Post by Chieko Heinrike on Jul 22, 2017 18:00:29 GMT -5
HEINRIKE, CHIEKO
The Compassionate Quincy
[ AT A GLANCE ]
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Height & Weight: 5'11" & 136 lbs
Hair & Eye Color: Blonde Hair and Violet Eyes
Positive Traits:
- Cheerful: One of, if not the most obvious traits that Chieko possesses, she seems to have an endless amount of her typical cheerful attitude. Of course, this can get on people's nerves from time to time, but she's almost always seen as someone who is perfectly happy, and who tries her best to actually create that attitude in others.
- Curious: Another very apparent trait of Chieko's, she is most definitely the kind of person who wants to learn as much as possible, leading to her unusual attitude towards most Spiritual or Spiritually Aware beings, as she enjoys learning new things to sate her desire to learn and find out as much as possible.
- Enthusiastic: It seems that no matter what someone puts in front of her as a task, Chieko will find something to be passionate about. Ask her to write a book, and she will pour her heart and soul into making sure that said book is actually good. Tell her to build a house, and she will try her level best at doing so. Essentially, she has passion in nearly everything she does.
- Loyal: While her loyalty might not be the hardest for a Quincy to earn, it is definitely a strong trait within Chieko. If someone has earned her respect and trust, then she will back them up every step of the way, provided that they don't do something that would break her moral code. And even then, she tends to just bow out from associating with that person, instead of getting revenge.
- Sentimental: Perhaps one of the more interesting traits for a Quincy to have, Chieko has a very high level of sentiment towards spiritual beings. Towards shinigami, she feels sadness, as she realizes that they have all passed on into the afterlife, and typically have no memories of their life as a human. For hollows, it is merely pity, as she sees turning into a hollow as pure, unadulterated torture. That being said, she also does hold compassion for those that are living. She seems to be a bit strange compared to other quincies because of this, but she doesn't mind.
Negative Traits:
- Argumentative: An aspect of Chieko's personality that normally isn't seen very often. When she gets to arguing, she seems to have endless amounts of energy and anger devoted to it, as the same passion that she puts into everything else becomes a hindrance when she actually argues. Usually this tends to make her a bit short sighted during the argument, which makes things all the more difficult for anyone trying to diffuse the situation.
- Blunt: When Chieko states her opinion, it is done without much care for how others feel about it. She will speak it with the utmost honesty and without much care for her choice of words.
- Impatient/Energetic: It's rather hard to get Chieko to really stay in one place for very long, as the Nomadic spirit of the Quincy is very much present in her, making it hard for her to stay inactive for a long period of time.
- Stubborn:This particular trait can be considered both a negative, and a positive. However, with Chieko, it is more along the lines of a negative trait, as she will repeatedly 'bash her head' against a problem until it either is resolved, or until she loses confidence in herself. This applies to everything she does, and is the reason it is so hard to actually get her to stop arguing once she's gotten started.
- Vague: She has a tendency to be vague in her explanations, making it harder to understand her and what she wants.
Loyalties: Family, Herself
Snapshots:
- Chieko is born in Berlin (1997)
- Chieko is attacked by a hollow, only to be saved by her mother, sparking her interest in the spiritual (2009)
- Chieko's training under her mother begins (2010)
- Chieko's mother is killed by a Gillian, forcing her to track down her father (2010)
- Chieko locates her father, who is living in Karakura Town (2011)
- Chieko's training under her father begins (2011)
- Chieko finishes her training with her father (2013)
- Chieko purchases a home in Karakura town, making her a permanent resident of the small town (2017)
[ ON THE SURFACE ]
Physical Description: When talking about Chieko, most people bring up the obvious: Her mixed heritage. Her parents were both Quincy, true. But the difference is that her mother was German, while her father was Japanese. This makes several traits more apparent in her, and it typically is the first thing people see. However, looking past that, she has a very average hair color, being a natural blonde. Her hair itself is rather wavy, being almost seen as curly at times. Typically, she keeps her hair down, allowing it to flow down to the tips of her thighs as it normally does. However, she will occasionally pull her hair up in surprisingly short ponytails, or even in a bun on exceedingly rare occasions. Moving down, she is in possession of a pair of violet eyes, flecked with a lighter purple throughout them.
