Name: Lyusya Bolshevik
Aliases/Nicknames: Soviette
Sex: Female
Age of Death: 21
Actual Age: 71
Physical Description:
Lyusya is very mature, even for that of a 21 year old though, her appearance remains very adolescant. Amoungst the Arrancar she is one of the hardest to read and understand. Her wheat colored hair is a very short curly cropped hair style reminiscent of the 20's but even shorter, boyish short in fact. Lyusya's deep amber eyes are enticing and innocent while maintaining a frightening amount of resolve and intensity. Her angled features are that of Russian decent, the ethnic roots unmistakable. Her clothing. 3 quarter sleeve jacket, a variation of the standard Arrancar's. Her jacket is stylized similar to that of Halibel's though less provocative. The collar is non existant and instead the jacket comes to a deep V. The bottom of the jacket also goes about an inch or two lower to hide her bust ending just bellow her sternum. Lyusya's bottoms are exactly the same as Halibel's and the reminants of her mask are visible on her head forming what appears to be a set of headphones with discs large enough to ecompass her soundless ears and wraps around the back of her head in an inch wide band. Lyusya's Hollow hole is through her left hand.
Zanpakuto:
Name: "Sin Voz"
(Without Voice)
Sin Vos in its sealed form appears as a Zhan ma dao, or triple edged sword (think Ggio Vega's Zanpakuto). The metal is shiny as ever and the hilt is white wrapped in a white criss cross pattern. At the end of the hilt sits an attatched scarf or "flag" that is also white. This "flag" is quite long, a whole 12 inches to be exact. It can be used as a means of distraction or as a way of binding and entangling an opponents sword locking both Sin Vos and the opposing Zanpakuto together until one gives way.
Resurreccion:
Name: El Cisne Sin Voz
(Swan Without Voice)
Release Phrase: "Grito Fuera" (Cry Out)
Upon calling out the release phrase, Lyusya's Zanpakuto transforms into a "natural" horn meaning her attacks are now sound based. The weapon is used to send massive visible waves of sound towards an opponent. The waves vary in power and affect relying on the frequency provided by Lyusya's blowing into the mouthpiece. Certain waves of shorter wavelengths and higher frequencies are often sharp meaning that they can lacerate and amputate. The longer wavelengths and lower frequencies are more blunt damage, able to crack, fracture and shatter bone. Every soundwave has the potential to rupture the targets ear drums and every soundwave carries a constant active ability being one of three variations, infrasound, sound, or ultrasound. Lastly, the "natural" horn can be used as a tool to fire Cero giving them a massive boost in power and energy and allowing them to be rapid fired similar to Starrk's method.
As for physical modification to Lyusya, the reminants of her mask spread to coat specific parts of her body. The "headset" as it is in its sealed state wraps around and covers her mouth with 3 slats on either side of her lower face, it is the only part aside from her legs that is not covered in plumage. This part of the mask also appears like a small birds beak, a small hole just large enough for the horns mouthpiece lying underneath the slight hook of the beak (thinks Rose's mask but much smaller and only a beak). As the mask continues it covers beneath her eyes, just over her cheek bones down her face, neck, and shoulders coming to a brief stop on the back and front forming a breastplate just to the bottom of her ribcage. Her arms are covered at the shoulders which stops at the armpits and then the mask appears from the top of the elbow to her wrists forming a pair of horn bracers. The rest of the mask continues down the sides of her body, leaving her midsection and lower back exposed. From her hips, top of the pelvis and tailbone down to her feet is the last of the mask. The final parts of the modification are that her legs bend in a reversed fashion like a birds, her feet form feet like those of a birds, each toe containing a single talon and a fourth talon erecting from the knees (mind you that they face the opposite direction of a normal human now). Every single part of her mask (minus the legs which become scaly like a birds) becomes covered in a soft white plumage.
