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“Could you imagine!”
Character Name: Hashidearu Kanojo
Actual Age: 207
Physical Age: 24
Race: Soul Born
Birthday: July 24th
Gender: Female
Height: 5’6’’
Weight: 154lbs
Blood Type: AB-
Affiliation: Gotei 13
Profession: Shinigami
Title: TBA
Position: 4th Seat
Division: 10th
Previous Division: N/A
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Previous Partner(s):
Base of Operations: Seretei
Notable Features: Hashi is rather short in stature compared to the other members of the Gotei 13, standing 5’3’’ in height, which may seem average, but from her perception, others tend to tower over her. Her hair is a deep black, which heavily contrasts with the pale gray of her eyes, with no pigment, those that first come in contact with her believe that she is blind.
Personality: Hashidearu Kanojo, translated as “She who is the bridge” grew up within East Rukongai in the Minoboku district. Much like her district is known for, Hashidearu has developed a benevolent personality and is often unwilling to harm creatures that are perceived to be in a meeker state of reality than she is. This principle applies to wounded creatures and often extends its grace to opponents as well. As a child, Hashidearu spent her time with orphans, although she had two loving parents who met her needs, her parent’s believed that befriending those on the fringes of society would not only show Hashidearu the truth of life, but also promote curiosity and intrigue about its mysteries. As she grew, she learned to love all creatures big and small and began to negate the notion of status.
Despite her eerie nature to cause little harm, Hashidearu is deeply territorial and is often the first to defend and protect during an adverse event. When she played with the orphan children of the Rukongai, she also took on their appearance: muddied, unkempt, and often unrecognizable to her parents when she got home. This led her to learning the perseverance of being in the nitty gritty and the grace that comes when she is able to bath it all off in a hot bathe, washing her hair and submerging under hot, bubbly water.
Even to this day, Hashidearu has held true to her virtuous principles and peaceful ideas, that however, has not stopped her from joining the Gotei 13 to protect the world in which she lives. Hashidearu seems to have a balanced soul, able to see the worlds that connect each other in a way that interconnects them. Spreading this inherent trait to those around her, although she does believe in the strong and the weak, her complex notions of the worlds have become indescribably flat. It is as if she cannot differentiate Captain from citizen and Hollow from Espada, she treats them all equally. Despite this flat sense of the world, she perceives and judges based off of her duties to the roles that she is assigned. Although she believes in the balance of Hollow, Shinigami, Quincy, and even the mutt-like creatures that come from these pairings, as long as the scales are never tipped too far, she peacefully moves about her life and does as she pleases.
Centered around wholescale justice, Hashidearu is often very aware of herself and her surroundings. Although she is not omniscient in any sense of the word, she believes that her just observations of the worlds and the intertwining of their bridges gives her a different judicial process within her mind. She sees, understands, and operates in the world according to her benevolent will while exerting the full spectrum of her emotions. Her personhood and the softness that exudes from it is said to be unshakeable even in the midst of death and destruction.
Reiryoku Level: Great Spiritual Power
Hashidearu Kanajo wields large amounts of spiritual pressure. Unlike her small stature, her body exudes great amounts of spiritual power, however this usually goes unnoticed due to the fine control she uses to keep it tamed. Hashi’s spiritual power manifests itself like a calm lake with little wind. Although it is deep and teaming with life, it seems to appear stagnant, only the surface ever being seen. Hashi’s great spiritual pressure is showcased only as she sees fit. She understood that having spiritual power was one thing, but being able to utilize it as she saw fit was a different feat. Even as a student in the academy, she spent much of her time diving deep into the limits of her spiritual power by releasing it in slow, constant streams, almost as if she was placing a dam up within herself and only allowing small pools of her spiritual power to form. Due to constant effort, she has developed spiritual pools within her that flow from one large dam. Her spiritual pressure is often misdiagnosed and often incalculable by others due to her fine control, however, at its full potential it is able to cause enough pressure to create weather phenomenon in the area.
