Hirano, Kohta

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Name: Hirano, Kohta
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Occupation: Highschool student
Personality: Kohta, at first view, is a nerd. And also on second view. He loves every piece of technology, spends more time on the internet than sleeping on a regular day, and is about as good in sports as a processed piece of bread. More than that, Kohta seems to be a very friendly guy - while he is a bit of a pervert, he's someone who can be friendly to everyone, be it an Arrancar or a Shinigami. He's just not the kind of guy to hate others, or at least, that's how it seems.
In fact, Hirano bottles up his true feelings most of the time - he's bipolar. Inside, he's a weapon maniac, and loves everything that shoots. He absolutely hates those that think they are above them, and wouldn't hesitate to shoot a human right in the head with a calmy thought out shot.
In both 'versions', Hisao loves weapons like mad. While it may seem comical when he is not angry, and quite funny to watch, it's always astounding to watch his knowledge and fast analytical mind at work when it comes to firearms. It is said that there is no single weapon in any world that he can't analyze, use or reproduce and fit to his needs. As a Quincy, and thus, protector of Karakura, he is even allowed to carry a gun while at school, though none of the other students know that - he knows how to hide a weapon.

Appearance: Hirano is a chubby teenager, and also rather short. He looks like he has absolutely no muscle mass at all, making his appearance weak and fragil, even though he simply hides the abilities his body holds - his actual athletic abilities surpass those of humans by far.
Usually seen wearing his black school uniform and a plain, black hairstyle, together with his just as plain glasses, give him a very 'nerdy' look, coupled with a friendly or worried expression at many times, and he actually looks like a very nice guy. This can change in an instant, though - if Hirano is forced to fight or mad, his eyes and facial expression take on those of a real killer and fighter, and it makes the chubby short boy look like a menancing warrior.

Height: 5'3"
Weight: Exact weight unknown, but clearly overweight.


Mechanical Maniac
Even though Kohta specializes in weapons, his talent for all machinery is enormous. With enough time and practice, he is able to see through even the most complex ideas and machines, work on them, and modify them. He's a born engineer.

Intense Weapon Talent
A trait that is very rare amongst the Quincy, and humans in general - Hisao adapts to new weapons very fast, in a matter of minutes if he has to. So it's no surprise that he can build a weapon out of scrap metal and junk and be able to fight with it like he actually has a state-of-the-art assault rifle in his hands. And if he actually HAS such an assault rifle... it won't end good for his enemies. This only applies to firearms, not to swords, axes or any other kind of melee weapons.

Expert Marksmanship Specialist
Even though he has to wear glasses, Hirano is a very good marksman with bows, crossbows and guns. He is not on master level, but good enough to hold his own in a sniping duell. His high accuracy allows for hits on moving targets without too much trouble, and a standing target is no problem to hit with just half a second of aiming.

Hirenkyaku
Hirano can use the Quincy-version of the flash step, using collected spirit particles to propell himself forward or stand on the air. He is rather bad at this, though, and it consumes much of his stamina to use Hirenkyaku to actually move around fast. Standing in the air is rather easy, though, just like walking in it.

Spiritual Infusion
Regular Quincy can enhance silver, so that it can be used for Quincy Crosses or other Quincy Tools. Hirano is very good at this task, to a level where he can enchant nearly every metal to be spiritual - this allows him to use regular firearms to hurt or kill spiritual beings. It's a rather quick task, and his own weapons are all already infused - a new weapon may take 1 post for small guns up to 5 posts for real destructive weapons like tank cannons or gatling guns. If the process is interrupted, it has to be started anew.
This also allows to channel pure spiritual particles as bullets for guns, but this requires more energy than simply switching out against a new magazine and using the weapons new found ability to infuse them with spiritual power.
Bullets and magazines can also be infused, so that others can use them in regular weapons and still damage spiritual beings.

Double Tap
A skill that can be used with single-shot guns, crossbows and automatic guns that can be held with two hands and the strength of a regular human ( machine pistols, small rifles etc). With single-shot weapons, a bullet or arrow gets doubled to hit for the double damage. It requires 2,5 times the energy of a normal shot. Up to 20 of those can be used in one post, and it can be used once each post if the count is 10 or below. For more shots, it's every other post.
For semi-automatic weapons, the fire burst get's doubled - a three-shot rifle would release six shots. Those double taps can be used up to two times in one post, as long as it doesn't exceed the maximum of 20 shots. The cooldown is the same for this.
For full-automatic fire modes, this doubles the last fire-burst, but also makes it more inaccurate. So a 20 bullet magazine would release 40, but in a wide spread. The cooldown is similliar to semi-automatic and single-shot, but the number of bullets for each stage of cooldown is doubled (meaning 20 normally and 40 maximum and one post more cooldown)


Seele Schneider
Hirano carries around a Seele Schneider for emergencies. He's pretty much at suck-tier with bladed weapons, so it's mainly for show and blindly swinging to hold off enemies from tearing him apart close up, since it's still a dangerous blade.

