Shinigami Template
Basic Information:
Human Name: Reikon Hanpa
Shinigami Name: Ayano Kuraimasu
Age: In total: 2,555
As Ayano: 555
Division: 5th
Rank : Taichou
Residence: 5th Division Barracks
Appearance:
Head & Face:
Ayano has a heart-shaped, porcelain face. She is unmarked by scars or blemishes at all. Her flesh has a slightly pale tone to it, with a hint of a natural tan that was washed away by long amounts of time spent away from the sunlight. Her eyes are a dark brown colour, almond shaped and framed by thick, dark eyelashes. Ayano's lips are somewhere between thin and full, and naturally a rosy-pink colour. Slim and chiselled, her nose would complete her face. Some less defined features are her high cheek bones, slightly small forehead, and angular chin. Her jaw line isn't very defined, mostly because she is a female. Ayano's right eye is a slightly different color than her left, though not by much, just a slight shade off. This is because her right eye is a glass eye, replacing her missing eye. Ayano wears her crimson hair down almost all of the time, unless go off to war in her regal armor. Her bangs hang over the glass eye that appears to be her secret weapon against visual genjutsu. The hair goes down to the small of her back. However, when dressing in a more formal outfit or in regal armor, she ties it up in a messy bun, though the bangs still hang over her right eye.
Upper Body:
Ayano typically wears a kimono, generally in colors of white and green, or purple and red. When in official shinigami uniform, Ayano will wear her Captain Cloak wrapped around her waist, hanging behind her like a skirt, with the symbol of her division still showing. The majority of her height is in her torso, meaning that her chest is a bit longer than normal. She has an average bust size, larger than most women her age but not so large that it looks bad with her slim figure. She is extremely skinny, with a tight stomach. Her stomach is muscular, but not to the point where she has abs. Ayano's arms are as pale as her face, with a few scars from old fights, but not as many as one would expect from such a close-combat fighter. Her arms are muscular, but like her stomach her muscles are compact, not showing through very obviously. Ayano's fingers are long and thing, her nails not reaching past the edge of her finger, she doesn't like keeping them very long. Her fingernails are never painted, she doesn't believe in make-up.
Lower Body:
Ayano, as described in 'Upper Body' typically wears a kimono of white and green or purple and red. As a result, she doesn't generally wear all that much else on her lower half. When wearing a traditional shinigami uniform, she will wear slippers; as they are most comfortable. However, when she is dressed in a kimono she will wear the traditional wooden sandals and white stockings. Her legs are a bit shorter than normal, the majority of her height being in her torso. She has thin, powerful, pale legs. They are smooth and always shaved, which is to be expected of a woman, even a warrior. Her right thigh bares a nasty scar, but no one would see that unless they were very close to her, and that wasn't going to happen any time soon. Her feet are really small, her toes short unlike her fingers. Her toenails are never painted, like her fingernails, she doesn't believe in such things.
Distinguishing Features/Tattoos/Jewelry/etc.:
Ayano has quite a few distinguishing features, though most wouldn't be able to tell what they were unless they had a detailed profile on her. First, she has a glass eye that is slightly darker than her other eye. Second, she is a captain, and as such she wears a captain's cloak. Next, she has a nasty scar on her inner right thigh which runs almost the entire length of the inside of her thigh. It is a scar from the fight that earned her the Captain position. Finally, she has a tattoo on her right upper arm. This tattoo is of an artistic heart, missing about a third of itself. It is her signature.
Personality:
Combat:
Ayano is a tactical combatant. She uses both mental tricks and multiple, high-speed attacks, in multi-layered assaults on his opponent's mind and body, and allows for little chance of the opponent surviving. If she doesn't think an attack will be at least minimally effective she won't use it. Ayano is an intense thinker, but she is by no means slow in coming up with a strategy. She thinks on her feet, spending the first chunk of a battle to completely measure her opponent before deciding the best way to take him or her down. She is vicious, leaving no opportunity for survival at all. However, she is not cruel, any and all kills she makes are quick and as painless as she can make them. While in combat she disregards both her allies and her opponents, and would sooner run her ally through to get to her enemy than she would take a hit for them. In the heat of battle she shows no mercy for those who get in the way, because it is their fault. She will fight anyone but children, purely because she wants them to grow and become a real threat so that their death will be a greater honor down the road.
Interaction with people:
Ayano is very personable. She really enjoys chatting with people, and often finds herself with squad mates, or other sqads, drinking and having a good time. She is extremely charismatic, but it goes more deeply than that. Her blunt honesty and ability to read people allows her to get deep inside people's heads fast. She can figure someone out simply through their mannerisms, physical appearance, reactions, and even what they say. With this she can either break them with a few sentences or get a woman to fall for her easily. This comes in handy often, as it allows her to pull cons and gain trust without all that much in the way of effort. She loves being the one that everyone likes but no one talks to, because she honestly hates attention, but she hates loneliness even more.
Self-esteem:
Ayano is outwardly a very confident person. She fronts her confidence to keep people from finding her weak points. When she talks she seems arrogant, confident, and strong-willed. On the inside she lacks all of these qualities. If it weren't for her rank she would most likely break down at the slightest insult, but she forces herself to remain strong and keep acting the way she does because of the rank she holds. If one of her rank were to break down because someone made a jab at her, no one would respect her authority. She truly hates herself, both for what she's done and what she can't do. Mentally she is constantly telling herself that she can't do things and that she sucks at everything she tries, even when its obvious that she doesn't.