Sensing Reiryoku: Expert
Hashidearu possesses refined skill in locating and deciphering the source of a spiritual presence. She is capable of quickly reading spiritual energy and breaking it down to understand the reiryoku patterns that they emit. With deadly accuracy and quick perception, this aids her in combat, however she utilizes much of her sensory techniques to track other spiritual beings over varying distances. By being able to pick up on acute trails of spiritual residue and following it, she is also just as capable of noticing subtleties in reiatsu use of her opponent.
Reiryoku Control: Great Control
Hashidearu’s reiryoku control has been honed and trained to great lengths. She is capable of flowing channeling and distributing spiritual energy throughout her body. Through her training, Hashidearu is able harness her spiritual powers and enhance her abilities with little concentration on her part, even firing off several kido within quick succession, showcasing her ability to avoid quick fatigue by neatly proportioning her spiritual power. Along with being able to render herself spiritually invisible to other spiritually aware beings. Much more noticeable through the release of her kido as well as the control she has shown regarding her Zanpakuto’s abilities, she is deeply in tune with the flow of reiryoku within her body and is still exploring its depths.
Reiatsu: Expert
Hashidearu’s fine control of her reiryoku gives benefits to the expulsion of her reiatsu, unlike reiatsu that bursts forth and expands outward and upward, Hashidearu’s reiatsu softly encircles her. Much like meditation, Hashidearu is not entangled in a wrestle with her reiatsu in an attempt to tame it, in fact, she is the observer and allows her reiatsu to ebb and flow within its natural state just as the planets slowly follow the energy that pulls them. In doing so, she has been able to understand the natural flow of her own reiryoku levels and reiatsu expulsion in a way that has allowed her to carve spiritual “river beds” to give it a place to go. She does this understanding that she has not reached the full potential of exerting her reiatsu or tapping into her deep levels of reiryoku, through constant carving she is able to flood her riverbeds and exude reiatsu to combat against other spiritual pressures even when it appears that seconds ago she had little to none.
Reiatsu Colors: Black
Reiatsu Shape: Orbital
Reiatsu Effect(s):
Dearu’s reiatsu manifests itself as an orbital ring made of black energy that surrounds a few feet around her. Dust, debris, and objects will begin to levitate and surround her as her reiatsu mimics the orbital field of her zanpakuto. When released in large amounts, the pressure created by the rapid rotation of her reiatsu around her body and subsequently the surrounding area, can blast away matter that resides just outside of her reiatsu’s orbit by increasing her output. At the full release of her reiatsu, she is capable of displacing large objects such as great trees and even buildings to erode and enter her reaitsu’s orbital field. Those that maintain their proximity will feel an intense force pushing against them in an attempt to sweep them into the current, the pressure of rotating and revolving energy is enough to cause bruising and even asphyxiation, as the air around Dearu is subject to the orbital pull as well.
Reiatsu Type: Standard Type
Zanjutsu Level:
Zanjutsu (斬術, Swordsmanship; Viz "Art of the Sword"): Expert
Though the first weapon she picked up were her hands and her knife, when learning the art of zanjutsu, along with the offensive capabilities of using a sword, she grew more fond of utilizing her opponent’s own force and momentum against them to protect herself and land opening blows. Able to wield a tanto in one hand and a regular katana in the other to provide for optimal defense and swift counter attacks. Due to her proficiency with the knife, learning the way of the sword was not too difficult for her, however she has only been training with a katana since the start of the academy, while others have had lifetimes with their sword. Hashidearu’s sword style feels like an extension of her own body when held close and defensive, on the offense she utilizes her speed and pin-point accuracy to land slashing blows that are wounding to the enemy. A clear mind and focus accompany her zanjutsu technique, coupled with near constant observation with her physical and spiritual senses of the opponent. Although she may not be able to beat a master swordsmen in the Art of the Sword she is able to hold her own and occupy their time, taking and deflecting heavy blows to tire them out before striking herself.
