Characters / So I'm a Spider, So What? — Shiraori

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Shiraori, also known as Shiro, is referred to by Ariel as her greatest masterpiece. Her skin, hair and clothing are all pure white and she moves around with her eyes closed at all times. Her role among the demons is rumored to involve intelligence gathering, covert ops and assassination. She turned the hero Julius to dust with a glance at the start of the war, shocking people the world over. She commands the tenth army, a mysterious group who are similarly clad in all white.

She is nearly silent among others, only speaking when absolutely necessary. People find her very difficult to understand or read. Do not give her alcohol.

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A–L

• Achievements in Ignorance:
  • Carrying over from her days as Kumoko, due to often being left to her own devices without supervision, even when she requested it in one case, Shiro manages to achieve or figure out quite a few things nobody was expecting her to on her own or as quickly. In the Light Novel, she manages to instinctively regain access to her powers after a long ineffectual struggle by getting drunk (beating Gyulie's estimation of the learning curve by nearly a century), and she manages to completely derail an attempted rebellion of Ariel's reign merely by presenting incriminating information her spyder network fished out, blissfully unaware of how this would look like from an outside perspective. She gets promoted to Commander of the 10th Demon Army on merit unwittingly earned, including outing her predecessor as a traitor. Again, by accident. She could give Ainz a run for his money in how much of a menace she makes herself out to be without meaning to.
  • The best example of this in the series is in the Web Novel, where Shiro spends the majority of her time post-apotheosis considering Gyulie a terrifying obstacle that she has slim chances against and prepares a lot of plans and countermeasures to use against him should they come to blows; what actually happens is that she hands Gyulie his ass for most of their duel because Gyulie is actually a very inexperienced fighter despite being the senior god by far, something that Gyulie was painfully aware of the entire time he contemplated Shiro's growth as a goddess. If their power were equal, it wouldn't even be a fight.
• A-Cup Angst: Thanks to D's influence, Shiraori can get upset at women with larger boobs than hers. Her frequent target of this envy is Sanatoria, the 2nd Demon General. Note that despite the trope, Shiraori is not small in the least, sharing the spot with D for 4th bustiest female character in the series.
• Affably Evil: After seeing Shiraori forcibly calm Oka-san down in the middle of her guilt-induced Heroic BSoD out of nothing more than goodwill, Shun reacts with surprise and realizes that she's actually pretty kind in her own way. Up until this point he was extremely upset about her having killed his brother and is startled to see simple kindness out of her. On the other hand, Shiro knows perfectly well that her actions have terrible consequences but pretends like they're someone else's problem. Well, she's technically right in that case.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: She describes herself as 'technically female' at one point when considering the values she should have but doesn't. Ariel also tries to nudge her to behaving more like an actual girl, but Shiraori just doesn't seem to actually care.
• Ambiguously Bi: In the light novel, not only does she voice an appreciation for handsome older men several times, but also shows attraction to Ariel, Sophia and D. It's notably ambiguous because she seems to appreciate those men more from an aesthetic viewpoint rather than actually being attracted to them, and for the latter three one is a blood relative, the second is a surrogate daughter and the last is the biggest villain of the story, very cruel to her and also something like an alternate self.
• Ambiguously Evil: Shiraori is currently orchestrating a large destructive war between the humans and demons, but it's arguably what's best for them in the long run. She also has a tendency to eat anything or anyone that attacks her, but this seems to be because she has some kind of moral aversion to wasting food and has no perception that cannibalism is wrong. She's perfectly willing to cause a massacre if someone attacks her, but also just as happy to sit around a town healing the sick and injured while killing bandits. Overall she's probably more on the evil side given her selfishness, but with strong indications that under other conditions she could be a good person.
• Anti-Magic: She can interfere with magic and magecraft after having analyzed the anti-magecraft fields projected by the old civilization's technology, though her proficiency with it is inferior to those of True Dragons such as Gyurie. In general, she can essentially stop anyone and anything within the System from doing anything if she tries, but it's anything goes for anything outside, including other gods and anything with its own Anti-Magic, whereupon its a competition to see who's anti-magic is superior.
• Anti-Villain: Her plan to save the world is immensely destructive for the actual people of the world and she isn't terribly concerned if the survivors can recover or not. However, many of these people could suffer a Fate Worse than Death in the time it takes for things to work out normally. The normal plan would also sacrifice the souls of two deities who have done everything they possibly can to save the lives of an ungrateful population who is willing to throw their benefactors under the bus to save themselves. Also, while she's merciless, callous, vindictive and petty, she's also kind, compassionate, loyal and goes out of her way to protect people that are in any way related to her, such as Filimøs or the reincarnators.
• The Archmage: Make no mistake, Shiraori is the master of magic in this world, shortening the steps needed to use non-system based magic to a fraction of the needed steps required and mastering the spells she deemed needed to a level unmatched even by the likes of D and Maid. This is one of the reasons Güliedistodiez really did not want to come to blows with her, since if the was skilled enough to do that, then there was no way he would be skilled enough to win.
• Aura Vision: Shiraori is a god and therefore outside the System and unable to use Appraisal, but she can still get a rough idea of how powerful someone's soul is just by looking them. This roughly correlates with strength, though a powerful soul can still have no combat ability (Dustin, presumably) and a weak soul can still be very powerful, such as a Queen Taratect.
• Beneath the Mask: The usually stoic or cheerful Shiraori has a depressed, resigned side that she keeps suppressed unless she has nothing to distract her. Of course, she was also experiencing a truly nasty hangover at the same time.