However, it is her figure that keeps people's attention when she walks around usually. Chieko is a very curvaceous woman, with a rather large bust, and very wide hips. Of course, she seems to not really care about her figure, tending to wear whatever she wants, provided that it fits the season. Typically in winter, she'll wear pants, long sleeved shirts, and jackets. In spring and summer, these give way to T-Shirts, Crop Tops, and Shorts. However, there is one outfit that she wears that is entirely unique. This outfit consists of a deep collared, cream colored vest, a low cut black shirt that has been modified to have long sleeves and a raised collar, black jeans, and a pair of ankle boots that are the same color. This is an outfit that she typically wears when out on the hunt, as it has been modified with several holy artifacts, making it more protective than anything else she wears.
Spiritual Description: As a whole, Chieko's Reiatsu is rather interesting. When released, it actually takes on the appearance of wisps of smoke, which flow off of her body and curl around her in random curls and patterns. These wisps don't appear in a normal grey or black however. No. These wisps of smoke are a very bright gold in color, with flecks of red being prominent throughout them. At the peak of its release, Chieko's Reiatsu typically makes her appear almost like some kind of living incarnation of fire, with the 'smoke' billowing off of her in mass quantities. If one was to ascribe a feeling to her reiatsu however, it would be one of Confidence. A strange feeling for reiatsu to invoke. However, this also changes when it is released to its peak, as the feeling that it typically invokes at that point is Anger.
[ BEHIND THE EYES ]
Personality: As a whole, Chieko is one of the kindest, most cheerful people many would ever have the luck to meet. Of course, this has much to do with how she grew up, being raised by a kind and compassionate mother, even during her Quincy training. On top of this, she is a very curious person, always searching for something new to learn, or even testing things that she just randomly thinks of just to see what they would do. She even does everything with great enthusiasm, putting what seems like nearly endless amounts of passion into everything she does. Still, even someone as seemingly perfect as Chieko has a bad side. In fact, her bad side is usually shown through her own excessive amounts of passion, as it will occasionally draw her into an argument. During these times, she reveals an immense capacity for anger, taking on a very loud tone, and even refusing to stop arguing until the other person backs down. It's in these situations when it's revealed that she is also a very blunt person, stating her opinions and arguments without even attempting to filter what she says.
Thankfully, once an argument has ended, she is capable of calming down relatively quickly, and even goes back to her normal, cheerful self in mere moments. Usually that's about all that anyone sees of Chieko's bad side. However, for those who know about her heritage as a Quincy, they know about both her intense impatience and her own tendency to be rather vague. She is horrible at explanations, and as such, attempts to be as vague as possible in order to get the person asking questions to stop asking her, and just trust her. Her impatience however is more aligned with how much she is incapable of staying inactive and being 'normal' for a long period of time. Still, Chieko is a wonderful friend, and one of the most loyal allies.
Goals:
- Perfect her powers and skills
- Make a family of her own, be it naturally or through adoption
- Kill the Hollow that Murdered her mother.
[ GUARDIAN ANGEL ]
Leben [Quincy Cross]:
As Chieko grew up with only half of her family present in her life, her Quincy Cross isn't exactly a symbol that represents her family. In fact, it isn't even a germanic or japanese symbol. It's an egyptian one. Her Quincy Cross is a golden Ankh, which has been placed horizontally on top of a leather band, which it is tied to by several black strings that bind it to the leather itself. Due to Chieko's ambidexterity however, it never tends to be on the same arm for more than a day at a time, and has been made so that it isn't less comfortable to wear it on one arm than it would be the other.
