Tekiatsu, Akio

[kaze]

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Identification

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Character Name: Akio Tekiatsu
Classification: Shinigami
Alias/Titles: Used to call himself Arashi to fit a theme.

Gender: Male
True Age: 79
Birthday: November 8th he entered the Soul Society, born November 15th

Division: 13th squad
Rank: 4th seat

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Appearance Information

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Apparent Age: 26
Height: 5'10
Weight: 210
Eye Color: Blue, that tends to sparkle with what could almost be described as lightning bolts. More prominent when he battles, is emotional, or goes into Shikai.
Hair Color: Dark brown with lighter highlights.

Physical Description:

To start with, Akio is a pretty average height, and a pretty average build, though it can be argued that he is slender than his initial appearance. His clothing style is traditional within the Soul Society, as he was more than happy to trade in the simple garments he woke up with the status showing Shikakusho of his new purpose in death. The only change to his uniform, based solely on his own spirit theme, are two red ribbons on both upper arms of his sleeves, which are tied and left to hang like the breeze. His sleeves are no more tied then they normally are, leaving the appear to show that the ribbons are tied loosely and somehow attached to those sleeves.

Physically, Akio's face is mostly clear, his youth showing prominently, which only adds to idea that this was a person who really died before his time. His eyes lay on a prominent deep blue, and easy to get lost in, though whoever does then notices his eyes have a bit of a glint to them. When Akio gets really emotion, either in grief, rage, or some other power emotion, when Akio really gets into a battle, or more commonly, when Akio goes into his Shikai form, those glints turn into lightning bolts around his pupil, and depending on his Spirit level, or the power he welds, the lightning becomes large enough to crackle away from his eyes. Akio keeps his hair mostly short, leaving in a wind-blown upright look, whereas his brown hair has the lighter highlights prominent. His nose and mouth are nothing special, however the one blemish he has is a red thin scar on his left cheek, given during his first battle.

Though he is least likely to be seen without wearing anything on his chest, it should be said that his chest shows faint muscle build-up. Otherwise, he is near constantly in his clothes.

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Personal Information

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Personality Overview:

The truth of the matter is, Akio is very, very complicated. He has loyalty to the Gotei 13, however the only group he feels unity with is his own squad. He is an insightful individual, however he is not one to call people out unless absolutely necessary. To heart, he is nothing more than a survivalist, and will always go for the route with the highest probability of staying alive. This mostly stems from his former carefree attitude in life causing him to make one very, very fatal mistake. As a part of this survivalist attitude, he is also one to believe in status quo, and is uncomfortable with striking changes. If someone tries to go through radical change that is met with opposition, Akio is almost guaranteed to side with the opposition, provided that opposition has most if not all the Captains on it. In cases where they are not, he would try to stay out of the situation and not take sides.

However, this attitude changes under a very vital condition.. when there is a girl involved. Due to the nature of what his life was, he is, at heart, a ladies man, and would love to have tried for Squad 8 if he didn't hear about their lack of men allowed on the Squad. While not much of a drinker, Akio will partake in partying if the opportunity presents itself, and especially if that opportunity has a woman involved. The only time Akio will really partake in heroics are only if there is a woman involved, especially one he is interested in. As well as this attitude towards women, he is also very kind-hearted by nature, one of the Shinigami who haven't shunned the district he arrived in within the Soul Society. When he gets the urge to get away, Akio will from time to time travel to the districts, in effect showing the people that Shinigami are not all into isolation. And more than once, he has shown a girl from a district a good time.

When he doesn't feel like visiting the districts, or wants to be alone, then its back to nature for him. He loves the outdoors, and will often go out and take off his shoes, running through grass and hills barefoot. His biggest exhilaration lies with his chosen element, wind. He completely indulges in the breeze and the storms, and feels the most at home while in the sky. It was only fitting that his Zanpakto translated as "Wind Rider". But when nature is unavailable, Akio will also spend his time running from rooftop to rooftop, or trying to scale walls, though that's become easier since he obtained his powers.