Known Techniques:
Ketsugidō (決議道, "Way of Resolution"): On the whole, Hashidearu engages in a passive form of combat and is often the preferred style of benign combatants who are unwilling to slay their foes; guardians, rather than killers. Hashidearu prefers to use the ferocity of her opponents against them, however. Dependent upon composure, perseverance, and economy of movement, it emphasizes defensive techniques performed with the employment of tight motions of the blade, as well as graceful dodges. The nigh-constant, efficient swings of the sword are intended to cover a wide area, and offer substantial protection with little effort on the her part. Poise and focus are essential. Practitioners of ketsugidō strive to outlast their typically more aggressive opponents owing to their impressive resilience and optimal delivery.
Kamae: Chūjiku (中軸, "Pivot"): Stalwart defense. Hashidearu often assumes a stable stance with her legs slightly spread. The three body centers of mass are aligned on a vertical axis to ensure optimal balance. Furthermore, the sword is held upward at a high angle, in front of her. The posture is intended to form the foundation of an impenetrable defense as she provides herself with high stability making her capable of quickly moving the blade to intercept any attack.
Tantōjutsu (Short Sword Technique) Hashidearu is effective in extreme close-quarters environments where ordinary swordplay might have difficulty. While learning to utilize the Way of Resolution with a sword, she was also trained in utilizing short swords to make up for the lack of aggression, able to use opening gaps and distortions in a sword user’s skill to counter with a disciplined art and complex system of techniques involving stabs, strikes, slashes, grips, and weapon-disarmament.
Aburaha (油刃, "Oil Blade"): A distinct stance that requires precise positioning of the sword. The technique allows the Hashidearu to protect herself with minimal effort as the correct angle causes the enemy's attacks to virtually slide off her blade with but a fraction of their original force.
Furiko (振り子, "Pendulum"): A bizarre yet versatile defensive technique. Hashidearu holds her Zanpakutō pointed downward with the main hand, and maintains the off hand on its pommel. As a result, she is capable of swinging the blade in a pendulum-like fashion that allows to effectively protect two-thirds of her body. Moreover,she may quickly swing the Zanpakutō upward to defend her upper body as well, should the need arise.
Kenkanmon (剣関門, "Sword Barrier"): Designed as one of the alleged "absolute defense" techniques, this maneuver involves a continuous series of broad swings in order to produce the so-called "Sword Barrier". Preferably, Dearu is capable of covering all vital spots due to the sheer speed of the blade. Needless to say, the technique requires substantial practice to perform properly. She is able to defend from multiple sword strikes, ambushes, and omnidirectional attacks. Because of the effort involved, the move is best used sparingly to defend only from particularly dangerous assaults, such as volleys of strikes performed by particularly nimble opponents, or a whole group of them at the same time.
Kyozetsu (拒絶, "Rebuff"): This basic move is very effective in its simplicity. Rather than allow the enemy to perform their strike unabated, Dearu parries abruptly with a swift and powerful one-handed swing of the blade. Frequently, the technique is sufficient to disrupt the opponent's attack. Thus, she can launch her own counter-offence immediately afterward.
Narashijū (馴らし獣, "Taming the Beast"): The move involves twisting her wrists whilst performing a thrust to unexpectedly intercept and force down the enemy's blade. Subsequently, Dearu can block the opponent in this position to force a stalemate.
Tawami (たわみ, "Deflection"): Dearu redirects the momentum behind the enemy's slash by guiding her blade to the side. This can disrupt the opponent's stance, and serve as an opportunity to strike back.
Hohō Level: Expert
Hashidearu takes the concept of hoho very seriously and believes that it benefits a fighting style that allows her to tire her opponent and subdue them without much physical force on her part. Due to her stature, she understands that she must be physically fit to contend with not only the size of her opponents, but also the raw force that they can exert. Through constant exertion and tiring of her physical body, she is capable of utilizing her raw strength coupled with hoho to move at immense speeds. Wanting to be a member of the Gotei 13 since a preteen, her parents created weights for her to wear around her wrists and ankles. At current she is capable of bearing 500lbs of weight on each limb despite her small stature. Showcasing that even with weight bearing down on her she is exceptionally strong and fast.
