Just going to drop my character sheet here just to flex my incredibly flawed writing and also so that you know that it exists. [hider=Rumi Moriko] [center][h1][sub][color=white][b]R U M I M O R I K O / / A K A N E[/b][/color][/sub][/h1][/center] [b]Name[/b]: Rumi Moriko [b]Gender[/b]: Female [b]Age[/b]: Visible Age of 17, Actual age of 55 [b]Appearance[/b]: [hider=Image of yours truly] [img]https://i.imgur.com/IurOsrC.png[/img] [/hider] Rumiko stands at 5'3 with a below average weight for her size. She's fairly small and compact, and doesn't really hold an outstandingly athletic or muscular body, rather more of a swimmer or runners figure. She tends to stand out in a crowd fairly easily due to her constant use of flowers in her outfits and her rare features such as her hair and her eyes despite her small stature. She also tends to have bags under her eyes due to her fear of sleep. She also holds exceptionally pale skin. [b]Personality[/b]: Rumi is something of an enigma. Maintaining a blank expression and a voice with no expression, she’s naturally terrible at expressing her emotions and has been her entire life. She herself cannot remember the last time she was able to cry or laugh with something genuine behind it. This has earned her the title of an ice queen, which is partially true. Whilst she’s unable to effectively display and show her emotions, she is not inherently heartless and does possess feelings regardless of whether they come to surface or not. This in a way reflects her as a whole. When alone, she's able to come to terms with herself but she's still extremely repressed in whatever she does and tends to be extremely awkward. To top these things off, she's fairly blunt in most of her statements due to her inherent inability to read the situation of a room or empathise with peoples emotions well. This leads to many of the things she says being wildly inappropriate, insensitive or comical. She often finds herself as a rather confused comedian, not understanding why people end up laughing at any statements she says given that they usually never have the intent to make someone laugh. She's also developed a crippling fear of falling asleep, leading her to become something of a night owl. Rumi, despite not really having much of an emotional side to her however finds great joy in a number of hobbies. She tends to sing when alone and finds great joy in merely relaxing and taking in the scenery. She also enjoys watching good swordsmanship. Given as it is her primary form of expression due to her inability to communicate well, it may be the only time someone sees her doing more than a blank expression. Despite this however, she distastes loud noises and formal social gatherings immensely due to the manner that she is usually required to present herself in. She's pretty relax as far as presentation and doesn't hold feelings like pride into account given that's just the type of person she is, though she does find great joy in putting flowers in her hair and around her outfit due to finding natural beauty in them. [b]Biography[/b]: Rumi awoke from her supposedly eternal sleep in the Seireitei. Except, everything was missing. Her entire being felt completely empty and she couldn't quite understand why. Every time she tried to speak, she found herself unable to produce more than a whisper and she spent days looking for her parents before she collapsed due to hunger. She was luckily present in a high area of the Rukongai and as a result it didn’t take long for somebody to find her body. She awoke in what seemed to be a spare room with a piece of bread and water next to her. By all accounts, she was lucky to be alive but she didn’t feel that way. She wanted to cry but the tears simply wouldn’t swell up and leave her eyes, and she wanted to feel sad but she didn’t feel anything at all except for a gaping hole in her heart, leading her to question what had happened to her. Why couldn’t she feel anything. The ones that had taken in Rumi temporarily didn’t exactly leave her much room to find out. They figured that she obviously held potential with the Reiatsu, as was evident by her requirement for food and it seemed to them as if they could get something out of this. Disguising opportunity with kindness, they figured they could make a name off of this if she was sent to the Spiritual Arts Academy. However, she was naught but a little girl with no combat experience and inexperience in the soul society, so it was a huge gamble. One that they weren't willing to make unless she was able to get some experience under her belt. So, using their fairly large resources as a minor house, opted for her to be trained by a soul reaper relative after a few years. She of course, had no idea what was happening and frankly couldn't bring herself to care. She was thankful that they had saved her life, but she didn't exactly have the ability to feel much appreciation for them anymore and all she could muster was a mild thank you before being sent to her new home for the next 3 or so years, the middle of nowhere. Deep in the woods of a early number area of the Rukongai was where she'd find herself, facing someone from the soul society that she had never met before. She was handed a sword and immediately they begun training, where Rumi quickly got the idea of what was happening. After they'd settled, the Shinigami introduced himself to her and explained the situation. She didn't quite care, to be honest. She didn't really have the will to carry on living, the only thing that was keeping her alive was sheer curiosity to see if she could find what was missing in her heart and the Shinigami had promised her that she'd find something in the soul society. Whilst she wasn't excessively motivated, it kept her from giving up altogether. One thing that the