Celes Shindazu [Visored Wannabe]

[Celes Castellanos]

-Opening- 

Discord/Chatango Username (include nicknames): Ceres


Password 1: Sun Clap


Password 2: Moon Pray


Type: Soldier


Squad: Unseated Officer [Squad 11]


Face Claim: Amber [Darker Than Black]

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-Basic Information- 

Name: Celes Shindazu


Age of Death: 27


Real Age/Age of Appearance: 35/27


Birthday (Month/Day): February 7


Blood Type: AB+


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-Appearance- 

Height/Weight: 5'7"/122 lb


Physical Description: Celes takes the appearance of a woman of around age 27. This is the age at which she passed. Stands at 5'7" and clocks in at around 122 lb. Her build looks rather frail. She does not look anorexic by any stretch, but her build and height make her look unhealthy. She has honey blonde hair that sinks down to her upper back. She normally keeps it tied back in situations involving combat. She normally wears the typical shinigami clothing, yet she decides to wear a variant with a blood red color. On a few occasions, she enjoys wearing clothing that looks similar to clothing that an Arrancar would wear. She is extremely pale, borderline white as snow. Her cheekbones sink into her face a little to further add to that look. 

Celes is somewhat well endowed. She is nowhere near Rangiku however. She keeps a rather modest look, remaining rather...covered up. This pertains primarily to her cuts and bruises as she really hates those to be seen. This is why she keeps herself covered up for the most part. She wears the bandages to cover the lacerations. The lacerations themselves aren't too deep. The bandages are generally not too visible until her sleeves move up. For this reason, she has taken to wear garbs with longer sleeves. Her lacerations have become a symbol of weakness and she is somewhat fearful of them.

Unknown to most, Celes' body is riddled with cuts and bruises that for some reason won't go away, especially the cuts. Her complexion along with her hair color has been commented as beautiful, yet she disregards it with the number of cuts she has. Her eyes have a faded blue color and she typically wears eyeliner casually. Other forms of makeup are completely disregarded by her in every sense of the word. On occasion, she does enjoy throwing on some black lipstick. She genuinely dislikes any form extra makeup. Part of this reason is that she dislikes wearing a mask. Although there is contradiction due to the whole covering up portion.

The aforementioned cuts and bruises are normally covered by bandages that Celes herself makes. The bandages aren't too think, but are visible most of the time, depending on the type of clothing that she is wearing. These bandages reside mostly on her legs and back. She often grips these locations out of instinct. Celes makes these bandages out of whatever materials she can find. Celes does spend some of her free-time creating bandages and cycling them out regularly. She has this odd feeling that they may infect, although she is not sure that it is entirely possible. She is not the one to take any chances whatsoever so she simply decides to do it anyway.

Celes' clothing is generally a blood-red variant of the typical shinigami clothing. She will sometimes opt for more traditional clothing in regards to the typical black color of the garbs. Above all else, she walks barefoot and this is something she never deviates from. The ground could be layered with spikes and she would still walk barefoot, unfazed by the danger ahead. Over time, her clothing became more and more tattered as fights went on. She enjoys going out and getting new clothing for more casual occasions and will wear anything from scarfs to simple clothing. When tattered, she will wear her clothing still as long as it does not reveal her too much. Especially her bruises in particular. She fears the knowledge of people finding out about them. In rare cases, she will let people know about them to help avoid the constant stress.

Celes is often mocked for her small hands and somewhat short limbs. She uses this, however, for extraordinary agility. Her limbs, however, do stop her from doing basic tasks, like getting that carton of milk from the very top shelf. She hates to wear gloves or any form of a hat. The only form of supplementary clothing she has no issue with scarfs. She enjoys wearing scarfs of a red or black color. Sometimes she will settle for teal. Her choice of clothing is very reminiscent of her time in Russia. The era of the Soviet Union was a harsh one and she always had to be careful about what she wears. Her time in the Soul Society has thankfully dampened her fears of the Soviet Union. Now and then, she will wear an Ushanka simply for old times sake.

When utilizing her Hollow powers, Celes undergoes drastic changes. This all starts with her hollow mask. Her hollow mask is a dull white color reminiscent of the typical bonelike color and structure of most hollow masks. The mask itself covers the entire front of her face. The eyes are slit horizontally as blood-red lines extend diagonally outward. From the front, everything is covered except for her neck. The mask does a decent job in somewhat covering the side of her face, but not by a lot. The mask itself takes a rather similar look so Ichigo's in terms of the eyes and visage, but the general look and feel of the mask represent more along the lines of grace and elegance.

On top of that, her clothing becomes more tattered than normal. Her skin becomes darker, looking more like typical human skin. Her eyes can be seen through the mask quite easily. During Hollowfication, her eyes take on a deep emerald green. While in her undergoing Hollowfication, her spirit feels much more chaotic. If seen from the side of the mask, Celes appears to still have that same genuine smile she normally does. She does become more chaotic as a result of her ressurection, but nothing, not even Yukito, can stop her from truly caring and protecting her friends. 

Celes normally wears a belt with a place for her Zanpakutou. The belt itself resides around her waist. The belt is brown in color and extends perfectly around her waist. The belt itself acts as a kind of hilt for her Zanpakutou as she has little trouble removing it from the confines of the belt. The belt serves mostly as a tool to keep her Zanpakutou not only hiding under her robes but not have it in the way. While the belt itself is no utility belt, it is rather large and somewhat heavy. Years of carrying it around, however, has made Celes accustomed to the overall weight of carrying it around every single day. Most of the time, however, she still tends to find people ask why she has it.

Celes' hollow is Yukito. This hollow has pale skin and black ruffled up hair. He always wears a black cloak and scarf. Yukito surprisingly has white sclera and blue pupils. Yukito often wears a black variant of whatever clothing Celes is wearing. This is to attempt and remain distant from Celes. Even as a hollow, Yukito is rather well built. Both Celes and Yunorashi are surprised at Yukito being a male hollow, although to be fair, Celes has never really noticed any "gender" among hollows. This comes from her lack of experience in the subject as she has rarely seen hollows and quite frankly, does not particularly want to see more. It is a tribute to her choice to remain nonviolent until release that is.

Yukito is a 5'10 male with a vicious smile. He has a fair build, not too big and not skinny either. Yukito himself is an embodiment of Celes' entropy. To that end, he dresses in a black robe. One could go as far and say that Yukito himself looks rather chaotic unlike Yunorashi who acts childish, but is rather prim and proper. Yukito has in the past described himself as the chaos that lives in people's souls. He is an embodiment of Celes' internal struggle of balancing her sweet and caring side with the malevolence that lies in all of us. Like the case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Celes is fearful of Yukito. While she has not yet met him and quite frankly is not aware of his existence, she knows there to be something sinister lying in her, although she presumes it simply is a phase.
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-Personality- 

Dislikes

Yukito - Celes can tend to dislike Yukito. This is in part due to his manipulative attitude towards her friends and as established before, she would do anything to help her friends. The times that she has met him, it was very begrudgingly as she prefers Yunorashi much more over Yukito. It may the general nicety and kindness that Yunorashi shows her. On top of this, Celes in general just has a generally negative attitude of hollows.

Pessimism - Celes hates most forms of pessimism for the fact that it detracts from others optimism. Due to this, she will do most things in her power to try and make others happy. When she does try to help and ends up annoying others, she blames pessimism as the main cause of their blight and grief. If there is one thing she would do in a heartbeat, its try and rid the world of pessimism. This is slightly hypocritical though since she can be pessimistic.

Lack of responsibility - Celes despises those that don't take responsibility for their own actions. In layman's terms, she doesn't like people who don't show guilt or remorse. Celes will lash out at others if they show no remorse. Much more than that, it has given her the thought of outright killing since she thinks that nobody with such an arrogant view deserves to breathe. She spits herself for this believe since she always tries to be tolerant.
 
Hollows - Celes considers hollows the lowest lifeform possible. This is due to their chaotic nature, but Celes is a bit hypocritical here. It was a hollow that instilled her with fear when she first saw it, but as time grew on in her career as a Soul Reaper, she grew a despising attitude towards Hollows which is rather surprising since she has rather high tolerance towards most forms of life. Then again, she dislikes Yukito.

Arrancar - Her bias extends even more to Arrancar. She does admire them somewhat for their will to survive, but the reason she dislikes them is due to their general attitude. To speak to that even more, she just generally dislikes any form of chaotic lifeform be it hollows or Arrancar. In her eyes, its basically the same thing. She does, however, feel a degree of sympathy for their condition and sometimes hopes that she can get over this dislike.

Pain - This dislike more pertains to those she cares about. She hates seeing them in pain and on rare occasions, will abandon others to protect the hurt and innocent. The regrettable thing is that she herself does not care about her own pain. While she dislikes any form, even her own, she will consider herself lesser than anyone she can protect. This gives her an attitude much like a caring mother which ultimately is what she acts like.

Soul Reapers - When being outcast, most Soul Reapers turned their back on her. This filled Celes with great spite towards most Soul Reapers. She will actively ignore them. It was not always so as some of her companions were Soul Reapers yet she sees little reason to truly like them with their general attitude to her. She will avoid them in person whenever possible as she is slightly scared of any hostile conflict.

Death - In her sane form, Celes despises death. The death of both her sister and her mother hit her very hard and she longs for them to come back sometimes. She realizes that they will never come back, but she hopes at times. Death itself is just a rather finicky topic for her since it was also a car that killed her in the first place. She spites herself since she should have known about those drunk drivers in Russia.

Blood - Celes has a slight dislike of blood. Perhaps it simply comes from her cuts or maybe the remembrance of the blood-stained snow when her sister died. She is not sure herself, all she knows is that she has a dislike of blood. If someone or something is bleeding, she will help it begrudgingly since she knows that she has to help others. All she knows is that if blood is present, she will avoid it whenever possible.

Loud Noise - Celes is rather indifferent to any forms of loud noise. She does dislike them, however, and will avoid them whenever possible. She has been known to lash out at those that purposely annoy her by making loud noises. It is quite frankly a pet peeve of hers. Most of all, she freezes up when she hears a car horn due to her death being for a car accident. She hopes she can get over that dislike one day.

Likes

Animals - Celes loves animals, especially cats. She holds them very dear and will stop to pet animals whenever possible. Furthermore, she adores going to the human realm to see animals. Thankfully she does not stop fighting simply because a cat is walking by. Very casually, however, she will follow cats and try to pet them even when they walk away. To that end, she has the potential to be quite the airhead.

Drawing - Celes enjoys drawing in her free-time. She does not enjoy a particular kind of art style, but will actively experiment whenever she has a chance. Drawing is a personal favorite of hers. She does not know what it is, but she is particularly drawn to drawing anything. Above all else, she likes general depictions of chaos. This goes against her personality, but she has always found something so interesting about chaos.

Entropy - Much unlike her nature, Celes finds joy in entropy. She finds something so interesting about how people can change intentions and cause strife on a whim. This is a tribute to her power. The balance between both order and chaos roams back to ancient times past. Celes presumes that this may be due her dealings in the Soviet Union. Order was a novelty and not very common so she finds interest in chaos.

Friendship - Like any Disney movie, Celes preaches on the concept of friendship. She finds the bond it can create to be meaningful. This is why she trusts those she cares about heavily. This goes back to her days when she was living. Her sister was always a good friend to her just as much as she was a spectacular guardian to Celes. To honor her memory, Celes aims to protect those that she can and establish friendship wherever possible.

Optimism - Tying in with the above point, Celes has a deep and fond love of optimism. In essence, she is happy most of the time, although she tends to hide pessimism under a mask of optimism. She dislikes her own optimism and instead aims to ensure that she is always optimistic. This does become somewhat of an issue when she begins to find interest in chaos. It goes against the very nature of optimism, but she tries to balance the two.

Yunorashi - As the calm Zanpakutou spirit, Celes finds joy in the company of Yunorashi. She sees Yunorashi as much more than a companion. To her, Yunorashi is a part of her and as such is practically family. Yunorashi herself much to Celes' happiness, tends to enjoy talking to Celes ever since they made contact. As a mentor, Yunorashi provides Celes with much wisdom and she is ever thankful to know her.

Companionship - Along the lines of friendship, Celes enjoys the feeling of camaraderie. She feels that people she can trust, she can vent out on and she never feels anything other than safe around her comrades. This extends mostly to her squad as she barely dislikes anyone whom she ever meets although the same cannot necessarily be said the other way around. Alas, she enjoys the sense of being companions with most.

Corruption - To add to her adoration for chaos, Celes has a sense interest in corruption. She finds it fascinating just how quickly it can take hold and turn others against one another. Is it the quite the fascinating hobby of hers to look at history and point out times at which either chaos or corruption has reigned. Part of this much like entropy may be her time in the Soviet Union being a volatile and prime time for the corrupt to take power.

Souls - To elaborate, Celes finds herself to like souls such as Pluses. They have a generally melancholy attitude which sometimes makes her sad, but it makes her happy to be able to send them to the Soul Society. To her, it is the greatest gift she can give anyone. Part of this is that she dislikes hollows and tries to find ways of mitigating the number of hollows that have the potential to form by not letting their emotions consume them.

Leadership - Celes respects and honors strong leadership. It is a defining quality that she deems necessary for every group to have. Although she is the submissive type, she does enjoy calling the shots at times. Although it is extremely rare to her general timid nature. While it is a gripe of her, she does enjoy watching others be invigorated by the actions or even speeches of others. To her, it's a grand event to watch.

Flaws

Airheaded - Celes can be quite...oblivious to her surroundings. Furthermore, she isn't necessarily the brightest when it comes to complex terms. She tries her best to learn, but it often creates issues in terms of both command and following orders. As mentioned before, she respects leadership, but can have a horrible time actually following directions. It is a simple yet devious flaw that has gotten her into some trouble in the past.

Trust - Celes' deep sense of trust is a double-edged sword. She trusts people with her life and is easily persuaded. On another end, she can be backstabbed incredibly easily. For some reason, she never learns just how untrustworthy some people can be. It does pain her somewhat that people would go behind her back. To put it bluntly, trust is Celes' Achilles heel and she will unconditionally trust most until the give her reason not to trust them.

Violence - Celes is not a very violent person. This is why she uses her ability to incite strife to have others fight each other. While she dislikes violence, she will commit to it if people she cares about are in danger. It also comes down to how much danger she is in. She does not stray away from violence while in her release which helps mitigate this issue, but then, on the other hand, she does become chaotic so either way, she can either be timid and nonviolent or violent yet volatile.

Insecure - Celes can be incredibly insecure. She will avoid eye-contact and some contact in general out of fear of being judged. Much like her airhead personality, this makes her lacking in the following orders department at times. It is a fault she tries to work on. Insecurity is a reason that she can be self-depreciative. She does not consider herself to be beautiful or skilled at anything and she is rather dismissive to most positive comments direct at her.

Paranoid - Celes can be incredibly paranoid to a fault. As her trust diminishes she herself can become slightly erratic about the intentions of others. Regaining her trust and then breaking it again sends her deeper and deeper into paranoia. She has a small habit of looking over her shoulder as a result of this. It does not harm her directly in any way, but it can be very mentally debilitating to think that someone's intentions are not pure.

Habits

Writing - To cope with stress, Celes has a habit of writing down the encounter as best as she can from memory after it has happened. This is to remind herself to never have something this happen again. It relates to her paranoia of encountering a situation in which she does not remember how to react to it. She writes into her notebook whenever she has time. Her writing can sometimes get in the way of her actions and she has been faulted for it.

Talking to Herself - Celes has a tendency to speak to herself in situations. She sometimes does this in tandem with her writing. Most of the time, these two events remain exclusive. In the case that she can't write, she will simply begin commenting on the situation to herself. This can sometimes be assumed that she is talking to someone else in which case she will stare into blank space which is reminiscent of her airheaded attitude at times.

Looking at her Zanpakutou - Celes can be a little odd in this regard. She really cares for Yunorashi and as such seeks to inspect the Zanpakutou itself often. To do this she goes into the position of very reminiscent of Jinzen. For this, however, she does not go into any otherworldly or otherwise meditative state and instead simply looks at Yunorashi for any blemishes. One could consider her a neat freak in this regard.

Smiling - Celes oftentimes has an unnecessary need to smile. She feels that it can help establish relationships better if you smile at people you meet. This is to an extent silly, but she noticed that she gets much more positive reactions from people when she actually smiles at them prematurely. Perhaps it is her positive attitude that generally has her make friends easily, but she attributes it mostly to smiling. Smiling also extends life apparently, but in her case, it's not all too relevant.

Being Early - Celes has a compulsive habit of wanting to be early. She does not believe in the idea of being "fashionably" late. To her late is late and she will fault anyone who is late to any event. Once again, there is some hypocrisy behind as she herself can have a habit of being late. Regrettably, it can make her very annoying and somewhat unapproachable when she begins to fume. Alas, she only means well.

Fears

Losing Herself - Her use of entropy has left Celes scared of losing herself to insanity. It grips her with fear to think that one day she may succumb to the depths of insanity herself. While she admires the entropic, the realizes the danger that it can provide to her and she fears every waking moment because of it. While she lives for entropy, she fears its ability to consume even the most courageous of souls.

Yukito - Celes deeply fears Yukito and what he can do. He has lashed at her before and with malefic intent. This has etched itself deep into Celes' psyche and has become a deep fear of hers. A primary issue that accompanies this is that Celes is very wary of Yukito. As a hollow and even more so as a hollow within Celes, he can have a profound impact on her personality. Whenever she has to meet or speak with him, she can be filled with immense dread. In fact, his closeness causes a chill to run up her spine.

Cuts - Celes' cuts are a fear of hers. Not so much the presence of the cuts, but more about people looking at her any differently because of them. She has the capacity to explain their origin, but she sometimes stalls out of fear of being judged. This is another true fear of hers that runs along with insecurity. Scrutiny and criticism is something that she has trouble taken. Perhaps she feels like she needs to prove herself, but she does not quite know herself.

Being Judged - Celes suffers from several social fears, yet her most prominent is her fear of being judged. Perhaps it lies in her sister always being nonjudgemental. She tries to get through times when she is ruthlessly judged, but then she has a habit of breaking down. To that end, she can tend to break down into a crying mess or even a manifestation of her chaotic self. It can depend on the situation, although more often than not, she just ends up crying.

Goals

Protection - Above all else, Celes simply wants to protect those she cares about. She has gone into frenzies before when a friend of hers was injured, but this is exceedingly rare. It lies more within her to simply care for those that have been hurt. By default, she will resort to any measures to make sure that those she cares about don't suffer. Above that, she does not care about her own safety if it means she can help someone else.

Self-Improvement - Celes seeks to master her own abilities so that she can hold her own. She fears Yukito, but knows that he is a powerful ally. This is why she sought to tame Yukito, make him see it her way. To this end, she seeks to improve herself and protect everyone she can. Yukito's adversary is to be expected and because of this, Celes knows she can employ the help of Yunorashi in training herself to be better.

Finding Heyori - Even though Celes never became a Hollow out of grief, she still holds a deep love for Heyori and seeks to find her one day. It is one of her more noble goals, to be reunited with Heyori. Years before Heyori's death, she promised Celes that she'd always be with her. Sometimes Celes wonders whether she meant also in death, but that is beside the point. If there is one thing Celes wants above all else, it is to find Heyori again.

Establish Peace - If there is another thing that Celes holds very dear it is peace. She hates the warring that the Soul Society and Las Noches undergo. So much death and construction for nothing. Despite her admiration for the chaos, it can make her sick to the stomach to hear of the horrific deaths that occur. Her goal is to someday establish a bridge between both the Arrancars and Soul Society, yet Celes herself sometimes questions whether it is truly possible.

Alignment: Lawful Neutral/Chaotic Neutral (Bankai)

Overall Personality

Celes has a rather carefree and sweet personality. She cares for others deeply and will go out of her way to make them happy. This can range from giving them a gift to spending time with them. Celes doesn't care what it takes as long as he friends end up happy. This does create a sense of naivety on Celes' part as she has a difficult time differentiating from what should be feared and what should be cared for. This can make her rather gullible to most forms of deception, but it also adds to her sentimentality.

Celes deeply enjoys any form of compassion that is shown to her. She considers compassion a virtue that everybody should follow. She becomes very demoralized when somebody doesn't return any sentiments of compassion. In this sense, Celes hates nihilism as well as pessimism. Generally, in her free time, she will dedicate whatever she can to make other feel compassionate. This has generated a form of disdain towards her in the past as she can be rather annoying. She does have the best intentions for everyone most of the time. She, however, does not respond well to stress nor does she do well in situations in which she is backstabbed.

Celes enjoys drawing in her free-time as well. This amounts to her compassionate side as she will normally do things for others above her own needs. If she needs to take the time and spend all day and night on something for a friend, she will do it without hesitation. This makes her rather self-depreciating and somewhat dissatisfied with not only her own abilities but somewhat envious of those who care about themselves. This general lack of care for her own safety has created serious issues in the past when she would choose not to attack due to the notion of not wanting to hurt any form of life.

Despite her outward enjoyment of optimism and friendship, Celes has a secret enjoyment of Entropy. She simply finds something so incredible about entropy. Her desire to protect her friends, while making her naive and uninterested in her own safety, makes her cheerful and a pleasantry to be around.  She becomes excited and continues to fight with a purpose when protecting her friends. Her abilities, however, do sometimes upset her when she has the potential to hurt someone she cares about. Supplementing this is her gradual shift to chaos as she begins to become consumed by entropic thoughts.

She also has a deep enjoyment and soft spot for animals. So much so, that she can become mesmerized if her opponent has some form of animal trait or transformation. This sudden lack of attention can at times make her a liability as she is rather airheaded. She understands the concept of protection naturally, however, and will not kill unless necessary. It is one her virtues that all life must be respected unless her friends are in danger. It is when her friends are in danger, that a soft spot is lost for whoever is threatening them. In that case, Celes is never shy of drawing blood. She does not enjoy seeing death, however, she sometimes sees it as a necessary evil.