Quincy Power [The Explosion]: Chieko has the ability of creating explosions. This is done by essentially loading her spirit weapon directly with her own spiritual energy, rather than spiritual particles from the area around her. Once this is done, she pulls the trigger and launches a much faster version of a Heilig Pfeil that is golden in color. Upon contact with anything other than air, this particular projectile will deal an immense amount of damage.
Spirit Weapon
Chieko's Spirit weapon was once surprisingly compact in size, manifesting itself as a small revolver with a blade extending out of the bottom of the barrel. This weapon was comprised purely of Reishi particles from the environment, but for an unknown reason the weapon itself glowed a dull golden color, flecked with red along the blade below the pistol itself. However, after training with other members of The Order, her spirit weapon has shifted.
She has not yet earned her Refined Spirit Weapon, no. It has simply changed shape. Instead of being a revolver, it has now shifted into what appears to be a hunting rifle. It is very ornate in appearance when the refined state is reached. However, in its unrefined state, it simply appears as an outlined version of itself, being golden in color, with parts of the barrel being flecked with red. The rifle as a whole measures about twenty-seven inches from the tip of the barrel to the butt of the rifle itself, and is capable of firing up to three Heilig Pfeil at once.
She has not yet earned her Refined Spirit Weapon, no. It has simply changed shape. Instead of being a revolver, it has now shifted into what appears to be a hunting rifle. It is very ornate in appearance when the refined state is reached. However, in its unrefined state, it simply appears as an outlined version of itself, being golden in color, with parts of the barrel being flecked with red. The rifle as a whole measures about twenty-seven inches from the tip of the barrel to the butt of the rifle itself, and is capable of firing up to three Heilig Pfeil at once.
[ LEGACY CREATED ]
Origin: Born in Berlin in 1997, Chieko's early childhood was a rather happy one, as she grew up with both her mother and father--both of whom were quincy. Unfortunately, as Chieko's spiritual signature developed more and more, her parents found themselves sensing Hollows drawing nearer and nearer to their home. Of course, this occurred over such a long time that neither of them thought anything of it. They were in a small city, but it was so devoid of spiritually aware people that Hollows in the area essentially had impunity. They simply decided to keep doing as they were doing before Chieko was born. For a time, this worked. Unfortunately, mere weeks after Chieko's twelfth birthday, a hollow attacked their home directly. It was late at night, and Chieko's father and mother were both away. Her mother was on her way home from a night shift that she had been working to afford them groceries on weeks that her father wasn't getting a paycheck.
Her father? He was away on business, having found a job in a larger town a year or so ago. The hollow that actually picked up on Chieko's developing signature was very large, about half the size of the house itself, which was two stories tall, and immensely cheap because of the fact that the people in town associated it with being haunted. This hollow was frog-like in its shape, and carelessly slammed its hand through the windowless upper floor, searching around for Chieko. The first time he punched through a wall, it woke up Chieko. She was frightened, but she actually left her room, calling out for her mother in case she was home. The second time that the hollow punched through the wall, its arm flew right past Chieko's face, and slammed through the wall on her left, shattering the bathroom that was just outside of her room.
She screamed and tried running back to her room, only to see the hollow's hand smash through her room as well. This continued every time she turned around, until eventually she was able to get down into the kitchen, and the hollow merely swept away an entire section of wall. Chieko tried to defend herself by throwing any item she could reach at it. But no matter what she threw, be it a cooking pot, a pan, spatulas, spoons, forks, even knives..they all bounced off of its hide, being warped massively from how dense its hide was. As the hollow attempted to reach out to her for the last time however, Chieko heard her mother's voice before a bright blue light actually blinded her for a few moments. Once she regained her sight, she was able to see the creature itself dissolving, and her mother held what appeared to be a crossbow made of blue light in one hand. Later, she found out what exactly everything that she had seen that night was, and--after calling her father to let him know what had happened--they decided to begin Chieko's training. Unfortunately for their plan, it seemed that the hollow that had attacked Chieko was actually just more sensitive to spiritual signatures than other hollows were. Her powers wouldn't properly awaken for another full year.
