This page is about Omega–Ryuzu Shima's body which is currently being used by Echidna. For other copies from Arc 4, see Ryuzu Meyer (copy) and for the original Ryuzu, see Ryuzu Meyer (original)
Omega (オメガ) is a copy of Ryuzu Meyer who contains the soul of the Witch of Greed. Before the fall of the Sanctuary, the clone was known under the name Shima (シーマ), one of the original four clones who were tasked with overseeing the Sanctuary.
Setting out on a journey following her reincarnation, Omega intends to see how the world has changed in her absence until she reacquires the full extent of her original powers. Accompanied by the members of her party, she was last known to be in Gusteko, having yet to visit Kararagi and Vollachia.
Appearance[]
After possessing the body of Ryuzu Shima, Echidna naturally took on the physical form of her host and named herself Omega. In terms of her appearance, Omega is a petite young girl around ten to twelve years of age, though in reality, she's well over four centuries old, predating even the Great Calamity. Her beautiful yet pale face is adorned with a long refined nose and almond-shaped cyan eyes. After encountering and killing a group of bandits, she stole what clothes and shoes of theirs could fit her, opting to wear them over her original white robe. As Ryuzu Meyer was a half-elf, Omega's ears are inhumanly pointy. Her long fluffy pink hair flows down her back and is slightly curved outwards. Befitting a girl of her physical age, Omega is rather short, failing to reach even halfway up Subaru's chest.
Omega can choose to project her soul as Echidna, temporarily giving her the Witch of Greed's physical appearance. However, she shies away from using it for too long to prevent herself from being found by an unknown enemy of herself and the other Witches.[1][2]
Personality[]
Ryuzu Shima was against freeing the Sanctuary due to seeing the original Ryuzu's memories 10 years in the trial and had partly been manipulating Garfiel behind the scenes to make sure it didn't happen. She entered the grave in an attempt to rescue Garfiel but was forced to take the trial. In the end this meant she broke her contract with Echidna. As punishment Shima was duly stripped of her position as an overseer and was made to live with other mindless clones in the forest, donning the white robe as a result.
After being possessed by Echidna's soul, Omega is essentially Echidna from the Castle of Dreams, but in a different body. She retained all of her memories and thoughts, but was forced to forsake most of her magical power in order to retain her full self. Having been born anew, Omega mostly spends her time observing and adventuring, trying to learn as much as possible about the world she is so unfamiliar with. It should be kept in mind, however, that Omega is in fact the Witch of Greed from the Castle of Dreams, rather than the Witch of Greed who roamed the world before the fall of the Witches.
She has also retained the clumsiness that Echidna was known for, which has led her accidentally set fire to an entire forest, nearly drown in a river, and almost pass out in the cold snowfields of Gusteko.
History[]
Roughly 10 years before the events of Arc 4, Garfiel ran into the Tomb and challenged the Trials. Out of concern for him, one of the Ryuzu copies–Shima–followed suit and accidentally underwent the first Trial. Seeing this as a good opportunity to yet again kick off her experiments with Soul Transcription, Echidna used that occasion to latch a tiny bit of her soul onto her. For the following ten years, she slowly filled the host with her soul, bit by bit. A decade after kickstarting her new plan, Echidna was finally given an opportunity to escape–and so she did. On the day when the snow fell in the Sanctuary, Echidna somehow managed to pour in the last bits of her soul, and escape the Sanctuary after four long centuries.
After the fall of the Sanctuary, Echidna managed to completely transfer her soul into Shima and renamed herself Omega, which means "the end", based on Subaru's memories of his original world. She then decided to take it slow and first get accustomed to the new body. Following her reincarnation, Omega left the Sanctuary, taking with her a glintstone anchor that housed the souls of Typhon, Daphne, Carmilla, Minerva, and Sekhmet. She unintentionally burned down a forest when using a fire magic spell to heat herself up. Later, she encountered a group of thieves, killed them with her miasma by projecting her true appearance, and stole their clothes for herself.
