Post by mousse on Oct 17, 2009 3:52:14 GMT -5
Name: Sunako Chitose
Age: 163
Gender: Male
Personality:
Skill Level: Swordsmanship: Intermediate
Skill Level: Shunpou: Advanced
Skill Level: Hand-to-hand: Intermediate
History/Background:
Age: 163
Gender: Male
Personality:
He is quiet, distant and aloof, very much a lone wolf type. Except for when he's alone with his division, he's very quiet, and he still doesn't talk much, even when simply with the rest of the division. He can be very commanding and adept at getting people to do what he either wants or needs them to do in order to accomplish the objective at hands, very much an ends-justifies-the-means person. At the same time, he becomes frustrated very easily, especially when his comrades are incapable of focusing themselves long enough to either solve the problem at hand or solve his own. His Zanpakuto, while always helpful, frustrates him more than anything with her chattering. He is surprisingly good at getting people to calm down, with a simple touch, or a calmly stated sentence or two. It's not because they find him threatening, it's just that his own personality gives a large degree of calming influence.Appearance:
Another notable aspect of Sunako is his arrogance—a highly skilled Shinigami, Sunako is good and he knows it. His confidence and self-assurance often border on arrogance, though not without justification.
Zanpakuto Spirit:
Note: That is his Shikai Blade, not his sealed one. Also, the sheath is different so it fits the unusual design of his Zanpakuto. It still looks basically the same, it just fits an unusually large Schimitar instead of a katana.
He is exactly 6 feet tall, with straight brown hair,
Name: ArenokibaSealed Zanpakuto:
Gender: Female
Personality: In direct contrast to her partner, Arenokiba is a well meaning but slightly scatter-brained little kid who really cannot tell the good guys from the bad guys. She has a tendency to contradict herself. On the other hand, Arenokiba is a kind hearted, compassionate person who does her best to support and encourage Sunako whenever he fights. Too bad he wished she could just be quiet. She has an obsession with the concept of "Justice", which she will eagerly tell Sunako ALLLLLL about. She almost always talks to Sunako, but her incessant chattering is a constant source of frustration for the Shinigami.
Basically, she's the side of Sunako that he refuses to EVER let out. In a way, he and his Zanpakuto spirit have a sort of Split Personality disorder together, but completely split. Sunako never acts like Arenokiba, and Arenokiba never acts like Sunako.
Appearance:
Inner World: Sunako's Inner world is an empty Desert, full of sand. It is very windy, and seems to go on forever. While it is hot, the heat does not bother him or Arenokiba. The only living things that ever appear here naturally are Sunako, and Arenokiba. The rest is completely barren. You can see the Inner World in the back round picture for Arenokiba.
Shikai Description:
In a reference to the most well known Desert's in the world, instead of the normal Katana as his sealed blade, Sunako's blade is Arabian in design. However, it is unusually large, about as long as the average Katana, but still as proportionally thick as an Arabian sword that size would be.
Shikai Abilities:
As you can see, the whole blade has turned into individual grains of sand, and sand is trailing off it and floating in the air. It's power's are, well, sand based.
The Release command is Wear Down
In her Shikai, Arenokiba's blade dissolves into sand which floats in the air. However, as shown above, she's still capable of being a blade in Sunako's hands. Each Grain of Sand is under Sunako's control, and he can make it attack from any direction by moving the hilt. Sunako has completely mastered this, able to move the "sand" any way he wants with the slightest tilt of the hilt. Unlike most Projectile based Zankaputo's, each piece is not a blade by itself, but forms into blades with Sunako's control. However, the Sand scrapes like incredibly powerful sand-paper, wearing down, scraping away flesh, Cloth, and even the "steel" of other Zanpakuto's, if their Wielder is weaker than Sunako. To make up for her weaker cutting power compared to other projectile based Zanpakuto, Arenokiba is very good at making barriers to block attacks, as the barriers are pretty much walls of solid Zanpakuto material, making them as strong as Sunako's First Release Zanpakuto is. However, these barriers are NOT automatic. Also, there is a FAR larger source of the sand that it really appears there should be forBankai Description:
At heart, the strength of this ability lies in it's sheer versatility. Barriers, blades, tentacles, armor, spears, etc. it's all usable by Sunako.