Known Techniques:
Utsusemi
Senka
Hakuda Level:
Hakuda (白打, White Hits; Viz "Hand-to-Hand Combat:Expert
Hashidearu is an excellent hakuda expert and must continue to strengthen her natural physical prowess to take down opponents that tend to be much larger than her. Although she does not prefer hand to hand combat, she is trained in brazilian jiu-jutsu and bujinkan taijutsu and focuses on grappling, which can be used with her short blade, submission holds, and balance. By taking control of her opponent through dominant positions she is capable of defending herself against dominant, stronger, and heavier opponents by leveraging her agility and weight distribution. Through her style of combat she is able to utilize compression and joint locks to varying degrees to cause immense pain and break bones should she choose to.
Along with learning how to take down opponents larger than herself, she has designated much of her time to studying pressure points and Kyoshu Jutsu to target small areas to cause great pain. In an attempt to attack the nervous-system and subdue them via motor dysfunction, balance disruption, disorientation or even knockout depending on what pressure points she hits. She is capable of affecting the pressure points of her opponent with thrusts of her fingers, palms, and fist, making her a versatile fighter, often able to stun an opponent's limbs given a chance.
With the help of her height and little weight, Dearu is capable of maneuvering her body instinctively to respond to incoming stimuli. With the ability to form reshi sheets with her feet and hands, she is capable of turning almost any terrain into some sort of invisible parkour route, able to step finely and with absolute balance as long as she is able to see or sense the environment that she is in. With her quick perception along with her clear mind, she has excellent control over the way that her body moves and how much energy she puts into each of her muscles, making her the master of her own body even under fatigue.
Facing larger opponents has left Dearu bruised and battered, often breaking bones, however this has not stopped her from healing, getting back up, and trying again. Through sheer will power she has developed exceptional durability and strength, able to land blows and lock opponents in constrictive holds that might come from a man twice her size. Amplifying her physical strength and swiftness with her reiryoku, she has proved herself to be a fierce combatant even when disarmed. Should she land blows to her opponent’s pressure points with her strength she can quickly paralyze limbs.
Known Techniques: Tessho
Tsukiyobi
Taketonbo
Sandbag Beat
Takigoi
Oni Dekopin
Kido Skill Level: Expert
Hashidearu’s fine reiryoku and reiatsu control allows her to pursue her interests in kido and many of its facets. Even in the academy, she believed in kido and their use as not only a defensive and offensive craft, but a healing one, taking note of its benevolence and its diverse capabilities. Dearu is capable of calling upon various kido with quick succession and is consciously able to keep track of how much reiryoku and reiatsu is used during her attacks. Although she is capable of utilizing a wide array of kido, her focus pertains to bakudo and seals, knowing more of them than hado and able to utilize them more efficiently. Despite this she is a versatile kido user and could quite possibly go toe-to-toe with an opponent with just the use of her physical prowess and kido should she attempt so. Through ingenuity and constant practice, she hopes to continue to excel at her affinity for bakudo and eventually further her usefulness to healing kaido.
Known Spells:
Bakudo
#1 Sai
#4 Hainawa
#8 Seki
#9 Geki
#9 Horin
#21 Seikenton
#26 Kyokko
#30 Shitotsu Sansen
#37 Tsuriboshi
#39 Ensoken
#58 Kakushitsuijaku
#61 Rijujokoro
#62 Hyapporankan
#63 Sajo Sabaku
#73 Tozansho
#75 Gochutekkan
#77 Tenteikura
#79 Kuyo Shibari
#81 Danku
Unnumbered Bakudo
Kyomon
Ryubi no Jomon
Koko no Jomon
Roppo Fujin
Standing Ovation
El Escudo
Hado
#1 Sho
#4 Byakurai
#12 Fushibi
#32 Okasen
#33 Sokatsui
#57 Daichi Tenyo
#63 Raikoho
Skills and Abilities:
Experience Lover: As a lover of experience, Dearu often learns that way. By diving into something whether she completely understands the concept or not, she is able to quickly learn through sheer joy and enthusiasm. An author once wrote about how exuberance and play where the tell-tale signs of how a child would progress in their studies and Dearu is full of enthusiasm in everything she does.
