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SHUICHI SAIHARA AGE 17 18 | September 7 HEIGHT 171 cm (~5'7") WEIGHT 58 kg (~128 lb) 0 kg/lb [3.10 kg (~6.8 lb) when solid] BLOOD TYPE AB no longer has blood SPECIES Shade AFFILIATION Neutral RESIDENCE Bavan (apartment w/ Kokichi Oma) OCCUPATION Night-shift Cafe Barista VOICE TOTAL 160 SPENT 0 ARTWORK [x] ---Shadow Form Reference (knittybitty) [x] ---Solid Form Reference (knittybitty) [x] [x] ---Shapeshifting at work (knittybitty) [x] ---Shuichi and Kokichi at the 2020 Valentine's day party (knittybitty) [x] ---Shuichi with monster-swapped Kokichi and Izuku (winterbolt) [x] ---Shuichi during the Truthsayer event (knittybitty) INVENTORY Laptop A clunky laptop that barely works. Shuichi doesn't use it much because he has enough trouble with modern technology, let alone this fossil.

Among his "classmates", Shuichi is a boy who stands out by not standing out at all. He is a quiet, intelligent, and level-headed individual with a talent for solving mysteries. However, he has a very weak personality, and is consequently incredibly timid and submissive. Very easily flustered and startled, it doesn't take much to make him blush and/or break out into a nervous sweat. Despite his Ultimate title, he has a startling lack of self-confidence and a very poor opinion of himself. Though, with the help of his friends, he has started to improve in this area. He struggles with initiating and maintaining eye contact, though he has at least stopped wearing a ball cap for the express purpose of avoiding others' eyes. Shuichi is also very compassionate, kind-hearted, and polite. Despite his self-acknowledged weakness, he tries to do whatever he can to help those in need. He is eager to please to an absolutely alarming degree, leading some of his friends to label him as masochistic because he always seems "so happy when he's being bossed around". He is something of a doormat in that regard, as his vast well of patience means he will put up with just about any treatment from others. This is especially true of those he considers to be his friends. He is a surprisingly emotional individual, though more in the sense that he feels things very deeply as opposed to being someone who wears his heart on his sleeve. Key Traits: intelligent, compassionate, observant, level-headed, submissive, weak, shy, low self-esteem, nervous, easily depressed MONSTER ABILITIES Enhanced night vision: As a creature of darkness, Shuichi can see in low-to-no-light conditions much better than a human. So much better that he's actually capable of reading in the dark and can make out fine details and features of objects and people, even in pitch darkness. His color vision, however, is not improved as light is necessary in order to see color. So in low light conditions, he would be able to see the color of an object as well as a normal person, and in pitch dark conditions, he would not be able to see color at all. Telekinesis: Shuichi can move objects with his mind. The heavier the object is, the harder and more exhausting it is to move it. He must be able to see the object in order to start moving it, though he is capable of moving it beyond his range of sight once he has control over it. However, he cannot see through the object itself, so the object's movement is limited by his previous knowledge of the new space. For example: if he picks up a book, he could move it with relative ease through the rooms of own house, even without looking at the book itself. The only potential issues would be living things capable of independent movement and manipulable fixtures (like doors or chairs). Since he can't see through the book, he can't account for their locations and/or positions while he's moving it. So while he COULD avoid walls and furniture based on his knowledge of their location, he wouldn't be able to prevent accidentally book smacking Kokichi in the face if he was coming up the stairs while Shuichi was moving the book down them. Basically, it's kind of like trying to move around with your eyes closed. Invisibility: Can turn wholly invisible for up to 20 minutes, twice a day; doing so uses up lots of energy and causes Shuichi to get hungrier quicker. He is capable of "flickering" in and out of visibility for those twenty minutes. Pain alleviation: Shuichi can take on the pain of others through physical contact. Touching the affected area will allow him to convert the pain into his own, thereby easing it to a certain extent in the other person. By possessing a person, he can completely take their pain away and make it his own. Levitation: As he does not have legs, Shuichi is always levitating by default. He hovers a few inches off the ground normally, just enough so that he more or less retains his former human height. However, he is capable of levitating up to 342 cm (~11 feet) over any surface. When moving to a lower elevation from a higher one, he gradually drifts or floats downwards until he reaches the ground. Solidification: By concentrating, Shuichi can take on a solid form that resembles his old body, but in greyscale. It is not a true body, however, but rather a solid mass of jumbled up bits of Shuichi's innards reconstituted from his shadows. This also includes his clothes, which cannot be removed as they are technically a part of his body. He can wear whatever outfit he likes, however he is incapable of changing it once he solidifies. (if he wants to change, he needs to release his solid form and then completely re-solidify again in a different outfit) Shapeshifting: Shuichi can freely shapeshift his body, though only when in his regular shadow form. All shifted parts are purely aesthetic and cannot be made solid. He can stretch or shrink parts of his body (or his entire body) within realistic boundaries. Possession: Shuichi is capable of inhabiting and controlling the bodies of humans, monsters, and stuffed animals/dolls. However, he can only control the body of the target, not the mind. So conscious beings will still be totally aware of their surroundings and actions, even as their body moves against their will. This ability can be used up to an hour a day. Electronics disruption: Shuichi has the ability to disrupt any electronic device at will, causing anything from minor malfunctions to full-on short circuits. He doesn't have the best control over this ability, however, and will sometimes use it without meaning to or use it to a stronger or weaker degree than intended. This is especially true when the device in question is a computer. WEAKNESSES Poor light vision: A sort of trade-off to his enhanced night vision, bright light has a much stronger effect on Shuichi's vision than it did when he was human. He has no pupils, so it's much harder to limit the amount of light that enters his eyes. As such, it's harder for him to see in very bright conditions and he's more easily blinded than a normal human. Sunlight: Direct exposure to sunlight will cause Shuichi to slowly and painfully diminish in size until he disappears completely. This is the only way to kill him, as he is intangible, has no blood, cannot he imbibe poison, and his vital organs only exist as particles of shadow on the microscopic level. He is not strictly nocturnal, as it is possible for him to travel through shadows on a sunny day to avoid this weakness, but he does prefer nighttime. The fog negates this weakness entirely. Artificial light: Though not fatal, being in strong artificial light diminishes Shuichi's powers and makes him feel weaker on the whole. When in a well-lit area, he cannot take his solid form, use the stretching aspect of his shapeshifting (though he can shrink just fine), and has cannot levitate anything heavier than about ten pounds (and even ten is difficult). "Ethereal Glow": Similarly to sunlight, Shuichi's form will diminish in the presence of Nephilims with particularly strong glows. However, it's not enough to make him shrink to the point of disappearing and dying, and causes only minimal irritation instead of pain. It also disrupts his ability to possess them, once again depending upon how strong the glow is. If it's strong and constant, he will be unable to possess them at all. If it's weaker or changes in intensity depending upon the Nephilim's emotions, he may still be able to enter their bodies but can be expelled prematurely and against his will.

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