Post by Connor Greaves on Mar 12, 2021 2:43:45 GMT -5
Character Name: [Connor Greaves]
Old Powers:
New Powers: [Zanpakuto Appearances
When sealed, this blasted blade is so nice to look at. It is in no way a standard zanpakuto, sad to say. Due to his less than normal levels of reiatsu, my sword has grown into a behemoth of a weapon. It casually reaches six feet tall, from tip to hilt, looking like a monster of a broadsword. It is nice to look at, only because it is the least ugly of its three forms. A thin thrusting blade, with maybe two feet of hilt, plenty of room for a good grip and hand maneuvering. It even has an actual hilt to it, even if the hilt would look more at home on a katana than a blade like this one.
When released, Tamashī is a two sided sword, unlike most weapons that other reapers wield, making it a broadsword, or possibility a claymore, similar to the ones that the knights of old used back when they still held relevancy. This sword is fitted to the size of Connor, making the weapon four feet, starting from the tip of the blade, to the end of the hilt. The blade is no shining star of hope that a white knight should posses. No, Tamashī is not nearly as pathetic as that. This wicked spirit is more suited to a black knight, cutting down all who anger him.
Whatever this blade is made of, it is certainly not iron. The sword is as black as ink with a liquid sheen to it. The blade is roughly four inches from one side to the other, gigantic compared to the elegant, sleek, compact weapon that is the katana. Instead, this is a hacking broadsword, that refused to be something that could blend in with the other shinigami weapons. This sword even lacks a standard guard like other swords. Instead, all this thing has is a ton of ivory spikes where the guard should be. The tip of the hilt even has a little spike at the end of a hilt with no cloth, or even any leather to give it grip.
The Bankai is where this weapon goes from Wicked, to Monstrous. At this point, it has given up on even trying to look normal, not that it was normal before, but at least it could be identified as a sword! The blade grows an additional two feet, becoming quite unwieldy compared to before. The sword has taken on a bone-like appearance, with both sides of the 'blade' being razor sharp, but terribly uneven.
The hilt has become completely bone, taking on the feeling and look of it. Above the two feet of hilt, is a large spine-like horn, curving downward, acting as a guard. Running down the middle of the blade part of the sword, are dozens, maybe even hundreds, of large bony teeth, making the weapon look the part of a ravenous beast of a blade.
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Tamashī is a weapon in the most literal sense. It will corrupt all things standing in its path. Be it friend or foe, it cares not. This is not something to train with, and not something that can be used carelessly by Connor. Tamashī is a poison as destructive as they come, consuming and twisting all those who are unfortunate enough to be touched by it. Tamashī creates a slimy black liquid that is all too eager to show exactly what it can do. Once this makes contact with something without spiritual capabilities, it start taking effect immediately.
The poison dissolves into its victims, seeping into them, and corrupting them to the bone. Once it has dissolved, it starts to warp and change them, turning everything to the nightmares Connor fears the most. The zanpakuto warps things, giving them new deranged properties. The concrete floors of the city can take the form of dried out humans, wailing out in anguish, trying to claim more for the foundation, while the earth takes on a darker, harder form, harder than most metals. Trees and plant life grow faces, angry at all creation, happily trying to infect the ones who cut them down for the most trivial of things. Animals gain a devilish appearance, and start to go rabid, attacking anything that has not yet been affected.
Buildings become nightmare fuel, taunting you as you waste away at a society you can never escape from, while their doors become portals to anywhere. People, normal people anyway, lose all sense of self, as they become something akin to a zombie, with their eyes shrunken, and their skin like tanned prunes. But, despite how everyone looks, the people are still the same on the inside. The living beings are still conscious for the entirety of this process, even as they lose control of themselves.
In spite of how quickly the poison spreads, the actual change is very slow, at least in comparison. The poison still acts like any other. If you have a resistance to poison, it changes you slower. With that in mind, the entire transformation takes two posts to fully complete for non-spiritual beings or objects. Anything without any remaining reiatsu will be changed instantly, regardless of resistances. If anything poisoned dies while under the effects of the poison, or are killed by the sword, will be changing instantly as well.
Spiritual beings are only slightly better off, depending on your perspective. Spiritual beings, thanks to the strength of their souls, can resist the effects of this. To a degree. The poison will still spread as fast as it does on anything else, but the change is slowed down exponentially. The process is painful, and only those with a two or more in pain resistance can fight without an issue during it. The transformation will begin from where the poison first touched you, and travel further each post. This takes ten posts to fully complete.
After four posts of a full transformation, or the transformed parts of you, vanish, as if you were never there, including the affected environment. Anything that vanishes like this is tied to Connor's zanpakuto indefinitely. Whenever Connor uses his release, whatever vanished due to the poison can reappear. Enemies can stall this poison by paying 200 per post. However, for every post that it is stalled, the cost is increased by 100, meaning by post five, the cost would be 700 reiatsu. By letting the poison progress, it resets the cost to stall it.
Repeated exposure to the poison cuts another post from the victim's remaining time till transformation. Those with a 3 in poison resist take twice as long to transform, while a 4 will be completely immune, save for being killed by the blade or one of the zombies. Knocking Connor out or killing him is the easiest way to cure yourself of the poison. If you want to cure it with regular healing, you need to have an ability with both higher healing than his offensive strength, or a tech two classes higher than his release. Beings created by the poison can only infect those they have a 50% stat superiority over, or 2 classes over.]
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Shikai Overall Ability:
Tamashī produces a thick, inky black liquid that coats his blade in a slick sheen, giving it a wet and nightmarish appearance. This liquid is a poison that instantly begins to coat whatever it touches, and whatever is touching that, and so on, trying to cover everything in its wake, traveling with high speed speeds, equal to 300. Once it touches something, it will latch onto the surface, dissolving into the object after a mere moment, often appearing as a thin black wave due to how fast is. This travels fifteen feet from where the blade first touched, traveling all surfaces connected to it.
At this stage, the properties aren't at that grand of a scale, but are still a terror to be subjected to. For every race, there is a different effect that applies to them. For the human race, the plain, vanilla, powerless human race, they probably have it the worst. Once the poison sinks into them, they are subject to intense pain, leaving them as writhing messes on the ground until they're completely transformed. Once fully transformed, they become what are essentially zombies. At this point, they will begin to attack anything moving in sight, save for Connor. These zombies have stats and durability equal to 100.
They will spread their pain and misery around, their very touch spreading the poison, before they vanish into Tamashī after the forth post after transformation. As stated earlier, Tamashī does not care who falls to its power, so naturally, Shinigami do not escape this horror. They too will be subject to inhuman pain, though they will be able to fight it off if they have a two in pain resistance. For them though, the end result is far different. Once transformed, they will become something resembling a decaying corpse. They retain their features, unlike the human masses, but they look pale and blue. Their clothes will be gone, and replaced with garbs befitting of the grim reaper, while keeping their weapons and zanpakuto.
They will have all their stats, but will start hunting down the weakest beings in their sights, save for their 'master'. Their blades will carry the same effects as Connor's. Hollows, something Connor will reluctantly draw his blade for, will change into specters, shadowy and translucent, looking truly ghost-like. Unlike nearly every other race, these will exclusively hunt down other hollows, spreading the poison only to them, ignoring all else, including the buildings. Rouges act as the shinigami do.
Beast Clans don't receive much when transformed, but it is still scary enough. They will become giant versions for whatever animal they take after. For example, a wolf beast clan would become a massive, twenty foot monster, attacking anything and everything that moved, with anything it touched spreading Connor's poison like a plague, and anything it killed changing as well. For fullbringers, they warp into mutant versions of themselves, barely recognizable to those that knew them prior. They can end up looking any number of ways, maybe purple skin, glowing green eyes, backwards heads, who knows. They, just like nearly every other race, will go on a rampage, however, the talents of fullbringers don't go to waste here.
The fullbringers will use their bringer powers to manipulate the souls in the air to create deadly purple gasses, as they continue their four post journey. Quincy receive a special treatment, being one of the races Connor likes the least. He considers them witches, and as such, their transformation is simply them being on fire, forcing them to endure the sensation of perpetually burning, with no chance for reprieve until they vanish into his zanpakuto. Bounts are leeches and vampires to Connor, so they start to grey and thin out. The rampage they go on will target the people with the highest sprp, and attempt to drain them with fangs they did not have previously.
Mod souls, basically being robots, become featureless chrome dolls, attacking the smallest people first, spreading their poison only through contact with metal. Arrancar will suffer the same fate as the hollow, as will vizard, attacking only hollows, or members of their own races. Failures will die the moment that the poison touches them. Any Hell race will be turned into laughing demons, standing twenty feet tall. They will attack those with evil souls first, carrying the same effects as Tamashī. Any ability weaker than the liquid, will be turned into poison and destroyed.
