Ghirahim

**Ghirahim** (ギラヒム *Girahimu*?), or Lord Ghirahim, is one of the two main antagonists of *The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword*. He is the lord of the demons that are unleashed upon The Surface during the events of the game. He is actively pursuing Zelda, and is able to detect her presence. Though he initially views Link as no threat to his plans, as the game progresses, he grows increasingly frustrated with Link's interference.

## Attributes

### Abilities

Despite his delicate appearance, Ghirahim proves to be a powerful opponent for Link. He possesses great physical strength and agility, being able to avert Link's Skyward Strikes when his guard is up, as well as mastery with swords. He is also able to catch Link's sword in his hand and take it from him without sustaining any injury. During his last battle with Link, Ghirahim also utilizes a fiery version of the Skyward Strike. Upon taking his most powerful form, Ghirahim's skin hardens to where it can withstand blows from even the Master Sword.

Ghirahim also possesses considerable magical talent. Many of Ghirahim's spells are embellished with diamonds, and are activated by a snap of his fingers. He can materialize objects out of thin air, including barriers, weapons, his minions, and himself. The knives he creates in this manner can be left levitating near himself or his opponent, and can be propelled forward as projectiles. He can also give life to certain inanimate objects or transform them into monsters, perform telekinesis, fire beams of light from the sky, summon tornadoes, and generate electricity from his hands.

### Personality

At first glance, Ghirahim appears to be calm, confident, and collected, although very flamboyant. He often acts gentlemanly, speaking eloquently and formally introducing himself to Link. He even shows a slight sense of sportsmanship at the beginning, promising not to murder Link, as it would be unfair. He also exhibits traits of narcissism, which are especially evident in his second fight with Link. In addition, he also proceeded to remove his cape before dueling Link with a snap of a finger. He has little concept of personal space, as he seems to relish invading Link's for the sake of intimidation. He also has a flair for the dramatic, and enjoys using broad gestures. He is extremely loyal to his master Demise and most of his actions in *Skyward Sword* where driven by his desire to free his master from his imprisonment. He also appeared to enjoy returning to his true form as Demise's Sword.

However, beneath his calm exterior is a violent and sadistic psychopath. As the story progresses, his composure progressively shatters, and his mannerisms and speech become more melodramatic, colorful, and violent. At his core, Ghirahim is merciless, and enjoys bloodshed. He appears to enjoy mocking his victims, shown by insulting Groose before kicking him out the way. His violent personality shows quite graphically in the way he frequently licks his lips during a fight, and even licks the blade of his sword after landing a hit on Link during their second battle. Ghirahim frequently loses himself to uncontrollable rage, easily finding excuses to take his anger out on Link. He also enjoys intimidating and toying with his victims, frequently teleporting behind Link during battle, and making colorful threats, such as promising not to kill him but rather beat him within an inch of his life. He is also shown to have a ruthless side to him regarding his minions, as immediately before the Horde Battle when summoning the various demon hordes, he makes clear that he does not care if the monsters are killed by Link so long as they make sure they slow him down enough to allow the Demon Lord to complete his ritual, and also implies that any monsters who not only fail to hold Link off but also survived his encounter would end up facing his wrath.

Despite his evident insanity, he was nonetheless quite intelligent. This was best demonstrated when Link managed to wish for Demise's destruction: Even when his master perished from the Triforce's wish, he was undeterred by this event, simply deciding to use the Gate of Time to go back to the past to revive Demise there. He also implies that he had the ritual to release Demise occur without requiring him to be present to conduct it specifically because he anticipated the possibility that he would lose against Link in their final battle.

### Physical appearance

In his standard appearance, Ghirahim resembled a slim hylian man with grey skin, brown eyes, purple eyeshadow, white lips, and white hair with his left bangs obscuring his left eye, a diamond birthmark on his left cheek, as well as wearing a four-part cape (three parts on the back and one on the front) with a collar, two gold buckles resembling diamonds, and colored red on the outside and black-and-yellow diamond patterns on the inside. He also wore blue diamond earrings, and had a gold bracelet around his right bicep, as well as wore white fencing gloves with four diamonds on each glove lining from the wrist to the elbow, and a white fencing outfit that had seven small diamonds across the front and back of each leg, and two larger diamonds on the front, plus a gold sash with a red diamond on the right side. He also has a long purple tongue, which he uses for intimidation, as evidenced by his first meeting with Link.

When partially-transforming into his true form at the Fire Sanctuary, he largely looks the same, although his right forearm and his full left arm are colored black, as well as black scars resembling diamond lines running down from the left side of his face and noseridge down his left leg.

When accessing his true form, Ghirahim, owing to his being a sword spirit in reality similar to Fi, has a similar appearance to Fi, including having a diamond at the center of his chest, only with a significantly more muscular build (with Fi even noting the muscle mass increase immediately prior to the duel), being darker in color with some white diamond-shaped lines streaking across his left leg, right arm, and torso/hips, and having a diamond on his forehead. He also develops noticeable fangs on his upper jaw in this form.

### Demise's Sword

Being the demonic spirit of Demise's Sword, Ghirahim can transform into the demonic sword that resembles an evil version of the Master Sword to be wielded by his master. Like the Master Sword, it features a Triforce Symbol on his blade, however its is upside-down (thus making it resemble Lorule's Triforce). Ghirahim's Sword form can be seen a reference to the similarities between himself and the spirit of the Master Sword, Fi as both are swords that possess a sentient spirit that serves as the both the weapons and loyal servants to their respective *masters*. Demise's Sword can be seen as an evil reflection of the Master Sword itself. While Ghirahim's in his sword form, Demise can use it to perform his own evil version of the Skyward Strike. Prior to Demise's revival, Ghirahim also briefly transformed into Demise's Sword upon accessing his true form as emphasis about how he was, in actuality, a weapon of no mercy just prior to fighting Link.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Ghirahim is one of the many villains you will face throughout the game. He is very difficult to defeat on the difficulty scale.