Hey guys, I need some help and opinions on the bankai I’m putting together for my character.
I’m trying to keep it based around Suimenkahyou’s inner world, but in terms of how I should classify what I’d like to do I’m at a bit of a loss.
Think you can give me a hand?
Here goes, if you take a look at my
profile you’ll see that the character’s shikai deals with a shrouding mist that makes it very difficult to pinpoint his exact location while shrouded. Basically it manifests as a cover for a predator stalking his prey.
For bankai, I want to keep that same sort of idea alive. What I have so far is that his bankai forms a zone/field of effect over a fairly large area. The cover wouldn’t affect the physical terrain, but the atmosphere by mimicking Suimenkahyou’s underwater home. So, once inside vision would be reduced to a few feet in any direction with what looks like deep water particulate slowly circulating in a current. The zone would feel intensely cold, frigid would be a better descriptive, and literally feel like you were surrounded by water. Motion would be affected as if in water, and there would be a fair amount of uncomfortable pressure from all sides too. I wanted to get the deep water pressure in somehow. Lol.
Like in shikai, the zone disperses the character’s reiatsu so it is hard to find him and giving him an ideal environment to pounce from. Unlike in shikai, the zone of effect stays in place and cannot be moved unless Jirou seals his zanpakutou and releases it again. I’m thinking around 200-300 meters in generalized diameter of effect and extending upwards in the neighborhood of 100 meters or so.
Umm…anyone viewing the zone from the outside would see what appears to be a dark mass of water in mid-air, pooled and reflecting light as any water would and moving as if turned by a sluggish current. Although it appears fairly light in coloration from the outside, if you walk inside about 15 feet in the zone grays out and the light punching through at your back makes the interior look pitch black. A few feet more and what light there was retreats completely. The final little touch to make the environment like his inner world are the occasional eerie lights mimicking the bioluminescent creatures found in his inner world. Things like tiny schools of fish, crabs and eels slinking along the ground and the flickering deeper shadows of large predatory fish and other animals slipping by.
My last thoughts on the zone is whether or not the zone would suppress fire and make it easier for electricity to pass through it or not. I mean, the zone would partially be created by water vapors, but not that much. I guess it’s more illusion than anything, but a solid illusion if that makes any sense…
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