Post by Phoenix on Mar 16, 2016 3:32:25 GMT -5
___ S H I N I G A M I ___
The Soul Reaper
On The Surface__
Name: Chie Kira
Age / Apparent Age: 150/16
Gender: Female
Height & Weight: 4' 7" / 105lbs
Hair & Eyes: Waist lenth black hair usually tied downwards on duty, although some bangs hang over concealing an eye. brown eyes.
IQ: 203
Physical Description:
On first glance Chie is not much to look at, a small petite body of what appears to be a late teenage girl. She is not very muscular, as she has a slim doll like body with modest curves keeping a cute appeal as opposed to a sexy appeal with her small features and "assets". Her skin tone is a slight pale, as if it was a bit malnourished like Chie spent some time in the dark, but not enough to take away from her beauty. During her time on duty as a Shinigami she let's her hair natural fall downwards while still keeping her bangs. Her Shihakushō is slightly baggy, and the sleeves go to her elbows and does little to show off her figure but it fits fairly well. She has sewn a pocket inside her Shihakushō for where she keeps a red notebook with a pen for a bookmark. Other things of note are the plain silver bracelet that she typically wears on her right wrist, and the fact that she puts her zanpakuto sheath on her right side tied to her sash.
During her off duty time she wears a green kimono tied with a pink sash that flatters her cute body fairly nicely. Also during her off duty time she lets her hair fall naturally, with several strands falling to the front on either side of her neck. Also during her off duty time she wears the silver bracelet, if she were to carry her zanpakuto off duty she would have it at her side in her sash as opposed to on her back.
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Her gigai wears grey running shoes, navy blue jeans, and a black sweater with white inside the hood. On top of her black sweater she wears a leather vest, similar to that of bikers. her hair is tied into a braid except for the usual bangs covering her right eye.
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Former appearance:
Hair used to be tied in ponytail, now braided down. Zanpakuto now kept at side, formerly back. Changes effective after "The morning after."
Spiritual Description:
Chie's reiatsu is a warm light green, and typically gives off an inviting atmosphere, making kind hearted people feel more at ease. however, it constantly smells of fear and desperation to those who try to examine it in depth.
Behind The Eyes__
Personality:
Chie is typically kind but does not always show it in her tone. She wears a dull expression that hides most signs of any warmth in her heart even though she truly cares about other beings. Chie sees any innocent as someone that deserves help, she takes that philosophy and applies it to all, even hollows. She typically tries to solve problems with her mind, as she never was good at expressing herself through gestures on the sentimental and emotional level. Chie is socially awkward in many regards, but still slowly tries to come out of the shells she made over the years. She believes her best feature is her mind, so she is centered around her intelligence, and gets extremely passive-aggressive when she gets intellectually challenged. In regards to social interactions, she is very slow and hesitant at times as she believes that she is an omen for terrible luck for those who try to get close to her.
Positive Qualities:
Compassionate: Chie is very compassionate, although she does not show it directly, she dislikes to see good people suffer needlessly, and does what she believes she can to stop others from suffering.
sharp memory: Chie's mind is very sharp, she can remember remember most things rather easily.
Honest and Loyal: Chie is not the type who lies and uses deceit to gain an advancement for personal gain, she accepts not always being on top and commits to higher powers and hardly ever tells a selfish lie.
Negative Qualities:
Self-Negative: Chie constantly puts herself down, she believes that many mistakes are her fault for either not doing anything or making a huge mistake even when she is not at fault, she tends to believe at times that she is a bad luck magnet and everyone around her is doomed to get hurt or worse if they get too close personally to her. she also puts herself down sometimes about not having enough strength to fight, and thinks that even at her peak she would still be useless in a fight even though she keeps trying
social awkwardness/shyness: Chie is very shy and awkward when it comes to social interactions with others, sometimes she is very slow when it comes to talking about herself, or can't keep her composure.
Inferiority Complex: Chie always feels weaker when compared to others, in many aspects, Chie believes that she is nothing compared to other shinigami, in nearly every aspect, she often believes in a fight many times she would be more of a burden than assistance even though she'll enter battle at a moments order.
