Name: Sengoku Kaien / 千石 海燕
Title: Blue Whale, The Drunk
Rank: Captain
Crew: Marines
Occupation/Skillset: Besides his swordsmanship, Kaien isn't known for much else. He is a decent navigator, but he wouldn't call it a skill that he has.
Age: 20
Age Appearance: 20
Allegiance: Marines
Personality: Kaien is a boisterous man. He is more likely to be found sharing sake with his crew, rather than to be disciplining them. That is not to say he is without a sense of right and wrong. He simply believes living life with and through laughter is better than to live through harsh words and punishment. This leads to him often being looked down upon by fellow marine offices, whose 'justice' might be a little more strict. Kaien doesn't mind. He knows his crew, and their loyalty lies with him. On the battlefield, he executes bis own brand of 'justice', which have been labeled 'drunken justice'. It is often said that the drunkard will spill the harshest truths. Thats his brand of 'justice. Truthful, but slurred.
Laugh: “Bru-hahahahaha”.
Birthplace: Marineford Town
History: Born in Marineford Town, Kaien is from a family of marine soldiers, having numerous former officers among them. Thusly, he grew up with one plan in mind, to become a marine, and follow in the footsteps of his forefathers.
Things went smoothly. He received more training than kids his own age would in ways of combat. At his eighth birthday party, his family laid out a number of weapons for him to choose from and train in. He immediately picked up a wooden kendo sword and that is now his weapon of choice. This choice delighted his father especially. For his family has been a family of swordsman for as long as they call can remember.
Things carried on. By age sixteen, he was familiar with the ways of the sword, having learn several family secret techniques. Sixteen also marked an important year. It was the year he officially enlisted as a marine. Of course, he chose not to have any sort of preferential treatment, based on the merits of his family. Instead, he started as the lowesst ranking recruit and steadily worked his way up, training and enduring every step of the way.
Presently, he is one of the younger captains stationed in the East Blue, at the Sixteenth Branch.
Goal: To be totally honest, Kaien doesn't hold himself to conventional goals and dreams. He has had enough talks from his family about reaching high and serving the world as it should be served.
What he wants the most is freedom. He enjoys the freedom afforded to him by being a ranked officer in the marines. He can travel as he wished, see the world as he would like, while occasionally righting the world of its wrongs.
CombatHakiType of Haki: Armament
Control: Intermediate – able to cover his entire body in Haki, or focus it into a single area for greater protection in that spot.
Special Skills: He is beginning to learn to channel his armament haki into his swords. At current, it is very taxing to him and his available swordsman skills are greatly limited due to the amount of focus he needs to maintain to keep his blades coated.
Type of Haki: Conqueror’s
Control: Non-existent – A latent skill for Kaien. He has not yet tapped into it.
Special Skills: Nothing of note
Weapons/EquipmentSwords. Namely, two regular sized katana and one odachi.
-Meito, Senbonzakura (Named Sword, Thousand Sakura Blossoms): One of two katanas he normally carries. A family heirloom left to him by his forefathers. Though it is a named sword, the actual grading of it is unknown. Commonly drawn and held with his right hand.
-Meito, Mikazuki (Named Sword, Crescent Moon): His odachi. He rarely uses it in battle due to its size and burden it places on his body. Though it is a named sword, the actual grading is up for debate since it was forged by a long forgotten family member and passed down.
His other katana is a standard issue katana of no ranking.
Fighting Skills/AttributesKaien prides himself on efficiency. He moves with fluidity, and strikes with precision. He rarely wastes a motion when attacking. His prideful nature, however, can lead to him ignoring defense when facing an opponent.
Below are some of special techniques learned from his prior training
-Shidensen (Purple Lightning Flash): To use this technique, the user falls down, then he gives himself a sprint with his feet in order to dash forward, combining the strength of gravity from the fall with his own and resulting in an incredibly fast movement. As he moves like this, the user slashes his opponent with his sword from below, usually an unprotected spot.
-Narukami (Rumbling God): This technique is divided in three, precise movements, that must be performed when the target is in the right range of three steps (三歩の間合い Sanpo no Maai): First, there's the "Start" (序 Jo), where the user starts dashing towards the opponent, ready to spring, in order to catch his attention. When the enemy tries to attack, the "Crossing" (交 Ko) follows, as the user moves quickly sideways, out of the enemy's sight, apparently disappearing. Then before the enemy can react, the user finally cuts him to the flank (斬 zan) with a powerful slash.
-Kosen (Tiger Drill): It's a thrust performed while using the rotation of the whole body to increase the penetrating power of the blade, transferring all the strength to the tip and turning it into a drill. Thanks to this enhancement, the sword can now pierce even chainmail with ease.
-Ikkotsu (Single Bone): The user holds their sheathed sword with their non-dominate hand, pointing back, at about chest high. When their opponent gets into striking range, the user pressing their thumb down on the guard of the sheathed sword as hard as they can while simultaneously drawing their sword to strike. The pressure and the ensuing friction gets released as soon as the sword is fully drawn, resulting in a high-speed, whip-like, slash.
Fighting Style: Kaien aims to finish a fight as quickly as possible. He rarely holds back because he believes that the fight needed to happen for a reason. Since there is a reason for the fight, it then becomes something he has to finish. Combining his swordsmanship and the Soru technique from the Rokushiki, Kaien attacks with fluidity and precision.
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