Anthony Hernandez

Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:37 am

S H I N I G A M I

B A S I C I N F O R M A T I O N

Name: Anthony Hernandez

Gender: Male
Age: 485
Appearance:

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Anthony is a rather handsome man, if with rather common features. He has black hair that he keeps at about his ears, rarely letting it grow out longer. His eyes are brown and really not that special either. However, he is blessed with a handsome face, designed excellently. He’s not the most handsome man in existence, but he can turn a few heads. His body is lean and fit from centuries of training and combat and his arms are covered in small, nearly invisible scars from his fight with Antonio.

Normally Anthony wears, well just clothing. He’s not that picky about clothes, he usually wears a white shirt with a black overcoat. His pants are black, and he wears sturdy combat boots. Really he doesn’t see any real need to wear anything else. He stands at 5’ 9” and weighs 155 pounds.

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P E R S O N A L I T Y

Personality: Anthony is one of those hard-working relaxed types. When something needs doing, he does it and he does it to the best of his ability. However, if nothing needs doing, he’s not going to rush around looking for something to do. Instead, he’s going to take this rare opportunity to relax. He likes doing goodwork and relaxing, so he’s happy when there’s something to do, and content when there isn’t. He also has a fascination with riddles, jokes, and puzzles.

He believes deeply in Kin’s ideals, being one of the few people who joined the Kokuryuteshi willingly. Even more, he didn’t ask Kin for anything when he joined, honestly being content with what he had. One reason for that is that he wants to gain things through his own power, only seeking help when he believes he is incapable of doing it on his own, and even then the act of asking for help renders him nervous and gives him a kind of stage-fright. The second reason is that he believes the Soul King has corrupted all of the afterlife, and wants to help bring it down.

In combat Anthony fights gleefully and intently, focusing on his opponent to the exclusion of all else (making him ill-suited for multiple opponents). There’s nothing he likes better than a good old-fashioned blade clash, however he dislikes fighting those stronger than him, and hates fighting those weaker than him, considering the latter to be a waste of time, and the former being rife with opportunity for failure. So for him, the best opponent is someone close to his equal, and that kind of fight he likes to drag out, savoring the fun of fighting someone who is evenly matched with him.

Above all else, Anthony despises, and fears, failure. The failure to complete his object, the failure to win, failure at this, failure at that. For him, failure has no excuse, if someone a million times stronger than you gets in your way then your failure is smaller than it would have been otherwise, but its still a failure. There are no excuses, only degrees of failing.

THE FOLLOWING SECTION IS TO BE USED ONLY IN THE EVENT THAT ANTHONY DISCOVERS THAT HIS TWIN ANTONIO IS STILL ALIVE, UNTIL THEN IT SHOULD BE DISREGARDED!!!

Anthony still loves his brother, even though Antonio serves the Gotei 13, one of Kin’s greatest enemies. His greatest desire is that his brother willingly joins Kin’s cause, the two of them working together to serve his desires. However, he’s not very optimistic about this happening, and expects that Antonio would have to be brainwashed, as so many other shinigami were. However, he’s loathe to bother Kin with his own squabbles, the thought of which makes all his arguments about how well Antonio could serve, especially combined with Anthony seem to fall apart in his mind.

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B A C K G R O U N D

History/Background: For the first little while Anthony’s tale follows the same path as Antonio’s, the two being twins. Both Anthony and Antonio were Italian, hence their names, and they had the misfortune to born before World War 2, and near the middle of the 1920’s. Meaning, that as they grew up, they grew up in the depression. Now, most people think the depression only affected the U.S, but in fact it affected the entire world. The only place unaffected was Russia, its new communist regime keeping a policy of isolation from the rest of the world.

