Basic Information
Name: Sonozaki Hitomi
Age: 361
Visual age: around 18
Gender: female
Division: 1st division
Looks: See avatar. She wears standard shinigami robes with the lieutenant armband and a necklace with the Sonozaki family emblem on it.
Rank lieutenant
Background and Personality
History
Hitomi is a native Soul Society inhabitant who was born into a prestigious noble family as the heir of their actual family head. As a child she had problems accepting all those responsibilities and duties which came with this future and developed a rebellious personality, refusing to comply with the strict rules of her family and causing trouble to them whenever she could. However, as she grew up, Hitomi eventually calmed down and accepted her fate. She is leading the Sonozaki house for more than 100 years by now and she proved to be an excellent leader settling down every single internal and external disputes they had.
Traditionally, the members of the Sonozaki family were obliged to apply to the Shinigami Academy although the bloodline didn’t prove to be very successful as the highest seat a Sonozaki achieved was the 5th in the history of the house. Hitomi however, was a different case. She passed the entrance exam with an above average result and as a consequence, she was placed into the advanced class. The young girl turned out to be one of the most talented females in the history of the Academy, she was especially good at handling her reiatsu, making her the best kidou-practitioner in the class by far. Since she didn’t want to bring shame to the family, she worked hard every day to improve her skills in every aspect. This attitude made her zanpakuto recognize her strength and as soon as they were able to properly communicate and trust each other the sword told her its name thus she gained shikai. After meeting the requirements of graduating Hitomi completed the 6-year course of the Academy in just 3 years and as a kidou expert she was advised to choose the Kidou Corps.
She did so, spending 55 years there and becoming a 3rd seat, developing her kidou abilities to a great extent. Thanks to these years she is able to perform bakudou up to 81 and hadou up to 88 now, as well as combining some lower restricting and destructive spells for unique effects. But she felt she was wasting her potential. She needed a greater challenge and she wanted to improve her other abilities so Hitomi decided to join the Gotei 13. After getting the approval of the Central Chamber of 46 the girl became the 4th seat of the 9th division. Serving the Gotei 13 and her division for the next 190 years, Hitomi became a versatile and experienced shinigami, a capable leader and a candidate for a captain’s position, especially after she managed to acquire her bankai in her usual, hard-working manner approximately 80 years ago. She was offered by the first seat several times by several divisions, however she declared that she had no intentions of becoming a captain, and that she prefers working in the background instead of taking the spotlight. Despite that Hitomi was persuaded to take the vice captain’s seat in the 1st division at least, and after a long consideration she decided to give it a try.
Personality
Hitomi is usually a kind, friendly and caring person, but she also has a harsh, strict side when it comes to scolding or lecturing her men. She is a great tactician and has excellent leadership abilities with good diplomatic skills. Hitomi is very reliable and determined, who rarely makes mistakes and is confident in her abilities, but not arrogant in any way.
She is a ruthless warrior with no morals on the battlefield, who prefers attacking from long range, although she has no problem with close combat either. She can keep her composure and think rationally even in the most difficult situations.
Hitomi likes eating sweets and enjoying peaceful moments, but she dislikes lazy people and paperwork. Hitomi is quite concerned about her looks, that’s why she developed a special technique to hide her aging self.
Techniques (Optional, but good to have)
Name: Fukyuu Jakunen (Everlasting Youth)
Description: A special, unique kido which allows Hitomi to prevent her body from aging. It doesn’t mean she’s immortal, it’s just an optical tuning of sort.
Zanpaktou Information
Zanpakuto Name: Kaminami (Divine Wave)
Zanpakuto Element: Water
Zanpakutou Appearence: It’s an average katana with a golden hilt and a hexagonal tsuba which has small, wave-shaped ornaments on every side of the hexagon.
Shikai Appearence: When commanding the sword to go shikai, the waves on the tsuba are starting to glow and suddenly a large amount of water flows out in a spiral way around the blade. The water then fuse with the blade making its appearance transparent. Though it looks liquid, it's actually as solid as a metal sword.
Shikai Ability: With a swing Hitomi is releasing the water inside the blade (the looks of the blade itself remains unchanged) and once it’s free she is able to control the flowing of the water with her mind. She still has to grab on the sword to do so.
Shikai Special Techniques:
- Mizuguchi: The blade turns into water and drops to the ground. Then a large amount of water breaks out from the ground completely surrounding the opponent like a spout. If Hitomi spins the hilt, the water crushes down to the opponent.
(Cooldown: 6 posts)
- Shizuku Hari: The flowing water turns into a swarm of sharp needles which attack the opponent from every possible angle. Individually they are harmless, but it hurts quite a bit if thousands of needles pierce your skin at once
(Cooldown: 6 posts)
There must be at least 2 posts between using Mizuguchi and Shizuku Hari.
Bankai: Hidoi Kaminami (Mean Divine Wave)
Bankai Appearence and Ability: When Hitomi activates the bankai, the blade of the sword vaporizes and creates an unpenetratable barrier which looks like a huge blue, rectangular box from the outside. The length of its sides and its height are about 30 meters. Inside the barrier the same physics apply as underwater (they're not actaully fighting in water though), meaning the increased resistance is hindering the movements of every physical object (including living creatures ofc) and instant movement techniques like shunpo, sonido or hirenkyaku are not working well either.
Hitomi is mostly unaffected of her bankai's effects, so unless her opponent or his/her techniques are much faster than her, she should be able to gain the upper hand. On the other hand, she can only use the sealed form of her zanpakuto inside the barrier, and she can't use shunpo either.
Zanpaktou Release Phrase: Oborejinu (drown to death)
Kido
Choose one of the following for each. Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced.
Kido/Ginto: Advanced
Zanjutsu/Marksmanship: Advanced
Hakuda: Advanced
Hoho: Intermediate
Role-play Sample:
What a beautiful sunny day! The human world seems to be so peaceful in times like these. Too bad it won’t last long. Hitomi was jumping from roof to roof, her team was right behind her. She was quite worried, out of the four shinigami, two were just graduating from the Academy, this was their first real mission.
„Okay, listen to me! We’re here to find and kill an arrancar. According to our intel it’s capable of cloning itself, although the clones are rather weak. You two should be able to handle them too.”
Referred to the rookies while she was briefing her team.
„I will be the one who is taking down the main body. It was strong enough to kill more experienced shinigamis than you. For your own sake, don’t play the hero, if I say pull out, you must pull out, no matter what. Got that?”
Hitomi took a good look at every teammate of hers. Everyone seemed to understand her statement, she wondered if they will remember it in the heat of the battle. She also noticed that they were quite nervous.
„Don’t worry, I won’t let you get hurt.”
The lieutenant sent them an encouraging smile while trying to relax them. Suddenly she spotted a strong hollow reiatsu nearby.
~All right, let’s do this.
She took a big breath before changing directions, right towards the target arrancar…
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