Akita Himura [Squad 13 - Training Tier]

[Akita Himura]

Akita Himura

{{Character Theme}}

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Discord Name: Many Meats#1463

Password 1: Kitai's Debt

Password 2: Sanctus Teamwork

Type: Soul Specialist v1

Affiliation: Gotei, Squad 13

Rank: Unseated Officer

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{{DEMOGRAPHICS}}

Name: Himura, Akita

Mortal Death: N/A

Current Age: 85

Apparent Age: ~25

Birthday: 4th November

Blood Type: O-Negative

Height: 5'11" / 1.81m

Weight: 165 lbs

Measurements: 32-22-33

Hair Color: Raven Black

Eye Color: Icy Blue

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{{APPEARANCE}}

In a different time, in a different place, in a different life, Akita's eyes would radiate a warmth, understanding, kindness, and compassion that people would look up to. A face that spoke of love and understanding and the wisdom of a life long-lived. But in actuality, Akita was 'cursed' with cold, distant, remorseless eyes that spoke of jaded indifference. Soft, icy blue eyes like the frost that pinned a boulder in place over a long winter, wrapped and framed by hair the color of comfortless black. This very well behaved hair stopped just barely above her shoulders, each strand perfectly aligned with its neighbor. Most commonly it hung straight but on the occasion it needed to be pulled up off of her neck, Akita rests her hair in a high ponytail or space buns.

The olive-mocha tone of her skin leaves very little need for most makeup beyond some blush and eyeliner. Akita's complexion is almost boringly perfect without much interesting to talk about other than how much the warmth of its tone clashes with and plays against the color of her eyes. She does take great care and pride in her eyeliner often varying style and design day by day between 10 or 20 different basic types, and the variations therein.

Beyond the face, the frame is both chiseled and athletic. Naturally a gifted athlete, Akita has very well defined musculature that emphasizes natural gifts with decades of hard work and discipline. She takes her role in a military force very seriously and believes strongly in wellness of body and mind, working out one in order to support the other. Because of these habits, she often wraps parts of her body in bandages which assist with grip and which may also be medicated with soothing ointments to help with muscle soreness and recovery. It's not unusual for her to smell very earthy or herbaceous from the scent of these wraps although she is careful to remove them before places she intends to go casually, or where stealth and concealment are necessary. Most of this strength is purely a reflection of her time in the gym and less so the power of her soul over her physical body.

She wears her uniform with standard address and without extra accommodation. Although the sleeves are let out just sightly for better flexibility, the waist remains tied tightly, her posture rigid, and the rest of her presentation impeccable. She allows herself several personal accents in the form of wrist and arm bangles usually gold or bronze in color which could be easily slipped off if need be. Should you catch her in her free time, all these same accents remain but she also adds numerous rings to both her fingers and toes in various and expressive styles. The outfits that go with them are very 'modern' by human standards if not slightly on the conservative side, usually simply jeans and a blouse with a jacket over top. Akita is also quite fond of sunglasses, especially Aviators.

The aura that surrounds this Shinigami is best described as 'steady chaos', radiating out from her in a diamond-shaped pattern and sounding and feeling strongly of television static. Her energy causes a tingle, an almost itchy feeling that clings to the back of the neck and the roof of the mouth, and lingers on the ears even after she has parted. Much like TV static, sometimes the eye can trick itself into seeing patterns in the madness, or losing sight of the woman in the middle, or catching the shape of something else within when they regard her indirectly. It's all just a trick of the eye, I'm sure...

