Shu Sakamaki

Shu Sakamaki (Sakamaki Shuu) is the first and eldest son of the Sakamaki household. He is also the current master of the mansion. Shu and his younger brother, Reiji, are the sons of Beatrix, second wife of Karlheinz, the Vampire King.

Appearances
Shu is a handsome young man with slightly curled, blond hair as well as light ocean blue eyes which he inherited from his mother. He has black studs on both of his ears. He is always seen with his MP3 player attached to a wire that which is wrapped around his neck and with the earphones always in his ears.

In Haunted Dark Bridal, he usually wears a light blue sweater over a dark blue shirt with dark pants.

In MORE, BLOOD, he wears a blue dress shirt with a white shirt underneath and brown pants.

His school uniform consists of the black school jacket draped over his shoulders and a beige sweater with a slightly unbuttoned white dress shirt. He wears it with the black uniform pants and brown dress shoes.

Personality
Shu is usually seen sleeping in the living room or the school's music room. He skips classes often and has been held back once as a senior in high school. According to other students of the school, Shu is the owner of the music room.

Apathetic and lazy, Shu loves nothing but music. It is noted that he is always listening to music, even when taking a bath. Shu loves classical music, ranging from piano to violin. He has a lack of motivation and is lazy enough to do almost nothing, as seen when the heroine needs to persuade him to stay awake and do something for himself. He's somewhat bored with life due to all of the events of his traumatic childhood.

Despite Shu being the eldest son, he doesn't take any responsibility to look after his five brothers and the house and mostly complains about how he has to "deal with their problems." He mostly pushes this job to Reiji. Shu is also somewhat of a pervert and usually teases the heroine about wearing unattractive panties and bras after she becomes too pushy with him and seeks his attention.

Shu has Pyrophobia (fear of fire) due to what happened with Edgar. When he sees a fire, he runs away, and trembles in pathological fear. Shu's total apathy towards life is because of him being pushed through his childhood by his mother, Beatrix to become the heir, in her ambitions to surpass Cordelia in front of Karlheinz. Deprived of childhood even though he was quite lively before, Shu begins to lack interest in life and because of the fire incident with his only friend Edgar, Shu completely shuts off for the world.

History
Shu is the eldest son of the Sakamaki household, pushed and obsessed by his emotional frigid mother Beatrix to become the best and to take the complete leadership in her endless competition for Karlheinz's favor with his first wife Cordelia. Shu himself felt suffocated by the attention and restrictions and responsibilities placed upon him, which led him to run away from home.

He then met Edgar, a human boy from a remote village in the human world. Shu reached it through the underground passageways that connected the demon and the human worlds. Edgar got along well with Shu and they became best friends. Because Shu made a habit of running off to play with Edgar, Reiji destroyed Edgar's village in a fire in a misguided attempt to impress and help his mother, and to take away Shu's  happiness out of jealousy. Wanting to save his parents despite Shu's protest, Edgar went into the fire and "died".

Because of Edgar's "death", Shu blamed himself and developed severe trauma from the incident. With Reiji's own mocking jabs that Shu was useless and couldn't do anything for himself, but mostly because of the pressure over him from Beatrix, Shu withdrew into himself and lost interest in doing anything except when provoked by Reiji.

As a punishment for failing his exam and needing to repeat a school year, Shu's father had sent him in exile in the North Pole. Shu said that he had to be careful not to fall into the ocean. Ayato comments that it was a real survival trip since Shu had to fight polar bears and was scratched when he came back home.

Abilities
Like all vampires, he has an inhuman strength as well as increased speed, increased vision and hearing, and smell. Being a vampire, he also has fast healing and healing saliva.

Teleportation
He appears to be capable of teleporting from nowhere in an instant.

Flying
During a full moon, he can fly.

Swordsmanship
He has swordsmanship talent as seen in his third ending in Haunted Dark Bridal against Reiji.

Other
Since he is a pure born vampire, he can only die if his head is cut off, however if his body is too damaged to heal fast enough it might also be life threatening even if not directly.

Shu doesn't like to do anything much less fighting and he would even let humans use him as a boxing pear. However, if someone pushes him too far and threatens what is important for him, he will strike back viciously and won't hesitate to kill.

Trivia

 * He is repeating the third year of high school.
 * He is left-handed.
 * He hates food that is too sweet.
 * His foot size is 27.5cm.
 * Shu has been scared of fire since childhood, as he assumed that his best friend Edgar died in a fire.
 * Shu loves classical music.
 * Plays violin and piano.
 * He used to have a dog.
 * He hates worms.
 * His father once gave him a violin, but Shu lost it and it is suspected that Reiji broke it.
 * In Yuma's DARK FATE route, it is revealed that Shū's real name is Ririe (リーリエ).