Post by >Ichinose_Shingen< on Jan 31, 2009 15:48:00 GMT -4
Shinigami
Name: Ichinose Shingen
Gender: Male
Age: 560, age of appearance of 20
Division: 3rd division, captain
Rank: Captain
Physical Description:
Ichinose's many expressions
Ichinose stands well around 6'1/2" feet tall, atheletic, and handsome. His hair is crimson red, well fitting with his pair of emerald green eyes. His body structure is well built like an olympic disk thrower, but he has scars all throughout his body and each scar shows his fruit of his accomplishments of trainings to get to level where he is now. His shinigami robe is modified with a pair of battle scarred samurai shoulder guards and greaves for extra amount of protection in battle.
He never changes his robe, it is mostly ripped and tattered. Ichinose says that he will never change this robe, because he thinks this resembles reponsibility bestowed upon him. He's been wearing this robe for three hundred years now, and his past robe didn't fit him any longer so he just stashed them in the closet instead of throwing it away. On the other hand his captain's robe comes well-ironed unlike his battle torn shinigami uniform.
Personality:
- Basis -
Ichinose is not one of those typical some of shinigami who are hot-headed and takes action before thinking, but rather he's cool, cold-hearted, and almost emotionless. Although he looks like he doesn't care, but he cares for his friends and those who are close to him; it's just that he doesn't show it. Even during the battle he hides his emotions exceptionally well, he doesn't go all out bursting into energy as soon as the fight starts. He cares little to those who insult him; he always brushes it off with a cold glare.
He is always a serious type of guy, or he just doesn't have any sense of humor at all. Ichinose hardly ever smiles, but if someone’s does manage to be mutual friends with him he is revealed to have a gentle soul. He seems to back away from anyone who attempts to get close to him, for his thoughts on friendship is something that might get in his way. It is hard for for him to trust anyone, the only time that they can gain his trust is through proving to him their strength through several battles or someone who with a personality that can really melt his harsh and cold hearted personality.
- Honor and Justice -
Everything that Ichinose sees in life is either black or white, he has strong sense of justice even if he is cool headed he always seeks what is right and what's wrong; and as if he's the judge he seeks to punish the evil doers according to their sins. He doesn't even attempt to lift a finger against those who challenge him unless they assault him or another person. He strongly detests upon strong beating down the helpless. So, he will always wait if his opponent is down from being beaten up by him to regain their strength, and if the enemy is knocked out he will not finish them off as it means to make them repent for their evil doings.
- Views on killing -
Although killing go against his philosophies but he does it if he must. However he never holds back his skills against Hollows and Arrancar, feeling that the exceptional punishment is death. He will never go far to ripping them apart or even destroying them slowly, Ichinose feels that finishing off his opponent must be swift and painless. He believes that life is precious, and when given one he always says to live it.
- Trustworthy teammate and respect -
Those who give him respect Ichinose will give the respect back, even towards his opponents. If they fail to do so he makes sure they are taught a lesson, and in battle alongside his teammates he will always work together as a team to bring the opponent down together. Even if his teammate is weak and falls he will protect them until they are safe.
- Likes -
Mainly for hobby Ichinose loves to paint, an odd hobby for a shinigami, but rather typical of him. He loves watching the environments while being left in a quiet place where he can think. If someone catches him painting they will always be amazed by his talent at using water colors. Also Ichinose has likings for extremely spicy food, and unlike others he tolerates it without any difficulty. He finds them rather sweet for some strange reason....
Don't let him cook your breakfest, lunch, or dinner for you. You'll end up losing your taste buds while at it.
- Dislikes -
Ichinose doesn't show any mercy against any kind of hollows. In his terms they disrupt peace and justice, and for the right punishment is 'execution' in his terms. No matter they take form of a human or not he will never hesitate to destroy the enemy before him. Just as much as he hates hollows and arrancars he doesn't like alcohol, and cannot handle them in his system for some odd reason.
- Fears -
Even if he is emotionless most of the times, but he is very afraid of skeletons and even dead people. Ichinose gets serious mood wings if there is a dead person in front of him, unless he killed that person with his own hands that's a different story. The reason is that as a child Ichinose used to get played pranks on by his friends, usually at the grave yard where he came to vist his mother's grave.
History:
=Early Childhood=
Ichinose Shingen was born under the name of Shingen family, before he was born both of his parents travelled together; and he was born in a local hospital where his mother gave birth to her very own son. His father: Ieyshu Shingen and his mother: Tao Shingen raised their son to their best of their abilities. They grew up to be a very happy family, and as far as Ichinose remembers about his childhood they travelled together a lot. He saw many worlds and built experiences to talk with people.
His clothes: 50 Yen
Gloves: 20 Yen
Making pendents for each family member: 32,000 Yen.
And Folka's first words 'Dadda': Priceless
His father was a martial artist, and taught Ichinose how to defend himself. He would always be strict to his son on his teachings, and every time Ichinose fell down his father would always correct his mistakes and encourage him to try harder. Ichinose's mother would watch him from the distance laughing at their little sparring, she found her owns on adorable how he attempted lend a small blow at his father. Each and every day Ichinose became better with wooden sword, and Ieyshu was proud of his son's achievements. Ichinose would always train by himself, always focusing to be stronger.
His mother always brought food to their training, and they always sat down and ate. Above all, he always enjoyed family time; and throughout his childhood he was nourished with love of his mother and father. When they stopped at Inn or hotel, his father used to sit him on his lap and read him stories of legends and heroes alike filling the child's mind with vast imagination.
- The Incident -
His mother came down with an incurable sickness when Ichinose became 10, she somehow came down with an infection on her skin that it almost made her look like a tree (Think treeman). If he remembered correctly when she was handling a new knife she accidentally cut herself. Ichinose yet so young and still naive saw his mother die before him. Her soul, was left out to wander out in the streets of Tokyo and unfortunately the shinigamis didn't find her in time, the hollow found her and ate her. Transforming Tao into a hollow, her first target was her son and his father blaming them for becoming this creature.
