Yaguri Issui [10th Espada]

Arrancar

Name: Yaguri Issui
Nickname(s): -
Age: 1000
Visual Age: 18

Gender: Male
Rank 10th
Sexual Orientation: Asexual
Height: 169 cm (5'6½")
Weight: 55 kg (121 lbs)

Body Frame: Medium
Blood Type: O
Sound of Voice: Calm, collective and without emotion
Appearance:

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Yaguri is a slender, yet fairly muscular, male Arrancar of average height with a impassive appearance. His hair is fairly short, messy black hair, with his bangs falling between his eyes. His eyes are are teal in color and appeare to be almost cat-like when in his Resureccion. He wears typical Arrancar clothes: a white jacket, black sash, and a white hakama. However, his jacket resembles more of a trench-coat style and does not have a collar. Beneath his jacket is another, shorter jacket that is composed of merely the top half. With the top coat always open, his lower chest and stomach are always showing, giving him an almost angelic appearance.

Like most other Arrancar, he possesses remnants of his former life as a Hollow in his appearance. His Hollow hole is located on his left ear, disguised as a simple ear piercing, due to the earring hanging from it; hidden by his hair. The remainder of his Hollow mask lies on top of his head, forming half of a helmet. The mask has teeth that fall by his ear and a single horn placed similarly to an ear upon a fox. His tattoo, being the Tenth Espada, is located on his wrist and is usually covered by sleeve.

Introvert/Extrovert: Ambivert
Hobbies: None
Likes and Dislikes:
Likes- Training, Walks, Silence, Missions, Peace
Dislikes- Fighting, Loud Places, People, Cooperative Missions, Killing

Personality: Yaguri acts much as his appearance dictates. Against all forms of fighting, he will often try to find a path that sheds the least amount of blood for reasons unknown. However, if he is forced to fight, defeat will be a swift outcome to any that underestimate him. In battle, Yaguri has been known to remain his quiet and saddened self but portrays fierce attacks that would make any fear him. Carefully watching and calculating every motion, he is swift and cunning, shown to defeat his enemies with little force. Outside of fighting, Yaguri is quiet and rarely speaks to others, often seen wandering the halls alone. His respect seems only to be shown to those stronger than he, as he will only use honorifics with them. Another notable quality of his is his memory. Able to remember everything, Yaguri is also a very wise and lethal enemy/ally. Retaining everything ever experienced, he can easily recall memories to best guide both himself and others through the easiest path. More of his mental capacity seems to be reflected through his ability cause illusionary pain to others. Taking hold of their minds, his own mental capacity is far beyond anything most have ever seen.

Defining Characteristics:
Eidetic Memory - Yaguri possesses a unique ability to retain and recall all images, sounds, and objects in memory with extreme accuracy. Known as Photographic Memory, it is a useful trait for letting his superiors know about specific details that took place while on a mission. For his own personal gain, Yaguri will use this trait to accurately predict the movements of an enemy by use of muscle contraction.
Specialties: Yaguri is highly skilled in the fighting style known as Dim Mak. As such, his hand to hand combat skills focus on striking pressure points located on the body. Along with this, his skills all seem to have a specific genre; pain. Using mainly illusionary tactics, he is known to cause great pain to other before killing them.
Fighting type: Samurai

History/Background:

Human > Hollow:

Born in a poor and dangerous village, famine was everywhere, along with the growing sickness of the people. Life itself was a curse for most of those that could withstand it, turning them strong and skillful. Yaguri had grown up cast aside from the lot of his people. With his family lost in dept., life was especially hard for him. When the sickness struck, those who had no money could not afford to go to the doctor and died shortly after being infected. Yaguri watched his younger sister die before him but soon fell ill to the same fate. Living life as a soul, it was not long before he grew different and hollow inside. With sorrow and anguish as his last feelings, he transformed into a hollow.

