Meera Nogenata [APPROVED 3-3+]

• Name: Meera Nogenata
• Titles: The Flower of the East
• Gender: female
• Appearance Age: 17
• Age: 1400
• Affiliation/Rank: Rouge

• Appearance Description: Meera is a relatively small individual, standing at only five feet four inches only hardly breaking 100 pounds. She has short black hard, slightly messy in its keeping and always has some kind of flower held in her bangs on the right side of her face, generally a lily. She has very thin eyes, obviously of Asian heritage. A very sharp jaw line and thin lips. Her general body structure is slender yet muscularly lean and she has been gifted with relatively attractive curvature where it counts. Her eye color is a gentle blue and her skin tone is a happy medium, or tanned.

Even with her normally attractive appearance her "uniform" if it may still be called such is another story all together. She has forsaken many peaces of the basic shinigami uniform and held on to only two, her Kosode, which as seen in the picture bellow is now worn more like a cloak do to battle wear and tear leaving it unwearable in it's normal fashion. A leather pauldron also adorns her right shoulder and sectioned in to two peaces to follow the curvature of her shoulder while each segment bears a metal spike about four inches in length at their centers. She also wears cloth gloves to cover most her arms, from the center joint on her fingers all the way up to the middle of her bicep is covered by said accessory. The remainder of her outfit is simple a bra, to do little more then cover her chest and the lower section of the sinigami's uniform, the Hakama.

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• Personality: Meera is an incredible prideful individual, she was brought up in a small clan but yet the always instilled a degree of self respect in her from a very young age. One of the major teacher of her clan being that "Those who cling to life, die. Those who defy death, live." And this message she personified. To always push that limit when most would stop in fear of injury or death and advancing through it. Meera is also a very "holier than thou" in the since that she always see's her self as being in the right, and that any cause she fights for is the on the side of justice.

On the other hand, when not training or fighting Meera can be quite the frivolous individual. There is always time for drink and story's when a battle does not call, and is generally a quiet, yet happy person. She has a tendency to preform acts of kindness, and cover it with a hard demeanor to not appear soft to others and is known in her home village for being a role-model of sorts. However she is also loyal to a fault, even going so far as to desert the court guard squads to protect her village when a encroaching hollow threat went unanswered she left the soul society to defend her town in a valiant defense with her clan, and has yet to return. Do to this event, as what she views as a breach of trust in the court guard squads she is very off put by any shinigami that represents them. As in her opinion they left her village to the mercy of the hollows.

• Likes: Spending time with her family and close friends as well as letting loose and attending a party every now and again. She is also quite the fan of sake and tends to keep some on her at all times

• Dislikes: Disrespect to her clan, threats to her village or it's people, the court guard squads, and running out of booze
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• History: As a human, Meera was born in china in the age of the song dynasty. She was raised in the lap of luxury and never left wanting. A very bright young girl at an early age, the pride of both her mother and father of whom she was their only child. As a young girl she was fascinated with plant life, and spent most her time in the garden on her family's estate. Soon she grew in to a teenager and blossomed in to a ravishing woman who brought suitors from far and wide asking for her hand. However to every suitor she posed the same test, to best her in combat. Meera was born with an unnaturally quick reaction time, her swiftness and execution in combat situations was unheard of for most soldiers at the time, let alone women and as such many did not take her seriously and thought it to be a game. Naturally their ego's were not the only things they left with bruised.

One after the other they fell to her and her skills with a sword grew and grew till her parents feared that no man would ever best her and so they hatched a plan. They spread word of their daughter to a mighty general of the song dynasty that to acquire their daughters hand he need only best her in combat. Seeing her as only a woman he too fell pray to her ploy, and she bested even him. However, after loosing to a woman in a one on one battle he blind sided Meera when she was unarmed and cut her down in the garden, the man refused to be defaced by her. Her parents, in shame and grief for what they had done by inviting the general in to their home, took their own lives in the garden two days later. Where they had unknowingly instigated the murder of their own daughter.

In Meera's rebirth in to the soul society in district 78 in East Rukongai to a small noble family who managed a farming village. Meera, much like in her time as a human, was a bright child from the word go. She spent endless hours with her nose in a stack of books that never seemed to end. She also still had her explainable love for nature that seemed to carry over from her time as a human, spending a lot of her time training with her Zanpakutō in the forest surrounding her village.

