[A] Shin'o Reijutsu Academy: Bleach RP v2.0

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BLEACH <- click for the RP theme song.

Injured with pain and sadness, the you that cannot be healed
Shoulder the burden of the past that cannot be erased; don't throw away your will to live

Your hand that I held...

Will we lose it someday?
I want to protect you and that disappearing smile
The ringing voice that calls me dries out
Even if it gets erased by the wind along time
I will find you

Injured with pain and sadness, the you that cannot be healed
Don't say words like you can't smile or you hate people
Everything that happens in the unseen future has a meaning
So stay like this, there'll come a time when you will realize

It felt so hollow to just pile atop one another
You said you could live on your own
Just with the usual kind words
You ache to a point where I cannot reach you

Your hand that I held searched for some simple kindness
Do you remember
By learning pain, you can become a person who can be kind to others
Drive your Life

Injured with pain and sadness, the you that cannot be healed
Don't say words like you can't smile or you hate people
Everything that happens in the unseen future has a meaning
So stay like this, there'll come a time when you will realize

How can I see the meaning of life
Disappearing, you're the only. . .

So you will not break, you distance yourself from me
Don't say words like you can't smile or you hate people
Now it's by and by, even if you cannot see, there's a meaning to everything
Shoulder the burden of the past that cannot be erased; don't throw away your will to live

You'd better forget everything. Remember. . . your different Life?
You'd better forget everything. Remember. . . though, we cannot return

Like in times of warped memories, we can understand someday

A Shinigami's Path

There exist multiple worlds within this earth. Different planes that overlay each other. In the years following a massive invasion of Hollows, the Shinigami’s ranks have thinned considerably. The Shin’o Reijutsu Academy has been recently rushed to graduate their students faster. This led to weaker and weaker graduates, due to their education being rushed. Soon, however, the Court of Pure Souls (Seireitei), has experienced a massive influx of prospects, swelling their ranks faster than before with Shinigami who couldn’t even last a few seconds in a real battle. No matter what the skills the Shinigami had, this allowed the Academy to slow down their training, to be able to focus more on each and every Shinigami that went through them.

Things are starting to change however, and an ominous cloud has descended once again not just upon Seireitei, but also the Living World as well. The Hollows were not defeated, and their numbers continued to swell even more, this time exponentially. The Shinigami that were add the lower end of the spectrum were either mercilessly slaughtered or hungrily eaten, and the ones that fell to the latter fate induced a boom in their numbers. Even captains and their lieutenants were forced to fight in order to contain these stronger Hollows.

Seireitei blamed the Academy for this unfortunate outcome and were forced to look for better prospects, not more of them. The Academy, in response to the crisis, improved their training methods to bring out the best in every student that goes through them.

This is the story of those that were involved during this era of uncertainty and struggle for The Court of Pure Souls.

((Note: This RP is set in a parallel to the anime Bleach. Ichigo's storyline has never happened, yet it is still the same modern era in time))  

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[b]Username[/b]:Self-explanatory

[b]Character Name[/b]: No canons, please. Don’t steal a name from the series.

[b]Gender[/b]: Male, female, whatever . . .

[b]Age[/b]:Includes the age your character died on earth, plus, how many years have they spent in the Spirit World.

[b]Appearance[/b]: Descriptions only, please! If you must use an image, only include it as a link. Male students usually wear blue and white robes. Female students wear red and white.

[b]Background/Biography[/b]: Give details and descriptions of how they lived, how they died as a human, what they did in the Spirit World, how do they have higher than average reiatsu (spiritual pressure/force), why did they decide to enter the Academy, and why were they sucked into Hueco Mundo with the rest of us, etc., etc.

[b]Rank[/b]: Students are ranked as follows: (Lowerclassmen) 1st year = Freshman, 2nd-3rd year = Sophomore, (Upperclassmen) 4th-5th year = Junior, 6th year = Senior.

[b]Zanpakutou[/b]: Please describe your Zanpakutou’s appearance in both sealed form and Shikai. You do not have to have a Shikai form now, but only certain people are allowed to have a Bankai. Please also describe the abilities of your Zanpakutou in detail, along with the command or phrase needed to release it (usually a verb, or a poem that describes what the Zanpakutou can do or looks like in general). Also, please describe the spiritual manifestation of the Zanpakutou, IF, and only if your character has made contact with it. WARNING: NO ONE IS ALLOWED DUAL/PAIRED WEAPONS AS SHIKAI RELEASES. The only two paired Zanpakutou that have ever existed are Katen Kyokotsu (owned by 8th Division Cpt. Kyoraku), and Sogyo no Katawari (owned by 13th Division Cpt. Ukitake).

[b]Abilities[/b]: List other abilities and/or Kidou that your character can use.

[b]Other[/b]: Miscellaneous information.

 

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Disturbing Tale Teller

Username: Disturbing Tale Teller

Character Name: Amai (Ri) Todojima

Gender: Male

Age: Died at the age of 22, has lived 19 years in the Spirit World.