Akio's main goals are to secure the human world, and protect it, as well as live up to the expectations set forth by graduation. He feels that he had a calling and answered it, and will everything he can to protect it. That said, Akio feels great guilt for his action in life, not realizing until after his death how much his actions affect others. He never realized how differently time flowed in the Spirit world until his first time back in the human world, and discovered that nearly 50 years had past. His family had been torn apart, his in life girlfriend, forever gone. Many times Akio will be the quiet one, listening when people talk, but not contributing. When he resolves to do anything, he only thinks about the plan affecting him, and will never do anything that might affect others. He would be more prone to fix mistakes by himself without permission, than to endanger anyone, considering that here, grief can last thousands of years, or at least hundreds. He never wants him, or anyone else, to feel that way.

Character Time-line:

Akio's love of the wind and the love of the sky began from an early age. While not from Karakura Town, Akio was born in a nearby town situated on the coast. His parents were both business people, leaving the young child not only without his parents from time to time, but with a large sum of money to make up for it. While doing school, and a part time job, Akio showed himself quickly as a stuntman, and a risk taker, always going for the next big thrill. He was born in Mid-November, and would always spend the weeks leading up to the next birthday at the beach, doing as many thrills as he could with the rocky cliffs.

That's where things went wrong. He never once thought of anyone but himself, and the ladies he hooked up with. He had a record around the high school, and then university, of being the good bad boy, the kind of guy who never did anything violent or destroyed property, but would risk his life to impress the ladies, and it wasn't until the last two years of his life that Akio met someone special enough to him to consider slowing himself down, and giving up his title of ladies man. However, the thrills where like a drug to him, and he could not give that up. Days before his 27th birthday, Akio was back out on the shore, wind sail in hand, trying for another stunt. His girlfriend was in the capital at the time, expected to be back before his birthday, and that drove him to the beach. He wanted the feel of the wind.

However, when he jumped off the cliff, a misstep caused him to fall short, and his last living memory was him flipping off the back side of the sail, and into the rocks below. He lost conscious, and drowned. The next couple of days were a bit of a haze, but when he finally came to, following a flash of light and a hell butterfly, he suddenly found himself in what looked to be ancient times, at least to him.

It took a while from him to understand what had happened, and what was going on, and for the next 40 or so years, he lived a vacant life, trying his hardest to adjust to the idea of no eating for long periods of time, hardly sleeping, and going on with a new life that seemed old and outdated. It took his first 20 years before he noticed he wasn't aging much, and another 10 years after that to use his youth to once again gain some semblance of normalcy with his reputation as a ladies man. It was there he first learned of the Shinigami, and specifically the 8th Division's Captain, Shunsui Kyōraku. Akio quickly gained the title of the District's Shunsui, and used it as a status for the next 10 years.

It was after those years or the ultimate partying where Akio got his first interaction with the Shinigami (besides being sent to the Soul Society). He had found himself out in the woods near the district, when he spied some of the Shinigami who had come to get training done. Akio peeked out in the bushes, until he spied one person, who appeared to be a girl. He struck a small conversation, which was mostly her blushing and telling him he should go, when they were suddenly attacked by a couple of hollows. All but one was taken down easily, but the last was stronger than the rest, and easily knocked out the Shinigami group. It was at that point where Akio, overwhelmed by an unusual need to help, stepped in front of the unconscious girl he was chatting up. When the hollow commented on how Akio wouldn't even make a good morsel, and moved to swat him away, Akio dove for the girl's fallen Zanpakto, struggling to pick it up, when he screamed in anger, a bright light appeared as he was able to somehow find the strength to wield the mark of the Shinigami. As he swung it around, she had awakened, and saw him slice and kill the hollow out of shear dumb luck. Akio fell unconscious right afterwords, for the first time releasing his inner spirit, and woke up in a hospital a day later.

After being told what the meaning on what happened was, Akio was offered a place in the Shinigami Academy, noting that although the potential was there, the experience was not, and it would come with time. Akio was neither the best skilled, nor the worse, he was average in his Spirit, but he made up for it by adopting the tactic that felt the most comfortable: evasion. After graduation, and learning the name of his Zanpakto, Akio requested to be assigned a town in the human world, or at least to be a defending of the World of the Living. He's been doing that for the last 10 or so years before the present.