Hollow > Gillian: Even as a hollow, the sadness followed him where ever he went. As he preyed upon the soul of his sister, Yaguri weeped. What had he done? He had eaten the soul of his only family member and would live to feel a pain worse than death. Unable to control his thirst for their kind, the sky seemed to cry along side him. Deciding to save as many as he could, Yaguri began consuming other hollows. It was strange thing... eating those exactly like you. What exactly had he become? As he wailed in agony and remorse, it would always rain. He soon came to be known as the Weeping Hollow, for is would rain only in his presence.

As he ate other hollow, the consumed souls compound in his body, until they become a giant mess of spirits that slowly grew into a Menos Grande (Gillian). With regret and grief as his driving force, Yaguri soon took control and began to kill as many other Gillian as he could. Feeling as if this was his only way to pay for his sins, his power increased with every meal.

Gillian > Adjuchas: A Gillian who continues to eat will become an Adjucha, compacting itself in size and gaining an animal-like form that will later become its Release form. Adjucha resemble armored white animals and they continue to eat other menos, hollow, and adjucha, for if they do not eat they will revert to their Gillian form and lose control of the Gillian forever more, giving other spirits a chance to control.

Adjuchas >Arrancar In a remote part of the White Desert, it always seemed to rain. It was a small mountain that was constantly covered in a mist and the only life that seemed to reside there were those that entered. However, screeches and screams could be heard as their souls were eaten. The "Weeping Hollow" lived deep in this location and fed off of those that entered. As he fed, he slowly formed a humanoid body but retained a mask and hole. A mysterious man soon came to this place and offered Yaguri a way to pay for his sins. Having his mask torn off he became an Arrancar. Having enough souls to fill an ocean, a Zanpakutou formed from their sorrow.

Arrancar > Espada: Now an Arrancar, the next thing to do was become an Espada. Yaguri challenged the 10th Espada the next day in order to prove his strength. As the room filled up with a thick mist, nothing could be seen. However, the mist slowly dissipated a moment later to show Yaguri in the exact location that he had started. His enemy had been sliced into many pieces and blood soaked the floor. To add to the mystery, Yaguri's sword was clean and bare no traces of blood. He was now the 10th Espada.

Role-play Sample: Kai had a dream, a vivid one at that. Standing in a pitch black room, there was only himself and one other creature. From the center of the room, was a massive white fist that was clenched and stuck out form the ground. As he approached, it opened to reveal a white man with angel white wings and without a face. A mouth lay where his chest was and each finger had a red eye that peered out at him. The creature was beautiful and horrid all at the same time. The creature reached a hand out towards him as if trying to grab him. As it did, the ground beneath Kai seemed to be no more as he sank into it like water.

"Find me...". Kai awoke to the noise of a busy and rustling street. Sitting up and looking around, Kai had no idea what had just happened, and his head felt as though it was being split into two by a nail. Whatever the beast was, it was obviously not just a thing of his mind. it had been so very real; more real than reality. He would find this beast and find out what it wanted. Getting off his feet and rubbing the back of his head with his other hand, Kai parted the curtain that had seperated him and the little shack from the street. It was sunny, very sunny, making Kai squint.

Looking around, Kai was already confused, and being completly helpless, he asked around for help. From what he could gather from the people, Kai was in the Rukongai. He still had no idea what exactly that was, but he continued his little escapade of looking. After a few hours of roaming the streets, and still asking random questions to every soul that walked by, Kai came upon a group of people, clothed in brown and white robes, near a fairly large building that looked more kept up than the rest of the other houses. They were equiped with swords, and daggers. Curious, and almost stupid for approaching armed men, Kai greeted them. They all drew their swords and began to yell and scream at Kai , Why he was boasting spiritual pressure and making such hasty advances at him. Kai just backed away slowly not understanding a thing they were talking about. Out came a man from the building, in his late 40's maybe early 50's. He held two katanas, "Listen.. You fight me and you'll walk away alive, other wise I'll have these men strike you down where you stand, Shinigami."

Obviously, Kai is no such thing...yet. Kai literally had no choice but to accept and took one of the swords from the man. Kai had no training in the art of swordsmanship, Kai knew he was going to get hurt, badly. Trying to get into the stance the other man had, one of the other men yelled out. Immediately the Older man began to swing wildly at Kai. Leon did everything he could to block swing after swing, but the other man was slowly cutting him down. It started with just nicks, then moved to cuts, and soon deep lacerations were beginning to take place all over Kai. For his life, Kai mustered up the rest of his remaining strength and put it into one swing.