Within Celes, lies a more twisted sense of friendship and protection. This comes in the form of Celes' Hollow. The Hollow's name is Yukito. This is a male hollow. Yukito isn't sadistic by any means, but he has a twisted form of friendship that differs heavily from Celes. Among all else, Yukito sees others as a means to an end. He cares little for them as people, but more as tools to use for later. This directly conflicts with Celes. Celes has had times in which she went off on his general lack of care for anything. Celes hates to see others get hurt simply to get hurt. Yukito, meanwhile, has a very little qualm about actually hurting or using anyone.

More often than not, Yukito will yell at Celes for most things. He considers Celes too forgiving and will usually spring into action for his own survival. While he can be friendly, he can be vicious and conniving. For this reason, Celes has become somewhat hesitant to call upon his power as she fears the potential danger of having him roam around free. Yukito himself is somewhat like White. He will choose to help Celes if the lack of help results in his own destruction. This makes him very cynical and rather indifferent as long as it does not harm his own safety. In those cases that it does, he has a tendency to protect Celes indirectly or in fact, possess her to simply fight for her.

Yukito is most recognizable by his smile. It is a combination of a good-hearted smile and one of the psychotic intentions. Celes has a shiver go down her spine whenever she sees it because she simply cannot stand it. The two are at odds at times, but recognize when they must work together. Most of the time this results in Yukito taking over and running in. Yukito is a hollow who quite frankly is impatient. He does not like waiting for openings and will instead be hyper-aggressive, using Celes' abilities to downright devastating effect. He is deadly proficient with both her abilities and Yunorashi. This has, however, instilled a sense of arrogance into Celes that is rather hard to keep down.

When Yukito takes control of Celes' body, her personality twists to his. This is mostly characterized by Yukito's desire to keep her friends alive as resources. Because of this, Yukito has a very little quarrel in killing others if it means their safety. Yukito does enjoy a good fight against an equal. This is a sense of pride that he has over Celes. Celes has felt prideful in the past as Yukito was influencing her own opinion. Celes can sometimes feel the pulling of her own personality as it began to mix with Yukito's. Sometimes she can feel her own sanity waning and slip away as Yukito's personality begins to twist her own. To Celes it is a perversion of her sense of free will and she tries to stay as strong-willed as she can to resist.

Yukito marvels at his own ability. He emphasizes a deep hatred for Yunorashi. This is mostly due to a similar carefree nature. Yukito doesn't mind Celes as much because he can influence her easily yet Yunorashi is a voice of reason to Celes. This normally stops Yukito from influencing Celes completely as Celes sometimes shuts them both out as a result. Furthermore, Yukito hates the calm nature of Yunorashi and often has short scuffles with her. Yukito above all else is envious of Yunorashi. As the Zanpakutou spirit, Yunorashi has a constant connection to Celes, both physically and mentally. While Yukito has the same connection, it is not nearly as well received nor is it anywhere near as strong. The times that he is unleashed are the few joys of his existence.

Her outcast from the Soul Society literally broke Celes. It shattered every conceivable notion she had about trust. Her personality began to warp, becoming closer to Yukito's. Celes began to talk back more and as she grew deeper into the pit of despair, she simply lost it. Becoming much more chaotic, she became somewhat unfeeling and shut out to any form of help. Perhaps it was the psychological torment from Yukito or perhaps even the emotional trauma of being cast out, but she traded in her morals for something much greater. The ability to not feel made her ruthless. 

Being cast out even changed Yukito's attitude. He became much more attached to Celes as time went on. Attached in both good and bad ways. He began caring slightly more and actually advising Celes more than before. On the other hand, it opened the door for Yukito to corrode her mind even more. His attitude may have changed, but intentions will always remain. His malefic intent to completely corrupt Celes is one that he may never give up. Alas, Celes holds on to the threads of her sanity and tries to contend with all that has happened. She simply became uncaring, much like a nihilist. While never becoming evil, she migrated to a more solemn and quiet type.
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-Powers-

Fighting Style

Let's establish something here, Celes does not enjoy fighting without a cause. Self-defense is ok, but she does enjoy inflicting pain upon others unless absolutely required. This would be in one of her companions/friends are in danger or if anything poses any form of threat to herself. To put it bluntly, while she is not a pacifist, she will not purposely inflict pain unless her back is against the wall. This does, however, change when Yukito becomes involved or her Shikai/Bankai is released as it draws her closer and closer to a dangerous personality of chaotic intent.

Celes uses a fighting style depending on the first major factor, is she armed or unarmed. As a resident of the Soviet Union and even past that when she became a Shinigami, Celes is proficient at two forms of martial arts. These two that she practices are Sambo and Systema which originate in the Soviet Union and even into the era of the Russian Federation. She became adept at these as she tried to be there for her sister. She felt that she had a duty to her sister although she was older. This produced a deep devotion to learn ways to defend herself so that she may, in turn, help her sister if she ever got into trouble. Regrettably, her death sent Celes into a period of depression in which she hadn't honed both of these martial arts, but old habits die hard as she is becoming more and more proficient at them once more.
 

The first form of unarmed combat she learned is known as Sambo whose Russian name, "SAMozashchita Bez Oruzhiya" which roughly translates to "self-defense without weapons". By using grappling and quick strikes, Celes focuses primarily on an offense. Furthermore, she also relies on kicks and elbows to deliver strikes. Most importantly, Celes focuses primarily on striking parts of the body such as pressure points. Her aim is simply to release muscles and hit anything from pressure points to nerve bundles to debilitate body parts of the opponent. By grappling, she simply directs the flow of battle in the way she sees fit, allowing her to pull off interesting strings of unarmed strikes.

To further add to her unarmed combat, Celes has learned a Russian martial art known as Systema. Systema heavily relies on fluid body motions along with breathing and a calm state of mind. With this martial art, Celes has learned how to use an attackers movements and her motions against them which plays largely into her sealed form of fighting as well as general unarmed fighting. Learning Systema has given her a greater perception of her own body and muscles. Much like Sambo, Systema relies on grappling and strikes to nerves to debilitate the opponent. Celes can do this to great effect with or without a weapon.

There was always one aspect of Systema that Celes picked up fairly quickly. That was the application of blades. Celes is proficient with most forms of blades, especially knives. She has some knowledge of major and minor arteries that can cause minor to severe bleeding if cut. She uses this to not only debilitate opponents, but to whittle them down using strikes and cuts to render their limbs useless. In this sense, Celes can be an extremely potent fighter. While this does not tie into swords as much, Celes can uses aspects of  Syetma with Yunorashi.

The only form of combat that Celes does not like are the use of firearms. She considers them to be a way of cowardice. While the range and speed of a firearm outmatch any normal sword, she has a sense of honor that she employs. Naturally, she does not use firearms as a Soul Reaper, but she has never used firearms in her life due to her disgust for them. Meeting users of firearms, however, can cause her to go ballistic and it is not always a pretty sight of what kind of pain she can put them through. In that sense, Celes can be a sadist when encountering firearms.

Now comes one of the most important aspects of Celes' fighting style, her armed combat. While she herself is proficient at armed combat, she relies on Yunorashi, her Zanpakutou, as a primary means of fighting. While sealed, Celes' fighting style remains to be rather passive. What I mean to say is that she will rarely make a first move in combat or in exchanges. Her preferred method is to simply to wait for an enemy attack and then respond according to with a dodge or parry even in some situations. Much like a fencer, she waits for the opportune moment.

By no means does this mean that Celes will not make an attack if she does not see an opening. On the contrary, an opening to her is like an invitation and she takes it gladly. She will not kill normally, but only seek to injure. This can be striking arteries to induce bleeding such as above the eyes to obscure vision. Her aim is not to kill, but simply debilitate her opponent. As a matter of fact, by default, she actually does not like killing. She finds all life to have some form of meaning and while she does have belief in morality, she understands that some are forced into situations of violence.

This does, however, change if a friend is in danger. This is where Celes' violent side begins to show. She values her friends and camaraderie, but if there is one thing she cannot possibly stand is when her friends get hurt. To put it simply, Celes turns extremely sadistic and violent if her friends are hurt. In essence, she will have no quarrel about severely injuring or even in rare situations killing those that mean to harm her friends. To her, those that have little respect for the life of those around her deserve severe punishment and she has no issue raining that punishment upon their body.

Despite this, however, Celes truly is a kind soul and quite frankly, her blade is always there to protect those she cares about. Generally, Celes will be there to defend those that need help. She will be there to take a hit from them if it were to endanger a mortally wounded teammate. She has even been known to carry others to safety before going crazy on those that hurt them in the first place. This is what her service and blade is for, the protect those she cares about and anybody to even dare infringe upon that desire, will have to pay a contract in blood.

Now let's get in Celes' Shikai fighting. Celes has a Shikai that has the power to debilitate others so that she may cast a deciding blow upon them. This is an important part of her fighting style although it is a two-part process. Celes uses her techniques as a supplementary form of fighting. Her power is in essence, attrition warfare. She will begin to whittle down all their resources such as stamina and reaitsu so that she may cut through them easily with her blade. Celes' fighting style changes drastically from her sealed fighting style.

To start with, Celes adapts a berserker form of fighting much like Guts from Beserker. Then again this is because Yunorashi becomes an impressive greatsword. This allows Celes to act much more aggressive when she releases. While yes, it is true that her techniques while in Shikai do not inflict true physical damage, she believes it is her blade that has the capability to severely injure others. When using her Shikai, she relies on heavy strikes that cleave. She will try and hit someone as much as possible and then attack with a deciding blow such as a skewer which she has been known to do in desperate times.

To highlight an earlier fact, Celes uses the cut off of her opponent's resources to allow them with little chance of retaliating. This is where a part of Celes' sadistic personality shows. She believes that there is no fairness in war, only victory and her sense of honor and justice begin to wane the longer she is in release. To begin with, she will begin to focus on demolishing both stamina and reaitsu of the other by trying to force the flow of combat in a way that she deems fit. This relies on using certain strikes to have the opponent expend as many of their resources as possible along with using her own techniques to supplement this lack of resources.

If an opponent runs out of resources, Celes will begin to take full advantage of this. Her attacks will become much more fierce and to an extent, she will strike with much more killing intent. It is this that defines her combat with her Shikai. While yes, it is incredibly ruthless, her power relies on chaos. Chaos sees no equality nor does it see fairness. Chaos is a single entity that thrives on the misfortune of others and Celes feeds this idea with her fighting style. Those with no resources, cut off from the rest of their teammates are easy picks for injuring. She fights this way no matter if her friends are in danger or not.

This brings into the next fighting style involving her release state, Bankai. While in Bankai, Celes strays away from the pure aggression of her Shikai, but she is still extremely ruthless while fighting. If her Shikai relied on resource destruction, her Bankai is pure chaotic destruction on the physical plane. Celes simply uses her techniques and interweaves them into sword strikes to uses her techniques to their fullest. For one thing, Celes can seal the formation of reaitsu for specific techniques to not allow opponents to use a specific technique. This allows her to act even more aggressive.

Celes' Bankai releases a long-buried aspect of her. The death of her sister left Celes in shambles and she has buried it under a layer of hope and optimism. Her Bankai, however, releases this chaos buried deep inside of her, not only in her techniques, but her style of fighting. Not only does she become much more aggressive the longer she in Bankai, she becomes more chaotic in nature. This is when her feelings of honor and friendship actually become more and more obsolete. While she does not attack a companion, she will do what she can to utterly destroy others. This is frightening part of her Bankai.

As Kyouki-Yunorashi becomes a much longer Katana, Celes has much more reach with her Bankai than with her other combat styles, except for her resurrection maybe. Celes uses the ring at the bottom of Kyouki-Yunorashi to catch blades and redirects them. This is reminiscent of her Systema method of fighting. She relies on controlling the flow of battle through ruthless fighting and a bit of tactician to make her opponent move how she wants them to move. She becomes much more prone to make the first move, however, and will most of the time not wait for her opponent, but instead push them into a corner.

Celes has a cloth on the end of the ring on the hilt of Kyouki-Yunorashi. This cloth is mainly used to clean cuts or bandage wounds. It is a part of her Bankai and as such, it is refreshed, whenever, her Bankai is refreshed. This is the last layer of compassion that Celes shows. While yes, she does become extremely violent, she is not without compassion. Her friends are important to her and this has been ingrained in her mind that not even the deep reaches of chaos can cloud that from her. Her other valiant actions, however, are rarely performed. This is mainly because Celes can lose herself in the reaches of chaos that her Bankai exposes her to. In a sense, it is almost toxic to her personality.

Celes has one final form of fighting comes in the form of her resurrection. It is also the most common for Yukito to appear to her in this form. As her and Yukito's minds somewhat meld or at least become connected, she becomes somewhat more compassionate again. I repeat, only somewhat. While she has full consciousness during her resurrection, she still has Yukito's mind and thoughts polluting her own. This shows in one primary way. Celes will rarely care about the well being of others unless it has a direct purpose to her survival. This is much like Yukito who sees friends as tools and quite frankly has no qualm over sacrificing them if it means that Celes gets to survive although the reason behind that is more self-serving in nature.

The tendrils that from on Celes' back act as a secondary form of combat. In ressurection, Celes maintains whatever release she had and she can still release just as normal. Her tendrils meanwhile act as a way of offense and defense. She does become somewhat unstable due to the meld of her and Yukito. Using her tendrils, she has very little qualm over crushing the life out of others and even just skewering them with the tendrils. In essence, she acts much like a Kraken which is a prime folktale example of chaos and this represents itself in her resurrection. While in this form, Celes only cares about one thing, survival.

-Zanpakutou Appearances-

Sealed

Yunorashi in her sealed state looks like a regular katana. There are key aspects to distinguish Yunorashi. First and foremost is a jade green blade with the insignia of a golden apple decorating the center of the blade. The hilt is a pitch black color with no special insignia or decoration. Other than these specifications, Yunorashi looks like any other katana in terms of length and handling. Aside from the color of both the blade and the hilt along with the insignia, Yunorashi takes the shape of your average sword that any Shinigami would wield on duty.

Despite being a typical Shinigami Zanpakutou, the blade gleams a bright green when reflected off of light. This is standard for any blade so there is nothing special there. The Zanpakutou is small enough to fit within Celes' belt making it extremely efficient to carry while traveling or even while keeping it hidden. This makes Yunorashi exceptionally good for any form of attack from her belt as the belt itself has a slit to easily slide Yunorashi out just in case she Celes needs to. This makes the sealed form of Yunorashi unique in her own way.

The insignia of the apple on Yunorashi's center has symbolic meaning to Celes. Much like the chaos of her abilities, the apple represents the Apple of Discord. Said to be the cause of most sources of strife by the Greek Goddess of Strife, Eris. This symbol is practically the cornerstone of her abilities. The Zanpakutou itself shows this with the easily noticeable Apple of Discord located on the center of the blade. The insignia itself has no practical combat purpose, but it does remind Celes of how chaos can be a powerful tool in the right hands.

Shikai

Yunorashi in release warps heavily. The blade itself becomes more reinforced and thickens. Meanwhile, the symbol of the Apple of Discord repeats across the blade. The symbols themselves take on a green tint. Meanwhile, the blade takes on a pitch black color. The hilt becomes a green color similar to the apples. Right above the hilt of the sword, the blade thickens slightly and extends back to the hilt. At this point, the sword itself looks like a massive greatsword. The multiplication of the Apple of Discord is directly symbolic of the discord Celes can cause.

On the side of the hilt are little skulls that are imprinted onto the hilt of the greatsword. These skulls have glowing green eyes that are there simply for aesthetic value. The skulls move horizontally across the hilt and are always face up. Meanwhile, the hilt itself is a shade of green that is slightly darker than the color that the skulls are. The skulls themselves take a grey coloration and have an open mouth. From that open mouth, a small green mist can be seen flowing out. The mist itself once again does not do anything of harm and is simply there to look intimidating.

Upon releasing her Shikai, Celes can no longer place Yunorashi on her belt. This makes it a lot harder to carry Yunorashi while in Shikai. This does not create that many issues on its own since Celes takes a rather aggressive stance upon releasing. This itself matches with her theme of entropy which explains the apple of discord along the blade. The blade sinks in the middle and moves across and creates an incline to house the insignias of the apple of discord. The skulls meanwhile are a clear representation of the potential mortality after an age of chaos.

Bankai

Kyouki-Yunorashi changes from the greatsword back into a katana, but at a longer length. It becomes a 1 ft green hilt with a 5 ft black blade. The blade gives off an ominous glow. The hilt warps to have the top extend outward creating a ~ kind of shape at the connecting piece of the blade and the hilt. Much like a regular katana, the blade itself moves straight forward before curving up slightly. On the top of the hilt is a Kraken head with tentacles that move around the hilt down to the very bottom. Between the spaces of the tentacles is a rune. At the very bottom is a small ring that has a piece of black cloth hanging down from it.

The Kraken takes a greenish coloration much like the general theme of Celes' Zanpakutou. The katana itself takes a much greater length allowing for much more versatility. The Kraken head attaches to the ~ shape of the connecting piece of the blade and hilt. The Kraken has always been a symbol of chaos, a harbinger of doom on the distant oceans. This is what is represented by the Kraken head. As the tentacles from the Kraken head wrap around the entirety of the hilt, it creates an interesting spiral shape. Once again, the decoration serves no combat purpose.

The tentacles themselves do not move and simply remain latched to the hilt. Much like the head, they serve no combat purpose and simply remain to display the symbolism behind the Zanpakutou and the power it possesses. The ring on the end of the hilt is not too large. At most, one could stick a hand through it. With time, Celes has learned to aim a sword strike through the whole adding a whole different layer of redirection into the combat potential of the blade. The cloth at the is simply there to wipe off anything ranging from blood to general liquids.

Spirit Appearance

Yunorashi is the Zanpkutou spirit of Celes. She has white hair and deep hazel eyes. She looks young, but is nowhere near the age she appears to be. She acts like a child, playing around with Celes and smiling often. Her voice sounds rather young and can sometimes be somewhat condescending. Yunorashi wears a white garb on both of her shoulders, connected by a middle portion that is colored brown. Yunorashi wears heavy-handed gauntlets that make her fair features appear rather rugged due to the plethora of spikes on the actual gauntlet.

Yunorashi's garb covers her shoulders and her chest, but that is about the bulk of what it covers in that location. She wears a shirt under it that that has three different colors to it: white, brown, and green, the centermost piece being the largest and taking a white color. This shirt extends down to her upper thigh where this is a small break. On top of this, she generally wears a satchel around her shoulder that sinks down diagonally to her waist. She does not carry much in it and Celes is not quite sure what she even carries within that satchel.

Upon reaching the break, there is about one inch of skin that is showing after which her leg gets covered up. She wears what look like tight leggings in a white color. Around her neck and her most defining trinket, is a necklace. This is a circular necklace that looks like a sun encased in a circle. Within the sun itself is a symbol consisting of 3 triangles. At a glance, they look very similiar to the Tri-Force. Yunorashi often times speaks in a rather respectful and formal tone which does not appear like how someone her age would normally talk.

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{Yunorashi }

Yukito is the Hollow Spirit of Celes. Unlike Yunorashi, Celes fears Yukito and what he can do. He has black hair, usually wears black clothing or any inverted color of Celes' clothing. Meanwhile, he also dons a vicious smile. Yukito stands at about 5'10" and looks rather semi-healthy for his height. Unlike Yunorashi, he does not smile too often, opting to instead simply look indifferent to most forms of stimuli. Yukito himself wears a garb that is very reminiscent of a suit that a Shinobi or Ninja would wear. Meanwhile, he often walks barefoot.

Yukito has somewhat short and ruffled up hair. On his shoulders appear to a chain which moves across his shoulders and down his back and chest. These chains do not look linked, but instead, have a feeling of a filled chain. These extend farther down before being cut off. On his back, he appears to have a sword that looks somewhat like Kyouki-Yunorashi. He seldom has the sword itself in his hand, but the description of the blade roughly matches Kyou-Yunorashi when taken at face value. Celes does not know why he carries this sword around, but she is curious.

Yukito has pale white skin. He wears both a black scarf and general garb that drapes his body up to his stomach. From there he wears a set of cloth pants that extend down his feet. Much like Yunorashi, he does not wear any form of footwear to speak off and neither does he enjoy to wear it anyway. His voice is rather deep and sounds like he is a young adult. His appearance is around a 22 year old male. Yukito has blue eyes and white sclera which is rather odd for a Hollow. Even an Inner hollow like himself, but Celes does not pay it much mind.

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{Yukito}

Inner World: Celes has a split world in which both Yunorashi and Yukito reside albeit on different sides. On one end out into the endless world is a barren wasteland with no life besides Yukito. It is here where he sits on the border with eyes closed. He takes his time to gaze out into the world of Yunorashi and always looking for opportunities to corrupt the inner world fully with madness. Meanwhile, Yunorashi resides in a more refined area. It is simply a forest with trees that have shed their leaves. Both beautiful and terrible, trees on the line of both life and death, Yunorashi hides in the non-existent crown of trees ever-cheerful and only aware of her side of the world.

Within the branches of Yunorashi's half, she can always be seen playing. Celes has entertained her before by playing little children games with her that Yunorashi seems to enjoy. Meanwhile, Yukito can be seen off in the distance on his wasteland by the border where he sits and meditates. While meditating his eyes are always closed and he can be seen murmuring something. Before they found out about Yukito, Yunorashi always wondered what that other half was for as she never went to it. Yunorashi can cross the border whenever she wishes much like Yukito, but they choose to remain separate, only with Yunorashi being the one who is completely unknowledgeable of his existence.

Zanapkutou Release Names: "Unbalance, Yunorashi" (Shikai)/"Disarrange the fine balance, Kyouki-Yunorashi"(Bankai)

Overall Ability

The universe runs on a delicate balance of both order and entropy. It is this entropy that Celes manifests in her abilities. The very chaos of the universe is at her beck and call allowing her to turn even the most peaceful of times into a blood-stained warzone. It is with this ability that Celes can wreak havoc upon a group of beings, turning them against one another and watching bloodshed unfold. Her ability creates strife where there is none, creates chaos wherever she may tread, and leaves broken wills when she breathes the same air. She can cause two or more opponents in a moderate area to engage in combat amongst themselves, adding to her ability to keep herself safe while others do the work practically for her. 