swordsman had noticed was the ridiculous rate of progression that he felt from Rumi. She wasn't exceptionally gifted with reiatsu or her strength as a whole but her swordsmanship was ridiculously impressive considering how little she'd practiced with a weapon, and how veteran-like her moves were. In his mind, she was ready a whole 2 years earlier than they anticipated and he figured that this was a prospect that the soul academy couldn't pass up on. He was right. Although her spiritual pressure, strength, stamina and conditioning weren't exceptional, they took great note of her rate of learning and they figured they could make diamonds out of coal in this scenario. She was put in a class below the bottom and as a result, this irritated her. The first time she'd felt a sense of emotion in a long time, she then grew to have something of a chip on her shoulder, regardless of how little she cared. It gave her something to strive for and that was something that she desperately needed. Her process throughout the academy was not enjoyable for either parties. Teachers were irked off about her seemingly uncaring attitude, and she was annoyed that she wasn't finding what she was promised. She was progressing at an admirable rate, and at this point her conditioning had come to very bad instead of completely inexcusable to a soul reaper. She managed to pick up select Kido, but the main thing that people were enamoured with was her swordplay, which was the main reason that she was accepted in the first place and would come to be the reason she graduated. Admittedly, it took her 7 years to graduate which was slightly above the average clip but excellent considering her age. Now away from what she considers one of the worst periods of her life, she's trying to find her purpose and the answers she was promised by that shinigami all those years ago. [b]Former Life[/b]: Rumi was born to a fairly average family in Kyushu. They were both occupied as florists for a local town and Rumi was an only child of sorts. She was vastly different before entering the soul society, being a much more vocal, hotheaded, vibrant person as a whole. Still, she found great pleasure in her quiet time and enjoyed long walks in the local forest, often at dangerous night hours. She often found herself lying down and gazing down at the stars. She was however quite sickly as a child and prone to illness, leading to her demise at the age of 14. After taking a long stroll to a nearby lake, she simply fell unconscious and never woke up. [color=Purple]【[u]Zanpakutō[/u]】[/color] [Hider=Name][color=Purple][u]Zanpakutō Name[/u][/color]: [b]Akane[/b] [color=Purple][u]Zanpakutō Spirit[/u][/color] [url=https://i.pinimg.com/736x/48/5b/01/485b01999fa37dc23ff08431f23fc249--anime-animals-fox-art.jpg]Akane[/url] [color=Purple][u]Zanpakutō Personality[/u][/color] Akane is vastly different to what Rumi currently is, and is in essence the old version of Rumi. Possessing a vast array of vibrant emotions, sarcasm, and rage, it's almost as if she is the repressed feelings that Rumi truly holds deep in her heart. She tends to be quite talkative to Rumi, much more so than other Zanpakuto and their connection grows by the minute. She's far more competitive than Rumi and tends to be the thing that pushes her to have a go. [color=Purple][u]Zanpakutō Inner World[/u][/color] [url=https://orig00.deviantart.net/5142/f/2015/166/4/6/blue_forest_by_mrnepa-d8xhrnw.jpg]Twilight Orchard[/url] [color=Purple][u]Sealed Zanpakutō Appearance[/u][/color] [url=https://i.imgur.com/mlfmSot.png]Zanpakuto[/url] [color=black]—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————[/color] [color=Purple][u]【Shikai】[/u][/color] [color=Purple][u]Release Command[/u][/color] Akaruku kagayaku, Akane(Flash Brightly, Deep Red Anger) [color=Purple][u]Appearance[/u][/color] As seen in picture. The blade turns a deep intense red, whilst the handle increases in intricacy, becoming something of a mix between a rapier and a longsword. It's slightly longer than the average zanpakuto. [color=Purple][u]Abilities[/u][/color] Rumi, as of right now has no idea what her Zanpakuto's true ability is, nor does she possess the reiatsu to use it, so it is useless for her to even try without raising her spiritual pressure first. As of right now, the heat of the blade when she uses it increases as the battle goes on, and occasionally a flare of reiatsu will spike whenever she crosses it with another but nothing has come to fruition yet, [color=black]—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————[/color] [/hider] [b]Abilities[/b]: Highly Adept Zanjutsu, Above Average Hado + Average Bakudo. Rumi has incredible progression on her swordplay. Every day she gets better and better, and the level she's already at now is on par with most seated officers by most definitions. That, combined with her above average prowess at Hado makes for a deadly skillset of weaving kido into her combat patterns, making her wildly unpredictable and nigh impossible to plan against. [b]Weaknesses[/b]: She has a below average reiatsu that has little to no presence and does not hold much skill at all with the flash step due to her body being physically incapable of managing it. Her physical conditioning in comparison to other shinigami is atrocious given that she is both a child and a sickly child at that, making it hard for her to battle for large extended periods of time. She also is fairly unwilling to go out of her way to win and isn't exceptionally competitive [b]Theme[/b]: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukAsP7lh69o]Light of Nibel[/url] [b]Kido Spellbook[/b]: [hider=Bakudo] #8 Seki, #39 Enkosen [/hider] [hider=Hado] #4 Byakurai, #31 Shakkaho, #32 Okasen(most proficient), #33 Sokatsui, #54 Haien(with full incantation) [/hider] [/hider]