When she found them Ichinose's father saw the image of his wife clearly in hollow form, the way she talked and even acted. Ieyshu intended to guard his son with his life, so he fought the hollow using his skills with the sword. However the reitsu wasn't enough to cut the hollow, but Ieyshu kept on trying even if he was swatted away most of the times.
Ichinose cried, and when she heard her son cry Tao slightly came back to her senses a bit. It was then the shinigamis have arrived to the rescue as his mother stroked her son's hair gently; however even if she wanted to smile she couldn't. However she was happy that she could at least show some humanity left in her and show love for her son and her husband. He stopped crying when his mother stroked his hair, and she told him to never lose his sanity.
Shinigami had taken their chance and gave a fatal stab to Tao, destroying her and ending her misery. Ichinose was scared and blacked out. Ieyshu couldn't forgive himself for letting his wife die, he soon fell into depression. So he took his son to town near the Fuji mountains where his grandfather resided; although at first Folka's grandfather Brandon didn't welcome Ieyshu at first, but after him saying that he will leave his son here and about what he had done shocked him. Then Ichinose's father disappeared mysteriously, his contact was lost and was never seen again.
His grandfather nurtured Ichinose back to health, gave him a room and clothing. His grandson questioned where his father was, and he answered honestly saying that his father couldn't forgive himself for killing Tao, who turned into a monster and had no choice. Ichinose didn't believe it, he refused the truth and everyday he looked out the window hoping his father would return to him and pick him for another journey; but he never knew that his father will not be coming back.
- Early teenage life -
Ichinose knew he had to get stronger in order for him to look for his father, to do so he requested for training to his grandfather. There were very little students here, and grandfather told him why; many came here to be stronger, however they failed during their training. His grandfather told him the pre-cautions, but Ichinose was ready for the challenge of his life time. His daily routine came with cleaning the dojo, the training grounds, even to picking up the trash. Although he knew this was ridiculous, but he saw it as his grandfather's basic trainings.
Two years have passed, Ichinose learned two basic forms of 'God's fist stance' techniques, and he surpassed most of his upperbelts at surprisingly at a fast level. Ichinose was a fast learner, he always watched the higher belts train, and memorized all their techniques and moves. His grandfather was impressed by Ichinose's own abilities to train on his own, and was just like his father, to be stronger was to watch and learn.
Then his grandfather moved Ichinose onto more intensive training to give him a unbreakable will. Ichinose was forced to walk into a mount Fuji where he would have a week to get out of here before his grandfather left him, Ichinose did everything he can to survive out from the dark forest. He made fire, cooked, and even drank from the spring waters.
It's been 7 days ever since Ichinose went into the cave, just as his grandfather turned his grandson emerged out from the cave. He didn't feel different, but Ichinose's grandfather knew that no one ever managed to get past his training; probably he was the very few of the generations that had done it. Ichinose's will became steel. Through the training he was able to gain over considerable amount of spiritual energy.
For knew with his newly gained strength he will find his father through all the hardships, but little did he know he'll soon have different goal in his mind.
- Late teens of 18 -
Ichinose was the very first one in his family's generation to master 'God's fist sword stance', and his grandfather knew that it was about time to give him the family's most treasured teachings. Those who mastered this art was given a lesson to combat 'Oni' or so called, hollow in shinigami terms, Ichinose was given special combat techniques to fight them. Shortly after he left the Dojo, disciplined and iron-willed.
From his grandfather's teachings he knew he will bring justice upon the hollow that turned his mother into a monster, that’s what his art was all about. Ichinose's ability surprised all students of the dojo; he Tokuo not only in search of his father, but as well as to bring justice upon the howling dark. Now the road of fate has been set for him, which road will he take?
Road to evil?
Road to light?
Or maybe somewhere in between, either way, it didn't matter it was Ichinose's choice from here. His grandfather was no longer around to set him on the right course, now he was all alone. Forced to make his very own decision.
- Death, and rebirth to death -
After years of solo-journey to find his father and not only, to bring justice upon the hollow that destroyed his mother Ichinose had finally crossed path with the moster that he was looking for, filled with blind rage and anger he burst out letting the fury take over him. The flurries of reitsu based kicks and punches didn't effect the hollow; Ichinose just wasn't strong enough to take it on. Still he tried ever single move his grandfather had taught him. There was no way that a normal human could do any damage against stronger hollow, he just couldn't do it. The hollow only laughed it off and smacked away Ichinose only to turn him in a blood mess. However even if he was mortally wounded Ichinose stood up asking if smacking away his opponents was all it could do.
The hollow was tired of bickering with the human; so he gave him a fatal blow to his heart. Ichinose attempted to dodge the fatal missile, but it was too late the hand already ripped through his ribcage and crushed his heart. That's when his soul came out from his body, but just as the hollow was about to devour him a shinigami saved Ichinose from his fated doom and slew the hollow.
When Ichinose tried to talk with shinigami he was performed with a soul funeral, It was then he went into soul society, but due to his reitsu he was placed in shinigami acadamy where he attained his zanpakuto, he had so much questions but all the things around him were going too fast for him to comprehand. The shinigami mentioned that his abonormally powerful reitsu was attracting the hollow, so he offered to join his ranks.
Ichinose agreed, he was soon performed with soul funeral after that. Being basked in a light was warm, it felt just like taking a warm bath. The shinigami acadamy consisted of advanced trainings that Ichinose didn't know of, but he adapted quickly and started to use his zanpakuto more than his fist. He came to understand his sword's spirit and eventually attained his shikai through slaying many hollow and coming in close relationship with his zanpakuto. After many years Ichinose and Ikusen Tsurugi (his zanpakuto's name) became friends sharing their thoughts and advices.
- Rising up to be the captain -
Ichinose's expectations as a squad seated officer exceeded the captains' expectations. So he was called up by captains to participate in the meeting so that they can discuss about his rank. The meeting took many hours, such as going over: his battle reports, records, and even his skills in combat. Finally after long hours of waiting Ichinose was agreed to be the newest third division's captain, and the shinigami took the job.
He wasn't proud of his rank, but instead he just thought of it'll be something that'll help him serve justice against un-just. Like Tousen, Ichinose decided to walk in the path of just.