The earth itself is not free from Connor's weapon. Buildings will come to life, laughing and taunting anyone they can. Their doorways will send any who pass through them through any other doorway. Affecting whole building isn't generally something Connor accomplishes, but a transformation doesn't need to be complete to carry their effects. Motor vehicles become living monster versions of themselves, crashing into anything, mainly other vehicles, with a speed and strength of 300, with instinct and senses of 50.
The ground beneath them, and any that they kill, become subject to Tamashī's effects. Ground will become a sea of withered humans, grabbing at anyone unturned, trying to drag them down into the mass, while still acting as ground for Connor. Ground changed like this will become act as an extension of Tamashī, and will be unusable to anyone else's abilities, unless their power is stronger than his spiritual stat. The Strength and Speed of these zombies is 300.
Trees hiss and swipe at anyone close to them, with 200 speed and strength, and animals run after any and all uninfected, with speed, strength, instinct, and senses at 300. All beings with stats will retain them for the duration of transformation. A transformed being carries all the spreading effects of Tamashī, generating poison from their beings. The poison will spread fifteen feet from where the blade, or the zombies touch. Beings will not attack Connor, but will not obey him either. After the four posts of transformation is over, the transformed will be absorbed into Tamashī instantly, with their soul passing on as they should.
Those who managed to get away with a partial transformation will lose the affected areas. Anything else not mentioned will simply be transformed into an evil version of itself and be unable to harm Connor, while spreading the poison to all they touch. Anything Transformed will have the durability equal to his release stat. Those with an OS equal to 150% of Connor's OS will be immune to the poison, unless the poison has a two class superiority.]
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Bankai Overall
Bankai Overall Ability: When entering bankai, the liquid on Souruejji starts to fall. It falls to the ground in a thick inky, slimy substance, like a rotten ooze. It constantly does this, leaking from his blade like a broken faucet. The poison pools on the ground, unlike in shikai, and never fully dissolves. Constantly at Connor's feet, the liquid will constantly expand, increasing ten feet every post, until it hits one hundred feet. After a hundred feet, it doubles, going to twenty feet every post, with every hundred feet doubling the distance it travels. Initially, the poison moves at 300 speed, but every ten feet traveled increases the speed by 50.
The poison still affects the world just as it would in Shikai, but with a catch. Connor no longer sees the poisoned world he has created, seeing nothing but the norm. To everyone else, it is still as rotted an poisoned as it would be from this evil weapon. Any killed in this release will be chained to the release forever, finding themselves completely unable to pass onto the next life. Connor can release these souls at a cost. Using this aspect will drain Connor of an extra 100 reiatsu for characters aside from Npc's. Connor gains the ability to command his zombies to attack targets at this level.
Anything transformed will remain until Connor willingly recalls it. Not even if Connor drops out of Bankai or dies will it revert. Only those with a 2x offensive stat superiority will be immune to the poison. Getting struck three times with the poison however, will negate this and infect them regardless. All zombies have a durability of two times Connor's release stat. Once he willingly ends his release, everything fades away until he returns to bankai once more. The max distance the poison that Souruejji generates from its blade can travel is a mile, but the distance can be increased as Connor moves. The zombies themselves can are not forced to stay inside this area of effect.
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Techniques
1. Poisoned wave: This is Connor's only ranged attack in release. By charging his blade with a bit of reiatsu, some of the poison will gather on it. By flicking his blade or slashing, a large crescent wave will fly in whatever direction he attacks at. This blade will cut anything it touches, as well as spread more poison. The crescent flies at a speed of 800, and cuts with the force of his highest spiritual stat. Anything it makes contact with will have its infection accelerated by two posts. This will also turn weaker abilities into poison. Costs 150 reiatsu, and can be used in shikai or bankai.
[2. Collected Souls: This weapon is a collector of bodies and souls, stealing and taking all that it touches, and using them for its master, whether he wants it to or not. This power is quite the terrifying one for Connor. This is probably the only defensive ability in this blasted blade of his, though on the surface, it certainly does not seem to be that. By activating this ability, something terrifying begins to happen. Connor starts to spawn a zombie.
Once activated, one or more of those he has slain begins to crawl out of his body, from a location of his choice. This starts slowly, taking its time to free itself from Connor, taking three posts to fully spawn from Connor. While it may look like it is coming directly from Connor, the truth is that Tamashī really likes to give a good performance, a show off if you would. When Tamashī, the blade, touches anything, the poison spreads in every direction. Including over Connor. Thankfully, Connor is immune, or he would die so very quickly.
Instead, the poison, with a little extra reiatsu put into it, starts to pool on Connor, since the poison refuses to absorb into him anyway. This makes a tiny pool for the bodies, the zombies, to start to be created from. Before they are fully transformed and unleashed, Connor has full control of the body, sharing senses with it. After being fully summoned, these zombies will obey his every command. These zombies are special. Not only can they be from any race that he has killed, but when they are reborn, they are made strong.
The souls have 500 in both of their physicals, and 1,000 durability. They also share Connors sensory stats. This ability costs 200 reiatsu per post, until fully spawned. After the zombie is fully spawned, it lasts four posts. Initial cost is multiplied by however many he chooses to create at once, max three in Shikai, five in Bankai. If Connor does not have at least a 1 in pain tolarance, he will not be able to fight while this tech is active. Can be used in both shikai and in bankai. In Bankai, these zombies gain an additional 200 physical stats and durability. In addition, they can be generated from anywhere in his poison, or that his poison has touched.]
Bankai Techniques
1. Monolith to Madness: Connor causes a lot of destruction when he uses his release. Roads, buildings, forests, you name it, and he has very likely destroyed it. This ability allows him to summon those things he has destroyed. Anywhere his poison is touching or affecting, Connor can summon any 'thing' his release has destroyed, the post after he first activates this ability. This includes buildings, trees, vehicles, to even roads. These structures act as super spreaders of his poison, dumping gallons of it into the environment around themselves. Much like his Bankai, the poison lingers along the surface of the ground, like a thick muck. It naturally affects everything it touches, but touching this poison adds two stacks of poison to the counter.
Every post that these structures are left standing, the area of effect they have increases. The poison they generate will spread five feet every post, with that number doubling every hundred feet that they reach. This poison moves at a speed of 300. These structures also generate zombies, much like his actual weapon. These zombies have stats equal to a quarter of his highest spiritual stat, with a durability equal to half his release stat. These zombies attack either anyone marked with his poison, or the strongest beings in the area, naturally not attacking Connor, if left without command. These zombies are tied more to the structure, and will all die should all Monoliths Connor has created fall, but otherwise will ignore the four post limit.
Every post, the Monolith first created will summon one zombie for every foot the poison that every currently active Monolith has traveled. Meaning that, if Monolith one has had poison travel ten feet, while Monolith two has had poison travel five feet, then that would be fifteen zombies created. If a Monolith that is summoning zombies is destroyed, the next oldest one will being to spawn them in its stead. The Monoliths are a very hardy ability, and have a durability equal to twice that of Connor's release stat, but can be damaged by any ability. The Monoliths can be summoned at a cost of 600 reiatsu with a 300 per post cost for each, and only one can be created per post. When they are created, they shoot up from the point of contact with a speed of 800, and with a force equal to his release stat.
2. Poison Tsunami: An evolution of Poisoned Wave, Connor now wields the ability to throw around all the poison that Souruejji has generated. With a wave of his blade, the poison lying on the ground rises into the air half as far as the poison has spread, and rushes across the ground in a massive wave of poison. The wave is as wide as the poison has spread, and moves at a speed of 800. The poison that the Monolith to Madness spreads increases the height and width of this ability in equal amounts. This ability stops once it reaches the maximum distance the poison can be spread. This ability can only be used every other post. This ability inflicts two stacks of poison, and crushes anything and everything with a force equal to Connor's highest Spiritual Stat, except Connor, or anything his zanpakuto has created. Cost 300.
What kind of update: [Ciu]
Threads and Reasons for Change: [Honestly, when I first made Connor's powers, I messed up his bankai abilities, making Return of Madness simply a worse version of Collected Souls. I also had Poisoned Wave as a Bankai technique that could be used in Shikai. And Closing Pandora's Box is purely a detriment to have and use. It offered no bonus to have, and actively hurt Connor. Now that I achieved bankai, I wanted to fix up a lot of the errors that I made when making Connor's zanpakuto.]