Celes can debilitate even the most resilient of fighters through her abilities. Her ability to create strife changes if one person is afflicted which in turn creates more of a debilitating effect. In the area of combat, those that suffer from it will experience a greater stamina drain as they are simply filled with bloodlust that Celes substitutes in the zone. This is particularly effective despite the cost of her abilities. They can have a pricey cost to them at lower proficiency, but as Celes gets stronger, she will undoubtedly be able to maintain more abilities.

A devastating ability in Celes' arsenal is the power to chaotically lash out at one's soul and drain resources. This is particularly debilitating to those that use reaitsu as their arsenal. Chaos and madness provide false truths and this technique is no different. Despite the benefit to the opponent, the cost is incredible if allowed to fester. As the madness festers within their soul and intertwines with it, they will find it increasingly difficult to balance the reaitsu costs and in fact expend more energy than necessary. This gives Celes a distinct advantage in the conservation of techniques.

Celes uses more destructive forms of combat in her Bankai. Quite literally creating rapture upon the landscape as she unleashes pure chaos around her. One of her more interesting abilities is the capacity to create a "prison" reminiscent of a harbinger of chaos, Pandora's Box. By locking them inside and subjecting them to the spirits of malice, they suffer immense psychological and even physical injuries with the spirits literally getting more aggressive as the box opens. The freedom of these spirits is the breaking point of most within the box. While these spirits are set loose upon the world, the poor soul inside gets shred to bits.

Shikai Overall Ability

Celes' Shikai focus on an aspect of entropy, madness. This allows her to turn people against one another. Using her Shikai, it can send two or more afflicted targets into a frenzy. As madness overtakes them, friend and foe non-existent in the face of one simple task, survival. Madness is primal survival and afflicted targets will do anything to survive, unable to tell the difference between their friend who might have just struck them down. There lies the beauty of entropy. The power to change alliances and cause war and destruction without even lifting a finger.

Behind madness lies the lack of concentration. The lack to do what one wants effectively. This is the other part of Celes' Shikai. By warping the concentration of others using madness, she can reduce their perception of danger and even make them use more energy than required. The Shikai is quite simply, attrition warfare. Which side can whittle down the other and entropy has a habit of doing this exceptionally well. By affecting the target, it simply reduces their effectiveness in combat and with a swift sword strike, a battle can be over.

The first of Celes' abilities is a simple ability. Using it she can manifest the rage and strife found in war and apply it to the situation. Its effects are quite different depending on the number of adversaries. If a poor lonely soul walks into range of this technique, they will be immediately overcome with pure madness. This alone has a devastating effect on the psychological fortitude of the opponent. As they become so influenced by madness, reality and illusion become one. In this case, illusions of Celes plague the battlefield which can all cause the feeling of pain, never creating true cuts or bruises.

It is in the case that more than 1 person enters the zone that it becomes interesting. As they are filled with the rage of war, they seek out the nearest targets fight in honorable combat. This combat is not without disadvantage to the target. The immediate proximity to a threat makes them lose all manner of concentration on their stamina drain. As they become less cogniscent they will begin to expend more energy than necessary, locked in fierce combat. Targets afflicted move at 100+ the speed they think they are moving at. I.E somebody who perceives a speed of 150, is truly moving at 250. More than that, it breaks all manner of concentration in reaitsu control demanding a 50% increased cost to all manner of techniques. This makes groups beneficial to Celes as she can turn friend into foe.

Madness lashes out at the soul and can ingrain itself so deep into the soul that separating the two can be detrimental. This is practically what Celes does. By releasing a wave of madness, afflicted opponents become deranged. This deranged attitude comes with a beneficial effect. The power-hungry mad often have more than normal and as such, the target receives a boost to spiritual stats. It is with all benefits, that there must be consequences. As the madness grips further and further into their soul, techniques begin to require more energy than needed and their senses and instincts begin to fail them as the world itself blurs to their perception. With one final pry, the madness dispells itself, but with it, it takes a chunk of reaitsu with it as their soul longs for the deep ingrained of madness. This is by far one of Celes' most devastating abilities if allowed to ramp up.

Celes can easily turn the tide of battle in her favor. As long as the opponent has trouble avoiding her abilities, she should be able to make them suffer. In the end, chaos is the disruption of order. Celes does just that, disrupts the natural order of a person's very feelings and even the energy of their soul. With it, Celes can effectively outlast an opponent through pure resource destruction. Any war has its fair share of chaos and Celes brings enough to the table to give attrition warfare a whole new meaning.

Bankai Overall Ability

Chaos is a poison. Behind the aftermath of chaos lies, but one thing, destruction. This is what Kyuoki-Yunorashi brings to the table. Infecting the very soul of someone, debilitating them to the point where a strike or blast will dispatch of them. While her techniques don't have the capacity to destroy, it can lead up to other methods of indirect destruction. This is what chaos is. Yunorashi brings pure, uncontrollable chaos to the battlefield that brings ruin to those that dare cross Celes' path. This makes her quite the formidable opponent in battle since she can wreak destruction onto the battlefield.

By utilizing disorder, Celes can completely seal parts of an opponents power. Chaos does not see equality, only opportunity. Celes can wreak havoc upon the soul of a creature, disallowing it from acting at its fullest. Chaos corrupts and degrades. This is exactly what Celes uses her power for. This is where her truest colors show. Sealing and destroying others whenever possible out of the need of satisfying her alternate insane personality. It is also the time when Yukito influences her most as the fall to chaos allows him to get a much tighter grasp on Celes.

Summoning pillars of flame that are chaotic in nature, Celes can sear even the most resilient of souls. While spiritual barriers can prove resistant to the flames of entropy, few things come out unscathed. As festering burns can overtake them, Celes can make use of these burns. As the fires of chaos settle within their body, Celes can manipulate their spirit easier and use her sealing technique to much greater and sometimes more efficient effect. Put plain and simply, Celes can combo her abilities quite well to create and push rapture out upon the world.

Chaos is pure disorder. Celes can use this disorder to her advantage. By infusing her own chaos into the soul of a victim she quite literally place a seal on the actual technique. This seal prevents the reaitsu from being to collect to use this specific technique. Celes can push this even further by combining it with her ability to summon pillars of flame. The degree of burns allows for more sealing of techniques as the open wounds allow for more location which the chaos can seep into along with the burns being chaotic in nature, making them much more attuned to be able to transmit the sealing technique.

Celes has one more technique she can use that is yet another embodiment of chaos. Celes can form a prison similiar to Pandora's box. By creating this prison, Celes traps one unfortunate soul within the confines of this box. Much like the story, there are forces of incredible emotion and spite trapped within this box. One thing is for certain, if the emotions drag the unfortunate victim with them, they leave pure blight in their wake. Anyone trapped within this box is constantly assaulted by these spirits and take a form of physical damage every post. If the box is not broken and the victim escapes before the spirits can, they suffer severe and deep cuts from these spirits.

Celes' Bankai relies on one aspect of chaos, destruction. It is tailored to simply destroy all sense of hope and to rid the opponent of flesh and bone using techniques that not only inhibit the spirit of the victim, but also severely injures the body of whoever she is fighting. Celes thrives on her Bankai as her main offensive measure. Her Shikai only seeks render their resources null and void, but the Bankai itself thrives on the aspect of rendering their body injured and mutilated. The purest form of chaos that can be found lies within the Bankai of Celes.

Zanpakuto Techniques

Shikai Tech

Name: Kyouki to Dansu

Description: Celes points Yunorashi to a location. By spending 200 reaitsu, an area about 50 ft radius around Celes afflicts the area. This becomes an area of madness. This technique afflicts people differently depending on if there are 1 or 2+ people within the area of strife. In the case of 1 person, the zone instills a sense of madness within its targets. The afflicted target will now be seeing multiples of Celes. To be exact, the victim will see 3 clones of Celes, excluding the original herself. These clones act separately from Celes via her command. The command can be issued telepathically. While they can move, Celes herself cannot if she is issuing strings of commands as she is forced to concentrate. These cannot actually deal any physical harm except for the original Celes, but any form of psychological stress/harm is applicable. In the case of 2+ targets being afflicted, a similar effect happens. The afflicted targets are filled with strife and feel compelled to attack each other. The afflicted targets attack each other as if they were dreaded enemies. While locked in combat, targets find themselves to suffer an increased stamina drain. Their perception of speed is altered by 100. I.E if they are moving at 50, it feels like 150. All form of release and non release techniques also suffer a 25% higher cost. The zone takes 100 reaitsu per post to maintain. The duration of the strife and debuff is 2 posts and it refreshes when one re-enters the zone. The zone forms upon activation at its maximum size. The zone fades after one post.

Drawback: This technique suffers from a few drawbacks. A Strength of Will/Illusion Resist of 2 can completely negate any form of madness caused by this technique. An offensive stat priority of 2x has the same negation effect. The technique itself can only cause its effects initially when the target is not in the air. The feelings of madness can be forcibly expelled from the body by spending 200 reaitsu. Once placed, the zone cannot be altered without casting another. It will always be stationary. The zone itself does not initiate its effect until fully formed. The multiples seen during the technique can be struck down with any one attack.

Made by: Celes Shindazu

Reserved: Yes


Name: Noushukushougai

Description: By spending 200 reaitsu, Celes releases a flash of green light in front of her. The light travels at a speed of 400. The flash of light itself travels in 90° cone at a height of 25 ft. It traves much like an expanding wall. Any target that is hit by this light will begin losing their mind. Once afflicted, the target's instict will decrease by 75 points for 2 posts, up to a minimum of 50 Instict. The new instinct after the deduction brings along with it all the caveats of the new value. For example if this technique is used on a target with 150 instinct, the target's instinct sinks to 75 and for the duration, the target reacts to scenarios with as if their instinct is 75. 

Drawback: To maintain the technique, Celes must spend 200 reaitsu every post across its lifetime. Furthermore, her concentration is required throughout the technique which prevents her from using any other technique across its lifespan. If the target expels 200 reaitsu immediately, they may completely cancel out the effect and make themselves immune to Noushukushougai 2 posts. An Illusion Resist of 3 or stat superiority of 2x will negate this technique.

Made by: Celes Shindazu

Reserved: Yes

Bankai Techniques

Name: Entoropii no Shiiru

Description: By spending 50 reaitsu per post, Celes ignites the tip of Kyouki-Yunorashi with a green flame. For every swing, Celes has to pay an additional 50 reaitsu while this technique is toggled. By striking her target, Celes pours disorder into the targets body system. Once applied, the technique lingers only until the next technique that uses reaitsu is used by an opponent. In the case that this technique wins in a clash of abilites, the targets technique would instead fail. The reaitsu cost for the failed technique does NOT apply.

Drawback: This technique requires Celes to hit her target. A speedier target that can elude her will have an advantage against this technique. For this technique to actually work, it needs to win in a clash of abilities. If that is not possible, the interference provided by this technique is rendered null and void against that opponent. Furthermore, if successful, the technique itself can only successful disrupt one technique before it has to be reapplied again. Lastly, reiatsu costs don't go through if the technique is disrupted.

Created by: Celes Shindazu

Reserved: Yes

Name: Kaosu no Hi

Description: Celes plunges Kyouki-Yunorashi into the ground and spends 300 reaitsu. For this technique to work completely, Kyouki-Yunorashi must remain plunged in the ground. Celes can spend 50 reaitsu to summon pillars of flames infused with entropy. These pillars are 10 ft in diameter. She can manifest a pillar within 200 ft of her plunged Zanpakutou. The pillars themselves linger for a few seconds before fading. However, prematurely creating pillars before the last expired snuffs out the prior pillar. Any target burned by this technique suffers entropic burns. These burns are harder to heal, requiring double the reaitsu cost for techniques that attempt to heal them.

Drawback: This technique suffers from one severe drawback to Celes. While using this technique, she cannot use her weapon. The pillars of flame don't materialize instantly but require a slight startup allowing for opponents with some speed to outrace the flames. The pillars themselves linger for a few seconds, but every pillar erases the last. At most, only one pillar can remain active at a time.

Created by: Celes Shindazu

Reserved: Yes


Name: Pandora no Hako 

Description: By spending 400 reiatsu, Celes raises Kyouki-Yunorashi as a small green orb forms around the tip. This orb expands slightly before being fired at a speed of 1000. Upon hitting a target, it expands and encases the target in a box. The box itself remains for 3 posts. The box slowly begins to open over the course of the three posts. This does not simply trap the target. Within the box lie the negative of the universe. Hate, Envy, Greed, Death, etc. These spirits are very eager to leave the box and go into a frenzy as it is being opened. Within the box the target itself will be continuously assaulted by these spirits, becoming much more aggressive as the box gets closer to opening. After the first post, the box itself opens slightly and the spirits cause numerous superficial scratches on the skin. After the second post, the box opens a little more and the spirits begin to get more aggressive. The target suffers extreme pain from the negativity contained within the box and numerous deep scratches. After the third post, the box itself bursts open and the spirits rush to escape the box. The target is carried along with the spirits and falls outside the box. The torrent of spirits tear off flesh and minor disfigurement of flesh upon rushing outside the box.

Drawback: The technique has one drawback in particular. The box itself can be destroyed. By using either techniques or physical strikes with a 50% higher offensive stat value, the box itself can be shattered. Any wounds will be sustained prior to breaking out of the box. The projectile itself cannot be stopped prior to hitting a target. This means that if it misses, the box will not materialize. This technique requires extensive use of surprise to pull off since the projectile moves in a rather linear path. On top of this, Celes herself can be locked in the box if it hits a target close enough.

Created by: Celes Shindazu

Reserved: Yes


Mask Appearance: Celes mask has the typical bonelike color and structure. The actual aesthetics of the mask include slit eyes and red lines sinking down to the edge of the mask diagonally. From this diagonal line, 3 lines on both sides colored blue sink down the mask to the chin area. The mask itself covers most of Celes' face and some of her neck. Much like most Visored masks, it has incredible durability to strikes and cracks very seldom. The mask itself retains the somewhat menacing look of most masks, making the color of her eyes particularly visible.

Ressurection Apperance

Celes' resurrection is unique in that it takes the form of a harbinger of chaos. While it does her warp her body physically to match, it does generate traits noticeable of the beast, the Kraken. Upon activating the resurrection, Celes rears her head back and lets out a deep oceanic growl. She then bends forward and contorts as a torrent of reaitsu pours from her back. She rears back again and lets out a blood-curdling scream, so loud that it brings most to their knees in pain. This scream causes the tendrils to erupt from her back. These tendrils take on a deep greenish-black color. Celes can use these tendrils to attack.

Celes herself changes to an extent. Reaitsu twists around her body rapidly as she looks down at it. This twisting reaitsu eventually stops on a dime and forms itself into a scaly exoskeleton, covering the chest of Celes down to her knees and the covering her back somewhat, remaining shy of the tendrils that erupted from her back. This exoskeleton acts as a durable armor similar to Hierro although this is an opaque armor that covers most of Celes.

The tendrils themselves remain on her back. They form so that two are on each side and one looms over the head of Celes. These tendrils match Celes' mental commands and can be designated to move individually or all together. The tendrils themselves do slowly pace back and forth from side to side when idle, but they stretch out and whip around quickly and with force when Celes is screaming or just angry. Just like the Kraken, Celes destroys with ferocity, relying simply on instinct and survival to get her by with no remark to the faulty method of thinking things through.

Ressurection Powers

Crush - Celes winds back and uses her tendrils for once. She can either run to a creature or even choose a creature within 5 ft of her. Upon choosing a creature, Celes folds her tendrils back and quickly whips then around to embrace any target. By embracing a target, she uses her strength stat to decides what happens to it. If Celes' strength exceeds the targets by 100, the target will feel incredible pain as their body is being constricted by her tendrils. If the strength of Celes exceeds the target by 200, she will be able to make the target pass out after 2 posts of crushing. Anything above 300+ will make the target's bones shatter, but never kill the target. Organs may also suffer severe damage from pressure. In the case that Celes tries to crush someone with a higher strength stat than her, she will not only struggle to embrace the target, but the target can easily break free of her gasp causing her to stumble and leave herself open.

Chaos Storm - This is an extremely effective defensive option that Celes possesses. Celes begins by dispersing her tendrils causing them to fade. After the fade, reaitsu begins to rise from the ground around Celes as a torrent of reaitsu begins to flow around her. This torrent will act as a shield for Celes. As she moves, the storm will follow Celes' every step for 2 posts. While this storm is active, techniques will simply dissolve into oblivion. The reaitsu simply disperses upon coming into contact with this storm. Celes can penetrate her own storm. Meanwhile, all creatures within the vicinity of her storm will feel a sense of dread. This storm, however, will disperse if hit with a technique exceeds her class. (I.E If Celes is Class 2, all Class 1 techniques will immediately disperse her storm with any technique). Any technique of equal class will be able to disperse the storm after 3 successful strikes. The storm can also be dispered if hit by a technique of a user with 2x stat superiority. After this technique disperses, Celes automatically regenerates her tendrils.

Other Techniques

Shunpo – A movement technique that allows the user to move faster than the eye can follow. The focal point that determines the bases of this technique is speed. As speed is the main point of the technique the method is best characterized by how fast one can get from point A to point B in the least amount of steps. Training and skill are what determines how fast a user of Shunpo can move; those of little skill in the technique or those who haven't used it an extended amount of time would obviously be out of practice, causing those individuals to be considerably slower, which requires the use of more steps to move the same distance and become winded far easier in a shorter amount of time. A single step magnifies speed for that step by 10 times. Uses 50 Reiatsu per step. This one is automatically learned in the academy. ALL shinigami know this when created.
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-History- 

Birthplace: Moscow, Russia



Current Residence: Seireitei, Soul Society



Memorable Figures: Aakuna Shindazu - Celes' mother who was the carrier of the Hollow Yukito. Aakuna unknowingly gave the Hollow to Celes. Regrettably, Aakuna died from a rare illness. This caused Celes to try and see the world in a positive light to always deter herself from her mother's death. Nobody is quite aware how Yukito was transferred to Celes, but Celes and Aakuna shared a deep spiritual connection that developed as Celes matured in her womb that Yukito possibly latched onto.

Heyori Shindazu - The elder sister to Celes. Celes looked up to Heyori as she took care of her after their mother had died. Celes held Heyori dear, but all good things come to an end as Heyori was later murdered by some crooks. They tried to steal food she had to prepare for herself and Celes, but she died defending it. This death can be considered Celes' snapping point as something chaotic developed in her.

History: A child to the Shindazu family, Celes was brought into this world at Merciful Brother's hospital by Aakuna Shindazu in Moscow Russia. With her mother and the newly born Celes was Heyori. Heyori herself was overjoyed when Celes was born. Crying like all newborn children do, Celes was treasured by both Aakuna and Heyori. Regrettably, Celes' father was nowhere to be found at the time of her birth and as a matter of fact, nobody would know where to find him. As such, Celes childhood turned out to be rather meek and without must interest. 

As Celes grew up, she was shown great adoration by both Aakuna and Heyori. Heyori especially loved Celes as the elder sister. She always took the time to come and play with Celes when she didn't have anyone to play with. Celes grew up to be rather lonely, isolated and alienated from most especially as people began to leave due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. This alienation began to make Celes incredibly sad, but she always found that Heyori could cheer her up. Above all else, Celes was always happy to see Heyori's smile since it always beamed and shined like a bright morning star.

Life was not easy as she matured. Disease and political hardships gripped the world and Russia quite hard. This would eventually lead to the terrible tragedy that Celes and Heyori had to experience. They lived in a rather modest house, always looking for work in an economically barren environment. As Celes looked through books of other countries and worlds, she wanted to see all there was to see. Even as a child, Celes was optimistic to a fault. Always looking to make friends and see the better in people even when none was to be had.

It all went rather well for Celes as she grew older. She was fairing rather well in school, had acquaintances here and there, but alas one thing she valued had to be taken away from her. As Heyori and Celes came home from school on a cold winter afternoon, the house was barren and Aakuna was slumped over on the ground. Celes and Heyori tried desperately to wake her up, even going as far as rushing her to the nearest hospital. At this point, tears were streaming from their eyes as they tried not to think the most likely scenario. Staying in the hospital overnight, a doctor finally stood in front of them, his face grave. He told them of the dire situation and that they couldn't help Aakuna. He offered them both to see their mother as they rushed in.

Celes and Heyori were mortified to see their mother in this state. Eyes barely open, drifting from awake to sleep, her hand twitching. Celes ran up to Aakuna who smiled at Celes weakly. The last thing she could do was brush Celes hair to the side and simply look at how she had matured in her own lifetime. She flashed one last smile at Celes and Heyori before her hand sank and went limp, her eyes closing shut, never to open again. It was at this point that Celes witnessed her first death. Always trying to see the best in situations, Celes found it impossible as she cried out in grief. Heyori had to grab her and pull her away as Celes began to desperately grab her mother's deceased hand.

Now years later, Celes it was Celes' 18th birthday. Heyori now at 23, was overjoyed to see Celes mature into what she called, "a beautiful young woman and my incredible sister". Celes had begun to smile just as brightly as Heyori. After their mother's death, the took up refuge in a vacant house. For months they remained before trying to get a decent job that would take minors. They eventually did find a somewhat stable career and were able to get some money. They shared and rationed food as the times were dire. If they wanted to survive, they had to ration and share. Life was better since they both had each other. This, however, would lead to the tragic event that made Celes snap.

Celes would tread down a dark path. Not as in malicious, but her life was becoming progressively worse as she was turning to depression. As she head to a market, she found...that alleyway. She quickly scurried by and headed to the market. While there, she was getting a good variety of foods. Meats, bread, fruit until she looked down and saw a most interesting figure, walking around.

Celes leaned down and what she was interested her. In front of her was a very young girl. She inspected her. She was in ragged clothing as she smiled at the girl. With fear in her eyes, she moved away. Seeing a..strange chain portruding from her chest, she quickly retracted her hand and smiled warmly at her, trying to comfort her. Eventually warming up, the girl moves up to her. Celes begins having a pleasant conversation with her, crawing some attention from the surrounding people.