Additional Info:
General
Name: Ikusen Tsurugi
Spirit Description:
The sword as odd way of talking, sometimes he'd be usually like a wise old man where he talks sense into Ichinose, and sometimes he's a really a cheerful and overly hyperactive. To Ichinose he sees his spirit more like his father than his very own spirit sometimes, always encouraging him to try harder where he fails at. The spirit is an archangel that resembles Ichinose's seeking of justice.
Ichinose can't really see the angel, because he was always basked in a golden light, and he only saw him clearly when he achieved his bankai. The angel has four pure white wings, and wears a suit of golden armor constantly shifts with recordings of Ichinose's past, and seemingly that resembles Ichinose's heart is blocks out others because of his past. The angel wears a grey robe, and really the angel has no face his hood is always up. Around him slowly spins twenty claymores.
Inner World: Ichinose lives in a floating land, but a dangerous place to live in. The sky is always dark orange and air always blows heavy gust that's normally enough to knock a normal person out of the balance. However after walking for a while there is a stairway leading to another land, Ichinose usually have hard time trying to find the stairway so he spends good enough over 5-6 hours trying to talk to his zanpakuto. Once he reaches the stairway and climbs up the wind dies out and Ichinose ends himself in a totally another world.
His inner world is a giant war torn field with many swords stuck to the ground, no life is inhabitable: soil is completely dry, and the ground is cracked from dehydration. This represents Ichinose's inner sadness that he is lonely, from time to time it'll rain when he's happy. However rarely it rains. As gloomy as his world is, skies are always drenched in grey, no sun light, or stars in the night. However once his zanpakuto spirit appears all the swords disappear and form one blade that always appear in front of him, the sword is his zanpakuto spirit talking to him through the blade reflection of Ichinose's self. After a delay for about a few minutes his zanpakuto spirit reveals itself.
Sealed: Ikusen Tsurugi's appearance is unlike many other zanpakuto. Instead of being a regular katana it has a claymore like appearance with hooked blades on lower parts of the blade. The blade is colored with cool, icy color with sharp black edge to the added to a fine finish. The blade itself is six feet, a rather tall blade. The zanpakuto comes in a leather sheath that Ichinose has belted to his back that wraped around his shoulder and undernieht his ribcage for easy drawing
The guard of the blade is gold, but unlike most of the claymore that has this long V shape for a guard the guard for this one comes upwards leaning more on the hilt, then makes a sharp turn about 85 degrees making the guard more like W shape. The hilt is wrapped in black cloth that hangs down loosely, but it never really comes off.
Shikai
Activation Phrase: "When a sword strikes it shall shatter a soul, but thousands of blades shall shatter mountains; either way death to both, Ikusen Tsurugi."
Appearance: During shikai phase Ichinose just pointed his zanpakuto towards his enemy, and with it the hilt extands and warps into a leather covered hilt. At the end it a sharp piece of brass appears for an extra weapon that he can kill his opponent with. The guard modfies its size to fit the new blade, and shatters the sealed blade apart and lets out a stream of reitsu that gradually forming into a sharp broad sword that stands up to eight feet and two feet wide.
The blade looks more like a sharpened slab of metal more for smashing and cleaving, it doesn't work best for thrust attacks because of its sheer size of the sword. The zanpakuto shines in icy blue in all its glory, as the white edge is ready to cleave the evil dores in half. Strangely 'Ikusen Tsurugi' in shikai has a trick up its sleeve, while not visible the sword can be divided into three, the main piece is a claymore while other two that may look like 'slab of sharpened metal' is slab of metal sharped with embedded hilt within the blades itself. To combine them Ichinose just throws them in together, and they become whole once more. Without these two blades the zanpakuto's blade length is five feet.
Abilities:
= Ichi Tsurugi, Ikusen (One sword, thousand): One sword, thousand ability is with a swing of a sword he makes thirty blades, sticks to the ground, and surrounds him and his opponent 10 feet radius. Simply said this gives Ichinose great advantage, but instead of making more of over sized blade that he currently has his sword makes claymores. This ability is simple, but most effective against most of the opponents in single combat. However by using this ability his zanpakuto disappear. With this ability he moves around more freely, use his agility to his full advantage, and makes a full use of his 'God sword' style forms such as his 'thousand sword stance' which is his speciality.
Each and every claymore resembles his released zanpakuto without the two parts of the sword that makes up the complete version. This ability is nulified with Ichinose is in his near death state, and once the ability disappears his zanpakuto becomes sealed form once more.
= Arashi Tsurugi (Tempest sword): A passive ability that can be activated as soon as Ichinose inputs his reitsu into his blade, think of this is more of a power boost for his zanpakuto that increases lethal capacity. This can be seen as more of a chainsaw, how it works is as soon as he inputs his reitsu into the zanpakuto the spiritual force spins in high speed. This works similar to Quincy's bladed weapon: Selee Schinder, but instead of absorbing the reitsu it destroys them. This can be used for Ichi Tsurugi, Ikusen ability it can only be used for one claymore at a time.
In order for this ability to work Ichinose constantly have to fuel this ability with his reitsu, which means using this ability for a long time can mean shorter stamina, doubled vision, and even a painful headache. However it is useful against heirro ability, but Ichinose may cancel this ability whenever he wishes to by stopping his distribute of his reitsu. This also can be influenced by his mental condition during the battle, for the best result Ichinose's morale has to be at the highest. However negative things such as: depression, anger, sadness, or any other negative emotions can go down to the point to this ability stops working on his enemies.
= Tsurugi no Hikari (Sword of light): Simply Ichinose seperates the blades and binds them with chains of his reitsu right into the zanpakuto. With this new weapon he has many advantages, and above all this works sort of well with his 'Thousand sword stance', because he can just throw one of the blades at his enemy and he doesn't have to reach for another one. The blades are already there binded by his reitsu chains, these chains extands up to fifteen feet. If Ichinose desires he is able to combine them back together anytime and seperate them once more.