• Big Eater: Shiraori can be tricked into doing something with candy and at one point fainted on learning somebody had eaten her specially-ordered fruit. She also eats enough for twenty people so that she can provide fuel for her clones. She could let them hunt on their own, but it would damage local ecosystems to allow them to hunt to their hearts' content. They might also blow their cover.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: She looks like a human, but at least half of her thinking is based on the values a spider would have.
  • She often thinks to herself that she's giving Wrath and Sophia the information they need to make an informed decision and will respect whatever choice they make. At the same time, if they choose to stand against her she'll kill them immediately. She sees no contradiction in saying that she's offering someone a choice and then deciding to kill them if they answer in a way she doesn't like. Though to be fair, she doesn't demand that they support her, either, giving the option to stay neutral if they please with no consequences. More than anything she values the ability to make your own informed decisions.
  • When Wrath is questioning her about Sophia's behavior, Shiraori's explanation about the differing morals between races is short but meaningful, even if it turns out she's talking about her lunch.
    Shiraori: A human cannot understand a spider’s feelings. A spider cannot understand a frog’s feelings.
  • At one point after the elves are eliminated, she gets upset because she knows and understands that what she does upsets some people, in this case having caused Sue to have a breakdown and practically breaking Shun's heart by killing his brother, but can't predict what will hurt them because she doesn't understand how humans think well enough. She just thought she was being efficient.
  • Eventually, we see that Shiraori's shaky comprehension of human morality has a rather simple explanation: she never was human, not even in her past life. She was always a spider, and whatever "human" elements she had upon reincarnating were essentially stapled onto her soul by D. Even with (or perhaps because of) her human intelligence, Shiraori's true nature as a spider makes her a walking identity crisis whose morals are constantly shifting between "fully empathetic", "I couldn't care less", "just eat and become stronger", and everything in-between.
• Chaste Hero: Shiraori is largely indifferent to the idea of romance. When the subject comes up, most characters seem to assume she's more interested in food than sex. She does display a consistent aesthetic appreciation for tough-looking older guys but that's about it. The light novel inserts more subtext with close relatives.
• Comically Missing the Point: When seeing what amounts to a recording of herself when drunk her first thought is 'Wow, if I work hard maybe I can actually speak that well sober!' And then she acknowledges that the fact that she is the world's most terrifying drunk is probably more important.
• The Cracker: Shiraori figured out how to hack the Skill system, namely by physically jamming her arm into the Goddess, its CPU, and modifying the flow of energy. She's been using this to steal Ruler authorities and prevent Oka-chan's death.
• Crazy-Prepared: Shiraori is incredibly paranoid and makes plans for every foreseeable problem or enemy in her way. While much weaker and less experienced than Gyurie, she thinks that even without having full understanding or mastery of her abilities she'd still be able to have about a 20% chance of taking him in a fight, a number that would only go up as time continues.
• Cute Monster Girl: She can still assume the form of an Arachne, but she only uses this form for combat or when she's stretching in the morning. More legs = more stretching!
• Dark Is Evil: Her natural aptitudes are death and decay with some aptitude for heresy magic, meaning she's naturally inclined towards darkness, death and Mind Rape. That being said, it is played with in a way: These affinities are inherited from D while she believes her only natural talent is space magic.
• Deadly Gaze: She can disintegrate people by looking at them. There are also other combat options but they're more indirect.
• Death from Above: In volume 10, Shiraori deals with Potimas's forces by dropping a meteor onto them via Space Magic.
• Deity of Human Origin: Well, "human" origin might be pushing it, but she managed to manipulate a hidden feature inside the System to increase the size and power of her soul until it couldn't fit in the System itself anymore. This caused her to enter into a period of metamorphosis, after which she exited a cocoon as the very lowest power bottom rung god imaginable. She improves remarkably quick, but since gods work on a different timescale she is far inferior to natural born gods such as dragons or angels.
• Destructive Romance: Her possible fate with D in the light novel. She even describes D as a black hole, she can't help but to be drawn towards her, but knows that doing so will end very badly for her. She tries to avoid D as much as possible because she is afraid of having her heart stolen by the Administrator and ending up as her plaything.
• Discard and Draw: To her annoyance, due to her apotheosis removing her from the System, Shiraori lost a lot of abilities she relied on as Kumoko such as her go-to Poisonous Person powers, most of her resistances and other magical abilities, Appraisal, and various other useful skills that don't exist outside the System. The abilities she did keep, however (Space Magic, Evil Eyes, Thread, Dark Magic), got massive upgrades alongside a general power increase and she's a Monster Progenitor who has a Psychic Link with her hundreds if not thousands of "children" that could each easily kill adventurer parties.
• Dissonant Serenity: Due to her difficulty emoting, Shiraori often looks inscrutable and utterly stoic. The anime also likes to show her with a vacant smile on ocassion, making her look quite aloof. She maintains this aloof front nearly without fail no matter what she's doing, whether it be cooking lunch for her group, working on paperwork, ripping out someone's heart with her bare hands or obliterating the Hero in front of his own men.
• Ditzy Genius: She's extremely brilliant and has great mastery of very difficult magic despite only being about fifteen years old, but she's also the kind of person that can accidentally set themselves on fire, nearly drown themselves and completely blow her secret identity without realizing it just because she can't resist the urge to doodle in the margins of a book she wrote. She's also a Tyke Bomb with poorly developed emotions and social skills, so her behavior is often very out of place and goofy.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul":
  • Shiraori refuses to be called Wakaba Hiiro for a very good reason. Namely, she isn't Wakaba and never was. Being called that just reminds her that she is just a joke D made to amuse herself and avoid work.
