Dain Sinclair [Squad 4, Vizard Hopeful]

[Dain Sinclair]

-Opening-

Discord: Batamo Del
Password 1: Black Hole
Password 2: Moon Pray
Type: Medic
Squad: 4
Rank: 1 (Academy Student)

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-Basic Information-

Name: Dain Sinclair
Sex: Male
Age of Death: 35
Real Age/Age of Appearance: 105/35
Birthday (Month/Day): 14/02/1916
Blood Type: Rh-Negative
RP Sample:

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{RP Sample}
It was rather late when Dain finally breathed out in relief and removed his hand from wet leg. A few drops of blood still stuck to his hand, but upon examination it seemed that the wound had been closed properly. Looking around he confirmed what he already knew; this was finally the last patient. Dain sighed again in relief as he wiped his brow, trying to remove sweat and instead smeared blood all across it. He barely noticed it, fatigue kicking in after a very long and stressful day.

He did not know all the details, but apparently a major kerfluffle had been going on in the outskirts of the rukongai. Ever since then they had been bringing in wounded shinigami like a red tidal wave. The most experienced medics were sent to the front to administer the emergency treatment. What was mostly left here were the students, under the command of a few experienced officer. The entire day he had been running around, trying to help as much patients as he could. He had to use his stamina pill and they even resorted to more traditional treatment for the less injured shinigami. It was an absolute mess, but thankfully it seemed to be over now. About an hour ago they received news a captain finally arrived and had ended the battle. Since then the wounded stopped flooding, became a trickle and finally stopped coming in at all.

Having kept moving on nerves, coffee and adrenaline, suddenly he felt as if the world grinded to a halt. As if he was walking into a wall. His legs suddenly began to tremble and the world swayed around him. He vaguely felt himself wobbling a it as the world seemed to fade out, when suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder, helping him steady himself. “Ah… t-thank yo-ou” He managed to bring out with a tired, broken voice.

He barely noticed how a pair of hands moved in under his arm and started guiding him out of the room. He vaguely remember someone saying something to him, but it simply didn’t register anymore.

How long he had slept he really couldn’t tell. The first think he noticed was the fact that he was very thirsty. Followed by a sharp pain and his tired muscles screamed out in protest when he tried to sit up and look around for the nearest source of drinkable fluids. For a moment the pain was worse then his thirst and with a groan he slumped back into the bed. He closed his eyes a moment and the next thing he knew was something cold and smooth being pressed between his dried out lips. At first he tried to move his head backwards to get away from it. He wondered why his eyes would not properly open, but the next moment it did not matter anymore as cold delicious water rushed against his lips. Instinctively he opened his mouth and greedily drank all the water pouring his mouth. Satisfied he sighed and relaxed.

When he woke up again he was feeling a bit better and he somehow managed to sit up straight in his bed. “So you are finally awake, you big idiot?” A stern voice came from behind him. It sounded both worried and very angry at the same time, though Dain could not remember what could cause that. “Eh.. What makes you say that miss Kundig?” He as carefully, having recognized the voice as his class representative. With some effort he managed to turn around, but she had already moved off. “Just never do it again or I will personally make sure you won’t.” An angry voice replied, seemingly moving away from him, leaving him behind in utter confusion.

He was still contemplating what got her feathers so ruffled, when an elderly man came to his rescue. From the emblem he recognized the man as a seated officer of the fourth division. “Ah I see you are finally awake. Don’t worry about miss Kundig. She was just worried about you as she was in charge of the students for the first time and she felt very responsible.” He said with a kind voice as he pointed at Dain, which began beeping softly. “Okay that is starting to look better. It seems most of the residual effects are fading and your core values are returning to normal. A few more days and I guess we can return you to the academy.” The man said with a friendly, seemingly satisfied with whatever the device was displaying.

Dain was just about to ask, when suddenly the man gave him a karate chop to the top of his head, instantly sending waves of pain all across Dain’s body. “Next time don’t be so stupid as to take multiple stamina pills, mister Sinclair. If we had figured it out any later, it might have left you crippled… permanently.” The doctor said, waiting seconds to place extra emphasis on that last word.

It was like trudging through a bag of quicksand though. Dain’s thoughts were still slow and foggy, but slowly things started to come back to him. About the night and the eternal flood of patients. He could not remember the pills, but that did not mean it was not true.

When he opened his eyes to finally reply to the doctor though the man was gone and apparently it was now night time. He vaguely remembered sleeping a lot being a side effect of the stamina pills. There was a page of a textbook swirling in his mind. Something about the pills forcibly draining the energy from the bodies tissue. The drawback was that the body needed those to function. So as a trade-off you needed lots of rest. Or something. He could not exactly remember it. He had only barely begun his training at the academy and had briefly skimmed through the pages of the fourth division manual.

Eh… well guess I am alone now. He thought to himself as he sat up and looked around. Now that he was thinking a bit more clearly it, he recognized the room as one of the recovery rooms near the fourth division main building. With a bit of effort he managed to swing his legs out of bed and stumbled to the sink. The cold water quenched his teeth and helped wake him up a bit more. Droplets of water were still falling from his face, gently falling into the sink, as he heard noises coming from the distance. It sounded like someone or several people were in pain. His first instinct was to go out to help.

The tall shinigami stopped himself though. First of all he was naked and he could not spot any of his clothes. Since they were drenched in blood they probably had been send to the cleaners, he reasoned. Secondly he still felt tired and none of his kido reserves had returned. He still felt more empty then he had in a long time. If he went to help, all he probably would do was be in the way. It might be better to stay here. Also there was the distinguished notion he would probably be punished for this. He had only been a part of this organization a short while, but he doubted they would react better to substance abuse then the us marine corps would. So it would be prudent to stay here, otherwise he would probably only make his problems worse.

“Okay… now what?” He asked himself as he dried of his face with a nearby towel. His body was dead tired, but he did not feel like he could easily go back to sleep. There was nothing to read, nor did he feel capable of even a few push or sit-ups, so exercises was out of the question. “Hmm I guess I could try that meditation stuff…” He said softly to himself, his voice trailing away as the idea struck ground and began to settle.

Since he had joined the SS, he had heard vague rumors about something about a spirit housing deep within a shinigami. Something that could help or something something. So far he had disregarded it, being completely overwhelmed till now… but perhaps it was something he could do now. ‘So how does one meditate? Legs something like this, hands in a funny pose… and then clear out my mind? Let’s see. Spirit, spirit, spirit. Come out wherever you are!’

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-Appearance-

Height/Weight: 6’3”/216 LBS
Eye Color: Deep blue with white slivers.
Hair Color: Snow white.
Hair Style: Military buzz cut.
Scars: Yes
Tattoos: Yes
Recognizable Trademarks:
- Tattoos
- Scars
- Cigarette in the corner of his mouth
- Military buzz cut
- Sunglasses
- White cloth armband, worn on his left upper arm, with a red cross. (As a regular shinigami and a captain)
- Big red cross on the back of his outfit. (Once captain)
Physical Description:

Dain is the prime example a us. When he joined the US marines at a young age he passed the physical with flying colors. His core build is tall and muscular, albeit much more into the athlete than fighter sense. He has very outspoken -never bulging- arm and legs muscles, accompanied by six-pack abs. When he is relaxing or with friends, he has a tendency to slouch a bit, making him seem a bit shorter and less sportive then he really is. However when he is on the job and in uniform he stands tall and firm, trying to appear bigger then life.

In his deep blue eyes you can see pale white slivers that almost seem to move around as he looks at you. The white matches it snow white hair that he keeps it rigorously 0.5 inches tall. This matches perfectly with his white beard, which he also keeps at the same length, allowing him to shave efficiently everyday. Aside from some arm and leg hair, the rest of his body is immaculate. Whether that is natural or through a regiment of ferocious waxing, he never discloses. Due to having worked mostly in the field his normally pinkish skin has turned a semi permanent deep tan, which it somehow retained when he died.

During his life, both in the real world and the rukongai, his body received several permanent marks. He is quite proud of both his tattoos and scars, wearing them with pride. He believes they are an integral part of him and mark his experiences and growth. On his entire back he is sporting a massive, detailed tattoo of a white tiger standing on it’s hind legs in middle of a forest oasis. On his left arm, from his shoulder down to his hand, he shows a very bright and vivid picture of his birth town. Off course this is very much romanticized and paints it as a paradise/safe haven. -Which it is in his mind-. On his right shoulder he sports three simper words written with thick black letters. The first is Fortitudine and below it the words Semper Fidelis. All three tattoos he received while he was alive, yet while dead he got them touched up several times. This allowed them to retained their sparkling colors and details, but also cover up new blemishes from wounds. At the time he is considering a fourth tattoo on his chest, to mark his affiliation with the shinigami. He is still waiting for inspiration to strike though.

Aside from the tattoos his body is riddled with scars. Ranging from small ones on his hand he got when he tried to bath his Maine Coon cat, named Flody, back when he was alive, to a large scar across his entire chest he received in district 73. Most are barely noticeable though and not that impressive. He never brags about them or tries to hide them. His appendectomy means as much to him as the scar that nearly blinded him. (Well the sword strike, not the scar threatened to blind him). However there are five marks of battle that have a distinct affect on his appearance.

First and foremost is a scar across his right eye. It was caused by a shrapnel fragment that somehow did not kill him. It was miraculously deflected slightly by his eye socket and continued down wards to bury itself in his cheek. Dain was lucky it did not impede his vision, however it did seriously chip/damage the bone, making it very fragile. A well aimed blow can easily shatter his eye-socket. It is one of the reasons he tends to wear reinforced sun glasses in battle. He has considered getting the wound fixed, but somehow it feels wrong to fix it, as it feels as if it is as much a part of him as are his digits.

The next scar runs all across chest, from his right abdomen all the way to his left shoulder. It happened as he tried to explain to a someone it was rude to point swords at him. Turns out the pointing was far less rude then the swing that followed. The wound had been deep enough to expose his guts and without the help of some shinigami, it would have certainly meant his end. The third mark is a group of nine centimeter big scars all tightly grouped on his back, roughly across his right lung. Though not visible clearly due to his tattoo -he had it touched up in soul society-, you can still feel the marks of the bullets that ended his life prematurely.

The fourth mark is simply a dimple in the front of his leg, where he broke it. This happened very early in his life and due to his poor upbringing he did not receive the proper care, causing the bones to heal up badly. Later a kind hearted doctor broke the bones again and allowed them to heal properly, but the dimple remains visible. Oh and he also misses his right pinky.

When he is on duty he wears the standard fourth squad clothing. While on duty he is a stickler for regulations and keeps his outfit always in tip top shape. The normal black shihakusho, white shitagi, black kosode, black hakama, white tabi and traditional waraji. On his arm he wears a sleeve with the number for and the division symbol to identify himself as a medic. The belt he uses belt he uses to tie his rope is actually a cleverly crafted pouch, storing some of the smaller medicines. For example the anesthetic shinten and the stamina restoration pills. He also wears a white armband on his left upper arm with a big red cross on it. While working he also wears a pair of black, reinforced sunglass that protect his vulnerable eye socket. Not only are the frames padded, the glasses are maid of a high tech poly carbonated material and almost unbreakable. To prevent them from falling off he can connect the legs of the classes with a reiatsu bond&lock behind his head.

Once he is off duty he often changes into something a bit more casual. In general he tends to prefer a bit darker tones. His general relaxing outfit would probably be sneakers, shorts and some sort of ‘cool’ t-shirt. Since he spends most of is time outside he always carries stylish blue sunglasses with silver carbon legs. The range of t-shirts is impressive and he really enjoys going through thrift stores looking for new cool t-shirts. His range of pants on the other hand is mostly limited to dark blue and black jeans. Luckily his collection of shorts is a bit more varied and comes in all materials, forms and colors.

If he is doing something a bit more serious like a gathering or a date, he tends to go a bit more British. Stylish loafers, long beige pants, sweater and trendy vest, along with a fashionable hat. He does enjoy the British style if he is honest. He just wish it was more comfortable to wear and since he prefers his comfort over style, he tends to avoid occasions where he has to dress up.

You can also find him regularly going through soul society jogging. As someone who loves sports, including sparring, he has a large collection of clothing available. He prefers though a set of black tight shorts, covered by a shorts to his knees. If the weather allows it he prefers to wear sleeveless skin tight shirts, allowing himself to cool as much as possible with running. In winter or cold times he wears a nice thick training jacket. He never wears long pants though while sporting, no matter how cold. He feels long pants hamper his movement freedom.

[Dain Sinclair]

-Personality-

Overall Personality:
In general Dain Sinclair is a friendly and kind person. He is no saint and he has plenty of flaws that can annoy the people around him. At his core though Dain is a simple man, happy with his life. He is friendly and social, tending to help were he can and a hard worker. The shinigami takes his job very serious and takes the military command structure very seriously. 1,5 decade of us marine training and discipline have completely paved over his natural instincts. If he is ordered to walk with a platoon through a ravine he will. He believes regulations are there for a reason and should be adhered.

His main passion will always be medicine and healing people. (Albeit not limited to people. He also enjoys healing a cat for example.) He is not a fighter at heart, but he can always be found in the thick of the fighting, trying to shield and heal the fallen. He has little regard for his own life and health when it comes to the health of others.

That doesn’t mean he is a good soldier though. Perhaps he will obey the order, but if he is absent to receive the order it is not his fault. Maybe that is why he is often missing during briefings and meetings, suddenly finding himself on very long walks through the outer Rukongai. Or pretending to be asleep as the lecture was given. Another tactic to give himself a bit more freedom is simply to ‘hide’ in the medical wards of the fourth division. Can’t give a medic at work boring tasks after all.

He is not lazy by definition though. Dain lives his life -or dies his death… he is not quite sure about that particular phrase yet- on one philosophy: to always try to be better then he was the day before and always keep improving. It does not really matter how he improves, practicing old skills, improving his physique or condition or learning new skills. It is the mindset that matters and allows him to be happy with his life as it is quite satisfactory to keep improving. The fact that he enjoys being active does help a lot. He really enjoys physical work-outs and a good sparring. Although since he joined the academy he has shown an increasing interest in kidou and magic as well.

His philosophy does help him be a good person, simply by trying to be a better human than the day before. Although he does serious limit this to only his circle of influence, which is roughly what he can see at any given time. He will intervene if some is bullied or help someone up if they fall. However he will not actively go out to end all racism by himself for example, which is where he would eventually end up if he took his own philosophy too literal.

He is a person full of contradictions. Dain truly hates gambling and casino’s especially. However if you even mention the word poker he will almost beg you to be allowed to join. He hates spiders in the wild, yet a beautiful spider behind 3 inches or armored glass in a pet shot can be a beautiful thing. He claims to dislike stupidity, but sometimes tend to be the biggest idiot around, sporting a goofy smile.

Or perhaps it is his just his general tendency to dissemble everything that is known about him. He hates the idea that people could get to know what he is truly about. Maybe that stems from his deep feeling that he is not honest about himself. Perhaps he does not want to admit to himself that he actually enjoyed the combat during his fighting years as much if not more then the healing part. It is possible that his tendency to dissemble everything, is because he is dissembling his own feelings. Then again him being a dissembler, might be a big fat lie. That is the problem with talking to him.