Blocking sucessfully, Kai pushed the mans sword away, jumped into the air and swung down as hard as he could. The man was surely dead. Suddenly he vanished and moved a few meters away from Kai. Kai couldnt' believe his eyes. He vanished and then reappeared unscaved. "Enough.. You did well." The older man sheathed his sword and turned around and looked back. "If you want... You can join us, I see great potential in you boy." Kai just stood there, blinking, speachless, and confused. Sword still on the ground from where he had missed, he restored his self back up to stand the best he could, though all the damage he had taken.

The other men just watched the older man return to the building with their mouths wide open. They looked at Kai, and knew what needed to be done. Two of them came over and took the sword away from him, and lifted Kai up onto thier shoulders and carried him aside. Kai was fading now, it was almost like the day at his house, but not as severe. In and out he went for what seemed days. Kai woke up in the middle of the night, sweating, seeing that all his wounds were gone. The room he was in was small, for once person only, a single bed and a night stand, door by the foot of the bed. Sitting up quickly, Kai became very light headed, in an instant he tried to get out of the room and lost his balance. Knocking himself back out on the nightstand. Waking up to the sound of drums being beat didn't help.

Kai pushed himself off the floor and walked out into the hallway, where a whole bunch of others were scrambling off somewhere. Lazily, and limping, kai followed the others to their destination. He still ached from the fight that had insued yesterday, but the wounds were literally gone. Passing through an open arch way, Kai found himself in a sizeable court where 30 or more people stood at attention waiting. Stading off in the front and to the right, facing all the others, at attetion also was the man Kai had fought the day before. A door to the left, adjacent to where Kai was standing out came an elderly man, probably in his 80's.

He spoke some words, mostly mumbling and it was out of earshot for Kai. Leaning against the doorway, Kai stared out at the crowd, all perfectly aligned and militarized. The old man stopped speaking turned around and head back the way he came, and the second the door slide closed behind him, all the members started to break off into groups of two and sparred. The older man from the day before came from out of sight and jokingly pushed Leon. Falling on his butt, Kai looked up at the man in confusion. "Alright kid, from this day on, you're part of this household. Here we train, later we eat, then train somemore, then sleep. Every morning before we begin, we hear the wisest of words from Elder Kazumo. Now get up and get training." Short and too the point. Kai struggled to get up and did as he was told, not like he even had a choice. From here on Kai trained and got stronger, much stronger, much quicker, much smarter, and learned to use a sword like a true man from this era. Kai learned about exactly where he was, and what was going on in his new world. After a few years, Kai worked hard and rose through the ranks of his family.

One day while down stairs in the basement beneathe the courtyard, Kai was training and messing around with the kids. They trained down there because the men upstairs needed more room to practice. Kai took his job seriously, but they were just kids after all. Goofing around and showing off to make the children smile and laugh, Kai glanced over to see one of the other members walk half-way down the stairs and yell at him. "Hey, Kai! The Elders want to speak with you, bro!" Kai nodded and waved to the kids and made his way up back top. Once up above, Kai walked past all the other men sparring, all in near perfect unison, all striking at the same moment.

Kai approached the door that lead into The Elders room. Taking a deep breath and exhaling, He slid open the door, bowed, and entered. The room where the 3 Elders sat was small as well. From the entrance back to where another door was, A pillow, a coffee table with a candle melted to it , and 3 more pillows layed there. Kai kneeled down onto the pillow bowing and raised his head to see the 3 Elders had literally, like magic, appeared from no where. Unstartled, Kai bowed again. "Child we have asked you here, ...for today is a great day. Only once in a great long time do we ever bestow such a gift upon one of our own." Kai head still glued to the floor, "We want you to go out into the surrounding forrest and find something for yourself. It is inside a shack, and once you enter you will be lead down into a small chamber. We will not divulge much more information, other than that, you must choose the correct one." Kai remained still. "Go now child, We await your return." Kai raised up, to them having vanished again, and then bowing once more and exiting the room.