Rise to Power: Of course, her power not being properly awoken did not mean that she was allowed to not train. After a brief explanation and demonstration of what could be done by her mother, Chieko was taught the basics of how to gather Reishi from the environment, something that they did out in the woods near the town they lived in. The amount of particles that could be gathered actually was more dense in the woods than they were in the city, so it was far easier for Chieko to get a proper grasp of the very basics of how to gather spiritual particles. Eventually, Chieko was competent enough at the gathering of Spiritual Particles that her mother taught her about the Quincy Cross. Something she had to do entirely on her own, as Chieko's father had vanished, apparently running off to Japan out of a feeling of guilt for not being there to protect his daughter.
Unfortunately, that also meant that the family themselves didn't really have any real standardized symbol as for what drew out their powers as a focus. So, really, at the end of the day, Chieko's mother laid out a massive assortment of pieces that had come off of other bracelets. Most of them showed some kind of religious symbol. She told Chieko to close her eyes and feel for whichever one was drawing in her energy the most. The decision for which piece would have been the focus took about twenty minutes, because she was young enough that it didn't really take a quick moment to decide. By the end of it though, she had found that the golden Ankh was what drew in her powers most effectively. From there, her training actually took off exceedingly quickly. Chieko managed a summoning of her unrefined spirit weapon mere months after she obtained her cross. After that, she was taught the basics of Blut, and unlike her mother, seemed to be more proficient in Vene than in Arterie.
Sadly, her training under her mother would not see itself to completion. By this point, it was new years day of 2010, and Chieko only just now had become strong enough to fend off a common hollow. Her mother was a bit stronger as well..but neither of them were capable of fighting off what they would find themselves up against. They had actually taken a break from training for New Year's Eve, and returned to Berlin, where Chieko had been born, and where most of her extended family lived. They had spent the day actually enjoying the company of family, and showing off the progress Chieko had made in such a short time. Unfortunately, when they decided to go out that night, they came face to face with a Gillian. It seemed that something had attracted the massive beast. For Chieko, the events after the beast's appearance were a blur. The only thing she fully remembers from that night was the fact that she ended up with her mother's corpse in her arms, and the Gillian itself dead.
For the better part of a year, Chieko actually led a mostly normal life, staying away from the more supernatural aspects of her life. Eventually, she went through the grieving process, and decided that she needed to continue her training. Unfortunately, the family member that she was living with at the time--her grandmother--was too old to actually safely teach her about the last thing that Chieko had to learn: Ginto.
Call to Action: This meant that she was forced to actually seek out her father. She had known from her mother that he had fled to Japan. She remembered that much. So, with her grandmother in tow as her escort, they began the search, starting with the business that her father had worked for. They told her that he had requested to transfer to the Tokyo division of the business a few years ago. With that in mind, they went to Japan, where Chieko had to be the one leading the way, as she was the only one of the two who could actually speak Japanese, thanks to her father. The people who had worked for the business were very kind in giving her the information that she needed. Unfortunately, convincing her father to let her live with him took..quite a bit of persuasion. Getting him to teach her about Ginto?
That had taken even longer. Of course, she eventually began her training with her father. Unlike her training with Blut however, Ginto seemed to not come to her as easily, and it took her a total of two years to finish learning the ins and outs of Ginto. By this point, she was all but a Japanese citizen, and decided to apply for full citizenship of the country. For a time, she lived happily with her father. But, when she turned twenty, she decided that it was time for her to move out on her own. As such, she searched around for a cheap, affordable place to live. She now lives in Karakura Town, and has become quite fascinated with how much of a hub for spiritual events that the city actually was.
