Roiben Miyamoto [Updated personality, appearance, and US, early PH history added]

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Name: Roiben Miyamoto
Appearance Age: Early, Mid 20's
True Age: 750
Gender: Male


Personality:

Optimistic: Generally, Roiben tends to be a very optimistic individual. No matter how bad the situation, he always looks at how much worse it could be. He'll also try and look at whatever good came out of the situation, trying to help keep up his partner's morales. He'll also tend to seem like he's in good spirits in the middle of battle, almost acting friendly toward his opponent.

Calm and composed: He's a very calm and composed person, almost never showing any hint of fear or worry. This is also partially due to his optimistic side, which helps convince him everything will work out in the end. This prevents him from losing his temper, because he knows that anger releases a chemical in the brain that temporarily lowers the IQ.

Sociality: He's often thought of by those who know him as a smart ass, though when he speaks with someone who he doesn't like he'll make sure the comments seem more insulting. When conversing with a friend, he tends to tell a lot of jokes. He also tends to let them do most of the talking, as he prefers to stay as low profile as he can. He tends not to address people by formailities, and would prefer not to be addressed in formalities, either.

Lazy, Unorganized: Despite the fact that he's held such prestigous ranks as captain and co-head of the vizard corps, he tends to be a very lazy, unorganized and messy person. Back in his day as a captain, Roiben's office would be a complete mess and he was almost never seen doing any of his required paperwork. Somehow, though, it would always get done on time.

Intelligence: Although his lazy, smart ass personality would make you think otherwise, Roiben is actually a very smart and analytical person. He can figure out things such as an opponents fighting style within the first few minutes of a fight by watching their combat movements, making the chances of getting hit by an opponent less likely. He can also figure things out like riddles and puzzles without knowing much information beforehand. Despite most people of his IQ finding the trait to be illogical, he will base actions off his gut feelings.

Hidden disdain: On the inside, he's a much different man. Having been raised a ninja both in his human life and shinigami life, he tends to hold very little actual emotion. He'll tend to make it seem like he cares more than he really does, as he only truly cares for a few select people. Although he prefers solitude and working alone, he will work with other shinigami without question, However, in such a situation, he likes to take charge of the handling of the mission.

The Breaking Point: Despite his calm and rational mind, like everyone, there are things that make him tick. Seeing the death of a friend or team mate would start to anger him, and he would slowly lose control of himself. Also, anyone who dared taunt him about the death of his wife would see a loss of control. However, the taunting would have to persist, otherwise he'll regain his calm.

Musical: Roiben has a huge love of music. It doesn't matter if he's listening to it or making it, music is a big part of his life. Often times he'll listen to music while he's busy with work, and it'll help him work faster and keep focused. He also listens to music while he's training to help energize him and keep him going.

Lovesick: Ever since the death of Roiben's wife, he hadn't been the same person. He thinks about her a lot, and wants nothing more than a new relationship.

Appearance:

Roiben has long, black hair going to his waist, as opposed to his time as a captain when he had shoulder length hair. He has sapphire blue eyes with a serious but compassionate look to them. His facial features are soft, giving him a kind and approachable look, despite the fact he usually frowns. Roiben's body frame is thin, but muscular. The muscle in his arms aren't very big, but they are dense, giving him good stregnth while at the same time giving people the impression he's not very strong, which, in fights, he uses to his advantage

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As for actual outfits, Roiben can wear a variety of them. His typical outfit is a white coat with yellow and black trim along the edges. Underneath the coat, he wears a black wifebeater, black semi tight jeans, and 3 black belts with silver studs on them. One belt is worn regularly, one hangs to the right, and one hangs to the left. He also wears his socks and wooden sandals from his time as a shinigami. When wearing this attire, he keeps his zanpakuto hidden within his coat. This is his most seen uniform.

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A second uniform he wears is one he'll only wear on a special occasion. He wears a skin tight suit underneath, and skin tight arm sleeves that go from his hands to his elbow. The fingers of the sleeves are cut off. On top of it, he wears a black plate for his body, which goes down to a little below his waist and cuts off. He also wears gauntlets that go up to his elbows, and graves that go halfway up his thigh. The armor plating has a feather-like design to it. He also tends to wear his hair in a ponytail when using this outfit.

