WiP~ Renya [shinigami/demon hybrid, pseudo ziamichi, finished][Approved 3-5]

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Basic Information

- Name: Renya
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- Gender: Male
- Appearance Age: 19
- Age: 103
- Affiliation/Rank: gotei 13

- Appearance Description: Renya is slightly over six feet tall, his build lean and muscular. Slightly long brown hair frames his face, green eye looking out from behind the strands of hair. His skin is slightly tanned, and a red scarf wraps loosely around his neck lower jaw, the ends falling behind him, long enough to reach his knees. He otherwise wears a standard shihaksho, his left arm covered in a false arm that looks like a mechanical prosthetic. Underneath though, is the demonic visage of his true arm, the gift of his demonic heritage. His sword is strapped to his right hip, and despite being left handed he wields it with only his right.

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Personality

- Personality:
Fearful: Renya is extremely afraid that someone will discover that he is a half demon, these fears leading to him restricting himself incredibly in combat. He tries to avoid using kido as much as possible, as well as using his right hand only in combar despite being left handed. These are both done to hide his demonic inheritance, overall Renya tries to hide how strong he truly is in fear of being identified as a half demon.

Lazy: One thing that most people notice about Renya is that he is extremely lazy. He doesn't do anything unless he absolutely has to, and though he always follows orders he does gripe about them as well. Despite his griping though, Renya is committed to being a shinigami, being a member of the gotei 13 means everything to him.

Anti Social: Renya does not like being around others. He in fact, actively avoids social interaction, for two different reasons. He fears that someone might discover that he is a half demon if he lets them get close to him, as well as Renya's inability to tell when someone is joking or being serious. This leads to some very awkward social situations, in which Renya could take a joking threat seriously, causing unwanted fights.

Determined: Once Renya decides to do something, he will see it done. Whether it be now or at another time, Renya does not give up on anything, always pushing ahead to complete his goals. If he is forced to stop at a moment due to orders, he will return to what he was doing once he is free from his orders. His determination makes him quite the formidable foe in battle, continuing long past when others would have given up, and seemingly having no understand of the difference in power between her and her opponent.
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Background History

- History: Renya, the child of a forbidden love between a demon and a shinigami. His mother, a shinigami of the gotei 13, and his father, a demon of shadow fall, fell in love and decided that despite their allegiances that they would stay together. It was while his mother was pregnant with him that his father was killed by a rogue vizard. However, his mother gave birth and raised him, pouring her love in to the child that had come from the love she felt. For years they lived in happiness, Renya growing older. However, as he aged his left arm began to change, as if shedding a skin to reveal the true arm beneath it. By the time he was ten, the arm had completely changed. No longer was it a human like arm, now it was a demonic visage that showed his true parentage.

Still, his mother did not push him away. Instead she showed her love for him further despite the thoughts of others. She crafted for him a covering for his arm, one that would help it look human like. Made of metal, it now looked like he had a prosthetic arm, and the few who had seen his true arm thought they had cut off the demonic arm and replaced it with a false one. However, as time went on his mother became weaker, the strain of losing her lover, taking care of her child, and her job combining to overcome her natural resilience. She died when Renya was eighteen years old. It was on that day that Renya swore to himself to continue on with his mother's work and join the gotei thirteen.

From then on he pushed himself, taking odd jobs to support himself while learning to work metal, teach himself fighting skills, and learning rudimentary control over his spirit energy. Whenever needed he would rework the false metal arm his mother had made for him, treasuring the false arm like it was his life. Focused on his work, it wasn't long before he entered Shino academy at the age of seventy. There he continued to push himself, his swordplay and hand to hand combat being about average compared to those around him. While at first he had some trouble with learning kido, he soon found that all he needed was an extra bit of concentration and it would work. Once he figured this out though, his kido abilities soared above those he was training with to a prodigal level. Finally, after years of study, he graduated at the age of eighty. Of course squad five wished to have the young kido prodigy, but Renya flat out refused. He had learned during his time at Shino Academy that his original issue with kido was due to his demonic genes causing him to pull on demon magic as well as kido while casting. Fearing that he would end up revealing his demonic nature, he could not go to squad five.

