Name: Quarrez, Lampero
Age: 20
Age: 100
Base Form:
Lampero takes a human form, appearing as a normal human and dresses in the traditional white Arrancar attire with a few adjustments of his own. He rolls up his sleeves so that they do not reach below his elbows and expose the black of the inner lining of the coat and the collar is popped to hide his jawline. The reason for this is to prevent others from seeing how it is constructed. He threw away the shirts that an Arrancar would normally wear and the plain baggy white pants with dark gray socks and white sandals.
He has a strong, athletic build and a powerful grip that is capable of crushing bones, stone and even metal. Straight strands of gray, black and white hair fall to his waist and he has glossy black irises and sclera. His slender, smooth face and high cheekbones mark him as one of the most handsome male Arrancar, though he isn't particularly interested in that. The fact that his forearms, shins, and his abdomen are mostly covered in diamond-hard scales does not take away from his charisma.
Standing at about sixty-eight inches in height with broad shoulders, Lampero does not appear to be physically intimidating, but his confidence shines like a beacon of light at nighttime, revealing itself in his posture, manners, and gait. His gaze is steady and penetrating. His smooth pale skin has a few streaks of gray and black that look like tribal-style tattoos. Other than these marks his body is entirely unblemished, and they only add to his handsome look.
His hollow hole is located at the base of his neck just above the top of the sternum with about a two inch diameter. His hollow mask covers the veins and arteries in his neck, originating from one point just above his hollow-hole, and reach up along the back of his jaw above the masseter muscle, then around his high cheekbones toward his shiny black eyes to a span of one inch above and below his eyelids in an sliding cobra-head shape. The two halves of the mask slightly connect at the bridge of his nose.
Note: While sealed, Lampero's skin is enfused with an enzyme that breaks down spiritual energy, though not as quickly or efficiently as if he is in Resurrecion form, allowing him a reasonable Hierro. Even the most powerful Rei-based attacks still won't hurt him too badly, but he can definitely be knocked around by their force, and it will respond very slowly to environment changes or elemental abilities controlled by reiatsu, so he can be trapped and confined easily enough and elements can break his skin if strong enough, though they won't get much further. This natural ability receives certain augmentations when in Resurrecion.

Personality:
Lampero is a clever, perceptive individual. Both stoic and sturdy, many of his comrades among the Arrancar try to bait him into arguments or try to get him to lose his temper, though he never bites. They all hate him for his peculiar nature. He is very unusual in that he enjoys interacting with humans, having long lost a taste for their souls and cultivating a taste for their companionship and a fascination at their resilience. He actually very much prefers the taste of Gillian, Adjuchas, and other Arrancar and though he also enjoys devouring shinigami, he prefers not to lest their pact be broken. Often when another Arrancar is alone with him it is a very uncomfortable experience for his guest.
Ever the optimist, he always tries to see the bright side of any situation even if he seems totally crass to assert it. He is very analytical, able to watch an opponent in order to judge their posture, their intentions, and think up a sequence of attacks and counterattacks that will overwhelm and incapacitate an opponent. This means that he often performs combat at the level of his opponent before finally going at his own pace. He is able to perform an attack, predict with deadly accuracy what they would do to counter or retreat and then follow through without missing a beat to deliver strike after devastating strike. He doesn't always do this, however. He only commits to his potent analytical style when he needs to get somewhere quickly or if he experiences offensive and rude expressions or tactics that are just plain inexcusable.
He is perpetually cold and calculating, not becoming warm and friendly until he's looked over whoever he meets and assesses them. He does still feel emotions and behave warmly. He can even predict his opponents' recovery time when he defeats them based on how hard he strikes and where the blow lands. He is not outgoing, but he certainly is amiable. His analytical personality enables him to tell much about an individual simply by looking them in the eyes and observing their apparel and demeanor. His precision and accuracy are always dead on. When he gets into the groove of his analyses, he can become playful and quippy, though he exercises little discretion as to what he says.
He is often quite bored because he rarely sees something or someone he can't read in only a few moments. This high degree of intelligence results in his quarters in Las Noches being quite slovenly, though he claims that everything is in its rightful place where he can find them at a moment's notice.
He is often quite cowardly, preferring to back down from a fight or harsh encounter, but his confidence in his abilities are supreme. He sometimes creates elaborate traps or puzzles that are designed to only get worse as its target became more and more resistant. In his resurreccion he is unable to use his energy-based spells such as Bala or Cero. However, his opponents cannot know he can't use energy-based attacks, and so he uses their caution against them with powerful, convincing bluffs. His face is perfectly constructed to render his thoughts unreadable. No one can tell when he lies or tells the truth, and he is an excellent actor.