Some time later, Omega accidentally fell into a river and was saved by Colette, a young girl who lived by herself just outside of a local village in the forest. The two of them spent several days together. When Omega decided to take a walk on another day, Colette informed her to not travel to the eastern side of the forest to avoid a witchbeast that had been attacking people there. Omega went anyways and met Palmyra, who also warned her of a "Beast". That night, she travelled to the eastern side of the forest and attempted to murder the beast herself until Palmyra came and revealed that it was Colette. Learning of the young girl's ostracization as a Witch for being the only survivor caused by a "Beast", Omega came to the conclusion that Colette had accepted the discrimination she faced and decided to try and "become" a Witch by killing the girl she had only recently met. Omega took off a bracelet that Colette had owned since she was very young, the Beast Protection Bracelet, the meteor that was behind her transformation into a beast. Manifesting her true form to Palmyra and an unconscious Colette, Omega set off for the village in hopes of setting things straight with the villagers. However, this only made things worse for Colette, as she was forced to leave the area as a consequence for being acquainted with a "Witch". Seeing as how Colette had nowhere else to go and Palmyra had used up all of her courtesy for the village, the two of them were invited by Omega to join her, officially forming their party.
Once the Omega Party was formed, in the Castle of Dreams, the six Witches had a meeting together where they discussed Echidna's reasoning for allowing Colette and Palmyra to travel with her. To avoid being found by an unnamed enemy of the Witches, Echidna chose to blend in with other humans and avoid being discovered by them. As a result of this reasoning, Minerva set a two year deadline for Echidna to regain her full powers. It is decided by Echidna they should leave Lugunica. Believing Gusteko was out of the question, between Vollachia and Kararagi, she set her sights on the latter.
The trio then proceeded to ironically cross over into Gusteko. On one day, they were caught in a severe blizzard and rescued by Noelle Tuérico, an Itinerant Preacher of the Gustekan Church, after Omega launched a fire spell into the distance. They wait for Omega to regain her energy in a makeshift snow house Noelle created and speak with her in the meantime, learning about the term Silver Blessing, her position in the Gustekan Church and the nearby church building they can use as a refuge. They visit the church once Omega is rejuvenated and acquaint themselves with Podoso, Admonsah, and Maqueena, each of whom have came to the church to meet the pastor who lives there, Coatl. The trio learns of Coatl's history of having saved a local town from the effects of an avalanche unintentionally caused by the Ice Thieves and how he took up a position of the town's watcher following his charity towards its people, becoming known by the moniker Saint of the Avalanche. Maqueena and Podoso split off from everyone else to visit another part of the church, and another visitor named Trellock arrives while they are out. Eventually, Maqueena discovers something and screams, prompting everyone else to follow after her to find what has caused her fear. They all stumble upon Coatl's corpse, prompting Omega to say that there was a cold-blooded killer among them.
Omega took charge of the situation, using detective work to determine the killer's identity. She heard from Podoso that there had been a string of serial murders, with Coatl being the eighth known victim. The other victims were peddlers and travellers. Querying him about the seventh victim, Omega then sets her sights on Admonsah, whom she was certain was associated with them. They learn Admonsah was a former slave who unexpectedly killed his owner in self-defense. He was unequivocally forgiven by a majority of the group. Omega tries to ascertain why Coatl would be murdered, searching for any hidden savings. Suddenly, everyone but Maqueena in the room fell asleep to the effects of the Muskrim flower, and she made her getaway with Coatl's collection of magic stones, not wanting to stay and fall victim to his murderer. She was stopped outside by Noelle, who says she could not be affected by such a simple drug and had killed Coatl out of revenge for his former membership of the Ice Thieves and his part in causing the avalanche that devastated Leanotte, her town. Omega arrives to stop Noelle before she could kill Maqueena, outlining that she was only a con artist who perceived Coatl's connection to the Ice Thieves rather than an outright member before giving the ultimatum that she would die if she caused another death. Meanwhile, the culprit responsible for the serial murderers, Trellock, attempted to murder Colette, but her Beast Protection Bracelet activated, severely injuring him. In the end, they pretended that Noelle had apprehended Trellock and left, Podoso decided to take in Admonsah, and Maqueena was forced to stop conning people. With her revenge foiled, Noelle was left aimless. Colette proposed for her to join their group to which she accepted upon Omega's approval.