Another effect from this ability is that he's able fire concentrated blast of reitsu at his foes from the tips of the blades. This makes it an effective medium long range weapon, but it is dangerous if it is used in point blank range since it has ability to pierce through his opponent. Think of it more like Ichinose's pistol and knife in a combat, the disadvantage here is that the chains sometimes tangle up because of complex style that Ichinose fights so this causes his attacks to screw up from time to time.
Bankai
Activation Phrase: "Blades of furious tempest, vanquish the enemies before me, Mugen Tsurugi (Infinite sword)!"
Appearance: Like Kurosaki Ichigo's bankai, Ichinose compresses his enormous and destructive reitsu. In answer his zanpakuto turns into a six feet tall claymore-like weapon, the hilt is wrapped in a black bandages, and the hilt has the appearance of a the hilt of golden metal is carefully carved in detail of his name. Interesting thing about his bankai is that it can combine with other four swords that come with his bankai. If all four blades are combined the slash and striking power becomes greater these blades are strapped by belts behind Ichinose for easy reaching. Also it comes with a pair of wings that is completely made out of broken blades, these pair of wings are nothing to be laughed at Ichinose can attack with them as well as block kidou ranging from 1-40.
The second sword that comes with in his bankai has an appearance of a sharpened slab of metal with a hilt embedded into the blade itself. This is most preferred duel wielding weapon for Ichinose, because not only this gives him the full coverage of his hand, but as well succesfully cut his enemies.
Third and fourth sword has jagged edges like a saw, but this one is a katana without a guard. Not much to describe on this one, and fifth and final sword is more like an odd shaped cleaver. Now if all swords become combined it becomes a complete version of Mugen Tsurugi. On a side note: Ichinose may detatch any parts of his blade that he may like.
Abilities:
= Arashi Tsurugi O-mega (Tempest sword Omega): This ability is more like a passive ability, however it a lot like Izuru's zanpakuto shikai ability except it effects his blade instead of his enemy's. If he uses the uncombined version of his bankai it doubles his own strike worth, mostly meaning his sword hits twice. A one successful hit will land another cut to random part of his opponent's body, the strike worth following chart below:
-Incomplete version: X2 strike
-Incomplete plus second: X3 strike
-Second plus combined with third and fourth: X4 strike
-Second plus third and fourth plus fifth complete Mugen Tsurugi: X5 strike
Note: This also combines the ability of Shikai's Arashi Tsurugi ability as well.
= Shinpan Ikazuchi (Judgement thunder): A simple, but effective ability. Ichinose slams or swings his sword and sends six earth splitting shockwaves that goes through most of the objects at extreme penetrating force. The shockwave is nothing to be laughed at, not only it explodes in that staggers his opponent, it also may disable one of his opponent's limbs while at it. This ability may be destroyed by a stronger attack, however this leans more on a speed to destroy the opponents.
The strength of the ability depends on Ichinose's phychological state, if his will is steel the stronger penetration power (rare coincidence) will be, but an enemy who can fool around with Ichinose's mind can demish his phyche level greatly. This causes the shockwave become weaker and less effective of an ability. Sometimes if Ichinose is very depressed the ability may not even get itself working at all.
= Kizu no joukai hoshi (Cleaver of heavenly stars): A most devastating ability from his zanpakuto, the blade first emits a brilliant bright blue light and from it forms a massive, weightless giant mass of reitsu that reaches up to at least 50 feet. At a swing he is able to cleave through terrain and blast away his opponent with a powerful blow. However, Ichinose can only hold this destructive ability only for so long so it lasts up to four posts even if he has considerable destructive amount of spirtual energy.
Once the ability is gone Ichinose's zanpakuto turns into sealed form again, because his final ability is yet to be stabalized for a full use. Still it is highly destructive against any opponents, and great for taking out squads of gillians at once.
[1] Thrust
[63] Twin Lotus blue Fire, Crash Down
[63] Thunder Roar Cannon
[61] Six Rods of Prison Light
Shunpo
Other Characters:
Roleplay Sample:
Ichinose grumbled at the painting, unsatisfied by its colors. He colored the roof of the house with highlight of golden yellow and added the tree's highlight with brighter green to make it stand out of painting a bit more. The work went incomplete, many years he tried to paint this one house that he saw in his dreams; but it always went with imperfection and frustration. Sometimes the mountains will be covered in snow when he didn't even want it there. Today it looked like a rich man's house that Ichinose never desiered in the first place.
"Dammit." He crumbled up the painting and threw it across the room.
He thought he needed some light in here; Ichinose was the only one living in this house. It was small, but capable of making a living for these people at least. Many times students from the academy would come see Ichinose paint, sometimes bothering him while on his simple enjoyment of daily basis. Many saw him as a dead pen cold guy, but Ichinose didn't mind. He never gave out his trust to anyone in the first place anyway.
"So dim...,"
He looked out the window. The sky was dark out today, everything was white just plain black white what you see in old seventies movie with no color and no sound and no winds passing by. It wasn't like the soul society that he knew, however Ichinose liked it black and white every once in a while. It was silent giving him a personal time to reflect on his childhood to the very last moment where he died.. He remembered how his father used to read him stories, fairy tales, fantasy, and even historical fiction out loud before he went to bed.
"And so it ends the tale of three musketeers."
"Can you read me another story?" Ichinose would ask his father.
"It's time for bed now...." His father's usual reply before Ichinose went to bed. Ichinose had perfect mother and father, parents that any child would want.
He missed those times; he just wished that he could go back and see them once more. However as cruel as the fate could be he was only left to be the death itself, starting a new life from death, and he became the death. It all started with his grandfather wishing him to be stronger, and once Ichinose fought the hollow he died because of his lack of power. Shinigami, thankfully saved him from the hollow about to devour his soul. Ichinose agreed to join, and it was all because of his lack of power. Ichinose wanted the ability to bring justice in this unclean world, and now he had one.
Ichinose's grandfather's wish came true, he became the death itself. Sometimes he wondered did his grandfather really want this to happen to him? Even if he did he'd tell him or give him a message before all this happened. The hollow that took away his mother died without getting slightest blood on his hands, instead another shinigami took away his revenge. Would one day he truly one day forget it?
