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Ritsuko Shima<br/>
Nickname: Ritsu<br/>
Age: 20<br/>
Height: 5'1<br/>
Eye color<br/>
Normally aqua blue as shown in her image, however when her innocence is activated they glow a bright greenish color.<br/>
Personality<br/>
Ritsu is a pretty quite girl and likes to mind her own business, however she can also be incredibly stubborn and strong-willed. She doesn't usually back down from her own opinions and beliefs. While she can be rather quite and reserved, she is incredibly loyal to those she cares about, though currently that isn't a whole lot of people.<br/>
Bio: She grew up an only child with two very loving parents, however, her mother recently grew terminally ill and died a year later. This affected her father a lot, and sent him into depression and it only spiraled further out of control. In the end, he was so depressed and missing her that the Earl paid him a visit, and thus, desperately wishing to revive his lost love he tried to bring her back as the Earl said he could, and he died as his wife became an akuma in his skin. Living in the same house as an akuma (unknowingly at the time since it was still in her fathers skin), this lead to Ritsu's first encounter with an akuma, and the real activation and beginning use of her previously dormant innocent that resides within her eyes. The innocence acted out passively (without her intent/knowledge) to protect her, living in such close proximity with the akuma, and caused the akuma to essentially become harmless and act like the body it was controlling, her father.<br/>
Innocence<br/>
Type: Parasitic<br/>
Location: Eyes (When activated, her eyes glow bright green, like innocence)<br/>
Ability/What it does: In short, it's a type of psychological weapon, in way. Using her innocent upon eye contact, she can create hallucinations/illusions on her enemy's mind. They can be more passive or actively aggressive. For example, as explained in her background where the innocence activated on it's own without her aware or knowing, it created a concept in the akumas (the one disguised as her father) mind that it wasn't an akuma, so it actually genuinely believe it is the human that it is wearing the skin of, so it acts like her father and is essentially harmless. However her innocence can also act more aggressively, creating physical illusion which, those who are not targeted cannot see/feel, however, the illusions to those they are directed at are very much real, and can cause real pain/injury/etc.<br/>
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~​</div><br/><br/>While things had seemed relatively normal for Ritsuko over the past week or so in her life, she couldn't help but feel that something was off. About a two weeks ago she started getting headaches, and her vision occasionally was blurry or impaired for whatever reason Ritsuko didn't know. She figured that it was likely just general stress and lack of sleep. It was still hard dealing with the loss of her mother, but she'd been putting up a strong front to try and help her father cope with it all. She of course loved and missed her just as much as he did, but she knew it was affecting him much more than it was herself - though that wasn't to say she didn't care. However, because she cared about her dad just as much, she kept her emotions to herself and was doing the best she could to care for him, cooking meals, and doing the shopping and everything. Though it worried her since he never seemed to be eating. She figured it was just another symptom of his depression though. Another odd thing about it all though, was that about a week or two ago, when her headaches and impaired vision started randomly occurring, he seemed to pick his spirits up a bit. She didn't understand why, and she certainly wasn't complaining since he seemed to be going back to his old self, but it did leave an uncomfortable feeling inside her. Something about it seemed unusual...not entirely natural.<br/><br/>Now, about a week ago, one week after these changes started occurring, something else had been happening. The village had been seeing a lot more deaths - something definitely unnatural and concerning. Those who were unfamiliar with akuma, or hadn't seen them were chalking it all up to be some disease running around the village. Ritsuko couldn't help but feel as though it was something more more serious and bigger than that however. Currently, the black-haired girl was walking through the smaller village doing grocery shopping. Due to the unnatural deaths and chaos that seemed to be happening in the village, she was making sure her father stayed inside. Even though he was the father, she knew he was still emotionally struggling and recovering from her mothers death, and so she was doing everything she could to take any ounce of stress or pressure out of him, leading her to her current errand grocery shopping.<br/><br/>As she walked through the outside mart, she stopped every now and then at different stands to buy different supplies, thinking back to her dad back home. She was really worried about him, with the recent loss of her mother, his wife, she knew he was having a hard time dealing with it. Specifically in the past two weeks, he seemed to stop eating entirely. Of course, unknown to her, she had no clue that it wasn't due to his depression that he had a lack of appetite for the food she made for him, but rather, that he was already dead, and an akuma who had no desire or need to eat such food. Over the past few weeks she had also been growing increasingly fatigued. She figured it was her lack of sleep and stress over the past month with her mothers death and the increased responsibility she took on to take care of her father in their time of mourning. In reality though, the symptoms she'd been having lately of increased fatigue, migraines, impaired vision and the like were a result of her unfamiliar abilities - her innocence - activating without her even knowing, and putting the akuma disguised in her fathers skin in a hallucination that caused him to believe he was really still human, and not the human killing machine that he was, in order to protect her.