Jareth Kokkusu [Finished]

Behind The Eyes

*Well I'm not much for the classroom teacher teach me if you care. I can't pay much attention with that ruler in your hand. 

Personality:  The first and foremost thing that must be known about Jareth is that he has a myriad of personality issues, and he hates that fact. Jareth feels like in order to do better than his family did for him he has to be perfect, everything to everyone he cares for, and his actions and personality reflect that fact. The reason he is so arrogant is because he wants people to know that he won't fail them like his mother and father failed him; like his brothers in arms failed him. This also leads to a sense of duty in his eyes. He has the duty to support and love those around him so long as they love him back. Jareth is also fairly mature for his age, always preferring the company of adults. This is a facet of his constant search for knowledge (who better to get answers from than those who have had more time to gain knowledge?) and also a reflection of his need for a strong adult figure in his life. In that regard he really has had more parents than most, but each one has only lasted for a short time. 

Positive Qualities

+Confident: Jareth is very confident in his capabilities due to his need to be exceptional. He will not back down from something he knows he can do because he will have no doubt in his mind that he can do it.

+Understanding: Jareth has come from a bad family situation and has experienced the worst (as well as the best) of what people can offer. Due to this he has become very understanding of people, preferring to look not at what someone has done but why he or she has done it.

+Loyal: Jareth is the kind of individual that wouldn't abandon someone whom he considers family, a friend, or a lover because he knows what it is like to be abandoned. In regards to any of the aforementioned, he would take a bullet for them or even let himself be tortured to protect them. 

+Fast Learner: Jareth's creative mind allows him to accept new ideas quickly and efficiently meaning learning even the most outlandish of concepts comes very easy to him. This is partially a result of not having been schooled in the traditional sense. Instead of learning a set method to do things he always had to use his mind to overcome any obstacle.

+Goal-oriented: Jareth is someone who can easily create goals for himself, and is extremely driven toward goals he finds important. This is a result of his opposition to the ideals of his father whose purpose was far more reactive, so Jareth wants to turn his greatest desires into long term goals which he strives for every day.

+Loving: In the same vein as loyal, Jareth is a very loving person. Whether it's loving someone else or himself or an animal, he holds nothing back in loving them. This is because he felt very unloved as a child. That lack of affection toward him turned into a very loving disposition.

+Playful: Jareth likes to joke, he likes to play, and he loves any kind of game. Whether it's playing tag or playing football, he is very capable of enjoying himself. This is because he was so suppressed in playing as a child that upon growing up any opportunity to play became a cherished moment of fellowship and merriment.

Negative Qualities

-Arrogant: Where his confidence is an advantage, it is a bit too extreme at times making him seem very arrogant in order to cover up his deficiencies. While he is not as arrogant as he often acts, the fact still stands this trait often alienates him from his peers and can result in him doing things he shouldn't in a given situation.

-Overzealous: While being serious and driven about things can be a huge boon to someone, sometimes Jareth can go a bit too far with it. If he is defending someone, he will defend them as if their life depends on it, and though that is a nice thought it also presents a problem when going too far can end up with him getting hurt. At the same time he finds this fact a necessary evil, as he cannot stand the thought of not doing enough.

-Goal-oriented: Being goal oriented has the capability to really help someone out, but sometimes it can be a detriment. When Jareth finds something he doesn't think is particularly important he often refuses to do it because it doesn't fit in with his goals.

-Situationally apathetic: Whereas he can often go too far in being driven, Jareth also can be too apathetic about certain things. Taking the route of just not caring when something goes completely out of his favor. This can go especially far when he feels abandoned by a love one. Because of his loyalty and loving nature, having a loved one stab him in the back often means he just doesn't care anymore so he does nothing instead of trying to repair that relationship. This is a result of having been betrayed so many times throughout his life. "After all, if they are just going to betray me like the rest why should I care about them?"

-Melancholy: When Jareth is alone and is not really occupying himself he has a tendency toward melancholy: asking all of life tough questions like why are we here, and why do bad things happen to good people. This is in large part a facet of the death of his childhood friend the owl. Before he would sit alone and imagine he was speaking to the owl, but now being alone just tears at the empty void in his heart.

