Post by salvador on Jun 7, 2009 21:21:13 GMT -4
Name: Santiago El Salvador
Gender: Male
Age: 14 (at time of death), Hollow (+Menos): 76 Arrancar: 87
Ranking: Espada (Numero Cuatro)
Physical characteristics: Santiago is an arrancar whose hollow hole is on his right lung--the spot where he was shot and killed as a human--and whose mask remains are a halo above his head. He has cool, narrow, blue eyes with a calm disposition, yet an icy glare that stares right through anyone who makes eye contact with him. He also possesses somewhat long, pitch-black hair, elf-like ears, red circles of face paint around his eyes, small lips, sharp, fang-like teeth, and a small, rounded nose. Santiago is very skinny and wears a blank-white outfit similar to that of Ulquiorra. His skin is lightly tanned. Even then, he's particularly bony around his elbows. His hands are shaped like claws and have very long, pointed nails. He wears no shoes, and his toes are also very clawed. Santiago has a thin red scar on his left cheek, three on his neck, several on his shoulders, and one under his chin. These scars, his gauntness, and his chest wound were sustained as a result of torture he suffered during the Spanish Civil War; he was a soldier for the Republican army, and he was captured, tortured, and eventually shot by his Nationalist captors.
Personality: Santiago's personality is heavily shaped by his brief life, his experience as a soldier during the Spanish Civil War, and the torture he suffered before he was killed. His parents both died when he was a young boy and he spent most of his life in an orphanage where he was, despite his kindness and politeness, shunned by the other children and despised by his caretakers. The sensitive boy took this treatment very poorly, and he ran off to join the Republican Army when the Spanish Civil War broke out. Santiago was already a shy, quiet boy. However, Santiago was very loyal and would not betray his commanders; he withstood the stress of torture from the Nationalists without giving away anything about the Republican Army. When he was shot, Santiago, the boy who nobody loved or cared for, almost instantly became a hollow. Santiago, despite his quiet personality, had an incredibly strong identity and strong self-preservation, so when he merged with other hollows to become a gillian, he was able to claim dominance. It was as a menos that Santiago developed a brutal side; he was quiet and kind under normal circumstances, yet could be a savage, remorseless warrior if the need arose. The love that Santiago was all too capable of feeling as a boy had turned into coldness; a tough life on Earth and the "survival of the fittest" attitude of Hueco Mundo had done no favors for his soft side, and he no longer saw the point in kindness after his life at the orphanage and brutal torture right before he died. He had shown kindness to a world which was too cruel, too arrogant, too narrow-minded to return it to him. Now it was time for something completely different; it was time for the warrior inside of him to dominate, and time for Santiago's brutal side to preserve him as an individual and make him a Vasto Lorde. While Santiago indeed achieved this, he destroyed himself in the process; even though he had died long before, his last snuffs of humanity were completely snuffed out. He was nothing more than a monster, like the other hollows of Hueco Mundo.
Hollow Powers:
Santiago relies on his wit, speed, and power to defeat enemies. Upon using his resurrecion, Santiago becomes an angel with even more speed and power.
Ceros - Santiago is proficient with ceros and can use monstrously powerful ceros or exceptionally strong bala blasts.
Sonido - Santiago is very skilled with sonido and can virtually teleport almost effortlessly.
Swordsmanship - Santiago is highly skilled with the sword and can use his two-handed zanpakutou very well.
Zanpakutou Name: Ãngel
Sealed Form: In its sealed form, Ãngel is a long, yet narrow two-handed sword with a golden hilt and a diamond-shaped ruby in the center. Despite Ãngel's considerable size and weight, Santiago can wield it (and fight) with just one hand. On the pommel, Ãngel has a cross emblem, which signifies Santiago's religion when he was a boy on Earth. The sword guard's ends are both shaped like angel wings. Ãngel overall contributes to Santiago's image as "The White Angelic Savior."
--- Resurrecion
Resurrecion Release Phrase: Liberate, Ãngel!
