Post by Wycliff on Mar 21, 2021 14:10:24 GMT -5
Character Name: [Wycliff Mason]
Character Rank [3]
Why are you applying for Bankai?
Wycliff is striving for bankai to make things right. After failing to protect Rose from dissapearing he has weighed his actual distaste for his power against the strength it grants him to protect others in the long run. While not pleased with what his power does he understands that he needs to grow stronger if he still wishes to become someone who can protect those under him.
Wycliff is also trying to move up towards being a captain as the current MIA status of Ludwig has pushed him to take more responsibility, albeit begrudgingly
What makes your character qualified?
Wycliff has grown from a man who was simply about having fun all the time to someone who understands that he needs to act accordingly when the situation demands it. A far change from the man who use to only think about heading to the beach and sleeping in all the time, not to say that those habits are totally gone, just more balanced with other responsiblities.
He's also come to terms with his power and accepts what it means to have strength and use it.
Qualifying Threads
Adventure one
A Screamer's A pleaser
Failing to protect the family Wycliff makes a vow to grow stronger, while not yet knowing it he starts on his path to understanding the need to accept his zan's power. He also obtains a memento from the dead parents as a reminder of his failure.
Training
I need a medic While he was training a new shingami, a menos attacks him and the newbie, inorder to save them both he uses his shikai for the first time in a long time. The rush of power overwhelms him and after killing the menos he turns on the person he was meant to protect. It ends without either of their deaths however while Wycliff tries to play off what happened, he knows he can't ignore the truth, he can't control his own power.
Training
Flowers in white snow
Wycliff meets Rose for the very first and last time. After being forced from squad to squad he ends up meeting a captain who wants to keep him, the two of them grow close due to a shared secret that he is forced to keep with her, however Wycliff only sees this as a person who he has to protect after finding her in the state that she is in. This strengthens Wycliff's resolve to become stronger and gives him hope that maybe someone can help him out with his issues.
Short Social.
New Faces in an empty squad
Taking place after a few months after the attack on squad 4 barracks with the disappearnce of Rose Wycliff is forced to leave his old squad and enter into a new one. With Rose still gone and no information about her whereabouts Wycliff is hesitant to leave squad four, however rumors and hate about his power forces him to do so. Meeting with Ludwig, Wycliff sees a new chance in a new squad, getting promoted is a good thing, and his new captain seems nice, however his mind still wanders back to Rose.
Adventure two
Search and destroy
Shortly after leading Joining squad 13 Wycliff is sent out on a mission with two younger shingami to help track down and capture a Vandenreich lieutenant. While being the highest ranking officer Wycliff takes control of the mission, a first for him given he dislikes having to boss people around. While on the mission Wycliff takes a calm and collected approach of setting up a trap for the Vandenreich taking hours to practice it instead of goofing off. When the plan doesn't go as expected he forces a fight between the real threats and orders the weaker shingami to go after the target and to stay back, offering up his trinket to one of them to keep them safe. It's at this moment when Wycliff uses his power to take control and even when confronted with his allies is able to keep some control of himself.
PVP1
Sand Burial for Pop Rocks Trying to get some rest and relaxation from the last mission he was on Wycliff ends up meeting and fighting with Yoko. In this he loses total control and loses the fight due to his lack of control. In the fight he ends up having a flashback of his human life and experiences the abuse his father uses to put him through. At the end as he is blacking out he tries to apologies to Yoko, however the apology isn't heard.
PVP2
Espada vs 4th seat
After the incident with Yoko Wycliff is out doing patrols and covering a shift for someone when not one but two espada show up. Wycliff freaks out knowing how powerful they have been made out to be, but when fighting them he sees the development of his own strength and is able to take them both in for questioning without killing them. This becomes a huge boom for Wycliff in terms of his own confidence.
Pvp3
Fire vs Cocaine
After the success of him capturing the Espada Central 46 sends him out on a mission to capture or kill the rouge shingami known as Beast. After seeing the damage that Beast is capable of Wycliff uses shikai in order to take him down. The capture is successful, however only because Wycliff knows that he is able to use his shikai effectively.
Bankai Training Thread
From Snow to ice
After years of dealing with the effects of his Zan and trying to run away from it Wycliff finally confronts his Zan, by doing so he comes to terms with the things that have been holding him back since his time as a shingami and even before then. By doing so he fully embraces what his power means resulting in it changing to it's true form and stripping away the poison elements that it had been affecting him.
Additional Comments
Character Name: [Wycliff Mason]
New Ideals/Personality:
Wycliff is initially a really happy-go-lucky type of guy, but there is not really much else about him. He is more like the type of person who is just happy to be alive-- well, sort of alive, anyway. Que sera, sera. He likes what he wants to and doesn't like what he hates. Now, Wycliff is laid-back most of the time. But if he runs out of pop-rocks, you'd better make a break for it. He's been known to attack everything made by man until someone gets him these candies. In addition to his crazed withdrawal, stealing them is never the best idea. The last person who did wasn't ever found.
Wycliff hates big cites, too. Specifically industrial cities. Though unrealistic, he would much prefer to keep himself away and never step foot into one, especially since he spent his entire human life inside of a disgusting excuse for a city. The smoke and the smell of dead bodies is just horrific. There are images everywhere of poor children running everywhere in nothing but trashy clothing coated with dust and dirt. Kids are dying left and right while others just seem to work themselves to death. Those long seventeen years left a permanent mark of hatred towards industrial cities in Wycliff's heart. If a mission or assignment pops up that is in a city, he will do anything to get out of it.
Wycliff has a love for nature and really hates anything or anyone who destroys it. He will not destroy nature at all. In fact, he will go out of his way to avoid destroying it. Wycliff will refuse orders that will end up in destruction of flora and fauna. This love of nature stems from his hate of big cites and anything that stem from big cites. After seeing nothing but smoke death and dirty grey buildings for 17 years its nice to see something that is clean. Wycliff loves hedgehogs the first time he saw one was when he was playing sonic, the first time he found one in real life he took it back with him to the soul society. It died shortly after Wycliff was sad about this but the spirit of the hedgehog still is around Wycliff. Its still his pet but its just not as cute as before.
Wycliff really can’t hate people or any race. Hollows he sees as souls that have lost there way and need help getting back. Bount’s even though he has not met any he sees them as a sad form of existence trying to buy more time on the world so he wants to help them but knows no way how to. As for Arrancar’s Wycliff could not care one way or another for theses souls he just sees them as stronger hollows. Vizard’s are something that he has only heard of them but he sees them as shinigamis who got too strong for the rules of the Soul Society, he actually wants to meet one to learn more about there powers. Mod souls they where made by the Soul Society so there good right? Akki and Hason there sinners but everyone makes mistakes once in awhile everyone deserves a second chance right? Humans and Quincys there the same just one has powers and the other doesn’t its all good in Wycliff’s book.
Even though his home country worked him to death he dose not blame his country for his death. He blames the greed of the business men and the lack of good parents. Wycliff can not forgive his parents not even in death after the way he was treated. Wycliff loves his home country why? even he doesn't know he just fells a sense of pride from it. That being said he never goes there just due to the memories that hunt him. Even if there is nothing close to the past there for him to see just being there brings it back for him.
