Shigeru Kanzaki

**Shigeru Kanzaki** (神 崎 茂 *Kanzaki Shigeru)* is a supporting character in Seventh Garden. He is a student of the Royal Biblia Academy and an Archbishop class mage of the Avaritia Archive.

## Profile

### Backstory

Shigeru was born to his father’s first wife, a beautiful German woman who moved to Japan after both of her parents died. She had family already in Japan and they provided her shelter. The woman studied diligently and ended up meeting a man who was already out of college. She found him fascinating and the two started dating. They dated for about three years before they married and had their first child, Shigeru.  The two were delighted and spent much time with the child, both having a good amount of money from work and/or family.

8 months later, Annabelle started having complications and she died shortly after. This threw Hirohito into a state of despair. He became an alcoholic and was rarely around to supervise Shigeru. The infant could only crawl around but once this information was found out his neighbors took care of him while his father was away. He grew with little connection to his father.

At the age of 7, Shigeru got a new mother. She was young and beautiful and seemed like a bad match for his father. He didn’t mind too much as she was nice to him, clearly attempting to replace the boy’s birth mother and fill the ‘void’. Shigeru might not have known his mother very much but he didn’t want a new one. She was simply the nice lady that took care of him and his father. Nothing more, nothing less.

Shigeru discovered his thema at the age of 9, a few years before going to the Academy.  The new found power was interesting to him and he experimented with it, to the terror of his father and step-mother. He practiced with inanimate objects and occasionally animals or his family. His parents decided to send him off to the Academy as soon as possible, a world of opportunities in front of him. As he progressed through school he made and lost friends, found his grimoire and closed down on mastering his Thema. He’s now in Senior High Year Two and intends to master his Thema, along with leading a group of loyal friends.

### Personality

Shigeru’s primary interest in life is understanding the world that He lives in. He is constantly absorbing ideas and images about the situations presented in his life. Using his intuition to process this information, he is usually extremely quick and accurate in his ability to size up a situation.

This ability to intuitively understand people and situations puts Shigeru at a ‘distinct advantage’. He generally understands things quickly and with great depth. Accordingly, he is quite flexible and adapts well to a wide range of tasks. He is good at most anything that interests him. As he grows and further develops his abilities and insights, he becomes very aware of possibilities, and this makes him quite resourceful when solving problems. His perceptive abilities cause him to see possibilities everywhere.

Shigeru is less interested in developing plans of actions or making decisions than he is in generating possibilities and ideas. Following through on the implementation of an idea is usually a chore to Shigeru. This results in the habit of never finishing what he starts.

Shigeru’s auxiliary process of  thinking drives his decision making process. Although he  is more interested in absorbing information than in making decisions, he is quite rational and logical in reaching conclusions. When He applies thinking to his Intuitive perception, the outcome can be very powerful.

Shigeru is a fluent conversationalist, mentally quick, and enjoys verbal sparring with others. He loves to debate issues, and may even switch sides sometimes just for the love of the debate. When he  expresses his underlying principles, however, he may feel awkward and speak abruptly and intensely.

Shigeru is sometimes known to not take into account others' ideas, choosing to put the weight on his own shoulders. When something doesn’t go his way he tends to become overly aggressive and harsh on others, causing them to temporarily or permanently separate themselves from him.

Under stress, Shigeru loses his ability to generate possibilities, and becomes obsessed with minor details. These details may seem to be extremely important to him, but in reality are usually not important to the big picture.

### Appearance

Shigeru is 5'10 (177 cm) and 170 lbs (80 kg). He has medium length purple hair thats usually tied up and bright purple eyes
. When not wearing his uniform he tends to wear sweatshirts and hoodies, usually paired with jeans and sneakers.