted: her memories from when she lived in the slums were lost after her military training, and can only remember fragments of her past. Due to her never going to school, she cannot seem to grasp on the concept of empathy or emotions for that matter, thus rendering her as apathetic and often has a monotone facial expression whenever she speaks to someone.

Shizuka was always taught to use her deception by faking her emotions before planning out an attack by her trainers, demonstrating that she is an extremely deceptive woman, using her fake emotions and charm to manipulate those around her and attack the enemies without showing mercy. Even as a child, she was shown to have been trying to choke several of the children in Hideko's shelter because of her extremely damaged mental state. According to her older brother, Shizuka is very sporadic with her emotions, sometimes showing affection and getting out of her shell, but other times she would be seen as rather manipulative and intoxicating to be around, thus causing the children in his shelter to distance themselves from her.

Shizuka is incapable of having a relationship with other people besides her brother, whom she has a stable relationship with despite being tense in the beginning when they first met: Her relationship with other people are described to be very strained as she cannot communicate with others properly, only showing a sense of vituperativeness towards others and can sometimes act possessive of those around her, especially with her older brother and Sariel, people who she treasures dearly: She has demonstrated to be extremely over-protective to a point where she would beg her brother not to leave without her because of how she did not want him being captured like she was, and oftentimes stood next to him.

Her inability of having relationships with another person can cause her to rely too much on other people due to her mental and emotional instability. It is noted that Shizuka is desperate for love and affection, even if it were from her own general in command, Alistair, who acted more like her mother than her own mother had despite her cruelty. Being neglected and abused by her mother, Shizuka grew up uneducated and had a lack of understanding for things around her, such as the concepts of a brother and a sister, foam in the water and even her own apathy that she was unaware of having.

Not only is she somewhat unaware of the world around her, she is also unaware on how to not perceive someone as her target and as a human. Being harshly trained by the military, she was always taught to kill those who are the enemy and to not think once about what will happen to them, let alone how their families would react when they are dead. She often does what she is told to and doesn't seem to question the authority of her own military group. She can only see her brother, Hideko, as a human with feelings, but cannot grasp onto the idea that other people besides him have feelings and emotions. Though, after she joins Team Strelitzia, she begins to open up with other members and started to assimilate herself within the group and opened up to be more bold, cocky, and says whats on her mind, along with being foul mouthed and quite open about her opinions, contradicting her usual quiet, posh demeanor she possessed during her time serving under the Black Sun.

Shizuka sometimes shows a sibling relationship with Ashton, since the two of them have grown up together for a few years. However, she can act rather defensive and somewhat hostile around him because of his rather crude remarks about what had happened to her arm, despite her explaining that she had lost it because of a crescent moon blade. Though, throughout the story, the two started to grow closer and going as far into protecting one another from serious attacks. She perceives Ashton as her younger brother because of how they were raised together, and despite his insensitive jokes, still protects and cherishes him because of his assistance and help towards her.

When lowering her guard, Shizuka acts more energetic, yet still remains rather civil with the other members of Team Strelitzia. Though, she sometimes acts overtly aggressive due to her new-found freedom and companions.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities**: As a high-ranking lieutenant of a heinous military group, Shizuka has proven herself to be an extremely talented, yet dangerous demon and strategist: Due to having the ability to mind manipulate others with the simple movements of her hands, she can be capable of stopping an entire army by only moving one of her hands and maneuvering all of their minds to fight one another instead of her army. Her apathy and mercilessness manages to intimidate generals without her even making a single attack. Along with her intelligence, is also seen as deadly: She is not able to express emotions properly and has demonstrated to have no fear or panic when fighting another, always remaining calm without any fear shown on her face.

**Apathy:** As a child and an adult, Shizuka has shown visible signs of apathy, showing little to no emotion and often having to use deception by faking her feelings or expressions to another person before making the first move, by either using sympathy or pity to manipulate those who are seen as emotionally dependent. Due to this, she can remain in the same mentality and physical state. With her apathy, she utilizes it by manipulating another person by faking and masking her emotions without having to break character.