It might be a good idea to judge him on his actions rather then his words. For example the gentle smile on his face as he helps a kid, or the fact that he is always the first on the floor when it comes to patients. He might claim he was simply around buying cigarettes, but it is more likely he raced there as fast as he could. When nobody is looking you might find him plucking flowers to put in a vase on his table.

He does like to relax though. His favorite hobbies are reading and relaxing in his garden, preferably at the same time. On the other hand he does love to spar. It is his favorite way of working out. The stronger he gets though the more he focuses on the aesthetic part of the fighting. The simple art of hand to hand combat is very appealing to him, even if he is not very good at it. Most of the time he returns home with a bloody nose, 2 black eyes and peppered in bruises. It is simply lucky that he can heal most of them away before going to work the next day.

In conclusion he is in general just a nice guy, who is happy with where he is. He has plenty of flaws, quirks and oddities, but in general he never stands out. He does his duty and he tries to do it the best he can, but he will never be the guy volunteering for extra duty. If you ever need his help though, he generally does help those who ask him. Just don’t expect him to look for people he can help. His ideal free time is either spend walking, sitting in the garden reading or hanging out with friends. Trying to save lost souls and the planet is not his idea of a good time. Sounds too much like chores/work to him.

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{Dislikes:}

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He doesn’t mind regular stupidity, like people making a fool of themselves on the dance floor or making mistakes. However he won’t stand for stupidity in military matters. If you think it is a good idea to light a cigarette near the explosives storage chambers, he will eventually be coming for you. Bracketing stupidity with “sir” will not earn you any points you’ll live to spend is one of his favorite quotes.

- Guns:
He dislikes most ranged weapons, as he deems them the weapons of cowards. An ironic notion for a soldier who has seen active combat, but he believes that it is honorable to watch the person you are fighting in the eyes. Plus he was killed by being shot on the back, so that didn’t help. Still there is all kinds of variations and he would not dislike an native indian with a bow. Nor the man with a sniper and the skill to make that impossible kill shot over a distance of 3km against a turning wind. No he dislikes the ranged weapon in the hands of the unskilled, allowing the sk you do in two hundred years of evolution is learn how to look like a tree and how to be turned into a handbag, illed to be killed by drugged up teens with a lucky shot.

- Crocodiles:
Having trudged through the swamps of Louisiana on search and rescue missions, he has grown a certain dislike for alligators/crocodiles. If allDain feels it should not be allowed to exist. And especially it should not exist to sneak up on a fellow marine he had been courting all day.

- Kissing Up:
One of the pet peeves Dain has is kissing up. Regardless of whether it has been done to him or to someone else, he simply dislikes any person who feels the need to resort to such measures to gain a promotion. He believes that if anything should happen, it should happen for the right reasons. Plus he hates trying to play the psychological warfare game called socializing. He just sucks at it. That is why he naturally tends to surround himself by rather simple and straight forward people.

- The color magenta:
No real reason, except maybe it was the favorite color of one of his ex-girfriends who tended to surround herself with it. ‘Nuff said!

- Gambling:
He dislikes and disapproves of gambling. Only the games that are purely chance, like roulette, slots and to an extend 21/31. Unlike poker and other card games, he simply does not understand the concept of betting money on the roll of a dice. It is a stupid idea and he can not approve of it. He might be okay with gambling if it doesn’t involve money or valuable commodities (likes ones life or fortune). He might be willing to join a gambling game it if involved innocent sweets for example.

- Sweet Tastes:
He does not really enjoy anything that is sweet. From pure chocolate to sugar in his tea, he simply is not a fan of sweets. Preferring the hearty snacks in general. The one exception being alcoholic beverages. From time to time he does enjoy a good bottle of raspberry schnapps.

- Pranks:
With his physique and training he luckily never was the target of man pranks. Still he dislikes the general idea of a prank to such an idea he will actively go out of his way to stop a prank from happening if he sees it happening. He once followed a group of soldiers into Mexico that he randomly overheard as they were leaving the base, planning to pull a prank on one of their friends involving tequila and a male stripper. Just not something he appreciates. Though he can differentiate between a prank and a good joke. However the first of april is still one of his most dreaded days of the year.

- Commercial Holidays:
Oh Dain loves gathering the family for Christmas and the party of Halloween. He believes valentines day is a beautiful sentiment. He just hates how commercialized it all became. You can literally see him standing a supermarket in Septemer, grinding his teeth at the sight of the first Christmas products. Or eastern product in January.

- Bread:
For some reason he does not understand himself, he really does not like bread in any form. Dain often wondered whether it is perhaps due to some incident or trauma, but for the love of god he can’t remember it. He just knows he does not even like to look at bread and often instinctively avoid bakeries.

- Proclaimed Saints:
Dain dislikes those who try to be saints. In his experience it is often a phony act, more often then not the product of a conman. And when not, he believes those who live their lives trying to be good to such an extend often are either very fragile or are trying desperately to to hide an ugly part of their soul. The holier the worse the hidden part. Now off course this does not mean he hates saints. There are plenty of examples of people deemed a saint after death. He just dislikes those people who are actively trying to be a saint.

- Reckless People/Behavior:
If not for the reason that it often endangers others, possible even innocent bystanders, then just for the simple reason he always tends to end up healing those people.

- Milk in tea/Coffee:
Something Dain truly does not like. A pet peeve, hinging closely towards hatred. He just can’t stand the idea of sullying a perfectly good drink with milk. If you don’t like the drink, then simply don’t drink it. You Bastards! This is not limited to just milk though. Honey, sugar and all other things people sacrilegiously dump into their drink is a no go for him. If he sees someone else do it, he has to control himself not to stop that person.

- VI/AI:
He has seen enough movies to have a slight phobia about this phenomenon called VI and AI, especially something called singularity. Of course he is smart (and now old enough) to think about it more clearly, diffusing the phobia to a mere dislike. He still feels uneasy on the subject though and does his best to avoid it.

- His family:
Dain did not grow up in a loving family and he escaped into the us marine corps at the earliest opportunity. He does not hate them or has a desire to cause them harm. However he did dislike them enough to ignore 17 consecutive invitations to come home for Christmas without even feeling guilty for a moment.

- Cooking:
Albeit he is proficient in it and can pull off some smaller recipe’s, Dain just never got to like cooking. He always just wondered why he would spend an hour in the kitchen if he can warm up or order a pre-made meal in a fraction of the time. Plus he really does not like making a mess of a the kitchen as he is the one that needs to clean it up.

- Punctuality:
Not so much that he hates or dislikes it, he is just terrible with it. To the point where you either find him asleep at the location of the meeting or you know he will show up annoyingly late. If he shows up at all.[/ul][/spoiler]

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{Likes:}

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It is his preferred form of humor and as a practices dissembler of information, he used it a lot. The more grim , dire and inappropriate a situation is, the more his sense of humor becomes. He does have a tendency to tell people who lost a leg to walk it off or hop to it. And yes, he has been told often he should probably be shot purely for his bad sense of humor.

- Ancient Swords:
Dain is a fervent collector of ancient swords. It is a hobby started in the far east, as he took home a scimitar after a particularly trying mission. Ever since then he has been actively collecting swords, even continuing the hobby in soul society. Though he always has had a strict policy of only buying or trading the swords. He would never sully a good sword by killing it’s owner for it.

- Training:
Perhaps part of his upbringing, but he really likes to train. Not just fighting or healing techniques, but general training just as much. He enjoys going for a long run, just clearing his mind as he listens to music while the miles glide away under his feat. Nothing so sweet as his muscles burning during a rigorous work-out. He just likes pushing his body to it’s limit’s and enjoys the sweet release of endorphins.

- Alcohol:
Though never at risk of his performance or duty, he does love alcohol. The fruit taste of sake, the bitter taste of a beer, the deep roar of a sip of an Irish Whiskey… those are the temptations in life he allows himself to enjoy. Not a day goes by he does not drink, but never excessive. Never to the point he loses control or his inhibitions. He has been drunk exactly four times in his life (and death) and that was more then enough. Of course having eighty years of daily drinking experience helped him build up quite a resistance to the effects of alcohol.

- Cats:
Perhaps not the first thing people think when they see the 6’5”, 200+ LBS soldier, but Dain is a true cat person. If he sees one he can never resist trying to approach it and scratch it behinds it’s ears. He can often been seen squatting in the streets, making funny noises to lure a cat towards him.

- Traditional Medicines:
Perhaps not logical for someone who can use magic to heal people, but he as a definite interest in traditional medicine. Ranging from how medicines are made, to how to extract poison from venomous animals and surgical procedures. When he has some free time he can often be found sitting in his garden in the sun, sipping from a nice glass of white wine, reading the latest medical journals. It is more hobby then a dedicated passion though.

- Females:
Dain tends to prefer female friends. Not because of any romantics or anything. He simply has experienced that woman tend to be a bit more balanced and gentle in their behavior. Albeit there are plenty of exceptions and provisions with that statement, he does prefer the lack of testosterone. That does not mean his best friends are all female. On the contrary. Yet for casual friendship and interactions he does seem to prefer females.

- Sparring:
Perhaps a bit strange for a medic, but he does sparring with a friend. Matching wits, exchanging blows, measuring himself against others. For him it is just like training and as long as it remains friendly, he enjoys himself. He just likes to think it also adds a bit of controversy and mystery around him.

- Tea:
The shinigami does like a good cup of tea. Especially a brilliant cup of Yorkshire tea gold, like a good Brit. Except that he is not British, but when it comes to tea he could be mistaken to one. Complete with the uplift of the pinky when drinking it. That is why he always drinks tea with his left hand.

- Sun/Warm weather:
Though he is not one to complain quickly, Dain always had been an easily chilly person. Though he endures the cold with a smile on his face, he is only truly happy when it is nice and warm outside and he can melt away in the sun.

- Tabletop games:
Huge fan of tabletop games. Of course when he was born they were not out yet, so it was something he picked up in the rukongai. There was something pure about it though. Assembling and painting all the pieces and parts is almost spiritualistic and he just loves it. Then taking them out and matching his own ‘army’ and wits against a friend is just a lot of fun.

- Music:
Dain is real music lover and he cares greatly about the quality of sound. When he was alive everything in his apartment was probably worth a few thousand dollars. He did however have an 8000 dollar anitique turntable, a 15000 dollar bose sound system and a few thousand dollars in records. He is nowhere near that far in the SS yet, but you can always find him listening to music. Usually there is a small ear bud in is left ear, even during briefings. When he is alone and relaxing, you can find him with a stylish headphone, blasting eighties and nineties rock and roll into his brain.

- Long Walks:
He has a tendency to go on extremely long walks. Especially when he knows he has a briefing or meeting in the future. Then suddenly he finds himself full of energy and walking around the rukongai. Or better in the real world, without telling anyone where he went.[/ul][/spoiler]

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{Loves:}

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He believes there is nothing as beautiful as nature. Especially a nice tropical forest after the rain, the sound of a waterfall, crickets in a field of grass. Nothing is as tranquil and peaceful as nature itself and he always wished he had more time to emerge himself fully into it. Now that he is a Shinigami he is slowly working of his list of places on Earth he wants to visit. He still has more then seven hundred locations to go and he keeps adding new ones he keeps hearing about. So to his own relief it does not look like he will finish it any time soon.

- Coffee:
Dain likes tea, but he absolutely loves coffee. It is the blood of life and since he is already dead he no longer has to worry about it being bad for him.

- Sauna/Hot Spring:
Nothing nicer then going into a warm hot-spring or sauna with a nice cold beverage in hand after a long hard day at work. Just feel how the heat melts away the tension in your muscles and all the stress leaves your body through transpiring. Especially during a nice full moon, it gives it an even more magical feeling. One of the most magical things though is a hot spring during a blizzard. In his opinion it is one of the most beautiful and relaxing things he has ever experienced. -Off course he does absolutely refuse to leave the hot spring voluntarily till spring arrives.-

- Poker:
He just loves playing poker. It started as a marine, weekly playing away his monthly allowance. In all fairness there was nothing much else to do in the trenches. Weeks of boredom interrupted by some very loud disturbances made for good poker games. Even in death he still loves a good poker game. He just loves sitting down with a group of friends, chatting about life, drinking a few drinks. Though he never plays for real money or high stakes. Then it becomes too much like gambling, which he despises. He really just likes the game and hanging out with friends.

- Reading:
The tall shinigami absolutely loves to read. If possible somewhere nice in the garden, in the sun, with a cold beer within reach. His preferred genre’s are fiction and fantasy, though he can also often been seen war history and occasionally a manga. The one thing he absolutely does not read though is everything to do with poetry.

- Life:
Well his life in this general sense. Dain is thoroughly happy with his life, the way it is going and everything. Even if it wasn’t, not sense in feeling unhappy about it. He figures if he wants a change he should probably change it, rather then feel unhappy about it. Considering he is ageless, he can take his time and change the things he wants as they come. At the moment though he thoroughly loves his life.[/ul][/spoiler]

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{Hates:}

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It is a completely unreasonable hatred, but Dain just can’t stand the thought that Lions are proclaimed the king of the jungle/cats, as opposed to his beloved tigers. He would never hurt a lion, but if in a zoo, he would not even grant the animals a dismal glance!

- Bureaucracy:
Now Dain is someone who likes to follow protocol and rules, as long as they make sense. However Bureaucracy is simply evil. It is stupid, evil and extremely dangerous to society and even worse, hard to pin on a single bureaucracy. The tall shinigami is fairly easy going, however don’t get any bureaucracy on him. Then he is done with you.

- Casino’s:
He hates the idea of casino’s. They are something man created simply to lure in the stupid and take their money. The idea is despicable and he won’t stand for it. Even if he will admit that they are fun to be in and that gambling can be fun. The idea that someone build such a large building simply to rip people off is simply evil. If it was up to him he would take every able bodied shinigami and blow them all to kingdom come. From the big casino’s in Vegas to the illegal backrooms in china town.

- Carbonated/energy drinks:
As a fervent believer in tea and coffee he does not approve of all the new sweet, carbonated drinks the youth are drinking. Especially the new variations of energy drinks he simply cannot condone as a medic. Plus he really dislikes how ridiculously sweet those drinks are. Now he recently discovered a new prune/pickle juice, now that is a proper drink!

- Animal cruelty:
He simply can’t stand animal cruelty. He accepts that he can’t stop it, so he won’t go out to find it. But if it happens in front of him he will intervene. There is a rule of thump though

- Cleaning:
Dain really does hate cleaning from the bottom of his heart/soul. Eighteen years of military service paved over his instinct though and he does it regularly, however it is always accompanied by lots of growling and cursing.

- Politics:
Just the general idea of politics disturb Dain deeply. He absolutely does not want anything to do with it and would rather run, then discuss even his opinions on the subject.[/ul][/spoiler]

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{Flaws:}

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Tends to sweat easily and excessively when doing sports. Helps him cool down, but does not look too great.

- Blood type Rh-Negative:
Since it is so rare, if he ever needs a blood transfusion he is screwed. So far aside from here there are only a handful of living people with the blood type. Hence he donates every 14 days blood, storing it for himself. However if he gets really hurt away from the fourth division, he could be in trouble.

