Nyahahameha

Bleach - Resonant Souls

TOHSAKA
Nina

&

Anthony "Tony" Adams-Himura

Sagamiyama - Sweets Shop Outside
Sunday Midday

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Nina flashed Emi an “okay” signal in response to the request for her to not die. She didn't need to be told twice. After that, she pursed her lips in thought. Her physical body wasn’t presently even in Sagamiyama, instead having been left in a hotel in the nearest large city. While it made wandering around without being stopped by fans, hecklers, or paps easier, it was pretty inconvenient for actually doing things during downtime. Not that this needed to stop her. After all, it’d be easier to, say, hit up an arcade without worrying about drawing a crowd. Sure, why not?

She looked around to her new coworkers. Who among them seemed most likely to enjoy getting some game time in? ...Probably the one who kind of looked like he came out of one, yeah. Nina approached Tony, Soul Pager in hand, and typed out a text, and held it out screen facing the boy.

“Yo. Wanna' hit an arcade or smth?”

“Oh…” Tony looked down at the soul pager, moving his hand over the paper, “You think I would go to an arcade just because you asked if we were friends…” Tony’s eyebrows furrowed slightly. He seemed to be about to say no… suddenly a loud, happy scream was heard.

“BECAUSE I’LL DO!!!” He almost screamed, all while giving a very enthusiastic thumbs up, he has waited for a moment like this for ages, last time he went to an arcade was months ago.

With a clap of her hands, Nina grinned wide and returned the thumbs up. She wheeled around and began to walk off, then midstep, leg stretched out in front of her, stopped. She rotated on her heel, leg still held up, and faced Tony once more, now with brows furrowed and lips curled in befuddlement, her eyes looking upward as if trying to look into her own mind.

Where...was the arcade in Sagamiyama, again?

She was sure she’d seen one at...some point on her traipse from hideout to hideout looking for people earlier that day. Her brow furrowing further in annoyance at her own forgetfulness, she lowered her leg, pulled her Soul Pager back out, and tried to find a search engine app on it. Wait, did this thing even have a data plan?

After a few moments of tapping on the buttons in increasing frustration, Nina grit her teeth and leaned back with the phone raised above her head in her left hand. She then swung down, not releasing the delicate device, and returned it to her pocket. She then walked back toward Tony, passed behind him, then turned around and waited for him to lead the way. Hopefully he either knew where the arcade was, or had a working goddamn phone.

“Oh… I see.” Tony smirked and swiftly pulled his phone out, he tapped the words ‘Arcades nearby now now’, after looking for the results for a bit, he found a place some blocks from the candy shop, “AHA!! I found the place, it’s… oh, oh no…” He seemed to grow more and more worried and somewhat scared about the place, almost like he was seeing the scene of a crime. He saw if it was open or closed, surprisingly it was open, what also stood up was the surprisingly good reviews, portraying the arcade as a quite refined and elegant place, despite looking like a nearly abandoned place… like a chuck e cheese he went one time with Kyle… weird, it’s very similar now that he sees it.

“Okay, do you wanna go here? I know it doesn’t really look that good, but… it’s probably the only, and somehow best option there is.” He showed her the place, a dusty floor and some verily present arcade machines, one of which seemed to be broken down.

Upon being asked the question, Nina sidled up behind Tony, bent down, and pushed her face through the gap between his bicep and the side of his torso, situating her head beneath his underarm like she was putting herself in a headlock using him. She used this vantage to look at the screen of his phone.

It looked passable. But just to be sure, she snaked her arm around the opposite side of his arm from the one her head was situated, to reach his phone and scroll through a few of the pictures the listing had of the place. She wanted to make sure they had-- yes! A DDR machine! Perfect. She once more gave Tony a thumbs-up, while nodding her head under his arm.

“Nice, now that I see, I think they have a dance dance revolution machine. You gotta see me dancing…” He smiles, quite awkwardly, his eyes showing some regret… “I’m terrible…” Tony also feels she’s kinda slithery, like a snake. A very friendly and mute snake.

“Anyways, we’ll go here… do you need something else?” Tony’s expression becomes thoughtful, “Ah, right you’re still a ghost. Where’s your body actually, I think you came here as a ghost?” He points at her very subtly, still with her head self-locked on his underarm.