Abilities:
Infrasounds - sound ranging in hertz below 20 and the range of human detection. These sounds cause impeded coordination and motorskills. Its mutes all of the senses and like most sound it is affected by materials that absorb sound as well as reflect and refract. Lyusya uses Infrasounds to create seismic activity. She can create earthquakes or disperse Kido based attacks using Infrasounds.
Ultrasounds - sound ranging in hertz above 20,000 and the range of human detection. These sounds cause loss of coordination and motorskills and can temporarily deafen and individual. Like infrasounds ultrasounds mute the senses of the affected and can be absorbed, reflected, refracted and deflected. Ultrasounds are utilized by Lyusya into order to combat an opponent. Both the "inner ear affect" and the physical affects are used. The "inner ear afffect" being the severe disorientation of the intended target while the physical affects are the lacerations and shatting ability of the sounds.
Down Feathers - second layer of plumage lying beneath the Vaned Feathers. The Down Feathers in fact are what make Lyusya's Hierro so strong. In a normal bird the Down Feathers act as insulation from the heat and the cold. For Lyusya it acts as a near impenitrable barrier between her skin and her "mask". The Down Feathers are able to absorb just about any Kido based attack (up to #35 and kido based attacks equivilent to).
Attacks:
Vaned Feathers - the plumage that ecompaces Lyusya's Resurreccion form have two layers, the first being the toughest and hardiest of the two. Vaned Feathers in this instance are detatched from her body in an explosive outburst of energy. It essentially creates a blizzard of stark white feathers than can be manipulated by the movements of body. The Vaned Feathers can be used to lacerate opponents and even block incoming attacks (think Senbonzakura or Haineko).
Special Accessories:
Lyusya wears a long white scarf that wraps around her neck and seems to float weightlessly behind her back. The scarf reaches down to just above her ankles. The cloth has been untouched by blood and dirt appearing as a flawless material.
Skills:
Lyusya maintains the most refined Pesquisa and Hierro (her armor almost impenitrable and therefore why her midsection and lower back are both vital areas and exposed). Even though her "armor" is soft white plumage, it retains the strength of that even beyond steel.
Abilities:
Seeing as she was born deaf, Lyusya has never heard a voice or ever been graced by sound. This drawback in her senses have increased others such as her vision and sense of touch. Of those two, both have been hypersensative but her touch in particular has become so advanced that she can feel the presence of others simply by the distortion of matter around them. As for her ability to understand what others are saying, Lyusya relies soley on her vision to read lips to such a degree that she can converse as if she were a normal hearing individual.
Personality:
Lyusya is a very serious young woman. Shes speaks rarely despite the fact that her voice is amoung the purest to grace anyones ears. Being deaf she has learned to communicate through expression both facial and bodily. She is probably the one you'd want to talk to and takes things far too seriously. Lyusya cannot take a joke and would readily beat the brains out of her opponent, or anyone else for that matter, rather than converse.
Biography/History:
Lyusya was born during the early rule of the Soviet Union a time in which hardship was wide spread. At 5 years of age both her parents had become deceased in ways that she herself would never know of. For as long as she could remember, the only influencial individual in her life would remain her older brother, by 10 years, Mikhail. Living with her older brother as her parental figure was something that was rare amoungst her friends and classmates but to her, it was the most amazing thing that could have happened to her. Mikhail was both loving and caring. He treated her not as a daughter but as a best friend, his only reason to live.
For the 2 most wonderful years of her life, Lyusya enjoyed being with her brother everyday. However when he was shipped off to war she found a growing void, an abyss, divide her life into two halves. What she was, happy and content being with Mikhail and what she is, lost, lonely and scared. When she received the knews of his death in the second World War, Lyusya found her own world turned upside down.
The following 14 years proved to be both empty and difficult. Immersed in her studies Lyusya distanced herself from her friends and relatives. When she graduated from school, Lyusya moved out into the country side to live alone in solitude. For days on end she'd starve herself not caring about her well being. Eventually Lyusya embarked on a journey to Asia, a world where self discovery was a daily battle. She made plans to live amoungst monks in the mountains and find out who exactly Lyusya was. She made it only a few miles before the Siberian winter storms took her life. She was 21 when she was frozen to death.