-Childish: Jareth has a very childish sense of humor, which often gets him into trouble when he isn't careful. This is because he never really had the opportunity to grow up properly, which has stunted many parts of his emotional maturity.

Strength Of The World

Norowareta fukurō

("Cursed Owl")

          "Have you ever felt alone? I was once wise, looked to by all for counsel, chronicled in mortal myth for my guidance. Every moment I spent thirsting for more knowledge: growing my wisdom. Despite this it was a craving and a craving, however noble, is looked down upon by the jealous gods. They saw my wisdom rising to their own and so I was cursed. Forever to seek knowledge in solitude, forever to wander alone for I have lived since the beginning of time and experienced every birth and death, in my wisdom, from then until forever. The gods then decree, 'have thy knowledge and thy wisdom, but be destined never to share it, for your body, if touched, shall experience every birth, every death, and every piece of knowledge gained in the instant of contact. So we decree, and never shall thine body see refuge in the dust.' Now I know what it is to be truly alone."

 
         
          Norowareta Fukoro, or the cursed owl, is a wise and motherly Zanpakuto spirit. She takes the shape of an owl, white as the moon and glowing in similitude, flying about the inner world of Jareth. Noro, as she likes to be called, is full of knowledge and a great longing for companionship, as she is a cursed spirit who cannot touch any living thing without experiencing incomprehensible pain until the contact is broken. This forces her to remain isolated even in Jareth's inner world. Noro on a more serious note is the embodiment of whatever Jareth needs her to be, taking on a motherly disposition as a result of him feeling betrayed by his mother in life. She is also supremely knowledgeable to satisfy Jareth's need for someone who knows more than him and can answer any question he has. In this way she often changes in disposition (and after reaching bankai, even in form) to match what is missing from Jareth's life, and to provide the one person who loves him no matter what and will never abandon him. As a result of this reflection, Noro and Jareth have a very close relationship with Noro serving as a parent figure and mentor. Jareth trusts Noro completely despite having been betrayed so many times in his life; however, this is less a mechanic of wanting to trust her and more so the emotional dependency on being able to trust her. Without Noro it is very possible Jareth would snap, that is, if he hasn't already...

Sonzai no yūgure no mori

("Forest on the twilight of existence")

                 "Here it is, the space between seconds: a time without time. Where temporal progression is etched on a sheet of water. Here you experience time only in sense of what your mind believes to be time; however, your body, spirit, and the outside world neither progress nor regress in moments spent here. It is both nothing and everything, never and forever, this place embodies the moment when the sun has set but the moon has yet to rise."

 
         Jareth's inner world is a place of solitude, of utter isolation, and is unique in the fact that time within his inner world does not progress at all meaning that when he exits his inner world it is the exact same moment as when he entered it. At the forefront of his world is the massive visage of the moon looming in the distance, then there is an unsettling blackness of the world despite the moonlight, and finally the world is in a state of dead silence. Nothing in this world makes sound, there is no crunching of leaves, no howling of wind, no baying of wolves: only the unsettling sound of ones own breath. Beyond the silence is a forest densely populated with the spindly black corpses of trees, another solemn reminder that in this world there isn't even plant life to keep you company. 
 
