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Vizard:
Name: Siegfried
Age: Unknown
Sex: Male
Appearance: [x]Siegfried is about 6'0" in height. He wears his sloppy blonde hair in a mop most of the time. He tends to wear steel plate armor most of the time, drawing attention to himself frequently. He wears his jitte strapped to his lower back with the handle facing to his right for quick draw, similar to Soi Fon's.
History: An ex-shinigami who soon awoke to his hollow powers. To show his seperation from the Soul Society, he wears armor instead of a shihakusho.
Zanpaku-to appearance (normal): [x]
Skills: Cero

Soul Society Shinigami:
Name: Kai, Shinomari
Age: 146
Sex: MALE
Appearance: Kanji has a slim muscular build, but not the lifting weights muscular, the training for hours all day muscular. His thick, rough cut hair is a dark brown and always messy. He has a tanned complexion to go with his perfectly smooth and well defined face. He has long but strong fingers perfect for holding a sword. His eyes are a deeper blue than the deepest ocean and spaced perfectly from each other.



History:Both Kai’s parents got killed when he was but a wee lad of about 3 years old. He lived in a kind woman’s house until it was destroyed by a hollow and a shinigami fighting (age 5). He after that he was able to see ghosts, and he got attacked constantly by hollows. Kai managed to run from them until he was nineteen.

He was then eaten and turned into a powerful hollow, it took two combined shinigami’s power to take him down. In the soul society he starved for food while others didn’t.
He spent the first 73 years traveling learning a variety of martial arts, he now knows many kinds of martial arts. He traveled learning to control his reaitsu and training in a blend of sword styles for 73 years after that. He is now a new student at the great shinigami academy.
Squad: None
Rank: Academy Student (First year)
Zanpaku-to appearance (normal): A normal katana with a simple oval tsuba.
Zanpaku-to name(if it's known): Asauchi (Literally Means: Shallow Hit)
Zanpaku-to appearance(shikai)((if it's known)): None.
Zanpaku-to appearance(bankai)((if it's known)): None.
Zanpaku-to Abilities(normal): None.
Zanpaku-to Abilities(shikai): None.
Zanpaku-to Abilities(bankai): None.
Skills: None yet
Vaizard (yes/no): No

Now I have to start as a Academy student right?

Soul Society Shinigami
Name: Diamante, Mi-Kal
Age: 156
Sex: Female
Appearance: Mi-Kal has purple hair and bright red eyes. she is 5ft 7in tanned skin and very well in shape. her chest is a 34 C. she is a perfect hour glass, however the complete tomboy. her hair is short and slightly spiked yet looks slightly disheveled. her robes hang loosly about her body yet tight enough to be slightly revealing of what lies beneath them. her ears are peirced many times. an industrial through her right ear and three lobe peircings, on the right she has two cartalage peircings and three lobe.
Squad: N/A
Rank: N/A
Zanpaku-to appearance (normal): a traditional look however when her hand grabs it by the grip a red ribbon winds around her hand and up her arm
Zanpaku-to name: Vesto (protector of the sacred Flame)
Zanpaku-to appearance(shikai): The blade extends and widens by a foot and changes to a blood red colour.
Zanpaku-to appearance(bankai): the sword remains that of shikai, however the blade vanishes to a blade of fire.
Zanpaku-to Abilities(normal): simular to Ichigo, however fire instead of wind
Zanpaku-to Abilities(shikai): Fire gusts, sparks,
Zanpaku-to Abilities(bankai): a slight touch of the fire blade can cause the other to feel as though fire is erupting with in them,
Skills: was once trained by a witch and has the abilities to cast spells, though she tends to use most spells that have to do with fire.
Vaizard :no

Soul Society Shinigami:
Name: Crim Ishida (Japanese: Ishida Crim)
Age: 218
Birthday: Oct. 4
Sex: Male
Appearance: Height: 6'0 ft. / Facial appearance is identical to Sosuke Aizen only that his hair is parted at the center and he doesn't wear glasses. The only thing that prevents him from being mistaken for Aizen is his hazel eyes and his shinigami uniform which is sleeveless like that of Hisagi Shuuhei's and as oppose to the regular captain's uniform, he wears a crane yukata to define his independence. He tends to take on a persona similar to that of Ichimaru Gin, but not as sarcastic or emotionless. Very rarely will he ever be seen acting 100% serious towards anybody. He wields his Zanpaku-to with his left hand. His scabbard is located on his right side. For a fighting stance, he likes to keep his sword sheathed for a quick flash-draw; He holds onto his scabbard tightly with his right-hand while his left hand holds on the zanpaku-to with his thumb and fingers (as well as sharp side of blade) pointing upward resting the handle on the palm of his hand. When in Shikai/Bankai, his stance changes; He stands with his hands to his body is facing the enemy ahead. In Shikai, the orbs float around him.

