________________⊰BASIC INFORMATION⊱________________
- »Character name: Reiji, Shirokuma
»Pronunciation of name: Ray-G, She-Ro-Coo-Ma
»Character squad: 12
»Character rank: Pending
»Sexuality: Heterosexual
»Character age: Three hundred twenty five
- Appearance:Shirokuma is a tall muscular man standing nearly Six feet and two inches in height with a lean build that allows for both strength but more speed based on how he exercised. The man has average Caucasian skin tone but is riddled with scars on his chest, arms, back, legs, face in which he does his best to cover most. On his arms, he has names written in Kanji in extremely small text that has little meaning to anyone but himself and he is not always comfortable with speaking about it to those he is unfamiliar with.
His hair is grey as a wolf’s pelt that he spends little time tending to besides a wash when necessary. His eyes hold a strange purple like an amethyst with a low glow to it that produce no real light, but shines brightly when it has a shine upon it.
He tends to wear the same clothes which holds a type of family crest on the robes and fur over the collar that he made sure had a protective device over it to make sure it could not easily be destroyed, unfortunately this device does not work on living matter and was just barely strong enough to cover the fur alone.
Actual:
________________⊰PERSONALITY, TRAITS & BIOGRAPHY⊱________________
- »Characters personality: Shirokuma is a highly intellectual man with deep curiosities that influence most of his actions when he is able to allow such things. Outside of this the man can be a wild card at times which can shift from confusing, direct, vague, crude, and even what some might consider a little insane, but there is always a reason for it, or at least one that he gives himself.
He has a strong sense of etiquette, customs, and rules that must be followed or he will not be friendly. If battle is to happen he is strong to believe that if it is among those who he knows a drink must be had and shared in a calm atmosphere or he will take it as a large degree of disrespect, against an enemy he believes that one must share names so that the one who lost the fight will remain forever with the victor. If greeting a person, he believes one must bow and lower yourself according to rank and worth, those of lower standard must bow lower, those of high need not to bow as low, those who do not bow are on a dark list in his mind.
He can be kind, caring, and gentle to those who require it of him and generally wishes to be friendly while he can be, but he is fast to become vicious and heartless with a vile set of teeth and claws to his words and action. After all this, the ultimate leading factor is a strong flirtatious side, one is more factual towards people he finds attractive, the other is more for his personal sense of humor towards those he wishes to make uncomfortable when he isn’t divulging his personal interest in darker humor and comedy.
»Characters likes: Multiple fields of scientific study and research, a unique conversation, soft blankets and beds, being given equal respect that he offers, fish, wild animals, an interesting battle, making new discoveries, greeting new people, music and lots of different kinds, and eating new foods.
»Characters dislikes: Disrespect to himself and his honor first and for most, any show of disrespect given to honorable warriors serving their masters, rotten food, traitors and those that abandon their duties. He is not a fan of poorly made food or those that give a boring conversation.
»Fears/Phobia: In truth, he fears going deaf above all things, his love of music would torture him for the rest of his days without hearing another song or tone again. He also has an issue with armadillos, they freak him out immensely and are unnatural and he questions what mad scientist invented them and tricked people into thinking they are the result of some sick and horrible wrong course of evolution.
»Habits: Shirokuma has a habit of counting things and spouting out random things that seem to make no sense when he is focused on a thought or work that he is doing. His other habit is something that most consider quite uncomfortable and that is his whistling while in a battle, it only happens when he sees an opening in someone’s defense and intends to kill them with it.
»Talents: Shiro has extensive training with the sword and is a master of four styles, still training with others, but of the blade he has mastered Muso Jikiden Eishin-ryu a style centered around Iaido, Kyoho Niten Ichi-ryu, Tamiya-ryu, and Yagyu Shinkage-ryu. He has musical talent with string instruments such as the Bass and due to his life before joining the Seireitei he played the Shamisen and Ko-kyu for his master and master’s family.
»Biography: Shirokuma has no knowledge of his past life, he only knows the life he was born into when he came into the afterlife as a young child miles away from the walls of the Seireitei. He was brought into the Reiji family, an honorable and noble name of warriors who serve their king with their knowledge, might, and in the end wills serve with their life. The family raised him along with two older brothers and a much older sister that, aside from his sister, were warriors to serve the emperor. Shirokuma’s sister was an extremely skilled Shamisen and Koto player and would do shows for the emperor’s family, friends, and soldiers.
