Senri Shiki

Senri Shiki (支葵千里, Shiki Senri) is one of the youngest Night Class members. He works as a model alongside Rima Touya. When the Night Class is given orders to hunt down a level E vampire, Shiki is usually the one we see out hunting them. He has a whip-like weapon which develops from his blood. Later in the series it is revealed that Senri is in fact the son of Rido Kuran, Kaname and Yuuki's uncle.

Personality
Shiki possesses a personality similar to Rima's, he is impassive, and often detached to the rest of the vampires except for Rima and Ichijo, though he rarely expresses emotion at all, even with Rima around. He appears to be lazy and indolent, and may seem like he doesn't care about anything at all because of his reserved nature, he keeps to himself. However, he will stand by his friends' side when there's danger.

Appearance
His height is 178 cm and has a pale complexion like other vampires. He has short, thick, wavy, messy, dark reddish hair, almost maroon-colored which he received from his mother, and he has a touch of Rido Kuran's features in the face. His eyes are light blue in color.

Background
Shiki's father is Rido Kuran, thus making Shiki, Kaname Kuran and Yuki Cross cousins, and his mother's uncle is part of the council. Shiki's Mom was also a former actress, making the Shiki family well known. Not much is told about Shiki's past except that his father Rido 'died' 10 years ago. Shiki is known by the servants of Rido to be his father's puppet, but since awakening after his father's possession of his body, Shiki is no longer a puppet that can be controlled by his father.

Plot Summary
Shiki's body was possessed by his father's soul, who is supposed to be dead. Though possessed by Rido Kuran, Rido claims that having Shiki regain conscious is easier than he had let on. During his fight with Rima, who tries to convince Shiki to fight against Rido and to "Stop being an idiot", and to "love himself more", Shiki is seen trying to regain control, while Rido is telling him otherwise. Then, he became unconsciousness after being controlled by Rido for quite a long time.

In Chapter 41, he regained consciousness and after recalling the events that had taken place, apologizes to an unconscious Rima for letting Rido use his body and embraces her. He then protects Rima from a vampire, of whom is a servant of Rido. Shiki is referred to be Rido's puppet. Afterwards, Rima asks him for blood, and he agrees. In chapter 43, he carried Rima who is now conscious away from the building before it collapsed. During this, he suddenly confronted Rido who is fighting and glared at him before leaving.

He and Rima went searching for Ichijo who didn't come back, later Kaname told them to stop and the both were getting ready for the ball were they ran into Ichijo. He was seen as Rima's date at the ball.

Trivia

 * Shiki last name is combination of shi meaning to support and ki meaning mallow. The ri in Senri means distance
 * Shiki is roommates with Takuma Ichijo
 * Senri seems to have inherited his father's ability use blood whip although Rido can use it to greater degree.
 * Although Kaname and Shiki are cousins, they barely seen interacting with each other and didn't mention their relationship until 53rd Night: "Accidental Encounters" when Shiki called Kaname and Yuuki his cousins.
 * He and Rima share a love for pocky.
 * Like the Ichijo family, the Shiki family is pro-council because his mother's uncle is a member of the Vampire Council.
 * Even through most of his family are purebloods, Shiki himself is not considered a Pureblood because his mother is an Aristocrat (Level B).
 * Asato Ichijo said " he was a bit on the skinny side" probably not knowing he was a model.