[CENTER][h3][color=#348017][U][B]Cere Vikel[/B] - [I][/I][/U][/color][/h3][IMG]http://images.forwallpaper.com/files/images/2/2008/2008fc7d/572212/samurai-sword.jpg[/IMG] [url=]Theme I[/url]/|\[url=]Theme II[/url][/center] [hider=Basic Info][B][U]Name:[/U][/B] Vikel, Cere. [B][I]Alias/Nicknames:[/I][/B] [B][I]Gender:[/I][/B] Male. [B][U]Age:[/U][/B] [B][I]Age Appearance:[/I][/B] [I][B]Race:[/B][/I] Human–>Plus–>Shinigami. [B][U][I]Rank & Division:[/I][/U][/B] Former 8th division Captain. [I][U]Additional Appearance Information:[/U][/I] [B][U]Personality:[/U][/B] He is an amusing person and is fairly playful even with enemies. He however holds grudges for quite a time which is one of his not so good qualities. He is known to smile a lot and has an up beat personality. He isn't necessarily condescending it's just that he doesn't actually have very many equals. He is all for justice and hates it when others or himself act "unjust". He also has an intense explosive anger that is fairly easy to reveal. [B][I]History:[/I][/B] [color=][B]"" – [I]Vikel, Cere[/I][/B][/color] [hider=Tl;dr]History: Cere, Vikiel what a story what a long tedious sorrow filled life-yeah he's strong but trust me it wasn't easy getting there. So let me tell you just how much effort, time, and trials it took him to get where he is now. So I'll start as some of the most famed stories do: "A long long time ago" during an era of chaos when the Gotei 13 was still fully establishing itself a boy was born. A boy not of the spirit but of the human world and this is where Cere's story begins. When Cere was born he did not have it easy and his mother had it worse for she died in child birth, his stepfather aka his mothers 2nd husband however was alive and took him in feeling obligated to his dead wife. However he was not a very good father for he had fallen into an intense grief when Cere was only 3. Who he had thought as his father began drinking heavely and slowly became more and more violent and heavy a drinker. His father one day in one of his drunken fits was trashing their living room when Cere entered to ask him for a drink. His "father" turned to him and saw him only as another receptacle for his anger and beat the 3-year old senseless. Luckily for Cere the neighbors called the police because of the disturbing screams they heard coming from the Hikle(the last name of his step-father) household. The police came and knocked on the door but no answer came so they were forced to break down the door only to find that the father was laying on the coach with slits in his throat having killed himself after being driven insane by his grief. The police also found Cere beaten and bruised with heavy injuries, in fact they rushed him to a hospital but by the time they got there he had died. They tried to resuscitate him but it was unsuccessful and he passed on at the ripe young of 3. However his troubles were far from over for now he was a plus and was stuck wandering around the world. In fact he didn't even realize that he was dead and he tried to talk to those of the living who he could still see. Of course none responded until one an old lady-an ancient lady could see him. She beckoned to him and fearfully he approached her but after several minutes he went to her and the 2 walked back to the old lady's house. Cere later discovered that the lady's name was "Miarna" and was actually an outcast from a place she called "soul society". Cere listened on with intense interest and by the time she finished her story he was amazed by the old women who was actually something she called a "soul reaper". She told him she saw a spark in him that she had had when she was much younger. It stirred in her memories of her youth for now she was over 1000 years old and her former powers as a soul reaper had almost disappear from not being used for so long. However this boy who had a similar spark that she had caused her to reawaken inside powers long forgotten. So in a way she "raised" the boy(or rather his soul) with both strict discipline and soft love balancing it out as best she could. She soon found that despite the boy being dead he could move things with his energy which she called "reiatsu". Cere was fascinated with his new found abilities and began to experiment with them. One day after a long while about 70 years to be exact(he now looked 7) he was experimenting with his powers in a park. His so called "Reiatsu" however drew the attention of 2 nearby hollows who in turn headed for the source of powerful energy. Miarna who had went to the store arrived to find a hollow attacking Cere and she jumped in its path. The hollow bite her entire middle and as she died from the fatal wound she looked to her adopted son with teared eyes, a smile, and these words "don't take the same path as I did" at this she died and the hollow devoured both her gigai and her soul completely. The other hollow however became enraged and ate the 1st hollow after which it turned its attention to cere with hungry eyes. Cere saw the look but instead of feeling fear for the humongous frightful hollow he felt anger welling up from his very core. The hollow attacked but its