Name: Thadius J. Elexion
Nickname(s)/Alias(es): None as of yet, he prefers to be called by his name
Age: 21
Reiatsu Colour: Red
Rank: No rank as of yet
Physical Description: Standing at an even six feet, Thadius is a tall, handsome young man with jet black hair and a lean physique. His black half-rimmed glasses give his somewhat feminine face a cool business type look. At first glance he seems like your average cool, calculating type, until your notice his eyes. Thadius' irises are a crimson red, and laced with little lines of yellow and orange. His pupils although not quite slits, are narrow and oval shaped instead of being round. Many have commented that Thadius' eyes look like they should belong to a snake. Thadius has great respect for the shinigami unifrom and all it represents, so he is rarely seen out of it. He also keeps it perfectly clean and tidy at all times, just like the rest of his body. He is meticulously tidy, and gets fussy if even the smallest amount of dirt makes its way onto him. Although he is not muscular, or even paticulary in shape, Thadius is by no means skinny, he eats right and takes good care of himself so he looks strikingly handsome and clean cut.
(Art done for me by my lovely and talented wife)
Personality: Thadius is all about research. Even when he was a child, he was fascinated with figuring out how things worked, and finding ways to make them more efficient. He enjoys reading, researching, and creating new things more than anything else. He is also something of a narcissist. He is very concerned with how he looks, so he takes time to make sure he looks his best. He will even take time out of his research to work out and keep his body in shape. Thadius comes off as cold and calculating, and often will seem to only do things that he figures will benefit him. Although he puts off this cold exterior, to those who take the time to become his friend he is kind and loyal. Becoming his friend however, is no easy feat.
Likes: Food, books, learning, spouting off about things he knows
Dislikes: Dirty things, dirty people, people who hate learning, people who act like they know everything but actually don't
Zanpakutou:
Name: Quetzalcoatl
Spirit: A large feathered serpent. His feathers are mostly white with black streaks running along some of them, and his scales are a mixture between red and black. Quetzalcoatl has feathers covering the top half of his body, as well as two large wings about 6' from his head. His head and underbelly are scaled, and his eyes are crimson with long black slits in them. All in all Quetzalcoatl is roughly 25' long, and his body is about 5' thick. Quetzalcoatl is both similar to, and very different from Thadius. On the one hand he is very interested in learning new things (even though he already posseses a vast amount of knowledge) but on the other, he does not share his knowledge easily. Often if one is seeking to learn something from him, one must first pass some form of test or challenge.
Inner World: To put it simply, the universe. Thadius' inner world is smack dab in the middle of a solar system, one of the most intriguing, yet unsolvable puzzles in existence. Thadius has always been interested in how things work, and the way the stars move has always been one of his favorite subjects.
Sealed Form: Unlike most zanpakuto, Quetzalcoatl does not take on the form of a katana in it's sealed state. Instead it takes the form of a European short sword, with a rather unique design. Quetzalcoatl's blade is a normal straight double-edged blade, but the hilt guard is in the form of two spread wings with the tips pointing out toward the tip of the blade. From the shoulders of the wings sprouts the hilt, which is in the shape of a serpent’s head and looks just like Quetzalcoatl's sprirt.
(Not obtained yet) Shikai Name/Release Phrase: “Slide through the heavens, Quetzalcoatl.”
Shikai Description: When Quetzalcoatl is released, the Serpent's head that forms the hilt slides through Thadius' hand, and wraps around his arm. The wings become longer, and the blade slowly transforms into the body and tail of a serpent. As it completes its transformation Quetzalcoatl slides all the way up Thadius' body, and coils itself around his shoulders and neck, having become a living serpent that is about 3' long. It usually stays coiled around Thadius' neck, but when needed it is fully capable of striking his opponents. Quetzalcoatl can also speak to Thadius by whispering in his ear. He will often warn Thadius of attack the shinigami cannot see coming, and will somtimes (though rarely) offer strategic advice.
Shikai Powers: Quetzalcoatl's power is known as Vector manipulation. It is the ability to alter the direction or speed of and objects motion, or to take an object that is not in motion and cause it to move. Thadius can manipulate the vectors of any matter within a 25' radius of his body, although it is difficult to manipulate the vectors of other zanpakuto. The only things he cannot affect are biological (or living) objects. The power to manipulate vectors does come with two rather severe limitations. The power is to great for either Thadius or Quetzalcoatl alone, so they must remain in contact to be able to use it. Also it takes a large amount of concentration, and energy to alter the vector of an object so it is both difficult and taxing.
(Not obtained yet) Bankai Name: “Bankai. Come forth, he who knows ten thousand things. Quetzalcoatl.”
Bankai Description: Upon it's release, an explosion of power bursts from the ground at Thadius' feet, and both his and Quetzalcoatl's eyes glow with power. The serpent around his neck slithers down his body and starts to grow in size. The energy around them hides the transformation, and once it is complete the energy turns into a shower of feathers that slowly fall to the ground and reveal the change. In bankai, Quetzalcoatl takes on the same form as it's spirit, a 25' long feather snake with fearsome crimson eyes. Thadius stands on Quetzalcoatl's head and controls it from there.
Bankai Powers: Other than the scale of the power, there is only one difference between bankai and shikai. In bankai Quetzalcoatl can also manipulate the vectors of energy based attacks like kido. The limitations remain the same, it cannot effect living things, and Thadius and Quetzalcoatl must remain in contact for the power to be used. The separation of the two is less devastating in bankai however, as the rather large serpent is a much more fearsome opponent than the 3' long shikai version.