Likes/Dislikes/Favorites/Fears/Ideals:
Ayano is a lover of foods and flowers, she spends most of her time in glades or forests purely because she loves the brilliance of life in a world of death and chaos. She really likes reading, and is often found walking around with her nose in a book, which usually ends in her hitting a person or a wall. Her life is her music, she is always listening to it and finding more music to listen to and enjoy. She does not like pain, or people who talk about what they don't know. She hates being picked on, and seeing others get picked on. Not a fan of violence, Ayano prefers dispatching of people with words or at least clean kills to avoid too much bloodshed. Her favorite food is sushi, she could eat it all day. She loves the colors silver and black, though she is often the first to point out that black isn't actually a color. She is afraid of drowning, and of being left alone. Ayano wants to see a world where everyone is cared for, no one is forsaken, and even orphans in a rough neighborhood can sleep without fear.
Story:
Reikon was born on a sunny July afternoon in the town of Karakura. At the point in time she was born in the town was really a village, very primitive and low-tech compared to the Karakura of the present. She was born to a family of eight, her mother and father having birthed three children before her and four after. She was the only girl of the family besides her mother, who wasn't around often anyway. Her father was handicapped, so though it was unusual for a woman to do so, the mother brought in their income. As a result of being left alone with men all day, Reikon become very fit and was able to take care of herself. However, as the other four grew up she began to lose her ability to handle herself, being outnumbered seven to one. She began to become very shy, and very sensitive. When she came to her parents with cuts and bruises because of her brothers her father would tell her to toughen up and her mother would send her off due to the fact that she was far too busy for such petty things.
At the age of twelve she dropped out of school to help around the house, and to get a part time job to raise the family. The eldest two of the sons had gone off to war, the eldest that was left was just a bit too young to join the army. He, however, was far too busy with school to help around the house. So it was left to Reikon and her mother to take care of eight men, a house, and a job each. They somehow managed, though Reikon began to hate men at a young age because of what she had to go through. She spent her entire teenage life in the house or at the local flower shop where she worked, never having time for friends or anything of the sort. Her boss was an angry old man who would constantly insult her and yell at her for doing things wrong, yet another thing that would mold her into the fragile soul she would become.
When Reikon hit the age of adulthood she would be married off to a man she had never met. Her mother wanted her to live with a man who would be able to support a family, not that the family included Reikon in her mind. Reikon would spend the next four years of her life living in fear. The man had the money and rank in the military to comfortably raise a family of three sons, but their mother was a different story. She was hardly ever given food, even though she cooked it, and was constantly beaten by her father. The sons did nothing to stop it, though they swore blind to her that they wanted him to stop. The day before her twenty third birthday would be the last day of her life. Her husband came home drunk, and began to beat her senseless. When she awoke he was standing over her, ready to have his way with her. She kicked him square between the legs and crawled away. When she was able to stand she ran to the woods near her home. There she removed the tanto blade she had stolen from him. She would slit her throat as she listened to him screaming for her and threatening her.
Reikon woke up as a baby in the Rukongai. She was in the 15th district, which wasn't bad for children. She had a caring psuedo-family. However, Reikon would never approach her father, nor would she every approach her brother. She clung to her mother, and hid behind her apron whenever the other two were in the area. No one knew why this was but Reikon, and no one asked out of respect. One day, at the visible age of nine, she passed out from hunger. The mother had been a cook in the living world, but hadn't cooked for a hundred or so years. She quickly gathered what she could and prepared a meal for the daughter. When Reikon awoke to food she also noticed a man in a black kimono sitting at the table. The man was nice, but Reikon still avoided eye contact. He was apparently a part of the family she had gathered before running off to the soul society. He came home on vacation as soon as he had heard about how his new sister had developed powers.
Reikon spent a week alone with this man, training with him to use her powers in the form of 'kidou'. This form of magic was interesting to her, and she really liked it. She began to get closer to the shinigami, and by the seventh day almost made eye contact with him. However, her fear of men was overpowering and he would leave without so much as a good bye from her. She would spend the rest of her days in district 15 training herself and eating what she could. At the visual age of thirteen she would join the shinigami academy. Reikon jumped in as an advanced student, and even skipped second year. She would enter the Soul Society in the 13th division.
After only one hundred or so years she became a lieutenant, and was trained by her captain. The captain was the first man that Reikon had accepted in her life, and was the only one she had been able to comfortably be around. He taught her to release her shikai, to perfect her kidou, and even to activate her Bankai. A great teacher and a great captain, he became a role model to Reikon. Reikon led her division in many a hollow-purging mission, even though that was technically not the duty of her squad. She convinced the captains that it was good for the division, building teamwork and trust. She built a five-woman group of shinigami out of the top five seats, all woman that she could trust as well as ones that her taichou could trust. She wouldn't find out what happened to them later on in life, as she would become a captain.
Her Taichou felt it was time for her to grow further than she could as his vice, so he put in a good word for her with the other captains. As the sixth captain had recently died of an illness, she was examined and later brought into the sixth division as their new captain. The first thing she would do is kick out her lazy lieutenant and replace him with someone more fitting. Her vice was a woman who looked only a bit younger than herself, but in reality was much younger by age. One day, during combat with a menos level hollow, Reikon's zanpakuto would not activate. Because of this, Reikon nearly died that day. She had survived and destroyed the hollow, but it had completely wiped her out. She would awake wrapped in bandages around her torso in the 4th division headquarters. Reikon would then retire from her rank, taking several hundred years in the mountains far from the soul society to talk with her blade and make sure that that never happened again. When she returned she entered the soul society once again she would be a retired shinigami who joined the Court of Pure Souls. For a thousand years she lived with the stingy old people who somehow had aged way beyond what she could.
