Zaela Kuraimizu (Finished!)

Being born in the feudal era of Japan, her family was one of great power, her father having control over a rather large area of land around what is now known as Tokyo Japan. They had control over a large, now dried up, lake. The water was very dark in color due to the plant life and minerals that were in it. Thus how her surname, Kuriamizu, came into play. Though there were rumors that there was something dark in nature causing the lake to become its infamous black.
As a child and teen Zaela’s urge for knowledge and fascination with sea life grew and grew. She could be found out by the lake reading scrolls or observing the life within the lake, which seemed normal in contrast to the rumors. Her parents (more importantly her father) didn’t like this at all, so they tried to keep her away from the lake, but she always found a way out.
By the time she had reached adulthood, her parents had already arranged for her to be married to another Lords son. Strictly for political reasons, as her father wanted the fellow lords land and the only way for him to obtain it, was to trade off his daughter. Zaela did not like the other lords son, as he kept her locked away in the castle. She was left with nothing to do but wander the halls of it until she knew it like the back of her hand. There was no reading material, or at least none that she could find, and they were high in the mountains, so there was no water nearby besides a small koi pond in the main garden. Eventually she became bitter and depressed, her two greatest passions in life having been stripped from her for a life inside a castle as a political prize.
Eventually, Zaela found out that her father not only traded her for land, but to also keep her from gaining too much knowledge and becoming aware of some of the darker things her father was partaking in. This enraged Zaela and she quickly planned a way to escape and return home to seek vengeance on her father. Late one night she made her escape, stealing one of her husband’s daggers and a horse. She had made it back to her home before daybreak. She silently crept into her father’s sleeping chambers and drew the dagger. He awoke as she raised the dagger over his heart and quickly called for his guards. But it was too late for him and she jammed it deep into his chest cavity.
Soon after the guards filled the room and she fled, running down to the black lake her family was named after and ran until she was swimming. The guards had the shore line blocked and Zaela realized that she wasn’t going to make it out alive. So, in the lake that she loved so much, she sunk below the surface, ignoring the burning need for air until her vision grew as black as the water and she ended her life. She noted before dying, that she saw red eyes staring at her from well under the surface.

Since Zaela died in water, it was only fitting that as a lost soul she’d wander around it. After her death, her plus life was very short. Since she had committed murder her soul chain was already severed short. It only took a year for it to erode completely and she was quickly sent to hueco mundo. While there she was a sitting duck. A ripe and pump one at that for the forever hungry hollows that inhabit the land. She ran for her life, running deep into a cavern where she seemingly thought she was safe. That was until something wrapped around her waist and dragged her deeper into the cavern where she was eaten.
Zaela became a hollow then, her body black as the midnight sky. The bone mask on her face having razor sharp teeth as the infamous hollow hole formed in her chest, the emptiness and the forever hunger of power and to fill that emptiness soon following. She began fighting her way, each hollow she ate seeming to fill the hollowness, but she knew that it would never be filled completely.
Zaela kept to the darkness of the caverns for centuries, finding that there were underground seas of water teaming with sea-like hollow. There she grew stronger, there she evolved. Her evil red eyes changed to a bright teal over time. She used them to trap and hypnotize weaker and foolish hollow that tired to fight her.
Zaela luckily retained her intelligence and conscious as she moved up the food chain, becoming a Menos Grande and eating fellow Menos. This being the first time she ever left the caverns of Hueco Mundo. Her eyes remained the teal color, which made her a target for others, but she accepted the challenge, tapping into her instincts and using them to their highest advantage. She was like this for a few centuries, eating and fighting her way to the top. The burn for power never left her even after she ate her one-thousandth Menos and entered the next level of hollow evolution.
As an Adjucahas, she returned to the caverns and their watery depths, continuing on her quest for power. This is also where she learned that this might be the end of her evolutionary chain. She happened to make a few comrades during her time in the caverns and they had told her of the numerous Adjuchas that never reached the final stage of evolution. Zaela refused to believe this, calling it nonsense talk, that they simply became complacent in there spot in evolution and lacked any motivation to get stronger, no matter what lies they weaved. She had eaten countless hollow, taking all that they had learned and adding it to her own knowledge.
However, this is where she remains, a powerful Adjuchas nearing the pinnacle of her evolutionary line as a hollow. But, she refuses to let the words of her comrades, that she’d eaten soon after, keep her from reaching her goal. She will continue to eat, to fight and claw her way up the food chain till she is on par with the King… or greater.