Hey everyone. Sorry about the total lack of updates here or... anywhere, really. Part of it's the fact that my laptop's screen broke and thus I only have internet access either at home (where I've got it connected through the HDMI cable to my TV monitor) or at school in the computer lab. Part of it's the fact that school and other stuff have meant I've had less and less time to focus on creative stuff. And part of it's... just a lot of personal stuff that's made it hard for me to get in a creative mood. So... yeah, that's why there've been no updates for anything, and I'm not sure if that's going to change soon.
I haven't been totally devoid of any kind of creative thought, though. Still ideas that rattle around in my head from the stuff I manage to watch or play in my spare time these days. Among other things, I thought up more Fullbrings for use with that Fullbringer Quest idea I had; if anyone wants to use more Fullbringers in a Bleach quest/story/RP/whatever and wants ideas, these ones are freely available.
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[] Iwami Jutaro
Name: Kanesuke Kazuma
Gender: Male
Item: A 400-year old nodachi, dull and spotted with rust from years of neglect. The feelings that fill this catalyst are the pride and honor of a samurai.
Personality: You're very dedicated and passionate and take a lot of pride in your heritage, but you do your best to restrain yourself and maintain proper decorum. You're very quick to rise to any challenge, though, and are quick to take offense if people insult you or your family. You try to project a stoic, cultured air, but it collapses quickly when you get excited.
You're the happiest when you're practicing swordplay and when people are impressed by you, and hate when you fail to live up to the standards you set yourself to.
Quirks: You have a strong interest in history and in traditional cultural pursuits, which make you seem very old-fashioned, even antiquarian. It's not to the point where you're walking around dressed like you're from a historical drama or anything, but the interest is plain to see in people who spend much time around you. Also, you can't stand the words "Orange Samurai."
Powers: When your Fullbring activates the sword, it repairs itself as though it were brand new, becoming strong and impossibly sharp. It also envelops the blade in an invisible layer of circulating, powerful winds; these winds create a vacuum that can empower your slashes.
You think there might be some way to use this wind for more than just empowering the blade...
Fighting Style: Physically, you're very fast even without using Bringer Light; this applies both to speed of movement and actual reflexes. With Bringer Light, your speed is very hard to match, and the rest of your attributes are above-average as well.
In a fight, you rely on your impressive speed and years of experience with kendo and kenjutsu, though you've learned plenty of hand-to-hand as well, which you can use in a pinch. It's not really applicable, but you also know some archery and such. You prefer to finish off an opponent (Hollows, that is) with a quick application of overwhelming force, ending fights as quickly as possible.
[] Heated Hands
Name: Torii Jinpachi ("Jin")
Gender: Male
Item: A pair of white heat-resistant gloves used in baking. The feelings that fill these catalysts are the passion and pride of a chef.
Personality: Pretty calm and level-headed for your age, you aren't usually one to make a fuss. You're very kind and empathetic; you don't like violence, but you hate seeing people get hurt even more, so you'll put aside pacifism to help those who are being victimized. Your love for cooking came about from helping your grandmother in her bakery and seeing the smiles her food put on people's faces.
You find yourself happiest when you bring smiles to others' faces, especially with your food, and you most dislike when people are sad or hurt and you can't do anything about it.
Quirks: Cooking is your passion, and you do it a lot. You study food-related subjects like nutrition and have gotten so good at it that you can judge what kinds of dishes a person needs or would like the most just from looking at them, and you often make personalized dishes and give them to classmates and other people you spend time with.
Powers: When activated, the gloves transform into a pair of plain white gauntlets that begin to glow red-hot, then spontaneously catch fire; it doesn't hurt you, obviously. As a battle rages on and your passion stokes the flame, the fire burns brighter and hotter and grows larger; against particularly quick or durable Hollows, you've gotten the fire hot enough to char flesh and cause bone to crack from the heat with just a punch. Theoretically, it will probably be able to get even hotter than that as you gain greater mastery over it, and grow hotter faster.