Nina once more pulled out her Soul Pager and typed out a message for him. This time, she used the arm that was behind Tony’s back, bending it upward to hold her phone up close to his head.

“I left it in Nagoya. 'S cool."

After giving him a couple moments to read it, she lifted his arm so she could pull her head out and stand back up again. She then lifted her knee and gave him a gentle nudge in the butt, to signal he should get moving now.

“Okay, I'll move.” He said, slightly laughing. He lifted his left foot and quickly swung his right hand forward in a pointing action, “This way.” He puffed his chest out, acting like some wanna-be leader, despite the fact that he was guiding himself with his phone in his free hand.

Moving through Sagamiyama would be easy for most people who live in japan. Tony was a japanese-american, who sometimes spoke like a generic new yorker, it was reasonable that he didn’t have a single clue of how the whole town even operated at all. His pizza burger brain can only do so much to try and adapt to another country. Despite this, he always tries to be friendly with the people who live here, and that would include Nina. Since he first saw her, he knew they could be good friends, she seems so… loud, and that’s without some cheap joke.

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TOHSAKA
Nina

Sagamiyama - Sweets Shop Training Ground

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Said silent pleasantries were naturally preceded by Nina's answer to Shouko's query, produced by the toy harmonica of green plastic she held in her right hand: a rapid blow up the instrument's upper note range, followed by a victorious jingle.

Afterwards came time for the group to settle in for lunch. Being that her body was chilling out in her hotel room several kilometers away, Nina was left to partake of the supplied "soul food", a pun that made her laugh a descending series of chords out after it occurred to her. Still, would have been nice to sample those burritos, not to mention make for a nice easy bonding moment. This would mark the first time she found a downside to the convenience offered by being able to travel unseen by the public as a shinigami.

As the rest of the group found their seating, Nina opted to stay standing, due primarily to the excitement of meeting so many new people all at once filling her with more energy than she knew what to do with. Plus, she'd just have to get to her feet again to do a proper introduction once everyone was settled, so might as well. An eventuality which came about quickly, followed by Ouga generously giving everyone her name so she wouldn't need to borrow one of those spirit cellphone thingies. Though not before she shot him a look in response to his phrasing of "say hi" while speaking to a mute woman, constituting a slow head turn in Ouga's direction, her bright red brows pressing downward into her tightly-squinted eyes, and a narrow smile not unlike the kind someone would be forced to display due to another person pressing their fingers into the corners of their mouth. If she had cat ears, they'd certainly be pressed flat against the top of her head. Once her message was conveyed, self-introduction time brought her bright and cheery smile right back.

A fast-chugging honky-tonk jaunt was interspersed with three descending notes widely separated, those three notes each punctuating a pose Nina shifted to while leaving the harmonica between her lips: a feet-spread power pose with her left hand making a sideways peace sign in front of her left eye while her right eye winked; a wide stance with her knees and elbows bent and her fists balled, grin broad and eye glint dangerous, and; a provocative pose with her back both turned to the group and arched, this time winking her left eye over her shoulder as she lifted - not high enough to expose much more than extra thigh meat - the hem of her cut-short shihakusho with her right hand and propped up her forward lean by placing her left hand on her knee.

Essentially, she wanted them to know she was fun, high-energy, and a little bit sexy.

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TOHSAKA
Nina

Sagamiyama - Komori Sweets Shop

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Despite having been prepared for an attack, she hadn't expected to be assailed quite so immediately, and the small projectile chucked by Emi zoomed right through her defenses. In opening her mouth to gasp in surprise, Nina gave it the perfect opening to land which to land.

Oh. Puffed corn.

The nostalgic taste and familiar voice using her name brought calm to Nina's mind, washing away the terrible scenario her imagination had painted on the canvas of her mind. Arms falling to her sides, Nina tilted her head back, pointing the umaibo at the ceiling as she took a bite and allowed more of the edible baton to fall past her lips.

Mm, chocolatey insides.

