Masaaki Mushin [Approved, 3-1+]

• Name: Masaaki Mushin
• Titles: Abyss, The Reaper
• Gender: Male
• Appearance Age: 29
• Age: 600
• Affiliation/Rank: Rouge but was with the 6th Branch from age 25 to 486

• Appearance Description: Masaaki wears the standard black Shingami uniform with all black leather gauntlets with his fingers open. On his uniform it has a white symbol of a hawk, that symbolizes his freedom from the soul society. Masaaki is six feet tall with a athletic and lean build with his arms and legs covered in lean muscle. He has a scar on his chest shaped like an X. Masaaki also wears no undershirt with his uniform and also as a tattoo of a black hawk on his neck. He has dark red eyes and a dark and evil look about him as if he is tainted. HIs hair is jet black and medium-short and spiked like Ichigo.

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• Personality: Masaaki is a calm and focused invidividal with little care about the world around him. Masaaki is very cunning which overtakes his intelligence in being that he thinks better on his feet and in a tough situation, than at a table and making a battle plan. Masaaki is also very ruthless and is very cold blooded and often will make the hard choices that people do not want to make and take up the responsibility. Masaaki is often very courteous and self-controlled around other people. Masaaki is also on the flip side a risk-taker and also very ambitious towards his goals. Masaaki is also very loyal especially for people that are useful to him. He also is very sly persona dn will bend a persons words to better fit his situation but he is very trustworthy though if you express exactly what you want with no loopholes. Masaki is also not the person to express feelings for whether it be emotional or romantic because you will meet a wall that not even love can break through. He is a very solitary person with little to no need in friends or most people for that matter. He also tends to be more observant towards most people even if he had know you for a while . With that in mind Masaaki can be considered an optimistic man especially in the face of adversity. He also is not selfish but usually puts himself first. Masaaki has a very commanding voice similar to Sosuke Aizen also with that same life is a game attitude in his voice.

Catch Phase: You will know just how cold darkness truly is
With this you die;
You will submit
Kneel!
This is justice
Submit!
Drown in my Kidō....heheheh and die.
This will be over in a flash, goodnight


• Likes: Justice, slaying hollows and Kidō, his former captain

• Dislikes: Idiots, overconfidence, unfounded confidence, hollows and most shingami
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• History:
Masaaki Mushin was born in the 18th century to a Japanese chef and a servant. As a young boy he was very dedicated and focused person often getting very high grades in his school and also doing his best at school and at home. But Masaaki cold personality never earned him many friends and more often than not people did not even notice him, he was a shadow in life, always there but never noticed. Not even his parents could get through this cold disposition that cloaked their son, it got to the point where Masaaki would not even talk to his parents for days at a time while even living with them. By age 14 Masaaki was considered a prodigious genius with very he grades and would have a very good road ahead of him. But his live was cut short at age 16 when his house got attacked by thieves and his whole family was killed.

When Masaaki entered the soul society he become a very young child that was around the age of 5 but oddly enough still kept his natural intelligence. Soon after entering the soul Society Masaaki was taken in by a family that was in the middle class and was merchants that traveled along the soul society to selling their wares. Masaaki took a liking to these new people and started to lower his wall down around them and for a time was very happy and carefree until this family was killed by a powerful hollow and the only reason why he lived was because he had been saved by Shinji that killed the hollow and brought him into the Gotei 13. Masaaki soon entered the academy around age 11.

In the academy, Masaaki had proven to be equal to or even better than some of the old students in Kidō and was natural better at using his Zanpakutō than other students. But besides his incredible Kidō ability what stood out the most was his natural speed, his speed rivaled even his teachers at age 13. Because of Masaaki tremendous potential Masaaki was trained only by the Headmaster of the academy from age 13-20 where the headmaster specifically focused on strengthen his Kidō and using his raw speed to its full effect. By age 16 he had so much raw speed that most people in the soul society could not keep up with him. So it was only natural that he would go to the Kidō Corps but no, Masaaki actually choose the 6th branch, where he trained night and day with his Zanpakutō and his Kidō, to the point where people could not even tell if or when he was using Kidō and when he was not. Now at age 200 Masaaki finally reached shikai and then began talking to Kage no Hoyo. Kage no Hoyo began to lower the wall around his heart a little but it was tell not enough to become truly open to her which is why Masaaki cannot reach bankai, he cannot let Kage no Hoyo completely in his heart and bond with him.

