Character name: Chiyo Ookami
How old does your shinigami appear: in early twenties
How old is your shinigami: 2391
Sex: female
Appearance:
The first thing one notices on Chiyo is that her eyes are pitch black, not even the slightest shine reflected in them. She is actually beautiful, but no one seems to notice that. Her vivid purple hair is asymmetrically cut, falling on her shoulders on the right side and cut short on the left; it also seems a bit messy, spikes pointing in every direction. A long scar is cut deep in her right cheek, almolst reaching her lips.
She is well-built and muscular, because she hates to be weak. Her height of 6'2'' is a bit unusual for a woman, but she likes being tall.
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Accessories:
She wears a very long and elaborately designed old earring, of which she refuses to speak about - if asked about it, she only says it's an antique she got from a friend. A weak aura seems to be about it. If knowing the appropriate incantaion, it's power can be used for tracking shunpo, gate or garganta, but you have to know the exact spot where it existed/happened. It can also be helpful in reconstructing past situations and actions (similar to psychometry, only with places).
Personality:
Chiyo seems to be a bit rough and cold at first sight, but that's only the façade. The lesson life has learned her is never trust anyone – she is pretending not to care for anyone because she's afraid of being betrayed again. But under the thick skin, she is a very compassionate woman, simply trying to find her place amidst others. She tends to hide her problems and pretend that everything is just fine. To disappoint others by being too weak is her biggest fear, though she never let it show. Her emotional self-control is spotless, her reason always beyond the irrational feelings.
Bio:
Though shinigami usually don't have memories of their previous life, she remembers how she died: the friend she trusted the most stabbed her for material gain. However, she does not hold a grudge against the friend, but rather thinks there's something wrong with her.
After she died, she was sent in one of the poorer districts of Soul society, and it was very hard for her to gain entry into the shinigami academy. It was in that time that she got used to spend all her free time training, trying to get stronger. She never had any firends for her fear of betrayal. During her academy days she got in a fight with a bully, which earned her a severe punishment (she almost got expelled) and left her a rather large scar on her right cheek. Upon finishing the shinigami academy, she was one of the best in her class, and she requested to be appointed to one of the Gotei 13.
After having served in a few squads of the Gotei 13, she found her place in the sixth squad, and gradually moved upwards, seat by seat, until reaching captaincy. She takes her duty as the 6th Squad Captain seriously, focusing on tactics and making sure the laws of the Soul Society are respected, punishing the wrongdoers and enemies of the soul society.
In the first arc, she was one of the captains fighting in the great fight against Asura. Twice, she had battled with Shiraiyuki, who also tricked her into drinking Asura's black blood, triggering madness within her. Overwhelmed by madness, she found a dormant power of the Ookami clan within her. When the power is awakened, her senses are hyphened, and she grows claws and fangs, becoming more and more wolf-like as the transformations takes place. This grants her large amounts of power, but can also lead to attacking her own allies, for she acts and attacks instinctively.
In the second arc, the same power had been triggered once again, but she seemed to managed to get a bit of control over it. However, she is still slightly afraid of it, and tries to supress it; this way, the power remains hidden until she is truly in mortal danger, already nearing death, when it bursts out again, protecting her as the last descendant of the Ookami clan. The true nature and exact might of the power have yet to be revealed.
In the second arc, Chiyo followed shortly after other Gotei 13 Captains to the Mr. XIII's castle, where she fought and defeated her own shadow. Later on, she exhausted herself to the limit by performing Hikidoki to aid Kyo in a fight, and was carried back by him when the castle collapsed. She spent a longer period of time in the hospital, taking her time to recover fully.
In the third arc, she still stands strong on the side of the shinigami, by the captain-commander's side, devoted to the mission of protecting the Seireitei.
Likes: order, peace, reason, silence
Dislikes: chaos, people boasting about their power, expressing emotions
Zanpakuto
Zanpakutou name: Konjounosuwattakage (Fearless Shadow)
Zanpakutou spirit: A shadow that can take shape of anything, but normally looks like Chiyo's shadow reflection.
Zanpakutou unreleased:
In its sealed form, it's a nodachi with a purple and black hilt, elaborately carved out of onyx. The blade has a dark steel glint, and is 4' long. She wears it on her back, strapped over diagonally due to its size.
Release phrase: Agaru soshite utsu, Konjounosuwattakage! (Rise and punish, Fearless shadow)
Shikai:
In shikai form, her zanpakuto resembles a long ornamented silvery staff, held with both hands. At each end there is a silver flower bud.
Special attacks and defensive powers:
- Kagemusha (shadow warrior) consists of two phases, though it is not necessary to perform both (but the first one is needed to perform the second one):
a. Upon commanding Kagemusha no tanken (dagger of the shadow warrior), the ends of her staff glow and changes shape into two daggers with extremely concentrated reiatsu on edge of the blade.
b. Upon commanding Kaku (draw!), one of the ends of her staff starts to glow. With it, she draws a sign of this form: ∞ in the air in front of her, which she directs flying towards her opponent (or a thing), sticking on to him (or it) and exploding when she commands Surikesu (erase!). The strength of the explosion varies by how much reiatsu she puts in it, utterly demolishing an area of 10 meter radius at its maximum - but thus, it saps most of her strength and can be only used once per battle. That's why she prefers making several small explosions, forcing the opponent to leave a blind spot and sticking a mark direclty over his body, damaging his internal organs.
Hikidoki (a good time to quit): a bubble of light appears around her (practice allows her to make it bigger and hold it longer; when she learns it it's only few seconds before she collapses, at her best a minute - let's say maximum three posts, and the maximum size would be 10 meters in radius). Inside the bubble, time is slowed down by half for anyone that is not touching her zanpakuto. Once you touch it, the spell is broken. This technique is exhausting and hard to master so she rarely uses it.