Also, it's not just the fires of the Fullbring itself that you're immune to; while your Fullbring is active, no fire or other heat source that's cooler than the flames on the gauntlets is going to harm you in the least.
Fighting Style: You eat healthy and exercise regularly, so your physical conditioning is pretty good, if not exceptional. Except for the strength of your arms; years of kneading dough by hand has built up some pretty strong arm muscles, though you won't be winning any arm-wrestling matches against Chad anytime soon.
You don't really like to fight, but to protect people from Hollows you've had to learn; when deciding to learn some kind of self-defense, you chose wrestling, judging that grapples and grabs would suit your Fullbring's powers very well. Your main goal in a fight is to grab and keep hold.
[] Hydra Chain
Name: Kaito Ranmaru
Gender: Male
Item: A short length of thick metal chain, much like that which a delinquent might use to beat someone bloody. At one end of it is welded a jagged, broken bit of fire-blackened metal which might have once been some kind of pendant. The feelings that fill this catalyst are powerful idealism and admiration for a hero.
Personality: You're very shy and timid, preferring to keep to yourself and not stand out. You're very sensitive and thoughtful, often to the point of overthinking things that are relatively simple or consequence-free. But at the same time, you can't stand to see people hurting if you think you can do something about it, especially if it's someone close to you. Even though you do your best to plan things out and minimize the risks, this often gets you into trouble and forces you into situations that you find embarrassing and uncomfortable more than once.
Quirks: You keep a journal that you write ideas and thoughts into as they come to you, particularly things like new strategies for fighting Hollows or puzzling out what you should have said in a conversation that's already happened; at times, you get so excited by a train of thought that you whip it out and start writing mid-sentence, which is pretty embarrassing if it's pointed out to you.
Powers: When activated, the piece of chain pierces painlessly through your palm and becomes attached to your body. The chain becomes inhumanly strong and durable, and the piece of metal at the other end becomes a very long, sharp nail. The chain gains the ability to extend itself seemingly without end; you haven't yet figured out what the actual limit is, though once it reaches a certain point it grows very tiring to keep extending it.
You can control this chain remotely, causing it to move seemingly like a snake, lunging at the enemy to pierce them with its nail; it can do this with enough force to pierce straight through the average Hollow's mask, and the chain itself can exert enough force to restrain a Hollow as well. The longer the chain gets, however, the more sluggishly it responds to commands, necessitating retracting the chain if it grows too long.
If the chain is broken, the "head" of it regrows... and multiplies by two. In other words, cutting the chain only creates two nailed "heads" that can be independently controlled. Unfortunately, you don't know how to do this at will yet.
Also, when you pierce an enemy with the nail, you can't help but feel like you can do... something with it. You've guessed that there's some aspect to your power that you haven't manifested yet, but you have no idea how to bring it out.
Fighting Style: You prefer to stand back and let your Fullbring do the fighting, standing back to direct it. But that doesn't mean you're helpless. You took a few years of judo and you're above-average physically thanks to your Fullbringer powers, so you can hold your own well enough.
But when you get personally involved in a fight, you prefer to fall back rather than advance and get into a brawl. You've gotten very good at strategically retreating and hiding to lead enemies into traps you create with your chain while they don't notice.
[] Mind's Eye
Name: Nagao Mana
Gender: Female
Item: A simple glass eye that's replaced your own ruined left eye; you usually cover it with a bandage/eyepatch. The feelings that fill this catalyst are loss and pain.
Personality: You're the quiet gloomy girl in the corner that nobody talks to, not least because of your scars and fake eye. You keep to yourself if everyone else does the same, speak only when spoken to, and retaliate viciously if anyone tries to make you a target to keep the rest of them off your back, sometimes physically but other times through more intellectual means. You save the majority of your viciousness for Hollows, though, whom you hunt ruthlessly but never without due planning and caution.
You like to be left alone to make your plans and hate too many things to list.