  • She's also very embarrassed to be called the Nightmare of the Labyrinth because she thinks it sounds ridiculous. She wonders how Dustin even knew that was her, completely oblivious to the fact that she spilled the beans herself by doodling in the corners of the note she handed to him.
• Dragon-in-Chief: Ariel is the strongest being within the System by far, but Shiraori is an actual goddess who is the one that's really planning things out.
• The Dreaded: To so many it is not even funny. Anyone who knows how she killed Julius dreads an encounter with her.
• Drunk on Milk: Shiraori may get smashed by chugging alcohol but just a few swigs of coffee is enough to completely incapacitate her and a clone that tries to intervene. Sophia notes it's reasonable given spiders naturally get drunk off caffeine. Oddly this only applies to caffeinated coffee. Decaffeinated coffee, caffeinated tea, and all of the coffee's individual components are completely safe. Only coffee itself has this effect to Shiraori's bewilderment.
• Eat the Bomb: She achieved apotheosis in the LN by eating a GMA Bomb and absorbing the massive amount of magical energy when it detonates in her stomach, elevating her to Divinity skill to level 10.
• Emotionless Girl: While the reader always knows what she's thinking and that she's actually a massive dorky idiot, the other characters can't read her mind and thus don't know what she's thinking at all: Her expression never changes and she almost never speaks. Wrath, Dustin and others find her kind of creepy as a result and tend to massively overestimate her. The only ones who really understand her at all are D and to a lesser extent Ariel.
• Ethereal White Dress: Post apotheosis, Shiraori has white hair, pure white skin and dresses in white clothing she made herself and didn't bother to dye. She looks beautiful, but also slightly unnerving. It leaves such a strong impression that she's able to set up a magical 'don't notice me!' spell by making people who don't know her only capable of recognizing her as being white.
• Extreme Omnivore: She'll eat pretty much anything that can be loosely considered edible. At one point she brings out something from a pocket dimension that has Ariel horrified to the point she refuses to even look.
• Eyes Always Shut: Shiraori usually keeps her eyes shut as even she's disturbed by the fact that each one contains multiple smaller eyes. Because she's clairvoyant, she can just use that ability to see through her own eyelids.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: Shiraori's eyes each have four irises and pupils — five in the anime — which move around independently. It's super creepy, so she always keeps them closed unless she wants to terrify someone.
• Fatal Flaw: While careless and cocky, the flaw that drags her down the most is most likely her poor social skills. She can't explain herself to anyone and she finds it incredibly difficult to actually understand what people are thinking.
• Fighting a Shadow: Technically, all of her spawn are part of her, and destroying her "main" body just means she can take over one of the lesser spiders she's keeping around and turn it into a new "Shiraori" within a few days.
• Figure It Out Yourself: Becoming a goddess didn't come with a manual, unfortunately, leaving Shiro floundering to regain use of her powers. Asking the resident god (Gyulie) to share the secret resulted in Gyulie informing her that she should be able to discover how to on her own in a hundred years. It doesn't even take her two, leaving Gyulie quite flummoxed.
• First-Person Smartass: Very much so. Ironically, she becomes extremely tongue-tied whenever she has to actually speak aloud.
• Fragile Speedster: For a god, Shiraori is pathetically weak when it comes to raw abilities and mostly gets by on weird abilities and planning way ahead for any problem she can think of. However, once she gains some distance from Gyurie, he becomes completely incapable of catching up to her with her even gaining a slight lead over time. He eventually tries to portal in front of her, only to meet Tele-Frag when she interferes with his teleport spell. The operative words, of course, are for a god.
• Friendless Background: She didn't have any friends and no one other than Oka even liked her both in her fake memories as Wakaba and her actual previous life as the house spider living in the classroom. As a result, she genuinely doesn't understand what a friend is and doesn't realize that Wrath and Sophia are two of hers.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She absolutely doesn't look the part due to her lack of emoting, but she loves alcohol and getting drunk. Unfortunately, she's a pretty nasty drunk.
• Hates Being Touched: She basically can't stand physical contact and flat out faints when a drunk paws her over her clothes. She threatens to destroy the world if Ariel tells anyone about this weakness.
• The Hermit: As Ariel puts it, she's a natural loner. She'd like nothing better than to go off by herself with no one to bother her. Anything that needs doing she can do by herself, so she has no real need to open up to people.
• Hero Killer: She killed Julius, the previous Hero.
• Heroic Neutral: She's only really doing anything at first because she has no other choice thanks to D forcing her to resolve this planet's situation before she can permanently return to Earth or benefit from D's patronage. If she was left to her own devices she would just wander off somewhere and probably avoid bothering or even meeting anyone else. Of course, the heroism itself is questionable given her lack of qualms about sentencing thousands or even millions of strangers to death.
• Hidden Buxom: Shiraori is described as looking slender when clothed, but — as shown in the anime's opening — is actually very busty. Ariel was not happy about it. The number of named female characters with larger breasts can be counted on one hand, with leftover fingers.
• Hidden Depths
  • While both her good and bad sides are very obvious to everyone around her, there's something about Shiraori most people never consider: She actually responds really well to being treated like a misbehaving child. Which she basically is, even if she doesn't look it. When people confront her directly about her wrongdoings, she'll at least try to shape up and behave appropriately.