Strength Of The World__
Zanpakutō Spirit and Inner World:
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Asatsuyu looks like a tall thin pale skinned woman in a green with blue flower and vine kimono while having long length silver hair, but she has a long braid tied around a long braid at the bottom. she wears a broken green and blue kitsune mask. she carries herself with great pride but with a hint of sorrow. she typically is looking into the distance in the seemingly endless sky of the soul world in which she resides. she is proud of her strength and often condescends on chie for not having as much confidence in her own strength even though Asatsuyu would assist her owner on a whim. she tends to be graceful, never losing her nerve, but always acting so cold and never revealing any trace of emotion and pressures chie to push her limits to become stronger. Asatsuyu is typically disappointed in Chie for usually blaming herself for her short comings and mistakes instead of overcoming them.
Asatsuyu resides in an inner world of a large grassy field with a mound in the center containing a cherry blossom tree that is always in a sunset lighting.
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Zanpakutō:
In sealed form it simply looks like a katana with a black hilt, the guard is round with what looks like a vine pattern running around the edge. The blade is longer than what chie can carry at her waist so its sheath is typically bound to her back.
Release Phrase: flourish asatsuyu
shikai: in its released form, the handle changes to a wood-like material and the tsukamaki changes color from black to green. the vine pattern on the tsuba changes to a mossy representation of the pattern of vines. the blade changes to a long thick vine approximately 3' in length and 2cm in diameter. along the vines are tiny buds, each release spores of poison. these spores are released upon impact on a solid object and seep to infect through any means possible (air, open woulds, etc).
shikai power: the default poison unless otherwise is a basic paralysis, usually the poison is injected via spores released by the buds running along the vines, typically the paralysis poison takes an amount of time to take into effect, depending on the dosage. 1-3 hits generally take 2 minutes to kick in and aren't very effective, mostly effecting the area of impact or entry, meanwhile 5-7 hits take 4 minutes to fully kick in but can spread much faster, causing paralysis of a larger area (such as hit from the knee, almost the entire leg now effected) and 8+ equals near total paralysis within 3 minutes.
Chiketsu no Doku ( 血潔の毒 "tainted blood's poison")- by placing her blood upon the vine, the buds change from a natural green color to a blood red color, and the poison significantly changes. the rule of the spores changes, in this case the dosage has nothing to do with effects anymore, being the effects only kick in throughout the 5 minute timeline. the poison changes to instead cause intense pain in the joints of its victims. during the first two minutes, the first stage activates causing what can easily be mistaken for muscle soreness, it is gradually increasing for the duration of the time of effect. at 3 minutes the joints start to really ache, as if they took all the hits during the course of the battle, often slowing down the movement of its victim. at 5 minutes the full effect takes in causing extreme pain to the joints, making even the simplest of movements hurt.intensely.
Konsui no Hana (昏睡の華 "comatose blossom)- this attack can only be used during the day, by raising the vine towards the sky the buds along the vine blossom into tiny flowers, releasing yet another different type of poison through spores. Like the previous this one has a time based effect of 5 minutes, but this poison causes drowsiness instead of pain. during the first two minutes, the poison doesn't really have much effect, at best the victim might feel drowsiness, but nothing else of note. at 3 minutes the victim feels tired as if they overextended themselves, and have slight difficulty focusing. however at five minutes the user is prone to passing out, and can have great difficulty focusing or thinking. this technique drains a lot of Chie's own energy, often pushing her to exhaustion on use, appearing as if she attacked herself with her own technique at first.
Otome no Kyoufu (乙女の恐怖 "maiden's fear") - this attack can only be used during the night, by shedding a tear onto the vine, the buds explode, causing a gas to be be seeping out of the holes the leave behind. constant exposure to the gas causes the effects to get more mild for the victim. the gas is a fear inducer, it causes panic and fear in the victim for no specific reason. like the other two effects this has a five minute slow process. for the first 2 minutes the victim might panic a bit, but nothing of immediate note, but at 3 minutes the victim starts to get anxious, and panics even if there is no appropriate reason to be afraid. after 5 minutes the user is constantly panicking, and becomes hard to think clearly, often making the victim prone to mistakes.