"Am I that unfortunate?"
General Info
Name: Ichinose Shingen
Gender: Male
Age: 560, age of appearance of 20
Division: 3rd division, captain
Rank: Captain
Physical Description:
Ichinose's many expressions
Ichinose stands well around 6'1/2" feet tall, atheletic, and handsome. His hair is crimson red, well fitting with his pair of emerald green eyes. His body structure is well built like an olympic disk thrower, but he has scars all throughout his body and each scar shows his fruit of his accomplishments of trainings to get to level where he is now. His shinigami robe is modified with a pair of battle scarred samurai shoulder guards and greaves for extra amount of protection in battle.
He never changes his robe, it is mostly ripped and tattered. Ichinose says that he will never change this robe, because he thinks this resembles reponsibility bestowed upon him. He's been wearing this robe for three hundred years now, and his past robe didn't fit him any longer so he just stashed them in the closet instead of throwing it away. On the other hand his captain's robe comes well-ironed unlike his battle torn shinigami uniform.
Personality:
- Basis -
Ichinose is not one of those typical some of shinigami who are hot-headed and takes action before thinking, but rather he's cool, cold-hearted, and almost emotionless. Although he looks like he doesn't care, but he cares for his friends and those who are close to him; it's just that he doesn't show it. Even during the battle he hides his emotions exceptionally well, he doesn't go all out bursting into energy as soon as the fight starts. He cares little to those who insult him; he always brushes it off with a cold glare.
He is always a serious type of guy, or he just doesn't have any sense of humor at all. Ichinose hardly ever smiles, but if someone’s does manage to be mutual friends with him he is revealed to have a gentle soul. He seems to back away from anyone who attempts to get close to him, for his thoughts on friendship is something that might get in his way. It is hard for for him to trust anyone, the only time that they can gain his trust is through proving to him their strength through several battles or someone who with a personality that can really melt his harsh and cold hearted personality.
- Honor and Justice -
Everything that Ichinose sees in life is either black or white, he has strong sense of justice even if he is cool headed he always seeks what is right and what's wrong; and as if he's the judge he seeks to punish the evil doers according to their sins. He doesn't even attempt to lift a finger against those who challenge him unless they assault him or another person. He strongly detests upon strong beating down the helpless. So, he will always wait if his opponent is down from being beaten up by him to regain their strength, and if the enemy is knocked out he will not finish them off as it means to make them repent for their evil doings.
- Views on killing -
Although killing go against his philosophies but he does it if he must. However he never holds back his skills against Hollows and Arrancar, feeling that the exceptional punishment is death. He will never go far to ripping them apart or even destroying them slowly, Ichinose feels that finishing off his opponent must be swift and painless. He believes that life is precious, and when given one he always says to live it.
- Trustworthy teammate and respect -
Those who give him respect Ichinose will give the respect back, even towards his opponents. If they fail to do so he makes sure they are taught a lesson, and in battle alongside his teammates he will always work together as a team to bring the opponent down together. Even if his teammate is weak and falls he will protect them until they are safe.
- Likes -
Mainly for hobby Ichinose loves to paint, an odd hobby for a shinigami, but rather typical of him. He loves watching the environments while being left in a quiet place where he can think. If someone catches him painting they will always be amazed by his talent at using water colors. Also Ichinose has likings for extremely spicy food, and unlike others he tolerates it without any difficulty. He finds them rather sweet for some strange reason....
Don't let him cook your breakfest, lunch, or dinner for you. You'll end up losing your taste buds while at it.
- Dislikes -
Ichinose doesn't show any mercy against any kind of hollows. In his terms they disrupt peace and justice, and for the right punishment is 'execution' in his terms. No matter they take form of a human or not he will never hesitate to destroy the enemy before him. Just as much as he hates hollows and arrancars he doesn't like alcohol, and cannot handle them in his system for some odd reason.
- Fears -
Even if he is emotionless most of the times, but he is very afraid of skeletons and even dead people. Ichinose gets serious mood wings if there is a dead person in front of him, unless he killed that person with his own hands that's a different story. The reason is that as a child Ichinose used to get played pranks on by his friends, usually at the grave yard where he came to vist his mother's grave.
History:
=Early Childhood=
Ichinose Shingen was born under the name of Shingen family, before he was born both of his parents travelled together; and he was born in a local hospital where his mother gave birth to her very own son. His father: Ieyshu Shingen and his mother: Tao Shingen raised their son to their best of their abilities. They grew up to be a very happy family, and as far as Ichinose remembers about his childhood they travelled together a lot. He saw many worlds and built experiences to talk with people.
His clothes: 50 Yen
Gloves: 20 Yen
Making pendents for each family member: 32,000 Yen.
And Folka's first words 'Dadda': Priceless
His father was a martial artist, and taught Ichinose how to defend himself. He would always be strict to his son on his teachings, and every time Ichinose fell down his father would always correct his mistakes and encourage him to try harder. Ichinose's mother would watch him from the distance laughing at their little sparring, she found her owns on adorable how he attempted lend a small blow at his father. Each and every day Ichinose became better with wooden sword, and Ieyshu was proud of his son's achievements. Ichinose would always train by himself, always focusing to be stronger.
His mother always brought food to their training, and they always sat down and ate. Above all, he always enjoyed family time; and throughout his childhood he was nourished with love of his mother and father. When they stopped at Inn or hotel, his father used to sit him on his lap and read him stories of legends and heroes alike filling the child's mind with vast imagination.
- The Incident -
His mother came down with an incurable sickness when Ichinose became 10, she somehow came down with an infection on her skin that it almost made her look like a tree (Think treeman). If he remembered correctly when she was handling a new knife she accidentally cut herself. Ichinose yet so young and still naive saw his mother die before him. Her soul, was left out to wander out in the streets of Tokyo and unfortunately the shinigamis didn't find her in time, the hollow found her and ate her. Transforming Tao into a hollow, her first target was her son and his father blaming them for becoming this creature.