Appearance: Ri has shortish black hair with long 'wings' as bangs. He wears half glasses with no perscription, and has distinctly asian eyes. He stands at around 5'7", with a slim but muscular build. Barely any scars mar his almost sickly complexion. His facial expressions usually range from pleasant to dark, to simply blank. He doesn't like showing what he's thinking.
Ri likes a wider band around his stomach rather then just the ties for his hakama, and he's often found wearing a sweater under his top, ranging from turtlenecks to simple light cotton long-sleeved shirts.

Background/Biography:
Ri was an aspiring novelist and had just about finished an english degree in College when he was brutally murdered in a massacre that occured at his school. Awaking in Seireitei, his abuse increased, and he was forced to fight to stay alive. He found himself to be increasingly strong, as did a few others from Shin'o Academy. He was found and taken there to be trained with his Zanpakuto, which he swore he'd found somewhere in Rukongai right before he'd been about to be beat to death by a few members of a local gang.

Ri trained hard and took a rank in the top five students within the Academy. He strives to learn as much about everything as he can, which is why his thoughts aren't directed towards Soul Society's good being. Having read books and scrolls on wars and all of Seireitei's flaws with the people and the living world, and having learned about, read about, and imagined what Aizen's plans are and would be, he works to be as useful to the man as he can be in hopes to become apart of the action when Aizen's plans are finally laid out.

Hoping to not only aid Aizen in his plans, Ri also hopes to become an assistant or lower bodied member of the ex-captain's ranks. In a sense, he idolizes Aizen secretly, never revealing his hopes and plans to anyone around him. Thus so, he appears either a little too kindly to some, or very stand-offish to others. He's easy to make friends with, though, with his almost forced polite nature.

Rank: Sixth Year

Zanpakutou: Uhyou (Freezing Rain)

Uhyou's blade is white with gray around the sharp edges of the blade. His hilt is bone white and wrapped, while a pitch black tassel at the end and a black rounded hand guard balances the colors out. The sheath is white with a white sash for Ri to carry Uhyou on his back, or to tie at his waist. Ri usually takes the former position, it being easier for him to draw the blade and to carry.

The manifestation of Uhyou resembles a mix between a Chinese dragon and a dog. Uhyou's head and body are the dragon, but his nose and mouth, legs and minor traces of fur are the dog. He is a cunning manifestation, working with Ri to achieve his goals. He is a bit power hungry, and often amuses Ri with his wants of getting stronger and never stopping at anything. If anyone gets in he and Ri's way, he'll demand that they be cut down.

Uhyou's genre is generally ice, though it isn't a physical attack like Hitsugaya-taichou's Hyorinmaru, or a freezing-enemy attack like Kuchiki Rukia's Sode no Shirayuki. He creates ice weapons for Ri to use.

Furu, Uhyou! (Fall, Freezing Rain!)
In his Shikai, the blade of Uhyou freezes over, blade and hilt, and seems to break up and crumble. However, the ice molds into shapes, and the sword soon becomes several boomerangs that are deadly sharp and can be thrown at enemies for an attack that will always return to Ri. He can make up to four boomerangs at once. One small scratch could be very painful, as the feeling of Uhyou's ice against an enemies' skin is like pressing dry ice up against it. It's so cold, it's hot.

Shoutai Uhyou! (Freezing Rain's true shape!)
In his Bankai, Ri hasn't quite grown strong enough for a Bankai, though he hopes to get to it as soon as he can. Uhyou becomes almost a sculptable range of ice that not only makes a strong armour around Ri, but can be molded into almost any weapon Ri wishes. The armour is hard to pierce, and the weapons Ri forms are strong, though if any break he has to carefully form them back into the armour he molded them from, and then re-form a new weapon. To take advantage of this Bankai, Ri must train and learn from Uhyou where the best pieces of armour to mold weapons are, and what weapons would work best with the ice-molding ability.

Abilities:

Shikai-

Ich-buumeran: Ri can force all four of Uhyou's boomerangs together to make one larger one. It moves more slowly, but deals more damage when it hits its' target.

Hiryuu: All four boomerangs are thrown at once, moving to circle the enemy before attacking from four directions. Ri usually adds his own attack from above with this one to assure damage to the enemy target.

Bankai-

Gigi Hima- Ri can use this ability to appear that his armour has been pierced. He winds up taking damage almost always with this ability, but while he staggers back, the chunk of armour appearing to be missing moves to fortify some other piece of armour that might actually be close to being broken through. This would be used in case a piece of armour covering vital parts of Ri's body (head, heart, stomach,ect) is about to be broken through.

Emono: Kyuukyou Buki- All of the armour on Ri's body is used to make one massive weapon, sometimes ranging from a giant axe, to a sword, to even a giant boomerang. However, the weapon can only be formed for a few moments, up to one minute, before it dissipates leaving Ri with just the usual Uhyou he carries on his back every day. If all else fails, this is Ri's final attack and it takes up a lot of rieatsu. If he loses after this attack, he's as good as dead. If he wins, he pretty much passes out afterward.

