Kegare "Ali" Okihana [Tier 4-1, Hazard Rank D]

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» Name: Kegare Okihana
» Alias: Mère Alizarine (Mother Alizarin), Ali

» Age: 256
» Gender: Female

» Association: Former Gotei

» Appearance:


Kegare is taller than your average japanese woman at 5'11". She has a fit, curvy build and has soft, smooth skin. Her complexion is a little on the pink side, but since she's sequestered herself she's come to be a bit paler over the years, and has even diminished what was once a firm, toned body into something softer and not quite as slim as she once was.

She has incredibly long, silky red-pink hair which reaches all the way down past her rear when let down and unbound, though in it's ponytail it usually reaches just to her lower back. This hair while wild, is generally left unkempt and all over the place, giving her a somewhat untamed look when she isn't dressed up for her work.

Her facial features are gentle and smooth, but with a strong, confident chin and a smile that almost daring, making her startlingly good at hiding her feelings since her natural smile is so cool and calm. Her eyes being a fierce, shining blue that bleeds intelligence and craft only adds to that look of daring. At first glance, one might feel like Kegare was an older sister, or an upperclassman, or even a bully.




» Personality:

Kegare was at one point a rather bright and aspiring woman. She had strong goals, was well-liked thanks to her sociable personality and good looks. She enjoyed the attention and felt that she had an obligation to the soul society because of that gift, she sought to use her popularity to inspire others to not only be good people, but be BETTER people, and seek to improve themselves and some of these sentiments survive in fragments in who she is today.

But other personality traits have surfaced as well. First and foremost she is tired and somewhat jaded. Not in the sense that she feels nothing matters, for she STRONGLY feels that individuals can have strong influences on the world, she simply has been through such that she doesn't feel she has it in her to BE that change. Her failures plague her and it's not uncommon for her to dip into bouts of depression and self doubt. Depression she generally squashes under unhealthy habits and her new occupation. She feels that there is no point in valor or heroism, and that trying to do the right thing can just set yourself up for failure as you fail to meet your own expectations. As such she is a hard realist and often plays the devil’s advocate in most situations.

Her Motto is: Prepare for the Worst, and Expect to fail anyway.



» History:


Kegare was born in the soul society, into an upstanding Family. While her family did not garner much influence, they were a respected line of shinigami that had served in the Gotei for generations. Naturally when she came to adulthood, she entered the Shino academy. Because of her pretty appearance and likeable personality she was quite popular and made a name for herself in helping her peers better their own skills rather than focusing on her own means of improving. Because of this, she did not graduate quite as quickly as some of her siblings, but she still managed to graduate.

After graduation, Kegare joined the Gotei under Squad 12 and became a respectable member of the Bureau Research and Development, often finding herself studying the enemies of soul society, however since Hollow studies were taboo thanks to incidents revolving around Vizards, she instead focused her research on the various types of demons that could be found throughout the worlds. An endeavor that would pay off in the future.

While Kegare was not in the gotei for the third world war, she was active at the time of the infamous Demon Incursion. Following the occupation of the Gotei by demon forces, Kegare attempted to continue her research, making good of a bad situation by trying to gain as much information on their occupiers as possible. This however, ultimately, drew the wrong kind of attention, from one particularly dumb, but nasty Demon named Ur.

Mistaking her intellectual endeavors as some sort of infatuation with demons, the demon managed to restrain and kidnap the woman, imprisoning her and attempting to get her to admit these perceived intimate feelings that he believed she had for their race as he slowly began to form an obscene obsession with her. However, she refused to entertain his obsessive assumptions and continued to refute any attempts at getting any such deranged confession out of her. Ultimately this led to a particularly ill-conceived plan. Ur decided that if Kegare would not give in to her love for demons, then he would make her into a davana based solely around such an infatuation with them.

Before she knew it, Kegare found herself in the center of a ritual, Ur intending to pry the core of her soul out of her body as a sacrifice and create a davana to his design and then force it to occupy her corpse, giving him the adoring slave he so desired.

As fate would have it, Kegare was well versed in knowledge, however conjecture and theory-based, around these Davana creation rituals. Being bound, she had no hope of simply breaking free and taking out her kidnapper. Her only hope was to trick him.