Unlike many who find themselves in Soul Society Lyusya lost herself in despair and became a Hollow. Her growth as such a being was slow and lengthy, breaking into the tier of the Arrancar requiring lots of hard work and effort. Heartlessly she killed her fellow Hollow's, Hueco Mundo proving to be the ever vigilant dog eat dog world. Striving to be even more powerful than she is now, Lyusya fights any being stronger than her in hopes of one day becoming an Espada.
Theme Song:
Anakin vs. Dooku
Powers:
Caja Negación - variant of the Gillian-exclusive ability Negación used to punish Arrancar subordinates by trapping them eternally in an alternate dimension. However, should the Caja Negación be used on an Espada, the Espada will eventually break out of the alternate dimension (usually within a few hours), due to their large amount of Reiatsu.
Cero - user fires a laser blast of great, concentrated destruction. While the color of most Ceros is red/crimson, several members of the Espada appear to have great color variations in their Cero.
Bala - an Arrancar alternative to the Cero. The technique hardens the user's spiritual pressure and fires it like a bullet from their fist. Though somewhat weaker than a Cero blast, it moves about twenty times much faster than a Cero and can be fired at a much higher rate.
Gran Rey Cero - a particular, very strong Cero. To perform this potent variation of the Cero, the Arrancar first draws blood from the Cero-generating appendage using his or her Zanpakutō, then charges the Cero while mixing the blood with it. The result is a Cero with a much greater attack power and speed, as well as a change of color unique to the Espada. This attack was first used by Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez in order to incite Ichigo into donning his Hollow mask.
Garganta - how Arrancar move to and from Hueco Mundo. Kaname Tōsen and Kisuke Urahara have also demonstrated the ability to use the technique. It literally tears open the dimensional fabric separating the worlds, revealing a tunnel of whirling, torrential energy that must be focused and solidified to create a discernible pathway.
Hierro - refers to the hardened skin of the Arrancar, which is a result of their compressed spiritual power. While their skin is strong enough to block even released Zanpakutō bare-handed, it is by no means impenetrable. Stronger Arrancar have proportionally stronger skin. Nnoitra Jiruga claimed his Hierro is toughest amongst the Espada; being of higher rank than Nnoitra, Ulquiorra's Hierro appears to be much tougher.
Pesquisa - Arrancar equivalent of the Shinigami ability to sense Spiritual Pressure. It functions similar to a sonar. Using Pesquisa requires most Espada to enter a meditative state; however, Nnoitra has a variation of this technique that involves placing his fingers to the ground to determine an opponent's approximate location as well as the amount of Spiritual Pressure an opponent has.
Sonído - Arrancar equivalent of the Shinigami Flash Steps and the Quincy Hirenkyaku; it allows the user to travel at incredibly high speeds for short distances. Use of Sonído is punctuated by a brief static sound, in contrast to the "swish" sound used for Flash Steps.
Aliases/Nicknames: Soviette
Sex: Female
Age of Death: 21
Actual Age: 71
Physical Description:
Lyusya is very mature, even for that of a 21 year old though, her appearance remains very adolescant. Amoungst the Arrancar she is one of the hardest to read and understand. Her wheat colored hair is a very short curly cropped hair style reminiscent of the 20's but even shorter, boyish short in fact. Lyusya's deep amber eyes are enticing and innocent while maintaining a frightening amount of resolve and intensity. Her angled features are that of Russian decent, the ethnic roots unmistakable. Her clothing. 3 quarter sleeve jacket, a variation of the standard Arrancar's. Her jacket is stylized similar to that of Halibel's though less provocative. The collar is non existant and instead the jacket comes to a deep V. The bottom of the jacket also goes about an inch or two lower to hide her bust ending just bellow her sternum. Lyusya's bottoms are exactly the same as Halibel's and the reminants of her mask are visible on her head forming what appears to be a set of headphones with discs large enough to ecompass her soundless ears and wraps around the back of her head in an inch wide band. Lyusya's Hollow hole is through her left hand.
