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Sorry, got preoccupied with the gorgeous weather yesterday.
Sitting alone in the haphazardly organized room that the 11th division had set aside for regulatory and legislative purposes, Kaede swiped at sheets of paper with an ink brush. The captain had left the paperwork to her. Again. She suppose that after fifty years she should be used to it, but his absenteeism still made her bristle.

"Lazy, no-good, do-nothing sumbitch..." she muttered under her breath, her words a heavy rustic drawl. It seemed to her that the only time the captain actually got off his ass was when he figured there was a good fight brewing, and anything less was beneath him. That meant that most of the actual running of the division fell to her.

While the hierarchy of the squads had been stable for decades, it was widely recognized that she'd be a strong contender if a captain position opened. The last real hurdle was her bankai, which she'd been working at for eleven years, and those in the know considered her 'past due' for it.

Finishing off the last few strokes of the report, she blew the ink dry and stacked the papers. Rolling them into a sheaf, she bound them with a ribbon and stamped it shut with a wax seal. Dozens of hollow exterminations, hundreds of konso rituals; the report had been long and exceedingly tedious to write. It wasn't a fun job, but it was hers. When she had the parcel bound tightly, she tucked it into an inside pocket of her shihakusho and made her way towards the 1st division's offices to deliver the report.
Okay, I've finished the changes to Kaede in the Character Sheet tab. I'll hold off on posting IC until I get a yea or nay from Jangel.
After seeing the various other charaters posted, I'm going to tweak Kaede a bit. While I like the idea behind her ability, a free-form RP might not be the best place for it. Think I'll go for something simpler.
Well what's stopping her is the part in the shikai description where she has to touch the end-destination of her portal with her sword beforehand. To put a rock in someone's brain, she would have had to already cut their brain with her sword. Kinda makes putting a rock their redundant.

I will admit though that there's room for clarification in the power, and making it so that a living being can't be the end destination is a good additional safeguard to the power.
@Archmage MC You mention that you're worried about the shikai I described, but do you mind if I ask what in particular worries you about it? I put a number of prohibitions on it to make it reasonable, but is there something abusive about it that I'm not thinking of? Criticisms and suggestions are welcome.
Probably the easiest way to think of it is as a two-way tunnel between her sword and a position she has to set up beforehand. Since she has to touch the blade against wherever she's setting the end-point of the 'tunnel' its much less useful if she doesn't have any time to set up. In a long, drawn-out fight, she might be able to set something up during the battle, but that would depend on how much her opponent is pinning her down and putting pressure on her.
Wasn't sure if you wanted apps in OOC or the Character tab, so I kinda derped.

Name: Nobira Kaede (Surname, Given Name)
Appearance

Age: 432 (~20 physically)
Gender: Female
Class: Soul Reaper
Powers:
Zanpakuto - Uramichimori (Pictures eventually)
Unreleased Appearance - Normally Uramichimori takes the form of a katana with a quatrefoil shaped crossguard, with a circular hole through each of the four 'leaves'. The scabbard is black, with a sea green sageo tied on it.

Release Phrase - "Open the path, Uramichimori"

Shikai Appearance - When released, the hamon of Uramichimori's blade takes on a labyrinthine pattern of right angles, and the hilt grows longer so that the sword resembles a nagamaki.

Shikai Ability - While released, Uramichimori has the ability to make an invisible mark at a particular point in space it touches. It can only maintain one mark at a time, and if a new mark is made the old one is lost. A sort of shortcut exists between the mark and Uramichimori, and Kaede can use it to either a) teleport something in contact with her sword to be in contact with the mark, or b) teleport something in contact with the mark to be in contact with the sword.

The marked end-point cannot be a part of or inside of a living creature. If an object would be teleported inside of something solid, the path of the teleportation is instead displaced to the nearest open space.

History:



Details: Above average at shunpo, below average at hado.
Evolution - Space to be filled
Name: Nobira Kaede (Surname, Given Name)
Appearance

Age: 432 (~20 physically)
Gender: Female
Class: Soul Reaper
Powers:
Zanpakuto - Higanbana (彼我花 ; homophone for the word for Red Spider Lily, but written with the kanji for "The best of oneself and one's foe") Pictures when I again have access to my scanner.
Unreleased Appearance - Normally Higanbana takes the form of a nodachi. The crossguard is circular, with 5 spokes from the blade to the guard. The scabbard is glossy black, with a blood red sageo tied on to it.

Release Phrase - "Bloom out of Season" (Kuruizake, Higanbana!)

Shikai Appearance - During the release, Kaede takes hold of her sword's hilt with both hands. The sword glows and changes into red-and-black patterned handwraps, which wind around her hands and forearms.


Shikai Ability - Higanbana is a sword that relishes bloodshed. While released, whenever Kaede is injured or injures someone, her speed, strength, and reiatsu are temporarily boosted. The strength of the boost depends on how bad the injury was.

History:



Details:
Poor hado and bakudo.
Good shunpo.
Trained herself to Master-level Hakuda to compensate for her shikai's form. In contrast, her zanjutsu hasn't progressed much since she attained shikai.
She's been lieutenant of the 11th squad for 50 years.
While she hasn't attained bankai yet, she's been training towards it for the past 11 years.
She doesn't usually get along with members of the noble houses, and disagrees with them on principle.

Evolution - Maybe aiming for Shunko?
Brainfarted. Ignore post.
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