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{{PERSONALITY}}

{{Dislikes / Likes}}

||Flexibility|| No idea is too small to expand upon. And just because a thing is done in a certain way, that is no excuse to accept it can or must only be done in that same way in the future.
||Tattoos|| Although she only has a few herself, Akita has a deep appreciation for the beauty, design, and message of tattoos and all the various forms they take.
||Persuasion|| It's a bit strange to say but she loves being talked into things, and in turn talking other people into things. The changing of ones mind with an altered perspective or new information.
||Professional Wrestling|| She knows it's staged but she doesn't care. The larger than life personalities, the pagentry, it's all blends to an amazing imaginative spectacle!
||Quiet Nights|| Some of her favorite memories that don't involve other people are just vibing with the universe, along under a starry sky of possibilities and memories.

||Spinelessness|| When someone is upset, they should speak up about it. Voice it. Scream it if you have to.
||Pacifism|| Surrendering your control, running away from a violent world that doesn't care if you put up a fight or not? It's antithetical. If you want to live, prove it.
||Close-Mindedness|| As you might expect, someone who values changing perspectives and altered moods and minds has a deep hatred of people who block that out.
||Indifference|| Take a side, you wimp! If you remove yourself from decisions or if you "don't care" then other people get to decide for you and that's just awful.
||Karma|| If the universe makes things balance out then the work a soul does is kind of irrelevant, isn't it? It's up to you to balance the equation, not some vague and unconscious universe.

{{Habits}}
||Personal Boundaries|| A big fan of camaraderie and 'family' between squad-mates, Akita speaks informally, and uses informal body-language and conduct.

||Altered Consciousness|| Changing her perspective on the world around her, her problems, her relationships, is one of her most cherished pass-times and she admires the practice in others.

||Self-Care|| She always takes time to pamper herself. Skin-care routines, spa days, manicures and pedicures, facial masks, teeth whitening and cleaning, and much more.
||Singer Extraordinaire|| Poetry and song are constantly on her lips. She plays songs to death until she knows every word and then she, of course, starts singing them. Her voice is pretty good too.

{{Flaws}}
||Competitive|| Measuring yourself against others is the only way to be even sort of sure if you're good or bad at something. This makes her susceptible to take on challenges she should not.

||Drunk|| People give her a lot of credit for being so functional and for holding her liquor so well but she's just practiced at having one foot over the line. She's a drunk.

||Party Animal|| Distinct from being a drunk, as that does not require other people, she finds herself inexorably drawn to places, people, and events that can easily be confused with parties.
||Shameless|| Although there is good cause to call this a positive attribute as much as it is a flaw, there is value in being able to recognize and confront shame for your actions. She is devoid of this notion.

{{Goals}}

||Officership|| She believes one day the Seireitei will come to recognize her true worth as a soldier and an officer.
||True Companionship|| There is someone out there for everyone. Although Akita has taken more than her fair share of lovers over her many long years, she has remained tragically unattached.

||Family|| To simply move her family somewhere she can feel good about their security and safety, likely to an inner district in the 6-10 range.

{{Fears}}

||Isolation|| Never finding that person, never truly making friends. Having nobody there for you when you're feeling down, facing illness, or facing death.
||Total Rejection|| She knows she can be tough to live with, or even work with. She wants to be herself with total freedom, and she knows that can be dangerous.

||Expectations|| Should something finally live up to the hype, or exceed it, she would be forced to re-evaluate and change her entire life.

{{Alignment - Chaotic Neutral}}

For Akita, good and evil are complimentary points on a scale of balance. Neither is preferential over the other, nor can one ever truly prevail over the other. In fact, acts which irreversibly tip the scales would jeopardize what few things she actually stands for and must be prevented whenever reasonable. Randomness and Disorder are the default state so that greater fragments of order may rise up. Eventually, these too will be consumed back into the chaos. Ashes to ashes.

{{Overall Personality}}

Disillusionment and struggles with Discipline have played powerful roles in Akita's life and that has caused her to cycle, sometimes violently, between extremes in personality. Disillusionment requires that a person first have expectations and preconceptions about situations and the self, and Akita eagerly builds these up in her head. She enjoys watching people from afar and imagining what their life is like, imagining their jobs, their habits. She is keen to quietly observe and follow a person, noting their flaws, likes, dislikes, interactions, and relationships in order to construct her mental picture of them as a person. To this end, she finds plenty of excuses to insert herself into other people's lives; a trait her squad-mates remind her makes her deeply unattractive as a romantic partner.