Resurrecion: After he releases it, Santiago undergoes a remarkable transformation. He grows angel wings, retains his tunic, and his sword also remains the same. However, the upper half of his face is then covered with his hollow mask. His halo begins to hang over his head instead of being worn on his hair. Santiago's facial expression becomes a lot more serious in his released form; instead of a relaxed, cruel smile, he now wears a cold frown. Santiago's fingers and toes grow long, bone-like claws where they're connected to his hands and feet. Overall, like a Vasto Lorde class Espada, Santiago's resurrecion retains a human structure.
Release Abilities:
Rayo Láser [lit. Laser Ray]- Santiago can shoot many quick ceros from his sword. While not particularly powerful, they're fired rapidly and in great quantity.
Las Alas [The Wings]- Santiago's wings begin to glow in a golden light. He flies at his opponent at incredible velocity with the intent of cutting them.
Hendir [Cleave]- Santiago swings his blade down powerfully onto the opponent. Has enough power to demolish anything it hits.
Santiago's resurrecion is very powerful, yet it takes a toll on his body. It can easily wear him out, due to the tremendous amount of energy it takes to maintain his form and use his powerful attacks. His spiritual energy is also used up in his attacks, so his hierro also begins to decay and weaken. In essence, Santiago's resurrecion is like a glass cannon; it has brute destructive force, yet it's short-lived and loses power very quickly. A similarly strong, smart opponent can try and stall him out, and take him down once enough time has passed. Given his brute force, however, this can be very difficult. Nonetheless, as his hierro grows increasingly weak, Santiago's intelligence begins to fail him and his strength withers. He eventually becomes a fallen angel indeed.
History: Santiago El Salvador (born Santiago San Jose Rodriguez) was born on July 20, 1922 in a relatively peaceful village in Spanish Morocco to a Spanish father and Moroccan mother. He was adored and doted on by his loving parents, and he thought that this world would never end. Unfortunately, his picture-perfect life was completely shattered when he was 5 years old. His parents were both murdered for "mongrelizing the Spanish people;" luckily for Santiago (who was the main target of the assault due to his mixed heritage), he barely managed to escape, because his parents had hid him in a barrel filled with water. Once Santiago escaped, he wandered around Spanish Morocco until he was found and taken in by a Christian missionary. The missionary took him to an orphanage whose owners were very racist; they only took him because the missionary told them that "she and God would never forgive them if they refused to help a young boy in need of a home." That was all they promised her, however, and once she left, the owners of the orphanage singled Santiago out, treating him brutally and doing everything they could to alienate the boy from his fellow orphans. This was the way Santiago lived for 9 long, hard years. The Great Depression hit Spain when he was 9, and the orphanage, which was already rather short on food and supplies, decided to try and starve Santiago out. Santiago was supported by a strong girl with more honor than his other insecure, love-hungry peers would ever have in their meagre existences; she risked her bed, clothes and food and gave him some of her food. She indeed paid the price and was expelled form the orphanage. They never saw each other again. Santiago was 11 when this happened and he would never, ever forget. He would always remember that this one girl had been punished for showing him a shred of humanity.
When Santiago was young, starving, and 14, he joined the recruit-hungry Republican Army once the Spanish Civil War broke out; he knew very well that he might die, but he joined because he never felt like he belonged anywhere in the first place and knew that the orphanage wouldn't miss him at all. He was a quick, intelligent, and able soldier who learned at an incredible rate. Sadly, his talent for warfare didn't save him once he was captured in his first battle. A new prisoner of war whose captors were cruel and bloodthirsty, Santiago's young age didn't save him from torture. He was repeatedly slashed by knives. Yet, Santiago was incapable of betraying the Republican Army, who had given him his first taste of brotherhood and belonging in years. Eventually, the Nationalists became sick of him and shot him in his right lung on September 29, 1936.
Santiago was born to a Christian family, and retained his powerful faith in God when he was very young; his faith begun to recede, however, when his parents were murdered and his life took a turn for the worse, his faith begun to diminish. He increasingly believed that God had singled him out among all the people in the world for unimaginable suffering and hardship. He believed that God punished everyone who showed kindness to him, and this was only confirmed when the honorable girl was expelled from the orphanage. What little was left of his faith was destroyed during his torture as a prisoner of war.
