Sofia Montero [Approved 0-4++/0-3++]

» History Continued:


She continued to grow within her family to become the strongest Quincy to ever grace the Montero name. At the age of 17, she had grown up into a strong, beautiful and dependable woman. Soon, her parents got to a point where they couldn’t even say they would have wanted a boy. With Sofia’s innate power, she was bound to be able to carry on the family name. She continued to rehearse and practice her skill with the violin daily, just as she would with her Quincy training. Every week she would have at least one recital where she awed the audience every time. As far as her training, she had progressed further ahead than ever. In every training session, she would face off against both of her tutors using only her geigenbogen as either a bow or a sword. When using her geigenbogen as a sword, she would make recurrent use of her skill with Blut. And though she was capable of using both Blut Vene and Arterie, the majority of the time and her greatest ability lied in the defensiveness of Blut Vene. Though she was skilled and graceful enough to parry, deflect and avoid most hits, her Blut Vene aided her greatly. She was easily able to resist most moderate, and even some dangerously powerful hits with her Blut. Regardless of which form of her weapon she used, bow or sword, she limited to one or another in spars and never even had to resort to her main ability. Despite it, she always practiced it as it was, being based on music, a source of gratitude, enjoyment, and relief. It was also her preferred method for defending the family mansion against some of the recent threads of the lesser races.

With the drums of war sounding ever closer, the Montero knew there was not a lot of time left. It was rumored that the Demons were coming, and that time, they would conquer and remain. Staying behind, while glorious would prove to be fatal and unwise. It was pretty much within the Montero’s bloodline to be proud, but also to be wise and seek survival to fight another day. Despite Sofia’s interest in fighting to defend their home, she was cautioned not to. She was told her goal was to seek out the Vandenreich. She needed to find them. She needed to join them. She needed to help them push the Quincy to victory, and push aside the lesser races so the Humans could once again reclaim the Earth that belonged to them.

On the year 2411, the Demons would see their forces invade, and conquer Europe. Spain unfortunately, was not exempt from the demonic calamity that befell the continent. In an attempt to enhance their chances of escape, the family would separate. Sofia was sent one way, and her parents would go a different route. Most of the servants would be left to their own accords, some attempting to flee with them, and some elsewhere to avoid the wrath of the beasts. While her parents did not perish that day, that was the last time Sofia would see them. The chaos that ensued from the plethora of races in conflict made a possible reunion far too unlikely. Though bitter, her path was set, and she was welcoming of it. Her family, though elsewhere, trusted in her to carry on with everything she had learned. They trusted her to be as strong as she could, and continue to make her family name proud.

After escaping, Sofia would spend the next few years looking for the Vandenreich. The task was not simple in it of itself. The organization had received multiple defeats on its past, and though many thought it to be defunct, she knew better. They would be difficult to find, but she knew she would find them one way or another, sooner or later. During her trek to them, Sofia continued to improve her skill. During her journeys, she would have the chance to test her abilities in training, and against the mindless beasts that sought to cause harm onto her and other humans. She even managed to awaken the fabled ability known as the Vollstanding. With it, Sofia was able to access new tresholds of power she never even though she could possibly attain. Unfortunately, she did not meet a lot of indivudals who could stand up to her, let alone her vollstanding. As such, her training and perfection of her newly found art was usually delegated to practices on her own, or against some of the Quincy she has met along the way. Her Blut had advanced to such levels that her attacks caused much more damage, while alternatively sometimes she was able to resist incredible amounts of pressure while seemingly unharmed. With her musical ability, she learned how to make specific music waves through detailed movements that would ignite and explode when near a source of reiatsu other than her own. Her swordsmanship had also seen new thresholds of improvement, and her aim and control of her musical powers continued to impress even her. And, with more time and targets to experiment on, Sofia was even able to use her skills with Ginto techniques to create her own uniquely personal attacks and defenses by mixing ginto with her own abilities. Though she knew of no one in the Vandenreich, Sofia was certain she would be accepted. She might not have been the strongest Quincy alive, yet. But she knew, as the strongest Montero to have ever lived, that her abilities made her unique, powerful, and instrumental, and required in the quest of reclaiming the Earth for the Human and Quincy dominance.[/color]




» Equipment:

Quincy Cross:


Violin: Sofia often keeps with her a violin with its violin bow in a rather nice case. While she can play music to her heart's content by using her geigenbogen, and even without the need of a violin, she still keeps out of nostalgia. Being one of her most beloved pass times, she will often resort to playing a variety of beautiful and intricate pieces as it calms and relaxes her with its soothing tunes as well as those around her.

Custom Seele Schneider Set (5): It didn't take long. Most of the items and even some of the techniques used by the Quincy seemed archaic and as such, rather dated. Sofia had always been one that enjoyed the renaissance and the creation of art through almost any means, though primarily through music. Though her tinkering started with her reishi manipulation techniques and the ginto, it quickly moved on to assess certain items in her arsenal that were very obviously lagging behind. One of them, was the Seele Schneider.

Using her own artistic and creative skills, her wealth and her resources, she was able to create a prototype Seele that fit her needs. Keeping the prototype largely a secret, the intention was down quite purposefully as not all would look kindly on the changes she made to it. In essence, the hilt is made from soul synthesized silver that's been treated and enhanced to be both stronger and more durable than a normal seele's as well as up to par in both categories with more apt weapons like zanpakutos. Alterations were made to the energy output of the "blade" to change its hue as well. Instead of the typical blue hue, her Custom Seele projects a green looking "blade" that resonates as they typically do.

