No Rest for the Wicked [Bleach]
- Thread starter Tekomandor
- Start date
- Location
- Australia
- Pronouns
- She/Her
She wrote both, causing some poor Shinigami who'd been volunteered to grade tests to burst out laughing in the midst of the Very Serious Grading Room.
I'm not married to the physical description. I do also like that picture.Edit: And to avoid chan-style posting, something extra. Hair is too long, but I really liked the picture,
Curious, though - I remember many purple-eyed characters, but none of those seem to fit here... Some due to hair color/length, several more due to the overall image they project... Finding something really suitable is more difficult than I've initially thought.
Also, non-excessive image-only posts aren't against the rules.
- Location
- scrabbling
Well, the theoretical "leveling" of asauchi into zanpakutou isn't just filling it with your ghost power, but also aligning your burgeoning zanpakutou spirit with some element of yourself and accepting and understanding that part of yourself. It's less a matter of "how many ghost biggatons can you fit into your sword" and more of a sort of pseudo-narcissistic spiritual affinity between yourself and an eternal sort-of-a-partner-sort-of-yourself. Though, of course, Ichigo does it by beating the tar out of himself, because shounen series.
Dark Abstraction
Infrequent Participant
- Location
- United States
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Unlocks it as a free action]
[x] Investigate your supernatural insight
Here's what I have on hand that's reasonably close to the description, image-wise. I hope 6 doesn't count as excessive, though since you're on the staff, that's easy to verify.
Personally, I prefer the first, but it's up to you.
-[x] With Chise [Unlocks it as a free action]
[x] Investigate your supernatural insight
Here's what I have on hand that's reasonably close to the description, image-wise. I hope 6 doesn't count as excessive, though since you're on the staff, that's easy to verify.
Personally, I prefer the first, but it's up to you.
- Location
- va
[X] Socialise:
- [X] With Chise [Unlocks it as a free action]
[X] Train on your own time:
- [X] Reiryoku Control
- [X] With Chise [Unlocks it as a free action]
[X] Train on your own time:
- [X] Reiryoku Control
The First Hado
- Location
- Australia
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The First Hado
"Welcome, students, to your first Kido class. It is here that you shall learn the arcane arts of the Shinigami - you will learn to summon fire and call down lightning, if you have the talent for it. If you don't... well, best find that out now before you hurt somebody." Araki said, the woman's face curling into a smile as she paused. "Now, I trust you've all completed the reading?"
"Yes, Araki-sensei" the class replied as one.
"Good, because that means I'll have a volunteer who definitely won't blow themselves up like last year's did! Ah, Takamachi, how kind of you to volunteer yourself." Araki said, leaving you bewildered.
"Wha-But-" You stammer out, only to have her interrupt you.
"Come now dear, don't keep us waiting." Araki said, and you begrudgingly rose to your feet. Your class was at the target practice, and as the assigned reading had been on the first Hado you had something of an inkling of what you were going to be asked to do. Which was ridiculous, because you had barely been able to summon a ball of light with your power. Yes, it was a very bright ball of light, but you had a feeling having lots of power to throw around wouldn't make the situation any better. "Now, take aim at the target - that one there, yes dear, - and attempt the first of the offensive spells, Sho." Araki continued, and you trudge your way over to the firing line.
Memories flash through your mind, unbidden and uncalled. 'Mask of blood and flesh - Sharp tower, red crystal, steel ring - Ring out, the sound of thunder!'. They twisted and turned, a ghostly afterimages of her own body following them. Then they stopped, and she felt a single one emerge. Nameless, feral power. Blood red light, a herald of death and doom. She could not, she would not allow these memories to control her. She took her stance, and cleared her mind.
"Come forth and strike, ye spirit of thunderous force! Hado Number One, SHO!" You shout, feeling power rush through you; unlike anything you've ever felt before. There's a flash of light, far too fast to follow, and your target isn't just knocked over - it's obliterated. However, not even the dead can truly escape the laws of nature. It feels as if some massive blow has slammed into you, and you're thrown from your feet and into the air.
