Post by Muon-San on Nov 27, 2016 21:10:50 GMT -5
MUON-SAN
UNSEATED - DIVISION 3
[ AT A GLANCE ]
Age / Apparent Age: 26 (Spirit)
Gender: Male
Height & Weight: 5'9" & 153 lbs
Hair & Eye Color: White & Silver
Positive Traits: Practical, Independent, Dedicated.
Negative Traits: Harsh, Detached, Unpredictable.
Loyalties: Lieutenant of Squad 3, Captain of Squad 3, other Lieutenants & Captains. Gotei.
Snapshots: Rukongai (Origin); Academy (Rise to Power); Division 3 (Call to Action)
These should be only core events that somehow shaped your character’s life. Birth, death, what triggered their powers, and things of that sort should be mentioned here. Anything that other characters might want to reference, such as if you were in a previous division at some time, is useful as well. This is not a full timeline, just the highlights of your history.
[ ON THE SURFACE ]
Physical Description: Describe how your character looks, sounds, smells, and acts like. Try to focus on the key aspects of a character, such as their body build, demeanor, and vocal patterns, and stray away from useless information that won’t be brought up in a typical thread. This description should be very cleanly written, but not come off as a checklist of features. Try to mesh all of the parts together to create a coherent thought.
Muon possesses a thin but muscular physique that shows signs of ware through callouses across the palm regions of the hands as well as the feet's underside, some of the imperfections can attribute to his dedicated training with the sword, a Tachi looking zanpakuto; although his white skin is relatively clean with nor mole or many scars in sight, he still makes the effort to cover up to the best of his ability with a simple long-sleeved shihakushō and a pair of black fingerless gloves made from what feels like cloth. Muon's face is the first thing people get to notice, the shinigami has more the looks of a lady rather then a man: natural snow white flowing hair, black eyelashes curled away from the eye, an always present smile on his thin mouth, a sharp slim nose and jawline too. As a result, the man is always teased behind his back but never confronted due to a natural icy expression as it could scare most colleagues away just as easily.
Having many similarities to that of a female, this shinigami has tried attempt to spin this feature around like an asset rather then a curse; a major factor is the mannerisms he express, taking to walk lightly but surely and would cover his mouth with the shihakushō sleeve when pondering, mimicking the geisha of Rukongai. Muon hasn't taken this feature into full stride as he's yet to apply perfume, paint his face or wear a full-blown kimono but the similarities can be recognised if you frequent such establishments. Muon doesn't smell like a fruit or flower that is easily recognisable but instead give off a light natural oak scent, albeit more pungent when sweating; this paired with the feel of his reiatsu gives the impression of burnt oak, or a forest fire when furious.
Even when compared to a woman by his peers or presenting himself nobly, Muon's demeanor when in a working environment (including during combat scenarios) is widely compared to that of a strict busy-body; specifically Muon gives off a rigid impression that makes many others either likely to butt-heads or shy away from him, mostly the latter due to possessing no
The shinigami possesses a thin but muscular physique that shows signs of tireless training, this is in the form of callouses across his feet and especially the palm area which is because of his sealed Zanpakuto mirrors a Japanese Tachi, where the hilt of the blade is not thinner like most katana. Muon's body in turn does show some scars too, mostly faded stab marks litter around his near pale skin but still attempts to cover up with a simple shihakushō and sports a pair of black fingerless gloves made of what feels like cloth. Iris possess a white silver tint to an otherwise normal eye, a distinct lack of wrinkles around any part of the face even when his natural state is a smile.
(Still in draft)
Spiritual Description: Similar to above, though this focuses on the spiritual presence of your character. This would be how their Reiatsu appears and/or feels when they release it. Typically, Reiatsu can invoke a feeling of sorts and often takes on a ghostly appearance. Reiatsu cannot be touched or molded and simply serves as dramatic effect.
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Charred
[ BEHIND THE EYES ]
Personality: Describe who your character is and how they interact with the world. This doesn’t necessarily include what they like or dislike, unless those opinions have an actual effect on the character. That is to say, including that they like to watch it rain is rather useless, however saying they are a hollow sympathizer is certainly worth mentioning. Take into consideration things that will actually be relevant to the story you’re telling and information other thread partners would want to see out of your character. This is where you justify the things you want to do.
Goals & Achievements: This is where you briefly talk about things your character has done in the past, or things they want to do. Please note that you cannot have had any previous position of notable power (such as lieutenant or captain), however mentioning that you were once a seated officer in a certain division is very relevant information. This is a very good place to start a foundation of your story and make notes on the general direction of where you want to go with your character. Above all else, keep your goals reasonable; it was be a little ludicrous to go out the gate wanting to be Captain Commander. However, feel free to update this as you progress, so players have easy access to your current plans and accomplishments.
