Delta

"Delta did so much hunting, want to hunt with me, Boss?"

- Delta

Delta (デルタ) (Δέλτα), formerly known as Sara (サラ), is the fourth member of Shadow Garden, being one of the original "Seven Shadows". As a Beastkin Wolf, she serves as the organization's main combat force but lacks any other noteworthy talents.

Appearance
Delta is a beautiful teenage girl with long black hair and with large wolf ears on top of her head. She sports purple eyes. Her body is a slender build with an ample bosom (in the anime she also has abs). As a Beastkin race, Delta possesses the species' natural traits which are her large wolf ears and a thick tail.

In her daily life, she wears a dark suit with long-sleeved clothes around her neck and opens in her stomach, a pair of gloves, shorts combined with stockings, and a pair of shoes.

When serving in the Shadow Garden, she wore a customary slime bodysuit with black and bronze decorations on the shoulder, stomach, and thighs. The setting was open in her stomach and wore feather accessories around her neck. Sometimes she wears a mask to protect her original identity.

Personality
"Yeah I forgot, She's (Alpha) is gonna be so mad at me!"

- Delta

By the common personality of any Beastkin, Delta is often described as a musclehead and depicted as excitable and immature, akin to a child. She also refers to herself in the third person. Delta deeply loves her master, even going as far as to hug him on every occasion they meet. She also doesn't mind the idea of mating with him and sharing him with her fellow Shadow Garden members. She and Gamma have had a rivalry over brains versus brawn ever since they were children, but they nonetheless care for one another.

As a member of Shadow Garden, Delta loves fighting. She is shown to be merciless and sadistic towards enemies, leaving none of them alive. This makes her dangerous, as she will go overboard in brutality and even unnerve her master and her comrades. This is a trait of Beastkin, who will follow the strongest life form, regarding them as their leader when Delta acknowledges only strength, and she swears loyalty to Shadow in awe of his overwhelming power. Hence, she had no qualms about killing her brother, Leaf Four whom she regarded as weak. However, it's implied Delta does not believe in all of the Beastkin customs, as she deeply hates her pack for exiling her.

Delta was once a sweet girl looking after her sick mother. Unfortunately, she suffered nothing but abuse from her father and siblings and after her mother died, her personality radically becomes changed into a bloodthirsty wild beast.

Delta seems to have little sense of shame, and when the slime body suit melted due to the magical power being sealed in the battle in Sanctuary, she barely hid her private parts in a bikini armor-like state and continued the battle. Even after the Lindwurm event, she did not fix her slime bodysuit and was left in a bikini armor-like state. Delta also has a very keen sense of smell, being able to pick up the smell of other beastkin extremely easily and is often used as a tracker whenever the situation calls for it. Though often bickers with her fellow Shadows, she never raises a hand towards them in violence since she views them as her new family, however she will occasionally frustratingly try to bite them to show her frustration. She also regards Zeta as a cat and has a fierce rivalry with her, stemming from Zeta's constant stealing of her food and taunting. Delta sees the named numbers and numbers as little sisters, often playing and rough housing with them whenever she is off duty, she has a habit of behaving like a dog around those she deeply cares about, being affectionate and extremely attention seeking.

She's very bloodthirsty, along with her nature as a Beastkin, making her prone to react impulsively, almost often resorting in killing as the solution to any problem they have, or merely due to being bored. She attacked Nelson with the intention of killing him, despite having been told previously by her fellow Shadows to hold back until they could take all the information from him. Delta compares killing others with hunting, since before joining Shadow Garden she used to go hunting with her pack. She deeply loves "hunting" and even more alongside her master.

Powers & Abilities
Delta is the third-strongest member of Shadow Garden, behind only Alpha and Shadow. She has been noted by Cid to be the physically strongest of the "Seven Shadows", with the potential to surpass even Alpha if she would just learn self-control. He also admits that her tracking skills surpass even his own. However, she is utterly lacking in any other area, making her only useful for search-and-destroy missions.

Physical Prowess
In terms of raw destructive power, Delta is second only to the Shadow himself, with the only other person known to have defeated her being Alpha. As a Beastkin, she possesses superhuman strength and speed, further augmented by her training since youth, which makes her a highly effective killer. In a testament to her strength, she killed Juggernaut, one of the Lawless City's three monarchs, with ease.