Other: Ri in a nutshell- Not on the side of good, daydreamer, strong, intelligent. Cold like ice carved in the shape of a smile. Hates spicy foods, loves sweets and sour foods. Bad person to be friends with, even though he seems like a great guy to be friends with. Egotistical, precise, simple.

Trowa The Fearless

Username: Trowa The Fearless

Character Name: Makoto Yohare

Gender: Male

Age: Died at 18, in Soul Society for 7 years.

Appearance: Makoto stands at about 6'0", with a fairly thin build. He has short, spikey blood-red hair and emerald green eyes. He wears his Zanpakutou on his left side. He dons the blue-and-white robes of a male student.

Background/Biography: In the living world, Makoto was the only child of an artist and a popular Fantasy writer. His mother (the artist) spent most of her time in the basement with her canvas, while his father spent most of his in the office. Thus, Makoto had a lot of free time, which he spent practicing kendo and meditating, which helped in the development of his reiatsu.

When he turned 15, his family moved to Nice, in France. Makoto's parents never told him why, but he didn't care. By the time he turned 18, he had become very fluent in the French language.

The night before his death, Makoto had a dream in which Lune-de-Sang, his Zanpakutou, appeared. The next day, he was involved in a particularly nasty car accident, which killed him right away. Makoto then arrived in East Rukongai, where he was taken in by a couple of artists. After about a year, Makoto learned of the Academy. He left a note for the couple to find, and made his way there.

During his second year at the Academy, Makoto recieved his Zanpakutou and discovered that that was what Lune-de-Sang actually was. He spent the next few years focusing mainly on Zan and Hadou, as he seriously lacked at the other departments, especially Bokudou. At the start of his 5th year, Lune-de-Sang appeared to him in another dream, in which she told Makoto her name.

Rank: 6th-year student

Zanpakutou: Lune-de-Sang (French for "Moon of Blood"). It is released with Makoto's blood and the command: "Brillez, Lune-de-Sang!" (translated as "Shine, Moon of Blood!")

Spiritual Manifestation: Lune-de-Sang takes the form of a woman with vulpine ears and tail, wearing a Kitsune mask.

Sealed: Makoto's Zanpakutou looks basically like the average katana, except for the thin channels etched into the blade, which hold the blood he uses to release its Shikai form.

Transformation/Shikai: Makoto runs his index finger across the blade from hilt to tip while shouting the release command. The blood he draws flows into the channels, triggering the transformation. While the main blade shrinks to about 1/4 of its normal length, two shining red blades extend from the hilt, meeting in the middle, where the main blade's tip was. The result is the shape of a sunflower seed. The Zanpakutou has the ability to channel Makoto's reiatsu into the ground, coming up at the opponent in the form of red lightning.

Abilities:

Bakudou: none.

Hadou: Red Lightning - This is basically a variation of the Byakurai (White Lightning). A weak attack that fires a crimson bolt of lightning from Makoto's hand.

Shakkahou (Shot of Red Fire) - A moderate attack that fires a crimson fireball from Makoto's hand.

Raikouhou (Thunder Roar Cannon) - A strong attack that fires a large blast of energy at an opponent. For Makoto, the energy is red, instead of the standard yellow.

Other: I only listed the techniques that Makoto uses most often.

Trowa The Fearless

Username: Trowa The Fearless

Character Name: Alaia Bittore

Gender: Female

Age: Alaia lived in the human realm for 24 years. About two weeks later, she turned into a Hollow (more details in Bio). She was a hollow for approximately 190 years, before developing a taste for other hollows. Alaia took about 40 years to become a Vasto Lorde. 38 years prior to the storyline, she removed her mask (this was 10 years after the rise in rank).

Appearance: Alaia's look is best described as "Proper Military". Her shoulder-length greyish hair is done in a fashion similar to the "Emotion" style. Her eyes are a deep shade of purple. The remains of her mask take the form of G-clefs next to her ears. Alaia's clothing--a long, elegant tunic, leggings, and buttoned-down boots--are all black and gold, as well as her Zanpaku-tou.

Background/Biography: For sixteen years of her human life in Spain, Alaia was a somewhat happy-go-lucky girl. She had many friends, and was the star of her school's Track team. The girl's personality was lost completely about a month before her seventeenth birthday. That was the night that her parents died, right in front of her eyes. Since then, the only things she had were Track, her friends (the few that remained), and a ton of responsibilities. She became very business-like and cautious as a result. After graduating, Alaia spent the rest of her life running marathons and training for the Olympics. Unfortunately, she never made it. On the plane ride to the site of that year's Games, a leak was discovered in the fuel lines when the tank was about ninety percent empty. The jet crashed into the water, nine hundred miles from shore. Alaia's flotation device malfunctioned, and she had never learned to swim. She sank like a stone. However unlikely, she was the only one to die in the accident.

