Post by Joukai Shimo on Apr 1, 2007 21:18:38 GMT -5
-----------------Shinigami
Name: Joukai Shimo
Nickname: (Optional) Shimo
Age: 17
Birthday: Jan 16
Birthplace: Karakura Town
Gender:Male
Realm of Birth: <Living Realm>
Current Residence: A small apartment in the middle of a fairly crummy part of town. The apartment itself is four rooms- kitchen, living, bed, and bathrooms. The kitchen and bathroom use ceramic tiling on the floor and the living and bedrooms, as well as the hallways between the areas, are all covered in a soft beige carpet. The front door opens up to the living room, where there is a small tv on a wooden stand against the far wall. A small sofa stands facing the tv in the middle of room. The sofa is a lime green color, which adds strict contrast to the rest of the bland room. To the right of the sofa is a small opening that is the hallway. At the end of the hall is the kitchen, and halfway through the hallway there are two doors, one to the left wall and one to the right wall. The right wall leads to the bedroom, which has nothing in it but a small window covered by black curtains and a queen sized bed, which currently has tiger bedsheets. The left doorway, across the hall, leads to a very small bathroom which contains a small toilet and a shower. The kitchen is small as well, barely having enough size to hold the stove, refrigerator, and pantry that is in it.
Zodiac: (Optional) Capricorn
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 192 lbs.
Bloodtype: (Optional) O negative
Parents: (Optional) Parents died in a car crash when he was young.
Siblings: (Optional) Only child
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Its natural color is brown; however, he dies it monthly to be white with blue spikes.
Clothing or Armor:
Image Link: <http link to your character's picture if you have one>
Physical Appearance: Shimo is a tall, athletic boy. His body is toned and well defined, but not muscular in the sense of pure bulk. He generally wears black t-shirts and blue jeans with a set of black skater shoes. His hair, though naturally brown, is dyed monthly white with blue at the tips. Since the hair is short, he also spikes it every day so that the blue tips form blue spikes. His eyes are a startling blue, and his mouth is almost always set into a frown.
Personality: Shimo likes things to be cold- if it's above 80 degrees, you'll always hear him complaining. His electric bill during spring and summer is off the roof because he normally keeps his house at 60 degrees, although he normally saves a lot in the winter seasons because he doesn't turn the heater on. During the summer he is very irritable and snappy, but during the winter he's normally very jolly and you'll find him sitting outside of his apartment and reading a book. If you insult him, the first thing he'll do is attack you, beat the shit out of you, and then demand an apology, which he normally receives. He loves to read and gain knowledge, but he also enjoys fighting and takes several martial arts classes whenever he has the money for them.
Demon Arts: Knows no Demon Arts; however, he has the very basics of Shunpo under his belt.
Zanpaktou:
Yukikousai (Snow's Brilliance)
Element: Ice
Sealed: In the sealed state, the Yukikousai is a regular-sized katana with a black hilt and two strings with bells attached to the pommel. The first string is about an inch long; the second string is a little more than two inches long. The blade in this form is regular.
Shikai: The Shikai is obtained with the keyword "shine", thus, the release statement is, "Shine, Snow's Brilliance". A burst of white light emits from the guard of the blade and rushes up until it reaches the point of the blade, and then runs back down towards the guard once more. The result of this is that the regular katana blade is mutated into one that is purely white while the hilt and guard remain that of solid black. The bells, which are normally a brass color, have also turned white, while the strings attaching them have turned black. It maintains the regular size of the katana.
Shikai Abilities: The first ability of the Yukikousai is that it will release upon impact a small bit of reiatsu that covers whatever it hit in a small layer of ice. The creates a frost-bite like effect when hitting the opponent's flesh, which makes the wounds take a lot longer to heal than normally. If hitting the opponent's weapon, at first it will seem as if nothing has happened. After several blocks though, the opponent will begin to notice a small layer of ice starting to form. This eventually will lead to the weapon getting heavier and bulkier, making it more difficult to control effectively. The ice can be shattered with a swipe of the user's sword, creating small bits of ice shrapnel that will fly at the opponent. This ability has been nicknamed "Shimoyaiba", or "Frost Blade".
