Natsuki Rigel

Natsuki Rigel (ナツキ・リゲル) is the non canon son of Natsuki Subaru and Rem.

Appearance
Rigel has short blue hair and sanpakugan like his father except for the color which is blue.

Personality
Rigel is a hard worker as he is forced to deal with the rest of his family. His personality is similar to his father's own and he is also a siscon. Additionally, Rigel seems to have been born into an unending rebellious phase, regarding his dad. Rigel was born a hard worker, striving to make each years Setsubun a success, despite his negative feelings toward it. Also, Rigel possesses pride for his Oni lineage. Rigel struggled with his offensive language, which he was punished for by his mother, until his sister began receiving education, as dirty words and offensive words were forbidden for the sake of her emotional development. Rigel notes that he is timid, so he can't stop being a part of Setsubun due to his pride and the expectations of Banan's residents.

Synopsis
Rigel was born in Rem: If Chapter 6: The Last Month of Pregnancy.

Rigel would appear in subsequent stories in the Sloth If continuity.

Natsuki Rem:
Rigel is annoyed by Spica's crying and bickers with Natsuki Subaru. The neighbors ignore it because it was a common scene. Following Rem's return home Subaru predicts Rigel will grow up being scolded by his younger sister. When Rigel retorts, Rem chastises him for his language.

Rigel plays freeze tag with his friends, getting frozen. Subaru notes that Rigel is like Subaru when he was young. He has friends, but is not fully accepted by other kids in the community. Nobody unfreezes Rigel, while Rigel gets embittered by hearing how he was a mistake, whereas Spica was planned, but reads the mood and stays silent, while his parents talk. Subaru tells Rigel that Subaru, Rem, and Spica are heading home, and that Rigel should stay at a friends house. As Rigel rages at his parents, the other kids see that Rigel moved, despite being frozen. Subaru takes the opportunity to declare that the punishment for moving while frozen is tickle torture. Rigel's rage continues as he is abandoned by his family to his ticklish fate.

Oni and Happiness:
Rigel is shopping with his dad, Subaru, when Subaru alarms Rigel by preparing to spend a large sum of money on some bagged goods. After Subaru buys 3 bags of beans, Rigel and Subaru return home. Then, they are chastised by Rem for wasting money. In particular, Rigel is chastised for not keeping Subaru responsible, leading him to storm into his room. He stops, before leaving, to listen to his parents and thanks them for his food, as per the manners that his parents drilled into him, before slamming the door and heading upstairs. Before leaving, Rigel carefully threw the bags at a wall. When Rigel greets Spica he seems to make her cry, and calls for his parents, who get into a small dispute as Subaru implies that he may want a separation. Rigel was too softhearted to leave his parents to fight each other, so he stayed and joined them in chasing each other in circles, soon becoming upset with his father, like usual. As Rigel roars in anger, both Rem and Subaru, who were still fighting, stop to "shush" him so that he doesn't stir Spica's rest. Shocked by their unified stance, Rigel stops circling. Once his parents make up, Rigel is given Spica, he plugs her ears, and Rigel shouts to vent his frustration.

Later, Rigel is in a family meeting with Spica and his parents. As Rigel is opposed to the Bean-Tossing Festival, he remains critical of his father, Subaru, even after Subaru fondles Rem's horn, caresses Rem's body, and explains the Festival's symbolic meaning. Subaru's energy soon overwhelms Rigel into speechlessness. Rigel, having given in, is quick to get the Festival beans prepared for everyone to throw. Rigel is then frightened by his mother's look as she readies beans to throw at him. Soon, having to hold Spica and his beans, Rigel is overwhelmed by his parents' bean barrage. Finished with his bean pelting, Rigel converses with his younger sister (she can only make baby noises, so Rigel is talking to himself) and takes her for a walk to give his parents alone time, all while denying it fiercely to Spica. Rigel briefly notes that Spica takes Subaru's side over Rigel's, and that she resembles Rem, slightly, leading him to foresee his position in the family hierarchy remaining at the bottom.

