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Basic Information

- Name: Tessa Morrowend
- Titles: Dragon Girl
- Gender: Female
- Appearance Age: 20
- Age: 716
- Affiliation/Rank: (What Group are they apart of or are they rouge?)

- Appearance Picture:

For the most part, she looks exactly as the picture, except for her hair is a bright red. She wears a standard shinigami with a dragon emblem embroidered on to it in red on the left side of her chest.
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Personality

- Personality:

• timid: Tessa is extremely shy and easily frightened, getting scared from somebody sneaking up and saying hi. She has a weak confidence, having a hard time convincing herwelf she can do something right when off the battlefield.
  
• Draconic battle instinct: An inheritance from her draconic side, whenever she is fighting another, she can understand the style of another on instinct. In addition, if she fights on instinct, her fighting style changes rapidly, becoming many times more dangerous.
  
• Extremely loyal: She is extremely loyal to those who she calls a friend. She will do anything they ask, even if it means betraying the gotei. However, she will not do something for one friend if it threatens another of her friends.
  
• Egotistical: She believes herself to be a higher type of being then other shinigami, due to her draconic origin. She tries not to show this in front of her friends out of respect for them.
  
• Paranoid: She is constantly looking over her shoulder and mistrusting others. For the few she makes friends, she loses her paranoia, and becomes extremely friendly. In battle, this paranoia may cause her to attack otherwise allied beings, seeing them as enemies in addition to her real enemies. However, she always listens to her friends, and thus will not attack allied beings if her friends tell her not to.
  
• Erotophobia: Early in her life, Tessa's mother told her lots of horrifying stories involving rape, and sometimes other sorts of sexual abuse. This caused her to develop a strong fear of anything sexual, whether it be a comment, a wrong touch, or even staring at her breast. Lately this fear has lessened due to some very positive interactions with certain males. While she will now only react if one does something obviously sexual, her reactions are several times harsher then would be normal.

- Likes: Fire, fighting, reading (especially fantasy novels), her friends

- Dislikes: Ice cream, snow, brutes, bullies, anyone who is not her friend
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Background History

- History: Tessa never knew her father, she was raised by her mother. Her mother had once been a loving, caring woman. Her body was always beautiful, but one fateful day changed all that. Her mother had been out along in a wooded area when a huge beast lunged at her. Large bat like wings, huge claws, and red scales, it was a dragon. Tessa's mother could not defend herself, and she curled up in fright. However, the dragon did not intend to hurt her. It scooped her up, then ran off to a cave, where her mother's life changed forever. Pinning her mother up against the wall, the dragon raped her, despite her desperate pleas. Then the dragon flew her back to town before vanishing. Her mother, believing that because they were two different types of beings they could not have a child, went about her daily life like nothing had happened. Unfortunately, the beast's nature allowed it to have a child with any species, and soon her mother realized she was pregnant. After nine agonizing month, in a small town in the middle of the rukongai, Tessa Morrowend was born.

From her birth, her heritage was painfully obvious. Red scales covered certain areas of her body, along with a lizard like tail and red bat like wings that sprouted from her shoulders. Every time her mother looked at Tessa, she could see fear and sadness well up in her mother. At night her mother would always tell her a story, however, these stories were not the kind fairy tails others might hear. The were stories of evil monsters who raped and otherwise sexually hurt people. Told in the scariest way possible, they left little Tessa having nightmares over and over. Her mother wouldn't stop, even when she got sick when little Tessa was seven years old. As Tessa continued to grow over the next five years, the stories were told to her again and again, promoting a huge fear of anything sexual within Tessa. Then, when she was 13 years of age, her mother passed away, leaving her all alone in the world.

After the death of her mother, Tessa wandered around, taken in by friendly families, spending a couple of years with each one, then moving on. She wasn't sure why she should live, what drove her to survive, but knew something was. Something pushed her inside to continue going, to live on despite the hardships. One day when she was 50, while walking down a road, a couple of local bullies surrounded her, demanding she give them all her possessions. Quickly, she whirled the walking stiff she had, knocking them all off of their feet. She then moved on. Her actions only brought other bullies to her. As she moved around for the next 50 years, gang members followed her, trying to capture her. Each time they came she defeated them, learning a bit more about fighting whenever she did. They didn't end, kept coming, until one day she had had enough. She found the leader of the gang, surrounded by minions, and killed them all with nothing but the walking stick.

