Kurisu Nadeshiko [APPROVED, 2-4]

Name: Kurisu Nadeshiko
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Appearance Age: 21
True Age: 210
Gender: Female
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 135
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Personality: Kurisu is obsessive. She finds something she's interested in and hooks her talons into it and holds on until she understands it and doesn't want it anymore. If it's not cooperating with her, she will chase it until it does. She will hunt it until she's found it. If it runs, she'll keep going after it. If it resists her, she'll beat it. Once it's 'willing', she'll cut it open and examine it. She'll unscrew every screw she can find, replace it's inner workings, shine it up, and create a mental manual of the item. She has a photographic memory and is able to recall every detail of a person, place, or thing at a certain date and time. Kurisu is a very neat person. She hates it when things get out of order. A mess is not something she allows to happen among her things. She knows exactly where everything is. It seems like nothing gets lost, and if she has lost something, it will drive her insane until found.

Kurisu is quiet, preferring to sit back and observe over be in the middle of the scene. When the spotlight is on her, she gets very uncomfortable and angry. She does not like being the center of any groups attention. The only time she can handle decent conversation is with one, maybe two other people at a time. Anymore than that and Kurisu will excuse herself. When she does get angry, Kurisu has a habit of staring a person straight in the eyes. Her eyes are strange, so she uses this as an intimidation tactic. Even just feeling uncomfortable under her stare, taken aback, or a little fearful of it means that Kurisu has done her job. If someone tries to 'act tough' or ignore the fact that she's angry with them, Kurisu is the type to describe a horrifying way of torturing them. She doesn't like someone acting like her anger means nothing. It means something and she'll prove it, which is scary.

Character Background: Once a member of the Twelfth, Kurisu has always had a liking for research and learning new things. There was a time that she had an obsession with experimentation on Shinigami and how to implant their powers in technology and other spiritual beings who were not blessed with spiritual powers. After spending months hidden away with her research, Kurisu was finally removed from the Twelfth Division. Her research had proven to be less rewarding than the Gotei liked. She had experimented on multiple powerless souls and even lower level members of the Gotei to the point where it ended up killing or harming them greatly. Since the Gotei had originally allowed these experiments, they found they could not punish her for the life lost. Instead, they removed all of her research privileges and cast her out of the Twelfth Division, transferring her to the Second.

For a while, the need to research was clouding her mind and she began sneaking experimentation. She kept it legal within the Soul Society's law, but she wasn't telling anyone what she was doing. She kept it a secret for a short while, but was caught by a fellow squad member. He told her that if he caught her doing any of that again, he'd report her to Captain K. Saionji. If that happened, Kurisu knew that she'd be arrested and decided to try and stop this obsession of hers. It took a while, but she was finally able to kick the habit. She began training with her Zanpakutō and became obsessed over gaining her shikai and more power. If she became Captain one day, she'd be able to control the amount and kind of experimentation that she could do. She wouldn't be forced to hold back or cease completely. If that happened, she'd be much happier, so she decided that shikai training was her next goal.

It took eight years for things to change for Kurisu. During that time, she gained shikai and had to avoid the Twelfth Division completely because the lack of research was driving her nuts. She was caught sneaking in a couple times, but removed before she could do anything. She was repeated threatened with arrest, but nothing was helping her, so they sent her on a mission to the Hueco Mundo. She spent three years of her time there, training, killing hollow, and becoming more powerful. Upon gaining her shikai, she discovered a good way to make things in Hueco Mundo a little more fun for her. She spent her time continuing with her experiments and created one special thing in particular: Hollow's Extract. It's a poison that derives from the energy and blood mixture of adjuchas level hollow an higher. Before she got a chance to test it, it was stolen, but she could make another.