[kaze]

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Zanpakuto Information

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Zanpakuto Name: Kishukaze (Wind Rider)
Ability Type: Elemental, Wind
Release Phrase: Joukuu ga hashirasete (Sail the Skies)

Sealed Description:
- Length: 27 in

In its sealed form, Kishukaze displays the average spirit energy of Akio by appearing a slender, typical looking Japanese katana. Its length is important to Akio, as he feels its symbolic, considering his death right before his 27th birthday. The hilt is the only sense of uniqueness, as there is a red ribbon interwoven on the handle, and the guard is shaped in a thick hourglass shape, with the intricate design giving the appearance of clouds, and therefore giving the guard the image of a thunderhead cloud. The interwoven ribbons come to a head on a notch at the bottom of the hilt, and a red tassel finishes the sword.

Inner World:

In his initial degree of realization of his zanpakto, Akio would find himself in the sky, unmoving, miles above a mountainous terrain. The sky appeared a very light blue, and Akio's movements when he can move make no difference, no matter where he goes, he stays in place. In addition, the wind is constantly blowing.

As he grew older in experience and control, the terrain turned into more of a forested area with hills, and he appears much lower to the ground. This is the point where he learned his Shikai form, and started the relationship with Kishukaze. Also in this view of the world, with the wind still blowing, but gentler, Akio found he could move with direction again.

In its current state, Akio finds himself on the ground, in the middle of a field of tall grass, moving with the wind. The wind here is strong, but gentle, as it gives enough to be perfect. Surrounding the field is the forested area, and in the background are the hills. Its here, with a couple of rock alcoves in the middle, that Akio gets to know Kishkaze. And its here that he is the most in tune.

When it comes times for Akio to learn bankai, the battle with his zanpakto will take place high in the air, strong winds, and absolutely no landmark features. Here its meant to make Akio feel lost, and the challange over the course of the battle will be for him to learn his way, as that is the only way he can master the bankai form.

Zanpakuto Spirit:

Kishukaze is pretty much a rose. Beautiful, but deadly. She has long flowing hair that is tied into a ponytail, and a red ribbon hairband. Her eyes sparkle with blue, and possess the same lightning bolts around the eyes that Akio has, and will develop further.

With the exception of her head, which remains uncovered, she is dressed in a ninja outfit, only this outfit is clearly not for stealth. She is covered fully in ribbons that hang off the outfit, red to match the red theme. In terms of zanpakto, she looks positively human compared to the rest, but that may just lie in the idea that Akio is a ladies man. While initially she holds the ribboned shikai form of herself, as Akio progresses up to bankai, she will begin to hold her weapon as her true form, a long metal bladed staff with long, red ribbons on the end of it. In addition, small thin ribbons will cover her outfit, which becomes important in terms of the special properties of bankai.

Personality-wise, Akio doesn't know too much about it. She is a woman who smiles a lot, and can be kind and fun-loving most times. But sometimes, she can use that to mask her deadly seriousness, and her sometimes cold-reception when she doesn't feel like conversing, and certainly not when Akio wants to learn anything.

Shikai Description:

When he goes into shikai, he waves his hand over the blade like Zabimaru, and the blade becomes very slender and thin, almost ribbon-like, as the sword progresses into a ribbon-like form. The tassel in the back gets larger and longer, no longer attached at a point on the bottom, but takes up the full bottom of the sword. In addition, the full end of the handle turns red, reflecting the ribbons that hang off it.

In this form, there are no other changes except his eyes, as described earlier, start to crackle with lightning bolts insides his eyes. In addition, when he uses the special abilities with the sword blade, described below, the blade turns red, like a ribbon, and turns back before he pulls the sword back.

