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 Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:27 pm
 Character Name: 慈鳥濃佗 Jichou Kowabi (Ji-choe Koh-wah-bee)
Aliases/Nicknames: None as of yet
Race: Vizard
Gender: Female
Age: Almost pushing three millennia but gives off the appearance of being twenty.
Height: 5’6”
Weight: 101 lbs.
Birthday: Dec. 17th
Blood Type: AB-
Sexuality: N/A
Rank: 省略された黒影 Jouryaku Sareta Kokuei, (Omitted Silhouette) the personal assassin for the Sou Taicho (Captain Commander, take your pick)
Vizard Rank: S
Reiatsu Color: Bright Orange
Hollow Reiatsu Color: Deep Crimson
Theme Song: Tooi Maboroshi, Rusted from the Rain – Billy Talent
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:33 pm
Physical Appearance: Kowabi is a slip of a woman, her body thin and gaunt due to her imprisonment within the Maggot’s Nest. But her most distinguishing features are the combination of her skin color and eyes. Kowabi’s skin is literally black, as if someone took a piece of good ebony and pulled it and stretched it to fit over her body. In contrast her eyes are best described as ‘Caustic Orange’ a neon so bright it hurts to look at, in combination with her white sclera and black pupil, the fiery color makes her gaze intense no matter the emotion she’s feeling at the moment. Besides that, her face is an oxymoron…both angular and round, but in a pleasing way, at best she looks exotic even under her strange coloration. Kowabi’s hair is even darker than her skin if that’s even possible, almost the essence of darkness woven into strands so slim they feel like satiny spiders silk. She keeps her strange hair down to mid-back with bangs that cascade far enough down to brush the bridge of her nose. When hit by even slight winds her hair will dance, almost floating at any movement she makes. She has only one noticeable tattoo, the words "Soul Property" scrolled in brilliant white lettering diagonally across her left shoulder blade, created as part of the spell that subjugates her to Soul Society. The only other remarkable facet of her skin are the dark gray scars flowing across her shoulders, back, chest, upper arms and thighs, a remnant from early childhood.
Kowabi can be regularly found wearing a backless Shihakushou, one that’s been well tailored to her ever thinning body, with a tight fitting long sleeved half jacket to cover most of her exposed skin. The coat wraps snuggly around her neck and frames the triangle of flesh on her upper chest with the front of the jacket unzipped, the only bit of skin shown besides on her face and hands. Under the jacket, Kowabi has uniquely made fingerless leather gloves that extend all the way to her shoulders, being held in place by a wide strip of leather across her upper back and shoulders which wraps around her neck and is hidden beneath her half jacket. The gloves are black and white and horizontally striped, with seven of the thick bands colored black starting from her wrist and continuing upwards ending at her slim shoulder. Similarly, her tabi are actually stockings, mimicking her leather gloves and starting the black stripe at just above her ankles. The whole point to her strange clothing choice is the fact that the horizontal stripes throw off the length of her reach when striking to the opponent’s eye. It may only fool those with little experience with optical illusions, but it does give her an edge with first strikes. She also wears the standard waraji, laced tightly around her ankles.
Accessories: Kowabi keeps at least two or three small note books and a variety of ink pens with her at all times, all tucked away in the messenger like bag hung at her right hip. In small pockets in the bag she also keeps her white eye shadow, a constant coloration on her upper eye lids, for when primping in necessary. One strange accessory would be her steal gilded nails. Kowabi has an affinity for most types of metal and can mold them by hand as long as she wills it to happen, so to improve on natures design she coats her nails in a covering of steal. Occasionally she’ll remove the gildings and play with them absently; molding the tiny ball of metal much like a child molds clay. The same can be said for small silver rings fitted along her bags straps. Inside her bag she also keeps a tin flute like instrument, which she plays from time to time, only playing melodies that are whimsical yet disturbing.
Personality: Changed after the long imprisonment, Kowabi no longer acts with only one consciousness at a time, instead the three parts of her soul work in tandum, altering her original persona and striping her of two out of three lasting phobias. The one that remains is her aversion to touch, still causing her strike out at someone who intends to place their hands on her, but not to the point that she cannot touch another. Kowabi is still standoffish and cold upon first interpretations, but she no longer truly carries the hidden away happiness she once did. In its place is a combination of attributes directly from her zanpakutou spirita and inner hollow. They’ve imparted her with a fair amount of self loathing, something that she buries deep when in the presence of others, but cannot help feeding by removing her singular jacket and allowing those around her a view of her scars. The feeling of emotional pain persists in those moments, but keeps that loathing in check more often then not. Additionally, a side of her Hollow counterpart has made her malicious at times, opening her to being harsher in battle and if asked to give guidance to someone in training. The new harsh edge at least gives her some sort of character beyond the stoic expression she wears, or the sprinkling of speech she gives off from time to time.