When she turned 100, she heard about a fighting tournament, hidden from shinigami view so that others could fight in order to determine their worth. Curious, she entered herself, and there was also a cash prize to motivate her which grabbed her attention. It was a small amount, but it would help her get through her lonely life. There were only 8 other participants, as the tournament hadn't been that well publicized. They were divided in to four fights in the first round, winner advancing. She would be fighting first, and her first opponent was a huge, muscular man. He attempted to punch down at her, but she dodged easily, then flew upwards, knocking him out with a single punch to the head. Luckily for her the tournament was being held out in an open area, or she probably couldn't have used her wings to fly. After her fight ended, she sat down, watching the next fights closely. She tried to find the weaknesses of each person's fighting style. When her next fight came, this analysis helped her immensely. The person had extremely quick punches, but she knew he could not throw low or high punches. Flying upward, she grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up, dropping him from fifty feet up, knocking him out. Her next fight was more difficult, this man could see her punches coming, dodging each of them. He managed to get a good punch to her jaw, and she fell to the ground. Watching as he approached, she aimed a quick kick at his groin, then at his head, knocking him out to win the tournament.

Her win at the tournament earned her some money, and gave the tournament a large amount of publicity. She came to the next tournament, winning again with a little bit more difficulty. She continued coming to each tournament, held every 3 years, winning more money as the tournament became more popular with each one. For 300 hears she went to each and every tournament, and then she stopped going, disappearing from the arena. Tessa had left the tournament seen because the competition had become extremely weak compared to her in the more recent ones, and the crowd and competition always seemed to have a sexual edge to it. Having already won a large sum of money, she decided to pick up and move on, living the next hundred years with little incident, beating up a gang every so often, breaking up a street brawl sometimes, but never going near the ring again.

One day when she was in a pub, she saw five shinigami snickering as they drank their ale. Looking over at them, she overheard them laughing about how they had pushed an elderly woman over and demanded her money, which they had then used to pay for their ale. In frustration, she mumbled something about stupid bullying twits. The shinigami heard her comment though, and stormed over. Surrounding her, they demanded she apologize, and one gave her a slight touch to her breasts. She lunged out, attempted to punch the man, but totally missed. Laughing, they all drew their blades, one proclaiming to be the 4th seat of squad 11, to which the owner reacted in extreme fear. They slashed at her, and she attempted to block with the scaled areas of her arm. They keep pushing her back, until she hit the wall. Grinning down at her, they prepared to strike. Her instinct took over, her spiritual energy skyrocketing towards that of a vice captain, or perhaps a captain. Her movements were extremely fast, and not how one would expect a human to move. With one burst of speed, she stood behind them, holding the leader's swords in her left hand as their heads fell to the ground, cut clean off.

When she looked behind her and saw what she had done, fear filled her. She ran out of the pub, tears flowing from her eyes. What had she done? How had that happened? After a few minutes curled up in a dark alley, she calmed down. Realizing that she couldn't control such a power, she swore to herself that she would not ever allow herself to lose control like that. Returning to the pub she payed for her drink, only to be confronted by a shinigami who was investigating the incident. Scared of killing another man, she admitted to it, and the shinigami told her if she went to the soul academy she could learn to control her powers. She had to wait 15 years, training herself as best she could, until the day of the next entrance exam came.

At the entrance exam, she felt she was doing well until it came time to partner up for a sparring match. Somehow she got paired up with an eight year old, and she felt pretty confident as they moved to their places. Once it started though, all confidence left her. The boy lunged at her, stabbing towards her neck. Moving to the side, she widened her eyes as she noticed his wooden sword was aimed to pierce her wing. Pivoting, she barely had time to push his sword away, saving her wing. The assault continued as the boy sent a barrage of blow after blow at her, each time she had barely enough time to block his attacks. Continually he pushed her back until she felt herself bump against a wall. The child then ran towards her, sword raised for a stab that would ultimately be the end for her if done correctly. At the very last minute, the child tripped on a rock sticking up from the ground. His sword lowering, Tessa took her chance, leaping upwards. Her wings beat behind her, pulling her further in to the sky as she landed a soft kick to the boy's back to knock him to the ground. Landing next to him, she pointed her wooden sword down to him, getting declared the winner.