A couple of modules were fit into the handles of the Custom Seele to be able to control and exert minor changes, though there's still space for a few more modules. For instance, the typical length of the blade may be controlled at will to be anywhere from half a foot longer to half a foot shorter than its typical standard length. Other than shock factor, it is simply a means to distract opponents in close combat. More importantly, beyond retaining the Seele's own unique traits, her modifications allow it to store some of the reishi it pulls in periodically. As such, every three posts, enough energy has been stored into a Custom Seele to produce a minor wave of red reishi to wash upon the foe. Behaving somewhat like lava, the reishi is extremely hot and burning to the touch, easily able to burn through most forms of defense, utilizing the seele's properties to push away energy bonds as a conduit for its effect. The wave is not made of fire however, it is just red energy that looks like it and possesses effects that are quite burning in properties.

Unfortunately, each seele needs three posts before enough energy has been gathered for it. And beyond that, each individual Custom Seele is only capable of creating just enough wave to be around the size of Sofia. For instance, most often, each Seele will only produce a wave that's roughly two meters in diameter, which is just beyond her height. Using two seeles in battle would increase the diameter of the wave to four meters and so on. As another downfall, after each use, the Custom Seele require yet another set of three posts before they're able to use the wave again. If Sofia however decides not to use the wave at all, allowing enough energy to charge for six posts would allow two uses before the cooldown of three posts kicks in. If desired, the ends of the hilts may be connected to make two seeles be one double bladed item. And going off the versatility of her own spirit weapon, any custom seele, either on their own or combined can be used as a blade, an arrow, or by pulling on the reishi around them in combination to her own skills, even a Quincy bow as well.


Ginto: As a way of being prepared, Sofia never leaves without a handful of Ginto tubes. While she may not use them often at all, they are the means to keep on fighting should she ever found herself in critical and peculiar circumstances.

Ginto Sphere: Onyx : The first in the line of Ginto Spheres. The technology wasn’t all that high end, and it surprised her that other Quincy had not attempted it yet. Perhaps they had and she was simply unaware of it. For the most part, Ginto techniques were seen as a relic of the past, rather weak and obsolete. And quite frankly, when compared to the feats spiritually strong beings could perform with other techniques they really were. The Ginto tubes however were rather limited in how much reiryoku and/or reishi they could contain inside. As such, they were limited by the amount of power each technique had from its individual catalyst. And even a step further, there were just a finite number of Ginto a Quincy could realistically hold in both hands, usually around six, without resorting to a different technique to increase this number. That’s how Ginto Spheres came to be. They were simply spherical orbs that though not too big to be obtrusive could hold as much as the combined amounts of the volume of 20 Ginto tubes. The portable fashion, and the much larger amount of reiryoku and reishi stored inside allowed for more room to create techniques that were simply limited in the archaic form of Ginto tubes. Primarily made as a form to continuously enhance her own artistic creations and with a mentality that lately borders on the insane, Sofia has purposely chosen to keep the advent into these spheres only to herself.

Ginto Sphere: Onyx was her first attempt to create a rather useful technique that she simply had no means of using quite as easily with her Ginto Tubes. By activating the sphere and throwing it, a flash of light seems to erupt from within the sphere, attracting and pulling in any one energy technique. The Onyx Sphere doesn’t quite absorb, dilute, or destroy the technique however. Instead, it works as a fusion between reiryoku and reishi activation to create something not too far unlike a black hole. All it really does is change the trajectory of said energy attack to a different location. By throwing an Onyx Sphere at a technique and throwing one elsewhere, Sofia could control the location at which the technique would exit from. Granted, assuming she does not toss a second sphere, the location of the exit of the blast will be randomized away from her: be it somewhere in the vicinity, against her foe, or unfortunately against an ally. Against opponents weaker than her, there’s no need to toss a second sphere since by only using one, she’s able to send the technique where she wishes. In a way, the use of her unique ability, The Melody, continually creates a field that’s embedded with her energy so long as she lives that’s continuously flowing around her. That’s what enables her to control the direction and location with the Onyx Sphere as a conduit to realize her technique.

Unfortunately, Onyx Sphere is not without its own number of drawbacks. Regardless of whom it is used on, the amount of energy needed to create its effects do affect how often the sphere can be used. With a successful use of one Onyx Sphere, Sofia may be able to use it once more, with a single sphere, and induce a two post cooldown after that second use. If however two Onyx Spheres are used at once in an effort to control the exit point of the technique except when fighting someone weaker, then a three post cooldown would incur instead. There’s even one more caveat. When fighting against opponents that are more than one tier above hers, two Onyx Spheres must be used at all times to warrant its effects. And even then, using two of the spheres would only allow for the randomized chance instead of having the luxury of picking, as she wouldn’t be able to project her will on the energy around her when it's overwhelmed by one obviously stronger.


Ginto Sphere: Zaffer: The second in the line of Ginto Spheres, Zaffre was also the first failed attempt in the line of Sofia wanting to create art as she saw fit. By using her skill with Ginto, amassing as many as she could fit into the Zaffre Sphere, and using the size enhancement technology obtained through Hebi and primarily her own energy as a catalyst, she planned to create something worthy of praise. Her idea was to create a powerful, beautiful, and majestic musical being that would aid her in combat. However, something went extremely wrong. Likely due to the influence of the Eris Seal on her augmenting the troubled mindset of a Quincy in her own spiraling descent, caused the technique to develop into something darker and rather macabre. Though still artistic in its own right, there’s a different pride about its creation, and Sofia is not so keen on showing it unless it's truly necessary, as it's an art that showcases a horrific look that’s quite in contrast to her original trek for beauty in art.

