Guinevere Tsuritsa; The One True Light [FINISHED] 0-5(0-2)

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General Information
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Name: Guinevere Tsuritsa
Titles: The One True Light, The Angel, The Faith-Healer, The Nomad, "Gwen".
Race: Vizard
Age: Seven-Hundred and Twelve Years Old (712)
Gender: Female
Orientation: Bisexual, Monogamous
Blood Type: A Positive
D.O.B.: August 1st, 1704 A.D.
Zodiac: Leo
Father: Theodore Tsuritsa
Mother: Evelyn Tsuritsa
Siblings: N/A
Children: N/A
Marital Status: Single
Rank/Affiliation: Nomad, Unaffiliated.

Appearance:



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Personality
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"Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds."

--David Deida

Guinevere is a natural-born leader, full of passion and charisma. With a natural confidence that begets influence, she takes a great deal of pride and joy in guiding others to work together to improve themselves and their community.

People tend to be drawn to strong personalities, and Guinevere radiates authenticity, concern and altruism, unafraid to stand up and speak when she feels something needs to be said. She finds it natural and easy to communicate with others, especially in person, and her intuition helps her to reach every mind, be it through facts and logic or raw emotion. Guinevere easily sees people's motivations and seemingly disconnected events, and are able to bring these ideas together and communicate them as a common goal with an eloquence that is nothing short of mesmerizing.

The interest Guinevere has in others is genuine, almost to a fault – when she believes in someone, she can become too involved in the other person's problems, placing too much trust in them. Luckily, this trust tends to be a self-fulfilling prophesy, as her altruism and authenticity inspire those she cares about to become better themselves. If she isn't careful, she can overextend her optimism, sometimes pushing others further than they're ready or willing to go.

Guinevere is vulnerable to another snare as well: she has a tremendous capacity for reflecting on and analyzing her own feelings, but if she gets too caught up in another person's plight, she can develop a sort of emotional hypochondria, seeing other people's problems in herself, trying to fix something in herself that isn't wrong. If she gets to a point where she are held back by limitations someone else is experiencing, it can hinder her ability to see past the dilemma and be of any help at all. When this happens, it's important for Guinevere to pull back and use that self-reflection to distinguish between what she really feels, and what is a separate issue that needs to be looked at from another perspective.

Guinevere is a passionate altruist, sometimes even to a fault, and is unlikely to be afraid to take the slings and arrows while standing up for the people and ideas she believes in. She is a genuine, caring person who talks the talk and walks the walk, and nothing makes her happier than leading the charge, uniting and motivating her team with infectious enthusiasm.

When it comes to friendships, Guinevere is anything but passive. While some people may accept the circumstantial highs and lows of friendship, their feelings waxing and waning with the times, Guinevere will put active effort into maintaining these connections, viewing them as substantial and important, not something to let slip away through laziness or inattention. This philosophy of genuine connection is core to Guinevere's beliefs, and while it is visible in the workplace and in romance, it is clearest in the breadth and depth of her friendships.

Guinevere takes genuine pleasure in getting to know other people, and has no trouble talking with people of all types and modes of thought. Even in disagreement, other perspectives are fascinating to her – though like most people, she connects best with individuals who share her principles and ideals and are best able to explore her viewpoints with her, which are simply too idealistic for most. It is with these closest friends that Guinevere will truly open up, keeping her many other connections in a realm of lighthearted but genuine support and encouragement.

Others seem to truly value Guinevere's friendship, appreciating the warmth, kindness, and sincere optimism and cheer she brings to the table. Guinevere wants to be the best friend possible, and it shows in how she works to find out not just the superficial interests of her friends, but their strengths, passions, hopes and dreams. Nothing makes her happier than to see the people she cares about do well, and she is more than happy to take her own time and energy to help make it happen.

While Guinevere enjoys lending this helping hand, others may simply not have the energy or drive to keep up with it – creating further strain, Guinevere can become offended if her efforts aren't reciprocated when the opportunity arises. Ultimately, Guinevere's give and take can become stifling to types who are more interested in the moment than the future, or who simply have identities that rest firmly on the assertive side, making them content with who they are and uninterested in the sort of self-improvement and goal-setting that Guinevere holds so dear.