Zanpakutou Name: Kokuohebi ("Kingsnake")
Zanpakutou Call Out: Kuiarasu, Kokuohebi ("Devour, Kingsnake")
Resurrecion:
Description:
Lampero's resurreccion is simple, but interesting to behold. His entire body becomes a sheet of armor-like scales that are stronger than a normal hierro, but he neither gains nor loses mass or measure, but he gains a tail. This tail's length can be manipulated like clay, but it is very difficult to cut through even when it is quite thin. As it gets longer it will be more vulnerable to being cut, but the task still will not be easy for anyone. This tail is prehensile and it can constrict its prisoner to the point of death. He gains a smooth crest with white studs along the spine and head. This crest starts at his hairline and reaches back over the parietal bones of his skull, down both sides of his neck, and they meet where his Trapezius muscles originate at its lowest point on the thoracic spine. When the crest meets, it runs down his spine to the tip of his tail. The crest is as hard as diamond and can help block strikes.
His eyes become entirely yellow and his tongue becomes much longer like a snakes. This tongue enables him to perceive thermal changes in temperature and helps him find a direction to smells and tastes, enabling him to pinpoint targets with deadly accuracy. It is an advantage he uses to great effect. His eyesight is far keener than before. His sense of smell is strong and he can concentrate to single out the scents he needs to find so long as he knows what to look for. He prefers to fight low on the ground because he can predict a targets moods, movements, and intentions through the vibrations he feels from surfaces he is in contact with.
Abilities:
The single special ability that Lampero gains while in this resurrecion form is that abilities requiring any type of energy, other than that which is physical, are rendered harmless and without force. Blasts are reduced to a breeze, spells have no effect, changes in environment that suddenly encase him are dispelled around him, and even using abilities enhanced by spiritual power are inconsistent and short-out when touching his kin. If it is made of energy other than physical, it will be negated almost immediately. It does not matter what level the ability is at or how much energy is fueling it.
He is, essentially, immune to energy-based abilities like a common kingsnake is immune to snake venom, enabling it to eat snakes such as cobras, rattlers, etc. These negated energy-based abilities include tasks such as Flash Step, Hirenkyaku, and the human ability Blur, as well as hohou techniques such as Senka and the Ways of Onmitsu, which all depend on spiritual energy to propel a user. An opponent is able to Flash Step/Sonido in to strike, but when they make contact with their skin or body to his own body, they will be unable to Flash Step/Sonido out for a few terrifying moments. strikes from blades weapons do not incur this effect unless skin contact is made anyway. They might still get away, but it is highly unlikely. The opponent is also still quite capable of defending him or herself if they can recover quickly enough from their surprise.
The reason he has this ability to dispel energy is because of an enzyme that is infused throughout his body that quickly breaks down energy. It prevents energy attacks and defenses from affecting him, but it also prevents energy that is used to heal him or enhance his attacks or defenses. All contests are simplified to purely physical combat using raw strength and prowess in combat. He still naturally receives substantial gains in strength, speed, spiritual power, stamina and durability that all Arrancar receive upon releasing their zanpakutoh, but because Lampero devotes none of his own energy to any special energy-based ability, he is able to conserve it to give him greater endurance and keep his movements and reflexes sharp, making him a formidable and relentless foe in melee combat.
In desperate situations, he is able to use the enzyme that breaks down reiatsu on his own body, causing his reiatsu to plummet to zero and creating serious hemorrhages on his body. His pulse slows to only four beats per minute and his body temperature drops significantly, bringing all bodily functon to a near stop, thus decreasing his body's demand for oxygen. While he lays on the ground in this hibernation-like state he gives a perfect appearance of being lifeless that would fool talented medical professionals and their greatest assessment tools. After one hour he regains consciousness and walks away. It takes him a full day to recover his full spiritual power when this happens. Enabling the enzyme to attack his body is not activated by any energy, and so there is no energy signature that may tip off his enemy. This ability has saved him from true death a few times.
After defeating an opponent, he has the ability to unhinge his jaw and eat them whole, zanpakutoh and all, from his sealed state. He isn't sure if it has a nourishing effect, but this act is a very strong instinct and so he does not try to resist it.

Resurrecion Segundo:
--Not Yet Attained--
Hollow Abilities:
In sealed form he may Bala, Cero, Hierro, Negacion
While in resurreccion form, he is unable to use any hollow abilities. However, it is highly probable that he has the strongest, most durable skin among all of the Arrancar, including the Horsemen, due to his scales.

Background:
Lampero was named Aiden Jensen while he lived, and during his living years he was a snake handler. He travelled the world looking for the world's most interesting and most dangerous snakes. On multiple occasions over the span of many years he had been bitten by a wide range venomous snakes, but they always had anti-venom to give to the crew readily at hand for just such scenarios. Some brushes with death were more drastic than others. Many people called him careless, but he really did know what he was doing.