Shimoheki Nami (Frozen Burst Wave)- The user slashes through the air, creating a solid line of water that rushes towards the opponent. Once it strikes something tangible, the water converts into a solid mass of ice. This ability can be used as both an offense and a defense, freezing an opponent or their incoming attacks. The ice can be shattered with a swipe of the user's sword, creating small bits of ice shrapnel that will fly at the opponent.
Not Yet Obtained
Jinsoku Kyuusuu no Yuki (Rapid Progression of Snow)- Three tiny ice diamonds appear on the tip of the blade before getting surrounded in a globe of almost-transparent blue spiritual energy. This orb is then launched at the opponent, and once it strikes something tangible, everything within ten feet becomes rapidly covered in an inch of ice. The ice can be shattered with a swipe of the user's sword, creating small bits of ice shrapnel that will fly at the opponent.
Not Yet Obtained
Bankai:
Yukikousai no Yoru (Snow's Brilliance at Night). There is no real visible difference between the shikai and bankai form of the sword, making it a very strange bankai form. The only difference is a soft, almost un-noticeable sheen of light that flows from the blade itself. Also strange, this bankai seems to require a keyword similar to the shikai release- "Freeze the Soul, Snow's Brilliance at Night." Another sign that Shimo has entered bankai is that his clothing's color seems to fade, making his robes turn pure white.
Bankai Abilities:
The first thing an opponent will notice against fighting the Bankai form of Shimo's sword is an increase in the power of the ability nicknamed "Frost Sword". A single strike from the blade is strong enough to layer the area struck in an inch of ice. Being physically hit by the sword can be deadly, as it spreads frostbite-like symptoms outward from the wound a full foot in all directions. This will rapidly slow reaction times, meaning that getting hit even once is not a fantastic idea.
Hanshimokusari no Mizu (Half-Frozen Chain of Water)- By performing a slash and then slamming the blade into the ground, the user converts an area of land into slushy water with an oddly sticky component. Immediately after the ground turns, the user jumps into the air while, at the same time, multitudes of frozen water hands reach up and grab the person, attempting to pull them down into the mush. The water, obviously, is freezing, but is kept partially unfrozen by the user's spiritual energy. The coldness of the water slows reaction time and numbs the will to fight, as well as slowing the body's ability to move in general, including internal organs. If the user begins to resist too much, a chain of the half-frozen water will rush upwards and lock itself on the opponent's head and then begin to spread, pushing the opponent down with more strength while covering their body with the ice, making them less able to resist.
Shimoyoroi Amatsu (Imperial Frozen Armor)- The user swings the Yukikousai no Yoru around in their right hand. Immediately, tiny ice particles in the shape of diamonds begin to form around him, moving into place around his body. The user creates twelve in total, which in turn creates three large diamonds; one in the center of their chest, and one above each shoulder. Every time an attack comes towards the user, one of the diamonds shatter, emitting an orb of light blue spiritual energy around the user. When the attack reaches the orb, the orb releases a sudden coldness that is so rapid and strong that it moves it into sub-zero temperatures, freezing the incoming attack in place. Once the attack is nullified, the orb is immediately dissipated. This can continue until all the diamonds have been shattered. They shatter in the following order: top left, top right, outside left, outside right, inner left, inner right, bottom left, bottom right, top center, left center, right center, bottom center.
If there is a water source, the user is capable of constantly regenerating the small diamonds that are shattered; this, however, requires additional spiritual energy to be used. Cannot regenerate the four center crystals, only the outside eight.
Shidaiyamondo Shimokoppamiin: Naibun no Kantai no Arano (Four Diamond Frost Shattering: Secret of the Frigid Wasteland)- The user touches the four center chest diamonds of the Shimoyoroi Amatsu with their left hand while doing a full body spin with the blade extended. A blue light trails behind the tip of the blade, in the end creating a blue reiatsu circle which sinks into the ground. The user then removes their hand from the four diamonds in the center and drops the blade into the ground. The four center chest diamonds shatter, thus canceling the Shimoyoroi Amatsu and the user then extends their arm out, almost grabbing the hilt of the blade. The shattered ice diamonds fly around in a circle, like leaves caught in a dust storm, down into the ground. The user then performs the tiger handseal, which covers everything on the ground except the user within twenty meters in five inches of ice. The user then pulls the sword of out the ice, which comes right out, and watches as all the ice shatters, creating millions of ice shrapnel that fly upwards rapidly, piercing the opponent’s caught within the technique.