When she found them Ichinose's father saw the image of his wife clearly in hollow form, the way she talked and even acted. Ieyshu intended to guard his son with his life, so he fought the hollow using his skills with the sword. However the reitsu wasn't enough to cut the hollow, but Ieyshu kept on trying even if he was swatted away most of the times.
Ichinose cried, and when she heard her son cry Tao slightly came back to her senses a bit. It was then the shinigamis have arrived to the rescue as his mother stroked her son's hair gently; however even if she wanted to smile she couldn't. However she was happy that she could at least show some humanity left in her and show love for her son and her husband. He stopped crying when his mother stroked his hair, and she told him to never lose his sanity.
Shinigami had taken their chance and gave a fatal stab to Tao, destroying her and ending her misery. Ichinose was scared and blacked out. Ieyshu couldn't forgive himself for letting his wife die, he soon fell into depression. So he took his son to town near the Fuji mountains where his grandfather resided; although at first Folka's grandfather Brandon didn't welcome Ieyshu at first, but after him saying that he will leave his son here and about what he had done shocked him. Then Ichinose's father disappeared mysteriously, his contact was lost and was never seen again.
His grandfather nurtured Ichinose back to health, gave him a room and clothing. His grandson questioned where his father was, and he answered honestly saying that his father couldn't forgive himself for killing Tao, who turned into a monster and had no choice. Ichinose didn't believe it, he refused the truth and everyday he looked out the window hoping his father would return to him and pick him for another journey; but he never knew that his father will not be coming back.
- Early teenage life -
Ichinose knew he had to get stronger in order for him to look for his father, to do so he requested for training to his grandfather. There were very little students here, and grandfather told him why; many came here to be stronger, however they failed during their training. His grandfather told him the pre-cautions, but Ichinose was ready for the challenge of his life time. His daily routine came with cleaning the dojo, the training grounds, even to picking up the trash. Although he knew this was ridiculous, but he saw it as his grandfather's basic trainings.
Two years have passed, Ichinose learned two basic forms of 'God's fist stance' techniques, and he surpassed most of his upperbelts at surprisingly at a fast level. Ichinose was a fast learner, he always watched the higher belts train, and memorized all their techniques and moves. His grandfather was impressed by Ichinose's own abilities to train on his own, and was just like his father, to be stronger was to watch and learn.
Then his grandfather moved Ichinose onto more intensive training to give him a unbreakable will. Ichinose was forced to walk into a mount Fuji where he would have a week to get out of here before his grandfather left him, Ichinose did everything he can to survive out from the dark forest. He made fire, cooked, and even drank from the spring waters.
It's been 7 days ever since Ichinose went into the cave, just as his grandfather turned his grandson emerged out from the cave. He didn't feel different, but Ichinose's grandfather knew that no one ever managed to get past his training; probably he was the very few of the generations that had done it. Ichinose's will became steel. Through the training he was able to gain over considerable amount of spiritual energy.
For knew with his newly gained strength he will find his father through all the hardships, but little did he know he'll soon have different goal in his mind.
- Late teens of 18 -
Ichinose was the very first one in his family's generation to master 'God's fist sword stance', and his grandfather knew that it was about time to give him the family's most treasured teachings. Those who mastered this art was given a lesson to combat 'Oni' or so called, hollow in shinigami terms, Ichinose was given special combat techniques to fight them. Shortly after he left the Dojo, disciplined and iron-willed.
From his grandfather's teachings he knew he will bring justice upon the hollow that turned his mother into a monster, that’s what his art was all about. Ichinose's ability surprised all students of the dojo; he Tokuo not only in search of his father, but as well as to bring justice upon the howling dark. Now the road of fate has been set for him, which road will he take?
Road to evil?
Road to light?
Or maybe somewhere in between, either way, it didn't matter it was Ichinose's choice from here. His grandfather was no longer around to set him on the right course, now he was all alone. Forced to make his very own decision.
- Death, and rebirth to death -
After years of solo-journey to find his father and not only, to bring justice upon the hollow that destroyed his mother Ichinose had finally crossed path with the moster that he was looking for, filled with blind rage and anger he burst out letting the fury take over him. The flurries of reitsu based kicks and punches didn't effect the hollow; Ichinose just wasn't strong enough to take it on. Still he tried ever single move his grandfather had taught him. There was no way that a normal human could do any damage against stronger hollow, he just couldn't do it. The hollow only laughed it off and smacked away Ichinose only to turn him in a blood mess. However even if he was mortally wounded Ichinose stood up asking if smacking away his opponents was all it could do.
The hollow was tired of bickering with the human; so he gave him a fatal blow to his heart. Ichinose attempted to dodge the fatal missile, but it was too late the hand already ripped through his ribcage and crushed his heart. That's when his soul came out from his body, but just as the hollow was about to devour him a shinigami saved Ichinose from his fated doom and slew the hollow.
When Ichinose tried to talk with shinigami he was performed with a soul funeral, It was then he went into soul society, but due to his reitsu he was placed in shinigami acadamy where he attained his zanpakuto, he had so much questions but all the things around him were going too fast for him to comprehand. The shinigami mentioned that his abonormally powerful reitsu was attracting the hollow, so he offered to join his ranks.
Ichinose agreed, he was soon performed with soul funeral after that. Being basked in a light was warm, it felt just like taking a warm bath. The shinigami acadamy consisted of advanced trainings that Ichinose didn't know of, but he adapted quickly and started to use his zanpakuto more than his fist. He came to understand his sword's spirit and eventually attained his shikai through slaying many hollow and coming in close relationship with his zanpakuto. After many years Ichinose and Ikusen Tsurugi (his zanpakuto's name) became friends sharing their thoughts and advices.
- Rising up to be the captain -
Ichinose's expectations as a squad seated officer exceeded the captains' expectations. So he was called up by captains to participate in the meeting so that they can discuss about his rank. The meeting took many hours, such as going over: his battle reports, records, and even his skills in combat. Finally after long hours of waiting Ichinose was agreed to be the newest third division's captain, and the shinigami took the job.
He wasn't proud of his rank, but instead he just thought of it'll be something that'll help him serve justice against un-just. Like Tousen, Ichinose decided to walk in the path of just.