Feeling the need to be alone for once, she would sneak out of the Court in the middle of the night. Reikon found the place where her older brother had trained her so many years ago, and sat down to watch the stars. She was on a grassy field in the middle of a forest outside her old home in district 15. There she would lay and stare at the stars. Suddenly, a man entered from the shadows. He offered her not only the power to control herself and her zanpakuto, but the power to overcome all of the fear she harbored. Desperately wanting to live without the fear she had, she accepted and followed the man. He would suddenly drop a small orb, the orb releasing a gas. With one last curse and a cough, she would fall unconscious.
Reikon woke up on a table similar to the ones found in hospitals. She was stark naked, and covered in tubes and the like as if she had just been operated one and was given the tubes to supplement every bodily liquid that she normally produced. She would later find out that most of the tubes were medication, mainly to weaken her so that she couldn't escape. However, in her desperation she released a massive wave of spiritual pressure she had not known before. The spiritual pressure allowed her to move fast and strong enough to escape from the underground laboratory where she had been experimented on. Her ebony hair would fall over her exposed breasts, covering them as she fled form the forest beside karakura town like a wild one, stark naked except for a bestial mask upon her face. Luckily, no one could see her. When she was able to calm down, the mask disappeared. She was able to stalk a shinigami long enough to follow him to the soul society. There she would sneak into the department of research and development to steal her gigai back. The gigai thankfully had clothes on it, so when she returned to karakura she relatively fit in.
Reikon was found by a man who led the vaizard race at the time. That man took her in and helped her to master her inner hollow, allowing her to use her mask proficiently. Reikon followed the vaizard for a long time without joining the elites because she feared having that much free will on how much power she could release. As a regular vaizard she could hide most of the power she held. However, when a new leader took charge, she would join the ranks of the elites. Still wary of her own strength, Reikon remained in the lower courts of the vaizards, taking orders and giving out orders, but never truly revealing her strength.
However, one day, her inner hollow became too much for her. It consumed her, as she had never taken full control over it, and took over her body. Already having incredible strength for a hollow, it returned to Hueco Mundo and began to feed on the higher-level Hollows. When 'Ramira', which is what the name of her hollow was, discovered that becoming an Arrancar and Espada would grant her power and authority, she quickly went about breaking her mask. Becoming an arrancar, she joined the ranks and worked on developing and refining her Arrancar abilities. When she was successfully in full control of her power, she took her rightful spot amongst the Espada.
Ramira was apart of the war between Arrancar and Shinigami, and what a bloody war it was. The war was waged, and Ramira took to the front lines. While fighting in service of the Tres Reyes, Ramira would fall to the blade of a Captain. The blade purified Ramira, and caused her to wake up a plus in the Soul Society. There were many changes about her that she wouldn't understand, because somehow the hollow within her had melded with her soul to a point where even after purifying Reikon, she would not become the woman she had been. Her personality was different, her appearance had changed, even her soul felt different. Though she remembered the hell she had been through, it was all so dream-like that she almost didn't believe it was true. She would go on living life like she had the first time around, training to become a Shinigami in the Rukongai, where she was an orphan in a rough neighborhood. It was rough, but people respected children a bit more than other districts, and Ayano, as she had been named by her three friends, was fairly good at holding her own.
She would enter the Shinigami academy, and learn the arts of being a shinigami over again. She graduated top of her class, because she seemed to have a natural gift for everything they learned, as if she already knew it. She was a natural hunter of Hollows, recognising their patterns and behaviour like a trained hunter does with an animal. Because of the advantage of her apparent previous life, she would become quite the force to be reckoned with. Because of this she flew through the seats of the fifth division, taking third seat and eventually Vice Captain position. At this position she trained with her zanpakuto to further her powers beyond that of a Shikai state. She would unlock the form known as Bankai, and challenge her Captain, beating him and taking on his rank as Captain of the Fifth Division.
RP Sample:
Typically I would only reach this length on a good day, and when in the midst of an important topic, either life or death or plot-important. My average length is 400-600 words, maybe less maybe more.. But this RP exemplifies the quality of my posts the best, I think.
Zanpakuto Information:
Zanpakuto Name: Bankai/Full Name - "Idai na Seinaru Hanji ~ Great Holy Judge"
Shikai - "Saibankan ~ Judge"
Sealed Appearance:
In sealed form, Saibankan takes the form of a regular katana. The blade is four feet and six inches long, only about an inch wide, with a razor thin edge. The blade is connected to its handle by a cross guard which takes a swirling design. The design looks similar to this:
The handle itself is only about five inches long, and wrapped in grey cloth. The metal pommel upon the end is made of bronze, just as the cross guard, with no really interesting design on it.
Zanpakuto Spirit Description:
Shikai
Released Appearance:
In shikai form the blade will dissipate completely. In its place will be the blade of a guillotine. A guillotine blade is generally a square blade, except that the actual edge is at a slant. This blade has a massive ring attached to its flat edge, big enough for Ayano to grab onto it with one hand, while still having room for the massive chain link it is also attached to it. This chain link is attached to a five foot chain, which wraps around Ayano's arm unless she chooses to unravel it to increase the range of her attacks. The chain itself is nearly four inches thick, and made of a very dense metal.