Now, Anthony’s family was hardly rich before the depression, and with the depression they barely had enough money to eat. In fact, many a day went by when they didn’t have anything to eat. From a very early age Anthony was expected, along with his brother, to work and earn money along with every other member of the family. Even from this time Anthony’s dark side showed itself, in that he became a pickpocket, learning the trade from an adult thief and giving the man most of his money. He was frightened of what the family would think of this and thus gave the thief far more than he needed to. In fact, he matched his money with his brother Antonio’s, who had a very legitimate job of polishing shoes or helping people haul baskets, parcels, etc.

Years passed, and the family survived, they struggled, but they survived. As is the case with most times of hardship, friends and family would either be driven apart, or be cemented together. Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, the hardship helped forge a steel bond of brotherly love between Anthony and Antonio. When World War 2 started, Anthony was convinced by his brother to flee Italy and join the Allies rather than the Axis powers.

In the war the two worked closely together, defending positions, storming bunkers, and taking buildings. However, like many in the war, the twin brothers were to die fighting. Anthony himself was killed during the Battle of the Bulge, several weeks after the death of Antonio. During that last German Offensive, he stood firm in the trenches, fighting valiantly with the other soldiers. In the end though, he died, a grenade exploding only a few feet away and driving shrapnel into his body. The fatal blow was a piece of shrapnel that severed his femoral artery, it was quick, he died of blood loss in eight seconds.

Now we come to Rukongai, where Anthony passed peaceably, believing that wherever he went, he’d be able to find Antonio. The afterlife wasn’t anything like he expected, having been raised in a strict Catholic household. The revelation of what Soul Society was like shocked his faith to the core, and caused him to come to a sinister revelation. He came to believe that the bible was a load of crap, something to keep them complacent and under the shinigamis’ thumb. A few months later, when he and his brother found each other, against all odds, he kept this revelation secret, realizing that his brother did not share his thoughts.

Upon being found Anthony moved in with Antonio and his adopted family, having not found one of his own in his short time in Rukongai. After they had been reunited a few years, they experienced a curious sensation. They became hungry, the sign of their reiatsu awakening. Although they didn’t quite know what it was at first, a friend of Antonio, who had been around for a while, was able to inform them as to what had happened. Anthony pretended to share his brother’s jubilation, and the two set off to try and enroll in the academy and become shinigami.

Naturally, they succeeded, becoming full-fledged shinigami and members of the Gotei 13. That is, until Kin showed up and started brainwashing people. When Anthony first heard about Kin he was already more than fed up with the way things worked. Not only did it seem like (to him) that the people in Rukongai were treated like crap, so were other shinigami who weren’t either from a family or had enough power to force people to do otherwise! Respect was a different story, you had to earn that to get it, but still just being treated decently?

Thus, he was more than willing to join the Kokuryuteshi, throwing his lot in with Kin. In fact, he didn’t even ask for anything in exchange, believing in throwing down the Soul King and all of Soul Society far too much to desire anything more than to be a part of it. Although he wasn’t very powerful at the time the final battle took place between the opposing forces, there was one particular battle he was a part of that had special significance for him…

Spoiler:

For Anthony that battle signified the end of all ties to the Soul King. Although the battle as a whole was lost by Kin’s defeat, he was among the forces that were able to retreat. During those long centuries, Anthony practiced and practiced, learning his zanpakutou’s name, becoming stronger. Now, he is ready and willing to serve Kin Iramasha as a member of the Kokuryuteshi.

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Zanpakutô Spirit Name: Custos (Guardian)
Appearance: Custos appears as a massive warrior, covered head to toe in plate-mail. He stands at fully thirty feet tall, most likely framed from the legends of giants. His plate-mail is forged of bright, shining steel, as is the massive tower shield, nearly as tall as he is. He holds the shield in his left hand, and in his right is a much larger version of Custos in his sealed state.
Inner World: The inner world of Custos appears to be a flat, endless plain, stretching out forever. In the center of this plain is a massive spire of shining steel. Custos himself stands in front of the one entrance to the spire, which is a massive stone double door. Other than that door there are no other openings anywhere around the tower, not even windows.
Sealed Zanpakutô : Custos’ sealed form is that of a longsword, the blade approximately two and a half feet long, with a hand and a half hilt. The crossguard is in the standard crossbar shape for a longsword, with each side being three inches long and slightly curved.
PhatomTech: Nope