By age 425 he can reached Lt. in the 6th Branch which is where he truly began learning powerful Kidō even creating a few of his own. Though the Soul Society, Masaaki was making a name for himself and people to talking about soon that he would become captain in the next century. But around age 486 he was framed for murder and sentenced to death. The reason his is alive is because his captain had pulled strings to get him an opening to escape from the Gotei 13 and to never return. For the next 50 years he had lived on the outskirts of the soul society often helping kill hollows that appeared in the human world and even helped the Vizards from time to time with hunting down arrancar packs and killing them. But he could not find any information as to why he was framed and who set him up and because of that. It created an even bigger wall between him and Kage no Hoyo and now made it even harder to reach Bankai now.

At age 600 he still has not found any answers as to who framed him and is still looking for someone to point him in the direction of who framed him. From ages 486-600 Masaaki wondered around the whole soul society and even the land of the hollows looking for people that knew the answer to his question and every single time it was no, no NO. After a while Masaaki rage began to swell up inside of him and he began to go to the land of the hollows to kill to unleash his rage and his anger at the lack of true justice of the Gotei 13. From age 486-600 he had killed over 1000 hollows and gained a name among hollows as "The Reaper". After a while his spiritual energy began to turn dark and dark and dark almost as dark and as tainted as a hollow. His spiritual pressure is so tainted that most hollows are unsure that he is even a shingami and often flee in terror. At one point of time from age 486-600, he had spent over 10 years in the land of the hollows growing more and more powerful to the point where he could use advanced Kidō with extreme power and accuracy. His speed still is borderline unreal as he performs Kidō almost instantaneously while moving around the battlefield in quick burst of extreme speed.


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• Reiatsu Color: Midnight Blue

• Zanpakutô Spirit Name: Kage no hōyō

• Zanpakutô Spirit Appearance: Kage no Hoyo is a dark angel embraced by dark shadow wolves that surround her and cling to her. She is around 5'7 with two black horns sprouting from both sides of her head. with an onyx cornet around her head that looks like a halo. She wears a black slip dress with no shoes and with her long hair hair uncombed and wild. he has several black poles floating behind her even when she walks they float in the air. Her voice is very light and she sounds very seductive and and persuasive. she has eyes as black as the abyss. She also where a pendent that glows when she is near Masaaki

• Inner World: Kage no Hoyo inner world is in eternal night with the moon bright in the sky over an dark plain lit by torches everywhere despite it being night time the torches give off a lot of light that allows Masaaki to find Kage no Hoyo in this plain. There are also various smaller animals here that Kage no Koyo hunts in her free time. Their are also various crimson red banner across her inner world displaying the parts she has discovered and the stronger Masaaki gets the further her domain and banners reach in her inner world.

Fightning Style: Iaido

Iaido is specific style of kenjutsu that is concerned with the smooth, controlled movements of drawing the sword from its scabbard, striking or cutting an opponent, removing blood from the blade, and then replacing the sword in the scabbard. The linear motion and force applied to draw the sword from its scabbard results in slashes that are faster and stronger than ones realized with the sword already drawn. Iaido is also the drawing of the sword to deliver a counterattack, following up and returning the sword to its scabbard.