[ GUARDIAN ANGEL ]
Zanpakutō Spirit: Zanpakutō Spirits are the mentors and guides of Shinigami. They serve as the balance to their soul and guides the wielder towards strength. Commonly, Spirits are seen as a Yin to the Shinigami’s Yang, however being direct opposites is not required. The Spirit must allow a different perspective that the Shinigami needs to embrace in order to grow.
Spirits can look like anything and act like anything -- don’t be afraid to bind them to a standard human or wolf. Be as creative as possible, as these are the true expression of your character’s soul. More importantly, Spirits are not friends, nor are they enemies: they are guiders. A relationship with a Spirit should not necessarily start out on good or bad terms, unless you have a reasonable foundation for that conflict or lack thereof.
Inner World: Much like the Spirit, the Inner World is an expression of the soul. It represents how the Shinigami feels about themselves on a subconscious level. Not only that, it is the only place where they can interact with their Spirit and, typically, the Spirit has far more control over this “realm” than the Shinigami themselves.
Power: A brief (1-2 sentences) summary of your power. This only needs to be as complex or as simple as you want it to be, but remember that the full write up belongs in your second post!
Zanpakutō: Most Shinigami have a standard katana as their weapon and, when unreleased, your weapon should fall under that as well. Unless you have a solid reasoning for not having the standard weapon, consider sticking to the basics for this one.
However, your released Zanpakutō should look like something that either represents their Spirit, or the power itself. Either way, feel free to be creative here and use things that might not traditionally be considered a weapon. While nothing can beat a good ol’ fashioned sword, having something that compliments your power is always worth looking into.
[ LEGACY CREATED ]
Origin: Each of these three sections should be at least a full paragraph (5-7 complete sentences). In your origin, you should talk about where your character was born, describe their death (if applicable) and talk about their time in the Rukongai. This should stop right at the part where they develop enough power to be accepted into the Academy.
Muon's story begins even before birth, being the child of a weak and constant flu-stricken woman; it was likely at the time he'll attain a much weaker or malnourished body then most spirits, even when becoming a so called "Pure" spirit due to being birthed within the soul society. Muon's mother Illia, and father, Kira didn't fit into the normal crux of Rukongai residence either; to make matters worse for the poor mother, they were both infamous bandits within the soul society and thus fled to live in one of the most backwash areas of Rukongai: East 73. Being infamous within the outer walls of the seireitei isn't hard at all, what Kira and Illia's reasons were didn't frankly matter anymore due to how long they stayed within the area E73; even the soul society frankly forgot about their faces and their tale was left as mere fiction by the time Muon even understood what history even is.
The real trouble with staying within these areas are the lack of patrolling shinigami to protect the citizens, meaning the chance of seeing either a hungry bandit or hungry hollow more then likely. Kira wasn't stupid by any means and hid Illia while under a disguise with some like-minded bandits, ending up creating a small settlement for themselves after several years. Sadly for the two love birds, by the time it came for Illia to move into this new settlement after all the hassle of fortifying against hollows; all it took was for another even stronger hollow to crash these plans asunder, a hollow who's power was to decompose anything to ash with it's stomach acids, slowly. This was by the time Illia was in her late stage of pregnancy and many years were put to plan and form this new settlement, Kira stood by his wife every minute the hollow intercepted the party of 5 bandits (not including Illia).
One by one, agonising screams were echoed inside the giant pelican/toad hollow who swallowed each bandit while taking the time to play with it's food. It hopped on one spirit where it's giant mouth consumed it's entirety and spat the weapon it held with sharp velocity to pin it's next target in case it tried to run away for whatever reason. By the time Kira even noticed, three of his blood brothers were eaten alive with their agonising faces appearing on the hollow's rotund belly; at this moment all he could do was try and keep Illia safe, the woman reacting before him attempted to run away to save their baby but more importantly herself. Although Kira never truly grasped the entire reason why his wife ran before his own call, he accepted this was likely the last time he'll live to see her beautiful face and ran to diverge the hollow's gaze. Kira did help his son but not in the way he initially thought, in the end the hollow swallowed up Illia as well but didn't end just there.