A cold day, on February 29th, 2008, Heyori was getting food from a local market for herself and Celes. She realized they needed the food desperately. As she traveled through an alleyway, Heyori was quickly met with a group of gang members who simply asked her for the food. Heyori tried to get away, kicking and screaming, trying to defend the food that she needed to get home for her sister. Regrettably, Heyori never came out of that alleyway alive. As she lay there, face down in the blood-stained snow, Celes almost sensed it. You see, at this point, she had become somewhat aware of the spiritual energy that flowed through the world. Celes set out and as she passed the alleyway, she saw a woman. She ran to her asking if she is ok. She picked her up and her eyes grew cold and distant. All that could be heard is her scream.

At this point, Celes' life had taken a turn for the worst. In front of the grave where both her sister and mother lay with no father figure in sight, Celes was at the end of the road. For years she would go and seek a job. Depression set in and she tried to remain happy. For herself and because she knew that her family would've wanted her to be happy. They never liked it all too much that she was always so sad. Stricken with grief and depression, she looked for alternatives where none presented themselves. She thought about other more...drastic alternatives, but she knew that her mother and sister would've never wanted that. It was at this point that Celes would not be far off from her own grave.

The volatile times of the Soviet Union left a stain on Celes' future. She would have difficulty finding a job and would sink into small fits of depression. This was a dark time for Celes. She didn't see much point in life. It was all too much. Her family being taken away from her one by one was a cruel joke. One should could only imagine in great epics. Celes was no hero. She wasn't brave. Why was all this happening to her she wondered. She simply did not get it at all. The chaotic nature of her life would soon began to take hold.

Celes was on her way to get some food one day. As she walked there, she passed by a familiar alley. It was different..had a different meaning to Celes as she quickly scurried past, scared of getting too wrapped up in her own emotions. As she ended up in the market, she purchased a variety of foods to get here past the harshest of times. Meats, fruits, etc all filled her basket. Head to leave, she actually stumbled upon quite the interesting figure. 

As she looked down, she sees what appeared to be a young girl. Interest filled her as she inspected the girl. Torn, ragged clothing and meek flesh covered the girl. Most curious, however, was a peculiar chain that seemed to be...coming from the girl's chest. Celes reached out her hand in curiosity. The girl naturally took a worried step away as Celes gently coo'd. "Don't worry...I won't hurt you sweetie..." A sudden change of heart could be seen in the girl.

As she walked closer, she began to smile at Celes. This naturally illicited a response from Celes as she offered her a smile in return. As they were having a rather pleasant conversation, she got odd looks from passerby's. For you see..they couldn't see the girl. To the others, the plus that Celes was seeing and communicating to did not even appear. It wasn't until a figure began approaching that the girl ran away, the screeching of metal being heard. The figure looked down at her and softly spoke. "I do hope that a Lady such as yourself is not possibly going crazy..."

He stood above her, offering a strong hand to the kneeling woman. 5'8", shaven, adorned with ruffled up black hair, Celes was looking upon Dmitri, a local marketman. Running the booth for vegetables, he gently helped Celes up. Smiling, she looked back down to where she had seen the girl and was thinking about. As she began to think more and more about her, Dmitri had distracted her again by striking up a conversation with her. A conversation that was rather meek, but at this point in her life, Celes did not expect any less.

The two would meet as time went on, growing closer and closer. Becoming friends was a hurdle due to Celes not being very trusting of others at this juncture, but she saw something in Dmitri. Celes would start to share aspects of her life with Dmitri. As he found out more and more about what she had been through, he became much more sympathetic. It did all sound like a tragedy to him and he wished to comfort her. This resulted in the fateful question. One day, he got on one knee and asked Celes to be his. This was quite the surprise to her. Regardless she accepted because she did not want to be alone anymore. Little did both of them know that she would die soon.

Celes, now at age 27, was walking down the street as the worst possible even occurred. As she crossed the road, she was hit by a drunken driver who was clearly not cognisant of anyone on the road. Just before being hit, Celes was startled and saw a flash of her life that filled her with grief. The last thing she remembered was a cold, painful thud that ended with her going unconscious. As she came to, her vision was blurry and she gripped her head. Around her, well more like away from her was a group of people. She saw a chain protruding from her chest as she was filled with confusion. As her vision cleared, she jumped and screamed as she saw her own corpse. Confused as to why nobody heard her, she simply waited there.

Now a plus, Celes began to hyperventilate at the thought of where she was. She did not know exactly but was filled with dread as she heard screaming. She soon remembered that she had seen people like her current self before. Vaguely, but she has seen them. She would spend some time as a plus. This reminded her of the pluses she had met. Wandering souls that couldn't be seen and Celes was now one of them.

It was then that Celes saw a hulking beast rush through a building as the crowd dispersed. Celes then saw a woman who promptly and swiftly slew the hulking beast. She saw as the hollow itself began to disappear. The woman then quickly looked at Celes, approaching her. She looked down at her with a smile and knelt down. She spoke softly, but quickly explaining her condition and offered a way to move on. Celes swiftly nodded her head as the woman brought the hilt of her weapon up to Celes' head and smiled. Celes' consciousness then faded for a brief second as she found herself in a new place, the Soul Society.

She was swiftly approached and greeted by many faces. They had congratulated her on her arrival the Soul Society. With that Celes began her integration into a custom family and they noted that she possessed an odd spirit. Celes had told them that she was able to see the dead, which she found out were also referred to as Pluses. At this point, she lived with her family for a few months before being noticed and picked up by the Shinigami. They realized that she a possessed strong latent spirit which they told her they could train and have her join the ranks of the Shinigami. Celes then remembered back to the woman who had used the Konsō on her. Celes began to think about it and obliged for a primary reason. She would be able to protect others, a duty that she gave herself after the death of Heyori to injustice. With that Celes has now been training to move up in the ranks of the Shinigami.

Celes as a new trainee was...pitiful. Not really an expert in much of anything she had meager abilities as a swordsman or spiritual abilities. It was quite clear that the concept of becoming a Shinigami was not coming easy to her. There were prodigies here and there. People born in the Soul Society and all, but Celes had a terrible self-esteem. She still blamed herself for everything and she felt as if she was not meant for this. She wanted to try and save Heyori, but how could she. To herself she was a weak, pathetic person. Her memories would fade to when Heyori was killed and her eyes filled with tears.

In her mind, she practically saw a vision of Heyori. The figment told her that she should have saved her. That Celes is the reason she is dead. The cruelty of Celes' guilt was weighing on her heavily. It was then that something snapped. A slight feeling of...conviction and anger arose. She spoke with scorn. "My fault? You and mom were the ones that died. The ones that left me! I was the one alone. The one abandoned. I had nobody, but nobody ever thought about me huh?!?" The figment trailed away at the sudden scorn and faded away. With that Celes' feelings faded and she was muttering to herself, "W..why? Why did I say that...?"

This experience left an interesting note in Celes' mind. It left her with confidence in herself. The cynical and the benevolent would mesh oddly. On one hand she was feeling free when she rejecting her prior ties, but it left her with a want. A longing for both Heyori and her mother back. This would translate to her academy time as well. She became quieter as time went on, but she was becoming more proficient. Her blade skills were improving. Something was fueling her. She was not sure what yet.

Making friends was not her strong suit. She was either completely hyper or depressingly quiet and still. The benefit of this was that she spent alot of time honing her natural abilities. As time went on, she would continue her 'studies' under the academy. Continuing to learn more and more, she would garner the attention of multiple people. People she could potentially call friends. This made her a little less uptight and be began to lighten up more and more.

As time went on and she grew more and more convinced that this was meant for her, she heard the tales of some of the experiences in the squads. Tellings of killings of those cursed monsters Celes would soon come to know as Hollows. This left Celes yet again with a sense of longing, but also a definite goal. She would train heavily to become part of a squad and finally do herself and others justice. To reaffirm to herself that she could finally do something worthwhile. Unnamed blade in hand, she had her sights set on Squad 11 with a serious focus on the swordsmanship skills she was training. To her it was only the beginning and a matter of time until she could dream bigger.

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Stats & Skills

Strength- 30 (-30%) = 21
Speed - 50
Spiritual Pressure - 50 (50%) = 75
Reiatsu Strength - 25
Light Aura- 90
Dark Aura - 10
Instinct - 50
Senses - 50
Energy Sensory - 25
Healing Expertise - 0

Total SP: [280]

Illusion Resist: 1

Strength of Will: 1 

Pain Tolerance: 1

Damage Recovery: 1

Mental Incantation: 1

Analyzing: 1

[Celes Castellanos]

Character Name: Celes Shindazu

Previous Real Age: 35

Current/New Real Age: 55

Previous Age of Appearance: 27

Current/New Age of Appearance: 25

New Ideals/Personality: Over the past twenty years, Celes has become a lot calmer and situated in her position. She is able to reason more wisely due to overall being a more seasoned Shinigami. Her stammer and shyness have almost completely stopped and she is able to ground herself far better now, both physically and emotionally. While talking to someone, Celes maintains an overall sharper posture. Her overall confidence level seems to have improved, almost as though a different person inhabits her body.

Having finally settled into her role as a Squad 11 member, Celes has taken to a liking to combat. As a member of the primary attack squad, Celes began to engage more in combat which slowly made her far more comfortable with it. As time went on, she even began to enjoy it more and more until she relishes victory. She is not even close to Kenpachi's love of fighting, however, she is very content with the battlefield, rarely fearing anything. In fact she finds that others should be afraid of her.

There has been a new development. As Celes comes closer and closer to unlocking her Shikai, she can feel the presence of Yunorashi within her Zanpakutou. This gives her companionship and warmth knowing that she will never face an opponent alone. The caveat to that is that Celes can feel a coming darkness. There is something within her soul that brings her great grief to realize. She has not yet ascertained the true nature of this, but overall she knows that something bad may happen in the future.

Old Flaw:
Violence - Celes is not a very violent person. This is why she uses her ability to incite strife to have others fight each other. While she dislikes violence, she will commit to it if people she cares about are in danger. It also comes down to how much danger she is in. She does not stray away from violence while in her release which helps mitigate this issue, but then, on the other hand, she does become chaotic so either way, she can either be timid and nonviolent or violent yet volatile.

New Flaw: 
Impatience - While it is true to not that Celes is much calmer than she used to be that more relates to her anxiety. What came with a calmer attitude was a nasty sense of impatience and urgency that Celes now embodies. She will show all the warning signs before her temper flares. The crossing of her elbows, the tapping of her finger. A vein appearing on her forehead, all signs that she is about to blow a fuse. This has in turn actually made her more violent which can aid her in combat, but also makes her shortsighed and impulsive.

Old Dislike: 
Blood - Celes has a slight dislike of blood. Perhaps it simply comes from her cuts or maybe the remembrance of the blood-stained snow when her sister died. She is not sure herself, all she knows is that she has a dislike of blood. If someone or something is bleeding, she will help it begrudgingly since she knows that she has to help others. All she knows is that if blood is present, she will avoid it whenever possible.


New Dislike: 
Weakness: Celes for years has cursed herself for not being able to save her family. Haunted by twisted visions of those that felt she abandoned her, Celes is tormented by a terrible hate for inaction and those who would cower before challenges. She did this plenty of times before and paid the price for it in fights and in her life in general. Weakness is something that she does not like to see and she will make an active effort to try and eradicate that weakness from others to help them become stronger.

Clarification on Dislike:
Death: It is true that Celes now relishes the rush and thrill of combat, but that does not mean that is without a heart. Infact, Celes despises the idea of killing. It's different if it is necessary and under certain situations, there may come the time when her blade needs to be stained by blood, however, needless death and destruction is just that needless. Celes, when faced with an equal or weaker opponent will refuse to kill them. She finds it shameful to her concept of Bushido and wishes to practice communication and bonding while combative, but without the need to kill her opponent.

New Appearance: Celes' appearance admittedly has not changed all to much. Overall she continues to wear her Shihakusho, rarely choosing to wear another set of clothing. Whenever she does wear something else, it is normally an overly warm winter jacket. Growing up in Russia certainly has its faults and well old habits die hard. As such, Celes will also still wear longer sleeve clothing to cover the scars and bandages on her arm. She has eased up a little more about it though.

Celes still retains her amber-colored eyes although her hair is now noticeably shorter, having been trimmed. Additionally it should be noted that Celes does not appear as frail as she used to be. Now possess a greater constitution she still keeps a rather feminine looking body. That is to say her slender pale look still checks out, but on top of confidence she now seems to possess a greater strength. It is certainly hard to describe as her body just appears to be studier and have more of a physical presence.

Celes is now also boasting a new set of weapons. Going up from her default of one blade, Celes now wields two katanas. Each is a beautifully crafted blade with a black and purple tsuka. Meanwhile the tsuba is a golden hue that descends onto the underlying black part of the tsuka to form what appears to be a rose. The blade itself is a 36" curved white edge. Celes carries two of these along the sash of her shihakusho, always ready to draw them if necessary. She has become quite proficient in the use of dual weapon fighting. 

Celes' Shikai now changes both of her katana's into a spear and shield. Her spear is a 5 ft long weapon with a tipped point and serrated edge. The staff of the spear is a beautifully crafted brown wood with a tip that gleams in the light of the moon. Golden casings lay over parts of her staff with little decals on them with a red casing that marks the area between the staff and the blade. The shield on the other hand is a weathered large shield that has scratches showing that is has defended against many a weapon. Additionally, a red covering covers parts of the shield while a large red symbol appearing similar to an A is engraved.

Upon releasing her Bankai, it is now not the weapon that changes. Much like Rukia or even Ichigo, Celes wears her Bankai as a variant of the spartan armor. She wears a rust-colored heavy breastplate that covers her chest and stomach. A cloth like skirt with leather extensions hang off of it and her back is adorned with a torn and withered red cape. She wears no head gear, but her feet become equipped with heavy protective boots. Her hands also have linen like gauntlets on them.

Following the path to becoming a Vizard, Celes' Resurreccion appearance likens Aries. Appearing somewhat similar to her Bankai appearance, this vizard resurreccion covers every inch of the body in a thick plated armor. Nothing of the original body can be seen, but a set of bloodthirsty glowing red eyes. The vizard resurreccion has Celes take on not the appearance of Aries, but the actually soul of the god of war. As such, her imposing appearance  matches her equally terrifying capabilities. While assuming this form, Celes naturally retains her weapons. 

This resurreccion also comes with two weapons. Celes retains her spear and shield although they become twisted in appearance. Becoming jagged and rough while her spear loses its flair and glows red hot with the burning rage of Aries. These alone would trike others with fear, but the armor Celes dons appears polished to refract all light. The cape she wears becomes even more tattered. For all intents and purposes, Celes becomes to new Goddess of War while assuming this state and will make all kneel before her.

New Fighting Style: To talk about Celes' fighting style, one must discuss multiple factors. As a Shinigami with incredible strength, Celes uses it to devastating effect. Her hits almost overpowering and destructive, she is able to crush bone and crack skulls. In terms of unarmed combat, Celes has been exploring Hakuda and Zanjutsu as her predominant Shinigami fighting styles. Additionally, she boasts impressive proficiency in Hohou. The only art that Celes is lacking is sufficient Kidou in favor of the other three.

On the topic of Zanjutsu, naturally using two Zanpakutou over one comes with its challenges. With training, Celes has become a force on the battlefield. With two Zanpakutou, Celes now has the ability to attack and defend. She can defend from to angles or attack in a scissor-like motion making her even deadlier up close. Additionally, this makes her tricky to fight as her frequency to strike practically doubles and can almost become overwhelming for opponents without proper speed, senses or instinct.

For Hakuda, Celes has been training in it and is looking to achieve some impressive feats involving the Shinigami art of hand-to-hand combat. Even without weapons she possesses an incredible series of kicks and strikes that could make even the most defensible of warriors tremble and fall. Still being rather uninitiated in techniques involve Hakuda, Celes is always looking to learn them and will be able to use them with incredible efficiency once she trains her senses and instinct to a point where her fleet body can handle the stimuli.

For Hohou, Celes naturally has access to the reliable Shunpo. Allowing for an incredible burst to her speed for a minimal amount of reiatsu, it allows Celes to be even more aggressive in her advances, quick in her elusions and decisive in her retreating. Celes is not above retreating if a fight does not favor her, she just does not prefer. Warriors like her live to battle and die. Squad 11 as the primary Attack Squad fits the mantle and Celes carries that idea out till the last of her blood were to splill across the battlefield.

Finally for Kido, this is not Celes' strong suit. Becoming much more physical with her abilities and having a release that mirrors the warriors and legends of Sparta, Celes has forsaken most of the practice of Kido in favor for Zanjutsu, Hakuda and Hohou. If she does use Kido, her main choices would involve instances of Bakudo and very little Hado as her other skills fill those gasps in terms of destructive potential. Additionally, Celes just is not a spiritually strong individual so even if she used Kido, it would be more like the sting of a bee.

Celes Shikai boasting a spear and shield gives a whole new meaning to the attack and defend strategy. On one end, the weapons are inherently more natural for this style. Being able to hide behind a powerful shield and thrust into her opponents leading to potential impalement. The only catch is that unlike a blade that can potentially slash or puncture, Celes' spear is relegated almost to puncture wounds. The spearhead itself is sharpened on all sides, but overall proves far less effective in combat. 

The shield itself is also a weapon in its own way. Boasting incredible defense, the shield allows Celes to assume an iron wall of sorts with which she can shrug off dozens of strikes. The shield itself is vulnerable to much stronger strikes naturally as it is tied to Celes OS being a release weapon. On top of this, the shield can be used to bash foes who simply underestimate it. The shield can pack quite the impact and can certainly strike with force if Celes needs to. Overall, it is an excellent defense and a trusty alternative albeit nonlethal. 

With these trusty weapons, Celes assumes an extremely aggressive fighting style. Being based off of Aries' bloodlust, Celes gets into the thick of battle, ready to stain the battlefield with blood. Contrary to popular belief, Aries was not only an excellent warrior, but a master strategist in the art of war. Celes honors this by using a fighting style that allows her to hide behind her shield from danger, face it head on with her spear and bathe it in the misery and viscera of her defeated enemies. She represents the glory of sparta.

Celes' Bankai allows Celes to don a highly protective spartan armor. With this, Celes becomes far more durable and deadly on the battlefield. Now being able to resist far more, she once again stands in the front line, looking for an excellent fight. Additionally, the changes to her weapons also encourage an reliable offense while maintain an impressive defense in the face of oncoming danger. Overall, Celes' Bankai makes her fighting style even deadlier with the durability it gives her, allowing her to stand in battle for even longer.

New Release Phrase: "By blood may my spear earn its name. By Aries, may my shield carry my broken body home. Name me the Goddess of War, Yunorashi." (Shikai) | "Goddess Athena guide my heart. Grant me the strength, so my spear may strike true. Protect my body and guard my soul, Kishin Yunorashi." (Bankai)

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{Sealed State}

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{Shikai Release}

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{Bankai Release}

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{Vasto Lorde/Vizard Ressureccion Apperance}

New History: Since Celes originally became a member of the Gotei 13, a lot has changed to overall make her a stronger person. First was her encounter with the Fullbringer Shizuka. Never having met another of her kind, Celes was curious as to who she was and overall decided to be friendly with her. Making friends after all made one stronger as a group. Despite getting some of the residual hate from Shizuka for being a Shinigami, Celes was for the most part completely oblivious to this.

In another instance, Celes certainly gave into her temper and used a Kido on a fellow student. This was one of her first tastes of a darkness within her. A ravenous hunger for combat and the need to win. This display of searing some of his flesh with Hado #4 Byakurai was not necessarily something that she was proud of, but it was certainly an interesting experience. With this, however, she also found that scolding was not something she enjoyed on a regular basis.

One of her ventures out into the world of the living, Celes ran into the Adjuchas Valentin and ended up fighting him. The fight shifted in Valentin's favor due to a severe power gap that left Celes at the mercy of the Hollow. One could argue that this set off Celes new dislike of weakness and failure. Additionally, it was certainly a humbling experience, to be bested by a Hollow. In a way Celes is grateful as not only did she survive the fight at his whim, but he healed her injuries, giving her new insights into the Hollows.

Recently Celes even faced off against Yunorashi, her Zanpakutou spirit. Celes performed the Jinzen successfully for the first time and was catapulted into her inner world where she had a short yet fruitful conversation with her Zanpakutou spirit. She learned to trust Yunorashi and to stand against an opponent. Yunorashi simply was testing her resolve. She had no hope of defeating the Zanpakutou spirit, but it certainly taught her about resolve and resilience. To stand in the face of your enemy when you may die.

Old Powers:

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{Old Shikai Techs}Name: Kyouki to Dansu

Description: Celes points Yunorashi to a location. By spending 200 reaitsu, an area about 50 ft radius around Celes afflicts the area. This becomes an area of madness. This technique afflicts people differently depending on if there are 1 or 2+ people within the area of strife. In the case of 1 person, the zone instills a sense of madness within its targets. The afflicted target will now be seeing multiples of Celes. To be exact, the victim will see 3 clones of Celes, excluding the original herself. These clones act separately from Celes via her command. The command can be issued telepathically. While they can move, Celes herself cannot if she is issuing strings of commands as she is forced to concentrate. These cannot actually deal any physical harm except for the original Celes, but any form of psychological stress/harm is applicable. In the case of 2+ targets being afflicted, a similar effect happens. The afflicted targets are filled with strife and feel compelled to attack each other. The afflicted targets attack each other as if they were dreaded enemies. While locked in combat, targets find themselves to suffer an increased stamina drain. Their perception of speed is altered by 100. I.E if they are moving at 50, it feels like 150. All form of release and non release techniques also suffer a 25% higher cost. The zone takes 100 reaitsu per post to maintain. The duration of the strife and debuff is 2 posts and it refreshes when one re-enters the zone. The zone forms upon activation at its maximum size. The zone fades after one post.

Drawback: This technique suffers from a few drawbacks. A Strength of Will/Illusion Resist of 2 can completely negate any form of madness caused by this technique. An offensive stat priority of 2x has the same negation effect. The technique itself can only cause its effects initially when the target is not in the air. The feelings of madness can be forcibly expelled from the body by spending 200 reaitsu. Once placed, the zone cannot be altered without casting another. It will always be stationary. The zone itself does not initiate its effect until fully formed. The multiples seen during the technique can be struck down with any one attack.