Wycliff hates to kill anyone or even hurt someone. If its possible Wycliff will try to stop the situation without resorting to violence usually using kido to stop both parties. Why he hates injuring people? It usually leave to death and Wycliff does not want to see anyone else die. After living with death and injury all over for 17 years as a human he would rather not see it. Wycliff will kill hollows only to save the soul of the hollow. That is the one time that he will straight up attack another living creature without a second thought. He knows what happens to hollows when they're killed by shingami and he believes that being reborn in the SS is a good thing.
As such it is rare to see Wycliff fight someone that is not a hollow. Wycliff hates to fight he would rather talk everything out instead of using his violence. Training with someone is a different thing. Wycliff likes to train weak people and the strong as well. For some reason it makes Wycliff happy. Maybe it was due to the fact that he felt happy when ever he had a teacher to help him train. They were all kind people and helped Wycliff in there own way. Wycliff felt like it was his job to do the same to others. No not his job more like his duty to his teachers to be a teacher to others like they were to him.
When he does fight someone for real it's a different story Wycliff’s personality changes entirely. Once his shikai is active he becomes an entirely different person. Long gone is the happy go lucky, laid back, chill bro that is Wycliff. Before when Wycliff released he was a bloodthirsty monster that lacked empathy and only wanted to kill. While it’s true that Wycliff’s personality still changes when he releases it’s no longer the monster that he called his dark side.
Now when releasing Wycliff becomes a cold and cut off individual, he loses the happy go lucky nature that he had and is callous. At that moment everything becomes more about making sure either the current mission or fight is won by him by any means necessary. Throwing away lives or not letting others know the truth as to what will happen with his power is all part of his attitude, while Wycliff doesn’t really like the way he acts when he releases he knows that it’s only for a moment and he accepts that the results that happen from using his release outweigh the person he becomes.
New Powers:
Winter winds
Overall Ability:
Boreas the frozen winds: After accepting Chūdoku for who he really was and what he really represented Chūdoku changed to his real uncorrupted form as Boreas, the winter winds. Now as Boreas he is no longer burden by the guilt and rage of Wycliff's former life as such his true power comes forth. Boreas's power is the absorption of heat to spread the winter winds across the lands. Passively all heat that exists will be absorbed into Wycliff causing him to warm to the perfect body temperature of 98.6 degrees at all times no matter what the weather outside is. The absorbing of the heat takes place even if there is a blizzard going on outside given that no matter how cold it is, there is always some form of heat until it became absolute zero.
The heat absorbed per post does force the area to start to chill down and freeze over. Every post the temperature of everything around him will drop by 100 degrees Celsius. However simply freezing things over isn't exactly what Boreas does, no he absorbs heat and removes it from existence. As such all sources of heat(ex fire, magma, hellfire ect) that aren't stronger than Wycliff's offensive stat won't be able to exist at all and will fade instantly as if they were never there. Liquids will also have a harder time as the cold temperatures will force them to freeze over. Needing a 50% stat superiority to not be frozen over in the range of the heat absorption.
Now when the temperature of the outside word does get to absolute zero the area in absolute zero is affected drastically. Given that absolute zero is the absent of all forms of heat energy, including kinetic energy. Everything in the absolute zero area lacks the ability to move given that all kinetic energy which allows for movement and creates heat has been removed and absorbed into Wycliff. The only thing that has any sort of heat is Wycliff himself as all the energy that is absorbed and turned into heat to keep Wycliff stable.
Those that first enter into an area of absolute zero will start off as a new source of heat, however they will slowly start to lose their heat and start to freeze over. After the first post of being in an area of absolute zero a person will start to freeze over completely. This can be mitigated by two different factors, for each point a person has in cold tolerance they are allowed one post break per rank number. So a person with a 1 in cold tolerance will have one extra post, however someone with a 2 will have three posts a 3 would be six posts and a four would be 10 posts before the effect of freezing over entirely kicks in. A person may also burn reiatsu internally to keep their body warm, this cost is 100 per post 200 in bankai. Wycliff’s release by it’s nature affects everything, however Wycliff and his own reiatsu is immune to the chilling effect. That means that any reiatsu based attack that Wycliff uses that uses heat or liquid will remain in it’s natural form and work as intended until Wycliff no longer wishes it to, upon which time it will act as being effected by Wycliff’s release. That being said any heat will not warm others up or stall the time it takes them to be affected by his chill. Wycliff isn’t the only person that this can apply every post of release Wycliff is able to create a fragment to give to allies. Each post Wycliff has to pay 100 reiatsu per fragment to allow allies to be temporarily immune to Wycliff’s release as well as allowing them to use their reiatsu freely without worry of Wycliff’s release affecting it unless they so chose to. In Bankai Wycliff’s allies with a fragment see the world like Wycliff does. However just like with Wycliff heat will not warm others up however anything that would burn will still burn.
Shikai Overall:
Winter Winds: While Wycliff's base ability is the removal of heat from an area, his shikai is the actual means to move the cold areas to warm areas to absorb heat. Normally the area that Wycliff can affect with his heat drain is only in a five-foot zone around him. His shikai allows him the ability to change that, however. Just as Boreas's name state states that it is the Greek god of the northern wind and has control over the cold winds of the north so too does Wycliff. Allowing him the to the ability to create wind to send his chilling zones outward replicating the winds of winter. The range and size of the winds that can be created are variable, however the winds dissipate after 50 feet of first creation. The total range of the winds that can be maintained is much larger.
From his shikai Wycliff can create gusts of wind that he can control that spew outwards allowing his heat absorption to spread with the winds. All areas that his wind pass through are now affected by Wycliff's heat absorption and are considered to be connected to him when he draws in heat even if he moves, this area is lasting for only three posts, before the area affected warms up once more. These winds can be controlled by Wycliff to create various effects from simple gusts of winds to a powerful torrent of wind that could rival a hurricane. To destroy or remove the winds one must beat them in an OS clash.
Shikai Techs:
Frozen shuffle: Wycliff wraps himself up in a coat of frozen winds that first displaces him from reality and then reappears in another area letting out a violent blast of frozen air in all directions spreading the range of his frozen zone by fifteen feet in all directions. The largest drawback of this technique is that Wycliff can't chose to reappear in an area that isn't already affected by his frozen zone. So, while it can be used to dodge an attack, without set up Wycliff's reappearing options are limited. Wycliff moves at a speed of 10x in shikai and 15x in bankai
Drawbacks: Cost 300 reiatsu per use, only once per post. Range is limited to areas that are currently affected by Wycliff’s wind within 75 feet. One post cooldown
Cutting chill: Wycliff freezes the water vapor in the air in his frozen zone into tiny blade like creations that are as sharp as obsidian blades. These tiny snowflake sized blades move and dance in the air. These blade like creations flow through the air cutting and ripping apart anything they come in contact with as if each one was a blade itself. The small creations will continue to cut through everything that they come in contact with. This lasts for four posts and is effective in all areas of Wycliff's frozen zone as well as the chilling wind he uses, inside of banki this area covers all of the bankai. What these blades do is that when an individual moves over speeds of 300 or uses a step technique while inside of the affected areas they will be slashed all over. Blades use Wycliff’s OS stat to determine cutting strength.
Drawbacks: Costs 200 in shikai and 400 in bankai to maintain per post and Wycliff isn’t immune to the cutting of the blades. 1 post cooldown between usage.
Frozen twister: Wycliff summons a twisting vortex of wind that spins at speeds of that of an F5 tornado. This roaring ripping wind is one of Wycliff's bread and butter techniques as it allows him to quickly spread out his frozen zone area. Wycliff is able to summon them either horizontally or vertically, each tornado unlike its real-world counterpart is only fifteen feet length(30 in bankai). Wycliff has control over them and how they move however each one has its own per post cost. As well as being a twister these winds carry all the current effects of Wycliff’s winter winds freezing anything that they come in contact with.
