Miyabi

Miyabi Shinkai is a character from Senran Kagura series, she is a shinobi from Hebijo Academy, a school run by her father and where she learn the way of shinobi.

After a certain incident, she lost most of her powers and memories as a result of using a forbidden technique which led her to retire from shinobi life alongside her best friend Imu who took care of her for three years.

Upon returning to Hebijo after seeing Hebijo's castle crumbling and the appearance of the Yoma known as Orochi, her powers and memories return as she fight for the reconstruction of their school. However following the First Shinobi Great War, she broke away from Hebijo after it's dissolution and form her own team under the name of Shiroki Tsubasa ("白き翼, White Wings") and set out on a quest of saving the world from The Reaper and his army of yoma.

After the end of the Second Shinobi Great War and the defeat of The Reaper, Miyabi feels remorse for what she did to her former comrades and friends and decide to fully retired as shinobi and become a teacher at Academy City alongside Yumi.

Even after her retirement from active duty, she is still technically a shinobi as she teach the way of the ninja to the new generation.

Appearance
Miyabi is a young woman with white hair and yellow eyes, during her time at Hebijo Academy, she wear the regular Hebijo uniform.

During her time as the Leader of Shiroki Tsubasa, she discarded her Hebijo Uniform for a black suit with purple suit jacket, black shirt with white tie, black pants and shores and black leather gloves.

As of the events of The World of Science & Magic, her appearance remain the same excepted that her hair have grow until her shoulders and tain back into her natural black hair, she also wear an eye patch over her right eye that was damaged during the previous war.

Personality
Miyabi is hard working and extremely prideful and confident in her abilities. She always carriers a serious demeanor and very rarely ever genuinely smiles outside of a confident smirk.

Her demeanor is quite manly in relation to her appearance which only further adds to the issue of people hardly seeing her as a girl.

Despite her no-nonsense attitude, Miyabi is also shown to be very caring of those close to her, especially her best friend Imu. She can also be rather kind in her own way when the situation calls for it.

However in the end of Senran Kagura: The Black Swordsman and during the course of Passing on the Legends, following the suppossed death of Fuyu, Yumi, Asuka, Ayame and Genji, Miyabi's personality take a dark turn for the worst after she assault both Ryobi and Ryona out of insanity as a result of lose of her friends.

The following years, after Hebijo's destruction, Miyabi became a cold, calculating and determinated woman and developped an obsession over Yuuki Kõtetsu the daughter of Asuka and Fuyu as she saw her as the key to save them.

However after Fuyu's return and the Second Shinobi Great War, Miyabi's old personality resurface as she felt guilty for all the atrocity she caused to Ryobi, Ryona and everyone around her after she let the darkness in her heart consume her, which make her decide to fully retired as an active shinobi and move on with her life to become a teacher at Academy City to atone for the sins she have done.

Background
She is the best friend of Imu, since the day of the incident that cause her to lost her memories and her powers, she retired as a Shinobi in order to live a normal life with her best friend, but she returned to Hebijo after the events of the battle between Hebijo and Hanzõ Academy.

Unaware that she was manipulated by Dõgen, Miyabi and Imu came back to Hebijo and form a new elite in order to track down Homura and her friends and strook them down.

However her meeting with The Dragneel Family, Miyabi begin to redmeed herself and decided to help them against Dõgen before he reveal himself as Gabriel Reyes aka The Reaper the true mastermind behind the events unfold and the death of Hanzõ Shimada.

Following the events of the Second Shinobi Great War, Miyabi decide to fully retired as active shinobi while still remaining one and move on with her life with Yumi, deciding to go join her old friend of her at Academy City and live as a teacher.

Shinobi Powers and Abilities
Due to her past experience and by her link with Kagura, Miyabi is a powerful Shinobi of her own right as the leader of both Hebijo Academy's Elite and Shiroki Tsubasa, having power over Darkness and have also a great mastery over Earth Magic making her the most powerful shinobi in the world.
 * Immense Strength: Miyabi possess a immense strength that come from her years of training as a student of Hebijo Academy and also due to the link she forged with Kagura, her strength is so immense that she can hold off a whole army of shinobi by herself.
 * Immense Speed: She possess overwhelming speed, she is capable of completely take the enemies by surprise and dodge all of their attacks, her speed also come from her years of training as a Hebijo student under the tutellage of Rin.
 * Immense Durability: Miyabi proved herself to be extremely durable as she was able to take a powerful attack from her rival Homura and get out of it with only small scratches.
 * Master Shinobi: as the strongest shinobi of the world, Miyabi as a full control over her shinobi powers and highly skilled, due to her years of training under teachers such as Rin who was know as Suzune, Miyabi possess utterly skill as shinobi at the level as Asuka and Homura and is capable of creating her own unique and powerful ninja technique and had a natural talent for mastered justu beyond what she should have been capable of at the time.

