Sagishi Hebi

Sagishi's profile card.

Sagishi is a rival in *Heartbreaker: The Visual Novel*, and the antagonist of Episode 1.

She will attempt to manipulate Kouhai with lies, taking advantage of her kind & forgiving nature.

## Appearance

Sagishi is a slim Japanese girl of average height, with long legs, long fingers & toes, and no eyebrows. She has thin eyes, and her eyes, hair & nails are all the same shade of green.

She wears her hair in a very long green ponytail tied very tightly, with long bangs & frames shaped like fangs. Her hair tie has a flyaway stuck between it roughly shaped like a snake tongue, and a thinner flyaway in the same shape on her forehead. This all contributes to her snake motif.

Her mouth is notably wider than normal, and she wears bone earrings shaped like nondescript fangs.

In her Kareji uniform, Sagishi wears her sleeves at full-length, her skirt halfway down her thighs, her shorts short, and wears green knee-socks with a snakeskin design. She wears the standard gloves & shoes of the Kareji uniform. As a second-year, Sagishi has silver moon badges on her tie, belt, and gloves.

In her casual summer outfit, Sagishi wears a green dress with a faint scale pattern, simple copper jewellery, and short black boots. Under her dress, she wears a black bra and black panties.

Sagishi is not seen in casual clothes during winter, but she will have a unique outfit for a joke ending in Episode 13.

## Personality

A habitual liar and diagnosed psychopath.

She is a nasty, sadistic girl who enjoys manipulating and gossiping about others on a forum dedicated to stalking & slander - the more damage she can do to someone's reputation and the angrier she can make them, the better, in her opinion.

She often steals people's possessions and pulls pranks.

This makes her well-suited to the Theatre Club, who would value her ability to lie... if only she weren't such a terrible liar. She even has a childish habit of crossing her fingers behind her back when telling a lie.

Luckily for her, Kouhai struggles to see the bad in people, and so is easily manipulated.

## Trivia

* Sagishi's given name in romaji is pronounced like the Japanese word for "deceiver / trickster / con-man", and the surname is pronounced like the Japanese word for "snake".
* The kanji in the Hebi family's surname comes from 経 meaning "past" or "sutra", and 火 meaning "fire", as in "burn the past" or "someone who will use your past to burn you".
* The kanji in Sagishi's given name comes from 幸 meaning "happiness", 岐 meaning "theatre", and 四 which has a double-meaning of "four" and as an onomatopoeia of "death", a common connection in Japanese superstition. As in, "happiness in theatre is dead".
* She was the first character ever designed for *Heartbreaker*.
* The intention was to create a rival who was undeniably toxic & bad, so that Tanta would feel justified in eliminating the rest after her, believing them all to be just as bad.
* Sagishi's hairstyle is a reference to a Croydon facelift.
	+ While the flyaway in Sagishi's hair tie can simply be seen as reminiscent of a snake tongue, the one going down the middle of her forehead can also be seen as a reference to her "two-faced" personality.

## Notes

* As with many parts of *Heartbreaker*, several "Japanese" names in this project were chosen using not only literal or phonetic puns, but also a variety & mixture of *-on,* *-yomi,* *nanori* etc. readings for kanji that would not be typically used for names in reality, a common technique in Japanese fiction; It is important to remember that *Heartbreaker* takes place in an alternate timeline that - while closely mirroring our own - contains several differences in its fictional history. Good-faith attempts have been made to create semi-believable names (with some artistic licence for fiction & entertainment's sake), but any suggestions for better names and / or kana & kanji should be sent to: AbyzouDev@gmail.com