Upon throwing the Zaffree Sphere, the energy contained within creates a kind of chemical reaction when exposed to the energy signal of Sofia’s in her own surroundings. It causes the sphere to implode, and water-like energy to drip out of it before turning dark blue as if influenced by a form of energy that’s anything but pure malign. Upon imploding, the remnants of the sphere raise up into the sky, creating a monster that resembles a dark shell containing an even darker pearl-like head within. The monster is rather large, with dimensions that near 40 meters in diameter, and answers to the name of Basatan. When summoned, Basatan possesses a 0-5 tier, and while it cannot use the same abilities as her, he has a number unique to himself.

Crustacean Transdifferentiation: [Passive] Certain marine creatures undergo a form of cellular transmutation that allow them to go from an elder form to a child form, be it to a polyp state or otherwise. Rather than becoming younger itself however, Basatan uses the energy around him in the chaotic fusion of it and Sofia’s to allow him to continuously regenerate its body to the form and the way it was upon summoning despite the severity or magnitude of the attack. This means he’s able to heal areas of its shell or other parts in great haste, and even regrow areas if they were to somehow be ripped off. Of course the technique is not absolute by any means. While it seems to be able to regrow almost anything through any means, it is severely hampered. Since it uses his own energy and Sofia’s own to allow this, the duration of this summon is much shorter than it would’ve been without the unique ability.

Water Ensemble: Taking dominion over water, Basatan is able to create and control water around him. And, being allowed a lesser use of Sofia’s The Melody so long as she wills it, he’s able to intertwine the two to create unique effects. Whether it is more powerful waves, or sharper strings of puncturing or concussive water beams, he’s a force that serves to contribute to her own arsenal.

Horn Drill: The main and signature move of Basatan, he’s able to create a rather large and sharp drill measuring about 20 meters in length. The drill is poised right above its head, and can be fired at will at whichever maximum speed The Melody can reach be it in base (Mach 3) or Vollstanding (depends on mastery). The drill spins at extremely fast speeds, and seems to present the Crustacean Transdifferentiation as his body to allow it to travel to its intended location. The speed at which it travels simply revolves and redirects most energy attacks around and away it. Upon impact, the Horn Drill will pierce, and as the name implies, attempt to drill its way into and through the target to create quite the catastrophic and likely deadly result. Due to the magnitude of the technique, this is something that cannot be done freely and as often as possible however. Unfortunately, the effort this takes and the drain it causes on Basatan only allows him to be able to perform it twice per battle.

Beyond that, though she tried, Sofia has not been able to allow Basatan to remain out in the field for more than eight posts. It seemed as though pushing it further would be way too dangerous for herself and produce effects that she simply would not be able to recuperate with ease from. As such, once the posts have elapsed, Basatan will simply laugh a thunderous roar and disappear into a cloud of smoke. Attempts to try and use the Zaffer Sphere to resummon him will be in vain, since the energy required to perform it makes it impossible for the beast to revisit the field in the same battle after the duration of his stay has elapsed.



Ginto Sphere: Vermillion: The third model in the line of Ginto Spheres, Sofia has once again managed to overcome the difficulties to create something new and innovative. Ginto Sphere: Vermillion is the first of her attempts at creating something that’s neither designed for offense, nor completely devoted to stop an advance either. By using the success she had on her previous two models, Ginto Spheres Onyx & Zaffre, the Quincy prodigy decided to test just how different and unique of an effect she could create from Ginto technology. The result is a red sphere, just smaller than her fist, and not unlike the look of the previous two models besides the color difference. Within it, large amounts of reiryoku from Ginto and her own energy were fused in near perfect reaction for the desired effects.

When used, the sphere implodes into a subtle red smoke. The action doesn’t damage Sofia or the opponent at all, as it is simply harmless noise. The red hue of the smoke is not too thick either so visibility is completely unaffected by this technique. Within a matter of seconds the smoke dissipates. And though nothing seems to have occurred, the next available violent interaction or clash between the musical prodigy and her opponent would trigger its ability. Vermillion creates a form of paradigm, where Sofia’s energy signature is the stable basis of balance. Every other force or form of energy, regardless of type of construct is treated as different and foreign so long as it’s not created by her. With that, Vermillion is able to instantly swap the qualities of two different forces, Sofia’s and someone else’s temporarily.

For instance, should Sofia and her adversary be running towards one another with a knife on hand, and the opponent happen to be much faster than Sofia, then Vermillion could switch the speed of the current action to reverse the outcome and grant the slow speed, and the speedy lethargy. Unfortunately, the Ginto Sphere: Vermillion is limited to one attribute at a time and only one attack or force at a time. What that means is that in the same scenario, Sofia could either swap the speeds of the incoming attack with her own or she could swap the power being delivered by the thrust of the knife. However, unfortunately, it cannot do both. So an extremely powerful and fast attack faced up against a weaker and slower attack, would result in one of the two attributes being changed, though it would still retain one of them as well.