    • When she's apparently lounging around doing Balto's estate doing nothing but eating him out of house and home, his younger brother Blow cuts down her excessive food supply to something far more reasonable. Realizing how she looks from his perspective, she reluctantly musters her courage and shows that she's actually pulling her weight and is basically entitled to that much food, though she doesn't say why she needs it.
    • Sophia is too scared of Shiraori to even mention what a bad drunk she is, so she has to put up with being abused and snacked on by her foster mom whenever she pulls out the alcohol. However, the first time Wrath sees this, he confronts her the next morning. Shiraori had no clue she was a bad drunk and immediately stops drinking. Except that one that Ariel offered her booze without thinking. Sophia is stunned to see her actually apologize.
  • She's fond of making clothing with her threads and really good at it as well. She likes to give them away as presents to her 'friends,' though she doesn't think of them in those terms due to her emotional immaturity.
  • People are very surprised to learn how much Shiraori loves to drink and doubly surprised by the things she says when smashed.
• Hikikomori: She's close to one. While she can't just hole up and never speak to anyone, it's clear that she would very much like to do just that. She's almost completely nonfunctional in social situations.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Shiraori is really terrible at reading people, though rarely to her detriment. She doesn't realize that Ronant withdraws against Shun because he doesn't want to kill his one time apprentice's little brother or that Oka-san is not nearly as mentally resilient as Shiraori believes. She also reads Ariel pretty superficially, seemingly failing to notice that she's still pretty vicious and is seemingly blind to how much of a problem Sophia is, nor does she realize that Sophia is mostly envious of people who she considers competition for Shiraori's attention.
• How Do I Shot Web?: She lost many abilities when becoming a god because the System no longer supported her magic. She has to slowly relearn how to use several of her Evil Eye abilities and can't regain some powers — such as poison magic — at all because they aren't "real" magic or because she's just crappy with that kind of magic now, such as being unable to use ice magic as anything more than a Mundane Utility. In the light novel, she even had to relearn how to shoot webs, only managing when she desperately tried to save Sophia from falling down a cliff. The rest she relearnt by being drunk off her ass to the point she forgot she couldn't use them anymore.
• Hypnotic Eyes: Shiraori has some level of control over people's emotions just by looking at them. While she primarily uses these to cause fear, she also demonstrates the ability to take away someone's abject horror, calm them down and put them to sleep.
• I Just Want to Be Free: While sick from drinking coffee Shiraori dwells on how she can never escape from "D". The goddess has controlled her since before she was born from what was basically a joke to escape work and learning that all her memories from Earth are fake made her ever more aware that she can never be truly free. She even admits that her usual happy personality and quirks are a form of escapism to avoid thinking about this.
• Instant Expert: According to D's explanation on how magic works in and outside the System, proper magic takes ten distinct steps that the System takes care of for people inside it. Normal mages like Ronant don't even realize that most of the work is being done for them. However, Shiraori learned how to use real magic without using the System and once outside it has already combined or shortened multiple steps, indicating a level of mastery that even gods would find surprising.
• I Owe You My Life: Due to Oka/Filimøs saving her life when she was an ordinary spider on Earth, she wishes to save her life.
• It's Personal: Shiraori is pissed when she finds out that Oka/Filimøs was reincarnated as the daughter of Potimas. She makes it clear to D that she is angry by punching her head off. She also makes it clear that she wishes to kill Potimas to free Oka/Filimøs from his potential control.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Several characters refer to her as 'that' or something similar, including Gyurie and Meido. Even Wrath's attitude is similar. Very few people make any effort to see her as an individual with emotions, flaws or even basic personality quirks beyond the obvious.
• Lack of Empathy: Shiraori has great difficulty understanding the emotional problems of others and tends to misjudge and occasionally mistreat them as a result. It's not that she's trying to be cruel, it's that she doesn't know how people will react to the things she does. In fact, when she interacts with people, she unconsciously finds herself doing nice things for them like giving them presents and is every bit as oblivious to the fact that she's actually trying to make them feel better.
• Light Is Not Good: White is her primary color scheme (white dress, white hair, and white skin), and she is the main villain of the story (at least in some's point of view, she's still the main character) who had no qualms causing mass casualties in order to "save" the world.
• Like a Daughter to Me: At some point Shiraori began to think of and treat Sophia more or less like her (rebellious) daughter. While this does mean that Shiraori is more concerned with Sophia's circumstances and activities than she is with most of the other reincarnators, Shiraori's laundry list of mental and personality disorders unfortunately means she's not material for Mother of the Year.
• Living Weapon: After turning one of her Arachne scythe claws into an actual scythe weapon, the missing Parallel Mind slot once held by Body Brain gets filled in by a new Mind that inhabits the scythe, granting it various abilities such as having both Rot and Dark attributes, destroying anti-magic contructs, being indestrutible withing the System, and able to repair itself should it ever actually get damaged. Official material lists its attack attribute as Capped in the System, denoting how lethal it is. After her apotheosis, it can even summon itself into Shiro's hands in reaction to a threat to her life, on its own, even during the time Shiro couldn't access her own powers; D's implication is that the scythe contains part of the continent-destroying energy Shiro absorbed because it was too much for her soul at the time, making the potential output of this weapon cataclysmic.
• Loners Are Freaks: Shiraori's greatest flaw is her lack of ability to get along with others in any kind of meaningful way. She can make some use of allies or use people as tools, but has only two people who are anything like confidants and she, like everyone else, hates one of them. She actually does recognize this as something of a problem, but would still be entirely content to be off by herself for all of eternity with no one to bother her.