Other Changes: -
Passive abilities
Name: Seigi no chikara - Might of Judgement
Description: Any strike that Ayano makes with a part of Saibankan is quintupled. This means that the force of the blow is multiplied five times over. So if she were to lightly tap someone with the chain, it would be like getting whipped with it, while taking the brunt of a full-force strike with Saibankan can end up being completely devastating.
Downside: This technique is passive, but still drains reiatsu, meaning that using her shikai too much can be dangerous to her.
Active abilities
Name: Jihi - Mercy
Description: This technique was given its named because of the symbol the broken blade. The broken blade represents mercy. Ayano will use this technique only if her blade is shattered, which requires an attack with power much higher than her own. When it is shattered, Ayano will use reiatsu to control the broken shards, causing them to rise up and fall in on the opponent's neck or torso, most likely piercing a vital organ and thus sealing her opponent's fate.
Downside: If the technique fails she won't be able to bring her blade back together without first sealing it or releasing her Bankai.
Bankai
Release Phrase: "Bankai, Idai na Seinaru Hanji"
Released Appearance: When the Bankai is release her weapon will disappear once again. Then, sprouting from the ground will be sixteen chains, each attached to a guillotine blade.
Other Changes:
Passive abilities
The first fifteen blades retain this ability:
Name: Seigi no chikara - Might of Judgement
Description: Any strike that Ayano makes with a part of Saibankan is quintupled. This means that the force of the blow is multiplied five times over. So if she were to lightly tap someone with the chain, it would be like getting whipped with it, while taking the brunt of a full-force strike with Saibankan can end up being completely devastating.
Downside: This technique is passive, but still drains reiatsu, meaning that using her shikai too much can be dangerous to her.
However, the sixteenth, which wraps itself around Ayano, has a slightly more powerful ability.
Name: Shinseina Seigi no chikara - Holy Might of Judgement
Description: Instead of of a mere five times, this ability increases the force of a strike seven times over.
Drawback: This blade sap even more reiatsu than the others.
Name: Hanji no kimagure - Judge's Whim
Description: The blades can be manipulated with hand gestures.
Drawback: Only two may be manipulated at a time, and when they are controlled with their hands they don't get the full effect of the ability. Instead of five times it would be about three times, while instead of it being seven times it would be the regular five times. The blades can be broken with sufficient force, but it would require a level of power equivalent to or higher than her own. Basically a Bankai level
Active abilities (Active abilities are abilities that needs activation. maximum of 3)
Name: Hanketsu Owara Nai - Never ending Judgement
Description: This technique takes two posts to preform. The first post involves the blades flying toward the opponent from several angles, one for each limb and a fifth for their waist. The blades will then fly around the opponent, the chain wrapping around them. The blades will be used to anchor the chains to the ground, sealing the opponent's fate. If the opponent cannot escape the beginning of this technique, they will be unable to escape it unless they manage to drain Ayano of all of her spiritual pressure, or somehow kill her without moving their limbs. In the second post, Ayano takes the blade that is wrapped around her waist, and uses it to crush every one of their ribs, and every bone in their limbs. It ends when she decapitates them.
Duration - 2 posts
Cooldown - 8 posts
Downside: Relatively easy to dodge the beginning, and if that is dodged the attack is useless.
Basic Information:
Human Name: Reikon Hanpa
Shinigami Name: Ayano Kuraimasu
Age: In total: 2,555
As Ayano: 555
Division: 5th
Rank : Taichou
Residence: 5th Division Barracks
Appearance:
Head & Face:
Ayano has a heart-shaped, porcelain face. She is unmarked by scars or blemishes at all. Her flesh has a slightly pale tone to it, with a hint of a natural tan that was washed away by long amounts of time spent away from the sunlight. Her eyes are a dark brown colour, almond shaped and framed by thick, dark eyelashes. Ayano's lips are somewhere between thin and full, and naturally a rosy-pink colour. Slim and chiselled, her nose would complete her face. Some less defined features are her high cheek bones, slightly small forehead, and angular chin. Her jaw line isn't very defined, mostly because she is a female. Ayano's right eye is a slightly different color than her left, though not by much, just a slight shade off. This is because her right eye is a glass eye, replacing her missing eye. Ayano wears her crimson hair down almost all of the time, unless go off to war in her regal armor. Her bangs hang over the glass eye that appears to be her secret weapon against visual genjutsu. The hair goes down to the small of her back. However, when dressing in a more formal outfit or in regal armor, she ties it up in a messy bun, though the bangs still hang over her right eye.
Upper Body:
Ayano typically wears a kimono, generally in colors of white and green, or purple and red. When in official shinigami uniform, Ayano will wear her Captain Cloak wrapped around her waist, hanging behind her like a skirt, with the symbol of her division still showing. The majority of her height is in her torso, meaning that her chest is a bit longer than normal. She has an average bust size, larger than most women her age but not so large that it looks bad with her slim figure. She is extremely skinny, with a tight stomach. Her stomach is muscular, but not to the point where she has abs. Ayano's arms are as pale as her face, with a few scars from old fights, but not as many as one would expect from such a close-combat fighter. Her arms are muscular, but like her stomach her muscles are compact, not showing through very obviously. Ayano's fingers are long and thing, her nails not reaching past the edge of her finger, she doesn't like keeping them very long. Her fingernails are never painted, she doesn't believe in make-up.