Biography: “The past is not something I happily remember, nor is it as crisp and pristine as those of this generation.” Lifting a hand to brush away a stray strand of bangs before one eye Kowabi’s near monotone drawl continued, “I refer to not only my dislike of the subject but also a glaring lack of recollection. These years, three millennia or close I would assume, have chipped away the outer layers and have given a gauzy veil to much of my early memories. So, instead I’ll begin at a time shortly before my imprisonment.
“To say it in the simplest terms, I am a slave.”
“To remain within the Seireitei I was subjugated by a Bakudou that causes complete paralysis when invoked. The Captains of old each cast a piece of the forbidden spell and I have found no way to disentangle the energies in the binding. This is the reason for my thousand year stay in a suspended state. …I was allowed to leave the confines of Soul Society for the briefest of missions only to find my target did not at all conform to information I was given. I could say that the Sou Taicho of the time was determined to finally destroy the weapon they’d made out of me, but I cannot truly say. Either way the creature was much more difficult to eradicate then I had predicted.”
“For the first time in years I was forced to summon my Hollow abilities, and the unleashing was a far more…pleasurable experience. I lost myself in the kill and my subjugation was invoked the instant Soul Society learned of my rampage across the spiritual hotspot of the time. From there I was imprisoned in the Maggot’s Nest, to valuable a tool, but suddenly back to being completely untrustworthy. The source of my indignation in this instance was my own, I cannot say they were in the wrong and I would sincerely change the course of my actions if I could… Chalk it up to wishful thinking.”
“I don’t remember much from the induced coma that kept me in place, in reality it seemed like a single breath entered and left my body between sleep and waking. My surprise at the shift was immediate, the placement within the unfamiliar bewildering and the freedom to move a staggering weight under a body weakened by a millennia’s passing…”
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:34 pm
Zanpakutou Name: 欠片蜘蛛の巣Kakera Kumo no Su (Kah-keh-dla Ku-moh No Soo) Fragmented Spiders Web
Zanpakutou Sword Type: Wakizashi -> Dual Butterfly Daggers -> Naginata
Zanpakutou Element: Metal
Inner World: To Kowabi her Inner World is a endless black plain with an immense spiders web that’s oriented diagonally across the darkness. Even in all the blackness, the web glows a soft and inviting white, hiding the fact that if one were to fall from the web they’d be lost forever in endless darkness. Cast along each and every silken thread are drops of Kowabi’s memories, like dew. When staring into one of these droplets is like a short cinematic experience as if watching the memory directly through Kowabi, larger droplets scattered about hold light pastel colors, a glowing reminder of Kowabi’s emotions as they shift with her many moods and fears. In the very center of the lucent web are thousands of adjoining threads woven in such a way as to create a thrown, the seat where her Zanpakutou Spirit and Inner Hollow can be found.
Zanpakutou Spirit: At first glance, Kakera appears to be nothing more than a young girl just barely entering womanhood. But it that's all one sees then they are sorely mistaken. Although slim, Kakera has strength far beyond her petite size, and an attitude conducive to fits of rage when upset. She is blind, pink eyes lax as she uses the vibrations of the web to see. Being albino, her skin is a softly glowing alabaster and the hair that falls in soft waves is crystallinely white. She also talks and dresses like a lady of the courts, speaking of herself in the plural and wearing a garment of twelve layers. Her kimono though is made of the silken webbing all around, giving it a texture so satiny its like no other cloth imaginable. Differentiating the layers, a dusting of iridescent colors as if from insects long ago caught gave their body’s coloration to the threads.
As Kakera moves about the web, she reveals four spindly crystal legs that sprout from her back, keeping her steady. As she moves the cobwebs the build her gown lay down new paths of silk, rebuilding fading threads almost daily. But, she mostly passes her time by 'playing' with Kowabi's Inner Hollow, finding the empty being to be quite placid and willing to pretend to be her servant.
