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Name: Mizu Botsuraku

Physical Description: Mizu is skinny, and has a very large chest area. She has bright blue hair, and gleaming blue eyes. (working on a picture)

Zanpakuto: Name: "Kaiyou Senritsu" -- Ocean Melody
The blade is curved, and the shape of it, is wavy, and is supposed to resemble like the water.
Unlocked: Shikai

Special Accessories: Mizu has a huge blue bow on the back of her hair, and has diamond shaped earrings. She does not wear the normal shinigami top, but wears a corset like top, with a leather collar that holds her shirt up. (Also see my avi)

Skills: Mizu is not very skilled in much. She is a slow runner, but can jump very high, and can make quick, sudden movements to throw the opponent off guard. She tends to aim for sneak attacks, maing her stealthy as well. When she is not focused, she is extremely clumsy, and rather dim-witted.

Abilities: The only "ability" she has, is when she gets mad, or hurt, she will transform into her "bloodlust state", making her have a rather rude personality, and crave to fight, and bathe in blood. Her strength and resistance will increase as well. She is learning how to control it herself.

Personality: Mizu is a very shy girl, but gets a ot of guys, because of how she looks. She is rather oblivious to them liking her, but she dreams about her own boyfriend. She s very clumsy, yet very polite. She is a follower, and dreams of being a Vice Captain someday.

Biography/History: Her memory is foggy. She cannot remember much. From what she remembers, she grew up in a rich, protected estate. She lived a protected life, and was very polite. She still hasn't remembered her death.

Powers:
Regular Powers:
- Water Manipulation -- Self explanatory. She can manipulate water, and create shapes with it, or protect a smal part of herself, envelop part of herself in it, or shoot the water at the opponent with great power. The size she can manipulate is the equal to that of a large beach ball.

Shikai:
-Holy Water -- She can create a pool of glimmering, pure water to slowly heal herself. (Hymn)
-Geyser -- She places one hand on the ground, to make steaming hot geysers come out from under the ground where her opponent is standing, and surrounding areas. It is quite easy to dodge, because the opponent can see pools of water appear below them, before they erupt. (Hymn)
-Water Cyclone -- She begins to spin, collecting surrounding water into the vortex. Once at the peak of speed, she releases her chakrams, and the spin around eachother, maintaining the small water cyclone to do water damage, and slice with the chakrams.

--FYI, Hymns, are her way of spellcasting. She will begin to sing a song in an unknown language. Once it is complete, she can unleash the ability. Her hymns take a few seconds to cast, therefore making them stronger than her regular abilities.
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Name: Sonia Asakawa(Son-ya Asa-kawh-a)

Aliases/ Nicknames: Nina, Sonnie

Rank: Vice-Captain of Eight Squad

Physical Description: [Image pending]
Sonia stands an even 5'7" with an athletic build. Her curves are noticeably feminine and in the feminine terms isn't exactly well endowed but she is quite shapely. Her body is well toned, and lightly muscled. Sonia's skin is a light tan, a light shade of bronze, with faint rosy color tinting her naturally. A scar runs across the side of her hip, caused when she went cliff diving before her death. Her small hands are usually underestimated for their strength.

Age: 24(Died at Age 19)

Zanpakuto's Spirit & Name: Nanami

Zanpakuto:
The hilt is wrapped in a dark blue cloth and is a bit longer than normal to accommodate Sonia's style which focus on speed and wrist centered moves. From the pommel extends a braided blue cloth tassel that ends in a frayed tuft. The tsuba or hand-guard is styled like an eight-pointed star. It is a water-type zanpakuto. The spirit of her sword is the mythical leviathan. (Achieved)

Shikai Release: "Dance on the High Seas, Nanami!"

Shikai: When Nanami is first released the blade becomes a silvery blue, the tsuba expands forming an elaborate guard shaped like waves and the hilt extends for a better two-handed grip.
It becomes possible for Sonia to release powerful jets of water, diffuse enough to simply push an opponent backwards or knock them off their feet, or so concentrated it has the ability to punch through concrete. This move is known as Tsuppari toraidento (Thrusting Trident).
Alternatively, she can release waves of water of varying pressures capable of simply bruising or powerful enough to crush bone. This is known as Kujiku Nami (Crush Wave).
She can also make small shields of water capable of deflecting or stopping minor blows, or significantly slowing strong attacks. This technique is called Akupara Sheru (Akupara's Shell).
these actions however cannot occur simultaneously, and there is a limit to how far the waves of water can be released. Also, the jets of water can only be fired in a single direction and the stronger the hydro blasts the narrower the jet of water.(Achieved)