Lower Body:
Ayano, as described in 'Upper Body' typically wears a kimono of white and green or purple and red. As a result, she doesn't generally wear all that much else on her lower half. When wearing a traditional shinigami uniform, she will wear slippers; as they are most comfortable. However, when she is dressed in a kimono she will wear the traditional wooden sandals and white stockings. Her legs are a bit shorter than normal, the majority of her height being in her torso. She has thin, powerful, pale legs. They are smooth and always shaved, which is to be expected of a woman, even a warrior. Her right thigh bares a nasty scar, but no one would see that unless they were very close to her, and that wasn't going to happen any time soon. Her feet are really small, her toes short unlike her fingers. Her toenails are never painted, like her fingernails, she doesn't believe in such things.
Distinguishing Features/Tattoos/Jewelry/etc.:
Ayano has quite a few distinguishing features, though most wouldn't be able to tell what they were unless they had a detailed profile on her. First, she has a glass eye that is slightly darker than her other eye. Second, she is a captain, and as such she wears a captain's cloak. Next, she has a nasty scar on her inner right thigh which runs almost the entire length of the inside of her thigh. It is a scar from the fight that earned her the Captain position. Finally, she has a tattoo on her right upper arm. This tattoo is of an artistic heart, missing about a third of itself. It is her signature.
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Personality:
Combat:
Ayano is a tactical combatant. She uses both mental tricks and multiple, high-speed attacks, in multi-layered assaults on his opponent's mind and body, and allows for little chance of the opponent surviving. If she doesn't think an attack will be at least minimally effective she won't use it. Ayano is an intense thinker, but she is by no means slow in coming up with a strategy. She thinks on her feet, spending the first chunk of a battle to completely measure her opponent before deciding the best way to take him or her down. She is vicious, leaving no opportunity for survival at all. However, she is not cruel, any and all kills she makes are quick and as painless as she can make them. While in combat she disregards both her allies and her opponents, and would sooner run her ally through to get to her enemy than she would take a hit for them. In the heat of battle she shows no mercy for those who get in the way, because it is their fault. She will fight anyone but children, purely because she wants them to grow and become a real threat so that their death will be a greater honor down the road.
Interaction with people:
Ayano is very personable. She really enjoys chatting with people, and often finds herself with squad mates, or other sqads, drinking and having a good time. She is extremely charismatic, but it goes more deeply than that. Her blunt honesty and ability to read people allows her to get deep inside people's heads fast. She can figure someone out simply through their mannerisms, physical appearance, reactions, and even what they say. With this she can either break them with a few sentences or get a woman to fall for her easily. This comes in handy often, as it allows her to pull cons and gain trust without all that much in the way of effort. She loves being the one that everyone likes but no one talks to, because she honestly hates attention, but she hates loneliness even more.
Self-esteem:
Ayano is outwardly a very confident person. She fronts her confidence to keep people from finding her weak points. When she talks she seems arrogant, confident, and strong-willed. On the inside she lacks all of these qualities. If it weren't for her rank she would most likely break down at the slightest insult, but she forces herself to remain strong and keep acting the way she does because of the rank she holds. If one of her rank were to break down because someone made a jab at her, no one would respect her authority. She truly hates herself, both for what she's done and what she can't do. Mentally she is constantly telling herself that she can't do things and that she sucks at everything she tries, even when its obvious that she doesn't.
Likes/Dislikes/Favorites/Fears/Ideals:
Ayano is a lover of foods and flowers, she spends most of her time in glades or forests purely because she loves the brilliance of life in a world of death and chaos. She really likes reading, and is often found walking around with her nose in a book, which usually ends in her hitting a person or a wall. Her life is her music, she is always listening to it and finding more music to listen to and enjoy. She does not like pain, or people who talk about what they don't know. She hates being picked on, and seeing others get picked on. Not a fan of violence, Ayano prefers dispatching of people with words or at least clean kills to avoid too much bloodshed. Her favorite food is sushi, she could eat it all day. She loves the colors silver and black, though she is often the first to point out that black isn't actually a color. She is afraid of drowning, and of being left alone. Ayano wants to see a world where everyone is cared for, no one is forsaken, and even orphans in a rough neighborhood can sleep without fear.
Story:
Reikon was born on a sunny July afternoon in the town of Karakura. At the point in time she was born in the town was really a village, very primitive and low-tech compared to the Karakura of the present. She was born to a family of eight, her mother and father having birthed three children before her and four after. She was the only girl of the family besides her mother, who wasn't around often anyway. Her father was handicapped, so though it was unusual for a woman to do so, the mother brought in their income. As a result of being left alone with men all day, Reikon become very fit and was able to take care of herself. However, as the other four grew up she began to lose her ability to handle herself, being outnumbered seven to one. She began to become very shy, and very sensitive. When she came to her parents with cuts and bruises because of her brothers her father would tell her to toughen up and her mother would send her off due to the fact that she was far too busy for such petty things.
At the age of twelve she dropped out of school to help around the house, and to get a part time job to raise the family. The eldest two of the sons had gone off to war, the eldest that was left was just a bit too young to join the army. He, however, was far too busy with school to help around the house. So it was left to Reikon and her mother to take care of eight men, a house, and a job each. They somehow managed, though Reikon began to hate men at a young age because of what she had to go through. She spent her entire teenage life in the house or at the local flower shop where she worked, never having time for friends or anything of the sort. Her boss was an angry old man who would constantly insult her and yell at her for doing things wrong, yet another thing that would mold her into the fragile soul she would become.
