Ulquiorra Cifer [Finished :)]

» Name: Ulquiorra Cifer. » Alias: Cuatro Espada. » Age: Unknown [Ancient]. » Gender: Female*. » Race: Arrancar. » Affiliations: Fourth Espada of Aizen's Arrancar Army. Herself. Hueco Mundo. » Alignment: True Neutral. » Marital Status: Single. » Sexual Orientation: Asexual. » Hollow Type: Vasto-Lorde. » Hollow Hole: Sternum. » Aspect of Death: Emptiness. » Mask Fragment: Half-Helmet. » Estigma: Lines from eyes down cheeks. » Height: 5'5” » Build: Slender. » Hair Color: Black. » Eye Color: Green.

A cold and heartless individual, perhaps more callous and brooding than she was during her time as an Espada under Sosuke Aizen, such a reason originates from the fact that after being revived by Szayelaporro Granz and finding her peace and fulfilling her emptiness in her last moments. However, being revived it is not the case. It is just that familiar emptiness that she knew for so long and that has perhaps been the result of what turned her even more bitter than previously.

She has no interest in fighting, preferring to only fight when provoked or required to. In the past she was incredibly loyal to Aizen but after hundreds of years as past and she has been left alone, Ulquiorra does not have that purpose to fulfill as one of the top five Espadas. A large distinction between her current iteration and her past self is the acknowledgement of emotions, an understanding of the "heart" which was acquired in her dying moments but in learning of them it has created a vacuum where she cannot actually reach them again. Frustrating her that they escape her and once again causing her to fall into the emptiness that had defined her soul beforehand.

Despite all this, she is calm and collected. Apathetic in almost all circumstances where she rarely displays any emotion or surprise but it is not impossible for exceptional circumstances. Ulquiorra will however not fight pointless battles and if she judges that she is likely to lose, she will withdraw or surrender rather than attempt to fight for the slim hope of success. At the same time, there is no shred of remorse to those weaker than her who do fight her. She will kill without regrets, commit atrocious acts if required to people that cannot fight back - though she detests them and those that relish in such behaviour.

She does view herself as a hollow, even after becoming an Arrancar she maintains the pretense that she is a hollow. There is a fine line between her cordial attitude where she will speak her mind without consideration as to how a person might feel about it. Believing that if she has witnessed it and observed it to be the case then it must be so and to deny the reality of the situation makes one deserving of the title, trash.


» Szayelaporro Granz: She is begrudging of this arrancar, for his own role in her revival. If she were a different individual she might've been angry about the changes he made to her body in the resurrection of it however, she is not. The shape that she takes is irrelevant but the fiend that brought her back into this world after a satisfying conclusion to her time spent in sufferring is the most unforgiveable thing. She would murder this arrancar if she could ever find him again.

---For Events Prior to PH refer to Bleach Canon---

It should've ended there, turning to dust in the sands of Hueco Mundo. Ulquiorra is remiss to admit that she found satisfaction in that ending, calmly standing there in the sands while she faded into dust and basking in the finding of her own heart which was lost upon becoming a hollow.

Yet it was not to last for the meddling of another Espada would interfere with her end. Reviving her through gathering all of that dense reishi that made up her being, reforming it and resurrecting the Fourth Espada as a desire to utilise him for experimentation but making a few adjustments which he thought improved the Espada's physique for the intended purpose - we're not going into that.

Despite his attempts to keep her restrained though he underestimated the power that she could output so soon after the resurrection and she was able to overwhelm him and force him to retreat, being left too fatigued in the newly reborn body to give pursuit after almost killing him much to her chagrin. After escaping his lab - destroying it in the process - she escaped into the Sands of Hueco Mundo.

Being unsure of exactly how much time had past since her death or what had happened, through the wandering of the sands and development of her solita vista ability to be able to take a target's eye and reverse the effect to give herself the memories she acquired some details which gave her clarity. Through Robada Vista she learned of Aizen's failure, the fall of the Espada and subsequent incarnation of it under another arrancar. The union with Shadow Fall. Various wars and events.

She looked at these and concluded that she didn't care, that all of these conflicts were meaningless and not worthwhile to pursue. For what reason would she waste her time pursuing meaningless pursuits which were pointless in nature? There was none, and so she returned to the void. Trying to get lost in the depths of the sands, looking for the same peace of mind that she had found within the grove that Ulquiorra scratched her mask off her face and became an Arrancar in many years ago, before she was an Espada.