Unreleased: While sealed Karkera Kumo no Su is strapped to Kowabi’s right hip, allowing her ambidextrous nature to dictate which hand she draws the blade with. The Tsuba is an intricate lacing of eight spider’s legs into and antiqued silver oval. In contrast the Tsukamaki is the same neon orange as her eyes with the Same diamonds winking a perfect white. The rectangular Kashira is the same antiqued silver as the Tsuba with a neon orange cord looped through the small hole in the metal. The cord stretches down for about four inches where an antiqued chain continues on for another four inches. At the end of the chain rests a spider shaped pendent, the abdomen entirely made of and expertly cut iridescent black gem, displaying colors which should never come from black. The blade of the wakizashi is bright perfectly polished silver, well maintained by an OCD like compulsion that Kowabi can’t seem to get rid of. Besides that, the Saya is ebony with embossed patterns of cobwebs etching the surface, breaking up the unrelieved black with grays created by highlights as light strikes the lacquered sheathe.
Shikai: 夢織りの妨げられていない(Yume Ori no Samatagerareteinai) Weave unhindered dreams, 欠片蜘蛛の巣Kakera Kumo no Su.
Specifically to fit with her assassination skills, Shikai is a very subdued transformation for both her Zanpakutou and reiatsu. Holding the short Tsuka with both hands, Kowabi calls the release only with her mind. Keeping with the silent change, the blade liquefies and drips upwards as she pulls the mass of metal in two. Finishing the shift the Butterfly Daggers take form, the Tsuba becoming the head, thorax and abdomen of a silver spider with its legs turning upwards in and extended hand guard to connect with the Kashira. The fabric of the Tsukamaki reemerges from the metal with a now more red-orange tint. The last to take shape is the blades, each extending to eight inches and becoming slightly wider than the original wakizashi blade. As the blades form, bits of the extraneous metal drips up her arms to form thick bands, constantly swirling around her upper arms.
All the while, Kowabi’s reiatsu is completely held in check, not rising as with typical Shikai release, but being suppressed until the moment she strikes, then retreating back into her body once again. In all, the release is as quiet and unnoticed as a spider silently crawling up a wall.
Attacks:
最初の製織 Saijou no Seishouku, 銀めっきGinmekki (First Weaving, Silver Gild)
On invocation, the metal bands around her arms stop turning round and begin to pull downwards into thin threads, weaving together and solidifying against her skin. Although the metal is in a liquid state, it becomes hard at the slightest brush against it, yet still allows Kowabi the freedom to move. Even as her simplest Shikai skill, the gilding on her body works well with her close range fighting style, letting her both attack and defend.
二番目の製織 Nibanme no Seishouku, 剛毛 Goumou (Second Weaving, Bristle)
A passive technique that requires no invocation beyond the nearness of an opponent, Bristle is just as it sounds, the metals coating her arms or even while still in band form extend spikes directly from her skin. These spikes are thin and extremely tough until they’ve entered the skin of the opponent, then the tiny micro barbs at the tip of each take over and break off in the wounds. From there the tips liquefy again and writhe while in the flesh, causing immense pain in the area affected. The metals don’t move farther into the flesh.
三番目の製織 Sanbanme no Seishouku, 軌道 Kidou (Third Weaving, Orbit)
Clasping her hands together with daggers pointing downwards, the metals on her arms lift away in drops and amorphous blobs. They then split into threads, weaving eight three inch diameter spheres that float in a radius around Kowabi. These spheres can be both passive and an active attack, as in either circling her while she fights or sent careening towards an opponent. On contact with anything these spheres shatter into razor tipped shards, which then burst outwards in an intense spray. Each shard bursting yet again into even smaller shards when contact is made. Just like with Bristle, the bits and pieces that cut into the skin leave traces behind to writhe in the wound.
四番目の製織 Yonbanme no Seishouku, 拡張Kakuchou (Fourth Weaving, Extend)
A last ditch effort on her part, surprise, or way of torture; the final technique for Kakera Kumo no Su in Shikai is extremely simple. The liquid metals reach down and extend her daggers to the length of typical katana. Kowabi rarely uses the technique unless she knows her daggers are stuck far enough into someone’s flesh to cause massive damage or if she just can’t quite reach her target. Otherwise she will not use the move in normal situations, as she’s not adept in long ranged Zanjutsu.
