[Finished] Maaya Shiino

» Name: Maaya Shiino
» Race: Human/Quincy Hybrid
» Age: ~330
» Appears: Mid 20s
» Birthday: April 24th
» Gender: Female
» Height: 5’1”
» Weight: 125

» Appearance Written:
Maaya is a very beautiful woman who takes pride in her appearance. She wears a semi-traditional, but clearly stylized outfit combining the elements of Japanese Samurai and shogunate armor, pieces that were created by her Quincy family years ago. She has extremely long, purple hair that she prefers to style in one thick braid, usually adding a small decoration with ornate hair pins. She often carries a polearm on her back as a regular weapon to fend of hollows. Though she has braved many battle, Maya surprisingly bears no distinctive scars that would prove her experience.

» Alignment: Neutral Evil
» Association: Not-Quincy
» Rank/Position: None

» Specialty: Kreuzen, Hirenkyaku/Steigen

» Sexual Orientation: Straight? Maybe. There are more options now?
» Relationship Status: Single
» Attraction: Those who can consistently show her a good time.

Text Color: 9870ed

Synopsis: Maaya reemerged in the world after a 300 year stasis. As far as she can tell, her family is gone, her powers must be reestablished, and technology is confusing. Maaya is also extremely pissed off that the Quincy have flourished.


» Personality: After the wretched treatment Maaya experienced by her family and the man she thought loved her, Maaya has become convinced that Quincy, and their pride, are the root of the world’s problems. Their reckless and selfish obsession with power inspired Maaya’s mission to find a way to eradicate them completely or remove the capability of becoming a Quincy. Maaya’s goal is to break this vicious cycle once and for all, and above all, prevent innocent lives form being lost as collateral damage in the wars that Quincy so willingly create.

Because of her perspective, Maaya has come to see creatures like Hollows and Arrancar as more natural to the world than the Quincy. At least Hollows and Arrancar act on instinct and hunger, like beasts, rather than making a conscious choice to do evil. They also don’t disrupt the soul cycle with their actions, unlike the Quincy, who knowingly and willingly do so for their own selfish reasons.

Behind the ambition and determination, Maaya still holds a sense of grace and elegance. She is a soft-spoken woman, who has the memories of a three hundred year old battle fresh in her mind. After losing her child, her family, and everything she knew, Maaya puts her goal on the back burner to try an understand this new world she has found herself in. Maaya is still getting used to the advancements in medical care, technology, music, and so much more. Through she finds much of these advancements wonderful, especially in medicine and the abundance of delicious food, her frustration toward touch screens knows no bounds.

For the first time in her life, Maaya has full control over everything she can do. With this newfound freedom, she can’t help but want to explore her identity in this new world, but she hesitates a lot. There is so much she finds interesting, terrifying, and even downright disturbing. When she is not training and trying to regain her powers, Maaya is taking some time to get to know the world again. In these endeavors, she is noticeably jumpy and easier to scare, like when she decided eating ice cream was too risky because her brain could freeze if she ate too fast.

» Likes: Cell phones, computers, Internet… Air conditioners, flat Screens, movies, vehicles, bug spray, shampoo, conditioner, hair dryer, lotion, modern music streaming services, showers/baths, water heaters, electricity, coffee, football (the American kind), instant ramen, pudding, hot wings, frozen yogurt, tacos, bagels, pizza, spaghetti, soda… Food. She likes food and will try most things.

» Dislikes: Cell phones, computers, Internet… LED lights are too bright, movie theaters are always way too loud, audio books destroy the real experience, malls are too expensive, history sucks to read, meat made of plants doesn’t taste the same, vegans suck, vegetarians suck, virtual reality is too realistic, avocado is nasty, shellfish is horrid, and caviar is worse. The name Kaito is disgusting.

» Confused By: Gay people, trans people, global warming, video games, social media, space exploration, the existence of demons, and space travel

» Wants To Experience: A big casino, theme park rides, flying in a place, taking a cruise, riding in a bullet train, going sky diving, going bunji jumping, attending a big sporting event, going snowboarding, surfing, scuba diving, and eating ice cream.


» History: Born into the Shiino clan, Maaya Shiino’s early life was defined by unwanted duty, discipline, and control. Her mother’s controversial marriage to a human resulted in Maaya's “mutation,” which was the ability to grow resistant to her enemies’ energy. The Shiino clan saw this ability as their key to dominance, forcing Maaya into a brutal training regimen that would never end. Her existence was reduced to a weapon, meant to crush rival Quincy clans under the Shiino banner, using threats against her parents to maintain control over her. At a young age, she developed her Blut and gained a spiritual weapon she named Hontō.

Maaya’s first taste of battle came when she was eleven, against a Hollow that had been terrorizing a Quincy settlement. Wielding Hontō for the first ime, Maaya's skill in Hirenkyaku proved important on the battlefield, helping her evade attacks with grace. The hollow’s acidic, spit-like projectiles stopped affecting her like it did others soon into the fight. In the final moments, as the Hollow lunged for her, Maaya unleashed a burst of electricity from her katana. The electricity crashed through the hollow’s mask, killing it, and causing it to fade from existence.

