Shiva is a 10-year-old girl with neck-length white hair and round black eyes. She can almost always be seen in a white button-down dress and black shoes. Shiva is naive and protected. At the beginning of the series, she seems to remember only that she lived with a Teacher who always tries to keep her safe and indoors. She can be gullible. She has a childish sense of right and wrong, with a limited understanding of why people hurt others, and has difficulty distinguishing the degrees of danger.