Hajime Shimada

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Hajime Shimada (died 2017) was a member of the Japanese Brotherhood of Assassins during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He served as a leader of the Assassin cell and training camp on the island of Kyushu alongside Yuri, whom he developed feelings for.

During the Great Purge, Hajime was able to escape alongside Yuri's son Tomo, whom he helped raise and becoming a mentor and father-like figure to. Hajime and Tomo eventually settled in Tokyo, where he opened a book store and secretly led a new cell of Assassins.

Biography

In 2000, after learning of Daniel Cross' betrayal of the Brotherhood by initiating the Great Purge, Hajime implored the camp's overseer Yuri to evacuate the camp and regroup with the Assassins in Osaka. Before the discussion was over, the Templar agent Maxime Gorm and Abstergo Industries' paramilitary task force Team Epsilon had already discovered the camp based on Cross' intel and started killing the Assassins. Yuri was struck by several bullets and, before dying, implored Hajime to take her young son, Tomo Sakagawa, to safety. The two fled into the mountains and escaped Gorm, eventually moving to Tokyo where Hajime would go on to operate a book store.

Hajime visited by Tomo in his shop

On 28 July 2017, the now-adult Tomo contacted Hajime and informed him that he had tracked Gorm to the Clinique des Rameaux in Switzerland run by a Dr. Nathalie Chapman. Hajime invited Tomo to his shop in the Akihabara district the next morning, where they discussed Gorm and Chapman. During their meeting, Tomo formulated a plan to infiltrate the clinic.

Hajime was killed on 15 November 2017 in Chapman's old base in Gorges du Pont-du-Diable, when Tomo awoke violently from the Animus he was connected to. Still suffering from the Bleeding Effect and believing he was the American Assassin Alekseï Gavrani, Tomo attacked and killed the Assassins who staffed the Animus lab, including Hajime. When the Bleeding Effect wore off, Tomo expressed anguish over his actions and managed to speak to Hajime in his final moments. Before dying, Hajime told Tomo that he would not be able to exact vengeance alone and to warn Saeko Mochizuki and his Assassin cell in Osaka that Chapman, Gorm, and Elisa Adler were hiding near Gimmelwald, Switzerland.

Trivia

• Hajime (はじめ) is the Japanese word meaning "beginning" (初め / 始め). Shimada (島田 / 嶋田) is a Japanese surname meaning "island rice field".

Gallery

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  Hajime and Yuri discussing Daniel Cross's betrayal
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  Hajime being entrusted to take care of Tomo by Yuri
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  Hajime escaping the purge alongside Tomo
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  Hajime discussing Maxime Gorm and the Adlers with Tomo

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone