Part Two: The Strength From Within
The Inner Workings; A Battle for ControlQUINCY SKILLSPassive Abilities and Quincy Techniques:Overbearing Intelligence: When Akia was IQ tested, the test actually failed her because there was an automatic cheat prevention system in place at the time, and it was impossible to score perfectly. Her brain is hard-wired for knowledge and data absorption, allowing her to instantly remember and store any input from any of her five senses. She could remember the after taste of a dish she had five years ago, or the feeling of a particular knot on a particular tree during one of her journeys. Her analytical abilities match this, and augment her intelligence even further. She can plan, plot, watch, research, note, and the like during any situation, even under high stress, or in the middle of a largely chaotic area. This makes her a master strategist, on top of her already super-computer levels of brain function.
Multilingual: Akia knows English, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, German, and Italian. Her primary language, and in fact her FAVORITE language, however, is Latin. Although the language is, by all accounts, dead, she speaks it fluently, oftentimes slipping into it when angered, or passionate about something. She loves the way it sounds, the way the words roll off of the tongue, and especially the fact that it seems no one knows it, so any insults or terms she throws out are usually greeted with your general "bwuh??" or other such terms of confusion and cultural ignorance.
Enhanced Agility and Reflexive Instinct: Years in gymnastics courses as a child coupled with lots of strenuous agility training she put herself through means that she is far more agile than your average human, and far more flexible as well. This allows her some interesting positions to be able to bend herself into, which is useful for dodging and maneuvering, especially around the kind of opponents that flood the very air with a seemingly endless torrent of attacks.
Inhuman Endurance: For reasons not quite apparent by looking at the surface, Akia's body is able to take insane amounts of damage. Her skin has been hardened to the point where one below her level who would be attacking her could confuse her with some sort of abyssal demon, incapable of taking damage at all. Hit her in the face with an airplane carrier, she'll MAYBE blink. Smash her over the head with a mass of land like an asteroid? She'll start feeling it. Is there a mosquito in here somewhere?
Zanjutsu Specialist/Swordsmanship Specialist: Oddly enough, Akia DOES possess a blade. And in the use of this blade, she is MORE than proficient. Her skill with the feux-Zanpakutō comes from two sources. The first is from her constant training with any weapon she can get her hands on, working and mastering techniques as they were shown and introduced to her. The second is the OWNER of the feux-Zanpakutō (the original owner, anyway), her inner spirit. She has learned and studied under this spirit, mastering techniques and sword styles usually attributed to the shinigami alone. However, Akia has picked these up masterfully.
- Hitotsume: Nadegiri (撫で斬り, "The First: Killing Stroke"): is a Zanjutsu technique. A precision cut of extreme force and speed. It can casually slice through large, multi-story high opponents protected by steel skin. The opponent can be killed with one swift slash so precise, they are not even aware of it until after it has taken place.
- Senmaioroshi (千枚卸, "Thousand-Page Wholesale"): is a Zanjutsu technique that allows the user to cut an opponent into ribbons. A technique where multiple blade movements take place so fast that they can literally shred a target into pieces.
- Agitowari (顎割, "Chin/Jaw Splitting"): is a Zanjutsu technique which bisects an opponent with a single sword strike to the jawline. A sword technique where a single sword attack cuts an opponent in half from the jaw down the length of the body until the target is bi-sectioned.
- Suikawari (西瓜割, "Watermelon Splitting"): is a Zanjutsu technique. A two-handed, overhead slash which cleanly and precisely cleaves an opponent's head in twain, regardless of its size.
- Shitonegaeshi (褥返し, "Cushion Return"): is a Zanjutsu technique. A pinning technique which aims to subdue an opponent and immobilize them on the ground using coercion alone.
- Ryōdan (両断, "Bisection"): is a Kendo technique that increases the power of a slash by using a two-hand hold on the swords handle. The slash can cleave an opponent in two.
Reiryoku Absorption & Manipulation: Akia as a Quincy primarily absorbs spiritual energy from the atmosphere, and combines it with her own spiritual energy to form weapons. She has an easier time collecting this energy in environments with higher concentrations of spiritual particles, such as Soul Society or Hueco Mundo. To a sufficiently powerful Quincy, there is no difference between spiritual particles and spiritual energy as a source of power. She can manipulate spiritual energy for offensive purposes. Akia most commonly reshapes spiritual particles into her bow and arrows, but can also concentrate spiritual energy into the form of swords (Seele Schneider) or Gintō.
Spiritual Awareness: As a Quincy, Mari can sense Hollows at a significant distance. She can even tell what direction it's in. It goes beyond this, though. She has an innate ability to instantly be able to discern an opponent's race based on spiritual signature. This isn't always true,
Platform Manifestion: Akia has the ability to condense spiritual energy in the form of a platform, lifting herself and others up into the air. She can easily summon more than one platform at will, controlling their speed, size, and direction at a whim. Akia can create up to 10 platforms at once to use them in battle.
Hirenkyaku Expert: Akia is able to move at tremendous speed, matching that of real grandmasters of this area. Since Hirenkyaku is generally a bit faster than Shunpo, she also is a bit faster than experts of Shunpo, able to maneuver easily and keep herself fluid, never falling into static or predictable patterns while fighting. Sonido seems to be roughly the same speed, however. On top of all of this, Akia is just.. insanely fast. Her specialty is speed, and she shows it in every movement. Fast reflexes, insane reaction speed, and a grace to rival the elves of lore. Every action is poised, precise, and fast on a level nearly unmatched.
Licht Regen: First more Reishi than usual are stored inside the bow, before the Quincy uses Hirenkyaku to get over the enemy, and release a barrage of arrows at once. The number of Arrows depend on the kind of bow used.
Licht Wind: Basically an identical ability to Licht Regen, the only difference is that instead of firing from above, this ability is fired directly at the opponent from a standing position.
Kirchenlied: Sankt Zwinger (聖唱 (キルヒエンリード・サンタズイガー), Kiruhienrīdo: Santa Zuingaa; German for "Church Hymn: Saint Ward", Japanese for "Chant of the Gods: Santa Zwinger"): A powerful Quincy spell that creates an area of Reishi shaped with countless Quincy cross protruding from the ground, though with unseen effects, it was described as "the spell of maximum protection among the Quincy techniques of offense and defense" and stating that the "light of the lord" will hit, or "strike dead" anything that comes within its limits. Akia can use this to shield allies, or to provide herself a safe area to heal outside of combat.
Ransōtengai: This is a high level technique that allows the user to control their body parts using strings of spirit energy controlled by their brain, forming lines or strings out of countless spiritrons. By using this technique, the user can control their body as one would a puppet, allowing them to move freely despite paralysis, broken limbs, or any other force that would impede normal movement. It was originally created to allow elderly Quincy to fight effectively
Sprenger (破芒陣, shupurenga; German for "Explosion", Japanese for "Ripping Grass Formation"): This technique uses five Seele Schneider to create a pentagon-shaped seal which, when activated, causes a massive explosion within its borders. The Seele Schneider function as accumulators, gathering the necessary amount of reishi to create the explosion with the liquid inside a Gintō acting as the trigger.
However, there's also a drawback. The preparations needed to successfully execute this technique, combined with the charging time for the Seele Schneider, make Sprenger's use in battle impractical unless the user has a partner that can stall their opponent in order to buy time. It is one of the most powerful Quincy attacks seen so far.
Gert Schneider: Another ginto technique, similar to Sprenger. Using small cuts made on the opponent's body with a Seele Schneider, Akia launches a ginto tube at the enemy, which stops directly before impacting with them. A box of reishi forms around the enemy, formed from their own reiatsu that the ginto tube leeches from the cuts. However, this is not a crippling or even a weaking amount. Infantile, really. Akia then tosses a Schneider at the tube, breaking it open and releasing the stored reishi as it compresses the box, slowly compressing the reishi onto the enemy. Whatever effect this has, or if it effects at all, is up to the opponent's strength and speed.
Quincy Items: Seele Schneider: One of the most basic Quincy Tools, this bladed arrow consists out of many vibrating and spinning spiritual blades. Their extremely fast vibration makes them able to disrupt any spiritual or solid object they hit, basicially meaning: They can cut through anything not resistant against spiritual energy or vibrating at the same speed. Only things vibrating faster can actually break the blade. Once they cut something spiritual, it sets free spiritual energy from the hit spot, which then will be absorbed by the Quincy, into the blade itself, increasing it's energy and length. Once fired as an arrow, it has great force, since it is still vibrating very fast and will unleash a nearly unblockable explosion should it hit. The hilt will remain and be useable again. Akia carries ten Seele Schneiders.
Gintō (銀筒, Silver Tubes): Gintō are small liquid-filled capsules that store Reiryoku, and are used by the Quincy for spell casting in the same way that Shinigami use Kidō. Like Kidō, they are activated by calling out various commands.
Bankai Capturing Device: This device is one that follows an old principle used by the Vandenreich in the war on the Soul society. Akia only came into contact with one because it was gifted to her by her father. She was told only to use it in emergencies, and when an emergency came along.. She used it, and instantly regretted doing so once she realized what had happened. The bankai she captured is sealed within a cross-shaped necklace worn around her neck, typically mistaken for a quincy cross.
Quincy Cross: Akia's quincy cross takes the form of a knife, a switchblade, typically kept within her uniform somewhere. The handle has a small, rounded protrusion on each end of the base, alluding to a vague cross shape. This switchblade has the added bonus of having a bit of a spiritual persuasion, able to cut spiritual beings. Albeit, not strong ones.
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SPIRIT WEAPONType: Akia's Quincy/Spiritual weapon takes the form of two materialized reishi gloves that form around her hands. They're white, full-fingered gloves, decorative and ornate.
Appearance: Reishi Color: Akia's reishi color materializes in a dark pink.