About two weeks later, the soul managed to reach the shore of her original destination. sadly, she arrived just in time for the closing ceremonies. Spain's biggest rival that year was declared the winner (Alaia's event was the deciding medal). With how many hours she had dedicated to training for the Games, her anger was enough to tear her soul chain apart. The first thing she did as a hollow was take revenge on the winners of the event in which she was supposed to compete. That being done, she found her way into Hueco Mundo, where she spent the next 190 years in solitude, only venturing out when it was absolutely necessary to devour more souls. On the last day of that 190th year, the humans weren't providing enough sustinence, so the corrupted soul started preying on any hollow foolish enough to cross her path.

The next forty years went like a flash. All she did was devour. After achieving the level of Vasto Lorde, she sought the residence of others like her. It seemed female Menos were hard to find those days, so she was constantly mocked by the other Vasto Lordes. Ten years later, Alaia had had enough and decided that the only way to finally get some respect from those insignificant fools was to become an Arrancar. She reached the surface of the desolate land of hollows and tore that hateful mask from her face, revealing the beauty hidden from the Universe by this grotesque body. The next thirty-eight years were spent working her way up to her current position as Espada #4.

Rank: Arrancar (former Vasto Lorde class Menos) (Espada #4)

Zanpakutou: Zora (meaning "Light of Dawn"). It is released with the command "Blaze, Zora!"

Sealed form: The only special things about Alaia's sealed Zanpaku-tou are the serpentine shape of the guard and the two-coloured weave pattern on the grip.

Release: It's fairly simple as far as transformations go. A pair of six-foot wings sprout from Alaia's back, her fingers become claws, and a mask (think Iceringer) materialises across her face. That's all there is to it.

Alaia has one special technique in her released form's arsenal. She takes flight, stopping only when her wingspan reaches from one end of the Sun to the other. She then executes a perfect nose dive, straight at a target. Upon making contact with the ground, Alaia releases a wave of reiatsu that explodes all around her. Alternately, she can unleash a barrage of Bala blasts on her descent.

Abilities:

Bala: Alaia fires a concentrated ball of red reiatsu from her fist. It's not as powerful as Cero, but it's fast, which is why she prefers it.

Hierro: Alaia's skin is stronger than steel, due to her compressed reiatsu.

Sonido: Alaia uses the Arrancar equivalent of Shunpo quite a bit.

Flare: Alaia has a natural ability to temporarily blind her opponent for approximately twenty seconds, which is nearly enough time to allow her to completely destroy an Adjuchas-class Menos.

Other: If you ever call Alaia an "old woman", she wouldn't think twice about killing you.

Tana la Scrivana

Username: Tana la Scrivana

Character Name: Maroon Chambers

Gender: Male

Age: Maroon lived on the Earth for nineteen years; he later became a shinigami and worked in the Seireitei for close to a hundred years. He’s lived for 200 more (give or take) years since his transformation into a Vaizard.

Appearance: Maroon’s appearance can be summed up in one word: flamboyant. Throwing away his clothes and ties with Seireitei, he wears a loose, unbuttoned purple long sleeve shirt followed by a pair of completely ravaged blue jeans that look as if they’ve been through both four wars’ worth of work. Contrasting to his shirt and pants, Maroon settled for some typical black combat boots, the top covered by his jeans. Maroon wears classy white dancing gloves, and always has an orchid in his light ruby-orange locks of hair that drape his shoulders. Maroon’s slender torso can be seen from in-between the gap that is formed from his unbuttoned shirt.

Background/Biography: Maroon’s human life was nothing more than a farce, he was aspiring to become an actor and he was great to boot. He was so obsessed with acting, that it seemed his actual life, the one on the set, was his fake life. Maroon has always been animated and emotional, and he always voiced his opinions about his strong beliefs. This didn’t change after he died on stage after accidentally drinking poison (He grabbed the wrong bottle and wasn’t paying attention). Once he arrived in Soul Society, his personality wasn’t the only feature about him he found enhanced. His attitude transformed from animated to obnoxious (some would call it overly-annoying) and incredibly flamboyant. He quickly found himself admitted into Soul Society’s Gotei 13 after an incredible “performance” of stealing a shinigami’s zanpakutou and managing to keep it away for more than a week without being caught. His ability to completely conceal all traces of his spiritual presence (which was only marginally stronger than that of an average soul) was what attracted the Gotei 13 after he was caught. Of course, Maroon thought it was all fun and games until he was clad in uniform and eventually joined Kisuke’s squad. He instantly hit if off with Kisuke and gladly volunteered for some strange research. Later on, Maroon found himself struggling with his “inner self”, a hollow from within. He later on became one of the first Vaizard to exist. Months before he left soul society for Hueco Mundo, Maroon happened upon a small girl shinigami that had only started training at the academy. For some reason the girl followed him everywhere he went without hesitation – even the bathroom. The day he left for what he thought would be forever, the small girl followed him as well. He took it upon himself to raise her as best someone so insane could; he even gave her his surname which she mistakes as a sign of commitment.

