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About Shizuka静

Aragaki Shizuka from Sakakabe, Minkai, Tian-Xia (fantasy Japan)

Shizuka (the eldest child by 13 minutes) and his twin sister Natsuki were raised by their paternal grandmother, a very greedy woman, after their mother Kanae passed away during childbirth, and their father died in an ill-advised raid on a dragon's hoard.

His musical talent was discovered at a young age and he very quickly became a common presence in imperial courts.

Even with the prestige this brought, it was not enough for Shizuka's grandmother, who brokered an arranged marriage with Akiko, the daughter of a wealthy noble family.

While Akiko was a very lovely and beautiful woman, Shizuka had no interest in women (or men), romance or marriage. He was originally willing to go along with the wedding though because Akiko was very much in love - with his twin sister Natsuki (who returned her feelings). Shizuka figured the three of them would be able to live together in the family home, where Natsuki and Akiko would at least be able to keep a relationship in private, if not in public.

However even this marriage was not enough for Shizuka and Natsuki's grandmother, who also brokered an arranged marriage for Kanae with Fumio, a rather lecherous man in a far away city.

So Shizuka, after ensuring the legal documentation for the first marriage specified it would be between Akiko and "the eldest child of Aragaki Kanae", and the second would be between Fumio and "the youngest unmarried woman in the Aragaki family", on the day of the weddings, renounced the Aragaki family name in order to join a monastery.

This made his sister Natsuki the eldest child, and thus legally obligated to marry lady Akiko- and once that marriage was complete, made his grandmother the youngest unmarried woman (since her husband had passed many years prior).

Unfortunately, this did mean Shizuka (who had even less interest in religion than romance) was obligated to become a monk, however through a rather "liberal" translation of the Minkaian word for monastery, traveled to the Grand Lodge in Absalom and joined the Pathfinder Society to become an adventurer.

He carries a cane-sword, but his primary weapon is magically turning his shamisen bachi (the plectrum/pick) into needle darts and throwing them at enemies while playing encouraging anthems for his allies.

Secretly, he has also recently come into possession of a mysterious black ring that he can draw upon to transform into the magical boy Starlit Sentinel of the Swordswoman Constellation.