- Smoking:
Dain is absolutely addicted to smoking. Ever since he accepted that first cigarette on some far away eastern battlefield he has been addicted to smoking. He does enjoy a good pipe and cigar, but the addiction to cigarettes is overwhelming. Doubtful he can go eights hours without before withdrawal symptoms set in. Also tends to be quickly out of breath and really doesn’t like stairs.

- Partially Colorblind:
It is something he does not tell anyone, but he is partially colorblind. Luckily it is limited and unless people tend to ask, he does not actively notice that he is missing something. Luckily he can see all the primary colors and such. Just don’t ask him to differentiate in all the different colors of green for example.

- Terrible Liar:
He would like to be able to lie, sadly he can’t. A small white lie he might get away with perhaps a little excessive blinking or a slightly raised eyebrow. If asked directly though a lie would result in the full arsenal from blushing, head down, eyes twitching, etc. Etc. It goes without question that he is always a gladly seen guest in any poker game.

- Colored teeth:
Despite regularly going for teeth cleansings and whitenings, it just can’t keep up with his smoking regime. No matter what he does, his teeth always seems to be a bit more yellowish then they should be.[/ul]
- Mental Flaws:

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A problem Dain might face is that he is a bit aimless. He has no grand plans in life/death. He is simply happy with how things are and as long as he can keep improving himself, he has no plans. He does not desire a promotion or have any grand schemes like ending all war or fixing problems in society. He is happy where he is, enjoys his job as a healer and simply likes doing his job.

- Careless:
He could be described as overly lax on many things. He does not waste any time thinking or worrying about stuff, firmly believing things will work out in the end somehow. He also thinks that thinking too hard about stuff won’t change them. Sometimes it is just better to run into things and see how they play out. The thinking and worrying about stuff he leaves to others.

- Ostrich:
If he does not like a subject or something going on he tends to adopt the ostrich method: stick his head in the sand and ignore it. Or in his human case he either completely ignores the subject or tries to divert it to something completely different.

- Bad sense of direction:
Not anime cliche bad and nothing like zaraki kenpachi, but he is bad with directions. He tends to get lost easily and he needs to travel the same route several times before he is familiar enough to do it with his phone to help.

- Lazy:
He can be very lazy when it comes to work he does not want to do. Avoids boring meetings and briefings as if they contained the plague. Furthermore when it comes to patrol duty and tasks like cleaning and paperwork, he often tends to vanish into thin air.[/ul]
Mental Strenghts:

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Since he has very few cares and worries, Dain is rather steadfast. When working he does not give into fear, worry or pressure from inside or outside.

- Flexible:
While steadfast he is quite proud of his ability to change to according to the circumstances. As he explains it: if he is ordered to attack and capture a city, he will attack and attempt to capture that city even if hell or high water were to come. However whether that attack is a frontal assault, catapulting in soldiers, digging a tunnel or disguising as cattle, that he can choose freely and flexibly change his plans if need be.

- Confident:
Dain is not arrogant, but he is confident in himself. He still listens to everyones advice and opinions, but in the end he is willing to make the decision. As a soldier he believes his superiors gave him this rank/position because he was the best for it. No sense in doubting himself then.

- Great dissembler:
Being such a terrible liar, ironically caused him to be a great dissembler. Like a blind person being able to hear better, not being able to lie caused Dain to be an excellent dissembler. Those who truly get to know Dain know that it is a bad idea to believe much of what he says. His statement he likes to read is most likely to hide the fact that he hates watching television.
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{Habits:}

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You can usually find something smoking from his lips. He is not biased though. He enjoys cigars, pipes, cigarettes and everything in between. The most iconic though would be the bud of an almost finished cigarette bungling from the corner of his mouth, even when he is talking or drinking something.

- Chewing gum:
Since most people tended to comment on smoking breath, he got into the habit of chewing gum. Mostly spearmint, though recently he has discovered a coffee flavored gum he totally got into. Only side affect is that now his breath smells constantly like smokey coffee. Also it does not help with the color of his teeth. Otherwise it is a perfectly good new addiction.

- Being late/absent:
Dain has a tendency to be absent during meetings and briefings. Though to be fair it seems to be selective as he does tend to be there for the important stuff. Like he will be the first there for a lecture about a new surgery procedure. However for the following meeting about supply distribution and staff schedule rotations, he will suddenly find himself wandering through the rukongai. Sometimes not even actively. Dain has the theory it is a pavlov reaction.

- Scratching his beard:
This is something he tends to do when he is thinking about it. Whether it be a tough situation behind enemy lines, a tough moral problem or even a sudoku. He is not sure why he does it, he just likes scratching his beard and he honestly does feel that it helps him think. He has experimented with not scratching, but he ended up so anxious and focused on his hands he could not even finish the crossword.

- Pretending to be asleep:
Dain has a tendency to pretend to be asleep or fall asleep if the situation suits him. He does like listening in to conversations without having to participate. Mostly though people tend to respect those asleep and not bother him with silly jobs and/or tasks.

- Tapping his finger/foot:
Perhaps due to the amount of coffee he drinks -measured in gallons rather then cups to reduce the abuse of zeroes.- he does tend to be a bit active and he often taps his finger or even his whole foot. The fact that he is often kicked out of a library due to this should say enough.[/ul][/spoiler]

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{Fears:}

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Perhaps a bit obvious, but he really fears them. Not so much the arrancar and espada, they tend to be more humanoid. Hollows though come in all forms, shapes and tend to be rather creepy. You could look at a creepy spider hollow with heads for hands, several tentacles and find out it’s power is shooting exploding squids out of it’s nipples. -That is actually a recurring dream for Dain- Totally creepy!

- Guns/Ranged Weapons:
Not so much because his death was caused by a gun, but because it is hard to deal with and very difficult to heal. Dain could defend against a sword blow with a shield, his own zanpaktou or a kidou spell. Even if he missed though, a slashing attack is usually shallow as the body instinctively focuses it’s energy to defend vital area’s. -Unless the attacker is just too strong, in which case the body is usually cleaved and healing is no longer necessary, also solving his problem.- Guns though are more more unpredictable, easily fired from hiding so you can’t see them coming and the damage is often piercing, making it very difficult to heal. It is easy to heal a 10 inch gash across someone’s chest, it is a pain in the ass to heal organs, especially since that can cause a ton of internal problems if done in correctly.
In summary, Dain would much, much rather fight a melee opponent then a ranged one.

- Being inadequate:
One of his biggest fears is walking onto the battlefield and finding out his skills are not up to par. Of course he does not worry that he won’t be able to heal someones who’s head is cut off. He can live with the fact that he can’t save everyone. He is terrified though that can’t save those who he should have been able to save. One of his favorite nightmares is one where he stands over a patient and doesn’t know what all the medical tools are. Unable to name even a simple scalpel or what it is used for. In summary: he fears standing over a patient and watch him die as he does not know how to help.

- Fear of suffocating:
His aqua phobia might stem from this, but Dain’s biggest fear of dying is through suffocation. He would rather be shot another ten times then to experience suffocating again. That feeling of being helpless, almost watching as you slowly die, the burning sensation in his lungs. He is afraid of it to the point that if he is on a ship that is sinking, he will commit senpaku rather then risk suffocating/drowning. For some reason though this does not involve smoke, perhaps due to the fact that he has been a smoker all his life.

- Losing control of himself:
Dain is very much afraid to lose control of himself, whether it is due to magic/powers or through his own actions. In the Rukongai he has been mind controlled for a few years and he did not enjoy the feeling. That is why he always drinks responsibly, as he does not like the feeling of losing control of himself. It is also the reason why he never does drugs or even refuses to use anesthesia on himself.[/ul]
- Phobias:

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Dain is absolutely terrified of all spiders. As long as they are smaller then his hand he is absolutely terrified of them. Too many eyes, too many legs and the way they move terrify him. Ever since they found new armored species of spiders though, his phobia has crossed over a bit to other armored animals, like scorpions and crabs. Ironically though, the moment one of those creatures grows too large, like for example the size of a small dog, his fear turns into something like repulsion. For example he would nuke -from orbit- his bathroom for a tiny spider, but against a spider the size of a tank he would simply draw his zanpaktou and slay it.

- Claustrophobia:
This is only a mild phobia, as it does not cause outright panic. However if you stick him in a closet, he will experience a feeling of severe discomfort and starts transpiring. He also tend to start breaking wind uncontrollably, which does tend to make the experience even worse. For the right reasons though, like a mission, he is capable of suppressing this slightly. He also found out that alcohol works wonders here. After a bottle of Glen Fiddich 18y you could lock him up in a coffin for all he cares.

- Aquaphobia:
He has a phobia of drowning. Luckily it is related to big and very deep bodies of water, as the other half of the phobia is never being found. Lucky for him as it does not trigger in a bath or swimming pool. There is no way in hell though you will ever get him on a boat. Not even a big ocean liner.
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{Goals:}

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As part of his general mindset, Dain wants to improve himself and be the best healer. At first glance only the best healer he can be. However if there are gleams of ambition within him, he probably would say that he wants to be the best healer in the world. He is always eager to learn and never passes up an opportunity to learn from someone better.

- Daily Improvement:
He doesn’t really care about the world or it’s worldly affairs. Since he can’t affect it, he has chosen to concentrate on himself. One of his main core rules is that everyday he wants to improve himself. Whether it is in his job, through study or a physical work-out doesn’t matter. As long as he does try to improve himself. He can get a bit lax though with this though, considering a single push-up achieving his goal. In general though he is very strict about this, as it is his main philosophy. The only reason he sometimes allows/forces him to be lax with it, is because he does not want it to become an obsession.

- Resurrection/Immortality:
The ultimate goal of any physician; conquering death. Of course a silly notion as a shinigami living in soul society, but he could not consider himself a healer if he did not want those. Or as he put it: all he wants is to find something so the world would no longer need him.

- Traveling:
One of the goals he has set in his death is that he eventually wants to see it all. He wants to go and visit hueco mundo, Silbern, the Royal palace and even Hueco Mundo. He hopes to go there and study the places, hoping to learn more. He believes the world is one big circle and all the different races, cultures, places etc are simply slivers of that big circle. Only by seeing everything can you understand that. Plus it seemed logical now that he was effectively ageless to set himself a very long time goal, if not an impossible one.

- To Serve:
Perhaps this is a silly one, but it is also the second reason he joined the US marines. To serve. Simple as that. -The first was that he wanted to be trained to save lifes and become a medic. Only to find out later the marines don’t have a medical corps and they save lives through superior firepower, but that aside.-

- Become Fourth Division Captain:
From what he heard in the academy at the moment the fourth division doesn’t have a captain and rumors foretold him that no worthy candidate to become one is present at the moment. Unless that changes, Dain believes it might be for the best if he rose to the position. His experience that a military unit without good leadership is like a ship without a rudder. It floats but it ain’t going anywhere. -Plus as a captain he believes it might be easier to travel anywhere he likes.-

- Kido Specialist:
Since Dain does not excel with his weapon and a sword is not well suited to protect a group of people, he intends to focus his energies on kido. From what he gathers it is rather powerful, divers and he seems to have an aptitude for it, since healing seems to come naturally to him.

- Raise status 4th Division:
Dain is sick and tired of medics not being respected by soldiers. Ever since he was drafted into the us marine corps by false pretenses he hated it. If possible he wants t prove that being a medic is just as useful, if not more bad-ass then a plain, boring warrior. Anyone can swing a sword, only cool people can knit organs with the touch of a finger.[/ul][/spoiler]

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Alignment: Neutral Good

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{Allignment Details}
Neutral Good- A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment when it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.

Detailed Results:

Alignment:
Lawful Good ----- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (23)
Neutral Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (24)
Chaotic Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (19)
Lawful Neutral -- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (20)
True Neutral ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (21)
Chaotic Neutral - XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (16)
Lawful Evil ----- XXXXXXXXX (9)
Neutral Evil ---- XXXXXXXXXX (10)
Chaotic Evil ---- XXXXX (5)

Law & Chaos:
Law ----- XXXXXXXXX (9)
Neutral - XXXXXXXXXX (10)
Chaos --- XXXXX (5)

Good & Evil:
Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXX (14)
Neutral - XXXXXXXXXXX (11)
Evil ---- (0)

[Dain Sinclair]

-History-

Birthplace: London - England
Date of Birth: 14/02/1916
Grew up in: Dana Point - Los Angeles - USA
Final Residency: MCAS Miramar - San Diego - USA
Death: 28-12-1951 (Korea)
Stay in SS: Mostly in the western Rukungai, lower numbers, for almost seven decades. Noticed and drafted into the academy a little while ago by a shinigami who saw him healing a friend.
Current Residence: Academy Dorms - Soul Society

-Memorable Figures:-

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- Grandparents: Deceased
- Parents: Deceased
- Brothers & Sisters: Deceased
- Wife: Deceased
- Children:
- Eldest Son: Jacob Bob Sinclair. Born 17.07.1947. Alive. Currently 74 years of age.
- Youngest Son: Maurice Petrus Sinclair. Born 01.02.1949. Alive. Currently 73 years of age.
- Daughter: Ilse Ivonne Sinclair. Born 10.05.1950. Deceases. In 2002. Lung Cancer.
- Grandchildren:
Plenty. Apparently the Sinclairs are quite fertile and the family name has been well secured for the future. Too many too list though. At the moment records show there are over 109 direct descendants from Dain running around, the youngest being only several months. For further information, more time and resources would have to be devoted into research.
- Rukongai:
- General acquaintances: Over a course of seventy years one tends to make a lot of friends. Since they were in the lower rukongai they tend to spread out, go missing or simply be found dead the next day. However there is still a good chance that when he goes in any random district below thirties he will run into people he knows. As a friendly person and healer he even got a bit of a good reputation back in the days.
- House Sythor: The house Dain got first involved with in the 63’rd eastern rukongai. Mainly a group of misfits trying to stay alive. With Dain as a back-bone, healing up wounded members, they began to grow in strength and expand their territory. A few years later though the house was smashes to pieces by a much larger group. The surviving members disbanded and joined a different group.
- The Plumoths: A group of violent thieves and other pond scum Dain kept running into. Or rather they kept dragging him on ‘adventures’ as the group healer. Mostly under the threat of some degree of violence. Though he will not deny sometimes he went along as he was simply bored. He still writes with a few of the lieutenants, though he maintains it is just so he keeps being invited to the poker games.
- Vigilantes: For as cliche as their names and actions were, it were some of the best people Dain got to know in ss. Without any weapons or support, they fight for their ideals. Not a true organization though. It is mostly a self proclaimed profession, fighting for the weak and injustice in front of their eyes. Though most vigilantes know those around them, forming small groups that eventually turn into a gigantic network through-out the entire rukongai. The only problem was that literally the left hand doesn’t know what it’s digits are doing. At least that if the official story. Dain sometimes helped them and he did get the idea there is more of an organization then they let on.
- Friends:
- Ton Jones: One of his best friends in the eastern Rukongai’s. Judging from the accent and behavior Dain believed him to be irish. Ran a sweat shop and a phenomenal poker game. The two got to know each other when Dain was called to heal a group of their kids. Turns out the sweat shop was mostly an orphanage. The sweatshop was mostly a rumor to prevent raids from other groups. The poker games are actually phenomenally legendary.
- Katherine Rommel: A fellow medic he hang-out with a bit. After having run into each other a few times to help people, they decided to team up for a bit. Some on and of romance for a few years, but both were still to new to the immortal life to truly appreciate each other. Now he is a rooky medic and ss and she is married to one of the biggest leaders of the northern parts.
- Zach Habisquwani: Just someone Dain got to know during the few weeks in the academy. Decent healer, good strategist and terrible sense of humor. It helps that Zachs hobby seems to be donating money to Dain in their poker games.
- Erik von Zierfuus: The shinigami who recruited him into the academy. Since he actually joined though, Dain can’t seem to locate him. Since he is not an official shinigami he has been given the runabout. From what he can tell though he is either missing or on assignment. Still Dain owes him a debt of gratitude and intends to express his thanks the next time they meet.
- Hibi Tenaquo: His best friend for seventy years and the only reason he regrets coming to the academy. If Hibi had not pushed him, he might have declined, but hibi insisted he could do more good as a shinigami. Hibi is the typical silent big guy. Or at the very least in public. When the two were alone or in select company, they had all kinds of talks. From acting out their native sketches, to pondering philosophically about the universe and how the ss fitted into it.
- Girlfriends:
- Gina Beckoti: Just a few lonely souls whose opposite personalities attracted each other. More a physical relationship then anything else. During the days they tended to fight -and if not others, they fought each other- at night they spend their energy on each others. In the end it simply bled out, but some of their make-up sessions are still in his top ten. Friends for life though and if Dain ever needs an assassin, he only has to send the signal. -off the record, it has proven useful to collect organs from some very unscrupulous, uncooperative people to perform an organ transplant-
- Mirthe Ciscol: Dated a few years before she was killed. Dain still refuses to talk about her.
- Xaian Pascal: Their relationship was almost perfect. They got together and stayed together for almost forty years. After all that time though, immortality kinda hit them. They still loved each other, but they realized that they would never experience anything new again like this. They separated amicably, although technically they never broke their vows and could still be considered the equivalent of married. Although they haven’t run into each other a lot in the past two decades. A lot.[/ul]