Drawbacks: Cost of 150 per twister per post active, Wycliff is able to summon up to five at any given time . The twisters fade out 30 feet from the user in shikai, however in bankai they’re able to be maintained through the bankai.
Accumulated Cold: As one stands in the cold eventually their physical strength will be sapped from the heat diffusion between their body and the temperature of their surroundings. As such for every post a person is in the cold or enters the cold their speed will be lowered by 5%(10% in bankai). For each full post that a person spends outside of the cold they will regain 10% of their lost speed. Unlike active techniques this passive technique is always active and takes up a tech slot as well as one of Wycliff’s long term stat alterations.
Heat devourer:While the basic power of Wycliff’s zan is to absorb heat and unleash the winter winds that is just the basic ability to passively suck in heat. What Heat devourer does is take that concept and concentrates it to a devastating degree. Wycliff is able to select a five foot area within his frozen area and supercharge the drawing of all heat. What this does is that anything that has any form of heat will find themselves being pulled towards the area and a massive amount of their heat being drawn from their body even faster. For techniques or spiritual based attacks this means that they have to beat the drawing force of the zone or they will be sucked back into the area. Techs or spiritual based attacks that don’t have OS equal to the drawing force of the zone will be sucked into the zone and forced to stay there and lose 10% of their OS per post. Techs or spiritually based attacks that have higher OS than the drawing force of the zone will be unaffected. For individuals the same thing will happen as they will find their bodies being aggressively pulled towards the zone as well as them losing 200 reiatsu per post in shikai and 400 per post in bankai. The drawing force area is equal to 3 times the heat devouring zone in shikai and ten times the heat devouring zone in bankai. This zone can keep a frozen zone well after his shikai’s 3 turn limit, however once the tech ends the area turns back to normal. All OS that is lost and all reiatsu that is lost is considered absorbed heat. A zone may only have up to Wycliff’s OS x3 in heat stored in shikai. Once a zone reaches it’s maximum heat it explodes in a massive fireball(equal to Wycliff's RS) that if Wycliff is within the same area will impact him as well.
Drawbacks:. Costs 500 reiatsu per post to keep. Zone’s cant be moved once placed and can quickly be overwhelmed by spamming techs. The same area can’t be affected for 3 posts after a zone ends. Only one zone can exist at a time. max % loss is 75 of a techs os
Bankai Overall:
While shikai can be seen as a blizzard coming towards someone Wycliff's bankai is being inside of a total white out. When bankai is activated the world around him changes. While at first it looks as if the entire world around him gets covered in a deep pure white snow the truth is Wycliff replaces the world around him with part of his inner world. What happens is that everything in the surrounding area within a 500 foot diameter of Wycliff is now replaced by his inner world and inside of that world everything is consumed by pure white and nothing else.
Wycliff's bankai replicates the effect of a white out to the most extreme conditions. The entire ground is pure white covered in snow and ice, the sky is covered totally by a raging blizzard that makes visibility difficult. For as far as the eye can see there is only white for those trapped inside of the bankai. Those inside of the white out with 300 senses will be able to make out more than just solid white. For every point in anti stealth, or focused eye the required senses drop by 50. To make the effect more deadly nothing else can create another shade of color or lack of color inside of the white out. Only something with a higher stat superiority can cause another color or shadows to appear in the white out any other attempts will result in the raging snowstorm to consume the color the very instant it is attempted to be created. Even Wycliff’s kido turns solid white in bankai as a result of it’s power.
The whiteout effect of his power is only a result of the evolution of his power, Wycliff’s bankai allows him to fully control all aspects of his inner world. This allows for the total free manipulation of the winds, the ice, the snow and even the ground of his inner world. This manipulation of his power is something that is second nature and allows him to create constructs out of these elements the only limit is his imagination. (max 20 feet in size) The constructs have his OS as their strength to be destroyed and for attacking purposes, 10 at a time can be created and maintained for a cost of 200 per post per construct, only 2 can be created per post however all active constructs can be manipulated and reshaped each post. For Wycliff he himself can see as if normal, to him the snowstorm isn’t happening and the ground appears as normal, however he does know that it exists there.
Bankai Techs:
Frost Animation:
Frost Animation: By focusing his manipulation of his bankai Wycliff is able to create a special construct who’s appearance can be altered by Wycliff at will. This construct has several features that make it unique. The first and foremost unique property of this construct is that this can act as a second body for Wycliff allowing him to use it as if it where his own. Meaning he is allowed to use kido and other techniques from this construct. Communication from this construct is allowed and for all intents and purposes it seems like it is Wycliff himself. However like a construct this animation is able to be repaired and restored like any other he creates. The second unique property is that this construct has the ability to think and act on it’s own as if it were an individual. Wycliff can give this construct it’s own autonomy and it will act in a manor similarly to Wycliff however not under his control.
Drawbacks: Only 2 at any given point in time can be summoned. They move at Wycliff’s speed and have his OS in terms of cutting power or strength if needed, they share his sensory stats. Costs 500 per post per construct. Any kido that has a drawback is replicated on Wycliff that they use. More than a limb in damage costs 100 reiatsu to repair. They have no skills as they're constructs
Fighting Style:
Fighting isn't something that Wycliff is really excited about, however he does know that there is a huge need for it given he is a shingami and it is his duty to protect weak souls from hollows and other threats there are in the world. So in that stance Wyciff normally takes a very relaxed stance when it comes to fighting. To start off a fight he actually keeps his sword in it's sheath if he is against someone who has their wits about them, so if it's against a hollow he will instantly draw his blade because of the nature of hollows. If not he would rather not draw his blade to anyone if possible.
So how does he fight if he doesn't use his sword to start off? With his kido, even though he acts like a goofball Wycliff is actually a surprisingly proficient kido user. He has a tendency to use kido in quick rotation to throw off his opponents and disable them. Preferring to use weaker kido on them till he knows that he needs to resort to stronger kido spells. All the while keeping a relaxed look as he continues to fight.
If he sees that his lower end kido spells aren't working that's when he swaps tactics. The first thing he does is start to fire off kido from other places besides his hands. In order to trick his opponents and catch them off guard with his kido. At this time he will also improve the quality of his kido's by using stronger ones. Another tactic he uses is saying that he is using one kido IE calling it out mid fight while in reality using mental incantation he is using another kido that is totally different. This has been known to be very effective the first time however afterwords it isn't so effective.
If he is having issues keeping the distance between his opponent or needs to be able to block he will finally pull out his sword holding it with one hand while keeping the other open for what ever he needs it for. With his sword now drawn he takes the offensive and gets in close actually attacking instead of waiting for someone else to attack and him counter. Even though he doesn't pull out his blade out often he is no slouch with it at all. He knows his way around his blade and uses that to his advantage. However he doesn't abandon his kido spells when he draws out his blade. No instead he uses them to further his attacks.
If one was to see Wycliff attacking with his blade drawn at this time they could call him a spells sword. With him alternating sword slashes with kido spells. Now while it seems that he prefers one hand to use his sword in and the other for kido that isn't exactly true. For him it's a matter of convince as to which hand is using what. If he sees that attacking with the blade on the right side is effecting he will keep at it while using kido to strike the left side. Now if he sees that his attacks are being blocked easily he will mid slash swap hands to pass off his sword and now with the new empty hand fire off kido at a close range. With either hand he is equally effective with his blade to a scary degree.