• Loners Will Stay Alone: Shiraori was basically built to not fit in both by D basically designing her to be a hikikomori and some faint traces of the memory of having been a spider hated by everyone in the classroom. As a result, she finds it nearly impossible to speak to almost everyone, which keeps her from developing social skills, which keeps her even more isolated. Even several of the characters she speaks to regularly see her more as a force of nature than an actual person, which only Ariel seems to understand isn't good for her.

M–Z

• Magical Species Transformation: An interesting variation of this; The plot involves an entire classroom being killed and reincarnated into an RPG-fantasy adventure. Kumoko, as the title suggests, winds up as an ordinary spider in this world, so she decides to train herself up to evolve into an Arachne for a better means of survival. She gets what she bargained for, although it turns out that's exactly what the demon Ariel intended.
• Manipulative Bastard: Subverted. She is perceived as a genius manipulator and mastermind because she has a lot of power and doesn't show her emotions, but it's made obvious that she's basically winging it half the time and is incredibly careless. Ariel indicates as much to Dustin but he flat out doesn't believe her. She also tries to explain it to Wrath and Sophia when Shiraori freezes up in the middle of a conversation because she doesn't know how to open up to the pair of them.
• The Man Behind the Man: She helped influence Hugo into driving out Shun and starting a war with the elves. The story makes it clear, though, that most of his worse actions are entirely on him or, oddly enough, Sue. Her own actions amounted to only assassinating Potimas' potential clones because she couldn't think of a practical way to save them and then framing Shun for it so he'd be kept out of danger.
• The Man in Front of the Man: While she's Ariel's lieutenant on paper, in practice Ariel could be considered either her partner or even her subordinate.
• Maternally Challenged: Played for laughs. Shiraori is the closest Sophia has to a mother figure and tends to worry about her wellbeing, but she's so completely unequipped to handle her that she just tends to punt her into walls or nearly snap her in half on the inevitable occasions when Sophia does something stupid or horrible. However, it's not entirely fun and broken spines: Sophia tends to act out not just because she's kind of evil but also because she feels Shiraori doesn't care about her.
• Meaningful Name: Shiraori's name means white weaver, perfect for a white spider.
• Moral Myopia: While she can display kindness and other virtues towards others, these tend to only be people who can be considered part of 'her' group. When it comes to hurting people outside her associates she's completely apathetic about it. She also has a tendency to hold those like Hugo or Sophia to higher standards than herself, though she does recognize her own hypocrisy.
• Ms. Fanservice: The anime's opening shows her naked save for her breasts and crotch being obscured by strands of webbing.
• Mundane Utility: She uses her godly thread abilities to make books so she doesn't have to talk to people at length. She can also make shaved ice if she wants with what little affinity she has for ice magic!
• Mystical White Hair: She has pure white hair, match with her dress and skin. She is also a goddess whose appearance is a teenage girl.
• Naked on Arrival: After Kumoko becomes a ‘God’, it is specifically stated she was naked after Ariel frees her from her egg.
• Never My Fault: Her inner monologue has a habit of completely evading all the negative outcomes of her actions, such as when she agrees that Shun had a right to revenge on Hugo for destroying his home and family while pretending she had nothing to do with it.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The barrier she put around the reincarnators to protect them from the System's collapse is instead used as fuel to power Kindness, which leads to the death of Wrath when Shun just barely manages to outlast him.
• The Nicknamer: It's easier to count who Shiraori refers to by name - the reincarnators in Shun's Party, Argnar, Blow, Balto, Felmina and Potimas. For a few of these, such as Potimas, she only uses their names because she can't think of a decent nickname and gives up.
• Noble Demon: Shiraori identifies as the Big Bad of the story and hates to be seen helping people, but as Ariel points out she's actually rather kind and will go well out of her way to take care of people so long as they haven't tried to hurt her.
• No Cure for Evil: Averted. Despite her other abilities, identity as the Big Bad of Shun's side stories, and the system outright identifying her as an "Evil God", as a god, she can use treatment magic far beyond what any mortal capable of. In fact, as long as she has magic power, she can use magic to regnerate from any damage, up to and including having her body utterly obliterated.
• The Non Descript: Shiraori's camouflage spell makes any stranger who looks at her only able to notice that she's "white". It doesn't work on anyone who already knew Wakaba Hiiro, causing Dustin brief confusion when Kusama refers to her as beautiful and mild dread when he realizes he couldn't see through her illusion or even notice that it was there. It will also be broken if she meets someone observant regularly while using it, which is a flaw she intends to fix because she hates people looking at her.
• No Social Skills: Shiraori is near-mute and uses camouflage magic to avoid attention because she has no idea how to handle people. Despite having enough power to level a town, her reaction to a drunkard copping a feel was to faint and later huddle in a corner. Later, when trying to comfort Oka-san, she just repeats that as far as she knew she was doing the best thing, probably was doing the best thing and saved as many people as could be saved. She fails to understand why this isn't good enough for her teacher because Shiraori doesn't understand her in the first place.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Shiraori herself actually cares very little for the future of the planet. Yeah, her plan will kill a lot of people in the near future to save even more in the long run as well as save the goddess, but she only agreed to do something because D basically blackmailed her into it. Later, she comes to want to do it as well because her grandmother is willing to destroy her own soul to save Sariel's. Shiraori herself loathes Sariel, but respects Ariel's wish and earnestly wants to help her fulfill it. She also participates because she wishes to save Ms. Oka’s reincarnated form from Potimas.
• Nothing Personal: She didn’t feel any hostility towards Julius. She simply killed him because she had to.