A third outfit he'll wear is the outfit he'll least likely be seen wearing. It consists of his former shinigami uniform, the standard shihakusho with a sleeveless top, and the standard pants. He also wears his 5th division captain's haori, which is sleeved. However, to differentiate from his time in the soul society, he also wears a black Haori over his white one, which is slightly smaller so the white beneath can still be seen. The black haori has white diamonds on the bottom, and the symbol on the black is a picture of his hollow mask.

Height: 5'7"

Weight: 130 lbs


Zanpakuto Name: Sumizome
Zanpakuto Spirit: Roiben's zanpakuto takes the avatar of a man with silver hair that goes down past his waist. His zanpakuto avatar wears a pair of black, slightly baggy pants with no shirt. His chest is covered in scars, and his face always holds a cold look to it. In bankai, Roiben's zanpakuto wears nearly skin tight black jeans and wears a trenchcoat with the middle button buttoned up. His hair is the same length and still silver in color. Under each eye are two black scars, the top one shorter in length.

Roiben's zanpakuto spirit has a similar personality as Roiben holds on the inside. He's cold, relentless, and cares about nothing other than his mission, protecting Roiben, although often times when the two speak he'll make it seem as if he could care less about him. Although he and Roiben argue a lot, neither tend to ever raise their voice. In bankai, he becomes much colder, and much more violent, even willing to put Roiben in jepardy as long as in the end it will help keep him alive.

Zanpakuto World: The inner world of Roiben's zanpkauto takes the form of a world much like Hueco Mundo. The sky is a mixture of purple, blue, and black, the ground is made of white sand, and as far as they eye can see, the world is barren. In the sky of the world, a blood red moon is always visible. When Roiben enters his inner world in bankai, the red moon glows brightly.

Sealed Zanpakuto Appearance: Roiben's sealed zanpakuto take the form of two swords, a nodachi on his right, and a wakizashi hidden on his person. Most of the time, Roiben will only use the nodachi and switch between the weapon he uses. He will only use them at the same time if necessary to win, and when he does, he'll tend to switch which hand which weapon is in fairly sporadically. They look like average swords, with a guard in a ring shape. Inside the ring, there are many thin metal spokes close together connecting the guard to the blade, like spokes on a bike.

Release Phrase: Corrupt


Shikai Appearance:In shikai, Roiben's zanpakuto keep the same appearance, but are black with white guards

Shikai Abilities: Roiben can use the blood he loses in a battle by transforming them into ruby colored crystals. The crystals can be used as projectiles to skewer an enemy, or act as a wall to defend against incoming projectiles. To create a shield, he must use 2 blood crystals. He can use as many as desired when using it as a projectile. It can also be used to imprison those who end up stepping on the blood inside a blood crystal, which in shikai can only cover a limb per crystal used for one post. The strength of the shield and blood prison is about the strength of a low 40's kidou. Anyone else's blood cannot be used during Shikai. Roiben can use more than 1 crystal to strengthen each attack, such as firing multiple crystals at an opponent, or merely a single crystal. In shikai, each crystal consists of 5 oz of blood, allowing him 8 crystals since blood isn't as important to shinigami. Roiben can also use these crystals to resupply his own body's blood.

Average human body: 5.6 liters How many ounces in a liter: 1 liter = 33.8140227 Oz


Bankai Appearance:In bankai, a black dome covers a 500 yard radius around Roiben, trapping him and whoever else is close enough inside. Inside the dome is a world that looks just like his zanpakuto's inner world, with a red moon in the sky. The amount of space inside the dome seems unlimited to the combatants. The reiatsu released by the release of his bankai rips any fabric on the top half of his body, ripping apart his Haori if he's wearing them, and the top half of his shihaksho. He wears the black trenchcoat buttoned only at the middle worn by his zanpakuto spirit, and his hair grows slightly past his shoulders. His zanpakuto becomes a katana with a 49.5cm long blade, and a yard long chain conencted to the butt of the blade. The weapon keeps the same hilt and guard, but the entire sword is black in color. His bodies blood supply is also replenished.

