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SHUICHI SAIHARA AGE 17 18 | September 7 HEIGHT 171 cm (~5'7") WEIGHT 58 kg (~128 lb) BLOOD TYPE AB SPECIES Demon (formerly Shade) AFFILIATION Neutral RESIDENCE Bavan (apartment w/ Kokichi Oma) OCCUPATION Night-shift Cafe Barista VOICE TOTAL 34 SPENT 190 ARTWORK [x] ---Reference (knittybitty) [x] ---Details Reference (knittybitty) INVENTORY RSDOS 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. Shuichi was originally a shade, however he was incredibly unhappy with this for a multitude of reasons. In September 2020, he asked Mana to change him into a vampire, and on October 1st, he actually went through with the quest she gave him. However...things did not quite go as planned. Though his changes initially lead him to believe the spell had worked, within weeks it became obvious that he'd actually become a demon instead of a vampire. Key Traits: intelligent, compassionate, observant, level-headed, submissive, weak, shy, low self-esteem, nervous, easily depressed MONSTER ABILITIES Immunity to fire: Fire cannot burn Shuichi, nor does it cause him any pain to touch. He is not, however, entirely burnproof and can be scalded/burned by hot water or oil. WEAKNESSES Monster Hunger: Shuichi needs to feed on a soul at least once a month, otherwise he will lose his sanity/sense of self and go on a soul-sucking spree. blood. He changed his feeding method in November 2020 with the help of Mana. His hunger rate remained the same, that is one human per month, however since he doesn't want to kill, he is forced to feed more frequently in smaller portions. He usually feeds from blood bags stolen from hospitals or from Kokichi. However, due to the latter's nature as a nephilim, feeding on even a small amount of his blood weakens Shuichi and draining too much of it at once will kill him. Holy Magic/Iconography: Salt: Though not fatal, even a pinch of salt can weaken (and sicken) Shuichi if he touches or ingests it. The more salt, the stronger the weakening/sickening will be and ingesting it is worse than touching. He cannot cross barriers made from it.

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Changes Checklist

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Mandatory Changes
☑ Sharp fangs
☑ Red eyes that glow when using magic
☑ Pointed ears
☑ Dark claws instead of fingernails and toenails
☑ Two to four long, sharp horns on the head (can be any shape and size)
☑ Large, bat-like wings capable of flight
☑ A long, whip like tail
☑ Dark magic; the ability to render a human immobile
☑ Dark magic; the ability to create and control fire
☑ Dark magic; the ability to possess another living being for up to an hour (once per day)
☑ Dark magic; the ability to remove a human soul
☑ Immunity to fire
☑ A weakness to salt
☑ A weakness to holy magic
☑ The need to feed on human souls

Optional Changes
☐ Scales anywhere on the body
☑ A forked tongue
☐ Hooves instead of feet
☐ A spade or barbs at the end of the tail
☑ Prehensile tail (strength of about one finger)
☑ Black or purple lips and sclera
☐ Spikes anywhere on the body
☑ The ability to teleport short distances by making a circle of fire
☑ A more wicked nature
☑ Skin color change (grey and black)
☑ Dark magic; the ability to give an illusory temporary power boost (spiking adrenaline and removing fear)
☐ Dark magic; the ability to use soulless bodies as marionettes (one human at a time, last consumed)
☑ Dark magic; the ability to cause one's emotions to go out of control (mostly towards darker thoughts)
☑ Dark magic; the ability to make a Hand of Glory
☑ The ability to be summoned (offers no actual benefits, is mostly just annoying/inconvenient for everyone involved)

Detailed Changes

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✯ = completed change
➣ = incomplete change, to be continued over multiple stages
First Changes (October 1)