When using two Ginto Spheres: Vermillion at once however, the effects change some. Instead of swapping attributes of incoming forces, instead, using two would create what she calls one of the best tricks in the book. When an attack that has any form of damage or debilitating potential is used while two Vermillion spheres are present, then if Sofia uses an attack that doesn’t induce harm or any debilitating form of damage will cause hers to always land first despite the speed of the attack or the enemy, or even the nature of either. Of course, the ability possesses great risk and disadvantages for Sofia. If she accidentally uses any form of damaging or debilitating attack after using Vermillion and before its effects are underway, then it would be as if nothing had happened, and the events would transpire as they would. However, it doesn’t stop there. Should Sofia use an attack that’s damaging but that it’s also stronger than her opponent’s, then the effects are reversed and their attack hits Sofia first regardless.

A successful use of either a single or double Ginto Sphere: Vermillion would also incur a 3 & 6 post cooldown respectively.

Ginto Sphere: Nagini: The fourth installment in the line of Ginto Sphere models. Sofia has ventured even further into her craft by making use of her masterful control over reiryoku and her dominion over reishi to create something truly awe inspiring. By meshing her skills with the remaining influence from the Seal of Eris, the size enhancement technology obtained from Hebi, and the progress and technology of her gintos and soul synthesized silver, she managed to create an item to build on the success of her second model, Ginto Sphere: Zaffer. The sphere is much larger than a regular ginto tube, filling the hand nicely. On its inside, it stores the contents of several ginto tubes that were infused and manipulated with her own energy to engineer the desired effect.

When tossed, the sphere breaks open into a beam of blinding silvery light that quickly turns a dark hazy gray, before finishing into a cloud of black smoke that disappears rather quickly. At its wake, a rather large beast that goes by the name of Nagini is created. The creature is an extremely large basilisk, with a total length from head to tail of about 50 meters. The basilisk is able to speak every language that Sofia is capable of speaking herself. At the same time, Nagini is able to communicate with Sofia via the hissing sound typical to snakes. While the basilisk is active, the Quincy prodigy can communicate with the snake through either means as well as a two-way telepathic link.

Slithering Smog: At any time, Nagini can spew out a strange dark purple haze of smog with very peculiar characteristics. For starters, the basilisk itself makes use of Sofia’s ability of The Melody in the technique as a form of conduit. It makes sense since she developed the unique technique to be perfectly suited to her own individual needs and skillset. As such, the smog is able to travel up to the same speed as her Melody. Beyond obscuring sight, the smog has the ability to shelter and hide Sofia’s and Nagini’s spiritual location by creating a spiritual resonance that’s similar enough to throw off even the most dedicated of trackers. However, opponents who possess a reishi manipulation higher than hers would be able to locate the Quincy as they would normally through her energy.

But more importantly are the debilitating effects of the smog. Right after using, the smog encompasses an area of 30 meters in radius, and for every post thereafter the radius of effect is expanded by about 50% up to a maximum area of just around 100 meter radius at three posts. The fog cannot last any longer and as such, it cannot expand further. Any individual caught in its range is affected either through aspiration through the nose or absorbed through the pores in its gaseous form. Of course, only Nagini and Sofia are safeguarded from its effects due to their spiritual signal. Within the first post, a target would find themselves a bit dizzy, nauseous, and more prone to misaiming or misjudging direction by sight. After the second post, the target would experience numbness throughout their body which concentrates in one specific limb they cannot move, like an arm, or a leg. At the last post, the fog’s effects would leave the target paralyzed for one post after it has dissipated as a prey before the eyes of its predator. Once the extra post has elapsed, the target would be able to resume their activities normally without being hindered.

Corrosive Fluid: The skin and the inside of Nagini is filled with an extremely corrosive and destructive compound that’s specifically design to eat away and corrode any spiritual signal upon proximity that is neither Nagini’s or Sofia’s. For the most part, the technique is used to combat and defend against spiritual base attacks and forms of defense by exploiting and corroding through them. However, when it comes to spiritual beings, it is not as powerful. For starters, instead of dissolving and eroding everything upon contact as it would on an energy construct or technique, against another individual, the corrosive fluid would be restrained to only affecting the specific area it made contact with. It cannot expand through that singular contact alone. Beyond that, the fluid has an extremely short half-life. It’s the main reason why it’s so effective against techniques and constructs yet not quite the same against people. For instance, if an individual were to, through any particular method seal off or maintain the area of effect, the fluid and its effects would only last for an additional post before evaporating. Those whose tier exceeds hers however are merely presented with third degree burns upon contact instead of the thorough corrosion that would’ve occurred otherwise. Both Nagini and Sofia are immune to the detrimental effects of the fluid.

Skin Shedding: At any time, Nagini can shed its skin in numerous ways for different outcomes. For instance, in a rather grotesque but useful maneuver, a seemingly new Nagini can exit rapidly out the mouth of the original. This causes any wounds or damaging effects that had been inflicted upon it to heal. At its wake, an extremely large and somewhat see-through shell of its former self it’s left to its own devices. Caution needs to be exercised however as the discarded shell can blow up at either Nagini’s or Sofia’s discretion by combining the attributes of its toxic body with the elements of her reiryoku. Likewise, Sofia is offered a similar treatment in a manner that’s nonetheless strange. By literally swallowing her up and spitting her out, Nagini can heal Sofia of any wounds or damaging effects she received. If desired, Nagini can maintain Sofia inside for up to an additional post at a time. And beyond that, once the Quincy is spat out, the fluid of the basilisk is smeared all over her skin and her weapons in a rather different way, providing the benefit of its corrosive attributes to any other being she touches or that touches her, or that is hit with her weapons or its attacks for the next three posts. Unfortunately there is its fair share of limitations. For starters, Nagini may not shed its skin until at least one post has elapsed since it last did so. And as for Sofia, the action of healing her with the fluids it’s still taxing enough that she cannot be healed in that manner for two posts after being healed by it.

