Shikimi Shiramine

Shikimi Shiramine is one of the characters in the series Renai Bōkun. Shikimi has pink, wavy, chin length hair, with two neck length bangs. She has pink eyes with pink heart shaped pupils; which is ironic due to the fact that does not pursue love at all. She has a light skin complexion and a cat-like mouth. Although she appears to be 17 to 20 years old, it is implied that she is really much older as she referred to Seiji as a child. She wears a white button up shirt, with the sleeves pulled off her shoulders, buttoned up only in the center of her breast; exposing her cleavage, corset, and belly area. She also wears a thigh-length red and blue cross pattern skirt with black strapped leggings that have pink at the top. The straps are also pink. She wears dark brown shoes, and wears half-rimmed glasses. She has natural rosatia under her eyes. She has a small spider tattoo on her lower back. She also has white eyelashes. When Shikimi first appeared posing as a student, she was seemingly shy, nervous, and confused. However, this turned out to be a cover. Her true personality can be best described as sadistic and manipulative. She took great pleasure in capturing and torturing Seiji while taunting Akane and Yuzu. She also seems to be masochistic as she was overjoyed by being hurt by Akane, exclaiming that it felt good. Shikimi's goal is to achieve immortality. Initially, she attempted to achieve this goal by manipulating Guri to include her in the harem, thus turning her into a Formal Angel. When this failed, she teamed up with Maou to turn Guri to the dark in exchange for being transformed into a demon. She is shown to be highly intelligent in that she is a master of espionage and deception. She is also very perceptive and uses her insights to manipulate her targets with ease. She deduced from Guri's actions that she was in love with Seiji, but didn't fully realize it. She skillfully used Guri's feelings and Seiji's annoyance with Guri's antics to break Guri's heart and turn her into a demon. Shikimi is also shown to be fairly perverted. In addition to dressing into revealing clothes, she has on more than one occasion attempted to seduce Seiji. She also groped Akane while taunting her. She frequently uses her body to "steal" men and use them to her advantage until subsequently discarding them when their usefulness to her runs their course. She uses her own honorifics when addressing people, often changing symbols in them. She refers to Akane as Akane-tan instead of san, Yuzu as Yuzu-chin instead of chan, Seiji as Seiji-kyun instead of Seiji-kun. However she refers to Guri as Guri-chan, the regular honorific; suggesting that maybe she respects and refers to angelic and demonic beings correctly. It is shown that Shikimi's negative personality traits are the result of her childhood experiences in which she was ostracized and bullied for coming from a poor family. It was here that she began to find joy in stealing and inflicting pain on others (initially just the people that wronged her) which ultimately led her to evolve into manipulative sadist she is. Despite her evil actions, it is implied that there might be a little good left in her and she might not be beyond redemption. After Maou breaks his end of the deal by not turning her into a demon and Guri turns back to the light, she is initially disappointed, but accepts Guri's offer to come to the light and learn what love is. Whether her desire to turn the light is genuine or not is unknown.