          Despite the frightening nature of the nearly endless nightmarish forest; there is one place in the forest where it is actually rather beautiful. After running for what seems like eternity toward the moon there is an ancient place Tsuki shukufuku kodachi  or the moon blessed grove. Tsuki Shukufuku Kodachi is an absolutely massive grove of Banyan trees with peculiar formations around that take the shape of crude chairs, tables, and various other pieces of natural furniture. The banyan trees form a canopy over the top, allowing only thin glimpses of the massive moon over head; however, within the large grove canopy there is not a single inch in shadow, as it is mysteriously bathed in pale moonlight and, in fact, it is an unspoken rule that darkness cannot touch the sacred grove of the blessed moon. At the center of Tsuki Shukufuku Kodachi is an almost regal perch where Noro spends most of her time; this perch is surrounded by 20 of the natural chairs where she claims her followers once sat in order to hear her wisdom. Beyond the perch are four distinct areas. When entering the grove, if one were to go to the right and pass under the arch way they would find a large bedding area where trees form beds with leaves serving as cushions. Were one to enter the grove and instead take a left they would find an area with a hot spring turned into a hot tub by a risen platform growing naturally around it by the banyan trees. Were one to travel to the back of the grove and take a left, they would find a dining room past an arch of trees. In this dining area, there is a large natural table with several of the chair formations along its length and a large shelf stocked with exotic nuts, herbs, and berries. Were one to instead go to the right they would find a large open space with rows of tree formations that look much like dummy targets. 

Hōseki o chiribame noroi

("The Jeweled Curse")

 "Not every Zanpakuto is a sword, Jareth: some are not even weapons."

Zanpakuto: Jareth's unreleased Zanpakuto is a gold necklace (Similar in shape to the one pictured above) with a silver circle in the center that is more shallow than the rest of the necklace.
 
Shikai: After Jareth begins to recite the release poem the gold of the necklace glows and starts to separate from it. During the recitation the glowing gold part begins flooding into the center space forming a golden circle with the Japanese kanji for moon engraved into it in the color white. Upon finishing the release poem the necklace stops glowing to reveal the gold circle in the center with the rest of the necklace having turned silver.
 

 "Light rippling through darkness,

Guiding instrument,

Heavenly body.

God who watches over the night sky,

Seeing all that happens in darkness,

Knowing all wisdom,

Reveal, Norowareta Fukoro!" 

 
         The release phrase for Noro is a poem calling back to the time in her memory before she was cursed. It refers to her as a knowledge bringer and appeals to her memory as someone who was loved and thought of as a god for her wisdom and power. 

Watashi no sekai o nyūryoku

("Enter my world")

"Others may not understand us. They might deride you for the things you have seen, so do not tell them: show them."

 
          Jareth's Zanpakuto is pretty unique among Shinigami, as it is one of the few that do not involve an actual weapon, instead it represents itself as a special technique: Watashi no sekai o nyūryoku. Roughly translated that means, "enter my world," a progressive illusion that pulls foes into his nightmare. The illusion begins when Jareth's strikes make contact with an opponent. This curses them and begins the effect, starting simply as flashes of the nightmare forest within Jareth's inner world, at low levels it would only really affect the timing of an opponents attacks and create openings for counterattack more readily. This illusion then gradually intensifies from that point as the flashes of the nightmare world begin to blend with their reality, shadows that shouldn't be there, trees that do not exist in reality, and movements at the edge of ones vision serve as some of the effects one might see, and through repeated contact the effects of the gradual illusion begin to speed up and intensify turning it from something that merely messes with timing to potentially terrifying an opponent. That being said, the believability of these illusions is determined by a comparison of Jareth's Zanpakuto skill to the Reaitsu Perception of those affected so someone who has an equivalent perception would still struggle with the illusions while someone whose Reaitsu perception is superior would likely see right through the illusion with the illusion having significantly less effect as the gap widens. People who are currently affected by the curse are marked by their right eye being hyper-dilated. 
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Legacy Created 

Current Division: Academy Graduate

Previous Divisions: None

Snapshots

- November 11, 1949: Jareth is born Jareth Johnathon Holst to parents Kathy Ann Holst and David Roth Holst.

- January 13, 1954: Jareth begins being homeschooled by his mother.

-September 18, 1956: David Holst punches Jareth's brother, resulting in his brother running away, never to be heard from again.

- 1962: Jareth is entered into the public school system

-December 18, 1968: Jareth proposes to his long time girlfriend Sarah Dianne Stanley

-January 1, 1969: Jareth is drafted into the United States Marine Corps. 

-May 9, 1969: A love letter from his fiancé arrives attached to her obituary. 2 days later Jareth dies in the battle for Hamburger Hill.