Functionality:

In this form, the shikai form acts more in regards to physical abilities than elemental. The sword's specialty is its flexibility, which comes from Akio's ability to move the sword around, negotiating different angle, and fit through almost any gap. He can do slashes from around himself, or curl around the target before inflicting damage. In addition, this ribbon form gives Akio the ability to use his sword almost like a whip, able to grab things and use them. This ability is not done mentally; while Akio may have limited control over direction and angle, he must physically wield the sword, and it takes his spirit energy to flex the blade, making the flexibility of the weapon not only reliant on movement, but also limiting its movements to offensive strikes. Defensive would be more of a risk to use the sword's flexibility for, and in those cases he must rely on a thin, stiff blade, to defend against.

Abilities:
Name: Jettosutori-mu Dageki (Strike of the Jet Stream)
Class: Offensive/Supplementary
Range: 15 feet
Description: Kishukaze turns completely red, and completely into a ribbon. Akio twirls the sword around and then spins it in front of him, in that time the winds would pull around him and circle the sword. One his sword is aimed at his target, the wind would shoot forward to a maximum of 15 feet, and is controlled by Akio. Akio can then use the wind as an extension of his own sword, to either pierce, or strike.

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Combat Information

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Reiryoku Level: 8

Character Dynamic:

On a physical level, Akio relies more on his speed and agility as opposed to his strength. He is certainly not one of the strongest of the Gotei 13, and in fact the worse position to place him in would be in front of the opponent, where it is the strength behind the sword that is a determining factor. He would be able to hold off people of his power level and lower, however any higher than his level he would be a severe disadvantage. Instead, Akio will always tend to bounce back, and relies on range and speed. The only time he will be close is when he goes to the back of an opponent.

On a spiritual level, he devotes most of his spirit energy not used for his Zanpakto on using shunpo, and only trained in select kidos that help with speed or evasion. He finds destruction kidos to be very difficult, and feels for Renji when it comes to kidos backfiring. He tries to keep his spirit reserved for evasion above all else, if he ever tires during a fight, he is a good as dead.

Fighting Style:

As mentioned earlier, his fighting style is one of speed and agility, finding to exploit weaknesses. He would start most fights constantly moving around the opponent, evading what he can, just so that he can asses how the opponent acts, what the opponents abilities are, and what he can do to exploit weaknesses. If its a battle he doesn't think he can win, he will always more to inhibit or incapacitate the opponent, in order to make a getaway, as survival is the top priority.

Reiryoku/Reiatsu Abilities:

Name: Shunpo (Flash Step)
Class: Utility
Range: Personal
Description: The shinigami’s signature movement technique, using extreme speed and acceleration to overcome the eye’s capacity to trace movement. This ability can be used to travel quickly from one place to another, or in combat by a skilled practitioner to get a jump on the enemy. Using this skill repeatedly over the course of a battle is ill-advised, as it does not take long for the opponent’s eyes to adjust to the high-speed movement.

Name: Konso (Soul Burial)
Class: Utility
Range: Touch
Description: Shinigami use this skill to transport Plus spirits, forcefully or otherwise, to Soul Society. This is a derivative of the zanpakuto’s natural ability to purify hollows by splitting their masks.


Known Kido:

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-Was never comfortable with Hado.. too explosive.

Bakudo -
[li]1. Sai
[/li][li]4. Hainawa
[/li][li]21. Sekienton
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[kakeru]

Alrighty mate, Today, I'll be reviewing your application. On a side note, I do like the sheer amount of detail, although there are details that will need to be fixed, and I'll be listing them for you.


Identification:

Okay, this is ALMOST perfect, except for three details. First off, on Birthday, it's a fine thing to add what day he came to the Soul Society, but you do have to place his actual brithday as well. As well, you don't have to say that you're aiming for a Division, since even IC you can choose what Division your in, just not your rank. And with Ranks, you can state which Rank you would prefer, but it is inevitably up to the Division's Captain to decide if you get it or not.

Appearance:

Overall acceptable, aside from some typos here and there.

Personality:

Okay, not bad, but there' a major flaw in one part. "Due to the nature of what his life was, he is, at heart, a ladies man, and would love to have tried for Squad 5 if he didn't hear about their lack of men allowed on the Squad" This is completely incorrect. You must've come from some other site like that, but here, we go by canon, so there's no such rule, and no such thing. In fact, a good majority of important male characters originally came from Squad 5, such as Renji, Gin, Kaname, and a few others. Fix that, and it should be fine.