Other information
Special Accessories: The only thing Thadius wears that most people don't are his glasses, and he carries an ornate red and black pen with him at all times. The pen was given to him by a friend in the Rukongai, and he treasures it above all his other possessions.
Skills/Abilities: Thaduis is a very fast reader, and retains knowledge much better than your average person. His mind is like a safe, and once a piece of knowledge gets inside it never gets out.
Kidou:
Bakudou:
- 1. Restrain (Sai)
4. Crawling Rope (Hainawa)
8. Repulse (Seki)
9. Strike (Geki)
9. Disintegrating Circle (Hourin)
Hadou:
- 1. Thrust (Shou)
4. White Lightning (Byakurai)
Biography/History: Thadius died at a very young age. His parents were both brilliant physicists, and instilled into him, a thirst, a desire to learn everything he could about all sorts of topics. He began reading at 3 years old, and by the time he was 6 he was reading books that were high school level. As a child Thadius was almost never seen without a book in his hand, and when he was first sent to elementary school this fact got him beaten up by the other children who were jealous of his knowledge. Fearing that he would eventually be seriously hurt, his parents pulled him out of public school and taught him themselves. Thanks to his thirst for knowledge, and his incredible ability to retain information, Thadius was able to complete the high-school curriculum by the time he was 12. As successful scientists, his parents had the money and the influence to get him into Oxford university, and after month of letters, tests, and arguments he was finally admitted. Sadly, he never got the chance to attend, the plane that he was flying in to head to the school crashed and he along with most of the passengers was killed. Many of the people who died didn't move on right away, so a small team of Shinigami was sent to help them to do so. Thadius watched as several people had their heads tapped by the hilt of the Shinigami's blades, and sent to the Rukongai. This process fascinated him and he started to pester the Shinigami as to how it worked. One of the kinder shinigami took his aside and told him how it work. With childish glee, Thadius gladly accepted the burial and was sent to the rukongai. Over the next five years, he spent all of his time finding out everything he could about the shinigami acadamy. He tried several times to get accepted, but the kept saying his was to young, and didn't have the right skills. It wasn't hard for someone as astute as Thadius to figure out that he needed to be able to control his reiatsu better. It didn't take him long to learn how to do it, but actually mastering basic reiatsu manipulation took him a few years. When he was finally admitted into the academy, he spent the four years studying every piece of material he could get his hands on. Just like back on earth, he was teased by his classmates, but no one beat him up this time. As dedicated as he was to books, and studying, he never really learned to fight very well, but he was a decent kidou user. By the time he graduated he had read all the library materials he was permitted to, and was a decent fighter. Upon graduation he set his sights on the 12th division, he wanted to become a scientist just like his parents before him.
(Putting this up as sort of... template I guess? This is what I was thinking about why Thadius would fear his own power.)
A few months after joining the 12th division and taking his place as a true shinigami, Thadius began to notice a slight change in his zanpakuto. Although he was devoted to his studies, he did make sure to practice with his sword each day, and even read a whole bunch of books about zanpakuto to learn everything he could about them. As part of his daily workout he would simply sit cross-legged with his blade in his lap, and meditate. He would clear his mind and listen to see if his sword would speak to him. At first nothing happened, but over time he started to feel something emanating from the blade. Not words, but a sense of age, wisdom, and power. As the feeling grew, he felt like something was lying in his sword, as if it was waiting. Finally one day he asked it, "Who are you?" and in his mind he heard, "I thought you would never ask."
Although he had asked its name, every time the blade replied he couldn't hear the answer. He spoke to the blade about it, but it simply told him that he already knew its name. Eventually he sought out the advice of his captain, who told him to meet him at the training grounds later that day. When he got there the captain was standing there blade drawn waiting for him. He was not prepared for what happened. The captain started to beat the ever living daylights out of him. He had no idea why, but it was all he could do to defend himself from the onslaught of attacks. Finally when all seemed lost, he reached out mentally to his blade pleading for help. "Call my name, I want to help you but you have to call my name first!" "But I don't know it!" "Yes you do, look deep inside, you've always known my name!" And suddenly Thadius realized it. He started to laugh at his own stupidity, the blade was right he had known it all along. His captain looked at him with a raised eyebrow as Thadius picked himself up of the ground, and spoke his blade's name for the first time. "Quetzalcoatl." There was a surge of power, and his sword transformed into a winged snake that coiled itself around his neck. "Lets finish this." "Yes." Thadius could barely stand, but Quetzalcoatl had tons of energy with which to fight. Making a quick decision Thadius drew on the full power of his blade. Normally he wouldn't have been able to do this, but pushed as far as he was, and with the energy of the initial release of shikai, he tapped into Quetzalcoatl's full potential. He made the air around him spin so quickly, and in such a tight circle that it became razor sharp, and in a fluid motion lashed out at his captain. The captain hadn't been prepared for that level of attack from a brand new shikai, and didn't block it in time. He was left with a very nasty slash that ran from his right shoulder, down to his left hip. Fortunately for both of them, the wound was not a fatal one, and the captain was able to get them both to the 4th squad, and recovered without much trouble.
Although the captain was fine, Thadius was not. His wounds from the fight healed up just fine, but there was a scar on his heart that would take a long time to heal. He had never before truly hurt someone. Sure he had killed his fair share of hollows, but he knew that he was purifying them rather than actually killing them. This time it was his power that had truly hurt someone. His captain told him not to worry about it, but he promised himself, than until he learned to control it, he would be extremely cautious with his shikai. This fact annoyed Quetzalcoatl, and caused many of the stars in Thadius inner world to start going out. Both he and the blade knew that if he was ever going to use his full power again, he would have to get over his fear of losing control.
Powers:
Graduate level Kidou abilites