Spiritual Weapon Techniques:The Conductor:One of the things that makes Akia so effective, and so.. terrifying in her own respect, is the way she uniquely manipulates spiritual energy and reishi. The gloves are, in essence, conduits through which Akia channels her spiritual energy. Her primary use for these isn't to summon an individual weapon, per se, but to summon the very nature OF a spirit weapon instead. When using her spirit weapon, Akia moves her hands carefully, precisely, as if conducting an orchestra. As she does so, small, dark-pink vortexes of spiritual energy will begin appearing in the very air around her and her opponent. These vortexes will appear, fire off a set amount of the typical quincy arrows, and then disappear once more. As long as Akia's hands are in motion, these vortexes will continue to randomly generate, never in any sort of set pattern, so it becomes difficult, if not night impossible, to preordain when or where the next blow will come from.
The nature of this brand of arrow use is tied into the movement itself. If Akia's hands begin moving faster, the vortexes appear and disappear faster, the amount of vortexes she creates at one time increases, and the amount of arrows each vortex fires is increased. At a slow pace, the vortexes will appear and disappear with about a second in between each set, she can only create two at a time, and she can fire about 1,500 arrows per second from each, creating a volley of 3,000 for every two vortexes summoned. At a medium pace, the vortexes will appear and disappear with only half a second in between them, she can create up to five, and each can fire 2,000 arrows at any time, creating a total volley of 10,000 arrows per set of vortexes per second At the fast, and most chaotic pace, the vortexes will appear and disappear with but a millisecond between each set, she can create up to ten, and each can fire 4,000 arrows at a time. This means that, for each set, there's a maximum of 40,000 arrows per second heading at the opponent at any given time from her various vortexes. Her maximum arrow capacity is a staggering 500,000 on the battlefield at any given time before she has to stop attacking and start over. However, there are two major flaws in the design of this technique. If the movement of her arms is restricted in any way, she would be unable to make the conducting motions necessary for use of this technique, rendering it impossible to perform. The other is that she is unable to, in any way, guide or re-direct her arrows once they're fired. The nature of the attack is so chaotic and random at its core already. Now, this isn't to say that the technique is entirely uncontrollable either. She does have the ability to, when the vortex is formed, not launch any arrows initially. She places a sort of.. barrier over the exit point that holds the arrows within, mixing their composition together before firing them all in one large blast. The strength of this blast depends on the speed her hands are currently moving, e.g., how many arrows would normally have been launched had she NOT put the barrier up.
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VOLLSTÄNDIGName: Kixyoumei No Misuterii [lit.
"The Resonating Twilight"]
Appearance:In Vollstandig, Akia's appearance actually doesn't change at all, seemingly. Her spiritual signature changes, and her power output increases, but there is no physical change. This may be due to the fact that Akia doesn't have a sanrei glove, or any other such item, to actually activate her Vollstandig. Akia activates hers out of sheer willpower alone. However, if one were to look closely, they would notice that her skin would seem somehow.. off. As if there was a crack running jagged down her right cheek.
Abilities: Interestingly enough, Akia's Vollstandig doesn't augment her physically at all. The only real change that would seem to apply, initially, is a huge leap in spiritual pressure. Her very energy would seem to fly through the roof, creating a variable ocean of reiatsu for her to tap into.
Akia has an interesting beginning to the use of this technique. For it to even initiate, she has to take a hit. Now, this cannot be any run of the mill hit. If you punch her, kick her, or whatever else, the effect will be minimal. However, if she faces an opponent who decides that their reiatsu is the best weapon against her, that's when she's allowed to have some entertainment.
When an attack that has a power center based off of reiatsu, or any sort of energy, be it ethereal, elemental, or the opponent's own, hits her body, Akia's very flesh gains a sort of aura around it. It is unseen, unfelt, and nearly unable to be detected, unless you're truly a master of sensing such things. In essence, this aura is a logbook, or a sensor of sorts. When an attack with an energy basis makes contact with Akia, this aura "jots down" the composition of that attack. The effect on her body, the strength of it, and any parts of it that may be powered or linked to an elemental factor are all recorded directly into this aura.
As soon as the aura has an ability stored, Akia is able to enter stage two of her Vollstandig's true nature. After her aura has at least one attack on record, she then has the ability to, in essence, copy it. Not in its entirety, however. Instead of copying the entire ability, Akia only takes the NATURE of that ability, the details that were copied when the attack first hit her.
Using these details, Akia can imbue her own core ability, her quincy arrows, with said details. The next volley she lets loose will each be made of the same strength and element as the attack that she absorbed, and will have the same set of effects on the opponent's body if it connects. This only lasts for ONE volley, and the ability is gone from her use once it has been expelled in this singular volley.
Even this, however, is not the end of the strength of this technique.
Akia can stack and combine absorbed attacks, fusing them to create massively powerful assaults using her arrows. She can absorb and hold up to three abilities, and then combine them in one exponentially powerful attack. The effects, strengths, and such of these abilities will merge and mix, creating a chaotic array with the next volley.