Shiro had shown much interest in both, but his father stated that if he was to be of the Reiji family he would have to be a master of the sword and should lose focus of anything that would get in the way of his lessons. He opted to learn the blade and only the blade. Shiro’s sister, Aina, had other plans for her younger brother.
Each night after a lesson with the blade she would catch Shiro and rush him off from the house where the two would sit under a large tree and she would teach him the cords of the Shamisen. He adored his sister, she was brave enough to stand up to their father and his harsh ways of how a man and a woman should be, he never wanted his sister to learn the sword, and Shirokuma decided he would follow her path of rebellion and have her learn more than what Hachirou, their father, would allow. When they planned days for more time he would teach her the lessons he learned so that she would understand the beauty that is to connect your soul with the sword forged for you. His sister had mastered her first style, Muso Jikiden Eishin-ryu, the same style that Shiro mastered, and with this he offered her the first gift he saved so long for, a blade forged just for her. The two were very close as siblings, and he would do anything for her happiness.
A year after mastering his first style he began to study more with the blade, fiddle with the shamisen and was entered into the army of the emperor of his land to serve under his brother, Haru, or titled as Officer Haru. Shiro served under his brother’s command happily, hell he was ecstatic to serve as his brothers were hardly ever around since they lived on castle grounds and rarely visited due to lack of time away from their duties as officers. Shiro’s eldest brother was nearly entering the rank of General, like their father, before Hachirou retired. This brought about certain expectations of Shirokuma, and he was not happy about this.
After half a year in the army he had entered his first battle against raiders that attempted to ransack a nearby village. The battle lasted for hours with both sides losing numbers, Shirokuma had found himself, and two of his fellow foot-soldiers, locked in a building with four warriors and the bandit leader. Shiro had taken lead of his small group. The battle ended with the four men dead and the bandit lord’s head on the ground and his blood stained on Shirokuma’s katana. He was not yet aware that this bandit leader he killed, which he believed at the time to have been a lucky mistake based on his draw of the sword and quick swing to kill the man, was someone who had troubled the Yokumora royal family for since the current emperor’s father ruled.
When Shirokuma and his team of one man, seeing as the second had died in the battle of “Passionate Swords Clashing in the Wind” a strange name for a small fight that Shiro still believes should have been called something more vicious, he was brought before the emperor and his family. The emperor himself, Yokumora, Sora, his wife Taki, son Joji, and his two daughters Fuyumi, and Maaya. Shiro didn’t know what he should have expected from this, or how his life would forever change the moment he made eye contact with Maaya to see her strange but entrancing blue eyes. Then again who was he to comment on eyes being strange with purple ones that rest on his face.
Emperor Yokumora had given him title for his victory, and promotion within his first year serving. Due to the high praise of his soldier and the fact that Shiro was a Reiji, he was promoted to Officer, like his brother Haru. He bowed low that day, he didn’t know how else to show his gratitude besides serving his lord as loyally as he possibly could.
Shiro was offered a small room just outside of the castle itself, near his brother and other officers and third ranked lieutenants of the army. He knew his eldest brother, Anzu, lived closer to the castle with his rank of lieutenant first class. During his down time Shiro rested in his room, reading, planning, and trying to get a hold on what it meant to lead a battalion of nearly a hundred men in the emperor’s grand army of thousands upon thousands. He would take orders from the captains and lieutenants of the army, and the generals that gave them orders. The strings of command were a hard one to play in his mind.
But on one slow day he sat with his door slightly ajar, and held his shamisen in hand while plucking the strings playing gentle tune to himself for the lazy day. He was taken back and shocked into a jump when his door opened hastily and he saw the delicate hands of a female before he looked to see the mesmerizing blue of Maaya’s eyes looking at him with some surprise. The grounds just outside the castle were considered safe enough for exploration by the children of the emperor when they were not in study, and so the girl who looked no older than nineteen had decided she was going to visit and have her time to enjoy herself before she heard sounds that were not normally coming from the barracks of officers.
