┠Back To The Basics ┨
"I've lost that forgotten something from back then. This distance is somewhat bittersweet. I swear. . . using faded words and sounds. I want to see a future with you in it again..."



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••●Name: Yomiko Shihouin
••●Aliases/ Nicknames: Yomi || Gran-Gran/Grandma
••●Age: Appears To Be 27 [But she doesn't let anyone know her real age]
••●Race: Vizard
••●Vizard Class: C-Class
••●Reiatsu Colour: Evergreen
••●Seat:Current Captain of the 2nd Division || Former Unseated Officer of the 13th Division || Former Vice-Captain of the 2nd Division


••●Height: 5'6"
••●Weight: 125 lbs
••●Personality: Eccentric and a bit gregarious, this is what most people would call Yomiko when they first meet her. She is a mature individual, often keeping her calm in most situations that she is placed in. Yomiko, when the time is right, likes to joke around with others and be carefree to an extent. Yomiko exhibits alot of self-control due to her upbringing and doesn't give in easily to her 'impulses'. The woman is not easily swayed by others opinions unless they give her a very convincing argument. She's a fan of intellectual conversations rather than useless babble she is usually subjected to, often getting very bored when she has to listen to the same topic repeatedly. Yomiko is quite observant, often picking up on the little things that people do or say. Some might called her laid-back, which she is only when she is in her comfort zone. She isn't the type of woman to hold her tongue, often stating her opinions when necessary. People can call Yomiko a bit stubborn, and she admits that she is stubborn to a certain degree. The woman doesn't care what others think about her. She doesn't care, she just does her own thing. She's a generous person as well, even if she can be a bit difficult, she'll go out of her way to do things for people when she can. Her work ethics are standard. The woman is serious about her job and her eccentric personality seems to simmer down when she is doing her job. To Yomiko, her job is quite serious because of this she doesn't play around or take things lightly.

••●Physical Description: Yomiko’s of average height, standing at a steady 5’6”. Her skin is a rich dark brown and her eyes are a light aurum. Yomiko’s thick sienna hair falls down to her shoulders, but recently she had been wearing it in a messy bun. Her physical physique is, what one would describe as ‘hourglass’ shaped, but she’s rather toned. Her ears are pierced, having a golden cuff on both of the helix’s of her ears. She has several tattoo’s on her person as well, one on her right wrist that reads ‘Many Moons’ and another on her on her left shoulderblade with the kanji for ‘hope’.Her Shinigami Uniform isn't like the others. She doesn't wear the Kosode but like other shinigami she does wear the Hakama pants. Replacing the Kosode, she sometimes could be found wearing a dark hoodie or even a regular jacket with a matching tank top. The woman wears her Zanpaku-to on her back via a brown strap suede strap though this is only if she carries it around with her, which is rare.

••●Medical Problems: Pulmonary Embolism
••●Theme Songs: Sora Takaku || Cold War || Come Alive ||


┠The Zanpaku-to┨
"Tommy thinks the crazies are back in my mind. Tommy says the children are clouding my head. When everything is wrong, I dance inside your mind."


••●Zanpakuto Name and Sealed Description: Persephone - Persephone is a long Odachi reigning 67 inches long in length. Because of the length, Yomiko usually doesn't carry her sword around with her. If she does, she usually carries the sword is carried on her back or shoulder via a brown strap. The sheath of Persephone is obsidian with the Kanji 'Hell' inscribed largely near the guard and seppa of the sword. The Tsuba of the sword is obsidian, detailed with an intricate tribal pattern. The hilt of Persephone has a dingy, red material wrapped around it that is similar to one from a female Shino-Reijustuin uniform.