- September 11, 1969: As Jareth’s soul chain is just about to rip and make him a hollow, he is found by a Shinigami and given a soul burial.

-October 30, 1982: Jareth is found wandering the woods outside of the Rukon district and is adopted by a family unit.

-March 3, 2009: Jareth passes the entrance exam and begins studying in the Shinigami academy.

- April 18, 2015: Jareth graduates early from the shinigami academy as a prodigy in Kido and hand to hand combat

- September 4, 2015: Jareth discovers how his fiancée died while on a trip to earth. Upon returning the events that lead to releasing his Shikai are set in motion.

History

As a human

                   Jareth was born in 1949 in the rural city of Milan to a helpless mother and an old fashioned father with delusions of grandeur, and in this household: the divine word of his father was law. Jareth also had two sisters, Katherine and Anya. Katherine was the crowned jewel of his father, the favorite child who worshiped him as a tool to get whatever she wanted. Anya was the down to earth sister, usually very close to Jareth, but very unstable in that tenure. Jareth also had an older brother named Michael: the only person whom he could call an ally. 

          During his childhood he was very loving, always wanting to take care of his sisters when they were babies even though they weren't much younger than he was. When each was born he went up to them and would kiss them on the forehead. This caring nature is the reason why he was so devastated at age 5...

Upon turning five years old his life took a turn for the worst. He was used to his fathers anger and being yelled at, as he still felt loved, but he was not prepared for the accident. On July 3rd of 1954 at 2 PM on the way to the hospital, David Roth Holst with his wife and two sons was hit on the passenger side of his vehicle. Kathy Ann Holst was rushed to the hospital by an ambulance immediately after with Jareth and Michael on board as well. Upon reaching the hospital at 5 PM the baby was born and then died 30 minutes later, ten seconds after he received a kiss on the head from his older brother Jareth.

           The misery of 1954 did not stop there. One month later on the 6th of August his favorite grandmother died of cancer while he sat crying at her bedside asking her not to go. The common theme of these two deaths was that Jareth had been with the dying victims right before their deaths, and his father had noticed that. After the two deaths his father became even worse, blaming Jareth for both, he constantly abused Jareth. Most of the abuse was non-physical. Screaming at him for whatever actions he took. He was isolated, told he would not be allowed to go to school because, "A killer like you doesn't deserve an education." 

          His father did not stop there, constantly he punished Jareth's mistakes with cruelty, never hitting him to preserve his integrity 'as a man' and moreover to appease Michaels threats that, "if you ever hit him I will call the police," which just changed the type of punishment. If Jareth disobeyed or even looked at his father the wrong way he would be locked in his room, and if the 'crime' was severe enough he would instead be locked in the barn, "where the rest of the damned bugs are." 

          What his father didn't know is that the barn was where Jareth preferred to be sent as he had found a way to get out of the barn where he would go into the woods behind the barn to a grove of trees where he could look at the moon. In this grove it was bright enough that the shadows from the trees weren't as prevalent, and he could hear the hooting of a barn owl that frequented the location. Jareth liked to imagine the barn owl was his only friend, sometimes reciting stories to his mother about him carrying out two sided conversations with the owl.

          By this time in his life, Jareth has become plagued with horrid nightmares, waking up in the middle of the night afraid that the things in his nightmares were in the room with him. Often they were, as his imagination was powerful enough that he would often hallucinate things. At first his dad would come into his room screaming at him because, "You just don't want to go to sleep, you ass hole! Your mother and I are trying to rest and I need my damn rest so I can go to work and pay for you to leach off of me!" After so many times dealing with this he began going to his older brother who would let him sleep in the bed next to him. This uneasy balance continued for a couple years until September 18th of 1956.