After coming of age she joined the court guard squads to follow in her family's foot steps but before she could even make it through the academy she acquired a letter, informing her of a string of random disappearances in her village. She pleaded with command to do something, to send her to protect her family but there was no official report as of yet, and would not be one for some time do to her district being so far away. So she deserted her post in the middle of the night and returned home to find her people in a hopeless last stand against a handful of hollows that had already acquired quite the body count but with her training in the academy and her natural affinity for combat she turned the tides and forced the hollows back, killing all but one in the possess. She now lives at her family's home, waiting for the day the soul society comes to acquire their little run away.
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• Reiatsu Color: A deep red

• Zanpakutô Spirit Name: Ezperanza Aisumadaeba

• Zanpakutô Spirit Appearance: Meera's Zanpakutō spirit is a female formed out of plant life of all kinds, from vines to flowers and thorns. Her skin is mostly bark and she is brightly colored to embody spring and the blooming of life. She has very human like features and bodily structure to more appropriately identify with her wielder.


• Inner World: Ezperanza Aisumadaeba's inner world is a large grove in the center of a forest with trees that reach to the clouds, only plant life resides her and in the center of the inner world is a very large tree, truly epic in size of which Ezperanza Aisumadaeba stays close to at all times.

• Sealed Zanpakutô Apperance : Meera's Zanpakutô is your run of the mill katana that is 60 cm (23½ in.) in length with a green hilt and green sheath, the only thing that stands out about the sealed state is the sheath is covered in small thorns.

• Sealed Zanpakutô Abilities: Meera can summon large vines from the earth to entangle her enemy, these vines have thorns and can cause wounds if dragged across the skin, of pressed against flesh with pressure.

• Release: Bloom, Ezperanza Aisumadaeba

• Shikai Description: Meera's Zanpakutô divides in to two swords, both the same length as their sealed state. The sword of which she holds in her left hand's blade turns a dark green with red vain like patterns crawling up it's entirety while the sword in her right hand's blade is red, with green vain patterns.

• Shikai Abilities:

Blood lotus: When she cuts an enemy with her the blade in her right hand and draws blood a lotus will sprout from the wound, this plant acts as a parasite and will draw blood from the target. As more blood is eaten the plant blooms and it's roots will grow deeper in to the hosts body, rupturing organs and causing massive internal bleeding. They can only be broken by Kidō or high reiatsu output and the root must be destroyed to keep a new lotus from blooming. If the root is too deep, the only way to negate it is to force Meera out of shikai.

Flowers on the grave: This ability can only take affect after the enemy has been wounded by "blood lotus". When Meera hits an enemy afflicted by "blood lotus" with her left handed sword the flowers in the wound die and wither but their roots grow thorns, making them even harder to remove and causing even more internal damage to the target. Once this ability is used the affected lotus roots will no longer grow and they will not suck any more blood from their victim. If she hits an enemy with her left sword who is not affected by "blood lotus" then no affect takes place.

[strike]• Bankai Description: "blossom of the damned, Ezperanza Aisumadaeba Nurgel." Once bankai is released a large lotus blooms in the center of Kagara's chest and red and green vine like patterns grow all across her skin. All her ability's grow more powerful in nature while going through some changes.

• Bankai Abilities:

Flowers of omen: Meera can spawn a lotus at any targeted destination that is larger than normal, this plant blooms after one turn and will lunch thorns at her target, these thorns give the same affect as "Blood lotus" and will cause plants to grow from the wounds they inflict. Only one lotus can be spawned per post, and she can not spawn a lotus on another person. "Blood lotus" formed by this ability can be sent in to the "Flowers on the grave" stage of this ability at Meera's will.

Natural assimilation: Meera can shift the battlefield around her by causing huge trees and plants to grow from the ground, all of the plant life spawns vines that try to slow her target down or trap them all together. This forest of sorts is heavily resistant to energy based attacks and can withstand mild physical punishment.

Bark skin: At any time Meera can give her skin a much harder density to help defend her self from attack, the trade off is her movement speed as heavily hindered by this ability so it is generally only used in the most pressing of emergency's. This ability has a four post cool down and only lasts through one attack.

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• PhatomTech: None.

• Phantom Tech Abilities: None.

• Phantom Tech Powers: None.