The stupid hollow, by some stroke of Muon's luck was confronted by shinigami in district East 63, where the beast was slain and contents of it's belly leaked out to the masses. The corpses of grey and red mush piled up where the lower half of a woman's body protruded outward and eventually flopped onto the ground, sounds of wailing startled all shinigami present. After drawing the shortest straws, where some member of Division 3, unseated at the time had reluctantly looked around the carcass painfully. What shocked him was not one child was present inside the womb but two, both children clearly twins but only one had cried out since the other was likely dead. Feelings of sorrow and the thoughts of putting the child down were discreetly discussed after they realised what had just happened, the thought was quickly rejected though by the one who'd pulled him out. The man who helped Muon at that time instead of directly taking care of him (The guy didn't have enough income to support him), he left it in the hands of the capable residents of East district 8; more specifically a rakugo theatre and geisha house that earned a decent income from both spirit and shinigami.
In those days, Muon was named for his silent but more so restrained personality whilst brought up as an entertainer's apprentice where his skills of deception, lying and charm was starting to flourish. The spirit eventually heard of his brother's demise, came in the form of an off-hand comment by the house's owner who regularly berates others in drunken ramblings. At first the comment seemed too surreal to be true but as he'll later find out, it was a part of who he was.
Rise to Power: Rise to Power should include the Academy and any time you have spent grinding through the rank and file Shinigami events. This would include you unlocking Shikai and most of your notable events in your history. This is where you explain how your character has gotten so strong.
Muon spent his years practising the same scripts of theatre again and again, his skill didn't improve but the conflicting bombardments from his teacher sure did. His master, although kind enough to take the child under his wing, claimed the spirit as more of a rarity for his unique white hair and kept the child for his alluring disposition; he had a way with others the old man once utilised. Small actions like covering their hands warmly, patiently listening to their grumbles and even quipping small jokes to calm them, the targets. Muon showed his power through persuasion was still young and could sometimes end with a drink in the face but it all ended with a nightmare. Miserable screaming and only squelching muck hitting hard flooring could be heard amidst the void, the only way he could get out was by waiting or screaming his lungs dry; this happened enough times to get him kicked out for disturbing the peace, no matter how much pleading came. "I can tolerate you flirting with the customers and using your skills to steal since it's your hide that get's in trouble at the end of the day. But ruining everyone's precious time for such a long time"
Call to Action: This is where you talk about the event(s) that made your character shift from an NPC to a player character. For whatever reason, they need to be pulled away from the daily grind and put into the spotlight. In this section, you’ll want to highlight that event(s) and justify why your character is they way they are today.
UNSEATED - DIVISION 3
[ AT A GLANCE ]
Age / Apparent Age: 26 (Spirit)
Gender: Male
Height & Weight: 5'9" & 153 lbs
Hair & Eye Color: White & Silver
Positive Traits: Practical, Independent, Dedicated.
Negative Traits: Harsh, Detached, Unpredictable.
Loyalties: Lieutenant of Squad 3, Captain of Squad 3, other Lieutenants & Captains. Gotei.
Snapshots: Rukongai (Origin); Academy (Rise to Power); Division 3 (Call to Action)
These should be only core events that somehow shaped your character’s life. Birth, death, what triggered their powers, and things of that sort should be mentioned here. Anything that other characters might want to reference, such as if you were in a previous division at some time, is useful as well. This is not a full timeline, just the highlights of your history.
[ ON THE SURFACE ]
Physical Description: Describe how your character looks, sounds, smells, and acts like. Try to focus on the key aspects of a character, such as their body build, demeanor, and vocal patterns, and stray away from useless information that won’t be brought up in a typical thread. This description should be very cleanly written, but not come off as a checklist of features. Try to mesh all of the parts together to create a coherent thought.
Muon possesses a thin but muscular physique that shows signs of ware through callouses across the palm regions of the hands as well as the feet's underside, some of the imperfections can attribute to his dedicated training with the sword, a Tachi looking zanpakuto; although his white skin is relatively clean with nor mole or many scars in sight, he still makes the effort to cover up to the best of his ability with a simple long-sleeved shihakushō and a pair of black fingerless gloves made from what feels like cloth. Muon's face is the first thing people get to notice, the shinigami has more the looks of a lady rather then a man: natural snow white flowing hair, black eyelashes curled away from the eye, an always present smile on his thin mouth, a sharp slim nose and jawline too. As a result, the man is always teased behind his back but never confronted due to a natural icy expression as it could scare most colleagues away just as easily.
