Shizuku Murasaki hails from Meteor City, a junkyard settlement where residents exist without official documentation. She became the eighth member of the Phantom Troupe, replacing a predecessor allegedly killed by Silva Zoldyck, bearing a spider tattoo with the number eight on her lower left midsection. Petite with short black hair, plum eyes, and an hourglass figure, she typically wears a black turtleneck, jeans, glasses, and a St. Peter's Cross necklace. Her physical strength ranks twelfth among the Troupe. Emotionally detached, she maintains calm indifference even when discussing her own mortality. Her blunt forgetfulness leads to frequent unrecognized encounters, causing others to underestimate her strategic intellect in combat and prophecy decryption. She upholds the Troupe’s rules with absolute loyalty, forbidding internal conflict, and prioritizes collective bonds over individual disputes. She forms casual friendships with Franklin and Kortopi, expresses distress over Pakunoda’s death, and aligns with the Troupe’s ruthless ethos—though she abstained from the Kurta Clan genocide. During the Yorknew City arc, she deploys her conjured vacuum Blinky in the auction heist, eliminating pursuers and erasing massacre evidence. She extracts poison to save Uvogin and participates in slaughtering over 2,000 mafia members. Later, she forgets arm-wrestling Gon but aids in capturing him and Killua. After Chrollo’s death prophecy, she deciphers it and joins a protective squad against Kurapika. At Hotel Beitacle, she intervenes in Nobunaga and Phinks’ dispute by knocking Nobunaga unconscious to enforce the no-fighting rule. In the Greed Island OVAs, she enters the game with Shalnark and Kortopi after witnessing Phinks and Feitan’s entry, first playing chess at Pakunoda’s grave. Shalnark explains the game’s mechanics, noting their Nen abilities fail on cards. Learning Greed Island exists physically, they target specific cards like "Toraemon" to exploit rewards but are expelled by Razor for trespassing. Defending Meteor City in the Chimera Ant arc, she battles the ant Pike: trapped in his webs, she frees herself by removing clothing, wounds him, and drains his blood with Blinky, critiquing his unsealed injuries. She later observes Feitan’s fight against Zazan. Aboard the Black Whale in the current manga timeline, she hunts Hisoka for killing Kortopi and Shalnark. Partnered with Chrollo, she remarks on the lethality of his ability book, likening it to the Death Note, emphasizing teamwork and Troupe objectives. Her Conjuration Nen ability manifests as Blinky, a sentient vacuum inhaling non-living matter or corpses for permanent storage, though she can regurgitate the last absorbed item. Blinky cannot affect living beings or Nen-infused objects but extracts substances like poison or blood from wounds. She uses it for combat, cleanup, and medical aid, unaware of the absorbed items’ destination. Her Meteor City origins obscure precise age documentation, though she’s estimated at 19-20 during Yorknew. She once nearly died attempting to glimpse Feitan’s Nen abilities.