She lowered her head and looked around, finally getting a good look around the room. Emi was sitting at the back of the shop the same way she had been the first time she'd been brought by here, further reassuring Nina that there was no cause to be concerned. She considered asking why the door was broken, but was forced to remember that she didn't have access to her smartphone in spirit form, and hadn't been supplied with one of those digital devices she'd seen the recruiters use from time to time - and even if she had been, she wasn't sure those things had a texting app.

So, with a shrug, and taking another hands-free bite of her umaibo, Nina sheathed her zanpakuto and moved to take another step into the shop. Then she paused.

On her right side, one of the toys stocked on a shelf near the entrance caught her eye - some colourful plastic harmonicas arranged in a row. She plucked one from its spot before resuming her forward movement toward Emi. She answered the shopkeeper's offer with a bow and a nod of her head. After paying for both the umaibo and the harmonica, she was shown to the training ground like the rest.

Sagamiyama - Sweets Shop Training Ground

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Well damn.

Nina looked across the well-lit underground urban development zone, littered with the groaning forms of shihakusho-clad warriors who had apparently all been cleanly laid out, ostensibly by one of the only two left standing - the pompadour-sporting recruiter she'd been previously introduced to with the name Ouga. It probably hadn't been the gloomy-looking kid who could barely move one of his arms. Oh, and Shouko was here, too, appearing to give some instruction to a younger-looking substitute. Nina hopped on the balls of her feet, smiling wide and waving energetically at Shouko.

As she ran from the lead-down from the shop above, Nina popped the last bite of her umaibo in her mouth, freeing her left hand. She considered launching directly into a musical introduction to her new coworkers, but it seemed like most of the might need a moment to collect themselves or recover before they'd be ready to divert their attention from whatever lesson Ouga was teaching them.

Bleach - Resonant Souls

TOHSAKA
Nina

Sagamiyama - Komori Sweets Shop

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Shoulders stiff, fists clenched, eyes wide and brows furrowed, Nina slowly scanned the area in front of the sweets shop, looking for further signs of struggle beyond the mangled remains of the building's primary entrance. Finding her wits, the musician spread her feet, bent her knees, and placed her left hand upon the hilt of the zanpakuto tied to her waist.

Finding the other two locations she remembered as being the hangout spots of the shinigami she had met those several months ago empty had been odd enough, but finding a sliding door in shreds at the third of what were supposed to be something like safe havens for these warriors finally convinced her something may be amiss.

Nina's eyes continued to shift slowly from side to side as she worked to keep her breathing steady.

Hollows were typically active at night, but she had fought a couple odd ones that carried out their hunts in the daytime, and given that the door seemed to be the only thing destroyed, it was possible that something other than a hollow was responsible for the apparent disappearance of all the shinigami from the local hangouts.

"......."

Nothing in sight, not outside the sweets shop at least. With a sharp inhale of realization, Nina lunged toward the right-hand side of the shop's open doorway, back pressed against the wall and hand glued to the hilt. Her first guess had been that the hangout spots were empty because the shinigami were off hunting down whatever had caused the door's destruction, but another possibility had just occurred to her: they could all simply be dead. Or, more ideally, captured, if it truly was something other than a Hollow that had done this. But that could also mean the perpetrator was still on the premises.

Leering through the doorway in as low a profile as she could manage, movement in front of her face forced Nina to cross her eyes - a lock of lime green hair was swaying between them. With her right hand free, she brushed across her bangs, returning the lock to the series of uniform feathers just above her brow. Her bright cyan hair and rainbow stockings probably didn't make for good stealth attire, she was reminded. Nina breathed a quiet sigh, smirking in contempt at herself. She never did follow through on her smartest ideas.

Nina stepped into the candy shop while drawing her zanpakuto, her stance placing her left side forward with her left hand held in front, two fingers pointed upward, while her sword was held in her right hand, raised above her head and pointed forward. With a twitch, she could either thrust or perform a Hado. Just in case, she swiftly turned to face the entrance she'd just stepped through, then turned around once more, determined not to be taken by surprise if there was some unknown assailant waiting for shinigami here.