When this happens Guinevere can be critical, if she believes it necessary. While usually tactful and often helpful, if her friend is already annoyed by her attempts to push them forward, it can simply cause her to dig in her heels further.

Ultimately though, Guinevere's excitement and unyielding optimism provides opportunity for many satisfying relationships with people who appreciate and share her vision and authenticity. The joy she takes in moving things forward means that there is always a sense of purpose behind her friendships, creating bonds that are not easily shaken.

Guinevere takes dating and relationships seriously, selecting partners with an eye towards the long haul, rather than the more casual approach that might be expected from others. There's really no greater joy for Guinevere than to help along the goals of someone she cares about, and the interweaving of lives that a committed relationship represents is the perfect opportunity to do just that. Even in the dating phase, she ready to show her commitment by taking the time and effort to establish herself as a dependable, trustworthy partner.

Guinevere's intuition helps her to keep up with the rapidly shifting moods that are common early in relationships, but she will still rely on conversations about their mutual feelings, checking the pulse of the relationship by asking how things are, and if there's anything else she can do. While this can help to keep conflict, which Guinevere abhors, to a minimum, she also risks being overbearing or needy.

Guinevere doesn't need much to be happy, just to know that her partner is happy, and for her partner to express that happiness through visible affection. Making others' goals come to fruition is often Guinevere's chiefest concern, and she will spare no effort in helping her partner to live the dream. If she isn't careful though, her quest for her partner's satisfaction can leave her neglecting her own needs, and it's important for her to remember to express those needs on occasion, especially early on.

Guinevere's tendency to avoid any kind of conflict, sometimes even sacrificing her own principles to keep the peace, can lead to long-term problems if these efforts never fully resolve the underlying issues that they mask. On the other hand, she can sometimes be too preemptive in resolving her conflicts, asking for criticisms and suggestions in ways that convey neediness or insecurity. Guinevere invests her emotions wholly in her relationships, and is sometimes so eager to please that it actually undermines the relationship – this can lead to resentment, and even the failure of the relationship. When this happens, Guinevere experiences strong senses of guilt and betrayal, as she sees all her efforts slip away.

If potential partners appreciate these qualities though, and make an effort themselves to look after the needs of their partner, they will enjoy long, happy, passionate relationships. Guinevere is known to be a dependable lover, perhaps more interested in routine and stability than spontaneity in her sex life, but always dedicated to the selfless satisfaction of their partners. Ultimately, Guinevere believes that the only true happiness is mutual happiness, and that's the stuff successful relationships are made of.

Guinevere has been pegged as intelligent, warm, idealistic, charismatic, creative, social... With this wind at her back, she is able to thrive in many diverse roles, at any level of seniority. As a subordinate, Guinevere will often underestimate herself – nevertheless, she quickly make an impression on her superiors. A quick learner and excellent multitasker, Guinevere is able to take on multiple responsibilities with competence and good cheer. She's hardworking, reliable and eager to help – but this can all be a double-edged sword, as some will take advantage of this excellent quality of character by making too many requests and overburdening Guinevere with extra work. She is extremely conflict-averse and tries to avoid unnecessary criticism, and in all likelihood will accept these extra tasks in an attempt to maintain a positive impression and frictionless environment.

As a colleague, Guinevere's desire to assist and cooperate is even more evident as she draws her teammates into an environment where everyone can feel comfortable expressing their opinions and suggestions, working together to develop win-win situations that get the job done. Her tolerance, open-mindedness and easy sociability make it easy for her to relate to her colleagues, but also makes it perhaps a little too easy for her colleagues to shift their problems onto her plate. Being a diplomat by nature, Guinevere is sensitive to the needs of others, and her role as a social nexus means that problems inevitably find their way to her doorstep, where colleagues will find a willing, if overburdened, associate.

While perfectly capable as a subordinate and colleague, Guinevere's true calling, where her capacity for insightful and inspiring communication and sensitivity to the needs of others really shows, is in leadership. As a leader, Guinevere combines her skill in recognizing individual motivations with her natural charisma to not only push her teams and projects forward, but to make her teams want to push forward. Guinevere may sometimes stoop to manipulation, the alternative often being a more direct confrontation, but her end goal is always to get done what she sets out to do in a way that leaves everyone involved satisfied with their roles and the results they achieved together.