Maaya had found much interest in this and had sat around for nearly two hours having Shirokuma play for her as she listened and watched. After each song, he attempted to bow and return to his room so that he would not bother her, but she would immediately order him to sit closer to her and play again, after an hour of only inching she had gotten fed up and went and sat next to the man himself, nearly touching him. Shiro had never been more stressed in his life, the woman was practically touching him and he did not know what to do besides play and attempt to leave so as to not dishonor a member of the royal family.
What made things more complicated for the man is that over the years of his service she would constantly try to visit him, he didn’t know the reason, he couldn’t explain it. Officer had made jokes when they were eating at flames, and during one march into battle when he sat in a tent planning battle he had heard jokes about how Maaya was attempting to seduce Shirokuma, his face had turned and ungodly red before he had hit the man in the head for speaking of a member of the royal family in such a disrespectful tone. Still, the idea never left his head and it only made his relationship with the princess that much more difficult for him each time she visited.
When he was studying new songs for his shimasen, Maaya had appeared with a gift, a Ko-kyu, and books of how to play it. She insisted that he learned it for her, hell she even bowed to the ground with her head lowered to the floor. Shirokuma could not let someone of such prestigious rank bring herself lower than him, and with a leap he shot to the ground and bowed to her lower than he physically should have. It brought her to a laugh and then she did something he was not expecting, she called him by his first name and nothing else. His head was still bowed, but his eyes were wide open in disbelief. This was a sign that she felt close enough that they were “close friends” and not simple friends that you can speak with daily but still show respect to their family name and rank. He still attempted to call her by the Yokumora family name, but she made a strange noise of her distaste for what he had said and insisted he call her “Maaya” and nothing else, no title, no san, chan, kun, nothing, just Maaya. His heart sunk, but he eventually got her to agree that he would only say such things in absolute privacy.
After a year of learning the instrument and mastering beginning his third style of the sword, he was brought into the castle by Maaya so as to play before her father and family. The emperor only chuckled at this, and so did Anzu who had been allowed to view the show with Haru. Anzu had recently been promoted to General, and Haru was Lieutenant of second rank. The Reiji boys believed that their brother may have bluffed his way to be a player of instruments with any skill, but their faces turned from smiles to a bit angrier when they discovered his skill truly did exist. The emperor was pleased and enjoyed the show from such a warrior, stating that the man had a soul like no other in his army, he was strong but emotional, vicious but beautiful, intelligent but wise. The emperor had planned that Shirokuma would again play for him in the future, but should continue to focus on the blade and his studies to become a better officer, especially since he was about to be promoted to a Lieutenant third rank.
This new promotion came with bad tidings, his brothers were of higher seats, Anzu was commander of the second largest portion of the army, no longer fourth general, but second. Haru had just become first lieutenant in rank and served directly under his brother but was making fast work into becoming fourth general when it seemed the man in charge was getting ready to retire after his demotion from third general.
Shirokuma had order over six officers, and six hundred soldiers, he was not sure how his brothers could handle such responsibility over even more men.
Battle had come, and Shiro was entering his men into war against a further off royal army known as the “Goho” who intended to defeat and dethrone Shiro’s master. General Shozen had ordered Shiro to take his men and attack at the west near a desert land. The attack had gone well, taken the enemy by surprise, but he was more surprised by the fact that they only had to fight about seventy men in an outpost that was supposed to hold hundreds. He marched his army into the outpost and saw devastation had already undertook this location. A horrible sound came out, a screech that rang his ears and caused him to fall in fear. A black beast in the sky had come from the desert and laid siege on his army. He ordered his men to attack, to fight, to kill the horrible creature. The bloodshed had been unlike anything he had ever seen before, men were dying fifty or more with each swing of this monster’s massive arms. The white mask it wore was as clear as day, the red lines going down the eyes like scars, the blue shaping like a hideous nose, and the shrieking that continued to come from it’s awful mouth. Shirokuma had no choice but to run into battle with his men, this creature needed to die, he needed to see it destroyed. Everything had become a blur to him, his instincts to fight had taken over, bodies littering the ground and staining it crimson.