Eventually, her half-informed opinion takes a clear enough shape that she can feel comfortable in saying she understands them. After she becomes impatient or bored, or, if something spontaneous happens to test the image she has of a person, she will invariably find the whole affair to be, well, at least a little disappointing. What she has built them up to be in her head is simply...sad. A letdown. Eventually, she winds herself up again by finding new fixations and trends to invest her mental energy in. Much of the above is why she gravitates towards fashion and culture and partying and flitting between tasks. There is no shortage of constantly changing trends and outlooks and social lubricants which offer potentially limitless variation.

Discipline, then, is a window into her desire to make something 'stick' to her. To allow herself to be affected by and changed by habits and people and things around her. A sort of...insincere attempt to 'fake it until you make it' in many aspects of her life. Attempting to apply and adhere to discipline in many of these matters which she doesn't ultimately like or isn't genuinely interested in leads to resentment and the disillusionment that poisons her life. A nasty cycle of exposing herself to the wrong thing in the wrong way for until it she is safely past the point where it drives her somewhere new.

To those she calls friends, Akita is capable of meeting the highest highs and the lowest lows, often in close proximity to one another. She is a friend for all seasons, so to speak, but which season you'll be getting is sometimes unreliable. Other than her drunken benders, her friends know her to be a thoughtful and intelligent woman who prefers to listen rather than speak. A bit of a brat, a bit of a smart-ass, but ultimately supportive. They just wish she could turn some of her advice inward and improve herself for a change, or at the least, be aware of her own double-standards and bullshit and call herself out for them.

Professionally, she is precise and exacting in her work. She handles assignments with a high degree of focus and is especially motivated to carry out tasks that will expose her to people places and things she has not seen before. In the past, she has been accused of dawdling on certain assignments because she is indulging her own fascinations rather than completing what was asked, and likewise accused of moving on too fast to get to the next new thing. She's a talker as much as she is a fighter and her performance reviews have historically pointed this out as a 'flaw'.

Combat with her is a microcosm of her other problems. She goes through the same cycles she wraps herself up in with the other phases of her life; there is a crescendo where she is impressed with her opponents and studies them closely, giving them credit for all sorts of talent and skill possibly grossly out of line with the truth. Unavoidably, she comes to feel she has overestimated her foe. Their bravado was unsustainable. They had one brief moment in the sun where they pushed beyond who they were but now they have fallen back down to Earth and she is...disappointed. And ready to move on. When she reaches this point, she looks to disengage through either ending combat or walking away in the case of especially pathetic foes. But if pushed, she will surrender to what they ask of her and unleash her power.

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Birthplace: Rukongai District 39 West

Current Residence: Squad 13 Complex

Memorable Figures:

Himura Junpei (Father),

Himura Yukiko (Mother),

Himura Yuchiro (Oldest brother),

Kawaro Boumei (Shinigami inspiration),

Shinjo Juchiro (Squad 13 mentor)

{{HISTORY}}

The fruit of a loving union, Akita was born to a wholesome couple in the 39th District of the Rukon. Part of a large, mismatched family like so many others around her she was spared as much of calamity of the outer districts as she could reasonably be allowed to miss. Little was provided for her, and her and her siblings worked together of many different schemes and jobs to keep clothing on their backs and some small comforts for one another.

Throughout these formative years they often attempted complex confidence scams on travelers through their district, disarming and distracted them by involving many children in many different roles. They often pretended to be other people, sometimes crossing their names with one another making them tougher to identify, and would script elaborate stories to deepen their web. Thankfully with a child-like mind this was a lot more than than it was sad but as Akita grew older, the reality took deeper root. They were poor. Very fucking poor.

Her father did some cooking and sold some craft foods like 100-year-eggs and aged soy sauce. But he also brewed some small batches of beers and liquors which made him a very popular man around the neighborhood. There was never any shortage of folks coming by to see her mom and dad, share a story, having a drink, and entertain the whole clan with news from around the Soul Society both fresh and old. Inevitably, between schemes and games the kids played, Akita would help her papa out by assisting with prep cooking or sales or hauling stuff, as her age and strength allowed. This is actually the first hint anyone at all had that Akita may be spiritually inclined: an appetite after such strenuous work.

