Post by GoldenKitten on Nov 30, 2007 16:46:36 GMT -4
Human
Name: “Sera” - Raizuki Seiani
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Ranking: Human – Under Council
Physical Description: Sera is an ultimate cutie, if you have a tad of pedophilia in you at least since she looks younger than she is. On the other end of the spectrum though her young appearance makes it hard for some to accept her as smart and capable. All in all though she is exactly what she appears to be, a cute little girl…who outwits you allot, has a lot of fears and kills hollows and everything else that gets in her way.
From the top she has dirty blond hair that drops to her shoulders, on each side she has two ponytails, one in the front and one in the back. These are held by light green or brown lace and are cut so that they fall a little bit lower than the rest of her hair, occasionally she loops the front tails around and tucks them behind her ears. She bundles a large “ponytail” in the back which sticks up as it is cut a bit shorter than the rest, this looks odd when her hair is down but it was cut specifically for this style so, so long as her hair is done it looks very good, she wears a large bow in its place sometimes if she is just hanging around the Brotherhood base instead of going out to hide how it looks odd if not held in a ponytail. Her hair is rather nice, not being dry or mangy and is the sort you would expect to kick up in a cinematic scene at the slightest gust. She has bangs that drop just above her eyes, depending on the weather and what shes doing she either lets them fall as they will or pushes them up. However this is quickly overtaken by her skin tone that is the perfect match between near albino white and blush. This coloration covers her whole body with an almost luminescent white over most with peachish blush in her cheeks and over the top of her body where the sun hits. Her eyes are a deep almost forest green color.
Sera has a cute, almost lanky structure but the way she carries it makes it come across as elegant. Starting in her face which is oval shaped her eyes carry a light slant, more oriental in nature than most and the way she always carries them slightly droopy gives the look of being constantly calm, serine and collected though that changes anytime she gets angry. She has a small mouth with even smaller lips which thanks to their pale, almost white nature are even harder to spot and she would never wear lipstick for it just would not look right on her. Her neckline is graceful, her head falling into her neck and into her thin shoulder line without looking gangly or disproportioned and she has a distinctive collarbone that is pronounced without poking out to far. This is helped by her “long” body structure. That is to say she has thin, long arms and legs that reach farther than her upper body allowing her to move with a particular form of grace. Her body is not boney though I can imagine for some she would be to thin and given the fact that at max her body could be compared with a thirteen year old she bears absolutely no bust whatsoever. She has “piano fingers” or long thin fingers that are perfect for meticulous small little movements and much like the rest of her body her nail beds are a light white, almost the sort of color some girls use nail polish to get and on the opposite side of the body we find she had dainty little feet. All these things add up to make Sera who she is, for better or for worse and most of all show just why some people doubt who she really is and more so her fighting ability. Even though this is true if you were to feel her arms you would realize she is not as small as she seems, she has a good bit of muscle mass in her arms or legs but it is very lean like the rest of her body.
Moving from top to bottom for her clothes. The first and most obvious of her usual wear are her over boots, if your wondering what over boots are its really quite simple, Sera wears typical sandals but over them and raising up to the mid-point of the shin straps are black leather boot like pieces that resemble steel armor in that they have several slits in them, however the bottoms are missing (purposefully) resulting in the sandals still touching the ground. Just above this dark green socks or stockings can be seen (they can also be seen through the slits on the over boots), she wears a black or green “double sash” skirt. That means she is wearing hot pants more or less that cover her and drop a few inches but the real coverings are the almost samurai esque looking battle skirt strands that drop on each side. They come to points around her shin area and run up her body to meet at the very center so they are shortest just covering her from the direct front and back where each half meets and longest on the sides.
At this point, a massive dark green or black (opposite whatever the rest of her outfit that day is) is wrapped around Seras waistline and secured in a loose knot, this of course pointing to the fact that it provides no security but seems to just be for looks...though it does have uses in battle shes not telling yet. This sash is made of a fine silk and thus never produces wrinkles or creases, it is about eight feet long when unwrapped so even with multiple rounds about her waist the two loose ends still fly off her body a few feet. Above this she wears a black (or green again) t-shirt which is rarely tucked in, though it is only a t-shirt in name for it is ruffled on all sides and quite large, so much so that the top is completely open and falling off her so that the top of her shoulder line is showing. The shirt, which I should mention is relatively featureless except for the ruffles, is kept up by two tiny straps one cannot see normally as they are clear. These have long sleeves and extend all the way down her hands, which end in massive flairs, much more so than the pants ever did. As such her hands are usually hidden in a mass of cloth but occasionally they come out to grab something and in this case we see she is wearing an undershirt, though what the rest looks like is never seen, what we can see however is two long pieces of black fabric that extend up the hand and loop around the pointer finger and thumb to secure them tightly. Occasionally tassels or bells are attached to these as well though you’d have to see her hands first to tell…unless she was jingling along. Occasionally she has a secondary sash around her neck or around one of her arms, it is shorter than the waist one though it is not always there. She wears a vest (of one of the two varying colors of this scheme) which is rather featureless except for a few pockets and hangs loosely on the edge of her shoulders and is opened in the front, four long strands of varying colored cloth hang from the backside to around the shin area just like the lower outfit. This vest had slots that allow her to attach her handmade black belt sash through it and attach her Zanpaktou to her back.