Bankai: 鮮麗欠片蜘蛛の巣 Senrei Kakera Kumo no Su (Sehn-dlei Kah-keh-dla Ku-moh Noh Soo) Resplendent Fragmented Spiders Web.
At the utterance of Bankai, Kowabi holds her blades upright as the metal liquefies, dripping down her hands before shooting away in threads in all directions. These threads cover the entire battle field in a spider like webbing, the metal strands impeding movement for the opponent. The strands are extremely strong and are difficult to cut with any sort of blade. They can be destroyed by various attacks and skills, but once shattered they return to a liquid state and rebuild in only a few seconds, that is if Kowabi is still strong enough to support them. In turn Kowabi is unaffected by the hindering metals as they move with her, braking apart and rebuilding at her passing. By removing a single thread, she’s able to create a slim Naginata, the entire short tsuka the same shimmering silver metal like the rest of the blade. While wielding this singular weapon, she’s trailed by a stream of liquefied metal following the blade and tsuka of her Naginata.
Attacks:
Literally the movements she can control by moving the threads of the web. They can ensnare, move freely, cut, etc. There is no other named attack or defensive skill associated with her Bankai.
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:36 pm
Inner Hollow: Unlike all other Vizards, Kowabi’s Inner Hollow is so literally her opposite it ends up being male to her female. He goes by the name of 裏面 Rimen (Dlee-mehn) a term with a meaning of the reverse side of a coin, the kanji literally meaning reversed mask. As he is her reflection, in personality Rimen is everything Kowabi is not. His appearance however is of her same height and build but overlaid with a masculine filter, and his hair mirrors hers being short on the left and long on the right. It’s strange how his white coloration matches so well with her inner world, Rimen even goes so far as to act as a servant to Kakera Kumo no Su, lounging at the base of her thrown, Karera’s hand stroking languidly through his hair.
Ever since Kowabi became a Vizard, Rimen has only challenged her once. He feels no need to be in control of his female counter part, so long as she continues to gain in strength at a rate he deems appropriate. Seeing as she’s trained diligently for the majority of her life, she keeps up with his expectations perfectly. In fact he’s quite content to remain locked in her inner world, reversed black and bright blue eyes dancing with a sense of malicious mischievousness.
Vizard Mask: Constructed by the usual bony material, the shaping is what causes the plating of her mask to appear as white metal. Not skull like in the least, a thick band covers the forehead and extends to encircle her head with the first plate of the mask covering down to her nose and back along the ridge between cheek and mouth before stopping at the ear. The secondary plate takes the place of the jaw, slipping just beneath the first plate and shaping a rudimentary mouth. To finish off the mask are eye slits that appear just below the brow band and jutting ear like structures that protrude on either side of her head from beneath the brow band. (Picture coming soon)
Vizard Abilities:
Cero: Of course, as bright orange as her reiatsu, Kowabi’s Cero is usually a much slimmer burst of condensed power then the beams typically given off by Hollow of all factions.
Garganta: Not her most accomplished ability, Kowabi does open the portals rather clumsily, with an unconventional and wide sweep of the arm, instead of the simple flick of the wrist. Luckily, most who see her perform the opening have relayed that it looks like unneeded showmanship.
Bala: Made to match her Cero, Bala are also packed into a smaller form but still deliver the same powerful strike as is normally associated with them.
Mask Summoning: Kowabi is very adept in the ways she accesses her Hollow abilities. Instead of fully pulling on her mask, she prefers to call in only a small fragment, or larger depending on how powerful she wishes to make an attack. She will always refrain from using the entirety of her mask for as long as possible, but she has no qualms to use it under the proper circumstances.
Resurrection:
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:37 pm
Specialties: Assassinations, she’s quiet and to the point in her missions, finishing quickly due to her speed and particular weapon mastery. She’s also quite good at reconnaissance as she can suppress her reiatsu so well it seemingly doesn’t exist; coupling that with her quiet nature…she merely disappears into her surroundings.
Skills:
Innate Speed, Strength, Reflexes, Acrobatics, Smell, Hearing and Sight: To replace her locked away reiatsu sensing and other enhancements, instead of relying on said power, Kowabi has always possessed a higher level of her innate skills, but honed them over many, many years. Instead, her sensing is through traditional tracking, although her senses of smell, hearing and sight are far above average…and very sensitive. She does not appreciate sudden loud noises, such as someone who cannot shut up. Her enhanced strength is simply her own strength, the same can be said for speed, yet her speed is no where near Shunpo level, more of a mile eating run with high endurance added in.