Bankai Abilities: Roiben can use the blood he loses in a battle by transforming them into ruby colored crystals. The crystals can be used as projectiles to skewer an enemy, or act as a wall to defend against incoming projectiles. To create a shield, he must use 2 blood crystals. He can use as many as desired when using it as a projectile. It can also be used to imprison those who end up stepping on the blood inside a blood crystal. In bankai, the blood crystal surrounds their whole body, but they can still use reiatsu based attacks. On the contrary, they can't be attacked until the prison is broken. Blood prison lasts 2 posts in bankai. The strength of the shield and blood prison is about the strength of a mid 80's kidou. Roiben can use more crystals to strengthen any attack, such as firing multiple crystals at an opponent, or merely a single crystal. In bankai, each crystal consists of 2 oz of blood, allowing him 20 crystals before he reaches critical blood loss. Roiben can also use these crystals to resupply his own body's blood. In Bankai, the blood of anyone else, so long as it is not on the person's body, which has remained completely untouched for 5 posts can be used by Roiben to make blood crystals, but he can only use up to a quart of another's spilled blood for all abilities.

Average human body: 5.6 liters How many ounces in a liter: 1 liter = 33.8140227 Oz


Inner Hollow Description: Roiben's inner hollow takes a more arrancar-like form. It's general body type, hair and whatnot are just like his. However, he wears the inverted Haori, with Roiben's coat inverted colors over it. He also had a "thorn crown" mask remain. His hollow holes are in his wrists, which are covered up by the sleeves.

Inner Hollow Personality

Pessimistic: Opposite of it's host, Roiben's hollow is pessimistic, and always tries to taunt Roiben to try and make him the same way. He believes that if Roiben becomes more pessimistic, he'll have more of a chance of surviving. On occasion, he'll get pessimism into Roiben's head for a little while.

Bipolar: Roiben's inner hollow can be in a great mood one second, and then want to kill the next, which at times is bad for Roiben. Often while his hollow is in it's moody points, it'll be more inclined to try and take control over Roiben's body. When it's in it's really great moods, it can be just as deadly for Roiben.

Intelligence: Much like his host, Roiben's inner hollow is quite intelligent, perhaps even smarter than Roiben. Often times during matches with Roiben over power control, he'll give riddles that take Roiben a while to figure out. Often times he won't even be able to figure them out.

Guardian: Although it seems like he desires nothing more than Roiben's death, he truly cares for nothing more than Roiben's survival. However, he feels if Roiben thinks he's an enemy, he'll try harder against him and he'll actually be able to help Roiben grow, although it hurts him to have Roiben see him as an enemy. However, he's willing to do what he has to to help his host survive.

Hollow Mask Appearance: Roiben's hollow mask covers his face, and has two eye holes for his eyes. Like other vizard, his eyes glow yellow while his mask is on. His mask has no designs, and lacks a mouth hole, making his talking seem almost telepathic.

Hollow Powers

High Speed Regeneration: As long as his vital organs remain in tact, Roiben can regenerate his limbs at high speeds. However, he cannot regenerate vital organs.

Cero/Bala: Like his kidou, Roiben is very proficent in the use of his cero/bala, being able to charge them quick with a lot of power. His ability in this form of combat is great enough to have allowed him to create a custom cero.

Sonido: Similar to a shinigami's shunpo, but slightly faster and makes a brief static sound instead of a "swoosh".

Power Augmentation: When he summons his mask, all of his combat abilities increase. He has more strength, more stamina, more endurance, more speed, etc.

Cero Sangre: A blood red cero which is like a cero oscuras. It's more poweful than a regular cero, and mixes the hollow powers used to make a cero, and the shinigami powers used to form kidou. He can charge this cero fairly quick, but in his resurreccion, he can charge this technique in the matter of a second. When he's released into shikai, bankai, or resurreccion, he can increase the power of this technique by adding in blood crystals. Each crystal used powers up the cero by 50%.