Personality: On the outside Sera wears a strong and commanding presence that has garnered her the respect of most of the people she meets which keeps her out of trouble, the fact that she knows when to be gentle and help them through crisis only adds to this fact. She is very well spoken and this has gained her a good bit of push in the Alliance even if she is not a council member. When not using her words to succeed she uses them to soothe, of putting all at ease with her reassurances. However this is not always so, it is no secret that Sera has issues being close to people and has severe OCD about certain things which has cost her more than a few choice positions within the Alliance. She despises the Shinigami for not saving her family and considers them weak, useless and their weapons (in this case her zanpaktou) nothing but useful tools.
Inside Sera is much like the person she is on the outside, she is no two faced lurid being with an agenda. However she does have personal feeling that’s she would never let the outside world see ranging from topics of love and loneliness to ones you might not expect such as fear of her own impending death. For all her strength on the inside she is still just a young girl who if she spoke her mind would tell you she finds her everyday duties to be a bit of a hassle but the other side understands the importance of what she is doing (growing up, becoming smarter, etc. etc.) and thus she will never let these feelings manifest. She wishes to have fun like any other girl but again must limit her excitement and can only truly be playful during her private life which she none anyway, which causes her a bit of grief. Then of course are the fears, Sera has always had a bundle of phobias and even if she had learned to hide them and ignore them they are always there. When I say she has phobias I do not mean just a few like the normal spiders or fear of flying, I mean she finds something to worry about no matter what she is doing. Above all though she fears death, ever since receiving her powers she has realized the danger they put her in and what she might be forced to face and worries constantly that something may get her eventually. This fact weighs heavily on her and while she might sleep calmly knowing the worldly troubles that await her the next day the state of her bereavement on life is known to keep her awake, thinking of her dwindling days for hours.
On a few more personal and little notes, she is fond of the moon and stars and though she does not base her life on them has been known to read the zodiac predictions and wears a ring of her birthstone the amethyst for her birthday on January the 1st. This does sometimes carry over into portions of her life visible to others though as she enjoys walking at night and is known to have a telescope and to go stargazing. Her favorite animal is the penguin but of course she can’t have one, so she has a hedgehog. Though like all other things she feels she must hide her more human aspects her favorite food is simple instant spicy ramen. Peanut butter sticks are her favorite sweet and she has a distaste for the more fancy foods. One oddity is that she does have fun dressing up in all the expensive clothing she has been able to wear since getting older, perhaps due to the fact that she never really got to be a girl being surrounded by boys in her early life. Finally she listens to the weather on the radio every morning even though after spending years watching the sky she can tell you exactly what the day is going to be like the moment she wakes up.
History: Sera is the seventh and second youngest child of the Raizuki family, born on January the 1st oddly enough, she was seen as a special little gift in her family mostly because she was to be the only girl to ever be born within it. Very much as she is now she was born quiet and stressed staying that way through her young years and continues to be so, odd given that her family is anything but quiet and reserved. Perhaps it is because of that very fact, that she was born into one big family that did everything together that she felt the need to become an individual and perhaps that is also why through her younger years she would attempt to be the voice of reason among her siblings...and forming OCD... even if that usually resulted in one of the many boys hitting her on the head. Like most children her age Sera grew up completely out of touch with the rest of the world caring only for her family until shock at around the age of five would bring her to, for that was the day her mother left.
Now as much as I would like to say her mother died honorably or perhaps left on some great journey leaving her daughter some grand weapon or journal that would lead her to a great treasure the truth is a little more blatant and quite a bit less flashy. For you see her father was the breadwinner in the family, his name was Yumizara and he had married the freeloader Samantha (a British traveler, even though Sera shows no Caucasian signs) many years prior. Despite the different worlds they came from they were quite in love, as is obvious by the massive lineage left behind, but perhaps she was tired of feeling like she wasn’t the true supporter, or perhaps she was just a weak willed female and fell for a younger, more handsome man. Anyway it goes they were left with no mother, and yet, life did not really change for most of the children idolized their father anyway including Sera herself. In fact even Yumizara never seemed to mind, perhaps in truth he had fallen out of love before that juncture, or perhaps he would just never speak outside of her own mind.