-History:-

Dain was born in London during the first world war. He was one out of many in a family with seven children at the time. To escape being drafted, somehow his parents managed to flee to the us a few days after he was born. There his parents continued to expand their little family like good catholic bunnies into the double digits. Dain never got to witness that though. When he was five he realized his family were not really nice people. When he did not want to enter a scary hole through the wall and retrieve some shiny egg from a house, he was cast aside. He tried for a few more years, but it just didn’t feel right. He could not lie to their scam victims, he could not pick-pocket with a clear conscious. When he was nine his hesitant behavior almost caused three of his elder brothers to be caught by the police. In response they ran and left him there. The police were nice enough to lock him up and put him in a Foster home.

During the time he learned more about his family. Mostly from the police interrogating him about the activities of his relatives. What he heard made his young ears blush. The police accused his sisters of prostitution, his oldest brother of murder and the rest of his family about everything in between. Now some of the things he knew. For example the elder brother got praised for bringing in a neat 3k for a job well done and he had seen his sisters at work. Yet for some reason he refused to say anything to the cops and kept silent for three weeks until they finally gave up. Perhaps it was the final bit of debt he owed them, they did feed him after all and took care of him. However that was the last he ever heard about any of them. As he was transfered to the foster home he got his name changed.

There he was taken care of properly. It was loveless, but sufficient and he did get to know a young nurse he fell in love with. Of course she was way older then he was, but that did not stop him from pining over her every time he went to sleep. When he turned sixteen he had figured out a plan. He would join the marines, become a medic and the two of them could open a little clinic. -A great plan, aside from a few hitches. One of them being him never having the courage to talk to her. Or failure to notice the huge rock on her fingers.-

The day he turned 16, Dain said goodbye to the people who took care of him and walked to the navy recruiters office. There he was welcomed into the marine corps with open arms. He was fit, athletic and big. If he wanted to save lives, the marines could teach him that. What they forgot to tell him was that the us marines don’t have a medical corps. They ‘save’ lives through superior firepower. Still he signed the contract and it turned out he made a rather decent marine. Nowhere near top of any class though, but comfortably in the middle and he did enjoy the right to serve his country. -since he was a baby when he came to the us, he never had any doubt to trust he wasn’t, nor question how his parents arranged it so they classified as born and bred americans.- When he found out a year later that the girl he was pining for had gotten married, he devoted himself to the us navy. He had no family to return to, no home, no education, so he figured it was the right thing.

By the time WWII had started he had become a master sergeant. As an enlisted man without education he had basically reached the end of his line. However when the dust of WWII settled, he somehow emerged as a lieutenant colonel. For some reason though he was a lieutenant colonel in the armies third medical corps. Even he himself can’t explain how it happened. As he remembers it now, one day he was fighting on the beaches alongside his fellow marines, the next he was leading medical efforts. After the war was over there was a bit of distinction about him, but considering he earned several medals in the three years of combat, they decided not to sack him. He was even welcomed back into the fold of the us marines and allowed to keep his rank. Albeit flustered Dain did not protest.

For a few months he was a play ball for the higher-ups as they tried to settle where he should go. Dain had worn the uniform of the marines with pride and did them a lot of good. On the other hand his outstanding service as a field medic and some of the reforms he had accomplished were also a credit. For some reason though both sides tried to push him off to the other. In the end it took the father of a soldier he had healed to intervene and push through the decision. With the aid of senator O’donnol he was finally reinstated in the end.

During the fighting though he had learned a lot. Not only on medicines and surgery, but also about military tactics and the effects of proper logical support. When the dust settled and he was back in the USA he tried to make waves for the us marines to include medics into their ranks. It was fruitless, but somehow to try and slow him down, somehow the brass saw him fit to promote him to general. By the time 1951 came along and korea hit the fan, he was just on his ways to earning his second star. Considering he was not even 40, he was considered the rising star and it was generally believed and accepted he would soon have enough stars to push through his reforms.

He did have the weight to start moving things and if he had weighted a few years he could have done it. There were two options, go through the ranks as a bureaucrat and earn the stars by years of service. Or earn them through combat experience. According to his records he would have needed 13 more months desk service or 9 months in the field. Maybe a normal man would have chosen a desk job. Dain however was a marine through and through. One of those marines who jokes about those incompetent army generals who gain ranks by playing golf with the right people. So when the US joined the Korean war, there was only one thing to do.

As a true marine he volunteered to be send to Korea and as he was helping out a wounded soldier it all ended. After a successful attack the wounded were being brought back to the camp before being send to a mash unit. He was just performing a bit of triage, when suddenly a salvo of bullets hit him. He vaguely remembered falling down, but he never knew where the shots were coming from.

He remember the sharp pain and the feeling of irony as he lay there. If the corps he was with had a medical unit he might have survived it. As he lay there, he recognized the wounds. Two major arteries had been blown to shreds in his legs and yet he could not feel them. His close friend Sjors confirmed a grouping of wounds around his fourth vertebrae. Even as he lay there and he felt the world grow colder and darker, he knew the verdict. If he survived he would be an invalid and bound into a wheelchair he would be honorably discharged from the marine corps. With his last strength he asked Sjors to let it be and let him go. He was at peace with his life and did not want to live in a future which would bind him to a chair.

Next thing he woke up in ss. Through gossip he learned about the fact that the us marine corps mourned the loss of one of their generals. Stray bullets from a desperate, wounded enemy ended the life of one of theirs to soon. That was the heading of most newspapers.

---Much later he would learn though that was not the actual truth. By the time he was a captain of squad 4, he was free to come and go and decided to go to the living world and search the records of the incident of his death. At first it was just curiosity, but when he read the report something didn’t make sense. However as a general he got a funeral and for some reason a doctor looked over him. It stated the wounds were made with the same type of munition and gun only the us army used. While it was possible an enemy got hold of such a weapon it was highly unlikely. Intrigued he did a bit of digging and eventually found out it was a joined us marine and cia op. Turns out he had been kicking too many sore shins and they had taken the chance to get rid of him. Of course Dain was outraged, but since everyone involved already was dead, all he could do was shrug his shoulders. Still it is a bit of a stain on his memories of his time in the marines.—-

He spend a while mourning his own death, before picking himself up and dusting himself off. Considering he really had no purpose to follow, he followed his hobby: medicine. In the following years he sought out well-known doctors and learned from them. Turned out that with his battlefield hands-on experience he was already on par with most of them there. Although to be fair their knowledge was a bit outdated, due to being dead for years. Still he learned a lot and after a decade or so, he could perform most kinds of surgeries. Especially since the people in the rukongai were dead poor and unorganized, so there was no chance of being sued for malpractices. Oh he messed up a lot and most of his knowledge came from screwing up, but most people were grateful that someone tried anyway.

Dain was careful though. Not because he was afraid of peoples opinions, but because he truly had his patients best interests at heart. Still since there were not a lot of skilled doctors, he sometimes had the chance to operate on as much as twelve patients a day. He learned alot about different types of stitching, recognizing different types of wound and a lot about gangreen and wound infections. As he worked and learned he spoke with a lot of other doctors and overtime he had the brilliant idea to revive the medical corps doctrine.

With his closest friend and current girlfriend he created the Rukongai Medical corps. Or at least attempted to. The idea was to setup a network of people who could help the people. Like a net. With each point of the net being a qualified doctor and/or surgeon. The plan was to supplement the qualified people with nurses and they even got a headquarters where they wanted to train new people. It was located in the southern rukungai 69. The idea was good, but the problem was that the doctors alone were to fragile. So they were forced to start recruiting people to protect them and then get patrols. It just kept snowballing and within a year they were running a well sized gang. Their influence was just about to spread to the neighboring districts when a rival gang struck back.

They survived, but casualties were high and more and more kept coming. Within three years it was a struggle of survival and although they were slowly winning, the number of casualties kept rising. So quickly that eventually Dain decided to abandon the whole plan. They did not have enough power to push it through and throwing the rukongai in a violent civil war was the polar opposite of his idea to save lives. He did not delete it though, he merely shelved the idea for now.

The next sixty years he spend running through the rukongai. No particular purpose, just living and trying to survive. He joined gangs until they fell apart, grew to big or simply got bored. Dain even made somewhat of a name as a medic, so he was mostly welcomed. It all went pretty well. He got a little place of his own, some friends, some girlfriends, it basically was not a bad way to live. Until three years ago something happened.

He had considered joining the shinigami several times. However as an occupant of the lower rukongai they were more rumors and myths than something tangible. Even when he saw one for himself he was not inclined to join them. His first instinct told him he might be able to learn more about medicine in the rukongai than in another military organization. What if they did not have a proper medical support? It would be just like the marines again. Although it could be arguing he saved countless lives, he still preferred saving them through his own hands, rather then superior firepower. By the time he learned a bit more about them and recognized them as at the very least a semi-honorable organization, too much of his life was already bound to the rukongai and it’s inhabitants.

Dain found himself trying to heal a close friend. How it happened or what happened he was never sure -until a little while ago and someone explained it. Even if the shinigami was partly wrong.- but somehow as he tried to save someone with a sword wound that was well beyond him, suddenly a bright red glow came from his hands. The wounds miraculously closed enough that he could fix the rest with normal surgery. To this day he cannot figure out what happened or why it suddenly manifested himself. Sure he cared about his friend, but he had tried to save and failed to save girlfriends. Still it became part of himself over time.

At first it was difficult, but over time he was capable of summoning the glow and even control it to some degree. It was not long before rumors began to spread and a few years after he was approached by a shinigami wearing a black kimono and sandals. Through it’s appearance Dain recognized the shinigami being as such a being and albeit hesitant agreed to show the person his powers. Till this day Dain doesn’t know what the shinigami felt, but he was told to report to the soul society. It was explained to him that his powers were special and with the proper training he could do a lot more then he was doing now. The shinigami explained him a bit about kidou and what they stood for.

It was not completely new to Dain. Even in the rukongai there were rumors of people who had special abilities and some even could use the magic of the demons. Turns out it had a different name, but the fact that there were special people out there did not surprise Dain in the slightest. Over the years he had been acquainted to several of them. Most of the abilities were fighting related. Like being able to move so fast they seem a blur or release a wave of energy with the slash of a sword. However he did now the old woman in east rukongai 77 that was capable of healing her patients by muttering strange words and some weird glow coming from her hands. After the shinigami explained things, it made a lot more sense.

As Dain was still trying to object, the shinigami gave him one year to get his affairs in order before reporting to the gates of soul society. She did not have to tell him what would happen if he did not. Mostly because it felt like an order from a superior officer and 20 years of serving in the marines overrode all his instincts and common sense. So 10 months later he reported to the gates of the rukongai, giving the guardian the little black token she had given him and was allowed to proceed.

Once there he was dragged into an office and questioned how he got in and what he came to do. He explained how the shinigami came to him and then he was forced to show of his power. After that he was shipped of to a research facility to try and explain a few things. It is where he learned he had very special blood. Rather unique in fact. Sadly they were so busy spouting off terms and asking him to perform and perform and perform, by the end he was so tired and fatigued he can barely remember anything. In the end though it was decided he potentially could be a decent shinigami and allowed to qualify for the academy.

After several days of testing, both his physical and mental abilities he was allowed to join the academy. Although he believed there was more going on, as he felt he failed most of the tests. Compared to him, even most females were better swordsmen and he could barely spell kidou. Still he was allowed to enter and in the few months he had been part of it so far he had learned a lot. He was catching up to some of the other candidates and albeit it was clear he was no prodigy swordsmen, everyone seemed to agree he was at least decent in kidou.

Things are looking up for him and he can’t wait what the future brings.

[Dain Sinclair]

-Powers-

Fighting Techniques:
As a sword fighter, Dain is borderline mediocre at best. Despite being able to compensate with pure reiatsu and fine insight and instincts to give him an edge, his pure blade swinging skills are probably on par with any eleventh division unranked shinigami. Luckily as a fourth division member it is not expected of him to fight directly on the front lines. His skills lie in protection and healing.

He has a strict priority whenever it comes to battle. 1) Heal the injured. 2) Protect his allies. 3) Secure a winning strategy. 4) Destroy the enemy. These are his ironclad rules. That doesn’t mean he won’t abreviate from it. He could chose to protect a squad of shinigami, rather than heal a small cut on someones back that is nowhere near life threatening. Nor does it mean that he will not destroy the enemy, rather then defend. He has enough experience to know sometimes the best defense is the offense. Battle is chaotic and he accepts that. His rules apply to how he looks at the battlefield. First he will scan for wounded, then for people who might need protection. Then he will overlook the battlefield and only then will he consider destroying the enemy.

Dain is your average tank. Despite him being non-combat orientated, he is always on the front lines and in the thick of the action. His shikai takes the form of a gigantic shield and he is capable of summoning several, albeit weakened and smaller- versions in front of other shinigami. He mainly uses this ability as a way to protect the wounded on the battlefield. Another practical way he found to use his shield is use it as a battering ram. He just raises it in front of him and storms through the battlefield, clearing a path as he goes.