Rank: Vaizard (Ex-shinigami)

Zanpakutou: Eseguire, Ombra’marmitta (Execute, Shadow-silencer)

Ombra’marmitta’s manifestation: Ombra’marmitta has appeared before Maroon several times before he transformed into a Vaizard. Ombra’marmitta is a large female tiger that stands about four feet tall and is as long as six feet. The rather peculiar feature of Ombra’marmitta is that her fangs are too large to fit in her mouth (much like a saber-tooth tiger). Also, her stripes are also peculiarly placed, as they are horizontal rather than vertical.

Hollow manifestation // mask: Maroon’s inner hollow and mask closely resemble the shape of a chameleon, if a chameleon had body parts of a human. The personality of Maroon’s inner hollow is completely insane as it takes on schizophrenic and sadistic traits. When Maroon manipulates his inner hollow, his mask takes on the form of the chameleons face, except it has four horns which make a pattern identical to a diamond. In order to manifest his hollow mask, Maroon holds his hand out from his face, then jams it inward into his face which he then pulls his mask outwards.

Sealed form: Ombra’marmitta is a normal katana, like most other sealed zanpakuto. Maroon carries Ombra’marmitta in a rather unorthodox way, however. Ombra’marmitta is worn on Maroon’s right side, the sheath’s belt is wrapped around his right shoulder, and the hilt faces down instead of up. Maroon pulls Ombra’marmitta out upside down and pulls forward in an upward slicing motion. The left side of the blade is engraved with the word “dark” and the right side is engraved with “light”. The hilt is in the shape of a butterfly.

Shi-kai: After the command for Ombra’marmitta has been spoken, the zanpakutou undergoes a massive transformation, and the release for Ombra’marmitta is quite showy. When Ombra’marmitta undergoes shi-kai, Maroon leaps into the sky, holding his right arm straight up, keeping the rest of his body as missile-like as possible. After Maroon lands, Ombra’marmitta’s appearance has already changed. The handle still upside down, the blade has curled around to the front of his fist, and also extended up to his shoulder, lying on the back of his arm. This queer blade unfortunately does not bend as Maroon bends his elbow; the metal remains straight. He uses Ombra’marmitta as if it were his normal fist, just with a blade attached to it. His battle technique is rather up-close and personal, but he does have a few techniques in his arsenal to make account for this: Cieco, Nascondere, and Spinta.

Ban-kai (Ombra’marmitta Giudizio [Shadow-Silencer Judgment]): Maroon’s body glows red when he initiates his ban-kai. He literally burns up temperature-wise without actually combusting, he clasps his hands together as if he were praying. Ombra’marmitta melts onto his hands and his gloves become metallic silver, fists of iron. His hands grow horns all over them, resembling that of a gauntlet. His body then cools and his speed and strength are massively enhanced and he can use Spinta and Cero with both hands. When he moves he is either seen as a black or white body (whether he is black or white depends purely on his opponent).

Abilities: Maroon has studied extensively in several arts of jousting, and trained exclusively to fist fight against swords. He can sometimes be compared with a brawler or boxer. He can also completely eradicate any traces of his reiatsu, but this generally is of no use because of his noisy personality and behavior. Maroon fights recklessly unless trapped in a sticky situation. He never loses his sharp and witty tongue; however, and fights constantly with his words.

Maroon is completely inept at using kidou, except for Cero which he learned in Hueco Mundo. He never uses this technique and considers it unsportsmanlike. Maroon’s Cero, when used comes from each of the fingers (not thumb) on his left hand.

Shunpo (flash step): Maroon is completely obsessive when it comes to the use of this skill. Once Maroon fully mastered Shunpo, he decided he would either walk or use shunpo. There’s no inbetween for him.

Cieco (Blind): In Ombra’marmitta’s shi-kai form, Maroon holds Ombra’marmitta vertically and turns the right side of the blade towards his opponent and the blade becomes increasingly brighter, transforming every color seen by his opponent ten shades lighter (not blindness, but close) than it actually is.

Nascondere (“to” conceal): Maroon lifts the blade horizontally in front of his eyes, showing the left side of the blade to his opponents. His reiatsu is concentrated in such a way that makes Maroon temporarily invisible from every direction except if seen from above.

Spinta (Thrust): From a distance, Maroon can objectify his reiatsu in the front of his fist (the blade part of Ombra’marmitta) and he thrusts this energy from afar with a punching motion.

Other: Maroon is ironically colorblind, the title and traits of his Zanpakutou are based on this. Maroon’s chameleon inner hollow has given him incredible depth perception and the ability to see in all 360* of vision. While Maroon is typically unable to control Chamo, Chelsea has a relatively easy time telling Chamo what to do.

Tana la Scrivana

User Name: Tana la Scrivana

Character Name: Chelsea Chambers

Gender: Female

Age: Died at age seven, spent fifty years in the seireitei becoming a new student. Left with her companion Maroon to Hueco Mundo and spent 200 years with him there training.