• Obliviously Evil: Despite identifying as the villain of the story, this is purely in a meta sense in terms of D's 'hero vs demon king' scenario. In truth, she only considers herself pragmatic, so when her moral calculus says that one person dying will save thousands or millions otherwise, she does it in a heartbeat. Whether this is right or wrong is not the point but rather that the emotional trauma this could cause people is something that doesn't cross her mind in the slightest until the damage is already done, which is one of the few things that can actually make her feel guilty.
• Oblivious to Love: Shiraori doesn't realize that Blow, who she thinks hates her, is actually crushing on her, though the author notes it may just be the suspension bridge effect: He did see her teleport in, rip a dude's heart out and then teleport away again.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: She's almost never called Shiraori, instead preferring to be referred to as Shiro. Since only the main characters can speak Japanese there's no real way for anyone else to realize they're really just calling her White. Even when people refer to her pre apotheosis state, she's generally referred to as the Nightmare of the Labyrinth, a nickname nobody realizes she considers embarrassing.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business
  • When Shiraori finally learns what she does when drunk and apologizes to Sophia, Sophia's reaction is to freak out thinking that Shiraori is sick. Shiraori thinks that's rather rude. The actual joke is when Wrath tells Sophia that Shiraori would obviously apologize for eating people while unconscious, Shiraori tells him that she totally does that even when sober.
  • Not seen by other characters is when Shiraori learns about Sariel interfering with Julius's death. She opens her eyes and nearly shouts Sariel down, speaking aloud more on her own than she has in the entire story. It really drives home just how much this disrupts things and how much Shiraori despises her.
  • While explaining the truth of the world to Wrath and Sophia, Shiraori actually opens her eyes and clearly explains what's happening.
  • In the Light Novel, The Reveal moment when Shiraori finally acknowledges her true identity is framed as Shiraori having a nervous breakdown, represented by her speaking to the Puppet Taratects in complete sentences (Shiraori is normally a Terse Talker), who immediately notice something's off and leave her alone without being told twice, dragging Sophia with them. Shiraori proceeds to hide under her own bed covers in despair before finally heeding D's call to come visit her on Earth.
  • Her communication disorder practically evaporates when she gets drunk, allowing her actual thoughts to spill free without filter. In the Web Novel, this allows multiple characters to realize how deeply scarring the Elroe Labyrinth was for her, since she freely talks about how hard it was to get food or how often she thought she was going to die. Conversely, in the Light Novel it lets her speak frankly with Merazophis when he's going through an identity crisis regarding his vampirism and role in Sophia's life; although she remembers absolutely nothing, he comes out of the talk with a new outlook in life, unbreakable resolve and heaps of gratitude for her "sage advice".
• Orcus on His Throne: Ariel and Shiraori both choose to not actively participate in the war, only intervening when necessary. Many of the Demon generals are unhappy with both of them, Ariel for her apparent disinterest and Shiraori for not using her overwhelming power early on.
• Parental Substitute: Played for Laughs with Shiraori acting like a mother worrying about her daughter (in this case Sophia) acting rebellious, saying that it must have been bad influences in the academy.
• The Pawn: Beneath her goofy and stoic facades is a deep depression because of what she learned when she reached apotheosis. Namely, she's been in the palm of D's hand from the moment she was reincarnated. She's not Wakaba Hiiro. She was never even human. She's just a random spider who got fried along with the rest of the classroom at the start of the story, who D (the real Wakaba Hiiro) threw part of her memories on Earth into in hopes it would throw her boss off her trail when it died and got to the netherworld, letting her slack off on Earth some more. Surpassing D's expectations and surviving hasn't freed Shiraori either, but instead caused D to consider Shiraori 'interesting,' and be forced into Sadistic Choices and unwinnable problems so D can see what new 'interesting' decisions Shiraori will make.
• Perpetual Smiler: In the anime, she's often depicted with a faint smile, whenever she's not simply stoic. The addition of the empty smile somehow manages to make her seem even more aloof and mysterious, and it also makes her even more unnerving when the flashback depicting Julius' last moments clearly show her smiling right as she disintegrates Julius.
• Pretty Freeloaders: Shiraori is initially considered a leech by Blow as he's unaware of her clones; all he knows is that she's lounging around his brother's mansion, eating their food, and sleeping late. She very unwillingly forces herself to go meet with him and hand over intelligence reports after that, cementing herself as an intelligence expert who actually is working hard.
• The Quiet One: She rarely speaks.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes are bright red and have multiple pupils, which she acknowledges as creepy. She keeps them shut at all times as a result unless she needs to emphasize a point or terrify someone.
• Red Right Hand: She keeps her eyes closed because her eyes look terrifying. At best, people tend to grimace when they see that she actually has eight eyes where only two are supposed to be. She thinks it's creepy as well. Of course, it doesn't help that she uses them to cast magic on people to make them even more scared. Of course, this doesn't impair her ability to function because Shiraori can see through obstacles, including her own skull.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: She can fight far above her weight class due to her great combat experience and tricky abilities, but this has come as a direct result of sacrificing the development of her already crude social skills. She's brilliant, but has the emotional range and reactions of a child.
• Sad Clown: Shiraori has a very funny internal monologue and if someone can actually get her speaking, they tend to find her quite charming unless she's drunk. However, when suffering from a vicious hangover thanks to drinking coffee she has nothing to do but think about how she's little more than a toy and will never know true freedom. Later she gets depressed at D stacking the deck against her while she can do nothing to fight back due to her abysmal social skills caused, naturally, by D screwing with her personality and memories in ways that leave her nearly silent among all but the closest of companions.