Maybe she could be spurred into action but all of the great figures in the world are aliens. There is no meaining to serve another "Aizen".


» Immense Spiritual Power: A former Espada, ranking above the top five. Ulquiorra's spiritual power is immense and while the resurrection by her peer has resulted in the loss of some of her power, Ulquiorra is still comfortably in a position where she can demonstrate enough power to still claim that title. The release of her zanpakuto was forbidden within Las Noches due to the fact that it would cause large-scale damage to the city.

» Close-Combat Specialist: Her preference for cero creates the illusion that Ulquiorra wouldn't be competent in close-combat, this however would be incorrect and she is fully capable of utilising her bare hands to overwhelm a target. Opting to harden her skin with hierro to even further allow for effortless displays of thwacking away blasts of energy, catching an opponent's sword or make her hands into weapons that can pierce through a target's body like a knife. On the flip side, she is skilled with her zanpakuto and able to utilise it in an incredibly proficient manner however, Ulquiorra will not draw her sword against someone that she thinks is "trash".

» Cero: Ulquiorra is among the best of what an arrancar would hope to achieve with the usage of the hollow's signature skill, cero. Her mastery is at the apex of what an arrancar could hope to achieve without breaking into trascendent levels and she is comfortably able to generate, fire and adjust in quick succession with little effort. She prefers to fire it from her hand, either one at the time, and the beams are powerful enough to send targets launched back a great distance with great amount of destructive power. The array of variants that she can utilise is wide, including the possible changes that she makes on the fly.

Using her extensive mastery, Ulquiorra can create constructs out of cero. Ranging from weapons such as javelins, swords, or even a wall of cero in front of her. This is mostly seen in her resurreccion where she losses access to her sword but it is not impossible for her to utilise it in her base form, it would just lack the same amount of potency behind it.

» Bala: Unlike her green ceros, Ulquiorra's bala retains its red colouration. A distinction for an individual when it provides clarity as to whether her blasts of spiritual energy will give away the sacrifice of power in exchange for more speed or vice-versa. The bala is powerful enough to blow holes out of weaker individuals though she prefers to utilise cero over this if the target is worth the show of power. In some way it would be more likely that she display bala to most individuals rather than bother displaying the full power of her cero.

» Voleo: Initiated by aiming a cero into the sky and firing it. The cero will then expand above her depending on how much power she has charged into it. From the expansion in the air she can rain down a volley of ceros for maximum destruction of the surrounding environment. Due to the unfocused nature of it, overall power is distributed and so the individual blasts lack as much power as firing a single cero would.

» Conquistador: A technique which involves catching a target's oncoming cero - or adjacent energy blast - and needing incredible control to not only capture it, prevent its dissolution or explosion and then convert it into power for her own cero done in reprisal. It should be noted and evident in its name, this technique is not made to be used against people of her power as it would be pointless to try and do this maneuvre. It exists to illustrate a difference of power.

» Ejecución: A cero which is designed to blast through a target's sternum and execute them, creating a hole in their chest similar to her own. Residue reiryoku is left in the target's body and so the individual will most likely descend into the form of a hollow after being killed in this manner.

» Expiacion: By making two slashes with her hands, Ulquiorra creates a black "X" which she fires as a blast in front of her which can severe a target into pieces or be moulded to wrap around them and bind them before exploding.

» Gran Rey Cero: By mixing her blood with the cero, she is able to greatly augment the cero to increase its destructive power exponentially. Despite its overwhelming power, Ulquiorra cannot utilise it more than a couple of times since it draws a lot on her resevoir of energy. It is mostly used as a trump card if ever required to be used.

» Cero Oscuras: A more powerful cero which can only be used in her resurreccion due to requiring its boost of power for full potential. It is an immensely powerful kind of cero which is able to easily overwhelm and inflict absurd amounts of damage to everything in its path. It is black with a green outline.

» Cero Oscuras - Aplastado: A variation of the cero oscuras which is utilised by fired in a wide arc rather than a straight beam to inflict massive destruction on everything in front of her.

» Pesquisa: Few among the Espada matched Ulquiorra's ability in pesquisa, she finds it an important and very valuable skill admonishing her peers who were incompotent with it. It is a passive trait now where she does not consciensiously need to utilise it in order to gauge a target's power. At a glance she can acquire a great understanding of a target's reiatsu, measure fluctuations in their spiritual power and acquire a good understanding of their potential. This makes her excel at judging a target's overall abilities and through the usage of her pesquisa she could potentially gauge an idea of a person's powers based on what alignment their reiatsu had such as an elemental aligned reiatsu.