However, there is a limit to this. She cannot CHOOSE which three abilities she mixes and merges. If she is hit by three abilities, she HAS to use those three abilities, even if two of them are identical to eachother. (E.G. If she was hit by two cero from an arrancar, and a Kidō from a vizard, the three abilities she would have stored would be, in order: Kidō, Cero, Cero.) Another drawback is that, if she is hit with three attacks, and then hit by ANOTHER attack, the attack she was hit by FIRST gets bumped out of the storage, eliminated from useability. (E.G. If her order was Kidō, Cero, Cero and she was hit with a Gran Rey Cero, the order would now be: Gran Rey Cero, Kidō, Cero.) The limit is ALWAYS three that she is able to store, and it is ALWAYS in order of how she was hit. She has no choice in the matter, besides how many to bind into a volley at any given time.
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ZanpakutōZanpakutô Spirit Name: Nichibotsu [lit.
"The Dusk"]
Zanpakutô Bankai Name: Nichibotsu No Kixyozetsu [lit.
"The Rejection of Dusk"]
Reiatsu Color: Pure, Heavenly White.
Zanpakutô Spirit Appearance: Bankai Description: Akia's bankai is activated by her channeling spiritual pressure into the cross around her neck. Said cross will rise up off of her neck and into the air before exploding into a rain of blinding, white energy which will fall upon Akia, obscuring her from view. When the energy clears, the only difference that would appear at first would be that Akia will now have a large, jagged "crack" in her skin from above her left eye, down to her eyelid. There it will stop, and resume just under her eye, running down her cheek to her jaw. Along with this, the cross is now gone, replaced by a swirling white energy that moves and dances around Akia in a figure eight pattern, appearing to make a loop around to her right, go through her, through her sternum, before making another loop to the left and going back through the sternum.
Bankai Abilities:During Bankai, Akia's speed increases exponentially, allowing her hirenkyaku's pace to easily outstep most other practitioners of the technique besides those who specialize in it. Her physical attributes, beyond this, are not augmented, however.
In this Bankai, Akia has the abilities to create objects from seemingly thin air. The white energy under her control in this form will move as she commands, and responds entirely to her thoughts, needing no motions or verbal commands to state what she wishes for it to do.
With a thought, Akia can create anything she'd like. Whether it be weapons, miscellaneous objects, or even modes of transportation. The white energy will mold, shape, expand, contract, and form as it needs to, becoming whatever Akia willed for it to be. There are some rules to this, however. If she's creating inanimate objects, they cannot be in a position to directly harm an opponent or otherwise directly effect a spiriual being. (E.G, she couldn't create a landmine directly under her opponent). If she's creating weapons, the strength is going to be about the level of a Zanpakutō in a released bankai state. I.E. Able to attack and block as if it was such. She cannot make weapons that are stronger, or weaker. Also, if she she creates modes of transportation, they have to be things such as vehicles, or platforms to move with her reiatsu. She cannot make something like, say, a teleporter, and transport herself somewhere.
One thing she can do that tends to be a main method of combat for her is the creation of ranged weapons. Rifles, pistols, and even full-sized cannons. The way THIS works is that she will condense the white energy into her weapon of choice, and then channel the reishi and reiatsu that she would normally expell into quincy arrows through the weapon, creating ammunition with strength relative to the size of the weapon itself.
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The Spirit's Basic InformationThe Spirit's Name: Soukan Tianeri
The Spirit's Race: Shinigami
The Spirit's Gender: Male
The Spirit's Age: Four hundred and twenty-five years old.
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The Spirit's Personality SectionThe Spirit's Personality: Taken from Akia's own personality, it describes, nearly to a T, the thoughts and processes of her spirit, as they are the same as HER thoughts when she's under the INFLUENCE of said spirit.)- Spoiler:
At a glance, a dominant trait to the ziamichi is an air of intimidation. It is of the greatest pleasure to the sadistic creature to see another in pain and a way to inflict scars that run far deeper than the flesh is to scar the heart or the mind. In this way, the ziamichi not only provokes the people she meets, but she toys with them as if wedging her way deeper and deeper into their psyche. Each comment, even those that are subtle or offputting, is spoken as if it is law. This does perhaps give her an air of authority, but it all goes back to her sense of arrogance. It was not evolved through, but instead made more deformed and penetrating a quality.
Upon first meeting, one may judge Akia to be similar to rebellious royalty. she speaks confidently, she seems to have a lackluster poise and she says what she wants regardless the thoughts this may provoke in those around her. It is as if she is well versed but ignorant of manners in a way. Like a crocodile smile, it seems as if she is with-holding something important even when speaking a lot - as she often does. This can all make her a confusing creature to meet. The sort you feel you have pegged and then she says something that throws off the entire analysis. Again, the roots here lie in arrogance, for it can cause her to misportray herself, but this also touches onto another penetrating trait of Akia's personality. her lack of sanity.
