Palma Shishinegura

* Profile
* Chaos (XEMBER)

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**Palma Shishinegura** (宍塒パルマ, *Shishinegura Paruma*?) is a girl who works in the Old Market of Minami City, producing and selling living corpses.

## Appearance

Palma is a young girl with pale skin and tousled blond hair tied in a long ponytail. Her eyes are rimmed with heavy dark circles and her pupils are divided by three Y-shaped lines. Her outfit consists of a knee-length black skirt with suspenders, two thick gloves and boots. Because of the summer heat, when she's not outside she takes off her shirt and leaves only the suspenders to cover her torso. When she works with her corpses she wears a lab coat and a surgical mask.

After injecting herself with the XEMBER serum and entering a state of **Chaos** her face split into long appendages similar to severed necks, while her chest and limbs became covered in thick spotted fur and her hands turned into long black claws.

## Personality

> "*Why can't dead people come back to life ... I wish all of them could.*"
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Palma was deeply affected by the loss of her parents and the destruction of her country when she was still a child and later the loss of the same man that had rescued her from that situation when she was a girl. This influenced her personality and her powers when she was reborn as a Choujin and, wishing she could bring the dead back to life and live with the ones she loved forever, she acquired a special blood which allows her to bring the dead back to life even if only as zombies.

Palma is particularly shy and usually melancholic, often speaking to corpses and animals as if they were people.
She has a sincere desire to help others, especially to achieve their dreams and save lives. However, precisely because of her ingenuity, she is also easily manipulated and involved in dangerous and illegal projects.
Probably due to her background and her experience in medicine, she does not seem to feel disgust at working with human bodies, even if they are decomposing, nor does she feel remorse at awakening their bodies and then selling them as slaves. However during her recent project given to her by Noh Mask she came to wonder what would happen to humanity if the creation of artificial Choujins became the norm.

Palma is a hard worker, giving all her strength and resources when given a task, locking herself in on the job until it is finished or she is completely exhausted. She suffers from insomnia, probably caused from her traumatic experiences in Morth .

## Background

When she was still a young child Palma lived in a country called Morth, before a catastrophe hit the region, making it a toxic wasteland where not even beasts could live. After her parents died with her, Palma returned to life awakening as a Choujin but remained close to them, confused from the loss and without nowhere to go. One day the leader of a group of mysterious figures, dressed in long coats and wearing gas masks, noticed the little girl and took her in with them.

As she was helped to bury her parents, Palma wondered why people have to die and expressed her desire to bring everyone back to life, to be able to live with everyone she cares about for a long time. After joining the mysterious group of survivors, Palma grew up with them for several years, taking the surname of "Shishinegura" from the man who had rescued her.

But only after some years, Palma suffered another loss when the man who had rescued her as a child and welcomed her into his group died in her hands for an unknown reason. After this she seemingly travelled until she arrived in Yamato Prefecture at the age of fourteen.

Here, after illegally entering the prefecture, she settled in the Old Market of Minami City, a place famous for illegal trafficking and for attracting Choujin misfits and criminals of all sorts. Working alone, she opened her shop "Smile: Total life support for you, day to day" in which, using her Choujin blood, she brought corpses back to life, transforming them into zombies, and then selling them as workers to any customer of the Old Market.

In the following two years, Noh Mask also became one of her clients, in particular as a buyer of body parts that he could use to share his powers with other members of the Tower of Mourning (for example by infusing tongues with Kate Nèether's powers to guarantee them a escape route with her portals) but also selling her the drugs she needed for her zombies.

## Plot

One year after the Battle at the Omega Tower between Zora and Yamato Mori, Noh Mask contacted Palma again for a successful and ambitious project: to improve his XEMBER serum, a mysterious fluid capable of transforming a normal human into a Choujin, convinced her with the idea that this was his dream and that he could change the world and save an infinite number of people from death, a theme dear to the girl.

Noh Mask quickly secured her everything she needed and even an entire isolated facility and 80 bodies to begin experiments with. However, the first steps were slow and difficult: despite Palma's immense medical capacity and miraculous blood, the bodies had problems absorbing even small amounts of XEMBER serum, literally exploding. If normally only one person out of 1000 had the characteristics to awaken as Choujin even fewer managed to return from the first death. What she was trying to do now was certainly no easier, forcibly bringing to life corpses already infused with the fluid.