Licht
German for light. This is a Silver Tube spell, which after taking in spiritual energy and particles through the Shinigami, releases a blinding white light from within the small tube. Anyone looking at it will have trouble seeing, depending on how resilent to those moves they are (typically around 1-2 posts maximum), or be completely blinded for a short time. This also affects allies, but not the caster. The spell is: "Erhelle unseren Weg, Licht!"

Beben
Slamming the charged up Silver Tube into the air or ground, rips and cracks appear around it (even in the air), and a spreading out and gradually weaker growing invisible shaking goes through all Reiatsu and Reishi. A Shinigami would feel like standing in a middle strength earthquake of the tube got slammed directly into him. This can redirect or weaken spiritual energy attacks, and is mainly used for that purpose. Weak enemies can be thrown out of Shikai for a short time (tier 3-3 and below), all others may experience minor trouble using their abilities. Again, this is only if the quaking of Reishi hit them directly. The maximum range of this is 5 meters around the Silver Tube. This affects allies, but not the caster.
The spell is: "Erschüttere Länder und Meere, Beben!"

Explosion
Most often considered the 'suicide Ginto'. This releases an explosive blast of energy from the Silver Tube, damaging the caster and everything in a short radius around him. The damage to the arm it is used with can often render a Quincy unable to fight for weeks, months or even forever. Used with the Ginto Launcher, these pretty much become flying small grenades without frags or anything of the sort.
The spell is: "Zerstöre meinen Feind, Explosion!"

Ginto Launcher
Shaped like a simple silver gun with a hole on the top of the barrel. In this, a Silver Tube fits just nicely, and upon pulling the trigger, it is launched like a bullet. This Silver Tube usually gets loaded with a spell before, of course, so that it is released upon contact with anything material or energy. (energy attacks, projectile attacks, the ground, walls, the enemy, an ally)
An exception is Explosion, which will explode after flying about 20-30 meters, depending on how thick with spiritual particles the air is. More concentration means a boom that comes sooner.

Quincy Bow Appearance: Released from a even-sided silver cross on his right arm, it takes on the form of a crossbow in his hand. Unlike an actual crossbow, it doesn't need to be reloaded each time, but can only fire up to 50 shots a minute. The color is grey.
Quincy Bow Powers: Pierce Shot: Condensing all 50 Arrows into one white glowing arrow that has a strong piercing power, able to break a moderate strength Hierro. After usage, 2 posts cooldown is the norm.

Background: Hirano is the son of a long line of Quincy, but that line hadn't been able to produce even one descendant able to use the powers in over 300 years. Being viewed as a 'dead' sidearm, the only thing remaining was their ability to see spirits right from the birth, but Kohta was different. Besides being able to see spirits, when he was still young of age, around 5 or 6, he started being able to tell 'where people are' - he sensed Reiatsu and was able to tell who had which signature of it.
Noticing their sons potential, his parents could do nothing to help him develop these powers - so they simply searched for information or a possible teacher on the ancient arts forgotten by them and their own parents. This was the first step of Kohta becoming a computer geek - he learned most of the bare basics thanks to documents found in the wide areas of the extranet, and build his Quincy Cross himself. It was incredibly easy for him to make one out of simple silver, learning how to collect and channel Reishi from childs age.
However, since he was mostly studying and not spending much time with others, he quickly became the one to be picked at by everyone - his chubby figure and generally 'nerdy' appearance didn't help much.
This torture for him became bearable with time, but he still hated everyone who treated him like dirt, even if he never showed it. Around the age of 11, thanks to the incredible powers of the extranet, he quickly became addicted to one thing - weapons. They fascinated him - firearms of each and every age. The first few ones, the revolvers used in the wild west, the weapons of the world wars, the high-tech bullet rifles, and finally the laser and plasma techniques together with super-high accelerated Gauss-weapons. At the age of 12, Hirano owned his first gun, and knew how to build one just like it from scratch, too. But since he couldn't hurt Hollows with it, he tried infusing it with his Reishi - he didn't expect it to work. But surprisingly, it did.
At the age of 12 still, Kohta had his first chance to actually meet a Hollow - and managed to kill it with his Quincy Gun. This action attracted attention from other Quincy, and thanks to them, Hirano learned of his rare ability to turn every metal into a Quincy Artifact, not just silver. Expanding knowledge to more weapons and Ginto, Hirano build a weapon able to throw charged Silver Tubes like bullets, in addition to enchanting a magnitude of weapons with his abilities.
During all these times, he only had very few friends. One of his best friends, though, is Emiya Shirou, his 'wingman' - he would gladly kill someone to save Shirou and risk his own life, since he is someone who accepts both sides of Kohta without any questions asked.
Currently, he also runs the only gunshop in Karakura that sells weapons able to hurt spiritual beings.

FINISHED.

OBJECTION!, this is no longer denied, this is approved! 3-1!