Strengths:

• Tolerant: Guinevere is a true team player, and she recognize that that means listening to other peoples' opinions, even when they contradict her own. She admits she doesn't have all the answers, and is often receptive to dissent, so long as it remains constructive.
  
  
• Reliable: The one thing that galls Guinevere the most is the idea of letting down a person or cause she believes in. If it's possible, Guinevere can always be counted on to see it through.
  
  
• Charismatic: Charm and popularity are qualities Guinevere has in spades. She instinctively knows how to capture an audience, and pick up on mood and motivation in ways that allow her to communicate with reason, emotion, passion, restraint – whatever the situation calls for. A talented imitator, Guinevere is able to shift her tone and manner to reflect the needs of the audience, while still maintaining her own voice.
  
  
• Altruistic: Uniting these qualities is Guinevere's unyielding desire to do good in and for her community, be it in her own home or the global stage. Warm and selfless, Guinevere genuinely believes that if she can just bring people together, they can do a world of good.
  
  
• Natural Leader: More than seeking authority herself, Guinevere often ends up in leadership roles at the request of others, cheered on by the many admirers of her strong personality and positive vision.
  

Weaknesses:

• Overly Idealistic: Guinevere can be caught off guard as they find that, through circumstance or nature, or simple misunderstanding, people fight against her and defy the principles she's adopted, however well-intentioned they may be. She is more likely to feel pity for this opposition than anger, and can earn a reputation of naïveté.
  
  
• Too Selfless: Guinevere has a tendency to bury herself in her hopeful promises, feeling others' problems as her own and striving hard to meet her word. If she isn't careful, she could spread herself too thin, and be left unable to help anyone.
  
  
• Too Sensitive: While receptive to criticism, seeing it as a tool for leading a better team, it's easy for Guinevere to take it a little too much to heart. Her sensitivity to others means that Guinevere sometimes feels problems that aren't her own and tries to fix things she can't fix, worrying if she is doing enough.
  
  
• Fluctuating Self-Esteem: Guinevere defines her self-esteem by whether she is able to live up to her ideals, and sometimes asks for criticism more out of insecurity than out of confidence, always wondering what she could do better. If she fails to meet a goal or to help someone she said she'd help, her self-confidence will undoubtedly plummet.
  
  
• Struggle to Make Tough Decisions: If caught between a rock and a hard place, Guinevere can be stricken with paralysis, imagining all the consequences of her actions, especially if those consequences are humanitarian.
  

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History
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Background:

Life was hard in the high-numbered districts of the western rukongai. Born to poverty, Guinevere was the child of a mother who passed away during her birthing, and a father who spent all day drinking and who took care of her just long enough for her to learn how to walk before essentially leaving Guinevere on her own. Guinevere left home at a very young age, running away due to feeling neglected at roughly six years old. She fell in with a group of children a lot like herself, and they were the ones who raised her properly, teaching her about life, the world around her, and most importantly how to steal and not get caught. It was this group that got her in trouble, as she was always the scape goat for their escapades if they got caught, being that she was the youngest of the bunch. She took the falls gladly, though, as this was the only family she had ever known, and she wasn't about to just abandon them.

This trend continued throughout her life, through her teenage years, all the way up until her fourty fourth birthday. It was on this day that her life was changed exponentially when word passed down through the grapevine that a captain of the Seireitei's Gotei 13 was coming to their district to visit and talk with the elders of the area. Guinevere and her friends devised a plan. While the captain was busy talking, the older children would walk up and distract her, and that's when Guinevere would pick her pocket and swipe whatever she had. On the day this plan was to be executed, everyone did their jobs to the letter. While the captain was talking, one of the older children asked a question about the Seireitei, which the captain turned to answer. When she did, that's when Guinevere came up behind her and slipped a hand into her pocket, attempting to rob her. It was all going perfectly, but somehow the captain had obviously felt the intrusion, as suddenly Guinevere's thin arm had nimble fingers stopping it in its place. Guinevere closed her eyes and braced herself, preparing to get hit, or thrown, or cussed out. However, when she opened her eyes, all she saw was a smile. "Here you go, young one" the captain had said as she removed Guinevere's hand from her pocket before reaching in herself, giving Guinevere the frankly obnoxious amount of yen within. When Guinevere asked her why she hadn't punished her, her answer was only that she obviously needed it more than she herself did. Guinevere tried to give it back, but she said that it no longer belonged to her, and was on her way.