In the soul academy, she was placed in the advanced class, having excelled at both Kidō and sparring. The boy she had sparred with was also in the advanced class for swordplay, but not Kidō. Tessa was a shy loner, and while most of the class was one big group of friends, Tessa never tried to go near them. The other boy seemed to not have any friends, but she didn't put much thought to it. He seemed to ask her to spar with him a lot, but she always turned him down with a shy voice. She did have to spar during some classes, and there were a few times where she almost hurt someone because her instinct kicked in at the wrong time.

Finally, after several times of turning the boy down, Tessa took pity on him during the second half of their first year. She told him to meet her outside in a wooded area and she would spar with him. When they started, as his first strike came, her instincts took over. Her wooden sword swung out, knocking the boy back, and almost making him loose his blade. Without giving him time to rest she pushed in, slamming her sword downward, he managed to block it at the last second. She continued her attacks, and this time it was the boy who found himself forced on to the defensive, Tessa overpowering him. For a few minutes it went on like this, and just when it seemed the boy would snap, she awakened, her blade dropping to the floor as she took a heavy breath. As she stopped, the boy pushed in, bopping her lightly on the head and declaring himself the winner. Tessa dropped to the ground, shivering in fear. Her instinct had awakened, and she had nearly killed a student. However, the boy seemed to be upset that she wasn't getting up for more, and she looked at him curiously. When she explained her situation to him, he assured her he wouldn't tell anyone, he just wanted someone to train with. He told her his name was Nickcca, and she gave him hers. They trained together, Tessa slowly learning to use the style she used when her instincts came out while Nickcca bettered himself. They were great friends, but also rivals, always attempting to one up each other in a friendly sort of way.

Nickcca managed to graduate from the academy two years ahead of Tessa, and she trained herself extremely hard in those last two years to get out as soon as possible. When she finally joined the gotei 13, she joined the same squad as Nickcca, following him to whichever squad he went to. When Nickcca was put on leave due to some issues he was having, Tessa started jumping from squad to squad. Unable to stay in a single squad more then ten to twenty five years, she moved on every so often. She visited Nickcca often, listening to his frustration. Worried, she has just heard that Nickcca might be coming back soon, it gave her strength, and allowed her to make her years while in sixth squad more easily.

When the war for australia came around, Tessa decided to go help out. Going to the city of Darwin with others who were helping the yuudeshi, Tessa was ready to fight. Since it was cold, she help the morale of soldiers with her flames, and when the fight came she did her best to defend the others she was helping. However, during the fighting Tessa lost control of rage, her body transforming in to a new form as her anger took control of her. She ended up attacking both friend and foe, and once again she is afraid of her draconic powers.

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Zanpakutô
- Reiatsu Color: Flame like coloring

- Zanpakutô Spirit Name: Gladius scientia

- Zanpakutô Spirit Appearance:


- Inner World: Her Inner world is one huge room. A library, the walls surrounded by bookcases, and more book cases stand in the middle of the room, forming aisles to walk down. Each book case is filled to the brim with book, huge bound volumes of ancient age. At the front of the room there is a large desk, books piled up on both sides of it and covering almost the entire surface. To one side of the desk, a door stands, barred so that no one could get in. In the other direction, the only window is set in to the wall, bright light pouring in to the room.

- Sealed Zanpakutô Apperance :


- Sealed Zanpakutô Abilities:

- Release: Speak the truth, Gladius scientia!