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Musical Soul Reaper Exilon

Name: Nina Tohsaka
Stage Name: Exilon
Age: 34
Gender: Female

Appearance:

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• Cyan blue hair, shaggy and relatively short, reaching the jawline
• Bangs tipped lime green, spiked toward her right ear
• Pale skin of a life lived mostly at nighttime
• Right eye yellow, left eye blue, both wide and full of energy
• Eyebrows a fiery red but not frequently furrowed, not too thin
• Legs of shihakusho cut short, leaving everything below mid-thigh exposed
• Done to show off set of rainbow-colored stockings, which start red at the mouth and progress through the rest of OY G BIV in thick bars until the ankle, where they become thinner and repeat toward the toe
• 5'4"/162cm, Fit and lithe build, though not curve-less; length of shihakusho shows off pretty meaty thighs

Standing at 5'4"/162cm, with the pale skin of someone steeped in nightlife, Nina is the type to put every effort into standing out from her average-heighted peers. Her short, shaggy cyan hair, which reaches to around her jawline, with its bangs tipped lime green and spiked toward her right ear, give her a neon-fueled manic pixie dream girl vibe. A vibe which is only heightened by her scarlet eyebrows and two-tone eyes, the right being yellow and the left blue. Of course, none of these colors are natural.

Nina's penchant for standing out extends to her shihakusho, which she purposely cuts short at the leg to show off everything below the mid-thigh. Which both means her well-built and powerful dancer's legs and the rainbow-color stockings that she clothes them in. These stockings have all the colors of the rainbow arranged in thick horizontal bars, starting with red at the mouth of the sock and progressing through the rest of OY G BIV down the length of her legs, repeating the pattern where shin meets ankle in thinner bars down toward her toes.

Personality:

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• Brash and outspoken, despite being completely mute
• Curious and eager, sometimes overcoming instinct for self-preservation
• Highly social, treating no subjects as off limits, with the exception of her own past
• Obsessor, focusing on one thing for a period of time, then never touching it again once interest is lost (music is an exception)
• Can't let it go when challenged, but doesn't hold onto grudges after apologies are made

Despite being completely mute, owing to a birth defect, Nina cannot be described as "quiet". With oodles of energy that she seldom bothers attempting to contain, Nina uses all avenues available to express herself at every opportunity, including when people would prefer she not. Boisterous and opinionated, seeing her engaged in arguments is just as common as seeing her cheer others on. If anything, the rarest sight is seeing her not in the company of another person.

This energy extends to subjects that catch her interest, be they field of study, a unique character fictional or non, a culinary experience, or anything else that strikes her as something worth learning more about. That said, with music being an exception, these interests have a tendency to be fleeting, lasting a few weeks at most. Equal are the number of people who are relieved by her sudden absence and the number of people confused by their new friend seemingly moving on from them. Her longest lasting relationships tend to be those who are either capable of offering continued surprises, and those who become obsessive of her in turn. The biggest barrier, however, is whether the person in question can stomach her general disregard for boundaries both physical and social. She is already becoming well known in the Seireitei for the kinds of invasive questioning and oversharing she will engage in if given a text-based communication tool.

Given her excess of energy, it isn't a wonder that she'll eagerly attempt to overcome any challenge placed in front of her, regardless of the desires of that challenge. There are more than a few shinagami who have found themselves unwitting participants in a rivalry with Nina, though it's mostly the ones that reciprocate that find themselves unable to rid themselves of her.

Backstory:

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• Born with a medical defect affecting her larynx to a Canadian mother and Japanese father
• Grew up frequently being flown between Canada and Japan due to parents' jobs often keeping them in separate countries
• Frequent travel made holding onto relationships difficult, giving her lots of practice at forming new ones
• Learned to express herself with music at an early age, developing into a lifetime passion that also led to her career on stage
• Popular among those who enjoy vocal-less music, known for variety even with her obvious bias toward high energy and upbeat pieces, with a decent periphery demographic outside of that thanks to collaborations
• Her social skills, passion for music, and general high energy and zest led to her being a fairly popular instrumentalist musician
• Her curiosity and general lack of screening of people led to her falling into substance abuse in her early twenties

Half-Japanese on her father's side, half-Canadian on her mother's side, Nina grew up as a frequent flier between the two countries due to the requirements of both her parents' white-collar jobs infrequently allowing them to be in the same place. Born with a medical defect affecting her larynx, Nina has never been able to speak with words, and with constant travel, often found herself alone, with the handful of relationships she did form being difficult to maintain even in the age of social media. However, when she discovered the power music had to not only draw people to her, but allow her to express herself to them in a way text-based mediums could not, she obtained a lifelong passion that blossomed into a successful career as an instrumentalist on stages in both Canada and Japan.