Akita clearly and distinctly remembers the first time she ever met a Shinigami; one stopped by her father's Soju cart in pursuit of a lawless rogue that had fled the Seireitei. While the warrior took a load off from their travels and availed himself of their hospitality, Akita's father allowed her to sit and listen and take in his stories of travel to realms beyond and across the vast landscape of the Soul Society. She was fascinated. Immediately drawn. The warrior left the next morning with a simple word of thanks, and a word of encouragement for the child. Her father forgave his tab in exchange for the stories and compassion shown to his daughter but in her more jaded adulthood, Akita would come to learn that this was not a choice her father made of his own free will.

As the years carried on and this simple dream of travel and experience dwelt within her, Akita took upon herself to explore as best she could. She helped people search far and wide, earning some coin hunting down missing folks or running down leads for lives that people left behind, or their debts, or other obligations. The more she learned about the Rukon the more she learned her wanderlust and disillusionment were not unique but few had the courage or capacity to change their lot.

With business continuing to improve, the years brought Akita and her family all the way to District 15. Continuing to refine her techniques, she was eventually noticed (thanks to this closer proximity) by Shinigami who were out on patrol and with an open mind to potential recruits. After spending two days with the young woman, satisfying she was drawing in spiritual energy and that she did possess relevant skills, an invitation was extended.

One tearful goodbye later she embarked upon a four-year journey through the Spiritual Arts Academy. It was during this time that she came to learn that the Shinigami she had looked up to so many years ago as a source of inspiration for her travels and career? Had been killed in some terrible event that befell Squad 13. She swore quietly to herself that she would see this path through and to follow in his steps until such a time as she felt that his inspiration had been met with worthy effort. From then on the rest would be up to her.

Redoubling her efforts, she completed her graduation and spent a year or so Unassigned and in limbo as the Gotei decided how to sort out the aftermath of the Squad 13 massacre. When the ranks were finally re-opened, she was recruited into their number with open arms where she continues to serve today and sort herself out. Perhaps the opportunity that lay before her will give this relatively young Shinigami that drive necessary to mature and make something great of herself.

[Akita Himura]

{{POWERS}}

{{Fighting Style}}

Demonstrating all the signature traits of headstrong and stubborn people, Akita is certainly prone to try to 'do it on her own' when first approaching any problem. As she continues to mature as a Shinigami, however, it becomes more and more clear to her that in spite of all the effort she pours into sculpting her body and maintaining her fitness, she is ultimately a Soul of a different sort of power. Cold is subtle, quick, enveloping. It can sap warmth slowly and cause you to gradually come to a crawl as your body shuts down, or, it can leap upon you in a frigit blast or arctic howl. Akita models her attack in much the same way preferring to hound opponents in close-to-medium range with spells until it's time to finish them off.

She prefers to engage people at a distance with her admittedly limited reserve of Kido first, testing their limits and watching the rate at which they expend their energy. It's her hope to extend the small advantages early, drawing them out to greater value later. Although she is certainly capable with a sword, she prefers to not clash steal until and unless she must release her Zanpakuto.

Speaking of which, Akita is very fond of her release. The infinitely variable pattern of the snows and crystallizing reiatsu give her endless shows of joy and appreciation. A simple pleasure serving as a prelude to a barbaric act. The deep respect she hold for her Spirit and her own power is apparent, as she changes from the wild, reckless child to a somber warrior upon its release. Although her demeanor and approach is substantially different, the skills she exercises remain mostly the same. Using the cold at her command, she lobs ranged attacks and concealed spells at close-to-medium range until her opponent is ready to succumb.

It is worth noting that, although she is very considerate about when and where she might release her Zanpakuto because of the effects it can have on the area (and people and creatures) around her, she does not care for any such distinctions once she had made the decision to Release.