Short Ranged Zanjutsu: Seeing as her zanpakutou is a wakizashi while sealed and butterfly daggers while in Shikai, Kowabi has developed into a highly skilled short ranged fighter. Yet another accompaniment to her assassination prowess, she is dependent on short range and has quite a few problems using her Bankai thanks to the naginata it forms.
Abilities:
Highly Compressed Reiatsu: This refers to Kowabi’s way of masking her reiatsu. She keeps the pressures buried so deeply within her she gives off only the tiniest spattering of reiatsu, even towards master sensors. The ability was specifically learned to accompany her assassination skills, but the draw back of locking away her reiatsu so thoroughly is being unable to sense other reiatsu or perform any reiatsu assisted movements or abilities. She must consciously remove this limiter to perform Shunpo or even call Shikai.
Metallurgy: Kowabi has a strange affinity for metals; she can literally bend and shape then with the pressure and heat of her hands. Her explanation for the ability usually runs towards the powers gifted to her by her zanpakutou, but the reality is the structure of her reiatsu allows her to accomplish the feat. She cannot alter the shape or structure of unique zanpakutou or other race bound metal weapons with unique reiatsu compositions. Asauchi on the other hand are fair game and also a weapon she is qualified to craft.
Kidou:
Bakudou:
1. Restrain (塞, Sai)
4. Crawling Rope (這縄, Hainawa)
8. Repulse (斥, Seki)
9. Strike (撃, Geki)
9. Disintegrating Circle (Hourin)
21. Red Smoke Escape (赤煙遁, Sekienton)
26. Curving Light (曲光, Kyakko)
30. Beak-Stab Triple Beam (嘴突三閃, Shitotsu Sansen)
37. Suspending Star (吊星, Tsuriboshi)
39. Arc Shield (円閘扇, Enkosen)
58. Summoning of the Tracking Sparrows (摑趾追雀, Kakushitsuijaku)
61. Six Rods Prison of Light (六杖光牢, Rikujoukourou)
62. Hundred Stepped Rails (百歩欄干, Hyapporankan)
63. Winding Binding Chain (鎖条鎖縛, Sajou Sabaku)
73. Inverse Mountain Crystal (倒山晶, Tozansho)
75. Quintet of Iron Pillars (五柱鉄貫, Gochuutekkan)
77. Heavenly Rickshaws in Silken Air (天挺空羅, Tenteikuura)
79. Nine Sunlight Traps (九曜縛, Kuyou Shibari)
81. Splitting Void (斷空, Dankuu)
99. Part 1. Kin (禁, Seal)
99. Part 2. Bankin (卍禁, Great Seal)
Hadou:
1. Thrust (衝, Shou)
4. White Lightning (白雷, Byakurai)
11. Bound Lightning (製本電, Tsuzuri Raiden)
12. Fushibi (伏火, Lain Fire)
31. Shot of Red Fire (赤火砲, Shakkahou)
32. Yellow Fire Flash (黄火閃, Oukasen)
33. Blue Fire, Crash Down (蒼火墜, Soukatsui)
54. Abolishing Flames (廃炎, Haien)
58. Orchid Sky (闐嵐, Tenran)
63. Thunder Roar Cannon (雷吼炮, Raikouhou)
73. Twin Lotus Blue Fire, Crash Down (双蓮蒼火墜, Souren Soukatsui)
88. Flying Dragon Striking, Heaven-Shaking, Lightning Cannon (飛竜撃賊震天雷砲, Hiryuugekizokushintenraihou)
90. Black Coffin (黒棺, Kurohitsugi)
91. Thousand-hand Bright Heaven Culling-Sphere (千手皎天汰炮, Senjuu Kouten Taihou)
96. Single Blade Cremation (一刀火葬, Ittou Kasou)
Other Spells:
White Crawl (白伏, Hakufuku)
Mirror Door (鏡門, Kyoumon)
Inemuri (威眠, Forced Slumber)
Noren Mekuri (暖簾捲り, Curtain Stripping)
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:15 am
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Character Name: 慈鳥濃佗 Jichou Kowabi (Ji-choe Koh-wah-bee)