Second Release Description:
Name: Asatsuyu no saku tsubomi (朝露の咲くつぼみ, blooming bud of the morning dew)
To release, Chie stabs her sealed Zanpakuto into the ground while calling out bankai causing a flash of green light to engulf herself.
Meanwhile as the the light around Chie dissipates revealing her bankai's aesthetic changes. To begin with the blade, it's hilt changes to be identical to as it is in Shikai (appears to be made of a dark wood while the tsuka ito on the hilt changes from black to green.) while the vine pattern turns into vines extending out to 5 cm instead of each. Meanwhile the Mune gets coated in a similar wood. The blade itself remains as metal, but takes on a shiny silver appearance.
Meanwhile her body undergoes modifications aesthetically and physically. Her body alters from the small frame of a child to a well endowed woman about 5'6 and 150 pounds while giving her a lean muscular form and prominent assets. Her hair, generally remains proportionally unchanged in length except for two strands falling naturally over her each side of her neck while her hair turns from its natural silky black to a dark silver-grey color. Her clothes transforms into an elegantly designed green and blue vine and flower patterned Kimono akin to the garb of her Zanpakuto spirit
To release, Chie stabs her sealed Zanpakuto into the ground while calling out bankai causing a flash of green light to engulf herself.
Meanwhile as the the light around Chie dissipates revealing her bankai's aesthetic changes. To begin with the blade, it's hilt changes to be identical to as it is in Shikai (appears to be made of a dark wood while the tsuka ito on the hilt changes from black to green.) while the vine pattern turns into vines extending out to 5 cm instead of each. Meanwhile the Mune gets coated in a similar wood. The blade itself remains as metal, but takes on a shiny silver appearance.
Meanwhile her body undergoes modifications aesthetically and physically. Her body alters from the small frame of a child to a well endowed woman about 5'6 and 150 pounds while giving her a lean muscular form and prominent assets. Her hair, generally remains proportionally unchanged in length except for two strands falling naturally over her each side of her neck while her hair turns from its natural silky black to a dark silver-grey color. Her clothes transforms into an elegantly designed green and blue vine and flower patterned Kimono akin to the garb of her Zanpakuto spirit
Second Release Ability:
As with Shikai the power of Bankai is spore based poison. As the cherry blossoms bloom and fall they are pushed by the wind to fly around the arena, as they are pushed around they break apart into petals, as soon as a petal comes into contact with an object they breakdown completely into spores. The spores themselves carry a paralyzing poison by default. that slowly paralyze its victim over time. The variety of alternative poisons from Shikai translated into Bankai, each having its activation conditions the same but transformed into proper techniques. A major difference between the poisons in shikai and the posions in bankai are that the poisons themselves are more potent, and that Chie can alternate through them and use several in the course of a battle.
Enhanced Chiketsu no Doku ( 血潔の毒 "tainted blood's poison")- by wiping a side of the blade with her blood she can attract a series of petals that will attach itself to the blade, turning from pink to black in the process. by striking her opponent afterwords, all the black blossoms explode into a black mist exposing the opponent to black spores, which release a separate kind of poison, one that attacks solely the joints of the body inflicting pain over time. the first stage consists of notable stiffness or soreness in the joints, but it only hurts a small bit, but the pain slowly progresses. by the second stage the victim feels pain in most of the joints of their body, it can often slow down some reflexes to a degree. at the final stage the poison takes full effect, making even the slightest of movements extremely difficult.
Enhanced Konsui no Hana (昏睡の華 "comatose blossom)- Like the conditions in shikai, this technique can only be used during the day, and is activated by holding her blade in a defensive or blocking position a large quantity blossoms turn white and gather together in front of the blade creating a circular shield of blossoms. this shield can only block one attack before it shatters into spores that try to enter the victims body through any means possible. like the original technique used in shikai, this technique's poison is a sleeping based poison. the first stage the victim feels only slightly drowsy, as if they expended themselves more than they actually have during the course of the battle. during the second stage the victim gets very drowsy and can possibly feel like passing out on the spot, as well as thoughts becoming cloudy and becoming increasingly more difficult to focus. at the final stage the victim is on the verge of passing out, the strongest of will and focus could possibly remain conscious but with incredible difficulty.