And that was how Guinevere Tsuritsa met Kohitsuji Lionus.

This moment changed the course of her life. Guinevere began working hard, training herself until she went to Seireitei itself and applied for the Shino Academy. Her time there was grueling, as she had to work up from peasantry as opposed to having been spoon fed like the noblefolk there. However, she quickly fought her way into advanced classes, proving her affinity for all things energy and Kido, as well as some significant speed that baffled many. She graduated with honors, and was offered an unseated position in the Fifth division for her Kido prowess alone. She accepted gratefully, happy to be under the command of the man who changed her life.

Over the next while, she worked even harder, training, going on missions, and pushing herself to the absolute limit where most would've given up. It was for this reason that she rapidly ascended not only the ranks within her squadron, but the tiers of her own power. With fewer years under her belt than a good portion of all shinigami, Guinevere had made it to not only the shikai release, but bankai as well, discovering the rarity of the nature of her abilities as purely healing and defensive in nature. Things were working out fantastically... but then, everything changed.

At the age of one-hundred and fourty-four, Guinevere was shellshocked to hear that her captain had disappeared. No one really knew where she went, and no one had heard from her, she simply.. vanished. Guinevere was devastated, the woman she had looked up to for so long was just.. gone. Guinevere, third seat at the time, had decided that enough was enough, and it was time to stop fighting for someone else, and to start fighting for herself. She spent the next several years within training grounds from day to night, honing and perfecting her powers, conversing with her inner spirits until one day she basically locked herself in her inner world, spending a total of a year within her own self. When she emerged, people barely recognized her. She wasn't the dewy-eyed hopeful romanticizer she once was. This woman was determined. She started working in the field more and more, collaborating as she built up her already impressive speed of healing, defending, and backing up her allies through mission after mission.

It was after she had been granted Lieutenancy that her life began to take a turn for the worse. On a recon mission to the jungles of Brazil, she had a run-in with a woman who operated out of that area and had apparently been waiting for the seireitei's scout this entire time, infecting Guinevere with an unknown substance and then leaving swiftly.

It wasn't long until the mystery revealed itself as Guinevere was floored almost immediately by crippling pain and a cackling voice in her head. When Guin finally woke up, she had a fully-formed white mask laying next to her in the dirt. She knew what she was, she had seen the intel.. and she knew she couldn't go back to the Seireitei. As the alternative, Guinevere went into hiding nearby, having to make her own shelter and thanked her healing abilities daily for her ability to live without food or water.

While in solitude, Guinevere spent a good majority of her time in meditation, talking to her new hollow spirit as well as her Zanpakutō spirit within her inner world, attempting to gain understanding about her new self and practicing with her new traits and abilities.

To her surprise, Guinevere was attacked in her makeshift home by a strike team sent by Seireitei to bring her in either dead, or alive, as apparently somehow it got back to them that she had been turned by a rogue Vizard. Intending not to fight back, Guinevere was shocked to learn that the members of the hit squad were all from her old squadron.. people that she knew, and trusted. Outraged, she struck them all down, furiously applying her newfound strength in a biblical reckoning. It was this display of power and rage.. that brought Stefan Soan to her doorstep.

As someone who was proud of their eye for rising talent, Stefan brought Guinevere to the Monsuta's door, arranging for her to be trained to his standards before recruiting her into his Royal Guard. It was here that she served, as good a soldier as she possibly could be.. out of the public eye in her position as a more evanescent kind of warrior. However, she had learned from her past mistake, and her trust wasn't going to be won. She saw the potential for betrayal from the group, and from its leader, and decided to head-off the movement. Through careful planning and manipulation, Guinevere had shortly amassed a small sect of insurgents who were ready to rise up and hail mary for control of the organization at a moment's notice.

Stefan was too smart for her, though, and had heard all about her little plan. He decided to head her off at the pass, showing clearly his being two steps ahead as he had his lead scientist spearhead a mission to make sure she would no longer be a threat.