Where, with the thunderous roar of unmastered shunpo, Araki is there to catch you. You didn't even see her move, and she catches you whilst standing on air like it's the most natural thing in the world.
"And that, my students, is an example of the dangers of talent. Never forget - an improperly performed kido has as much potential to harm you as it does a hollow. Probably more, because if your arm gets blown off it won't just grow back!" Araki said, whilst hopping down to the ground and letting you down. The rest of the class seemed to be rather stunned at what had just happened. Chise ran over to you, fussing over you as you stood back up. You spent the rest of the class practicing basic control exercises, and at the end a few other students were allowed to try and fail at the first Hado.
You and Chise headed back towards your dorm room after the class ended.
"So, Kanade, how'd you do it?" Chise asked you, looking pleadingly up at you.
"I really don't know. One moment I was just saying the incantation, and then it happened." You reply. You're telling the truth - you don't know why it happened. But you have a pretty damn good suspicion as to what caused it.
"Why do you get to do all the cool things, anyway?" Chise asked, jokingly.
"Because I'm awesome, that's why. We're here." You say, opening the door to your room. "Now what was it you wanted to show me?" You ask.
"Kanade, have you ever heard of shougi?"
It turned out that you were not very good a shougi.
Later that day, you found a quiet spot on the academy grounds. They were bordered on all sides save the front by a large forest, and you sat amongst the trees, your asauchi sitting beside you.
You closed your eyes, and focused inwards. Wisps of memories flitted to and fro, but none could stand the light of your gaze. You caught half-glimpses of a hundred battles, of death and war and fire. Half a dozen masked creatures, each more horrific than the last. Warriors, clad in black robes and carrying the sword of a Shinigami. You saw flashes of their deaths, of their lives. Your saw their trials, their loves and their deepest secrets. You saw everything and nothing.
Your eyes open, and you find yourself exactly where you'd left yourself. Under a tree, within the forest at the edge of the Academy grounds. What had disturbed you, you wonder, only to hear the crunching of leaves beneath sandals. That, it seems would be it for today's musings on your unkown source of insight. How inconsiderate of them to interrupt your meditation.
Six burly men, dressed in the style of house retainers but with their faces masked, surrounded you. Each held a spear, with a wicked point. They closed in on you, a ring of spear points forming. You draw your blade into battle for the first time, and before it has even fully left its sheath you leap forwards. You sail over the line of spears, landing on the other side with inhuman grace. Your sheath is on your belt, and you hold your blade in a stance as old as the Shinigami themselves.
There are no words uttered as they close, and as you charge. A spear thrusts at you, and you twirl aside. Your blade sings out in a deadly slash, crimson blood spurting from the retainer's chest. Two at once strike for your heart, and as you deflect one strike you are forced to dodge another. The remaining five retainers strike at you as team, forcing you backwards.
Spearpoints carve out deep gashes in bark as you fight with everything you have just to stay alive. Your blade is a blur of steel as you step between a rain of thrusts. Now, finally, you understand why the Seireitei and Rukongai vare as they are. A spear comes from your chest, and you jump onto the shaft. For only a split second, you stand atop your enemies weapon. Your foot swings low, smashing into the skull of your enemy, and then you're falling.
"SHO!" You cry out in a moment of brilliance, the half formed spell going off haphazardly into the ground. But you weren't interested in hurting the ground, and the sheer force of the much weakened spell was still able to send you into the air. You landed perhaps thirty metres away, and ran as fast as you cloud. There was no guarantee that you would survive fighting the rest of them.
You reach the dorms, and see no one following you. What do you do?
[x] Report the attack
[x] Keep it to yourself for now
[x] Socialise:
[x] Train on your own time:
"Welcome, students, to your first Kido class. It is here that you shall learn the arcane arts of the Shinigami - you will learn to summon fire and call down lightning, if you have the talent for it. If you don't... well, best find that out now before you hurt somebody." Araki said, the woman's face curling into a smile as she paused. "Now, I trust you've all completed the reading?"
"Yes, Araki-sensei" the class replied as one.