True Appearance: The true appearance of the Yukikousai is actually a phantasm with no true form. It closely resembles the shape of a human, yet it is completely transparent. When looking through it, Yukikousai's transparancy is a shade of blue that allows the user to know where it is at. Yukikousai enjoys splitting itself into millions of copies of itself, sometimes making it hard to tell the true color of things for the user because everything is tinted blue.
Background: Shimo's parents both died in a car wreck when he was seven. None of his other relatives wanted to take him in, so instead they all made a deal with him. They would each send him 1000 yen a month, resulting in a monthly allowance of 23,000 yen. Shimo then bought an apartment, an aunt helping him in the transaction, and has since learned to live on his own. When he was 15, he stumbled across a fight between a shinigami and a hollow. The hollow was about to win, the shinigami deathly injured, when Shimo interfered by grabbing the shinigami's weapon and slaying the hollow. The shinigami, who was going to die no matter what, asked if Shimo would take up his job. Shimo agreed, and he was then stabbed with the zankpaktou and made it his own.
It was almost a year of him performing the job of the shinigami before Soul Society decided that it had been too long since they had heard from their agent and sent shinigami down to talk to him. What they found was a young human boy slaying a hollow with a zanpoktou that wasn't his. They attempted to take it away from him, but he rejected violently- eventually, they took him to soul society, where Yama-jii agreed to allow him to keep the zanpoktou on the condition that Shimo agree to be trained in the arts of the Shinigami. Shimo agreed and was placed with the 10th Squad, where he trained for six months before his zanpoktou began to speak to him.
Once he had learned the name of his zanpoktou, Shimo amazed everyone by calling out the shikai form of the sword, Yukikousai. Further training with the shinigami of Soul Society revealed two shikai abilities- the ability to freeze an opponent with a mere slash of the blade and the ability to shoot a wave of ice at the opponent.
Shimo now stands in Karakura Town as a representative Shinigami. He has not released his bankai, nor has he yet to even see the "true form" of his blade.
Name: Joukai Shimo
Nickname: (Optional) Shimo
Age: 17
Birthday: Jan 16
Birthplace: Karakura Town
Gender:Male
Realm of Birth: <Living Realm>
Current Residence: A small apartment in the middle of a fairly crummy part of town. The apartment itself is four rooms- kitchen, living, bed, and bathrooms. The kitchen and bathroom use ceramic tiling on the floor and the living and bedrooms, as well as the hallways between the areas, are all covered in a soft beige carpet. The front door opens up to the living room, where there is a small tv on a wooden stand against the far wall. A small sofa stands facing the tv in the middle of room. The sofa is a lime green color, which adds strict contrast to the rest of the bland room. To the right of the sofa is a small opening that is the hallway. At the end of the hall is the kitchen, and halfway through the hallway there are two doors, one to the left wall and one to the right wall. The right wall leads to the bedroom, which has nothing in it but a small window covered by black curtains and a queen sized bed, which currently has tiger bedsheets. The left doorway, across the hall, leads to a very small bathroom which contains a small toilet and a shower. The kitchen is small as well, barely having enough size to hold the stove, refrigerator, and pantry that is in it.
Zodiac: (Optional) Capricorn
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 192 lbs.
Bloodtype: (Optional) O negative
Parents: (Optional) Parents died in a car crash when he was young.
Siblings: (Optional) Only child
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Its natural color is brown; however, he dies it monthly to be white with blue spikes.
Clothing or Armor:
Image Link: <http link to your character's picture if you have one>
Physical Appearance: Shimo is a tall, athletic boy. His body is toned and well defined, but not muscular in the sense of pure bulk. He generally wears black t-shirts and blue jeans with a set of black skater shoes. His hair, though naturally brown, is dyed monthly white with blue at the tips. Since the hair is short, he also spikes it every day so that the blue tips form blue spikes. His eyes are a startling blue, and his mouth is almost always set into a frown.