There is a more radical approach he takes to tanking though if the situation is dire enough. If there is no other choice he can literally throw himself in front of an attack. His own medical knowledge and powers allow him to heal faster then normal. Sometimes it is quicker to heal himself as he keeps moving, rather then being pinned down trying to heal a downed soldier. Still that is a rather desperate

When he is not busy healing, he takes a supportive role in combat. Dain intends to be a kidou specialist to compensate for his lack of hand to hand skill. This ranges from real support skills to cover fire. He has to admit though that there is a certain satisfaction to use a high level kido and decimate the enemies ranks from a far. Though not a prodigy, he tends to have very keen instincts and senses, allowing him to make snap decision and plan effectives moves from a distance. If he really focuses he can transform the battlefield into a mental chessboard and manipulate the pieces through well used kido’s.

Off course there are always situations where Dain will be forced to fight one on one. Whether it is because the situation is that desperate or because he is simply alone makes little difference. His first instinct though will always be to run. In a one of one battle, he would try to run and lose his opponent. In a grand battle he would use that tactic to lure away the enemy.

If that tactic does not work he will divert to a form of hit and run fighting. Running, using tricks, pelting the opponent from afar with kido’s, all is fair. As a healer he believes he should not risk himself unnecessarily, just for the sake of his honor. As long as he survives it means that in the end he can heal others.

However in the event that he agrees to a fair duel and fights seriously, his attitude changes drastically. By combining his inherent powers and his mastery of kaidou, he turns into a living tank, going straight through attacks to get to his opponent. Injuries heal themselves rapidly and automatically. By turning all his healing power on himself, it takes an ungodly amount of damage to actually kill him and by ignoring his own defense, he can put everything into the offensive to end the battle as quickly as possible. This is his do or die mode though and only used as a last resort. [ooc: Imagine Vin Diesel in Bloodshot, the final scene. Since he is not wolverine or deadpool, his healing powers eventually run out and in that case he would quickly perish. It is a very risky method of combat.]

-Stats:-

Stats:
- Strength: 50
- Speed: 50
- Reiatsu Strength: 25
- Spiritual Pressure: 25
- Instinct: 25
- Senses: 25
- Energy Sensory: 30
- Healing Expertise: 50

Stats: 280/1800

Aura:
- Light Aura: 100
- Dark Aura: 0

-Skills-

Abilities:
- Memory: 1
- Analyzing: 1
- Weapon Mastery: Zanpakutou: 1
- Pain Tolerance: 1
- Damage Recovery: 1
- Kidou Mastery: 1
- Kaidou Mastery: 1
- Medicines: 1

Skill Points Used: 8/15

-Techniques:-

Movement Technique:
0) Shunpo:

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{Shunpo:}Technique Name: Shunpo (Flash Steps)
Rank: 7
Learned: Academy
Reason: No other way to travel but Shunpo. Although speed is not his forte, it is useful to get quickly to the wounded so he spend ample time training the skill.

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{Info}Class 7 Hohō

Technique Name: Shunpo (Flash Steps)

Class: 7

Technique Type: Kidō

Technique Element: None

Technique Description and Effects:

A movement technique that allows the user to move faster than the eye can follow. The focal point that determines the basis of this technique is speed. As speed is the main point of the technique, the method is best characterized by how fast one can get from Point A to Point B in the least amount of steps. Training and skill are what determines how fast a user of Shunpo can move. Those of little skill in the technique or those who haven't used it for an extended amount of time would obviously be out of practice, causing those individuals to be considerably slower. This requires the use of more steps to move the same distance and become tired more easily in a shorter amount of time. A single step magnifies speed for that step by ten times. Shunpo uses fifty Reiatsu per step. This one is automatically learned in the academy. All Shinigami know this when created. This technique does not take up a technique slot.

How to use technique:

Focus of Reishi around the feet area and launch off into a single blurring step. It is not unlike teleportation in appearance, but it is simply extremely fast movement. It is often used to gain an edge in a single moment of combat or to dodge incoming attacks.

Techniques:
1) Reiatsu Orb:

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{Reiatsu Orb:}Technique Name: Reiatsu Orb
Rank: 8
Learned: Shinigami Academy
Reason: The enemy doesn’t care about killing when it is convenient. It is just a fact of life that a medic can’t choose the location or time of day to treat wounded. Sometimes that happens during night-time, so a little technique that would help Dain see at those times seemed like a useful technique to have.

2) Reiatsu Warmth:

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{Reiatsu Warmth:}Technique Name: Reiatsu Warmth
Rank: 8
Learned: Shinigami Academy
Reason: Not only a useful survival technique, but something Dain thought might be useful in the field as well. Going into shock while wounded in a cold night is one of the biggest dangers for a wounded being. Even a small wound could be fatal. Hence he decided to learn it. He did have to learn how to control it. Took him several chicken legs before he ended up with a properly thawed chicken, rather than a pile of ashes. Plus he really enjoys being warm, so he sometimes uses it to heat his hot water bottle. He tends to neglect that reason though when asked.

3) Hīringuōbu (Healing Orb):

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{Healing Orb:}Technique Name: Hīringuōbu (Healing Orb)
Rank: Unranked
Learned: Shinigami Academy
Reason: To be fair this was the first healing technique he was shown in the academy and naturally it was the first kidou and kaidou he wanted to learn. He did not break records in learning speed, but he did surprise some of the instructors with the affinity he immediately displayed. Soon after he could use the technique with more subtlety and finesse than most of the teachers and rumors got out about Dain’s affinity with the healing arts.

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{Info:}Technique Name: Hīringuōbu (Healing Orb)

Class:
Level 1: 6
Level 2: 5
Level 3: 4
Level 4: 3
Level 5: 2
Level 6: 1

Technique Type: [Other] - Kidou- other

Technique Element: None

Technique Description and Effects:
This is a technique used to heal external injuries. The technique could be considered slightly powerful due to its ability to heal a person. To use this kidou the user must be within arms reach of the target. There are three levels to this.
Level 1: Shallow cuts, bruises, abrasions, and first degree burns.
Level 2: Second degree burns.
Level 3: Mending broken bones and deep lacerations.
Level 4: Third degree burns.
Level 5: Reattaching recently severed limbs. Can only be done within five minutes of severing.
Level 6: Revival (close to using a defibrilator, but with a higher chance of success). Can only be used within a minute of death.

How to use technique:
To use this kidou technique the user must pull an adequate amount of reiatsu to their palms. After they do that they must form an orb of reiatsu between their palms and place that orb on the injury of the target. Once the orb is on the targets injury the user must pour the reiatsu ball into the wound slowly. As the reiatsu enters the wound it will start to heal until the orb is gone. At that point the injury should be healed completely.

Drawback:
One disadvantage of this kidou is that the person is completely vulnerable to attack whilst using it. Another is that this kidou has absolutely no battle capabilities. And the kidou takes a long while to use as pouring the reiatsu into the wound takes time. This will also leave the user a little winded. The higher the level the more time it will take and the more tired the user will become. Plus the healing is only done within the area of eight inches.

Made by: RyogaKaribe

Techniques: 3/23

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{Custom Skills:}
1) Medicine: You are a highly trained doctor. 1 SkP is equivalent knowledge to a Med Student or Nurse. 2 SkP is equivalent to a Medical Doctorate. 3 SkP is the knowledge of a surgeon, or specialist. 4 SkP is a world renown pioneer in their specialty, or a multi-talented specialist in multiple medical fields.

2) Kaidou: After learning how to use kidou, you specialised in healing magic/energy. 1 SkP is equivalent of a novice healer. Closing smaller wounds and cuts are easy. 2 SkP makes you a great healer. Broken bones and even poison damage are easy. 3 SkP is the equivalent of a healing master, able to heal almost any kind of wound. 4 SkP your skills are equivalent of legend and with a simply look and touch you can heal the wounded.

-Ryo/Items:-

Ryo:

[/b] 5000 Ryo[/ul]

Items:

[Dain Sinclair]

-Zanpakutou-

Zanpakutou Appearance:
Normal Appearance: In it’s normal state Dain’s Zanpakutou takes the form of a Tanto Knife. Smooth black hilt and an angled tip of the blade like a scalpel. The blade itself is decorated with a kind of symbols/runes he does not fully understand. Somehow they speak to him, yet he does not know them. Also he believes that somehow the runes are changing over time, as if somehow they are alive. It is sturdy, yet surprisingly sharp. So much in fact that in a pinch Dain can use his Zanpakutou as a field scalpel.

He wears his Zanpakutou in a white scabbard attached to his right hip like a normal knife. In the operating room though or on missions where it is good to appear unarmed he hides it underneath his robe. He straps a small sheath to his thigh and just slides it in. Due to it’s size and weight it is practically invisible underneath his robe and barely limits his movements.
Size: 6.1 Inches from hilt to tip.
Weight: 1.1 lbs

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Shikai Appearance: When Dain releases his Shikai his small Tanto blade turns into a massive dark shield. It looks solid and sturdy as if made out of solid cast iron layerings. It is slightly curved to allow energy to be diverted past the side, rather then try to block attacks head on. The bottom of the shield widens out a bit, allowing the user to crouch down for more protection without exposing himself.

Dain can control the shield directly by putting his arm through the straps fitted to the back. Considering the shield weighs over 600 lbs he controls it by proxy though and uses the shields power to placate it and stabilize itself in the position he desires.

The shield as a few more tricks up it sleeve. Like an ablative layer. If the shield gets to hot or takes too much damage too quickly, rather then be penetrated or destroyed, it ablates the first layer. Dark red lines appears across the shield until the pieces just fall off. The remaining shield is only a useless a thin layer of metal, but enough to shield from the ablating force.

Same as with the tanto knife, the shield has strange runes and images on the front. In his shikai form it feels almost as if they are talking to him, yet he cannot hear the words. The more the shield is pushed the louder the runes speak to him.
Size:
- Hight: 8.3 Ft.
- Width: 3.7 Ft
- Thickness: 1.1 Inch
Weight: 619 LBS

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Bankai Appearance: When Dain is forced to use his bankai, for whatever reason, his sword turned bright red like the sun and evaporates into a bright red mist. As it evaporates it begins to swirl around Dain until he pours his reiatsu in it. For a moment the bright rest mist pulsates, then it is drawn into him, before being ex pulsed from him in the shape of a dome. From the outside it looks black, covered with random symbols and patterns. This makes it hard for outsiders to see what is going on.

From the inside though it looks normal, as if the barrier is not there. The world just looks normal, albeit those who pay attention may notice a very fine bright mist swirling around. Perhaps the world also looks a bit brighter and warmer than it did before. This effect grows stronger the more dreary a place is. In a paradise like place this would not be noticeable. In a dark damp cave it would be much stronger, giving the persons inside it the idea the place is bathing in sunlight.

The dome is always centered around Dain, so if he moves, the dome moves with him. It looks like a solid dome, yet it will not even move a blade of grass when moving past it. It does seem to leave life in it’s wake though. It will not create flowers sprouting out of nowhere, but whatever vegetation and animals it engulfs come out in their prime. For example a flower that was almost done blooming, comes out back the stage it was just budding.
Size:
- Width: 100 ft
- Height: 30 ft
Weight: Weightless

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-Zanpakutou Spirit-

Name: Akeldama Reiki (Fields of healing blood)
Sex: Female
Race: Feline/White Tigress
Height/Weight: 6’1”/194 LBS
Eye Color: Bottomless blood red eyes.
Hair Color: Pristine white fur with abyss dark stripes.
Hair Style: Similar to a wild tiger in syberia, thick soft fur underneath, covered by the protective outer coat or stubby and more durable hairs.
Scars: Unknown.
Tattoos: Unknown.
Other: Wears two seats of earrings in her pointy ears. The sets are symmetrical and consist of 28 simple golden rings going all the way around her ears.
Physical Description:
Appearance: Akeldama Reiki appears in the form of a humanoid white tigress and is one of the most beautiful creatures Dain has ever laid his eyes upon. She has the elegance of all felines, combined with the more visible muscles of the humanoid form. He loves how smooth and pristine her fur is. It is thick enough that he feels like he is hitting a pillow when they spar, yet elegant enough to show details like sculpted-like abdominal muscles.

Perhaps this is just because it is in his world, but he can barely begin to describe how pure her fur is. He has snow white hair himself, but it feels to him as if Reiki’s hair is the definition of white and the same goes for the black stripes. Her eyes are like pools of beautiful blood, rippling -like a body of water after something falls in- every time she bats her eyes.

She does sports a long, powerful striped tail that she will use as a defensive whip if need be. She comes equipped with a set of retractable claws that look like they can cut almost anything and are hard enough to block his Zanpakutou. Underneath her friendly smile, she hides a set of ivory teeth polished enough you could use them as a mirror if she smiles bright enough. Don’t be fooled though. They are sharp and durable enough to shatter rocks and even his Zanpakutou. For clothing she wears a set of armor that is as much part of herself as her fur. She wears a set of armor consisting of dark leathery greaves, half a breast plate, pauldrons and vambraces.

All in all she is an impressive appearance for Dain and he admires her form. Though he is unsure what he actually prefers. There is a special charm when Reiki walks upright, but when they go hunting in his spiritual world and she reverts to her animal pose, she is something special altogether.

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{Akeldama Reiki:}

Behavior: Akeldama Reiki may take an animal form, but she is much more elegant and kind than that. Whenever they meat, she appears more like a teacher and a friendly confident than a warrior. Most of the time she simply takes Dain through a stroll through her garden world and tries to explain things to him calmly. Other times they simply discuss things over a cup of tea and crumpets, sitting comfortable around a beautifully decorated table.

However kind and wise as she is, she is also tough and stern, while keeping a bit of a wild side. She does not hesitate to smack Dain around if he is not listening. Literally and figuratively. In a word though when she is calm Dain would describe her as a motherly figure. Calm, wise and gentle, yet strict and firm. Whenever they are sparring, fighting or dueling though she reverts to her animal form and the longer they fight the more ferocious and wild she becomes. She never loses complete control though and despite the most gruesome attacks, so far she never hit any vital organs or spots.

There is a part of her though that Dain feels like she isn’t showing. He can’t explain it, but when they are talking it sometimes feels as if there is another voice. Like a silent whisper in the wind. He can’t really hear it, but he feels as if it is there and it is completely different from Reiki. It feels much more primal and it makes the hairs in his neck stand up. Yet when he asks her about it she always dissembles her answers with skills that only hours later he realizes she deflected the answer yet again.

-Inner World-

Name: The planes of Namyuki
Description: The inner world of Dain resembles maybe his paradise. As Reiki explained it his inner world is a reflection of the state of his soul and he is happy. It is bathing in the most incredible sunlight one could wish for. Gentle, yet warming and life giving. His world is one big tropical garden, located in the most beautiful paradisaical valley he ever imagined. All around them they are surrounded by the most beautiful, tropic and alien plants he has ever seen. He calls it the green jewel of the his soul and in the middle there is a lake with the most pristine, beautiful water, filled with all kinds of colored tropical fishes.