It was nearing dusk when, he had finally gotten out of the city and began his journey into the forrest that lined the outer edges of Rukongai. Kai had absolutly no idea where to begin looking for the shack, but he knew that he coudldn't return until he found it. It took Kai nearly 3 weeks to find this small little place out in the middle or no where. There were a few small battles with hollows, they were extremely weak and Kai cut through them like butter with the training he had had. Entering the small shack, and decending into the room below, it lit up with a blue glow, and revealed with the light were 20 sheathed katanas, all each on a pedastal covered with a cloth. Now Kai knew what they meant by choosing the right one.

They were aranged in an enlongated U. Kai started at the left, and simply held his hand over the hilt of the katana. He did this for every single one, when Kai noticed that the one in the very back, almost pulled his arm down onto it, like in the dream he had many years ago. Kai knew this had to be it. Grabbing it, all went black and Kai was left stading on in a black-like grassy feild. He was so confused and bewildered that Kai was almost panicing. "So you did fine me..." A faint voice said behind him. Snapping around it was the strange beast that was in his dreams many night ago. I am The Noth. You may call upon me whenever you need my help, and my power." And with that, it dissapeared into the ground.

The next thing Kai knew he was outside the shack, laying on the ground. Sitting up and getting back to his feet, Kais new sword was at his side. Running back to town, Kai had noticed his exceptional new speed and strength he had, all the weight training he had greatly improved him. Making his way near the place he had lived for so long, he noticed that something was wrong. The building was missing. All of it. He didn't understand what was going on. One of the peolple in the streets came by and put their hand on his shoulder. "I guess you came to see what happened here? Well a month back, a Hollow got through and rampaged through the city, luckily not to much damage was done, but a lot of places were compeltly destroyed." Kai closed his eyes and shook his head. All that time gone. But not for nothing. Kai had obtained a grand new power, and the proof was right at his left hip.

Kai knew what he needed to do next. Running towards seiretei a gaurd stopped him and asked what he wanted. Kai simply stated he wanted to join the ranks of Shinigami. The guard nodded and lead him into the academy. Following close behind, Kai could hear the faint sounds of blasting and swords clashing, and orders being barked. It reminded him of home, yet louder, and a hell of a lot bigger. The guard took Kai to a small office where a man was busy at a desk with paperwork. Looking up breifly, glancing at Kai, he quickly nodded and went back to fileing papers. The guard slide the door shut and took off walking again. Kai following close behind. He stopped at a door and slid it open and motioned for Kai to go in. With a confused look on his face, Kai went in. Single bed, with a chest at the foot, and a window. Light shined in, covering the bed. "We physically spar, study, then mentally spar, and to end it sleep. That's our day. Get some rest. There are new clothes for you to wear are in the chest. The robes are required outfits of everyone of us." Sliding the door shut with a soft snap, Kai shrugged his shoulders. Setting his new sword down next to him on the bed, he layed back and drifted off to sleep.[/center]

Only Espada ranking open right now is Diez Espada, the 10th.

I will gladly take that spot. I have also got a confirmation from the Espada leader.

Edits Made

I am ready to be approved as the 10th Espada, unless the 9th spot is open. It says its open in the rank thing that was just updated. But if not, I will be approved as the 10th.

Is it me or do all of your characters have some sort of asexual, emotionless Ulq emo face syndrome? Anywho, puns aside, I want you to write a description of your appearance rather than put up a picture. Then I'll properly grade it for approval or not.

Done and yeah most of my characters are like this. I like them best that way. Then again, every once and a while I like to try something new, but find that this style I tend to do a better job at.

And i just checked with the Espada Leader. Looks like Decima is only open one left that I will be taking.

Let's see...

Specialties so far has to do with a fictional martial arts that paralyzes you upon whacking a pressure point. Well, frankly I don't care about that, when a person hits another person, they don't do it with restraint but with the intention to kill, and you do have beyond human strength so I won't hold it against you.

Anyways, stamped. You are now an Espada. 'Gratz.