••●Zanpaku-to Spirit: Persephone is a 'sculpted' woman standing at a staggering height of 6'5". Her body resembles one of a light weight body builder, her muscles are quite toned as well as her abs. The woman is quite pale in comparison to others, given the lack of sunlight in her realm. Persephone's hair colour is a midnight black; her hair is in the style of a mohawk, a long one reaching down the tip of her behind. Her orbs are a dark crimson colour and her ears are pointed up slightly, like an elf's. She has numerous piercings on her body, one on her left nostril, a tongue piercing, cuffs on both of her ears as well as several hoops, and other places that aren't mentioned. The Zanpaku-to spirit is literally covered in dark, tribal tattoos all the way from the base of her feet, extending to the very tips of her fingers to the very crevices of her face. On her wrists and ankles are worn shackles and rusted chains, that looked as though they have been broken and old. Her breasts are wrapped in bandages, providing a 'strapless bra' look. Her waist is wrapped in a large red scarf, which is tied to the back allowing the two loose tattered strands to hang. Persephone wears a short skirt that stops at mid-thigh. She wears no type of shoes. She goes barefoot.

••●Zanpaku-to Sword Type: Odachi
••●Zanpaku-to Element: Fire

••●Shikai: 'Prossimo a me... La dea di inferno...Persephone.'
The Zanpaku-to's default form of a Odachi Sword turns into a long Ivory whip with purplish-black flames flaring at the end.

▫ 'Fiamma nera a mezzaluna...'
The Crescent Black Flame allows the weilder to shoot a crescent like attack of black flames towards the weilders opponent from the flaming end of the whip.

▫'Mille pugnali neri della fiamma..'
In a similar manner of the Crescent Black Flame, the whip releases a black flame attack. The black flame appears as so, but it soon materializes into a multitude of dark daggers.

••●Bankai: [Stage 1]'Liberi le fiamme di inferno... Persephone'
The whole area within a radius of Yomiko becomes a barren wasteland of hell. The Earth starts to take on another form, earthquakes start to make themselves known. The atmoshpehere changes greatly while she is in her Bankai stage. The sky becomes a pinkish hue as the ground begins to crack and crumble, eventually breaking itself apart to allow the scorching lava of the inner core to reach the surface on earth. Her Bankai is beyond dangerous, the extreme heat of it causes most opponents trouble while in battle, if they were lucky to see it. This Bankai can be truly considered the wasteland of hell seeing as it changes the atmosphere drastically to such a description. The whip transforms into a a scythe that has blades at both of the end of the scythe, facing the opposite direction of each other. The weapon was pull apart into three sections that are connected by a metal chain via the chain, the blade can detach itself, giving the appearance of Nunchaku. This scythe is actually a dark obsidian colour with electric blue symbols written all around it as well as on the chains. These inscriptions don't seem to have an effect on Yomiko's Bankai [Stage One]. In this stage, Yomiko can control the environment as she sees fit as well as gaining mastery of her element, fire.

••●Bankai [Stage 1] Attacks:

-'Inferni che fiammeggiano fiore...'
This attack allows the user to conjour up small little spots of black flames on the battle field. By each minute, the flames grow larger and larger until the wielder deems it necessary to stop the flames. Once the flames become adequate to the wielders taste, with a flick of the wrist, the balls of obsidian flames will begin to twirl around the opponent. The flames will gradually become larger as they twirl around the opponent, slowly moving closer to the opponent as well. Once they get into a few feet of the opponent, they explode.
-'Gloria a mezzaluna più scura...' (Darker Crescent Glory)
This Attack, well, you might as well call it a larger version of the Crescent Black Flame. Only this time, the daggers are more sharper and deadlier. This attack can only be used if the weilder uses the sctyhe.