When simple kido and sword swings aren’t enough to deal with those he’s fighting with he will activate his shikai. While before he was more reserved about using his powers now he has less qualms about using it. While it’s still as deadly and powerful as before he understand that it’s nature can change depending on how he views himself so he keeps a more positive attitude towards his release. This positive attitude results in him being more open with his attacks and them flowing outward easier than before.
With the winds that he can use he will constantly use them as a way to both zone out his opponent and attack at the same time. Those chilling winds are his bread and butter when it comes to attacking as they carry the new chilling effect of his Zan. With each swing Wycliff will force out more and more wind, covering a larger area as the fight rages on, his goal is to make a safe zone from where he can attack and move freely so that it forces his opponent to be on the defensive at all times.
Wycliff when fighting with his Shikai wants to keep his opponent on the defensive while he is on the offensive. Fighting from a mid range area is the best for him as he is able to manipulate the area around him with ease and take control of the mistakes that the others do. Mixing his release with kido is an often tactic Wycliff will use so that he can constantly keep his opponent second guessing, those that try to attack him at close combat will find that doing so is only in Wycliff’s favor as being able to abuse the rapid kido and the winds of his shikai.
When Wycliff wants to just end a fight without a lot of mess or issue Wycliff will use bankai, this isn’t reserved to only strong opponents or foes that he wants to punish. His bankai is a move that Wycliff will use when he has to. In bankai Wycliff will actually resort to indirect tactics when fighting using constructs and the effects of his bankai to win. It’s not an honorable way to win a fight, but at that point Wycliff doesn’t care about honor, all he cares about is winning the fight.
Zanpakutou Spirit Appearance(Optional):
Boreas’s appearance is that of an older man with a long flowing white beard. At first glance one can see that Boreas’s face seems to have wrinkles and weathered by time. His eyes are solid white and have a soft glow to them. His mouth is obscured by his beard and mustache that flow down past his waist. From the front one isn’t able to see if Boreas has hair as he has an armored helm atop his head. This helm is a cool blue in color and has three horns curving upwards. One horn on each side comes from where is ears would be while the third is from the front of the helm. Under the helm Boreas’s hair can be seen reaching his shoulders. Boreas’s voice isn’t that of a normal person’s when he speaks it’s just air blowing, only Wycliff is able to understand it, to others all it sounds like is the wind roaring.
Boreas is covered in a regal set of armor blue as the helm and cool to the touch. This armor on it’s shoulder pads has the typical six pointed snow flake as a symbol, however it’s more detail and has extra points between each main arm. The armor only has Boreas’s face and hands free, Boreas’s hands seem to be that of a normal man of his age, however there is always a faint blue glow from his fingertips freezing anything that comes in contact with them. On his back he wears a long cape that seems to be made of ice that flows and moves as he wishes.
Inner World(Optional):
The inner world of Wycliff is a massive world covered in ice and snow. Wycliff hasn’t explored the full extent of his inner world but from what he can see it spans for an entire planet. When you enter the inner world one will feel the cold of the world engulfing everything. Looking around you will see a world covered in snow and ice. Trees frozen solid, waves frozen over still in motion, what looks like remnants of civilization just iced over, frozen as if it was lost in time. There are no signs of life and in the distance there is always a massive mountain with dark clouds brewing.
That’s what people would see if the wind is calm, most of the time the wind is raging and constantly picking up ice and snow tossing it everywhere. Inside of these storms it’s impossible to see anything as the world is just pure white. Nothing seems to make sense and one can lose themselves in the pure white of the world. Often when the winds stop for a moment a person can find themselves in a place that was different than when the wind first started, even if they didn’t move.
Zanpakutou Appearances:
Sealed:
Chūdoku's normal sealed form is a long white Katana that has thirty inch long blade with a ten inch long hilt. The leather wrapping around the hilt is an off white color while the pommel is pure silver and extends an inch inwards into the hilt of the blade. The Tsuba of his katana is rather simple as it is has only has eight holes each one evenly spaced from one another running around the blade. The Tsuba it's self isn't totally round as there are some half circle indents around the edge of it, giving the whole thing a gear like look and just like the rest of the blade it it solid white.
Going past the Tsuba the Habaki actually extends outward three inches before allow the actual blade of the katana to be seen. Now while the sword is pure white there is one small section right after the Habaki that isn't, instead there are six bold crimson lines on the blade closely lined next to one another. Now there is a pattern to the lines that one is totally connected followed by one that has been cut in half. This pattern repeats for the six lines after that the rest of the blade is totally white and nothing separates it from any other sword. The actual scabbard of the blade is white as well with a white leather wrapping around it to be used to hold it on a belt.
Shikai:
Wycliff's shikai form is rather deceiving at a first look. Given it's power one would of expected a more sinister looking blade, however his takes the other path. Instead it gives off the appearance of royalty and nobility. The blade fades from gold to white as it goes down from the grip to the tip of the blade. Not only is the blade rather elegant in it's color it is also very ornate with it's design from the bottom of the pommel to the tip of the blade there isn't a spot that doesn't seem to give a sense of high nobility even though he himself isn't a noble at all.
Wycliff's Shikai form takes a drastic change from his sealed form. The once white blade turns gray while the tip of the blade slowly fades to black. While the hilt and the grip turn from white to a dark gray. The change in color isn't the only thing that changes from it's sealed form to it's released form. The entire blade changes from tip to pommel. Even the type of blade changes fully from a katana to a two handed great sword.
The grip of the blade is divided into different parts with a large metal pommel that leads into black leather wrapping the grip of the blade that is sectioned off by three metal rings that have small black gems in them. The cross guard is a large metal demon's skull that has it's horns wrap around it leading to two smaller skulls at each end of the cross guard. Further up is a second cross guard with the sides curved in and can be used to catch swords or even cut foes with. However the second option is unlikely given how small they are compared to the rest of the blade.
The actual blade of his sword is five feet long. Down the center of the blade in Celtic runes the phase “The winter wind comes from the north” glows in blue. The blade is not symmetrical as one side has a perfect edge while the other is jagged a bit before it turns into a perfect edge again. The jagged part of the blade is near the grip. While one would assume it would be hard to use such a large blade in combat Wycliff can easily use his blade with either one hand or two.
Bankai:
Upon activating bankai the area within a 500 ft diameter of Wycliff is instantly turned into part of his inner world. Inside of this area the snow and wind are constantly moving and flowing without any signs of stopping. Wycliff keeps his shikai blade inside of Bankai, however that doesn’t mean that the bankai is just the blade. For Wycliff the eternity of the area around him is his bankai, being able to move and control it as if it was just his own sword. This mass of snow and ice if ever stopped would show that the world around it was just white. Ice and snow under one’s feet would be 250 feet down, the sky covered in white snow slowly trying to fall down.
What kind of update: [Power change due to Wycliff learning the truth about his Zan and Accepting it. As well as a possible promotion to captaincy. ]
Threads showing the changes
Both threads show that Wycliff's power is unstable and is something else with hints of it being a frost/ cold based power
rpforumbleach.proboards.com/thread/10895/hado-incantations-jt-celes-wycliff
rpforumbleach.proboards.com/thread/10877/candy-fanatics-closed-training?page=2
Wycliff's bankai training thread resulting in him learning the truth of his power
rpforumbleach.proboards.com/thread/11046/snow-solo-training-thread-closed
Character Rank [3]
Why are you applying for Bankai?