History: He has been known to make sudden dissapearances during his training at Shinigami Academy and will sometimes not show up for months. At these times, he was secretly perfecting a way to achieve Bankai when no one had realized that he was already capable of achieving Shikai. During the time of Aizen's revolt, alot of his classmates at the academy assumed that he was in on it. At that time, there wasn't much going for him with the rank he had, but he never did take the academy as serious as he could have, otherwise he might have been promoted to the rank of a vice-captain or even higher much, much sooner; probably by about a good 78 years before the birth of Ichigo. No one knows what his life was like before he became a shinigami. Because of his past being somewhat unknown and the unusual similarities in his personality and appearances as well as his frequent dissapearances, most of the other shinigami from the other divisions don't trust him. Despite being dispised and looked down upon by others, he continues to be in a cheerful, carefree mood, not carrying about how others feel about him and only concerned about getting stronger in hopes of one day being atleast on par with the strongests of all of the three worlds if not becoming the strongest himself. By the time Aizen's revolt was over, he was finally recognized by all of the remaining captains and now stands amongst them as one of the captains himself.

Squad: 9th Division

Rank: Captain

Zanpaku-to appearance (normal): Like a normal katana.

Zanpaku-to name(if it's known): Akaneirohashi (Crimson Edge)

Zanpaku-to appearance(shikai)((if it's known)): With his left hand, Crim brings out his zanpaku-to forward so that the sharp side faces forward while the edge points straight up followed by the 45 degree inward twisting of his wrist so that the edge points towards his right. He then proceeds by bringing out his right hand and slamming it through, all the way across the blade which fades along the path of his hand, from the tip of the zanpaku-to to the hilt while shouting out the words "Strike the fear, Crimson Edge!"
Eight crimson colored orbs the size of a hackysack or a giant jawbreaker then appear hovering around Crim just below his pecks in height.

Zanpaku-to appearance(bankai)((if it's known)): It is released by stabbing the zanpaku-to into Crim's own gut then fading along the path of entry (Creates the illusion of stabbing just like Shikai), becoming in synch with his body while chanting the words "Eliminate all weaknesses, the ultimate defense, Crimson Edge! Bankai!" Constantly glowing, Crimson colored markings show up all over Crim's body (Like Uchiha Sasuke's cursed seal when it is glowing red - From Naruto.)

Zanpaku-to Abilities(normal): None other than Soul Burial

Zanpaku-to Abilities(shikai): The orbs can each turn into a crimson colored spirit particle sword or shield. The sword can shoot out a wave like Benhime's. The other function of the orbs are to be used a shield which automatically activates when attacked. It lasts for a whole assault duration then dissipates and reappears as an orb. The shield's width and length can extend to no greater than 4 feet and can only withstand one powerful attack, but can take constant abuse from regular attacking for a long duration depending on reiatsu levels. Note that the orbs can also be shot out like a bullet to a limitless range and explode with impact. Causing a huge explosion the size of Ichigo's house.

Zanpaku-to Abilities(bankai): Shoot out crimson colored waves similar Benihime's attack, but with Crim's mind since he has synchronized with his zanpaku-to. He materializes them somewhere in the atmosphere surrounding his aura and sends them at the opponent. Can shoot out several waves at once. Each wave is not as big as Benihime's attack due to the lack of a physical form of a Zanpaku-to but doesn't mean it is weaker, that is just to get a better image of what it looks like. He can also materialize a spirit-particle shield in any direction as well as in any shape or form. He can freely attack through the shield and even use parts of the shield to shoot out a wave at the enemy so long as the shield is still useful afterwards. In this state, speed increase to that of Bankai Ichigo, especially due to the lack of a physical form for his Zanpaku-to. The finishing move while in Bankai is to completely conceal the enemy in a crimson spirit-particle bubble that is made the same way as his shield. While in the bubble, the enemy can not move unless his reiatsu is decently higher than Crim's, which then, eventually he could slip out slowly. To be able to attack while in the bubble would require a tremendous difference in reiatsu to Crim. Another way to form the bubble would be to shoot out an orb that begins to expand and move towards the enemy. If the enemy tries to attack it, he will be consumed and it will stick to him like glue or like gum to a shoe. While the enemy is in the bubble, Crim uses his mind to generate and transfer crimson waves from all directions of the border of the crimson bubble. Very fast and gruesome waves disassembling the opponent's limbs. This can be used as a finisher or a last resort counter-attack. Only for truly worthy opponents, and not jus worthy but evil as well.