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In essence, the large basilisk Nagini became the embodiment of an animal that represents many of the same elements and qualities that Sofia saw in herself; hence the reason she engineered the technique as such instead of a sheep or a cow. The basilisk displays both raw power in its attacks yet extremely fast speed to match Sofia’s own. It moves with an unyielding grace and a lethal intent that’s just impossible not to compare to the renditions of her art and her creativity centered style of combat. Nagini’s tier is about 2-3 or so. And unfortunately, as one of its biggest downfalls its duration. Because of the taxing amount of energy and effort required to use Ginto Sphere: Anthracite, not only can Nagini only remain in the field for a maximum of ten posts, but Nagini can only be summoned once per battle.


Size Adjustment Button: This button applies a special 'effect' to whatever it is equipped to. As long as the object it is equipped to is related to the user's person and uses their reiatsu through it, it is able to interact with the user in the correct manner.

When the user presses on the button, it floods their reiatsu into their body itself, causing for it to expand. It creates a kind of spiritual 'armor' all around the user's body, allowing for to seem as if it is growing exponentially. As long as the user keeps supplying energy, their perceived size will continue to grow, until they are able to rival buildings, up to a maximum of 100 meters at tier 0-2+. At tier 1-1 the user is able to safely grow to 50 meters, and gains ten meters for each whole 'level' above that.

The amount of mass that the user has at their disposal does increase significantly, resulting in the force of physical attacks also rising. It would take a bit more out of the user to wield that much more of their body, naturally, but the effects would generally be considered worth that cost. If the user stays within this form for less than three posts upon the initial activation, they are able to press the button twice in a thread. Otherwise, they are only able to activate it once. In addition, if they stay in this form for longer than six posts, it performs a large drain on the user's energy to keep maintaining the enlarged state, consuming more and more energy for each post after that. For the most part the button is safely attached to her Quincy cross unless she applies it elsewhere.


Regalia Name: Rona

Regalia Type: Noble Mythic

Regalia Travel Form Appearance: During most occasions, Rona takes the form of a rather ornate and expensive looking ring. It seems to be made out of highly prized and sought after materials, namely gold and silver. The tonalities are presented in a way that speaks to both its artistic portrayal and beautiful craftsmanship. In addition, one area of the ring is lined up with a row of multiple small diamonds of the purest kind. And to finish off the piece with a more personalized look, the ring possesses an emblem a letter that can read either M or W depending on it is looked at. Regardless it’s a befitting symbol for Sofia as it indicates both her letter M, for The Melody, and the letter W, for the Wandenreich.


Weapon Form: When called into its weapon form, the ring glows and disappears before appearing once more in the form of a sword. It’s a one handed sword with a deep and dark ebony handle and a pommel at its distal end that seems to be made out of highly polished and smoothed out diamond. The diamond piece looks as though it could take an accessory like a ribbon or a cord if she so desired. Interlaced at the proximal and distal end of the handle are intricate and ornate golden inlays that add flair and class to an already dazzling weapon. Towards the top of the handle, the golden inlay transitions into what appears to be the design of a winged creature, made in its entirety out of gold. Though the nature of the figure is largely unknown, Sofia understands it as the deity or personification of what Rona represents. From where the head of the figure is placed, a light glow and smoke of a blue colored hue seems to emanate, almost resembling the mist at the end of a waterfall, but much darker as if it belonged to the sea, at a far off and uncharted island.

And extending out from the hilt, a sizable blade with a prominent belly finishes what’s already an artistically prominent weapon and culminates it into a truly innovative artistic wonder. Though there are patterns along the length of the blade, is the high polished shine and glow of its edge that catches the most attention. Still, one ought to take caution and avoid dismissing the sword’s capabilities based solely in its artistic design and its intrinsic beauty. After all as expected, beyond serving as a blade should, and aside from its own individual and unique abilities, Sofia may freely choose to run any of her own techniques through the weapon.


Ranged Elements: To follow suit with the versatility of her equipment, the weapon can be fired as an arrow would from one of her bows if she so desires. However, as a built in mechanic of the blade, should the sword be separated from Sofia in any way, she can will for it to dematerialize and materialize back into her hands.

Abilities:

Beauty Projection: This ability unfortunately cannot be used by Sofia in Rona’s weapon form. It can only be used when Rona is in her Origin Form. In essence, when Rona is faced up against spiritual creations whose gender are unlike hers, her beauty is projected in a rather unnatural way, causing the creatures to be compelled to not just stop their attacks against her but also to protect her, be it from their master or anyone else. A spiritual creature in this sense is something other than the player controlled character, be it a monster they create, a horse they ride, or a clone they make. The actual central character is unaffected. However, the ability possesses a long list of caveats as is to be expected. For starters, as explained, the ability is only accessible by Rona, and only in her Origin Form. Beyond that, female spiritual creatures are not the only one unaffected by the ability. While androgynous or multi gendered creatures would still be affected by the fact that their gender is indeed different, creations with no gender to begin with, like robots or machines would be spared from its effects. Under no circumstances can this ability affect the player character. And even more, despite the technique being effective for as long as Rona out in the field in her Origin Form, spiritual creatures under its effects whose tier exceeds that of Sofia will be exempt, and become able to regain composure after just three posts regularly, and five during Vollstanding to account for the excessive surge in spiritual energy. And unfortunately, though the time afflicted may seem lengthy, it truly isn’t, since once the allotted posts have elapsed, said spiritual creature would not be able to be affected again in the same battle.