Old Powers:
{Old Powers}Zanpakuto Appearances: [
shikai
When sealed, this blasted blade of mine is so nice to look at. It is in no way a standard zanpakuto, sad to say. Due to my... less than normal levels of reiatsu, my sword has grown into a behemoth of a weapon. It casually reaches six feet tall, from tip to hilt, looking like a monster of a broadsword. I say it is nice to look at, because it is the nicest of its forms. A thin thrusting blade, with maybe two feet of hilt, plenty of room for a good grip and hand maneuvering. A silver tone, looking like an actual sword, and not some fake looking junk blade. It even has an actual hilt to it, even if the hilt would look more at home on a katana than a blade like this one.
When released, Tamashī is a two sided sword, unlike most weapons that other reapers wield, making it a broadsword, or possibility a claymore, similar to the ones that the knights of old used back when they still held relevancy. This sword is fitted to the size of Connor, making the weapon four feet, starting from the tip of the blade, to the end of the hilt. The blade is no shining star of hope that a white knight should posses. No, Tamashī is not nearly as pathetic as that. This wicked spirit is more suited to a black knight, cutting down all who anger him.
Whatever this blade is made of, it is certainly not iron. The sword is as black as night, without a hint of color to it, as if trying to brag about how evil it is, making Connor only hate it all the more for trying to be edgy. Speaking of edges, it truly is the thick blade, being roughly four inches from one side to the other, gigantic compared to the elegant, sleek, compact weapon that is the katana. Instead, this is a hacking broadsword, that refused to be something that could blend in with the other shinigami weapons.
This sword even lacks a standard guard like other swords. Instead, all this thing has is a ton of spikes where the guard should be. Sure, they still prevent swords and other weapons from cutting at his hands like a guard should do, but it makes it, and me, like I took up the roll of the villain! I am a good guy! The tip of the hilt even has a little spike at the end of a hilt with no cloth, or even any leather to give it grip... This instead, forces me to use my sheath to preform konso, and it just freaks the heck out of the souls.
And Bankai is even worse... At this point, it has given up on even trying to look normal, not that it was normal before, but at least it could be identified as a sword! Now, now I can hardly tell what it is! The whole thing grew two feet, becoming quite unwieldy save for the most 'manly' of anime characters. The sword has taken on a bone-like appearance, with the edge of the 'blade' razor sharp, but terribly uneven. It still has two sides, but with all that is going on with the hilt, I doubt I could hold it any other way.
The hilt has become completely bone, taking on the feeling and look of it, and becoming very uncomfortable to hold, giving me blisters every time I use it. Above the two feet of hilt, is a large spine-like horn, curving downward, acting as a guard? I honestly stopped being able to follow the logic of this thing a while ago. And to top it all off, running down the middle of the blade part of the sword, are dozens, maybe even hundreds, of large bony teeth, making Souruejji look like a gigantic jaw to some screwed up monster, I GIVE UP! I AM DONE! SOMEONE TRADE ZANPAKUTOU WITH ME, PLEASE! I BEG YOU!
Overall Ability:
Tamashī is a weapon in the most literal sense. It will corrupt all things standing in its path, be it friend or foe, it cares not. This is not something to train with, and not something that can be used carelessly by Connor. Tamashī is a poison as destructive as they come, consuming and twisting all those who are unfortunate enough to be touched by it. Tamashī creates a slimy black liquid that is all too eager to show exactly what it can do. Once this makes contact with something without spiritual capabilities, it start taking effect immediately.
The poison dissolves into its victims, seeping into them, and corrupting them to the bone. Once it has dissolved, it starts to warp and change them, turning everything to the nightmares Connor fears the most. The zanpakuto warps things, giving them new deranged properties. The concrete floors of the city can take the form of dried out humans, wailing out in anguish, trying to claim more for the foundation, while the earth takes on a darker, harder form, harder than most metals. Trees and plant life grow faces, angry at all creation, happily trying to infect the ones who cut them down for the most trivial of things. Animals gain a devilish appearance, and start to go rabid, attacking anything that has not yet been affected.
Buildings become nightmare fuel, taunting you as you waste away at a society you can never escape from, while their doors become portals to anywhere. People, normal people anyway, lose all sense of self, as they become something akin to a zombie, with their eyes shrunken, and their skin like tanned prunes. But, despite how everyone looks, the people are still the same on the inside. The living beings are still conscious for the entirety of this process, even as they lose control of themselves.
In spite of how quickly the poison spreads, the actual change is very slow, at least in comparison. The poison still acts like any other. If you have a resistance to poison, it changes you slower. With that in mind, the entire transformation takes two posts to fully complete for non-spiritual beings or objects. Anything without any remaining reiatsu will be changed instantly, regardless of resistances. If anything poisoned dies while under the effects of the poison, or are killed by the sword, will be changing instantly as well.
Spiritual beings are only slightly better off, depending on your perspective. Spiritual beings, thanks to the strength of their souls, can resist the effects of this. To a degree. The poison will still spread as fast as it does on anything else, but the change is slowed down exponentially. The process is painful, and only those with a two or more in pain resistance can fight without an issue during it. The transformation will begin from where the poison first touched you, and travel further each post. This takes ten posts to fully complete.
After four posts of a full transformation, or the transformed parts of you, vanish, as if you were never there, including the affected environment. Anything that vanishes like this is tied to Connor's zanpakuto indefinitely. Whenever Connor uses his release, whatever vanished due to the poison can reappear. Enemies can stall this poison by paying 200 per post. However, for every post that it is stalled, the cost is increased by 100, meaning by post five, the cost would be 700 reiatsu. By letting the poison progress, it resets the cost to stall it.
Repeated exposure to the poison cuts another post from the victim's remaining time till transformation. Those with a 2 in poison resist take twice as long to transform, while a three will be completely immune, save for being killed by the blade or one of the zombies. Knocking Connor out or killing him is the easiest way to cure yourself of the poison. If you want to cure it with regular healing, you need to have an ability with both higher healing than his offensive strength, or a tech two classes higher than his release. Beings created by the poison can only infect those they have a 50% stat superiority over, or 2 classes over.]
Shikai Overall Ability:
Tamashī produces a thick, inky black liquid that coats his blade in a slick sheen, giving it a wet and nightmarish appearance. This liquid is a poison that instantly begins to coat whatever it touches, and whatever is touching that, and so on, trying to cover everything in its wake, traveling with high speed speeds, equal to 300. Once it touches something, it will latch onto the surface, dissolving into the object after a mere moment, often appearing as a thin black wave due to how fast is. This travels fifteen feet from where the blade first touched, traveling all surfaces connected to it.
At this stage, the properties aren't at that grand of a scale, but are still a terror to be subjected to. For every race, there is a different effect that applies to them. For the human race, the plain, vanilla, powerless human race, they probably have it the worst. Once the poison sinks into them, they are subject to intense pain, leaving them as writhing messes on the ground until they're completely transformed. Once fully transformed, they become what are essentially zombies. At this point, they will begin to attack anything moving in sight, save for Connor. These zombies have a strength, speed, senses, and instinct stat of 100 each.
They will spread their pain and misery around, their very touch spreading the poison, before they vanish into Tamashī after the forth post after transformation. As stated earlier, Tamashī does not care who falls to its power, so naturally, Shinigami do not escape this horror. They too will be subject to inhuman pain, though they will be able to fight it off if they have a two in pain resistance. For them though, the end result is far different. Once transformed, they will become something resembling a decaying corpse. They retain their features, unlike the human masses, but they look pale and blue. Their clothes will be gone, and replaced with garbs befitting of the grim reaper, while keeping their weapons and zanpakuto.
They will have all their stats, but will start hunting down the weakest beings in their sights, save for their 'master'. Their blades will carry the same effects as Connor's. Hollows, something Connor will reluctantly draw his blade for, will change into specters, shadowy and translucent, looking truly ghost-like. Unlike nearly every other race, these will exclusively hunt down other hollows, spreading the poison only to them, ignoring all else, including the buildings. Rouges act as the shinigami do.
Beast Clans don't receive much when transformed, but it is still scary enough. They will become giant versions for whatever animal they take after. For example, a wolf beast clan would become a massive, twenty foot monster, attacking anything and everything that moved, with anything it touched spreading Connor's poison like a plague, and anything it killed changing as well. For fullbringers, they warp into mutant versions of themselves, barely recognizable to those that knew them prior. They can end up looking any number of ways, maybe purple skin, glowing green eyes, backwards heads, who knows. They, just like nearly every other race, will go on a rampage, however, the talents of fullbringers don't go to waste here.