Wycliff is striving for bankai to make things right. After failing to protect Rose from dissapearing he has weighed his actual distaste for his power against the strength it grants him to protect others in the long run. While not pleased with what his power does he understands that he needs to grow stronger if he still wishes to become someone who can protect those under him.
Wycliff is also trying to move up towards being a captain as the current MIA status of Ludwig has pushed him to take more responsibility, albeit begrudgingly
What makes your character qualified?
Wycliff has grown from a man who was simply about having fun all the time to someone who understands that he needs to act accordingly when the situation demands it. A far change from the man who use to only think about heading to the beach and sleeping in all the time, not to say that those habits are totally gone, just more balanced with other responsiblities.
He's also come to terms with his power and accepts what it means to have strength and use it.
Qualifying Threads
Adventure one
A Screamer's A pleaser
Failing to protect the family Wycliff makes a vow to grow stronger, while not yet knowing it he starts on his path to understanding the need to accept his zan's power. He also obtains a memento from the dead parents as a reminder of his failure.
Training
I need a medic While he was training a new shingami, a menos attacks him and the newbie, inorder to save them both he uses his shikai for the first time in a long time. The rush of power overwhelms him and after killing the menos he turns on the person he was meant to protect. It ends without either of their deaths however while Wycliff tries to play off what happened, he knows he can't ignore the truth, he can't control his own power.
Training
Flowers in white snow
Wycliff meets Rose for the very first and last time. After being forced from squad to squad he ends up meeting a captain who wants to keep him, the two of them grow close due to a shared secret that he is forced to keep with her, however Wycliff only sees this as a person who he has to protect after finding her in the state that she is in. This strengthens Wycliff's resolve to become stronger and gives him hope that maybe someone can help him out with his issues.
Short Social.
New Faces in an empty squad
Taking place after a few months after the attack on squad 4 barracks with the disappearnce of Rose Wycliff is forced to leave his old squad and enter into a new one. With Rose still gone and no information about her whereabouts Wycliff is hesitant to leave squad four, however rumors and hate about his power forces him to do so. Meeting with Ludwig, Wycliff sees a new chance in a new squad, getting promoted is a good thing, and his new captain seems nice, however his mind still wanders back to Rose.
Adventure two
Search and destroy
Shortly after leading Joining squad 13 Wycliff is sent out on a mission with two younger shingami to help track down and capture a Vandenreich lieutenant. While being the highest ranking officer Wycliff takes control of the mission, a first for him given he dislikes having to boss people around. While on the mission Wycliff takes a calm and collected approach of setting up a trap for the Vandenreich taking hours to practice it instead of goofing off. When the plan doesn't go as expected he forces a fight between the real threats and orders the weaker shingami to go after the target and to stay back, offering up his trinket to one of them to keep them safe. It's at this moment when Wycliff uses his power to take control and even when confronted with his allies is able to keep some control of himself.
PVP1
Sand Burial for Pop Rocks Trying to get some rest and relaxation from the last mission he was on Wycliff ends up meeting and fighting with Yoko. In this he loses total control and loses the fight due to his lack of control. In the fight he ends up having a flashback of his human life and experiences the abuse his father uses to put him through. At the end as he is blacking out he tries to apologies to Yoko, however the apology isn't heard.
PVP2
Espada vs 4th seat
After the incident with Yoko Wycliff is out doing patrols and covering a shift for someone when not one but two espada show up. Wycliff freaks out knowing how powerful they have been made out to be, but when fighting them he sees the development of his own strength and is able to take them both in for questioning without killing them. This becomes a huge boom for Wycliff in terms of his own confidence.
Pvp3
Fire vs Cocaine
After the success of him capturing the Espada Central 46 sends him out on a mission to capture or kill the rouge shingami known as Beast. After seeing the damage that Beast is capable of Wycliff uses shikai in order to take him down. The capture is successful, however only because Wycliff knows that he is able to use his shikai effectively.
Bankai Training Thread
From Snow to ice
After years of dealing with the effects of his Zan and trying to run away from it Wycliff finally confronts his Zan, by doing so he comes to terms with the things that have been holding him back since his time as a shingami and even before then. By doing so he fully embraces what his power means resulting in it changing to it's true form and stripping away the poison elements that it had been affecting him.
Additional Comments
Character Name: [Wycliff Mason]
New Ideals/Personality:
Wycliff is initially a really happy-go-lucky type of guy, but there is not really much else about him. He is more like the type of person who is just happy to be alive-- well, sort of alive, anyway. Que sera, sera. He likes what he wants to and doesn't like what he hates. Now, Wycliff is laid-back most of the time. But if he runs out of pop-rocks, you'd better make a break for it. He's been known to attack everything made by man until someone gets him these candies. In addition to his crazed withdrawal, stealing them is never the best idea. The last person who did wasn't ever found.
Wycliff hates big cites, too. Specifically industrial cities. Though unrealistic, he would much prefer to keep himself away and never step foot into one, especially since he spent his entire human life inside of a disgusting excuse for a city. The smoke and the smell of dead bodies is just horrific. There are images everywhere of poor children running everywhere in nothing but trashy clothing coated with dust and dirt. Kids are dying left and right while others just seem to work themselves to death. Those long seventeen years left a permanent mark of hatred towards industrial cities in Wycliff's heart. If a mission or assignment pops up that is in a city, he will do anything to get out of it.
Wycliff has a love for nature and really hates anything or anyone who destroys it. He will not destroy nature at all. In fact, he will go out of his way to avoid destroying it. Wycliff will refuse orders that will end up in destruction of flora and fauna. This love of nature stems from his hate of big cites and anything that stem from big cites. After seeing nothing but smoke death and dirty grey buildings for 17 years its nice to see something that is clean. Wycliff loves hedgehogs the first time he saw one was when he was playing sonic, the first time he found one in real life he took it back with him to the soul society. It died shortly after Wycliff was sad about this but the spirit of the hedgehog still is around Wycliff. Its still his pet but its just not as cute as before.
Wycliff really can’t hate people or any race. Hollows he sees as souls that have lost there way and need help getting back. Bount’s even though he has not met any he sees them as a sad form of existence trying to buy more time on the world so he wants to help them but knows no way how to. As for Arrancar’s Wycliff could not care one way or another for theses souls he just sees them as stronger hollows. Vizard’s are something that he has only heard of them but he sees them as shinigamis who got too strong for the rules of the Soul Society, he actually wants to meet one to learn more about there powers. Mod souls they where made by the Soul Society so there good right? Akki and Hason there sinners but everyone makes mistakes once in awhile everyone deserves a second chance right? Humans and Quincys there the same just one has powers and the other doesn’t its all good in Wycliff’s book.
Even though his home country worked him to death he dose not blame his country for his death. He blames the greed of the business men and the lack of good parents. Wycliff can not forgive his parents not even in death after the way he was treated. Wycliff loves his home country why? even he doesn't know he just fells a sense of pride from it. That being said he never goes there just due to the memories that hunt him. Even if there is nothing close to the past there for him to see just being there brings it back for him.
Wycliff hates to kill anyone or even hurt someone. If its possible Wycliff will try to stop the situation without resorting to violence usually using kido to stop both parties. Why he hates injuring people? It usually leave to death and Wycliff does not want to see anyone else die. After living with death and injury all over for 17 years as a human he would rather not see it. Wycliff will kill hollows only to save the soul of the hollow. That is the one time that he will straight up attack another living creature without a second thought. He knows what happens to hollows when they're killed by shingami and he believes that being reborn in the SS is a good thing.