Santiago was almost instantly hollowfied, and feverishly devoured his captors as they threw his body into a mass grave. He was shocked at his new appearance; he had turned from a scrawny 14 year-old boy into a masked monster. The new hollow quickly moved. He searched for and destroyed the orphanage that had made his life so miserable, leaving a mess of burning wood and charred corpses in his wake. He wreaked havoc all around Europe for years, only until the end of World War II. By then, Santiago was so power-hungry that he decided to merge into a Menos.
"No matter what happens, I will always be Santiago. I will always retain my independence."
Retain his independence he did; Santiago easily stifled the other hollows' identities and the new menos's mask took the shape of Santiago's: a mask with narrow, slit-like eyeholes, long, narrow teeth, plenty of face-paint, and a halo above his head.. Now a gillian, he quickly moved to devour other gillian. He eventually became an adjuchas with large wings, a halo, and a long, sword-like extension from his arm. Santiago's growth was nearly cut short when another adjuchas nearly took a chunk out of his arm extension. Nonetheless, Santiago prevailed, endured, and devoured the adjuchas. It wasn't long before Santiago became a Vasto Lorde; he fulfilled his desire for his own identity and boundless power. He became an poster child of the term "survival of the fittest." Nonetheless, this all came at a horrific cost; Santiago was no longer an innocent child, for that boy had died when his parents were murdered. He was a savage, unforgiving warrior, complete with angelic wings, a halo, and a sword to go with it. He failed to quench his lust for power and blood, however, and still ate other hollows on a regular basis. He still wanted to become stronger. And then he met Aizen...
Aizen was truly unique to Santiago. Aizen feared nothing, while Santiago feared losing everything he had worked for. Aizen had power, which Santiago desired. Moreover, Aizen offered power to Santiago; he offered to use the Hougyoku on him and turn him into an arrancar. Realizing that this was a chance to increase his power even more, Santiago accepted Aizen's offer.
As he waited for Aizen to use the Hougyoku on him, Santiago looked back on his past and himself. "Who am I? Why was I allowed to go as far as I have? And was it justified for people to hate me just because I was only half-Spanish?" These questions echoed throughout his head as he waited. Eventually he decided:
"I will save the world from itself. I will liberate the people from their stupidity."
"I am Santiago El Salvador."
Gender: Male
Age: 14 (at time of death), Hollow (+Menos): 76 Arrancar: 87
Ranking: Espada (Numero Cuatro)
Physical characteristics: Santiago is an arrancar whose hollow hole is on his right lung--the spot where he was shot and killed as a human--and whose mask remains are a halo above his head. He has cool, narrow, blue eyes with a calm disposition, yet an icy glare that stares right through anyone who makes eye contact with him. He also possesses somewhat long, pitch-black hair, elf-like ears, red circles of face paint around his eyes, small lips, sharp, fang-like teeth, and a small, rounded nose. Santiago is very skinny and wears a blank-white outfit similar to that of Ulquiorra. His skin is lightly tanned. Even then, he's particularly bony around his elbows. His hands are shaped like claws and have very long, pointed nails. He wears no shoes, and his toes are also very clawed. Santiago has a thin red scar on his left cheek, three on his neck, several on his shoulders, and one under his chin. These scars, his gauntness, and his chest wound were sustained as a result of torture he suffered during the Spanish Civil War; he was a soldier for the Republican army, and he was captured, tortured, and eventually shot by his Nationalist captors.
Personality: Santiago's personality is heavily shaped by his brief life, his experience as a soldier during the Spanish Civil War, and the torture he suffered before he was killed. His parents both died when he was a young boy and he spent most of his life in an orphanage where he was, despite his kindness and politeness, shunned by the other children and despised by his caretakers. The sensitive boy took this treatment very poorly, and he ran off to join the Republican Army when the Spanish Civil War broke out. Santiago was already a shy, quiet boy. However, Santiago was very loyal and would not betray his commanders; he withstood the stress of torture from the Nationalists without giving away anything about the Republican Army. When he was shot, Santiago, the boy who nobody loved or cared for, almost instantly became a hollow. Santiago, despite his quiet personality, had an incredibly strong identity and strong self-preservation, so when he merged with other hollows to become a gillian, he was able to claim dominance. It was as a menos that Santiago developed a brutal side; he was quiet and kind under normal circumstances, yet could be a savage, remorseless warrior if the need arose. The love that Santiago was all too capable of feeling as a boy had turned into coldness; a tough life on Earth and the "survival of the fittest" attitude of Hueco Mundo had done no favors for his soft side, and he no longer saw the point in kindness after his life at the orphanage and brutal torture right before he died. He had shown kindness to a world which was too cruel, too arrogant, too narrow-minded to return it to him. Now it was time for something completely different; it was time for the warrior inside of him to dominate, and time for Santiago's brutal side to preserve him as an individual and make him a Vasto Lorde. While Santiago indeed achieved this, he destroyed himself in the process; even though he had died long before, his last snuffs of humanity were completely snuffed out. He was nothing more than a monster, like the other hollows of Hueco Mundo.
