Miyako Konoe [Approved; 3-1++]

» Age: 120
» Gender: Female
» Race: Shinigami
» Association: Gotei United, Seventh Division
» Rank: Seated Officer

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» Personality: Miyako is a women driven by the love and the idea of it. She has proven to be a bit of a sucker in the ways of romance. Her desire to find someone to really care about her drives most of her life. She's had a couple of short-term boyfriends in her life that have only disappointed her through betrayal, neglect, and indifference, but she's still hopeful for that one person to turn it all around. Growing up with fairy tales and then moving into teen romance novels gave Miyako a rather exaggerated view on love. She's one of those that believes it's the most powerful force in the universe and that it can change the hearts of even the darkest and most foul of souls. She also believes that it comes in the form of danger, adventure, and more "fantastical" methods. She reads too many stories.

Miyako is an avid reader and has been for as long as she could remember. Though Young Adult Fiction, romance, and fantasy are her favorite genres, she dabbles in some science fiction, slice of life, and horror every now and then. Because of this hobby, she's a fast reader and can read through most novels within a day and studying is a breeze. It's because of this that Miyako isn't some naive little airhead. Her desire to find real love has rarely outweighed her common sense. She usually makes pretty good decisions and has been a decent judge of character. However, Miyako has had those few moments that are exceptions to her normal behavior. Once someone has convinced her that they love her, or claim that they may be falling in love with her, she often ends up being used and later hurt.

Gaining Miyako's trust is easy; getting it back is impossible. Miyako is one of those who gives everyone a chance. The closer you get to her, the more she'll trust you. There are a few people that hit a level with Miyako that not everyone can. These are people she'd be ready to take a cero from an Arrancar for. When one of these people betrays her trust, a completely different woman comes to the surface. Miyako is normally a kind and passionate woman, generous and giving almost to a fault. When someone hurts her or betrays her trust, it's like a switch goes off in her mind and she becomes a a chaotic evil person. It's hard to predict how she's going to react to betrayal by those she's closest to. She may not be a super power, but there are ways that she can destroy a life. Stay on her good side.

Miyako is a surprisingly determined person. She always tries her best, but pushes harder when she thinks someone is looking down at her. She does not like being told that she's too weak or little to do something. The one she hates the most is people pushing her to the side because she's a woman. She's not some hardcore feminist and understands the obvious differences between the biology of men and women, but if she's worked her behind off to get to a certain point, she demands the amount of respect that her situation deserves. She has a respect for authority and power, often looking in awe at those more powerful than she is. She's always willing to learn more as well. She gets excited when she wants to learn a new technique, and she has no problem asking a more powerful someone to mentor her.

Since she is one that is always willing to learn, Miyako expects others to want to learn and better themselves as well. Staying stagnant for no reason, or believing you're somehow lesser than another and can't advance your skills, is something that Miyako likes to teach others not to feel. She doesn't see the point in deciding you're not worth something just because another person can do it better. She doesn't like being belittled and she despises seeing other people belittle another or themselves. Miyako likes pushing people to have more confidence. As long as they don't give up, she won't give up on them. She likes people who are determined. People who will get up and dust themselves off to try again are the people that Miyako has a lot of respect for. Anyone like that is one she wants to befriend.

There aren't many people that Miyako is close to. She doesn't have very many friends and gave up on making them for the most part. The only person she's close to is the man who trained her, Henrex Astillon. Since the training went on for years, Miyako ended up with a big brother that she's too scared to call big brother. He doesn't intimidate her or anything, but she is not sure whether he'd like suddenly having a little sister. She never asked him about it and doesn't really plan to. Henrex is the one who gives her motivation to keep bettering herself and training. He is also the one she strives to be like. She wants to be able to fight along side him without slowing him down or having him worry about her. Since Henrex is busy, she doesn't see him much, but she always looks forward to any visits from him.



» History: Miyako Konoe died about one hundred and two years ago when she became collateral damage to a fight between monsters above her city. Nothing but a weak human at the time, Miyako could do nothing to save herself, her little brother, or her baby sister. The three of them died together, but were separated within moments of their souls leaving their bodies, so Miyako has no idea where they went. Because of the devastation, relief was sent from the Soul Society and Miyako wasn't given time to look either. She was sent to the Soul Society, where she quickly learned that reuniting with her family likely wasn't going to be a thing. Besides, her memory of her life in the World of the Living began to fade. It faded completely within the first five years of her time in the Soul Society. Miyako lost all of who she was before and decided it was best to move forward instead of dwelling on the lost past.