They would live in the same house as before despite the lack of income her mother made (what little he did) because shortly after she left her fathers brother, her Uncle Oriki and another family friend Mr. Zantesu both moved in (including their children), perhaps it was a legacy for the men of this family to choose bad wives for all three had theirs leave (though in Mr. Zantesu's case, his wife fell ill and died). This would bring the men in the smaller and smaller house to sixteen. As more and more of the boys grew up and became even more of a pain to deal with it added on to her new school experiences where she had her first taste of the mean outside world and became introverted. She developed many phobias and an angry streak that had an obsession with fire, after she blew up a class room after school when the teacher had called attention to her causing the class to laugh she started attending psychiatric evaluations. It was at this point that she was diagnosed with General Contact Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, OCD and Violent Contact Disorder. Eventually the last was cured though that just turned her from an angry incessantly worrying child into a kinder but still incessantly worrying child. However after this point her relationship with her school mates and her family smoothed out significantly and there were no big issues to strike Sera after she learned to deal with the issues she could not get rid of.
Sera would go through most of the rest of her early years in relative anonymity, she was always a cute girl but any potential boyfriends were turned off by her extremely awkward and anxious attitude. She developed a few friends and settled the issues she had, had with her brothers when they were younger. Eventually she developed a kinder and more people friendly persona even if it was still plagued with phobias. Just as it started to look like she was going to make an average life out of what she had been given her father received a raise and he used it to take the whole family on a vacation to the Hawaiian Islands. This had led to the infamous article...
“Explosive Gas Levels 5-Star Hotel, 198 Dead”, the article would go on to detail how an explosion at 8:23 AM had killed many people including several high ranking business officials, one was Seras father...the article also spoke about one survivor, a young child.
It had started when the family had been in the hotel restaurant planning out what they were going to do for that day and they had heard a scream. A old man had stumbled in shortly looking frightened and out of his mind before collapsing before them, everyone of course thinking he had, had a heart attack or stroke rushed to his aid. Seras father had been one of these people while her uncle had held her not wanting them to see what was happening since she was an easily frightened child. However seconds later something unthinkable had happened as the old man had magically levitated into the air right in front of his helpers and then half of his body had disappeared as blood shot everywhere. This was when Seras headache had begun, she hadn’t seen much of what was happening only the screams the adults around her, which was being pushed out by a squealing in her head, but that hadn’t stopped it from coming. Several more people had died by the time Sera was sent flying across the room by a hard strike that she never saw coming and as she had pushed herself up from where she had fallen she could hear a roaring of some beast. As she looked up today would be the day Sera saw her first hollow, a bestial one, no intelligence lay there. However Seras headache had become worse and worse as the hollow had consumed more and more people moving toward her, she was obviously the target but it had no problems consuming others on its way there. She had watched as several of her brothers had tried to run or just did not know what was going on and had been consumed, then it turned two bright yellow eyes on her. She had hardly anytime to notice it though as a black robed figure landed in front of her and she heard the beast give out a ferocious painful roar. Moments later she was showered in some sort of red stuff and she watched the newly arrived black figure fall to the ground, though it wasn't her normal way the adrenalin was flowing and she ran up to it only to find a human who was robed in black bleeding profusely from his chest.
“You...should run.” He had said obviously realizing she could see him.
She had looked up toward the monster to see it had a giant gash in both its shoulders and was currently bent down seemingly crying about its wound but it was not defeated. She looked down to the side of the black robed man and spotted a large sword, looked back at the beast and then grabbed the hilt of the sword...however she quickly realized it was very heavy for her. She got lucky or unlucky though when a loud noise sounded out from her right when the gas heater in the kitchen that the article talked about was punctured and an explosion that leveled half the facility rocked the building, how Sera survived is a subject of debate she still does not know the answer to, the most prevailing theory by one of her superiors was that as her powers had just awoken her spirit power had been surrounding her and served as a shield meaning she only suffered the landing from being tossed by the explosion instead of the explosion itself. Anyway she awoke five days later in an emergency center on the island after having suffered a concussion, she spent several weeks here until government officials from Japan were able to arrive to take her back. It was at this time she convinced them she wanted to go see the accident sight, she had been doing a lot of thinking while she was laid up in her bed and even though she didn't think it would be there she realized nobody had ever mentioned the robed man or the monster...had she imagined it? She had walked around the site for a while as the officers had tried to convince her that she did not need to see anymore, and then she found it, lodged in one of the piles of debris was the blade she had seen the man carrying. While the officials weren't looking she had applied a good bit of force, more than she thought she was capable of and dislodged it. To her great surprise when she returned heft a huge sword neither of the officials said a word, it did not take her many questions or to long to realize nobody else could see it. After a long flight to Japan it was discovered that they could not locate where Seras mother had gone after leaving and so she spent a few days in the Crime Investigation HQ while they gently informed her of the situation and that she would be taken to an orphanage. She became quiet and reserved after the incident and even more so at this juncture and barely talked when the orphanage came to pick her up. Surprise though when they were not the orphanage but instead the Brotherhood and they had known exactly what happened.