Additional Info:
Zanpakuto
General
Name: Ikusen Tsurugi
Spirit Description:
The sword as odd way of talking, sometimes he'd be usually like a wise old man where he talks sense into Ichinose, and sometimes he's a really a cheerful and overly hyperactive. To Ichinose he sees his spirit more like his father than his very own spirit sometimes, always encouraging him to try harder where he fails at. The spirit is an archangel that resembles Ichinose's seeking of justice.
Ichinose can't really see the angel, because he was always basked in a golden light, and he only saw him clearly when he achieved his bankai. The angel has four pure white wings, and wears a suit of golden armor constantly shifts with recordings of Ichinose's past, and seemingly that resembles Ichinose's heart is blocks out others because of his past. The angel wears a grey robe, and really the angel has no face his hood is always up. Around him slowly spins twenty claymores.
Inner World: Ichinose lives in a floating land, but a dangerous place to live in. The sky is always dark orange and air always blows heavy gust that's normally enough to knock a normal person out of the balance. However after walking for a while there is a stairway leading to another land, Ichinose usually have hard time trying to find the stairway so he spends good enough over 5-6 hours trying to talk to his zanpakuto. Once he reaches the stairway and climbs up the wind dies out and Ichinose ends himself in a totally another world.
His inner world is a giant war torn field with many swords stuck to the ground, no life is inhabitable: soil is completely dry, and the ground is cracked from dehydration. This represents Ichinose's inner sadness that he is lonely, from time to time it'll rain when he's happy. However rarely it rains. As gloomy as his world is, skies are always drenched in grey, no sun light, or stars in the night. However once his zanpakuto spirit appears all the swords disappear and form one blade that always appear in front of him, the sword is his zanpakuto spirit talking to him through the blade reflection of Ichinose's self. After a delay for about a few minutes his zanpakuto spirit reveals itself.
Sealed: Ikusen Tsurugi's appearance is unlike many other zanpakuto. Instead of being a regular katana it has a claymore like appearance with hooked blades on lower parts of the blade. The blade is colored with cool, icy color with sharp black edge to the added to a fine finish. The blade itself is six feet, a rather tall blade. The zanpakuto comes in a leather sheath that Ichinose has belted to his back that wraped around his shoulder and undernieht his ribcage for easy drawing
The guard of the blade is gold, but unlike most of the claymore that has this long V shape for a guard the guard for this one comes upwards leaning more on the hilt, then makes a sharp turn about 85 degrees making the guard more like W shape. The hilt is wrapped in black cloth that hangs down loosely, but it never really comes off.
Shikai
Activation Phrase: "When a sword strikes it shall shatter a soul, but thousands of blades shall shatter mountains; either way death to both, Ikusen Tsurugi."
Appearance: During shikai phase Ichinose just pointed his zanpakuto towards his enemy, and with it the hilt extands and warps into a leather covered hilt. At the end it a sharp piece of brass appears for an extra weapon that he can kill his opponent with. The guard modfies its size to fit the new blade, and shatters the sealed blade apart and lets out a stream of reitsu that gradually forming into a sharp broad sword that stands up to eight feet and two feet wide.
The blade looks more like a sharpened slab of metal more for smashing and cleaving, it doesn't work best for thrust attacks because of its sheer size of the sword. The zanpakuto shines in icy blue in all its glory, as the white edge is ready to cleave the evil dores in half. Strangely 'Ikusen Tsurugi' in shikai has a trick up its sleeve, while not visible the sword can be divided into three, the main piece is a claymore while other two that may look like 'slab of sharpened metal' is slab of metal sharped with embedded hilt within the blades itself. To combine them Ichinose just throws them in together, and they become whole once more. Without these two blades the zanpakuto's blade length is five feet.
Abilities:
= Ichi Tsurugi, Ikusen (One sword, thousand): One sword, thousand ability is with a swing of a sword he makes thirty blades, sticks to the ground, and surrounds him and his opponent 10 feet radius. Simply said this gives Ichinose great advantage, but instead of making more of over sized blade that he currently has his sword makes claymores. This ability is simple, but most effective against most of the opponents in single combat. However by using this ability his zanpakuto disappear. With this ability he moves around more freely, use his agility to his full advantage, and makes a full use of his 'God sword' style forms such as his 'thousand sword stance' which is his speciality.
Each and every claymore resembles his released zanpakuto without the two parts of the sword that makes up the complete version. This ability is nulified with Ichinose is in his near death state, and once the ability disappears his zanpakuto becomes sealed form once more.
= Arashi Tsurugi (Tempest sword): A passive ability that can be activated as soon as Ichinose inputs his reitsu into his blade, think of this is more of a power boost for his zanpakuto that increases lethal capacity. This can be seen as more of a chainsaw, how it works is as soon as he inputs his reitsu into the zanpakuto the spiritual force spins in high speed. This works similar to Quincy's bladed weapon: Selee Schinder, but instead of absorbing the reitsu it destroys them. This can be used for Ichi Tsurugi, Ikusen ability it can only be used for one claymore at a time.
In order for this ability to work Ichinose constantly have to fuel this ability with his reitsu, which means using this ability for a long time can mean shorter stamina, doubled vision, and even a painful headache. However it is useful against heirro ability, but Ichinose may cancel this ability whenever he wishes to by stopping his distribute of his reitsu. This also can be influenced by his mental condition during the battle, for the best result Ichinose's morale has to be at the highest. However negative things such as: depression, anger, sadness, or any other negative emotions can go down to the point to this ability stops working on his enemies.
= Tsurugi no Hikari (Sword of light): Simply Ichinose seperates the blades and binds them with chains of his reitsu right into the zanpakuto. With this new weapon he has many advantages, and above all this works sort of well with his 'Thousand sword stance', because he can just throw one of the blades at his enemy and he doesn't have to reach for another one. The blades are already there binded by his reitsu chains, these chains extands up to fifteen feet. If Ichinose desires he is able to combine them back together anytime and seperate them once more.