- Shikai Description:


- Shikai Abilities:
The seven runes of knowledge:While in shikai, there are seven runes etched in to the blade. Whenever she casts a Kidō, she can choose to store it within the blade instead of having it be cast as normal. If she chooses to store it within the blade, the Kidō will seem to fail, and a number of runes on the blade will light up depending on the power of the Kidō. For Kidō 1 to 33, one rune will light up. For Kidō 34 to 65, two runes will light up. For Kidō higher then 65, 3 runes will light up. Once all seven runes are lit, she can not store any more Kidō within the sword. When she calls the command "scientia improbos", all the Kidō stored within the sword will be released, causing them to all be cast at once.

Chantless Kido: While in her shikai or bankai state, Tessa is able to cast kido without their incantation while maintaining the kido strength as if she had cast it with the incantation. While in her shikai state, her kido capabilities with this ability are halved (or maximum kido 50 at 0 tier master and grandmaster).

- Bankai Description: Upon releasing her bankai, a giant ghostly book appears in the air behind Tessa, about five times her height and twice that in width. This ghostly book is both intangible and semi transparent, meaning it can be passed through and can't affect the area surrounding it, as well as people being able to see beyond it. Her sword shrinks and shifts, becoming a simple dagger like blade , both the pommel and guard shaped to resemble dragons with a red ruby embedded in to the guard (Image of the blade below).


- Bankai Abilities:
Realm of knowledge, Tomes of Alexandria: Whenever Tessa activates her bankai, it automatically summons forth five floating tomes. Their covers are always dark in color, usually dark red, purple, or black. So long as her bankai is active, at the end of every post another of these books appears in the air nearby Tessa. She can control each of these tomes freely, as if they were simply another limb. Tessa can charge each of these books with a kido or with any of her bankai abilities, causing glowing blue text to appear upon the spine of the book. At her will she can have any of the tomes open, completely, releasing the charged ability in the direction that the book open pages are facing.

Realm of knowledge, combined kido: By using a portion of kido chants along with the kido number and name of another kido, she can actually cast multiple kido at once. Instead of reacting as a normal kido would, this instead creates a glowing ball, about twice as big as Tessa's fist, from which sprout all the kidos cast with this method. From 2-1 to 1-3 only 2 kido may be combined in this way. From 1-2 to 0-4 up to 3 kido can be combined in this way. From 0-3 onwards up to 4 kido can be combined in this way. In addition, the total of the different kido can not be above the maximum kido she can cast (for instance, as a 0-5 with a master in kido she can cast up to 80s kido. She could use this ability to combine bakudo 39 Enkōsen and Hadō 31 Shakkahō because 39+31=80, but not bakudo 39 Enkōsen and Hadō 33 Sōkatsui because those two total up to 82).

Realm of knowledge, soundless kido: While within her bankai, unless she is using her combined kido ability, Tessa is capable of casting kido without making a sound, using simply her will to create the kido. She can only use the lower half of her kido capability with this ability (for instance a 1-5 with a master in kido can cast up to kido 80, and would only be able to use up to kido 40 with this ability).

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Draconic Heritage

- Basic Abilities:
Fire Breath: Tessa can let loose a cone of flames from her mouth due to her draconic heritage. Due to the sudden and extreme increase in the temperature of the air, this creates a huge amount of force within this cone of flames, this force attempting to crush all those who are exposed to it. This technique is equivalent (in terms of damaging ability) to an arrancar’s cero, though in addition it will set the person on fire, causing them to take a small amount of additional burn damage for a number of posts depending on her skill (0 for beginner, 1 for adept, 2 for advanced, 3 for master, 4 for grandmaster).

Skin of the flame dragon: Tessa is less vulnerable to fire then her peers, having been born with dragon’s blood in her veins. She takes 25% less damage from fire based attacks and suffers 25% less from any debilitating effects they may have. In addition, friendly fire based abilities effect her 25% more than they otherwise would. On top of that, she takes 25% more damage and suffers 25% more from the debilitating effects of Ice based abilities. This ability is replaced by Fire Immunity and Ice weakness when in her truth of the dragon form.

- Truth of the dragon description: Tessa’s horns double in length, easily seen through her hair. Along with that she grows dangerously sharp claws and her whole body, face included, is covered in brilliant red scales.