That was six years ago now, since then not a lot has happened of significance though she has trained herself quite proficiently with the Zanpaktou she found that day and has learned a lot about the spirit world. It took a long time for Sera to get over her fathers death though she eventually did though she was always more serious from the day forward. She learned to hate the Shinigami for not arriving fast enough to save her family and holds them as weak and useless, she still harbors some of her old fears but has become a much stronger person and seeks to set things right.
Additional Info: Sera is addicted to gum she chews it constantly and it has been suggested this is a stress reliever.
Power Level: Level 1
Physical Transformation: None, larger spirit power allows heightened senses, faster reaction, stronger attacks, more endurance and better defensive capabilities. However the item which she derives her true strength from is below.
Abilities: N/A
Being a human Sera is incapable of utilizing Shikai or Bankai so short of some miracle (or her being killed and returning as a Shinigami
) those will never be included here.
Name: N/A
Spirit Description: Whatever the blades name is it's apparition comes before Sera every chance it gets to make it known it is not very appreciative of how Sera uses the blade against it's will. It manifest in the form of a large “swimming” fish that glides through the air as if it is water. Fish may not be the best word as it has the front body of a fish with a brownish color to its body and large fins but to the front it has vicious pointy little eyes and large teeth, to the back it has multiple tentacles that are almost translucent in color. It never talks but it has been known to cause hallucinations in the middle of a fight to try and get the girl killed and even tried to attack her physically when she first received the blade and its power rebounded on her. Regardless over time Sera has subjugated the blade meaning it no longer distracts her at whim, however on occasion when her power falters or she receives a harsh blow and her concentration drops for a moment it tries its best to hit her with a barrage of sensory overload. If a shinigami with good senses were to face Seras they would easily notice that the blade was a Zanpaktou not only because of its obviously unearthly nature but also because it is always calling out to try and be heard, it is to strong to admit defeat and scream for help but it still tries to get attention.
Sealed: Seras Zanpaktou is just about right for her though it is a bit long, she knows this is because the original owner was a male with a longer reach than her. Coming in at 45 inches it is definitely to large for her to wield one handed and so she often holds it in a defensive position before attacking. The blade is roughly thirty pounds and a bit unwieldy at times but overall it is a good blade if not particularly eye catching over any other Zanpaktou short of its slightly longer length. It has a dark green and black wrap at the hilt which is done so in a square patter and it has no guard with about 14 inches of grasp and 31 inches of silver average katana blade. It is held in a very dark green sheath such a dark color that it is nearly black in nature. This is where it is when Sera is not using it and she has since fused a black strap that she hangs over her shoulder since she cannot carry it on her waist without it dragging on the ground.
Not having any truly destructive power of her own Sera learned a few Kido techniques similar to Shinigami Techniques from the Quincy around her.
Name: Nenshikido (Burning Rage)
Incantation: Fall of a thousand fires, hells fire rages, the strike to an opponents honor, the burn of the single nation, burning rage, shot of fire!
Effect: Fires a ball of red energy at a target that acts like fire and burns them. This is an exact mimic of art 31, Shakkahô (Shot of Red Fire) only reached through a different incantation. The ball is a bit stronger but more unwieldy than Shakkahô, primarily used as a distraction technique since any opponent with a modicum of skill could easily take the brunt of the strike though it might sting.
Name: Chikouki (Thousand Ropes)
Incantation: A thousand snakes, the ropes of time, gods will entangles ones enemy and strikes fear into their heart, bind their strength!
Effect: A mimic of art 4 crawling rope only this binds both the opponents arms and their legs. Much like Nenshikido this is better used as a distraction since only very low level opponents would be bound for any length of time, like other binding spells this will have no effect on an enemy that is significantly above the users current level.
