Post by mwd on Sept 26, 2018 8:07:59 GMT -5
-Opening-
Discord/Chatango Username (include nicknames): Emwhydee
Password 1: Sun Clap
Password 2: Moon Pray
Type: Shadow
Affiliation: None
Rank: Mercenary Rank 1
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-Basic Information-
Name: Ritsuko Nicklovich
Age: 60
Birthday (Month/Day): April 3rd
Blood Type: B
RP Sample (Optional):
The beach was a great experience for Ritsuko too say the least, being able to bathe in the sunlight while also meeting two new quincies one of which was an actual king, she did take fond of the woman who hugged her which she still hasn't figured as too why she hugged her in the frst place. Was it because of her appearance or to be friendly? Whatever the case zeitsuko have gotten an invitation to this so called Stadt des Lichtes or "city of light" as most quincies call it.
Throughout Ritsuko's experience with people and others her worries continuously grew. The further Ritsuko traveled mind in mind further problems stacked atop others; leaving her without many backup plans. There were no allies beyond Yume however she had long gone elsewhere. Without those called friends, and shaky alliances, Ritsiko was left without a true friend. With none to place trust into she could only rely on herself. Seeing her personal combat skills lacking while also wishing to pursue greater creations Superia developed a method for crafting few Quincy ever possessed. The rapid creation of Soul Synthesized materials was something only intelligent quincy could muster however Ritsuko held exceptional skill, her craftsmanship holding few equal. The Nicklovich family sought that very skill, to synthesize objects from reishi but they were not a combat based family. They mostly focused on crafting and refining objects but Ritsuko would simply change a few things around then craft rapidly.
The female stood alone with her beautiful quincy outfit, her colors were the basic blue and white with a few brown varients in there. complete with a white hate with a blue long white staff with a yellow cross and a small blue gem in the middle finally with a brown pouch on the side of her waist.
Althought the reishi density was not high as Soul Society or hueco mundo but outstretched hands she focused on a mental image while also the particles around her. The basic idea for now was crafting Soul Synthesized Cloth from quickly without any flaws. Particles gathered with Ritsuko forming them in the correct chemical and structural compounds required for cloth. The process was done more quickly than standardly while lacking in quality. Synthesizing and amalgamating reishi was no simple task. However some thoughts halted her focus for a brief moment but the faint pain twinging inside her heart was tossed out for her own desires. This was no time to allow petty emotions to get in.
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-Appearance-
Height/Weight:
125lbs/5'4"
Physical Description:
For starters she has ocean blue eyes like limpid pools of blue that adorned her exceptionally pale face, short, dark hair that tumbled over her right eye, like a fountain of molten obsidian, and an aquiline nose. All in all, she looked like a average adult; a very solid looking one at that.
The rest of her face isn’t quite as cold as her eyes. It’s nearly impossible to have a nose that looks like it hates you after all. That feature mostly just blends into the rest of her face. It isn’t outstanding in any way. On the other hand, her lips always appear to be lightly coated with pink lipstick, or perhaps just a bit of gloss, but that is simply their natural color. Ritsuko's rather small mouth is almost always in a scowl though, so her otherwise attractive lips don’t make her look like a model very often.
Behind those lips are fairly unremarkable teeth. They lack any fangs or anything interesting, but they’re evenly spaced and kept nice and white from good hygiene. Ritsuko's backside is also noteworthy, and no, that doesn’t just mean she has a nice ass. Even among most women who are in good shape, their back tends to be pretty much straight up and down. With Ritsuko, that isn’t the case. Her traps and delts are well defined, but her lats are built up enough that they actually cause her back to flair out slightly if they’re flexed. All that being said though… she does have a good butt. Due to her low weight, there isn’t a ton of junk in this trunk, but it’s still shapely enough. Most of what’s there is muscle, so, like the rest of her body, it’s rather firm.
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-Personality-
Dislikes:
Vegetarians: What's wrong with eating a juicy steak one in awhile? Besides we've eaten meat since the beginning of time why replace them with grassy stuff?