History:

Alright, I see no real problems here, so I'm fine with it.

Combat Portion:


Okay, most of it's fine by me, but just two things. First of, your description of "a bladed ribbon that wraps their opponents before slicing" is a no go. Bladed ribbon is fine, but the wrapping can be seen as an autohit if done wrong/right depending on who's reading, and generally, I prefer not to allow full-on binding moves at all. If possible, please do change this to something else, because as it is, I can't let it be.

Secondly, Utsusemi is a restricted move, denoted by the * in the listing. Please remove this technique.

Fix the things I've stated, and I'll review it again for ya.

[kaze]

Alright, for the whole Squad 5, that one was a typo I didn't catch where I meant to type in Squad 8, due to the idea that Shunsui Kyōraku was also a ladies man, and has been quoted in the Bleach Wiki as stating he only wanted women in his squad, so that has been corrected.

Added date of birth, decided on 13, and asked for 4th seat (since there are two 3rd seats, and I don't think I can go for 2nd seat yet.

I changed my shikai, however I would like to keep the embrace of death for later on, when I get more powerful. I've always been found of that idea as a special weapon, and even though it pains me to have to change it now, I really feel that the Tornado Embrace would be the obvious next step up after working with a sword that can twist and turn. I'm willing to give it up for now, but would like to keep it in reserve for later.

[kakeru]

Haha, alrighty. I guess I could possibly allow Tornado's Embrace at a higher level, but only used on NPCs, or if you have the target's permission. Also, since you're going for the fourth seat, put "Aiming for 4th Seat" instead of just "4th Seat". Otherwise fine, so I'm going to say:

Approved for Reiryoku level; 6 (Subject to change at the discretion of higher staff)

[Mudo-Toshin Ruide]

Ah, sorry for the wait, Akio ^-^ I’ll get to your second review right away.

In the last parts of your history (the hollow attack pre-shinigami academy), it seems as though what you had first written here was that he’d used the woman’s zanpakuto xD this is preferable, since the current understanding is that most shinigami are given a physical vessel for their zanpakuto during their time in the Academy, with only individuals of great power being the exception. The rest of your app’s first post is acceptable.

^-^ I’m not an expert in Japanese, by any means, but to help out with your release phrase, the closest translation I can find is “Joukuu wa hashirasete”, Joukuu being “the skies” and hashirasete conjugated to a command form from hashitaseru (To sail). >.> don’t mind me; I kinda use these to practice.

Sealed description is good o.o though a weird typo confused me for a second. “and the guard is shaped in a thick hourglass shame” ß you mean a thick hourglass shape, right? >.>

Again, I usually don’t do the typo thing, but Shikai description paragraph one, a Zabimaru reference has been spelled “Zabmaru”

I’m not sure what to say about your shikai… it’s not a wind-type zanpakuto unless it has wind-dependent abilities; despite there being one ability, I would have to classify this as a combat-zanpakuto, though we’ll have to have a talk about this~

If this shikai form is just a highly flexible sword that can maintain its sharpness without breaking, all you should need to add to your description is its length; if what you mean in your functionality is that the sword can function like an appendage and can flex and bend itself without outside stimulus other than Akio’s will, then I can’t accept it. It falls under the category of telekinetically controlled weapons x.x and it would disrupt the flow of combat with its ability to adjust to a dodging enemy (which just messes with posting order and makes things weird OR~ makes it impossible to dodge. Either way, not a good idea)

Your one ability, however, seems fine o.o If you want to make this a legitimate wind zanpakuto ^_~ you might want to find something a little more, y’know, windy, but that’s up to you. The rest of the app looks good, except for the Kido section x.x I guess I need to elaborate a little more in the template, but you only want to register six kido if you’re trying to specialize in Kido o.o a well-rounded shinigami would typically only have four, and a typical more combat-bound shinigami even less so. I encourage new applicants to stick to as few as they think they’ll need, because it helps other abilities remain potent (remember, less versatility = more power)

Thaaat~ seems to be it o.o so I’ll get back to you once your edits are finished.