Many who lack sanity find themselves without understanding or perhaps confused by their own random meanderings, but Akia's personality does not support this type of being. Instead, the ziamichi could be called crazy not for ignorance, but for how she seems so assured and satisfied with even the most dismal and out there conclusions. The only stipulation is that the conclusion must not conflict with her values. Luckily for Akia, who dislikes the notion of normality, her sense of values is so distorted that it is not difficult to match up her conclusions to them.
If you saw a crying child, would you be saddened or want to help? This sort of thing is what shapes the heart of one's values. A demon, like the one inside Akia, however is a creature of darkness, a being who detests weakness and hungers for destruction. So what kinds of values could such a creature possibly formulate? To put it simply, questionable ones. For this ziamichi, these questionable morals and values lie not with kindness but more-so with a degenerate degree of respect. To acknowledge another, that is respect. To question what they believe, that is respect. These two notions do apply to Akia's beliefs but like a shallow pond - this is where it hits bottom. The ziamichi respects creatures only to the degree that she would give them the time of day or perhaps allow her name as their executioner to be known. she, however, does not respect any sense of life.
This creature believes her life was stolen and forsaken by the gods of death and humanity at large and she sees the 'do-gooder' attitude to be a flagrant disregard for reality. Life is hard and death is natural where there is life. Because of this, Akia kills indescriminately once she's started and sees any who would not kill to be an insult on the battle field. This viciousness superceeds her normal attitude on occasion and becomes more relevant as one learns of the way she fights. Aside from all of this, Akia could be an interesting creature to have a conversation with. As long as one does not spark her fuse and is careful to keep her amusement she would ignore who or what they were, for a while at-least.
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The Spirit's History: (Going to summarize history for the sake of completing the app. The full history of how he came to be involved with Akia will be explained in her own history)
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Soukan started his career as a.. particularly aggressive trainee among the members of the shinigami academy. He had a tendency for violence, and a lot of it. He would be unnecessarily cruel and rough with those who he sparred. So much so that there was no doubt where he would end up once he graduated. And graduate he did. It was only a month after his graduation before he ended up in 11th division, fighting practically every day of his life.
But that wasn't enough for him. Not nearly enough.
His beatings turned to killings. Unsupervised, unsanctioned. Murder, plain and simple, followed wherever he went. Fearing execution, he simply left, disappearing into the rukongai, and shortly thereafter, sneaking through a senkaimon into the living world. In the living world, his murder spree continued, the target being pluses now instead of other shinigami. However, it wasn't long before someone with a significant talent for magic caught him, and sealed his spirit into a small, enchanted object. It wasn't long before he found himself.. in limbo. Sealed, not inside of the object, but inside of.. another being. This wouldn't do for an instant, and he knew it. Instead of accepting his fate, he began torturing his new host, waiting and watching for the slightest opportunity to take over.
And his day would come.
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Reiatsu Color: A deep, midnight black.
Zanpakutô Spirit Name: Naiseitekina Yoake [lit.
"The Introspective Dawn"]
Zanpakutô Spirit Appearance: Inner World:Sealed Zanpakutô Appearance : Sealed Zanpakutô Abilities: N/A
Release: Return to the Aether, Naiseitekina Yoake!
Shikai Description: In Shikai, the blade of Naiseitekina Yoake actually disappears entirely, converting into pure energy and taking the form of blue energy, apparently on fire, surrounding Soukan's hands.
Shikai Abilities: In Shikai, the main and only real ability that Soukan possesses is the repulsion of energy. Attacks,as long as they're based in an energy source, and not a physical base, can be reflected. Not necessarily back at the opponent, but away, into another direction. This will work on any attack that's in the strength range of a Kidō below the 90s or so. The use of this will also gradually, over time, strengthen the fire-like energy around his hands, allowing him to throw it at his opponent with a speed and strength that increases with every attack he deflects. It starts at about Bala level. After ten deflects, each will be Cero level. Gran Rey after twenty deflects. This ability caps out at Cero Oscuras strength, but that's only after having deflected thirty or more abilities.
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Ziamichi PowersAbsorbed Shinigami Traits: Enhanced Hirenkyaku: Mixing the abilities of her ziamichi spirit with her own abilities, Akia is able to infuse her Hirenkyaku with bits and pieces of Shunpo, creating an augmented Hirenkyaku that makes her speed difficult to scan or follow with pesquisa or any other such technique. It also increases her combat speed drastically, allowing her to attack and move at rates that are now truly alarming.
Kidō Knowledge: Due to the massive amount of Shinigami spiritual pressure present in her body, Akia's physicality allows her to, with training, use Kidō. her Zanpakutō spirit has trained her only in use of the first 54 Hadō, and the first 37 Bakudo. These will, obviously, not be nearly as strong as a shinigami who has mastered these techniques. However, that doesn't make them weak, either, as she has been training for a long time.