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起承転結

Kishōtenketsu

{{Zanpakuto Spirit Appearance}}

Kishōtenketsu is represented by a tall and lithe woman blessed with a predatory grace. Compact in movement and appearance, like a coiled spring ready to unleash its energy. She speaks in sultry baritones and using evocative and fiery language that carries passion and madness. Like a former lover calling you at 4am, you both know its no good but you want to listen, you want to feel, you want to be swept away by what she has to say. The fabric of her kimono constantly billows and flows in an endless and never-repeating cascade, as if it were suspended under water.

{{Inner World}}

Akita's inner world is a dark mirror of Earth, namely the streets of the city of Kyoto dilapidated and in ruin. This is especially strange because Akita first visited her Inner World years before having ever set foot on Earth. And considering she was born a Pure Soul in the Soul Society (having never lived and died on Earth) this quandary continues to cause her great confusion and suspicion. This city-scape is modern, but devoid of all actual life and most of the colors are washed out. Only the piercing glow of electric neon breaks up the landscape of gray which can be found in many surprising places. Many dark corners of this realm hint at colors which are muted and suppressed, rather than drain.

Although Akita is free to roam the streets of this inner world, every single doorway leads to the same interior room. A dark, dilapidated thing containing one high-backed armchair facing away from the door. The ceiling above, missing, gives a plain view of a cosmic night whose sky marbled with fantastical nebulae and a single black hole surrounded by an accretion disk.

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{{Sealed Zanpakuto Appearance}}

The Sealed form of the Zanpakuto is rather unremarkable in make aside from its length. At 40-inches, it is long for a katana but falls short of greater classification. The tsuba is roughly oval-shaped and is etched to resemble a traditional "lucky coin", with the blade occupying the rectangular hole in the middle. A blood-groove runs the length of the blade and helps to off-set the greater weight as a result of its length. The hilt is wrapped with a black cloth around a dark red sharkskin leather. The scabbard, lacquered black, is stamped with the gold outline of a banzai which twists up and down its length, but is otherwise free of adornment.

{{Overall Ability}}

While in possession of her blade, Akita is immune to the complications of temperature and can interact harmlessly with very hot or very cold objects. This also gives her a degree of control over how cold any given object is, and she is able to lower the temperature of things she touches. In actuality, it is her blade soaking up the warmth of the object causing its temperature to lower, although she may not necessarily understand this. Although she is 'fine' with respect to temperature, this does not help her deal with any of the complications that come with things like fire; the smoke is still a problem, explosions still hurt, etc. This ability also often causes her to physically steam when she touches hot things, or sometimes emit a sound like ice cracking and melting on particularly hot days.

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{{Shikai Appearance}}

Akita speaks the command phrase, "Kaminashizuki", and runs her hand down the length of the blade. Her aura erupts into a swirling polar vortex which causes reiatsu in the air to grow so cold that it crystalizes around the battlefield. The aura tightens after this initial burst and the howling arctic winds slow down and calm as her energy wraps itself around her and her sword. The katana becomes an almost ghostly adamantine-blue color, it's cutting edge coated in frost.

{{Shikai Ability}}

Kaminashizuki expands her intimate connection with the gelid vastness of space, allowing her soul to use, guide, manipulate, and otherwise command 'cold' into various techniques. Her sword itself gains a substantial increase in its ability to damage or destroy objects, turnings mundane items into frozen crumbles with but a moment's contact. Although this blade cuts truly, the wounds it causes are typically instantly cauterized by freezing the area around where she hits. Command of ice, ice shards, etc within 40m is a mental action on Akita's part however this provides no real precision or specific control; it merely points them in a direction and the cold flows. These blasts of cold travel at 400 speed, but in noticeably warm areas or in the presence of otherwise 'hot' effects, this speed is reduced to 200. If she wishes to effect a construct appropriate to this power which belongs to someone else, she much reach 2x their OS in order to control it.