» Solita Vista: Allows Ulquiorra to replay events and share memories to others through the removal and crushing of an eye, in turning to dust she is able to control the dust to spread it over the individuals that she wants to relay the information too and share her feeling and memories of the situation.

» Robada Vista: A variation of Ulquiorra's Solita Vista which allows for her to take another individual's eye if she can take it and crush it, by doing this she is able to acquire an understanding of the individual and their past - in turn a greater understanding of their powers and growth.

» Descorrer: Ulquiorra is able to create a portal to the garganta which allows for her to travel between the membranes of realms. It is possible for her to enter the dangai or travel between the living realm and hueco mundo.

» Broadcast: Using garganta she is able to create a visual broadcast which allows for situations to be viewed through the usage of the garganta as the intangible membrane between various realms.

» Hierro: By passively flowing her reiatsu into her skin, Ulquiorra is able to compress it into her skin and harden it, due to her high-level of reiatsu the hierro that she can materialise is incredibly dense. She is able to deflect attacks with her barehands and take slashes from targets' of weaker power with only minor cuts. However, against an individual of greater or equal power she finds that her hierro is not as potent.

» Sonido: She is able to utilise sonido to a proficient level, keeping up with other individuals of exceptional speed using only her sonido such as against Ichigo in their first fight who was using his bankai. She is competent enough to utilise sonido even with only a single working leg where others may be unable to execute those kind of manevers. Despite the fact her sonido is exceptionally fast, Ulquiorra does not pursue fanciful techniques which people who specialise in it might pursue. It is simply, a very fast flash step.


» Zanpakuto Name: Murciélago.

» Release Phrase: Enclose.

» Sealed Appearance: Her zanpakuto takes the form of an average length katana possessing a green handle and sheathe. It's tsuba is shaped with two curved extensions from its long sides with a line going through both sides, giving it an eye-like appearance through the fact that her eyes were the only sense that she had in her past life as a hollow.

» Sealed Ability: Ulquiorra possesses no sealed abilities in the case of her zanpakuto.


» Appearance: Upon release of her zanpakuto she releases a flare of black spiritual energy with a green outline, it falls briefly as a light rain before revealing her release form. She gains four large, black bat wings on her back and her hair becomes longer.

The hollow mask becomes repaired and more centred on her head rather than slanted on her head with two large horns extending outward to the sides towards the front. Her estigma becomes black and broader, her finger nails become longer and claw-like. She wears a white dress, closed at the top and extending down to conceal her feet which gain black heels and provide a couple of extra inches for height. In this form, she can fly through the use of her wings.

» Abilities: Ulquiorra does not gain any unique abilities, seemingly only utilising more potent ceros and showcasing overwhelming power against opponents. In exchange for the narrow scope of powers, Ulquiorra showcases a twice-fold boost to the normal power augmentation that she would acquire by releasing Murciélago.



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General Skills

• Durability: Elite.
  
• General Speed: Elite.
  
• Strength: Advanced.
  
• Martial Skill: Advanced.

Will Skills

• Willpower/Determination: Adept.
  
• Mental Deduction: Elite.
  
• Focus: Advanced.

Arrancar Skills

• Hollow Nucleus: Elite.
  
• Regeneration: Advanced.
  
• Sonido: Adept.
  
• Cero: Elite.

Laying among the crystalline trees which had steadily grown around her since she returned, once again she had found herself laying here. Reminiscing the memories that lingered in her mind, it was hardly satisfying though to stare at these forlorn sights that were within the depths of her mind. That fight kept on playing through her mind, the feeling of dying and the nothingness that came afterwards which passed as an instant but was so satisfying for the brief moment.

"Ichigo Kurosaki."

She didn't speak much, not when there was no one to hear those words and especially when she did not need to speak. It was a transcient thing to speak words, they disappeared after a brief moment and once more became dust in the past - leaving only emptiness. Everything was emptiness, everything but that one moment.

It was conflicting for her, in the past that nothingness was peaceful and able to find solace within it that absence of anything, there was no want or need. There was just nothing and that was happiness. Now she had tasted that sensation called a heart though, she longed for it and desired it. How did she acquire it again?

What could make the cold heart that was within her being strum like a harp string once more? Would she settle for that single moment of affirmation? No, she wanted it again. It just frustrated her that to have it and pass was truly the most gracious of end and now she was back where it had started all that time. Staring up at the edges of this pit and awaiting black shadows to loom above her with bared teeth and hungry eyes.