Shítǐ

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## Shítǐ

* Drawing
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## Physical Information

### Age

20 (Physically)
5000+ (Chronologically)

### Specie

Human (formerly)
Faceless God (currently)

## Characteristics

### Hair Color

Dark Red & Dark Purple (God)
Black (Human)

### Eye Color

None (God)
Black (Human)

## Personal Information

### Relatives

Unnamed Mother (deceased)
Unnamed Father (deceased)
Six unnamed siblings (deceased)

### Enemies

Locaster Helios, Ashton Khanh, Shay Hanamura, Yuna Hanamura, Damion Halloreen, Fēng Xu, Hideko Inazuma, Hikage Ishuko, Veena Lu, Nabi Haluška, Shizuka Ikami, Cherry Amana, Windflower Amana

## Portrayal

### Voice Claim

Nyx Avatar (Yuri Lowenthal)

**Thank you so much DonutDemon for the drawing!**

**Shítǐ**, otherwise known as his alias, **The Dark Entity**, is a major antagonist in *Challenge of The Shadows*. He guards the Fallen Gates of the North Desolates of Azuren, and is the progenitor of the black vines that corrupted Azuren after the separation of the Demon Gems. When the Demon Gems are sealed, he is put in a deep sleep, though when awakened, he begun sending out the vines due to his magic becoming stronger.

Shítǐ was once a member of a cult that worshipped a faceless entity, spared because of his beautiful face, but was often abused by members of the cult, including his own parents; Due to him being mistreated by the priestesses and his parents, he made a contract with the faceless god in order to free himself, giving up his face and burning down the cult temple to erase any trace of his past. With his story, he became an urban legend among Azuren, often being called **Mr. No-Face.**

## History

Shítǐ was born into a cult that worship a faceless entity, conducting ceremonies to honor him and sometimes wear masks resembling the entity that they worshipped. The cult had sacrificed children between infancy and the age of five every full moon in order to "feed" him so he does not go hungry to continue their worshipping.

When Shítǐ was born, he was seen as another sacrifice to the entity and had lived a very sheltered life as a baby: His mother would falter over and cherish her child, worrying about his sacrifice to the entity and had always perceived him as a beautiful baby. As his sacrifice was being prepared when he turned around one month old, one of the priestesses could not stop looking at him and began to falter over his face, seeing that when he was awake, he was seen as a ray of light.

Shítǐ in particular had a face that was seen as "deathly beautiful" by the cult priests and priestesses, and had found it very hard to sacrifice him to the god, giving them the ultimatum of keeping him alive instead of being killed and sacrificed, sealing him a position to become the next leader. Though despite being spared, Shítǐ's parents, Who were both temple guards, were extreme religious fanatics and very strict on him and what he could and could not do: They began forcing him to pray at the age of five to the faceless entity's statues and the shrines for his gratitude of being spared or other reasons, whether it would be forgiveness or for him not to be sacrificed at his current age.

The praying would go on for long hours, sometimes until midnight where his knees would be bruised and he would have to sleep on the floor out of exhaustion, and if he did not pray, he would get locked in a closet and would stay there without food or water. Shítǐ was never allowed outside of the temple, even when he was allowed to go outside, he could not pass the gate that secured the forest and wildlife around him, and was not allowed to play with other children outside of the cult in the forest as they were perceived as "unclean" due to their family not being apart of the cult and worshipping the entity they had.

Gradually, Shítǐ had gotten used to this harsh and strict lifestyle and tried to keep his emotions concealed about his life, but when he was a teenager, he decided to try escaping but was caught by one of the sacred guards that normally monitor the outside or the temples: after, he was beaten to the floor with a book and was forced to pray for forgiveness until five in the morning: Though, an hour before he was going to go to sleep after the praying, he had seen the entity take physical form and was startled, but had only heard him say for Shítǐ to get rest, which he had done: Unfortunately, had resulted in his parents going to the sacred temple and locking him inside where he was forced to pray again for another few hours in the dark with gruesome imagery, and eventually after he was allowed out of the temple after he began screaming to let him out.