Appearance: Chelsea is still rather short, being only a child when she died. She is a little more than four feet tall. She weighs nothing more than one hundred pounds with her slim stature. To her dismay, she has only developed some as a woman, since aging outside of the living world takes much longer. She has grown long crimson hair which she secretly dies to match her companion, Maroon’s. Her hair doesn’t really match her ocean-blue eyes, but it doesn’t stop her. When Maroon when to the world of the living to pick up clothes he stole for Chelsea a purple and white spiraled t-shirt and blue jeans several sizes smaller than his own for Chelsea to wear. She picked out a pair of sandals on her own after rejecting several pairs that Maroon had brought for her. In her hair she also wears an orchid symbolic of her love and admiration for Maroon.

Background/Biography: Chelsea died a young girl who was born to a rape victim. Her family and mother saw her as a burden and constant reminder of what tragedy befell her mother. She wasn’t even given a name after she was born; Chelsea was often neglected and left to play on her own. One afternoon when her mother had miraculously let her go to the park, she was hit by a car when attempting to retrieve her ball which had gone onto the streets. When she woke up in the soul society, things really turned up, everyone she’d met was incredibly nice but it was hard to really fit in without a name. When the shinigami discovered her playing with a ball of her own she’d made with spirit energy, they adopted her into the training program. Having dozed off through one of her classes, she ran into a shinigami who seemed rather odd and different than all of the others, not knowing that he had, in fact been turned into something completely different. She adored him, and later on fell in love with him. Following him everywhere, she learned all there was to Maroon and his conditions. When he left Seireitei she followed him against his wishes and they rarely left each other’s side afterwards. When Chelsea explained with as few words as she knew how that she didn’t have a name, Maroon spent a year drawing names in the sand for her to pick. Realizing how long it took after she chose Chelsea he gave her his last name to shorten the time it was taking away from his training. When he wasn’t training, Chelsea was instructed in the ways of fighting as a shinigami. He instructed her as best as he could, and she developed rather quickly despite her general lack of knowledge in anything. Throughout her experience she became what she considered a normal girl, somewhat talkative, outgoing, and loved every minute when she trained with Maroon. She also takes the time to put Chamo, Maroon’s inner hollow, in his place and keeps Maroon straightened out though there are times when it’s too much to control.

Rank: Academy drop out, probably as strong as a captain or a really strong lieutenant

Zanpakutou: Dividere, Macaira (Sever, Marlin)

Macaira’s manifestation: As a direct translation of her name, Macaira is a marlin. Macaira always appears as if there is water around, swimming as she talks and gives advice to Chelsea. Unlike many other zanpakutou, Macaira is absolutely normal in appearance.

Sealed form: Macaira’s sealed form has a blade which is slightly longer than normal, and skinnier. Moreover, there is a slight notch missing below the tip of the katana which causes a ripping consequence if Chelsea slices into her enemies. Other than this, it is completely normal.

Shi-kai: When Chelsea releases Macaira, she shoves the blade into the ground. When she pulls it out, the katana has transformed into a glaive with two blades on each end of the metal shaft. Like the release command suggests, Macaira is only used for long ranged slicing. Each blade on the shaft is serrated to cause increasing amounts of harm to Chelsea’s opponent as she returns the glaive to herself. Thrusting Macaira is generally useless unless trying to scare the opponent.

Ban-kai (Strappo [Rip]): Chelsea is still currently attempting to master her bankai Strappo. When initiated Macaira breaks in half, to give both hands each half a glaive. They also extend in length (about a foot and a half each blade) and thicken (half a foot thick both blades on each shaft combined) for maximum reach. On her back, a shield forms in the shape of two large glaive blades back to back like on the shafts of Macaira. This protects her from assaults to her back side.

Abilities: Unable to learn how to use anything other than physical attacks from Maroon, her ability list, like his, is incredibly limited. Though unlike Maroon, she is not unable to perform said techniques. She only has two techniques that she learned from Maroon, a form of Cero which is different, and Shunpo which she had to learn to keep up with Maroon.

Shunpo (Flash-step): Chelsea has almost developed her skills with Shunpo to rival that of her companion. Chelsea prefers to walk; however, finding it more relaxing.

Brandello (Shred): This is Chelsea’s unique version of Cero that she learned from Maroon. Instead of gathering energy in her palm, it collects at the tip of her extended pointer finger. Swinging it down upon foes, it creates a crevice rather than a crater upon impact.

Pesci Dorsale (Fish dorsal): To use this technique, Chelsea concentrates much of her spirit energy into the outer pair of blades and grabs the shaft near the inner pair. She then swings from afar in a motion that mimics chopping wood. The spirit energy is thrust from the blade directed at her opponents like a moving dorsal fin.

Deviare (Deflect): When using shi-kai Deviare is used to protect Chelsea from projectile attacks, as she catches the projectiles in a current that she creates from moving her glaive with incredible strength and speed. Though in inexperience, she rarely pushes it back towards the one who attempted to harm her from afar.

Vortice (Whirlwind): As the name suggests, Chelsea spins around stupidly fast with her glaives sideways to make several deep incisions upon her enemies. This technique can only be used during ban-kai form.

Other: Chelsea is hopelessly devoted to Maroon, and perhaps one of the only people that tell his inner hollow what to do. Chelsea also likes to brag about her relationship with Maroon and secretly desires to be a Vaizard like he is.

