Shizuku Uranami

**Shizuku Uranami** (裏波滴 *lit. Reverse Side Ripple Droplet*), formerly known as **Wildcard** (ワイルドカード, *Wairudokaado*}, is a major supporting character in Seventh Garden. She is the younger sister of Miyako Uranami and is one of the few remaining users of the Chigetsu Haōshoku-shiki, alongside her sister. She is known for using Themas Purgare and Stagna, allowing her to perform feats of Fire and Ice. She once attempted to find the Last Crest of the Acedia Archive, but ultimately failed. Regardless, she does not hold a grudge against her elder sister for achieving the Last Crest of Ira, Ars Shaitan. It is noted that she is the closest to the pinnacle of Acedia, second only to Kaori Tokiwa, Trinity Seven of Acedia.

## Profile

### Background

Shizuku is the second daughter of the infamous mercenary, The Arlecchino, and the younger sister of Miyako Uranami. She is also formerly one of the Messengers, a group of wandering mages in search of treasure, and formerly affiliated with Kingdom a political group of people that wish to dominate the world. In the past, she attempted to discover the Last Crest of the Acedia Archive, Baal Peor, but failed.

### Personality

Shizuku is a cheery, hardworking, caring, and capable girl. She is incredibly proud of her Swordsmanship abilities, despite having altered the original style. She says she is second to only her sister in the style.

## Abilities

### Themas

**Stagna** (Stagnation): Shizuku's primary Thema drawing from the Acedia Archive. It focuses on the concept of Stagnation, in Shizuku's mind being drawn into the word Stasis, the state of inactivity and equilibrium. Her interpretation of Stagna allows her to rapidly draw energy away from the environment, form perfect crystals, and spread it outwards. It is commonly thought of as ice abilities. However, this is false. Stasis is not ice. Ice is frozen water. Stasis is not frozen water. Stasis is the term coined by Shizuku used for entropy or the rapid drawing of energy to create perfect crystals. When energy is rapidly drawn away from an area, like a void, the matter begins to rapidly crystallize akin to something freezing. The coldness felt from this is caused by the absence of energy. It's main weakness is overusage of the Thema begins to draw energy from Shizuku's own body, causing her own body to rapidly lose temperature and in extreme cases, encase herself in the crystals. Fortunately, the crystals slowly deform over time, but Shizuku is prone to illnesses and attacks in this weakened state both before and after.

**Purgare** (Purge): Shizuku's secondary Thema drawing from the Luxuria Archive. It focuses on the concept of the flames of Purgatory, capable of igniting flames to "wash away the sins". It is capable of creating intense flames that cause more damage to those who feel guilty or grief over having done something morally wrong and in general, against those who have committed a some grave "sin".

### Magic Abilities

**Yesterday's Shadow Tag** (きのうの影踏み, *Kinō no Kagefumi*): Shizuku's magic of the Stagna Thema. It grants her the ability to utilize azure shadows to grasp and pull energy away from a location, leaving behind traces of itself causing perfect crystals to form and rise.

* **Grand Splinter**: Constructs a blade from crystals.
* **Shattered Slash**: Surrounding Shizuku's hand or blade with Stagna's energy, she performs a single diagonal slash. The crystals will also begin to spread from wherever the wound is.
* **Bleak Watcher**: Shizuku plants an unstable sphere of magic that triggers when hostile combatants are within it's close proximity. When it's detonated, it latches onto the targets first before encasing them in perpetual stasis.
* **Diamond Lance**: Creates a spear of fragile frost before she throws it. As it travels, it releases shards of crystals that slow the area under it.
* **Glacial Quake**: Shizuku's slams his palm into the ground sending forth an earthquake of crystals.
* **Former Erratic**: After shattering an encased target, the crystals spread out and begin to move over other nearby entities.
* **Winter's Shroud**: Shizuku covers herself in a shroud of crystals that shreds apart the surroundings. She can freely manipulate the range, intensity, and size of this.
* **Discord & Disorder**: Summons and forms a crystalline dragon and drives it into the ground.

**The Scarlet Letter** (緋文字, *Himonji*): Shizuku's magic of the Purgare Thema. It grants her the ability to transform any form of blood she touches into controllable flames that burn everything in sight.

* **Sanguine Sword** (多血質剣, *Taketsushitsuken*): Shizuku creates a sword from her blood and ignites it with the Scarlet Letter.
* **Sign of Reversal** (逆転の気配, *Kehainogyakuten*): Shizuku uses a large amount of blood to summon a phoenix to fight for her. This Phoenix can allow Shizuku to fly, act as armor, and attack the enemy as well. Since it is made from flames, it is also difficult to destroy.
* **Palm of Divinity** (神格の平, *Shinkakunohira*): Shizuku pushed out her palm the moment she is struck, causing blood to spill from her hand that is instantly ignited creating a wall of flames.

### Sword Arts

Musō Jikiden Ittō-ryū: Chigetsu Haōshoku-shiki: Shizuku is a user of the Musō Jikiden Ittō-ryū, more precisely the **Chigetsu Haōshoku-shiki,** a Japanese style of Sword Arts. She uses it in tandem with her Themas of Purgare and Stagna to further augment the power and intensity of her techniques. While she has her own techniques, she is also shown capable of using techniques created by her elder sister.

* **Tectonic Harvest**: Shizuku drives her sword into the ground and fierely twists it sending an immense wave of crystals outwards slowing nearby combatants.
* **Glacial Harvest**: Shizuku drives her sword into the ground and sweeps it upwards creating a powerful, wide-range wave of frozen spikes.
* **Howl of the Storm**: A series of violent slashes and strikes that overturn the air currents around Shizuku. Once they are traveling at a good pace around her, she freezes the wind in a frigid blow causing frozen shrapnel to rip and tear apart the enemy.
* **Winter's Wrath**: A single slash that creates a wave of energy forwards. When it collapses, it encases the wrong area it's in with crystals.
* **Tireless Warrior**: A series of continuous slashes with each stroke allowing the user to take another step forward while increasing the intensity and power of each slash with each stroke after the next. It is further augmented using The Scarlet Letter. While powerful, it requires the user to have a clear mind, absent of all other thoughts allowing them toignore any outside distraction such as pain and general senses placing the user into a trance.
* **Lunar Series: Altered** (太陰一連: 改正, *Taiinichiren: Kaisei lit. Lunar Sequence: Alteration*): A series of attacks that Shizuku learned from Miyako.
	+ **Half Moon** (半月, *Hangetsu*): Shizuku grabs her blade at the hilt in a reverse grip and sweeps it in front with insane strength creating enough wind pressure to knock back the opponent.
	+ **Harvest Moon** (名月, *Meigetsu*): Shizuku's swings her blades with enough precision to create vibrations in the air around her. These vibrations are then cast out as wind blades.
	+ **Darkened Trance** (遮光夢中, *Shakoumuchuu*): Shizuku casts out and away partial senses of her bodily functions such as smell, taste, touch, hearing, and others in order to place herself into a trance and reinforce her body.

## Equipment

### Mythical Armament

**Ashen Wake Aster Lonkhe**: The so called "Hero Killer" Ash Spear of the legendary hero Achilles made from the branch of an ash tree. It has the ability to hit with strength greater than that of it's user and graduallly increase it's velocity and power midair when thrown the farther it travels. Fitting of the name "Hero Killer" and it's tale in the wars it fought, it also has an ability that makes it incredibly more powerful against Hero Candidates and Heroes.