The fullbringers will use their bringer powers to manipulate the souls in the air to create deadly purple gasses, as they continue their four post journey. Quincy receive a special treatment, being one of the races Connor likes the least. He considers them witches, and as such, their transformation is simply them being on fire, forcing them to endure the sensation of perpetually burning, with no chance for reprieve until they vanish into his zanpakuto. Bounts are leeches and vampires to Connor, so they start to grey and thin out. The rampage they go on will target the people with the highest sprp, and attempt to drain them with fangs they did not have previously.
Mod souls, basically being robots, become featureless chrome dolls, attacking the smallest people first, spreading their poison only through contact with metal. Arrancar will suffer the same fate as the hollow, as will vizard, attacking only hollows, or members of their own races. Failures will die the moment that the poison touches them. Any Hell race will be turned into laughing demons, standing twenty feet tall. They will attack those with evil souls first, carrying the same effects as Tamashī. Any ability weaker than the liquid, will be turned into poison and destroyed.
The earth itself is not free from Connor's weapon. Buildings will come to life, laughing and taunting anyone they can. Their doorways will send any who pass through them through any other doorway. Affecting whole building isn't generally something Connor accomplishes, but a transformation doesn't need to be complete to carry their effects. Motor vehicles become living monster versions of themselves, crashing into anything, mainly other vehicles, with a speed and strength of 300, with instinct and senses of 50.
The ground beneath them, and any that they kill, become subject to Tamashī's effects. Ground that has been altered by man, mostly tarmac and concrete will become a sea of shrunken humans, grabbing at anyone unturned with a speed and strength of 300, trying to drag them down into the mass, while still acting as ground for Connor's. Unworked ground will become Connor's, and will be unusable to anyone else's abilities, unless their power is stronger than his spiritual stat.
Trees hiss and swipe at anyone close to them, with 200 speed and strength, and animals run after any and all uninfected, with speed, strength, instinct, and senses at 300. All spiritual beings will retain their stats for the duration of transformation. A transformed being carries all the spreading effects of Tamashī. The poison will spread fifteen feet from where the blade touches. Beings will not attack Connor, but will not obey him either. After the four posts of transformation is over, the transformed will be absorbed into Tamashī instantly, with their soul passing on as they should.
Those who managed to get away with a partial transformation will lose the affected areas. Anything else not mentioned will simply be transformed into an evil version of itself and be unable to harm Connor, while spreading the poison to all they touch. Anything Transformed will have the same durability as his release stat. If one has an offensive stat superiority, they will be immune to the poison, unless the poison has a two class superiority. Getting struck three times with the poison however, will negate this and infect them regardless. ]
Bankai Overall Ability: When entering bankai, the liquid on Kurutta Tamashī starts to fall. It falls to the ground in a thick inky, slimy substance, like a rotten ooze. It constantly does this, leaking from his blade like a broken faucet. The poison pools on the ground, unlike in shikai, and never fully dissolves. Constantly at Connor's feet, the liquid will constantly expand, increasing ten feet every post, until it hits one hundred feet. After a hundred feet, it doubles, going to twenty feet every post, with every hundred feet doubling the distance it travels. Initially, the poison moves at 300 speed, but every ten feet traveled increases the speed by 50.
The poison still affects the world just as it would in Shikai, but with a catch. Connor no longer sees the poisoned world he has created, seeing nothing but the norm. To everyone else, it is still as rotted an poisoned as it would be from this evil weapon. Any killed in this release will be chained to the release forever, finding themselves completely unable to pass onto the next life. Using this aspect will drain Connor of an extra 800 reiatsu for characters aside from Npc's.
Anything transformed will remain until Connor, even if Connor drops out of Bankai or dies. Those with a 2x offensive stat superiority will be immune to the poison. Getting struck three times with the poison however, will negate this and infect them regardless. Those turned have a durability of two times Connor's release stat, unless the poison has a two class superiority. Once his release ends, everything fades away until he returns to bankai once more. The max distance the poison can travel from a single point is a mile, but the distance can be increased as Connor moves.
Zanpakuto Techniques:
Shikai
[1. Collected Souls: This weapon is a collector of bodies, stealing and taking all that it touches, and using them for Connor, whether he wants it to or not. This power is quite the terrifying one for Connor. This is probably the only defensive ability in this blasted blade of his, though on the surface, it certainly does not seem to be that. Speaking of surfaces, the only one he can use this ability on, is himself, and it is quite painful. By activating this ability, something terrifying begins to happen. Connor starts to spawn a zombie.
Once activated, one or more of those he has slain begins to crawl out of his body, from a location of his choice. This starts slowly, taking its time to free itself from Connor, taking three posts to fully spawn from Connor. While it may look like it is coming directly from Connor, the truth is that Tamashī really likes to give a good performance, a show off if you would. When Tamashī, the blade, touches anything, the poison spreads in every direction. Including over Connor. Thankfully, Connor is immune, or he would die so very quickly.
Instead, the poison, with a little extra reiatsu put into it, starts to pool on Connor, since the poison refuses to absorb into him anyway. This makes a tiny pool for the bodies, the zombies, to start to be created from. Before they are fully transformed, fully created, Connor has full control of the body, sharing senses with it. These zombies are special. Not only can they be from any race that he has killed, but when they are reborn, they are made strong. Their physical stats are chosen depending on what Connor needs.
The souls have 500 in both of their physicals. They also share Connors sensory stats. This ability costs 200 reiatsu, and after zombie is fully spawned, it costs 100 reiatsu per post. Initial cost is multiplied by however many he chooses to create at once, max three. If Connor does not have at least a 1 in pain tolarance, he will not be able to fight while this tech is active. Can be used in both shikai and in bankai.]
Bankai
[1. The Return of Madness: This is quite the unusual ability for someone with a poison zanpakuto, but not unexpected for a blade that collects the bodies of its victims. By using this ability, those who have died or met their end from the poison will be brought back to fight again. Returning in their transformed state, they will begin their rampage once again, only this time, they will have more focus. Connor is able to control the zombies to a degree. He can force all things turned, to focus on a single opponent, or race to attack.
This starts to give life back to the dead, letting them walk about, creating slaves for Tamashī to have fun with, and to cause poor Connor more mental scarring. The minions are powerful, more so than one might expect. With high durability, his bankai, and physical stats equal to both his spiritual stats combined then split evenly between strength and speed, and
sharing Connor's sensory stats, these abominations are extremely hard to kill. They attack without care for defense, knowing that they live only to serve, not having the will to turn on the one that slew them. For each one summoned, it takes 500 reiatsu from Connor. They last for five posts, and can create only three per post.
2. Poisoned wave: This is Connor's only ranged attack in release. By charging his blade with a bit of reiatsu, some of the poison will gather on it. By flicking his blade or slashing, a large crescent wave will fly in whatever direction he attacks at. This blade will cut anything it touches, as well as spread more poison. The crescent flies at a speed of 800, and cuts with the force of his highest spiritual stat. Anything it makes contact with will have its infection accelerated by three posts. This will also turn weaker abilities into poison. Costs 150 reiatsu, and can also be used in shikai.
3. Closing Pandora's Box: Connor does not like his Zanpakuto. In fact, it is one of the few things he truly hates. It causes rampant destruction, leaving everything that get too close to him dead and dying. Tamashī likewise hates Connor. It considers its master to be weak willed and foolish for not embracing the gifts that it gives him. This ability it the pinnacle of their hatred for one another. With this, Connor reseals all of the evil that comes from his weapon, dragging all the poison and monsters to his blade instantly.
But Tamashī does not let this happen without a cost. In order for Connor to do this, he must wait seven posts from when he first poisons something, making sure Connor suffers for drawing them in the first place. In order for Connor to use this ability, he must sheath Tamashī. Once sheathed, Connor cannot redraw his zanpakuto for two posts. Using this ability also costs a quarter of his maximum reiatsu. Anything not fully transformed, or in the process of transforming, will be completely unharmed.]
Mask Appearance: [Connor never gets things easy, especially when it comes to his powers. In fact, this mask seemingly decided to go along with how his spirits act in the face of death: embrace it wholeheartedly. And the expression on the face of this thing certainly says that it does. This has the face of a skull, even comes with a hole for the nose. While the right half is a generic looking skull, the left half has enough personality to make up for its boring, right side counterpart, holding it in spades.