While she cannot use Eishōhaki
(詠唱破棄, "Incantation Abandonment") or Nijū Eishō
(二重詠唱, "Twofold Incantation"), she is fully capable of using Kōjutsu Eishō
(後述詠唱, "Spoken-After Incantation") to power up a Kidō by using the incantation AFTER casting the Kidō itself.
Zanpakutō Use: As previously stated, Akia is proficient in the use of the Zanpakutō. Her Zanjutsu has been expertly molded and crafted by her ziamichi spirit, and she even has control over the nature of the blade.
While the blade's normal appearance is that of a katana, Akia's usual use of it is in a bit of a different light. When not in combat, the Zanpakutō is hidden, disguised as a cane, which she uses regularly to aid her in attempting to walk, a task that has become exceedingly difficult for her.
Bankai:Having, in essence, stolen most of the spiritual prominence of Soukan's core, Akia actually gained the ability to utilize his Bankai. Why she was able to take this, and a bit of his shinigami spiritual energy, and not his shikai or natural talent, is still unknown.
Bankai Name: Yoake No Musabori Kuuhi [lit.
"The Devouring Sun of the Dawn"]
Bankai Description: With an utterance of "Bankai" while holding the blade in her right hand, Akia will then stab the blade clean through her left hand. Except, as the blade enters the flesh, it never comes out the other side, the blade simply disappearing once it makes contact with her flesh, until all that remains is the tsuba down. She will then toss this onto the ground and stomp on it, where a landmine's worth of explosive upward force will obscure the entire area around her from view. When the smoke and energy clears, Akia's arms from the tips of her fingers to the curve of her shoulders will be covered in black reiatsu, constantly in motion, as if flowing around her skin. Along with this, a series of spiderwebbing cracks will appear in her skin along her forehead, and chin.
Bankai Abilities: This bankai augments Akia's strength, making every punch an earth-shattering force, able to break concrete supports and bring down whole buildings in a matter of moments.
The main ability of this bankai, however, stems from the black auras themselves. Much like the shikai before it, this ability also has an interesting effect on energy attacks. However, instead of deflection, this bankai focuses on, in a sense,
removing the problem.
Any attack based in energy, whether it be elemental, spiritual, cosmic, ethereal, what have you, will sputter, fizzle, and blip from existence if it makes contact with these black auras. The auras themselves are made of a special type of reiatsu, one that vibrates at a negative frequency, matching the speed and strength of whatever energy attack makes contact with it, effectively creating an antithesis to that attack, and canceling it out.
This ability, however, has no effect on anything physical. Drop a building on her? It's still gonna hurt. Punch her or hit her with something really hard? It'll do damage. Even energy attacks, if they hit her anywhere besides her arms, will damage her, and considerably. This is where the weakness in the ability lies.
Drawbacks: The presence of a secondary spirit inside of Akia's body, on TOP of the already existing powers she's had to keep under control, has put her under enormous strain.
For starters, the muscles in her right leg have almost entirely deteriorated, only able to be in use when powered by one of her forms. At all other times, she requires a cane simply to WALK.
Second, the strain on her physicality has bleached her hair entirely white, a stark contrast to the raven black that it was previously.
Third, the exhaustion that all of this power in her body creates has turned her into a narcoleptic, causing her brain and body to randomly shut down, putting her into a deep sleep for anywhere between twenty-four and fourty-eight hours.
Fourth, the constant need for energy to keep herself stable causes an unending and insatiable hunger inside Akia. She has to eat ridiculous amounts of food on an almost constant basis just to keep herself awake, stable, and sane.
Fifth, she's constantly hearing voices in her head. Her ziamichi, the stolen bankai's spirit, her parents, etc. Anyone who she feels she's failed, she'll hear. Torturing her, mocking her, and accusing her. Anytime she's alone, she hears these voices endlessly.
However, her tribulations don't end there.
For every form she activates, for every time she uses her ziamichi, her self-control and her sanity slip. Little by little. Although, luckily enough for her, she is only able to be in two forms at any given time while keeping her comprehension. If she activates a third, the first one she activated will deactivate. Unless she's slipping toward Kaosu No Yuugou, in which case all three will be active. No matter what, though, her ziamichi's influence is always there, ready to take over if she so much as slips.
Control: Ten if sealed entirely. Eight if in her first bankai or Vollstandig. Six if in her Ziamichi Bankai. Four if in any combination of two out of her forms. (She is unable to enter all three unless entering Kaosu No Yuugou). Two if in a combination while feeling emotional, or feeling particularly emotional in any one form. One directly before entering Kaosu No Yuugou.
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Kaosu No Yuugou, The Chaotic Fusion
This state was granted to her, not by choice, and not by will, but by accident. She never intended to be able to use this kind of thing, and the toll of it on her being is incalculable.
The process actually starts the moment that Akia enters any of her forms. If one looks, one would realize that every time she uses one, small cracks appear across her face, as if one had cracked a windshield, or porcelain. After enough cracks have been formed, she is in a "stasis" mode. This can ONLY be entered if ALL THREE forms are active. And ALL three forms can ONLY be active while she's activating this. It's sort of a.. preparation for what is to come.
