Lerna's Shinigami Upgrade

» Name Of Character: Lerna
» Link To Character: https://www.platinumhearts.net/t22092-lerna#147297

» Upgrading:
NEW SKILLS
Shinigami Skills

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

» Zanpakutô Name: Sōteiken 草薙剣 (Grass-Cutting Sword)

» Zanpakutô Spirit Appearance: Sōteiken takes the form of an enormous 7-headed orochi of sleek black scales and piercing red eyes. It will, however, often separate into it's human forms (plural). Taking the form of the Seven Earthly Princesses Lerna had once consumed. These forms are very close to identical and have lsleek long black hair, fair complexions, and tend to wear modified Kusari.

» Inner World: Lerna's inner world takes the appearance of a towering japanese estate interwoven with a vibrant forest. Seven massive barrels of overflowing liquor form a large pool of booze that floods the central courtyard of the estate, though it's apparent shallowness is entirely deceptive as the booze itself is seemingly bottomless once sunk into.

» Zanpakutô Appearance: Lerna's sealed Zanpaku'to takes the form of a long curved katana with a brilliant sheen. The name of the sword is etched into the base of the blade. The weapon's sheath takes the form of a Sake Gourd, which strangely holds the blade's entire length despite being much shorter than the blade itself.

» Sealed Zanpakutô Power:

Bounty of Eight Maidens

Causes Lerna to start sweating a fermented poison of several types. Only 1 type can be produced at any one time and swapping between these types eliminates any residue of previous flavors from the environment (but not from living targets effected by it). While these variations of venom are secreted throughout Lerna’s body they are produced in her bones. This ability can be active for 5 posts before going on a 2 post cooldown.

Kuikorosuhime (Devouring Princess) A flavor of fermented venom which corrodes through materials it comes into contact with, softening them. Reduces the structural integrity of a material by 50% per post. Things with durability scaling off of a skill has the effective skill reduced by 1 rank per post of contact. Materials without significant durability are simply corroded, causing 2nd degree burns over a single post and chewing through about 5 inches of material when corroding nonliving material.

Yowaseruhime (Intoxicating Princess) A flavor of fermented venom which blurs the senses and inebriates living things that come into contact with it or breathe in the vapors (generally permeates the air within 2 meters of the fluid). This causes dizziness, loss of coordination, and a reduced capacity for decision-making, which tends to make targets more susceptible to suggestion (varies by ooc consent). This fluid tends to collect in the stomach lining and along the throat and mouth, as such individuals can force themselves to vomit and expel the venom to rid themselves of symptoms. Without Purging, a target can recover from inebriation 3 posts after the last post in which they were exposed to it.

Shōkyakuhime (Incinerating Princess) A flavor of fermented venom which is obscenely flammable. even a slight spark of reiryoku will cause the fluid to ignite explosively causing plumes of fire. Unlike other flavors which simply seep from the skin and soak Lerna, this is instead secreted and collected in the mouth. Igniting this venom within her own mouth causes a burst of flame similar to a flamethrower. This venom can also be spat or ejaculated from under her tongue. Any externalization of spirit energy would then ignite and causing a fiery explosion as the fluid combusts.



» Shikai Release Phrase: Let's have a Drink

» Shikai Release Action: Shikai Activation entails Licking up some of the liquor from the weapon's Gourd, generally off of the blade. Releasing her Zanpaku'to does not cause any influx of spiritual energy and is very easy to allow to go unnoticed.

» Shikai Appearance: There is no notable change in the weapon on release.

» Shikai Abilities:

Eight Earthly Maidens Bearing Sake

Fermented Poison flows freely from the gourd that serves as this weapon's sheath, this alcohol can congeal on the ground, summoning clones that take the shape of Lerna's Zanpakuto spirits once consumed by Orochi. These Maidens have stats identical to Lerna's -1 (Equal once reaching Advanced Zanjutsu). These Maidens each correspond to a specific type of Liquor, and as such the number of Maidens that can be summoned are limited by the number of Liquor types available up to 7. Only 1 Maiden can be summoned per post (Increase to 3 per post at Advanced Zanjutsu) with a 2 post cooldown between summons. These Maidens may seem to take full physical form, but are in fact made from Fermented Venom, and as such damage to them liquefies the site of the injury temporarily and allows the injury to re-solidify the post after the injury was inflicted (If an arm is cut off, the sliced area will liquify and then the arm will reattach itself the following post). As such, Maidens can only be defeated by dealing direct lethal damage (To the head or heart). Defeated Maidens cannot be summoned again for 10 posts.

Drunkard Culling

Lerna or one of her Maidens executes a slash which sends out a thin wire-like blade of concentrated reishi, extending the range of the slash enormously (up to 10 meters at Beginner Zanjutsu, 30 meters at Adept, 200 meters at Advanced, 1 kilometer at Elite). All nonliving objects cut by this slash promptly begin to melt down into one of the selected Fermented Poisons over the course of 2 posts (Objects durable enough to not be given more than a scratch by Lerna's blade are not melted down).





» Bankai Name: Tensōunken 天叢雲剣 (Cloud-Gathering Heavenly Sword)

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» Why: Lerna has joined the Gotei and acquired her Asauchi to become a Substitute Shinigami after recommendation from Captain Murasaki and Vice Captain Magnolia.

Since then, she has been active in the Shino Academy and training in basic Shinigami Subjects. As a result of her connection with her Zanpaku'to on account of it being the remainder of her Sealed Body from the Muken before she had been fashioned into a Mod Soul, she has progressed faster than others in her class. She has struggled with Hakuda, but has begun to improve thanks to special attention from her instructor Asami, while Lerna originally lagged behind her peers, she has managed to progress further thanks to her higher participation in her Hakuda lessons as well as Spars with her Hakuda teacher outside of class.

While Lerna has only been a Shinigami for a short time, her existing combat proficiency and her special connection with her Asauchi has resulted in somewhat accelerated growth, this has been especially notable in her Solo thread with her Zanpaku'to in which she learns it;s name and takes on the form she has wanted since her days as Yamata No Orochi.

Threads acquiring recommendation:
https://www.platinumhearts.net/t22207-a-looking-glass-upon-a-balmy-breeze-lerna-magnolia
https://www.platinumhearts.net/t22172-white-girl-stuff-lerna-murasaki

Training Threads:
https://www.platinumhearts.net/t22648-in-all-my-dreams-i-die-solo#152800
https://www.platinumhearts.net/t22556p50-hakuda-matata-lerna-asami#152884


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