Personally, I'd choose to be a Quincy over Shinigami (though I'd refuse to wear a cape of any sort, and avoid white as much as possible). Though if it has to be a Shinigami...
Name: Matsuhara Kyoya
Gender: Male
Division and Rank: 2nd division, 9th seat (he wanted to join the 8th division, but due to the particulars and peculiarities of his fighting style, Soi Fon had him drafted.
Zanpakuto: Kyoutsubasa (Echo Wing). Kyoya's sword doesn't look like a normal zanpakuto, even when sealed. Rather than a katana, his sword is a jian, the chinese-style straight sword with relatively sedate mountings and a black tassel attached to the ring-shaped pommel.
Shikai: With the command of "warau," (Laugh), he sheathes his sword and presses it as hard as he can between his hands, one on the pommel, the other on the tip of the scabbard. It splits, and reforms into a 7-foot longbow (not shaped anything like a normal bow; more decorative than anything else). He fires arrows formed using kidou; usually binding or paralysis. He can fire a personally-developed kidou known as Kyouha (echo shot) without a chant; it typically packs about the same amount of power as a regular sword blow.
Bankai: Kyoya hasn't achieved Bankai, and has no intention of even trying to do so. However, for the sake of argument, I'm going to make one up.
Mokuda Kyoutsubasa (Silent Echo Wing)
His bankai isn't large in the typical sense. Rather, it's long; his reiatsu concentrates itself into a single invisible cylindrical line, less than three centimeters thick and nearly five kilometers long; a conduit and binding kidou in one. He has three different ways to use it at that point. His first option is simply to latch the line onto a target that far away; once attached, it's all but impossible to evade the shot conducted through it. Second option is to simply send the cable through as many targets as he can bend it to fit, then fire a single arrow through all of his stunned targets. His third, and most dangerous use is to attach the line to an opponent, then bend and twist it again and again until it goes through them typically hundreds of times. Not only does it enhance the binding effect dramatically, it means that when he fires a VERY highly charged arrow, the single shot will get bounced around and through the target several hundred times.
I would like to repeat, he CANNOT use bankai. But if he could, that's what it would be.
Appearance: Tall and lanky for the most part; his skin is usually darkly tanned and a little on the rough side, particularly his hands. His face is long and sharply featured; not good-looking per se, but memorable. He wears his brown hair shaggy; either as a mop on his head or tied back in a ponytail that resembles the back-end of a squirrel (depending on how successfully his division-mates have managed to harangue him into getting a haircut). He's also usually stubbly; he shaves weekly, and generally needs to have done so quite a bit more often than that. Lastly, he usually disdains his uniform. He prefers to wear a gray kimono. Even on duty, he'll usually just throw on the top of his uniform over it.
Personality: Not quite lazy...more apathetic. He's old enough to have seen the Quincies, and he was always fascinated by them. More than that, he admired their professionalism in a fight (he secretly wonders why no one has ever had an archery-based zanpakuto before him). He joined the Gotei 13 simply because he hated hollows, and discovered that there was a certain degree of...well, satisfaction in killing them. He wanted to join the 8th division; he respected Kyorauk-taicho, and more importantly, realized that he'd have a relatively easy time of it. Instead, he ended up in the 5th division for a while (5th tended to specialize in the kidou-users, and he DID use that as his main fighting style) until one of Soi Fon's subordinates noticed his habits of killing hollows long before they were close enough to be dangerous was...well, useful. She agreed to have him transferred (he's still plotting to kill the subordinate in question for putting him under the command of the workaholic), and keeps him around mainly for support and rescue missions, as well as the occaissional judicious assassination. Well, that and he's one of the few shinigami under her command who doesn't audibly complain about the paperwork.
Fighting Method: As you might expect, Kyoya's zanjutsu is all but non-existent. He was good enough in the academy to graduate, though his skills lay more in kidou than swordwork. After his transfer into the 2nd, he started learning Hakuda, finding that being able to knock a hollow out of the way long enough to shoot it was simpler than constantly re-transforming his zanpakuto from one form to the other. He's much better at that than sword work.
His biggest areas of skill are kidou and shunpo; he's no master, but he can use it with incredible precision, and use it repeatedly. Despite his kidou focus, he never bothered to learn too many; he focuses largely on refining the binding and killing kidou forms of Kyoutsubasa's kyouha.
