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 with vertical slit pupils when excited and rounded when happy. Her figure is a slender athletic build with an ample bosom, showcasing her abdominal region. As a Therianthrope, Delta possesses the species' natural traits of large 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. Often times, Delta will wear a variation of this trend with different materials but always wears something to accentuate her athleticism and form. But some exceptions occur, such as in winter helping Cid dig for Gettan's buried treausre.

When serving in the Shadow Garden, she wears the customary slime bodysuit with black and gold decorations, but with the individualized accessories of fur adornments at the collar, wrists, and ankles. Delta's top has the basic dark attire with twin vertical gold lines running up the central third of her torso before joining two violet gems accents. The gems fall in line where another gold lining traverses her upper pectoral outline above her bust, with gold shoulder pads connected to the gems. Her shoulders have a slight bagginess before connecting to two gold rings where her deltoids meet her arms in regular black sleeve, connecting to standard cestus around both of her forearms and black gloves. Her top is wrapped around the diaphragm by a slight belt where the seam splits underneath to reveal her abdomen.

Her lower half is dressed in leggings with lighter black which has straps from both edges of her lower abdomen wrapping around her hips to the back, resembling short shorts. Her upper thighs have a gold ring each where the leggings get darker going further down the limbs, with a gold diamond shape a few centimeters down the center fold on both legs from the gold rings. Down the legs past the fur accents on her ankles, Delta has a pair of gold chevrons pointing up her feet. Delta's tail has a thick gold ring with an inlaid division around the center at the base of her tail, and a matching ring towards the end of her tail, with an ornament of two bells and a tassel ribbon at the end.

In the game and light novel, Delta wears a gold laced gem on both hips of her trouser line.

In the light novel, there are more detailed grooves on her leggings as well as a trio of belt wraps on both arms around the biceps/triceps.

In the manga, she 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 Therianthrope, 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
Overall Strength: Delta has possesses superhuman strength, durability, reflexes, being the strongest of the Seven Shadows in this area. Within the Game, it is mentioned that Delta boasts more brute strength than any other member of her race. Because of this, and her inability to learn advanced techniques due to her lack of self-control, Shadow decided to fully focus on training her raw physical abilities using Magical Training Weights since she was a young girl.

Senses: Being a Beastkin Wolf, Delta has superior senses, especially in smell, sight, and hearing, allowing her to easily identify, track, and locate prey. Even if they are trying to mask their smell, appearance, or other characteristics, Delta can easily see through it. Even Shadow confessed he could never beat Delta in that area, with her easily seeing through his "John Smith" guise even though he had taken precautions.

Hand-to-Hand Combatant: 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: 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.

Magic
Physical Enhancement: Delta does not seem to be capable of casting any spells aside from simple self-strengthening through mana control. 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.

Equipment

 * 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.
 * Black Claws: In the Game, Delta uses huge magical claws from made out of slime as her primary weapon.
 * 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.

Techniques

 * Frenzy: Due to her lack of self-control, Delta is prone to going berserk, especially whilst fighting strong and/or numerous enemies. In this state, she moves she becomes even more fierce than normal and completely by instinct. She also becomes completely unresponsive and will not stop until her opponent is dead, with Alpha having to resort to intimidation to make her snap out of it.


 * Tail Swipe: In the anime, Delta has been shown using her tail to attack on occassion. The force generated from these swipes is so strong that it can cut through solid objects like a blade.


 * Roar: Delta is able to use her magic to enhance her lungs and launch an incredibly powerful roar rivaling that of dragons. It has shown to be capable of heavily damaging her opponent's hearing, repelling projectiles, destroying the surrounding area, and can be heard from several kilometers away.


 * Iron Slab: By manipulating her slime bodysuit, Delta can manifest a huge sword of slime, which she can use to kill multiple enemies simultaneously. However, due to all the slime having been redirected, using this technique leaves her almost naked.


 * Tearing wild (game):

Weaknesses
Low Intelligence: 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.