The next step is actually in her Ziamichi's hands. While Akia is tapping into her own reiatsu, and that of her stolen bankai, her ziamichi can flare his reiatsu in burst, cracking through her defenses and slowly corrupting her aura.
The third, and final step, stems from her emotions. Akia will only enter this form if she has truly lost control of herself. This means not only does she have to be under the influence of her ziamichi, but she has to be either incredibly angry or incredibly depressed to truly lose herself to her own power.
Once all of these conditions have been met, the cracks in her face will spiderweb across the entirety of her being as her three different reiatsu will flash outward from her, one after the other, merging and swirling in a multi-colored whirlwind. Her eyes will roll back as she leans her head back, her neck snapping sideways violently as her entire body explodes outward in a choking and ripping storm of sheer, unintelligible spiritual energy. After a few moments, the energy will subside and condense into a black smoke. When the smoke clears, Akia's Kaosu No Yuugou is revealed.
In this form, Akia will
demand to be called "Sugureta" [lit.
"Superior"]. Any attempts to address her as "Akia", or any other nickname, will illicit only rage from the young quincy, and a vengeful killing intent.
Kaosu No Yuugou Appearance:The blade held in Akia's right hand will constantly ebb and flow with a black energy, as will her right arm, her left arm at this stage is surrounded by white spiritual energy, her formerly white gloves for her quincy weapon will change colors between white, pink, and black at a rapid rate, and her eye will glow a deep pink. (The one on the left, the RIGHT eye seems to be replaced by a bloomed flower in this stage.) The flower that seems to be budding out of her right eye socket will lose one petal for every three of her posts. Once all the petals have dropped, this form comes to an end.
Kaosu No Yuugou Natural Attributes:In this form, the enhanced reiatsu, speed, and strength of her three forms combine, giving her absolutely monstrous physical characteristics.
Incomprehensible Spiritual Energy: The sheer AMOUNT of reiatsu that Akia has available to her in this form is seemingly endless. She can release attack after attack after attack without pause, seeming to fight as if she has nothing at all to lose, and as if there's no consequence to her own being in the slightest. Beyond this, if she actually unleashes her spiritual energy on the surrounding environment, the effects are immediately obvious. Opponents, even moderately strong ones, may begin to feel as if they're drowning. The landscape will be flattened. The very air will feel as if it were saturated by the energy.
Impressive Natural Strength: Able now to domino several buildings to the ground with a single punch, Akia's strength is augmented enough to where she can hold her own in a fight. However, she has nowhere near the natural strength of some of the more extreme strength users one might find.
Blinding Speed: Her hirenkyaku now will only barely register, unless you're a true grand master in sensing the barely tangible spiritual energy that she'll give off. Watching her closely won't usually help, as it will appear as if she hasn't moved a physical inch, and she'll already be right behind you. No outward, shown movements to read, no clues, no signs, just a nigh-instantaneous movement from point A to point B.
Kaosu No Yuugou Abilities:Yoake No Hidarite [lit. "The Left Hand of Dawn"]:
The left hand of Akia's form, and the white energy that surround it, contain the creation powers that she holds in her stolen bankai's form. As before, she is able to create the same things, with the same rules. However, with the additional strength gifted to her by the two added forms, she is able to create something new.
Along with the weapons (now strengthened to being tougher than a bankai Zanpakutō, closer to a kyuu kyou sacred at this point) and objects she's been able to craft before, she can also now create living "dolls" of sorts. Humanoid creatures about the same size and weight as your standard mid-20s shinigami low-seated male. These dolls are shaped as if humanoid, but they have no facial features, besides a wide, white grin. Their joints look as if they're on a wooden doll, the skin a pale brown all over, with no definition besides rough edges and wood patterns. Truly blank slates. She can create up to 75 of these. These "dolls" serve as cannon fodder for her. They can intercept attacks, move and jump at her command for distractions and diversions. Beyond this, they can also swarm at an opponent, having the potential to hold them down or overwhelm them with sheer numbers. Though they are unable to attack, they can extend their arms, and hold limbs if they can get their hands on them. At Akia's command, all the dolls she has created will have their feet spontaneously melt, adhering the dolls to the floor with a strength not easily broken by anyone with a strength lower than her own. After this, each and every one of them will instantaneously explode with the force of a cero, sending their energy directly at the opponent. Once she uses this, she can no longer create any more dolls.
Nichibotsu No Migite [lit. "The Right Hand of Dusk"]:
The blade with the strangely-shaped grip held in Akia's right hand, as well as the entirety of her right arm, contain the abilities of her ziamichi spirit's bankai. Whatever this arm, or her sword, touches, as long as it's an attack of an energy-persuasion, will dissolve from existence. However, the process is much faster, and much less taxing on Akia's own body, in this form.