Name: Shunpo [Flash Step]
Type: Kenjutsu
Orientation: Supplementary
Effects: The first principle of Senkouken is speed- Being able to act quickly and efficiently. Senkou's core move thus is a technique that allows the user to propel themselves forward by allowing for a sudden push of spirit energy to strike from their feet onto the ground, propelling themselves at a speed that their movements become a blur. Skilled user's may project themselves at a point where they are no longer seen, and may utilize multiple steps in their attack. Shunpo is not a maintainable technique.
No cool down

Name: Danmaku [Barrage]
Type: Kenjutsu
Orientation: Offensive, Defensive
Effects: The second principle of Senkouken is to cut. To slice through resistance, be it stone, steel, or flesh. The ability to perform efficiently through whatever they face. Danmaku allows one to energize their arms and allowing them to let out a barrage of slices, none particularly powerful but numerous. Being able to strike at an insane rate is key, as it will allow you to slip through a foe's defenses. This technique is tiring for the arms, however, as the spirit energy utilized tears at the muscles. Veterans strive to be able to perform simultaneous barrages.
No cool down but wears down the arm

Name: Batto [Draw]
Type: Kenjutsu
Orientation: Defensive
Effects: The third principle of Senkouken. Act. To know when to fight, how to fight. Not merely reflex but accuracy is what is necessary for a swordsman. Batto focuses on that discipline. By storing spiritual energy into the sheath of a sword via transferring it through the sword in a similar manner to Shunpo. When the Senkou user draws his blade it will be propelled by a sudden push of force from the spirit energy. With this method, he may cut forward at a strength greater then his other strikes.
No cool down

Name: Senka [Flash Blossom]
Type: Kenjutsu
Range:Short
Spiritual Energy: Low
Orientation: Offensive
Effects: Senka is a specialized battojutsu that combines the first and third principles in order to silence a foe in a beautiful display. As with all battojutsus, the user begins by sheathing his blade and gathering his spiritual to his feet in order to perform shunpo. Upon moving at a foe, they will draw the blade and at the same time begin to spin. Because of this movement, the user will be able to cut a foe not once but twice- The Initial blow from the first draw when they are in front of the opponent, and the second from the spin returning as they pass their foe. Because of the combined force of the shunpo, spin, and draw it is difficult move to defend against.
Cool down 2 posts

Name: Tsubame Gaeshi [Swallow Reversal]
Type: Kenjutsu
Range: Short
Spiritual Energy: Low
Orientation: Defensive
Effects: A technique that was contributed to the style by a famous Samurai, the founder of the style altered the move to fit his own style. Tsubame Gaeshi combines the second and third principles, being able to cut at great speed and timing. This technique, in turn, involves two precise furious cuts. The user will begin with a downward cut in order to lure them in, apparently giving a foe an opening from the initial strike. In reality, it is merely a trap. Once the enemy nears, the user will spin the blade around in his hand and cut upward, spiritual energy within the arm/s propelling it upward, mimicking the movements of the Swallow.
Cool down 1 posts

Name: Hirameki [Flicker]
Type: Kenjutsu
Range: Self
Spiritual Energy: Low
Orientation: Supplementary
Effects: This technique relies on spiritual energy being transferred down the hilt, causing the blade to glow vibrantly. When the user moves the blade, an optical illusion will be cause, the light of the blade moving a half-second before the actual one. This technique thus is able to slip past defenses by deceiving a foe's reactions. This makes fighting against the swordsman quite a challenge.
Cool down at least five posts between uses

Name: Amatsukatta [Heavenly Cutter]
Type: Kenjutsu
Range: Medium-Long
Spiritual Energy: Medium
Orientation: Offensive
Effects: A technique that utilizes the sword draw, like with Batto the user will transfer spiritual energy down the hilt along the blade, concentrated it at a single point- The edge. When drawn the user will cut forward, a blade of spiritual energy being released from the edge. This spiritual energy blade will fling itself forward, slicing against objects in it's path. Even stone may be broken by this move.
Cool down 2 posts

Name: Gatotsu [Wolf's Fang]
Type: Kenjutsu
Range: Short
Spiritual Energy: Medium
Orientation: Offensive
Effects: One of the few lunging techniques of Senkouken that do not rely on the third principle, Batto, Gatotsu begins like most lunging stances, the user drawing the blade and balancing the end of the blade with his fingers- Save that the blade is flipped, the sharp edge of the sword up. This characteristic, unusual in most forms. Upon doing so they will apply spiritual energy from their fingers at the utmost tip of the blade, sharpening in to the point where it may pierce even steel. Once done so the user will lunge forward at an enemy, utilizing a stab attack to take advantage of the improve point. Once pierce by the initial steel, the attack will be able to slide easily through a foe, meeting no other resistance.
Cool down 3 posts