Raisins: They are the devils work especially when Ritsuko eats a cookie that supposedly is chocolate chip but is actually that disgusting dry raisin..how could people eat these.
Crybabies: If nobody wants to hear a baby screaming in their ear in any situation why would grownups be the exception? She don't care that your puppy died it's part of life and they need to grow up.
Dogs: Annoying creatures..all they do is bark in the middle of the night and destroy furniture.
Messy People:
This isn't a freaking pig sty this is a house and it needs to be clean! Would it kill them to pick up after themselves?
Likes:
Guns: She has a softspot for any individual who enjoys a vast arsenal of weaponry.
Waffles: Her favorite breakfast food in the morning with not only syrup and whipped cream but alot of butter with a nice glass of milk to go along with it.
Chocolate: What can she say a girl loves her sweets and chocolate is no exception to this rule, every day when she's off duty she'll go to the nearest shopping center or gas station to get the biggest box of chocolates they have provided its not the shitty off-brand. In most cases she'll have a bar hidden in her clothing as a means of sedating her hunger.
Learning - Literally just learning new things. It could be biology, a new sword style, a new quincy technique, literally learning anything brand new to her is interesting to her. While she may not always keep an interest in the new subject for long depending on what it is, discovery is fun in itself. Exploring new places, new species, new plants, just as long as its new, its intriguing to at least some extent.
Writing - Ritsuko has learned to keep a journal that she uses to document everything she learns for future reference. Its sort of an extension for her love for books and serves as a way for her to organize her thoughts and experiences in one place.
Flaws:
Weakness to Children:
Nobody should have their life taken away at such an early age so whenever she sees a child in any form of danger she'll immediately jump and confront the source of the problem..sometimes it gets to the point of her breaking people's arms or worse leave them dead.
Superiority Complex: In Ritsuko's eyes she sees most indivduals (especially men) as inferior and believes that she can take on anyone no matter their size, intellect, and even strength. Of course this leads her to underestimating many opponents and getting in more then she bargained for.
Works Solo: If Ritsuko is currently persuing a high value target and someone tries to stop to offer help she'll instantly decline, because she feels that acquiring help makes one "weak". However this doesn't apply to those who are considered close friends or essential allies.
Defensive - Ritsuko is not one to take kindly to comments or antics that jeopardize her character. She quickly and rather rudely address the situation with full expression of her feelings and, in some cases, her weapons. This tends to get her into situations with odds vastly out of her favor, and some people claim that this is the reason why she got so many scars in the first place.
Guarded - Ritsuko seldom trusts people. The vast majority of people have schemes and plots that are in place only to benefit them. As such, she often tries to shut people out to keep herself from being hurt or taken advantage of. She strongly believes that people as a whole are dumb, left alone they would stampede over the edge like a herd of cattle.
Blunt - Ritsuko can be incredibly blunt. Speaking her mind can be a dangerous thing, and at times she may find herself speaking before her brain has enough time to filter out the raw thoughts. Often catching people off guard, angering, or embarrassing them. Although she will never apologize for her statements, she may feel a bit of remorse for their reaction toward them.
Habits:
Following people: She follows people from afar to get a good understanding of their movements, how they fight, and whether or not they have sinister intentions.
Whistling: When she's particually bored Ritsuko will generally whistle a wonderful tune, most likely either an old russian song or something else. Especially while on missions she'll whisper quietly to the point of near silence.
Smoking: Smoking is what keeps both Ritsuko's anxiety and stress from skyrocketing to unhealthly levels. Some may call it an obsession but she always keeps a pack with her wherever she goes.
Fears:
Discussing about past: Whenever someone asks about her past she'll turn her head to the side and remain silent since she feels that no one else should be hear the tragic story of living in those awful camps.
Dying: Everyone is afraid of death, and Ritsuko is no exception just the thought of taking her last dying breath only to see nothing but black is nightmarish to think about.
Insects: It doesn't matter what kind of insect it is whether it'd be a spider or something to as simple as a caterpiller she'll immediately head for the hills just to get away from the crawly things.