He designed a device that looked outwardly like a hair clip with a silver sun on it that was made to do two things. The first was to cloud Guinevere's memory, causing her to forget her age, all of her abilities, her origin, what she was, and the names of her Zanpakutō and inner hollow. The second thing it was designed to do was completely suppress all of Guinevere's abilities. She would no longer be able to use kido, or access her spiritual energy at all, she would feel to anyone who sensed spiritual energy like a human, and would not even be able to sense spiritual beings herself.

To put the actual plan into effect, the soldier sent to take care of it waited until Guinevere was asleep, slipping the hair pin into her hair and transporting her to Earth, where another agent was waiting with a drop zone already arranged.

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When Guinevere woke up, her immediate feelings were those of fear and confusion. She panicked instantaneously as she began scrambling around the room, looking for any shred of information that would tell her who she was, where she was, why she was here, or preferably why she couldn't remember anything. The one and only thing she found, besides a weird gold-colored walking staff and the clothes she was wearing, was a receipt for the room she was in which, according to the paper, was a hotel... in Germany.

As she checked herself out and left to try and figure something out, what she found.. was a world gone mad.. War and conflict had touched so many countries that it was beginning to become harder and harder to find places that weren't in some way negatively effected by unexplained bursts of energy and destructive environments and weather conditions that swept the globe. Watching the footage on a jumbo tv on a nearby building outside her hotel, Guin saw something that she almost immediately chose to ignore, which was what looked like.. beings.. people.. fighting among the explosions and waves of carnage characteristic of the calamities. Her head began to hurt, voices screaming at her from somewhere deep in her brain.. Gripping her head, she didn't even realize she had wandered into the street.. until the car colliding with her body.. and her body colliding with the pavement.

After a brief lapse in consciousness, Guinevere woke to a crowd of people surrounding her, and a crowd of people standing a bit away from her. Miraculously, Guinevere seemed to be unwounded.. according to one of the people who had come over, she had looked pretty bad when she got hit, but by the time anyone had gotten to her, she seemed fine. Guinevere stood, gasping as she saw why the group on the side of the street had gathered. The driver of the vehicle that hit her had slammed on the brakes just before doing so, and apparently hadn't been buckled, launching him from the vehicle and into the street. Guinevere walked up to him, looking over his injuries and apologizing loudly for not watching where she was going, finding herself praying that he would pull through... but something about the crash had knocked something in her head loose, damaging part of the hold the pin's enchantment had on her. She saw the man's wounds glowing, even the ones under his clothing. All of the other noise and background sort of floated away.. and before she knew what she was doing, Guinevere had lain her hands on the man's chest, watching as the same glow that she was seeing in him began to emerge from her own skin, traveling into the man's body as the wounds visibly began closing at a rapid rate. The people around them began to see it when she did, astounded at what they were witnessing... This was the first of many "miraculous" healings that Guinevere performed.. from that point in 2414, until present day, she traveled all over, to anywhere that was negatively impacted by some major calamity, performing miracles for the people who asked for healing, and aiding those who were sick as well. She left a string of legends and rumors, earning not only the respect of the people in the towns she passed through but also an actual cult that believed she was a deity sent to well and truly save the Earth..

She didn't know any of this, though. Her reasoning was simply because she felt amazing when she was able to help the man who was hurt that day.. It had inspired her to want to do only that for as long as she could while she was searching for answers as to who the hell she was.. which, to her surprise, was a very long time.. she never seemed to get hungry.. and no matter how far or long she walked, she found herself still with plenty of energy.

Having still found nothing out about who she was, Guinevere still looks despite the lack of progress. However, Guinevere has, by this point, all but stopped caring about wherever or whoever she was supposed to have been. Her new life, the new journey she had found herself on, had become everything to her. It was all she knew, and all she needed.

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Skill Sheet
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• Durability: Adept
  
• General Speed: Advanced
  
• Strength: Master
  
• Weapon Skill: Advanced
  

• Hoho: Advanced
  
• Kidō: Advanced
  
• Zanjutsu: Advanced
  
• Hakuda: Master

• Acid Skill: Beginner
  
• Garganta : Advanced
  
• Bala: Advanced
  
• Regeneration: Master
  

• Power Augmentation Advanced
  
• Cero: Master
  
• Mask Protection:: Advanced
  
• Hollow Control: Adept
  

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