Name: Hayate [As fast as the Wind]
Type: Kenjutsu
Range: Medium
Spiritual Energy: Medium
Orientation: Defensive
Effects: A technique that combines the first and second principles, the user will utilized simultaneous flash steps and the blade to create a phenomenal defense. By utilizing flash step while spinning upon a leg, the user will rotate at high speeds. By then performing an additional one once the shunpo begins to slow, they move at an even faster rate, acquiring the previously gained momentum, while at the same time releasing an array of cuts creates a powerful whirlwind of steel, moving at such a speed that it seems that even the wind is caused. But the secret of this move lies on the rotation once maximized to cause a short-range vortex, drawing objects into this nightmare of blades.
Cool down is 10 posts and can only be used three times a thread

Name: Kamikaze [God's Wind]
Type: Kenjutsu
Range: All
Spiritual Energy: Very High
Orientation: Offensive, Defensive
Effects: A technique of mastery, this move combines all three core principles- Batto, Shunpo, and Danmaku- To create the Kamikaze. This technique utilizes the earlier techniques, Hayate and Amatsukatta, into a single technique. The move begins identically to Hayate, utilizing shunpos to rotate the user faster and faster. However, rather then mere cuts, the user will combine Draw and Cut to perform rather then mere slashes a barrage of force blades by performing Amatsukatta simultaneously, rapidly drawing and re-sheathing the blade to fling these deadly waves of spiritual energy in all directions, a move that may easily annihilate a group of foes. Danmaku itself strains the arm, causing the muscles to tire easily- However, to constantly draw and sheath the sword while at the same time focusing spiritual energy along the edge of the sword causes severe internal damage to a normal human's muscles, to the point that prolonged use or simultaneous one's may cause permanent damage. Because of this, Kamikaze is not simply reserved for Masters out of the wish for secrecy, but also out of protection.
Cool down is once a thread and a whole another thread between uses
(Will not get until I am a Master in Zanpakutō)


• Sealed Zanpakutô Apperance : The hilt of the sword is jet black with a red guard and on the bottom of the hilt is a wolf seal and other than that it is a standard Zanpakutō

• Sealed Zanpakutô Abilities: Masaaki while holding the handle of his sheathed Zanpakutō can shoot out a black shadow wolf that has no hind legs and is still attached to the hilt of the sword but the range is around 5-10 meters and the wolf and bite and hold and opponent in place of attack the target but after one or two hits the wolf disappears

• Release: Drown in my darkness, Kage no Hoyo

• Shikai Description: Kage no Hoyo shifts into a a ninjato that is all black with a red hilt and glowing with spirit energy.

• Shikai Abilities:

Greatly increases speed to rival masters in speed

Dansu· ookamiandā· gimun- can summon up to 3 wolves at one time they can vary in size, length and durability. It can range from most of a snake-like appearance(the shadow wolves in my Zanpakutō picture) or to the size of a very large wolf(around 1.5 meters or 6 feet) but the drawback is the large the wolf the slower it as and more control of spiritual pressure is needed but it is much stronger and more durable they the wolf-snake form but the wolf snake form is also much faster and has more potential to do damage they the larger wolf form (it can take up to 5-6 good and quality hits in opposed to the wolf-snake that can only take 1-2 hits.) They stay on the battlefield until they are either destroyed or are unsummoned by Masaaki Mushin. He can only summon or use this technique twice in a thread


(this is what the largest version would look like with the tail being connected to the wolf seal on the bottom of the hilt. with the wolf snakes they have no hind legs and while their lower half is connected to the wolf seal of his Zanpakutō. Just like in his sealed form he only uses this technique when his Zanpakutō is in it's sheathe)

Kage puru- can stab the ground and spread his spirit energy arcoss the ground as a dark shadow and if an opponent steps on it the opponent can be wrapped up in a tendril of shadow-like spirit pressure. The range of this attack is no more than 3 meters in a circle of the sword itself when it is stabbed in the ground which takes advantage of Masaaki extreme speed and use it to its full effect. The shadow like tendril is pretty strong and only advanced or maybe even very high adept characters in strength can simply just resist and break out of it. The shadow -like tendril only last for about 1-3 posts depending on the strength of the person with 1 posts for Masters in strength and 3-4 for beginners in strength. [/strike]