At the age of sixteen, Maaya faced a greater challenge in the form of an Arrancar. This battle was unlike anything she faced before—the Arrancar’s speed and strength far surpassed that of any Hollow she had fought. Armed with Hontō, Maaya engaged the Arrancar in a fierce duel, narrowly dodging the creature’s energy blasts while adapting to its reiryoku. Each time the Arrancar's blade cut her, Maaya sent pulses of electricity through the contact, an ability that angered the Arrancar, but also proved to give her an advantage. Despite being outmatched in raw power and in speed, even with her skill in Hirenkyaku, Maaya's spiritual adaption steadily increased her resistance to its attacks, allowing her to withstand cero that would have severely harmed her earlier in the fight. With her reishi flowing freely, Maaya channeled her lightning into a final blow, paralyzing the Arrancar for just a moment before delivering a precise, lethal cut through its neck and killing it.

During an event that Maaya personally calls the “Quincy Wars,” the Shiino family sought to subjugate rival clans and used her as a shield against the incoming threats of the Gotei. Messages from Shinigami had just begun to arrive about Quincy dealing with hollow and unbalancing the Soul Cycle. In fear and arrogance, the Shiino targeted the Kamari family, a once-proud lineage of Quincy that refused to bend to Shiino Rule. Even though Maaya expressed serious reservations about dealing with the Kamari with such force, she was sent as the spearhead of the attack. It was during this battle that Maaya first utilized her Letzt Stil. With swift, calculated attacks, Maaya dismantled their strongest warriors, her Nihontō dancing through their ranks. By the end of the battle, the Kamari family was completely wiped out, leaving only the memory of their resistance behind.

The Nagami Family was next on the Shiino’s list, though they were wiser. After witnessing the destruction of the Kamari, they chose to meet Maaya’s might with submission rather than bloodshed. However, a small faction within the Nagami still resisted, forcing Maaya to demonstrate the consequences of their defiance. In a brief but intense battle, she fought against the family's last holdouts, her Hontō flashing with arcs of electricity as she parried their attacks. Each clash only strengthened her, as the Nagami unleashed their arrows, unaware that Maaya’s spiritual adaption was feeding off their power. With each blow they dealt, they unwittingly enhanced her resistance, until their energy barely affected her. In the final moments, while using her Letzt Stil, Maaya immobilized the rebels with a bolt of electricity before delivering the Shiino their victory, sealing the Nagami’s fate as vassals of the Shiino, but also unknowingly sealing her own fate as well.

When Maaya was forced into an arranged marriage with Kaito Nagami, she initially resisted. She secretly had feelings for another, and she did not feel like she would be accepted by the Nagami after slaughtering some of their strongest, but the Shiino and Nagami made a deal, where the Nagami would fall loyally in line under the Shiino if their leader’s son was wed to Maaya. In order to protect her parents and keep her family from fighting another senseless war, she relented to Shiino demand. Surprisingly, over time, she began to trust and love her husband as they built a decent life together. Unknown to her, however, he harbored his own ambitions and grudges, and once she had their first child, the truth of his intentional manipulations of her emotions were revealed. He never loved her and only wanted to birth an heir strong enough to one day untie the forced bonds the Nagami suffered through. Maaya’s fury reached an unspeakable peak after that.

During a meeting meant to untie the two families, or unite them further from the Shiino’s point of view, Maaya discovered more foolishness she could not abide by. They knew the Gotei was coming and demanded them to cease assisting with the destruction of the Soul Cycle, but neither family had any plans on listening. In fact, they planned to use Maaya again, force her back into the chaos of war in order to fight off Shinigami and preserve their selfish way of life. And so, the Quincy became her enemy. Maaya turned her blade on both sides, unleashing all the power she had cultivated over the years. The weapon they trained and used over the years came down on them with a vengeance. She killed all but a few, choosing to keep her mother, father, and child alive, but in doing so, their fear of her wrath led them to utilizing an old ritual, a gebet that sealed her and her powers away. Maaya fell into an unnaturally deep sleep, her body frozen in time and entombed in the family crypt until 300 years later, when she opened her eyes as the seal ran out of power.


» Natural Abilities:

Reishi-Starved Expert: In short, Maaya has a low spirit class, but high racial skills. She has experienced a plethora of battles, trained since she was a young girl, studied and applied the knowledges of Quincy traditions and abilities, and once did perform as a very powerful Quincy that many feared. However, in the years that she was sealed away, her ability to utilize reishi effectively has become compromised.

Martial Artist: Whether it be swordsmanship, hand-to-hand, archery, or pole-arm mastery, Maaya has trained in all aspects of combat available in the late 1700s; she notably has no skill with firearms. Maaya’s skill with hand-to-hand would be considered proficient, but it is not her main method of fighting. She finds herself most comfortable with a katana or polearm, specifically her naginata and spirit weapon, and she is considered very advanced in both of these. Her capabilities with archery, however, are actually below average, due to weapon preference.


