[Spirit Class 4 | Hazard D] Souga Shikimura

» Name: Souga Shikimura. » Kanji: 爪牙 識村. » Alias': ▕ Kyoukenhime. ▕ Watanabe's Witch. » Age: 2000s. » Birthday: June 17. » Gender: Female. » Race: Shinigami (Wolfman/Cursed). » Affiliation: ▕ Four Trees Village. ▕ Matriarch of the Shikimura. ▕ District #80: Jinrou, South Rukongai. » Alignment: Chaotic Neutral. » Nationality: Soul Society. » Martial Status: Single. » Sexuality: Heterosexual. » Ideal Mate: Alpha Males. » Special Skill: Living off the land. » Height: 7'2" » Build: Curvy. » Hair Colour: Pink. » Eye Colour: Purple.

A filthy mutt, a mongrel, a rabid dog. That's what everyone has attached to her, people should watch what they say though because those things stick you know? Once upon a time Souga was a cheery little girl with loving parents, everything was simple and she was happy but that didn't last forever and after the hurdles of her life had been overcome and she had gotten all her revenge and bathed in sin and blood.

There was no satisfaction for her revenge, it was empty and there was no one to support her or tell her it was okay. All she was given was hatred and scorn. She wasn't human they said. She was no more than a sick mutt and that she would be cursed to be as she behaved. Eventually these things became the normal for her and painted over the nice young woman, hollowing her out until she truly became more like an animal than a human.

Time can heal all wounds they say but her features have never disappeared and her children were more deformed than she was. They became scars and only festered into feelings of disgust and ferocity. Souga's difficult to understand as a result of this, many people recoil from her aggressive behaviour in fear or disgust at a woman that threw away her humanity and behave more like an outlaw. She will steal, hunt and take for herself without any concept of boundaries or ownership.

She'll fight for the sake of fighting. She'll kill without thinking but to her it isn't something she registers as murder anymore. To other people it comes off as wanton slaughter though she will only kill because of being provoked, not out of any intent to do harm. There was only one man in her life that she would ever say that she killed, and all it cost her was her humanity as well.

» Likes: Raw meat, cold baths, strong men, her myriad of children.

» Dislikes: Shinigami, laws, learning new things, people that can't take care of themselves.

The intention for this NPC is to serve as a decently powerful antagonistic force/softcore "final boss" of sorts for people to overcome with effort together for a series of missions and a generally contained storyline for shinigami and pluses, Gotei or not, to participate in that will occur within the aforementioned district in her basic information of the Southern Rukongai.

Also she's Himiko's mother.


The Tale of Souga is set millennia ago before things such as the Gotei Thirteen existed and where everything was a bit different. The opening scene has a man, his wife and their child. The man makes his living as a hunter with his loyal hound, his wife tends their child and the household. All is well for Souga. They want for nothing and have all they need, their child grows up happy. A young girl who was raised in the harsh outskirts of life in the remote woods, it was a peaceful place though and all of the wildlife were her friends.

This would come to an end though when a passing nobleman drew interest in the young girl. He asked her for her name, he replied with her name. He asked for her hand in marriage, he replied that she was too young to be married. The nobleman disagreed and insisted, offering the wealth of an entire town as ransom for her hand in marriage. Apparently, the girl was just that beautiful.

Once more the man refused the nobleman for her had no use for money when he hunted them food and his wife could provide them clothes, what else could be acquired from bartering. The man did not take kindly to being refused by a lowly peasant, he left in a rage and it should've ended there.

It did not. The man returned with his arrangement, a group of men he had hired to assist him. Once more he asked the man for the girl, threatened he conceded but cursed the young man for his behaviour. The man, a paranoid and flighty fellow with more superstition than was healthy, was horrified. He ordered the death of the man and his wife immediately, the house in the woods was burned and the girl was taken.

The young girl with no home and family had no choice. He married her and she became his wife. She did not take to it, and the man quickly tired of her behaviour. A girl that had known freedom and the forests her whole life did not find the inner districts and towns to be appealing at all. She did not run though for there was nowhere to go. She did not have to run however.

Growing tired of her he discarded her. Kicking her to the streets after he had taken his momentary relief from her. Scorned and furious she cursed him as her father had done years before and terrified the nobleman. His fury rose and like a storm he tried to retaliate by killing the witch. He never caught her though and the young woman had escaped into the forests outside of the settlement.

In her grief and fury she nurtured herself, living off the land for a time as she became stronger. She'd have her revenge for everything he had taken from her. So months later on the night of a new moon and under the cover of darkness she returned to sneak into the estate that she knew like the back of her hand. With a knife she silently killed off the guards that remained exactly where he left them, she finally made her way to him covered in blood and gore before tearing him apart like a savage dog.

They found her there sitting amongst the gore, her husband's parents, and were disgusted. It was not the work of a human they said but a rabid dog. The family was a branch family of a powerful noble house, as word drew higher up the grapevine the story of the woman who had gored a man with her fangs and claws continued to the ears of the men and women in the Seireitei.

Fearing that she might become a menace they decided to intervene. They came from the Seireitei, a relic in hand, hunted down the young woman which had been strong enough to destroy a noble household in a night and cursed her to walk the path of an animal when she had been subdued. Carving the name Souga into her and that she may never reincarnate or walk with humans again. She was a dirty soul that could not ever be cleansed or purified for her crimes in their eyes.

And that's the Tale of Souga spoken of in the Southern Rukongai Outer Districts. What happened next though? There's still a lot of time between what's spoken of and the present. Well, let's get into that now.

