Shiki Sohma/Relationships

Shigure & Akito Sohma
Shigure and Akito are Shiki's parents, as such they are the people he knows the most and best. According to Shiki and the other Sohmas, Shigure and Akito are good parents, dedicated, affectionate with him and concerned about raising him well, with love and with a good education.

In the case of his father Shigure, Shiki recognizes him as a "sly" person, he seems to also agree with the qualification that Mutsuki gives him as an "conniving" and "lighthearted" person. He also reaffirms it when Sawa asks if his father was not a serious person, he replies that more than being "unserious", his father is "a joke of a grown man". Anyway, Shiki loves his father and also respects him to a certain extent since he also describes him as someone "reliable" and that he trusts him (although he says he won't tell him because it would go straight to his head).

Also according to Shiki, it seems that everything that has to do with his interests and initiatives is something that usually excites Shigure, awakening his interest and desire to get involved in order to help his son (and given his personality, probably also have fun at the expense of others in the process), this seems to be a characteristic by which Shiki recognizes him as her father. All of this is depicted when Hajime is surprised that Shigure engages in any kind of activity early in the morning (implying his laziness) and that he has driven Shiki (also wondering if he has a driver's license) to his old home to see them and talk to Sawa (it's at that moment that Shiki comments that these kinds of things usually excites him and that's what makes him his father). It is also later revealed that Shiki grew up in an environment of "drama and bad blood" (in Mutsuki's words) where the oldest members of the clan and especially his maternal grandmother were against his family and resented them (due to the clan/family being so old and with so many rules and traditions that they did not want to accept that they were changed), for these reasons they began to take it out on them, ranging from criticizing and speaking ill of them to emotionally mistreating them and especially Shiki, who was harassed by sending him insulting and degrading notes about him and his mother for a long time until Mutsuki noticed it and helped him end it, his grandmother also harassed him by insulting them and speaking ill of them and even tried to kill him with a knife being defended by his mother, this caused Shiki to isolate himself from everyone and everything and (in Mutsuki's words:) "begin to live as if he was sorry about it", which probably has to do with the emotion it causes in Shigure and Akito to see their son wanting to express his emotions and desires.

Shiki mentions how close he feels to his parents, how they have lovingly raised him, having fun and learning together, telling stories, and enjoying the simple things in everyday life.

About his relationship with his mother Akito, he says that he and his mother learned many things together, such as hand games from Tohru, since his mother had never been taught it as a child and she did not know them. He says that his mother thanked him smiling happily because thanks to having met him she learned and was able to enjoy so many things for the first time. This is why he deeply loves his mother and has always meant a lot to him and that is why it made him very sad to know what kind of person his mother had been in the past, how she had hurt the families of the other Sohma children older than him who always cared for, protected and accompanied him, feeling in some way also in fault for it and sad also for the situation of his Mother who, in seeking to atone for her sins, always sought to work as the head of the family in pursuit of the well-being of all but always isolating herself and not attending meetings or encounters with those whom she had hurt in the past or with those closest to them (except for Tohru) so as not to bother them. Shiki suffered for his mother seeing her receive that self-inflicted contempt and that of his grandmother and the dissidents to her in the clan who always spoke badly of her and insulted her remembering her sins of the past. To all these things she reacted by downplaying it or telling him to not worry because it had nothing to do with him and because that was the weight she had to carry and that she deserved it. All this was causing (as has already been said) that Shiki also isolated himself, that he became sad and that he accumulated deep within him anger and helplessness for feeling that he couldn't do anything to change that sad reality for them.

However, thanks to his great maturity, the courage and warmth that his increasingly close relationship with his friends, the other young Sohma and especially the feelings that begin to grow inside him from his reunion with Sawa (such as wanting being someone capable of taking on a role and a function that allows him to protect his loved ones) onwards, he ends up being able to vent his emotions by breaking a mirror, which although he apologizes and says that he will take care of being able to pay, is happily received by his parents who are glad that their son has been able to express his emotions and feelings and no longer repress them by isolating himself, and for that reason, they happily suggest leaving it as a "memory of the first time Shiki's feelings exploded" which embarrasses their child a bit. Another important event that also occurs in the same sense is that Shiki decides to take on his role as the next head of the family in order to help his mother and be close to her sharing her burden and hard work in order to change the rigid traditions of the Sohma clan/family. To this, his mother doesn't react with much enthusiasm, although she seems to reluctantly accept his decision to accompany her and learn the role with her, while his father was "over the moon."

Ren Sohma
Ren is Akito's mother, and therefore Shiki's maternal grandmother, unfortunately, the horrible and sick relationship that she always had with her daughter she also transferred it to her grandson.

Over the years, Ren's mental state (which was already pathological from the beginning) has only deteriorated more and more deeply, and that is why she began to live simply as a figure unable to leave her hatred, jealousy and past behind. It's because of this sickly condition that she projects her hatred towards her daughter on her grandson to the point of harassing him saying that his mother "should spend the rest of her life crawling with her face in the dirt, apologizing to the whole world for what she did", and then also identifying her later as "that thing" that "gave birth to this thing" which is a "repulsive little monster" and a "filthy creature", also pointing out his physical characteristics (features, eyes and hair) as disgusting for looking just like his mother's (It's interesting to note that this type of negative projection is the same that Akito used in the past, transferring her hatred towards her mother to all the other women and especially to Rin who had quite a few physical similarities with her mother, probably a mechanism learned unconsciously from her), after all this she tries to stab her grandson with a knife who was fortunately saved by his mother who intervened to defend him thus receiving a cut on her face. These traumatic events configure Shiki's grandmother as a nightmare figure and from whose influence he has to free himself. After these events, his relationship with her is unknown, but it's safe to assume the impossibility (just like his mother) of building or having any kind of family bond or relationship due to the obvious fact that she tried to murder him, her deep hatred and mental illness.

These events are also emotional, deep and painful scars that shaped Shiki's character and experiences for years, and for this reason Shiki tries to learn to overcome those wounds, fight to be able to express himself, to feel that he has the right to live and be happy and feel capable of being someone who can protect his loved ones.

Mutsuki Sohma
Mutsuki and Shiki share a close caring relationship such as that of a big brother towards a little one.

Hajime Sohma
Hajime and Shiki share a close caring relationship such as that of a big brother towards a little one.

Chizuru Sohma
Chizuru and Shiki are close friends. He, along with Shiki and Rio Mosca make up a trio of friends in the young generation comparable to that of his father, Shiki's father and Hatori in their generation. It is also implied that they have known each other for a long time due to the friendship that their mothers have developed over the years, so when they became close and reunited, their children also developed that relationship. This trio of friends who go to the same middle school but all in different grades say they go to the same club which they refer to as "The Go Club".

Sawa Mitoma
Sawa is an important person for Shiki, he had an encounter with her in the past when they were children and this encounter left an important mark on Shiki, for this reason when Mutsuki identifies her as the girl from Shiki's past, he seeks to make them find each other since he supposed that Sawa could be a good "bait" to get Shiki out of his self-isolation (due to his interest in her) and that they could together remember and heal their past.

Throughout the story and after they meet again, Shiki and Sawa's friendship deepens and in fact romantic feelings begin to emerge between the two.

Rio Mosca
Rio is one of Shiki's close friends. They go to the same middle school although Rio is a third year student while Shiki is a first year one.