As such it is rare to see Wycliff fight someone that is not a hollow. Wycliff hates to fight he would rather talk everything out instead of using his violence. Training with someone is a different thing. Wycliff likes to train weak people and the strong as well. For some reason it makes Wycliff happy. Maybe it was due to the fact that he felt happy when ever he had a teacher to help him train. They were all kind people and helped Wycliff in there own way. Wycliff felt like it was his job to do the same to others. No not his job more like his duty to his teachers to be a teacher to others like they were to him.
When he does fight someone for real it's a different story Wycliff’s personality changes entirely. Once his shikai is active he becomes an entirely different person. Long gone is the happy go lucky, laid back, chill bro that is Wycliff. Before when Wycliff released he was a bloodthirsty monster that lacked empathy and only wanted to kill. While it’s true that Wycliff’s personality still changes when he releases it’s no longer the monster that he called his dark side.
Now when releasing Wycliff becomes a cold and cut off individual, he loses the happy go lucky nature that he had and is callous. At that moment everything becomes more about making sure either the current mission or fight is won by him by any means necessary. Throwing away lives or not letting others know the truth as to what will happen with his power is all part of his attitude, while Wycliff doesn’t really like the way he acts when he releases he knows that it’s only for a moment and he accepts that the results that happen from using his release outweigh the person he becomes.
New Powers:
Winter winds
Overall Ability:
Boreas the frozen winds: After accepting Chūdoku for who he really was and what he really represented Chūdoku changed to his real uncorrupted form as Boreas, the winter winds. Now as Boreas he is no longer burden by the guilt and rage of Wycliff's former life as such his true power comes forth. Boreas's power is the absorption of heat to spread the winter winds across the lands. Passively all heat that exists will be absorbed into Wycliff causing him to warm to the perfect body temperature of 98.6 degrees at all times no matter what the weather outside is. The absorbing of the heat takes place even if there is a blizzard going on outside given that no matter how cold it is, there is always some form of heat until it became absolute zero.
The heat absorbed per post does force the area to start to chill down and freeze over. Every post the temperature of everything around him will drop by 100 degrees Celsius. However simply freezing things over isn't exactly what Boreas does, no he absorbs heat and removes it from existence. As such all sources of heat(ex fire, magma, hellfire ect) that aren't stronger than Wycliff's offensive stat won't be able to exist at all and will fade instantly as if they were never there. Liquids will also have a harder time as the cold temperatures will force them to freeze over. Needing a 50% stat superiority to not be frozen over in the range of the heat absorption.
Now when the temperature of the outside word does get to absolute zero the area in absolute zero is affected drastically. Given that absolute zero is the absent of all forms of heat energy, including kinetic energy. Everything in the absolute zero area lacks the ability to move given that all kinetic energy which allows for movement and creates heat has been removed and absorbed into Wycliff. The only thing that has any sort of heat is Wycliff himself as all the energy that is absorbed and turned into heat to keep Wycliff stable.
Those that first enter into an area of absolute zero will start off as a new source of heat, however they will slowly start to lose their heat and start to freeze over. After the first post of being in an area of absolute zero a person will start to freeze over completely. This can be mitigated by two different factors, for each point a person has in cold tolerance they are allowed one post break per rank number. So a person with a 1 in cold tolerance will have one extra post, however someone with a 2 will have three posts a 3 would be six posts and a four would be 10 posts before the effect of freezing over entirely kicks in. A person may also burn reiatsu internally to keep their body warm, this cost is 100 per post 200 in bankai. Wycliff’s release by it’s nature affects everything, however Wycliff and his own reiatsu is immune to the chilling effect. That means that any reiatsu based attack that Wycliff uses that uses heat or liquid will remain in it’s natural form and work as intended until Wycliff no longer wishes it to, upon which time it will act as being effected by Wycliff’s release. That being said any heat will not warm others up or stall the time it takes them to be affected by his chill. Wycliff isn’t the only person that this can apply every post of release Wycliff is able to create a fragment to give to allies. Each post Wycliff has to pay 100 reiatsu per fragment to allow allies to be temporarily immune to Wycliff’s release as well as allowing them to use their reiatsu freely without worry of Wycliff’s release affecting it unless they so chose to. In Bankai Wycliff’s allies with a fragment see the world like Wycliff does. However just like with Wycliff heat will not warm others up however anything that would burn will still burn.
Shikai Overall:
Winter Winds: While Wycliff's base ability is the removal of heat from an area, his shikai is the actual means to move the cold areas to warm areas to absorb heat. Normally the area that Wycliff can affect with his heat drain is only in a five-foot zone around him. His shikai allows him the ability to change that, however. Just as Boreas's name state states that it is the Greek god of the northern wind and has control over the cold winds of the north so too does Wycliff. Allowing him the to the ability to create wind to send his chilling zones outward replicating the winds of winter. The range and size of the winds that can be created are variable, however the winds dissipate after 50 feet of first creation. The total range of the winds that can be maintained is much larger.
From his shikai Wycliff can create gusts of wind that he can control that spew outwards allowing his heat absorption to spread with the winds. All areas that his wind pass through are now affected by Wycliff's heat absorption and are considered to be connected to him when he draws in heat even if he moves, this area is lasting for only three posts, before the area affected warms up once more. These winds can be controlled by Wycliff to create various effects from simple gusts of winds to a powerful torrent of wind that could rival a hurricane. To destroy or remove the winds one must beat them in an OS clash.
Shikai Techs:
Frozen shuffle: Wycliff wraps himself up in a coat of frozen winds that first displaces him from reality and then reappears in another area letting out a violent blast of frozen air in all directions spreading the range of his frozen zone by fifteen feet in all directions. The largest drawback of this technique is that Wycliff can't chose to reappear in an area that isn't already affected by his frozen zone. So, while it can be used to dodge an attack, without set up Wycliff's reappearing options are limited. Wycliff moves at a speed of 10x in shikai and 15x in bankai
Drawbacks: Cost 300 reiatsu per use, only once per post. Range is limited to areas that are currently affected by Wycliff’s wind within 75 feet. One post cooldown
Cutting chill: Wycliff freezes the water vapor in the air in his frozen zone into tiny blade like creations that are as sharp as obsidian blades. These tiny snowflake sized blades move and dance in the air. These blade like creations flow through the air cutting and ripping apart anything they come in contact with as if each one was a blade itself. The small creations will continue to cut through everything that they come in contact with. This lasts for four posts and is effective in all areas of Wycliff's frozen zone as well as the chilling wind he uses, inside of banki this area covers all of the bankai. What these blades do is that when an individual moves over speeds of 300 or uses a step technique while inside of the affected areas they will be slashed all over. Blades use Wycliff’s OS stat to determine cutting strength.
Drawbacks: Costs 200 in shikai and 400 in bankai to maintain per post and Wycliff isn’t immune to the cutting of the blades. 1 post cooldown between usage.
Frozen twister: Wycliff summons a twisting vortex of wind that spins at speeds of that of an F5 tornado. This roaring ripping wind is one of Wycliff's bread and butter techniques as it allows him to quickly spread out his frozen zone area. Wycliff is able to summon them either horizontally or vertically, each tornado unlike its real-world counterpart is only fifteen feet length(30 in bankai). Wycliff has control over them and how they move however each one has its own per post cost. As well as being a twister these winds carry all the current effects of Wycliff’s winter winds freezing anything that they come in contact with.