Having many similarities to that of a female, this shinigami has tried attempt to spin this feature around like an asset rather then a curse; a major factor is the mannerisms he express, taking to walk lightly but surely and would cover his mouth with the shihakushō sleeve when pondering, mimicking the geisha of Rukongai. Muon hasn't taken this feature into full stride as he's yet to apply perfume, paint his face or wear a full-blown kimono but the similarities can be recognised if you frequent such establishments. Muon doesn't smell like a fruit or flower that is easily recognisable but instead give off a light natural oak scent, albeit more pungent when sweating; this paired with the feel of his reiatsu gives the impression of burnt oak, or a forest fire when furious.
Even when compared to a woman by his peers or presenting himself nobly, Muon's demeanor when in a working environment (including during combat scenarios) is widely compared to that of a strict busy-body; specifically Muon gives off a rigid impression that makes many others either likely to butt-heads or shy away from him, mostly the latter due to possessing no
The shinigami possesses a thin but muscular physique that shows signs of tireless training, this is in the form of callouses across his feet and especially the palm area which is because of his sealed Zanpakuto mirrors a Japanese Tachi, where the hilt of the blade is not thinner like most katana. Muon's body in turn does show some scars too, mostly faded stab marks litter around his near pale skin but still attempts to cover up with a simple shihakushō and sports a pair of black fingerless gloves made of what feels like cloth. Iris possess a white silver tint to an otherwise normal eye, a distinct lack of wrinkles around any part of the face even when his natural state is a smile.
(Still in draft)
Spiritual Description: Similar to above, though this focuses on the spiritual presence of your character. This would be how their Reiatsu appears and/or feels when they release it. Typically, Reiatsu can invoke a feeling of sorts and often takes on a ghostly appearance. Reiatsu cannot be touched or molded and simply serves as dramatic effect.
a
Charred
[ BEHIND THE EYES ]
Personality: Describe who your character is and how they interact with the world. This doesn’t necessarily include what they like or dislike, unless those opinions have an actual effect on the character. That is to say, including that they like to watch it rain is rather useless, however saying they are a hollow sympathizer is certainly worth mentioning. Take into consideration things that will actually be relevant to the story you’re telling and information other thread partners would want to see out of your character. This is where you justify the things you want to do.
Goals & Achievements: This is where you briefly talk about things your character has done in the past, or things they want to do. Please note that you cannot have had any previous position of notable power (such as lieutenant or captain), however mentioning that you were once a seated officer in a certain division is very relevant information. This is a very good place to start a foundation of your story and make notes on the general direction of where you want to go with your character. Above all else, keep your goals reasonable; it was be a little ludicrous to go out the gate wanting to be Captain Commander. However, feel free to update this as you progress, so players have easy access to your current plans and accomplishments.
[ GUARDIAN ANGEL ]
Zanpakutō Spirit: Zanpakutō Spirits are the mentors and guides of Shinigami. They serve as the balance to their soul and guides the wielder towards strength. Commonly, Spirits are seen as a Yin to the Shinigami’s Yang, however being direct opposites is not required. The Spirit must allow a different perspective that the Shinigami needs to embrace in order to grow.
Spirits can look like anything and act like anything -- don’t be afraid to bind them to a standard human or wolf. Be as creative as possible, as these are the true expression of your character’s soul. More importantly, Spirits are not friends, nor are they enemies: they are guiders. A relationship with a Spirit should not necessarily start out on good or bad terms, unless you have a reasonable foundation for that conflict or lack thereof.
Inner World: Much like the Spirit, the Inner World is an expression of the soul. It represents how the Shinigami feels about themselves on a subconscious level. Not only that, it is the only place where they can interact with their Spirit and, typically, the Spirit has far more control over this “realm” than the Shinigami themselves.
Power: A brief (1-2 sentences) summary of your power. This only needs to be as complex or as simple as you want it to be, but remember that the full write up belongs in your second post!
Zanpakutō: Most Shinigami have a standard katana as their weapon and, when unreleased, your weapon should fall under that as well. Unless you have a solid reasoning for not having the standard weapon, consider sticking to the basics for this one.
However, your released Zanpakutō should look like something that either represents their Spirit, or the power itself. Either way, feel free to be creative here and use things that might not traditionally be considered a weapon. While nothing can beat a good ol’ fashioned sword, having something that compliments your power is always worth looking into.
[ LEGACY CREATED ]
Origin: Each of these three sections should be at least a full paragraph (5-7 complete sentences). In your origin, you should talk about where your character was born, describe their death (if applicable) and talk about their time in the Rukongai. This should stop right at the part where they develop enough power to be accepted into the Academy.