hand was slammed to the ground(keep in mind these are weak hollows) followed by its body which was being pushed down by a tremendous spiritual pressure. Cere's anger had burst from his core and spread out crushing all around him....including the hollow. Of course after this feat his courage waned and he ran away from the creature before it could recover. He was not successful in his flight for his reiatsu was to obvious and he was constantly hunted by the hollows. He endured this for 20 more years upon which he now looked 10, finally at this age he was able to gain some semblance of control over his powers and could finally defend himself when he came upon the creatures called "hollows". After another 10 years(he's 11 at this point) he was swarmed by a sum of 20 hollows who had met up and made a pact(they were more like grandfisher level so they had some intelligence) to kill the boy and split him up between them. So the hollows all attacked Cere at once, Cere was able to hold them off for a while but he soon began to tire from over using his powers. Of course once again lady luck smiled on him and several black clad figures appeared before him and slayed the 20 infernal beasts. The figures were shinigami and he only recognized what they were from what Miarna had told him in the past. The 3 shinigami turned to each other 1 nodded at the others and 2 of them left him with Cere. The shinigami turned back to cere and the boy noticed that the shinigami was wearing a strange badge of some sort around his arm-he was a lieutenant. Cere of course did not know this and just stared up at the shinigami's gleaming blade. After a short explanation from the shinigami about what he was going to do and where Cere would end up he used his blade to preform soul burial on him, finally sending him from the world of the living. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Several moments later Cere arrived in soul society in the zaraki district--yes that's right the absolute worst place he could have gone. It seemed lady luck only shined on him in his time of most need. Cere wandered around the place for days until he became extremely hungry and approached one of the men in the district who had a couple pieces of bread with him. Cere begged the man for some bread but was unsuccessful and ended up being beat down by the same man for even bothering him. However the man was surprised as he glanced back to see the boy he had so thoroughly beat stand back up looking defiant. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The 1st Encounter: *The man turned completely back around to look at the beat up boy with a cruel smile*what's yer name boy*he called back to Cere as he looked at him with a smirk* *Cere just stared at him defiantly and wiped some blood and dirt from his face. He felt his anger rising again and didn't completely understand why the man wouldn't give him a small piece of the bread. However no matter what the man would do he would not walk away without some food for he knew that in this place survival of the fittest was the only rule there was* *the man sneered at the boy*tch you ask for bread and won't even give me something in exchang let alone your own name. Fool!!*he said with annoyance and then walked towards the boy at a fast pace. When he reached Cere he punched him so hard that he went flying into the wall of a shop. The man then saw that Cere still stood back up despite the pain, at this he ran over and kicked Cere several times* *Cere fell to the ground in pain but endured it whilst he felt his anger rise again and again with every painful strike to his body. He knew soon that he would not be able to contain the anger* *the man however was ignorant to any of this and simply kept beating Cere down whilst yelling dow at him with annoyance and contempt*Pathetic boy. Your rude and you make a look of defiance to ME!! the very one who you seek to gain food from*he spits on Cere as he kicks him in the side*you sicken me, your worse then a goddamn hollow*at this the man turned away from the beaten boy and began walking away* *As Cere heard the mans words and felt the hits it reminded him of 2 events. 1.) The way his father had treated him and 2.) the hollow that had killed Miarna. The words were the final straw needed to light his inner fire and he stood. As he stood and looked at the man his reiatsu suddenly flared as his anger and released emotions erupted from his small body. The man's eyes widened as he was pushed towards the ground but was barely able to withstand it and stay standing. The man looked over his shoulder at the boy-Cere and saw that there was Reiatsu radiating off of the boys body and that wind was picking up and swirling in places. Cere had an angry and determined look in his eyes as he stared down the man. Now he finally spoke*my names Cere. Cere, Vikiel and I want some bread!