Drawbacks: Cost of 150 per twister per post active, Wycliff is able to summon up to five at any given time . The twisters fade out 30 feet from the user in shikai, however in bankai they’re able to be maintained through the bankai.
Accumulated Cold: As one stands in the cold eventually their physical strength will be sapped from the heat diffusion between their body and the temperature of their surroundings. As such for every post a person is in the cold or enters the cold their speed will be lowered by 5%(10% in bankai). For each full post that a person spends outside of the cold they will regain 10% of their lost speed. Unlike active techniques this passive technique is always active and takes up a tech slot as well as one of Wycliff’s long term stat alterations.
Heat devourer:While the basic power of Wycliff’s zan is to absorb heat and unleash the winter winds that is just the basic ability to passively suck in heat. What Heat devourer does is take that concept and concentrates it to a devastating degree. Wycliff is able to select a five foot area within his frozen area and supercharge the drawing of all heat. What this does is that anything that has any form of heat will find themselves being pulled towards the area and a massive amount of their heat being drawn from their body even faster. For techniques or spiritual based attacks this means that they have to beat the drawing force of the zone or they will be sucked back into the area. Techs or spiritual based attacks that don’t have OS equal to the drawing force of the zone will be sucked into the zone and forced to stay there and lose 10% of their OS per post. Techs or spiritually based attacks that have higher OS than the drawing force of the zone will be unaffected. For individuals the same thing will happen as they will find their bodies being aggressively pulled towards the zone as well as them losing 200 reiatsu per post in shikai and 400 per post in bankai. The drawing force area is equal to 3 times the heat devouring zone in shikai and ten times the heat devouring zone in bankai. This zone can keep a frozen zone well after his shikai’s 3 turn limit, however once the tech ends the area turns back to normal. All OS that is lost and all reiatsu that is lost is considered absorbed heat. A zone may only have up to Wycliff’s OS x3 in heat stored in shikai. Once a zone reaches it’s maximum heat it explodes in a massive fireball(equal to Wycliff's RS) that if Wycliff is within the same area will impact him as well.
Drawbacks:. Costs 500 reiatsu per post to keep. Zone’s cant be moved once placed and can quickly be overwhelmed by spamming techs. The same area can’t be affected for 3 posts after a zone ends. Only one zone can exist at a time. max % loss is 75 of a techs os
Bankai Overall:
While shikai can be seen as a blizzard coming towards someone Wycliff's bankai is being inside of a total white out. When bankai is activated the world around him changes. While at first it looks as if the entire world around him gets covered in a deep pure white snow the truth is Wycliff replaces the world around him with part of his inner world. What happens is that everything in the surrounding area within a 500 foot diameter of Wycliff is now replaced by his inner world and inside of that world everything is consumed by pure white and nothing else.
Wycliff's bankai replicates the effect of a white out to the most extreme conditions. The entire ground is pure white covered in snow and ice, the sky is covered totally by a raging blizzard that makes visibility difficult. For as far as the eye can see there is only white for those trapped inside of the bankai. Those inside of the white out with 300 senses will be able to make out more than just solid white. For every point in anti stealth, or focused eye the required senses drop by 50. To make the effect more deadly nothing else can create another shade of color or lack of color inside of the white out. Only something with a higher stat superiority can cause another color or shadows to appear in the white out any other attempts will result in the raging snowstorm to consume the color the very instant it is attempted to be created. Even Wycliff’s kido turns solid white in bankai as a result of it’s power.
The whiteout effect of his power is only a result of the evolution of his power, Wycliff’s bankai allows him to fully control all aspects of his inner world. This allows for the total free manipulation of the winds, the ice, the snow and even the ground of his inner world. This manipulation of his power is something that is second nature and allows him to create constructs out of these elements the only limit is his imagination. (max 20 feet in size) The constructs have his OS as their strength to be destroyed and for attacking purposes, 10 at a time can be created and maintained for a cost of 200 per post per construct, only 2 can be created per post however all active constructs can be manipulated and reshaped each post. For Wycliff he himself can see as if normal, to him the snowstorm isn’t happening and the ground appears as normal, however he does know that it exists there.
Bankai Techs:
Frost Animation:
Frost Animation: By focusing his manipulation of his bankai Wycliff is able to create a special construct who’s appearance can be altered by Wycliff at will. This construct has several features that make it unique. The first and foremost unique property of this construct is that this can act as a second body for Wycliff allowing him to use it as if it where his own. Meaning he is allowed to use kido and other techniques from this construct. Communication from this construct is allowed and for all intents and purposes it seems like it is Wycliff himself. However like a construct this animation is able to be repaired and restored like any other he creates. The second unique property is that this construct has the ability to think and act on it’s own as if it were an individual. Wycliff can give this construct it’s own autonomy and it will act in a manor similarly to Wycliff however not under his control.
Drawbacks: Only 2 at any given point in time can be summoned. They move at Wycliff’s speed and have his OS in terms of cutting power or strength if needed, they share his sensory stats. Costs 500 per post per construct. Any kido that has a drawback is replicated on Wycliff that they use. More than a limb in damage costs 100 reiatsu to repair. They have no skills as they're constructs
Fighting Style:
Fighting isn't something that Wycliff is really excited about, however he does know that there is a huge need for it given he is a shingami and it is his duty to protect weak souls from hollows and other threats there are in the world. So in that stance Wyciff normally takes a very relaxed stance when it comes to fighting. To start off a fight he actually keeps his sword in it's sheath if he is against someone who has their wits about them, so if it's against a hollow he will instantly draw his blade because of the nature of hollows. If not he would rather not draw his blade to anyone if possible.
So how does he fight if he doesn't use his sword to start off? With his kido, even though he acts like a goofball Wycliff is actually a surprisingly proficient kido user. He has a tendency to use kido in quick rotation to throw off his opponents and disable them. Preferring to use weaker kido on them till he knows that he needs to resort to stronger kido spells. All the while keeping a relaxed look as he continues to fight.
If he sees that his lower end kido spells aren't working that's when he swaps tactics. The first thing he does is start to fire off kido from other places besides his hands. In order to trick his opponents and catch them off guard with his kido. At this time he will also improve the quality of his kido's by using stronger ones. Another tactic he uses is saying that he is using one kido IE calling it out mid fight while in reality using mental incantation he is using another kido that is totally different. This has been known to be very effective the first time however afterwords it isn't so effective.
If he is having issues keeping the distance between his opponent or needs to be able to block he will finally pull out his sword holding it with one hand while keeping the other open for what ever he needs it for. With his sword now drawn he takes the offensive and gets in close actually attacking instead of waiting for someone else to attack and him counter. Even though he doesn't pull out his blade out often he is no slouch with it at all. He knows his way around his blade and uses that to his advantage. However he doesn't abandon his kido spells when he draws out his blade. No instead he uses them to further his attacks.
If one was to see Wycliff attacking with his blade drawn at this time they could call him a spells sword. With him alternating sword slashes with kido spells. Now while it seems that he prefers one hand to use his sword in and the other for kido that isn't exactly true. For him it's a matter of convince as to which hand is using what. If he sees that attacking with the blade on the right side is effecting he will keep at it while using kido to strike the left side. Now if he sees that his attacks are being blocked easily he will mid slash swap hands to pass off his sword and now with the new empty hand fire off kido at a close range. With either hand he is equally effective with his blade to a scary degree.