"Good, because that means I'll have a volunteer who definitely won't blow themselves up like last year's did! Ah, Takamachi, how kind of you to volunteer yourself." Araki said, leaving you bewildered.
"Wha-But-" You stammer out, only to have her interrupt you.
"Come now dear, don't keep us waiting." Araki said, and you begrudgingly rose to your feet. Your class was at the target practice, and as the assigned reading had been on the first Hado you had something of an inkling of what you were going to be asked to do. Which was ridiculous, because you had barely been able to summon a ball of light with your power. Yes, it was a very bright ball of light, but you had a feeling having lots of power to throw around wouldn't make the situation any better. "Now, take aim at the target - that one there, yes dear, - and attempt the first of the offensive spells, Sho." Araki continued, and you trudge your way over to the firing line.
Memories flash through your mind, unbidden and uncalled. 'Mask of blood and flesh - Sharp tower, red crystal, steel ring - Ring out, the sound of thunder!'. They twisted and turned, a ghostly afterimages of her own body following them. Then they stopped, and she felt a single one emerge. Nameless, feral power. Blood red light, a herald of death and doom. She could not, she would not allow these memories to control her. She took her stance, and cleared her mind.
"Come forth and strike, ye spirit of thunderous force! Hado Number One, SHO!" You shout, feeling power rush through you; unlike anything you've ever felt before. There's a flash of light, far too fast to follow, and your target isn't just knocked over - it's obliterated. However, not even the dead can truly escape the laws of nature. It feels as if some massive blow has slammed into you, and you're thrown from your feet and into the air.
Where, with the thunderous roar of unmastered shunpo, Araki is there to catch you. You didn't even see her move, and she catches you whilst standing on air like it's the most natural thing in the world.
"And that, my students, is an example of the dangers of talent. Never forget - an improperly performed kido has as much potential to harm you as it does a hollow. Probably more, because if your arm gets blown off it won't just grow back!" Araki said, whilst hopping down to the ground and letting you down. The rest of the class seemed to be rather stunned at what had just happened. Chise ran over to you, fussing over you as you stood back up. You spent the rest of the class practicing basic control exercises, and at the end a few other students were allowed to try and fail at the first Hado.
You and Chise headed back towards your dorm room after the class ended.
"So, Kanade, how'd you do it?" Chise asked you, looking pleadingly up at you.
"I really don't know. One moment I was just saying the incantation, and then it happened." You reply. You're telling the truth - you don't know why it happened. But you have a pretty damn good suspicion as to what caused it.
"Why do you get to do all the cool things, anyway?" Chise asked, jokingly.
"Because I'm awesome, that's why. We're here." You say, opening the door to your room. "Now what was it you wanted to show me?" You ask.
"Kanade, have you ever heard of shougi?"
It turned out that you were not very good a shougi.
Later that day, you found a quiet spot on the academy grounds. They were bordered on all sides save the front by a large forest, and you sat amongst the trees, your asauchi sitting beside you.
You closed your eyes, and focused inwards. Wisps of memories flitted to and fro, but none could stand the light of your gaze. You caught half-glimpses of a hundred battles, of death and war and fire. Half a dozen masked creatures, each more horrific than the last. Warriors, clad in black robes and carrying the sword of a Shinigami. You saw flashes of their deaths, of their lives. Your saw their trials, their loves and their deepest secrets. You saw everything and nothing.
Your eyes open, and you find yourself exactly where you'd left yourself. Under a tree, within the forest at the edge of the Academy grounds. What had disturbed you, you wonder, only to hear the crunching of leaves beneath sandals. That, it seems would be it for today's musings on your unkown source of insight. How inconsiderate of them to interrupt your meditation.
Six burly men, dressed in the style of house retainers but with their faces masked, surrounded you. Each held a spear, with a wicked point. They closed in on you, a ring of spear points forming. You draw your blade into battle for the first time, and before it has even fully left its sheath you leap forwards. You sail over the line of spears, landing on the other side with inhuman grace. Your sheath is on your belt, and you hold your blade in a stance as old as the Shinigami themselves.