[kaze]

I edited the typos you asked for, and decided to drop Hado altogether due me stating that he was never one for the offensive kido. That leaves me with three.

Now with the history, I had read up on the Zanpakto actually being the Shinigami's spirit pressure manifested as a solid weapon, as quoted from the Bleach wiki:

A Zanpakutō is generated by its wielder upon the solidification of their Reiryoku into the sword's form. Commonly, when a Shinigami graduates from the training academy, he/she gains his/her own unique weapon. The process by which this happens has not yet been shown.

This is apparently shown in Bleach manga; Chapter 66, page 10. However, I did change it to be more of his release of his spirit pressure allowed him to pick the sword up and swing it, if you would prefer it.

Onto the Zanpakto itself, I was going for a weather-themed shinigami (because I am studying meteorology and fascinated by weather), and Wind seemed the closest. I understand that my shikai doesn't exactly reflect that, and admittedly after looking it over, its clear the inspiration I got with it IS Zabimaru. I was going for a sword that was as extendable and flexible as Zabimaru, only with it being a ribbon blade. If having a Zabimaru-like blade is alright, and its just the description I confuse people with, then if I can have help explaining it, thats fine. My biggest fault is that I tend to overstate or overexplain, to the point that a simple idea seems too complicated. If you don't want any kind of extender, then I will keep the flexible part and make him a closer combat individual, though that would be against his character.

That said, on the elemental part of the sword, I kinda imagined that the elemental part would be shown much better with bankai (since this sword was an idea I've had since I first got into Bleach), however, I can come up with elemental attacks, like an air blade type of thing (like Getsuga Tenshō), or a weaker blast back attack in cases where Akio is surrounded. If either or those, or both of them would be acceptable, I can draft up those abilities.

Also, back on the Shikai blade itself, I honestly never intended for him to try to use the blade to avoid attacks, and used the description of it being a ribbon when it extends as to say 'this sword is worthless to use to block while extending, since the blade won't be blocked with a ribbon. At this point, the whole idea of the ribbon came from a weapon that flowed like the wind, and the first thing I thought of was a ribbon.

Any suggestions would be welcomed.

[Mudo-Toshin Ruide]

xD Yes, the wiki is citing Ichigo, who manifested his zanpakuto with the strength of his Reiryoku when he became a shinigami; not every shinigami has that kind of power. Buuut~ your history is all good :3 and your Kido section. Let’s tackle this zanpakuto business.

Just to be clear, I have no problem with most of this zanpakuto ^-^ I only want to make sure that your means of fighting with it is natural. There are actually swords flexible enough to be used as whips (Reference), so as long as it can’t move without you swinging it, you’re all set. :\ I think a little more detail in the Functionality section could prevent that misunderstanding (what’s written is a lot about what the weapon’s traits do for Akio, and what their significance is, but not actually what the traits are x.x which, in this case, would be its flexibility)

o.o as for your abilities, to keep it simple ^-^ if you want to make this a wind-zanpakuto, why not, instead of having the sword itself become a ribbon (since the sword itself is already ribbon-like), use the air to create this entangling, whip-like extension you describe o.o to much the same effect? Simplest, most direct fix I can think of. A whip sword isn’t generally really long, by the standards of whips, but with an extension, you could get the whole 10-15 feet of reach you’d get out of a full-sized whip weapon for single strikes, without having to worry about a long-tedious zanpakuto the rest of the time; whaddya say?

[kaze]

Alright, I think it adjusted it, let me know what you think.

[Mudo-Toshin Ruide]

Alright o.o took some reading back and forth, but I’ve got it xD and your functionality is good. Any further issues with that first vague part of the description will be settled by this conversation here. Your first ability is fine too, though I’ll have to ask you to remove this new second one; you shouldn’t add whole new parameters in the middle of a review That, however, is all there is left, and you’ll finally have your second approval xD almost there.

[kaze]

Ok, removed it, sorry. That should be good.

[Mudo-Toshin Ruide]

Alright, taking into account the prior comments and such~

Approved [2/2]
Reiryoku Level 6