It was the combination of past loneliness and overeager curiosity that led to her failing to develop the ability to judge character well, itself resulting in her falling into the kind of crowd that would encourage the use of recreational drugs without properly educating her on safe usage. With fame finding her at the relatively early age of 20, so do did the sort of people eager to take advantage of famous youth. Though her fame wasn't ever going to be earth-shattering due to her niche in non-vocal music (even with collaborations with other artists helping gain her a fair periphery demographic), it was this quality that made her an even bigger mark. Travelling down this path led to as many ups as it did downs, as those in the biz were happy to help her raise her star power, being that she seemed qualmless about letting them get everything they wanted out of doing so.

Ultimately, it would have been a short, sweet life.

Why did you become a Substitute Shinigami:

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• She was on tour in Japan, with one night's concert located in Sagamiyama
• After the concert, she experienced a drug overdose that nearly led to the loss of her life
• Shouko Hayasegawa was luckily in attendance at the concert, thus allowing her to reach Nina before she became a Jibakurei
• Nina accepted the offer to become a substitute soul reaper both out of sheer curiosity about the other side of death, as well as so she could continue brightening peoples' lives with her music - and now, she can brighten peoples' deaths, too

It was while on tour in Japan, which took her to the town of Sagamiyama, that Nina got her first taste of death. It was after the encore performance at that night's show, exhausted from giving more than her all, as usual, that she took once again to illicit substances to give her the energy to get through the rest of the night without sleep. She had an after-party to enjoy, after all, with all the elbow-rubbing and shared congratulating it entailed.

As it turned out, her body could not push any further past its limits. And in her attempts to force it to do so, Nina exposed herself to a far higher dosage than what the human body was capable of processing. It ceased to function properly, alone in her dressing room. As her soul separated from flesh, chains bound her to the venue - the concert hall she had given was would have been her final performance a. Her spirit clung to the desire to entertain, to help others enjoy their lives as much as she was striving to enjoy her own.

Which in a way, turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as a Shinigami happened to be in the audience that night, and sensed the creation of a Jibakurei occurring in the vicinity. It was both out of respect for the tenacity that was necessary for a Jibakurei to bind itself to the world of the living, and out of the self-interest of wanting to continue enjoying Exilon's musical performances, that Substitute Shinigami recruiter Shouko Hayasegawa offered Nina the position. It was both out of curiosity about life after death, and out of the self-interest of wanting to continue putting on musical performances, that Substitute Shinigami Nina Tosaka was given her power.

::COMBAT::

• Strength: 50
• Skill: 300 400
• Speed: 150 200
• Focus: 75 100
• Constitution: 225 300
• Reiryoku: 1300 1325
• Reiatsu: 265

::Shinigami Arts::

• Zanjutsu: 0/5
• Hakuda: 1/5
• Hoho: 1/5
• Kido: 1/5

Feats: N/A

Zanpakuto:
A kodachi-length asauchi with a white line on its backside, running the length of the black spine. The sheath also has white lines running the length of its left side, six of them.

Shikai: N/A

Techniques:

• Hakuda
  • Ikioiho - "Momentum Step" is a fledgling combat style designed to transfer Nina's dance skills into hand-to-hand combat ability, oriented on skillful footwork. Performed to a rhythm, it incorporates spins, acrobatics, and dance moves to turn momentum into force while making Nina difficult to hit. The precise moves and footwork make use of her high Skill, while the constant motion and exertion use could only be maintained by someone with her energy levels.
• Hoho
  • Youho - "Jump Step", as the name implies, it's a kind of flash step where the user jumps up into the air. Also quite practical, and can be used to escape harm quickly. It emphasises' Hoho's need for leg strength as without enough, one might not be able to bound over their opponent, let alone Hollow who are typically larger.
  • Niseyouho - "False Jump Step", as the name implies, is a kind of flash step where the user attempts to trick a target into thinking they have jumped up into the air. Effectiveness increases with closeness of range, as an increase in the need to tilt one's head back to follow the user's assumed upward trajectory decreases the likeliness of noticing the user crouched down beneath one's line of sight.