••●Bankai [Stage 2]: Pestilenza Iscrizione di Colui Tormented

Once Yomiko utters these words, the area around her becomes wilder and hotter by each second. The magma bursts higher into the atmosphere and the winds become more powerful. The writing on Yomiko's scythe begins to glow and pulse in a timely manner,to a rhythm of sorts. Cracks of the earth soon is filled up by the magma, seeping onto the earth and towards the Zanpaku-to's owner. As if the hot magma has a mind of it's own, it starts to crawl up the users body until it's covered the body in it's entirety. Once it does this, the realm seems to cool down drastically to normal temperatures, allowing the magma to cool down and harden on the user. In this state, the user is unable to move until a few moments later cracks in the obsidian [melted magma]. A blue light is seen from in between the cracks as more begin to form then suddenly a burst of power pushes the rock from off the user, showing the new form. Yomiko is encased in an obsidian-type of armour, extending from her forearms all the way to the fingers, forming long talons that are at least six inches. Yomiko is now drowned in ancient electric blue writing, similar to the ones that were on her scythe. The writing is on her armour and her exposed skin including her face. Just at the tip of where the armor starts on her forearms, the obsidian extends up into the air, forming multiple 'branches' from the main point. The obsidian covers Yomiko's head, acting as though a type of mask. The 'mask' frames her face, allowing the face just to be shown and goes down from there. Her armour covers her breast area, but not her stomach area and down to the very base of her feet.


▫Ire Afflizione

Ire Affizione is the one and only new attack after this new transformation. Ire Affizione creates a another visual transformation, the electric blue writing begins to glow eerily and starts to move slowly and brighter as time goes by. A ball of black fire forms in the palm of her hand, gradually becoming bigger until it's adequate to the user. The orb of fire that is shot at the user contains fire and daggers, similar to those used in the 'Gloria a mezzaluna piu scura' attack. The user shoots this blast at the opponent, which can render an opponent immobile, injur them really badly, kill them due to it's power and the opponents power as well. This attack costs alot of energy, leaving the user to faint causing the Zanpaku-to to go back to it's unreleased state. Because of this, it's rarely used.


▫In This Stage, she can:
▫Still have control over her element, fire and the magma.
▫Her speed and strength is a bit faster.
▫The Obsidian armor is hot to the touch, extremely hot.

┠The Magics&&Skillz ┨


••●Kidou:
▫Bakudo:

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. Strike (撃,Geki) — Engulfs a target in red light, completely paralyzing them.
12. Fushibi: A net formed from an attachment point on the caster, can be small or large depending on the reiatsu force behind it.
37. Suspending Star (吊星, tsuriboshi) - 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.[6]
58. Summoning of the Tracking Sparrows (摑趾追雀, kakushitsuijaku) — Tracks and locates any spiritual force the user focuses on.
61. Six Rods Prison of Light (六杖光牢, rikujōkōrō) — Summons six thin, but wide, beams of light that slam into a target's midsection, holding them in place.
62. Hundred Stepped Rails (百歩欄干, hyapporankan?) — A rod formed of energy is thrown towards the target before it disintegrates into numerous short rods which are used to pin the target to the surroundings and render them immobile.
63. Chainlike Desert (Sajo Sabaku)— The target is wrapped from the neck down in a thick chain.
75. Quintet of 1 kan Iron Pillars (五柱鉄貫, gochūtekkan) — Forms a cage made of five incredibly high and thick pillars around a target.
77. Heavenly Rickshaws in Silken Air (天挺空羅, tenteikūra) — Transmits messages to anyone within Soul Society.
81. Splitting Void (斷空, danku) — Creates an energy barrier in the form of a rectangular wall.

▫Hado:

1. Thrust (衝, shō) — Pushes the target away from the caster.
4. White Lightning (白雷, byakurai) — Fires a concentrated bolt of lighting from the caster's forefinger.
11. Tsuzuri Raiden: Imbues and object with an electrical current. The technique was used by Hisagi Shuuhei, by allowing the kidou to travel up the chain of his zanpakutou, Shinikaze.
31. Shot of Red Fire (赤火砲, shakkahō) — Fires a ball of red energy at a target.
33. Blue Fire, Crash Down (蒼火墜, sōkatsui) — Fires a burst of blue spiritual energy at a target in a similar manner to 31, but over a wider area and with more power.
54. Waste Flame (廃炎, haien)— Incinerates a target completely.
58. Orchid Sky (闐嵐, tenran) - A widening tornado-like blast is fired towards the target.
63. Thunder Roar Cannon (雷吼炮, raikōhō) — Fires a massive wave of yellow energy at a target.
73. Twin Lotus Blue Fire, Crash Down (双蓮蒼火墜, sōren sōkatsui) — Essentially a doubled version of #33, this spell fires two shots of blue fire with greater potency than the single-shot variety.
88. Flying Dragon Striking, Heaven-Shaking, Lightning Cannon (飛竜撃賊震天雷砲, hiryūgeki zoku shinten raihō?)— Fires a massive blast of spiritual energy in a fashion similar to a laser.