*he said intensely despite his small stature and young age. The man's eyes widened in anger and he turned and ran towards Cere with a burst of adrenaline. However it didnt last for the as soon as the man came within a foot of Cere he collapsed at the boys feet spilling the bread onto the ground* *Cere looked at the man and picked up the bread and left looking irritated and from that day on most left him alone due to the display he had made of the local "BA" of the area* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - When Cere needed food he would always go to the so called "wrong people" and would end up fighting them for the food so with this through out his next 70 years(making him look 18) he gained remarkable fighting skills. He learned quickly through each battle but even with his strength he was still left with both scars of the flesh and mind. Also because of how infamous he became he couldn't gain a single wink of sleep because people who wanted to make a name for themselves or were just violent always clustered to him to kill or defeat him. Cere began to hate power and for a time he refrained from using his and instead developed his abilities with the blade for he had found a weapon when he defeated one of his opponents who had wielded a blade. The man who had wielded it however had not been very skilled which was why he had lost to Cere in the 1st place. However Cere hating death did not kill the man just as he did not kill any of his adversaries. So for the next 10 years(he now looks 19) he instead used the blade to fight. He became proficient with the blade and felt stronger with it. However one day he witnessed something truly amazing. He saw a shinigami fighting another man within the rukongai and the 2's reiatsu had literally pinned Cere to the ground(heheheh guess who the 2 were). As he looked up at the 2 he noticed that there was a 3rd party a women with a staff that seemed to have the ability to change its length(hmmmm Moogle who has that ability). After a prolonged battle the man who seemed to be the better man and the women appeared to kill the other man. The mans body fell to the earth and slammed into a building destroying it and covering the body in rubble. The other man and the women with the staff left and Cere was finally able to stand but upon doing so he felt something...Something dark. The same reiatsu that had been fighting above him for the past battle, the reiatsu of the man who had slammed into the ground. He was not dead and the rubble blasting away from his body proved it. The man saw Cere and looked at him hungrily, Cere felt his reiatsu and then his body itself being absorbed by the man. After a minute he passed out thinking that he was dead. However when he came to he was laying down in an endless sky with no earth anywhere in sight. For in fact he had not came to he had entered his inner world. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - His Inner World and the mans name: *Cere did not feel any pressure here but he did feel wind for it was everywhere swirling around him. As well as the wind he felt and saw power for within the wind was a nearly invisible grayish green reiatsu swirling around constantly changing and shifting forms. Then something solidified to some extent. However almost no physical form presented itself..only 2 glowing grayish green eyes formed as the sky darkened. Cere looked at them as they stared through him as if he was not even there. Then a voice sounded booming around him from everywhere* ?: Why do you enter my realm soul?*the voice said speaking to Cere* Cere: I-I dont know ?:You dont know!! how pitiful it seems as if you need assistance lest you die*it 1st sounds angry but then its mood switches to one of slight concern* Cere: Yes...I think. Can you help me?*he asked with a hopeful look in his eyes as he stared at the green eyes* ?: Yes...I can but you must make a contract with me*it said now in a bored tone as its moods shifted like the wind that it was* Cere: A contract? what must i do to sign it? ?: Give me your name*it said to him as if felt he was the absolutely stupidest thing in the universe*and I shall protect you. Cere: *he nodded vigorously and then spoke*I am Cere. Cere, Vikiel*he said with minimal confidence to the thing* ?:NOT GOOD ENOUGH!*it yelled with anger* *Cere stumbled and fell back and away from the thing but then regained his resolve and looked at the thing defiantly*It better be Spirit. My name is CERE. CERE VIKIEL. I am your master!! obey me*at this the wind picked up and whipped him off his feet again and to the ground however the eyes glimmered and a laugh was heard* ?: hahahahahaah. Good enough boy*then the eyes blinked out of existence* *Cere as well opened his eyes which had turned from brown to green. As he opened his eyes he saw his reiatsu being sucked from him and a blast of wind fired from his body knocking the man aside. The man looked at him viciously but smiled for he saw that the boy was now unable to move. The man approached Cere and when he got to him he looked down at him and spoke as he took up a piece of his broken blade*I will not kill you then. But remember my name and fear it for the rest of your weak existence*at this he cut Cere across the face deeply sure to leave a scar and as he did said his name*Tenebrae*at that he disappeared using immense speed and leaving Cere there weakened where he collapsed unconscious* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Soul Academy and the start of his real troubles: *Later on Cere woke up in a room-a nice room-a clean well kept room with a women tending his wound very close to his face. He wanted to move, to say something but couldn't for the beauty of the women appalled him. She was flawless, perfect, a jewel in his world of pain and violence. The women noticed he was awake and staring at her and smiled as she drew back and looked down at him*hello sleepy head*she said with a warm kind smiled which again moved him to his core and stirred something he had locked deep inside him* Where am I?..