Resurreccion Appearance: Not yet obtained
Resurreccion Abilities: Not yet obtained

• Hoho/Sonido: Advanced
  
• Cero/Bala/Kidou: Advanced
  
• Zanjutsu: Adept
  
• Hakuda: Adept
  

Background/Roleplay Sample

Background:

During his life as a human, Roiben was born in Japan, 1500 AD. He was born with abnormally high spiritual pressure, but not high enough to draw hollow. From a young age, his village were recruiting children to train to become ninja. After their time in school, they went to the dojo and studied the art of becoming a ninja. Due to their young age, they couldn't do too much physical training.

When Roiben turned seven, he left his general schooling to concentrate more on his ninja training and studies. Becoming a ninja and protecting the village was his dream. He spent much of his freetime helping his parents out around the house, and studying general education with his brother for a couple hours every night. Roiben couldn't wait until his training was complete. His parents would be proud of him, and he would bring honor to his families name.

By age ten, Roiben had done much more physical training than other kids his age. He was very flexible, but his age prevented him from becoming a full fledged ninja. There was still much training he couldn't undergo until he was older. It made him happy to see already how proud his parents were. He couldn't wait to see the look on their faces when he finished his training. Unfortunatley for him, his life would end before that could happen.

One night, a few months after Roiben's 10th birthday, an enemy village had seen them as a threat. Wanting to avoid an upfront war, they sent several of their most skilled ninja into the village to kill the young recruits, who were doing extra training in the dojo. By time the village ninja intercepted the enemy, it was too late. The recruits, including Roiben, had all been slain. One of the assassins had left something behind. A village emblem. The slaughtering of these recruits would not go unpunished. War broke out between the two villages.


Roiben's spirit roamed the earth after his death. He was unable to accept the fact he had never realized his dream. While living on earth as a spirit, he watched the battles of the war as his village destroyed the other village. However, Roiben had an unexpected visitor, a hollow. Being his first encounter with a hollow, Roiben had no clue what the monsterous being was and ran from it. The hollow stayed in close pursuit of him. Before the hollow could catch him, a shinigami that had been nearby eliminated the hollow. The shinigami performed a konso on Roiben, sending him to the soul society, were he would have a second chance at reaching his dream.



In the soul society, Roiben was sent to rukongai district 76. Life in the lower rukongai districts was always hard, especially for someone of Roiben's age. However, unlike most spirits, Roiben remembered his life as a human. Roiben carried a kunai on him in case someone attempted to rob him. As tough as life could get, somehow he managed to survive.

Several years later, the tough life of Rukongai had begun to catch up with the young Roiben. He was lying on a street, passed out. Most people who saw him ignored him. However, one woman saw him and felt bad for the child. She carried him to her place and gave him food. When she inquired about his parents, he told her the story of his life on earth, his death, and his life in the soul society. Having no children of her own, the woman, named Asuka Yuuko, took him in to live with her as her adoptive son.

Life had become much easier for Roiben after Asuka took him in. Food was no longer an issue for him, there were children his own age for him to play with, and he now lived in Rukongai district 5. District 5 had a very low crime rate, and was very prosperous. He also started working on his ninja training again, wanting to be able to protect his adoptive mother if the need came. He was happy, but he often thought about his life as a human. He missed his parents, and his sensei. For the next 150 years, life was enjoyable for Roiben.

When Roiben was equivilant to the human age of 14, a shinigami showed up at Asuka's residence and asked her if she would allow Roiben to enter the academy. During his time in the soul society, his reiatsu had grown, and word reached the academy about a ninja boy with high reiatsu from rukongai district 5. As badly as Asuka wanted him to stay, she left the decision up to him. As badly as he wanted to stay with Asuka, he also wanted to become a shinigami. He got out of the lower rukongai districts easily, and as a shinigami, he knew he'd be able to help those who didn't have the good fortune he had. Asuka understood and respected his wish. After spending one more week together, Roiben said goodbye to the woman who had been a mother to him, and promised to visit often.



Upon his entrance to the academy, Roiben took Asuka's last name as his own. His abilities were tested by a group of the teachers. Due to his previous training as a ninja in his human life, and his continued training in the soul society, he was placed in the advanced class. During his first couple years, Roiben showed a lot of promise with kidou, and his skill with shunpo. Despite being a trained ninja, his skill in hand to hand combat is very low, and found it difficult to train in hand to hand. His skill with a zanpakuto was average. He had been trained with weapons, but had not lived to make it to katana training.

