Ryoshu

Ryōshū (Hangul: 료슈, ryo-syu; Japanese: 良秀, りょうしゅう, ryōshū) is designated Sinner #4 of Limbus Company's LCB department. Ryōshū is an ungovernable woman with a fascination in art that she uniquely defines, with little tolerance for what disinterests or offends her. Her ventures prior to Limbus Company are unknown, an implied affiliation with the Fingers of the Backstreets notwithstanding. She will be the focus character of upcoming Canto IX: The Unsevering

Appearance

Ryōshū is a woman of average height and build, with straight black hair in a bob cut style and sharp red eyes, which at times can be seen glowing. She wears the dark gray and red LCB coat around her shoulders, secured by a small belt that goes over her right arm. Attached to the coat itself is her ID card. She wears black trousers, and her shirt uniform untucked; she foregoes the tie. She is occasionally depicted with a black glove on her left hand. Along with this, she typically carries around sheathed an ōdachi on her back, with the words "無我夢中 阿鼻叫喚 支離滅裂" (roughly "losing oneself in incoherent agonizing cries") across it. The ōdachi's hilt is golden, and decorated with a butterfly pattern. The end of the sheath is wrapped in a red ribbon. The blade is consistently sheathed, as pointed out during the story.[4] In Mirror Worlds, she typically wields a separate weapon, while noticeably still carrying her ōdachi behind her.

Personality

Ryōshū has an individualistic, free-spirited, and somewhat sadistic personality. She maintains a hostile attitude with most everyone that she speaks to, feeling no obligation to uphold common courtesies like politeness or attentiveness. Even among the Sinners, she is strikingly unfriendly and forthright. She is one of the least talkative members of the LCB, and does not maintain particularly respectful relationships with her coworkers. She labels herself as someone who dislikes butting in, and tends to scoff at the others for overthinking matters or sentimentality. Often, she sees the others as ignorant for not understanding "true artwork", which, for Ryōshū, typically involves gruesome murder. When she does speak, she almost always includes a form of SANGRIA ("succinct abbreviation naturally germinates rather immaculate art"), an abbreviation of a sentence or phrase. She considers this to be most efficient, describing not using abbreviations as a waste of time, and growing irked whenever others misunderstand what she's saying. While she doesn't seem to care whether others "accept" her, Ryōshū's frustrations over her abbreviations going mistranslated or untranslated demonstrate that she dislikes being misinterpreted. Most often, Ryōshū speaks up in order to chime in about art or family.

Trivia

• Ryōshū is based on the painter Yoshihide from the short story Hell Screen, by Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• She has a full list of all her abbreviations available.
• Ryōshū's character icon represents a butterfly with ruined wings: a wing appears to be flaking, while the other is burning and bleeding. The text on the icon, "森羅炎象", translates to English as "Forest for the Flames" — the same name as Ryōshū's base E.G.O skill.
• She calls every member by the nickname she has for them. For instance, Gregor is Bug guy and Sinclair is Kid, Kiddo and Champagne hair.