While trying to collect the corpses that fell from the plane crash, caused by Zora's followers, and ended up on Minami beach, Palma met Azuma also intent on looking for the bodies to bring them back to their families. Although the fear of being discovered by a Keeper of Yamato Mori had paralyzed her, the boy was kind to her, giving her his contacts and the crab rice balls he had with him, noting her hunger, and she remained impressed with his kindness and goal, rooting for him.

After several days of tireless research, Palma finally managed to find the perfect formula, bringing back to life a Choujin who was once just a human corpse. However, she failed to foresee the resistance of the first subject to her tranquilizers and the creature, out of control, took her by surprise, starting to absorb the other corpses and overwhelming the girl, reaching the point of starting to devour her. Unable to activate **Raise** and on the verge of death, Palma picked up a syringe containing the XEMBER serum that fell near her, injecting it and returning to life in the form of a beast with her face divided into tentacles and her limbs covered with spotted fur and long claws.

Now in a state of Chaos and out of control, the girl began to fight against the horde of zombies that had awakened in the abandoned factory. Her Choujin signal, however, was perceived by Tokio Kurohara, engaged in his mission to look for Zora's opium in the Old Market together with Michael and Michelangelo. Going against Yamato Mori's protocol and Sato's orders, the boy leaves the mission to his companions and rushes to investigate the signal, giving priority to saving the out-of-control Choujin and preventing a disaster in Minami.

However, once he arrives on site together with Masamume, Tokio understood the difficulty of his mission: fighting Palma who had taken the form of a monstrous beast and the hordes of zombies who continued to regenerate with her blood proves too difficult, given that despite this he still wanted to save her, sensing her thoughts of fear and confusion. Sinking deeper into the state of Chaos, Palma cornered Tokyo until Azuma and Ely appeared on the scene. In fact, the two had rushed there after the ingenious tracker that the boy had hidden in the gift given to Palma had activated, allowing him to locate her.

Even though Azuma would have liked to eliminate the girl before she went completely out of control, Tokio persisted in his desire to save her. When the other also perceived Palma's thoughts and Ely pushed him, they found themselves in agreement. While the Keeper girl holded the zombies at bay, the two managed to immobilize her with Azuma's chains while Tokio's bestial strength allowed him to inflict a final blow on Palma, knocking her out and preventing her from using **Raise** while she was in a state of Chaos, finally bringing her back to consciousness.

After an attempt by Noh Mask to kidnap her, she is taken to safety in the Yamato Mori base from Tokyo. Here she is interrogated by Azuma, who is shocked when he discovers the trafficking and jobs in which she was involved and which did not arouse any reaction from the embarrassed girl, unable to understand the gravity of her situation and the fact of being an illegal immigrant and prosecutable for various crimes.

## Abilities

Palma is able to bring bodies back to life infusing her own blood inside them. This process requires several hours. The zombies does not show human intelligence but are able to work and follow simple instructions.
Palma is able to talk with the spirits of the deceased through their corpses, understanding their thoughts and desires, allowing her to make even bargains with them. She is not able to hear the voices of those who have died too long or so tragically that they have let go of their thoughts.

In a Chaos state, Palma is able to release a fountain of blood from her stomach, bringing back to life all the bodies that come into contact with her blood.
In a Chaos state, Palma is able to take the form of a hyena, with her chest and limbs covered in thick spotted fur and with her hands turned into long black claws, while her head is replaced with a bigger paw with black claws and a big eye in the middle.
In a Chaos state, Palma's black claws are hard and sharp enough to cut a body in two with a single lash.
In a Chaos state, Palma is able to weakly manipulate gravity to repulse enemies too close to her.
In a Chaos state, Palma is able to quickly produce insect-like limbs from her body.
In a Chaos state, Palma is able to release tentacles made of blood from her eye that an extend for meters and cut deeply and fast.

Palma possesses an incredible knowledge of the human body in all its aspects, combined with a long experience with surgical interventions. She is capable of using a wide range of medical tools and drugs. She also possesses detailed knowledge of Choujin biology, being able in a relatively short time to understand the XEMBER serum and improve it to successfully transform even a human corpse into a Choujin.

Palma is a good swimmer and can swim for long distances. She was able to learn how to swim by dying and using **Raise** multiple times and managed to swim in the open sea from Morth to Nanatsu in two months.

## Trivia

* After the death of her parents, Palma took the surname of the Choujin who saved her and by whom she was raised.
* Her name might be inspired by the **Palm Branch**, a christian symbol connected with rebirth and immortality. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm\_branch#Christianity)

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