          "COME HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT!" He could hear the voice echoing down the hallway. His parents had been fighting and yelling at each other for two hours straight but he knew whom that calls was meant for. Jareth got up and walked down the hall, his brother taking his shoulder, "don't worry bud, ill be right outside the room to make sure everything's OK." His brother's words provided much needed comfort as he walked into the room to see his mother crying. "I have something for you Jareth," his dad said, "Why don't you come over here a little closer and I will give it to you." Jareth's heart raced, he knew something was wrong here. He turned to his mom, who had stopped crying. She looked away from him in shame. He got closer to his dad, who held something wrapped in a towel behind his back and then he saw a feather on the bed as he got right next to his dad who started to pull the object out from behind his bed. Jareth remembered the look of shame in his mom’s eyes as she turned away from him a moment ago. "No," he muttered from the back of his throat, his eyes wide and tears streaming down his face. "No, no, no," he began to say louder and louder as he backed away from his dad. "NO, NO, NO!" He screamed as his dad unwrapped the bloody towel to reveal a barn owl with a plethora of holes across the left side of its face. "NO! GODDAMMIT, NO!" He screamed even louder as the broken and bloodied body was tossed at him and he dropped to his knees to cradle it in his arms. "NO! HOW COULD YOU! Momma..." His voice trailed off with the pain and realization of her betrayal. "I'm sorry, I didn't know he wou..." "SHUT UP BITCH! Don't you DARE apologize to this filthy little bug!" Jareth continued sobbing, eyes closed looking only at the corpse in his arms. Suddenly, he felt a pain at the back of his head. His hair was pulling him up. "So you thought you could disobey ME? Well here is what you get you crazy little shit. Your owl friend is gone, so who are you gonna talk to about me now? WHO ARE YOU GONNA TALK TO NOW, YOU STUPID LITTLE FUCK?" Jareth spit in his eyes, and then a pain to the side of his head and suddenly everything was black.

          When he came to, he could hear his brother’s voice. "What did you do? WHAT DID YOU DO?" his brother screamed." "I hit that little shit like he deserved, and I don't like that attitude boy. I have half a mind to hit you!" Michael revealed the phone receiver in his left hand. "Who did you call? WHO THE FUCK DID YOU CALL???" the scream from his father was deafening, even through the feeling of cotton in Jareth's ears. He saw Michael trying to get away as his father ran at him. "I'LL KILL YOU MOTHERFUCKER!" The punches rained down like hellfire until a headset from Michael knocked him backward into the bed. Michael jumped on top of him and started beating him, punches covering his father in a baptism of suffering. As his father lay there knocked out and bloodied, Michael ran, and the cops arrived an hour later. 

          With Jareth's brother gone and his father imprisoned, life stabilized a bit. He was able to go to a public school starting in 7th grade. He developed arrogance in his abilities that polarized his classmates, who either loved him for his intelligence and fun loving nature, or hated him because of his superior attitude. One thing was well known is that he was loyal and possibly the most loving person anyone knew, which is how he came to meet his future fiancee Sarah.

          Sarah and Jareth's courtship continued throughout high school. They had problems sometimes, but they always seemed to work them out. It was like the perfect match, so when they both graduated and were together for a while thereafter it only seemed natural that he would propose to her, which he did on December 18th of 1968. Their engagement was cut horribly short, however, because on January 1st of 1969 Jareth received his call to duty. Unbeknownst to Jareth, Sarah died 2 months later. It wasn't until March 9th of the same year that her death was made known to Jareth. Her last love letter was sent to him along with the funeral program. The other men of the combat unit he was in heard him crying for 6 straight hours before he passed out. A day later they were dropped into the battle of hamburger hill. 

          Screams could be heard wherever you turned as grown men were cut down by gunfire. They charged up the hill ducking for whatever cover they could find as deadly streams of lead peppered the landscape around them. Jareth got up and with his closest brother in arms, James, he charged for position until a Vietnamese soldier who had been playing dead popped up behind him with a gun and shot him in the back. His world spun around and before he knew it he was on the ground; James took one look back, meeting his eyes, before continuing the charge. To this day Jareth doesn't know which wound was fatal, the bullet hole from the Vietnamese, or the knife stuck in his back...