The creature had swiped him away, he slammed into a small wooden building where he fought to stand. The creature had killed all but twelve men who were hiding and waiting for death, Shiro had sent them to be slaughtered, he had made a mistake thinking their men could kill such a vile hollow. The beast approached him, it cackled as if this was all just a fun little game to it. It spoke, whispers entering the man’s head. It continued to repeat that he was going to die, Shiro was going to die. The man attempted to reach for his sword once more, but he had lost it when he was batted away like a child’s toy ball.
Flashes went past his mind, his father, his mother, brothers, his sister, and finally Mayaa had flooded his mind, he was about to leave her, he was about to vanish and never say goodbye, he was going to leave and never understand why she chose to be so friendly to just a simple samurai. The man’s purple eyes opened as he screamed at the beast, his hand opening and gripping closed as a green aura appeared around him and blade appeared out of light with black, red and white wrapped hilt with flowing silk ribbons off the bottom of his sword. His horrible yell filled the air as he let down a powerful slice that split the monster’s mask in twain.
As he held the blade he stared out at the bodies before him, each one was a son, a brother, a father, a warrior, and his family in the grand royal army that he had failed. He sent his men to die, he had killed all of them on a foolish thought that they could kill the beast. The remaining officers and soldiers all spoke highly of him, stating that he was a warrior like the great Shinigami of the seireitei, killing a beast with a powerful sword.
When they returned to the castle these men continued to speak as if they still had own a victory and that hundred were not dead, the army had lost great men, skilled men, honorable men. Their deaths were mourned, wives, sons, daughters, brother, sister, mothers, and father all attended mass funerals. Shirokuma was asked to speak at all of them by the families. He felt no greater pain in his life, he wanted them to hate him, he wanted them to scorn and bring him pain. Some spoke harsh words, but they made it clear that they were only angry at the loss and not his orders, not his actions, that he brought their children back at the very least, that their deaths were not left without consequence to the monster that did this.
The emperor and Anzu had promoted him directly to Lieutenant Commander first class, a seat equaled to his brother Haru. This felt like disrespect to all the men who died for him, their deaths were like that of every soldier, and eventually they would be forgotten, so he decided he needed to make sure he would never forget any of their names. On a roster, he had each of their names in Kanji written down and tattooed all over his arms and back so that they would never be lost from his mind.
After a few days Maaya had appeared in his room, closed the door, and they sat in silence as she brought Shiro closer to her in an embrace. This was the first time he let himself go completely since the incident, and he did it in the arms of a person who is so much more than he was.
The two had been close friends during his last two years in the royal army when he had become a leading blade in the armies due to his immense power compared to the rest of the army. Unfortunately, this had ended when a Shinigami had appeared at their doors asking for their lieutenant commander Shiro. The Shinigami intended to enter the man into the academy and have him move to become a soldier of one of the thirteen divisions of the seireitei. With the acceptance of his emperor, brothers, parents, and sister, he accepted and made his move into the Seireitei where he had been in the academy for only a short time before being approved and joining as a soldier.
It wasn’t long before he gained a small amount of fame within the seireitei, the funds offered gave him more money in a month than he made every two years under his emperor’s rule. He was able to invent, and often got letters from Maaya. He made visits when he could, but she had to travel for many years in order to keep peace with a neighboring kingdom and visiting would become nearly impossible. What had caught his attention was his notice of her reshi, she seemed very strong, and in the corner of his eye he caught sight of a unique looking katana. Not much was said about this, instead she had kissed him on the cheek and left him with a coat and fur she had gathered from a wolf that she had since she was young, but it died before Shirokuma had entered her life. To some degree he believed the gray fur and his gray hair might have been her reason to get close to him to begin with, but the near kiss on his lips before he turned his head had him thinking more had surely developed. Even though he was something that was more than who he was before, he still had that over powering need to be respectful of the royal family he served for nearly his whole life. He didn’t have enough time to visit his family, hell he technically wasn’t supposed to visit Maaya, but he wouldn’t have had another chance to see her again.
On his return to the Seireitei he had received mail from his family, his sister had gone missing. Aina had apparently taken her shamisen and her katana before just vanishing without and word or warning. He tried to send out people he hired to search for her, but they came back with nothing but a cold trail where no one after had seen her or anyone similar. A few people had stated they saw a similar face, but not to the same name. Shiro attempted to keep tabs on these similar looking women, but he was never able to keep up with all of them and eventually he lost track of her entirely.