Hijacking the ritual once it had begun, she managed to ram the blade Ur had intended to use into his chest using her knee, but she knew this would not be enough to kill him. With no other options, she finished the ritual herself, offering up his soul as the catalyst in the creation of the Davara. In an instant, Ur’s Za Koa core collapsed on itself, being crushed out of existence as a void was torn through his chest, obliterating him. But in the process, a Davana was born, but rather than into a waiting corpse vessel, it was implanted and fused into her very being. Having been desperate, she based this Danava around a Fairy Tale from her youth:

The Girl who Fell Through the World. A story about a young woman who falls through the world to a magical land to escape her problems, but having not learned from her mistakes is forced to repeat them, spreading her failures through this new land and destroying it. When she finally had left that magical world in ruins, and she finally returned home: she could not even muster a smile, as after all she had been through even this old familiar place didn’t feel like home.

From this, the Origin of Rueful Hubris was formed and the Davana fused with her completely, twisting her zanpaku’to and her soul in entirety as she felt as if her entire soul were being mulched and remade. when she finally escaped from the prison, she promptly fled to the world of the living, terrified that her corrupted body might somehow harm her fellow Gotei. Escaping to the world of the living along with a gigai she had created herself, she went to the world of the living and went into hiding in Madagascar, focusing on gaining proper control of these new powers and this corruption of her soul. Years later, when she finally gained a handle over her new abilities, she learned that the Gotei had purged the demons from the sereitei. And while this was an incredible moment of joy for her, she also found that she couldn’t possibly go back. Anti-demon sentiment had grown considerably, and even the few spiritual individuals she had come to know in the world of the living had stories of demons and even ziamachi shinigami being put under incredible scrutiny, even isolated incidents of particularly zealous anti-demon shinigami going so far as to give the atmosphere of a witch hunt. Her home had changed, and although she knew that if she put in enough work she could be accepted back, she wasn't sure if she could trust herself.

At first she became determined, focusing on learning more about her new condition and finding a way to turn herself back. But experiment after experiment failed miserably, and in time she fell into despair. Not only this, but her new powers would bring to mind her own shortcomings. Her lacking performance in helping push back the demons during the initial incursion. So many comrades she had failed to save. And of course, her ultimate fall from grace in becoming this twisted hybrid.

In time, she gave up on trying to fix herself, or even trying to carry on the duties and principles that she had once held so dear in her heart. Her attempt to maintain a healthy life as a human in the world of the living began failing, her gigai’s physique began to decline in her depression, and she was unable to even find herself a normal job. In her sink of failing self worth, she began working as a prostitute, initially for a seedy inn. She began to drink and abuse drugs, but what ultimately saved her was seeing other humans fall into hopelessness alongside her. Young women who felt the world had failed them, throwing themselves away. Even though she had lost the will to help herself, she still maintained the will to try and help others.

Cleaning herself up for the most part and weaning herself off hard drugs, she promptly started moving up among the prostitutes, and in the end, she wound up killing the inn owner in his sleep using her powers. Taking over the establishment, she maintained the business, but began rehabilitating those in her employ that showed a willingness to save themselves using the money made by those who were beyond saving. She herself even moonlighting as a prostitute when she wasn’t performing her duties as a matron in order to collect information on other establishments. At least, that’s what she told herself.

For all of this sudden good she was doing, she was still addicted to alcohol and in truth she’d even grown addicted to the feeling of separating herself from rational thought and modesty whenever she handled a client. Maybe it was her new demonic side, or maybe she was simply that desperate to separate herself from the failure she had once been, but in any case even with her side work of charity, she still continued managing her whores and servicing her own trusted clientele. And, rarely, in the event that one of her girls shows signs of budding spiritual abilities: takes them under her wing. Unintentionally starting an all-female spiritual gang: Les Merles (The Blackbirds) when some of her girls that she rehabilitated began banding together and began serving as local protection against hollows and other malevolent spiritual beings.

Initially Kegare rebuked these actions but finding that she was unable to stop them, eventually came about to leading the group so that at the very least she could keep an eye on them. And even if she wasn’t able to help herself out of her own sinkhole of a life, she’d do everything for her girls.





» Equipment:






» Atma Vatou Name: Pillar of Dying Hubris

» Atma Vatou Appearance: Takes the form of a spear which separates into four vertical segments of equal length. The spear itself has a spiral pattern along it's length and a deep blue hue to the metal itself. The entire weapon is a single piece of metal. The weapon itself extends 3 meters in length and has a general thickness of about 2-3 inches.