Enhanced Otome no Kyoufu (乙女の恐怖 "maiden's fear") - like the conditions in shikai, this technique can only be used during the night, and is activated by thrusting the blade into the ground yet again, this causes another wave of green energy is sent to all of the trees, causing them and all cherry blossoms to explode. this covers the area in a grey mist, instead of spores, the gas from the mist itself is the method of transmission for this poison. this poison causes anxiety and fear to increase in the victim, causing them to panic slowly over time. during the first stage the victim would feel a bit of anxiety even if there is no immediate cause, might cause a minor slip in their composure. at the second stage, the victim would start to panic inside greatly, and possibly start to believe that what they are against is a far greater threat to them, and cause a much higher probability of mistakes. The final stage makes it very difficult to concentrate, as fear starts to overwhelm the mind of the victim, it becomes incredibly difficult to focus as they become more impulsive out of fear.
Enhanced Chiketsu no Doku ( 血潔の毒 "tainted blood's poison")- by wiping a side of the blade with her blood she can attract a series of petals that will attach itself to the blade, turning from pink to black in the process. by striking her opponent afterwords, all the black blossoms explode into a black mist exposing the opponent to black spores, which release a separate kind of poison, one that attacks solely the joints of the body inflicting pain over time. the first stage consists of notable stiffness or soreness in the joints, but it only hurts a small bit, but the pain slowly progresses. by the second stage the victim feels pain in most of the joints of their body, it can often slow down some reflexes to a degree. at the final stage the poison takes full effect, making even the slightest of movements extremely difficult.
Enhanced Konsui no Hana (昏睡の華 "comatose blossom)- Like the conditions in shikai, this technique can only be used during the day, and is activated by holding her blade in a defensive or blocking position a large quantity blossoms turn white and gather together in front of the blade creating a circular shield of blossoms. this shield can only block one attack before it shatters into spores that try to enter the victims body through any means possible. like the original technique used in shikai, this technique's poison is a sleeping based poison. the first stage the victim feels only slightly drowsy, as if they expended themselves more than they actually have during the course of the battle. during the second stage the victim gets very drowsy and can possibly feel like passing out on the spot, as well as thoughts becoming cloudy and becoming increasingly more difficult to focus. at the final stage the victim is on the verge of passing out, the strongest of will and focus could possibly remain conscious but with incredible difficulty.
Enhanced Otome no Kyoufu (乙女の恐怖 "maiden's fear") - like the conditions in shikai, this technique can only be used during the night, and is activated by thrusting the blade into the ground yet again, this causes another wave of green energy is sent to all of the trees, causing them and all cherry blossoms to explode. this covers the area in a grey mist, instead of spores, the gas from the mist itself is the method of transmission for this poison. this poison causes anxiety and fear to increase in the victim, causing them to panic slowly over time. during the first stage the victim would feel a bit of anxiety even if there is no immediate cause, might cause a minor slip in their composure. at the second stage, the victim would start to panic inside greatly, and possibly start to believe that what they are against is a far greater threat to them, and cause a much higher probability of mistakes. The final stage makes it very difficult to concentrate, as fear starts to overwhelm the mind of the victim, it becomes incredibly difficult to focus as they become more impulsive out of fear.