There are no words uttered as they close, and as you charge. A spear thrusts at you, and you twirl aside. Your blade sings out in a deadly slash, crimson blood spurting from the retainer's chest. Two at once strike for your heart, and as you deflect one strike you are forced to dodge another. The remaining five retainers strike at you as team, forcing you backwards.
Spearpoints carve out deep gashes in bark as you fight with everything you have just to stay alive. Your blade is a blur of steel as you step between a rain of thrusts. Now, finally, you understand why the Seireitei and Rukongai vare as they are. A spear comes from your chest, and you jump onto the shaft. For only a split second, you stand atop your enemies weapon. Your foot swings low, smashing into the skull of your enemy, and then you're falling.
"SHO!" You cry out in a moment of brilliance, the half formed spell going off haphazardly into the ground. But you weren't interested in hurting the ground, and the sheer force of the much weakened spell was still able to send you into the air. You landed perhaps thirty metres away, and ran as fast as you cloud. There was no guarantee that you would survive fighting the rest of them.
You reach the dorms, and see no one following you. What do you do?
[x] Report the attack
[x] Keep it to yourself for now
[x] Tell Chise
[x] Tell no one
Also, choose what you'll do in your free time next week. Choose two:[x] Tell no one
[x] Socialise:
[x] With Chise [Free action]
[x] With students from Rukongai
[x] With students in general
[x] Investigate your supernatural insight [Locked until Spiritual Awareness reaches 15][x] With students from Rukongai
[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
[x] Hakuda
[x] Hoho Theory
[x] Kido Theory
[x] Zanjutsu
[x] Reiryoku Control
[x] Hoho Theory
[x] Kido Theory
[x] Zanjutsu
[x] Reiryoku Control
Hakuda: 0
- Brawling: 0
Hoho: +5
Kido: +5
Zanjustu: 0
Reiryoku Channelling: +5
Reiryoku Control: +5
Shinigami Duties Knowledge: +4
Socialise: 0
Spiritual Awareness: +4
- Brawling: 0
Hoho: +5
Kido: +5
Zanjustu: 0
Reiryoku Channelling: +5
Reiryoku Control: +5
Shinigami Duties Knowledge: +4
Socialise: 0
Spiritual Awareness: +4
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Hyacinthium
Writing about sad cannibals as we speak.
- Location
- Bedroom
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Okay, we might be related to the plot from the one movie. I say this because that movie was about memory fuckry and we seem to have a case of strange memory fuckry happening.
[x] Report the attack
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Hakuda
[x] Picture 3
[x] Report the attack
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Hakuda
[x] Picture 3
[x] Report the attack
[x] Socialise:
-[x]With Chise [Free action]
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
-[x] Reiryoku Control
[x] Picture 1
IIRC the power mechanics/dynamics of Bleach means social power (i.e. group tactics) is useless. Thus socializing is useless. We already have the designated best friend/love interest, so no need to waste our time folks.
[x] Socialise:
-[x]
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
-[x] Reiryoku Control
[x] Picture 1
IIRC the power mechanics/dynamics of Bleach means social power (i.e. group tactics) is useless. Thus socializing is useless. We already have the designated best friend/love interest, so no need to waste our time folks.
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- Location
- The Beginning of the End
[x] Report the attack
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
- Location
- USA
[x] Report the attack
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
- Location
- Brazil
[x] Report the attack
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
Rei of Sunshine
I walk through walls, I float down the Liffey
- Location
- Australia
[x] Report the attack
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
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Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
[x] Report the attack
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
[x] Report the attack
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
Shape of Fire
Burns
[x] Report the attack
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 1
- Pronouns
- she/her
[x] Report the attack
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
-[x] Reiryoku Control
[x] Picture 1
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
-[x] Reiryoku Control
[x] Picture 1
Dark Abstraction
Infrequent Participant
- Location
- United States
[x] Report the attack
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 3
The first picture just doesn't really jive with me.
[x] Socialise:
-[x] With Chise [Free action]
-[x] With students in general
[x] Train on your own time:
-[x] Zanjutsu
[X] Picture 3
The first picture just doesn't really jive with me.