Shiro is still trying to search for her, but he is finding difficulty while remaining to his duties as a member of the seireitei and his new master, and keeping up with his research and scientific studies.
________________⊰PHYSICAL APPEARANCE⊱________________
- »Characters skin color/ethnicity: Caucasian
»Character height: Six feet and two inches
»Character weight: One hundred and eighty seven pounds
»Character hair color/length/style: His hair is gray with a few inches and mildly spiked and standing with a fluffy thick design.
»Reiryoku Color: A toxic green with edges of black and sparks of purple flowing through like a miasma.
________________⊰ZANPAKUTO INFORMATION⊱________________
- »Zanpakutō name: Yukina
»Zanpakutō spirit appearance: Yukina, despite what her ability is, is that of a shine priestess in looks based on what she wears and the respect she expects. She can be a cold woman, but is very generous with her caring hands and heart that she continues to offer. The inner world she resides in is a small planet with exceptionally thick white clouds that circle over a shrine that Yukina lives in and creates her strange decaying powers and objects.
»Zanpakutō sealed form: The hilt of his katana is over a foot look with a wrap of red and white silk with black accents, a gold guard and pommel. The gold pommel has a strange red crystal that rests in it and can be seen from both sides of his hilt. At the bottom of the pommel the red and white silk flows through at the bottom like ribbons.
The blade is nearly four feet long and curved slightly towards the tip with a mostly straight edge aside from the curve and near the guard where the blade is shark tooth edged for close quarter punishment if he is able to get in a small slice at his target.
»Shikai status: Mastered
»Activation incantation: Offer a gentle kiss, Yukina.
»Released appearance: The blade gains a dark green and black coloration as the edge of the blade becomes completely serrated. The blade grows an additional seven inches in length while becoming slightly thinner in order to allow for more speed in his swipes and for the momentum the carry a heavier attack.
The golden guard and pommel lose color and take on a more decayed look as holes appear in the guard and its shape warms, the pommel becomes discolored and warps in shape. The crystal in the pommel loses color and no longer shines in light as if it died.
»Physical changes: [listed above]
»Battlefield changes: The ground beneath his feet becomes corrupted and turns black with strange veins attempting to reach out and spread the decay. This spread is slow and only takes up a total diameter of twenty yards.
»Abilities:
- The blade adds decay to any area it cuts, and leaves a one foot radius of decay and discoloration of where he originally has hit. This ability affects living and non-living material by weakening the area afflicted by the ability. The blade is able to add numerous marks of decay on its target, but the real effect of this ability is that each time he lands within the foot radius he doubles the effect and rate of decay on the target by double the previous amount given. The given decay rate is that of 1 percent during first contact, second hit in the same area brings the effect to 2% decay rate, followed by 4%, 8%, and up.
The decay itself adds weakness to the target’s strength, defense, and abilities depending on what he hits, and if on living tissue it can even cause pain when reaching higher stacked amounts.
Example: If he hits the opponents arm and adds up to six hits around the same spot, adding up to a total of 32% decay, the opponent will lose strength and speed in their arm and the pain of it will affect them greatly.
If on a their zanpakuto it will eventually make it easier, especially around the seventh contact with the weapon adding up to 64% decay, for the weapon to be destroyed with a strong enough hit. This will also make it quite difficult to make a powerful slash as the decay will have dulled the blade and weaken the ability of it. The effects on the blade vanish immediately if the user releases their weapon into Shikai if it was in its sealed form, and again if it enters Bankai from Shikai. It does not leave the blade by reverting form however.
By description the decay acts by rotting what it is inflicted on, but due to it being a creation of spiritual means it does not act like that of normal rot or degradation, instead it is in a stasis of sorts so that it cannot rot on its own over time but needs constant hits by the zanpakuto in order to grow stronger and become more rotten or broken down depending on what is hit by the zanpakuto's edge. It will not grow weaker however and cannot be gotten rid of without focused medical attention, but on Zanpakutos it can be destroyed if changing from sealed up to Shikai, and from Shikai to Bankai. If on an already released state however, it cannot be destroyed by returning the zanpakuto to a lower stage such as Bankai being forced back into sealed state. One also cannot return to a lower state and re-enter a released or bankai state to try to remove the Decay as it will be apart of the zanpakuto's final release form until the battle ends or Shirokuma place's his zanpakuto into Sealed state.