As a plus into his years as a wandering spirit

        When Jareth got back up again he surveyed the battlefield, soldiers still stood all around him firing round after round in an endless dance of death and despair. He tried to yell at people moving to their death but no one listened. Bullet after bullet sailed through him and into men behind him. It was at this point he realized he was dead. He wandered the hill for several months until he couldn't take it. The chain protruding from his chest started to tug, unimaginable pain shot through his body. The shadows around him seemed to be tearing at every inch of his flesh, and then just as he was about to turn into a hollow, he felt the touch of a Shinigami's zanpakuto, and he was spirited away to the Rukongai.

         Upon entering the soul society, he was attacked by disbelief, not wanting to believe anything that was happening he ran from the homes of Rukongai into the forests where he felt most comfortable. There he spent 13 years in a blur, never eating, never sleeping. As he reached the depths of his despair, a necklace appeared around his neck and the forest around him started to warp and fade. The moon was brighter, but the trees around him were significantly darker. He wandered this forest terrified for many days with no one there, trying to find something, anything to prove he wasn't alone. There was no sound anymore except for his short breaths. Suddenly as he gave up all hope, he heard the hooting of an owl in the distance: he ran toward it.

         He ran for what felt like years, in fact in his mind it might have been years, constantly moving toward the sound of hooting. Eventually he came upon a grove in the middle of the dead forest, one which glowed under a moon so close you could swear that reaching up might let you touch it, and in the dead center was a beautiful white barn owl perched on a wooden bar that seemed to be growing out of the ground. He spoke to the owl and she spoke back telling him of how much she missed him, and then coming in close to hold him under her wing as he cried.

         After Jareth finished crying she began to tell him about herself, who she was, and things she knew. Eventually she began teaching and training him how to defend himself. The shadows in the woods around him became creatures that he had to learn to defeat by fighting them with only his hands. After a long time of this (really only about 10 years of timelessness within his inner world) she told him he needed to go back to the real world, and suddenly the forest metamorphosed into its original state, and he could see a little girl looking at him from behind a tree. 

        He approached the little girl who then asked if he would help her get home. He agreed and upon arriving at her home he was asked to stay. He did so; mostly taking care of their little girl for 27 years until she was a young teenager (in terms of her apparent age). Throughout this time he began to discover that he was constantly hungry. This prompted him at the end of those 27 years to take the Shinigami academy entrance test. He passed and began his time in the academy. He was exceptionally good at learning all of the concepts and as a result was able to graduate at the top of his class through his hard work and dedication, being a prodigy at kido and hakuda. Now he awaits placement into one of the Gotei divisions.

Roleplay Sample

                     Cold, wet: the dew covered leaves made for a terrible bed. Why was he sleeping on the leaves?  Jareth's eyes opened, darting side to side and seeing nothing but lines of trees. He sat straight up. 

"How did I get here?" he wondered, his five year old mind racing for answers, his ears barely registering the crackle of leaves behind him.

"Such a small insect in my woods... What are you doing here little bug?" 

Jareth started at the booming voice, familiar in its condescending tone.

"You are nothing, bug, and I am going to crush you like the insect you are."

The giant beast, shrouded in shadow, stood tall with his form just about half way up the length of the looming trees. What was this doing in his hiding place? These were supposed to be Jareth's woods, Jareth's safe place: a place where he could be alone and away from the chaos at home. He couldn't bear to know that this thing was here, but he could do nothing about it so he stood up and ran with the beast following suit soon after.

Crash, crash, crash, came the stampeding of giant feet, each time threatening to pop Jareth's tiny body. The terror approaching ran his blood cold as he started to feel the wind of each massive step brushing against him: the end was near. Ahead a fallen tree, one that Jareth knew would be there, Jareth dodged underneath it, watching as the large beast tripped over it. Falling, falling. Jareth felt relief at first that the beast wouldn't be able to chase him, but the looming shadow was now advancing quickly at him from above, and he wouldn't be able to move in time to avoid being crushed by the massive girth.

As quickly as the nightmare came, the nightmare left. The nighttime dew became a cold sweat upon his brow as his chest heaved, and the last desperate trace of a scream pierced through the uneasy quiet of his room. From down the hallway he heard a door open, the stomp, stomp, stomp of someone moving quickly down the hallway, and then his door opened. In the entrance a giant looming shadow, eyes red with anger, the imposing figure of his nightmares present even in his waking moments. This is what hell felt like.

