Shinto

### Powers

Shinto represents the aspect of death. He embraces the end of things (both the physical and representational things around him including life itself). Shinto heavily cherishes the last moments of the things, people, and events he watches pass away and holds them close to his heart. He takes solace in each moment because he has no way to relive them. Shinto himself does not actually go around personally killing people. His duties can be more accurately described by saying that he is the one who makes sure that no living or being dies before or after their time, using force only if necessary. Shinto is one of the few Guardians that carries a weapon. Shinto in particular has a Soulbound scythe called the "Harvester." This powerful weapon was forged by The Judge himself. The Harvester has a unique design with beautiful never-before-seen budding flowers that line the large metal blade. It is an incredibly powerful magical item that is able to effortlessly sever a soul's connection to its body. When Shinto's scythe comes in contact with a soul, the buds on the scythe bloom and open, then quickly wrap and close its petals around the newly passed soul so he may carry it to Sollium.

With the long hours Shinto has dedicated to his craft his aspect granted him a very useful side effect which he has called the Death Clock. This ability allows him to focus intently on any person for a small amount of time revealing a time and date above floating above their head that only Shinto may see. The numbers above their head tell him when they will pass in accordance with Syrien's thoughts.

### Personality

Shinto is often consider by others to be very single minded and somewhat brash. He is quick to rush into action and this has caused the others to believe he can be very careless/thoughtless. Shinto admits he really only cares about Isis and death itself. He is one of few whom can understand and appreciate the benefits death can instill. His tendency to act without thinking has in the past lead the others think he is more than a little insane. However, Shinto is actually quite brilliant and intellectual. Shinto often finds/considers that he takes things too serious if it comes to the life of his friends or someone he cares about. The outward public social appearance Shinto keeps up is not the true him. He tries a little too hard to keep the facade of an edgy lord of death. With the exception of his girlfriend Isis, he has never told anyone, but death actually makes him quite sad.

### Relationships

Shinto and Isis are the best of friends and are actually in a very committed relationship that they do their best to keep from the knowledge of everyone else in the group. Isis had said they only do this to keep up appearances as the groups' "cool" members and to dissuade anyone from saying the two are dating. The two mesh together so well and spend so much time with each other that the others are positive the two are together but no one can prove it. Shinto and Isis deny it to this day.

With Shinto's ability to see peoples time and Jupiter's ability to see causalities, the two like to sit together while working and chat about what would happen if certain people would die. It's a sort of sick hobby that the two love to share. Since they've grown closer Sollium has been coming with Shinto on "dispatches."

While most of the other Guardians will say doesn't actually know Shinto that well, the ones who claim they do actually know him think he's sweet. The remaining members, he says, just think he's a crazy sadist. Shinto does not get along with Marche very well due to the fact that Marche is always telling him that it is *not* peoples time "to go" when Shinto can see and knows that it actually is.

Shinto likes to distance himself from anyone that isn't in his group and is rarely seen leaving their home, aside from the alleged occasional visit to The Abyss to see Lucifer.