General Info
Name: “Sera” - Raizuki Seiani
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Ranking: Human – Under Council
Physical Description: Sera is an ultimate cutie, if you have a tad of pedophilia in you at least since she looks younger than she is. On the other end of the spectrum though her young appearance makes it hard for some to accept her as smart and capable. All in all though she is exactly what she appears to be, a cute little girl…who outwits you allot, has a lot of fears and kills hollows and everything else that gets in her way.
From the top she has dirty blond hair that drops to her shoulders, on each side she has two ponytails, one in the front and one in the back. These are held by light green or brown lace and are cut so that they fall a little bit lower than the rest of her hair, occasionally she loops the front tails around and tucks them behind her ears. She bundles a large “ponytail” in the back which sticks up as it is cut a bit shorter than the rest, this looks odd when her hair is down but it was cut specifically for this style so, so long as her hair is done it looks very good, she wears a large bow in its place sometimes if she is just hanging around the Brotherhood base instead of going out to hide how it looks odd if not held in a ponytail. Her hair is rather nice, not being dry or mangy and is the sort you would expect to kick up in a cinematic scene at the slightest gust. She has bangs that drop just above her eyes, depending on the weather and what shes doing she either lets them fall as they will or pushes them up. However this is quickly overtaken by her skin tone that is the perfect match between near albino white and blush. This coloration covers her whole body with an almost luminescent white over most with peachish blush in her cheeks and over the top of her body where the sun hits. Her eyes are a deep almost forest green color.
Sera has a cute, almost lanky structure but the way she carries it makes it come across as elegant. Starting in her face which is oval shaped her eyes carry a light slant, more oriental in nature than most and the way she always carries them slightly droopy gives the look of being constantly calm, serine and collected though that changes anytime she gets angry. She has a small mouth with even smaller lips which thanks to their pale, almost white nature are even harder to spot and she would never wear lipstick for it just would not look right on her. Her neckline is graceful, her head falling into her neck and into her thin shoulder line without looking gangly or disproportioned and she has a distinctive collarbone that is pronounced without poking out to far. This is helped by her “long” body structure. That is to say she has thin, long arms and legs that reach farther than her upper body allowing her to move with a particular form of grace. Her body is not boney though I can imagine for some she would be to thin and given the fact that at max her body could be compared with a thirteen year old she bears absolutely no bust whatsoever. She has “piano fingers” or long thin fingers that are perfect for meticulous small little movements and much like the rest of her body her nail beds are a light white, almost the sort of color some girls use nail polish to get and on the opposite side of the body we find she had dainty little feet. All these things add up to make Sera who she is, for better or for worse and most of all show just why some people doubt who she really is and more so her fighting ability. Even though this is true if you were to feel her arms you would realize she is not as small as she seems, she has a good bit of muscle mass in her arms or legs but it is very lean like the rest of her body.
Moving from top to bottom for her clothes. The first and most obvious of her usual wear are her over boots, if your wondering what over boots are its really quite simple, Sera wears typical sandals but over them and raising up to the mid-point of the shin straps are black leather boot like pieces that resemble steel armor in that they have several slits in them, however the bottoms are missing (purposefully) resulting in the sandals still touching the ground. Just above this dark green socks or stockings can be seen (they can also be seen through the slits on the over boots), she wears a black or green “double sash” skirt. That means she is wearing hot pants more or less that cover her and drop a few inches but the real coverings are the almost samurai esque looking battle skirt strands that drop on each side. They come to points around her shin area and run up her body to meet at the very center so they are shortest just covering her from the direct front and back where each half meets and longest on the sides.
At this point, a massive dark green or black (opposite whatever the rest of her outfit that day is) is wrapped around Seras waistline and secured in a loose knot, this of course pointing to the fact that it provides no security but seems to just be for looks...though it does have uses in battle shes not telling yet. This sash is made of a fine silk and thus never produces wrinkles or creases, it is about eight feet long when unwrapped so even with multiple rounds about her waist the two loose ends still fly off her body a few feet. Above this she wears a black (or green again) t-shirt which is rarely tucked in, though it is only a t-shirt in name for it is ruffled on all sides and quite large, so much so that the top is completely open and falling off her so that the top of her shoulder line is showing. The shirt, which I should mention is relatively featureless except for the ruffles, is kept up by two tiny straps one cannot see normally as they are clear. These have long sleeves and extend all the way down her hands, which end in massive flairs, much more so than the pants ever did. As such her hands are usually hidden in a mass of cloth but occasionally they come out to grab something and in this case we see she is wearing an undershirt, though what the rest looks like is never seen, what we can see however is two long pieces of black fabric that extend up the hand and loop around the pointer finger and thumb to secure them tightly. Occasionally tassels or bells are attached to these as well though you’d have to see her hands first to tell…unless she was jingling along. Occasionally she has a secondary sash around her neck or around one of her arms, it is shorter than the waist one though it is not always there. She wears a vest (of one of the two varying colors of this scheme) which is rather featureless except for a few pockets and hangs loosely on the edge of her shoulders and is opened in the front, four long strands of varying colored cloth hang from the backside to around the shin area just like the lower outfit. This vest had slots that allow her to attach her handmade black belt sash through it and attach her Zanpaktou to her back.