Meditation: Through constant years of meditation, Dearu has learned to listen to her surroundings even while falling unconsciousness, though her hearing does slowly fade away. She is also capable of slowing her heart rate even amidst injury through the calming of her mind and body. Dearu is capable of subduing her often racing thoughts through active meditation and focus, allowing her to make wise decisions during before and after a battle while not negating her emotions or stress, but using them to act effectively and with her best judgement considering all factors in tow.
Pin-point Accuracy: Kyosho Jutsu, or the art of pressure-point fighting, requires precise movements at often extreme and consecutive speeds as well as anatomical knowledge of the bodies of living and spiritual beings. She has studied the anatomy of hollows, shinigami, quincy, and humans and utilizes her quick perception and knowledge to land paralyzing blows to body parts and even the entire body as a whole. By disrupting the nervous system through pin-point-accuracy combined with her speed and agility, she is capable of disarming and paralyzing several opponents at a time.
Excellent Seamstress: Dearu is an excellent seamstress and spends much of her free time designing clothes to donate to orphanages. She also designs her own clothes and is learning how to dye fabrics. She finds much peace within the art of sewing, as it is as puzzling as it is relaxing. The ability to make clothes out of fabric, creating something out of simple sheets, brings her much joy. She will often take requests to sew clothes for family members and friends when she has free time.
Story-Teller: One of the things that kept the orphans entertained was storytelling, because of this, Dearu had to tell a story each day to the orphan kids that she played with. Although she had stories of her home life to pull from, she didn’t believe that the orphans would be able to relate, so instead she began to fabricate stories of both simple and grandiose nature, entertaining the children and even the adults that stumbled upon them. Due to her prowess in telling stories without even needing a beat to think one up, it is also nearly impossible to tell when she is lying, even her pulse remains stable when telling a lie— what is a lie but a good story? Don’t we all believe a good story.
Equipment:
Tanto: A short sword used about 6.5 inches in length holstered on her left hip.
Weights: Dearu wears 250lb weights on all her forearms and lower calves to continue strength training even when she is doing ordinary things in day to day life. Although they are for constant training, they also act as physical limiters, slightly reducing her speed and the exertion of her physical strength by 30% .
Denreishinki X (伝令神機, Divine Messenger Machine)
The Denreishinki is an electronic inter-dimensional communications device used by Shinigami while on an assignment in the Human World. It looks nearly identical to the cellphones found throughout the Human World, and comes in many different designs.
Inventions: N/A
Zanpakuto Name: Hoshi no kyokugei-shi (Contortionist of the Stars)
Zanpakuto Appearance: Dearu’s zanpakuto is a standard katana with a pitch black matte sheathe.
Zanpakuto Spirit: Hoshi no kyokugei-shi takes on a unique form as a black nongendered mass with planets and stars orbiting around them at all times. They are capable of altering their size and appearance and are always in the center of whatever celestial bodies are within their innerworld. They often present themself in an astronomical size, both filling the void of their inner world while also being one with it.
Inner World: Black. Darkness. Much like the void of space, Hoshi no kyokugei-shi’s inner world stretches for countless eons. Always at its center is Hoshi no kyokugei-shi, however at times their can be various solar systems and galaxies moving about the void, often the only system that illuminates the void even slightly are the stars and planets that revolve and rotate around Hoshi no kyokugei-shi.
Release Phrase: Chuo no suwaru, Hoshi no kyokugei-shi (Seat Yourself at the Center, Contortionist of the Stars)
Shikai: Upon its release, the Dearu’s zanpakuto turns into a pitch black tanto and is incapable of reflecting light.