Instead he ended up in squad 3, where his combat skills were pushed farther and his shunpo was finally pulled up to par. Rather then socialize with his squad mates, Renya instead threw himself in to training and bettering himself. He pushed himself and pushed himself, though he refused any offer for a seated position. He did not want his secret to come out, and he figured as a low level grunt there was less likely a chance of that happening. Instead he pushed himself further and kept to himself, a drive to become stronger overtaking him as he went onwards.

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Background History
- Reiatsu Color: a mix of pitch black and dark red

- Zanpakutô Spirit Name: Laminas Umbrae

- Zanpakutô Spirit Appearance:

- Inner World: Renya's inner world is a battlefield, one lined with dead bodies. Blood covers the ground as the night sky hangs overhead. Shadows flicker around the tall piles of bodies that make the place seem like a maze. Roars and sounds of battle can be heard in the distance, the outlines of bodies being sliced apart can be seen in the distance.

- Sealed Zanpakutô Apperance : Laminas Umbrae is a katana, the handle solid gold wrapped in black leather, with a circular guard made of silver. The blade is perfectly made, three feet in length and usually wielded in one hand by Renya. The sheath is a deep blue, almost purple color, ending in a cap of gold at the end.

- Sealed Zanpakutô Abilities:
Shadow knives: Using this ability, Renya can form a long, deadly looking blade from shadows. He is completely proficient in using this blade as a throwing knife, and these knives are just as sharp and durable as a zanpakto, though only being six inches long plus another four for the handle. While in sealed form though, Renya can only maintain two knives, and cannot dispel them early so he has to wait for them to lose their form and disperse in to a cloud of black smoke. The knives maintain themselves for three posts, after which they disperse in to black smoke.

- Release: Slice through the light, Laminas Umbrae!

- Shikai Description: Renya's shikai is not much different from his usual blade in appearance. The only difference is the whole sword turns a pitch black color.

- Shikai Abilities:
Shadow Step: Shadow step is one of Renya's most basic shikai abilities. Using this ability, he can pull himself silently into his shadow and out another, allowing him to appear and disappear completely silently. He can only use this ability twice per post though.

Shadow clones: Using this ability, Renya forms a clone of himself from his energy and his shadow. These clones obey his mental orders to them, and have the same stats as he does. However, the clones cannot access any of his release states, and are stuck in a permanently sealed state. Inflicting critical damage to them will cause them to disperse in to a black cloud of smoke. Renya can only maintain 3 clones at a time and a clone will disperse after having been around for five post. He can only make one clone per post.

Shadow knives: While in shikai, Renya can still use his sealed ability, shadow knives. However, while in his shikai state Renya can maintain up to seven knives and can dispel the knives at will, causing them to disperse in a cloud of black smoke.

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Demon Inheritance

- Basic Abilities:
Demon Arm: While Renya's left arm looks like a metal prosthetic, in truth the metal is just a covering to hid his true arm. below the metal is a demonic looking arm, Renya's inheritance from his demon father. Renya does not hide his arm only because he does not want anyone to notice his demonic heritage, but because of what his touch does. Renya's arm sucks the energy and life out of this it touches, slowly draining them until they become nothing more then dead husks. He cannot disable this effect in any way, and when not covered it has been noted to move as if it had a mind of its own, always doing so as if it was attempting to grab someone to drain them. This drains energy equivalent of 5% of Renya's full capacity, restoring half as much as it drained, and can happen up to twice per post.

Kido and demon magic: One of the strange things about Renya is his ability to use demon magic. Both kido and demon magic come easily to Renya, and he uses his Kido skill to determine his proficiency with both. However, his ability to use demon magic has its disadvantages. First off, his kido capability is reduced to ten, and furthermore kido is twice as taxing upon him as it normally would be. Additionally, Renya has a 10% chance for the kido he casts to be cast as a weakened demon magic version of itself. For each kido cast correctly in a row, this chance will increase by 10%, until at 100% his next kido will be a weakened demon magic version of itself. This weakened demon magic version of the kido is half as powerful as the kido normally would be and is obviously of demonic origin.

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Skill Sheet

General Skills

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

Racial Skills

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

Will Skills

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

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• Willpower/Determination: Adept
  
• Mental Deduction: Beginner
  
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• Focus: Beginner