• Selective Obliviousness: She's trying very hard to ignore her probable lack of a decent future thanks to "D", who is unlikely to let such an amusing toy escape her grasp.
• Space Master: What she considers to be her one true talent. Shiraori's standing MO is to have her massive clone army spread over as much of the world as possible monitoring everything, often from pocket dimensions. In said pocket dimensions there are also clones performing various duties such as researching and improving upon her abilities and information processing. She can create new pocket dimensions as needed to dump people and things into them for storage and retrieval, and use them for things like opening perspective windows to show images to other people or redirect enemy attacks straight back to the source. She's also capable of disrupting other people's teleportation abilities. Even Gyurie's abilities in Space and Dimension Magic are outmatched by Shiro's, in spite of the massive difference in their rank and time as gods.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Implied, but downplayed. Her other emotional disorders are on clear display, but she only tends to show her trauma at growing up in the Great Elro Labyrinth when she's completely drunk.
• Sloth:
  • Perhaps even more of a fatal flaw for Shiraori than her pride is her abject refusal to truly confront her weaknesses, because that would require a lot of work. When it's a matter of life and death she can do it, but when it comes to something like basic communication skills she'll shove the work off onto anyone she can. When it's Wrath, it generally works okay, but she ends up alienating the reincarnators and most likely Shun by instead having Sophia speak for her at one point and then not bothering to stop her, correct her or even soften up her language until she's forced to correct Sophia's misstatement about the ability to go home.
  • On a more comical note, she likes giving out clothing as gifts but can't be assed to actually dye it, meaning everything she makes is pure white.
• Spider People: Though she almost never uses it, her original form is that of an Arachne: Her upper body is a beautiful woman but the bottom half is a spider. Both top and bottom have their own head and she can produce silk from anywhere on her body, though it's easiest to make it from her spinnerets. She only seems to revert to her original form in order to stretch in the morning and to take advantage of her spider sickle arms when fighting Gyurie.
• Spider Swarm: Shiraori has created a swarm of spiders which are basically clones of her which she uses to perform different kinds of functions like spying, hacking the system and taking care of her pocket dimensions and all of them basically have a scaled down version of the original abilities.
• Stepford Smiler: She's implied to be a lot less easy going and cheerful than her usual inner monologue and behavior would suggest. When drunk, she talks about the trauma of the Elro Labyrinth and how she was constantly afraid for her life, even if it's played for laughs. She has panic attacks frequently when trying to get anything done, she has a fit of depression after realizing the emotional damage she caused Shun's group and, most obviously, when she collapses after drinking coffee she sits moping in the darkness about her lack of any concrete identity and how she's ultimately nothing more than a joke a bored god played to try to get out of work. However, she lacks anything resembling a peer, so nobody notices. In fact, a lot of people don't even notice the 'smiler' part to begin with.
• The Stoic: She looks completely stoic to everyone around her, which is in large part due to being unable to see her eyes. However, her inner monologue makes it clear that she's often very laidback or panicking.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Most people can't see past her lack of expression and poor ability to emote, but Shun is startled at one point to realize she's actually quite kind in her own way.
• Sympathetic P.O.V.: While Shun is definitely the hero and Shiraori is arguably the villain, the story is told almost entirely from the latter's point of view. While it's very easy to empathize with Shiraori and like her, it also becomes clearer over time that she's probably not right. While she's arguably doing what's best for the world so far as she can tell what to do, she's only doing it because one of the few people she actually cares about is invested in the plan. Shiraori herself has very little concern for the world and makes it clear she has no intention of sticking around to clean up after the mess she plans to make or limit what casualties she can. While she hasn't had many significant choices in her life, this is one she was given and she's probably not using it as best she can.
• Terse Talker: A side effect of her communication disorder - squeezing out even a few words takes effort, so the only time you're likely to get a long sentence out of her is when she's drunk. Late into the Light Novel, after coming to terms with her identity, Shiro becomes able to speak freely with Ariel, and can, with effort, speak properly with Merazophis.
• That Man Is Dead: She doesn't want to be called Wakaba Hiiro, but it's a subversion since she actually isn't Wakaba, never was, and hates the real person.
• Took a Level in Badass: Ironic given how many levels she had already taken as Kumoko, but becoming a god forced Shiraori to effectively start almost from near-scratch. When surrounded by powerful entities such as Ariel, this made her seem downright useless for a while. Then Shiraori starts learning how to adapt to her new body and massive fonts of internal power to direct into Difficult, but Awesome abilities, utilizing her inherent spider abilities she still retains as an Arachne, and realizing how the System works all over again, and eventually she becomes The Dreaded as one of the most powerful entities in the world.
• Trauma Button: Shiraori wants nothing to do with those damn revenge monkeys anymore even though they cannot possibly be any threat to her.
• Truly Single Parent: Shiraori can cut off pieces of her body and form them into clones, which are generally about the size of tarantulas but can be as small as a fingernail. They're very stealthy and are generally used for information gathering, exploration, new technique development and fulfilling simple instructions. They can be made semi autonomous if necessary. There are also the Horo Neia as well, which are fully aware individuals that confuse even her.
• Tsundere: Ariel told a toddler Sophia that this is what Shiraori actually is, always wanting to help others but asking to be compensated so that her kind actions have a plausible excuse. She is, at least, very reluctant to not help certain people even as she insists they mean nothing to her, such as Sophia or Ronant.
