[url=http://orig14.deviantart.net/d9c8/f/2012/365/e/d/_secret_santa___donut_time__by_goku_no_baka-d5pt94c.jpg]Brother[/url] [hider=symbolism]Appearance references/possibilities: http://safebooru.org//images/1615/579296ce18810db99b30bdb1429d386ec81c12e6.png?1692540 Personality Tarot information: [1] [3] [2] Displayed Aspects of her personality(outwards)[1]King of Pentacles: Pragmatism and mastery of the material world, generally without the arrogance or greed that comes with this. Feeling of security in one's own deeds and wealth, rather than a lust for more. Internal Aspects of her personality(inwards)[2]The Fool: Naivete, but also with a powerful creative force and self assurance. Stubbornness and a general inability, or lack of want, to listen to the cautioning words of others. Her True Self[3]Page of Wands: An arbiter of change, not held down by the material world, with high ambitions and a powerful creative mind. Passionate and loyal. One who reveals fears and shows that they are not external, but that they are part of oneself, and to be integrated and conquered. History/Personality Tarot information: [3] [1] [2] [4] [5] [6] [1]Five of Wands: Arrogance that can get the better of her, but she does watch it. She is cunning and while she likes to win, tends to find those victories are hollow and meaningless. [2]The Tower: Way she must progress -- An alteration of old habits and beliefs must take place. Related to her zanpakuto ability is the idea of casting away the old to be reborn better than before. Evolution/progression/change. [3]Eight of Swords: Fear of moving away from what is comfortable. Fear of abandoning her trophies and place in the world to gain assurance in her self. Challenge: She must harness this fear to free herself and progress forwards. [4]Judgement: End result of progression? Clarity of mind in situations where she is in line with moving forwards(her sword spirit?). [5]The Hierophant: A person in her life who instilled in her a particular set of beliefs/traditions, but lives on only in those traditions. They have died or moved on to somewhere else and she has lost contact with them almost completely. [6]Six of Swords: Sword spirit. Card of transition. Sometimes the only way to deal with a problem is to leave it behind and start anew. Boat symbolism denotes the power of a rational mind over the intuition. “Instead of ruling the emotions, the Six of Swords actually offers a highly controlled balance of logic and intuition. This is how true mental clarity arises; you can use your intuition to guide you through easy situations and call upon your impartial and analytical nature when it is needed for a more complex decision. Do not seek to suppress your emotions any more than a sea captain would want to eliminate the water. Rather, respect their presence and their power in your life, and use them to your advantage. When a balance between head and heart is achieved, truly great things can be accomplished.” Zanpakuto Tarot information: The Color silver and its symbolism for focus, reflection, transition and other things found here: http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/color-silver.html http://www.starstuffs.com/animal_totems/dictionary_of_birds.html[/hider] [hider=CS][CENTER][U][B]Yōki, Kōunora[/B][/U] [IMG]http://img09.deviantart.net/4ac4/i/2010/217/9/7/ignition_by_redjuice999.jpg[/IMG] [url=]Theme I [/url]/|\[url=]Theme II[/url][/center] [hider=Biographical Info][B][U]Name:[/U][/B] Yōki(Keeper), Kōunora(Rainfall on fields). [B][I]Alias:[/I][/B] [B][I]Gender:[/I][/B] Female. [B][I]Age Appearance:[/I][/B] [I][B]Race:[/B][/I] Plus-->[B]Shinigami.[/B] [B][U][I]Rank & Division:[/I][/U][/B] Captain of the 7th Division. [url=]Additional Appearance Information:[/url] [B][U]Personality:[/U][/B] Kōunora is a compassionate woman with an effortless elegance to her actions and an air of wisdom. Caring deeply for those taken under her wing, the women protects them just as fiercely as she teaches and cultivates them. A worldly woman, Kōunora is not one to shy away from any task, no matter how mundane it may seem or how others might look at her as a result. She cares little of the opinions of others, thus revealing her own assurance of self. While she does her utmost to temper this confidence, it can sometimes get away from her where it can become arrogance for a time. Yet, while Kōunora may appear totally sure of herself to others, internally she is somewhat more plagued by the troubles of the common folk; namely indecision and a sense of being empty or lost. In essence, Kōunora is a woman in transition, attempting to fully embrace the creative spark within her so that it may become a roaring flame. However, for now that flame is but embers and her hidden passion and creativity remain largely untapped. As a result of this she appears pragmatic and strict to many, perhaps even overbearing at times, though most who know her have come to understand that oftentimes she is this way only because she cares. [B][I]History:[/I][/B] [B]"" - [I].