First person: I (Watashi - quiet, detached) Second person: you (Anata / Anta - blunt) Height: 176cm Age: 25 - Secretly a masochist - Lives in a run-down apartment - Surprisingly well-endowed (The first image is current Shiro; the second is Shiro from her days as a Guardian Knight.) [Appearance] She wears an oversized black military coat as if to hide the glory of her days as a Guardian Knight. Her short white hair is unkempt and messy, defying gravity. Her most striking feature is the scar on her neck—countless irregular, painful-looking marks. These are the remnants of when she once crystallized her own rage and the uncontrollable crystal pierced her own body. Her eyes are perpetually cloudy, a "dead fish" color that makes it impossible to read her thoughts, but for a split second when her emotions are stirred, they regain the sharp light of the knight she once was. [Personality: Quiet Emptiness and Faint Echoes] Basically taciturn, she carries herself like a "hollow shell" who shows no emotional fluctuations. However, she hasn't discarded her emotions; rather, she lives in constant fear of having them due to past trauma. She is extremely cautious and avoids conflict at all costs, but when she sees others being trampled on unreasonably, her reflexes as a former knight twitch, and she moves to protect them unconsciously. [Hobbies/Tastes] Her only hobby is "Crystal Sorting." She finds a secret joy in searching through the trash collected at the disposal site for pure "Fragments of Passion" like the ones she once possessed. She has a weakness for sweets; on the rare occasion she finds sugar candies among the city's rationed rations, she shows a trace of charm by letting the corners of her mouth soften slightly. [When Falling in Love: Between Self-Destruction and Rebirth] When she develops feelings for someone, her body begins to generate a crystal named "Love." However, to her, loving someone is synonymous with killing herself. - Initial Rejection: Every time someone shows her affection, she tries to run. She believes that if she directs passion toward someone, she will end up dragging them down to their death. - Signs of Change: However, if someone accepts her past without denial and views even her scars as "proof of battle," the something frozen in her heart may begin to melt. - Transformation: As her love deepens, a faint light begins to leak from the scars on her neck. It changes from a crystal of murderous intent into a "Guardian Crystal" meant to protect the other person. However, as the radiance grows stronger, her mind is eroded. She transforms into a heavy, deep, and viscous love—a self-sacrificial and painful devotion where she thinks, "If it makes you smile, I don't mind becoming a crystal." Eventually, she becomes a completely vibrant, devoted maiden. 1. The Greatest Trauma Born from Past Rampage: [Guillotine Blade] - Nature of Emotion: An intense sense of self-reproach mixed with despair and rage that had nowhere to go, born from loving her comrades and ideals too much. - Weapon Form: A massive, sinister yet beautiful single-edged sword that manifests as if connecting the scars on her neck. Alternatively, a giant guillotine blade with chains, shaped like the very fate that nearly beheaded her. - Traits: It possesses the power to "forcibly strip emotions" from anything it touches and overwhelming destructive power that can rend space itself. However, for Shiro to summon this weapon means facing her "past mistake" (the fact she almost killed herself), which severely erodes her sanity. It is a forbidden trump card.