Shikyou

## Shikyou, the Amanojaku

"Ga, ga, ga, asore!"

-Causes death on command

-Levitation/Flight

Shikyou (死凶) is the antagonist of the Onibi series.

Her main goal is believed to be keeping Mai and Akari away from each other.

Akari's clan forbids even going outside of their main gate, as it would end their contract with Shikyou.

## Appearance

Shikyou is modeled after Kagamine Rin.

She appears to be a woman with short, flaxen yellow hair and glowing red eyes.

She wears a gray or brown kimono with green sashes, which is secured by a green obi, and a large white bow on top of her head.

## Appears in

* 狐の嫁入り (*Kitsune no Yomeiri/The Fox's Wedding*/2013) [Mentioned]

* 鬼美影演舞狂-狐ノ嫁入リ- (*Kimikage Enbukyou -Kitsune no Yomeiri-*/*The Beautiful Shadow Of The Demon's Frenzied Dance Performance -The Fox's Wedding-*)

* 首無演舞狂 (*Kubinashi Enbu Kyou*/*Beheading Dance Performance*) [Mentioned]

* 死凶天邪鬼 (*Shikyou Amanojaku*/*Shikyou the Amanojaku*)

* 明鏡鬼童 (*Meikyou Oni Warabe*/*The Demon Child in the Clear Mirror*/ADULT) [Mentioned]

## Personality

Shikyou is seen to be a cunning character who really values fate, disliking anyone who dares try and disrupt it. She also seems to lie a lot to get things to go her way and for Akari to trust her.

She is also seemingly one of the reasons why the Oborodzuka clan was cursed: she failed to save Tsukuyomi.

Not to mention, it seems that she has some morals, as she views humans taking away lives as a "serious sin" and punishes Mai for it.

## Background

### Origins

Shikyou is an Amanojaku, which are a type of Yokai in Japanese folklore that causes mischief and harm to humans, making people act upon urges that they normally can suppress (cannibalism, murder, kidnapping ect...)

Despite her apparent status as an Amanojaku, Shikyou is also mainly the goddess of death, and has unique and deadly powers.

The main role of Shikyou is to return life to the Gods by causing death. All human lives are merely borrowed from the gods, and must be returned to them in time before the thing they control fully decays.

In the past, Shikyou has committed abominable acts such as killing an entire village by making it's inhabitants cannibalize one another, the reason for this is because they were atheists.

This is known as "Shikyou's Procession", which we can only assume means Shikyou cursing multiple villages one after one whose people are atheist and non-believers and making them kill each other, resulting in a genocide.

This seems to also be an event that is possible with the aid of the Oborudzuka brothers or clan members.

As a man who lived in the village which was later cannibalized, when describing Shikyou's Procession, he mentioned how the Oborodzuka brothers were "ruthless" when it came room killing members of other villages.

This allures to the fact that Shikyou hates humans, and is most likely annoyed at them for not fearing or worshiping and appreciating the Gods, and Shikyou herself.

### The Oborodzuka Clan

Shikyou has been protecting the clan ever since she failed to save Tsukuyomi, resulting in the clan's cursed powers. She takes interest in Akari especially as Akari posesses powers extremely similar to Tsukuyomi. Shikyou tries to manipulate Akari into unleasing her power on 3 men who abused Akari, which suceeds as Akari kills the men with her extremely powerful abilities. However, when Shikyou attempts to manipulate Akari once again, Akari notices Shikyou's lies and instead plays dumb to get out of the situation

### The Beautiful Shadow Of The Demon's Frenzied Dance Performance -The Fox's Wedding-

In the song, Shikyou is screaming as she is angry at Akari and Mai meeting. She also appears on a closet door for some reason.

### Shikyou, the Amanojaku

> *"Our shoddy creations won’t even praise us! Ga, Ga, Ga, Asore!" ‎ ‎ ― Shikyou*
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In the song, she makes fun of Ryou, who is an atheist, and Mai, for possibly following her mother's footsteps and not believing in the Gods.

### Beheading Dance Performance

Towards the end of the series, Mai gets killed and beheaded. It is highly likely that Shikyou is responsible for this, as she keeps bringing up beheading in her song.

## Relationships

### Mai Shishikusa

It is pretty obvious that Shikyou hates Mai, and Shishikusa Clan in general, due them being atheists and thinking they are better then the Gods. She also hates Mai because she met Akari, and that wasn't meant to happen.

### Emi

It is theorized that Emi helped Akari and Mai meet each other, which would likely mean that Shikyou hates Emi as well.

## Theories

* A theory states that Emi is the reason Mai and Akari met, therefore Shikyou became extremely upset and angry at her. As Shikyou sees humans as lesser beings, she might have found this act offensive and/or infuriating.

* Maha's Story seems to be a conflict and war between heaven and hell, posing a possible connection to Shikyou; however, Shikyou doesn't appear in the story in any way at all. But it's possible that Shikyou did not bother to care and only watched from the sidelines.

## Trivia

* Shikyou's name in Japanese is made of two kanji letters, 死 means "death", whereas 凶 means "misfortune, ill luck or evil."

* Shikyou is described as "A god who has the power to kill anything, including other gods". Seeing as how one of her main powers is to take the borrowed lives of humans and return them to the gods, it would seem she does this by "starving" the gods of their own life.

* She rules over the Land of the Dead, and/or Hell, which in Japanese mythology is called Yomi, and/or Jigoku.

* Another one of Shikyou's jobs is to collect the souls of the dead and controlling death/when people die as well, which is why she must never trade her soul or be trapped in an alter, because then nobody would be able to die, the gods wouldn't be able to get their souls back, the things of nature would decay, and then the world would drastically end.

* There is a common mistranslation within the 2013 remake of "The Fox's Wedding", when Akari mentions "The Gates of Death," it is actually meant to be "Shikyou's Gate."