Post by augusto on May 11, 2009 16:31:03 GMT -5
Name:
Augusto Gonzalo
Age:
1,626 (appears to be 17)
Gender:
Male
Natural or Artificial:
Originally Natural, currently Artificial.
Appearance:
[x]
Personality:
Augusto rarely speaks, and when he does, he's often fairly serious. He refers to anyone he does not find interesting "below him" and treats them as expendable. Despite this, he's not particularly violent, unlike most of his Arrancar comrades, and will only fight when provoked or ordered to by a superior. Through battle, he stays completely calm and stays in control in most situations, he is not easy surprised or caught off-guard.
Abilities
- Bala - Bala is an Arrancar alternative to Cero. The technique hardens the user's Spiritual Pressure and fires it like a bullet from their fist. Although it is weaker than a normal cero, it moves about twenty times faster and can be fired at a much higher rate but the damage is much the same. Stronger Arrancar can also fire a more powerful Bala, while retaining its twentyfold speed. Because of Augusto's lack of Bala and Cero abilities, he obviously does not use this technique.
- Cero - High-powered energy blasts that can be fired from various body parts, such as mouth, tongue, hand or fingers. Only Menos, Arrancar, and the Vizards have so far been shown to use Cero attacks, and it appears that stronger entities can use it more efficiently. Augusto is also incapable of using this technique.
- Garganta - How Arrancar and Menos-class Hollows move to and from Hueco Mundo. Kaname Tōsen and Kisuke Urahara have also demonstrated the ability to use the technique. It literally tears open the dimensional fabric separating the worlds, revealing a tunnel of whirling, torrential energy that must be focused and solidified to create a discernible pathway. Augusto is capable of using this move, but not as efficient as other Arrancar.
- Hierro - Refers to the hardened skin of the Arrancar, which is a result of their compressed spiritual power. While their skin is strong enough to block even released Zanpakutō bare-handed, it is by no means impenetrable. Augusto proportionally has stronger skin than most usual Arrancar.
- Negación - Fields that are used to rescue fellow Hollows. Only the Gillian-class Menos have shown the ability to use it. Negación fields surround a target in a square beam of light that isolates the target from the dimension they are currently in, making it impossible to harm them. The field then pulls the target towards the menos that created the field. Espada have a special cube-shaped device called Caja Negación, meant to simulate Negación fields, which are used to punish their subordinates if necessary. The cube, when used on a subject, traps them in an alternate dimension from which there is no escape; however, this assumes it is being used as intended. More powerful Arrancar, namely the Espada themselves, can escape given enough time.
- Pesquisa - is the Arrancar equivalent of the Shinigami ability to sense Spiritual Pressure. It functions similar to a sonar.
- Swordplay & Hand-to-hand Combat - Augusto has demonstrated tremendous skill in swordsmanship, hand-to-hand combat and in the use of other weaponry. He is rarely ever seen using his Zanpakto, but his other weaponry that he creates is often used.
- Sonído - the Arrancar equivalent of the Shinigami Flash Steps and the Quincy Hirenkyaku; it allows the user to travel at incredibly high speeds for short distances. Use of Sonído is punctuated by a brief static sound, in contrast to the "swish" sound caused by Flash Steps. Due to Augusto's slow speed and the lack of ability to train in Cero or Bala blasts, he has attempted to master himself in the art of Sonido.
- Irrompible Hierro - Also known as Unbreakable Steel Skin. This ability is special to Augusto, and Augusto alone. It allows the user to manipulate the Hierro skin into a thin, highly strong white skin that covers any part of the body the user chooses. It's usually moved to places that will block attacks, like arms and hands. The white skin may also be manipulated into weapons short-ranged and long. It can create claws, spikes, swords and other weaponry. Using this power constantly drains away at Augusto's power. It's the reason why he is incapable of using other Arrancar abilities such as Cero and Bala because his power is constantly being drained while the special skin is used. In his regular Arrancar state, Augusto is incapable of multi-tasking with this ability, but once he unleashes his Falso Resurrección he is capable of manipulating all parts of his skin at multiple times, simultaneously. Even though the name states that the skin is unbreakable, it is indeed breakable by means of powerful force. Although the task isn't easy, if the special skin is shattered, Augusto must take time to replenish his supply of Spiritual Energy before using it again. In his regular Arrancar form Augusto is only capable of using the Irrompible Hierro in an area of a square foot on his body. This makes Augusto weak in the sense of several enemies at once.