In the Kage-jitsu episodes, it is shown that Delta can generate a strong air shock wave, just by exerting force from his arm without hitting someone directly, although the wave as such is not harmful to one, it is speculated that it is It would take a lot of raw force just to generate such a wave. This is seen when Delta accidentally breaks the magic absorption nullification artifact, made by Eta which she shows to Alpha.

Extreme Body Condition
Delta surprisingly displayed a great degree of force, durability, endurance along with vast speed and reflexes. Within the Game, it is revealed that Delta developed an innate strength, more developed and evolved, than any of her race, by receiving, as advice and a gift from her master Shadow, called Magical Training Weights. During the time he was in Alexandria, since girl, using the gifts made by his master, Delta used them constantly, either to practice his fighting moves with his hands, feet, or to stay in shape, progressively adjusting the level of weight, of the tools, which caused both, his strength, as well as his resistance, speed, and part of his reflexes, to increase, abruptly, managing to lift and carry for a time, beyond, of 100 Tons of weight, and it is still in development (as understood by the Game, and the Kage-jitsu episodes).

Super Beastkin Senses
Being a Beastkin belonging to the wolves family, Delta has superior sharpness in her 5 senses, especially in smell, sight, and hearing, which allows her to track, find, see, hunt, and identify prey from a distance, even if they are trying to mask their smell, appearance, or other characteristics. Even Shadow confessed he could never beat Delta in that area, and when he disguised himself as "John Smith" and faced her, it didn't work because Delta immediately recognized him at once using her sense of smell which is very good that she can easily see through her master's disguises, even though he takes precautions attempt by masking his scent so as not to be identified.

Brutal fighter
Delta's hand-to-hand combat style is very simple, yet savage and brutal. Like any member of her race, she uses her claws and fangs to attack like a full-fledged wolf. She has also allegedly been trained in other skills and fighting styles, though it is likely that she does not need them.

Swordsmanship wild
Alexia Midgar described Delta's fencing style as "raw violence". While her technique is only on the level of an average knight, being a Beastkin, she does not require more effort than simply swinging her sword around, her raw strength more than making up for it. She has shown to be able to easily slice an entire building in half.


 * Knife Black of Tail: (in the anime), it was seen that Delta, if he likes, can use his tail as a sharp blade-sword as an additional weapon so as not to bother using his hands, and be able to annihilate his enemies in an easier and simpler way. Delta achieves this ability by adding his magic to the slime suit plus his own beast tail to shape the sword. (it is unknown if Delta can use this ability in a more complex and creative way)


 * Claws Black by Slime: Within the Game, Delta uses huge magical claws from Slime, since she was a child, to increase its damage power, to a cutting level, at a cutting level, with the passage of time both in the game and in the normal routes of the game. story, be it Anime, light novel, or Manga, Delta uses, a huge magic sword, which can change size to its liking, at the same time, which maintains if it wants, the claws of Slime that it uses. Said equipment, if Delta wants it, she can use it or not, and then fight barehanded.

Hunter's Frenzy
When there are enemies to hunt, especially against strong and/or numerous enemies, Delta goes into a frenzy which causes her to become much more aggressive and fiercer. Delta likely exhibits a stronger and more brutal form of this ability than the rest of her family, since she had to learn to hunt by herself following the death of her mother at a very young age.

It is impossible to stop or calm her down in this state, with Alpha having to resort to intimidation to make her snap out of it. When Delta confronted Nelson inside the Sanctuary, she got so excited that she annihilated everything despite Nelson unleashing his full magical power, not caring very much about the depletion of her slime suit, except the parts covering her private parts.

Magic
Delta does not seem to be capable of casting any spells aside from simple self-strengthening through mana control, possibly due to a lack of intelligence. However, she has taken this one spell she has to ridiculous levels, boasting superhuman strength that is surpassed only by Shadow. She is also able to manipulate her custom Slime Bodysuit through mana. It should be noted that the amount of mana that Delta has is extremely high and that despite not knowing how to use it correctly, it seems to never run out.

Standard Equipment
Delta as such hardly carries any weapon or item that she uses as a weapon since, as a beast-king, she prefers to use her claws, legs, and fangs. The only exception is the standard slime suit that she uses either as a defensive armor or as a latent slime weapon.