- Truth of the dragon abilities:
Rules system: Not really an ability, more of a clarification. I am using the vizard systems for hollow masks for Tessa’s truth of the dragon transformation. This means that it follows the time limit for masks, she is fatigued after coming out of this transformation, ect.

Fire Immunity: In this form, Tessa is almost completely unaffected by fire and heat. However, she is not completely immune. Any flame attacks of her tier or lower though will be completely ineffective though. For every minor tier above Tessa though (going from 3-3 to 3-2 is one minor tier) she will take 10% of the damage from the attack with a maximum of 50% of the damage (all other debilitating effects scale similarly). In addition, this ability has no effect on secondary effects of such abilities that do not relate to flames. For instance, if someone had an explosion based ability, she would take reduced damage from the heat and flames but she would take full damage from the explosion. This only applies to detrimental flame based abilities, on the flip side any flame based ability that has a positive effect effects her twice as well as it normally would.

Ice weakness: On the opposite side, Tessa is weak to water and ice based abilities, being unable to benefit from friendly abilities and taking double damage from cold and water based abilities and suffering doubly from any debilitating effects they may have.

Flame handler: While in her truth of the dragon form, Tessa is capable of actually holding fire. She seems to treat them as if they were play doh or something, easily picking them up in her hands and reshaping them to the form she desires. She can shape it in to a ball and throw it at her opponents, or shape it in to a sword and use it to fight her opponents, whatever form she wants to make it in to she can. Forming fire in to a shape in this way cause tiny explosions within the flames, producing a small amount of force though. Though the amount of force produced by these explosions is very, very small, the explosions are happening throughout the flames so long as they are in are being forced in to a form unnatural to them by Tessa. These numerous explosions cause the flames to seem to have a tangible form. This feeling is just the force of the numerous explosions within the flames forcing objects away from it.

Flame Eater: In this form Tessa has gained the capability to eat flames and fire. When she does, if it is not her own flames, her wounds will heal and she will regain her energy as the fire replenishes what she has lost. When it comes to healing her wounds, this is more of a regeneration technique then a healing technique. The fire starts to replace the lost mass upon of the wounds on her body, effectively healing her that way. She cannot heal more then 5% of her original body mass per post, but she can eat two posts worth of fire in a single post (so she will eat the flames in post 1, and will heal for 5% of her body mass on turn one plus another 5% on post 2). If she uses the fire to heal her wounds, she cannot use the fire to restore energy though. When eating fire to restore energy, she will usually gain 25% of the energy used to create the fire technique, but she cannot surpass her maximum capability at her current tier (in other words, she can use it to replenish energy she has lost from using techniques, but she can't use it to surpass her maximum energy capacity).

- Revelation of the dragon description: (Requires Tessa to obtain 0-3 tier, equivalent to vizard’s resserecion. Tessa may not obtain shikokai.)

- Revelation of the dragon abilities: (Requires Tessa to obtain 0-3 tier, equivalent to vizard’s resserecion. Tessa may not obtain shikokai.)

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Skill Sheet

General Skills

• Durability: Advance
  
• General Speed: Advance
  
• Strength: Advance
  
• Weapon Skill: Adept
  

Racial Skills

• Hoho: Advance
  
• Kidō: Master
  
• Zanjutsu: Adept
  
• Hakuda: Beginner
  

Will Skills

• Willpower/Determination: Adept
  
• Mental Deduction: Adept
  
• Pain Endurance: Adept
  
• Focus: Adept
  

Flame handler: While in her truth of the dragon form, Tessa is capable of actually holding fire. She seems to treat them as if they were play doh or something, easily picking them up in her hands and reshaping them to the form she desires. She can shape it in to a ball and throw it at her opponents, or shape it in to a sword and use it to fight her opponents, whatever form she wants to make it in to she can.

Flame Eater: In this form Tessa has gained the capability to eat flames and fire. When she does, if it is not her own flames, her wounds will heal and she will regain her energy as the fire replenishes what she has lost.

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• Willpower/Determination: Adept
  
• Mental Deduction: Adept
  
• Pain Endurance: Adept
  
• Focus: Adept