••●Other:

▫Kyōmon: It creates a glass-like barrier which is difficult to break from the outside, but quite simple to break from the inside.
▫Hanki: This technique nullifies an opponent's movement by hitting them with an perfectly opposite surge of energy.
▫White Crawl (白伏, hakufuku): A Kido Spell that allows it's caster to destroy everything within a certain radius of him/her.
▫Shunkō[瞬閧, Flash Cry]: A technique that combines hand-to-hand combat and kidō. It concentrates high-pressure kidō energy around the body, allowing it to be fired at opponents. It can also be used to instantly neutralize an opponent's movement.
▫Senka [闪花, Flash Blossom]: a flash step combined with a spin to quickly move behind the enemy, followed by a strike aimed to destroy the saketsu chain and the hakusui soul sleep with a combination of two quick thrusts.
▫Utsusemi [空蝉, cicada]: Allows a person to move out of harms way by creating another image of themselves.

••●Skills:
▫Odachi Mastery: It is widely known that the Odachi is a long sword that was used for ceremonial offerings and the like. Because of the size of the sword, it proved to be a feat for someone who wanted to wield it. Yomiko is able to wield the heavy sword as if she were able to wield a normal Katana.
▫Enhanced Strength: Despite her appearance, Yomiko is quite strong.
▫Shunpo: Yomiko seems to be well talented in the use of flash steps.
▫Zanjustu: Yomiko is very talented in Zanjutsu. This is a bit of a sample of her Sword Play style. [X-Yomiko's style is Flying Snow's Style (The Female)-X]
▫Hakudou: Her Hakudou style is the Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Style [Made famous my it's originator, Bruce Lee.]
▫Kidou: She has a mastery of most Kidou techniques. She can perform high level techniques without the chants.
▫Physiognomy: At the time when she was an unseated member of the 2nd Squad, her Captain took it upon her to teach her Physiognomy and Kinesics. Physiognomy is a skill that can effectively identify and analyze the features of the face that characterize a person’s personality traits.
▫Kinesics: This is the other technique that her Captain taught her. Kinesics is the reading of someone's body language. This includes movements, gestures, expressions and posture; all that convey something about personality.

••●Vizard Abilities:
Vizard Mask: [[Ahhhh. Gotta draw it... eventually]]

▫Sonído (響転（ソニード）, Sonīdo; Spanish for "sound") is the 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 caused by Flash Steps.
▫Garganta (黒腔（ガルガンタ）, garuganta; Spanish for "throat") 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.
▫Cero: are high-powered energy blasts that can be fired from various body parts, such as mouth, tongue, hand or fingers.
▫Bala: (虚弾（バラ）, bara; Spanish for "bullet", also translated as "Hollow Bullet") The technique hardens the user's Spiritual Pressure and fires it like a bullet from their fist. It is seriously weaker than a normal cero, it moves about twenty times faster and can be fired at a much higher rate, but the damage is much the same.
▫Negación: (反膜（ネガシオン）, Spanish for "negation") fields are used to rescue fellow hollows. Only the Gillian-class Menos have shown the ability to use it. Negación fields surround a target in a square beam of light that isolates the target from the dimension they are currently in, making it impossible to harm them.
▫Gran Rey Cero (王虚の閃光, (グラン・レイ・セロ), Guran Rei Sero; Japanese for "royal hollow flash", Spanish for "Grand King Zero") is a much higher-level Cero used by the Espada. It is performed by mixing an Arrancar's own blood with the Cero.



┠The History┨

"I've gone beyond the sky in order to seize it. It's wonderland now.."