Muon's story begins even before birth, being the child of a weak and constant flu-stricken woman; it was likely at the time he'll attain a much weaker or malnourished body then most spirits, even when becoming a so called "Pure" spirit due to being birthed within the soul society. Muon's mother Illia, and father, Kira didn't fit into the normal crux of Rukongai residence either; to make matters worse for the poor mother, they were both infamous bandits within the soul society and thus fled to live in one of the most backwash areas of Rukongai: East 73. Being infamous within the outer walls of the seireitei isn't hard at all, what Kira and Illia's reasons were didn't frankly matter anymore due to how long they stayed within the area E73; even the soul society frankly forgot about their faces and their tale was left as mere fiction by the time Muon even understood what history even is.
The real trouble with staying within these areas are the lack of patrolling shinigami to protect the citizens, meaning the chance of seeing either a hungry bandit or hungry hollow more then likely. Kira wasn't stupid by any means and hid Illia while under a disguise with some like-minded bandits, ending up creating a small settlement for themselves after several years. Sadly for the two love birds, by the time it came for Illia to move into this new settlement after all the hassle of fortifying against hollows; all it took was for another even stronger hollow to crash these plans asunder, a hollow who's power was to decompose anything to ash with it's stomach acids, slowly. This was by the time Illia was in her late stage of pregnancy and many years were put to plan and form this new settlement, Kira stood by his wife every minute the hollow intercepted the party of 5 bandits (not including Illia).
One by one, agonising screams were echoed inside the giant pelican/toad hollow who swallowed each bandit while taking the time to play with it's food. It hopped on one spirit where it's giant mouth consumed it's entirety and spat the weapon it held with sharp velocity to pin it's next target in case it tried to run away for whatever reason. By the time Kira even noticed, three of his blood brothers were eaten alive with their agonising faces appearing on the hollow's rotund belly; at this moment all he could do was try and keep Illia safe, the woman reacting before him attempted to run away to save their baby but more importantly herself. Although Kira never truly grasped the entire reason why his wife ran before his own call, he accepted this was likely the last time he'll live to see her beautiful face and ran to diverge the hollow's gaze. Kira did help his son but not in the way he initially thought, in the end the hollow swallowed up Illia as well but didn't end just there.
The stupid hollow, by some stroke of Muon's luck was confronted by shinigami in district East 63, where the beast was slain and contents of it's belly leaked out to the masses. The corpses of grey and red mush piled up where the lower half of a woman's body protruded outward and eventually flopped onto the ground, sounds of wailing startled all shinigami present. After drawing the shortest straws, where some member of Division 3, unseated at the time had reluctantly looked around the carcass painfully. What shocked him was not one child was present inside the womb but two, both children clearly twins but only one had cried out since the other was likely dead. Feelings of sorrow and the thoughts of putting the child down were discreetly discussed after they realised what had just happened, the thought was quickly rejected though by the one who'd pulled him out. The man who helped Muon at that time instead of directly taking care of him (The guy didn't have enough income to support him), he left it in the hands of the capable residents of East district 8; more specifically a rakugo theatre and geisha house that earned a decent income from both spirit and shinigami.
In those days, Muon was named for his silent but more so restrained personality whilst brought up as an entertainer's apprentice where his skills of deception, lying and charm was starting to flourish. The spirit eventually heard of his brother's demise, came in the form of an off-hand comment by the house's owner who regularly berates others in drunken ramblings. At first the comment seemed too surreal to be true but as he'll later find out, it was a part of who he was.
Rise to Power: Rise to Power should include the Academy and any time you have spent grinding through the rank and file Shinigami events. This would include you unlocking Shikai and most of your notable events in your history. This is where you explain how your character has gotten so strong.
Muon spent his years practising the same scripts of theatre again and again, his skill didn't improve but the conflicting bombardments from his teacher sure did. His master, although kind enough to take the child under his wing, claimed the spirit as more of a rarity for his unique white hair and kept the child for his alluring disposition; he had a way with others the old man once utilised. Small actions like covering their hands warmly, patiently listening to their grumbles and even quipping small jokes to calm them, the targets. Muon showed his power through persuasion was still young and could sometimes end with a drink in the face but it all ended with a nightmare. Miserable screaming and only squelching muck hitting hard flooring could be heard amidst the void, the only way he could get out was by waiting or screaming his lungs dry; this happened enough times to get him kicked out for disturbing the peace, no matter how much pleading came. "I can tolerate you flirting with the customers and using your skills to steal since it's your hide that get's in trouble at the end of the day. But ruining everyone's precious time for such a long time"
Call to Action: This is where you talk about the event(s) that made your character shift from an NPC to a player character. For whatever reason, they need to be pulled away from the daily grind and put into the spotlight. In this section, you’ll want to highlight that event(s) and justify why your character is they way they are today.