What he likes most is that his world is alive. The air inside his world is warm and rich, just the way he likes it. The air is filled with the scent of ancient flowers and magnificent plants. The air is vibrant with all kinds of noises. If you listen carefully you can hear the insects scurrying across the jungle floor in search of pray, you can hear birds flying through the air. You can feel the ground trembling under the weight of heavy mammals. The whole forest is buzzing with life. Yet it feels tranquil and peaceful at the same time.

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{Inner World Paradise:}

During times of mental duress and despair though it changes. The air in the forest turns hostile, animals will randomly attack him and the sun will be covered by the darkest rain clouds imaginable, releasing enough rain to make Noah think it was the dry season. Lightning will tear through the darkness, setting the forest on fire, while tornadoes move through the forest like a plow. The air feels like it becomes thick like syrup, yet thin like vacuum at the same time, making it very difficult to breath.

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{Inner World under duress:}

Normally though his world always returns to it’s normal paradise state. However there is something Dain is unaware of and it relates to his vizard state. Since all he can see in his world are is the beautiful forest and spectacular mountains surrounding it, he does not see the entire picture. Perhaps it serves as a good metaphor for his vizard ability, but his entire paradise is located in the crater of a gigantic volcano. It is the reason why it is so healthy, yet it also serves as a reminder of the constant lurking danger of the hollow part of his soul.

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[Dain Sinclair]

-Overall Ability:-

Name: Reddo raifu [レッドライフ]
Base: Dain’s ability is born from two aspects of his being, one physical and one spiritual. A big part of him has always desired to help and heal the people around him. Not necessarily being a doctor, he just wanted to save lives. Albeit after his experiences as a marine, he would prefer to save people through his medical skills, rather then superior firepower. That mentality is one of the biggest influencer's of his life. The other is his blood. It turned out that Dain has an extremely rare blood type. Both a curse and a blessing. It means that he can never receive a blood transfusion from someone else. However for some reason he is a universal donor, so his blood can be given to anyone. When he found that out he began donating blood often, sometimes even field transfusions. For some reason, perhaps only known/understandable to the soul king, that gave rise to his healing blood ability.

Dain can point his Zanpakutou in the direction of an ally and fire a light blue-green fireball towards him/her. There are swirling traces of the red healing mist through the ball and upon hitting it will start healing minor wounds like small cuts and burns. It does this by transferring his blood-bots to the target. While the healing goes on the wound/intended area is covered in the light blue-green flames. It does not hurt the target, but does sterilize the air, allowing the minutes traces of blood-bots to work unhampered.

Effect: Dain has the ability to control his blood, although he is not consciously aware that it is his blood he is controlling. And to be fair it is a bit of blood mixed in with a lot of reiatsu. However what basically happens is that is blood cells get turned into living nano-bots, actively and intelligently seeking out injuries and fixing them. The stronger he becomes and the better a physician, the more efficient the blood-bots gets. They might learn how to knit bones and how to identify and remove poison from the blood stream. How and why that happens is unclear, but his main ability is to control his blood and enhance it’s healing properties.

Limit: This is based on his ability grows as he is generating more reiatsu. First of all the more reiatsu he is generating and the finer his control, the less blood-cells he needs to achieve the same effect. The second reason is because with more reiatsu he can replenish his blood-cells faster. However there is a limit to this and if he expands too much blood/reiatsu he can get exsanguinated. However it is more likely he will simply lose consciousness before that happens.

This is as much a natural fail safe as a biological effect. The simplest reason he can explain it; without enough blood his body is not capable of transporting enough oxygen to his brain, causing it to start shutting down primary apps like his consciousness to preserve the main app called life. However if he is pushed beyond his maximum or loses consciousness while still bleeding from a big wound, it is very well possible he will die from blood loss.

Manifestation: The way his ability shows through-out most of his forms and techniques is by a red glow around him. It is like a very fine mist of blood-cells hanging around him at all time. If he is healing someone merely around his hands as he hovers over te wound, in his bankai as a bubble of red mist around him. At first there was a limit to how much blood-bots he could create, but as his understanding of medicine grew and his powers got refined, he can now nearly limitless make them. Not at the same time, but as long as he is conscious and has a reiatsu reserve he will most likely not run out of blood to use. This has due to the fact that as a healer he can use Kaidou to create more/regenerate more blood cells. The stronger he is, the faster and more he can do.

While his power does allow him to heal others, the main benefit is healing himself. The main thing his ability allows is to reduce the time needed to heal someone. When Dain is healing someone (or himself) he transfers some of his blood cells into his patient. Since they are semi-sentient they can finish up closing wounds for example by themselves. Allowing Dain to stop healing a bit earlier and focus on other patients.

Don’t worry, like good sentient cells they deactivate once they run out of Dain’s reiatsu they stored. This is also why the technique is limited, although the stronger Dain is and the more reiatsu he is generating, the more energy the cells can store and the more potent they become. Eventually though they will shutdown and be disposed of by the host bodies own systems. Since his blood is a universal donor there is also no way to fear a rejection from the body. Still he does like to keep to himself how he healed people, rather then tell them.

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-Shikai Ability:-

Name: Kami no kagayaki [神の輝き]
Element: Fire
Base: Dain’s base element is fire. The element of warmth and life. When he releases his Shikai his Tanto is engulfed in a light blue-green flame. It evaporates into a red ash and reforms in the shape of a thick red shield. The basis of Dain’s Shikai is that it amplifies his ability to summon/use his blood outside his body. With the heat of his Shikai he literally forges his blood into his shield. Through the thick iron plate of the shield, there run thick pulsing veins through it, all centering into the middle of the shield.

In his Shikai form he can summon a lot of small items into his hands. For example he can shape his blood into a red scalpel. The range of the items he can summon are only limited by his imagination. However forming and keeping them in shape takes a lot of reiatsu and they remain very brittle, unusable in combat. Furthermore the average length he can summon it is very limited.

The main effect of his shikai is though the transformation from Tanto knife into a huge 600 lbs shield. Contrary to the duplicate shields he controls his main shield with his mind. Like Byakuya’s flower petals Dain controls the shield with either his mind or his hands. It moves with approximately the same speed as he could swing a sword. So if he chooses to leave it behind somewhere, it will take a while to catch up to him. Therefor Dain usually has to make a conscious choice whether to defend himself or leave the shield behind. Because it is huge, bulky and always in the way. The problem is that to control it he has to see the shield. If it is behind him, it just plows into the ground and stays there.

Effect:
- He can summon small practical items, by shaping his blood into solid form.

Limits:
- Color: always blood red
- Unusable in combat.
- Max time: 1 turns
- Max size: 12 inches / 5 KG
- Max of 1 item per turn.
- Items last 1 turn. (To be precise, only the turn they are summoned.)

Costs:
In his Shikai it costs 10 reiatsu per items he summons.

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-Bankai Ability:-

Name: Kami no kagayaku taiyō [神の輝く太陽]
Base: His Bankai creates a small bubble in which his healing is more effective. Instead of a small mist around him, a huge red dome forms around him. It creates a little world cut off from the outside word, in which healing is more effective. There is also passive healing going on on all living things. Tiny scratches will heal, dried out grass will come back to life, etc. The bigger the life force though, the less effect the passive healing has. For instance it could easily replace the limbs of a crushed ant, but it would struggle to heal anything more then a paper cut on a thirty foot beast men.

However on the average human sized patient, the most the effect will have is that it should stabilize wounds. It will slow bleeding out, hinders poison from spreading and administers a small sedative to prevent patients from squirming and making their wounds worse.

Inside his bubble world Dain can activate several abilities to enhance those healing abilities. The bubble is purely healing though and has very transparent borders that offer no defensive and offensive abilities. The best it does is obscure everyones location inside. If you are standing outside the bubble, it is as if you are staring through a lens or a body of water. It might just be that what you are seeing is not exactly where you think it is. The more abilities he has activated, the more obscure it gets though and if all three bankai abilities are active it looks as if the dome is brimming and pulsing.

Effect:
- Stabilizes wounds to some degree.
- Administers a small sedative.
- Is required for Hīringudōmu to take effect.
- Location obscuration.

Limits:
- Only small wounds/minor poisons.
- Only a tiny sedative and only local. (The sedative seeps directly into the tissue around the wound.)
- Effective range for humanoids is limited up to 10 feet around Dain.

Cost:
- 25 Reiatsu per Round.

[Dain Sinclair]

-Zanpakutou Release Forms:-

Zanapkutou Release Names:
Shikai:
- Name: Kami no kagayaki
- Phrase: “Harden, Kami no Kagayaki”
- Action: Dain throws his Tanto zanpakutou in the air where it explodes in a white cloud of smoke and emerges as a huge solid shield.

Bankai:
- Name: Kami no kagayaku taiyō
- Phrase: “Physician heal thyself, postpone the inevitable!”
- Action: Regardless of whether his zanpakutou is in it’s Tanto or shield form, it is engulfed by a bright red flame and turned into a red mist. This mist is then slowly drawn into Dain, before it explodes from him into the shape of a giant dome around him.

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-Zanpakutou Techniques: Shikai-

Shikai Techniques:
Name: 1) Fukusei Suru [複製する]:
Phrase: “Replicate and protect!”
Type: Active Effect
Action: Dain is capable of replicating his huge shield and place it in front of others with the snap of his fingers. They appear in front of those he wants to protect and then slam into the ground. They are created with his reiatsu and hardened by his own blood. They look identical to his own shield, but only hold a fraction of the originals power. It is the embodiment of his second duty as a doctor: to shield the weak and wounded. He tends to use his own shield to protect him as he heals the person in front of him. The replica’s are used to protect those who he would very like to prevent being his next patient.

There is also an supportive function. In a fight he can slam them into the ground to give support types shinigami. Or he can use them to shield offensive shinigami’s from the enemy’s line of sight for a critical moment Though those are tactics he can only efficiently use when he is fighting with a familiar and well trained squad.

Powers:
- With the snap of his fingers he can create a shield in front of someone to protect them from an incoming attack.
- Can be placed at any location and stay there, so not only on the ground, but also in the air for example.
- Can unsummon the shield with another snap of his fingers.

Limits:
- Each shield can only take one direct blow, or deflect the effects of 2 aoe attacks.
- Can only take damage equal to his spiritual strength. If more damage is done, deduce the defense from the attack power and the remaining power will hit it’s target as intended.
- Shield is very much one direction and not omni-directional. The way it faces is the only way it defends against. It is also frozen in place. Once summoned, it cannot be moved anymore.
- There is also a maximum range: Dain can only create and maintain the shields up to a distance of three hundred yards away from him. If he were to move away from a shield at the edge of his ability, it would instantly vanish.
- Furthermore he can only create 6 shields through-out the entire fight or per 24 hours.
- To unsummon the shield he has to be able to see it.(Otherwise he might accidentally remove the wrong shield.)

Cost: 50 Reiatsu per shield he creates. 25 Reiatsu per round per shield in upkeep.

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Shikai Techniques:
Name: 2) Bunkatsu shite iyasu [分割して癒す]:
Phrase: “Split and Heal!”
Type: Active Effect
Summarization: Blood Clones
Action: Dain can use his blood to form a clone of himself. Albeit clone is a bit much. He forms a transparent red humanoid form that looks like him. With more practice and strength, it will look more and more alike. It will never become realistic though. While the clones might take a more accurate shape, they will always look like red slimes pressed into a shape.

By making a cut in his skin -usually by making a cut in his right index finger- Dain is capable of drawing a few droplets of pure blood. By infusing that with his reiatsu he can shape them into clones of himself that can help him heal a bit. This ability basically allows him to create his private set of nurses, a quite handy ability on the battlefield were good help is hard to find.

Powers:
- Dain can make blood clones that have 10% of his HE stat. They can use basic Kaidou to help Dain stabilize his patients if he is alone and there are too many casualties.
- The clones can lift up and collect casualties, bringing them closer to Dain if need be.
- They are semi sentient. Once Dain has made them they will roam in search for their target. If nothing is around for them to react to, they roam like mindless zombies.

Limits:
- Clones cannot partake in combat. Every interaction with the enemy or hostile reiatsu will cause them to evaporate instantly.
- Clones cannot heal Dain. Also if Dain loses consciousness the clones vanish instantly.
- Clones only last a maximum of 3 turns
- Dain can summon a maximum of 2 clones per turn, for a maximum of 4 per fight or 24 hours. (whichever comes first)
- Clones can cast only Kaidou. No other forms if Kido.
- The clones can only cast up to Kido/Kaidou #30
- The clones are only 10% as effective as Dain, since they only have 10% his HE stat.
- The clones are not affected by his shikai/bankai abilities. Those only work on living things and the clones are merely another facet of his powers.
- Maximum range in Shikai form is 30 feet. In Bankai form his clones can roam through the entire dome. Outside they evaporate instantly.

Cost:
-25 Reiatsu per clone. 50 Reiatsu per round he keeps a clone up.
-Cost Kaidou: 10% of the original Reiatsu cost per kaidou cast.

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-Zanpakutou Techniques: Bankai-

Bankai Techniques:
Name: 1) Hīringudōmu [ヒーリングドーム]:
Phrase: Nurture and bloom, Tamashī.
Type: Active Effect
Size: A dome of 100 feet radius around Dain and 30 feet height.
Action: It effects everything caught in the dome and stabilizes them by saturating their wounds and/or afflictions with his own blood, infusing them with his own healing energy. In lay-mens terms he is using the power of his bankai to spread his healing power through-out the entire dome. This is why inside the dome it feels warm, comfortable and like it is bathing in sunlight. It can heal most smaller wounds and restore those with only minor injuries back into a fighting shape quickly. This includes all kinds of wounds, from deep cuts to burns and minor poisons.

Medium wounds like when organs are hit or a particular poison, wound is severe enough to eventually cause death, the field cannot mend by itself. What it can do is completely stabilize those patients until a medic can give them private attention. The field will stop wounds from bleeding out, poison to spread and would theoretically also keep a heart beating if it were about to fail. As it is unable to mend the wounds though, unless the person is healed, they will start deteriorating the moment they leave the field.

His field though is perhaps the most important for those deadly injured. If his field is around a person who was deadly hit, it will postpone death for 1 round, giving him time to perform emergency treatment and a chance to safe that person. For example if a shinigami gets stabbed in the heart or decapitated. The field would keep the body alive for a single turn, allowing him to try and save the person. This treatment has to be done though in the same turn this person is ‘killed’. It can’t bring back the dead, nor can it postpone it more then a fraction of a moment. Off course this is irrelevant if someones head is evaporated. He could keep the body alive for one turn, but there is no way he could rebuild the head. However in case the heart being pierced, with some of the most potent kaidou’s it might be possible to regenerate the heart quickly enough to give the medics a chance.

Powers:
- Can heal minor wounds in 1 turn
- Can stabilize medium/heavy wounds for 5 turns
- Can postpone death for 1 turn

Restrictions:
- Does not work on himself
- Maximum of 10 people at the same time can be in the shield. (Not including the medics)
- The field is centered around him at all times. So if he moves, so does the field. This makes it best if patients are brought to him, to prevent the shield from moving away from patients already at it’s edge.
- The field does not care about friend or enemy. It will heal an arrancar or akki just the same
- If he uses his bankai to save someone from certain death. In Pvp if there is a dispute, a staff member can be asked if it is successful.

