Shizu Morisato

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Name:
Shizu Morisato

Age: Twenty-two.
Gender: Female.
Species: Human.
Planet of Origin: Earth.
Occupation: “Public Relations.”

Physical Description: Shizu is a tall and slim woman. She’s six and a half inches past five feet, making her a few inches taller than the average Japanese woman. She weighs ninety pounds, but she’s a lot tougher than she appears. Although she doesn’t appear particularly muscled, she’s capable of handling herself in a fight against people much bigger than herself. Quite well, if her reputation is anything to go by.

Her eyes are dark and narrow. Her bangs run straight across her forehead and end just under her eyebrows. Her hair is thick and long, falling to her lower back. When she’s on the job, it’s usually just tucked into a tight bun or under a hat. Her skin is lightly tanned from her time spent outside.

She has an excellent control over her facial expressions. As she was born mute due to damaged vocal chords, she’s had to communicate using sign language combined with her expressions. Due to this, there isn’t a gesture that Shizu does not mean to convey or a twitch of her eye that’s on accident.

Shizu’s clothing style depends greatly on whether she’s completing an ‘assignment’ for her job or not. When she’s at home with her sisters or wandering around the city, she’s usually in an short elaborate dress. She always carried two knives attached at her thigh and bosom. When she’s on a job, she’s a master at blending in with her surroundings.

Personality: Shizu exudes an air of confidence. She’s good at what she does, and she knows it. Most others that know she’s good at it are dead, but Shizu doesn’t let that part bother her. She’s a zealot to improve on her skills so she’s often found sharpening her knives and carving figurines out of wood or ivory. When she’s under a lot of stress, Shizu usually carves out a lot of these figurines, ignoring her sisters unless Rin needs someone to be ‘silenced’.

Her confidence can easily be taken for arrogance as she brushes people off very quickly. She has a highly evolved sense of intuition that has saved her more than a few times, so Shizu trusts herself much more than she trusts others. She dislikes slow-thinkers and slow-talkers. Her judgments come at a rapid pace and may not seem to make much sense at the time. She’s a long-range thinker. She plans for years in the future rather than what would be the most expedient option at the moment.

Although her job can be very dangerous to a person’s psyche, Shizu has the ability to note the difference between killing people for her family’s business and killing people for fun. She’s effective at her job and does it with the utmost care. She’s been warned multiple times about similar people who couldn’t handle the stress and the blood of so many people and went crazy, but Shizu shrugs off the warnings. After all, it’s just life. Everyone eventually gets to the finish line, she’s just acting as a… supersonic car.

Shizu’s condition doesn’t allow for her to socialize with many people. As a result, she spends much of her time in her mind. She has very little interest in other people’s thoughts and feelings – she’s got enough on her plate. She isn’t anyone’s therapist. If someone comes to her with a problem, Shizu tends to apply logic and reason to the problem instead of providing the desired emotional support and pity.

To a casual observer, Shizu appears aloof and reserved. It’s true that she doesn’t often demonstrate her affections towards her sisters or her father. She rarely gives out much praise, as she believes that everything can be done better. She does show her affection sometimes in her own way, like carving figurines of her sisters and the Reaper out of ivory.

She has absolutely no patience for inefficient systems. Shizu hates clutter and as a result, the sisters’ home is nearly unearthly tidy. She’s the undeclared champion of Shogi – Japanese Chess. She has very high standards for herself and for others. Although Shizu does trust in her intuition, she’s a rational person. She’s a supreme strategist, and you’d be hard-pressed to find her without a plan. Due to her high standards, Shizu’s a reliable and talented worker.

History: Shizu was born five years after her older sister, Rin. It was immediately apparent that there was something wrong with the baby. Although Shizu opened her mouth and squeezed her eyes shut like a normal child, only a harsh and guttural whisper came from the torn and malformed vocal chords. Her parents gave her the name ‘Shizu’, meaning ‘silent’. Despite the potential problems the doctors warned her parents that she could develop with her windpipe later, Shizu grew normally.

Or, at least as normally as a mute child with parents in the Yakuza could be. While her older sister went through training on how to run the casino and hotel as well as the real business, Shizu’s mother taught her how to use a knife. At first, it was simply to cut through meat and vegetables for dinner and lunch, but the talent was noticeable. (Not the talent for cooking – as proud as she is, Shizu will not claim to know how to cook well). Her father and his friend, a Time Lord by the name of the Reaper, began training her to kill a man by the time she was four years old.

A few months after her fifth birthday, her little sister, Sumiko, was born. Many five-year-old girls may not have known what death was, but Shizu had already become quite the mass murderer of pigs under her father and the Reaper’s tutelage. She recognized that when Sumiko was born, her mother had died. Her negative feelings about this development were only justified when she noted her father’s cold attitude towards the child. As Sumiko grew up and become more than the baby that killed their mother, Shizu began to accept her until she loved her as much as Rin.

As she grew older, her skills with the blade increased. As she reached her twelfth birthday, her father shifted his attention away from her and began to prepare Rin more than he ever had before. Rin’s own attention was divided between their father and Sumiko, leaving Shizu mostly to her own devices. Mostly. The Reaper was always there to ensure that she didn’t stray from her practices too much. When she wasn’t practicing on pigs, she would be sculpting figures out of wood.

The reason for their father’s attention on Rin soon became apparent. The police had finally caught up with her father and the man was sentenced to several life sentences. Shizu didn’t let it bother her. They still had the Reaper, and the Time Lord didn’t seem to be going anywhere soon. Of course, whether that was from loyalty or his debts, Shizu didn’t think it important to ask. His loyalties, or lack thereof, was none of their business as long as he got the job done. That was ten years ago.

Her sister, Rin, had hired Shizu to be the ‘silencer’ – ensuring that the enemies of the business didn’t go around talking anymore. Shizu has no qualms about killing people. As the Reaper stayed with them to be their protector, he often went with Shizu. She didn’t mind his company, but she was quite certain she could manage just fine without him.

Additional medical information: Mute.