Made by: Celes Shindazu

Reserved: Yes


Name: Noushukushougai

Description: By spending 200 reaitsu, Celes releases a flash of green light in front of her. The light travels at a speed of 400. The flash of light itself travels in 90° cone at a height of 25 ft. It traves much like an expanding wall. Any target that is hit by this light will begin losing their mind. Once afflicted, the target's instict will decrease by 75 points for 2 posts, up to a minimum of 50 Instict. The new instinct after the deduction brings along with it all the caveats of the new value. For example if this technique is used on a target with 150 instinct, the target's instinct sinks to 75 and for the duration, the target reacts to scenarios with as if their instinct is 75.

Drawback: To maintain the technique, Celes must spend 200 reaitsu every post across its lifetime. Furthermore, her concentration is required throughout the technique which prevents her from using any other technique across its lifespan. If the target expels 200 reaitsu immediately, they may completely cancel out the effect and make themselves immune to Noushukushougai 2 posts. An Illusion Resist of 3 or stat superiority of 2x will negate this technique.

Made by: Celes Shindazu

Reserved: Yes

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{Old Bankai Techs}
Name: Entoropii no Shiiru

Description: By spending 50 reaitsu per post, Celes ignites the tip of Kyouki-Yunorashi with a green flame. For every swing, Celes has to pay an additional 50 reaitsu while this technique is toggled. By striking her target, Celes pours disorder into the targets body system. Once applied, the technique lingers only until the next technique that uses reaitsu is used by an opponent. In the case that this technique wins in a clash of abilites, the targets technique would instead fail. The reaitsu cost for the failed technique does NOT apply.

Drawback: This technique requires Celes to hit her target. A speedier target that can elude her will have an advantage against this technique. For this technique to actually work, it needs to win in a clash of abilities. If that is not possible, the interference provided by this technique is rendered null and void against that opponent. Furthermore, if successful, the technique itself can only successful disrupt one technique before it has to be reapplied again. Lastly, reiatsu costs don't go through if the technique is disrupted.

Created by: Celes Shindazu

Reserved: Yes

Name: Kaosu no Hi

Description: Celes plunges Kyouki-Yunorashi into the ground and spends 300 reaitsu. For this technique to work completely, Kyouki-Yunorashi must remain plunged in the ground. Celes can spend 50 reaitsu to summon pillars of flames infused with entropy. These pillars are 10 ft in diameter. She can manifest a pillar within 200 ft of her plunged Zanpakutou. The pillars themselves linger for a few seconds before fading. However, prematurely creating pillars before the last expired snuffs out the prior pillar. Any target burned by this technique suffers entropic burns. These burns are harder to heal, requiring double the reaitsu cost for techniques that attempt to heal them.

Drawback: This technique suffers from one severe drawback to Celes. While using this technique, she cannot use her weapon. The pillars of flame don't materialize instantly but require a slight startup allowing for opponents with some speed to outrace the flames. The pillars themselves linger for a few seconds, but every pillar erases the last. At most, only one pillar can remain active at a time.

Created by: Celes Shindazu

Reserved: Yes


Name: Pandora no Hako

Description: By spending 400 reiatsu, Celes raises Kyouki-Yunorashi as a small green orb forms around the tip. This orb expands slightly before being fired at a speed of 1000. Upon hitting a target, it expands and encases the target in a box. The box itself remains for 3 posts. The box slowly begins to open over the course of the three posts. This does not simply trap the target. Within the box lie the negative of the universe. Hate, Envy, Greed, Death, etc. These spirits are very eager to leave the box and go into a frenzy as it is being opened. Within the box the target itself will be continuously assaulted by these spirits, becoming much more aggressive as the box gets closer to opening. After the first post, the box itself opens slightly and the spirits cause numerous superficial scratches on the skin. After the second post, the box opens a little more and the spirits begin to get more aggressive. The target suffers extreme pain from the negativity contained within the box and numerous deep scratches. After the third post, the box itself bursts open and the spirits rush to escape the box. The target is carried along with the spirits and falls outside the box. The torrent of spirits tear off flesh and minor disfigurement of flesh upon rushing outside the box.

Drawback: The technique has one drawback in particular. The box itself can be destroyed. By using either techniques or physical strikes with a 50% higher offensive stat value, the box itself can be shattered. Any wounds will be sustained prior to breaking out of the box. The projectile itself cannot be stopped prior to hitting a target. This means that if it misses, the box will not materialize. This technique requires extensive use of surprise to pull off since the projectile moves in a rather linear path. On top of this, Celes herself can be locked in the box if it hits a target close enough.

Created by: Celes Shindazu

Reserved: Yes

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{Old Resurreccion Powers}
Crush - Celes winds back and uses her tendrils for once. She can either run to a creature or even choose a creature within 5 ft of her. Upon choosing a creature, Celes folds her tendrils back and quickly whips then around to embrace any target. By embracing a target, she uses her strength stat to decides what happens to it. If Celes' strength exceeds the targets by 100, the target will feel incredible pain as their body is being constricted by her tendrils. If the strength of Celes exceeds the target by 200, she will be able to make the target pass out after 2 posts of crushing. Anything above 300+ will make the target's bones shatter, but never kill the target. Organs may also suffer severe damage from pressure. In the case that Celes tries to crush someone with a higher strength stat than her, she will not only struggle to embrace the target, but the target can easily break free of her gasp causing her to stumble and leave herself open.

Chaos Storm - This is an extremely effective defensive option that Celes possesses. Celes begins by dispersing her tendrils causing them to fade. After the fade, reaitsu begins to rise from the ground around Celes as a torrent of reaitsu begins to flow around her. This torrent will act as a shield for Celes. As she moves, the storm will follow Celes' every step for 2 posts. While this storm is active, techniques will simply dissolve into oblivion. The reaitsu simply disperses upon coming into contact with this storm. Celes can penetrate her own storm. Meanwhile, all creatures within the vicinity of her storm will feel a sense of dread. This storm, however, will disperse if hit with a technique exceeds her class. (I.E If Celes is Class 2, all Class 1 techniques will immediately disperse her storm with any technique). Any technique of equal class will be able to disperse the storm after 3 successful strikes. The storm can also be dispered if hit by a technique of a user with 2x stat superiority. After this technique disperses, Celes automatically regenerates her tendrils.

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{Shikai Overall}

Warrior of Sparta

As a disciple of Aries, Celes uses the weapons that the ancient Spartans did in their days of conquest. In her Shikai, Celes wields a spear and a shield. The spear is 5 ft in length while her shield has a diameter of 30 inches or 2'6". This makes the shield sizeable enough to wield with the spear, but large enough to block most strikes coming her way. Additionally, Celes' weapons are based off of her OS stat and as such the Spear as an OS equal to hers while the shield has a defensive durability equal to her OS and a blunt striking OS of 1/2 to hers. Celes has the blessing of great maneuverability despite what she has to work with due to the knowledge she receives from the gods. This helps her implicitly understand battle tactics involving the two weapons along with usage and movement while using them.

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{Bankai Overall}


Blessing of Athena

Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, while able to engage in warfare believes in protecting each one of her pupils so they may continue to fight another day. To this end, Athena bestows an armor upon Celes as part of her Bankai release. This armor being forged by the gods has incredible durability that allows Celes to shrug off blows easier. This durability matches her OS. Additionally, wearing the armor bestows unique benefits to Celes' weapons which become renamed to Spear of Achilles and Athena's Aegis for the spear and shield respectively. The weapons represent the heroes that Athena helped in their adventures.

Spear of Achilles: Celes is granted use of the legendary spear that Achilles wielded in his life. The spear itself utilizes a weakness of Achilles. Achilles only had a single weak point which was his heel. Celes uses a similar concept. When the blade of the spear comes into contact with a point on the person's body, a mark forms on their body similar to Suì-Fēng Shikai release. The mark looks similar to the lambda symbol of Sparta encased in a circle similar to the symbol of Celes' shield. This mark has a radius of 3 inches appearing on the body part that got hit. The mark remains for 2 posts and an opponent can have a maximum of 3 marks. If the mark is hit a second time by the spear, Celes' OS is treated as 2x with that single hit effectively encouraging accuracy.

Athena's Aegis: In mythology, Athena granted Perseus an Aegis in polished to a mirror-like finish. The aegis refracts the faintest light, but overall has the same appearance. The shield gains the unique property to split an attack halfway, effectively protecting Celes techniques that would burn her to a crisp. For this to work, Celes needs to facing an oncoming projectile energy attack. Some examples include Cero and Hado. Any reiatsu/energy-based projectile that hits Celes' shield will be treated at half its OS. If Celes' Shield impacts against a technique with an OS of 1000, it will be treated as 500. If the new OS is lower than Celes' the technique splits as it hits the shield, shooting out towards the sides as Celes is left safe and sound. Athena's Aegis is able to protect her from superior OS techniques, although if it is higher than her OS still after the reduction, Celes will not be completely safe as she still gets hit by the technique albeit weaker. Athena's Aegis can never defend against a skill with Class Superiority and will in fact completely overpower her shield, causing her to be knocked back and take the full force of the technique.

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{Bankai: Spear of Achilles Mark}

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{Shikai Techs}
Technique Name: Flurry of Spears

Technique Type: [Physical]

Usable By: Shinigami

Technique Element: [None]

Technique Description and Effects: Celes begins by taking a backward leaning stance where she brings her shield forward and her spear arm behind it. While assuming this stance, she can only move a max of 150 speed. Once prepared, Celes leans forward and unleashes a flurry of spear strikes at a speed of 600 right in front of her. These spear strikes each strike with her OS and strike so fast that it almost appears that multiple sets of them strike at once. Flurry of Spears has the potential to leave opponents with numerous wounds and impalements. This flurry occurs in a 5ft cone in front of her. and consists of a set of 25 spear strikes.

Technique Drawbacks: Flurry of Spears comes with a few weaknesses. The technique while not demanding reiatsu is incredibly taxing on Celes' stamina. Using this technique applies a stamina drain to her equivalent to 3 posts of moving at 400 speed. Naturally this primarily applied to her upper body. This technique also demands that Celes remain stationary and it only strikes right in front of her as she cannot turn while it is being used. This allows fast opponents or ranged opponents to outmaneuver 

Made By: Celes Shindazu

Reserved? Yes


Technique Name: Bound by Chains

Technique Type: [Physical]

Usable By: Shinigami

Technique Element: [None]

Technique Description and Effects: Bound by Chains represents the aftermath of war. The anguish that follows in every opponent once they lose their will to fight and are quite literally bound by chains. To use this technique Celes needs to make contact with her opponent. This can be with her release weapon or Celes physically touching her opponent, just as long as there is some contact between herself and her opponent. Once this occurs, Celes spends a portion of her own strength to manifest chains on the opponents' body. The ratio is 1:5 to determine the durability of these chains. If Celes spends 100 strength to manifest these chains have a durability of 1000. The chains upon creation spread around the victims entire body and leave them helpless and at the mercy of the user. These chains also respond to resistance. The chains punish those that refuse to submit. If force is applied to the chains that does not outright break then, the chains tighten and the victim suffers a loss of breath that becomes worse as more resistance is given. The durability of the chains can only be increased to a max of 1.5x Celes OS. If Celes has a Strength of 1000, she can only make the chains have a maximum durability of 1500 and it requires her to give up 300 strength which effectively temporarily sets her Strength to 800.

Technique Drawbacks: Bound by Chains while a terrifying ability does have a number of drawbacks. First is the strength sealing requirement. When Celes spends this strength to manifest the chains it is lost until the technique has finished. Once the chains are broken, Celes does not regain the strength she uses to create the chains until 2 posts have passed. The chains can also be immediately broken by an OS equal to or surpassing Celes. The tightening effect of the chains does become worse, but will never kill its victim. A Class Superiority will also serve the victim for breaking the chains. There is one more option. If the victim has a lower strength than the user, they can break the chains by applying a 2 posts worth of force dedicated specifically to breaking these chains. The catch is that the victim still suffers the chain tightening which once the chains are broken, will require a post of rest to recover.

Made By: Celes Shindazu

Reserved? Yes

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{Bankai Techs}
Technique Name: Decisive Strike 

Technique Type: [Physical]

Usable By: Shinigami

Technique Element: [None]

Technique Description and Effects: Decisive Strike represents the battle tactics that Celes is blessed with by following Athena. It is a defensive utility skill and counter-attack in one package. To start with, Celes initiates this technique similar to a step technique. She moves and can activate Decisive Strike with allows for the first instance of the ability to be used. Celes moves at her maximum speed in any of the 8 compass directions. The distance of this ability is short, encouraging infighting and it appears much more similar to Force Speed than a traditional Shunpo. Once using the step portion of Decisive Strike, she may choose to use one of two counterattacks.

The first of these counterattacks is a quick thrust that Celes can use right after stepping with it. This quick jab strikes with a force equal to Celes 1/2 OS and travels at a speed equal to the one she stepped at. Additionally, if she opts for this, Celes can utilize this technique a second time and jab a second time. If she chooses not to jab with the technique, Celes can opt for the 2nd counter attack. The second is a powerful thrust that strikes with a force equal to Celes OS, but moves at half the speed that Celes stepped at. If Celes chooses the thrust counterattack, she cannot step with this technique a second time. For example, if Celes has 1000 speed, the step occurs at 1000 Speed. The first counter attack moves at a speed of 1000, but the heavy thrust would move at a speed of 500. 

Decisive Strike has one more effect if the heavy thrust is chosen. If Celes hits with it, she initiates a clash with the opponent. Celes OS vs. their OS. If Celes wins the clash, she not only impales, but runs the target through. This is accompanied by any damage towards the affected organs that she may have hit. 

Technique Drawbacks: Decisive Strike suffers from a number of drawbacks. First and foremost, the technique travels in a linear fashion. Once she commits to a direction, she can't back out either. Additionally, Celes' Heavy Thrust cannot impale targets that have a superior OS to its strike. If Celes has 1000 OS and uses the strike on an opponent who has 1001 OS, it will not impale them. Additionally, a Class Superiority will also completely negate the impalement. Finally this technique is incredibly taxing on the user. In fact, Celes suffers a stamina drain twice the speed that she moved at.

Made By: Celes Shindazu

Reserved? Yes


Technique Name: Shield of Olympus

Technique Type: [Physical]

Usable By: Shinigami

Technique Element: [None]

Technique Description and Effects: Shield of Olympus is an incredible display of physical strength and speed. Celes hops into the air and while spinning, slams her shield into her opponent at a speed 1000. Whatever the shield strikes has a ripple of equal to 2x Celes' OS sent throughout their body. The strike itself is so powerful that it also sends out a shockwave in a 10ft cone. This shockwave is equal to Celes OS outward, hitting everything behind her initial target behind in a cone. The ripple devastating, effectively shattering any Hierro like shell.

Technique Drawbacks: Shield of Olympus suffers from a number of weaknesses. First, the leap that leads into the slam is a prime time to strike Celes. While airbone like this, she commits fully which makes it nigh impossible to retreat out of. Additionally, the combination of speed and power puts a tremendous strain on Celes. After successfully using this technique, she cannot use it again until 5 posts have passed. Finally, the technique only works if Celes hits an initial target. It will do nothing of she hits air.

Made By: Celes Shindazu

Reserved? Yes

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{Vizard Resurreccion Techs}

Technique Name: Flames of War

Technique Type: [Physical]

Usable By: Vizard

Technique Element: [Fire]

Technique Description and Effects: Flames of War is a technique that uses the flame of war that burns within all warriors. Celes can use this flame in an offensive and defensive manner. Each time Celes strikes an opponent with her spear, she builds up a fire in her soul. This flame builds up in "stages". It begins stage 0 and each time Celes strikes her opponent, the flame rises in stage up to a maximum of 4. This fire can be extinguished to initiate one of two abilities. Extinguishing the flame consumes it and resets it back to Stage 0.

For offense, Celes may superheat her spear. The heat of the spear allows it to pierce the flesh of her opponents more easily to inflict maximum suffering. A spear buffed by Flames of War is treated equal to her OS. This means it can't be fortified with any additional buffs. When struck by the superheated spear, it also inflicts third degree burns upon its target, searing and severely damaging the surrounding and underlying tissue. This lasts an amount of posts equal to the stage of the flame. If the Flame is at stage 3, it lasts for 3 posts. At stage 1, it lasts for 1 post.

For defense, Celes can surround herself in a wreath of flame to protect herself far more than regularly. By extinguishing her flame and setting herself ablaze essentially, Celes shrouds herself in an inferno. While near the flame-clad warrior, all creatures suffer severe 2nd degree burns if within a range of 5ft, 3rd degree burns on contact and suffer a heat exhaustion effect. This heat exhaustion increases stamina drain by 200. If the opponent is close to Celes and is moving at 200 speed, their stamina drains at a speed of 400. Much like the spear, this shroud lasts equal to the stage of the flame. 

Technique Drawbacks: While Celes is very deadly like this, Flames of War is not without flaw. As the flame builds within Celes' Soul, it threatens to consume her without adequate levels of Heat Tolerance. Due to this, without the adequate heat tolerance, Celes cannot manifest it. This is detailed in a table. If Celes has a heat tolerance of 4, she can build the Flame up to Stage 3. Additionally, levels of Heat Tolerance will reduce the burns and even nullify the heat exhaustion. Every point in Heat Tolerance reduces the degree of the burn by 1. If they would normally suffer a 3rd degree burn, a 1 in Heat Tolerance would make it 2nd degree. Meanwhile a 2 would make it 1st degree. A 2 in Heat Tolerance will remove the Heat Exhaustion on the shroud while a 3 in Heat Tolerance will completely negate the entire ability. Additionally, a 2x Superior OS or a Class Superiority will completely negate Flames of War and all its effects.

Stage 4 of the Flame is a unique stage. This stage cannot be resisted and quite literally burns her very soul up. Due to this, Celes can only remain in Stage 4 of this flame for a maximum of 2 posts. If at the end of these 2 posts, she still has her Stage 4 of Flame, Celes soul burns. Her flame extinguishes immediately and Celes "burns out". While burnt out, Celes cannot actually suffers extreme fatigue. The fatigue is so severe that Celes requires a mandatory post of rest to recover from. During this she is completely vulnerable.

Stages of Flame; Heat Tolerance Required
Stage 1; 2
Stage 2; 3
Stage 3; 4
Stage 4; N/A

Made By: Celes Shindazu

Reserved?: Yes


Technique Name: Frailty of War

Technique Type: Physical

Usable By: Vizard

Technique Element: [None]

Technique Description and Effects: Having harnessed the Soul of Aries, Celes awakens the deep-seeded fear that lies within all warriors. By invoking it, Celes can in a 5ft radius around her draw out the fear. If within 5 ft of Celes when she uses Frailty of War, the opponent immediately feels a dread in facing Celes. This fear will actually make them less effective in battle as they begin to panic. All reiatsu that the opponent spends while is increased by 50%. If the opponent spends 100 reiatsu, it now becomes 150 reiatsu. Additionally, this frailty makes her opponent release techniques in weaker forms. Any technique that is used against Celes while Frailty of War is active, is treated as 1 class lower. If the technique is Class 1, it is treated as Class 2. This applies to release techniques as well. To use this technique, Celes spends 400 reiatsu to apply Frailty of War for 4 posts.

Technique Drawbacks: Frailty of War while a significant game changer can be countered in numerous ways. First and foremost an OS superiority will render this technique inert. A Lack of Fear of 3 or higher will also make an opponent immune to this technique. A Class Superiority will always render this technique inert. Those with a Dark Aura or Light Aura of 100 can't be affected by Frailty of War either. Additionally, a victim who meets none of the above criteria can expend 500 reiatsu to remove this artificially brought our fear from their system. 

Made By: Celes Shindazu

Reserved? Yes

IC Reasoning for Type Change

The Good, The Bad, and The Broken - In this solo training thread, Celes had a sparring match with a cohort of hers. In this sparring match she wants intended to fight him without any Kido and Shikai as she did not have the latter yet. Due to this, Celes learnt what it meant to fight with only her physical skills and senses. While she did end the fight by using Byakurai, she was scolded due to it. Overall, that in this instance, she had to improve on her swordsmanship skills.

Please Don't Hate Me - This is another instance in which Celes had to rely almost solely on her physical skills. Shizuka and Celes had a scuffle with a Hollow in which Celes' confidence was beginning to waver. As a result, Celes received guidance on her Zanjutsu from Shizuka, helping Celes maintain her stance and how to strike. It was a nice change of pace to receive some coaching. This was also one of Celes' first tastes of the darkness burried inside her as she almost in a trance, dispatched of the Hollow mercilessly.

No Love For Your Valentine - In this thread, Celes was pitted against the Hollow Valentin. This was a fight in which Celes was absolutely humiliated. Being a new fledgling Shinigami against some like like Valentin truly did not benefit her. This was also when she only knew a little bit of Kido and it was weak. In fact, placing herself into the thick of things actually proved much more successful. This not only began Celes' start to learning more Zanjutsu, but it also led to her wishing to become stronger.

Voice of the Soul - In this thread, Celes actually successfully performed the Jinzen, being brought to her inner world as she met her Zanpakutou spirit, Yunorashi. She did not get the name of her spirit, but she made a new friend. For fighting the spirit and proving something to her, Yunorashi gave Celes a second Zanpakutou as she was wielding that within the inner world. This being a quality of the Weapon Master, Yunorashi gave this to her as a sign of gratitude and having Celes make a promise to always use her to her fullest.

IC Reasoning for Power Change

Voice of the Soul - As mentioned in the above example, Celes ended up fighting her Zanpakutou spirit in a mock battle. Yunorashi made it seem serious, however. Despite sustaining injuries, Celes held her ground. As a result of this, Yunorashi actually unleashed and showed Celes her future Shikai. It was an impressive display of speed and strength with a spear and shield. This memory of her Shikai was burned into her as she literally got pierced with it as Yunorashi was testing her capabilities.

IC Reasoning for Rank Up

No Love For Your Valentine - As mentioned before, this was a fight between Valentin and Celes. Despite being a one-sided fight, Celes was actually successful in just surviving against the superior Hollow. This was also her first thread in which she was sincerely humbled due to the humiliation. Valentin had mentioned that as an Adjucas, higher-ranked Shinigami tend to come after him which invigorated Celes to begin her journey to becoming stronger and rising through the ranks so she may one day pose a challenge to Valentin.