**Immense Speed & Reflexes:** As both a demon and a high-ranking lieutenant, Shizuka is an incredibly fast individual who does not seem to get tired. She was able to outrun Sakura's vines when he was absorbing Hikage inside of them during his short time as a shard thief. Shizuka has the same speed level as both Locaster and her brother, being able to catch up with them in the blink of an eye. With her speed, her reflexes are on par with Shay's, being able to swiftly duck attacks from Locaster with ease and remaining in the same shape as before.

**Immense Strength:** As a lieutenant, Shizuka has demonstrated to possess an incredible amount of strength, knocking Locaster down with only a simple punch. She was also able to tackle Shay during their fight outside of the secret archive due to their strength Calibers matching to one another. She was also able to nearly tackle Ashton after he insensitively asked about her losing her arm. Her strength is further exemplified when she was able to defeat some Lyakonian soldiers at once by dragging one by the leg and knocking the rest down.

**Unlimited Stamina & Endurance:** Like many demons, Shizuka possesses unlimited stamina and endurance. When Crow had thrown his many crescent moon blades at her, she was able to resist a majority of the poison that had entered her blood stream, but ended up losing her left arm because of the poison stopping the nerves completely. As she is a demon, she can almost never get tired due to her high stamina levels. Her stamina was on par with the Lyakonian soldiers and is the same level as her older brother, Hideko.

**Tactical Intellect:** Being harshly trained in the Black Sun since she was twelve, Shizuka is an incredibly clever and sharp individual. She was able to use her wits and knowledge about military combat to her advantage when fighting the Lyakonian soldiers, and was easily able to sense a soldier nearly delivering a surprise attack to Hideko without difficulty. She was also able to coordinate an ambush when the group was attempting to flee Lyakon in order to temporarily seek sanctuary in Elveria or Misterin. She managed to outsmart Soul in his tracks and figured out how Crow had gotten his new advanced abilities.

## Magic Abilities

**Telekinesis:** As a control demon, Shizuka possesses a unique type of telekinesis, where she is able to control any individual by simply accessing their mind. She is able to manipulate them in any manner, ranging from body movements to speech. Her telekinetic abilities have also been proven to kill many, as she made two people fight each other to death by using her powers to make them attack one another.

## Weaknesses

**Overuse:** Like all demons, Shizuka's weak point is overusing her powers, as she will begin to experience fatigue like symptoms if she starts to overuse them. If she is controlling too many people, it would overwhelm her body, causing her to get dizzy and some fatigue-like symptoms. With her horns also removed, overusing her magic can result in a severe headache or fever depending on how much she overuses her powers.

**Poison:** Even though Shizuka has an incredibly durable body, she is also weak to poison, as seen when she lost her arm due to getting hit by a crescent moon blade. Because of the high amount of arsenic and plutonium assimilated in her body, her nerves would instantly stop working and sometimes cause amputation or complete paralyzation in any body part.

## Relationships

### Hideko Inazuma

Hideko is the adoptive brother of Shizuka, finding her in the slums when she was young. At first, Shizuka did not trust Hideko that much because of how she was afraid of being hurt in the same way that her parents had done in the past. However, when she starts to get used to him and being invited to go on missions to steal with him, she slowly starts to get used to him and going as far into protecting him whenever needed. Hideko, in turn, also begun to protect her due to being his younger sister and both had gotten along well, despite their back and forth bickering with on another.

After being taken away by the Black Sun when she was young, she had slowly begun to forget about her brother, forgetting his personality, his voice, and even his face when she was a lieutenant. She started to get some memories from when they were not separated, but the memories were not always in full and she would often brush them off as small hallucinations.