When activating Bankai, he says "Bankai" and repeats the release phrase. At this stage, the hilt dissolves, and Sand starts oozing out of the ground, turning the whole area into a "Desert".Bankai Abilities:
Note: I put Desert in quotes because unlike a real desert, it wouldn't have the fact that it's extremely hot or cold, depending on time of day.
At this point, the grains are controlled mentally, no movement required on Sunako's part. Along with this, he can freely control the Grains of Sand that came out of the ground, just as easily as he can with the blades grains. In addition, each individual grain becomes much stronger, as the blades of all Zanpakuto do in Bankai, meaning any blades, shields, weapons, etc. that he makes out of the sand will be much tougher. However, they still are Shaving instead of cutting.Skill Level: Kidou: Advanced
Because of the lack of the need for hilt, allowing the grains to be controlled by his mind alone, it gets even easier for him to move, allowing him to make liberal use of his advanced skill with the Shunpo. He is fond of using Kido spells while controlling the grains of sand as a defensive barrier. This is simply a faster, tougher version of his Shikai, with more material. If Byakuya is anything to go by, this is the truth for all Projectile-type Zanpakuto's.
Skill Level: Swordsmanship: Intermediate
Skill Level: Shunpou: Advanced
Skill Level: Hand-to-hand: Intermediate
History/Background:
Sunako was born in the 65th district to the Chitose family, and in a case of extremely meaningful name, received the name Sunako ("Sand Child"). The Chitose was a moderately well off family, able to take care of itself, but not quite Noble, unlike the Kuchiki family. Eventually, Sunako started showing signs of having spiritual power. He would rather have not been a Shinigami, but at the erging of his family, reluctantly joined the Shinigami academy. they wanted him to become a Shinigami, thereby helping the family gain more status, and perhaps become noble. His older brother, lacking spiritual power, became jealous, and held a grudge.RP Sample:
At the Shinigami academy, Sunako was admitted into top class, as he had extreme talent at Kido and Shunpo, and wasn't bad at swordsmanship and Hand-to-Hand. As he got stronger, he and his brother grew more and more apart. Eventually, they fell completely out of contact. Around this time, Sunako was learning how to communicate with his Zanpakuto spirit, though, because of her personality, she was playing with him and refusing to tell him her name on the few occasions they got even a second or two of contact. This caused a great amount of frustration, as Sunako wanted to become as strong as possible, as fast as possible.
Because of this, he didn't unlock his Shikai before he graduated from the Shinigami Academy, much to his annoyance. The division he applied for was Division 2, as a normal member, as at this point he was still not strong enough to be a seated officer. He went on several missions, slowly managing to gain reputation, but it wasn't much more than being a very useful underling. Along with this, he STILL hadn't managed to convince that irritating little lizard-cat-thing-girl to tell him her name!
Eventually, he managed to get accepted as the fifth seat member, through an insane amount of practice with kido,as Arenokiba was refusing to tell him her name. It was rare for a person without shikai to make it to a seated officer, but he managed it. At this point, he started ignoring his Zanpakuto spirit, as he truly no longer cared, giving it up as a lost cause, promising to be able to use kido better than any other. Ironically, this is EXACTLY what got him Shikai, as his Zanpakuto spirit was very much NOT the lone wolf type. In desperation to not be ignored for all eternity, Arenokiba gave in and told him her name. Which was Arenokiba. Yeah.
Anyways, back on topic. After this, while his talents still lied in Kido, allowing him to use a variety of spells, he stopped training in it quite as much, bringing it back down to "Advanced" instead of "Godly for his level". At this point, he started paying attention to his zanpakuto again, in the hopes that he would be able to achieve bankai. Fortunately for him, Arenokiba had learned her lesson. Having achieved shikai, he decided to visit his family.
However, when he got there, he wasn't allowed back. Apparently, his brother had left out of jealousy, and the rest of the broken family blamed the previously thought "prodigy" of their family was blamed for it. It really wasn't, but that's human emotions for you. They're not really that logical. Disgusted, Sunako left the Division and his family, wandering Soul Society in a training journey to get stronger, as well as search for his brother.
He spent more than a decade
Still working