OOC ___

Player Alias: Jareth is fine
Desired Starting GP: I honestly feel like I should leave this entirely up to y'all. You know much better than I what each GP amounts to.
Were you referred by anyone?: Googled it ^.^
Other Characters: I plead the 5th

TMI

               Jareth loved Jimi Hendrix while he was still alive, listening to his music constantly to the point of annoying those around him. Jareth is known to love steak, though upon reaching the soul society his tastes started to steer much further toward sushi. His favorite kind of sushi is Toro, as he loves the incredibly satisfying and rich taste and texture of Toro sushi. His favorite dessert is blackberry cobbler that he often partakes of on his journeys to the world of the living, and he is absolutely obsessed with tomatoes, which he prefers to eat whole while sprinkling salt on it as he eats. Upon visiting the world of the living he found himself in love with the movie Forest Gump, which he watched through someone’s open window at night after they fell asleep on the couch watching it. He loves to sing, though he isn't the most mechanically sound singer, and he enjoyed playing football in his youth. He is also a martial artist and did MMA while in high school. He is also a transvestite (Transvestite should not be confused with transgender or transsexual; transvestites are often happy with their gender and have no desire to change their sex, but simply enjoy being able to cross-dress from time to time. Jareth prefers women.)

Insights

                 Jareth is meant to be someone who has a very arrogant personality to cover up his own fear of loneliness and depression. That statement defines every aspect of his being. He is meant to be vastly intelligent but held back by the depression he hides beneath a facade of superiority, and even the wording of this application is intended to craft an image of how superior he acts. Every part of his outside personality, from his extravagant dress to his preference for using his hands to fight even against a sword wielding opponent is meant to drive that point home. Then there is his true mental state, the inner world and zanpakuto spirit are meant to be reflections of the soul, on the surface his inner world is the perfect reflection of his feelings of isolation in life, further a resonant image of the nightmares and hallucinations that plagued him as a human. Beneath that surface level his inner world is a representation of his growing psychosis; turning into nightmares, shadows taking form and fighting him, all feeling very much like the crazed meanderings of a madman. 

His zanpakuto furthermore is a reflection of what his soul yearns for. His mother was very weak willed when he needed her to be a strong loving force in his life so his zanpakuto takes the form of a loving and motherly owl. Though the reflection doesn't end there, as his psychosis should be further reflected in her. The fact that she is physically forced to isolate herself makes her more approachable by Jareth who dealt with isolated feelings most of his life, her babbling about having been born at the beginning of time provides him a wise (if falsely so) mentor who can teach him anything he needs to know, though it usually just amounts to advice he could've given himself. This is much like his own thirst for knowledge which means he needs her to be unlimited in her own knowledge to support that. Her beliefs that she was born at the beginning of time and cursed by the gods betray her own insanity parallel to the controlled insanity at Jareth's core. His zanpakuto's power to pull people into his world is a reflection that he needs others to believe the incredible stories he tells and the things he believes are real so he shows them and then when they leave they take with them a souvenir of his waking nightmares. 

Reiatsu: 130

Strength: 20
Defense: 20
Speed: 40
Spirit: 50

Total GP: 2,200
Base GP: 2,200
Earned GP: 0
Banked GP: 0
GP Spent On Skills: 1,200
GP Spent On Stats: 1,000


Universal Skills

• Zanjutsu: None (0 GP)
• Hakuda: Intermediate (200 GP)
• Hoho [Shunpo]: Basic (100 GP)
• Reiatsu Perception: Basic (100 GP)

Shinigami Skills

• Zanpakutō Resonance: Advanced (400 GP)
• Hadō: Intermediate (200 GP)
• Bakudou: None (0 GP)
• Custom Skill: None (0 GP)