During his third year in the academy, his class had gone on their usual dummy hollow training. Most of the students hadn't ever encountered a real hollow. They often asked Roiben was a real hollow was like. Roiben described the fear he felt, facing an unknown monsterous being. Roiben knew it would be a fear he would have to get over eventually if he wanted to become a shinigami. During the training, the dummy hollow lured a real hollow to the location. Roiben worked with a group of sixth year students to purify the hollow. They successfully purified the hollow, but two of the students lost their lives in the battle.

For the rest of his time in the academy, Roiben did more studying as he focused mainly on his training the first three years. His progress had come along better than most of the class, in part due to his training as a human. In his fifth year in the academy, Roiben was given a chance to take the graduation exam early, and passed with flying colors. He went through the process of creating his zanpakuto, which formed as a nodachi. He was then placed in the onmitsukido, being the only onmitsukido member to have a nodachi.



In the onmitsukido, Roiben was a seated officer placed in the maggots nest. The current captain of the maggots nest was Yoruichi Shihouin, daughter of the Onkitsukido commander in chief and heir to the Shihouin clan name. She was different from most nobles. She was very laid back, despite her nobility. Soon after entering, Roiben met with the spirit of his zanpakuto and learned it's name, allowing him to use his shikai. He also continued to visit his mother until her eventual death.

On earth, a group of humans had learned to manipulate reiatsu and gained spiritual powers. These humans were known as the quincy. However, their spiritual powers didn't purify hollow. Instead, they destroyed the soul. The shinigami knew this would eventually throw the balance of the world off and bring upon an apocalypse. The shinigami tried several attempts at reasoning with the quincy, but they wouldn't listen. The shinigami were left with no choice. They sent in the Onmitsukido to eliminate the quincy race. It was something that would haunt Roiben for the rest of his life.

10 years later, a terrible incident occured overnight. Several captains and vice captains had gained taboo hollow powers. Not only that, but Urahara, Yoruichi, and Tessai, commander of the kidou corps, were exiled from the soul society. Roiben couldn't believe they were all traitors, but all evidence pointed toward it. Roiben hoped their names would be cleared one day.

Roiben had fallen in love with a girl he'd been friends with since their times in the academy. The two had begun a relationship, and had eventually married. However, one day he received a visit from several of her companions. She had been killed in mission by an arrancar, which were a rare occurance at the time. Roiben forced them to describe how the arrancar looked, and he would never forget the appearance of this arrancar.



90 years after the mass exile, a group of ryoka infiltrated the soul society. Roiben was the fourth seat of the second division, and captain of the maggots nest. He was on duty in Karakura town at the time, and knew nothing about the invasion. Upon returning to the soul society, he heard about the betrayal of the former captains, and was sure that this would clear the names of the previous exiles.

For the next 50 years, Roiben decided to put his IQ to some use and start learning to study an opponents fighting style. Being able to so that would give him a good advantage in battle. His favorite way of training like this was following his vice captain Marechiyo around playing a tuba. When Marechiyo got pissed and attacked him, Roiben would study the way his body moved, and things of that manner.

Roiben and his zanpakuto spirit were close, and it was finally time for him to train for his bankai. He was drawn into the world of hia zanpakuto, and had to fight himself in order to obtain his bankai. His other self showed him there was a lot more he could do with his abilities than he knew he could. However, this caused him to think about his fighting style, and used a chain of combo's to defeat his inner self. Although he learned his bankai, it was going to take him another 10 years to master.



Soon after the betrayal, Roiben had taken the captain's proficiency test, and was judged by Byakuya Kuchiki and Shunsui Kyoraku. After showing that he had the character of a captain, and proving he had learned his bankai, he was named the new fifth division captain. Roiben's first order of business was to, once again, unify the division. He knew his men wouldn't trust him right away, but he would earn their trust by whatever means necessary.

Along with making sure his paperwork was completed and turned in on time, he also spent a lot of time with the members of his division, speaking with them, hearing them out on their opinions of how things should be run, and generally showing he cared. He knew as well as everyone else that the war with Aizen wouldn't be easy, but it couldn't be won if each division didn't have complete faith and trust in each other.