Hado You Know These Incantations - In this thread, Celes started by reviewing the different styles that Shinigami learn including: Zanjutsu, Hakudo, Kido, and Hohou. This got her to seek guidance from Wycliff who is currently helping her learn more Kido. This shows that she is willing to train in more than just one style of what it means to be a Shinigami. Furthermore as mentioned in Bleach, a Lieutenant of the Gotei 13 is meant to be good in multiple disciplines not just one. While it is true, that Celes is nowhere near Lieutenant level, she can at least start by rising to a Seated Position of the rather vacant Squad 11.

Voice of the Soul - The reasoning for this thread qualifying for rank up, Celes has reached a first step to developing not only her Shikai, but becoming a stronger Shinigami out of the experience. In this thread, Celes learned about perseverance and holding in there even when fighting against a stronger opponent. I feel this is something that would have worked for her in the fight with Valentin as he actually forced her to admit defeat towards the end as she began to notice that there was no way she could feasibly beat him.

OOC Reasoning for Rank Up

As a character, I feel that Celes has gone quite the long way. She went from a timid Shinigami with wavering self-confidence in her abilities to someone who actually enjoys the thrill of combat. She needs to have faith in her own set of skills. Additionally, I feel as though she's matured as a Shinigami, standing up for what she feels is right. Fighting a Hollow even when all seems bleak and victory seems impossible, learning new Kido and asking superiors for help and actually meeting and going toe to toe with her Zanpakutou spirit tells me that Celes has developed as a character in numerous ways. While she may not be worthy of a Vice Captain position as it is already taken and I feel she isn't ready for it yet even if it wasn't taken, I believe she has earned becoming a seated Officer of Squad 11.

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{Stat Change Due to Type Change}
Strength- 300 x 1.75 = 525

Speed - 75 x 1.75 = 131

Spiritual Pressure - 200 x 0.5 = 100

Reiatsu Strength - 50 x 0.5 = 25

Light Aura- 90

Dark Aura - 10

Instinct - 50

Senses - 50

Energy Sensory - 25

Healing Expertise - 0

Total SP: [750]

Illusion Resist: 1

Strength of Will: 1

Pain Tolerance: 1

Damage Recovery: 1

Mental Incantation: 1

Analyzing: 1

What kind of update: Power Change; Rank Up; Type Change

New Type: Weapon Master

Current Rank: Squad 11 Unseated Shinigami

New Rank: Squad 11 3rd Seat

[Celes Castellanos]

Character Name: Celes Shindazu

Previous Real Age: 55

Current/New Real Age: 71

Previous Age of Appearance: 25

Current/New Age of Appearance: 27

New Ideals/Personality: Ever since becoming a Third Seat, Celes has been becoming more confident in her own abilities. Originally, when she first became a Shinigami, she was a timid and rather meek trainee who while having potential, often proved that she did not have the confidence to carry herself to new heights. After meeting her Zanpakutou spirit, being able to use her Shikai and work together and network with other Shinigami, Celes has become rather proud of her accomplishments. 

Becoming more comfortable in her role as a Third Seat, Celes has taken on a leadership role to a particular Shinigami that she was grown close with. Camila, an Unseated Officer in Squad 13, whom Celes sees as a disciple of sorts has had numerous interactions with Celes. At times, Celes and Camila would go out on missions to protect the human world. In those instances, Celes has tried to mentor her fellow Shinigami and train her to be a protector of the Soul Society.

As a warrior, Celes has been improving her abilities in the arts of Zanjutsu, Hoho and Hakuda to play to her strengths. She still sees Kido as not being for her as she enjoys being face to face with her opponent. Over time, Celes has definitely mellowed out, however. She doesn't go around and just pick fights anymore for the sake of fighting others. She loves to learn from others and finds dignity in loss. After all, how can one become stronger with recognizing their own faults. 

New Appearance: Celes appearance has not changed drastically. Overall, she still wears her Shihakusho and carries her Zanpakutou with her wherever she goes. This is mainly to protect herself as she recognizes that Shinigami have a lot of enemies in different places. She would rather be by the safety and security of her Zanpakutou. Additionally, she feels a certain affection for Yunorashi, her Zanpakutou spirit. Much like how one would feel an affection for a sister or friend. 

In terms of general appearance, Celes seems to have matured physically by a couple of years. She is barely taller than when she was promoted to Third Seat of Squad 11, but her hair has grown to be a little longer and she just appears to have entered her late 20s if you took her physical appearance at face value. Celes has developed the tiniest bit of scaring from her battles with Hollows and even sparring matches with fellow Shinigami. 

New History: Across the past few years, Celes has grown closer with other Shinigami and even met unique races that she had little understanding of due to lack of exposure. First and foremost, Celes has had many interactions with Camila. They first met when Celes had saved her from a cocoon when Celes was sent as a reinforcement to back up a mission in the Human World. While there, Celes did her best to act as the "big sister" to Camila, aiming to help her relax. 

Later, Celes and Camila had an interaction in the training grounds of the Soul Society. During their second meeting, Celes had challenged her to a bit of a sparring match as Camila had become a fledgling Shinigami at the time. Celes had Camila demonstrate her abilities and Celes did her best to give tips where she could. It was after this sparring match that Celes got the notification that she had been promoted to a seated officer of her Squad.

Finally, Celes and Camila were on a mission in the Human World in Baltimore, Maryland to scout out Hollow threats. After finding and purifying numerous Hollows, Celes felt the need to reprimand Camila as the latter had killed a Hollow without properly purifying it. Naturally Celes saw this as dropping to a Hollows' level as Celes had been blindsided by a Chameleon like Hollow who Camila killed in cold blood. Additionally, after a meeting with a mysterious Quincy saving them, Celes found out about her companions dislike for Quincies. 

Over the years, Celes would also find herself face to face with a Fraccion of the Segunda Espada, Torre. In good faith, Torre simply wanted to challenge the Shinigami to a sparring match to see what capabilities she had. It was not only a match that Celes felt like she was outclassed, but it kickstarted not only her physical training, but it would also help her realize that there was good in any race, even those of Hueco Mundo. 

It was around this time as well that Celes would have a chance encounter with a member of Xcution, Dia. Once again, it came down to a sparring match between Dia and Celes in which Celes was able to hold her own against the Nakabakki mod Soul, but she was outclassed by her companion Mike, an ethereal shark who Celes just could not handle. Celes, however, did get her licks in and had a nice educational conversation with Dia.

On a mission, where Celes was sent out to the Human World to investigate strange sightings of people devolving into horrid beasts, Celes met a number of bounts as well as Luca. Despite the fact that she was primarily around the tricky Nedazhda, Celes learned alot about bounts, having met three individual ones including Luke. This was also the instance in which Celes performed her first Konsō. This experience would help her gain a better appreciation for what Shinigami do. 

Finally, Celes had an encounter with the Squad 10 "undercover Hollow" known as Mizu. After getting to know her a little, Celes went on a mission with her to save pluses of Karakura town which had been overrun by a group of unique Hollows. Not only did Celes learn more about how to work together with others as her defensive Zanpakutou proved useful for the situation, Celes also had some of the best fights she had in a while. The Hollows of Karakura all had unique abilites that Celes learned to play around and help numerous Pluses escape.

New Powers: N/A

IC Reasoning for Rank Change: The Friend of my Enemy is my Frenemy? [JT/Torre/Celes] - This was a unique encounter in which Celes had a sparring match with Torre after becoming stranded in Hueco Mundo. She had to prove herself to the Fraccion in some capacity. Despite being horribly outmatched physically and even spiritually to an extent, Celes was able to get some hits in with strategy and ingenuity. This was the start of Celes' more tactical approach to combat and she learned to recognize that there will be some individuals she will simply not be able to match at a given time. This encounter encouraged her to strive for greater heights.

A Lure in Reapers' Clothing [JT] - This was an instance in which Celes learned to work together effectively with others, take orders as well as fight unique opponents. Together with Mizu, she went into Karakura town to save groups of pluses who were being besieged by Hollows. Celes had the oppurtunity to fight a physical Hollow who used an Old Man as an avatar. Almost as if fighting an old martial arts master, Celes got to test her own abilities against the Hollow. Working with Mizu, they were able to fell the Hollow. Celes then had a bitter fight against a Centipede like hollow who with impressive speed and abilities was at first able to outmaneuver Celes. With superior mobility and strength, Celes was not only able to fell the Hollow, but had the oppurtunity to save a dozen or so pluses from being devoured by the Hollows. 

The Living Lab [NDE/Medium Adventure] - This was the instance when Celes was sent as a reinforcement to back up an incursion into a french lab that was having a serious infestation issue. This is where she met Camila, trapped in cocoon. Keeping a clear head and finding a sort of inner strength, Celes was able to guide Camila through the situation. After being forced to fight a grotesque bear like amalgamation, Celes continued to keep her cool about her, issuing orders to Camila and helping them both survive the encounter. 

Infinity on High [Joint Training] - This would be Celes' last interaction with Camila for a while due to various reasons. However, Celes and Camila had gone on a mission to scout out potential threats of Hollows. The two Shinigami encountered numerous Hollows whom they would purify. As the higher seated officer, Celes carried a sense of responsibility and leadership for her companion. After being blindsided by a Bala and Camila killing it without the purification process, Celes reprimanded Camila for falling to the level of a Hollow and not performing the duties of a Soul Reaper correctly. This would be one a few instances in which Celes demonstrated leadership among her lower-ranked Shinigami. 

Welcome to Paradise [Joint Training] - Meeting Camila against after the incident in France, Celes was happy to get to know her fellow Shinigami a little more. Even having a little sparring session with her, Celes aimed to mentor Camila in some of the fundamentals of Shinigami combat, primarily Zanjutsu. Releasing her Shikai to make it a little more interesting and challenging for Camila, Celes wanted to demonstrate to Camila the benefits of perseverance and hard work. Celes at this point would come to see Camila as a bit of a disciple to her.

OOC Reasoning for Rank Change: As a character, I feel that Celes has grown since she became a Third Seat. As the Third Seat of Squad 11, she enjoyed the privilege of reinforcing those that needed it in the Human World if the mission demanded it. Squad 10, also being a very combative Squad, is an alternative goal that Celes has been eyeing. As the Primary Defense Squad, Celes feels that she could serve a greater goal of defending the Shinigami way of life. As her Shikai and later Bankai manifest as a spear/shield and Spartan armor respectively, Celes takes on a very defensive style of combat while utilizing offensive opportunities when she is given them. Overall, I feel that Celes has gotten to the point where she could aspire to being a Vice Captain of Squad 10, as she has noticed that her own Squad 11 members are rather difficult to track down. 

What kind of update: Rank Update

Current Rank: Squad 11 Third Seat; Rank 1

New Rank: Squad 10 Vice Captain; Rank 2

[Celes Castellanos]

Character Name: Celes Shindazu

Character Rank Vice Captain - Rank 2 

Why are you applying for Bankai? I am applying for Bankai because I feel that after numerous instances of character development and discussions with both her inner Hollow and her Zanpakutou spirit, Celes is ready to try for this coveted 2nd Stage release. Attaining Vice Captaincy was the first step for Celes and I feel that she is ready to attain greater power through opportunity of her Bankai. 

What makes your character qualified? She has gained experience, worked her way up from some Unseated Shinigami to the Vice Captain of Squad 10 and has proved that she is willing to work hard to achieve anything that she sets her mind on. She has spent much time with the Soul Society and has done her best to carry out its rules and regulations to make the other worlds free of Hollows and purifying those souls that need to move on in the Soul Cycle while never sacrificing her own beliefs or values.

Qualifying Threads: The Living Lab [Adventure Thread] - Back when Celes was a fledgeling Shinigami of Squad 11, she was sent on a mission to reinforce a group of Shinigami who were infiltrating a laboratory in France. They were performing experiments to create animal hybrids that were truly a danger to the world after the lab went silent. In there, Celes both had a few brushes with danger. It is also where she would meet Camila. This was her first experience with the Shinigami who would later become her friend and leave a larger impact on her life. Importantly, Celes also learned how to give orders as through her leadership, Celes and Camila survived the experience. 

No Love For Valentine [PVP] - This was a thread in which Celes was a fledgling Shinigami still, but even weaker than the incident in the living lab. She was patrolling the human world when she came across the then Hollow, Valentin. Assuming that he was just a mindless Hollow, Celes was looking to purify him, but she was in way over her head. It was a fight that she lost. Horribly in fact as Valentin was just toying with her and even to a degree testing her. This is the moment that Celes learned humility. Valentin did not kill her, telling her that she was not even strong enough to be worth killing. It was a humiliating fight that was truly something that showed Celes that stronger opponents will always exist and she needs to keep her pride in check. 

Voice of the Soul [Solo Training] - This would be Celes' first encounter with her Zanpakutou spirit as she entered her inner world after being taught the technique known as Jinzen by her mentor, Venus. While there, Celes not only met Yunorashi while getting to explore her inner world, she actually fought Yunorashi. It was after this fight that Celes not only gained her Shikai, but also understood that she was never alone. Her strength wouldn't need to come from her alone as Yunorashi would always be fighting with her by her side. It was truly a confidence boost for Celes. 

Hell'uva Time [PVP] - In this thread, Celes met her first ever hybrid. It was Dia, a Nakkabakki Mod Soul who believed that Celes was here to exterminate her. In truth, Celes at this point had not known much about either Nakkabakki or Mod Souls. She mainly fought Dia due to a challenge from the Mod Soul and ontop of that, she saw the Mod Soul murder someone in cold blood. Not only did Dia teach her about the nature of Mod Souls and Nakkabakki, Celes began to understand that even though some races were looked as tabboo by the Soul Society, there was good in alot of people. Essentially, she became much less sheepish afterwards.

Threads after Class 3

A Lure In Reapers' Clothing [Joint Training] - In this thread, Celes was given a task to go on a mission with the then acting Captain at the time, Mizu Orina. Not knowing that shew as in fact a Hollow in diguise, Celes learned the meaning of teamwork while working with Orina. While in Karakura town, they protected numerous pluses from ravenous Hollows who wanted nothing more than to devour those helpless pluses. Using their skills together, Celes and Orina excelled in not only saving the pluses, but Celes got some truly good combat experience. She would learn never to underestimate others as the Hollows' presented unique abilities that put Celes' analytical skills to the test. In the end, she successfully saved the pluses. 

Built For Blame, Laced With Shame [Social] - This was a truly heart-wrenching thread as Celes simply had to interrogate her friend Camila. She had arisen from a Garganta after a nasty fight with the Septima Espada, Ailene. It was Celes' duty as Squad 10 Vice Captain to discover why this had happened. After Camila lied to her multiple times, she decided to meet with her in the Human World off the record. It was there that Celes would witness Camila's defection against the Soul Society. In truth, she could have stopped her. Or atleast made the attempt, but she practiced temperance. For all her duties as a Vice Captain, she could never raise her hand against a dear friend. This would make Celes a little bitter as she wanted to find the strength to bring Camila back. 

Despite Everything, It's Still You [PVP] - This was a thread that truly pushed Celes to her limits. Not only was this her first ever experience with her inner Hollow, but her opponent Priscilla was a sensory type who could infiltrate her inner world. After a hard fought battle in which Celes attempted to utilize her fighting spirit and battle genius to combat Priscilla, she was caught as she entered her Inner World. Meeting Yunorashi, Priscilla had a run in with Celes' inner Hollow, Yukito. After being forced out, Celes had her takeover in which Yukito dealt some blows to Priscilla and even began to get under her skin. After a tactical retreat, Celes may have lost the battle, but she got away unscathed. After a final meeting with her inner hollow in the inner world, Celes developed a terrifying feeling for Yukito. She can't explain it, but she just feels an utter sense of dread around him. Both Yunorashi and Celes resolved to stand up against that darkness together, furthering their bond. Celes was also able to hold her own against a Captain Supervisor of the Vandenreich.

Soul Inmate [Bankai Training] - Away from the Squad 10 Barracks, Celes was in her usual meditation spot, aiming to bring Yunorashi into the physical world so she could achieve Bankai. After failing a few times to manifest Yunorashi, Celes finally succeeded. There battle was brutal and intense, as they fought across every stage of release, pushing Celes to her limit. As Yunorashi unveiled the nature of Celes' bankai, she fought the Shinigami with her own weapons. A final clash left both unconscious as Celes woke up. As Celes walked up to Yunorashi, she was resolved to subjugate her to attain Bankai. That was until Celes realized that the two were inseperable partners. Taking her into her arms, Yunorashi unveiled the true nature of their powers. If her Shikai is the ferocity and bloodthrist of Aries, then her Bankai is the protection, discipline and peace offered by Athena. 

Additional Comments: Across numerous threads, Celes had demonstrated that she can become stronger and change her values over time. From becoming more open to other races, to being taught humility and learning the true relationship between her and Yunorashi, Celes' and her Zan spirits' bond is as strong as ever. After practicing temperance on numerous occasions, I feel that that Celes has truly attained the state of mind that Athena and by extension her Bankai teaches. Not all wars are won through bloodshed. To stand up for your own beliefs and protect those you care about while forging bonds with comrades. That is the true nature of Celes' power and I feel that she was slipped into that mindset rather nicely.

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

Bankai request approved. Welcome to the last spot for Vice Captain Bankai at the moment.

[Celes Castellanos]

Character Name: Celes Shindazu

Previous Real Age: 73

Current/New Real Age: 73

Previous Age of Appearance: 27

Current/New Age of Appearance: 27

New Ideals/Personality: N/A

New Appearance: N/A

New History: N/A

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{Old Powers}
Overall Ability: Yunorashi is a Zanpakutou with the capability of manifesting itself into an avatar to be guided by Celes. Upon releasing Shikai, a secondary resource is accumulated which Celes needs to manage; Strength of Spirit. The amount that is generated depends on two factors. The first of which is a natural accumulation. Celes generates a static amount of Strength of Spirit every post to be spent on temporary and later, permanent enhancements to the Avatar. Celes may also spend Strength of Spirit to repair the Avatar should it suffer damage. The second and more proactive method is through a reiatsu conversion. Celes can spend her reiatsu to gain Strength of Spirit which she can then spend like normal.

Upon entering Shikai, Celes is capable of summoning forth a ribcage which acts as the foundation for her avatar. This ribcage, while summoned, grants Celes a 360° defense as it manifests around her. From there, Strength of Spirit may be used to make additions to the ribcage. These additions include two arms, a head, and two weapons; a broadsword and a shield. Once these additions have been manifested, Celes may spend points to make these permanent additions to her Avatar. The progression of these stages begins with skeletal. This is the most infantile stage, giving the Avatar the appearance of a skeleton. The second stage is Humanoid. This gives the Avatar musculature and skin, making it appear more human. The third and final stage in Shikai is Armored. This stage shrouds the Avatar in a full set of armor. Both Humanoid and Armored raise the defenses of the Avatar giving it considerable bulk when allowed to evolve.

As the Avatar begins to evolve, it continues to surround Celes as its durability increases. The durability of the Skeletal stage is equal to Celes’ Strength. Humanoid increases this durability by 50%. Armored further increases the durability to 2x Celes’ Strength. Upon entering Bankai and attaining the Complete stage of her Avatar, the durability of the Avatar reaches 3x Celes’ strength. The Avatar clashes with techniques and opponents in a unique way. Physical and Spiritual attacks can gradually deteriorate the Astral Self. Upon clashing, the OS of the attack harms the durability. For example, if Celes has a durability of 1000 and the OS of the attack is 500, the remaining durability is 500. If the technique has a 2 Class Superiority, then it both harms the durability of the Astral Self and pierces it, making Celes susceptible to its effects. Should the Avatar be reduced to a durability of 0, the Avatar reverts to its previous stage. Damage from one stage does not bleed over into a previous stage. Finally, Celes may allow others to enter her avatar freely. Doing so incurs no harm to the ally. Opponents may also force their way into Celes’ Astral Self as long the durability of the Astral Self's body has fallen below 25%. Opponents of a higher class than Celes can always force their way into the Astral Self no matter the durability. If the durability is repaired above 25%, any hostile currently within the Astral Self is forcibly shunted out. Should an opponent make it into Celes’ Avatar, there is one last line of defense. Any hostile of an equal or lower class to Celes will find themselves at the mercy of gravitational pressure as if they are 2 Classes lower than Celes.

Using this Avatar comes with a primary weakness. The Avatar is a representation of Celes’ will; given focus and shaped into a physical form by her. This is extremely taxing and will inevitably result in extreme pain if maintained for an extended duration. Celes can utilize the first instance of Shikai with little risk, suffering no pain from using the Avatar. Once Celes refreshes her Shikai, the pain escalates. Every post thereafter, Celes suffers consistent pain which worsens every four posts. The first instance of pain requires a Pain Tolerance of 1 to withstand. This Pain Tolerance requirement grows every four posts to a maximum of 3. Meeting the Pain Tolerance requirement allows Celes to continue fighting through prolonged exposure threatens to debilitate her if she has sustained wounds. If Celes should ever not meet the Pain Tolerance requirement, she will be writhing in so much pain that her Shikai or Bankai loses its focus and dissipates, effectively ending her release. Having perfected the Avatar in Bankai, the four-post pain escalation increases to 7 posts.

This brings up the topic of Bankai. Celes’ Shikai focuses her will into an Avatar and Bankai sharpens that focus to push her Avatar to new heights. Celes cannot activate Bankai until she has reached the Armored state of her Shikai. Once accomplished, she may activate her Bankai and push her Avatar into a new stage of Evolution. This stage is known as Complete which further enhances the Avatar’s durability, grants it wings for prolonged flight and legs for more versatile movement. This acts as the pinnacle of Celes’ Avatar.

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{Shikai Overall - Earthly Sentinel}

Earthly Sentinel uses Celes’ willpower and using herself as a conduit, focuses it to give it physical form. This results in an Astral Self that protects Celes and grows over the course of combat. Upon utilizing Shikai, Celes receives 10 Strength of Spirit every post. Leftover Strength of Spirit from one post carries over to another post and there is no cap to the amount of the Strength of Spirit that Celes can accumulate. Additionally, Celes can generate Strength of Spirit out of her own reaitsu at a cost of 25 Reiatsu per Strength of Spirit. Strength of Spirit can be used in a number of ways.