*he asked her trying to sit up but found he couldn't. He then looked to her*...and who are you?*She smiled at him feeling that she might have stirred something*this is the soul academy and I am Ainara one of the nurses here*she said with her perfectly smooth just high enough feminine tone. Cere couldn't help but smile*the soul academy? why am I here?*he asked a bit perplexed*oh so many questions after just waking up after 3 days" She replied a bit teasingly. Cere just stared for a moment and then looked away embarrassed. She giggled quietly and then stood*well if you need anything just call I'll be nearby*she smiled at him as he looked back at her as she left. As she exited the room he sighed a bit and then ran over what he knew of the Soul Academy from Miarna. "hmmm well I know that its where shinigami are trained...um I know that only the strong or considerable of strength can enter so..." at that last thought a realization dawned on him, what he thought was revolutionary*am I strong then*he said out loud accidentally and as he did a man walked in. The man looked about his age and was wearing what Cere assumed was the traditional outfit of the students of the academy for he had saw a couple others walk past his door wearing the same outfit* *the man smiled at him and looked him over once*heh got in a rough fight?*he asked jokingly*good thing you survived*he had heard Cere's question*as to the strong question. Why yes you are*he said it so simply that it had to be the truth*no wonder you were able to survive in the rukongai so long especially in that district. Yikes*he said with a bit of disgust towards the place. While the man talked Cere observed him looking him over as well trying to gauge the man before him. The man had medium length messy brown hair and a couple scars on his left arm that looked to be self inflicted but not very deep. The man was of average build and was fairly tall he presumed that he was probably a bit taller. He then noticed that the man had not introduced himself and was rudely talking to him*hey*the man stopped talking and replied* Man: Yes? Cere: could you at least tell me your name before you start rambling uselessly*he said to the man a bit annoyed which showed on his face* Man:*he looks a bit sheepish at the comment*oh I'm sorry. Im Zume Tatasuko and you? Cere: Cere Vikiel*he said a bit less annoyed but finding the man a bit more interesting as he felt his reiatsu level* Zume: *he nods*well im sorry I've wasted enough of your time. I'll leave you be*he waved and smiled and then exited the room as suddenly as he had entered* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cere knew he would see more of this so called "Zume" and he was right for after several days of recovery he signed up to the school and when he arrived at his class he found the man: Zume there. He and Zume bonded like brothers and became great friends over their years in the academy. However there was one thing that got in the way of their friendship and that was a women. Not any women either: Ainara the so called "nurse" who Cere had met when he awoke. Cere and Zume were both in love with her for how could one not be. She was perfect, beautiful, kind, caring, playful and once agan beautiful. The 2 got in many fights over her but finally Zume went to her and confessed before Cere could get the chance. This act tore Cere's trust in Zume away and the 2 slowly drifted apart and became only aquaintances. Years after the 2 graduated Zume married Ainara and by this time both Zume and Cere were both within a division. Cere the 9th divison as a 3rd seat and Zume as a 3rd seat in the 12th Division. The 2 at this point had a fierce rivalry for Cere could not have Ainara so instead he vied to surpass Zume in all other ways that he could. One day however Cere went too far and challenged Zume to a battle, now normally this would be fine but Cere took it too far lost control. With this Cere was tried with a small sentence and soon returned as an unseated member of the 9th division. This however just made his grudge against zume all the worse and over the years he messed with Zume's life as much as possible. Then an event happened, the death of Ainara and when Cere found out that it had been Zume's fault because of his sword spirit he attacked Zume in rage. However Zume had expected this and made it look as if Cere did it so when he was found he looked guilty and was sentenced to death however he escaped to the human world and could not be found since. 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