 * Slime Bodysuit: Delta had to transform her slime bodysuit into bikini armor as she barely hid her private parts to control her magic.
 * Slime weapons: Delta, like the other members of Shadow Garden, uses a sword made of Slime, which she wields well and with skill, in the Game and Anime, her weapons are customized, like that of her other Seven Shadows companions.
 * Magical Training Weights: in the Game, Delta, like his master Shadow, uses training weights to stay in shape, and constantly adjusts his weight to further increase his physical capabilities as he continues to grow.

Wild Scream
Delta possesses the ability to launch a powerful wild cry, capable of causing heavy damage to his opponent's hearing, repelling any area damage from projectile-type weapons, and at the same time, clearing the cloudy field around him. Said technique as such, does not exert magic in normal terms, and does not generate that much damage, but when Delta exercises magic on it internally at a biological level, whether conscious or not, his scream amplifies to such a degree that it can be heard. from more than several kilometers away, surpassing in simple terms the roars of lions, and rivaling that of a Magical Dragon.

During his fierce combat against Zeta, by interrupting the food, which supposedly, his boss had given him, (without knowing that it was not the case), Zeta became serious in the middle of his combat, which instinctively activated the fierce Delta's desire, which made her very angry, unleashing a powerful wild scream, causing temporary damage to Zeta's ears, at the same time, repelling the attacks launched from her.

Iron Slab
Delta can unleash her ridiculous magical power to manifest a huge sword of slime, which kills many multiple powerful enemies simultaneously. But in exchange, almost all of her slime suit temporarily disappears (leaving only the private parts covered), having been redirected into the giant sword.

During her battle against Nelson inside the Sanctuary, Delta used this technique to quickly kill several hundreds of clones that Nelson had created to kill her and Alpha.


 * Iron Slab (Game):

Weaknesses
Despite all her fighting strength, Delta's weakness is obvious: her lack of intelligence. Due to her simple mindedness and her inability to control her bloodlust, she is completely incapable of any complex thought. In addition to rendering her non-combat abilities non-existent, this also prevents her from reaching her full potential, being unable to master any advanced or defensive combat techniques.

Trivia

 * Delta usually pounces on Cid and hugs him whenever they meet.
 * As the most physically gifted of the "Seven Shadows" and her lack of self-control, Delta is the most destructive, sadistic, and brutal member of Shadow Garden.
 * Because of her natural self, Delta has bitten or tried to bite every member of the Shadow Garden she has met, except Cid.
 * Unlike in the light novel, anime, game, and web novel, Delta is seen participating in the assault on Midgar Academy, while not in the other story routes, as only Gamma was available for it. (possibly it was done, to encourage the humor of the readers).
 * So far, Delta is the only one of the members of Shadow Garden and the Seven Shadows to challenge Alpha in combat, for the position of second in command of the Seven Shadows, once when they were children and when she began to believe she was the strongest of the Shadows, but Alpha defeated her without problem, and since then, Delta respects her and obeys her orders without question, due to the trauma and fear she had with Alpha, after her defeat.
 * In the manga, Alpha can stop Delta's "wild side" whenever she ever goes rampage only by threatening the former by taking away her snacks, which immediately pacifies her and after the Sanctuary is destroyed, Delta is seen munching a bone.
 * Delta tries to pretend that she is not stupid (although everyone in Shadow Garden knows she is) by ending most of her sentences with "-Desu", as her mother taught her before she died. Another personality trait she learned from her mother is to always be respectful towards those in a higher position, so she often refers to Shadow as Boss, and Alpha as Lady Alpha.
 * In the Game, Delta, like her Master Shadow, uses training weights, but it is not known if she uses them constantly, like her master, or only uses them when she wants to practice and exercise, since that in the anime, he is not seen, (apparently), carrying these weights.
 * Because of her natural traits, Delta is arguably the only person in the world who has seen Cid's true personality as she often repeats things he's said to her word for word. But, because those statements are nonsensical or outlandish, everyone else believes Delta is misquoting Cid.
 * Delta's character is based off a dog the author once raised.
 * Delta seems to be the only one of her races that wears underwear, this is seen when she slept in one of the anime episodes, which is ironic since according to Zeta, the Beastkin do not wear underwear, because it makes them uncomfortable to move.
 * It's revealed in the anime short, Kage-Jitsu! Delta can tell if someone is lying or not, just by licking their face.