Memorized Kido:

• Hado
  • Sho - "Thrust", produces a small amount of energy enough force to thrust a considerable amount of kinetic force at a target, which is pushed back a few feet from the practitioner.
• Bakudo
  • Seki - "Repulse", generates an orb/disk of light blue energy which repels whatever strikes it.
  • Otokabe - "Sound Wall", manipulates airborne Reishi via the user's Reiryoku carried on sound waves, forming a multilayered wall of kinetic force that is carried forward by the wake of the waveform. The speed and distance the wall travels is dictated by the volume of the sound the user created, and is generally a thousandth of the speed and distance the actual sound wave travels.

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@Sho MinazukiHm, I see. In that case, I might as well wait until she achieves her Shikai, since that will change the shape of its sealed form as well. I hope it's okay if her release not only makes her Kido options more powerful, but also expands her non-Kido options a bit as well. I already have in mind what I want it to look like and do.

Also, I double-posted, in case you missed it. Her CS has been submitted in the post immediately preceding yours. I'll wait to make any changes, such as that she currently doesn't use incantations at all, until after you read its unedited form.

Bleach - Resonant Souls

Musical Soul Reaper Exilon

Name: Nina Tohsaka
Stage Name: Exilon
Age: 34
Gender: Female

Appearance:

Bulleted

• Cyan blue hair, shaggy and relatively short, reaching the jawline
• Bangs tipped lime green, spiked toward her right ear
• Pale skin of a life lived mostly at nighttime
• Right eye yellow, left eye blue, both wide and full of energy
• Eyebrows a fiery red but not frequently furrowed, not too thin
• Legs of shihakusho cut short, leaving everything below mid-thigh exposed
• Done to show off set of rainbow-colored stockings, which start red at the mouth and progress through the rest of OY G BIV in thick bars until the ankle, where they become thinner and repeat toward the toe
• 5'4"/162cm, Fit and lithe build, though not curve-less; length of shihakusho shows off pretty meaty thighs

Standing at 5'4"/162cm, with the pale skin of someone steeped in nightlife, Nina is the type to put every effort into standing out from her average-heighted peers. Her short, shaggy cyan hair, which reaches to around her jawline, with its bangs tipped lime green and spiked toward her right ear, give her a neon-fueled manic pixie dream girl vibe. A vibe which is only heightened by her scarlet eyebrows and two-tone eyes, the right being yellow and the left blue. Of course, none of these colors are natural.

Nina's penchant for standing out extends to her shihakusho, which she purposely cuts short at the leg to show off everything below the mid-thigh. Which both means her well-built and powerful dancer's legs and the rainbow-color stockings that she clothes them in. These stockings have all the colors of the rainbow arranged in thick horizontal bars, starting with red at the mouth of the sock and progressing through the rest of OY G BIV down the length of her legs, repeating the pattern where shin meets ankle in thinner bars down toward her toes.

Personality:

Bulleted

• Brash and outspoken, despite being completely mute
• Curious and eager, sometimes overcoming instinct for self-preservation
• Highly social, treating no subjects as off limits, with the exception of her own past
• Obsessor, focusing on one thing for a period of time, then never touching it again once interest is lost (music is an exception)
• Can't let it go when challenged, but doesn't hold onto grudges after apologies are made

Despite being completely mute, owing to a birth defect, Nina cannot be described as "quiet". With oodles of energy that she seldom bothers attempting to contain, Nina uses all avenues available to express herself at every opportunity, including when people would prefer she not. Boisterous and opinionated, seeing her engaged in arguments is just as common as seeing her cheer others on. If anything, the rarest sight is seeing her not in the company of another person.

This energy extends to subjects that catch her interest, be they field of study, a unique character fictional or non, a culinary experience, or anything else that strikes her as something worth learning more about. That said, with music being an exception, these interests have a tendency to be fleeting, lasting a few weeks at most. Equal are the number of people who are relieved by her sudden absence and the number of people confused by their new friend seemingly moving on from them. Her longest lasting relationships tend to be those who are either capable of offering continued surprises, and those who become obsessive of her in turn. The biggest barrier, however, is whether the person in question can stomach her general disregard for boundaries both physical and social. She is already becoming well known in the Seireitei for the kinds of invasive questioning and oversharing she will engage in if given a text-based communication tool.