It didn't take her long to join Shino Academy. She barely had any knowledge of the Seireitei or the Shinigami within, but she heard of the better lives those people of the Gotei led. With the desire for a better life, she enrolled and began her journey to becoming a Shinigami. During her years there, she had a few problems with the students and even a teacher, who all kept telling her she had no aptitude for anything Shinigami related. Her teacher always said it in kinder words, but the other students often humiliated her, insulted her, bullied her into submission. For a long time, she'd hide herself away. She kept to herself in class and fled from her bullies when class was over. They caught her practicing a few times and chose to "teach her some new techniques" by forcing her into sparring matches.

Sent home with bruises and cuts, Miyako thought about quitting. A few people reported the ones who were bullying her and their punishments only had eyes set more onto her. Since it was reported, the other teachers began watching closer and no other incidents happened. However, the people who had been convinced that she was the bad guy in all of this talked behind her back. She had a few small pranks spent on her and got a few idle threats from people when the teachers weren't looking. Since she had no one to turn to, Miyako spent most of her time in the library, picking up book after book as a way to escape the world she lived in. The stories inspired her. The ones she mostly enjoyed were about the oddball or underdog making their way up to making friends, being respected, liked, or even loved. In these stories, Miyako found her determination and chose to jump into more serious training.

Miyako found a good strong trainer in Henrex Astillon. Before asking him, she had only heard stories of his accomplishments. Approaching him was difficult. He always made her nervous, but talking to anyone of his rank and status would do that to most. After some time, she found him kinder and more caring than anyone she had met at the Academy and she knew he was the perfect choice to help her. When training actually started up, Miyako had to undergo the basics again, but with the more hands-on approach Henrex gave. He pushed her to mastering the fundamentals and helped her gain both confidence and experience before moving on to the more technical pieces of advancement. When they did move on, Henrex taught her to control he reiryoku and reiatsu. This was one of the few subjects that she seemed to understand and implement easily. She had little problem with control.

With that mastered, Henrex moved onto the most commonly used Shinigami art: Hoho. The subject of speed techniques was broad, but shunpo was what she needed to master. With time, focus, and daily practicing, it took Miyako months to truly bring her shunpo to a good level of accuracy and execution. She was not able to fully keep up with him, but she pushed herself farther and faster with each practice session they had. She even took the time to practice by herself, often being caught hours after dark in the training arenas. During one of these times, Miyako pushed herself far enough that she passed out. If Henrex had not come to check on her, she'd likely have gotten sick. Luckily, he found her and took her home to rest and then get something to eat. That was the first time he made her take a break. Miyako was a stubborn one though. The next day, she was right back out training in secret.

The break was supposed to go for a couple of weeks, but Miyako kept on and pushed herself again and again. She ended up in the Fourth Division's infirmary again. After Henrex found out she went against his will and began training again, he realized her determination and stubbornness were going to stop her from getting better. Instead of allowing her to train on her own, he began a more strict training schedule that she agreed with and the two of them kept to. With less injury and fatigue, her training was back on course and her advancement became much more steady. The two pushed into swordsmanship and hand-to-hand combat training, but had more of a focus on using a blade than anything else. It was Henrex's focus, so Miyako happily adapted to it. She learned she had a knack for it. Well, it was more like she had a good teacher and soon had her skills on par with higher ranking officers.

Training with Henrex occurred over quite a few years. The two became pretty close during that time as well, but he had duties he dealt with that often separated them. In secret, Miyako began looking at Henrex like a big brother and wanted to become stronger in order to catch up with him, or at least make him proud of her. During his absences, she began training for her shikai. It proved to be difficult. She kept it a secret for a while, until she gave in to ask him for advice on how to do it. Of course, her kind big brother offered his assistance and taught her a few other things. She was always so focused and determined that she had a problem slowing down. Training took a calmer direction after that and she began concentrating on herself mentally. He wanted her to advance her mind and so began meditation.

Finally able to calm her hasty butt down, training for her shikai became a walk in the park. After leaving her inner world, she drew her zanpakuto and was delighted to see that she had really obtained her shikai. After a long, hard battle with her zanpakuto spirit, Miyako realized she really and truly was advancing. It was the first real stepping stone that she felt meant she had accomplished something big. She gained just enough confidence to finally tell Henrex that she was going to try the rest of her battles on her own. Before she walked away, she did turn to ask him if she could come to him for advice when she needed it. He said that'd be fine and so Miyako began her solo journey to power. She was determined not to stop unless she felt like she could fight beside Henrex without being a hindrance.