Zanpakuto:
Name: "Sin Voz"
(Without Voice)
Sin Vos in its sealed form appears as a Zhan ma dao, or triple edged sword (think Ggio Vega's Zanpakuto). The metal is shiny as ever and the hilt is white wrapped in a white criss cross pattern. At the end of the hilt sits an attatched scarf or "flag" that is also white. This "flag" is quite long, a whole 12 inches to be exact. It can be used as a means of distraction or as a way of binding and entangling an opponents sword locking both Sin Vos and the opposing Zanpakuto together until one gives way.
Resurreccion:
Name: El Cisne Sin Voz
(Swan Without Voice)
Release Phrase: "Grito Fuera" (Cry Out)
Upon calling out the release phrase, Lyusya's Zanpakuto transforms into a "natural" horn meaning her attacks are now sound based. The weapon is used to send massive visible waves of sound towards an opponent. The waves vary in power and affect relying on the frequency provided by Lyusya's blowing into the mouthpiece. Certain waves of shorter wavelengths and higher frequencies are often sharp meaning that they can lacerate and amputate. The longer wavelengths and lower frequencies are more blunt damage, able to crack, fracture and shatter bone. Every soundwave has the potential to rupture the targets ear drums and every soundwave carries a constant active ability being one of three variations, infrasound, sound, or ultrasound. Lastly, the "natural" horn can be used as a tool to fire Cero giving them a massive boost in power and energy and allowing them to be rapid fired similar to Starrk's method.
As for physical modification to Lyusya, the reminants of her mask spread to coat specific parts of her body. The "headset" as it is in its sealed state wraps around and covers her mouth with 3 slats on either side of her lower face, it is the only part aside from her legs that is not covered in plumage. This part of the mask also appears like a small birds beak, a small hole just large enough for the horns mouthpiece lying underneath the slight hook of the beak (thinks Rose's mask but much smaller and only a beak). As the mask continues it covers beneath her eyes, just over her cheek bones down her face, neck, and shoulders coming to a brief stop on the back and front forming a breastplate just to the bottom of her ribcage. Her arms are covered at the shoulders which stops at the armpits and then the mask appears from the top of the elbow to her wrists forming a pair of horn bracers. The rest of the mask continues down the sides of her body, leaving her midsection and lower back exposed. From her hips, top of the pelvis and tailbone down to her feet is the last of the mask. The final parts of the modification are that her legs bend in a reversed fashion like a birds, her feet form feet like those of a birds, each toe containing a single talon and a fourth talon erecting from the knees (mind you that they face the opposite direction of a normal human now). Every single part of her mask (minus the legs which become scaly like a birds) becomes covered in a soft white plumage.
Abilities:
Infrasounds - sound ranging in hertz below 20 and the range of human detection. These sounds cause impeded coordination and motorskills. Its mutes all of the senses and like most sound it is affected by materials that absorb sound as well as reflect and refract. Lyusya uses Infrasounds to create seismic activity. She can create earthquakes or disperse Kido based attacks using Infrasounds.
Ultrasounds - sound ranging in hertz above 20,000 and the range of human detection. These sounds cause loss of coordination and motorskills and can temporarily deafen and individual. Like infrasounds ultrasounds mute the senses of the affected and can be absorbed, reflected, refracted and deflected. Ultrasounds are utilized by Lyusya into order to combat an opponent. Both the "inner ear affect" and the physical affects are used. The "inner ear afffect" being the severe disorientation of the intended target while the physical affects are the lacerations and shatting ability of the sounds.
Down Feathers - second layer of plumage lying beneath the Vaned Feathers. The Down Feathers in fact are what make Lyusya's Hierro so strong. In a normal bird the Down Feathers act as insulation from the heat and the cold. For Lyusya it acts as a near impenitrable barrier between her skin and her "mask". The Down Feathers are able to absorb just about any Kido based attack (up to #35 and kido based attacks equivilent to).
Attacks:
Vaned Feathers - the plumage that ecompaces Lyusya's Resurreccion form have two layers, the first being the toughest and hardiest of the two. Vaned Feathers in this instance are detatched from her body in an explosive outburst of energy. It essentially creates a blizzard of stark white feathers than can be manipulated by the movements of body. The Vaned Feathers can be used to lacerate opponents and even block incoming attacks (think Senbonzakura or Haineko).
Special Accessories:
Lyusya wears a long white scarf that wraps around her neck and seems to float weightlessly behind her back. The scarf reaches down to just above her ankles. The cloth has been untouched by blood and dirt appearing as a flawless material.
Skills:
Lyusya maintains the most refined Pesquisa and Hierro (her armor almost impenitrable and therefore why her midsection and lower back are both vital areas and exposed). Even though her "armor" is soft white plumage, it retains the strength of that even beyond steel.
Abilities:
Seeing as she was born deaf, Lyusya has never heard a voice or ever been graced by sound. This drawback in her senses have increased others such as her vision and sense of touch. Of those two, both have been hypersensative but her touch in particular has become so advanced that she can feel the presence of others simply by the distortion of matter around them. As for her ability to understand what others are saying, Lyusya relies soley on her vision to read lips to such a degree that she can converse as if she were a normal hearing individual.
Personality:
Lyusya is a very serious young woman. Shes speaks rarely despite the fact that her voice is amoung the purest to grace anyones ears. Being deaf she has learned to communicate through expression both facial and bodily. She is probably the one you'd want to talk to and takes things far too seriously. Lyusya cannot take a joke and would readily beat the brains out of her opponent, or anyone else for that matter, rather than converse.
Biography/History:
Lyusya was born during the early rule of the Soviet Union a time in which hardship was wide spread. At 5 years of age both her parents had become deceased in ways that she herself would never know of. For as long as she could remember, the only influencial individual in her life would remain her older brother, by 10 years, Mikhail. Living with her older brother as her parental figure was something that was rare amoungst her friends and classmates but to her, it was the most amazing thing that could have happened to her. Mikhail was both loving and caring. He treated her not as a daughter but as a best friend, his only reason to live.
For the 2 most wonderful years of her life, Lyusya enjoyed being with her brother everyday. However when he was shipped off to war she found a growing void, an abyss, divide her life into two halves. What she was, happy and content being with Mikhail and what she is, lost, lonely and scared. When she received the knews of his death in the second World War, Lyusya found her own world turned upside down.
The following 14 years proved to be both empty and difficult. Immersed in her studies Lyusya distanced herself from her friends and relatives. When she graduated from school, Lyusya moved out into the country side to live alone in solitude. For days on end she'd starve herself not caring about her well being. Eventually Lyusya embarked on a journey to Asia, a world where self discovery was a daily battle. She made plans to live amoungst monks in the mountains and find out who exactly Lyusya was. She made it only a few miles before the Siberian winter storms took her life. She was 21 when she was frozen to death.
Unlike many who find themselves in Soul Society Lyusya lost herself in despair and became a Hollow. Her growth as such a being was slow and lengthy, breaking into the tier of the Arrancar requiring lots of hard work and effort. Heartlessly she killed her fellow Hollow's, Hueco Mundo proving to be the ever vigilant dog eat dog world. Striving to be even more powerful than she is now, Lyusya fights any being stronger than her in hopes of one day becoming an Espada.