The left half if the face, the left eye socket is warped, twisted into what could be an oddly sympathetic look, as if trying to seem apologetic for what it intends on doing to you. The teeth are shifted to an inhuman degree as well, but to the opposite effect. Where the eye is at least TRYING to seem nice, the jaw decided to set the rows of blunted teeth in that of an ugly sneer, with all of them set... wrong, giving the mask a cartoonish feel to it. There is one other feature on the mask. A large, black hand print is smeared over the entire mask, with the thumb over his left temple.]
shikai
When sealed, this blasted blade of mine is so nice to look at. It is in no way a standard zanpakuto, sad to say. Due to my... less than normal levels of reiatsu, my sword has grown into a behemoth of a weapon. It casually reaches six feet tall, from tip to hilt, looking like a monster of a broadsword. I say it is nice to look at, because it is the nicest of its forms. A thin thrusting blade, with maybe two feet of hilt, plenty of room for a good grip and hand maneuvering. A silver tone, looking like an actual sword, and not some fake looking junk blade. It even has an actual hilt to it, even if the hilt would look more at home on a katana than a blade like this one.
When released, Tamashī is a two sided sword, unlike most weapons that other reapers wield, making it a broadsword, or possibility a claymore, similar to the ones that the knights of old used back when they still held relevancy. This sword is fitted to the size of Connor, making the weapon four feet, starting from the tip of the blade, to the end of the hilt. The blade is no shining star of hope that a white knight should posses. No, Tamashī is not nearly as pathetic as that. This wicked spirit is more suited to a black knight, cutting down all who anger him.
Whatever this blade is made of, it is certainly not iron. The sword is as black as night, without a hint of color to it, as if trying to brag about how evil it is, making Connor only hate it all the more for trying to be edgy. Speaking of edges, it truly is the thick blade, being roughly four inches from one side to the other, gigantic compared to the elegant, sleek, compact weapon that is the katana. Instead, this is a hacking broadsword, that refused to be something that could blend in with the other shinigami weapons.
This sword even lacks a standard guard like other swords. Instead, all this thing has is a ton of spikes where the guard should be. Sure, they still prevent swords and other weapons from cutting at his hands like a guard should do, but it makes it, and me, like I took up the roll of the villain! I am a good guy! The tip of the hilt even has a little spike at the end of a hilt with no cloth, or even any leather to give it grip... This instead, forces me to use my sheath to preform konso, and it just freaks the heck out of the souls.
And Bankai is even worse... At this point, it has given up on even trying to look normal, not that it was normal before, but at least it could be identified as a sword! Now, now I can hardly tell what it is! The whole thing grew two feet, becoming quite unwieldy save for the most 'manly' of anime characters. The sword has taken on a bone-like appearance, with the edge of the 'blade' razor sharp, but terribly uneven. It still has two sides, but with all that is going on with the hilt, I doubt I could hold it any other way.
The hilt has become completely bone, taking on the feeling and look of it, and becoming very uncomfortable to hold, giving me blisters every time I use it. Above the two feet of hilt, is a large spine-like horn, curving downward, acting as a guard? I honestly stopped being able to follow the logic of this thing a while ago. And to top it all off, running down the middle of the blade part of the sword, are dozens, maybe even hundreds, of large bony teeth, making Souruejji look like a gigantic jaw to some screwed up monster, I GIVE UP! I AM DONE! SOMEONE TRADE ZANPAKUTOU WITH ME, PLEASE! I BEG YOU!
Overall Ability:
Tamashī is a weapon in the most literal sense. It will corrupt all things standing in its path, be it friend or foe, it cares not. This is not something to train with, and not something that can be used carelessly by Connor. Tamashī is a poison as destructive as they come, consuming and twisting all those who are unfortunate enough to be touched by it. Tamashī creates a slimy black liquid that is all too eager to show exactly what it can do. Once this makes contact with something without spiritual capabilities, it start taking effect immediately.
The poison dissolves into its victims, seeping into them, and corrupting them to the bone. Once it has dissolved, it starts to warp and change them, turning everything to the nightmares Connor fears the most. The zanpakuto warps things, giving them new deranged properties. The concrete floors of the city can take the form of dried out humans, wailing out in anguish, trying to claim more for the foundation, while the earth takes on a darker, harder form, harder than most metals. Trees and plant life grow faces, angry at all creation, happily trying to infect the ones who cut them down for the most trivial of things. Animals gain a devilish appearance, and start to go rabid, attacking anything that has not yet been affected.
Buildings become nightmare fuel, taunting you as you waste away at a society you can never escape from, while their doors become portals to anywhere. People, normal people anyway, lose all sense of self, as they become something akin to a zombie, with their eyes shrunken, and their skin like tanned prunes. But, despite how everyone looks, the people are still the same on the inside. The living beings are still conscious for the entirety of this process, even as they lose control of themselves.
In spite of how quickly the poison spreads, the actual change is very slow, at least in comparison. The poison still acts like any other. If you have a resistance to poison, it changes you slower. With that in mind, the entire transformation takes two posts to fully complete for non-spiritual beings or objects. Anything without any remaining reiatsu will be changed instantly, regardless of resistances. If anything poisoned dies while under the effects of the poison, or are killed by the sword, will be changing instantly as well.
Spiritual beings are only slightly better off, depending on your perspective. Spiritual beings, thanks to the strength of their souls, can resist the effects of this. To a degree. The poison will still spread as fast as it does on anything else, but the change is slowed down exponentially. The process is painful, and only those with a two or more in pain resistance can fight without an issue during it. The transformation will begin from where the poison first touched you, and travel further each post. This takes ten posts to fully complete.
After four posts of a full transformation, or the transformed parts of you, vanish, as if you were never there, including the affected environment. Anything that vanishes like this is tied to Connor's zanpakuto indefinitely. Whenever Connor uses his release, whatever vanished due to the poison can reappear. Enemies can stall this poison by paying 200 per post. However, for every post that it is stalled, the cost is increased by 100, meaning by post five, the cost would be 700 reiatsu. By letting the poison progress, it resets the cost to stall it.
Repeated exposure to the poison cuts another post from the victim's remaining time till transformation. Those with a 2 in poison resist take twice as long to transform, while a three will be completely immune, save for being killed by the blade or one of the zombies. Knocking Connor out or killing him is the easiest way to cure yourself of the poison. If you want to cure it with regular healing, you need to have an ability with both higher healing than his offensive strength, or a tech two classes higher than his release. Beings created by the poison can only infect those they have a 50% stat superiority over, or 2 classes over.]
Shikai Overall Ability:
Tamashī produces a thick, inky black liquid that coats his blade in a slick sheen, giving it a wet and nightmarish appearance. This liquid is a poison that instantly begins to coat whatever it touches, and whatever is touching that, and so on, trying to cover everything in its wake, traveling with high speed speeds, equal to 300. Once it touches something, it will latch onto the surface, dissolving into the object after a mere moment, often appearing as a thin black wave due to how fast is. This travels fifteen feet from where the blade first touched, traveling all surfaces connected to it.
At this stage, the properties aren't at that grand of a scale, but are still a terror to be subjected to. For every race, there is a different effect that applies to them. For the human race, the plain, vanilla, powerless human race, they probably have it the worst. Once the poison sinks into them, they are subject to intense pain, leaving them as writhing messes on the ground until they're completely transformed. Once fully transformed, they become what are essentially zombies. At this point, they will begin to attack anything moving in sight, save for Connor. These zombies have a strength, speed, senses, and instinct stat of 100 each.
They will spread their pain and misery around, their very touch spreading the poison, before they vanish into Tamashī after the forth post after transformation. As stated earlier, Tamashī does not care who falls to its power, so naturally, Shinigami do not escape this horror. They too will be subject to inhuman pain, though they will be able to fight it off if they have a two in pain resistance. For them though, the end result is far different. Once transformed, they will become something resembling a decaying corpse. They retain their features, unlike the human masses, but they look pale and blue. Their clothes will be gone, and replaced with garbs befitting of the grim reaper, while keeping their weapons and zanpakuto.
They will have all their stats, but will start hunting down the weakest beings in their sights, save for their 'master'. Their blades will carry the same effects as Connor's. Hollows, something Connor will reluctantly draw his blade for, will change into specters, shadowy and translucent, looking truly ghost-like. Unlike nearly every other race, these will exclusively hunt down other hollows, spreading the poison only to them, ignoring all else, including the buildings. Rouges act as the shinigami do.
Beast Clans don't receive much when transformed, but it is still scary enough. They will become giant versions for whatever animal they take after. For example, a wolf beast clan would become a massive, twenty foot monster, attacking anything and everything that moved, with anything it touched spreading Connor's poison like a plague, and anything it killed changing as well. For fullbringers, they warp into mutant versions of themselves, barely recognizable to those that knew them prior. They can end up looking any number of ways, maybe purple skin, glowing green eyes, backwards heads, who knows. They, just like nearly every other race, will go on a rampage, however, the talents of fullbringers don't go to waste here.