She fled the inner districts, roaming as far as she could to the very edges of the Rukongai where she could seclude herself. No matter where she went the stigma was attached to her, as the story followed her everywhere she went it became harder and harder to keep herself that same pure young woman.

In the time she faded into the background, she existed as rumours. Occasionally she would venture out, take a mate for a night and retreat which has caused the growth of a population of wolfmen that occupy the outlands and occasionally bleed into the Rukongai. So much so that the district has sinced renamed itself the Jinrou district as the sightings of them become more and more common.

Outside of that district though if one were to venture further, they would venture into the Four Trees Village where she and her clan exist.


» Nine Lives: A tenacity to survive, there exists a story among the outer districts of South Rukongai. A normal man will live one life but Souga will live nine more. There is a tenacity to her existence which persists through struggle, it was never something she wanted but something inflicted upon her. The curse to live as a mutt for eternity, and she has since that time. The ability to continue to live beyond the point of a normal soul with no capacity to reincarnate, in exchange the amount of damage her body can take on and the amount of time she can spend on the brink of death is thrice that of a normal person.

Her body will try to stitch itself back together, stop the flow of blood if she's bleeding out. This is not tied to her durability necessarily but to the resilience of persisting through that damage making it comparable to her body doing everything possible to keep itself alive. Finally, Souga's lifespan is nine times that of a normal soul which can already live upwards of a thousand years.

» Strength of Ten Men: Souga's reiryoku is quite vast owed partly due to her age and partly due to her own actual hardship endured which has strengthened her spirit over centuries. It has an animalistic feel to it, a wild and unruly amount of ferocity that cannot be easily reeled in even outside of combat and in the most peaceful of environments. How she uses this though is mostly through enhancing her body, it's why despite the fact she has no formal training of Hakuda there is the subconscious bleedthrough effect of her reiatsu exerting itself through her body constantly. As a result she is constantly empowering herself through her reiatsu to increase all of her body's natural abilities.

She can crush boulders with her bare hands, tear out steel beams and bend them out of shape. It is not impossible that a blow from her can level the surrounding area as well which is where the stigma of her being a problematic catastrophe comes from in the outer districts but since she has secluded herself for most of the last couple hundred years Souga has become less of a problem for the surrounding areas.

» Close-Combatant: Souga is a close combat fighter but while she is a fierce and aggressive woman that can tear men apart with her bare hands, she is not formally trained in any kind of disciplined fighting style. She is more than capable of slashing at someone with her nails, punching or kicking and even capable of grappling people but as far as weaving all of her knowledge together into a discipline? None.

Much of her "martial aptitude" is just instinctual. The most efficient way to gore someone or slinging a rock at something to hit it based on subconscious estimation and intution. Her son once tried to name it and refer to it as Kyouken-ryuu due to everything she does boiling down to freestyle and being unpredictable as a result of that, just like a wild dog. She'll swing her sword in wide, sweeping arcs or stab at someone but as far as it being a good move? Well that's up for debate as it tends to leave a plethora of openings.

» Animal Path: While cursed in a similar vein to the other wolfmen and beast tribes, Souga was not exactly turned into an animal immediately so much as her children were given the full brunt of the curse. Souga's is a much slower process where it's assumed that upon reaching five thousand years Souga will have lost her human form completely and by the end of her lifespan she will have lost her mind to that of a beast as well. Her children on the other hand are not so lucky, those born of her will be either be stillborn or deformed. For those that survive the process of being born they are disfigured and grotesque until about the age of three where they have taken the form of a werewolf completely.

In recent years with one of her younger children's discovery, some of them have opted to attack shinigami and steal an asauchi to seal much of the curse into the sword and onto their manifestation. It results in them sealing most of their animal burden into the sword and granting them a more humanoid appearance but only solving their aesthetic issue.


» Zanpakuto Name: Unknown.

» Spirit Summary: The formation of her zanpakuto bleeding into the zanpakuto stolen from a nobleman centuries ago is evident. Souga's zanpakuto spirit behaves with an air of superiority and dignity despite the fact she is ruthless and behaves like a mutt herself. He is arrogant and condesending to her whenever they spoke which is why she has never bothered to listen to him since in the last centuries. She claims that he once did manage to tell her his name but she didn't care after he called her a filthy mutt and so she just forgot it and stopped listening to him.

» Inner World: It's an overgrown forest which has the remnants of a small cottage. The overgrowth has since reclaimed that small house and made it nothing but ruins. The light barely breaks through the canopy of leaves that extend high into the sky and so it becomes difficult to determine if it is day or night within Souga's inner world.

» Zanpakuto Appearance: Her zanpakuto takes the shape of a nodachi, she wields it with one hand. It's blade is more curved then a typical sword, looking almost like a scimitar and giving it the appearance of a fang or claw.

» Zanpakuto Sealed Power: Her zanpakuto has no sealed power.


» Shikai Release: Tear... Oops, forgot.

» Shikai Appearance: Can't remember what it looked like.

» Shikai Ability: Can't remember what it did.


General Skills
» Durability: Elite.
» Speed: Advanced.
» Strength: Elite.
» Martial Skill: Beginner.

Will Skills
» Willpower: Elite.
» Deduction: Adept.
» Focus: Elite.

Shinigami Skills
» Hakuda: Elite.
» Hoho: Adept.
» Kido: Untrained.
» Zanjutsu: Untrained.