 

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Username: waya achak

Character Name: Hans MacLaren

Gender: Female

Age: 15 when she died, she has spent 20 years in Seireitei so she's 35

Appearance: Hans is about 5'2 and slightly pudgy, but muscular. The bottom half of her head is shaved, and her natural brown color, while the top half is long (about down to her chin) and dyed hot pink. She had a silver hoop in her left ear and a scar going down through her right eyebrow which is noticeable if she moves her bangs out of the way. Her body (arms and legs especially) are riddled with small scars from all of the fights she has been in since she arrived and even when before when she was alive. She has large expressive dark brown eyes.

Background/Biography: Hans real name (which nobody knows in Seireitei, aside from Kyuubi) is Hannah. Hannah had a relatively normal child hood and grew up in a very rural town. Her parents divorced though her father lived right down the street from her, and she rarely ever saw him (her mother won the custody battle) except on a few special days of the year, and whenever he was riding by on his tractor. When she was 9 her father died from lung cancer, affecting her Brother very deeply as he had been the closest to him out of of the two. It's not to say she wasn't sad and didn't cry, but she was crying for somebody she hardly knew.

Her freshmen year of high school, she was diagnosed with the same disease that had killed her father, and she was bed ridden in the hospital for most of her freshmen year. A few months after her fifteenth birthday, she was in so much pain that she begged her mother to unplug the machine's and just let her go. Her mother complied though she didn't want to and watched her baby girl fade away with a smile on her face.

Hannah woke up in the poor district (West Rukongai?) surrounded by trees and curious children. When they asked her her name, she told them "Hans" as she felt that she was no longer Hannah, and now had the power to change her long hated name. As Hans was born, so was a small child's gang in the district. She looked out for her fellows as the leader of it and made sure they all had food and a place to get out of the weather, building themselves a shelter out in the woods. While she had been alive, Hans had taken Shoto-kan style of Karate for a number of years and set about teaching the kids so that they could defend themselves. One day while leading her 'students' in meditation Kyuubi appeared to her in her minds eye, and winked at her before disappearing. Her riatsu spiked for a moment, alerting a few shinigami who were walking nearby coming back from killing a Hollow. They recruited her to go to Shino Reijutsu Academy, and she is beginning her first actual year there, as she arrived in the middle of classes last time. As such she has received her Zanpakutou, which she has discovered since is Kyuubi, and the little fox likes to wonder around and sit on her shoulder sometimes during the day, helping her with her studies.

When the Hollows attacked, Hans was there helping to fight them back, unfortunately she was knocked unconcious from a particularly nasty landing on the stone floor and was sucked into the portal to Hueco Mundo.

Rank: Freshmen

Zanpakutou: Kawa, Kyuubi! ( Bark, Nine-tail! )

Sealed - Kyuubi is a wakazashi in her sealed form, with a gold pommel, Tsuba, and Menuki. The menuki is a small fox with multiple tails, stalking down the tsuka (handle). The wrapping around the handle is a dark purple color and tucks up under the pommel to keep the wrapping in place, though it pokes back out to make to handing ends. The tsuba is square, with feather details in it.

Shikai - Kyuubi’s shikai form is a large Tessen (iron fan) that has 9 blades, each are about from elbow to tip of middle finger in length. The outside edges of the blades are golden yellow, while the interior is black, with purple detailing of tails on each of the blade.

Kyuubi - Kyuubi manifests herself as a small purple fox, with purple whites, blue irises, and yellow pupils. She has 9 tails, each tipped in golden yellow, just like her ears. She also has small lightning like details in her fur of the same color. She is about the size of a Jack Russell Terrier, but with long and poofy tails.

Abilities:

Kushi Raikou (Spit lightning) - When Kyuubi is in shikai form, Hans can charge up each blade on the fan to ‘spit’ lightning out at her opponent

Other: Hans has a tendency to treat her fan a bit like a boomerang, which she’ll throw it, and it’ll come back to her.

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Username: Mirouni

Character Name: Tsuki Ken

Gender: Male

Age: 17 years spent on earth 24 in the spirit world.

Appearance: Reference Pic.
Tsuki stands at six foot one inch, he has a fair complexion, with a light tan bronzing his skin. His eyes area fierce blue with a black ring around the center, barely before the retina. He has short black hair, which tends to be a bit spiked most of the time, but still hangs loose. He is reasonably strong physically, with a well-built athletic build. He normally carries his Zanpaktutou, as he dislikes having to wear it on his waist. When he is forced to wear it, he usually wears it horizontally across his lower back, with the handle facing to his right. He has a tattoo of the kanji for fire on the back of his right hand, and another of the kanji for power on his left.
He also has a long diagonal scar from a training accident that runs from underneath his left eye to the center of his cheek.