Once a post, Celes can spend any amount of Strength of Spirit to restore 4% per Strength of Spirit in durability to her Astral Self, restoring the durability to a part of Celes’ choice. Strength of Spirit spent on restoring durability can be divided among multiple parts of the Astral Self. For example, if Celes spends 4 Strength of Spirit to repair, she can allocate 4 to one part of the Astral self or divide it up among multiple parts such as the arms or head. Strength of Spirit may also be spent to enhance the Astral Self, making temporary additions that can become permanent by use of Ascendant Spirit.

The Astral Self has durability equivalent to Celes’ OS. This durability increases by 1.5x Celes’ OS when Humanoid. The durability finally rises to 2x Celes’ OS while Armored. Each part of the Astral Self which includes the Head, Body, and Arms has its own separate durability. No part of the Astral Self may ever be more than one stage above the Body. Physical and Spiritual attacks can gradually deteriorate the Astral Self. Upon clashing, the OS of the attack harms the durability. For example, if Celes has a durability of 1000 and the OS of the attack is 500, the remaining durability is 500. If the technique has a 2 Class Superiority, then it both harms the durability of the Astral Self and pierces it, making Celes susceptible to its effects. If the Body of the Astral Self were to fall to the durability of 0, the Astral Self regresses to its previous stage. For example, Armored would regress to Humanoid.

Celes may allow others to enter her Astral Self freely. Doing so incurs no harm to the ally. Opponents may also force their way into Celes’ Astral Self as long the durability of the Astral Self's body has fallen below 25%. Opponents of a higher class than Celes can always force their way into the Astral Self no matter the durability. If the durability is repaired above 25%, any hostile currently within the Astral Self is forcibly shunted out. Should an opponent make it into Celes’ Astral Self, there is one last line of defense. Any hostile of an equal or lower class to Celes will find themselves at the mercy of gravitational pressure as if they are 2 Classes lower than Celes. Higher-class opponents are not affected by this gravitational pressure.

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{Palms of the Astral Self}

For 1 Strength of Spirit Celes can summon one arm, up to a maximum of two. These arms have a reach of 15 ft and have a Strength equal to Celes’ own strength. Each arm must be maintained via the upkeep of # Strength of Spirit until it is made permanent. The upkeep cost of the arms increases with each stage.

Skeletal: 1
Humanoid: 2
Armored: 3
Complete: 4

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{Visage of the Astral Self}

For 2 Strength of Spirit Celes can summon the head of her Astral Self. This head, while active, heightens Celes’ visual acuity. This allows her to treat her senses as if they were at 300 for the purposes of sight which significantly enhances her eyesight. Additionally, for each stage that the Head has reached beginning at Skeletal, Celes gains 1 point in Intimidation as it provides a menacing appearance up to a max of 3. The upkeep cost of the Head increases with each stage.

Skeletal: 2
Humanoid: 4
Armored: 6
Complete: 8

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{Arms of the Astral Self}

For 1 Strength of Spirit, Celes can summon weapons wielded by the Astral Self. These weapons are a broadsword and a shield. The broadsword is 25 ft in length and the shield has a diameter of 12 ft. A weapon can be summoned upon manifesting of an arm or while the Astral Self has one free hand. This broadsword and shield both have an OS and durability equivalent to Celes’ Strength. Both can be destroyed by a 2x OS superiority. Once broken, Celes may spend 1 Strength of Spirit once more to resummon these weapons. As long as the weapons are not broken, Celes may dissipate the weapon from the Astral Self’s hands. When doing so, Celes summons her own copy of the weapon in her hand that acts as her release weapon. She may transfer her copy of the weapon to the Astral Self at will as long as it is not broken. The weapons do not have an upkeep cost.

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{Bankai Overall - Heavenly Sentinel}

Heavenly Sentinel is the pinnacle of Celes’ Astral Self which bestows upon her several benefits. Complete Astral Self may only be activated once Celes has reached Rank III of Ascendant Spirit. First and foremost, the durability of Celes’ Astral Self rises to 3x her OS making it the bulkiest stage out of all of her options. Additionally, Celes generates an additional 5 Strength of Spirit for a total of 15 per post to utilize on techniques or restoration of her Astral Self. Unlike the other stages where Celes was limited to the ground, Heavenly Sentinel grants the Astral Self legs as Celes rises into its stomach, making it much more difficult to hit her. The addition of legs increases the speed of the Astral Self by 50%. It is important to note that this increase in speed is only for the purposes of closing distance. It does not for increasing Celes’ reaction speed. This also increases the overall height of the Astral Self to an imposing 40 ft. Heavenly Sentinel also grants the Astral Self wings, allowing it to take to the skies and fly at a speed equal to Celes’ speed which gives it aerial superiority. The wings produced by Heavenly Sentinel have a separate durability of 3x Celes’ OS. If the wings are reduced to 0, Celes’ cannot take flight until she uses 25 Strength of Spirit to restore them. The legs and is considered part of the body’s durability.

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{Shikai Techniques}

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{Devouring Steel}

Technique Name: Devouring Steel

Technique Description: Devouring Steel allows Celes to utilize the broadsword manifested by her Astral Self to absorb spiritual techniques and empower the blade. If a spiritual technique that Celes is aware of comes into contact with Celes’ shield or her blade, she may use Devouring Steel. If the OS of the technique is equal to or lower than Celes’ OS, the technique that was used becomes nullified Celes has the option to trap its essence for 4 Strength of Spirit, dissipating into the blade of the Astral Self.

Once absorbed, the blade gains a bonus to its OS equal to half of the OS of the absorbed technique for two posts. For example, if Celes’ blade has 1000 OS and the technique she absorbed has an OS of 900, the modified OS of the blade is 1450. In Bankai, the full OS of the absorbed technique is added to the OS of Celes’ blade.

Technique Drawbacks: Despite its capacity to nullify and absorb spiritual techniques, Devouring Steel has several key weaknesses. First and foremost, it can never absorb spiritual techniques that are higher in Class than Celes’ current release Class. Additionally, while nullifying the technique itself has no cost, absorbing the technique costs Strength of Spirit. Additionally, Devouring Steel cannot nullify or absorb techniques that Celes is not keenly aware of. For example, techniques that she cannot sense. Second, an OS superiority will render Devouring Steel useless. Finally, Devouring Steel does not work on physical attacks at all which includes products of physical attacks such as shockwaves.

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{Majestic Armour}

Technique Name: Majestic Armour

Technique Description: Majestic Armour allows Celes to effectively grant her allies a lesser copy of her own Astral Self. By spending 2 Strength of Spirit per Stage upon touching an ally they gain their own Astral Self except that it is one Stage lower than Celes’ current stage. For example, if Celes’ own Astral Self is Armored, then Majestic Armour grants a Humanoid Astral Self and costs 4 Strength of Spirit. Majestic Armour mimics the benefits granted Celes’ Astral Self including the head and arms. Bankai allows Majestic Armour to ascend to Armoured Stage. While Celes’ own weapons for her Astral Self are a Sword and Shield, this must not be the case for Majestic Armour. The weapon produced is up to the benefactor and benefits from any applicable weapon skills. For example, a benefactor may choose to manifest a Kanabo. The durability of Majestic Armour is equivalent to Celes’ at that stage, but the weapon produced scales off of the benefactors’ highest OS.

Technique Drawbacks: Majestic Armour has the potential to grant impressive defense to allies, but has several limitations. Due to being one stage lower than Celes’ own Astral Self, Majestic Armour only becomes usable upon reaching the Humanoid stage. While the weapon of a benefactors’ Astral Self may resemble their release weapon, it does not possess any abilities inherent to the release weapon. Celes’ ability to spend Strength of Spirit to restore durability to her Astral Self may not be used for Majestic Armour. If Majestic Armour falls to a durability of 0, the technique ends on the benefactor.

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{Transcendant Wings}

Technique Name: Transcendent Wings

Technique Description: Transcendent Wings is the sister technique to Devouring Steel, allowing Celes’ Astral Self to withstand significant punishment. Transcendent Wings also interacts with spiritual and physical techniques, having the potential to break them down and disperse them. By spending 3 Strength of Spirit, Celes can ready her shield as ethereal wings spread out from the back of the Astral Self. These wings are incapable of flight and have a total wingspan of 75 ft, being separate from the wings produced via Bankai. If a spiritual or physical attack comes into contact with Transcendent Wings, its essence is immediately broken down weakening it. The techniques OS is reduced to half of its original effectiveness. If this modified OS were to be lower than Celes’ OS, the technique disperses, its force effectively rendered null and void. This renders Celes and anyone that stood behind Transcendent Wings safe. In Bankai, Transcendent Wings may be used in tandem with Devouring Steel to potentially capture the essence of stronger spiritual techniques.

Technique Drawbacks: Transcendent Wings despite being a formidable defensive wall, has a number of drawbacks. It is rendered completely useless if, after the reduction, the OS of the technique is still higher than Celes’ OS. While Transcendent Wings protects completely from the front, it provides lesser protection from the side and none at all from the back allowing craftier opponents to take advantage of a blindspot. Finally, Transcendent Wings may only be maintained for a maximum of one post and incurs a fatigue equivalent to moving at 600 speed making it an exhausting technique if used consecutively. Additionally, Transcendent Wings can only be used if the Astral Self possesses a shield.

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{Ascendant Spirit}

Technique Name: Ascendant Spirit

Technique Description: Ascendant Spirit acts as a way for Celes to permanently upgrade her Astral Self. By spending varying amounts of Strength of Spirit, Celes can permanently grant herself the superior stages of the Astral Self. Once a stage has been unlocked permanently, Celes does not need to spend Strength of Spirit to maintain enhancements of that stage anymore. These permanent enhancements, if destroyed, allow Celes to spend Strength of Spirit equivalent to 1.5x their upkeep cost, rounded down, to restore the enhancement. When restored, the enhancement returns to the current unlocked stage of Ascendant Spirit. If the Astral Self were to regress to a previous stage, Celes can spend Strength of Spirit equal to the most recently unlocked Stage to immediately upgrade back to it. For example, if Astral Self reverts to Skeletal, she can spend # Strength of Spirit to enhance the Astral Self to Humanoid once more. In Bankai, the Astral Self can be restored to the Complete stage. Upgrading Ascendant Spirit lasts until the end of a regular thread such as a PVP/JT. In longer threads such as adventures, Ascendant Spirit resets on a "long rest". The requirements for upgrading or restoring Stages are:

Skeletal: 5
Humanoid: 9
Armored: 13
Complete: 20

Technique Drawbacks: Ascendant Spirit is a powerful way for Celes to retain certain benefits, but it does have several weaknesses. For another rank of Ascendant Spirit to be purchased, Celes must have at least maintained the next stage of enhancements at some point. For example, if Celes is currently using the Skeletal Astral Form, she must first purchase and maintain Humanoid Arms and Head to upgrade to rank II (Humanoid) of Ascendant Spirit. While each enhancement can be maintained individually, all enhancements must have been maintained at the next stage at least once. Additionally, after upgrading Ascendant Spirit, the technique goes on cooldown for two posts before being able to upgrade again. If an enhancement is destroyed, Celes must wait 1 post before being able to restore that enhancement. Celes may not activate Bankai until Rank III of Ascendant Spirit has been purchased.

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{New Powers}
Overall Ability: Yunorashi is a Zanpakutou with the capability of manifesting itself into an avatar to be guided by Celes. Upon releasing Shikai, a secondary resource is accumulated which Celes needs to manage; Strength of Spirit. The amount that is generated depends on two factors. The first of which is a natural accumulation. Celes generates a static amount of Strength of Spirit every post to be spent on temporary and later, permanent enhancements to the Avatar. Celes may also spend Strength of Spirit to repair the Avatar should it suffer damage. The second and more proactive method is through a reiatsu conversion. Celes can spend her reiatsu to gain Strength of Spirit which she can then spend like normal.

Upon entering Shikai, Celes is capable of summoning forth a ribcage which acts as the foundation for her avatar. This ribcage, while summoned, grants Celes a 360° defense as it manifests around her. From there, Strength of Spirit may be used to make additions to the ribcage. These additions include two arms, a head, and two weapons; a broadsword and a shield. Once these additions have been manifested, Celes may spend points to make these permanent additions to her Avatar. The progression of these stages begins with skeletal. This is the most infantile stage, giving the Avatar the appearance of a skeleton. The second stage is Humanoid. This gives the Avatar musculature and skin, making it appear more human. The third and final stage in Shikai is Armored. This stage shrouds the Avatar in a full set of armor. Both Humanoid and Armored raise the defenses of the Avatar giving it considerable bulk when allowed to evolve.

As the Avatar begins to evolve, it continues to surround Celes as its durability increases. The durability of the Skeletal stage is equal to Celes’ Strength. Humanoid increases this durability by 50%. Armored further increases the durability to 2x Celes’ Strength. Upon entering Bankai and attaining the Complete stage of her Avatar, the durability of the Avatar reaches 3x Celes’ strength. The Avatar clashes with techniques and opponents in a unique way. Physical and Spiritual attacks can gradually deteriorate the Astral Self. Upon clashing, the OS of the attack harms the durability. For example, if Celes has a durability of 1000 and the OS of the attack is 500, the remaining durability is 500. If the technique has a 2 Class Superiority, then it both harms the durability of the Astral Self and pierces it, making Celes susceptible to its effects. Should the Avatar be reduced to a durability of 0, the Avatar reverts to its previous stage. Damage from one stage does not bleed over into a previous stage. Finally, Celes may allow others to enter her avatar freely. Doing so incurs no harm to the ally. Opponents may also force their way into Celes’ Astral Self as long the durability of the Astral Self's body has fallen below 25%. Opponents of a higher class than Celes can always force their way into the Astral Self no matter the durability. If the durability is repaired above 25%, any hostile currently within the Astral Self is forcibly shunted out. Should an opponent make it into Celes’ Avatar, there is one last line of defense. Any hostile of an equal or lower class to Celes will find themselves at the mercy of gravitational pressure as if they are 2 Classes lower than Celes.

Using this Avatar comes with a primary weakness. The Avatar is a representation of Celes’ will; given focus and shaped into a physical form by her. This is extremely taxing and will inevitably result in extreme pain if maintained for an extended duration. Celes can utilize the first instance of Shikai with little risk, suffering no pain from using the Avatar. Once Celes refreshes her Shikai, the pain escalates. Every post thereafter, Celes suffers consistent pain which worsens every four posts. The first instance of pain requires a Pain Tolerance of 1 to withstand. This Pain Tolerance requirement grows every four posts to a maximum of 3. Meeting the Pain Tolerance requirement allows Celes to continue fighting through prolonged exposure threatens to debilitate her if she has sustained wounds. If Celes should ever not meet the Pain Tolerance requirement, she will be writhing in so much pain that her Shikai or Bankai loses its focus and dissipates, effectively ending her release. Having perfected the Avatar in Bankai, the four-post pain escalation increases to 7 posts.

This brings up the topic of Bankai. Celes’ Shikai focuses her will into an Avatar and Bankai sharpens that focus to push her Avatar to new heights. While her Shikai normally allows her to acclimate to the increasing pain, Celes can activate Bankai at any point with a stipulation. Bankai has a starting Pain Tolerance of 4 with a max of 4 that needs to be met. Each rank of Ascendant Spirit in Shikai will reduce the starting Pain Tolerance by 1. For example, if Celes activates Bankai without Shikai or upgrading Ascendant Spirit, the Pain Tolerance requirement will be 4. If Celes has Ascendant Spirit Rank I, the starting Pain Tolerance is 3 and caps at 4. At Rank II, the stating Pain Tolerance is 2 and caps at 4. At Rank III, the starting Pain Tolerance is 1 and caps at 3 similar to her Shikai. It should be noted that if Celes met a Pain Tolerance milestone in Shikai, it carries over to when she activates Bankai.

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{Shikai Overall - Earthly Sentinel}

Earthly Sentinel uses Celes’ willpower and using herself as a conduit, focuses it to give it physical form. This results in an Astral Self that protects Celes and grows over the course of combat. Upon utilizing Shikai, Celes receives 10 Strength of Spirit every post. Leftover Strength of Spirit from one post carries over to another post and there is no cap to the amount of the Strength of Spirit that Celes can accumulate. Additionally, Celes can generate Strength of Spirit out of her own reaitsu at a cost of 25 Reiatsu per Strength of Spirit. Strength of Spirit can be used in a number of ways.

Once a post, Celes can spend any amount of Strength of Spirit to restore 4% per Strength of Spirit in durability to her Astral Self, restoring the durability to a part of Celes’ choice. Strength of Spirit spent on restoring durability can be divided among multiple parts of the Astral Self. For example, if Celes spends 4 Strength of Spirit to repair, she can allocate 4 to one part of the Astral self or divide it up among multiple parts such as the arms or head. Strength of Spirit may also be spent to enhance the Astral Self, making temporary additions that can become permanent by use of Ascendant Spirit.

The Astral Self has durability equivalent to Celes’ OS. This durability increases by 1.5x Celes’ OS when Humanoid. The durability finally rises to 2x Celes’ OS while Armored. Each part of the Astral Self which includes the Head, Body, and Arms has its own separate durability. No part of the Astral Self may ever be more than one stage above the Body. Physical and Spiritual attacks can gradually deteriorate the Astral Self. Upon clashing, the OS of the attack harms the durability. For example, if Celes has a durability of 1000 and the OS of the attack is 500, the remaining durability is 500. If the technique has a 2 Class Superiority, then it both harms the durability of the Astral Self and pierces it, making Celes susceptible to its effects. If the Body of the Astral Self were to fall to the durability of 0, the Astral Self regresses to its previous stage. For example, Armored would regress to Humanoid.

Celes may allow others to enter her Astral Self freely. Doing so incurs no harm to the ally. Opponents may also force their way into Celes’ Astral Self as long the durability of the Astral Self's body has fallen below 25%. Opponents of a higher class than Celes can always force their way into the Astral Self no matter the durability. If the durability is repaired above 25%, any hostile currently within the Astral Self is forcibly shunted out. Should an opponent make it into Celes’ Astral Self, there is one last line of defense. Any hostile of an equal or lower class to Celes will find themselves at the mercy of gravitational pressure as if they are 2 Classes lower than Celes. Higher-class opponents are not affected by this gravitational pressure.

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{Palms of the Astral Self}

For 1 Strength of Spirit Celes can summon one arm, up to a maximum of two. These arms have a reach of 15 ft and have a Strength equal to Celes’ own strength. Each arm must be maintained via the upkeep of # Strength of Spirit until it is made permanent. The upkeep cost of the arms increases with each stage.

Skeletal: 1
Humanoid: 2
Armored: 3
Complete: 4

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{Visage of the Astral Self}

For 2 Strength of Spirit Celes can summon the head of her Astral Self. This head, while active, heightens Celes’ visual acuity. This allows her to treat her senses as if they were at 300 for the purposes of sight which significantly enhances her eyesight. Additionally, for each stage that the Head has reached beginning at Skeletal, Celes gains 1 point in Intimidation as it provides a menacing appearance up to a max of 3. The upkeep cost of the Head increases with each stage.

Skeletal: 2
Humanoid: 4
Armored: 6
Complete: 8

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{Arms of the Astral Self}

For 1 Strength of Spirit, Celes can summon weapons wielded by the Astral Self. These weapons are a broadsword, katana, or a shield. The broadsword and katana are 25 ft in length and the shield has a diameter of 12 ft. A weapon can be summoned upon manifesting of an arm or while the Astral Self has one free hand. All three weapons both have an OS and durability equivalent to Celes’ Strength. Both can be destroyed by a 2x OS superiority. Once broken, Celes may spend 1 Strength of Spirit once more to resummon these weapons. As long as the weapons are not broken, Celes may dissipate the weapon from the Astral Self’s hands. When doing so, Celes summons her own copy of the weapon in her hand that acts as her release weapon. She may transfer her copy of the weapon to the Astral Self at will as long as it is not broken. The weapons do not have an upkeep cost.

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{Bankai Overall - Heavenly Sentinel}

Heavenly Sentinel is the pinnacle of Celes’ Astral Self which bestows upon her several benefits. Complete Astral Self may only be activated once Celes has reached Rank III of Ascendant Spirit. First and foremost, the durability of Celes’ Astral Self rises to 3x her OS making it the bulkiest stage out of all of her options. Additionally, Celes generates an additional 5 Strength of Spirit for a total of 15 per post to utilize on techniques or restoration of her Astral Self. Unlike the other stages where Celes was limited to the ground, Heavenly Sentinel grants the Astral Self legs as Celes rises into its stomach, making it much more difficult to hit her. The addition of legs increases the speed of the Astral Self by 50%. It is important to note that this increase in speed is only for the purposes of closing distance. It does not for increasing Celes’ reaction speed. This also increases the overall height of the Astral Self to an imposing 40 ft. Heavenly Sentinel also grants the Astral Self wings, allowing it to take to the skies and fly at a speed equal to Celes’ speed which gives it aerial superiority. The wings produced by Heavenly Sentinel have a separate durability of 3x Celes’ OS. If the wings are reduced to 0, Celes’ cannot take flight until she uses 25 Strength of Spirit to restore them. The legs and is considered part of the body’s durability.

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{Shikai Techniques}

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{Devouring Steel}

Technique Name: Devouring Steel

Technique Description: Devouring Steel allows Celes to utilize the broadsword manifested by her Astral Self to absorb spiritual techniques and empower the blade. If a spiritual technique that Celes is aware of comes into contact with Celes’ shield or her blade, she may use Devouring Steel. If the OS of the technique is equal to or lower than Celes’ OS, the technique that was used becomes nullified Celes has the option to trap its essence for 4 Strength of Spirit, dissipating into the blade of the Astral Self.

Once absorbed, the blade gains a bonus to its OS equal to half of the OS of the absorbed technique for two posts. For example, if Celes’ blade has 1000 OS and the technique she absorbed has an OS of 900, the modified OS of the blade is 1450. In Bankai, the full OS of the absorbed technique is added to the OS of Celes’ blade.