Personality: On the outside Sera wears a strong and commanding presence that has garnered her the respect of most of the people she meets which keeps her out of trouble, the fact that she knows when to be gentle and help them through crisis only adds to this fact. She is very well spoken and this has gained her a good bit of push in the Alliance even if she is not a council member. When not using her words to succeed she uses them to soothe, of putting all at ease with her reassurances. However this is not always so, it is no secret that Sera has issues being close to people and has severe OCD about certain things which has cost her more than a few choice positions within the Alliance. She despises the Shinigami for not saving her family and considers them weak, useless and their weapons (in this case her zanpaktou) nothing but useful tools.
Inside Sera is much like the person she is on the outside, she is no two faced lurid being with an agenda. However she does have personal feeling that’s she would never let the outside world see ranging from topics of love and loneliness to ones you might not expect such as fear of her own impending death. For all her strength on the inside she is still just a young girl who if she spoke her mind would tell you she finds her everyday duties to be a bit of a hassle but the other side understands the importance of what she is doing (growing up, becoming smarter, etc. etc.) and thus she will never let these feelings manifest. She wishes to have fun like any other girl but again must limit her excitement and can only truly be playful during her private life which she none anyway, which causes her a bit of grief. Then of course are the fears, Sera has always had a bundle of phobias and even if she had learned to hide them and ignore them they are always there. When I say she has phobias I do not mean just a few like the normal spiders or fear of flying, I mean she finds something to worry about no matter what she is doing. Above all though she fears death, ever since receiving her powers she has realized the danger they put her in and what she might be forced to face and worries constantly that something may get her eventually. This fact weighs heavily on her and while she might sleep calmly knowing the worldly troubles that await her the next day the state of her bereavement on life is known to keep her awake, thinking of her dwindling days for hours.
On a few more personal and little notes, she is fond of the moon and stars and though she does not base her life on them has been known to read the zodiac predictions and wears a ring of her birthstone the amethyst for her birthday on January the 1st. This does sometimes carry over into portions of her life visible to others though as she enjoys walking at night and is known to have a telescope and to go stargazing. Her favorite animal is the penguin but of course she can’t have one, so she has a hedgehog. Though like all other things she feels she must hide her more human aspects her favorite food is simple instant spicy ramen. Peanut butter sticks are her favorite sweet and she has a distaste for the more fancy foods. One oddity is that she does have fun dressing up in all the expensive clothing she has been able to wear since getting older, perhaps due to the fact that she never really got to be a girl being surrounded by boys in her early life. Finally she listens to the weather on the radio every morning even though after spending years watching the sky she can tell you exactly what the day is going to be like the moment she wakes up.
History: Sera is the seventh and second youngest child of the Raizuki family, born on January the 1st oddly enough, she was seen as a special little gift in her family mostly because she was to be the only girl to ever be born within it. Very much as she is now she was born quiet and stressed staying that way through her young years and continues to be so, odd given that her family is anything but quiet and reserved. Perhaps it is because of that very fact, that she was born into one big family that did everything together that she felt the need to become an individual and perhaps that is also why through her younger years she would attempt to be the voice of reason among her siblings...and forming OCD... even if that usually resulted in one of the many boys hitting her on the head. Like most children her age Sera grew up completely out of touch with the rest of the world caring only for her family until shock at around the age of five would bring her to, for that was the day her mother left.
Now as much as I would like to say her mother died honorably or perhaps left on some great journey leaving her daughter some grand weapon or journal that would lead her to a great treasure the truth is a little more blatant and quite a bit less flashy. For you see her father was the breadwinner in the family, his name was Yumizara and he had married the freeloader Samantha (a British traveler, even though Sera shows no Caucasian signs) many years prior. Despite the different worlds they came from they were quite in love, as is obvious by the massive lineage left behind, but perhaps she was tired of feeling like she wasn’t the true supporter, or perhaps she was just a weak willed female and fell for a younger, more handsome man. Anyway it goes they were left with no mother, and yet, life did not really change for most of the children idolized their father anyway including Sera herself. In fact even Yumizara never seemed to mind, perhaps in truth he had fallen out of love before that juncture, or perhaps he would just never speak outside of her own mind.
