Hibana

is a Third Generation and the Battalion Commander of the 5th Special Fire Brigade.

Appearance
Hibana is a tall and attractive young woman with tanned skin, long pale-blonde hair and thin eyebrows. Uniquely, her eyes are aqua blue eyes with a shade of pink, flower-shaped pupils. Her brigade outfit consists of a personalised protective outer fur-tim jacket with a hood, blue lines, which are a custom on a Fire Brigade's jacket, and a patch with the number "5" on the left sleeve. Underneath the jacket, Hibana dons a v-shaped, sleeveless white pencil dress, which partially reveals her large bust. She also wears a belt with a gold buckle, with a whip and a holster attacked to it, black high heels, a golden necklace and light-coloured underwear. Hibana's dress has a split on the left leg from the belt down, revealing a view of one of her legs. In her youth at The Holy Sol Temple, Hibana wore a habit, which consisted of a tunic, covered by a scapular, and a veil, black shoes and a necklace with a cross-like insignia. She also carries a iron fan around her while on duty.

After the 5th's confrontation with the 8th Hibana dons a long-sleeve white shirt with the top few buttons unbuttoned, a buttoned white sweater with striped sleeves and the number 5 on the left sleeve, and two pouched pockets on the lower half of it. With this, she wears a black skirt and black tights. While showering, she ties her hair up with a bow.

Personality
Hibana takes her role as the Battalion Commander seriously and doesn't hesitate to remind lower-ranked members of their place. She is deceiving and has quite a twisted personality, as she seems to enjoy conducting experiments on Flame Humans, during which, even her own followers appear to be frightened of her. Hibana is ambitious - she wishes to gather as much data on Flame Humans as she can and unravel their secrets. Iris describes Hibana as an intelligent, beautiful person. She also has a goddess-like complex, which she expresses towards males, manipulating people using her charm and beauty and making them do her bidding, being dominant of them and thinking of them as insignificant; going as far as using her own comrades as stepping-stones from her throne. After the tragedy that happened in her past, Hibana decided that to thrive in this world, she would become a demon, and so fell into despair. After doing so many experiments on Flame Humans and her own research, the more she discovered about what type of world and country she's living in, and thought that by becoming more twisted, she was getting stronger and smarter; that the only way to survive in this type of world was to become a demon herself. It wasn't until she encountered Shinra that she realized there was another way to live in this world. After the encounter with the 8th, Hibana was more cooperative with them; her demeanor also became more feminine and kind.

Abilities
Hibana is a Third Generation who has adapted to the Human Body Ignition Phenomenon and awakened the ability to manipulate and generate her own flames. She has shown the prowess to ignite the tip of her finger, though her Ignition Ability allows her to extend the ability onto her fan to create petal-shaped flames. She can use these flame petals to surround her enemies and leave them in a whirlwind of flames, inflicting harmful cuts upon them. By gazing at someone, Hibana is able to envelop a persons body in heat, resulting in them developing heat syncope, which can subdue them and cause dizziness.

Background
Growing up, Hibana was an orphan and resided at The Holy Sol Temple till around her late teenager years, alongside her fellow Sister Iris. The orphans within the temple were already miserable due to the fact they were orphans, and spent the majority of everyday faithfully praying to their Sun God, albeit Hibana was less enthused about praying and believing in a god. Being the only Third Generation at the temple, the sisters were very intrigued with her ability to manifest fiery flowers. Hibana was looked at by the Sisters as their hero because she was smart, beautiful and had a gift no other person had at the temple. A day came when the Human Body Ignition Phenomenon struck the temple, incinerating every single Sister at the temple, excluding herself and Iris. Hibana and Iris looked on as all the sisters were being incinerated, leading her to lose faith and abandoning their cause, but also being thankful for being salvaged. As she looked down at her sisters being burned alive, Hibana felt powerful and grateful for being saved, changing her personality to that of being more dominant. Eventually, she started to do her own research on various Flame Human bodies and sold her research to Haijima Heavy Industries, in exchange for funding for her experiments and becoming a Battalion Commander.