Shinobi Form
Like all shinobi of her generation, she possess a Shinobi transformation in which under this form her strength, speed and durabily increase and can use her shinobi powers,

Shinobi Power

 * Delightful Inferno (悦ばしきInferno - Yorokobashiki Inferno) one of Miyabi regular attacks, She coats her seven-pronged sword with a dark aura before jumping right in with a fury of hard-hitting slashes. With its short attack range, her attack is not very effective against groups. It does hold the benefits of being unblockable and burning whatever it strikes, however, so it's perfect against defensive enemies such as turtle assassins.
 * Purgatorio of Good and Evil (善悪の Purgatorio - Zen'aku no Purgatorio) one of Miyabi's regular attack, Miyabi summons a nest of blood-red snakes from her left hand, which sink their fangs into everything surrounding her. Since this art has a wide-range, it's perfect against a group of enemies, but since it's blockable, be sure to avoid using it around enemies who frequently guard.

Abyssal Form
Miyabi in her young days possess a Ultimate form called Divine Judgement, at first she was unable to control it because of the use of the Blood Riot, an forbidden ninpõ that not only increase the strength of it's user but also wears out her mind and body to the point of make her go berserk after being overwhelmed by the technique and can figuratively become an unstoppable force at the price of her self-control and sanity.
 * Divu~ain jajjimento ("Divine Judgement") - after her meeting with Kagura, Miyabi can fully control her Abyssal form at will, under this form she sprouts six wings that are black and white. Her hair becomes black with a white streak at the front and her eyes become red. There is also a symbol tattooed to her face.

Special Attack
Under her Abyssal Form, Miyabi has several new powerful attack that she can use against her enemies especially the yomas.
 * Kuruoshiki imperatrice ("Madness imperatrice"): One of Miyabi's special attack under her Abyssal form, she send her opponent into the air and attack him with her seven branch sword three time, before sending him down on the ground while unleashing her sword upon him to finish him off.

Magic Powers
During the 18 years following the Shinobi Great War, Miyabi has learn and demonstrated her mastery over Magic, she is capable of creating different type of attacks based of her magic powers especially petrification and the summoning of several weapons created through her powers, it was her mastery over Magic powers that make her earn the title of "The Strongest Shinobi of the world".
 * Aionion Petrosis ("永久石化（アイオーニオン・ペトローシス）, Aiōnion Petorōshisu, Eternal Petrification") an attack spell which Miyabi releases a beam of light from her fingers, petrifying all living and non-living beings in contact with it, While the petrification caused by Pnoē Petras and Kakon Omma Petrôseôs can be magically countered or cancelled, this spell is comparatively even more dangerous, as its effect is semi permanent. It would require calling on spirits on a divine level of power to undo this spell.
 * Circulus Pilorum Nigrorum ("万象貫く黒杭の円環（キルクルス・ピーロールム・ニグロールム）, Kirukurusu Pīrōrumu Nigurōrumu, Ring of All-Piercing Black Stakes") a spell which Miyabi summons a massive swarm of petrification stakes. These projectiles have been shown to range in size from inches to 6 feet long.
 * Senjin Kokuyōken, Kokuyō Rasenjin ("千刃黒耀剣 黒耀螺旋刃, One Thousand Obsidian Blades: Obsidian Spiral") spell creates one thousand blades to form a spiral that continuously attacks a target like a chain saw. during the Second Shinobi Great War, it show that it can gradually take down the yomas magic barriers.
 * Stone Snake (石・蛇, Ishi Hebi) a spirit spell, upon activation, it causes the surrounding earth to form square pillars that behave similar to snakes and attack a target.
 * Dóry Pétras (石の槍（ドリュ・ペトラス）, Doryu Petorasu, Spear of Stone) an attack spell which causes sharp stone spikes to appear, attacking the target. This spell can be modified for anti-barrier penetration.