Given her excess of energy, it isn't a wonder that she'll eagerly attempt to overcome any challenge placed in front of her, regardless of the desires of that challenge. There are more than a few shinagami who have found themselves unwitting participants in a rivalry with Nina, though it's mostly the ones that reciprocate that find themselves unable to rid themselves of her.

Backstory:

Bulleted

• Born with a medical defect affecting her larynx to a Canadian mother and Japanese father
• Grew up frequently being flown between Canada and Japan due to parents' jobs often keeping them in separate countries
• Frequent travel made holding onto relationships difficult, giving her lots of practice at forming new ones
• Learned to express herself with music at an early age, developing into a lifetime passion that also led to her career on stage
• Her social skills, passion for music, and general high energy and zest led to her being a fairly popular instrumentalist musician
• Her curiosity and general lack of screening of people led to her falling into substance abuse in her early twenties

Half-Japanese on her father's side, half-Canadian on her mother's side, Nina grew up as a frequent flier between the two countries due to the requirements of both her parents' white-collar jobs infrequently allowing them to be in the same place. Born with a medical defect affecting her larynx, Nina has never been able to speak with words, and with constant travel, often found herself alone, with the handful of relationships she did form being difficult to maintain even in the age of social media. However, when she discovered the power music had to not only draw people to her, but allow her to express herself to them in a way text-based mediums could not, she obtained a lifelong passion that blossomed into a successful career as an instrumentalist on stages in both Canada and Japan.

It was the combination of past loneliness and overeager curiosity that led to her failing to develop the ability to judge character well, itself resulting in her falling into the kind of crowd that would encourage the use of recreational drugs without properly educating her on safe usage. With fame finding her at the relatively early age of 20, so do did the sort of people eager to take advantage of famous youth. Travelling down this path led to as many ups as it did downs, as those in the biz were happy to help her raise her star power, being that she seemed qualmless about letting them get everything they wanted out of doing so.

Ultimately, it would have been a short, sweet life.

Why did you become a Substitute Shinigami:

Bulleted

• She was on tour in Japan, with one night's concert located in Sagamiyama
• After the concert, she experienced a drug overdose that nearly led to the loss of her life
• Shouko Hayasegawa was luckily in attendance at the concert, thus allowing her to reach Nina before she became a Jibakurei
• Nina accepted the offer to become a substitute soul reaper both out of sheer curiosity about the other side of death, as well as so she could continue brightening peoples' lives with her music - and now, she can brighten peoples' deaths, too

It was while on tour in Japan, which took her to the town of Sagamiyama, that Nina got her first taste of death. It was after the encore performance at that night's show, exhausted from giving more than her all, as usual, that she took once again to illicit substances to give her the energy to get through the rest of the night without sleep. She had an after-party to enjoy, after all, with all the elbow-rubbing and shared congratulating it entailed.

As it turned out, her body could not push any further past its limits. And in her attempts to force it to do so, Nina exposed herself to a far higher dosage than what the human body was capable of processing. It ceased to function properly, alone in her dressing room. As her soul separated from flesh, chains bound her to the venue - the concert hall she had given was would have been her final performance a. Her spirit clung to the desire to entertain, to help others enjoy their lives as much as she was striving to enjoy her own.

Which in a way, turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as a Shinigami happened to be in the audience that night, and sensed the creation of a Jibakurei occurring in the vicinity. It was both out of respect for the tenacity that was necessary for a Jibakurei to bind itself to the world of the living, and out of the self-interest of wanting to continue enjoying Exilon's musical performances, that Substitute Shinigami recruiter Shouko Hayasegawa offered Nina the position. It was both out of curiosity about life after death, and out of the self-interest of wanting to continue putting on musical performances, that Substitute Shinigami Nina Tosaka was given her power.