Fortune Roll Rhapsody:
We open on Rigel, coming home, only to be mortified by the sight inside. Inside, his father is approaching him, a long, thick, and black rod in his mouth. As Subaru mumbles, unable to talk due to the rod, Rigel begins to berate Subaru for his odd behavior and immaturity. Rigel determines that the behavior is part of a festival that his father is planning, as he doesn't want to believe that his father was just walking around with a pole in his mouth for no reason. Once Subaru confirms that he is planning a festival, he offers Rigel a sushi roll. Rigel looking at the sushi roll that Subaru was eating declines, as he wouldn't eat something that was in his father's mouth, but notes he would consider eating something that was in his mother's or sister's mouths. After small banter with Subaru, Rigel, getting impatient, points to a nearby plate of sushi rolls and asks about what the rolls have to do with the Setsubun Festival.

Once Rem returns home, Subaru gathers the family to explain the Ehomaki challenge, but gets sidetracked flirting with Rem. Rigel attempts to yell and refocus the conversation, but his family, even Spica, have grown immune/accustom to his shouts. Briefly, his parents turn to bully Rigel, who begins to collapse on the floor and sulk. Moving on, Subaru decides to continue explaining the history of Setsubun, the Bean-Tossing Festival, and Ehomaki Challenge. Once Rigel feels he understands, he dismisses the challenge as just eating sushi rolls, but is flicked on the forehead by Subaru. Stuck with agony at the powerful flick, Rigel is captured and put on Subaru's shoulder while he runs and messes around about the house. Once Rem and Subaru start flirting again, so that they can get more intimate, Subaru puts Rigel down and Rem puts Spica in Rigel's arms. The talk regarding the festival continues, and when Subaru decides to give Spica the role of deciding the lucky direction that everyone will face while eating their ehomaki, Rigel opposes the sentiment, worrying that Subaru will be a bad influence on his sister. Subaru contends that the greatest symbol of happiness of the family is Spica, and so she should be their guide to the direction of fortune. Rigel, unable to deny flattery towards his sister, gives in. When Subaru proposes that the lucky direction will be the direction Spica first looks at when she awakens, Rem notes that means Spica will likely look at whoever she loves the most, first. The idea then sets each member to argue that Spica loves them the most, respectively. As Spica rouses in Rigel's arms, the family quickly arranges her to lay in the middle of the dining room, with the 3 members of the household positioned in three directions split around her. When Spica awakens and chooses Rigel, the ecstatic Rigel falls to his knees, cheering at the top of lungs, immersed in joy. Rigel's joy is cut short as his parents begin flirting, again. The family quickly notes the lucky direction

Fortune Fish-Head Tree:
Stub

Fortune Setsubun Hollow:
Stub

Abilities
Bean Knowledge - Rigel can dodge beans thrown at him with the minimum required movement, even when not looking, due to learning, through experience, the exact size, shape, trajectory, type of bean, and amount of beans thrown. Highest amount dodged at once, and stated, thus far, is 100. Rigel notes that groups of 20-30 beans thrown at once per person is somewhat tough.

Bean Sense - Rigel states that during Setsubun, he enters high tension, letting him detect and avoid any nearby beans.

Half-Oni - Rigel inherited the single horn of his mother, Rem, and can use it consciously. The horn gives him strength and maybe magic manipulation. The horn may also be a weak spot as he is notably sensitive to being flicked and grabbed on his horn and forehead. The horn is sensitive, presumably like a sexual organ, based on Rem's reaction to being stroked by Subaru in front of Rigel and Spica, and Ram's reaction to mana infusions.

Straight Man Bit - Rigel plays the straight man in his families daily endeavors; a skill learned and honed throughout his life.

Victim Character - Rigel is the natural genius of being a verbal punching bag for his parents bullying, according to Subaru.

Substitution - Rigel can take something nearby and himself with it to avoid being hit by an attack. Learned from Halibel during a visit not recounted.

Cloning - Rigel can split himself to allow him multiple times the capacity for attacking, in exchange for a higher risk of being hit, due to having more targets, and the shared damage. All damage is shared by the clones, meaning that the ability increases attack, but decreases defense in equal proportions. Halibel, maybe, teaches this to Rigel during Fortune Setsubun Hollow.

Sanpakugan - Rigel's eyes give people a sense of intimidation, scaring those who look him in the eye. Children who see him have run off screaming, and together with his father, merchants have been petrified in fear.

Trivia

 * According to Subaru, Rigel was originally going to be called Vega (ヴェガ), however he quickly decided against it as in the backstory of the Star Vega, it only ever meets it's lover Altair once a year during Tanabata and he didn't want his son to have a similar unhappy ending in his love life.
 * Rigel, also designated Beta Orionis, is generally the seventh-brightest star in the night sky and a star in the constellation of Orion.