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General Skills

• Durability: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
  
• General Speed: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
  
• Strength: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
  
• Weapon Skill: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
  

Racial Skills

• Hoho: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
  
• Kidō: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
  
• Zanjutsu: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
  
• Hakuda: Master/Advanced/Adept/Beginner
  

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• Roleplay Sample: (( This was my entrance post to a spar with a friend of mine that happened about two weeks ago, we were both playing with Taichou level characters. ))

Dust swirled through the air like an enraged animal, howling and twisting as if to trying an free it's self from a cage. Blowing this way and that till at crashed in to the frame of a small girl who stood as if flying high above the decrepit streets that ran far bellow her feet. Long raven hair fluttered softly like wisps of dark smoke behind her much like the bellowing clouds of death that lifted them self's from the roofs of what once was the buildings of the most beautiful city in the word, Paris.

Kagara's cold blue eyes looked up to the cloudy sky, but were hollow in their glare as if she was lost in thought, some where far away from this place. the wind gusted once more, dragging her coat that was tide tightly around her hips behind her. The wind brought a slight chill to her uncovered thighs, stomach, and arms. Small goose bumps started to pop up as another breeze pulled at her once more. Her right hand moved at the pace of the dead, fitting for the city she watched over, to a small pocket on the right side of her coat. Her slender fingers shifted slowly inside the clothing before retraction from it a small pack of cigarettes. She popped open the top of the box with her thumb as her left hand drifted over to pluck one slender roll of tobacco from its hold before snapping the package closed and returning it to it's place in her pockets.

She brought the cigarette to her lips and focused her reiatsu to the small opening on the end of the cigarette until it came alive with heat and with a deep breath she invited the toxins in to her lungs, and with a happy sigh exhaled to add her own smoke to that of the broken world below her and with a flick of her fingers to dead embers free from the cigarette and drifted slowly down to earth. To think, one of the shining oasis's of this world, was now nothing more than her ash tray. She let that thought sink in for a moment before she caught the faint sounds of a loud crack in the distance and at once knew that her fight was about to start. Her left hand lifted her cigarette to her lips for another drag as her right hand drifted down to rest lazily on the hilt of her Zanpakutō. She watched the man come ever closer and with a reluctant sigh she waited for what felt like forever for the man to come within ear shot.

She did not say a word to him, did not even so much as acknowledge his existence other then to follow him with slightly narrowed blue eyes as the man started to show off. As soon as he started she would go back to staring at the sky, obviously lost in her own thought which seemed far more important than this one man. Her thoughts were lost in battles past and wondering just how this man would choose to follow up such a display. Slowly her eyes cut back to the man as she took another drag of her cigarette but still, she did not draw her sword. She left the smoking stick of tobacco hanging between her thin lips as a large shock wave caused by the man flexing his own spiritual energy blew her hair back behind her once again, and her clothing tugged hard against her body as it too was pulled back but she did not even so much as bat an eye lash, only stood with her hand resting on the hilt of her blade and rotating her cigarette from her lips to inhale, to out to her side to ash. Everything about her seemed so nonchalant as if she had seen this move at least one hundred times before.

It was only when that man started to fling debris at her did her right hand lift from the hilt of her Zanpakutō and with the back of her hand she quickly smashed the rocks away from her, sending the first one crashing in to the side of a building, causing it not to collapse, but to practically explode with the impact. Many more of the small rocks were pushed aside much like the first, giving the city the appearance of it being bombed as huge explosions of dust blasted randomly across its landscape where the deflected ruble landed. She could not help but smirk slightly as the Taichou came flying at her on a car and with a grin she flat out snatched a water melon sized stone that was flung at her out of mid air and gave it what appeared to be a soft toss but as soon as the stone left her fingers it would almost break apart with the speeds at which it was now traveling at, right for the grill of the broken mustang and like a round from a tank hitting a kids tricycle the thing would almost explode from the impact as the rock blasted through the body of the car and shattered it to peaces. She knew the Taichou would try an close the gap between them but yet, she still did not draw her sword. She only watched, looking down the dull glowing end of her cigarette with her bright blue eyes, right in to the Taichou's own.

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• Willpower/Determination: Advanced
  
• Mental Deduction: Adept
  
• Pain Endurance: Advanced
  
• Focus: Advanced