Introduction arc
Hibana spectates the Fire Officer Newcomer Tournament, where she supports her peers in the exam, until it is halted after an incident inside the building. Some time later, she interrupts the clash between Shinra Kusakabe and Setsuo Miyamoto in an attempt to stop the Fire Officer from dealing the finishing blow to the Flame Human.

VS. 5th Special Fire Brigade arc
As Hibana intervenes at the scene of Setsuo against Shinra, she demands her 5th brigade runts to take hold of the Flame Human so they can experiment on him. Shinra criticizes her for taking his bait in an unwelcome manner, but she lectures him on how to be respectful towards superiors while he lay subdued on the floor. Hibana jokingly demands Shinra to lick her foot as a sign of superiority. As he looks up wanting to have a serious conversation with her, the Fire Officer accidentally spots Hibana's white panties, to which she awkwardly walks backward. The 8th Special Fire Brigade arrive at the scene, and question the situation. Hibana explains that she will capture the Flame Human instead of the 8th, seeing as they don't have a science division. Akitaru questions whether she will share the information she discovers with them, and Hibana deceitfully says yes. Hibana then confronts and indirectly mocks Akitaru, sparking a tense encounter between the two special fire brigades.

After returning to the headquarters, Hibana begins viciously experimenting on Setsuo, tempting the man to reveal the secrets his body holds. When Iris arrives at the complex in order to speak with her, Hibana rips off her habit. She then suggests using Iris as a bait to lure out the 8th Special Fire Brigade, after which Hibana overhears a loud noise outside the headquarters. As she recollects her past with the sister of the 8th Special Fire Brigade, Hibana is interrupted by Shinra. The Battalion Commander attempts to use her gaze to succumb the Fire Officer, but fails, as Shinra stands up through sheer willpower.

Hibana then takes out her fan and attacks the officer with Clematis. While Shinra is distracted, she surrounds and burns him with Cherry Blossoms, before trapping him in a whirlwind of them. While she continually insults him, Shinra fights through the pain and overcomes her techniques. Unable to subdue him, he launches himself at Hibana and punches her. Hibana is knocked out by the punch, and while unconscious, reminisces about her past encounter with the flames. As she wakes up, she finds herself among Iris' lap, and questions Iris' desire to help her. As Iris says Hibana was always looked at as the hero of the The Holy Sol Temple, Hibana herself never had anybody to look up to, at which point Shinra insists that he will be her hero, which she blushes to. After listening to Shinra's speech on how hero's save anybody no matter who they are, Hibana is enlightened by his perspective. Iris asks if she can finally see Hibana's flowers again after so long, to which Hibana remembers her promise from years ago, and displays an array of beautiful flowers which just so happen to be in the shape of iris'. Accepting her loss to Shinra, Hibana informs him on a secret of the Human Body Ignition Phenomenon.

Hibana oversees the scenery of the Industrial Complex and notices that the 8th did a number on them, even with such little members. After discussing and coming to the conclusion that the two brigades will hold a dinner party and pretend that their battle was simply a late-night training session as an explanation to the higher ups, Shinra questions Hibana's sudden cooperativeness with the 8th, to which Hibana states that his actions toward her had changed her viewpoints. At the dinner party, Akitaru and Hibana stir up a conversation, discussing about Shinra, her past and how she was affected by the tragedy of the flames. Hibana assumes that the 8th's goal is to discover what the other brigades are hiding, and so reveals to him that she has discovered that there is somebody out there creating artificial Flame Humans. She then asserts her desire to crush the person behind this as they may have been the cause of the fire at the temple, and they both high five at the realization of both their goals being the same. Hibana comments that from here on out it will be more tough, since the concentration of the artificial Flame Humans is in the Shinjuku District, which is the jurisdiction of the 1st Special Fire Brigade.

Trivia

 * can be translated to "fire flower" in Japanese.
 * Hibana is likely based upon Princess Iron Fan, a fictional character from a Japanese novel that is said to be a beautiful-looking Demonic Lady that uses an iron fan in combat.