Quirks: You meticulously keep a journal of… pretty much anything that crosses your mind or that strikes you as interesting. You get really mad if anyone tries to look at it, and you keep the ones you've filled in a safe hiding spot. Every now and then, you take the bus to your old town and give the oldest ones to your friend; back in the day, she'd give you her own in exchange.
Powers: When the Fullbring activates, the glass eye becomes a mirrored orb that you can somehow see out of as though it were a functional eye. While active, the world reflected by the mirror is laid bare to you; you can analyze the world around you with incredible detail at great speeds, and even the slightest movements allow you to determine a target's next movements before they even happen. You're sure there are other possibilities...
Fighting Style: Physically, you're just a teenage girl in good shape, but you're much better at empowering your physical skills than the other origins, allowing you to stand on par with the more physically inclined ones.
Since your Fullbring isn't really directly useful offensively, you've had to focus on getting good fighting skills. You've attended a lot of classes to learn a lot of different basic methods of self-defense, and combine that with your Fullbring and natural cunning.
[] Shooting Stars
Name Hoshino Akira
Gender: Female
Item: A pair of star-patterned Italian-style charm bracelets. Italian-style charm bracelets are different from the normal kind. Rather than charms hanging from the bracelet, the charms are the bracelet; they're independent segments that can lock together around the wrist to make a bracelet. Yours are made of several styles and colors of stars. The feelings that fill these catalysts are an abiding love of the spotlight, and fond memories of a dear friend.
Personality: In a word: dramatic. Whatever you're feeling or thinking, you rarely express it subtly (with some glaring exceptions). You have a high opinion of yourself, not entirely without justification. Some people call you arrogant, and they might be right, but how could you not be a little arrogant when you're this awesome? You're not entirely self-centered, either; in fact, you're very generous and affectionate by nature, and you never overlook or forget the accomplishments and contributions of others. You might even find you've got a knack for helping others to shine brightly like you.
You find yourself happiest when you're surrounded by admirers, loved and adored. Conversely, you would hate to be alone or ignored.
Quirks: Your fashion sense tends to incorporate star patterns and motifs. You have a habit of rating things, people and actions on a five-star system like you're rating a hotel or a restaurant, and you sometimes find yourself making star-based puns and analogies.
Powers: When activated, your bracelets become a pair of golden chakram with star designs etched onto them. When thrown, they gain amazing speed and force, enough to tear through small trees without slowing down. You can also control their flight path, mentally redirecting them at will. Though currently, changing their movement this way is a bit sluggish and inaccurate.
The true power of your Fullbring, though, is something you only discovered very recently. You can "equip" Shooting Stars to a part of your body to greatly increase one aspect of your abilities. So far, you've only discovered two, but you can feel that there are more.
Strength Star – By "equipping" them to the backs of your hands, your physical strength rises sharply; enough that you can out-muscle the average Hollow. Also, the chakram are still sharp and extend past your knuckles, so your punches can cut.
Speed Star – By "equipping" them to your ankles, your speed and reflexes rise sharply. You can move fast enough to run rings around a Hollow and attack before it has a chance to react, and your reflexes match your speed. Also, the chakram are still sharp, so your kicks can cut.
"Equipping" only works if you use both chakram to do it, and the power-up is deactivated the moment you "unequip" them.
In any form, the Shooting Stars create a quickly-fading contrail of golden light in their wake, reminiscent of their namesake.
Fighting Style: Your physical attributes are mostly middle of the road for a human/Fullbringer at your level of power, with the exception of your impressive agility, flexibility, and natural sense of grace and poise.
You don't really have much formal training in hand-to-hand combat. Instead, you just combine your experience with fighting Hollows and a lot of athletics training, namely gymnastics and several forms of dance. Oh, and a little bit of self-taught capoeira from when you found some videos online and thought it looked cool. You'd much rather dodge or counter than block, and you use a lot of kicks, particularly more acrobatic ones that involve jumping or flipping. It just looks way cooler, you know?