Goals:
Become the greatest Assassin:
In her eyes if one wants to be great at something one must climb through the ranks and reach the top, so she hopes to take on whatever person challenges her and defeat them. She thinks it'll give her recognition and a name people will utter to their children at bedtime almost like a boogeyman.
Refine her skills as a quincy: While she has military training and experience the time spending towards sitting around all day in her house made her skills grow rusty over the years. So she hopes to get them back gradually as she normally goes outside to practice via cans and such.
Get Married: While this is the least important thing on her mind the thought of finding true love and spending the rest of her life with someone does sound pleasing. If only she could stop being nervous...
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Overall Personality:
Ritsuko is your typical passive, tsundere girl...or at least overall she is. However, there is a sort of ’emptiness’ about her. She is relatively reserved, and is more of an observer. She is very intelligent, which is reflected by her straight A grades throughout her years in school and her ability, and love of breaking everything she sees or experiences down to its core elements and finding the connections between them as it helps her learn quicker. She’s one of the few people that loves school and enjoys learning since it also gives her a means to cope with her problems for a while; much like a hobby does the same to anyone else. Her other hobbies include reading, baking, gardening, and picking flowers. Aside from her hobbies, she enjoys walking, cookies, coffee, juice, music, dancing, singing, soda, and various other sweets and pastries. Despite her quiet appearance, she can be talkative and is generally pretty content in general and in life, even though she has a relatively troubled past.
Ritsuko usually doesn’t approach or start conversations with someone unless she has a genuine interest in the person or it’s absolutely necessary. Despite this, she has no problem talking to someone who approaches her, since she isn’t normally shy. When talking to her, at first she’s distant, speaks few words, or has her mind elsewhere. Eventually, as time passes and she gets to know the person and has grown more comfortable with them, she becomes more open and speaks more often without having them to start first. But, this will be affected heavily by her mood; where a good mood will have her acting normally, a bad mood or being upset as in depression will make her cold, and/or extremely quiet which will take longer to get her to open up. On the other hand, regardless of person or situation, she will quickly get defensive if she is accused of something, and will fight avidly to prove otherwise. She also has a tendency to treat others as they are treating her. She dislikes obnoxious, rude, arrogant, self-centered, self-respecting people quite a bit. In fact, she isn’t impressed by “cool” guys or guys trying to impress her with acts of prowess or physique and dislikes it more when they try hitting on her for the purpose of getting her in bed, although she doesn’t mind playful flirting.
Ritsuko doesn't actively seek a boyfriend, but has had crushes on guys before so it’s possible she may develop a crush on a guy that has a good personality. She has her own philosophy on love and bases her standards on what her ideal relationship is. As such, she tends to fall quickly for a guy that can make her laugh, can comfort her when she's upset, especially when they see her as a person, not just a sex object, and is also sweet just to name a few traits. However, she still doesn't know how to approach guys she has a crush on and tends to become flustered and shy, this being one of two circumstances that she is actually like this. The other circumstance is when she receives praise or compliments (non-perverted) as she isn't used to it and actually likes it. As such, she considers any one that gets that close to her to be a family member. However, she does have a lot of acquaintances and friends that talk to her occasionally and doesn’t mind making more friends of any ethnicity.
With a well-developed body, She does her best to keep in shape, taking advantage of being a Quincy to exercise and master her powers at the same time. She spent time dancing to improve her flexibility, and did some sports in high school for overall fitness such as tennis and volleyball. She also prefers to eat low-fat foods, but secretly has a sweet tooth, her main weakness being vanilla-frosted cupcakes. She is also one of those girls that have the habit of spending hours grooming themselves to make sure that her hair is silky smooth as well as straight.
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-Powers-
Fighting Style:
As one might expect from a sniper, Ritsuko prefers to fight from afar. In fact, in an optimal she would have her targets wholly unaware of her presence. From a distance the Quincy can pick his opponent apart from the safety a few hundred meters provides. Yes, when it comes to ranged combat Ritsuko is in her element. Ritsuko prefers to observe her enemy from afar and take note of every minute detail such as their facial structure,eyes, and even movements that way when they cross paths she can utilize what she observed to her advantage.