When Reikon hit the age of adulthood she would be married off to a man she had never met. Her mother wanted her to live with a man who would be able to support a family, not that the family included Reikon in her mind. Reikon would spend the next four years of her life living in fear. The man had the money and rank in the military to comfortably raise a family of three sons, but their mother was a different story. She was hardly ever given food, even though she cooked it, and was constantly beaten by her father. The sons did nothing to stop it, though they swore blind to her that they wanted him to stop. The day before her twenty third birthday would be the last day of her life. Her husband came home drunk, and began to beat her senseless. When she awoke he was standing over her, ready to have his way with her. She kicked him square between the legs and crawled away. When she was able to stand she ran to the woods near her home. There she removed the tanto blade she had stolen from him. She would slit her throat as she listened to him screaming for her and threatening her.
Reikon woke up as a baby in the Rukongai. She was in the 15th district, which wasn't bad for children. She had a caring psuedo-family. However, Reikon would never approach her father, nor would she every approach her brother. She clung to her mother, and hid behind her apron whenever the other two were in the area. No one knew why this was but Reikon, and no one asked out of respect. One day, at the visible age of nine, she passed out from hunger. The mother had been a cook in the living world, but hadn't cooked for a hundred or so years. She quickly gathered what she could and prepared a meal for the daughter. When Reikon awoke to food she also noticed a man in a black kimono sitting at the table. The man was nice, but Reikon still avoided eye contact. He was apparently a part of the family she had gathered before running off to the soul society. He came home on vacation as soon as he had heard about how his new sister had developed powers.
Reikon spent a week alone with this man, training with him to use her powers in the form of 'kidou'. This form of magic was interesting to her, and she really liked it. She began to get closer to the shinigami, and by the seventh day almost made eye contact with him. However, her fear of men was overpowering and he would leave without so much as a good bye from her. She would spend the rest of her days in district 15 training herself and eating what she could. At the visual age of thirteen she would join the shinigami academy. Reikon jumped in as an advanced student, and even skipped second year. She would enter the Soul Society in the 13th division.
After only one hundred or so years she became a lieutenant, and was trained by her captain. The captain was the first man that Reikon had accepted in her life, and was the only one she had been able to comfortably be around. He taught her to release her shikai, to perfect her kidou, and even to activate her Bankai. A great teacher and a great captain, he became a role model to Reikon. Reikon led her division in many a hollow-purging mission, even though that was technically not the duty of her squad. She convinced the captains that it was good for the division, building teamwork and trust. She built a five-woman group of shinigami out of the top five seats, all woman that she could trust as well as ones that her taichou could trust. She wouldn't find out what happened to them later on in life, as she would become a captain.
Her Taichou felt it was time for her to grow further than she could as his vice, so he put in a good word for her with the other captains. As the sixth captain had recently died of an illness, she was examined and later brought into the sixth division as their new captain. The first thing she would do is kick out her lazy lieutenant and replace him with someone more fitting. Her vice was a woman who looked only a bit younger than herself, but in reality was much younger by age. One day, during combat with a menos level hollow, Reikon's zanpakuto would not activate. Because of this, Reikon nearly died that day. She had survived and destroyed the hollow, but it had completely wiped her out. She would awake wrapped in bandages around her torso in the 4th division headquarters. Reikon would then retire from her rank, taking several hundred years in the mountains far from the soul society to talk with her blade and make sure that that never happened again. When she returned she entered the soul society once again she would be a retired shinigami who joined the Court of Pure Souls. For a thousand years she lived with the stingy old people who somehow had aged way beyond what she could.
Feeling the need to be alone for once, she would sneak out of the Court in the middle of the night. Reikon found the place where her older brother had trained her so many years ago, and sat down to watch the stars. She was on a grassy field in the middle of a forest outside her old home in district 15. There she would lay and stare at the stars. Suddenly, a man entered from the shadows. He offered her not only the power to control herself and her zanpakuto, but the power to overcome all of the fear she harbored. Desperately wanting to live without the fear she had, she accepted and followed the man. He would suddenly drop a small orb, the orb releasing a gas. With one last curse and a cough, she would fall unconscious.
Reikon woke up on a table similar to the ones found in hospitals. She was stark naked, and covered in tubes and the like as if she had just been operated one and was given the tubes to supplement every bodily liquid that she normally produced. She would later find out that most of the tubes were medication, mainly to weaken her so that she couldn't escape. However, in her desperation she released a massive wave of spiritual pressure she had not known before. The spiritual pressure allowed her to move fast and strong enough to escape from the underground laboratory where she had been experimented on. Her ebony hair would fall over her exposed breasts, covering them as she fled form the forest beside karakura town like a wild one, stark naked except for a bestial mask upon her face. Luckily, no one could see her. When she was able to calm down, the mask disappeared. She was able to stalk a shinigami long enough to follow him to the soul society. There she would sneak into the department of research and development to steal her gigai back. The gigai thankfully had clothes on it, so when she returned to karakura she relatively fit in.
Reikon was found by a man who led the vaizard race at the time. That man took her in and helped her to master her inner hollow, allowing her to use her mask proficiently. Reikon followed the vaizard for a long time without joining the elites because she feared having that much free will on how much power she could release. As a regular vaizard she could hide most of the power she held. However, when a new leader took charge, she would join the ranks of the elites. Still wary of her own strength, Reikon remained in the lower courts of the vaizards, taking orders and giving out orders, but never truly revealing her strength.