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(神は死んだ, 凍った宇宙)

Kamihashinda, Kōtta uchū

{{Bankai Appearance}}

Clutching her fingers around the hand-guard, her katana begins to vibrate and crack as she speaks the command phrase, "Bankai Kishōtenketsu: Kamihashinda, Kōtta Uchū" (lit. 'god is dead, frozen universe'). Her sword completes the incantation by crumbling into nothing as her tightly wound aura explodes. Every last drop of energy is sapped from the area as all things around her flash freeze; flowing waters become as glaciers, buildings become frozen tombs, reaitsu crystallizes, and even small critters trapped in the area become as fossils in the amber. The calm induced by this effect is almost total but it is also brief. Soon after, things frozen by this power begin to crack and break apart, drifting upward into the sky and taking to 'orbit' around her.

{{Bankai Ability}}

For those unfortunate enough to see it, Kamihashinda is a beautiful and deadly end to a cold, indifferent universe. The arctic blasts and chunks of ice produced by this effect are very similar to the blasts of cold in the Shikai form, however far more intense. Where as before, a cold chill slows all things until they can no longer battle against the inevitable end, this simply freezes them where they stand or crushes them beneath the broken memory of the things that came before.

Souls with Cold Resistance are able to shrug off some (or all) of the chilling effects of this Bankai:

Cold Resistance 1: 50% slow for 4 posts

Cold Resistance 2: 33% slow for 4 posts

Cold Resistance 3: 33% slow for 2 posts

Cold Resistance 4: Unhindered

Things flash frozen by this power will eventually thaw when the Bankai is sealed once again, if they are in the proper climate for such a thing to happen. This does little good to living creatures within its radius, and the scars of this action can be felt far and wide for weeks or even months after she has left. This specific effect is cinematic/scenic in nature

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{{Zanpakuto Techniques}}

#1 - Kōri no ya // Arrow of Ice // Shikai
A simple flick of the wrist as reiatsu surges down her arm lobs a blob of ice-cold reiatsu at a target. This is not dissimilar to a Bala fired from an Arrancar, although it is not as fast and takes a slightly arced path as if it were tossed rather than shot. When this ball strikes a target, it splashes, bursting like a bubble and scattering gelid reiatsu on the surrounding area. This doesn't have any additional effect on the subject of the initial strike, but it does effect scenery. Speed: 800, Cost: 150 Reiatsu.

#2 - Kōri no shōchō // Sign of Ice // Shikai
By plunging the blade into the target and expending reiatsu, Kaminashizuki marks a target for inevitably consumption by the cold. This Sign remains dormant, doing no damage the time of impact, but it continues to sap warmth and gain power every passing moment until the seal is released. By forgoing damage, she gains the option to reflexively spend Reiatsu in following rounds in order to power up the Sign. 150 Reiatsu spent means the attack is treated with an additional 25% OS. This requires 50 Reiatsu to activate and can only be done once a round per Sign, to a maximum of 3 total Signs. Akita can only discharge a Sign on her own post. The maximum value on any Symbol is 3x Highest Offensive Stat.

#3 - Kesshō // Crystallization // Shikai
Akita may instantly and reflexively teleport between patches of ice within 50m, emerging from one like stepping through a glassy mirror. This requires 100 reiatsu to activate and has a 2-post cooldown.

#4 - Uchū shōhi // Cosmic Consumption // Shikai
Akita creates and commands a swirling pillar of gelid cold which moves like a massive arm to strike an opponent and freeze them. Although this is a 'single target' attack, the column of ice is generally big enough to hit multiple targets if they were to be standing right next to each other. Akita can control the specific shape of each strike up to a maximum size of 10m long and 4m wide. And although the cold only 'attacks' once, the column lingers on as scenery. This travels at 600 speed and costs 200 reiatsu to use.

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#5 - Fubuki // Snowstorm // Bankai

By agitating the crystallized reiatsu in the air and working it into a frenzied vortex, this technique pelts and buffets enemies with such relentless discomfort that it makes it frustrating and difficult to hang on to the dream of warmth and continue fighting. Mechanically, Akita pays 200 reiatsu up front to activate this ability which then drains 100 reiatsu per post, over 4 posts total. The snowstorm effects everyone within 40m and 'moves with her' through the battlefield. This effect does not stack.