The fullbringers will use their bringer powers to manipulate the souls in the air to create deadly purple gasses, as they continue their four post journey. Quincy receive a special treatment, being one of the races Connor likes the least. He considers them witches, and as such, their transformation is simply them being on fire, forcing them to endure the sensation of perpetually burning, with no chance for reprieve until they vanish into his zanpakuto. Bounts are leeches and vampires to Connor, so they start to grey and thin out. The rampage they go on will target the people with the highest sprp, and attempt to drain them with fangs they did not have previously.
Mod souls, basically being robots, become featureless chrome dolls, attacking the smallest people first, spreading their poison only through contact with metal. Arrancar will suffer the same fate as the hollow, as will vizard, attacking only hollows, or members of their own races. Failures will die the moment that the poison touches them. Any Hell race will be turned into laughing demons, standing twenty feet tall. They will attack those with evil souls first, carrying the same effects as Tamashī. Any ability weaker than the liquid, will be turned into poison and destroyed.
The earth itself is not free from Connor's weapon. Buildings will come to life, laughing and taunting anyone they can. Their doorways will send any who pass through them through any other doorway. Affecting whole building isn't generally something Connor accomplishes, but a transformation doesn't need to be complete to carry their effects. Motor vehicles become living monster versions of themselves, crashing into anything, mainly other vehicles, with a speed and strength of 300, with instinct and senses of 50.
The ground beneath them, and any that they kill, become subject to Tamashī's effects. Ground that has been altered by man, mostly tarmac and concrete will become a sea of shrunken humans, grabbing at anyone unturned with a speed and strength of 300, trying to drag them down into the mass, while still acting as ground for Connor's. Unworked ground will become Connor's, and will be unusable to anyone else's abilities, unless their power is stronger than his spiritual stat.
Trees hiss and swipe at anyone close to them, with 200 speed and strength, and animals run after any and all uninfected, with speed, strength, instinct, and senses at 300. All spiritual beings will retain their stats for the duration of transformation. A transformed being carries all the spreading effects of Tamashī. The poison will spread fifteen feet from where the blade touches. Beings will not attack Connor, but will not obey him either. After the four posts of transformation is over, the transformed will be absorbed into Tamashī instantly, with their soul passing on as they should.
Those who managed to get away with a partial transformation will lose the affected areas. Anything else not mentioned will simply be transformed into an evil version of itself and be unable to harm Connor, while spreading the poison to all they touch. Anything Transformed will have the same durability as his release stat. If one has an offensive stat superiority, they will be immune to the poison, unless the poison has a two class superiority. Getting struck three times with the poison however, will negate this and infect them regardless. ]
Bankai Overall Ability: When entering bankai, the liquid on Kurutta Tamashī starts to fall. It falls to the ground in a thick inky, slimy substance, like a rotten ooze. It constantly does this, leaking from his blade like a broken faucet. The poison pools on the ground, unlike in shikai, and never fully dissolves. Constantly at Connor's feet, the liquid will constantly expand, increasing ten feet every post, until it hits one hundred feet. After a hundred feet, it doubles, going to twenty feet every post, with every hundred feet doubling the distance it travels. Initially, the poison moves at 300 speed, but every ten feet traveled increases the speed by 50.
The poison still affects the world just as it would in Shikai, but with a catch. Connor no longer sees the poisoned world he has created, seeing nothing but the norm. To everyone else, it is still as rotted an poisoned as it would be from this evil weapon. Any killed in this release will be chained to the release forever, finding themselves completely unable to pass onto the next life. Using this aspect will drain Connor of an extra 800 reiatsu for characters aside from Npc's.
Anything transformed will remain until Connor, even if Connor drops out of Bankai or dies. Those with a 2x offensive stat superiority will be immune to the poison. Getting struck three times with the poison however, will negate this and infect them regardless. Those turned have a durability of two times Connor's release stat, unless the poison has a two class superiority. Once his release ends, everything fades away until he returns to bankai once more. The max distance the poison can travel from a single point is a mile, but the distance can be increased as Connor moves.
Zanpakuto Techniques:
Shikai
[1. Collected Souls: This weapon is a collector of bodies, stealing and taking all that it touches, and using them for Connor, whether he wants it to or not. This power is quite the terrifying one for Connor. This is probably the only defensive ability in this blasted blade of his, though on the surface, it certainly does not seem to be that. Speaking of surfaces, the only one he can use this ability on, is himself, and it is quite painful. By activating this ability, something terrifying begins to happen. Connor starts to spawn a zombie.
Once activated, one or more of those he has slain begins to crawl out of his body, from a location of his choice. This starts slowly, taking its time to free itself from Connor, taking three posts to fully spawn from Connor. While it may look like it is coming directly from Connor, the truth is that Tamashī really likes to give a good performance, a show off if you would. When Tamashī, the blade, touches anything, the poison spreads in every direction. Including over Connor. Thankfully, Connor is immune, or he would die so very quickly.
Instead, the poison, with a little extra reiatsu put into it, starts to pool on Connor, since the poison refuses to absorb into him anyway. This makes a tiny pool for the bodies, the zombies, to start to be created from. Before they are fully transformed, fully created, Connor has full control of the body, sharing senses with it. These zombies are special. Not only can they be from any race that he has killed, but when they are reborn, they are made strong. Their physical stats are chosen depending on what Connor needs.
The souls have 500 in both of their physicals. They also share Connors sensory stats. This ability costs 200 reiatsu, and after zombie is fully spawned, it costs 100 reiatsu per post. Initial cost is multiplied by however many he chooses to create at once, max three. If Connor does not have at least a 1 in pain tolarance, he will not be able to fight while this tech is active. Can be used in both shikai and in bankai.]
Bankai
[1. The Return of Madness: This is quite the unusual ability for someone with a poison zanpakuto, but not unexpected for a blade that collects the bodies of its victims. By using this ability, those who have died or met their end from the poison will be brought back to fight again. Returning in their transformed state, they will begin their rampage once again, only this time, they will have more focus. Connor is able to control the zombies to a degree. He can force all things turned, to focus on a single opponent, or race to attack.
This starts to give life back to the dead, letting them walk about, creating slaves for Tamashī to have fun with, and to cause poor Connor more mental scarring. The minions are powerful, more so than one might expect. With high durability, his bankai, and physical stats equal to both his spiritual stats combined then split evenly between strength and speed, and
sharing Connor's sensory stats, these abominations are extremely hard to kill. They attack without care for defense, knowing that they live only to serve, not having the will to turn on the one that slew them. For each one summoned, it takes 500 reiatsu from Connor. They last for five posts, and can create only three per post.
2. Poisoned wave: This is Connor's only ranged attack in release. By charging his blade with a bit of reiatsu, some of the poison will gather on it. By flicking his blade or slashing, a large crescent wave will fly in whatever direction he attacks at. This blade will cut anything it touches, as well as spread more poison. The crescent flies at a speed of 800, and cuts with the force of his highest spiritual stat. Anything it makes contact with will have its infection accelerated by three posts. This will also turn weaker abilities into poison. Costs 150 reiatsu, and can also be used in shikai.
3. Closing Pandora's Box: Connor does not like his Zanpakuto. In fact, it is one of the few things he truly hates. It causes rampant destruction, leaving everything that get too close to him dead and dying. Tamashī likewise hates Connor. It considers its master to be weak willed and foolish for not embracing the gifts that it gives him. This ability it the pinnacle of their hatred for one another. With this, Connor reseals all of the evil that comes from his weapon, dragging all the poison and monsters to his blade instantly.
But Tamashī does not let this happen without a cost. In order for Connor to do this, he must wait seven posts from when he first poisons something, making sure Connor suffers for drawing them in the first place. In order for Connor to use this ability, he must sheath Tamashī. Once sheathed, Connor cannot redraw his zanpakuto for two posts. Using this ability also costs a quarter of his maximum reiatsu. Anything not fully transformed, or in the process of transforming, will be completely unharmed.]
Mask Appearance: [Connor never gets things easy, especially when it comes to his powers. In fact, this mask seemingly decided to go along with how his spirits act in the face of death: embrace it wholeheartedly. And the expression on the face of this thing certainly says that it does. This has the face of a skull, even comes with a hole for the nose. While the right half is a generic looking skull, the left half has enough personality to make up for its boring, right side counterpart, holding it in spades.
The left half if the face, the left eye socket is warped, twisted into what could be an oddly sympathetic look, as if trying to seem apologetic for what it intends on doing to you. The teeth are shifted to an inhuman degree as well, but to the opposite effect. Where the eye is at least TRYING to seem nice, the jaw decided to set the rows of blunted teeth in that of an ugly sneer, with all of them set... wrong, giving the mask a cartoonish feel to it. There is one other feature on the mask. A large, black hand print is smeared over the entire mask, with the thumb over his left temple.]