Background/Biography: Tsuki lived what many would say was the perfect teenage life. He had a beautiful girl, a wonderful family, and everything else any boy could wish for. But he was still not happy. He tried everything to step outside of his sadness, sports, cooking, even going for long trips across Japan. But no matter what he did, he was still unhappy.
After he turned sixteen, Tsuki was already heavily into drinking. He would spend every night with his so-called friends getting wasted beyond belief. His parents, aware of his actions, did everything they could to prevent him from partying, but to no avail.
On the day of his seventeenth birthday, Tsuki made a fatal mistake. He had been drinking heavily, and was walking the streets of lower Tokyo, holding a large jug of sake in his right hand. He foolishly walked into the middle of the street, and was then struck by a small truck, instantly killing him.
Just before Tsuki died, he saw a shining blue dragon, staring at him with saddened eyes.

Tsuki spent the first twenty years of his life in east Rukongai, living with a kind family who helped him to find work. This work primarily consisted of several odd jobs around the village, as well as working in a local noodle shop on the weekends.
Tsuki saw the dragon several times during these twenty years, but never fully understood what it was until the seventeenth year, when it spoke to him, telling him that it had been watching over him since his death, and that it was there to protect and help him.
He conversed with the dragon several times after that, learning that it's name was Hinote-taiga, fire river.
He spent three more years working at the noodle shop before learning of the Shin’o Reijutsu Academy, he asked his host family for permission to enter the school, which they granted upon his frequent requests.
During his first year at the school, Tsuki quickly learned the lessons of pain, respect, and thinking before you act. These lessons were hard-learned, many beaten into his head by older students before he understood them.
He recieved his Zanpaktutou in his second year, and learned soon after that Hinote-taiga was his Shikai.

During a sparring match one day, Tsuki grew angry after being defeated in a rather painful method, and accidently released his Zanpaktutou's shikai form, the result throwing the other student across the room.
Since then, Tsuki has been much more cautious about using his Zanpaktutou, and tries to avoid conflict whenever possible.

Rank: 5th year student.

Zanpakutou: In his Zanpaktutou's sealed form, it appears to be little more than an average katana, with the exception that it is slightly thicker than normal, with a blade a full half inch larger than the average Zanpaktutou.

Tsuki's Hinote-taiga. (Lit. Flame River by my translation.) It is released with the phrase. "Flow Hinote-taiga, burn the fields with your wrath." Although Tsuki has seen the full manifestation of his Zanpaktutou, he still has some trouble controlling it.

In sealed form, Tsuki's Zanpaktutou appears to be thicker and heavier in the blade than most Zanpaktutou, having a blade that is a full inch and a half thicker than the average. The blade itself is engraved with two kanji, one on each side of the blade near the hilt. The first kanji is "peace" and the second, ""Power" depicting the necessity of power to ensure peace.
The handle of his Zanpaktutou is black, save for a single line of blood red cord that spirals from kashiri (buttcap) to tsuba (guard).

Hinote-taiga manifests in the form of a great blue river dragon nearly twenty feet long. It is said to be a manifestation of the wrath of the river, and is incorporated in many legends in the living world.

Tsuki's Zanpaktutou is unique in the aspect that it reflects a dual nature, both peaceful and powerful, kind and cruel. The nature is also reflected in Tsuki's eyes, revealing the two sides of him that are the most prominent. In it's Shikai form, it takes on the appearance of a Chinese jian, which tends to give his opponents the idea that he is not as powerful as some, a mistake rarely duplicated.

When Hinote-taiga is used in battle, it is accompanied by a burning inferno that manifests after each attack, with a thrust, a beam of twisting fire blasts forth, with a slice, an arch wave of fire, and so on.

Abilities:
Precognition - While in Shikai form, Tsuki can anticipate and react to his opponents attacks with great speed and precision. This technique is still difficult for Tsuki however, so he has a much harder time keeping up with other students' attacks.

Yakedo no shingai (Burning terror) - A complex attack that allows Tsuki to release a small maelstrom of fire at an enemy while in Shikai form.

Hinotama-o kaze (fireball of the wind) - This technique allows Tsuki to create a large fireball while in Shikai form, the fireball is released with a sword attack.

Kasai Ken (fire sword) - This technique allows Tsuki to control a second sword, made entirely of fire, while in Shikai form. This sword does not actually come into contact with Tsuki, but rather mimics the actions of his Zanpaktutou, allowing him to attack over great distances and heights.

Ken-o Ho-masubi (Sword of the fire god) - Tsuki releases a powerful wave of flame with his Shikai, the wave expands at a horizontal, with very little expanding vertically, mimicking a blade cut.

Suraisu (slice) - Tsuki releases a single paper-thin wave of fire at rapid speed. The fire is both sharp and hot enough to cut through most materials, but not quite so sharp as to be able to harm steel.

Special: Pain of Meggiddo - Tsuki unleashes several flame attacks at an enemy, creating confusion, then leaps into the sky with a rising slash, releasing a large fireball.

Other: Despite the violent nature of his Shikai, Tsuki is a very kind soul, and only resorts to using his Shikai when the situation is grave.

 

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Continuation of . . .

Act II: Black Trees, White Sand



Fight for survival . . .