They would live in the same house as before despite the lack of income her mother made (what little he did) because shortly after she left her fathers brother, her Uncle Oriki and another family friend Mr. Zantesu both moved in (including their children), perhaps it was a legacy for the men of this family to choose bad wives for all three had theirs leave (though in Mr. Zantesu's case, his wife fell ill and died). This would bring the men in the smaller and smaller house to sixteen. As more and more of the boys grew up and became even more of a pain to deal with it added on to her new school experiences where she had her first taste of the mean outside world and became introverted. She developed many phobias and an angry streak that had an obsession with fire, after she blew up a class room after school when the teacher had called attention to her causing the class to laugh she started attending psychiatric evaluations. It was at this point that she was diagnosed with General Contact Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, OCD and Violent Contact Disorder. Eventually the last was cured though that just turned her from an angry incessantly worrying child into a kinder but still incessantly worrying child. However after this point her relationship with her school mates and her family smoothed out significantly and there were no big issues to strike Sera after she learned to deal with the issues she could not get rid of.
Sera would go through most of the rest of her early years in relative anonymity, she was always a cute girl but any potential boyfriends were turned off by her extremely awkward and anxious attitude. She developed a few friends and settled the issues she had, had with her brothers when they were younger. Eventually she developed a kinder and more people friendly persona even if it was still plagued with phobias. Just as it started to look like she was going to make an average life out of what she had been given her father received a raise and he used it to take the whole family on a vacation to the Hawaiian Islands. This had led to the infamous article...
“Explosive Gas Levels 5-Star Hotel, 198 Dead”, the article would go on to detail how an explosion at 8:23 AM had killed many people including several high ranking business officials, one was Seras father...the article also spoke about one survivor, a young child.
It had started when the family had been in the hotel restaurant planning out what they were going to do for that day and they had heard a scream. A old man had stumbled in shortly looking frightened and out of his mind before collapsing before them, everyone of course thinking he had, had a heart attack or stroke rushed to his aid. Seras father had been one of these people while her uncle had held her not wanting them to see what was happening since she was an easily frightened child. However seconds later something unthinkable had happened as the old man had magically levitated into the air right in front of his helpers and then half of his body had disappeared as blood shot everywhere. This was when Seras headache had begun, she hadn’t seen much of what was happening only the screams the adults around her, which was being pushed out by a squealing in her head, but that hadn’t stopped it from coming. Several more people had died by the time Sera was sent flying across the room by a hard strike that she never saw coming and as she had pushed herself up from where she had fallen she could hear a roaring of some beast. As she looked up today would be the day Sera saw her first hollow, a bestial one, no intelligence lay there. However Seras headache had become worse and worse as the hollow had consumed more and more people moving toward her, she was obviously the target but it had no problems consuming others on its way there. She had watched as several of her brothers had tried to run or just did not know what was going on and had been consumed, then it turned two bright yellow eyes on her. She had hardly anytime to notice it though as a black robed figure landed in front of her and she heard the beast give out a ferocious painful roar. Moments later she was showered in some sort of red stuff and she watched the newly arrived black figure fall to the ground, though it wasn't her normal way the adrenalin was flowing and she ran up to it only to find a human who was robed in black bleeding profusely from his chest.
“You...should run.” He had said obviously realizing she could see him.
She had looked up toward the monster to see it had a giant gash in both its shoulders and was currently bent down seemingly crying about its wound but it was not defeated. She looked down to the side of the black robed man and spotted a large sword, looked back at the beast and then grabbed the hilt of the sword...however she quickly realized it was very heavy for her. She got lucky or unlucky though when a loud noise sounded out from her right when the gas heater in the kitchen that the article talked about was punctured and an explosion that leveled half the facility rocked the building, how Sera survived is a subject of debate she still does not know the answer to, the most prevailing theory by one of her superiors was that as her powers had just awoken her spirit power had been surrounding her and served as a shield meaning she only suffered the landing from being tossed by the explosion instead of the explosion itself. Anyway she awoke five days later in an emergency center on the island after having suffered a concussion, she spent several weeks here until government officials from Japan were able to arrive to take her back. It was at this time she convinced them she wanted to go see the accident sight, she had been doing a lot of thinking while she was laid up in her bed and even though she didn't think it would be there she realized nobody had ever mentioned the robed man or the monster...had she imagined it? She had walked around the site for a while as the officers had tried to convince her that she did not need to see anymore, and then she found it, lodged in one of the piles of debris was the blade she had seen the man carrying. While the officials weren't looking she had applied a good bit of force, more than she thought she was capable of and dislodged it. To her great surprise when she returned heft a huge sword neither of the officials said a word, it did not take her many questions or to long to realize nobody else could see it. After a long flight to Japan it was discovered that they could not locate where Seras mother had gone after leaving and so she spent a few days in the Crime Investigation HQ while they gently informed her of the situation and that she would be taken to an orphanage. She became quiet and reserved after the incident and even more so at this juncture and barely talked when the orphanage came to pick her up. Surprise though when they were not the orphanage but instead the Brotherhood and they had known exactly what happened.