» Atma Vatou Abilities:
A spear fashined from a pillar of belief, manifesting as a result of her understanding of her origin and as a result gaining the ability to rip the weight of their failures and sins from their very soul as fuel for this weapon.

If at any point this weapon pierces a target's body (Puncture all layers of skin and reach the tissues beneath (Muscle, Organs, ect), Kegare's energy reserves are replenished based on the "virtue" of the target, however the Metric occurs from the point of view of Kegare and in actuality is simply based on the target's race. This energy is generated by offering up the target's Sins and Failures to Nidhanna as a tribute in exchange for the energy.

"Innocents" Human, Iramasha, Quincy - A beginner-level ability at the target's tier

"Neutral Shini, Fullbring, High-Spec, Danava - An adept-level ability at the target's tier

"Cruel" Arrancar, Vizard, Demon Hybrids - An advanced-level ability at the target's tier

"Despised" Hollows, Demons, and Sueki - Several advanced-level abilities at the target's tier


This process is so thorough that Sinners and Hollows slain by this weapon have their Failures and Sins consumed completely and entirely, cleansing the spirit and reintroducing them back into the soul cycle.
A target can only supply Kegare with this energy once since the process drains them.

When the spear itself is separated into it's four segments and planted into the ground, a field is generated within the bounds of the space the segments occupy, draining targets within of their Failures and Sins from everything within this area every post as though they were pierced, any creature which dies within this field is treated as if it were slain by the spear itself. The maximum size of this field is a 50 meter radius (Increasing to 100 meter radius at Tier 2 and a 1km radius at tier 1) . Targets drained of their failures within the Aoe, but without having been Pierced by Pillar of Dying Hubris, will not provide Kegare with energy.





» Origin Name: Rueful Hubris

» Origin Power: An Origin which revolves around one's failures in the past and the regret and pain attached to it. Specifically, failures that came as a result of shortcomings from the person themselves, loss that they are in some way directly responsible for.

» Origin Abilities:

Howling Martyr

One of the purest forms of hubris is in to blind one's self to consequence or harm in order to achieve one's goal.

This ability amplifies this concept. When inflicted on a target, the target will completely lose the ability to feel any pain, discomfort, or even anything that would be in their way such as the sensation of pressure or restraint.

However, this is very severe, and as a result can be deadly. In this state, a target can significantly hurt themselves simply trying to walk up the stairs as pressure and pain are stripped away. The act of taking a step without actively looking where you’re going can cause someone to crush their leg and mash it into a rock they weren’t aware was in their way, as they have no senses which would warn them to stop applying pressure through the limb. One’s grip on one’s sword can become so tight that their muscles rip, their tendons fray, and their fingers become locked and unable to peel away.

In order to keep from destroying their body, an individual must be meticulously aware of every motion they are partaking in as well as spatially aware of their environment lest they injure themselves.

Individuals whose defensive capabilities exceed their own natural strength have nothing to fear from this side effect as they can simply endure any would-be damage from heedless action. Additionally, strong enough regeneration can overcome this weakness and can make this ability dangerous to use as it can immunize a target against pain and fatigue so long as they have the energy to put themselves back together.

This ability is initiated through physical contact with a target and channeling a small amount of Reiryoku into them. It's effects last for 2 posts. Targets with Focus higher than her Origin Embodiment are capable of enduring this ability without suffering damage to themselves so long as they dedicate a portion of their focus to restraining themselves and moving carefully.

This ability can be used 3 times per thread.


Shreds of Regret

With this ability, Kegare is able to explore the past of her targets . By focusing on someone she is making physical contact with, she can connect to their memories.
Using this ability, Kegare is able to explore a target's memories and experiences.
She is even capable of entering a shared meditative trance with a target in which Kegare generates an internal illusion from a person's memories. Thus, she and the target can experience singular memories together.
With Advanced Origin Embodiment she will even be capable of manipulating and splicing memories together in order to generate unique experiences and memories for her and the target to experience.
This is a Story ability and cannot be used on Unwilling Characters without OOC Consent.







General Skills

• Durability: Adept
  
• General Speed: Adept
  
• Strength: Adept
  
• Martial Skill: Adept

Danava Skills

• Origin Embodiment: Adept
  
• Origin Focusing: Adept
  
• Atma Vatou: Adept
  
• Eternal Partner: Adept
  

Will Skills

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

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