When she was reunited with him, her memories had started to come back and begun to act more warmly to him, despite acting hostile at first due to her forgetting who he was. The two of them prove to have a sibling bond that no one else had, protecting each-other at all costs in any given circumstance and refused to leave Hideko's side when he was severely injured by the dark entity.

### Ashton Khanh

Ashton is Shizuka's childhood friend, being taken in by both Hideko and her because of how he was seeking shelter from the rain. She too was hostile to him at first, having suspicions about him being from an enemy shelter. Though, as soon as she warmed up to him, the both of them became close and acted like siblings, sometimes bickering back and forth like her and Hideko would usually do, but in a more light-hearted manner. She was very protective of him because of how he was always neglected and abused by those around him and did not want him to feel unwanted.

However, as she reunited with him, their relationship was somewhat strained because of Ashton's personality shift. Ashton would taunt her in a teasing manner, but Shizuka was often annoyed by this instead of laughing along like she would have done. He would also be rather insensitive to her, asking in a more crude manner about what had happened to her arm, despite her explaining many times about how she lost it.

Despite his insensitive nature towards her, the both of them still show a sibling-like relationship, protecting one another in times of need. Ashton would often protect her whenever needed and Shizuka doing the same, seen when she comes to Ashton's defense when they were turned into the kingdom of Lyakon and being outspoken about how him being a quarter of a demon does not change him as a person.

### Locaster Helios

Locaster and Shizuka's relationship has proven to be strained; Shizuka was sent on many missions to capture him because of his species and bring him back in order to "atone for his sins" because of her thinking he was the culprit of the murders. Locaster was, at some point, frightened by her presence and had gotten into multiple physical conflicts with her, going as far into using his berserk mode on her to get her away from his friends. Shizuka also attempted to psyche him out by threatening the life of his friends in order to allow him to fight her under the order of her admiral, Alistair, and often enjoyed taunting him about his past.

Though, as she did assist with giving him a synchronization spell for the Demon Gems and realizing he was not the one who had caused all the murders, she stops attempting to go after him because of his father's actions and starts to become his acquaintance, despite all of her wrongs and apologized to him. Though Locaster holds a grudge against her, he does show to have a neutral relationship with her and sees her as an acquaintance more than a friend and attempts to make up for her past behavior by talking to him regularly and aiding him.

### Soul Kawasaki

Shizuka proves to display a disdain for Soul and dislikes him heavily. Because of her attempts of trying to kill Locaster, Soul had gained a dislike for her because she was apart of the Black Sun and she was trying to kill his best friend, holding an immense hostility for her. Her grudge is further proven when she attempts to capture him in order to seize him to the Black Sun, but failed because of their magic and intelligence.

However, after she assisted Locaster and him with a synchronization spell page, Soul tolerates her to an extent and considers her to be a "mutual friend" prior to his disappearance.

### Yuna Hanamura

Yuna and Shizuka show to have a neutral relationship. As she does not talk to her much, it is unclear on how Shizuka feels on Yuna, but describes her as a sweet woman and enjoys listening to her fascination with potions and herbs. Yuna has mixed feelings on her because of her past actions, but sees how she improved and allowed her to study potions next to her while she works. Though, she acts rather socially awkward around her because of her fear of distracting her.

Yuna sees Shizuka in a mixed manner, while she attempts to form a bond with her, she still holds a grudge against her for her past actions. Though, Yuna appreciates how she has improved in order to assist them in their mission to reunite the Demon Gems. She shows her growing bond with her by listening to her eagerness to learn potion-making and herbology aswell.

### Shay Hanamura

During their time as enemies, Shay and Shizuka held hostility for one another because of the attempts to kill members of Team Strelitzia or sabotage their plans. Because both are lieutenants, Shizuka would taunt Shay and provoke him into fighting her so she could see his skill level, as seen during the fight at the secret archive. Shay still holds a slight hostility towards her, but manages to talk with her normally without any problem , though it is noted by Hideko that the two would quarrel frequently if in a disagreement with one another.