» Racial Abilities:

Spiritual Adaptation: Thanks to her human bloodline, Maaya has a special, passive ability that makes her more resistant to energy-based attacks the longer she is exposed to her opponent's energy. As the fight goes on, her body adjusts to the type of energy, slowly decreasing the damage she takes. The longer she stays in the fight, the tougher she gets. In short, for every energy attack that successfully damages Maaya, she gains a 5% resistance to the opponents energy, maxing out at 60%. Against Quincy, this resistance is 100% stronger, giving her more protection from their energy than from others. This means that each successful attack by a Quincy grants her 10% resistance to a maximum of 70%. Over time, this makes her nearly unstoppable against Quincy, making her a nightmare for Quincy.

• Maaya can accelerate this spiritual adaption by intentionally taking a direct hit from an opponent’s energy-based attack, not physical. By bracing herself and focusing on the incoming energy, she rapidly forces her body to adapt. This ability allows her to gain double the normal resistance from a single attack—10% instead of 5%, or 20% against Quincy instead of 10%. This technique comes at the cost of temporary strain, slowing her movement by 20% for one post after the hit, but it can be a powerful gambit in longer battles.

Hirenkyaku: From a young age, Maaya dedicated herself to mastering this skill, so Maaya is masterful in her use of Hirenkyaku and has the capability of utilizing it in very unique ways. Speed is the cornerstone of her combat style, allowing her to evade attacks and outmaneuver her opponents with high precision. For Maaya, speed often determines the difference between survival and defeat.

• Maaya is able to simultaneously, or separately, lessen resistance in front of her body and add force to the back of it. This is done in a sudden burst, creating an extra 200% boost in her speed during a single use of hirenkyaku. During which, she is able to make a single attack at such high speeds that it is extremely difficult to block. If desired, she can also achieve this effect on her limbs, creating sudden increases in speed mid-attack that surprise an opponent.
  
  
• In performing dozens of small, rapid movements with hirenkyaku, Maaya is capable of mimicking the “after image” abilities most commonly known to Shinigami. However, due to her high skill in the subject, she can do this at any angle that she desires, whether that be upside down, sideways, or leaning in unexpected ways. This allows her to attack from surprising angles, catching her opponents of guard, and preventing herself from being caught so easily.
  
  
• Maaya can utilize reishi currents to slow opponents down. Maaya does this by applying the currents in a wave of pressure outward. This ability extends in a 20ft sphere from her, and their movements are slowed by 20%. This ability lasts for three posts.

Blut: Maaya’s expertise in Blut has allowed her to develop strong, but rather simple techniques within the technique, giving her some decent adaptability.

• Blut Arterie: When activated, Maaya’s Blut Arterie does one of two things, chosen at activation. The first is a hardening of her body, making her much more difficult to damage. Mechanically, this gives her a 200% boost to her durability. The second is a regeneration ability that allows surface and muscle wounds to heal rapidly.
  
  
• Blut Vene: Maaya’s Blut Vene has one ability, and that is the application of an intense electrical shock that strikes an opponent that harms her. If struck by a melee attack, the shock travels up the body part, or weapon, and into the rest of the body. If struck by a ranged, energy-based attack, the shock travels along the path of the energy fired and back to the opponent to deliver the shock. The strength of the shock delivered is measured by her soul.

» Spirit Weapon Name: Hontō, [True Wisteria, 本藤]

» Spirit Weapon Appearance:


» Spirit Weapon Abilities:
Maaya’s blade crackles with purple electricity, shocking anyone she cuts with the strength of her soul. When the blade touches any surface, it leaves a purple tomoe-shaped mark at the contact point. Maaya can then fire electricity from her blade, which locks onto the mark and follows it, like a heat-seeking missile. The electricity can strike other objects while tracking the mark, allowing for ways to avoid it. The strength and speed of her electricity is based off of her soul. On the fourth time that an opponent is struck with Maaya’s lightning, the bolt sends a powerful jolt through their body, causing a temporary paralysis that lasts one post. Once placed, a mark lasts the entire thread, she can apply up to a maximum of three marks at once. When a mark is struck by her electricity, it is used up and she can apply another. Maaya can remove a mark at will as long as she touches it.


» Name: Nihontō [薾翻藤, Luxuriant Fluttering Wisteria]

» Appearance:


» Abilities: Maaya’s spirit weapon, Hontō, transforms into Nihontō, a Naginata that matches her purple aesthetic. All of the abilities of her spirit weapon are transfered over. The abilities below are what she gains upon activation of her Letzt Stil:

• Ranged Application: No longer requiring the need to make contact with the blade, Nihontō allows Maaya to apply her tomoe mark at range by striking them with any form of her electricity. This is including the shock that happens with her Blut Vene.
  
  
• Triple Threat: Any time Maaya fires off her electricity, two more appear on either side of her, mirroring the initial cast, and fire as well. Just like with her spirit weapon, if a mark has been placed, the bolt will act like a heat-seeking missile and target the mark. However, in Letzt Still, Maaya’s electricity is more maneuverable, progressing their power with the bonuses naturally obtained by Letzt Stil.

General Attributes
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Quincy Skills
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Human Skills
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