Hollow Powers:
Santiago relies on his wit, speed, and power to defeat enemies. Upon using his resurrecion, Santiago becomes an angel with even more speed and power.
Ceros - Santiago is proficient with ceros and can use monstrously powerful ceros or exceptionally strong bala blasts.
Sonido - Santiago is very skilled with sonido and can virtually teleport almost effortlessly.
Swordsmanship - Santiago is highly skilled with the sword and can use his two-handed zanpakutou very well.
Zanpakutou Name: Ãngel
Sealed Form: In its sealed form, Ãngel is a long, yet narrow two-handed sword with a golden hilt and a diamond-shaped ruby in the center. Despite Ãngel's considerable size and weight, Santiago can wield it (and fight) with just one hand. On the pommel, Ãngel has a cross emblem, which signifies Santiago's religion when he was a boy on Earth. The sword guard's ends are both shaped like angel wings. Ãngel overall contributes to Santiago's image as "The White Angelic Savior."
--- Resurrecion
Resurrecion Release Phrase: Liberate, Ãngel!
Resurrecion: After he releases it, Santiago undergoes a remarkable transformation. He grows angel wings, retains his tunic, and his sword also remains the same. However, the upper half of his face is then covered with his hollow mask. His halo begins to hang over his head instead of being worn on his hair. Santiago's facial expression becomes a lot more serious in his released form; instead of a relaxed, cruel smile, he now wears a cold frown. Santiago's fingers and toes grow long, bone-like claws where they're connected to his hands and feet. Overall, like a Vasto Lorde class Espada, Santiago's resurrecion retains a human structure.
Release Abilities:
Rayo Láser [lit. Laser Ray]- Santiago can shoot many quick ceros from his sword. While not particularly powerful, they're fired rapidly and in great quantity.
Las Alas [The Wings]- Santiago's wings begin to glow in a golden light. He flies at his opponent at incredible velocity with the intent of cutting them.
Hendir [Cleave]- Santiago swings his blade down powerfully onto the opponent. Has enough power to demolish anything it hits.
Santiago's resurrecion is very powerful, yet it takes a toll on his body. It can easily wear him out, due to the tremendous amount of energy it takes to maintain his form and use his powerful attacks. His spiritual energy is also used up in his attacks, so his hierro also begins to decay and weaken. In essence, Santiago's resurrecion is like a glass cannon; it has brute destructive force, yet it's short-lived and loses power very quickly. A similarly strong, smart opponent can try and stall him out, and take him down once enough time has passed. Given his brute force, however, this can be very difficult. Nonetheless, as his hierro grows increasingly weak, Santiago's intelligence begins to fail him and his strength withers. He eventually becomes a fallen angel indeed.