#6 - Mokushiroku // Apocalypse // Bankai
Probably the only reason to ever show someone her Bankai in the first place is to bring to bear the stillness and end of all things. She causes every last drop of heat energy surrounding them to be pulled forcefully into her with a great implosion of her soul's fury. This attack operates at x3 Reiatsu Strength and effects a radius of 80m (160m diameter sphere)

Technique Drawback: The expenditures of this technique forcefully seals her power in order to protect her from also freezing, ending her Bankai immediately. Regardless of how much Reiatsu she had remaining, she can leave this state with no more than 200 total.

{{Other techniques}} - 2/12 (1 Freebie)

00 - Hoho | Class 7 | Shunpo/Flash Step [Freebie]

01 - Bakudo | Class 7 | #4: Hainawa

02 - Hado | Class 7 | #3: Byakurai

[Akita Himura]

{{STATS & TYPE}}

Race: Shinigami

Class: 8 (Training Tier)

Rank: 1

Type: Soul Specialist v1

Type Advantage:

(Rank 1) - 100% increase to Spiritual Stats; Release extended by 25%

Type Drawback:

(Rank 1) - When Sealed, non-increased stats cut by 50%. Releasing restores stats at a rate of 2-per-post.

TOTAL STATS: 350/350

Stat	Base |	Sealed |	Released
Strength |	50	25	50
Speed |	70	35	70
Reiatsu Str |	100	100	200
Spirit Pres |	30	30	60
Instincts |	50	25	50
Senses |	50	25	50
Energy Sens |	00	00	00
Heal Expert |	00	00	00

[280 base, 70 app, 350 adjusted]

SKILLS: 09/15

MENTAL

Analyzing - 1

Calm Mind - 1

Strength of Will - 1

BATTLE

Weapon:Sword - 1

Pain Tolerance - 1

Battle Focus - 1

BODY

Mental Incantation - 1

Stealth - 1

UTILITY

Stealing - 1

FINANCES:

Starting: 5,000 ryo

Spent: 00

Balance: 5,000

{{ARCHIVES}}

[Arantima Kawada]

Welcome To the site!!

Welcome to the site! I will be your first grader for today and I don't really have too many things I need to see added. Its a training tier App so the minimums aren't that high!

Appearance section is pretty solid!

As far as the personality section is concerned I only really would like to see another Goal and another Fear added.

The history section I would just like another paragraph or two added to round it out just a bit!

Zanpakuto!

Down in here we have your powers, basically your Zanpakuto. I Really like the ideas behind the abilities there are just some mechanical aspects that will need to be adapted to fit a bit better with our systems.

"While in possession of her blade, Akita is immune to the complications of temperature and can interact harmlessly with very hot or very cold objects." - This particular piece I am not too Fussed with in concept but how it would interact with our systems makes it finicky.

For your Shikai overall ability I will need to see a Maximum range stated for the effect radius for the ice / ice shard control, my recommendation would be somewhere between 20-40 Meters. And Note that if attempting to control another characters ice construct that she will need 2x their OS. Likewise the speed of the ice I would recommend that you bump its base speed to at least 300-400, otherwise you will find that ability to be very slow later on.

Bankai overall ability there are a couple of things we will need to manage about it as it is more than a bit vague.

"For those unfortunate enough to see it, Kamihashinda is a beautiful and deadly end to a cold, indifferent universe. The arctic blasts and chunks of ice produced by this effect are very similar to the blasts of cold in the Shikai form, however far more intense. Where as before, a cold chill slows all things until they can no longer battle against the inevitable end, this simply freezes them where they stand or crushes them beneath the broken memory of the things that came before."