Bankai: When Nanami attains the second release, the blade seems to become a manifestation of the sea. Its coloring becomes a vivid aquamarine, and waves seems to flow along the blade producing a frothing effect along the spine of the blade. The cross guard flows down to cover the entire hilt depicting an image of a sea serpent swimming through the roiling seas.
In this state, Nanami's techniques are magnified to even greater strengths. The Thrusting Trident technique still fires jets of water but much more powerful, the most diffuse can now crush stone and the most concentrated blast, can punch a perfect hole the circumference of a dime through a mountain. This technique can now be used as a single attack or as multi-pronged attack and can be manipulated to move in any angle. However the more jets used at once, the weaker each one becomes.
In the Bankai state, Nanami's ability to create shields is amplified so that Akupara's Shell can now make extensive shields of water, capable of stopping all but the strongest of attacks.
The Crush Wave technique can now be can employed to releases waves of water with a much greater range than in the shikai state and are also larger and more powerful.
Her strongest attack will be preceded by her shouting "Drown all in Existence, Nanami!" This will be a releasing of a massive jet of water shaped like the zanpakuto's spirit, a sea serpent, that will attempt to swallow the adversary whole, swing upwards and then crash into the ground causing a massive crater and crushing the adversary under the massive amount of water.
(not achieved)

Special Accessories: Sonia wears a brace on her right wrist shaped like sea serpent coiling around her forearm. It is made of a highly polished silver, with sapphires set in the eyes of the serpent. It is finely textured, to the point where one can imagine scales below their fingertips when touching it.

Skills: Sonia strong points are in kidou, as she has shown a proficiency in casting both the binding and destructive spells with little problem. She picks up on things quickly and is capable of extreme concentration, which has been theorized as why she is capable of learning and executing her spells. Although not as proficient in swordplay as some other shinigami, befpre her death she obtained a black belt in Brazilian Jujitsu and Hapkido.

Abilities: Sonia was born with an ability for perception, when pumped with adrenaline; she has had times when time seems to slow down for her and she can see actions performed in seemingly slow motion. This in reality is just the adrenaline in her system making her brain and nerves so hypersensitive that her reaction speed is increased dramatically, at one point she was able to catch an arrow out of the air when she when to an archery camp in her late teens.

Personality: Sonia is what you would call emotionally reserved, she isn't very expressive with her emotions unless she is with close friends and even then it seems foreign to her to be all smiles and giggles. Most of the time Sonia is the definition of calm and collected, sometime she appears downright cold; but she is in fact an open-minded individual with a deep sense of honor and loyalty. She is not prone to making impulsive and reckless acts and prefers to ration things out logically.

Biography/History: Sonia is of English-Japanese decent, her father being the Englishman and her mother being Japanese. She grew up partly in Japan and partly in Great Britain for most of her life, attending school in Japan and visiting England during the holidays, she acquired dual citizenship and became fluent in both Japanese, and English, later she added German and French to her list of languages spoken. She was an extremely happy child growing up, but was often teased in school for her blond hair, and English features but having the delicate physique of the Japanese. At an early age she learned to tune out such comments, falling into such an intense level of concentration she could block out all stimuli but the one she was focusing on. With such concentration she became adept at focusing her mind on a single action until it was perfect. This conviction lead her to practice archery, and hapkido and using her talent to master actions that could take others years to attain.
At nineteen she decided to go to England and finish University there; her transcript earned her a place in Oxford and she was quickly on her way to earning her degree in International Studies and Teaching. During the holiday she decided to fly back to Japan to see her family, who she missed terribly but the plane got caught in a bad storm and crashed at sea. The search crews located the sight of the crash and recovered most of the bodies, Sonia's was never recovered.
Her death was quite the shock to Sonia who found herself in Rukongai, she wandered for what seemed like weeks but was taken in by a kindly old woman who explained to Sonia all about life in the Rukongai and the lives of the Shinigami in Seireitei. It took several weeks but Sonia eventual came to terms with her death and began to wonder, exploring her new chance at life, but one day she found herself at the walled city and at the Soul Reaper Academy.

After graduation she joined Fifth Squad and developed her Kidou abilities under the guidance of Vice-Captain Suri. Sonia quickly rose to the Third Seat status within Fifth Squad and had helped teach Captain Tansen Enkosen. Apparently impressed by her ability, he later offered her the position of vice-captaincy within Eight Squad. She has decided to take the promotion.