[/I][/B] [B][I]Relationships:[/I][/B] [/hider] ========================================= [hider=Capabilities]Zanjutsu Master - Hakuda Master - Kido Master - Hoho Expert- [/hider] ========================================= [hider=Zanpakuto][B][I]Zanpakuto Spirit Personality:[/I][/B] Zanpakuto Spirit [url=http://orig10.deviantart.net/c66f/f/2009/016/e/e/heart_forest_by_88grzes.jpg]Inner World:[/url] [url=https://www.karatemart.com/images/products/large/imperial-white-ceremonial-katana.jpg]Sealed State[/url] [B][U][URL=http://orig09.deviantart.net/2a4c/f/2014/098/1/4/custom_katana_commission_by_forged_artifacts-d7dmidm.png]Shikai:[/URL][/U][/B] Body sideways, her sword arm held out behind her, blade horizontal, and eyes closed, Kōunora prepares to release her shikai. As she assumes the stance, her lips move, and the blade's command is uttered, [color=][B]""[/B][/color]. As the inaudible words are spoken, a flash of gold and silver light engulfs her blade. For a moment it is blinding, but soon after the light disperses, the gold becoming trapped within the blade even as the silver surrounds her. With her blade revealed, Kōunora's voice pierces the near silence, proclaiming the name of her blade's elegant form, [color=][B]"Tsubame ken-kyō([sub]燕検鏡[/sub] [I]'Swallow's Speculum'[/I])."[/B][/color] [B][I]Abilities:[/I][/B] With abilities that elude the understanding of many, Kōunora's shikai is an enigmatic thing. takes the form of a conductive silver light, which in reality is the visible manifestation of her rather unique reiryoku taking on visible form when passed through reishi. is the creation of a strange conductive reiryoku, taking the shape of silver or gold light. While the true nature of the golden light is that of amplification and purification, it is the silver light that takes precedence during her shikai's manifestation. Surrounding and following Kōunora throughout the duration of her release, this silver light [B][U]Techniques[/U][/B] [U]([I][/I] ' '):[/U] [U]([I][/I] ' '):[/U] [U]([I][/I] ' '):[/U] [U]([I][/I] ' '):[/U] [B][U][I][URL=]Bankai:[/URL][/I][/U][/B] [color=][b]""[/B][/color] [B][I]Abilities:[/I][/B] [B][U]Techniques[/U][/B] [U]([I][/I] ' '):[/U] [U]([I][/I] ' '):[/U] [U]([I][/I] ' '):[/U] [U]([I][/I] ' '):[/U] [/hider][/hider] [hider=other]“You really shouldn't have struck one of mine,” she said, voice filled with assurance, her body language tense. While her blade may have not been drawn, the look in her eyes, and the pulsating aura that surrounded her was threat enough to more than compensate. On the ground behind where she stood lay the motionless form of a seated officer, one of hers. Her hand moved to her blade as the arrancar smiled in response to her anger. The being closed the distance, meaning to strike her, but too late he noticed her other hand grasping a cube of white reishi. “Chōten seigen,” said the captain as her palm opened upwards, releasing the cube into the air before her, where it unfolded, thus revealing a smaller black sphere. Immediately upon its unveiling, the sphere shot outwards expanding around her. The arrancar retreated, but not before it touched him. As his sonido ended he found ribbons of black reiryoku where his finger and toe had touched the sphere. He looked up, but found the orb of energy impenetrable to his senses. It only last a moment, suddenly cracking and then shattering to reveal Kōunora's glittering form, the air about her shimmering with silver light, a light which seemed to refract off of thin air. Her blade was drawn at her right side and it shone with a subtle gold, as if a muted light had been trapped within it. Eyes locked with his, Kōunora pushed forwards into a shunpo and at the same moment two tiny shockwaves blossomed from beneath her feet. In that instant she vanished, reappearing two feet from the arrancar who, in response, stabbed his blade at her torso. She spun to the right, dancing around his strike, blade reversing grip, before it plunged at an angle, behind her back, and into the hollow's side. Immediately the arrancar howled in agony before he was sent flying as a powerful wave of kinetic energy washed over him, sending him into the wall of a building, which formed a crater as a result. He had no time to recover as he saw her lightly jab her blade into the air five times, tiny blades of silver light pinning him to the wall as she did so. Her red eyes gleaming, the captain crossed the distance in an instant, placing the tip of her blade before the throat of the arrancar as she did so. “Have you any last words, hollow?” “I hope my fello--...” he began, before the blade sliding slowly into his neck interrupted his words. In moments he was unable to breath, and after long minutes of gagging on his own blood, his convulsions ceased and the light left his eyes. There was no empathy or remorse in the actions, not a single shred of a compassion in her fierce crimson eyes. Pulling her blade from the hollow's corpse as it began to dissolve, the captain watched the process till the last shred of reishi dispersed into the air, and only after did she flick the blood from her glowing blade and sheath it.[/hider]