Shizu Lanmaw

"We didn't choose to be born father!"

- Shizu to her father

Shizu Lanmaw was a human female born into slavery of the Rakata. She, along with her younger brother Malik, was among the countless slaves to work on the Star Forge. She is an ancestor of Epin Lanmaw.

Early Life


Shizu, like the other slaves, spent the majority of her time constructing the Star Forge. However, when the Rakata rotated the slaves out for rest periods, she spent time with her brother Malik.

The two were very close, and Shizu often protected Malik by taking the blame, and the beating, for many of the things he had done. Though on more than one ocacsion, Malik was able to help her out as well...

Shizu was constantly the center of attention from many of the boys in the camps. At one point, she dated a boy named Tiro Broxtin, would beat her. Malik, who had followed them one night, severly injured Tiro after he had struck her.

After they made it back home, Shizu began to cry when she thought of the situation she had gotten into. Malik, who loved her very much was saddened as well. To cheer her up, he made a necklace of flowers from the Rakatan gardens.

The Rakata, who were making their nightly rounds discovered Malik and Shizu with the necklace, and since she was in possession of it, Shizu was responsible.



They then brought Shizu to the detention block, which was just a fancy word for their torture chambers. Malik, who had followed, made his way over to Shizu. As soon as he made it to her, he pushed her aside and snatched the whip just as it was about to strike. Try as he might, the Rakata could not get the whip from Malik's grasp. Pulling violently, Malik swung the whip to the side, sending the Rakata into the wall. Backup arrived, but was no match for the invigorated Malik, who cut down the Rakatan warriors with seemingly thoughts alone. After the last Rakata had fallen, Malik stood among their broken and dismembered corpses with a blank stare on his face, seemingly unaffected either positively or negatively.

Shizu grabbed her brother and the two made an escape through the underground tunnels that ran the length of the slave camp, a way for the Rakata to quickly travel the facility without wading through hordes of slaves. Somehow they managed to escape detection and make it back home.

The Last Straw
"No! Please, don't hurt me daddy!"

- Shizu as her father ran a blade across her throat

Malik and Shizu's father, Vin, being drunk, saw it necessary one night to beat his children, as he saw them a burden, and the reason his wife was dead. She had died while giving birth to Malik, and Vin resented him for it. He beat on his children for quite some time by throwing them into walls, punching them and finally stomping them as they lay on the ground. Finally, Vin pinned Shizu down and was ready to end it, taking out a sharp weapon from his cloak. Amidst his daughters tears, screams, and cries, Vin laughed as he played with the blade, running it across her neck. He then pointed it directly toward her chest. Bringing it over his head he told his daughter to die, and as he brought it down, Malik interrupted by grabbing hold of his arm. Vin warned Malik to release him, or else he would feel it's wrath first. Squeezing, Malik broke his father's wrist with a series of crunches, snaps and pops. Screaming in pain, Vin dropped the weapon and fell to the ground clutching his wrist.



Taking up the weapon, Malik raised it over his head to finish his father. Vin then attempted to strike his son from a sitting position, but Malik dodged, and as his father fell forward he drove the weapon into his shoulder. Vin yelled in agony as he fell to the ground, now clutching his shoulder. As Vin then sat against the wall, Malik made his way over. Like a true coward, his father begged Malik to spare him, but received no response, only his blank stare. He then made a pushing motion with his hand, causing his father's skull to hit the wall. With a squishing sound, Vin's head smacked the wall, and slumped forward. Malik had killed their father.

"Chosen"
When Shizu turned eighteen, she was chosen by the Rakatan Chieftain to be his personal servant. In some ways this was a step up, and at the same time a step sideways, as the chieftain was known to work his personal servants literally to death. Shizu herself was able to choose someone who would be her assistant, and without a second thought, she chose Malik.

While on one hand it was better than working in the trenches on the Star Forge, it was, on the other hand, worse. She would spend her days waiting on the chieftain and his advisors while they eyed her and made inappropriate comments. Often they would go as far as putting their hands on her.

Bad Blood
Shizu wasn't sure how, but she could sense that her brother was in danger, and having succesfully slipped past the guards, she went in search of him. Surely enough, she arrived just as Malik was exiting the cave he had ventured into.

Malik had changed, Shizu could sense his dark energy even as she approached. It was the same energy she felt when he had fought the Rakata, and when he had killed their father. But it was somehow darker, she felt ill just being in his presence.

When she attempted to communicate with him, she was flung to the ground and told to stay out of Malik's way, under threat of death.

Wedding Day
The night before her wedding, Shizu learned that Malik had been found dead. This came as a great shock, and it devastated her greatly. That night she cried herself to sleep.

The day came and before Shizu and Tahh could be joined, Malik showed up, with the Hidden Rakata backing him up.

Behind the scenes

 * Shizu is portrayed by Ishizu Ishtar.