On the other hand, Ritsuko is woefully out of her depth when it comes to close quarters combat. Inept in the art of hand to hand combat he would find himself at the mercy of even the most unskilled brawler. Thus, when forced into the melee, Ritsuko favors avoiding getting hit. Avoid getting hit and wait for an opening to put ground between himself and her assailant.
If Ritsuko has the resources such as technology she could further utilize her fighting style by using drones to give a visual map of the area she’s in allowing for all sorts of reconnaissance, but while it can be useful it’s easily noticeable and could be shot down. Regardless she has a few tactics of disrupting the enemy such as utilizing flash bangs and other explosives to gain distance.
Bow Release Overall Theme
Ritsuko's overall theme focuses around the idea of hiding in the shadows an utilizing the enviorment as a means of distracting the foe or exposing vital weakpoints.
Bow Release Properties
Class 6 Property: - Form - Russia's Pride - Ritsuko's property is generic at best being that of the dragnov sniper rfile, the bullets themselves are traditional to that of the Dragonov with the only modifications being. In order to form the sniper it'll cost about 100 Reiatsu but the bipod must be physically attached to the gun itself. However the major disadvantage is that Ritsuko will have to purchase the bullets seperately meaning that it'll only fire arrows.
The cost of these are 40 and require 200 reiatsu.
Firing Property
Class 5 Property: Claymore Shot
A special fire shot by Ritsuko that's used mainly for trapping purposes. As the name suggests this is used like a claymore where any reiatsu signature that comes within 1m of this besides Ritsuko's will cause it to go off resulting in a explosion damaging anything within 3m of the blast. They can also be used as a delayed attack by shooting them onto any surface and waiting for someone to set them off. More than one of these claymores can be set at once, each with a max duration two posts.
(The exploding range is at maximum three meters whilst the explosive radius is only one. The maximum amount she can place at a time is five but if one explodes one shall replenish and so forth.
Since these arrows will go off at a delayed time Ritsuko will have to pay the same cost it takes to fire them. Cost 30 reiatsu per arrow class to create each claymore and 60 to delay the detonation time.)
Power Property
Class Property 4: Barbed Rounds
By first hardening minute amounts of their reiatsu into a physical form, the user can effortlessly create bullets for use in rifles. The user then condenses several other layers of reiatsu around the initial bullet, forming an interwoven layer of small barb-tipped scales that when they make contact will shed and shave away they touch. They have the standard piercing properties of any other bullet but with the added benefit of additional internal bleeding, being lodged and stuck within the target because of the barbs. Alternatively, because these rounds by default are akin to 5.56mm rifle rounds, they are around 2 inches in length and can their shells, if they miss their target and are scattered about the battlefield, can act as caltrops of sorts.
Each shot cost 40 reiatsu per arrow cost to fire and 200 to activate.
Mass Property
Class Property 3: Mass - Sharpshooter
This allows Ritsuko to take aim at a target and "scanning" them. This scans the target's spiritual energy and records it. While a target is scanned, every shot that Ritsuko makes will direct itself to said target's location like a heat-seeking missile. This allows her to effectively shoot targets without needing to aim. These shots cannot be "dodged" through simple means and will continue its path until finally connecting with another object that can stop the bullet's momentum. This scan effects a total of ten bullets before going on a two post cooldown.
(The ability uses 250 reiatsu to activate anf 50 reiatsu per arrow cost.)
Heart Property
Class 2 Property: Heart - Incognito
Her property doesn't take form of a weapon but rather a uniform.. The uniform is a ghillie suits and like regular ones they're designed to resemble the background environment such as foliage, snow or sand. Typically, made up of it is a net or cloth garment covered in loose strips of burlap, cloth or twine, sometimes made to look like leaves and twigs. This lets Ritsuko to camoflauge herself with the enviornment around her and make her "almost" invisible to the naked eye but will cost 100 Reiatsu per post to both activate and maintain.
She is still able to move freely but doing so will cause the suit to illumimate making it particually easy for the enemy to know her location.
