Shinya Yuda

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**Shinya Yuda**, legal name **Shinya Jingu**, is one of the protagonist's companion characters in *Monark*.

## Background

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Shinya is a calm, collected second-year middle school student at Shin Mikado Academy. As the adopted son of Sora and Yugo and the successor to the Jingu family, he is educated in a variety of fields. He detests Pactbearers, including, at first, the protagonist.

While Shinya can seem blunt, callous and sometimes pretentious when you first meet him, in the end he is doing his best to look out for the well-being of others.

Though he does not possess an Authority, his martial arts training has given him exceptional physical prowess, enough to make the Pactbearers look like amateurs. He is associated with faith. In terms of a chess piece (a motif among the party members) Shinya could be seen as The Queen, the most offensive piece.

Spoilers ahead***This section contains unmarked spoilers. Read ahead at your own risk.***
In Act 1, Shinya helps the Protagonist against the Pactbearers of Lust, Akane and Sumire Tono. Initially he has a very black and white morality, seeing all Pactbearers as evil, selfish and cruel. While he Daemon hunters like Sora as good, selfless and deserving in love. In his Act 2 he begins to accept the truth that true morality is messy, complicated and filled with gray truths.

Initially he is quite cold to the Protagonist due to him being a Pactbearer. However, through helping him defeat the Pactbearers of Lust, Shinya begins to warm up to him, and begins to realize not all Pactbearers are evil upon learning about the reason behind the Protagonist's pact. By the end of the arc, he looks up to the Protagonist like a big brother figure, much like Chiyo Aikawa.

In Nozomi's Act 2, he is sent to defeat Ryotaro and is able to do so alongside Sora. If you choose Ryotaro's route in Act 2, Shinya destroys Kokoro's last ideal before she or anyone else is able to react. In two of the Act 2 routes he is absorbed or killed by Sora.

In his Act 2 route, after defeating Ryotaro, Sora attempts to kill the Protagonist before Yoru interrupts and separates the two of them. One of the first things Yoru does is kill Yugo, also killing Sora who was attempting to protect him. This leads to Shinya having a mental breakdown, swearing to kill Yoru while also sharing his past with the Protagonist.

Shinya was born to unnamed parents who suffered from marital strife due to his mother having an affair, which caused his father shame and anger over the betrayal. As a result of this Shinya suffered through a constant stream of physical, verbal and emotion abuse and consequences from feeling like a constant failure because of his birth parents blaming everything on him. It's implied that, like Kokoro's mother, Shinya's mother simply wasn't ready for parenthood and a "troubled child". Shinya's birth father is implied to have hated him due to Shinya looking nothing like him and possibly being a result of his wife's affair.

As a result of the abuse a neighbors called Child Protective services on the parents. This resulted in Shinya's mother handing him a phone, begging him that if he cared about her, to ask his relatives if they were willing to take him in. The only one willing to was Yugo.

Shinya didn't take on the Jingu family name because he felt the need to prove himself worthy of their family name and of being their son, likely as a result of his previous trauma.

While during his mental breakdown Shinya tells the Protagonist about how he wanted to believe his birth parents still loved him despite all the trauma they inflicted on him, and proceeds to ask if there is anything wrong about a child wanting to be loved. Though with the Protagonist's help he is able to admit that at this point in time he does hate them.

At the end of his Act 2 route he begs the Protagonist to live. Asking how he suppose to believe in himself and his abilities if he continues to fail to protect the people and things he loves and cares for. In the True Ending route he also begs to Protagonist to live, regardless of what sort of complications may arise because of him being a Monark.

*"I want you to stay alive. I want it so much, it defies all logic and reason."* Shinya in the True Ending route.

Shinya still views himself as a failure in many aspects, mostly stemming from low self-esteem as a result of his biological parents. It is also revealed that while he seems to hate Ryotaro, in truth he is most likely jealous of him, most notably of his confidence.

## Profile

From the in-game smartphone profile:

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