History: Santiago El Salvador (born Santiago San Jose Rodriguez) was born on July 20, 1922 in a relatively peaceful village in Spanish Morocco to a Spanish father and Moroccan mother. He was adored and doted on by his loving parents, and he thought that this world would never end. Unfortunately, his picture-perfect life was completely shattered when he was 5 years old. His parents were both murdered for "mongrelizing the Spanish people;" luckily for Santiago (who was the main target of the assault due to his mixed heritage), he barely managed to escape, because his parents had hid him in a barrel filled with water. Once Santiago escaped, he wandered around Spanish Morocco until he was found and taken in by a Christian missionary. The missionary took him to an orphanage whose owners were very racist; they only took him because the missionary told them that "she and God would never forgive them if they refused to help a young boy in need of a home." That was all they promised her, however, and once she left, the owners of the orphanage singled Santiago out, treating him brutally and doing everything they could to alienate the boy from his fellow orphans. This was the way Santiago lived for 9 long, hard years. The Great Depression hit Spain when he was 9, and the orphanage, which was already rather short on food and supplies, decided to try and starve Santiago out. Santiago was supported by a strong girl with more honor than his other insecure, love-hungry peers would ever have in their meagre existences; she risked her bed, clothes and food and gave him some of her food. She indeed paid the price and was expelled form the orphanage. They never saw each other again. Santiago was 11 when this happened and he would never, ever forget. He would always remember that this one girl had been punished for showing him a shred of humanity.
When Santiago was young, starving, and 14, he joined the recruit-hungry Republican Army once the Spanish Civil War broke out; he knew very well that he might die, but he joined because he never felt like he belonged anywhere in the first place and knew that the orphanage wouldn't miss him at all. He was a quick, intelligent, and able soldier who learned at an incredible rate. Sadly, his talent for warfare didn't save him once he was captured in his first battle. A new prisoner of war whose captors were cruel and bloodthirsty, Santiago's young age didn't save him from torture. He was repeatedly slashed by knives. Yet, Santiago was incapable of betraying the Republican Army, who had given him his first taste of brotherhood and belonging in years. Eventually, the Nationalists became sick of him and shot him in his right lung on September 29, 1936.
Santiago was born to a Christian family, and retained his powerful faith in God when he was very young; his faith begun to recede, however, when his parents were murdered and his life took a turn for the worse, his faith begun to diminish. He increasingly believed that God had singled him out among all the people in the world for unimaginable suffering and hardship. He believed that God punished everyone who showed kindness to him, and this was only confirmed when the honorable girl was expelled from the orphanage. What little was left of his faith was destroyed during his torture as a prisoner of war.
Santiago was almost instantly hollowfied, and feverishly devoured his captors as they threw his body into a mass grave. He was shocked at his new appearance; he had turned from a scrawny 14 year-old boy into a masked monster. The new hollow quickly moved. He searched for and destroyed the orphanage that had made his life so miserable, leaving a mess of burning wood and charred corpses in his wake. He wreaked havoc all around Europe for years, only until the end of World War II. By then, Santiago was so power-hungry that he decided to merge into a Menos.
"No matter what happens, I will always be Santiago. I will always retain my independence."
Retain his independence he did; Santiago easily stifled the other hollows' identities and the new menos's mask took the shape of Santiago's: a mask with narrow, slit-like eyeholes, long, narrow teeth, plenty of face-paint, and a halo above his head.. Now a gillian, he quickly moved to devour other gillian. He eventually became an adjuchas with large wings, a halo, and a long, sword-like extension from his arm. Santiago's growth was nearly cut short when another adjuchas nearly took a chunk out of his arm extension. Nonetheless, Santiago prevailed, endured, and devoured the adjuchas. It wasn't long before Santiago became a Vasto Lorde; he fulfilled his desire for his own identity and boundless power. He became an poster child of the term "survival of the fittest." Nonetheless, this all came at a horrific cost; Santiago was no longer an innocent child, for that boy had died when his parents were murdered. He was a savage, unforgiving warrior, complete with angelic wings, a halo, and a sword to go with it. He failed to quench his lust for power and blood, however, and still ate other hollows on a regular basis. He still wanted to become stronger. And then he met Aizen...
Aizen was truly unique to Santiago. Aizen feared nothing, while Santiago feared losing everything he had worked for. Aizen had power, which Santiago desired. Moreover, Aizen offered power to Santiago; he offered to use the Hougyoku on him and turn him into an arrancar. Realizing that this was a chance to increase his power even more, Santiago accepted Aizen's offer.
As he waited for Aizen to use the Hougyoku on him, Santiago looked back on his past and himself. "Who am I? Why was I allowed to go as far as I have? And was it justified for people to hate me just because I was only half-Spanish?" These questions echoed throughout his head as he waited. Eventually he decided:
"I will save the world from itself. I will liberate the people from their stupidity."
"I am Santiago El Salvador."