Shítǐ had eventually forced himself to blend in with everyone else in the cult, where he appears to enjoy his lifestyle in a cult where in reality he wanted to live a normal life instead of being cooped up in a temple where he does not seem to feel welcomed because of his escape attempts and curiosity of the outside. His other escape attempts had failed and resulted in having to pray for forgiveness or having to be branded with symbols and words carved in his skin, hoping that he would never try escaping the cult anymore.

When he had turned fourteen, he tried to play along and pretend he was enjoying his life in the cult, though later on he had decided to make his final escape attempt, successful at first but was found after two days after being spotted by one of the priestesses and was yet again forced to be locked in the temple, but this time to be chastise for his behavior, meaning he would have to pray, but also was going to get executed, even though he tried to convince the priest of the temple he was innocent, no one had bought into his lies as he was aware of the rule to never go outside of the temple at night. Fortunately, ''something'' had prevented him from getting his stomach stabbed as soon as he was going to get executed for his disobedience: Due to the failed execution his punishment was changed and he had to stay in the temple tied to the ground and was forced to stay there for three days without food or water, making him start to lose hope of escaping, and would have to be in this cult forever and take over as the new leader.

One night, the faceless entity had taken physical form from it's statue, pitying Shítǐ by embracing and coaxing him with sympathy, untying him from his restraints and managing to successfully sneak him into the forest of another shrine that has a tablet writing about his legend. After hugging Shítǐ and showing him pity and empathy, two things he had most desired, he requested that Shítǐ make a deal with him, which was if he gave him his face, he would give Shítǐ his form and would become a god, meaning he would be free and not have to be in a cult that he couldn't get out of.

Out of desperation, Shítǐ accepted the deal and the faceless entity used a mask to take his face. Shítǐ was left without a face, only a comedy-styled drama face mask as an illusion in order to not scare those with a fear of facelessness. Shítǐ was now the new faceless entity, and after many years of suppressed anger, he realized that since he was now a god, he could let his emotions out without much reprimanding from those who had made him the way he way. Later on in the night, he went back to the cult temple to kill everyone inside, including his siblings and parents, representing the anger he had concealed for a long time due to having to spend his youth cooped up without living his life normally. After heavy consideration, he made the decision to then burned the temple down to rid anything of the existence that the cult was ever real, leaving his past behind him and looking forward to be a new person, much more stronger than his weaker, timid self.

After the burning the cult temple, he felt satisfied, but did not seem to know his purpose anymore as a god and did not want to be worshipped by a group of people because of how his trauma scarred him. After stumbling in the woods for a while to murder those who crossed it for amusement, he began to travel areas to find something that can amuse him, he decided to take on the job of guarding the Fallen Gates in the North Desolates of Azuren after being found by the king of heaven. It was where all fallen creatures go and is mostly hard to escape due to its many trap-doors and tricks that could lead to anyone dying.

His anger buried inside of him caused Shítǐ to become the the creator of the black vines that had consumed parts of Azuren after the ten demon gems had been separated for over thousands of years, causing them to spread more rapidly, and after he could physically not control the vines due to the instability without the gems reunited. Even though the vines cause irreparable destruction, he allowed them to let loose due to his enjoyment with chaos. He eventually meets Crow Watanabe and creates a contract that shares partial of his magic with him because of his desperation for power, making him one of his henchmen.

## Appearance

Shítǐ is a tall, sickly pale man with a slender build and long, dark red and dark purple hair and reaches his lower back in a half-do with a fox mask that had a flower in the middle with four dark red lines going across the masks cheek area. Underneath his mask, he is not supposed to have a face, but creates an illusion where he has a comedy-happy drama mask face. Though, his old face had soft features with black eyes that had white diamonds in them.

Shítǐ's attire consists of a dark red hanfu, which has a red collared shirt with a skirt and dark red cloud patterns. In the middle of the skirt, a fire lotus design is present, going from dark red to a shade of yellow and his coat being a deeper shade of red with a rogue and dark red belt that had red four-petal flower designs with rogue red swirl designs and a dark red charm that dangled down his waist. Under his long hanfu were a pair of black archer boots slightly tipped at the front.

As a human, Shítǐ had long, black hair extending down to his lower back with black eyes that had diamonds in them: his attire was a regular black hanfu with white boots.