Release: Subsisto Thunder, Custos (Stop the thunder)

Shikai Description: Anthony Hernandez Image.aspx?asset_id=3M60401&img=QueensBlade0

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Custos’ unsealed form is that of a five foot long greatsword, with fully four of those five feet going towards the blade, with the last foot being the hilt. Custos does not have a crossguard, but the blade is very wide, and curves outwards near the bottom, causing most attacks that slide down to be deflected outwards. The blade is nearly a foot wide and decorated on the inside with inlay of a strange material. At the end of the great sword where one would expect to have a point, there is instead a deep notch, that can be used to catch enemy weapons.

Shikai Abilities: Custos is a lightning based zanpakutou, the power is based in electricity and better suited for defense than offense. The electricity produced, cannot travel through air, it must have a solid or liquid medium to go through. Furthurmore, Anthony is resistant to Custos’ electricity, but is only immune to other electrical attacks when using Perculsus Aegis (see below). Furthurmore, how much damage the electricity does varies according to the opponents power. (Assuming he’s in the tier 2-?’s) A Tier 0-? Would maybe feel a very mild static shock, a tier 1-? Would experience a mild shock, a tier 2-? Would feel a moderate and painful shock that would have them twitching for a few minutes afterwards, a tier 3-? Would feel a painful and powerful shock that might render parts of their body temporarily paralyzed, a tier 4-? Would receive an incredible shock of electricity that may knock them unconscious, and tier 5-?’s run the risk of being electrocuted by Custos. This goes under the idea that they only receive one shock, numerous shocks or a prolonged zapping will cause more damage (excepting tier’s 1 and 0) The electricity produced by Custos is called Perculsus, Perculsus electricity appears as small, black, flickering tongues of lightning running up and down the sword or the object its being channeled through and is used in two different ways.

Perculsus Aegis (Shock shield)-In Perculsus Aegis Custos’ lightning is channeled throughout Anthony’s body, which is resistant to the electricity. Anthony’s body appears to be covered in a flickering layer of black lightning, and anyone who touches his body gets shocked by the Perculsus Aegis. Naturally, the same thing happens if Anthony touches another individual. Additionally in this state he is resistant to electrical based attacks but not immune. Powerful enough electric attacks will still hurt him and those of a higher tier than him can still do full damage with their electrical attacks.

Perculsus Campus (Shock Field)- Perculsus Campus is performed by Anthony pressing Custos against the ground while having it generate Perculsus electricity. The electricity runs through the ground in a circle around Anthony, causing anyone to step into the area to get shocked by the field. However, Perculsus Campus has a limited range, the electricity deals the full power of its shock within five meters, at five to ten meters it only has half power, and after ten it loses all of its power, so anyone farther than ten meters is safe.

Perculsus Occuro (Shock Counter)- A basic technique of Custos, Perculsus Occuro is simply channeling, and keeping the Perculsus Electricity inside the blade. Giving the blade the appearance of being covered in black lightning. Upon successfully blocking a blow or making contact with the opponents weapon, the electricity will run down their weapon to the wielder unless they break contact immediately.

However, it should be noted that Anthony can only perform one Perculsus technique per post, and can only maintain one Perculsus technique at a time. Furthurmore, he cannot activate a Perculsus technique in the same turn as he deactivated one. (Ex. If in one post he activates Perculsus Aegis he cannot cancel it and then activate Perculsus Campus, or activate both at the same time. If he wants to use Perculsus Campus, he must wait until the next post and then deactivate Aegis and wait until his next post. Now, in this third post he can activate Perculsus Campus.

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