Costs:
- 500 Reiatsu to activate the field
- 100 Reiatsu to upkeep the field per turn his bankai is activated.
- 50 Reiatsu per person inside the field per turn.

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Name: 2) Aruki Saru [歩き去る]:
Phrase: Walk it off.
Type: Active Effect
Size: A single touch
Action: This is his ultimate healing technique. To put simple he gathers as much as his power as possible and then simply transfer it to someone else. This will restore everything up to medium wounds instantly and restore a large portion of their reiatsu and energy. The heal is instant and merely requires Dain to touch the intended target. After being touched the recipient will feel a warm glow spreading through their body and their body putting itself back together. Bruises will vanish, cuts heal and even broken bones will set themselves, while his/her energy reserves will replenish itself. Unless the recipient knows his technique, usually they only find out by the fact that when they move the pain is gone.

There are no spectacular effects, no choirs of angels. He is a healer and his ultimate purpose is to heal someone as effectively as possible. If possible without telling the enemy his/her opponent is back in the running. Or more likely it will allow them to retreat without alerting the enemy.

However there is a drawback. To be able to heal that efficiently, Dain has to prepare it. He has to identify who he wants to use it on, their race, sex, build, their wounds etc. As a skilled physician he can adjust his power to almost every race and adept to every wound, but it will take a turn to do so. That also means his power can only be used on one target and won’t activate it he accidentally touches someone else. It also takes a lot of concentration, so while he holds the prepared technique, his actions are somewhat limited.

Strategic Uses:
- To tip a balanced, tough fight in their favor by restoring an ally to max, while their opponent stays fatigued.
- Allowing them to retreat if they are fighting a superior enemy with no chance of survival. He can sneak up to a fallen comrade, fix them up and hopefully escape without being noticed.

Effect:
- Completely heals the recipient, from minor wounds like cuts to medium wounds as broken bones. In a pinch it can regenerate cut of limbs. (Cannot reverse or postpone death from insta kill wounds like beheading or stabbed trough the heart.)
- Heals the target reiatsu for 1.5x amount of his Reiatsu cost. So at 2000 Reiatsu, he would heal 1200 Reiatsu. (40% of 2000 x 1.5 multiplier)

Restrictions:
- Can only be used on people up to the same rank and class. Any rank/class above him and the effects get halved, while his costs go up 25%, increases exponentially per rank/class difference.
- Cannot be used on himself
- Can only be used 2x in battle. Need to be 5 turns in between, otherwise he risks dying himself by exhaustion.
- The technique takes 2 turns. 1 turn to call who he uses it on and then in the next 3 turns it has to be used on that person. Failure to use it after being charged, still results in the energy loss for Dain.
- Using this skill is all he can do that turn.
- Once prepared he can move again and use kidou, but only up to any kidou below level 70. Kidou’s above that would require too much concentration and break the Aruki Saru technique.

Costs:
- 40% of his maximum reiatsu.
- If this is the cause he exceeds his bankai limit, he will be rendered unconscious instantly after performing the heal.

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Name: 3) Iyashino yokusei [癒しの抑制]:
Phrase: Healing Suppression
Type: Support Ability
Size: 25 feet (The size of his new fiery dome)
Action: As a medic Dain has specialized in all kinds of healing, studied everything he can. From the cats ability to heal itself by purring, to the abilities of trees to come back from semi-death. As a result he is well versed in most healing abilities and he inadvertently found ways to nullify them. This third ability of his bankai is the opposite of the others and it cancels out any healing. It requires his complete concentration and shutting down all his other abilities.

For this form he extends his arms towards the enemy as he draws in all the energy he has. This causes any kaidou effects to stop, as well as any shikai/bankai abilities that were active. The big red dome vanishes as he draws all the mist into the palms of his hands, causing them to glow brightly. He then closes his eyes and uses nothing but his senses to track his opponent. The moment he has visualized his target in his mind, he unleashes the enemy and completely freezes up. This skill takes 100% of his concentration and while using it he cannot even blink. This is the reason he closes his eyes and uses only his senses, as they are omni directional.

Once he casts the Yokusei his enemy burst out in a light blue-green flame that rapidly spread around him until it form a dome of light blue-green flames around him/her/it. It does not hurt him and eventually fades out enough that it is barely visible, nothing more then a shimmer.

Dain hates to use this ability unless he really has no other choice as it goes against everything he stands for as a medic. However he is not so naive to believe the battlefield is a kind enough place to always give him what he wants. When fighting with a squad or a group of allies he can use this ability as a trump card to stop a superior from healing back up and tipping the battle in their favor.

Effect:
- Cancels any and all healing in the area of his cleansing dome.

Limits:
- When he activates the third field, he becomes completely immobilized.
- Nullifies all other passive/active shikai and bankai abilities. All shields and clones vanish.
- Cannot keep up if the opponents speed is thrice his speed stat.
- Can suppress any healing lower than half his HE stat. This is cumulative.
- Can only suppress three people at a single time.
- Can only create one field at the time. So for others to get caught, they have to be within radius of the being the field is being cast upon.
- Can cast the field up to two hundred yards away from him.
- Once cast, can sustain it up to a range of one mile in any direction around him.

Cost:
- 600 Reiatsu per turn

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Name: 4) Keizoku-tekina iyashi [継続的な癒し]:
Phrase: Brace and be steadfast!
Type: Active Effect
Size: Self
Action: This is the technique Dain uses when he is forced to fight. It does not amplify his energy, speed or strength. He figured it is pointless to enhance that which is too little to make a difference. Instead when he uses this power, he focuses every ounce of energy he has on his own body. A bright red glow surrounds him and his blue eyes turn dark red. Even his skin changes color slightly into a red tone, as he is forcing more blood into his limbs and skin. This means any passive effects are negated. His dome will disappear and everything he got will be focused on himself.

The reason he does this is to grand him a continuous heal that works instantly. Basically he surrounds himself with the equivalent of a healing spell, allowing him to instantly heal all wounds. To illustrate how fast this is, this got Kaidou #92 Saisei beat by a factor of three in terms of speed and power. If you were to slash him across his chest with a blade, by the time your blade would stop making contact, the wound is already closing itself.

Of course there are limits to this. In the end it simply becomes a battle of damage versus healing power. As an grandmaster medic, with mastery in kidou, kaidou and medicinal use, the amount of healing he can generate in his bankai form is astonishing. The drawback is that is does not enhance his actual fighting skill. So if he is facing an opponent he cannot beat in skill or speed, this would make no difference. Ideally Dain would want to draw the opponent into a close ranged slug fest, where he could abandon all defense and put everything into offensive, betting his healing ability can tank the blows.

There are problems though. In this form he cannot use kidou/kaidou at all. Every fraction of his power is put into this technique. Secondly while it does not affect his offensive speed/shunpo, it does limit his defensive reactions. This has to do with the fact that he is actively suppressing nerve impulses. His power allows him to subdue pain by simply stopping the impulse to travel through his nerves to his brain. This does however also slow his reflexes. The reason this does not stop his offensive power is because offense is planned. You plan where to strike. While defense is depending on your opponent and requires split second reflexes he simply does not have like this.

That is why this technique is a last ditch effort. Dain is a healer and therefor lacks the ordinary skills to fight an equal opponent head on. He does not have the speed, strength or ability with a Zanpakutou to defeat them in a straight fight. So this technique is a gamble by putting everything into offense and hoping he can survive. He will actively run/jump through hado attacks in a straight line to get to his opponent. He will take a cut to his chest in order to swing at his opponent. If he is truly outclassed this won’t make a difference. However if it is an equal fight and he gets a bit of luck on his side, this might actually work.

It better work though as once he enters this state he loses the mental capacity to do something else. The extend of his focus goes so far that he almost enters a purely instinctual state, where higher thoughts no longer dominate. If he sets out to fight the opponent he will succeed or die trying. -unless of course the opponent decides to let him live or he is rescued.

Strategic Uses:
- Draw the attention of a superior opponent at the verge of beating/killing an ally.
- Survive an annihilation level of attack
- Escape an opponent, ignoring the attacks he receives as he makes a run for it.
- Draw the opponent into a slug fest and simply try to outlast him.

Effect:
- Constant hyper healing
- Pain Tolerance +2

Limits:
- Needs to state his intention when using this technique. Fight the enemy, run, escape etc. Once it is called though he cannot change it.
- Can only be sustained 7 turns maximum
- Can only regenerate damage that equals 75% his HE skill. If it exceeds that, he is KO instantly in a seriously wounded state.

Drawbacks:
- After the technique is used he loses his released forms and there needs to be 24 hours between uses.
- He cannot use Kidou of any kind in that state.
- Reflexes are shot
- In this state he can no longer choose to abandon it and do something else. The action he states when activating the technique is binding.
- The only exception to this is his mask/resurrection activating. If on an instinctual level he feels he cannot win, his hollow can easily push him over the edge to take it to the next level.

Costs:
- Everything. (100% reiatsu) After this is done, he is done fighting for the day. All his reserves are shot and he will need to take a 6 hour long dirt nap before he can even begin to think about using low level kidou’s. (This can off course be partially undone by other medics, restoring his reiatsu and stamina through the use of healing magic.) There is also no way to turn off this effect. Once he starts he is committed.

[Dain Sinclair]

-Masks-

Mask Appearance: When Dain enters his vizard form, it means he is being pushed to his limit. At this point he has chosen to abandon healing, support and defense and simply focuses everything on the offensive. He is being surrounded by a bright red mist, swirling closely around his body. So close that it actually shreds his clothing and forms a bright red glow around him, almost as a second skin. In this form his Tanto reforms in his hands to fight with.

So in this form he is completely naked, unarmed and only surrounded by a field of dark red mist and a glowing layer around him. If he is harmed the mist and his body will scatter like dust, only to reform itself almost instantly.

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Then off course there is the mask. It is a rather simple design, with horns and blood red, pulsating parts weaved throughout. The more prolonged his battle his, the more pulsating veins appear through the mask. When he is at his limits the mask explode in a cloud of red {blood?}, rather then crack and fall to pieces. What Dain hates most though are the hollowish yellow eyes staring back at him from the mirror.

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Ressurection Appearance:
Dain is not a fan of this form, despite the fact that he absolutely loves how he looks in it. The fact that he is using it probably means that he has lost something and it is really a last resort. The air itself seems to he howling by the pressure of his reiatsu as he unleashes this form and a wave of pitch black energy springs forward from his body. The ground trembles as he lets out a deep, primal howl.

When the black energy disperses and he emerges he is donned with a white fur with black stripes like a white tiger. The fur is not so much clothing as much as it appears to be his skin or at the very least stuck to his skin. On his right shoulder and arm he dons a shining silver pauldron and vambrace. Dark black reiatsu comes of his body like steam of a boiling cup of tea. In his hands he is holding a nodachi. The blade is white, the handle black. The blade is curved like a normal nodachi, but the spine is covered by a row of sharp teeth looking suspiciously like those of a tiger or other feline.

His mask has changed colors to a predominantly black color scheme and his horns grew roughly 10 inches in size. On his hands and feet he sports a few of claws that are about three inches long. His left hand and right foot claw are white, while his right hand and left foot are black. There is a rope tied several times around his waste accompanied with several dark brown belts.

In his resurrection Dain sports a lovely thick, muscular tail roughly 4 feet tall. He has complete control of his tail and not only can he use it to defend him, he can also use it to wield his Zanpakutou. The last trick of his tail is his favorite though. He can shoot low level kido spells from the tip. His hollows favorite way to kill in this form is wrap his tail tightly around the oppositions neck and then point the tip of his tail in the direct in his face. The look on the persons face as the tip of his tail begins to glow and the realization sets in has caused him to cackle a few chuckles.

The only thing Dain is not happy with is that in this form there is a hole the size of his fist roughly where his heart is supposed to be. He could never decide whether that was ironic, poetic or plain stupid.

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Ressurection Powers:
* Animal Instinct: In his ressurection form Dain is fighting on a much more primal level. Even when he is still in complete control of all his faculties he is not truly himself. This allows him to remain unflinching in events that would normally frighten him. It also gives him a more dominant presence on the battlefield. Walking towards his opponent, his back a bit arched, claws poised, a growl escaping from his through, the ground cracking as he smashes his tail into it… it could be considered intimidating.
* Gracefully: Dain is not naturally an elegant, stylish or flexible fighter. In his normal state he is happy that he can touch his toes while standing. In his ressurection form though he becomes much more in tune with his animal instincts and like all cats he becomes a great acrobat. He is not going to make double salto’s suddenly, but his sense of balance for example is greatly amplified, as was as his ability to almost always land on his feet.
* Bloodsand: The true and most powerful ability of Dain’s ressurection. In his ressurection form he is releasing so much reiatsu and blood into the air it actually becomes thick enough to affect his opponents. When his bloodsand ability is active, the air around him becomes like quicksand and it becomes much tougher to move through. Anything within a ten yards radius around him (in all directions) has is affected by an increased Gravitational Pressure. His reiatsu output mixed with his blood becomes so intense it can affect those of the same class.

- Type: Active —> Meaning that Dain has to declare each round whether to use it. Then until it is his turn again it is active.
- Effect: Reduces anyone who enters into his bloodsand field in regard to Gravitational Pressure by 2 classes. This mean that Dain’s Gravitational Pressure can be used on opponents of the same class of him.
* Class 1 —> 3
* Class 2 —> 4
* Class 3 —> 5
* Class 4 —> 6
* Class 5 —> 7
* Class 6 —> 8

- Limit:
* 10 Yards Radius
* Does not discriminate. Will hurt anyone who enters his range, voluntarily or not.
- Does only affect oponents of his class and lower. Does not affect characters in a higher class.

[Col Arana]

Alright! Sorry for the delay! Here we go. Vizard Hopeful so I'm going to have a sharp eye for the quality of the app and making sure it is up to par with what I would expect for a Class 1 application.

Quality-wise you look good.

As far as abilities go...

Considering the shield weighs over 600 lbs he controls it by proxy though and uses the shields power to placate it and stabilize itself in the position he desires.

Hopefully you expand on what "controls the shield by proxy" means down the line, as I'm not sure what you mean by it.

but as long as he is conscious and has a reiatsu reserve he will most likely not run out of blood to use.

This seems as though you are limited by the amount of blood in Dain's body. If Dain is using his own blood to fuel his abilities, does this risk exsanguinating him?

Kami no kagayaki [神の輝き]

Unfortunately, I'm definitely going to have to take concern with this one. A flat 2x HE boost and nothing further is not something that I'm going to approve here. There are other ways you can amplify your healing effects, besides a straight up buff to your HE. This one will probably have to be reworked, unfortunately, though I'm happy to talk to you if you want to figure out a new ability. Unfortunately the same argument applies to your Bankai. I don't mind him giving a certain boost to the efficiency of healing-based techniques. That's fine (though a 2 or 3x boost is also quite a lot, at the minimal cost for the abilities), but a flat boost is something I can't approve here, especially not an aura that boosts stats.