The blade has its own secret. For every attack that the blade dissolves, the attack power, strength, and slicing power of the blade increases by a factor at 1, starting at 1 when this form is activated. When the blade reaches a factor of 10, the blade will unleash a huge torrent of spiritual energy, roughly gran rey cero in strength, every time it collides with something. While this does exponentially increase the strength of her attacks, it also drastically reduces the speed, making her attacks into more of an attack one would expect of a large, two-handed weapon.
Yuugure No Naka [lit. "A Being of Twilight"]:
Much like in her Vollstandig, Akia is surrounded by a protection of sorts. An ability that causes all energy attacks, elemental attacks, etc. to imprint their power, effects, and type into Akia's "knowledge base" for such things. However, there are some changes when entering this form, as opposed to simply using it in Vollstandig.
First off, her limit of abilities able to be absorbed and used increased to Five, instead of her limit of three from Vollstandig. Beyond this, she also gains significantly more control over the absorption and use of these things. To start, she can choose NOT to absorb an ability if it hits her, allowing her to pick and choose the abilities that store, and combine. To add onto this, she can also choose which ability in her roster to get rid of if she accidentally absorbs a sixth, CHOOSING which one is discarded, instead of being confined to the list system she's usually stuck with.
She also gains a new way to USE this energy. Instead of simply adding the effects of these abilities onto her arrows, she has the power to use her left hand to recreate the ability in its entirety, making a replica of it out of white energy before launching it, screaming, twisted, and flashing with black, at the opponent. The reason for this is that she combines them with her own energy, twisting them. This is used as a loophole around those who are immune to damage from their own spiritual energy.
She can still combine attacks if she uses them this way, merging several different abilities into a massive and powerful attack. However, she also still has the option of imbuing her arrows with them.
Nichino Owari [lit. "The End of Days"]:
This technique is Akia's final ability. The use of this means a definite end to the battle, one way or another.
This ability starts with Akia dashing backwards away from the opponent, gaining some distance. Once she's done this, the sword in her right hand will dissolve into the arm itself. Her spiritual energy will spike and flare, shooting off randomly everywhere without any rhyme or reason as she holds her arms out in front of her, her hands open, palms facing her opponent. The white energy from her left arm will jump off into the empty space between the the two of her arms, followed shortly by the black energy as they swirl and dance around eachother, screaming and fighting as they mix and grow, the ball of energy expanding over and over, all of this happening nigh instantaneously. With an utterance of "The End" from Akia, her own pink spiritual pressure screams out from her core, over her entire being, before blasting off of her body, colliding with the ball of competing energy and mixing with it before the entire combination explodes outward, flying at the enemy with the speed of a lightning bolt, growing and growing as it travels until it's roughly the size of a lake, width wise, and as tall as a skyscraper, height wise. The energy from this attack carries a triple-effect. To start, the energy will eat any reishi it comes in contact with. It will devour attacks intended to counter it, the environment if they're in a place that is MADE of reishi (such as the soul society or las noches or some such place), and the like, while gaining strength relative to the amount of reishi it's eaten. Second, it will create replicas of anything that it devours, launching the replicas at the opponent in energy form as huge ballistic missiles. And third, if it makes contact with the opponent, it will hit with the total force of what its eaten, ADDED to the combined force of any attacks that have hit Akia over the course of the battle in its entirety. This makes the combined attack strength of this ability almost incalculable.
However, there is one major drawback of using this ability. If she does? It's over. Not just the battle, but a large majority of her abilities. The cross around her neck will shatter, and her quincy gloves, along with her quincy abilities, will dissolve entirely from her system. Her Ziamichi spirit will fully merge with her own body, dying her hair a shocking black, changing her eye color, and ripping her life from her, gifting to her the Zanpakutō of her Ziamichi spirit, along with the shinigami powers and associations therein. But life as she's known it is now completely gone, her humanity robbed from her, as is her sense of self, as the merge with her ziamichi robs her of her personality, and replaces it entirely with her ziamichi's. This changes her reiatsu (to a deep black), her life force.. everything she is converts to being that of a captain-level shinigami. Even with this, she will be unable to do anything immediately, as she will be out of commission for weeks after using this ability, anywhere from 4 weeks to 2 months, depending on how exhausted she was before using this technique.
Kaosu No Yuugou Drawbacks:To start, Akia has absolutely no control over herself in this form. Her ziamichi control drops to 0, and the beast within takes over. There is no waiting, no pre-planning, no time to think. Her whole being is now pure, carnal rage. Her own personality is locked deep within her mind. If there is an opponent, she will attack. Hell, if she sees another living thing within a mile of herself, she will attack it. She loses her patience, her cognitive thought, and even any traces of her morality. All that's left is an empty, hollow shell. A twisted and evil being that speaks with the voice of a demon itself. An ancient, haunting tone that is inherently eerie.
Beyond this, the form has a time limit. (Fifteen posts total for herself) Once that limit is over, she will return to her sealed state, utterly exhausted, bones broken, unable to move.. Unless she uses her last resort, The End. In which case, her consequences for dropping out of fusion are much more severe.