- The hilt has a pool of puss and miasma sitting inside, but never spills out, not even a drop. Shirokuma must sheathe his blade and quickly draw it out in the direction of his opponent where it will shoot this horrible muck at his opponent. If it makes contact with skin the liquid spawned from decay and rot will add a lingering burning sensation that should not be messed with outside of a healing spell. Touching the liquid can cause it to spread if it isn’t thin enough. The spread will cause the liquid to burn additional areas of the body without having shiro attempt to fling more of the liquid at his opponent. After each use of this liquid he must wait before he is able to use it again. (Must wait two posts before the liquid regenerates back in his scabbard.) This is similar to that of an acidic material but does not eat the flesh, simply causes burns and irritation that can go away after three posts.
»Bankai status: Experienced
»Activation incantation: Bankai
»Appearance: Ten black tendrils hang off of his back reaching lengths of thirty yards each, covered in a coating of decayed and toxic ooze. The tendrils circle around him and find their link at his gut where a large crystal is stored in a massive decayed golden opening with hints of white and red silk resting inside. The gold follows up to his right side and hugs him tightly like armor before a demonic female like head rests over his shoulder with an open fanged mouth pouring out toxic ooze.
The sword loses its natural hilt and guard but instead a dark green smoke like material holds the blade in place as he holds it in his open hand with pierces of what appears to be blackened metal resting in the air like a guard and hilt where the more beautiful design once sat. The blade has become more dark in color and leaks ooze out of the serrated edge.
»Physical changes: Look above
»Battlefield changes: The ground beneath him becomes black and spreads out for over two hundred yards, and the sky appears to become darker with a green aura to it for moments until the shifting air pushes the clouds away and this appearance fades.
»Abilities:
- With this new form, his tendrils on his back are able to reach and slice at his opponent at will if they try to get close, but otherwise appear to work and live on their own without him taking direct action with them. In this form, he instead adds 10% decay with each area he hits with either his blade or his tendrils. After each slice from his tendrils they must rest for a single post, same after each one uses a defense, which they attempt to do in tandem with at least one other tendril. The decay added to anyone's zanpakuto expires when they shift from sealed into shikai, and shift from shikai into bankai, but does not work in reverse.
- The tendrils are able to shoot out the ooze that covers them at his opponents, which each adds not only a severe burning sensation, but also adds a 5% decay to the areas they hit. The ooze is also able to be gathered from the head that links it off of his shoulder and place it onto his blade so as to send out a heavy amount at his target or attempt to cause it to pour on them if they get too close or stand just beneath him. This ooze evaporates from the mouth at a distance of fifteen feet below Shirokuma if he travels to high into the air preventing it from causing mass damage to his targets.
The decay effect stops when the opponent shifts from sealed into shikai, and shikai into bankai when it is on the blade.
»Duration: Thirteen posts
________________⊰Kidō⊱________________
- »Field of Study: Hado
»Bakudō:
- Sai
- Seki
- Ryuusa
- Kyokko
- Shitotsu Sansen
- Rikujōkōrō
»Hadō:
- Sho
- Beniikazuchi
- Byakurai
- Shizumendai
- Shakkahō
- Akumetsu Hendemi
- Kurohitsugi
- Senjū Kōten Taihō
»Kaidō
- Division four only
________________⊰Combat⊱________________
- »Field of Study: Zanjutsu
»Hakudo:
- Tesshō
- Shunkō
- Sandbag Beat
- Kazaguruma
»Zanjutsu
- Hōzuri
- Hōzan Kenbu
- Ryōdan
- Gyaku Karasu
- Hitotsume: Nadegiri
- Senmaioroshi
- Hayabusa Tobikomi
»Hohō:
- Shunpo
- Utsusemi
- Senka
________________⊰Extra⊱________________
- »Theme: Shirokuma's Theme
»Characters possessions: Fur from a wolf given to him by a princess Mayaa from a kingdom just outside of Seireitei reach. He still possesses robes from his years as a samurai for the royal Yokumora family which holds his family crest.
»Stats: 500