However, one day, her inner hollow became too much for her. It consumed her, as she had never taken full control over it, and took over her body. Already having incredible strength for a hollow, it returned to Hueco Mundo and began to feed on the higher-level Hollows. When 'Ramira', which is what the name of her hollow was, discovered that becoming an Arrancar and Espada would grant her power and authority, she quickly went about breaking her mask. Becoming an arrancar, she joined the ranks and worked on developing and refining her Arrancar abilities. When she was successfully in full control of her power, she took her rightful spot amongst the Espada.
Ramira was apart of the war between Arrancar and Shinigami, and what a bloody war it was. The war was waged, and Ramira took to the front lines. While fighting in service of the Tres Reyes, Ramira would fall to the blade of a Captain. The blade purified Ramira, and caused her to wake up a plus in the Soul Society. There were many changes about her that she wouldn't understand, because somehow the hollow within her had melded with her soul to a point where even after purifying Reikon, she would not become the woman she had been. Her personality was different, her appearance had changed, even her soul felt different. Though she remembered the hell she had been through, it was all so dream-like that she almost didn't believe it was true. She would go on living life like she had the first time around, training to become a Shinigami in the Rukongai, where she was an orphan in a rough neighborhood. It was rough, but people respected children a bit more than other districts, and Ayano, as she had been named by her three friends, was fairly good at holding her own.
She would enter the Shinigami academy, and learn the arts of being a shinigami over again. She graduated top of her class, because she seemed to have a natural gift for everything they learned, as if she already knew it. She was a natural hunter of Hollows, recognising their patterns and behaviour like a trained hunter does with an animal. Because of the advantage of her apparent previous life, she would become quite the force to be reckoned with. Because of this she flew through the seats of the fifth division, taking third seat and eventually Vice Captain position. At this position she trained with her zanpakuto to further her powers beyond that of a Shikai state. She would unlock the form known as Bankai, and challenge her Captain, beating him and taking on his rank as Captain of the Fifth Division.
RP Sample:
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- Kozakura's soft, pink hair fell over her shoulder in waves; covering nearly her entire torso with its length. The locks scattered across her shoulders, the bangs pushed to the sides of her face; creating a sort of pink frame for her heart-shaped visage. Her sharp coral eyes scanned over the area and the little girl that stood before her. She smiled without warmth or happiness, but more likely because she expected that was what others might due when greeting a new acquaintance and ally. Her soft pink lips were pulled into the light arc that was her smile, not revealing the perfect. bleach-white pearls that lay behind them. Her skin was pale as the sand grains that remained on her dress, her eyes ringed with dark lines that were the result of expertly applied make-up. No one knew why she wore make-up in such a society, where one was judged by their strength instead of their appearance, but she did so anyway. At her waist hung the other half of her soul. It was in the form of what seemed to be a hand-and-a-half sword, more commonly known as a bastard sword. The handle itself seemed to be carved from stone, the pommel taking the form of a skull, adorned with horns or spikes. The cross guard was the skull of a beast, its horns weaving outward like a goat's, curling around itself. She turned her body so that she would face the girl completely, her hair creating a wave of pink as it was thrown outward because of the spinning motion. When her hair rested back down upon her back and shoulders, she nodded to the girl firmly.
They stood within the only section of the dark and disgusting world of Hueco Mundo that was graced by sunlight. It was a wretched thing, the sun, as it stung the eyes and gave a hue to Koza's perfectly achromatic flesh. Still, the sky's color when the sun was out was so awe-inspiringly beautiful that Koza couldn't help but forgive the sunlight. It was a wonderful shade of azure all day, every day, with a few cotton balls floating around within it. The clouds were a bit distracting, but occasionally they would take the form of humorous shapes that could amuse Koza for hours, so they were forgiven as well. As she thought about this she looked up to the beautiful azure sky, seeming a bit lost in its wonder for a split second. Her eyes then fell upon the courtyard where they stood. Along the borders and in a few remote places were patches of grass and flowers, maybe age-old attempts at filling the place with a garden. However, scars ran deep through most of the courtyard, making it impossible to foster life. The scars were in the form of massive gashes or crevices that were the direct result of ressurecion releases, ceros, and even a few balas that managed to miss their mark and create a small crater within the terrain before them. They stood now upon the bridge that hung over the Courtyard, a white marble-like structure that hung from metal cords. They were several dozen feet above the ground, hanging limply upon marble slabs that by all rights should not have been supported by such weak, steel cords.
She could already tell that her Fraccion was either weak or anxious, neither was a very good sign. It was true that Koza, being an Espada, held an aura of horror about her, but she couldn't due with a student that spent more time quivering in her boots than she did paying attention to what Koza had to teach her. The thought of such a girl being frightened of Koza without Koza even having to leak a fraction of her spiritual energy was a bit disappointing. Then again, it could be that she is afraid I won't find her worthy of me. I do remember that she was a privaron..Maybe she only wants to learn from me to eventually retake her place as an Espada... If that is that case she does have cause to fear me without having seen any of my strength.. She thought to herself. Though it was a long shot, it was a bit comforting; at least more comforting than the thought of a student so weak that she quivered in the face of a figure that hadn't even release their spiritual energy yet.
"I am glad you came so early, it means we will have longer to train. You have quite the grueling period ahead of you if you expect to become stronger." She told the girl in a voice that seemed to be a mixture of authoritative and empathetic.