New Powers: [Zanpakuto Appearances
When sealed, this blasted blade is so nice to look at. It is in no way a standard zanpakuto, sad to say. Due to his less than normal levels of reiatsu, my sword has grown into a behemoth of a weapon. It casually reaches six feet tall, from tip to hilt, looking like a monster of a broadsword. It is nice to look at, only because it is the least ugly of its three forms. A thin thrusting blade, with maybe two feet of hilt, plenty of room for a good grip and hand maneuvering. It even has an actual hilt to it, even if the hilt would look more at home on a katana than a blade like this one.
When released, Tamashī is a two sided sword, unlike most weapons that other reapers wield, making it a broadsword, or possibility a claymore, similar to the ones that the knights of old used back when they still held relevancy. This sword is fitted to the size of Connor, making the weapon four feet, starting from the tip of the blade, to the end of the hilt. The blade is no shining star of hope that a white knight should posses. No, Tamashī is not nearly as pathetic as that. This wicked spirit is more suited to a black knight, cutting down all who anger him.
Whatever this blade is made of, it is certainly not iron. The sword is as black as ink with a liquid sheen to it. The blade is roughly four inches from one side to the other, gigantic compared to the elegant, sleek, compact weapon that is the katana. Instead, this is a hacking broadsword, that refused to be something that could blend in with the other shinigami weapons. This sword even lacks a standard guard like other swords. Instead, all this thing has is a ton of ivory spikes where the guard should be. The tip of the hilt even has a little spike at the end of a hilt with no cloth, or even any leather to give it grip.
The Bankai is where this weapon goes from Wicked, to Monstrous. At this point, it has given up on even trying to look normal, not that it was normal before, but at least it could be identified as a sword! The blade grows an additional two feet, becoming quite unwieldy compared to before. The sword has taken on a bone-like appearance, with both sides of the 'blade' being razor sharp, but terribly uneven.
The hilt has become completely bone, taking on the feeling and look of it. Above the two feet of hilt, is a large spine-like horn, curving downward, acting as a guard. Running down the middle of the blade part of the sword, are dozens, maybe even hundreds, of large bony teeth, making the weapon look the part of a ravenous beast of a blade.
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Tamashī is a weapon in the most literal sense. It will corrupt all things standing in its path. Be it friend or foe, it cares not. This is not something to train with, and not something that can be used carelessly by Connor. Tamashī is a poison as destructive as they come, consuming and twisting all those who are unfortunate enough to be touched by it. Tamashī creates a slimy black liquid that is all too eager to show exactly what it can do. Once this makes contact with something without spiritual capabilities, it start taking effect immediately.
The poison dissolves into its victims, seeping into them, and corrupting them to the bone. Once it has dissolved, it starts to warp and change them, turning everything to the nightmares Connor fears the most. The zanpakuto warps things, giving them new deranged properties. The concrete floors of the city can take the form of dried out humans, wailing out in anguish, trying to claim more for the foundation, while the earth takes on a darker, harder form, harder than most metals. Trees and plant life grow faces, angry at all creation, happily trying to infect the ones who cut them down for the most trivial of things. Animals gain a devilish appearance, and start to go rabid, attacking anything that has not yet been affected.
Buildings become nightmare fuel, taunting you as you waste away at a society you can never escape from, while their doors become portals to anywhere. People, normal people anyway, lose all sense of self, as they become something akin to a zombie, with their eyes shrunken, and their skin like tanned prunes. But, despite how everyone looks, the people are still the same on the inside. The living beings are still conscious for the entirety of this process, even as they lose control of themselves.
In spite of how quickly the poison spreads, the actual change is very slow, at least in comparison. The poison still acts like any other. If you have a resistance to poison, it changes you slower. With that in mind, the entire transformation takes two posts to fully complete for non-spiritual beings or objects. Anything without any remaining reiatsu will be changed instantly, regardless of resistances. If anything poisoned dies while under the effects of the poison, or are killed by the sword, will be changing instantly as well.
Spiritual beings are only slightly better off, depending on your perspective. Spiritual beings, thanks to the strength of their souls, can resist the effects of this. To a degree. The poison will still spread as fast as it does on anything else, but the change is slowed down exponentially. The process is painful, and only those with a two or more in pain resistance can fight without an issue during it. The transformation will begin from where the poison first touched you, and travel further each post. This takes ten posts to fully complete.
After four posts of a full transformation, or the transformed parts of you, vanish, as if you were never there, including the affected environment. Anything that vanishes like this is tied to Connor's zanpakuto indefinitely. Whenever Connor uses his release, whatever vanished due to the poison can reappear. Enemies can stall this poison by paying 200 per post. However, for every post that it is stalled, the cost is increased by 100, meaning by post five, the cost would be 700 reiatsu. By letting the poison progress, it resets the cost to stall it.
Repeated exposure to the poison cuts another post from the victim's remaining time till transformation. Those with a 3 in poison resist take twice as long to transform, while a 4 will be completely immune, save for being killed by the blade or one of the zombies. Knocking Connor out or killing him is the easiest way to cure yourself of the poison. If you want to cure it with regular healing, you need to have an ability with both higher healing than his offensive strength, or a tech two classes higher than his release. Beings created by the poison can only infect those they have a 50% stat superiority over, or 2 classes over.]
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Shikai Overall Ability:
Tamashī produces a thick, inky black liquid that coats his blade in a slick sheen, giving it a wet and nightmarish appearance. This liquid is a poison that instantly begins to coat whatever it touches, and whatever is touching that, and so on, trying to cover everything in its wake, traveling with high speed speeds, equal to 300. Once it touches something, it will latch onto the surface, dissolving into the object after a mere moment, often appearing as a thin black wave due to how fast is. This travels fifteen feet from where the blade first touched, traveling all surfaces connected to it.
At this stage, the properties aren't at that grand of a scale, but are still a terror to be subjected to. For every race, there is a different effect that applies to them. For the human race, the plain, vanilla, powerless human race, they probably have it the worst. Once the poison sinks into them, they are subject to intense pain, leaving them as writhing messes on the ground until they're completely transformed. Once fully transformed, they become what are essentially zombies. At this point, they will begin to attack anything moving in sight, save for Connor. These zombies have stats and durability equal to 100.
They will spread their pain and misery around, their very touch spreading the poison, before they vanish into Tamashī after the forth post after transformation. As stated earlier, Tamashī does not care who falls to its power, so naturally, Shinigami do not escape this horror. They too will be subject to inhuman pain, though they will be able to fight it off if they have a two in pain resistance. For them though, the end result is far different. Once transformed, they will become something resembling a decaying corpse. They retain their features, unlike the human masses, but they look pale and blue. Their clothes will be gone, and replaced with garbs befitting of the grim reaper, while keeping their weapons and zanpakuto.
They will have all their stats, but will start hunting down the weakest beings in their sights, save for their 'master'. Their blades will carry the same effects as Connor's. Hollows, something Connor will reluctantly draw his blade for, will change into specters, shadowy and translucent, looking truly ghost-like. Unlike nearly every other race, these will exclusively hunt down other hollows, spreading the poison only to them, ignoring all else, including the buildings. Rouges act as the shinigami do.
Beast Clans don't receive much when transformed, but it is still scary enough. They will become giant versions for whatever animal they take after. For example, a wolf beast clan would become a massive, twenty foot monster, attacking anything and everything that moved, with anything it touched spreading Connor's poison like a plague, and anything it killed changing as well. For fullbringers, they warp into mutant versions of themselves, barely recognizable to those that knew them prior. They can end up looking any number of ways, maybe purple skin, glowing green eyes, backwards heads, who knows. They, just like nearly every other race, will go on a rampage, however, the talents of fullbringers don't go to waste here.
The fullbringers will use their bringer powers to manipulate the souls in the air to create deadly purple gasses, as they continue their four post journey. Quincy receive a special treatment, being one of the races Connor likes the least. He considers them witches, and as such, their transformation is simply them being on fire, forcing them to endure the sensation of perpetually burning, with no chance for reprieve until they vanish into his zanpakuto. Bounts are leeches and vampires to Connor, so they start to grey and thin out. The rampage they go on will target the people with the highest sprp, and attempt to drain them with fangs they did not have previously.