Name: Matsuhara Kyoya
Gender: Male
Division and Rank: 2nd division, 9th seat (he wanted to join the 8th division, but due to the particulars and peculiarities of his fighting style, Soi Fon had him drafted.
Zanpakuto: Kyoutsubasa (Echo Wing). Kyoya's sword doesn't look like a normal zanpakuto, even when sealed. Rather than a katana, his sword is a jian, the chinese-style straight sword with relatively sedate mountings and a black tassel attached to the ring-shaped pommel.
Shikai: With the command of "warau," (Laugh), he sheathes his sword and presses it as hard as he can between his hands, one on the pommel, the other on the tip of the scabbard. It splits, and reforms into a 7-foot longbow (not shaped anything like a normal bow; more decorative than anything else). He fires arrows formed using kidou; usually binding or paralysis. He can fire a personally-developed kidou known as Kyouha (echo shot) without a chant; it typically packs about the same amount of power as a regular sword blow.
Bankai: Kyoya hasn't achieved Bankai, and has no intention of even trying to do so. However, for the sake of argument, I'm going to make one up.
Mokuda Kyoutsubasa (Silent Echo Wing)
His bankai isn't large in the typical sense. Rather, it's long; his reiatsu concentrates itself into a single invisible cylindrical line, less than three centimeters thick and nearly five kilometers long; a conduit and binding kidou in one. He has three different ways to use it at that point. His first option is simply to latch the line onto a target that far away; once attached, it's all but impossible to evade the shot conducted through it. Second option is to simply send the cable through as many targets as he can bend it to fit, then fire a single arrow through all of his stunned targets. His third, and most dangerous use is to attach the line to an opponent, then bend and twist it again and again until it goes through them typically hundreds of times. Not only does it enhance the binding effect dramatically, it means that when he fires a VERY highly charged arrow, the single shot will get bounced around and through the target several hundred times.
I would like to repeat, he CANNOT use bankai. But if he could, that's what it would be.
Appearance: Tall and lanky for the most part; his skin is usually darkly tanned and a little on the rough side, particularly his hands. His face is long and sharply featured; not good-looking per se, but memorable. He wears his brown hair shaggy; either as a mop on his head or tied back in a ponytail that resembles the back-end of a squirrel (depending on how successfully his division-mates have managed to harangue him into getting a haircut). He's also usually stubbly; he shaves weekly, and generally needs to have done so quite a bit more often than that. Lastly, he usually disdains his uniform. He prefers to wear a gray kimono. Even on duty, he'll usually just throw on the top of his uniform over it.
Personality: Not quite lazy...more apathetic. He's old enough to have seen the Quincies, and he was always fascinated by them. More than that, he admired their professionalism in a fight (he secretly wonders why no one has ever had an archery-based zanpakuto before him). He joined the Gotei 13 simply because he hated hollows, and discovered that there was a certain degree of...well, satisfaction in killing them. He wanted to join the 8th division; he respected Kyorauk-taicho, and more importantly, realized that he'd have a relatively easy time of it. Instead, he ended up in the 5th division for a while (5th tended to specialize in the kidou-users, and he DID use that as his main fighting style) until one of Soi Fon's subordinates noticed his habits of killing hollows long before they were close enough to be dangerous was...well, useful. She agreed to have him transferred (he's still plotting to kill the subordinate in question for putting him under the command of the workaholic), and keeps him around mainly for support and rescue missions, as well as the occaissional judicious assassination. Well, that and he's one of the few shinigami under her command who doesn't audibly complain about the paperwork.
Fighting Method: As you might expect, Kyoya's zanjutsu is all but non-existent. He was good enough in the academy to graduate, though his skills lay more in kidou than swordwork. After his transfer into the 2nd, he started learning Hakuda, finding that being able to knock a hollow out of the way long enough to shoot it was simpler than constantly re-transforming his zanpakuto from one form to the other. He's much better at that than sword work.
His biggest areas of skill are kidou and shunpo; he's no master, but he can use it with incredible precision, and use it repeatedly. Despite his kidou focus, he never bothered to learn too many; he focuses largely on refining the binding and killing kidou forms of Kyoutsubasa's kyouha.
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