Another effect from this ability is that he's able fire concentrated blast of reitsu at his foes from the tips of the blades. This makes it an effective medium long range weapon, but it is dangerous if it is used in point blank range since it has ability to pierce through his opponent. Think of it more like Ichinose's pistol and knife in a combat, the disadvantage here is that the chains sometimes tangle up because of complex style that Ichinose fights so this causes his attacks to screw up from time to time.
Bankai
Activation Phrase: "Blades of furious tempest, vanquish the enemies before me, Mugen Tsurugi (Infinite sword)!"
Appearance: Like Kurosaki Ichigo's bankai, Ichinose compresses his enormous and destructive reitsu. In answer his zanpakuto turns into a six feet tall claymore-like weapon, the hilt is wrapped in a black bandages, and the hilt has the appearance of a the hilt of golden metal is carefully carved in detail of his name. Interesting thing about his bankai is that it can combine with other four swords that come with his bankai. If all four blades are combined the slash and striking power becomes greater these blades are strapped by belts behind Ichinose for easy reaching. Also it comes with a pair of wings that is completely made out of broken blades, these pair of wings are nothing to be laughed at Ichinose can attack with them as well as block kidou ranging from 1-40.
The second sword that comes with in his bankai has an appearance of a sharpened slab of metal with a hilt embedded into the blade itself. This is most preferred duel wielding weapon for Ichinose, because not only this gives him the full coverage of his hand, but as well succesfully cut his enemies.
Third and fourth sword has jagged edges like a saw, but this one is a katana without a guard. Not much to describe on this one, and fifth and final sword is more like an odd shaped cleaver. Now if all swords become combined it becomes a complete version of Mugen Tsurugi. On a side note: Ichinose may detatch any parts of his blade that he may like.
Abilities:
= Arashi Tsurugi O-mega (Tempest sword Omega): This ability is more like a passive ability, however it a lot like Izuru's zanpakuto shikai ability except it effects his blade instead of his enemy's. If he uses the uncombined version of his bankai it doubles his own strike worth, mostly meaning his sword hits twice. A one successful hit will land another cut to random part of his opponent's body, the strike worth following chart below:
-Incomplete version: X2 strike
-Incomplete plus second: X3 strike
-Second plus combined with third and fourth: X4 strike
-Second plus third and fourth plus fifth complete Mugen Tsurugi: X5 strike
Note: This also combines the ability of Shikai's Arashi Tsurugi ability as well.
= Shinpan Ikazuchi (Judgement thunder): A simple, but effective ability. Ichinose slams or swings his sword and sends six earth splitting shockwaves that goes through most of the objects at extreme penetrating force. The shockwave is nothing to be laughed at, not only it explodes in that staggers his opponent, it also may disable one of his opponent's limbs while at it. This ability may be destroyed by a stronger attack, however this leans more on a speed to destroy the opponents.
The strength of the ability depends on Ichinose's phychological state, if his will is steel the stronger penetration power (rare coincidence) will be, but an enemy who can fool around with Ichinose's mind can demish his phyche level greatly. This causes the shockwave become weaker and less effective of an ability. Sometimes if Ichinose is very depressed the ability may not even get itself working at all.
= Kizu no joukai hoshi (Cleaver of heavenly stars): A most devastating ability from his zanpakuto, the blade first emits a brilliant bright blue light and from it forms a massive, weightless giant mass of reitsu that reaches up to at least 50 feet. At a swing he is able to cleave through terrain and blast away his opponent with a powerful blow. However, Ichinose can only hold this destructive ability only for so long so it lasts up to four posts even if he has considerable destructive amount of spirtual energy.
Once the ability is gone Ichinose's zanpakuto turns into sealed form again, because his final ability is yet to be stabalized for a full use. Still it is highly destructive against any opponents, and great for taking out squads of gillians at once.
Shinigami Techniques
[1] Thrust
[63] Twin Lotus blue Fire, Crash Down
[63] Thunder Roar Cannon
[61] Six Rods of Prison Light
Shunpo
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Roleplay Sample:
Ichinose grumbled at the painting, unsatisfied by its colors. He colored the roof of the house with highlight of golden yellow and added the tree's highlight with brighter green to make it stand out of painting a bit more. The work went incomplete, many years he tried to paint this one house that he saw in his dreams; but it always went with imperfection and frustration. Sometimes the mountains will be covered in snow when he didn't even want it there. Today it looked like a rich man's house that Ichinose never desiered in the first place.
"Dammit." He crumbled up the painting and threw it across the room.
He thought he needed some light in here; Ichinose was the only one living in this house. It was small, but capable of making a living for these people at least. Many times students from the academy would come see Ichinose paint, sometimes bothering him while on his simple enjoyment of daily basis. Many saw him as a dead pen cold guy, but Ichinose didn't mind. He never gave out his trust to anyone in the first place anyway.
"So dim...,"
He looked out the window. The sky was dark out today, everything was white just plain black white what you see in old seventies movie with no color and no sound and no winds passing by. It wasn't like the soul society that he knew, however Ichinose liked it black and white every once in a while. It was silent giving him a personal time to reflect on his childhood to the very last moment where he died.. He remembered how his father used to read him stories, fairy tales, fantasy, and even historical fiction out loud before he went to bed.
"And so it ends the tale of three musketeers."
"Can you read me another story?" Ichinose would ask his father.
"It's time for bed now...." His father's usual reply before Ichinose went to bed. Ichinose had perfect mother and father, parents that any child would want.
He missed those times; he just wished that he could go back and see them once more. However as cruel as the fate could be he was only left to be the death itself, starting a new life from death, and he became the death. It all started with his grandfather wishing him to be stronger, and once Ichinose fought the hollow he died because of his lack of power. Shinigami, thankfully saved him from the hollow about to devour his soul. Ichinose agreed to join, and it was all because of his lack of power. Ichinose wanted the ability to bring justice in this unclean world, and now he had one.
Ichinose's grandfather's wish came true, he became the death itself. Sometimes he wondered did his grandfather really want this to happen to him? Even if he did he'd tell him or give him a message before all this happened. The hollow that took away his mother died without getting slightest blood on his hands, instead another shinigami took away his revenge. Would one day he truly one day forget it?
"Am I that unfortunate?"