Soon after being named captain, he'd felt two, very powerful reiatsu released. Curious as to what it was, he traveled to the outskirts of the the soul society, and saw 0 division member Ceon Clixx, an old friend of his, in combat with Radioactive, who was formerly a member of the 11th division. The two were expending massive amounts of reiatsu, and their contest was looking so fun, Roiben was almost tempted to join it himself. However, he decided to let them have their fun and was merely a bystander. Aside from Ceon and Radioactive, Roiben was the only witness to the epic clash.



After serving as a captain for about 100 years, Roiben soon began to feel out of place in the soul society. His lazy, carefree attitude was at odds with the amount of responsibilities he had as a captain. Although he was getting them done, he was finding that he wasn't enjoying himself in life, and he had begun to question the soul societies laws and regulations. Although he had no hard feelings toward them, he handed in his resignation from captaincy and left the soul society.

On earth, Roiben lived like a regular human, although he'd continue to hunt hollow to keep the earth safe. However, one day, he knew shinigami powers alone wouldn't be enough. As powerful as shinigami could become, he knew removing the barrier between shinigami and hollow, becoming a vizard, would be the only way he could survive. He knew it was dangerous, but he felt it was his best chance for survival. If his inner hollow devoured him and took control of his body, he wouldn't have had the will to survive anyway.

Roiben went to the Urahara Shouten and spoke with the shopkeeper, Kisuke Urahara. After a discussion, Kisuke reluctantly agreed to help him. The two went down the the basement training ground, and the process began.

Inside Roiben's inner world, a being that looked like an arrancar version of him stood before him. This was the form that his inner hollow took, and he obviously felt himself superior to his host. The two then fought it out, the inner hollow using hollow techniques as opposed to the usual inner hollow, who is still mostly shinigami. Instead of using bankai against him, his inner hollow released resurreccion against him. Roiben released bankai against his inner hollow to match, and managed to dominate his inner hollow. This allowed him to use his hollow mask, but he was still unable to use his resurreccion.



Although during this time no major incident had risen, Roiben served as the next co-head of the vizard corps, under Zin Yuudeshi. However, because he began to feel out of place and felt like he was lacking the power he needed, Roiben left the vizard corps, and disappeared for the next few years.



Roiben soon re emerged, and rejoined the vizard corps. While no incident has happened yet, Roiben feels the time is close, and wants to be able to join the battle. He spoke with APril Redwood and sensed something amiss with her, and then spoke with Tsuna, another old friend. Though it seemed like a lot of key players in the struggle for the universe were the same, a lot of the force protecting the universe were people he didn't know, and hoped were powerful.

Role Play Sample: Roiben smiled as his technique had forced the woman into her bankai. Unfortunately, he figured that would force him into his bankai as well. He saw her wolves rush in to attack him, which he had fought off with his double swords. He had to admit, she was skilled, but she was just trying to save face. They had different skill sets, yes, but Kaze's skill set would have been much more bothersome to Roiben right now. Roiben heard Kira start to chant the spell, and as the chant began, he shouted, "BANKAI!!"

A shadow had extended out from his zanpakuto, trapping the two combatants within it. Inside, a world resembling Hueco Mundo resided, except there was no fortress, and the moon in the sky was blood red. Roiben now wore a coat buttoned at the middle that resembled his black Haori, with arm tight sleeves instead of loose ones. His zanpakuto was now double the length of a nodachi. Also, five pillars rose from the ground, chained at the top and absorbing all the blood from the battlefield, and towered over the two combatants as a blood shell surrounded Roiben, protecting him from the double incanted attacks, but had shattered as the kidou spell had finished. He barely pulled it off, and wouldn't have been able to if he hadn't cut his arm.

"You see, my blood pillars increase the strength of my blood based abilities. If I hadn't cut my arm earlier, I wouldn't have been able to block your kidou. Im glad you were so eager to see my powers." He was sure that she hadn't pulled the best move out of her hat, but now, the true match would begin. They were both in bankai, and Roiben had a few tricks up his sleeve as well.

Approved new tier: 1-1

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