Legacy Created__
Current Division: 4th
Snapshots:
1866: born
1937: separated from family and met group of friends
1999: joined academy
2015: graduated academy
2016: joined squad 4 and lost friends to unsanctioned hollow raid
History:
Born in the rukongai to a struggling family as an only child where she grew up humbly, never asking for more than she needed and tried to help others as much as she can. She was happy and cheerful, never frowning upon what she had, never once a complaint. One day while she and her parents were out they got separated in a large crowd and got pushed and shoved around to the point where they were far apart and haven't seen each other since. She tried desperately to search for her lost parents but to no avail. For once she was scared and did not know what to to, she was a lost child in the Rukongai and had no one to turn to, and fell crying in an alley. After ending up all alone, until she was approached by a boy wearing a silver bracelet named Kai, leader of a group of stray rukongai kids. Kai was walking by when he noticed the little girl was crying, he said "the sight of this disgusts me, i can't put up with this, with all the struggling in this world, a crying little kid shouldn't be one" and approached the young Chie, crouched down and wiped away her tears with his sleeve and said "what's your name?" and for the first time since getting lost, Chie felt safe as she answered the boy "Chie.... Chie Kira", and the boy smiled and said "my name is kai, don't worry, i'll be around and kicking for a long time" and at that moment Chie found someone she could put faith in. Kai took in Chie, She began to learn the new group that became her family, there were two others, a boy named Takuya, and a girl named Hisana. The four of them barely made by taking low paying jobs, or stealing if they had no other option. When Chie asked Kai why he hated to steal, he told her "Cause it is a thin line, it can be wrong for stealing what was never rightfully yours, but sometimes necessary for survival and helping those who can't help themselves.... I hate that line, that is why I don't want you to believe when we steal, it is always right", that was one of the lessons Kai imparted onto Chie, trying to make sure that She didn't become a lowly thief.
One day when they all became of age, Takuya and Hisana were tired of being weak and poor, and how things were going for them so the two convinced Kai to join the academy. Chie didn't believe she could potentially be a great shinigami but on inspiration of Kai, she took the chance and applied. After being accepted into the academy, she was afraid she made a mistake joining, she tried to run, but ran into Kai at the door, he stopped her from running. She confessed how she felt to Kai, she felt that she could trust him, he was like an older brother to her in many ways, Kai gave her a speech that she was not expecting "Chie, you see, my, Takuya, and Hisana, we are all worthless garbage, we wasted are potential by being thieves, and a bunch of idiotic kids who tried to get by, but you are different, of all the four of us, you are the only one of us that actually belongs here. I've had the wonderful pleasure of finding you, and over the years seeing your curiosity, you're potential as both a shinigami and a person grow, I don't wanna see you waste that, don't worry, i will always be with you, even if i am worlds apart... " and began to take off his silver bracelet and slipped it onto her arm, Chie was shocked, this was the only valuable Kai had, it was precious to him, she gasped at Kai's determination to ensure her future.
After that Chie returned to her studies and training with a new found will to succeed and be the best she could have been. Chie was never a good fighter but her mind was sharp, she payed close attention to all her studies and tried to be as good as she could even though she never stood out from anyone else. She would study and train day and night but constantly comparing herself to other students and believing that she would never be as skilled as them. Mostly keeping her head down she attended the academy not attracting any attention to herself as she saw everyone else demonstrate their skills, she kept herself paced and tried to be supportive if possible but she found herself growing distant from others. Years later she graduated and she found herself into the 4th division but her friends did not.
After that Chie returned to her studies and training with a new found will to succeed and be the best she could have been. Chie was never a good fighter but her mind was sharp, she payed close attention to all her studies and tried to be as good as she could even though she never stood out from anyone else. She would study and train day and night but constantly comparing herself to other students and believing that she would never be as skilled as them. Mostly keeping her head down she attended the academy not attracting any attention to herself as she saw everyone else demonstrate their skills, she kept herself paced and tried to be supportive if possible but she found herself growing distant from others. Years later she graduated and she found herself into the 4th division but her friends did not.