Threads

In Chronological order

Milestone #1: Family Reunion and Fear

Jareth is no longer in academy, but it feels like he is just now learning what it means to be a Shinigami. A harrowing meeting with his deceased father begins to reveal cracks in Jareth's bravery and threatens to rip him apart at the seams.
Unfinished
- www.bleach-gotei.com/index.php?/topic/16433-peaches-and-dirt-hibiki-yukimura-semi-closed/ (21GP for posts 1 and 3)

- www.bleach-gotei.com/index.php?/topic/16505-aria-of-nightmare-kasumi-closed/ (55GP for post 1, 3, 5, and 7)

- www.bleach-gotei.com/index.php?/topic/16472-the-land-of-gods-invitation-to-enter/(10GP for post 3)

- www.bleach-gotei.com/index.php?/topic/16556-brittle-bravado-genki-ogawa-closed/ (10GP for post 1)

- www.bleach-gotei.com/index.php?/topic/16444-a-path-among-the-stars-kohara-hi-to-closed/ (28GP for posts 1, 3, and 5)

Future abilities crafting section

"There is always room for growth, Jareth. You may come here to train in hand to hand combat, I will never run out of shadows for you to box. If you learn to bring me into your world, I may also teach you techniques of great power I have seen over the ages."

*First Incantation*

I asked God for a poison cradle,

Sowing cyanide into sweetest dreams,

Death blossoms where clouds lie over me,

Held in God's hands...

Death Blooming.

                 After the first incantation black flower buds can be seen seemingly floating in the air, still closed, surrounding the person the technique is being prepared on. This half of the incantation can only be performed after touching someone and 'planting seeds' of spirit energy on them (which is the actual first part of the ability).
 

*Second Incantation*

Dark for fear of failure,

An inner gloom as wide as an eye, and fermenting roiling hate

Death grip in my veins

Unveiling rancid petals,

Flowering forth foul nectar,

The space between a blink and a tear...

Death blooms.

       At the end of the second incantation, the flowers bloom and the technique's effect occurs. (Trying to decide if this kido temporarily ages the opponent or some other effect.)

Seishin-shu

A variant of Shunko which implants "seeds" of the users spirit energy into the excess spirit of their opponent. These can then be used to affect various techniques and "grow" by feeding off of the hosts excess spirit energy.

Physical Description ~ 500/700

Let’s open with: Good job! You said your next effort would be an improvement and you weren’t wrong. This section is rather well written, however you do lose yourself in your descriptions. At several points such as your ‘as a human’ section, you lean so heavily into romantic descriptions that you begin to lose track of the image you’re trying to paint the reader. That said, a lot of this is very good, I’d just advise cutting down on the ‘flair’ if you will.

Personality ~ 800/900

You do a fairly good job of concisely putting together a character’s personality, although the childish personality trait felt like it came out of nowhere and didn’t particularly mesh with the other parts you had developed.

Power & Race-Specific Details ~ 600/800

I like how your inner world and your zanpakuto spirit make sense for your character given their backstory, but it’s a shame I didn’t see a similar connection for the power itself.

History ~ 300/600

This section started out well (albeit rather extreme) with the early human life, but unfortunately you didn’t put the same effort into the other parts of Jareth’s life. His death was glossed over, and you almost hand-waved his entire spiritual existence. What I was looking forward to seeing but didn’t was an explanation of the odd nature of your Asauchi (your blade that has materialised as a instead of a blade), as well as an actual mention of how and why he decided to become a Shinigami.

Approved for 2200 GP!

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Reiatsu: 130

Strength: 20
Defense: 20
Speed: 40
Spirit: 50

Total GP: 2,200
Base GP: 2,200
Earned GP: 0
Banked GP: 0
GP Spent On Skills: 1,200
GP Spent On Stats: 1,000


Skills

• Zanjutsu: None (0 GP)
• Hakuda: Intermediate (200 GP)
• Hoho [Shunpo]: Basic (100 GP)
• Reiatsu Perception: Basic (100 GP)
• Zanpakutō Resonance: Advanced (400 GP)
• Hadō: Intermediate (200 GP)
• Bakudou: None (0 GP)
• Custom Skill: None (0 GP)

This is my initial spending 

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