Personality: Shimo likes things to be cold- if it's above 80 degrees, you'll always hear him complaining. His electric bill during spring and summer is off the roof because he normally keeps his house at 60 degrees, although he normally saves a lot in the winter seasons because he doesn't turn the heater on. During the summer he is very irritable and snappy, but during the winter he's normally very jolly and you'll find him sitting outside of his apartment and reading a book. If you insult him, the first thing he'll do is attack you, beat the shit out of you, and then demand an apology, which he normally receives. He loves to read and gain knowledge, but he also enjoys fighting and takes several martial arts classes whenever he has the money for them.
Demon Arts: Knows no Demon Arts; however, he has the very basics of Shunpo under his belt.
Zanpaktou:
Yukikousai (Snow's Brilliance)
Element: Ice
Sealed: In the sealed state, the Yukikousai is a regular-sized katana with a black hilt and two strings with bells attached to the pommel. The first string is about an inch long; the second string is a little more than two inches long. The blade in this form is regular.
Shikai: The Shikai is obtained with the keyword "shine", thus, the release statement is, "Shine, Snow's Brilliance". A burst of white light emits from the guard of the blade and rushes up until it reaches the point of the blade, and then runs back down towards the guard once more. The result of this is that the regular katana blade is mutated into one that is purely white while the hilt and guard remain that of solid black. The bells, which are normally a brass color, have also turned white, while the strings attaching them have turned black. It maintains the regular size of the katana.
Shikai Abilities: The first ability of the Yukikousai is that it will release upon impact a small bit of reiatsu that covers whatever it hit in a small layer of ice. The creates a frost-bite like effect when hitting the opponent's flesh, which makes the wounds take a lot longer to heal than normally. If hitting the opponent's weapon, at first it will seem as if nothing has happened. After several blocks though, the opponent will begin to notice a small layer of ice starting to form. This eventually will lead to the weapon getting heavier and bulkier, making it more difficult to control effectively. The ice can be shattered with a swipe of the user's sword, creating small bits of ice shrapnel that will fly at the opponent. This ability has been nicknamed "Shimoyaiba", or "Frost Blade".
Shimoheki Nami (Frozen Burst Wave)- The user slashes through the air, creating a solid line of water that rushes towards the opponent. Once it strikes something tangible, the water converts into a solid mass of ice. This ability can be used as both an offense and a defense, freezing an opponent or their incoming attacks. The ice can be shattered with a swipe of the user's sword, creating small bits of ice shrapnel that will fly at the opponent.
Not Yet Obtained
Jinsoku Kyuusuu no Yuki (Rapid Progression of Snow)- Three tiny ice diamonds appear on the tip of the blade before getting surrounded in a globe of almost-transparent blue spiritual energy. This orb is then launched at the opponent, and once it strikes something tangible, everything within ten feet becomes rapidly covered in an inch of ice. The ice can be shattered with a swipe of the user's sword, creating small bits of ice shrapnel that will fly at the opponent.
Not Yet Obtained
Bankai:
Yukikousai no Yoru (Snow's Brilliance at Night). There is no real visible difference between the shikai and bankai form of the sword, making it a very strange bankai form. The only difference is a soft, almost un-noticeable sheen of light that flows from the blade itself. Also strange, this bankai seems to require a keyword similar to the shikai release- "Freeze the Soul, Snow's Brilliance at Night." Another sign that Shimo has entered bankai is that his clothing's color seems to fade, making his robes turn pure white.
Bankai Abilities:
The first thing an opponent will notice against fighting the Bankai form of Shimo's sword is an increase in the power of the ability nicknamed "Frost Sword". A single strike from the blade is strong enough to layer the area struck in an inch of ice. Being physically hit by the sword can be deadly, as it spreads frostbite-like symptoms outward from the wound a full foot in all directions. This will rapidly slow reaction times, meaning that getting hit even once is not a fantastic idea.
Hanshimokusari no Mizu (Half-Frozen Chain of Water)- By performing a slash and then slamming the blade into the ground, the user converts an area of land into slushy water with an oddly sticky component. Immediately after the ground turns, the user jumps into the air while, at the same time, multitudes of frozen water hands reach up and grab the person, attempting to pull them down into the mush. The water, obviously, is freezing, but is kept partially unfrozen by the user's spiritual energy. The coldness of the water slows reaction time and numbs the will to fight, as well as slowing the body's ability to move in general, including internal organs. If the user begins to resist too much, a chain of the half-frozen water will rush upwards and lock itself on the opponent's head and then begin to spread, pushing the opponent down with more strength while covering their body with the ice, making them less able to resist.