✯ Sharp fangs. Upper and lower canines are the only ones affected, giving him the appearance of a vampire. Apparently Mana's spell got one thing right.
➣ Dark claws. Fingernails and toenails are both long and sharp, and cannot be clipped or filed down. Any attempt to do so just results in them growing back within a matter of hours. Unlike when he was a solid-form shade, his nails are not SO pitch that they do not reflect light. They're now slightly glossy, as though they have a coat of permanent black nail polish. Unbeknownst to Shuichi, they will eventually become much more claw-like than this.
✯ Hunger for souls. As shades ALSO need to feed on souls, Shuichi's hunger was retained with the swap. Since he fed before doing so, however...he initially had no idea that his hunger had not, in fact, swapped to blood like he wanted. The means by which he extracts and consumes a soul has changed slightly. As a shade, he accomplished this by either a) reaching into a person's body and pulling the soul out with his hand, then bringing it up to the hole in his shadows where his heart should have been, or b) possessing them and pulling the soul out as he exited (and, again, bringing it to his heart-hole). As a demon, he has to use a dark magic spell which he will develop at a later date. Good thing he fed before swapping.

Second Changes (October 6)

✯ Red eyes. Or rather, partially red. On the whole, his irises have retained their natural golden color, but the Danganronpa aesthetic ring around his pupils is now bright red. His eyelashes have also grown longer and thicker.
✯ Immunity to fire. Exactly what it sounds like, though Shuichi has yet to discover that he has this particular immunity. Mostly because it's been five days since he last set himself on fire.
✯ Weakness to Holy Magic. Again, exactly what it sounds like. Like his fire immunity, this change initially went unnoticed by Shuichi, as he has yet to have holy magic used on him. (Though he did feel vaguely uncomfortable when walking by a display of crucifixes in a shop...and thought nothing of it because that's normal for vampires, right?)
➣ Skin coloration. After performing the quest and regaining his body, Shuichi was slightly paler than normal. That paleness has intensified since then, and his skin has become progressively more greyish in color with each passing day. Though at this point, it's still in the realm of a "normal" tinting. He just looks like he's either very sickly, hasn't seen the sun in years, or both. He's also developed unnaturally dark bags beneath his eyes.

Third Changes (October 8th-12th)

✯ Forked Tongue. The first sign that Shuichi was not actually a vampire, as requested. On the morning of the 8th, Shuichi felt a searing pain in his tongue before it abruptly split itself at the tip. At the same time, it also grew longer and thinner, and turned from pink to pale grey. The rest of the inside of his mouth also underwent a loss of color, becoming a shade of grey darker than both his skin and his tongue.
✯ Horns. Three, to be exact. Two curled ram's horns growing from the sides of his temples, and a small, curved one growing from his forehead. All three are black with a blue-purple sheen that's only visible in the light.
✯ Skin coloration. Shuichi's skin had turned greyer and greyer ever since he performed Mana's quest. After a week, however, what was initially a mere tinting had become something more opaque. By nightfall on the 8th, his skintone was basically exactly as it had been when he was a solid-form shade. The only difference being that his fingertips, toes, and the shells of his ears had begun to turn black. This darker coloration continued to creep up from his fingers and toes through the 12th, stopping at his thighs and upper arms. Where the grey and black meet, they form a sort of shadowy gradient pattern, reminiscent of his aura as a shade.
✯ Weakness to Salt. Exactly what it sounds like.

Fourth Changes (October 16th)

✯ Pointed Ears. After much painful stretching and breaking of cartilage, Shuichi's ears not only elongated but also became downturned. The ends are pointed and have the same pitch-black gradient coloration found on his arms and legs. His ears are not expressive and do not move...they're just basically reverse elf ears.

Fifth Changes (October 21st-23rd)

✯ Dark claws. At around noon on the 21st, Shuichi's
✯ Black Lips and Sclera.

Sixth Changes (October 31st)

✯ Wings.
✯ Tail.
➣ Dark Magic.
✯ Black blood.

Seventh Changes (November 10th)

✯ Hunger for Blood. Since changing into a vampire failed, but becoming a demon still fixed all of his issues with being a shade except the soul-sucking part, Shuichi opted to just change his feeding method through Mana this time. He has LOST his ability to rip out and consume souls, but honestly he's okay with that. His rate of hunger has remained the same (one human per month), though since it's blood rather than souls, he's able to spread that out over the course of the month to avoid killing his victims.