One day soon after graduation her friends Takuya and Hisana decied to sneak out and hunt for hollows before they joined their respective squads in an attempt to prove themselves believing that since the whole group (except for Chie) learned their zanpakuto's names they can handle a few hollows much to Chie and Kai's argument against. Chie choose to ignore their stunt as she didn't like the idea of dying so soon and believed her friends would see it her way and prayed that they would not go out and do something so foolish and reckless. But that night they did in fact go out, all three, but Kai went some time after the first two, but not before leaving a letter in Chie's room when she was not around. Kai caught up to Takuya and Hisana taking on Hollows, but very quickly got surrounded, and killed by hollows. When Chie found the letter she realized that was Kai's goodbye letter, telling her that he went after Takuya and Hisana himself so they would not get in trouble for the stunt. She soon realized that all three were dead before the news even reached the seireitei, which Chie took very personally and believes it was because of her that they died while blaming solely on herself for not doing anything. She began to wither on the inside in despair, believing that she is too weak and the deaths of her friends are her fault, that if she can't stop her friends from dying what chance does she have at protecting those who have no strength to defend themselves. She tried to hold herself together but sheltering in her emotions from the general public, and even denying she even knew her friends.
One night in her despair while in her quarters she held her Asauchi to her own throat, threatening to take her own life, until she heard a voice from no where that seemed familiar tell her "no... don't you dare give in, you are not going to die that weakly and easily, or are you truly so weak? pain is only a loss, and with a loss there will always be a gain, you lost your allies, but not me, i am still at your side if you can truly master me, now get up, be strong, stop shedding tears. You are a shinigami, start acting like one and call out my name, it's ----" as the voice reached the final word the name of this voice, she couldn't hear the final word spoken and dropped her blade and fell to her knee's about to cry. She then gathered what little strength she had and slowly stood up as she said to herself the words that she'll always carry with her "my friends are gone, its my fault... i may never forgive myself, but i am here, alive, and above all, i am a shinigami, i will shoulder my burdens and carry out my duty as a shinigami" and then suddenly she appeared to be in a meadow like area under a sunset lighting and a giant mound with a cherry tree. she saw a figure in front of her, under the tree, a stranger yet a familiar figure, a tall woman wearing a beautiful green and blue kimono with plant like design, a kitsune mask but it was green and blue, nothing like a hollow, but cracked to reveal some pale skin, hair was silver, there was a braid going down one side, and the woman called to Chie, the same voice from earlier "brave words, found some strength i see, now, are you ready to call out my name?" and Chie was shocked, she realized who she was in the presence of, she stands up, grabs her Asauchi and points her sword towards the figure and calls out "your name, tell me, please, i need to be stronger, even if i am no use i must be stronger" and the woman replied with "a fighting spirit, no matter how small, you are still my master, now prove you are worthy of me, my name is, Asatsuyu!" Chie instantly found herself back in her quarters and picked up her sword, still an Asauchi but it was resonating to her, she grabbed it and cried "flourish, Asatsuyu!" and for the first time her Asauchi changed, it instantly changed into a whip made of vines, but as Chie was inexperienced her zanpakuto back-lashed on Chie, hitting herself in the shoulder and it became harder to move, and her zanpakuto changed back into a blade, and the slow acting paralyzing in her shoulder wore off shortly. But when the zanpakuto resealed, the thread of the hilt changed to black, and the guard gained a vine like imprint running along the edge. Ever since then she tries to live a quiet existence within the gotei five.
Roleplay Sample:
chie finished up her reports and she submitted them to the proper drop box and left for a stroll in the rukongai. In which she encountered a starving young girl, and without a thought she went to a nearby stall and purchased a piece of bread and gave it to the poor girl, unable to withstand such a sight, then after seeing a look of gratitude from the lost girl, Chie left to continue her stroll, i which she heard the all too familiar cry of a hollow, she ran over to the alley where an innocent soul was about to be attacked by a spider-like hollow, instinctively chie reached for her zanpakuto and flash stepped in front of the soul, blocking the hollow's attack with her zanpakuto she countered stabbing it in a join between a leg and the main body. she tried to pull her zanpakuto out but it was caught, the hollow knocked her back sending her flying, still injured from the zanpakuto stuck in its body. chie stands up and charges at the hollow grabbing her hilt and calling "flourish, asatsuyu" and her sword turned into a whip that she pulled out and lashed at the hollow's legs, and its movements considerably slowed down. after being able to get close chie resealed her zanpakuto into its katana form and stabbed the hollow right through its mask killing it, then walking away mumbling "i guess i really wasn't meant to fight"
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