Wings of Judgment: During either its Weapon Form or her Origin Form, Rona is able to project and manipulate a plethora of feathers that take on a very peculiar set of attributes. In weapon form, Sofia merely has to point or swing the blade. In her Origin Form, Rona will usually flap her wings to cause its effects although she doesn’t necessarily have to, as simply willing it can suffice. In any case, the motion creates around 500 feathers per time used. Each feather isn’t very big at all, averaging out about three to four inches in length, and about one inch in width. And though momentarily they may appear to be of a gray like hue, contact with the reishi or reiryoku around them causes them to reflect and glow in a way that makes them appear as though they were made of a silvery white light, almost resembling a form of angelic snow.

The feathers however are manipulated into becoming an odd but highly resistant and powerful spiritual alloy that although certainly resembling a form of metal, cannot be fully categorized as such, as it’s truly something else entirely. However the look and the inherent sharpness of the feathers are very obvious once they’re used. They’re all sharp at the tip and along both of its lengths. And while the feathers may be fired into one singular spot, or made to cover a wide area when fired in an arch, they’re nonetheless able to be controlled by either of them. In essence, either Sofia or Rona can manipulate the multitude of feathers to be used as either a form of offense or defense under a variety of circumstances. And during Origin Form only, Rona may apply that same ability directly onto her wings to use them as large blades. Unfortunately, the technique does come with its own lengthy set of limitations. For the most part, only a total of 1,000 feathers can be controlled.

Music Blasts: Either from the blade in Weapon Form or from her mouth in Origin Form, Rona is able to project an extremely loud sound that’s comparable to a form of song that’s simply played way too high. The sonic blasts do not contain any mass and therefore do not possess any density; all they do is pressurize the air and push forth the waves of sound at extremely fast speeds. The ability can only travel up two speeds of Mach 2 typically, and Mach 4 in release. Despite the musical nature of the ability, the sounds are rather loud and deafening, almost like a Banshee’s screech. In fact, the decibel count it’s so high that it can shatter any glass construct with ease.

The main goal of the blasts is to weaken incoming energy attacks, and it does it quite well. That aspect can be turned on and off, so the technique can be used simply for its destructive aspect without necessarily relying on its foundational motive. For instance the technique is only able to destabilize and break down energy attacks from foes whose energy is severely below hers [where their tier is below hers]. Unfortunately, foes whose energy is on par with hers [matching tier], would find their techniques travel unhindered by the aforementioned result. It does however result in a somewhat weaker technique as the music blasts still manages to upset the rhythm of the incoming attack. Still, the effect only works for one technique at a time. As such, multiple techniques faced up against her music projection would only amount to one of them being destroyed. And what’s more, when faced with foes of truly abysmal energy by comparison [opponents whose tier more than two above hers] then the difference in power is simply too much, and all the ability can accomplish is moving or altering the direction of one technique in the slightest noticeable bit. And it doesn't end there, while the music blasts can be used at any time for its destructive concussive effect, the energy destabilizing aspect is subject to a three post cooldown upon successful use. The only circumstance that sees change is when she accesses her Vollstanding. as the number of affected techniques increasing to two, to account for the massive and additional amounts of energy that allow for such a thing, and the cooldown reduced to two. Only when used during her one release form, and against those whose tiers are below hers, would they incur a form of subtle disorientation from the sounds overloading their hearing, though it would only last for about two posts.

Gift of the Sirens: In mythology, Sirens almost always resided in islands, by the cliffs, and rather near the water where they usually led victims to their death. At will, Rona is able to control existing bodies of water or create it herself. Either through her mind or through the sword in Weapon Form, Rona is able to either utilize the available moisture in the air or water in her vicinity. If need be however, the ability literally exchanges reishi in the vicinity or reiryoku from Sofia to convert it into water. It’s almost as if Rona was trying to recreate a visualization of her home through any means necessary.

The water can be controlled to be fired like straight beams, or in the form of bubbles or any aspect Sofia desires. In doing so, she’s also able to manipulate how thick or thin, or long or short the projections of said water techniques are. Following suit with the versatility of water, and Sofia for that matter, the variety of constructs and possibilities with the ability enables her to make use of it in either an offensive or defensive manner. However, there are limits as Sofia can’t simply create an ocean’s worth of water with a single swing. Per post, Sofia is only able to create up to an Olympic pool’s volume of water. And interestingly, so long as the technique is active Sofia is allowed the ability to breathe under water, much like Rona can in her Origin Form.

Origin Form Appearance: Rona’s Origin Form is that of a Siren. Standing at just around 6’0” feet tall, the half woman half bird creature seems as elegant as it is powerful and beautiful. Speaking of the latter, though beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Rona tweaks that notion just so. In essence, though she does appear to be fairly good looking, her mythical race has the unique trait of appearing beautiful to anyone, no matter what. The dark color of her feathers is nicely matched by the similar hues of her hair. And with skin as fair as Sofia’s, the golden ornament on her head seems not only reminiscent of the gold accents on Sofia’s main Quincy uniform but also as a way to denote Rona as queen among the Sirens, just like Sofia views herself as queen among her people.