Aruki Saru [歩き去る]:

For the most part I think this is a very well designed technique. That said, I notice it says you can replenish 50-75% of the target's reiatsu, but I didn't see anything that determines the exact percentage. Is it just by choice? And if it is by choice, why would he not just restore the maximum every time, unless I missed additional costs for restoring additional reiatsu.


Otherwise your Zanpakuto abilities look good. I can address your Hollow powers after you've had a minute to address your Zanpakuto. I just wanted to give you your initial grading on that, as your Hollow powers may take a little longer.

[Dain Sinclair]

Changes Complete:

Ok awesome! I will tackle the issues as I work through your list. Thank you very much for your time and effort.

Alright! Sorry for the delay! Here we go. Vizard Hopeful so I'm going to have a sharp eye for the quality of the app and making sure it is up to par with what I would expect for a Class 1 application.

Quality-wise you look good.

As far as abilities go...

Considering the shield weighs over 600 lbs he controls it by proxy though and uses the shields power to placate it and stabilize itself in the position he desires.


Hopefully you expand on what "controls the shield by proxy" means down the line, as I'm not sure what you mean by it.

Ok changed it. He now controls the shield with his mind or hands like byakuya. It is much slower and unwieldy though and if he cannot see it he cannot control it.

but as long as he is conscious and has a reiatsu reserve he will most likely not run out of blood to use.

This seems as though you are limited by the amount of blood in Dain's body. If Dain is using his own blood to fuel his abilities, does this risk exsanguinating him?

Ok I rewrote it a little bit. Yes he can die from bloodloss if things go badly. Hope this works for you. As an overal ability it is purely rp. No real costs/benefits here. Just an explanation of how his power works.

Kami no kagayaki [神の輝き]


Unfortunately, I'm definitely going to have to take concern with this one. A flat 2x HE boost and nothing further is not something that I'm going to approve here. There are other ways you can amplify your healing effects, besides a straight up buff to your HE. This one will probably have to be reworked, unfortunately, though I'm happy to talk to you if you want to figure out a new ability. Unfortunately the same argument applies to your Bankai. I don't mind him giving a certain boost to the efficiency of healing-based techniques. That's fine (though a 2 or 3x boost is also quite a lot, at the minimal cost for the abilities), but a flat boost is something I can't approve here, especially not an aura that boosts stats.

Okay changes this. Undid the boosts and turned them into rp abilities. I hope this is okay.

Aruki Saru [歩き去る]:


For the most part I think this is a very well designed technique. That said, I notice it says you can replenish 50-75% of the target's reiatsu, but I didn't see anything that determines the exact percentage. Is it just by choice? And if it is by choice, why would he not just restore the maximum every time, unless I missed additional costs for restoring additional reiatsu.


Otherwise your Zanpakuto abilities look good. I can address your Hollow powers after you've had a minute to address your Zanpakuto. I just wanted to give you your initial grading on that, as your Hollow powers may take a little longer.

Okay I editted it. I hope this works better.

Other Changes:

- Shikai Ability 2: Added the blood clones.
- Bankai Ability 3: Added healing supression
- Zanpakutou Ability: Rewrote it a bit and added text to it.

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Heya Batamo, I'm gonna be taking over for Col in terms of getting you that 1/2!

Regarding your app and the Vizard requirements, I think it's safe to say that everything here blows the minimum requirements out of the water. Everything looks absolutely great! That said, I think it's safe to say we can move onto the powers portion of the app!

Powers:

Okay! So, under the techniques section of your app, it says that you've 3 technique slots already taken. Did you mean for this to be used by the custom skills you have right below it? If so, then you need not mark those as techniques, as they don't take up slots! If you didn't mean that however, please keep in mind that Vizards only get one starting technique at creation. As far as the custom skills go, I've no problem with them! Both of them are certainly far from something crazy powerful, and I wholeheartedly believe that a Kaido Mastery skill certainly has a plethora of uses!

Shikai Overall Ability:

I really like this! It's simple, yet gives rise to quite the plethora of unique applications! Only thing I'd say about it is that instead of having a max amount of time the items can last in seconds, track this via a post count. Time is very lucid on site, and it makes keeping track of time-based abilities incredibly difficult. 

Bankai Overall Ability:

For this, I'd just say to give it a defined range. By "local", did you mean something more akin to up to 5 feet away or something closer to 20?

With overall abilities out of the way, let's move on to techniques!

Fukusei Suru:

I feel like this is honestly a bit underwhelming. There's a rather significant amount of drawbacks attached to it that don't necessarily need to be there in my opinion. Firstly, I think you can definitely afford to have these shields function off of your Full Spiritual Pressure or Reiatsu Strength, instead of half. As a Medic type, those numbers aren't going to be too high as is, so there's no reason that you can't have that at full power if you'd like! I also don't think removing a shield by deactivating Shikai is entirely necessary if you'd like to change that to allowing Dain to just will them away whenever he'd like!

Bunkatsu Shite Iyasu:

I've no concerns with this technique at all! Considering they can't be used for combat, they're all good!

Hīringudōmu:

Regarding the dome's size; when you say width, did you mean radius, diameter, or circumference? Other than that, while this technique is very powerful, the drawbacks absolutely help to outweigh that and make this technique really well-made! One thing I'd say though is that I don't think you'd necessarily need a Staff member to make the final judgement regarding the save from death. I'd be okay leaving that up to your better judgement, especially considering you've already outlined that should something make healing impossible, then there's nothing that can be done! 

Aruki Saru:

For Aruki Saru, I don't think that the Rank and Class limitations are inherently necessary. I'd be okay if you'd like to allow it to be used on those with equal or lower Rank and Class compared to Dain! Other than that, I very much like this technique. Though, just for clarification, I'm having a little bit of trouble understanding just how much Reiatsu this gives to a target. 1.5x the cost of 2000 reiatsu would be 3000 granted. Is this what you meant?

Iyashino yokusei:

I've no problem with this technique. Bankai-level strength, with appropriate drawbacks. Looks good!

Keizoku-tekina iyashi:

This technique is good in my opinion. It's a last-ditch technique, and as such deserves that strength. I'd think you'd be okay with bumping that up to 75% of Dain's HE instead of half. Also, for costs, what did you mean by "Everything"? Does this mean that it uses up all of his remaining reiatsu?

Resurrection Powers:

These are pretty solid for the most part. That said though, I don't think Bloodsand where it's currently at is something I can pass. A speed debuff like that is really, really harsh with relatively minimal drawbacks attached to it. Plus this bypasses the rule regarding minimal stats after debuffs, which prevents stats from being reduced below 25% of their original total; this cuts that down to 20%. I'm absolutely willing to work something out with you for this though! I just don't think a speed debuff for the sake of a speed debuff here is the way to go.

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All-in-all, I think everything here is very cohesive and well built! After these changes are made, and any questions that you may have answered, we should be able to get you that 1/2!

[Dain Sinclair]

Heya Batamo, I'm gonna be taking over for Col in terms of getting you that 1/2!

Regarding your app and the Vizard requirements, I think it's safe to say that everything here blows the minimum requirements out of the water. Everything looks absolutely great! That said, I think it's safe to say we can move onto the powers portion of the app!

Thank you so very much! It really does me good to hear that. I am doing a little revamp here, but just optical. Like spelling errors, putting the likes in alphabetical order etc. I will send you a poke when I am done, but that won’t change anything about him. Just as I said optical changes.

Powers:

Okay! So, under the techniques section of your app, it says that you've 3 technique slots already taken. Did you mean for this to be used by the custom skills you have right below it? If so, then you need not mark those as techniques, as they don't take up slots! If you didn't mean that however, please keep in mind that Vizards only get one starting technique at creation. As far as the custom skills go, I've no problem with them! Both of them are certainly far from something crazy powerful, and I wholeheartedly believe that a Kaido Mastery skill certainly has a plethora of uses!

Ah no I simply jumped the gun and picked the three techniques I wanted. Then I was told I can only do that after being graded, so I removed them. I guess I forgot that sentence. They are: Reiatsu Orb, Reiatsu Warmth and Hīringuōbu (Healing Orb). I figured those are basic enough I could probably learn them in the academy and make good starting techniques for a medic in the academy. However since that is premature, for now I simply removed that line. Hope it works for you now.

*facepalm* and only now does it sink it to me you said vizards get only one starting technique XD. Okay when the time comes I will only start with Reiatsu Orb. Fair enough. ^..^ Also delighted you approved my custom skills.

Shikai Overall Ability:

I really like this! It's simple, yet gives rise to quite the plethora of unique applications! Only thing I'd say about it is that instead of having a max amount of time the items can last in seconds, track this via a post count. Time is very lucid on site, and it makes keeping track of time-based abilities incredibly difficult.

Okay that is great advice, thank you. Changed it to 1 item per turn and they only last 1 turn. (The turn they are summoned in. Basically every turn he automatically starts out with no items. Hope this works for you.)

Bankai Overall Ability:

For this, I'd just say to give it a defined range. By "local", did you mean something more akin to up to 5 feet away or something closer to 20?

Ah no here I meant local as a medical term. Like a local anesthetic. So local in reference to the wound on the patient.

I do however see your point. I figured that the effect would be felt through-out my entire bankai, which is a big dome. However the effects would be strongest around his person. I you want I can make it an effective range for humanoids to be 10 feet. I figured that if he sat patiently in the center, people could be treated who were lying in a circle around him. You know what… I actually do like that. It is done. I hope this meets the standards Juuli.

With overall abilities out of the way, let's move on to techniques!

Fukusei Suru:

I feel like this is honestly a bit underwhelming. There's a rather significant amount of drawbacks attached to it that don't necessarily need to be there in my opinion. Firstly, I think you can definitely afford to have these shields function off of your Full Spiritual Pressure or Reiatsu Strength, instead of half. As a Medic type, those numbers aren't going to be too high as is, so there's no reason that you can't have that at full power if you'd like! I also don't think removing a shield by deactivating Shikai is entirely necessary if you'd like to change that to allowing Dain to just will them away whenever he'd like!

Okay wow… I like you so much. Thank you Juuli. Those two lines are gone! You are the best.

Bunkatsu Shite Iyasu:
I've no concerns with this technique at all! Considering they can't be used for combat, they're all good!

Awesomesauce!

Hīringudōmu:

Regarding the dome's size; when you say width, did you mean radius, diameter, or circumference? Other than that, while this technique is very powerful, the drawbacks absolutely help to outweigh that and make this technique really well-made! One thing I'd say though is that I don't think you'd necessarily need a Staff member to make the final judgement regarding the save from death. I'd be okay leaving that up to your better judgement, especially considering you've already outlined that should something make healing impossible, then there's nothing that can be done!

Ehhh math… right. Whichever I can get away with? *cheeky look. >..>* No I think I meant radius. It gives him a bit of moving space. I have changed Width to Radius. If this is too much I would also be completely happy to change it to diameter. Basically I was just imagining a smaller version of byakuya’s dome. Though I just realized I don’t know how big that Zenkei was and looks can be deceiving.

Okay… I am putting in Radius. If that is too much, just pm me and I will change it to diameter. ) Also changed the death thingie a bit. It now reads that only in pvp, if there is a dispute, a staff member can be asked for a ruling. Though I am pretty sure this is already a thing, I just don’t like the idea of Dain/me deciding to run around like god, deciding I defy death, regardless.

Also thank you very much for the compliment. I had a lot of fun designing this ability and I am glad it came out well.

Aruki Saru:

For Aruki Saru, I don't think that the Rank and Class limitations are inherently necessary. I'd be okay if you'd like to allow it to be used on those with equal or lower Rank and Class compared to Dain! Other than that, I very much like this technique. Though, just for clarification, I'm having a little bit of trouble understanding just how much Reiatsu this gives to a target. 1.5x the cost of 2000 reiatsu would be 3000 granted. Is this what you meant?

Ah right I think this is my mistake. I meant up to his rank and class. I just wanted to make sure that as an academy student he could not heal 75% of a captain, as he probably lacks the reiatsu to even restore a few % of a strong captain. This was meant as an upper limit cap, not downwards. Thank you for catching that Juuli. You are a peach!

As for the healing, no it is a tiny bit less straight forward. Since he can only spend 40% of his reiatsu on this technique. So 40% of 2000 is 800. Now to make it more of a healing technique and show some expertise, rather then a straight 1:1 transfer, I threw in the 1.5 multiplier. 800x1.5= 1200 Reiatsu. I added the explanation. I do hope this is okay.

Iyashino yokusei:

I've no problem with this technique. Bankai-level strength, with appropriate drawbacks. Looks good!

Awesomesauce. Color me surprised and delighted! Thank you.

Keizoku-tekina iyashi:

This technique is good in my opinion. It's a last-ditch technique, and as such deserves that strength. I'd think you'd be okay with bumping that up to 75% of Dain's HE instead of half. Also, for costs, what did you mean by "Everything"? Does this mean that it uses up all of his remaining reiatsu?

You are too kind Juuli. Thank you. Changed it! Also yes that is actually what I meant. Maybe I went a bit dramatic there with everything. XD I’ll add 100% reiatsu just to be sure. ^^<.>^^

Resurrection Powers:

These are pretty solid for the most part. That said though, I don't think Bloodsand where it's currently at is something I can pass. A speed debuff like that is really, really harsh with relatively minimal drawbacks attached to it. Plus this bypasses the rule regarding minimal stats after debuffs, which prevents stats from being reduced below 25% of their original total; this cuts that down to 20%. I'm absolutely willing to work something out with you for this though! I just don't think a speed debuff for the sake of a speed debuff here is the way to go.

Okay let’s discuss this. As the only reference point for this was Zeich and he thought this looked roughly okay. Though I am pretty sure he only glanced as I asked and did not read the debuff was so much. So let’s talk this through and find something that works.

All-in-all, I think everything here is very cohesive and well built! After these changes are made, and any questions that you may have answered, we should be able to get you that 1/2!

Thank you, you are the best!

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After looking everything over after changes were made, and having discussed on how to fix up Bloodsand, I'm happy to give this a 1/2! I look forward to threading with Dain!

[Col Arana]

- Max time: 15 seconds

I would generally refrain from using this sort of timeframe. Time that passes in posts is pretty flexible, and in a given thread, 15 seconds could well be a fraction of a paragraph, or seven entire posts of high-speed combat. I would instead use posts as your general time-count for how long an ability lasts. As you appear to be going for a shorter duration for your ability, I’d recommend one to two posts, though you’ve got enough limits on this ability that it could be more if you wanted.


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Otherwise, I'm quite impressed. Although Dain's powers play with a lot of abilities that I'm normally quite leery at, I'd say you've done an excellent job balancing them, and putting enough limits on them that they are unlikely to be used for anything other than their intended purpose. Bravo.

Once you adjust the time issue I mentioned above, I'll be more than happy to give my 2/2 on this.

[Dain Sinclair]

Hi Col, thank you so very much. I am very much happy and honoured by such high praise. I really am.

Changed it to one turn. Maybe it could be more, but 1 turn works perfectly for this so I'll leave it at that. :3

Again thank you very much.

domo arigatou gozaimasu