Recently, Kurisu has started freaking out. After being back for two years and realizing a lot had changed while she was gone, she was trying to adapt. When she was close to being able to get used to the new Head Captain and other shifts of Captains around the Gotei, the Head Captain was kidnapped. The Seireitei was in a panic. When Kaminari was returned, Kurisu was asked as a special consultant to analyze what had poisoned her. Upon analyzing the poison, she realized it was her poison. It was the one she created while she was in Hueco Mundo. She kept this secret, lied, and explained that it was a poison she had not seen before, but she did explain it's make-up. There weren't many people in the world that could make a poison like that; she was one of the few. Kurisu's guilt over what happened has kept her from experimenting and using her shikai at all, but also explaining it's actual abilities.


Unreleased Abilities: (Does your character have any special abilities when they are not using their Zanpakutō? This is for things like Shunko.)

Hohō: Kurisu is extremely skilled in shunpo over all, but can preform the other techniques within Hohō as well. She practices this technique most of all to keep up with her fellow Squad Members.
Zanjutsu: Kurisu is very good with her sword naturally and applying the techniques within Zanjutsu come easy for her.
Hakuda: Kurisu is very good with hand-to-hand combat as well, but she prefers to use a weapon. There's something about touching a 'subject' with her hands that bothers her.
Kidō/Kaidō: No.
X-Ray Vision: Kurisu's eyes darken and the patterns begin to swirl. When this happens, she is able to see through walls, clothes, and anything else that would be blocking vision. She can only do this while sitting down and staring directly at the area she wants to examine. If the area/people she is looking at move, she cannot see through anything anymore. This means that if she's looking inside of a building, she could see through the walls and figure out the layout. However, doors that have just moved become solid, people who are walking become solid, and even glass windows become solid. She can choose how many layers she goes through as well.  For example, if she wanted to be a pervert she could look through Captain K. Saionji's shihakusho, but not his boxers/whatever he wears under there.


Zanpakutō Spirit Appearance: Her Zanpakutō Spirit is a ghostly figure that seems to be fully made of smoke. It can take any shape it wants and solidify itself to whatever appearance if it's in the mood. It has no stated gender and even Kurisu does not know/understand what it is fully, nor does she know what is 'truly' looks like. It speaks with a low, deep, and raspy voice, as if it was a heavy smoker for most of it's life.
Zanpakutō Spirit's World: The Spirit's world is a huge forest full of fog and smoke. You can barely see where you're going and when it speaks, it sounds like it's coming from all directions. The world never changes and patterns of trees, rocks, and even buildings of sorts repeat over and over again. Kurisu has memorized these patterns through a lot of trial an error. Because of her memorization though, she is able to wander through easily, even though most people would be blind to the land around.
Zanpakutō: Solid Black Katana form the top to bottom. Not one part, including the blade, has any other color.
Zanpakutō Release Phrase: Acquire/Disperse


Shikai Name: En'un (Smoke Cloud)
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Shikai Abilities: Her shikai has 1 form with 2 abilities that depend on which release phrase she uses. When she uses these abilities, her sword becomes like smoke itself. Although it looks solid, it's not. She cannot use it for attacking, blocking, or anything of the sort.

Acquire: This ability released a cloud of white smoke that travels through an area. If the area is large, it will feel no different than a fog. If the area is small or directed, it will be like a snake of moving smoke slithering through until it arrives at it's target. When it arrives, the smoke surrounds the target and begins to gather information on it, acquiring one of it's abilities and storing it within Kurisu's Zanpakutō. Once all of the information is collected, the sword and smoke will have turned black and the smoke will be called back to the sword. The smoke does not move fast, so an object/person will have to be staying still, asleep, or even dead for this to happen.

Disperse: This ability releases a cloud of smoke with a color based on the ability it is using. Kurisu can keep up to four abilities stored. Those abilities are named below along with their color. Each of these have the ability to be extracted into a liquid form as well, but only once a month.

1. Paralyzing Smoke: Grey; Those who inhale this smoke will become paralyzed for up to three rounds of posting. This effect can be broken out of. The smoke has an endurance that matches Kurisu's. This means that if they have an endurance that is greater than Kurisu's, they can immediately break out of it. If equal, then one post can break them out. If less than, two posts can break them out.
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