» Skills:

Master Archer:

From an early age, Sofia has been trained as a Quincy. She actually started training much earlier than most out of their parents fear that her love and talent for music would push her to pursue a life that revolved around it. With a tutor specifically assigned and renowned in the skill, she would be under constant tutelage for years. Through repeated practice, she was able to get sufficiently proficient where she easily hits the targets she aims at. As more time has passed, hitting the bullseye in the run or on uncomfortable positions has become no more difficult to her than doing so upright. Thanks to her geigenbogen and the fact that its familiar shape translates so well to other aspects of her life led her to practice a lot more. Sofia has even managed to heightened and perfect her skill in archery by purposely making her shots more difficult. Using her unique ability, The Melody, she purposely changes the trajectory of the arrows to be able to hit oddly positioned targets. Though it works differently, it has helped her to hit targets when simply using her geigenbogen with much more ease.

Expert Swordsman:

Sofia has gone from being a student of the blade, to truly understanding it through, and even beyond to create an art out of it. Though her geigenbogen can be used as either a sword or a bow, she usually starts most spars treating it as a sword. In combination, she usually employs a selee as she’s extremely proficient in dual wielding blades. When left with only one, however, her redistributed focus and attention allow her to be even more precise. By studying her swordsmanship tutor lessons and his experiences, Sofia was able to think in retrospect and slowly discover the style that would suit her best. Rather than strength, she focuses on speed, momentum, and graceful and sometimes unorthodox movements to overpower her opponents. Just like she had her own style of finger placed on the violin, and the unique movements when she played with her violin bow, she was able to find her own unique take and preference for bladed combat. Rather than going all out with strength, leverage, momentum, turns, and graceful movements would allow her to use those advantages in her favor whereas a reliance on strength on her part would have done her no good. By exploring and replicating the calm, and fluid movements she used during her violin recitals, she was able to create a just as smooth and fluid bladed combat style that was truly her own.

She would prioritize tight but smooth bladework that emphasized a lack of exposure to incoming hits. Through her style, she discovered she enjoyed and preferred her movements to follow focused, and elegant transitions that prioritized the unilateral balance of her body and footwork to outmaneuver her opponents. Just like when she played the violin, Sofia never seemed to be distressed or alarmed whenever she used her blades. She always appeared calmed and steady, replicating the quiet and calm postures of a violinist performing an orchestral piece. when using two blades at once, Sofia would switch up between two variations. Just like when performing a musical piece, there were aspects of songs that required fast high paced beats, and some more slower or refined tempos. She would find the perfect transition for her during bladed combat by switching from continuous dual wielding front faced assaults, to simply attacking with one blade leaving the other for defensive purposes. The simultaneous and quick change from the stance of precise and calculated attacks and defense to continuous attacks and vice versa often threw her tutor off balanced. She would go from attacking and defending at once, straight to a counter strike. It required a fluid and smooth transition from pressing a calculated assault and parrying an attack, to a quick and unexpected counter strike.

Amazing Violinist:

From a very young age, Sofia showed interest, talent, and skill in music in general. That talent and interest would be put into intensive training with the violin. Thanks to her innate gift, she was able to become quite proficient with the violin at an early age. And in her teens, she was already considered as good as a professional musician. Her dedication and drive in the musical field were such that it became the means through which she was able to perfect her Quincy training. Music helped her understand and get used to summoning her spirit weapon. Fate would have it that her own spirit weapon would be closely related to music as would be her own unique power.

» Quincy Skills:

"M" The Melody:

Sofia’s own unique ability is known as The Melody. Her own personal reiryoku allows her to use her body, or most often her geigenbogen as the catalyst of her ability. Primarily related to music, Sofia is able to create musical waves that can be used in a variety of ways. Though Sofia can certainly use her ability without her geigenbogen, by simply using her hands, she prefers to use her spirit weapon as it reminds her of playing the violin. By making short and rapid strokes with her Geigenbogen, Sofia is able to fire waves of musical melodies that though somewhat weak, travel extremely fast. Likewise, by doing a longer, less hurried stroke with her geigenbogen, she’s able to fire a musical blast of devastating power albeit traveling at much slower speeds. They behave not unlike the relationship between the cero and the bala of the Hollow breeds. Though both powerful and useful in their own way, they each trade power or speed in exchange of more of the opposite.

The musical waves however are controlled by Sofia’s mind. Unfortunately, while she is able to control and direct musical waves that are slow traveling she cannot fully control musical waves that travel at exceedingly fast speeds due to the reaction time needed to do so. She is however able to affect all of her abilities initially despite of speed. That means that while she may be able to shift a very fast musical wave as soon as she fires it, she wouldn’t be able to control it further thereafter. The musical waves cannot be seen since sound is not a visible tangible material. It is however able to be heard. The audible aspect of her ability can actually benefit those keen of hearing. Not only will those around her hear the melody of her ability, but they would be able to notice differences in the tunes and the beats of each. While the same move would not likely be played the same way, similar moves would have very similar tempos. Fast attacks would display fast strokes, and slow and powerful attacks would display longer notes. Likewise, continuously short bursts of uninterrupted beats of musical tunes would likely result in equally similar short bursts of very fast but very weak musical beams.

For the most part, the power of her ability relies on the concussive power of the abilities kinetic energy. It is the force of the musical blast hitting against an opponent that drives the force, like a hammer. However, by swinging her geigenbogen, Sofia may be able to slash a musical wave of varying power and speed that its very sharp in nature. Rather than hitting and pushing away, an attack like that would be meant to meet and slice what lied before it. Her musical ability bears great resemblance to her spirit weapon and its versatility. The latter it's able to be used as both a sword and a bow. Not unlike it, her ability allows her to mold it to fit her needs, just as she’s able to play the right notes on her violin to listen to the music she wants to play. Because of the nature of her ability, it is not unlike Sofia to use her musical power to run some of her reishi or ginto techniques through it. And, though used sparingly, she may also use her ability to create literal waves of musical melodies she can ride, as if surfing the noise. As a general rule, the musical abilities created through The Melody can travel up to speeds of Mach 3.

