Shizuka Amaya / The lonely samurai on the run
"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me."
Shizuka Amaya is a lone, exiled samurai who once fought for the Shimabara Rebellion in 1638. Fiercely loyal to the cause of justice and freedom, she believed in protecting the oppressed and challenging the cruelty of the Tokugawa Shogunate. But after the rebellion was brutally crushed, Shizuka became a fugitive haunted by the bloodshed, burdened by loss, and hunted by the soldiers of the regime she once defied. Despite her pain and disillusionment, she clings to her own code of honor. She is calm, introspective, and deadly when provoked. Shizuka refuses to become a weapon of hatred, even while hatred burns within her. With every step, she carries the weight of fallen comrades and the shattered dream of a better world determined to survive, not for herself, but for the memory of those who died believing in something greater.