Zanpakto:
Escudo
Sealed Zanpakuto:
[x]
Release: "Slaughter, Escudo!"
Falso Resurrección:
[x]
This is the first transformation Augusto actually goes through, and it's not exactly considered a Resurrección, but a false Resurrección.
All of his skin becomes white due to his transformed Irrompible Hierro ability. He his capable of creating several different types of weaponry at once, and his skin becomes almost unbreakable. His speed sharply lowers, but he often uses Shunpo in this form to take up for it.
He's also capable of manipulating white weaponry from the ground, such as spikes, by moving his palms to the the floor. This allows him to attack enemies from far distances.
Resurrección:
[x]
This is Augusto's true Resurrección. His speed is greatly heightened, and so is his strength. His Irrompible Hierro has reached it's peak, allowing him to create several pieces of weaponry at once, without even really thinking about it.
He's more uncontrollable in this stage, and he lets his rage take over. He's very similar to his previous Hollow forms.
History:
Before Augusto was even created as a Hollow, his spirit originally belonged to a seventeen year old boy named Zankaiyu Retsumei who lived with his family among the several other families who lived close to a past Karakura Town. He was one of the few humans to be born with a very high spiritual energy. He could notice pluses and speak to them freely. It wouldn't be long before his village was attacked by a Hollow which started feasting upon several spirits in the area. The Hollow attacked Zankaiyu, because of his very high spiritual energy, and Zankaiyu was left crawling for his life in a nearby building. Eventually a Shinigami reached the area, and slayed the Hollow but left Zankaiyu behind. Zankaiyu died there and his spirit was tied to the area. He grew into a very powerful Hollow and entered Hueco Mundo under the alias of Shinespike.
Shinespike started feasted upon Hollows as soon as he found Hueco Mundo as a home. He felt like he didn't have time to enter the human world to quench his vast hunger for spiritual energy, and many Hollows stayed out of his path for this reason. No Hollow was a match for him, he trampled over them and finished them off. Eventually he reached Gillian stage, and began to actually gain some knowledge behind his horrific hunger for his own kind. He started planning his attacks, thinking about what he would do to kill vast amounts of Hollows and even joined up with other Menos of his rank. He reached Adjuchas stage in no time, way before all his other Menos counterparts.
Shinespike eventually became so powerful that he was capable of removing his mask, and underwent the transformation known as shigamification. This form didn't look as human like as the Arrcancar you see today, but it was still just as strong. The several other Menos felt threated that they would be eaten, and restrained the the new Arrancar known as Augusto Gonzalo. They buried him deep under Hueco Mundo for several years, and his powers slowly began to drain away from him. He even lost his ability to stay as an Arrancar and was reduced back to a Hollow.
He spent several hundred years under Hueco Mundo, dreaming, thinking and losing his interest in feasting. Eventually a figure known as Aizen stumbled upon his tomb and released him from his forceful slumber. He granted him the power of Shigamification and allowed him to join the ranks of the Arrancar.
RP Sample:
Augusto dragged his feet across the pale dunes of Hueco Mundo. His face was aimed at the ground, and he had his hands placed within his pockets. He thought about his past as a Hollow, and thought about how grateful he was to Aizen for releasing him from his demise.
All of a sudden several large Adjuchas ranked Menos surrounded the Arrancar and waited for a response of terror. Augusto raised his head and noticed that the Menos were getting very hungry and looked at him as a snack.
"You're going to be very tasty, Arrancar," stated a Menos.
"Right..." replied Augusto. He quickly raised his arms forward, and separated them, stretching them out, making two right angles with his arms and torso. As he did this, he released several white spikes from his palms in a half-circle. Several Menos were torn to shreads, as the other Menos behind planned their attack.
Two large white spikes sprouted out from Augusto's palms, and were set upright to use as swords. The Arrancar flipped around backwards and slashed twice destroying the menos behind him.
Augusto walked on ahead, looking forward to the mission Aizen had given him.