Hitodasuke (act of mercy): the flower buds open to reveal two delicate parallel spikes on each side. Two silver marks appear on the opponent spiritual points as targets. When the spikes pierce through the targets, the opponent’s reiatsu is nullified (the person cannot normally regain it during this battle - only if he has a special ability that allows him to do that - he has to wait for reiatsu to fill up - like recovering from a bad wound).
Kagetate (shadow shield) draws a circle in the air in front of her, which creates a barrier-type shield that holds off physical attack and some of the kido, but none of the binding spells. The shield can be easily penetrated by her own weapon. It automatically breaks down after a certain number of (only one at first, with training up to six maximum) blocked attacks.
Bankai: Kagebun'ya (Shadow realm)
In bankai form, her zanpakuto doesn't change a bit. Instead, shadows of opponents she had defeated(won in battle against them) appear around her, this time fighting on her side (but not all - only the strongest, and the maximum number of the shadows is six). The shadows are just as skilled as the opponent was when he was defeated by her. They can use their zanpakuto abilities on the level they were when she defeated them, but none of the Kido. Kido are useless against them, but however, they will disappear as soon as hit by opponent's zanpakuto. When a shadow dissolves into nothingness, it cannot reappear until the next battle.
In the meantime, she can still fight alongside with the shadows with her shikai zanpakuto form.
Last resort ability: Kage no yuukai (shadow fusion)
She and a shadow of a former opponent she chooses (works even with a shadow that is not present at the time) merge in one, allowing her to use abilities of both - that means her own shikai as well as the shadow's zanpakuto shikai and bankai, even if the one whose shadow it is hasn't achieved it yet.
Extremely dangerous, might result in not being able to revert the fusion and eventually in death.
Hado:
1. Thrust (衝, shō?) -Pushes the target away from the caster.
4. White Lightning (白雷, byakurai?) -Fires a concentrated bolt of white lightning from the caster's forefinger.
11. Tsuzuri Raiden: -Imbues and object with an electrical current. The technique was used by Hisagi Shuuhei, by allowing the kidou to travel up the chain of his zanpakutou, Shinikaze.
33. Blue Fire, Crash Down (蒼火墜, sōkatsui?, Pale Fire Crash in the English dub) -Fires a column of blue fire at a target in a similar manner to 31, but over a wider area and with more power.
Incantation: Ye Lord! Mask of flesh and bone, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, Upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws! In the English dub, it is read as "Ruler, the mask of blood and flesh, all things in the universe that fly, that which names all! In the name of truth and temperance, dig your claws into the wall of sinless dreams!
54. Abolishing Flames (廃炎, haien?) -Fires a blast of purple fire that will incinerate a target completely when it makes contact.
58. Orchid Sky (闐嵐, tenran) - A widening tornado-like blast is fired towards the target.
73. Twin Lotus Blue Fire, Crash Down (双蓮蒼火墜, sōren sōkatsui?) -Essentially a doubled version of #33, this spell fires two shots of blue fire with greater potency than the single-shot variety.
Incantation: Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! On the wall of blue flame, inscribe a twin lotus. In the abyss of conflagration, wait at the far heavens.
Bakudo:
1. Restrain (塞, sai?) -Locks a target's arms in place behind their back.
4. Crawling Rope (這縄, hainawa?) -An energy rope entangles a target's arms.
8. Repulse (斥, seki) -Creates a round shield that seems to temporarily paralyze and repel whatever strikes it
9. Strike (撃, geki?) -Engulfs a target in red light, completely paralyzing them.
Incantation: Disintegrate, you black dog of Rondanini! Look upon yourself with horror and then claw out your own throat!
12. Fushibi: -A net formed from an attachment point on the caster, can be small or large depending ong the reiatsu force behind it.
26. Curving Light (曲光, kyakko) -Hides the target from sight, presumably by bending light.
58. Summoning of the Tracking Sparrows (摑趾追雀, kakushitsuijaku?) -Tracks and locates any spiritual force the user focuses on. To activate it, the user must draw a circle on the ground, cut into four parts with a specific character in each. The incantation animates the circle, causing various numbers to appear within until the specific set is found. The number set seems to be a variation on longitude and latitude.
Incantation: Heart of the south, eye of the north, finger of the west, foot of the east, arrive with the wind and depart with the rain.
62. Hundred Stepped Rails (百歩欄干, hyapporankan?) -A rod formed of energy is thrown towards the target before it disintegrates into numerous short rods which are used to pin the target to the surroundings and render them immobile.
77. Heavenly Rickshaws in Silken Air (天挺空羅, tenteikūra?) -Transmits messages to anyone within a specific area. In addition to reciting the spell, the user must draw specific markings on their arms, which are animated by the spell to convey the messages.
Incantation: Black and white net. Twenty-two bridges, sixty-six crowns and belts. Footprints, distant thunder, sharp peak, engulfing land, hidden in the night, sea of clouds, blue line. Form a circle and fly through the heavens.
81. Splitting Void (斷空, dankū?) -Creates an energy barrier in the form of a rectangular wall. According to Byakuya, it is capable of stopping destructive spells up to #89.
Abilities:
Flash step/shunpo: excellent mastery, not able to step very long distances at once, but is quicker (appropriate for hand-to-hand combat).
Her sight is not as good as it should be, but she compensates that with enhanced sensing of reiatsu, smell and sound.
Skills:
Keen Intellect: Chiyo values reason above all, and her mind is what she depends on mostly.
Premonition: Sometimes, she sees flashes of pasts and possible future in her dreams, but the ability is random and uncontrollable.
