This is one of three or four pieces of art given to me by  darkwolfie. One of them features Shizuka with Kagami; the others have her solo, practicing martial arts.

In this particular case, I seem to recall him asking me, out of the blue, to name a weapon. Me being me, I'd normally take that as an invitation to come up with something exotic, like wind and fire wheels, or the tiger hook swords I had Shizuka wielding in another of my commissions. This time, though, I just said bo staff. He said okay. The conversation turned to other things, and I didn't think anything more of it.

A day or two later, he gave me this.

I wrote a little vignette to go with it at one point, but I don't seem to have it any more. Must've lost it in the great hard drive failure of '08. Perhaps I'll get around to rewriting it, now that I'm looking at the picture again. Fight scenes have never been my forte, but I was pretty happy with it.

Anyway... although it's not something I've emphasized about the character, Shizuka does practice several martial arts. She's versed in jujitsu, aikido, and kung fu. As such, she'd likely use the more-flexible white wax wood staff rather than the less-flexible hardwood staff common in karate weapon forms.

And that's probably way too much detail for something that's come up maybe three times in the years I've been using the character. Go figure.