Powers:
Bakudo
Bakudo 1: Sai
Bakudo 4: Hainawa
Bakudo 8: Seki
Bakudo 9: Geki
Bakudo 37: Tsuriboshi
Bakudo 39: Enkosen

Hado
Hado 1: Sho
Hado 4: Byakura
Hado 31: Shakaho
Hado 33: Sokatsui

Speacial
Shunpo
Kyomon Mirror Door

Kazuma Daemon

Name:
Kitsune, Shiro.
[[white fox]]

Aliases/ Nicknames:
Kit

Physical Description:
Shiro being young compare to most shimigami, has more unusual features then more. Shiro himself is only age 9, giving him a very child like appearance, in which most people in the sereitei lack. His hair is a golden brown, in which it has a mixture of a dark blond, and a light brown, this gives him a more tanned skin tone look as he looks like he spends his leisure time on nothing more then walking. His height only measures at around 4'5, which makes him abnormally short compared to most, and his weight is only a matter of 87 pounds, a slim body, one fitting for a child. The clothes that Shiro wears are the standard shimigami clothing, a white torso shirt, and a large black robe that hits down to his ankles. Though, because of his small stature, Shiro's robe is a little longer, covering half of his foot, and a lot smaller, meaning more form fitting. His arms and legs are more of a toned feature, from constant working from the squad's demands. His face is somewhat different, as his eyes are a very light brown.

Zanpakuto:

Zanpakuto [[general]]: In its sealed state, Shiro's zanpakuto looks more of a dagger then anything. the sheath, being only about 1 foot long, holds the small zanpakuto. the hilt of the blade has a more of, moon shaped holes within it, and a square shape to itself. The color of the hilt has a light purple color that almost fades to a pitch, jet black color at the bottom.

ACHIEVED --- Shikai [[initial release]]: Shiro's initial release is nothing of a normal release. This stage is known as "loneliness," one of the aspects of death itself. In this state, Shiro will speak the phrase, "Whisper...Samisendo [[lonely death]]." Once speaking the phrase, the area in which Shiro and the opponent are, will be covered in a white mist. The mist has a the affect to seem almost "everlasting" as were if a person trys to run out of it, the end up being within the spot they started. Once the mist has taken its place, it will blind the foe for the time being that it is there, and as it is making the sight of the opponent useless, voices will start to be heard within the opponent's ears. This is the "lonely death," Shiro speaks of, as it relates to his own death as a child. The overall affect of this shikai, is to ultimately leave the opponent in a trap of no sight, or hearing...in which two of the five senses are taken.

NOT ACHIEVED --- Bankai [[final release]]: In this stage, Shiro will become more of a ghostly figure, being able to still be hurt, but his body and looks will change to an ultimately deathly look, as if the person was seeing what had happened to Shiro before he died. In this stage it is known as "guilt" one of the aspects of death itself. Once Shiro has turned into the ghostly state, anyone who touches, [[with anything that is still touching them]] Shiro, will send Shiro to a "burst" state, in which his body will look somewhat like it exploded. Here is were the damage is done. Shiro now has the ability to enter the mind of the person who had come in contact with him, either by hand, or by indirectly by sword. Once entering, the greatest fear of the opponent will show, and then a "false death" will show, the false death is mostly the picture of the battle they are currently in. This will send a person into an "erratic" state of mind, and thus, causing them to go insane. [[5 posts only in the state of mind, once done, the person snaps out of it.]]

Shiro's zanpakuto, is not deadly, in which is why, he uses kido or another person with him, to subdue the opponent. The thing that is special is in which the way Shiro uses his zanpakuto, he never kills with it, only suppressing the opposing side, and allowing someone else to deal the final blow.

[[this is explaining that, Shiro never kills someone even after using his bankai of shikai or any part of his zanpakuto. He allows others to kill them, in which he does not want to be known for death. Shiro's zanpakuto's abilities are merely for cornering an enemy, nothing more.]]

Special Accessories:

Shiro has no real accessories except for the one ring upon his right ring finger. This special ring changes colors depending on the spiritual pressure an opposing party is giving off. a light color being low pressure, and a very dark color being very high pressure. Other then this, Shiro has no special things in which he uses to fight.

Skills:

None as of right now.

Abilities:

Kido:

1. Restrain (塞, sai) — Locks a target's arms in place behind their back.
4. Crawling Rope (這縄, hainawa) — An energy rope entangles a target's arms.
9. Hit (撃, geki) — Engulfs a target in red light, completely paralyzing them.
39. Enkosen (円閘扇, Arc Shield) — Creates a star-shaped cushion of Spiritual Energy, which anchors it to nearby objects with "ropes" of spirit particles. It can stop falling objects, acting like a safety net.

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1. Thrust (衝, shō) — Pushes the target away from the caster.
4. White Lightning (白雷, byakurai)— Fires a concentrated bolt of lightning from the caster's forefinger.
31. Shakkahō (赤火砲, Shot of Red Fire) — Fires a ball of red energy at a target.


Personality:

Shiro, being a young boy, is not much of a fun and outgoing person. Mainly, he is shy, and gives off an innocent look and personality to people, but usually, when he is around people he likes, he is out there and a happy-go-lucky kind of person. He is somewhat the kind of child who is lovable no matter what he does.

Biography/History:

Being a young child, Shiro cannot really remember his life. As a young child in the earthen world, it is said that once one has crossed over to the shimigami world, that they soon forget what they were, and what they once did. Though Shiro remembers one thing, his death. It is the one thing that haunts him throughout his life, and that he can never forget.