Soul Property
Ritsuko pours reiatsu into her and circulates reiatsu through her eyes, boosting her peripheral vision and focus. She also keeps reiatsu in her bloodstream circulating through her skin and nervous system, raising the sensitivity of the sensory neurons in her skin, muscles, and nerves to temperature change and vibrational energy in the air. Additionally, while aiming down her scope, Ritsuko innately refreshes the process of perceptual intake and stores the information about her surroundings once a post. Every other post Ritsuko gets a reading of her surroundings and is constantly using her power passively remember and adapt to changes in her environment making her turn into a mobile tracking system.
(However this ability can be extremely detrimental to Ritsuko's mind if she doesn't have at least 3 points in Calm Mind or a similar mental skill.)
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Birthplace: Kazan, Russia
Current Residence: Karakura Town
Memorable Figures: N/A
History:
Life of a Soviet Soldier Boot Camp (1957-1964)
When Ritsuko Nikolovich entered the army, just after she turned nineteen, she wasready to serve. Many Russian teenagers were desperate to avoid the draft, but Ritsuko yearned for an escape from her drab existence—long hours spent looking after her elderly grandmother, afternoons and evenings spent shopping and cooking for her. It was a thankless task that fell to Ritsuko because her mother spent most of her time at work, waiting tables in a restaurant popular with tourists in the Black Sea town of Tuapse, where they lived.
When Ritsuko thought of joining the Russian army, she dreamed of excitement, of shooting real guns, of making friends, of being part of something she believed in even though the army was bogged down in a terrible, endless war in Chechnya. She saw little downside to joining the army. Her life was stalled anyway. She wasn’t going anywhere with her education. She had never excelled in school, her progress hindered by what seemed to be a learning disability that was never diagnosed or treated. She was not comfortable reading or writing. She had tried but failed to learn welding at a trade school. Her only marketable skill was preparing food, a skill she had furthered with a year in cooking school, and something she thought she might be able to pursue in army kitchens. Having cooked for her grandmother since she was ten, she had developed a knack for using herbs and spices to add zest to usually bland Russian food, and she was adept with the local fish, crabs, and mussels.
So Ritsuko stepped forward willingly. In this she was bucking a trend. The draft has become unpopular throughout Russia, in part because of harsh, cruel conditions in the ill-equipped and underfunded army, where conscripts are paid the equivalent of about $3 a month, and in part because of the war in Chechnya. Those who do are generally from society’s lower ranks. Education deferrals are routinely available to teens from affluent families. Others tried avoiding the draft by paying hefty bribes to recruitment officers in exchange for being classified as unfit. Some add a drop of blood to their urine samples, in the hope of being thought ill. Some even swallow magnesium crystals, which are said to cause painful stomach ulcers that can lead to medical disqualification.
A tall, ungainly girl with floppy ears and hooded yellow eyes, Ritsuko was influenced by a childhood spent near a military base but without a man in her life: her father had left the family when she was seven. For years Ritsuko had looked out her bedroom window onto the base and watched the soldiers train. She watched them go through their drills, admiring their precision. She watched them play sports and lift weights and joke around in their off-hours.
“From her windows she could see that the atmosphere was really friendly,” Ritsuko says today in her soft, shy voice. “The soldiers were really friendly. They were not bullying each other, and they were laughing. It was like a family.” She thought they would be her family too.
Ritsuko was assigned to a nearby military base, in Yeysk, for basic training. Yeysk is a port city known for its fighter-pilot training center. A sign at the entrance to the base pronounces it “a blacksmith shop where cadres are forged for the Russian air force.” Ritsuko knew she would never be a pilot (that role is reserved for air force officers with much more training and education than she had), but she wanted to learn how to handle anti-aircraft artillery.