She looked down at her Fraccion, the same smile still on her face, and scanned the girl warily. The girl was younger than she, quite a bit shorter, and looked a bit too innocent for Koza's taste. However, looks were deceiving. The girl's blanched hair was kept short, with some form of band run through it, most likely to hold it in the style she liked, or merely for decoration. The girl wielded a katana, like the majority of their kind, yet unlike Koza. She only hoped that the girl's true form was a bit more frightening than her sealed form was. Suddenly, Koza disappeared. The only warning that came with the disappearance was a flickering of her appearance and the sound of what seemed to be a soft clap or snap. As suddenly as she had disappeared, Koza would reform in the center of the lower level of the courtyard. She did not look up to her student, she didn't wait for the girl to follow, but instead continued to walk across the courtyard to an area that seemed to have been specifically designed for combat training. It was a large circle, traced in chalk, and void of any life. In actuality it was probably an espada's bala that had gone off target. The Espada would most likely turn the crater into a training area for his Fraccion; they were crafty like that.
Typically I would only reach this length on a good day, and when in the midst of an important topic, either life or death or plot-important. My average length is 400-600 words, maybe less maybe more.. But this RP exemplifies the quality of my posts the best, I think.
Zanpakuto Information:
Zanpakuto Name: Bankai/Full Name - "Idai na Seinaru Hanji ~ Great Holy Judge"
Shikai - "Saibankan ~ Judge"
Sealed Appearance:
In sealed form, Saibankan takes the form of a regular katana. The blade is four feet and six inches long, only about an inch wide, with a razor thin edge. The blade is connected to its handle by a cross guard which takes a swirling design. The design looks similar to this:
The handle itself is only about five inches long, and wrapped in grey cloth. The metal pommel upon the end is made of bronze, just as the cross guard, with no really interesting design on it.
Zanpakuto Spirit Description:
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Shikai
Released Appearance:
In shikai form the blade will dissipate completely. In its place will be the blade of a guillotine. A guillotine blade is generally a square blade, except that the actual edge is at a slant. This blade has a massive ring attached to its flat edge, big enough for Ayano to grab onto it with one hand, while still having room for the massive chain link it is also attached to it. This chain link is attached to a five foot chain, which wraps around Ayano's arm unless she chooses to unravel it to increase the range of her attacks. The chain itself is nearly four inches thick, and made of a very dense metal.
Other Changes: -
Passive abilities
Name: Seigi no chikara - Might of Judgement
Description: Any strike that Ayano makes with a part of Saibankan is quintupled. This means that the force of the blow is multiplied five times over. So if she were to lightly tap someone with the chain, it would be like getting whipped with it, while taking the brunt of a full-force strike with Saibankan can end up being completely devastating.
Downside: This technique is passive, but still drains reiatsu, meaning that using her shikai too much can be dangerous to her.
Active abilities
Name: Jihi - Mercy
Description: This technique was given its named because of the symbol the broken blade. The broken blade represents mercy. Ayano will use this technique only if her blade is shattered, which requires an attack with power much higher than her own. When it is shattered, Ayano will use reiatsu to control the broken shards, causing them to rise up and fall in on the opponent's neck or torso, most likely piercing a vital organ and thus sealing her opponent's fate.
Downside: If the technique fails she won't be able to bring her blade back together without first sealing it or releasing her Bankai.
Bankai
Release Phrase: "Bankai, Idai na Seinaru Hanji"
Released Appearance: When the Bankai is release her weapon will disappear once again. Then, sprouting from the ground will be sixteen chains, each attached to a guillotine blade.
Other Changes:
Passive abilities
The first fifteen blades retain this ability:
Name: Seigi no chikara - Might of Judgement
Description: Any strike that Ayano makes with a part of Saibankan is quintupled. This means that the force of the blow is multiplied five times over. So if she were to lightly tap someone with the chain, it would be like getting whipped with it, while taking the brunt of a full-force strike with Saibankan can end up being completely devastating.
Downside: This technique is passive, but still drains reiatsu, meaning that using her shikai too much can be dangerous to her.
However, the sixteenth, which wraps itself around Ayano, has a slightly more powerful ability.
Name: Shinseina Seigi no chikara - Holy Might of Judgement
Description: Instead of of a mere five times, this ability increases the force of a strike seven times over.
Drawback: This blade sap even more reiatsu than the others.
Name: Hanji no kimagure - Judge's Whim
Description: The blades can be manipulated with hand gestures.
Drawback: Only two may be manipulated at a time, and when they are controlled with their hands they don't get the full effect of the ability. Instead of five times it would be about three times, while instead of it being seven times it would be the regular five times. The blades can be broken with sufficient force, but it would require a level of power equivalent to or higher than her own. Basically a Bankai level
Active abilities (Active abilities are abilities that needs activation. maximum of 3)
Name: Hanketsu Owara Nai - Never ending Judgement
Description: This technique takes two posts to preform. The first post involves the blades flying toward the opponent from several angles, one for each limb and a fifth for their waist. The blades will then fly around the opponent, the chain wrapping around them. The blades will be used to anchor the chains to the ground, sealing the opponent's fate. If the opponent cannot escape the beginning of this technique, they will be unable to escape it unless they manage to drain Ayano of all of her spiritual pressure, or somehow kill her without moving their limbs. In the second post, Ayano takes the blade that is wrapped around her waist, and uses it to crush every one of their ribs, and every bone in their limbs. It ends when she decapitates them.
Duration - 2 posts
Cooldown - 8 posts
Downside: Relatively easy to dodge the beginning, and if that is dodged the attack is useless.
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