Shiro was still young, attending school like any normal boy within the world, and stumbled upon a small amount of cash, thinking it was his lucky day. All until he had gotten to school and showed his friends the money he had just acquired. Sometime later, a few people had come up to him, saying it was "their" money, even if it was a small amount, they wanted it. Shiro refused, and thus, was beat. Beaten so bad, Shiro was crying his eyes out, until he could really no longer cry, he saw it as pointless. Once arriving home, his father threw him against the wall, saying that he was a worthless child, that he should have defended himself, he should have fought and won...but Shiro was the nonviolent type of child, innocent, and now...lonely. Feeling guilty, Shiro decided to walk out...leaving his house, as every child wants to do, to "run-away" is what he did, soon finding the same gang of people from before, they beat him once again, now being in a fatal state; Shiro tried, his hardest to live, but couldnt make it, as he was still trying, a large member of the gang, had come back, and kicked Shiro in his forehead, thus slamming his skull against the concrete wall behind him, and soon, killing him.

Powers:

Shikai [[first release]] -- NOT ACHIEVED.

Bankai [[final release]] -- NOT ACHIEVED.

1. Restrain (塞, sai)— Locks a target's arms in place behind their back.
4. Crawling Rope (這縄, hainawa) — An energy rope entangles a target's arms.
9. Hit (撃, geki) — Engulfs a target in red light, completely paralyzing them.

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1. Thrust (衝, shō) — Pushes the target away from the caster.
4. White Lightning (白雷, byakurai)— Fires a concentrated bolt of lightning from the caster's forefinger.

Name: Kiyoshi (Quiet)

Aliases/ Nicknames: none

sex/age: male/17

Physical Description: skinny,chapped lips,black ring tattoo around neck,always sad.

Zanpakuto: "Not yet accomplished"

Special Accessories: a small diamond skull chained to helt of zampakuto.

Skills: medical skills,learned from mother(she was a nurse)

Abilities: knows all of the parts of the body.

Personality: very nice (sometimes has mood swings)

Biography/History: Is from a small town named dew drop city,has a mother and brother,has one friend,likes to kill,and likes to heal,was home schooled by mother.

Powers: ???

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Name:
Matsurgi Fuuko

Aliases/ Nicknames:
Fuu-chan or Fuuko by friends.
Matsurgi by others

Physical Description:
Fuuko has long violet hair that reaches down to her mid-back. Her bangs are straight and above her eyes. She usually keeps it neat and straight. When in training she ties her hair into a messy braid with a blood red ribbon which she got from her mother before she died. Her iries are of a sky blue color. Her skin is a fare color from staying outdoors and not indoors too much. She is about 5'4 in height and weighs a total of 115 pounds. She has the apparence of a 17 year girl even though she is older then that.

Zanpacto:
Her Zanpacto is crimson red with a silver hilt and approxmintly 19 inches. The guard is a plain black with a gold tip. The spirit of the Zanpacto is called Sekiryu which means red dragon. The spirit is red dragon and about 20 feet high. It has a mightly roar and can talk. Sekiryu is not like dragons you see in folktales but more like a sea serpant. Sekiryu is loyal and quiet dragon and watches over the owner of the blade.
Shikai: (Not yet acheived)
When Sekiryu named is said Fuuko blades grows spikes that kinda resemble a blade of fire. Her blade has the ability to turned into flames. The hilt is the only part that doesn't so that way she is able to attack with the blade.
Special Accessories:
Fuuko has a dagger located on her left leg which she pulls out in battle. The blade is about 1 foot long and has a bornze color to it. She also keeps a silver earring in her pocket. When she puts it on it increases her speed by just a bit. It useful when trying to out run an opponent. Other than that she keeps a normal notebook on her back to sketch out plans or just plain sketch.
Skills: She is a good theif. She learned it through her tough times on the streets. Though she only steals when somebody has something she wants. She never dares to steal from the Captains or the Lieutenants because she respects them and looks up to them.

Abilities:
Fuuko knows the basic 1-10 kido.

Personality:
People would say Fuuko is a cheerful and happy girl. Although she has a rash temper and really hates to lose. When angry she goes off by herself even in the heat of battle. So she tries to stay calm but that doesn't work most of the time. She sometimes acts stupid and runs into about anything. She is acutally pretty smart and a good thinker but doesn't show it all the time.

Biography/History:
She was borned in Tokyo, Japan. She was alone when she was younger because of her mom dying at birth and her dad leaving her. Until a group of kids found her. They lived in a shack together and shared food they stole from people. She learned to be more cheerful after years of living alone. Fuuko then one day when for a walk and got killed by a car from not watching where she was going. She was too busy trying to steal and not paying attection to the traffic. (Remember kids watch the streets)
Powers: