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✣ ══════════════════════[ Personal Information ]═══════════════════════ ✣
Name: Yukumi Shizuka
Race: Shinigami
Gender: Female
Birth Date: September 4th
Age: Appears Early Twenties
Blood Type: B
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Appearance:
Yukumi Shizuka is a beautiful young woman that tends to dress herself down so she’s taken more seriously and appears more strict than gentle. She possesses brilliant crystal blue eyes that are almost clear and long dark hair always drawn back in a simple ponytail. She doesn’t use make up but has a natural beauty to her face, regal elf like features. She wears the usual uniform of the Gotai 13 Soul Reapers and tends to have a pencil tucked behind one of her ears as well as a backpack. Her Zanpaktou is the usual katana with a small blue cord around the base of the hilt. The most feminine part of her attire is a pair of aquamarine teardrop shaped earrings that match her eyes.
Height: 5’3”
Weight: 115lb
Eye Color: Crystal blue, almost clear
Hair Color: Black, Shadowy
Tattoos or Scars: Nothing
Anything Unusual: Nothing
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Kido: Bakudo (#81. Danku - Severing Void), Healing magic of a similar level, Hado (#73 Soren Sokatsui, Twin-wake Blue Firefall)
Shunpo Level: Yukumi is well trained in Shunpo, easily on the level or better than most lieutenants. When she combines her flash step with the ability of her zanpakuto she is capable of moving at downright incredible speeds.
Hakuda: She has some ability to defend against Hakuda but little training in the actual arts of hand to hand without a melee weapon. She 'manages' to improvise well enough thanks to having brothers she wrestled with growing up.
Zanpakuto Name: Facet
Zanpakuto Appearance: Normally a mostly plain katana with the only change being a blue cord.
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Shikai Incantation: Reflect Facet
Shikai Appearance: The katana turns into crystal that is as hard as any steel, cool or warm to the touch depending on the time of day. Night-cool, Day- warm.
Shikai Abilities: Facet can make several (1-6) ‘reflections’ of Yukumi that she can physically jump between like a perfected flash step. The limit to this is that they all must be within line of sight to each other. She occasionally uses this ability to do something akin to Byakuya's Senka, maneuvering herself into a copy that is behind her target or to the side. Making copies beyond 6 in an hour in this stage will damage her zanpakuto. Beyond 12 in an hour will break it and the sword will not regenerate until another hour has passed. With that in mind she can turn her copies on and off to use for speed and precision of personal body on the field as opposed to offensive so they are less likely to be damaged and explode. When these copies are damaged even by minor means they explode in a cloud of finely crushed crystal. Clinging to anyone within them and burning into the flesh like acid for a few minutes before they fade away.
1: Blur: When in shikai her body reflects a moment out of step to where she really is and where that blue takes place makes dynamic changes all the time. Giving her a further edge on avoiding incoming attacks or having a further reach than the enemy may anticipate.
2: Minor Illusions/Temporary Blindness - Her blade can reflect anything within view and make an illusion copy of it, be it an enemy or item. Using the same ability it is able to focus even a small amount of light onto the face of an enemy and blind them temporarily.
3: Allowing her blade to shorten, which weakens the other attacks she has with it but when it does so it breaks down into tiny glass particle's in the air. She can do this to inject the pieces into a wound when she attacks making it effectively impossible to heal with the glass remains or more commonly into the air around her to leave for the targets to breath in. Which would be quite painful and disorienting. Calling the blade back together makes small slices in anyone that breathed in the fine pieces as it cuts through their flesh to return to it's normal place. The same goes for the wound the glass is in, it worsens said wound escaping from the targets body.
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Bankai Name: Diamond Shift
Bankai Appearance: Where in it's Shikai form the blade only turns to crystal, in it's Bankai that extends to transform Shizuka as well. Where the blade has always been more defensive than offensive, in this form that grows exponentially. Shizuka's flesh is more difficult to cut, requiring heavier blows to pierce at all. In this form she retains all the abilities of her Shikai form, though when she creates copies of herself she can create six per minute as opposed to per hour. Again if she creates more than 6 it damages the blade and if she creates more than 12 it breaks her Bankai and she cannot use it in Bankai for an hour.
Bankai Abilities: Having only recently developed her Bankai she's worked hard to be able to combat with it but it remains a touchy level of control for her. It's difficult to use reliably for more than a few minutes at this time. (5 min limitation)
1. Copies: As already mentioned above. The alteration to this is that the copies of her are tougher than before and take more than a simple scratch to break them. A heavier hit is all that will shatter them and then they still burst into glass and eat into anyone in the area she chooses. She can choose to have the shards pass harmlessly by allies (or believed allies).
2. Invisibility: When Shizuka drops her offensive capabilities she can turn herself and up to 6 others effectively invisible. It is more than sight being reflected however, all senses as well as those involving spiritual senses are turned back. When anyone in the shielded area attacks it breaks their personal invisibility but no one elses. She may only use this once per minute when it is broken or cancelled.
3. Diamond Dust - By breaking her own ability to use her Diamond Shift for 6 minutes the crystalline skin flakes off and then seeks out her enemies with a ruthless speed. Anyone she chooses touched by the dust is temporarily converted to a weak version of her form, as opposed to diamond, it actually is more a weak glass or crystal, and the blows they take while so cursed (1 min) deal greater damage to them.
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Personality: Serious would be the best word to describe her. She tends to take her work as a duty. She is diligent in her pursuit to do her best, be it paperwork or sword play. Often she is either lost in study or working on the field to improve her martial skill. On occasion she relaxes her very neutral expressions and reactions but often only around her family.
Personal Likes: Music from the mortal world/Violin (she plays), Organization, Reading/Study
Personal Dislikes: Rudeness, Lack of Loyalty, Failing to do one's best,
History: Yukumi was 'born’ in a nicer area of the districts that surround the court squads. Her mother had been a soul reaper that vanished in the Precipice world when she was still very young. Her father was a tailor in town and she took up the family business under him. She had a few brothers and sisters but none that were actually related to her but one younger brother that she still visits from time to time. He and her father as well as one of her other ‘sisters’ work at the shop that he runs. Given it mostly gets business from soul reapers and their constantly torn or damaged uniforms it does rather well and most locals don’t mess with a shop frequented by the soul reapers.
At fourteen she showed a talent for spiritual energy by chasing down one of the few robbers that would dare to go after the place. A bit of a rudimentary flash step and she had been seen by upperclassmen Renji Abarai and he was the one that helped to arrange her entry into the school.
She had some difficulties getting involved, she wasn’t always the most gifted girl socially. Possessing a certain awkwardness added to her own drive to always get things perfect without cheating didn’t always win her fans in her class. It was during her second year at the college that the graduation ceremony took place. Amongst the students was the famous Kuchiki Rukia and so of the few captains in attendance Kuchiki Byakuya was one.
She decided then that she wanted to be in the sixth squadron and worked all the harder at school...sometimes to the point that she would be scolded because she’d be ready to pass out on the field (generally dangerous if you are practicing swordplay).
Though she did end up in the top ten of her class by the time she finally finished. She wasn’t bad at sorcery but excelled more within the field of healing and binding than damaging. She did all right martially and was excellent with a flash step. When she left the school she had several people tell her she would do well within 4th squad but her heart and mind were elsewhere. She got into the Sixth Squadron after her own graduation.
It took her years to work up through the ranks of the sixth squad to get to where she is. She remained for a time as the 3rd Seat before Renji moved on and she took on the position of Lieutenant.
Little to no time seemed to pass within that position before she again shifted squadrons to follow Byakuya's reassignment to the captain Commander seat. She is certainly one of the youngest to hold the Lieutenant of the 1st Squadron but she certainly will not pass on any challenges that entails.
The position change is still a little recent, and sudden, so there is a lot of learning and a lot of paperwork that goes into her daily routine.
Some of her free time is spent visiting her father and 'family' at the tailoring business and often her father has new extravagant outfits for her that she's forced to accept even if she prefers to keep her normal uniform and dress quite simple. Usually she tries to hide her 'softer' side from the rest of the squadrons but with her new appointment that becomes more difficult all the time.
Family Line: Her family and father in soul society. Her mother vanished when she was very young and Shizuka knows little to nothing about her. Though she wears a set of aquamarine teardrop shaped earrings that belonged to her at most times.
Friends/Acquaintances:
Rivals/Enemies: N/A
Love Interest: N/A
Affiliation: Shinigami
Squad: 1st Squadron
Rank: Lieutenant
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