Later, the group arrived in the town of Sylphoa, which had fallen under the effect of someone’s Dream Arts. Both Omega and Colette also fall victim to this spell. Within the dream, which Omega likens to her own Castle of Dreams, Omega realizes what is happening and decides to cast Al Shario within to draw out the caster, who turned out to be an elf called Lilac, who erased the spell with ease. She and Omega get into a dispute, in which Lilac hears her mutter a word not of this world. Lilac demands to know where or who she heard it from, leading to negotiations. Omega proposes to give her a chance to learn if she takes down the spell. However, because of Mikli Yulitô and her spirit who had been trapped inside the dream, Lilac says to deal with her so that she can take down the spell. Omega faces Mikli, yet the other Witches appear, with Daphne devouring the spirit and Sekhmet swiftly defeating her. Lilac undoes the spell and everyone awakes. With Omega’s promise to allow her and Shion a chance to learn where she discovered such words with their Dream Arts, they follow Omega and join her party.
Abilities[]
Magic (魔法 Mahō): Since Shima's body was not the most suitable host for Echidna to possess, she was forced to leave out her experience with magic. She is still familiar with the usage of magic and is capable of using fairly powerful spells without needing incantations and effectively using all affinities to her advantage against an opponent, but is unable to properly cast the more advanced spells in her arsenal. According to her estimates, it will take her roughly two years to regain all her skills and powers.
- Dona (ドーナ): Omega can summon one wall of earth, which she uses as a defensive spell.
Dream Arts: Omega is capable of utilizing a lost type of magic known as dream arts. Though her level of skill with it is not on the same level as someone such as Shion, she still had enough proficiency with it to create the Castle of Dreams.
Miasma: Omega can project the soul of the Witch of Greed, making it appear as if she was physically standing by Omega's side. By doing so, Echidna starts emitting an intense aura of wickedness and madness which is enough to drive people mad and kill them in thirty seconds. It's mentioned by Echidna that a Sage could endure her aura.
Unknown Ability: Shima can smell the Witch's miasma, something that only a few individuals in the series so far are capable of doing. This is likely due to her connection with Echidna before she completely took over Shima's body.
Equipment
- Glintstone (輝石 Kiseki): Omega uses a necklace to carry a glintstone with her. This glintstone is an anchor that contains the five souls of the other witches, Minerva, Carmilla, Typhon, Sekhmet and Daphne in it. She can freely converse with them, but she is unable to bring them out of the stone and have them materialized in the world.
Trivia[]
- Contrary to popular belief, Omega cannot use the other Witches' Authorities.
- Along with Rem and Reize, Ryuzu Shima is one of the few characters capable of smelling the Witch's miasma.
- While Garfiel claimed that he could smell the Witch's miasma, it was actually Shima who could smell the miasma off Subaru.
- Despite her scene from the end of Volume 15 being omitted in Episode 50, Omega made her debut in Episode 49.
- As Emilia entered Echidna's laboratory and started enquiring about the circumstances and speculating about the identity of Ryuzu encased in the massive glintstone in the middle of the room, the attention is briefly given to Ryuzu Shima, who–with Echidna's distinct voice–states the following–"Unbelievable. To see this, and that's the first thing you can think of?". It's presumed this scene serves as a substitution of the final Volume 15 chapter titled Extra: ...The Second Coming which was, as mentioned before, omitted from the final episode.
- In the web novel, Echidna named herself Omega because Subaru named her that, implying that Echidna's new vessel is the original Omega copy may have merged with the original Ryuzu sealed within the glintstone, similar to how Shima sacrificed herself by vanishing with the stone and ended up becoming her new vessel in Volume 15.
- Since the Omega copy was removed in the Light Novel, Echidna chose the name Omega on her own at the end of Volume 15.
- In Re:Zero Tanpenshuu Volume 10, Omega was mistakenly drawn with white hair while in Ryuzu Shima's form.
References[]
- ↑ “…There’s someone you don’t want to be found by, right?” The Witch's After Tea Party / The Witches's Evaluation Meeting, Section 2.
- ↑ Typhon anticipated what Echidna was going to say, and spoke them for her innocently. The latter did not bother to deny the point the young Witch had made. She was speaking the truth. All of the Witches here in the Castle of Dreams knew that. It was not just Echidna, after all. This someone was an enemy all of the Witches had in common. The Witch's After Tea Party / The Witches's Evaluation Meeting, Section 2.
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