Masterful Reishi Control:

Since very early, Sofia demonstrated a talent in gathering and maintaining reishi around her. Despite her reputation as a prodigy, it was music and her artistic mind that allowed her to become as proficient in the discipline as she is. Initially bored and without a will to want to summon the standard spirit weapon, she found solace and enjoyment in the fact that she could create a violin bow with the reishi around her. Through years of endless practice since she loved to practice with the violin, she would end up discovering her violin bow would become her main weapon. It was thanks to the near endless practice that she was able to become so accustomed and adapt to gathering and manipulating reishi with such ease. Once she had mastered her sanrei glove, the journey became even more thrilling as she found it easier to summon her weapon and create constructs out of the reishi around her. The art that she loved so much in music, and the new techniques she created with Ginto created a curiosity in her as to the different things she could create by manipulating reishi. Refusing to allow other races to move ahead unstopped, like the Shinigami and their kido, Sofia vowed and succeeded to create art as she did in music, through the works of her craft in reishi manipulation. She would succeed in creating several utility techniques that took advantage of her innate talent absorbing and manipulating reishi.


Heiligen Torspiegel: By concentrating the reishi around her, Sofia can create up to two silvery white Quincy pentacles not much bigger than her. The Quincy pentacles will hover in the air at two locations of her choosing. One of the pentacles attracts spirit energy, be it reiryoku, reishi or different kinds of spirit energy altogether. The other Quincy pentacle simply expels it. As such, the two pentacles act as a form of gate or a door. While one pentacle would attract a blast, the latter would be redirected to come out of the second pentacle at a different location. Unfortunately, the technique is limited in several ways. Once the location of the pentacles have been set, they can no longer be shifted around. Her pentacles can also only last for about three posts. And because of the amount of reishi needed to create and maintain them, they are subject to a two post cooldown after they’ve dissipated.

Heiling Schutz: (passive) Continuously, Sofia allows a very thin film of reishi to cover her skin and all around her body. It helps by adding a simple and subtle extra layer of defense to incoming attacks. While she relies on her Blut occasionally, Heiling Schutz allows her to have an extra layer for cushioning damage. The ability is not enough to stop attacks or damage from blows that would be extremely hindering in nature, but at the very least, every potential chance for harm is at the very least minimized in the slightest in some way.

Himmelstor: A towering gate about 50 meters tall is erected in front of Sofia. The wall is largely bare, seemingly constructed out of pure white reishi, with nothing but an embossed Quincy pentacle right at its center. Himmelstor is meant to be Sofia’s attempt at an extremely efficient form of defense. Several meters thick and embedded with a lot of reishi as well as her own reiryoku, she’s able to hold off attacks from beings up to a tier higher than her without the wall being destroyed. For the most part, the wall is able to sustain and control damage for up to two posts after use before dissipating. However, while Himmelstor would be able to stop an attack from at most, an individual two tiers above hers, the technique would cave down right after cancelling the attack. Regardless, because of the powerful needs of such a construct, Himmelstor is subject to a three post cooldown after use.

Himmelstor - Heiligkeit: The technique, which translates roughly to Heaven's Gate - Sanctity, is the most recent gift from Sofia to the Wandenreich. It's creation was thanks to the knowledge of her own technique, Himmelstor, as well as her own mastership and dominion over reishi and reiryoku. By infusing their own reiryoku with the reishi around them, the Quincy can create a large, 10 meter tall gate of silvery white light, with edges that seem to be made of an out of this verse white material with carvings that are more fitting of scenery depicted in renditions of heaven. The door is a form of gateway or passage to almost anywhere in the verse. Those of 0 tier can simply use their reiryoku for its creation, although adding the surrounding reishi makes it both faster and smoother in its delivery.

However, the technique has a number of limitations on top of the securities and countermeasures Sofia engineered into it herself. For starters, the technique can only be used by active Quincy members of the Wandenreich. And while whomever creates the gate can allow others to travel with them, they must still be Quincy at the very least to be able to pass through. Beyond that, most regular Quincy are limited to traveling through the door only to get around the world of the living. To enter a different plane like Soul Society or Hueco Mundo, the Dangai or the Demon World requires approval from either a Captain or above. The exception to this of course being Sofia, it's creator. However, 0 tiers are able to use the gate to travel anywhere they desire as they're not only powerful, but deemed capable and trustworthy under specific circumstances. Still, they should still take caution as certain worlds are less forgiving to their kind. The gate cannot be used to facilitate or compliment combat. Instead, it is simply a means of accessing locations that would otherwise be too difficult to get to. And finally, since it is not a technique written in stone or a book handed down, Sofia must teach the individual in a one by one basis before they're able to do it on their own.

Heiling Hieb: [passive] By continuously gathering reishi around her weapons, Sofia is able to either thrust or swing one of her seele Schneider or her geigenbogen resulting in a reishi blast being shot. Thrusting would result in a blast that’s destructive in nature but with an emphasis on its piercing and concussive capabilities. Likewise, when slashing, the ability surrenders its concussive and piercing abilities for the chance to slash through the sharp crescent wave of concentrated reishi. Since Sofia is able to fire arrows through her bow, she delegates the use of this technique usually for the times when she’s strictly using her blades.