In her more recent years, Miyako has done what she could in order to raise her status among Shinigami. Done with being the weak thing that her academy-mates would make fun of and bully, she's pushed herself to becoming a higher ranking officer and intentionally placed herself in the Seventh Division to get as many missions to the World of the Living as she can. Her latest mission has her in Karakura Central. Unfortunately, the people she was teamed up with were from her Academy days. She could feel the tension in the air, the eyes drilling holes into her back, and hear the angry mutters of her team. She hoped they'd be over the years before, but who knew at this point? She did her best to avoid them and kept concentrating on the protection of Karakura. That turned out to be a huge mistake.



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Hoho: Having trained under Henrex over the course of quite a few years, Miyako has become a well-versed practitioner of Hoho techniques. She's only recently begun to dabble in anything that's not shunpo, but she's come pretty far with the flash step. Her efforts have given her a fast flash-step, though she sometimes may not be as accurate as she wants to be. The more distance she crosses, the more often she messes up. Short-range flash-steps are ones she has absolutely no problem with.

Zanjutsu: Zanjutsu isn't something she dabbles much in. Since the one who trained her concentrated more on regular swordsmanship, not the actual shinigami art, she ended up doing the same thing. Like hoho, she has started to practice some minor techniques, but nothing she's ready or willing to try in combat just yet. Her swordsmanship, however, is something to be noted. She's an experienced swordsman that can hold her own. She doesn't rely on strength, but more her speed and agility.

Hand-to-hand: Miyako hasn't touched the Shinigami form for hand-to-hand combat yet. She's more interested in learning to use her blade. However, she is adept in normal martial arts and can defend herself. She'd still prefer to have her zanpakuto in hand, but sometimes that's not possible, so it's good to have a second skill. She's not among the strong Shinigami, so she usually focuses on dodging.

Kido: Kido is like magic to her. It's a fun ability to mess around with and can definitely be useful. In judging her actual skill with it, people would likely put her as a well-trained Shinigami. She mimics the styles of those she has seen in the past. She practices kido in order to keep her ability to control reiryoku up. Any kido that she does perform is usually accurate and well-managed, so it's not overwhelming.



» Zanpakutô Name: Anil

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» Inner World: Miyako's inner world consists of nothing but sky. Once within, you naturally float through the air, flying among clouds. The weather in this inner worlds changes with the mindset and emotional state of Miyako or her zanpakuto spirit. If Miyako is saddened, angry, or other impacting emotions, the inner world may become dark, bleak, rainy, windy, etc... The same for her zanpakuto spirit. If Anil becomes frustrated, angry, or anything else, the inner world will change along with his emotional and mental states. If they're both upset, their inner world is a dangerous place.

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» Shikai Release Phrase: Grace us with your presence...

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» Shikai Abilities: Miyako's zanpakuto has influence over the air, so when Miyako's shikai is active the air in a twenty foot radius around her comes under her control. Her shikai currently lasts for fifteen rounds of posting. The abilities she has while her shikai is active are all listed below:

Bond: Those ribbons at the hilt of her zanpakuto are not useless. In order to keep her from dropping her sword, they bind to her. This is an immediate and passive ability. The ribbons wrap around her wrist to keep her sword close. If well aimed, the ribbons can be cut by a strong enough force. If her bonds are cut, Miyako looses the ability to fly until they're remade. It takes two rounds of posting for them to re-bind. Round one, they reform and on round two they're re-wrap around her wrist.

Stat Increase: This is a passive and immediate ability. This ability is not affected by bond. She gains a one level increase to her speed for the duration of her shikai.

Flight: This is an immediate and passive ability granted upon activation. Miyako gains the ability to fly around at speeds matching her skill sheet. This ability will continue unless somehow disrupted. If the ability is disrupted, it takes Miyako's shikai one round to reactivate so she can fly again.

Crescent Blades: Made fully of air, Miyako's shikai can create large crescent shaped blades that fire out from the edge of her zanpakuto. They're created when she swings her blade and the tip glows a bright white color. She can fire three of these per post The crescent blades match her speed. These crescent blades spin while shooting through the air. They act as sharp as a well-kept blade, able to cut through hard wood easily, and match Miyako's durability and strength.

I. Bankai

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I. Shikokai

» Shikokai Appearance: [What does your Shinigami look like when released in their Shikokai?]

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Skill Sheet

General Skills

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

Racial Skills

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

Will Skills

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