• Two Aliases, One Character: Shiraori is actually the present day version of Kumoko, who arrived in this world more than a decade before Shun’s story even happens. Moreover, every Reincarnator and those with knowledge of them believe that she is the reincarnation of Wakaba Hiiro, their classmate; consequently, Reincarnators not on her side address her as "Wakaba-san" even though her true identity is merely the classroom's unwanted pet spider turned into a soul clone of the real Wakaba.
• Tyke Bomb: Thanks to her upbringing, she has no true identity of her own, no friends, no family, an obsessive need to be strong enough to not have to rely on anyone else or fear what anyone could do to her and no true peers. As the only person she can speak to normally puts it, she may look like a teenager but Shiraori is just a child who is completely unable to handle concepts like 'friends.' This isn't even touching on the fact that Ariel literally birthed the Taratects to be a Slave Race of personal soldiers for her, making her effectively a Child Soldier who went rogue and then became a menace in Ariel's eyes. As such, she's simultaneously the most dangerous being on the planet, genuinely well intentioned, attempting to commit genocide and largely oblivious to how to get along with anyone or behave because no one is brave enough to tell her.
• The Unchosen One: Shiraori was never meant for great things but her determination to survive and grow strong resulted in her eventually stumbling into power and developing her plan to save the world. She didn't even want to do that much but had to be offered rewards.
• Underestimating Badassery: Inverted at one crucial point. She rates Gyurie as being much stronger than he actually is because she hasn't accounted for his lack of combat experience, inability to receive any kind of training from elder dragons, her own genius and, most importantly, that he has much less energy stockpiled than she thinks. As a result this makes the fight even worse for him because she's absolutely completely serious about it due to not recognizing that she's the stronger party, therefore leaving no exploitable gaps.
• Undying Loyalty:
  • She develops this towards Ariel after she reaches Godhood status due to Ariel deciding to protect her rather than kill her when given the chance.
  • Oka/Filimøs is part of the reason Shiaroi is attempting to defeat Potimas due to Oka/Filimøs saving her life when she was an ordinary spider.
• The Unfettered: While she tries to behave as morally as possible in pursuit of her goals, when push comes to shove she'll do whatever she has to, up to an including murdering her friends, allies and even Oka-chan. Or at least plans to if put to the test. She is honest about this, however, so it's usually not too much of an issue. Usually.
• Unreliable Narrator: She has a habit of stating her guesses as fact and is implied to misrepresent her emotions, though this is in part due to a lack of understanding of them.
• Vampiric Draining: Shiro developed a massive attack using this ability as a counter for a potential battle with Gyurie. She ends up having to use it against Potimas's robots instead. Fortunately, Gyurie doesn't have time to come up with a counter before attacking her because he apparently assumed he wouldn't need one.
• Villain Protagonist: Played with. Shiraori is the antagonist of Shun's story, can be brutal, pragmatic and has no understanding of the concept of mercy, but she's kind, caring and even altruistic in some ways. Plus, while her plan to save the world will cause massive casualties both immediately and when the plan is finished, is perhaps less dangerous in the long run than the other workable plan.
• Villain Teleportation: Shiraori's one true native talent not derived from D or anyone else is an outstanding mastery of space and dimension based magic. It makes her extremely difficult to deal with. Or at least it would if there were anyone hostile at her own level. The sheer terrifying nature is emphasized with Blow. As a sympathetic enemy pleads with Blow, Shiraori teleports in out of nowhere, rips out his heart and then immediately vanishes. Within about three seconds she's made it clear that she can kill anyone, anywhere with no warning. Much to her relief, she already has more ability when it comes to Space Magic than Gyurie, meaning she has good control of the battlefield when it comes time to fight him.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Her original form is that of a giant spider with a human torso sticking out of the head, but she almost always walks around as a pure white human woman. Most likely she cannot transform into any other shape.
• Walking Spoiler: Her true identity is not clear for most of the story with only occasional mentions as an observer. She's portrayed as much less important than Ariel until we find out she's Kumoko and, if anything, Ariel's boss.
• Weak, but Skilled: Relatively speaking. For a god, in terms of pure power she's at rock bottom. However, her experiences growing up taught her the value of having a wide range of abilities. She's quite confused when she finds herself manhandling Gyurie, who saw it coming: It was one of the reasons he was hesitant to pick a fight with her.
• Weaksauce Weakness:
  • Shiraori is so bad with men that a completely normal drunk touching her breasts above her clothing causes her to faint. After she wakes up the guy feels really bad because he was just fooling around and didn't actually mean to cause any trouble. She threatens to destroy the world if Ariel ever tells anyone.
  • At the start it was thought that Shiraori, being a spider, was weak to caffeine but it was actually caffeinated coffee. She even experimented to see if it was one of the component but she could digest them with no problem. She doesn't even know why!
• Wild Card: She's as likely to cause great help as great harm, though her goals are detrimental for the (immediate) future of the world. Shun is started to see her kindness in help Oka-chan after he had been building up a serious grudge against her for killing his hero, Julius.
• Xanatos Gambit: The current Human-Demon War is basically this for her plans. No matter how badly both armies come out of it, as long as people are dying it benefits the world. If one side is doing too well then it's a simple matter of extra killing to compensate.
• Younger Than They Look: Shiraori may look like a teenager (16-17 years old) but by the time she first met with a baby Sophia she is more or less only 2 years old. And as Ariel points out, this is a genuine problem: She's basically a child, only she had no actual childhood, so she has no idea to treat other people and when told that Wrath and Sophia are her friends she has a mild panic attack because she's never had a friend before.