::COMBAT::

• Strength: 50
• Skill: 300
• Speed: 150
• Focus: 75
• Constitution: 225
• Reiryoku: 1300
• Reiatsu: 260

::Shinigami Arts::

• Zanjutsu: 0/5
• Hakuda: 0/5
• Hoho: 1/5
• Kido: 1/5

Feats: N/A

Zanpakuto:
A kodachi-length asauchi with a white line on its backside, running the length of the black spine. The sheath also has white lines running the length of its left side, six of them.

Shikai: N/A

Techniques:

• Hoho
  • Youho - "Jump Step", as the name implies, it's a kind of flash step where the user jumps up into the air. Also quite practical, and can be used to escape harm quickly. It emphasises' Hoho's need for leg strength as without enough, one might not be able to bound over their opponent, let alone Hollow who are typically larger.
  • Niseyouho - "False Jump Step", as the name implies, is a kind of flash step where the user attempts to trick a target into thinking they have jumped up into the air. Effectiveness increases with closeness of range, as an increase in the need to tilt one's head back to follow the user's assumed upward trajectory decreases the likeliness of noticing the user crouched down beneath one's line of sight.

Memorized Kido:

• Hado
  • Sho - "Thrust", produces a small amount of energy enough force to thrust a considerable amount of kinetic force at a target, which is pushed back a few feet from the practitioner.
• Bakudo
  • Seki - "Repulse", generates an orb/disk of light blue energy which repels whatever strikes it.
  • Otokabe - "Sound Wall", manipulates airborne Reishi via the user's Reiryoku carried on sound waves, forming a multilayered wall of kinetic force that is carried forward by the wake of the waveform. The speed and distance the wall travels is dictated by the volume of the sound the user created, and is generally a thousandth of the speed and distance the actual sound wave travels.

Bleach - Resonant Souls

@Sho MinazukiI feel like casting Kido without incantations is supposed to be a pretty high level thing, not something fledgling Soul Reapers are capable of. And even if I could justify my character being an exception, if it's all the same to you, I don't want to cast Kido without incantations.

Bleach - Resonant Souls

Hello! I saw that the status is set to Apply and the story doesn't seem to have left its first arc yet. :) Would anyone mind myself submitting a character?

It's too late at night for me to put together a full CS, but the gist of the character will be:
-She's mute due to a medical condition, but displays high energy and zeal in how she interacts with people
-Her zanpakuto has a bowstring built into its spine, and when run across any of the white lines running the length of her scabbard, allows her to play violin notes which work as substitute for Kido incantations
-Among her weaknesses, some lie in her lacking close combat skills, combatively, and in her lacking regard for boundaries, socially.

Qlippoth Shift: A Supernatural Action RP About Combating Otherworldy Anomalies

Elvira Sanada
The Technol-Angel

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Branch 092 - Cafeteria

Entering the cafeteria a minute or so after Arisa had, an unfamiliar, tall, narrow figure in very modest clothing drew the eyes of several agents present in the room. Eye-catching both because of her unfamiliarity, and because of the four glowing blue and gently humming rings - flat like discs - floating in the air around her; one hovering above her head not unlike an angel's halo, one hovering near to her right shoulder and levitating a mug of coffee below it, one hovering near to her left elbow and levitating a closed laptop, and the last hovering near her right hip and levitating a fifth ring not glowing, humming or rotating like the other four. In her hands, she held a folder containing documents she was fervently attempting to memorize, her eyes behind her rectangular glasses listing up to down even as the dark circles under them almost appeared to darken in real time.

Elvira stepped across the room and made her way to the coffee maker present - the same model as the one in the office space that had apparently started spraying liquid several days ago due to poor operation by one of the other agents - and exchanged the folder in her hands for the laptop being carried by one of her H.A.L.O.s. She also took hold of the dormant H.A.L.O. being carried by the one near her hip, which came to life like the rest after some brief typing on her laptop. She reached toward the coffee maker with the now glowing ring in hand and held it above the machine for a moment, then removed her hand and left the ring floating aloft the machine, rotating and humming with power. Elvira turned her attention back to her laptop, copy-pasting some lines of code she'd written earlier from a text file into the program used to control the H.A.L.O. above the coffee machine.

"So that's the new transfer? Looks like she's been running herself ragged."

"What are those floating circles? Some kinda magitech?"

"Holy magic fused with technology? That's a new one."

@VitaVitaAR