This affect needs some quantification. From how I read it, it modifies your Shikai cold blasts to freeze targets completely. Which is overall fine it just need to have a method of resisting the freeze. I would recommend Cold tolerance Skill ranks to resist its effects at different stages. Cold Tolerance 1 They are slowed by 50% for x posts, Cold tolerance 2 they are slowed by 33% for the same amount of posts. Cold tolerance 3 they are Slowed by 33% for half as many posts and cold tolerance 4 negates the freeze entirely. Mind you this is just a mild sugesstion of how that could go, feel free to come up with your own if you like! However to the Whole Freeze solid affect I would like a duration of no more than 4 posts

"Things flash frozen by this power will eventually thaw when the Bankai is sealed once again, if they are in the proper climate for such a thing to happen. This does little good to living creatures within its radius, and the scars of this action can be felt far and wide for weeks or even months after she has left."

This part, I take this to be something cinematic and so long as it is stated to be only cinematic and having no lasting affect other than appearance Im ok to put this down the line to a more experienced grader.

Zanpakuto Techniques!

Another box?!? WHAT?! Its becuase we are on to the techniques now!

#1 - Kōri no ya // Arrow of Ice // Shikai - I like this one, its a simple enough change. We are trying to move towards stated speeds instead of abstract ones. I would be more than willing to see this at 800 speed.

#2 - Kōri no shōchō // Sign of Ice // Shikai - Again I like it, its short, sweet simple, requires a hit to land. But I will tell you right now that only gaining 100 os per 50 reatsu poured into it will be more taxing, take longer and make the ability 1/50th as fun to use in a thread especially given your type. I would be fine with having you spend 150 reatsu per boost to add an additional 25% OS to the sign likewise I would like a limit of 3 signs maximum. With that It would take you a maximum of 8 prep posts and 1200 Reatsu to hit its full 3x boosted state. As opposed to spending potentially up to 24 or more posts at 1200 reatsu to try and do the same thing with how it works currently.

#3 - Kesshō // Crystallization // Shikai - This technique I would like a maximum distance limit stated as well as A statement that it is considered a use of a step technique to activate. Teleportation is finnicky on site, but considering you have a defined stat and end point, those being already defined patches of ice.. Im pretty ok with it.

#4 - Uchū shōhi // Cosmic Consumption // Shikai - I would like a defined maximum size for this, but am more than fine with you changing its size to anything below it with each use, just so long as its maximum size is defined. Id reccomend 10 Meters long, 4 meters wide.

#5 - Yūgō // Fusion // Bankai - This technique. does. Actually nothing for you. As Zanpakuto Already function offensively off of your Reatsu strength or your Spiritual pressure or your strength, whichever is the highest. if you would like to change this technique please feel free to, but trust me I know how hard it can be to come up with techniques.

#6 - Mokushiroku // Apocalypse // Bankai - With this one I would also like to see a defined radius. However given its rather immense drawbacks I am willing to give it a hefty Radius. Probably around 70-90 M radius meaning a 140-180 Meter Diameter sphere of death by cold.

[Akita Himura]

Thank you for your feedback! I have implemented the changes as you have requested, including the roleplay sections. The only change that deviated from your above is the part with a totally new technique, my Release #5 tech.

#5 - Fubuki // Snowstorm // Bankai
By agitating the crystallized reiatsu in the air and working it into a frenzied vortex, this technique pelts and buffets enemies with such relentless discomfort that it makes it frustrating and difficult to hang on to the dream of warmth and continue fighting. Mechanically, Akita pays 200 reiatsu up front to activate this ability which then drains 100 reiatsu per post, over 4 posts total. The snowstorm effects everyone within 40m and 'moves with her' through the battlefield. This effect does not stack.

[Arantima Kawada]

Posting from phone before work! Everything looks fine to me! The new tech looks alright to me and im willing to pass it on to the next grader for the time being!

1/2!

[Yuki & Yui Tsumugi]

Piggybacking directly off of Arantima and similarly posting from mobile, you’ve got my 2/2! Approved with 15 SkP, 5,000 Starting Ryo, and 350 SP due to app quality and Soul Spec life being difficult early on~!

[Akita Himura]

Thank you very much for the feedback both here and in discord. Initial 350 budget spent as follow:

Strength 50
Speed 70
Reiatsu Str 100
Spirit Pres 30
Instincts 50
Senses 50

Total: 350

I've got 9 of 15 skills committed we'll be leaving the rest free for organic growth