Mod souls, basically being robots, become featureless chrome dolls, attacking the smallest people first, spreading their poison only through contact with metal. Arrancar will suffer the same fate as the hollow, as will vizard, attacking only hollows, or members of their own races. Failures will die the moment that the poison touches them. Any Hell race will be turned into laughing demons, standing twenty feet tall. They will attack those with evil souls first, carrying the same effects as Tamashī. Any ability weaker than the liquid, will be turned into poison and destroyed.
The earth itself is not free from Connor's weapon. Buildings will come to life, laughing and taunting anyone they can. Their doorways will send any who pass through them through any other doorway. Affecting whole building isn't generally something Connor accomplishes, but a transformation doesn't need to be complete to carry their effects. Motor vehicles become living monster versions of themselves, crashing into anything, mainly other vehicles, with a speed and strength of 300, with instinct and senses of 50.
The ground beneath them, and any that they kill, become subject to Tamashī's effects. Ground will become a sea of withered humans, grabbing at anyone unturned, trying to drag them down into the mass, while still acting as ground for Connor. Ground changed like this will become act as an extension of Tamashī, and will be unusable to anyone else's abilities, unless their power is stronger than his spiritual stat. The Strength and Speed of these zombies is 300.
Trees hiss and swipe at anyone close to them, with 200 speed and strength, and animals run after any and all uninfected, with speed, strength, instinct, and senses at 300. All beings with stats will retain them for the duration of transformation. A transformed being carries all the spreading effects of Tamashī, generating poison from their beings. The poison will spread fifteen feet from where the blade, or the zombies touch. Beings will not attack Connor, but will not obey him either. After the four posts of transformation is over, the transformed will be absorbed into Tamashī instantly, with their soul passing on as they should.
Those who managed to get away with a partial transformation will lose the affected areas. Anything else not mentioned will simply be transformed into an evil version of itself and be unable to harm Connor, while spreading the poison to all they touch. Anything Transformed will have the durability equal to his release stat. Those with an OS equal to 150% of Connor's OS will be immune to the poison, unless the poison has a two class superiority.]
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Bankai Overall
Bankai Overall Ability: When entering bankai, the liquid on Souruejji starts to fall. It falls to the ground in a thick inky, slimy substance, like a rotten ooze. It constantly does this, leaking from his blade like a broken faucet. The poison pools on the ground, unlike in shikai, and never fully dissolves. Constantly at Connor's feet, the liquid will constantly expand, increasing ten feet every post, until it hits one hundred feet. After a hundred feet, it doubles, going to twenty feet every post, with every hundred feet doubling the distance it travels. Initially, the poison moves at 300 speed, but every ten feet traveled increases the speed by 50.
The poison still affects the world just as it would in Shikai, but with a catch. Connor no longer sees the poisoned world he has created, seeing nothing but the norm. To everyone else, it is still as rotted an poisoned as it would be from this evil weapon. Any killed in this release will be chained to the release forever, finding themselves completely unable to pass onto the next life. Connor can release these souls at a cost. Using this aspect will drain Connor of an extra 100 reiatsu for characters aside from Npc's. Connor gains the ability to command his zombies to attack targets at this level.
Anything transformed will remain until Connor willingly recalls it. Not even if Connor drops out of Bankai or dies will it revert. Only those with a 2x offensive stat superiority will be immune to the poison. Getting struck three times with the poison however, will negate this and infect them regardless. All zombies have a durability of two times Connor's release stat. Once he willingly ends his release, everything fades away until he returns to bankai once more. The max distance the poison that Souruejji generates from its blade can travel is a mile, but the distance can be increased as Connor moves. The zombies themselves can are not forced to stay inside this area of effect.
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Techniques
1. Poisoned wave: This is Connor's only ranged attack in release. By charging his blade with a bit of reiatsu, some of the poison will gather on it. By flicking his blade or slashing, a large crescent wave will fly in whatever direction he attacks at. This blade will cut anything it touches, as well as spread more poison. The crescent flies at a speed of 800, and cuts with the force of his highest spiritual stat. Anything it makes contact with will have its infection accelerated by two posts. This will also turn weaker abilities into poison. Costs 150 reiatsu, and can be used in shikai or bankai.
[2. Collected Souls: This weapon is a collector of bodies and souls, stealing and taking all that it touches, and using them for its master, whether he wants it to or not. This power is quite the terrifying one for Connor. This is probably the only defensive ability in this blasted blade of his, though on the surface, it certainly does not seem to be that. By activating this ability, something terrifying begins to happen. Connor starts to spawn a zombie.
Once activated, one or more of those he has slain begins to crawl out of his body, from a location of his choice. This starts slowly, taking its time to free itself from Connor, taking three posts to fully spawn from Connor. While it may look like it is coming directly from Connor, the truth is that Tamashī really likes to give a good performance, a show off if you would. When Tamashī, the blade, touches anything, the poison spreads in every direction. Including over Connor. Thankfully, Connor is immune, or he would die so very quickly.
Instead, the poison, with a little extra reiatsu put into it, starts to pool on Connor, since the poison refuses to absorb into him anyway. This makes a tiny pool for the bodies, the zombies, to start to be created from. Before they are fully transformed and unleashed, Connor has full control of the body, sharing senses with it. After being fully summoned, these zombies will obey his every command. These zombies are special. Not only can they be from any race that he has killed, but when they are reborn, they are made strong.
The souls have 500 in both of their physicals, and 1,000 durability. They also share Connors sensory stats. This ability costs 200 reiatsu per post, until fully spawned. After the zombie is fully spawned, it lasts four posts. Initial cost is multiplied by however many he chooses to create at once, max three in Shikai, five in Bankai. If Connor does not have at least a 1 in pain tolarance, he will not be able to fight while this tech is active. Can be used in both shikai and in bankai. In Bankai, these zombies gain an additional 200 physical stats and durability. In addition, they can be generated from anywhere in his poison, or that his poison has touched.]
Bankai Techniques
1. Monolith to Madness: Connor causes a lot of destruction when he uses his release. Roads, buildings, forests, you name it, and he has very likely destroyed it. This ability allows him to summon those things he has destroyed. Anywhere his poison is touching or affecting, Connor can summon any 'thing' his release has destroyed, the post after he first activates this ability. This includes buildings, trees, vehicles, to even roads. These structures act as super spreaders of his poison, dumping gallons of it into the environment around themselves. Much like his Bankai, the poison lingers along the surface of the ground, like a thick muck. It naturally affects everything it touches, but touching this poison adds two stacks of poison to the counter.
Every post that these structures are left standing, the area of effect they have increases. The poison they generate will spread five feet every post, with that number doubling every hundred feet that they reach. This poison moves at a speed of 300. These structures also generate zombies, much like his actual weapon. These zombies have stats equal to a quarter of his highest spiritual stat, with a durability equal to half his release stat. These zombies attack either anyone marked with his poison, or the strongest beings in the area, naturally not attacking Connor, if left without command. These zombies are tied more to the structure, and will all die should all Monoliths Connor has created fall, but otherwise will ignore the four post limit.
Every post, the Monolith first created will summon one zombie for every foot the poison that every currently active Monolith has traveled. Meaning that, if Monolith one has had poison travel ten feet, while Monolith two has had poison travel five feet, then that would be fifteen zombies created. If a Monolith that is summoning zombies is destroyed, the next oldest one will being to spawn them in its stead. The Monoliths are a very hardy ability, and have a durability equal to twice that of Connor's release stat, but can be damaged by any ability. The Monoliths can be summoned at a cost of 600 reiatsu with a 300 per post cost for each, and only one can be created per post. When they are created, they shoot up from the point of contact with a speed of 800, and with a force equal to his release stat.
2. Poison Tsunami: An evolution of Poisoned Wave, Connor now wields the ability to throw around all the poison that Souruejji has generated. With a wave of his blade, the poison lying on the ground rises into the air half as far as the poison has spread, and rushes across the ground in a massive wave of poison. The wave is as wide as the poison has spread, and moves at a speed of 800. The poison that the Monolith to Madness spreads increases the height and width of this ability in equal amounts. This ability stops once it reaches the maximum distance the poison can be spread. This ability can only be used every other post. This ability inflicts two stacks of poison, and crushes anything and everything with a force equal to Connor's highest Spiritual Stat, except Connor, or anything his zanpakuto has created. Cost 300.
What kind of update: [Ciu]
Threads and Reasons for Change: [Honestly, when I first made Connor's powers, I messed up his bankai abilities, making Return of Madness simply a worse version of Collected Souls. I also had Poisoned Wave as a Bankai technique that could be used in Shikai. And Closing Pandora's Box is purely a detriment to have and use. It offered no bonus to have, and actively hurt Connor. Now that I achieved bankai, I wanted to fix up a lot of the errors that I made when making Connor's zanpakuto.]