Conditions in the barracks were spartan but ordered. There were no showers, but the soldiers could wash once a week in Russian-style saunas known as banyas. They were given clean clothes and underwear once a week as well. Ritsuko found every day much the same. Up at 6:30, with five minutes to use the toilet, brush her teeth, wash her face, and get dressed. Pull on the scratchy uniform, the portyanki (rectangular pieces of cloth used instead of socks), and the heavy leather boots that didn’t quite fit. Ignoring the blisters on her feet. A clean white strap had to be put in place just inside the collar; no one knew why, but those with a dirty strap were punished. Then it was time to report, salute the sergeant, join the formation, and start to run. Usually it was two miles; sometimes, if the temperature was below zero and the wind was fierce, it was a bit less. Then push-ups—it sometimes seemed to Ritsuko that her entire life was now spent doing push-ups—and more exercises. The meals were bland, providing a reprieve from exertion but little more. After dinner the soldiers could relax a bit, and watch TV or videos of old Russian war movies. Ritsuko could listen to her favorite bands, until lights-out, at 10:30. It was a hard regimen to get used to, but the soldiers adjusted. They joked that they would survive basic training because even Russian generals were smart enough not to kill off their cannon fodder ahead of time.
Ritsuko liked the predictability of military life. She loved learning how to fire a machine gun and anti-aircraft batteries, how to shoot down incoming rockets and missiles. She found out that she was good with weapons—she could destroy a target at 200 yards—and she was happy on the firing range. Blasting away at the target dummy with the vicious AK47 to a more precise weapon such as the Dragonov. It was the first time she had been good at anything other than cooking. She was homesick, but so was everyone else. She fit in; she even seemed to thrive. She even recalls the time showing herself standing tall, obviously proud of her uniform. She felt herself becoming stronger. Developing stamina, courage
The Nightmare is about to begin
However it was all about to change once she arrived in Kamenka, a military base outside of the region she was born in.
New arrivals are at the bottom of a well-defined hierarchy. Just above them are so-called “old soldiers” or “grand-fathers”—second-year conscripts serving out their final months. Most are no longer willing to make their beds or shine their boots or find illicit booze; they get the new arrivals to do these things for them. Once the officers leave the barracks for the night, the old soldiers take charge.
Ritsuko's misery began on the day she arrived, when she made a seemingly minor mistake in military protocol. She addressed an old soldier who had attained the rank of sergeant with the formal term “Comrade Sergeant,” which had been mandated at the Yeysk base. But soldiers at Kamenka had been told to use a more familiar approach—to call their sergeants by name. The sergeant, angry at Ritsuko's mistake, pummeled her, hitting her everywhere except on the face (so that no bruises would show). Rictsuko eventually smoothed things over with the sergeant, but she was beaten for weeks by various old soldiers whose demands she failed to meet. Her idea of the military as a family evaporated.
She was not simply hit once; she was beaten up. First the sergeant—he hit her in the stomach several times, and in the head, and after she fell he kicked her in the stomach. He didn’t aim, he just kicked and kicked and was swearing at her. Starting the very next day, the old soldiers would give everyone thirty minutes to get cigarettes with filters (which is impossible on the military base), or say, “Get me this much money in an hour, and if you don’t bring it to me in an hour you will be beaten to a pulp.” Which always happened, because we had no money … The base is not in a city, it’s in the woods, so most can’t go and ask for things. People can’t ask the trees for money and cigarettes. The old soldiers and even the officers would get drunk, and to entertain themselves they would wake recruits up in the night. She can still remember all the stools that were broken through beating and hitting. They would make her do push-ups and just beat them for entertainment.
She gave it to her friends for safekeeping. That night Ritsuko was summoned to the boiler room by Ruha and his henchmen. The next day she spent the money on cigarettes, cookies, and candies. The old soldiers found her purchases, seized them, and again hauled Ritsuko into the boiler room for a beating.
That was when her mind broke. The next day, acting on impulse, she tried to escape. She wanted to make her way back to the base in Yeysk, which she had enjoyed so much. She believed that she could return to the target range there, where she had proved her prowess. She walked off the Kamenka base through a park that was not fenced in, but she was caught within minutes.
Two months later Ritsuko tried again to escape; again she was caught and forced to return to Kamenka. On her third attempt, the following spring, she succeeded, along with another private who had also suffered under Ruha. Eventually Ritsuko reached Saint Petersburg, where she contacted an advocacy group. Legal advisers from the group told her to go to a hospital and have her injuries documented, so that it would be clear she was no longer healthy enough for military service.