Shimoyoroi Amatsu (Imperial Frozen Armor)- The user swings the Yukikousai no Yoru around in their right hand. Immediately, tiny ice particles in the shape of diamonds begin to form around him, moving into place around his body. The user creates twelve in total, which in turn creates three large diamonds; one in the center of their chest, and one above each shoulder. Every time an attack comes towards the user, one of the diamonds shatter, emitting an orb of light blue spiritual energy around the user. When the attack reaches the orb, the orb releases a sudden coldness that is so rapid and strong that it moves it into sub-zero temperatures, freezing the incoming attack in place. Once the attack is nullified, the orb is immediately dissipated. This can continue until all the diamonds have been shattered. They shatter in the following order: top left, top right, outside left, outside right, inner left, inner right, bottom left, bottom right, top center, left center, right center, bottom center.
If there is a water source, the user is capable of constantly regenerating the small diamonds that are shattered; this, however, requires additional spiritual energy to be used. Cannot regenerate the four center crystals, only the outside eight.
Shidaiyamondo Shimokoppamiin: Naibun no Kantai no Arano (Four Diamond Frost Shattering: Secret of the Frigid Wasteland)- The user touches the four center chest diamonds of the Shimoyoroi Amatsu with their left hand while doing a full body spin with the blade extended. A blue light trails behind the tip of the blade, in the end creating a blue reiatsu circle which sinks into the ground. The user then removes their hand from the four diamonds in the center and drops the blade into the ground. The four center chest diamonds shatter, thus canceling the Shimoyoroi Amatsu and the user then extends their arm out, almost grabbing the hilt of the blade. The shattered ice diamonds fly around in a circle, like leaves caught in a dust storm, down into the ground. The user then performs the tiger handseal, which covers everything on the ground except the user within twenty meters in five inches of ice. The user then pulls the sword of out the ice, which comes right out, and watches as all the ice shatters, creating millions of ice shrapnel that fly upwards rapidly, piercing the opponent’s caught within the technique.
True Appearance: The true appearance of the Yukikousai is actually a phantasm with no true form. It closely resembles the shape of a human, yet it is completely transparent. When looking through it, Yukikousai's transparancy is a shade of blue that allows the user to know where it is at. Yukikousai enjoys splitting itself into millions of copies of itself, sometimes making it hard to tell the true color of things for the user because everything is tinted blue.
Background: Shimo's parents both died in a car wreck when he was seven. None of his other relatives wanted to take him in, so instead they all made a deal with him. They would each send him 1000 yen a month, resulting in a monthly allowance of 23,000 yen. Shimo then bought an apartment, an aunt helping him in the transaction, and has since learned to live on his own. When he was 15, he stumbled across a fight between a shinigami and a hollow. The hollow was about to win, the shinigami deathly injured, when Shimo interfered by grabbing the shinigami's weapon and slaying the hollow. The shinigami, who was going to die no matter what, asked if Shimo would take up his job. Shimo agreed, and he was then stabbed with the zankpaktou and made it his own.
It was almost a year of him performing the job of the shinigami before Soul Society decided that it had been too long since they had heard from their agent and sent shinigami down to talk to him. What they found was a young human boy slaying a hollow with a zanpoktou that wasn't his. They attempted to take it away from him, but he rejected violently- eventually, they took him to soul society, where Yama-jii agreed to allow him to keep the zanpoktou on the condition that Shimo agree to be trained in the arts of the Shinigami. Shimo agreed and was placed with the 10th Squad, where he trained for six months before his zanpoktou began to speak to him.
Once he had learned the name of his zanpoktou, Shimo amazed everyone by calling out the shikai form of the sword, Yukikousai. Further training with the shinigami of Soul Society revealed two shikai abilities- the ability to freeze an opponent with a mere slash of the blade and the ability to shoot a wave of ice at the opponent.
Shimo now stands in Karakura Town as a representative Shinigami. He has not released his bankai, nor has he yet to even see the "true form" of his blade.