That was six years ago now, since then not a lot has happened of significance though she has trained herself quite proficiently with the Zanpaktou she found that day and has learned a lot about the spirit world. It took a long time for Sera to get over her fathers death though she eventually did though she was always more serious from the day forward. She learned to hate the Shinigami for not arriving fast enough to save her family and holds them as weak and useless, she still harbors some of her old fears but has become a much stronger person and seeks to set things right.
Additional Info: Sera is addicted to gum she chews it constantly and it has been suggested this is a stress reliever.
Special Ability
Power Level: Level 1
Physical Transformation: None, larger spirit power allows heightened senses, faster reaction, stronger attacks, more endurance and better defensive capabilities. However the item which she derives her true strength from is below.
Abilities: N/A
Zanpakuto
Being a human Sera is incapable of utilizing Shikai or Bankai so short of some miracle (or her being killed and returning as a Shinigami
) those will never be included here.Name: N/A
Spirit Description: Whatever the blades name is it's apparition comes before Sera every chance it gets to make it known it is not very appreciative of how Sera uses the blade against it's will. It manifest in the form of a large “swimming” fish that glides through the air as if it is water. Fish may not be the best word as it has the front body of a fish with a brownish color to its body and large fins but to the front it has vicious pointy little eyes and large teeth, to the back it has multiple tentacles that are almost translucent in color. It never talks but it has been known to cause hallucinations in the middle of a fight to try and get the girl killed and even tried to attack her physically when she first received the blade and its power rebounded on her. Regardless over time Sera has subjugated the blade meaning it no longer distracts her at whim, however on occasion when her power falters or she receives a harsh blow and her concentration drops for a moment it tries its best to hit her with a barrage of sensory overload. If a shinigami with good senses were to face Seras they would easily notice that the blade was a Zanpaktou not only because of its obviously unearthly nature but also because it is always calling out to try and be heard, it is to strong to admit defeat and scream for help but it still tries to get attention.
Sealed: Seras Zanpaktou is just about right for her though it is a bit long, she knows this is because the original owner was a male with a longer reach than her. Coming in at 45 inches it is definitely to large for her to wield one handed and so she often holds it in a defensive position before attacking. The blade is roughly thirty pounds and a bit unwieldy at times but overall it is a good blade if not particularly eye catching over any other Zanpaktou short of its slightly longer length. It has a dark green and black wrap at the hilt which is done so in a square patter and it has no guard with about 14 inches of grasp and 31 inches of silver average katana blade. It is held in a very dark green sheath such a dark color that it is nearly black in nature. This is where it is when Sera is not using it and she has since fused a black strap that she hangs over her shoulder since she cannot carry it on her waist without it dragging on the ground.
Kido Techniques
Not having any truly destructive power of her own Sera learned a few Kido techniques similar to Shinigami Techniques from the Quincy around her.
Name: Nenshikido (Burning Rage)
Incantation: Fall of a thousand fires, hells fire rages, the strike to an opponents honor, the burn of the single nation, burning rage, shot of fire!
Effect: Fires a ball of red energy at a target that acts like fire and burns them. This is an exact mimic of art 31, Shakkahô (Shot of Red Fire) only reached through a different incantation. The ball is a bit stronger but more unwieldy than Shakkahô, primarily used as a distraction technique since any opponent with a modicum of skill could easily take the brunt of the strike though it might sting.
Name: Chikouki (Thousand Ropes)
Incantation: A thousand snakes, the ropes of time, gods will entangles ones enemy and strikes fear into their heart, bind their strength!
Effect: A mimic of art 4 crawling rope only this binds both the opponents arms and their legs. Much like Nenshikido this is better used as a distraction since only very low level opponents would be bound for any length of time, like other binding spells this will have no effect on an enemy that is significantly above the users current level.