## Personality

Despite his somewhat warm and curious exterior, Shítǐ is shown to be an extremely deceptive, yet deadly intelligent and apathetic man, Showing little to no remorse after killing off his cult and is, in a sense, incredibly boastful of himself because of his high position of guarding the Fallen Gates and his magic, which he believes is more powerful than any of the demon species alike because of his status of being a god: His superiority stemmed from his lack of confidence after he was punished for trying to escape the cult he was trapped in for most of his life, causing him to have pent up anger that he would occasionally let out on other people but never apologizing or explaining his reasoning due to his severe religious trauma he had gained when growing up in a hostile environment.

According to Crow, who was in the Fallen Gates for many years because of killing his twin brother, Shítǐ is rather mysterious and is distant with the other fallen creatures and does not seem to enjoy dealing with their antics or anything that happen in Azuren most of the time and results to using his status as a fear tactic to make sure all fallen creatures are in line and not attempt to escape. Though, he attempts to not to act like his parents or the other members of his former cult when doing so, fearing that he would follow in their footsteps and become like them all if he made a move that could severely affect him mentally due to his trauma that still lingers in his mind, oftentimes causing severe flashbacks to occur.

Despite his flashbacks and intrusive thoughts, Shítǐ is also shown to be rather quiet, yet bitter, sometimes having an attitude with other individuals around him, even if they're well respected or high officials, while also being manipulative to Crow due to his false promises of giving him more power in order to surpass his brother and be praised by the others in the Fallen Gates. He usually spits out insults on random if he dislikes someone else heavily, and demonstrates to be brutally honest as he does not sugar coat anything he says to another individual.

Shítǐ is also seen to be quite careless, allowing the black vines he created to spread across Azuren without attempting to stop them due to the vines beginning to take over large amounts of land, but cannot control them if they are as imbalanced as they are now, and is shown to have intentionally start up the vines in Etherin when Locaster and his group had went to the kingdom for a brief amount of time to investigate and used the vines to start up conflict in the kingdom and usually attempts to follow people around in order to get information or to cause chaos, but in a tactic where he shows up randomly to lure people in to find out who he is, either only saying a few sentences and disappearing or killing them for amusement.

Shítǐ is perceived as emotionless, his tone in voice always sounding monotone and hardly expressing any signs of emotions, which to most of the creatures describe him as a robot because of his overall composure and standing in the same place for hours on end. He has shown to have little to no attachment to the world around him and his own henchmen, even the creatures that both enter and exit the realm of the fallen world.

His interactions with others are limited, though he is described him as rather hostile when talking to him, scolding him for little things and is hard to get past when attempting to leave the Fallen Gates. Though, he is not always hostile with one individual, as he demonstrates to snap back to anyone that attempts to get in his way and/or surpass him in any shape or form. Shítǐ is a very anti-social individual, and prefers not to communicate with the fallen creatures unless he is ordered to do so by the other guards of the Fallen Gates.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities:** Shítǐ, despite guarding the Fallen Gates most of his life now has demonstrated to be a powerful, yet very dangerous god. His combination of both combat and abilities of body manipulation is powerful enough to overwhelm lieutenant Shizuka after her brother was possessed by him temporarily due to his increase in strength by separating one part of his body and lodging it into Hideko's open wound: Throughout his existence, Shítǐ had managed to kill several enhanced demon hunters in his life time without any difficulty and had managed to possess some to use as henchmen before killing them when they no longer had use to him. It is noted that his intimidation is powerful enough to scare away Shay, who was the bravest out of the group and almost managing to kill him because of his skills and dangerous abilities he possesses. Due to being a god, it is noted that he is one of the most powerful deities in existence, the second being demons.

**Immense Speed & Reflexes**: Inheriting the powers and abilities of the faceless entity, Shítǐ has shown to be very fast, to which it is described he is so fast to a point where it was like he had teleported. His speed manages to surpass Locaster, Shay, and Shizuka combined, despite being demons who have the ability of being very quick on their feet. His reflexes are equally as fast, as he was able to dodge Shay's multiple attacks faster than anyone in the group combined: His speed is able to surpass Damion, A founding demon himself.

