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Once a human, according to the manga, that once they made a contract with the crimson lord, they become a Flame Haze and live forever. At first, she was focused on her duty as a Flame Haze bearing no name. Until he met Sakai Yuji, a torch, who is interesting because he is also a Mystes. Yuji named her "Shana" after her katana, Nietono no Shana for the need to humanize her. She slowly opens up to him, thinking of him as a person despite of being a torch and eventually comes to love him. Shana has a popular habit of saying "urusai! urusai! urusai!" which means "shut up! shut up! shut up!" whenever Yuji asked her questions or makes remarks that embarrass her. She likes sweets, especially Melon Bread, so much that it can cheer her up. She is also an intellegent student (shown in the anime series) for having perfect scores on every exams and even correcting teachers. However, she seems to be naive when it comes to social affairs.

Known and feared by most Tomogara by title alone, Shana is clearly a powerful and talented Flame Haze. This has allowed her to defeat many powerful Tomogaras along the plot, and permits her many different abilities, including her proficiency with the Nietono no Shana, the ability to wield flame, manipulate the power of existence, harbor extrasensory traits, and fly with wings of flame. In the third volume of the manga, the first volume of the visual novel, and the movie, Alastor states that the reason why she did not explode after being shot by Friagne's Trigger Happy was because she held a capacity that existed in dimensional space, who was able to contain the Flame of Heaven's and has thus stated her as "The Great One". Her duty initially made her indifferent towards human life, but through Yuji's influence, Shana has opened up slightly, although she still remains confused and disgruntled by some human traits which she considers as pointless, although some of it is used to mask her jealousy of her desired monopoly on Yuji.

Despite being the title character of the anime, Shana has few character relations with many of the characters in the show. Her main social interest is Yuji, whom she sees as her love interest, although she never admits it (except once at the end of season one). Her relationship with Yuji is one of the driving forces of the series. Shana takes orders and advice from the Crimson Lord she is bond to, Alastor, and has a mentor and guardian in the form of Wilhelmina Carmel. Kazumi Yoshida is her love-rival for Yuji, and Shana treats her with contempt and disdain. She generally treats most other characters with ignorance and indifference, with the exception of Chigusa Sakai, Yuji's Mom, who she looks to as a source in answering certain difficulties when Alastor or Wilhelmina are unable to do so. Shana eventually starts to be more open to the other characters, especially in regards to her relationship with Kazumi becoming more friendly.