Zanpaku-to Class: In general, it is in the same zanpaku-to element class as Urahara's Benihime (Crimson Princess). Only that it is a male zanpaku-to and is slightly stronger in Shikai.

Skills: Shunpo, Destructive Art 31: Red Flame Cannon, Soul Burial, Binding Spell 61: Luminous Prison of 6 Bars

Vaizard (yes/no): N/A


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I know it may seem a little messy, but please bare with me; I made many revisions to this as I posted it, so much that I may have made a less-desirable order.

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Sample: The night was quieter than usual. Lately, there has been little to no signs of hollows appearing in the town of Karakura which was awfully strange for the current population of people with unusually high reiatsu residing there. Crim Ishida was assigned a job to slay a very powerful hollow that has been causing trouble there. However, he knew that this wasn't the case. This was just a way to lure him away from Soul Society; somewhat of a prank put together by his superiors. Crim willingly accepted the mission figuring that this would be a good excuse to get out since most of his fellow shinigami were snobby due to his appearance. Crim had already been around over half of the town and decided to take a rest at the park. As he moved towards the bench his gigai started making a weird eletrical noise. He knew it would soon give out on him. His gigai began to feel heavier and heavier to the point where his soul was forced out of the gigai and was unable to re-enter. "Eh? That's no good. It was s'posed to last atleast another good day or two. Look's like I got scammed," he said to himself aloud, believing that no one around could possibly hear him talking to himself. "HAHAHAHA!! You must be even more psycho than me!! Talking to yourself.. You should know better!!" A shadowy figure then appeared from behind the swings. It was an arrancar with long black hair that covered his eyes completely and curved towards the back of his head, making a long ponytail that reached down to his feet. His middle to lower face was completely covered by his hollow mask and a hole was located at the center of his stomach and consumed a little less than half of his abdominal area. He wore a long black leather coat with matching pants and was barefoot. His zanpaku-to was carried in a silver scabbard that had an eerie glow to it and was tied around his chest with a plain, thin rope. "My bad. I didn't know there was someone here," he told the arrancar.

"On this fine night, I can assure you someone is going to die," prompted the arrancar "can you take a guess who?" Crim kindly smiled at him as he replied "Hmm.. Nope, Sor-," but before he could finish his sentence, the arrancar flew at him at an accelerated rate and began to clench his fist. At the moment of impact, as the arrancar was about to swing at him, Crim's facial expression quickly changed from happy to discontent. As he was about to pull out his Zanpaku-to, the Arrancar suddenly vanished. Crim suddenly realized that if he wanted to have any chance of winning, he would have to use his bankai, which he knew was still too risking to perform. Suddenly, the arrancar swept up from behind him and pressure punched him, causing him to fly through the chain-linked fence and land in a giant pit of wet cement in a construction zone. Crim was completely covered in wet cement to the point that no one could recognize him. At this point, Crim didn't care whether or not his bankai was stable, he couldn't go around letting some random enemy stomp all over him. Before the arrancar bothered to pursue him, Crim quickly pulled out his zanpaku-to and yelled out "Eliminate all weaknesses, the ultimate defense, Crimson Edge!! BANKAI!!" The intense crimson-colored reiatsu that eminated from within Crim instantly disintegrated the wet cement before giving it a chance to fly off. The whole town began to shake as his Reiatsu bursted outwards, into the sky. When the arrancar caught on to him, he quickly flew towards the destination only to see that the only thing that has changed was that Crim's Zanpaku-to had vanished. "For a moment there, I actually thought it was you eminating that strong reiatsu.. HAHAHAHA!! What was I so scared of," the nameless arrancar mockingly said "So.. Are you ready for the next round?!"

