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He's understandably a little freaked out by both changes, but he adapts quickly.

Locked into Strangeness: In roughly the span of a few hours or days after the wasp fails to emerge and kill him, his brown hair turns completely white and his brown eyes change color - violet in the novels, red in the manga/anime.

Nezumi tries to tell Shion he protected them both, but the horror of becoming a murderer almost makes Shion kill himself until Nezumi snaps him out of it. Shion shoots down the officer who was about to kill him and Nezumi, but misses the vital point and delivers the final blow without compassion. Only Nezumi breaking down and crying for him was able to snap him out of it. Interrupted Suicide: In the novel and manga, he outright attempts to kill himself after killing a man who hurt Nezumi.The only one he's really attracted to is Nezumi. Incompatible Orientation: He never gets the chance to make good on his promise to have sex with Safu, but that works out well enough for him considering he didn't want to in the first place.

I Will Wait for You: At the end of the series, Shion swears he will wait for Nezumi to fulfill his promise to come back to him eventually, no matter how many years pass, and he won't let Nezumi go again.Played with though in that this safe mode comes dangerously close to turning into his Yandere mode, to a point that it actually unsettles Inukashi and Rikiga. Heroic Safe Mode: In the manga, seeing Nezumi get shot for him almost results in a complete breakdown until he manages to get his logical side to take over.Headbutt Thermometer: How he checks Nezumi's temperature when they first meet.Genius Ditz : Even though Shion is naive and lacks a sense of self-preservation, he was ranked the highest in the city's intelligence test when he was just two-years-old.He also gets along with Dogkeeper and their dogs. Friend to All Living Things: Nezumi's mice take a liking to him (he even gives them names).

Friend to All Children: He reads to the neighboring kids in the Western Block.

Fond Memories That Could Have Been: In the manga, after Shion discovers he was too late to save Safu from being reduced to a Brain in a Jar, he imagines how nice it would have been if he could have shown her the West Block and introduced her to Inukashi and Rikiga.

Even the Guys Want Him: Nezumi, of course, but he was also hit on by a greasy old corpse-collector, with promises of meat and drink, no less.

Curtains Match the Window: His hair and eyes used to be brown before the parasitic wasp.

Child Prodigy: Before meeting Nezumi, Shion was an ecology major in the city's gifted program with enough practical knowledge to safely suture wounds at the age of twelve.

Character Tics: He has a habit of pulling his hair when he's anxious or stressed.

It does finally hit him, and hard on the Correctional Facility, but even then and probably thanks to his Cloudcuckoolander tendencies he manages to go back to his old self with few negative repercussions.

#SHION NO.6 ICON SERIES#

Break the Cutie: The series tries hard, but Shion is too much of a Pollyanna to give in.

His hair was originally brown, but it turned white because of the effects of the wasp in his body.

Brainy Brunette: Before meeting Nezumi, Shion was on his way to going into the Special Curriculum for gifted students, specializing in Ecology.

Beware the Nice Ones: When Nezumi is threatened, sweet and naive Shion reacts in two ways: all-out rage or cold, rational murderousness.

Badass Adorable: He seems all cute and innocent on the outside, but mess with someone he cares about, specifically Nezumi, and get ready for the beatdown of your life.

Back from the Dead: In the anime, Safu resurrects him while possessed by Elyurias before Ascending to a Higher Plane of Existence.

Adaptation Dye-Job: His eyes were violet in the novels as opposed to the red in the anime and manga.

He is unfailingly polite and idealistic and refuses to give up on saving the people of No. 6, only to be stripped of his privileges after giving shelter to Nezumi, a fugitive. Voiced by: Yūki Kaji (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)Ī boy raised among the elite of No.

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