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Kidō List

Name: Abysmal Lightning
Type: Offensive
Number: 35
Effects: The User points at their target and shoots out a dark-bluish streak of lightning from their pointing finger that can pierce its target, plus if it hits it's target it does not shock its opponent but numbs that part of their body and if a skilled user performs this technique it can freeze that body part. Someone like Kenpaichi could resist or break the ice of an advanced user or someone with High durability. The paralyzed(or numb) depends in the user and the target example would be if a Master used this technique on a advanced durability character they would remain numb or paralyzed for around 2-3 posts. If that body part if frozen then you use either break the ice on that body part or melt it off. People that could resist this technique must have high durability or must have great skill in Kidō so they could counter it
Incantation: Know the darkness in my heart, Abysmal Lightning
Notes: can only be used three times per battle and if used without incantation it can numb the users hand and in extreme cases their whole body. It numbs the user for about 1-3 posts depending on the level of their Kidō only someone very skilled could bypass it though meaning Advanced at least. On average the freezing lasts around 5-7 posts.

Name: Abysmal Spear
Type: Offensive
Number: 28 and exclusive to Masaaki
Effects: The user instantly summons a small floating energy portal(similar to a black hole) about one foot wide and long that shoots out a high speed spear of black ice that it if hit can only can it pierce its target but slightly numb it( adept durability target will have some basic feeling in that part of the body and the numbness last for about 1-2 posts)
Incantation: Darkness show your wrath
Notes: this technique can be used 5-7 times a thread and the best thing about this technique is the the user can summon the portal from anywhere in the immediate battlefield, make this Kidō very useful against fast opponents.
Adept 50-70 miles per hour
Advanced 100-150 miles per hour
Master 175-200 miles per hour
Grandmaster 350-500 miles per hour

Name: Shield of the King of the Abyss
Type: Defensive
Number: 48 and exclusive to Masaaki
Effects: Creates a thin wall of black ice instanteously in front of the user, that can block Kidō up to the power level 65 and one or two advanced Zanpakutō and haruda attacks before shatteriing
Incantation: Protect your master, darkness
Notes: can only be used twice a thread or battle and the user must say the incantation

Name: Sword of the King of the Abyss
Type: Offensive
Number: 48 and exclusive to Masaaki
Effects: quickly creates using the water vapor in the air a large(15+ meter) claymore sword out of black ice hovering above the user. The user controls this sword with their non-sword hand and it moves very fast and can regenerate itself.
Incantation: Defend your master from his enemies
Notes: can only be used once in a thread and the user must say the incantation and the sword can only be countered and blocked not destroyed because it regenerates through the use of water vapor but on the flip side if their is not water vapor(if in space) then he can not use this technique

Name: Rain of True Heaven
Type: Offensive and supplementary
Number: 61 and exclusive to Masaaki
Effects:The user forms a shard of black ice in their hand and then throws it into the air. the shard creates a black hole like portal around a 1 foot long and wide that follows and hovers over its target(about 50 meters in the air) and launches numerous black ice senbon from the portal that can also numb its target if it connects.
Incantation: Shower my target in the love that only you can show, darkness, Rain of True Heaven.
Notes: The senbon that rain down from the portal fall at around 50-75 miles per hour. The portal can be destroyed if it is hit with either an advanced Zanpakutō attack or haruda attack or at least a number 35+ Kidō. Can only be used once a thread

Name: Abysmal Cloak
Type: Defensive and supplementary
Number: 55
Effects: The user instantly uses the spiritual energy in their own body and converts it into shadow making the user body intangible for 1 post.
Incantation: Darkness shroud me in your embrace
Notes: The user can not be hit by any physical type of attack but he can be hit with an advanced or better energy type attack. Anything less than advance will go right now him in this form. This can only be used twice a thread. The user can not move at all in this form.
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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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