Technique Drawbacks: Despite its capacity to nullify and absorb spiritual techniques, Devouring Steel has several key weaknesses. First and foremost, it can never absorb spiritual techniques that are higher in Class than Celes’ current release Class. Additionally, while nullifying the technique itself has no cost, absorbing the technique costs Strength of Spirit. Additionally, Devouring Steel cannot nullify or absorb techniques that Celes is not keenly aware of. For example, techniques that she cannot sense. Second, an OS superiority will render Devouring Steel useless. Finally, Devouring Steel does not work on physical attacks at all which includes products of physical attacks such as shockwaves.

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{Majestic Armour}

Technique Name: Majestic Armour

Technique Description: Majestic Armour allows Celes to effectively grant her allies a lesser copy of her own Astral Self. By spending 2 Strength of Spirit per Stage upon touching an ally they gain their own Astral Self except that it is one Stage lower than Celes’ current stage. For example, if Celes’ own Astral Self is Armored, then Majestic Armour grants a Humanoid Astral Self and costs 4 Strength of Spirit. Majestic Armour mimics the benefits granted Celes’ Astral Self including the head and arms. Bankai allows Majestic Armour to ascend to Armoured Stage. While Celes’ own weapons for her Astral Self are a Sword and Shield, this must not be the case for Majestic Armour. The weapon produced is up to the benefactor and benefits from any applicable weapon skills. For example, a benefactor may choose to manifest a Kanabo. The durability of Majestic Armour is equivalent to Celes’ at that stage, but the weapon produced scales off of the benefactors’ highest OS.

Technique Drawbacks: Majestic Armour has the potential to grant impressive defense to allies, but has several limitations. Due to being one stage lower than Celes’ own Astral Self, Majestic Armour only becomes usable upon reaching the Humanoid stage. While the weapon of a benefactors’ Astral Self may resemble their release weapon, it does not possess any abilities inherent to the release weapon. Celes’ ability to spend Strength of Spirit to restore durability to her Astral Self may not be used for Majestic Armour. If Majestic Armour falls to a durability of 0, the technique ends on the benefactor.

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{Transcendant Wings}

Technique Name: Transcendent Wings

Technique Description: Transcendent Wings is the sister technique to Devouring Steel, allowing Celes’ Astral Self to withstand significant punishment. Transcendent Wings also interacts with spiritual and physical techniques, having the potential to break them down and disperse them. By spending 3 Strength of Spirit, Celes can ready her shield as ethereal wings spread out from the back of the Astral Self. These wings are incapable of flight and have a total wingspan of 75 ft, being separate from the wings produced via Bankai. If a spiritual or physical attack comes into contact with Transcendent Wings, its essence is immediately broken down weakening it. The techniques OS is reduced to half of its original effectiveness. If this modified OS were to be lower than Celes’ OS, the technique disperses, its force effectively rendered null and void. This renders Celes and anyone that stood behind Transcendent Wings safe. In Bankai, Transcendent Wings may be used in tandem with Devouring Steel to potentially capture the essence of stronger spiritual techniques.

Technique Drawbacks: Transcendent Wings despite being a formidable defensive wall, has a number of drawbacks. It is rendered completely useless if, after the reduction, the OS of the technique is still higher than Celes’ OS. While Transcendent Wings protects completely from the front, it provides lesser protection from the side and none at all from the back allowing craftier opponents to take advantage of a blindspot. Finally, Transcendent Wings may only be maintained for a maximum of one post and incurs a fatigue equivalent to moving at 600 speed making it an exhausting technique if used consecutively. Additionally, Transcendent Wings can only be used if the Astral Self possesses a shield.

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{Ascendant Spirit}

Technique Name: Ascendant Spirit

Technique Description: Ascendant Spirit acts as a way for Celes to permanently upgrade her Astral Self. By spending varying amounts of Strength of Spirit, Celes can permanently grant herself the superior stages of the Astral Self. Once a stage has been unlocked permanently, Celes does not need to spend Strength of Spirit to maintain enhancements of that stage anymore. These permanent enhancements, if destroyed, allow Celes to spend Strength of Spirit equivalent to 1.5x their upkeep cost, rounded down, to restore the enhancement. When restored, the enhancement returns to the current unlocked stage of Ascendant Spirit. If the Astral Self were to regress to a previous stage, Celes can spend Strength of Spirit equal to the most recently unlocked Stage to immediately upgrade back to it. For example, if Astral Self reverts to Skeletal, she can spend # Strength of Spirit to enhance the Astral Self to Humanoid once more. Activating Bankai immediately sets Ascendant Spirit to Rank IV. In Bankai, the Astral Self can be restored to the Complete stage. Upgrading Ascendant Spirit lasts until the end of a regular thread such as a PVP/JT. In longer threads such as adventures, Ascendant Spirit resets on a "long rest". The requirements for upgrading or restoring Stages are:

Skeletal: 5 (Rank I)
Humanoid: 9 (Rank II)
Armored: 13 (Rank III)
Complete: 20 (Rank IV)

Technique Drawbacks: Ascendant Spirit is a powerful way for Celes to retain certain benefits, but it does have several weaknesses. For another rank of Ascendant Spirit to be purchased, Celes must have at least maintained the next stage of enhancements at some point. For example, if Celes is currently using the Skeletal Astral Form, she must first purchase and maintain Humanoid Arms and Head to upgrade to rank II (Humanoid) of Ascendant Spirit. While each enhancement can be maintained individually, all enhancements must have been maintained at the next stage at least once. Additionally, after upgrading Ascendant Spirit, the technique goes on cooldown for two posts before being able to upgrade again. If an enhancement is destroyed, Celes must wait 1 post before being able to restore that enhancement. Celes may not activate Bankai until Rank III of Ascendant Spirit has been purchased.

What kind of update: Overall Ability "Hotfix"

Current Rank: Tenth Division Captain | Rank III

New Rank: N/A

[Celes Castellanos]

Character Name: Celes Shindazu

Previous Real Age: 75

Current/New Real Age: 77

Previous Age of Appearance: 27

Current/New Age of Appearance: 27

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{New Inner Hollow Faceclaim: Kagero (Fire Emblem)}


Celes' Inner Hollow, Honegumi, is a striking beauty. Standing at 5'7" and weighing 150 lbs, Honegumi has a sleek but athletic frame. Her pale skin is immaculate, free of any blemishes or other imperfections. From a glance, it is very easy to tell that she's spry and quick on her feet. Nobody would be faulted for assuming that her feminine frame leaves her frail, yet this couldn't be even further from the truth. Honegumi's aura is enigmatic at best. Her intentions never seem clear. Unlike Celes' reiryoku and reiatsu, Honegumi's is fairly unsettling.

Honegumi has brown eyes and long, pointed brown hair, sinking to her midback. The hair also covers the right side of her face leaving her eye hidden from sight. The back of her hair is decorated with a distinct white bow. As a side note, her hair is usually very well kept; a testament to her orderly appearance. Her facial features are sharp. Thin eyebrows and pink lips are the only other notable features of her face. As mentioned before, her body is well-built and well-endowed. Age-wise, she appears to fall around 23 or 24. Naturally, Honegumi doesn't wear any makeup as an Inner Hollow.

Much like Yukito, Honegumi wears clothing that would identify her as a ninja, specifically a kunoichi. Around her neck, the woman wears a bright yellow scarf that covers her neck and clavicle. Her outfit is tan in color, covering her arms and trunk. The outfit does have an opening to reveal some of her bust. Aside from that, Honegumi wears leather greaves and bracers. She also wears a leather corset around her waist. This leather is a much darker brown, contrasting her pale skin and tan clothing. Additional red ribbons and other sashes decorate her upper arm and the leather around her waist.

Naturally, as Celes' Inner Hollow, the kunoichi keeps a Zanpakutō on her person, appearing entirely identical to Celes' own. A single silver and blue longsword with runic etchings along its blade. Unlike most, the Inner Hollow tends to keep her blade strapped to her back. For small sidearms, Honegumi carries small throwing knives. To note, when alone in the Inner World, Honegumi will opt to doff the leather pieces of her armor for some degree of comfort. In general, her outfit clings to her body very tightly with the sashes and ribbons very rarely coming undone. Honegumi emanates staunch professionalism and intensity with her appearance alone.

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{Hollow Mask}

Celes' Hollow Mask takes on the appearance of a familiar yōkai, an Oni. Described as hulking ogres with the strength of a hundred men, it would seem fitting for someone like Celes to don the visage of such an unstoppable force. If Celes' Bankai represents a heavenly Tengu, then it is only right for the Hollow to represent the demon within. The Hollow Mask is distinctly red in color. Upon donning the mask, Celes' eyes adopt the familiar black sclera and yellow irises of an Inner Hollow. The masks' features large teeth and goblin-like ears that largely obscure Celes' features while utilizing the mask.

Unlike most Hollow Masks, Celes' is notably more decorated. Taking inspiration from the infamous Oni, the mask is adorned with several horns and various marks that spread in almost perfect symmetry along it. To begin with, there are two large horns that spring from the forehead of the mask and curve up. From the cheeks, two smaller, curved horns. Finally, sitting at the ends of both sides of the mouth, four-horn-like canines rise and fall from the bottom and top of the mouth respectively. These features all serve to give her a primal, almost demonic appearance. The features are fairly masculine and rather sharp.

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{Zanpakutō Sealed Form}
Serving as yet another reminder that Celes' life has been irrevocably changed, her Zanpakutō has taken the form of a medieval longsword. A far cry from the twin katana she used to wield, this blade appears a bit heavier than her usual weaponry. An eye-catching combination of silver and blue, the craftsmanship is nothing short of perfect. The pommel and grip are both intricately carved with the former resembling a crown and the latter forming perfectly for Celes' hands.

Unlike the traditional blade of a knight, the Zanpakutō possesses a curved guard in lieu of a crossguard. This guard is comprised of jagged curvature that give the blade an even more imposing look. Moving on to the actual blade, the steel is expertly crafted and curves inward at the edge of the blade. Carved into the steel on both sides along the flat of the blade are a dozen or so runes. Overall, this all works together to give Celes a blade worthy of a warrior such as herself even if it cost her everything to get there.

Zanpakutō Names & Kaigo: 骨組み合奏 - Honegumi Gassō (lit. Skeleton Ensemble) / 神々しい装甲合奏 - Kōgōshī Sōkō Gassō (lit. Divine Armor Ensemble)

"Assemble, Honegumi Gassō" / "Soar across the heavens, Kōgōshī Sōkō Gassō"

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{New Inner World: A Silent Temple in a Forgotten Kingdom}



Serving as the centermost point within the Inner World, this dojo is the only standing building that has endured the test of time. Starting at the very bottom, the main entrance into the dojo is a small hallway that leads into one of several training rooms. The room is decorated with various things ranging from racks with a myriad of weapons to training tools and other memorabilia such as accomplishments. Towards the back wall to the left is a door that leads to a stone stairwell. Snaking up the side of the cliff and decorated with lamps to light the way in the darkness, the staircase ends at a wooden gate.

Just past the gate is the second building of the dojo. Unlike the former building, this one serves as residential quarters on the second floor. Entering through two large wooden doors would lead to a common area with a table centered in the middle. To the side of the common area rests numerous shelves and cupboards with pillows and blankets. Just past the table, rising up the stairs leads to the residential area. Several rooms are scattered throughout the 2nd floor, fully fitted with several beds, a simple nightstand, and several flowers. Each is decorated, entirely different from the last. Past the rooms is another door that leads to a second stone stairwell.

At the top of the stairwell is a moon gate which leads to a small courtyard. The courtyard is littered with various objects from potted plants to fresh fruit. This leads to the third building, the final and by far the largest. Upon opening the door, one would be greeted by the kitchen. Several tables, pots, and pans, among other equipment normally found in a kitchen are littered all around. Empty bottles and bowls are scattered across some of the tables. The next door leads to a common room, much larger than the one in the residential building. A staircase leads to the second floor with more rooms for students. The common room possesses numerous tables and chairs for recreation and talks among students. Several games of cards and other board games litter the tables. Past the commons room is several more rooms which house students.

The door to the left leads to a small garden. Stone hedges serve as seating along with a balcony which allows any visitor to look upon the greater landscape of the Inner World. One final door to the left, however, leads to the innermost sanctum of the dojo. Serving as another training room, the sanctum has various weapons and tools lying around. Various shelves and vases decorate the corners of the room. A shrine sits at the head of the room with two incense rods laying in a bowl. A large window allows spectators to gaze upon the Inner World just like outside, but the right wall has a door that leads to a small inner garden with a single growing tree.

The overall appearance of the dojo is completely unlike any other building represented within Celes' Inner World. Despite its size and lack of students, the school itself remains properly maintained. In pristine condition, the school appears to have been a large ground for the teachings of martial arts. Based on its size, the school appears to have been able to half a hundred or more students. Since times are unknown, however, the school sits quietly. Its halls are silent, its teachings unused. The only soul, besides Celes, that may ever be seen here is the Inner Hollow who patiently waits within the innermost sanctum in meditation.



Much like Celes' Inner World prior, much of it consists of forestry. Abnormally large trees decorate the world, tall cliffs sporadically forming within the landscape. All across the Inner World, withered buildings can be found. Unlike the silent temple, these have not withstood the test of time and were abandoned, left to rot. These buildings, whether individual or seemingly larger towns, are littered with all kinds of items that one would expect. Personal effects and household items litter the ground and the inside of houses that were once brimming with life. Some of the buildings that are scattered around the world are even battle-scarred.

Past the withered buildings, some shrines can be found in the wild. Marked shrines with various writings and other decorations. These shrines are normally hidden, requiring strange paths and travel that would potentially lead people astray. Past even these constructions is an eternal forest with trees that defy imagination. If one were to walk in a single direction, it may be days or weeks before another set of shrines or even buildings could be found. It is a desolate and strange land with not a single soul in sight. Strange that the only building that remains whole should also hold the most dangerous beast of them all.

New Personality/Ideals:

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{Celes}On the surface, Celes still appears to be the same person. A stout defender of Soul Society who tries to bring out the best in others. She still revels in combat and strives to improve every single day. Whether that be honing her techniques, training others or even just improving her conversation skills. As long as she grew from the day before, Celes will be satisfied. She continues to do what she can to defend the weak and helpless.

Those who truly know Celes may notice that certain cracks have developed. The loss of Yunorashi stuck her in a place that no blade could pierce. Her usual radiance and upbeat attitude have severely dampened. She simply appears deflated. Yunorashi has also become quite a sore topic for her. Since Honegumi has since taken over as her Zanpakutō Spirit, Celes has grown far more apprehensive to use her Shikai or Bankai. Less out of fear of being consumed by her Inner Hollow and more out of general disgust of knowing where the power stems from.

When forced to use her Shikai, Celes will usually release it without a Kaigo. Normally a benefit of subjugating the Zanpakutō upon learning Bankai, Celes simply wants as few reminders as possible. No matter whether she uses her Shikai or Bankai, Celes will usually not fight with the same passion that she once did. Additionally, the Shinigami is far less likely to enter her Inner World for fear of who she might encounter. Don't let yourself be fooled. Despite her depression, Celes knows to fear her Inner Hollows' potential and twisted sense of humor.

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{Inner Hollow}Serving as the manifestation of Celes' new Inner Hollow, Honegumi has all the traits that one would expect of such a role. She is incredibly ruthless and largely self-centered. Each one of her motives and actions comes back to her in some way, shape, or form. Much like her predecessor, Honegumi is incredibly pragmatic. She's not the type to read too much into a situation, looking for creative ways to solve problems. To her problem-solving is merely a display of expertise and skill. Those who are found lacking in either department are simply cast to the wayside and not even given a second thought.

As one would expect, Honegumi is a proponent of the might makes right mentality. Much like Espada, she simply believes that the strong are superior and that the weak deserve to be trampled underfoot. A surprisingly good conversationalist, Honegumi is willing to hear out anyone who can prove themselves to her. While this may seem blatantly arrogant, she understands that her own power is rivaled by few others. This is the main reason why Honegumi revels in challenges. She would happily take the opportunity to show the weak just how insignificant they really are while relishing the times when she may go all out against a worthy adversary.

Speaking of adversaries, Honegumi has a strong liking for other Inner Hollows. After all, she so rarely has a chance to meet others like her. While stoic and indifferent to most, Honegumi has a morbid fascination with Celes. Simply desiring to see just how far she can push Celes, Honegumi takes sick and twisted pleasure in tormenting Celes. In fact, she has taken to going as far as taking on Yunorashi's form simply to draw out her hosts' pain and suffering. In her mind, Celes is like a weapon. She needs to be tempered to become truly strong as she lacks the resolve to do what needs to be done.

Honegumi's ideals and values largely carry over into the way she fights. Ruthless and cruel, Honegumi isn't hesitant to deliver a brutal and swift end to those she deems unworthy of her time. Only those that show potential or are already able to challenge her deserve a chance to taste her blade. One would be forgiven for assuming that the lithe kunoichi relies on sneak attacks and tricky maneuvers to win fights, but this couldn't be farther from the truth. Fancy theatrics such as that has no place in fighting. She has no qualms in using her dominating physical strength and speed to outmaneuver opponents and rough them up a little bit before deciding whether they are worthy of more of her time.

New History: There have been quite a few events that have served to define Celes up to this moment. Among them was her meeting with Albin and later Kaen. Her meeting with Albin effectively confirmed what Celes already knew. Camila was dead. They had a long conversation that culminated in Albin's reveal as Camila's former Inner Hollow. This would also begin Celes' burning hatred and vendetta for the Right Hand of Las Noches, Guujin.

This all set the stage for Celes' meeting with Kaen. After receiving a gift basket, they had a conversation about Camila. It turned out that Camila's death was not public information and so Celes revealed the truth to Kaen. Going even further, Celes went on to reveal herself as a Vizard Hopeful to the Vice-Captain of the Seventh Division. Asking Kaen to kill her if she had a violent takeover, the Vice-Captain instead refused and offered to incapacitate her should the time ever come.

Celes' next adventures would take her on a spiritual journey with her disciple, Kimiko. After coming to the Captain to discuss several nightmares, Celes offered to enter her Inner World with her for some answers. Talking the girls' Zanpakutō Spirits, Celes' treachery was revealed. She understood what the source of Kimiko's turmoil was. Her disciple also possessed an inner Hollow. It was disheartening to say the least, but Celes was more than happy to ease her disciples' burdens.

Taking her Division into the Rukongai to assist with reparations, Celes came across her disciple once more. The two Shinigami decided to go out into the 40th District to explore ghost stories about a dojo. To add an extra layer of interest, Celes raced Kimiko and won! Using her Bankai for the very first time, Celes even learned a new ability of her Bankai. Together with Kimiko, she rooted out the evil of the dojo and helped bring some semblance of peace and closure to the 40th District.

Unfortunately, evil began to stir within the Captain of the Tenth. During a bounty hunting mission and while defending Shin'ō Academy, Celes felt the influence of her Inner Hollow. She only held the monster back through sheer force of will and determination. However, it soon became too much to bear. Nightmares and hallucinations began to assault the Captain. Dreams of slaughtering her entire Division had begun to haunt her. It became a source of great unrest for Celes.

One day, while within her Inner World, Celes would come face-to-face with Brutus, the personal assistant of Guujin. The Captain was furious to say the least and began assaulting the Hellion. She murdered him in countless ways, but he just kept coming back. Eventually, after intervention from her Inner Hollow, Celes would hear him out. He had a single proposition. Kill Guujin for him. Supplied with information and committing to a deal with the devil, Celes simply waited for the right time to strike at the Right Hand and avenge Camila.

Unfortunately, there was one more thing she had to deal with before that time came. After suffering more nightmares, Celes went to the Human World. She had learned of the Vizard, Zeich, from Kaen. Celes knew what she had to do. She needed to find him and get as much information as she could. Unfortunately, she had no leads. There was only one person she could turn to at the moment to hopefully get what she needed. Celes went to XCution for an audience with the CEO and an old friend, Shizuka.

Conversing with the Fullbringer, Celes revealed her plight. She told Shizuka who she was looking for and why. The Fullbringer did her best to console her and to her credit she was largely successful. However, before Celes felt she could confront Zeich, there was one more thing she needed to do. She asked Shizuka to fight her. She needed to know that there was someone in the Human World that could take her down without a shadow of a doubt. She needed to know that she could count on someone to do what needed to be done. To kill her if she became a threat.

What kind of update: Zanpakutō Changes - Inner Hollow & Inner World

Current Rank: Captain of the Tenth | Rank IV

New Rank: N/A

Thread Justification For Rank Change: Friends of the Other Side [Social] - Marking both Celes and Camila's fated reunion, and the latters' reveal as a full-fledged Vizard, the Inner Hollow was grown far more bolder. After getting into a struggle with Celes' Zanpakutō Spirit, Yunorashi, the Inner Hollow ends up victorious and effectively devours the girls' spiritual essence. This choice, however, irreversibly changes the Inner Hollow, for better or for worse.

[Celes Castellanos]

Character Name: Celes Castellanos

Previous Real Age: 77

Current/New Real Age: 27

New Ideals/Personality: N/A

New Appearance: N/A

New History: N/A

What kind of update: Rank Update

Current Rank: Tenth Division Captain | Rank IV

New Rank: Mercernary | Rank IV

Thread Justification For Rank Change: Judgement Day [DP PVP] - After the events of the Nifelheim invasion and starting new within the World of the Living, Celes finds herself face-to-face with an old acquaintance. After some questioning, Celes reveals the truth to Tala and, by extension, the Twelfth Division via Tala's ocular lens.

This Aint a Scene, It's An Arms Race [NDE PVP] - Marking the day that Celes fought Shizuka to test if the Fullbringer could rout her Inner Hollow, Celes has demonstrated that she can fight on even footing with some of the strongest that the spiritual world has to offer.

Clash of Iron Fists [NDE PVP] - While a much more informal setting, Celes stood her ground against one of Soul Society's finest, Kaen Youji, a Lieutenant who even rivals other Captains. Despite it being a spar, their brawl was brutal and both had a chance to demonstrate their nearly unrivaled skill in unarmed combat.