His reflexes meet up with both Ashton and Hideko, both who were trained as high-ranking mercenaries, as when the both were going to lunge an attack on him, It is noted that he reacted even quicker than the both of them had done before in their training, injuring the both of them severely as a result while he remained in optimal shape both physically and mentally.

**Immense Stamina & Endurance**: Shítǐ has shown to never get tired when fighting, as when fighting Locaster, he had barely flinched nor showed any sign of being in pain or agony, remaining in the same physical and mental condition he had started with prior to the events of the fight. He has demonstrated to be immune at most, Even with the combined efforts of the flesh gem and flower gem, he did not seem to take damage even when both gems were combined together. He also demonstrates that his body can withstand immense amounts of damage, seen when Hideko attempts to cut him in half and manages to withstand the wound.

**Immortality & Regeneration**: Shítǐ is one of the few characters with immortality, still having a youthful appearance despite being thousands of years old chronologically: Existing for over thousands of years, he manages to remain youthful and has shown to immediately put his body parts back together after Shizuka had sliced him into pieces with ease. Due to this ability, many hunters, even from Lyakon, could not hack him into pieces due to the strong regeneration abilities he has. His ability of regeneration is so fast where if someone blinked, he would already be healed. He was able to regrow his arm after Ashton had attempted to cut his body into three different pieces.

**Genius Intellect:** Living for over thousands of years, Shítǐ is a very intelligent and calculating individual. He was able to predict many of Locaster and Ashton's attacks and had managed to outsmart Veena when she attempted to use her spirit magic on him. Having a rather sagacious nature, he was able to tell what kind of spell Locaster was using correctly and also guessing each of their demon specie correctly. According to Yuna, his intelligence is high enough to an extent where he was able to outsmart Damion and Hideko in their tracks.

**Contract Making:** As a god of darkness, Shítǐ is able to create contracts with those who sought to have some of his magic. He is seen nearly tempting Locaster to take his contract of partial of his magic, though requested the Demon Gems in return so he could permanently remove the effect of the drug he was given by Akuji, and made a contract with Crow by giving him partial of his powers.

## Magic Abilities

**Possession:** Shítǐ has the ability to possess others by making a copy of his mask and placing it on another person. As the mask is invisible when placed on, it is difficult for any individual to spot it. He is able to manipulate their body movements in order to attack others, as seen when he temporarily gains control of Ashton and tries to make him attack Hideko.

**Body Separation:** As a god, Shítǐ has the capability to separate parts of his body and inject them into a person in order to fuel them with his magic. With this, he is able to change the perception of said person, making their allies seem like their enemies . When activated, he cannot control them, but allows the body part to dissolve in their blood to allow the person to attack the other without having to directly control them.

**Umbrakinesis:** Shítǐ possesses an enhanced form of umbrakinesis, surpassing Locaster and Damion's abilities. He is able to manipulate the black vines he created effortlessly and sent waves of them at Nabi when he attempted to pierce his heart and stomach.

## Weaknesses

**Heart & Stomach:** Shítǐ, despite being a god, has lack of muscle in his heart and stomach, thus making them his most protected areas. Despite being a god, the heart and stomach are his main weak points and he uses dark vines to protect them underneath his garb. If he is hit in both the heart and stomach at the exact same time, he will die and fade into a dark pile of ash.

## Relationships

### Crow Watanabe

Shítǐ met Crow when he was on the brink of dying from being combusted into a tree by Shay, while not losing his shards, still damaged severely. Though, after their fight with him after he admitted into murdering the other shard users, all of his shards were swiped by Team Strelitzia and was abandoned in a forest. Shítǐ approached him, promising him half of his power if he would be able to murder the team, promising the era of chaos will continue. Crow agreed, still attempting to achieve his goal of becoming superior. Shítǐ perceives Crow as naive, contemplating that he immediately accepted his deal, despite the consequences it had, though still spoke to him in a respectful manner.

### Locaster Helios

Most interactions between Locaster and Shítǐ are mostly limited. When in the dark meadows fighting off Crow, Locaster was separated from the rest of the group and saw Shítǐ walking toward him. Thinking it was a bad trance he was in, became confused and thought that Mr. No-Face was only in legends. Shítǐ appeared kind toward Locaster and sympathized with him.