Following his crude comment, he dashed towards Crim yet again, only this time, Crim vanished. The arrancar stopped to look for his reiatsu, but could not sense it due to Crim's ability to hide his reiatsu in his bankai. Crim reappeared ontop of the swings where he had first encountered the arrancar. "Heheh. Missed me!" he said. "What?! This isn't going to work!! That's it!! YOU'RE DEAD!!" The arrancar slowly brought his hand back to pull out his zanpaku-to. A second before he could grab it, a crimson wave flew towards him so fast that he was unable to trace it in the process of nearly dodging it. It manage to slice a piece of his jacket which further angered him. Before he could react in time, Crim violently yet flowingly swung his arms around as if it were to perform some kind of chinese martial arts. From his hands, flew out several crimson colored spirit particle waves. Every waves was being timely dodged by the arrancar, but he knew that if he could not manage to pull out his zanpaku-to then he would never be able to attack. The arrancar then vanished in thin air, leaving the crimson waves to cut up small parts of the corner of a nearby apartment building. Crim could no longer track his movements and stood up straight with his eyes closed, maintaining a kind-hearted smile as if nothing were actually happening. Approximately 1 second later, the arrancar reappeared with confidence in his ability to release his Zanpakuto while flying down upon Crim with it halfway unsheathed. About 10 feet away from Crim, the arrancar pulled out his zanpaku-to. Crim seemingly does nothing, maintaining a serene smile.

The arrancar swings his nameless zanpaku-to down hard upon the right shoulder of Crim causing a stream of blood to spray out and cover the arrancar's zanpaku-to. "HAHAHAHA! This next blow will kill you, shinigami!! Feel free to beg for your life!" the arrancar shouts. "Heh. That kinda hurt me, ya know? It was fun while it lasted.." Crim replies in irony. As the arrancar tryed to pull out his zanpaku-to, his whole body began to freeze in place. He constantly struggled to get loose, but to no avail. The arrancar noticed the crimson-colored reiatsu that was eminating from Crim's body. "Huh?! What the hell did you do to me?!" the arrancar screamed out in frustration. "You see it too, don't you." Crim replies. "See what!? What the hell are you talking about?! Let me go so I can cut you up!!" "If you are able to see 'my' reiatsu, then you are already dead." Crim begins to be serious. "Ofcourse I'm dead you, idio-" but before he could finish what he was saying, his body literally fell to pieces with only his head remaining whole. "The moment you tryed to pull out your zanpaku-to, I had already cut you up several times." Crim's reiatsu exploded causing a temporary blinding flash followed by the materialization of his zanpaku-to in his scabbard. "I think I'll let you see what hell is like for yourself" Crim said with a mischievous smile," Crim drew his zanpaku-to with his left hand and pulled it back. "Bye-bye!" was Crim's final response as he stabbed his zanpaku-to into the forehead of the arrancar. Crim swiftly sheathed his zanpakuto as the gates of the underworld arose from the Earth's interior and consumed the arrancar's soul. Crim then began to search for his trashed gigai only to find burnt ashes where he had last left it. "Woops! And that was just a rental too," Crim says playfully, "Atleast I got to have alot o' fun." He then headed towards the Urahara shop for a new gigai. That's when he started to realize that the wound inflicted on him from the nameless arrancar combined with the use of his bankai took way more of a toll on him than he had initially expected. As he made his way towards the footsteps of the Urahara shop, his weight shifted as well as his center of gravity due to exhaustion, resulting in his body collapsing.


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EDIT: 10/17/06

Vizard
Name: Noburu Masuru
Age: 16 (At death) 19 (currently)
Sex: Male
Appearance:Noburu stands at approximately 5' 10" He's a

little on the stout side, but not very much (moreso along

the lines of bone). His eyes are a very expressive emerald

color and his hair is a dark golden blond. The style of his

hair is rather short and semi-messy with a part down the

middle. If his hair were longer it would definately be in his

eyes.

His hollow mask has a psychotic grin and wide, thirsty eyes. A raven-esque shape goes down the center of the mask in a very thin line, the thickest parts being the wings which stretch out around the eyes.

History: Noburu was seemingly a normal highschool

student. His eyes were set on college, his whole life was

pretty much set. However, he saw ghosts, spirits, pluses

and hollows.