Shikai Special Ability: Dearu’s zanpakuto’s ability lies within the creation and manipulation of orbital forces, often seen as the force that revolves the celestial bodies in an elliptical course. Through her shikai, Dearu is able to create an orbital field around herself to create a host of effects like calling and repelling, creating spiraling shields, vacuums, hurl items, or induce explosions from the sheer pressure of the orbital force that she creates. At its surface her zanpakuto’s shikai ability resembles telekinesis, however this is untrue, her zanpakuto allows her to create orbital designs that dwell on manipulating the vectors of objects and energies that enter her field. When a substance is caught within her designed orbital path, she is capable of manipulating its trajectory as she pleases, whether it is building her defense or launching a counter attack.
Nuno no yo ni fitto (Fit like cloth): By bringing her orbital field close to her, Dearu is able to create a skin tight field of orbital energy that augments her physical capabilities, allowing her to extend the orbital field and use it for more personal effects such as enhancing her defense by deflecting blunt attacks and also enhancing her hand to hand combat by increasing her blows with expulsions of orbital forces. She is even capable of sending out bursts or slashes of condensed orbital energy capable of destroying matter by using the rotational force to rip and tear through it as if it was entering an orbit, including clashing against spiritual energy.
Hakidasu (Sweep Up): Dearu is capable of utilizing her orbital force to create a large vortex of pressurized condensed orbital energy that takes the form of a tornado to protect herself and her allies from multiple angles. By enclosing herself in a vortex she is capable of dispersing energy based attacks while also shredding those that would attempt to enter with their bodies. She is capable of using this ability to encircle just the lower half of her body, imbuing her with a cyclone that gives her the illusion of flight.
Personal Relationships: Non-Mandatory
Likes:
Dislikes: Non-Mandatory
Hobbies: Sewing, Meditation, Painting, Sketching,
Favorite Food(s): Taiyaki, Ice Cream, Most vegetables, Natural honey,
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Biography:
Growing up in one of the benevolent districts of the Rukongai gave Dearu many benefits, in fact, she had both her parents and was well cared for. Her parents made sure that she was well learned, equipt with many skills and talents, and due to her natural reiryoku reserves, well trained. They believed, and instilled the belief in her, that she was capable of anything. Although Dearu had many friends at school and in her extra-curricular activities, she spent much of her time playing with the orphan kids around her district. Her parents, although wary of her new found group, allowed it and decided that it could do no harm. Soon Dearu had raised herself up to be second in command of the orphans and worked in tandem with the leader Saki to perform little raids on carts and stores, and pick pocketing those that found themselves on the wrong side of town. By the age of 8, Dearu and her group had accumulated quite the renown among the orphans and she was jokingly called the Orphan Fairy.
Dearu’s experience in living on the streets, while also having a bed to come home to every night and lay her bed down gave her different perceptions of the world. She understood what it was like to live amongst the poorest among her while also having the comfortability of not truly feeling the starvation and the hunger they felt. Often she would bring them snacks if one of their raids had gone awry: fruit, vegetables, and rice would often be carried in her little sack, however, it was always impossible for her alone to feed everyone. Dearu grew up with these orphans and learned how to fight using a knife, pick pocket, and thieve in both darkness and broad daylight. Once she joined the academy she had to leave the double life of a vagabond behind, however, she hopes to one day make it to a rank that will be able to affect the lives of those that she grew up with on the streets and those that she never met who were in similar positions like her.
She believed that all things required balance, and it was just as fair for an orphan to steal food as it was for a rich man to throw it out. If the scales were so tipped that those with excess were ravaged by gluttony and still unable to use their resources efficiently, then the excess should naturally go to those that are without. Despite her past antics, she is a rather benevolent creature, even when she learned the name and ability of her zanpakuto she figured that she would be wonderful support and defense for her squad, however, because of this and her size she knew that she would have to be able to support herself, just like she did in the streets of the Rukongai. She benefitted from her parents allowing her to live the secret life of a vagabond, as if she too was fighting for survival everyday during the summers and winters when she didn’t have school. The world is full of danger, mystery, and imbalance. Dearu believed that if she could experience it all, even up to the edge of death, she would at least be able to bring balance back to a few people’s lives.
