Shiki Ryougi

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“	I can kill anything that exists - even if it's a god.	„
	~ Shiki Ryougi

Shiki Ryougi is the main protagonist of the light novel and anime movie series Kara no Kyoukai. She is a girl who possesses the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, a supernatural ability that allows the user to see the inherent mortality of everything (both living and non-living) in the form of lines. In her case, however, what she sees is the Origin of what she is observing. She assists the Garan no Do Agency (run by her boyfriend Mikiya Kokutou and the magus Touko Aozaki) in handling paranormal cases when combat is required.

She is voiced by Maaya Sakamoto, who also voices Aigis and Aerith Gainsborough.

Profile[]

Background[]

Shiki's family, the Ryougi, are or were members of the Demon Hunter Organization. Their special skill involves creating two separate and distinct personalities within themselves. When a child is born, he or she is given a single name written in two different Kanji, each one relating to each personality. Shiki has an older brother, however he was unable to manifest a second personality within himself, thus making him ineligible to succeed as the head of the family. Like her brother, Shiki's mother and father are unnamed, but are seen in the movies. (Shiki's father in the second movie during a sword fight; her mother in the fourth movie after she comes out of her coma; her brother is seen in the seventh movie in a flashback.)

Personalities[]

Shiki originally had both a male and female personality due to her family, the Ryougi clan, manifesting strange Psychic Powers. However, after recovering from a traumatic accident, Shiki discovers that she can no longer feel her male personality's presence, and she has an uncomfortable detachment from her memories before the accident as well. While she knows she is Shiki Ryougi, she does not feel like she is.

In the hopes of regaining her former sense of self, she puts on a cold façade that is somewhere between the thoughtful, quiet nature of the female persona and the blunt, dissolute male persona.

Role[]

Shiki is a young woman who is descended from the Ryougi clan of demon hunters. Members of the Ryougi clan are born with multiple personalites; in Shiki's case, she has a calm and stoic female persona named 'Shiki' (式), and a warm and outgoing male persona named 'SHIKI' (織), who knows nothing but an urge to kill. At a young age, Shiki was chosen to succeed as the head of the Ryougi family because her older brother could not manifest another personality.

However, while she is in high school, Shiki is hit by car, killing the SHIKI persona and putting her into a coma for two years. After awakening, she is afflicted by a sense of loneliness due to SHIKI's absence, though she retains his murderous feelings. The near-death experience also gives Shiki the incredible power of the Mystic Eyes of Death perception, which she fears at first, but is later taught by a magus named Touko Aozaki to control. Shiki's classmate and love interest, Mikiya Kokutou, who waited for Shiki the whole time she was comatose, urges her not to give in to her instincts and kill a human being.

After leaving the hospital, Shiki goes with Mikiya to work for Touko Aozaki at the Garan no Dou detective agency, which deals in abnormal and supernatural cases. She uses her abilities to defeat demons, evil spirits, and other hostile entities.

Mystic Eyes of Death Perception[]

Shiki awakens from her two-year coma with the Mystic Eyes of Death perception, an ability that allows the user to perceive the death of something, living or nonliving, in the form of lines and dots on the target that, when cut or stabbed, will cause the object to be sliced and killed with ease or, in the case of the dots, erase a being/object's entire existence completely.

Shiki shares her given name and Mystic Eyes power with Tsukihimeprotagonist Shiki Tohno. However, Ryougi's eyes are more powerful than Tohno's because she can activate or deactivate them at will, and using them does not cause her any distress or pain. In addition, whereas Tohno can only kill physical targets, Ryougi can "kill" concepts or things without a physical form, such as when she is able to kill a demon possessing her body by seemingly stabbing herself in the chest, but leaving no harm to her physical body, or when she "kills" a disease inside of a young girl.

Other appearances[]

Fate/Extra[]

The version of Shiki in Fate/Extra is similar in nature to her Melty Blood counterpart. She appears after Taiga makes a wish upon the Tiger Thermos found for her by the Protagonist. She is classified neither as a Servant or a Master, and her existence causes the air to continuously warp like a human moan. She gives off a murderous aura far above that of a human, and while she isn't a Heroic Spirit, she is called a demon, Aramitama, a being who dies, kills, and curses, and Death itself by the Servants.

She doesn't like existing within the Moon Cell, and wishes to leave as soon as possible. She has been set to kill one hundred Servants for an unknown reason in order to return to her world, but she assures that it is nothing personal. She notes that she has already killed 99, and that the Protagonist's Servant will be her one hundredth. She doesn't care about Masters, so she is willing to let the Protagonist be if their Servant dies willingly. She is called "Monster" when fought, and her special ability is called Boundary of the Void.

After being defeated, she contemplates that her journey is not yet over, thanks the Protagonist for setting her free, and notes that she would like to have a similar fight again. It seems that she is warped elsewhere, and the Servants believe she has been flung through time, either to the past or the future. Archer speculates that she is some form of spirit connected to the Moon Cell's Holy Grail War.

Carnival Phantasm[]

She makes brief cameos during the series and a small appearance in Episode 12 as she is seen cooking at the Ahnenerbe party.

Abilities[]

With her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, she can see the points and lines of a target's death. A cut along any line will bifurcate the object, no matter the sharpness of cutting tool used, and ultimately destroy the object's origin, causing instant death. Her abilities extend to cutting things with no physical existence, such as Fujino Asagami's manifestations of her telekinetic powers. Unlike the other Shiki, Ryougi shows no definite proof after her release from the hospital that the use of her eyes causes mental strain on her brain, leading to the hypothesis that one's mentality greatly affects whether or not the brain can handle the power of the eyes. It doesn't matter if the target has a spiritual body like a Servant or they are dead like the ghosts surrounding Kirie Fujou, as it only matters if they are "living" in the sense that they can interfere with the current world. She has a hard time with Souren Araya's Śarīra because it belonged to an enlightened one who achieved "becoming extinguished, alive." Killing it using the lines of death would require her to decipher advanced "lines of death" levels higher than the normal concept of death.

Shiki has also shown that she is a fair combatant without a weapon. As seen in Kara no Kyōkai Movie 5: Paradox Spiral, when she approaches the bullies that were attacking Enjou Tomoe. When one of the guys attacks her, she quickly grabs his wrist and slams him face first into and nearby pipe. She quickly grabs the other assailant's stomach and using some kind of nerve strike causing the him to vomit and pass out. Giving the first bully enough time to recover, Shiki kicks him on the left side of the face with enough force to draw blood knocking him out.

Shiki has a Magical Prosthetic Arm that allows her to grab things from a distance, and also affect intangible objects. As seen in Kara no Kyoukai 1: Overlooking the Scenery, when she went up against Kirie Fujou who at the time was a ghost had several ghostly figures under her control. Shiki used her Magical Prosthetic Arm to grab her in her ghostly form. It has been stated by Touko that her second arm prior to going up against Kirie will be twice as strong as the original, and that it would take an elephant to destroy it. It also showed great durability when Shiki was running at high speed and jumped off of a building and landed on the other building grabbing the roof as she landed. Shiki had to cut off her first Prosthetic Arm because a ghost was grabbing it and was going to throw her off the Fujō building. Shiki's puppet arm has a hidden compartment to store a secondary knife.

Shiki also possesses heightened physical abilities, allowing her mobility in combat. She apparently has enough self-discipline to endure a great deal of pain, since she did not stop a charging attack against Fujino when her arm was twisted in midair. This arm was later replaced by a prosthetic crafted by Touko. With her bare hands, she was able to cut through Souren Araya's Boundary Fields.