Only seldomly did he see hollows, they just didn't happen

to be around. But when he -did- see them he noticed that

they were often chasing pluses or people. At first he didn't

care much and brushed it off as mild insanity. But as more

and more pluses began disappearing as well as some of his

fellow highschool students, he began to connect the dots.

Hollows were killing people and eating pluses. He was the

only one who could see them--he had to do something and

he could finally put his martial arts training to use.

The next day he happened upon a hollow who was chasing

down its next victim. Noburu sprang into action, leaping

and driving a jump kick into the back of the hollow's neck.

The hollow spun around after it recovered, and widened its

eyes slightly, suprised that there was a human there who

had hit him and not a shinigami.

"Hmm, you smell delicious," the hollow said.

"Well, why don't you try a bite?" Noburu shouted a

challenge and readied himself.

Noburu and the hollow engaged in a short battle. The

hollow beat Noburu out of his body, leaving only the

chain of fate to keep him alive. Laughing evily, the hollow

shaped his hand into an axe and brought it down on

Noburu's chain.

Freaked out and realizing he wasn't much of a match for

the hollow he ran away, leaving his body and the hollow

behind. He ran until he was alone, out in the country.

Luckily he escaped the hollow, but what came next

Noburu counted as quite misfortunate. The links of his

chain began to erode, causing him emense pain in between

cycles. Toward the end, when it neared the time that he

would become a hollow he came into a world within him.

That world was shaking, crumbling, shattering. Then a

voice came to him.

"Noburu, that was foolish of you."

"Huh?" Noburu turned to see the voice. A man clad in a

black trench coat stood before him, his raven hair molested

by the wind.

"There is only one way to save you now..."

"What? What is it?"

"The odds are against you, but if you can unlock the power

hidden within you, you will be saved. See those?" he

pointed at the crumbling blocks. "The power lies within

one of those, set it free."

Immediately Noburu went after the boxes, desprately

searching for this "power". It wasn't until he had plunged

deep into the waters of this world that out the corner of his

eye he spied a box different from the rest. Resting on the

box was a mask, with black arms wrapped around the sides.

Noburu went to the box and pryed the mask off the box,

then opened the box. Within was a sword hilt. "This must

be the power," he thought.

"What are you waiting for? Take it!"

Noburu drew out the blade and reawoke, his face behind a

mask and with a sword in his hand. He flexed his face

slightly behind the mask, then reached around and pulled it

from his face.

Looking down at himself he saw that he was wearing

something completely different from what he was before,

and this sword in his hand. "How did I get this samurai

getup?" he thought.

Noburu had power now--and now, it was time to hunt

hollows. After a few years of hunting hollows on his own,

having no home in his body nor in the soul soceity (for he

knew not of it) he finally ran into another Shinigami.

That Shinigami accused him of being outside of his district

and escorted him to Soul Society. He was let off because he

was totally oblivious and managed to prove it. Also,

potential was seen in this one, so it was granted that he

should be allowed teaching in the shinigami ways, especially

since he no longer could be counted among the living.

Zanpaku-to appearance (normal): A long katana, a bit

broader than most with a slight edge where the dull side

should be. The hilt is styled much like a katana's, at the

pommel is attached a trail of fabric. Near the end of the trail

is a black bead with a raven's feather through it.
Zanpaku-to name(if it's known): Loki
Zanpaku-to appearance(shikai): Becomes a hand-and-a-half

katana and its slight edge grows a bit sharper.
Zanpaku-to appearance(bankai): The blade appears to look

like obsidian and the trail of fabric and feather disappear.

Appearing on his back would be a set of raven wings, large

enough to carry him into the air, and a punch dagger

looking like a raven's beak.
Zanpaku-to Abilities(normal): soul burial, hollow

purification, hollow condemnation [all standard issue

zanpaku-to abilities ]
Zanpaku-to Abilities(shikai): Deteriorate target's ability to

hold themselves together, reiatsu wave [sending a wave of

spirit energy with a slash]
Zanpaku-to Abilities(bankai): Flight [due to wings],

heightened reflexes, Chaos Barrage [ A blizzard of shadow

feathers, similiar to Kuchiki Byakuya's Shikai, except that

the blade doesn't shatter into the feathers, these come from

the feather attached to the end of the pommel]
Skills: No hollow skills at the moment