When simple kido and sword swings aren’t enough to deal with those he’s fighting with he will activate his shikai. While before he was more reserved about using his powers now he has less qualms about using it. While it’s still as deadly and powerful as before he understand that it’s nature can change depending on how he views himself so he keeps a more positive attitude towards his release. This positive attitude results in him being more open with his attacks and them flowing outward easier than before.
With the winds that he can use he will constantly use them as a way to both zone out his opponent and attack at the same time. Those chilling winds are his bread and butter when it comes to attacking as they carry the new chilling effect of his Zan. With each swing Wycliff will force out more and more wind, covering a larger area as the fight rages on, his goal is to make a safe zone from where he can attack and move freely so that it forces his opponent to be on the defensive at all times.
Wycliff when fighting with his Shikai wants to keep his opponent on the defensive while he is on the offensive. Fighting from a mid range area is the best for him as he is able to manipulate the area around him with ease and take control of the mistakes that the others do. Mixing his release with kido is an often tactic Wycliff will use so that he can constantly keep his opponent second guessing, those that try to attack him at close combat will find that doing so is only in Wycliff’s favor as being able to abuse the rapid kido and the winds of his shikai.
When Wycliff wants to just end a fight without a lot of mess or issue Wycliff will use bankai, this isn’t reserved to only strong opponents or foes that he wants to punish. His bankai is a move that Wycliff will use when he has to. In bankai Wycliff will actually resort to indirect tactics when fighting using constructs and the effects of his bankai to win. It’s not an honorable way to win a fight, but at that point Wycliff doesn’t care about honor, all he cares about is winning the fight.
Zanpakutou Spirit Appearance(Optional):
Boreas’s appearance is that of an older man with a long flowing white beard. At first glance one can see that Boreas’s face seems to have wrinkles and weathered by time. His eyes are solid white and have a soft glow to them. His mouth is obscured by his beard and mustache that flow down past his waist. From the front one isn’t able to see if Boreas has hair as he has an armored helm atop his head. This helm is a cool blue in color and has three horns curving upwards. One horn on each side comes from where is ears would be while the third is from the front of the helm. Under the helm Boreas’s hair can be seen reaching his shoulders. Boreas’s voice isn’t that of a normal person’s when he speaks it’s just air blowing, only Wycliff is able to understand it, to others all it sounds like is the wind roaring.
Boreas is covered in a regal set of armor blue as the helm and cool to the touch. This armor on it’s shoulder pads has the typical six pointed snow flake as a symbol, however it’s more detail and has extra points between each main arm. The armor only has Boreas’s face and hands free, Boreas’s hands seem to be that of a normal man of his age, however there is always a faint blue glow from his fingertips freezing anything that comes in contact with them. On his back he wears a long cape that seems to be made of ice that flows and moves as he wishes.
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Inner World(Optional):
The inner world of Wycliff is a massive world covered in ice and snow. Wycliff hasn’t explored the full extent of his inner world but from what he can see it spans for an entire planet. When you enter the inner world one will feel the cold of the world engulfing everything. Looking around you will see a world covered in snow and ice. Trees frozen solid, waves frozen over still in motion, what looks like remnants of civilization just iced over, frozen as if it was lost in time. There are no signs of life and in the distance there is always a massive mountain with dark clouds brewing.
That’s what people would see if the wind is calm, most of the time the wind is raging and constantly picking up ice and snow tossing it everywhere. Inside of these storms it’s impossible to see anything as the world is just pure white. Nothing seems to make sense and one can lose themselves in the pure white of the world. Often when the winds stop for a moment a person can find themselves in a place that was different than when the wind first started, even if they didn’t move.
Zanpakutou Appearances:
Sealed:
Chūdoku's normal sealed form is a long white Katana that has thirty inch long blade with a ten inch long hilt. The leather wrapping around the hilt is an off white color while the pommel is pure silver and extends an inch inwards into the hilt of the blade. The Tsuba of his katana is rather simple as it is has only has eight holes each one evenly spaced from one another running around the blade. The Tsuba it's self isn't totally round as there are some half circle indents around the edge of it, giving the whole thing a gear like look and just like the rest of the blade it it solid white.
Going past the Tsuba the Habaki actually extends outward three inches before allow the actual blade of the katana to be seen. Now while the sword is pure white there is one small section right after the Habaki that isn't, instead there are six bold crimson lines on the blade closely lined next to one another. Now there is a pattern to the lines that one is totally connected followed by one that has been cut in half. This pattern repeats for the six lines after that the rest of the blade is totally white and nothing separates it from any other sword. The actual scabbard of the blade is white as well with a white leather wrapping around it to be used to hold it on a belt.
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Shikai:
Wycliff's shikai form is rather deceiving at a first look. Given it's power one would of expected a more sinister looking blade, however his takes the other path. Instead it gives off the appearance of royalty and nobility. The blade fades from gold to white as it goes down from the grip to the tip of the blade. Not only is the blade rather elegant in it's color it is also very ornate with it's design from the bottom of the pommel to the tip of the blade there isn't a spot that doesn't seem to give a sense of high nobility even though he himself isn't a noble at all.
Wycliff's Shikai form takes a drastic change from his sealed form. The once white blade turns gray while the tip of the blade slowly fades to black. While the hilt and the grip turn from white to a dark gray. The change in color isn't the only thing that changes from it's sealed form to it's released form. The entire blade changes from tip to pommel. Even the type of blade changes fully from a katana to a two handed great sword.
The grip of the blade is divided into different parts with a large metal pommel that leads into black leather wrapping the grip of the blade that is sectioned off by three metal rings that have small black gems in them. The cross guard is a large metal demon's skull that has it's horns wrap around it leading to two smaller skulls at each end of the cross guard. Further up is a second cross guard with the sides curved in and can be used to catch swords or even cut foes with. However the second option is unlikely given how small they are compared to the rest of the blade.
The actual blade of his sword is five feet long. Down the center of the blade in Celtic runes the phase “The winter wind comes from the north” glows in blue. The blade is not symmetrical as one side has a perfect edge while the other is jagged a bit before it turns into a perfect edge again. The jagged part of the blade is near the grip. While one would assume it would be hard to use such a large blade in combat Wycliff can easily use his blade with either one hand or two.
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Bankai:
Upon activating bankai the area within a 500 ft diameter of Wycliff is instantly turned into part of his inner world. Inside of this area the snow and wind are constantly moving and flowing without any signs of stopping. Wycliff keeps his shikai blade inside of Bankai, however that doesn’t mean that the bankai is just the blade. For Wycliff the eternity of the area around him is his bankai, being able to move and control it as if it was just his own sword. This mass of snow and ice if ever stopped would show that the world around it was just white. Ice and snow under one’s feet would be 250 feet down, the sky covered in white snow slowly trying to fall down.
What kind of update: [Power change due to Wycliff learning the truth about his Zan and Accepting it. As well as a possible promotion to captaincy. ]
Threads showing the changes
Both threads show that Wycliff's power is unstable and is something else with hints of it being a frost/ cold based power
rpforumbleach.proboards.com/thread/10895/hado-incantations-jt-celes-wycliff
rpforumbleach.proboards.com/thread/10877/candy-fanatics-closed-training?page=2
Wycliff's bankai training thread resulting in him learning the truth of his power
rpforumbleach.proboards.com/thread/11046/snow-solo-training-thread-closed
