Enishi Yukishiro

## Profile

### Appearance

Enishi is described by Watsuki as very handsome, probably “too beauty for a villain”. He has black eyes (highlighted with a blue hue) and spiky white hair, which occasionally casts a shadow over his eyes. He wears a Chinese-made outfit consisting of orange pants with a blue line running down each outside leg, a skin-tight dark blue tank top, and an orange jacket with blue running down the middle, blue cuffs, and a blue-lined collar. He also wears a blue half-cape and slings his watō over his back in a light brown bag. The trademark feature of Enishi, however, is the small round sunglasses he wore until they broke in his final fight with Kenshin. It is possible that Enishi wore his sunglasses to contend with the sensory overload caused by the Nerves of Insanity, which increased his sensory perception, even in its non-active state.

As a child, Enishi wore a basic outfit for a commoner of the era, and his hair was black and shorter. When he was seen by Kenshin at Toba-Fushimi, his hair had turned completely white and his clothes and body had been considerably damaged and worn. He was also in possession of a sword.

### Personality

When he was younger, Enishi was mostly indifferent to all except his older sister, Tomoe, whom he deeply loves and respects. As an adult, he is also shown to care no less for his dead sister than he did as a child, which is seen when he laments her death and wishes to see her "smile" in his mind, hoping that his Jinchū appeases her spirit. He usually wears a façade of polite happiness while talking to the Six Comrades or others he wishes to gain the trust of, though in actuality he cares little for those around him. He acted the same toward Kenshin at first in an attempt to spite him. However, his true feelings are soon revealed, as Enishi shows himself to utterly despise Kenshin with his entire being, wanting nothing less than to make Kenshin go through the same living hell that he himself went through.

After Tomoe's death and before his defeat, time "stopped moving" for Enishi, shown by how he harbours an extremely vengeful and anger-fuelled personality as well as being short-tempered, unstable, delusional and incredibly ruthless. However, despite these many flaws, Enishi is also quite strategic, elaborate and extremely persistent, with how he develop a complex plan to make his worst enemy suffer. Above all, Enishi is shown to be very obsessive, as his entire life since his sister's departure has revolved around avenging her, to the point where his desire for revenge kept him alive in the harshest of conditions and that carrying out Kenshin's torment was stated to now be his only joy in life. Enishi has been mentally tormented after witnessing Tomoe's death, his existence since her departure having been described as a living hell. His somewhat softer side is also shown when he is seen communicating with his dead sister.

After being defeated by Kenshin, his spirit is broken and he goes through a similar state of hopelessness and depression as his brother-in-law, though his father states that he would find new purpose in life someday and would recover like Kenshin had.

## Reference

https://kenshin.fandom.com/wiki/Yukishiro\_Enishi