Izaya and Shizuo

This is the page for the rivalry between Izaya and Shizuo

## Rivalry

Shizuo and Izaya have hated each other from the moment Shinra introduced them. During their very first meeting, Shizuo threw a punch at Izaya after being antagonized; which prompted Izaya to slash Shizuo with his knife. Further into their fight, Izaya arranged for Shizuo to be hit by a truck. Their fights have become legendary throughout Ikebukuro and have caused massive damage around the town.

The two of them are almost complete opposites of each other both physically and mentally. While Izaya is a calm and mostly collected individual who remains emotionally detached from most situations, Shizuo reacts impulsively on almost every single turn, causing him to go on a blind rampage. Where Izaya tends to use his superior agility and precise planning to get what he wants, Shizuo almost exclusively uses brute force to achieve his goals. The two are also different in their maturity. Shizuo is prone to random outbursts and sudden rages and has little self-control; however, he ultimately has a very mature goal to live a peaceful life and become strong enough to control himself. Unlike Shizuo, Izaya presents himself with a professional attitude when dealing with clients, and keeps his cool even while being tortured. In contrast to this, he is highly impulsive and does many unethical things just to see what will happen. In the Izaya-centric spin-off novels, Haruya Shiki describes him as a child with too much power.

## Conflict

While Shizuo frequently expresses a strong desire to murder Izaya in the most painful way possible, he is, ironically, the less aggressive of the two of them. Izaya hates Shizuo about as much as Shizuo hates him, although he is a lot better at controlling it out in the open. It is made clear that he doesn't even consider Shizuo human by his standards, considering him closer to that of an animal than anything else. As such, he gets extremely annoyed when Shizuo actually shows some sign of intelligence or maturity. It also seems that, between the two of them, Izaya appears to be the most fixated on their rivalry. This is shown in that Izaya frequently goes out of his way to antagonize Shizuo in some way, whether it be a simple prank or framing him for murder.

Toward the end of volume 12, Izaya reveals a bit more about why he seems so fixated on Shizuo. The first reason is that since he sees Shizuo as nothing more than a monster, Izaya feels extreme jealousy at Shizuo's ability to unwittingly attract others to him. This jealousy is further increased since Shizuo seems to try to isolate himself most of the time yet still manages to make new friends while Izaya remains shunned despite his attempts to connect with others in the only way he knows how. Izaya also holds the belief that only humans possess the ability to slay monsters. Following this line of thinking, Izaya believes that if he manages to defeat, or even kill Shizuo, he thinks it might make him feel more human.

In Izaya's novel, a few years have passed since their last fight. Izaya suffers from trauma and fears Shizuo, but accepts his loss towards him and decides not to come back to Ikebukuro, even though his conflict might be the same or worse than before. In the introduced chapters of the novel, Shizuo is interviewed about Izaya, though Shizuo just asks the interviewer to tell Izaya never to return to Ikebukuro.

In *Durarara!! SH*, Celty and Shizuo look at the building that he and Izaya destroyed during their final fight. Shizuo wonders what would have happened if he and Izaya had not been enemies. However, Celty replies that too would not have been good, as Izaya would simply have used Shizuo as another pawn.

## Role in the Wasteland

The relationship is the same, but Shizuo has gone MIA due to being turned into a minotaur. Izaya is concerned about where Shizuo has gone off to.

## Source

* https://durarara.fandom.com/wiki/Izaya\_Orihara/Relationships#Shizuo\_Heiwajima