Theme Song:
Anakin vs. Dooku
Powers:
Caja Negación - variant of the Gillian-exclusive ability Negación used to punish Arrancar subordinates by trapping them eternally in an alternate dimension. However, should the Caja Negación be used on an Espada, the Espada will eventually break out of the alternate dimension (usually within a few hours), due to their large amount of Reiatsu.
Cero - user fires a laser blast of great, concentrated destruction. While the color of most Ceros is red/crimson, several members of the Espada appear to have great color variations in their Cero.
Bala - an Arrancar alternative to the Cero. The technique hardens the user's spiritual pressure and fires it like a bullet from their fist. Though somewhat weaker than a Cero blast, it moves about twenty times much faster than a Cero and can be fired at a much higher rate.
Gran Rey Cero - a particular, very strong Cero. To perform this potent variation of the Cero, the Arrancar first draws blood from the Cero-generating appendage using his or her Zanpakutō, then charges the Cero while mixing the blood with it. The result is a Cero with a much greater attack power and speed, as well as a change of color unique to the Espada. This attack was first used by Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez in order to incite Ichigo into donning his Hollow mask.
Garganta - how Arrancar move to and from Hueco Mundo. Kaname Tōsen and Kisuke Urahara have also demonstrated the ability to use the technique. It literally tears open the dimensional fabric separating the worlds, revealing a tunnel of whirling, torrential energy that must be focused and solidified to create a discernible pathway.
Hierro - refers to the hardened skin of the Arrancar, which is a result of their compressed spiritual power. While their skin is strong enough to block even released Zanpakutō bare-handed, it is by no means impenetrable. Stronger Arrancar have proportionally stronger skin. Nnoitra Jiruga claimed his Hierro is toughest amongst the Espada; being of higher rank than Nnoitra, Ulquiorra's Hierro appears to be much tougher.
Pesquisa - Arrancar equivalent of the Shinigami ability to sense Spiritual Pressure. It functions similar to a sonar. Using Pesquisa requires most Espada to enter a meditative state; however, Nnoitra has a variation of this technique that involves placing his fingers to the ground to determine an opponent's approximate location as well as the amount of Spiritual Pressure an opponent has.
Sonído - Arrancar equivalent of the Shinigami Flash Steps and the Quincy Hirenkyaku; it allows the user to travel at incredibly high speeds for short distances. Use of Sonído is punctuated by a brief static sound, in contrast to the "swish" sound used for Flash Steps.
RP Sample: As the cold winds bit and clawed at her lanky frame, Lyusya stood like a statue unmoved by the vicious weather that overwhelmed many. Eyeing in the distance a tall unmistakable form, Lyusya darted across the sands her body moving with such elegance that one would think she was a figure skater of sands. I must prove myself. If to anyone it must be him. How I admire him so but no, I must be strong. I must not let my emotions show and I must prove that I am one to be respected.
Ceasing her movements before Grimmjow, Lyusya kicked up a mighty cloud of sand and grit into the air. Like a baseball player sliding across home. Drawing Sin Voz she drew a long line across the abdomine of her greatest influence. Seeing the crimson fluid dance across her Zanpakuto, Lyusya recoiled, a thick meaty fist slamming upon the crown of her skull, her small form being tossed effortlessly through the air like a rag doll. Landing a withered heap, she forced herself to stand. No, I won't be beat like this. Mindlessly she spat into the wind and squinted her eyes Its now or never. What I've started will only end in my death if I don't do this.
"Griot Fuera!" In a cloud of feathers, the humanoid form of Lyusya mutated into a bird-like creature. Holding firm Sin Voz, Lyusya was ready to display all the power of El Cisne Sin Voz. However, her error in judgement let the thick muscled arms of her beloved dig through her exposed stomach. The pain surged through her torso and her legs gave way. Hanging like a squewered piece of meat, Lyusya's eyes begged for some sort of connection to those of the Sexta Espada's. Grimmjow however gave no such gift to Lyusya and withdrew his arm. How easily he defeated me even after I released my Resurreccion. How naive of me.
