Respect Shiki Tohno (Tsukihime Manga)

anime/manga

###Who?

Shiki Tohno is a pretty nice guy/complete monster. His backstory is filled with cliches, and it's not really necessary to know. Be aware this is specifically Tohno Shiki from the manga adaptation, and so certain things may or may not apply to the default Shiki Tohno (from the Visual Novel and Expanded Universe).

When Shiki was young, he was in a tragic car accident. When he awoke, everywhere he looked he saw scribbly lines. And he found that if you trace those lines, the thing they are on falls apart. No force was needed allowing him to cut anything. Unfortunately, seeing how fragile reality was is something that man is not designed to comprehend, and so it hurts him to see the lines (and will eventually cause his brain to explode).

Also for some reason girls are drawn to him.

###Eyes

The simple explanation is he can cut anything by hitting "lines of death" and kill anything in one hit by hitting "points of death".

The complicated explanation is that Shiki can kill pretty much everything in one hit because he sees the "death" of things, ignoring their durability or defence. As he uses his power more, it grows stronger and stronger. First allowing him to see "Points of Death" - which are essentially death itself. Then Arcueid thinks he might be able to even see the Points of Death on inanimate objects, but that would fry his brain. And lo and behold, his power grows to where he can see the Points of Death on inanimate objects. Finally, near the end they become strong enough to the point where the magic glasses are no longer effective.

###Nanaya Instinct

Shiki is the descendant of a family of super demon-hunting assassins. He's got super demon-hunting assassin instincts.

###Combat

He slices, he dices, and kills everything in one hit

###Agility

###Reflexes

###Tenacity

Shiki has strong pain endurance, and when his alternate personality takes over he can no longer feel pain.

###Equipment

  • Mystic Eye Killers - A pair of powerful magic glasses that block his ability to see Lines and Points of Death

  • Nanatsu-Yoru - (aka Nanaya, aka Seven Nights) is a simple retractable knife.

Posted Apr 24, 2015, 6:19 AM UTC

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xephfyre•

Ryougi may be the highest-tier MEoDP user out of the two, but tbh Tohno outclasses her with pure stats. Nice RT!

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SimoHalo•

Incest does miracles, huh?

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xephfyre•

Incest is literally love and life.

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FreIus•

But... Can he kill servants?

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Lotharingia•

He's technically FTE and can kill anything with one hit, so probably.

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FreIus•

This is a bit of a difficult question: Servants cannot be hurt by normal human means, usually.
Nasu himself has not yet given any Word of God on the problem, so at the moment it is mostly a bait question.
Also, Servants are far FTE.

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upads•

If it can die, Shiki can kill it. No exceptions.

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SexualPie•

normal human means

what part of this is normal human?

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TheAceol•

Depends on if he's faster than those Servants. If not, tough luck, he's not touching their lines before he gets killed. If he is, he can kill them, no problem. As long as anything has Gaia's concept of "Death", he can kill it. If it has an end, he can kill it.

Also, he's not faster than Servants, except for possibly Angra Mainyu, but even he's pretty fast by human standards.

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FreIus•

Wasn't there something Nasu said about him and Noble Phantasms? I think I read something about him "overloading" or something, but that could be wrong, has been a while.
Also, the question was supposed to be a reference to the flamebait it turned into :D

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TheAceol•

We all got that. But that flame bait is bad, since there's an actual answer to it.

Never heard of any "overloading", but that sounds similar to BP's. Are you sure you're not just thinking of an instance where he was speaking of the two protagonists together? Also, hey Frelus.

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FreIus•

Oh hey, didn't even recognize you. And let me check...
Here:
Q: In the other Type-Moon works, who else besides Arc can fight against Servants?

A: If we're working on the condition of one on one, with an extremely average Noble Phantasm. Generally most of the 27 Ancestors, Kishima Kouma, Aozaki Aoko. If it's just a defensive fight, but would still be a fight, then Ciel. Shiki (Rakkyo), Shiki (Tsukihime) are no match for Servants....but Ryougi Shiki (3rd personality) might be able to go as far as the Ciel class.

Also interesting:
Q: Since Saber and Gilgamesh have physical bodies in Fate/Stay Night, can Shiki see lines on them? (@LestatDusk)

A: Not just when they have a physical body, the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception are effective even when they're in spiritual bodies. For Shiki [Ryougi], if the opponent can be recognized as "living" (not "life", but "live"), she can see the lines of death. For example, the ghosts in Overlooking View were dead, but they were "living" in the sense that they can interfere with the current world.
So he can kill servants - theoretically. Not a match for them in combat though, at least not if he wants to actually kill them.
Sources:
http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Shiki_Ryougi#cite_note-27
Source 27 and 30, from a Q&A Nasu did, it seems.

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