It was an exciting life until he came across a unique specimen while with his team in a mountainous region. He saw a white snake with one red eye and one yellow eye. What was most interesting was that it seemed to have a mask glued to its face. It was so intriguing that he had to show everyone else. This was something they had to take back, but no one else could see what he was pointing at. It was frustrating, to say the least.
At a later date during that same expedition, Aiden encountered the snake again and followed it. He wandered very far from the camp, but he was determined to prove to everyone that he saw what he saw. He knew he probably shouldn't, but he wanted to show them. He travelled over rocky terraces and through small streams for hours before he lost the creature, confused. Then he felt something bite him at his right ankle.
Pain lanced throughout his body as quickly as lightning and his legs went numb in moments. He couldn't recall ever meeting a venomous creature with so potent a bite.
The next thing he knew, there was a crash and he had barely an instant to realize something struck him from above before everything went black.
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When Aiden woke up he could not remember anything with certainty - not even his name. Some things he could remember were completely warped, and he shook his head as if he were trying to clear out cobwebs from a box. Out of the corner of his eye he saw his body, crushed by an entire tree. From his chest he heard the dangle of a chain, and wondered how he had never seen it before. These new events were so disturbing that his mind was unable to even process what it was seeing. Instead, his legs took a mind of their own and made him turn and run.
Something felt weird. After running for an hour he did not feel tired. His lungs were not burning, his muscles were not straining with effort. His speed was actually greater than it had ever been, but he felt like something was watching him... chasing him.
At that moment the same white snake he'd seen lunged from a bush and bit his neck. He felt the same pain as before, but then it simply... disappeared. The momentary stab still brought him to his knees. Goodness, he felt hungry.
The snake that had been his undoing regarded him with cold eyes, then in one swift motion it unhinged its jaws and lunged. Leaning to the side, he caught it, and then it said frantically that there was no way he could have survived the venom, he should have been dead by now.
Before he even thought to answer, he bit into its middle with fierce determination. He had to make the hunger go away, and this snake tasted good. He continued to eat, paying no attention to the snake-demon's screams. His desperation gave him fortitude to bite through its tough skin, piece by piece, until suddenly he stopped, and the chain on his chest disappeared, leaving a gaping hole, and suddenly he was enveloped in a white mucous that turned him into a large snake.
He was confused, but upon later contemplation after he'd gotten used to it, he figured if he was to be a demon, he might as well be a snake demon. For some reason it just felt right, and so he attributed whatever that was to his life in the Living World. Beyond that he paid his appearance no heed. Without being told, he knew his name was Lampero Quarrez.
As the years dragged on, he found that other weird creatures like him tasted great and sated his hunger more fully and for longer. He had eaten many humans and shinigami, as well, but they were not as fulfilling, and so he gained a preference in his feeding habits. After a time, he found a way to go to a different world where the sun never shone and rocks and sand were plentiful. It was perfect for him.
For a few decades, he continued hunting and devouring hollows, some more human-like than others, who he would later find out were called Adjuchas. He found that some of them could hurl colorful clouds or streams of... stuff at him and be stunned that he survived them without a scratch. When they moved in to strike him they would find they were unable to withdraw as quickly as they usually did, and it was in those moments that Lampero would coil around them and squeeze the life from their bodies. In a short time he became a Gillian, and upon reflection he realized that, despite the raw power he had gained while in that form, it was probably the most vulnerable phase of his life.
He entered the Menos Forest with troves of other Gillian and won out over all the other hollow-aspects that made up the Gillian. He gained his snake-form back and he was more powerful than before. He quickly resumed hunting other Gillian and Adjuchas, finding no shortage of supply in the great forest. Slowly, they became less fulfilling, and so he ate them at a more rapid rate with each passing day. He realized that he was using too much of his energy and that he was coming dangerously close to falling back into his Gillian form. He began to look for a way to seal away a good portion of his considerable power and conserve his energy. With that reserve he hypothesized that he would never fall back in his evolution.
In his seventy-third year of life as a hollow, he did just that. He became an Arrancar. He still continued to hunt, though he certainly did not need to do so frequently. He found that energy still died with it reached him, and beings or items that used energy skills were momentarily stifled when they touched him. He ate several other Arrancar, finding them to have the best taste. They were so rare to come across that it was like a treat when he encountered them
Suddenly decided to try and go back to the realm of his original existence, where he had taken his first steps as a spirit and hollow. He did find a way, and found that he was enamored with the human creatures and their culture. Very few of the humans could see him, but he came to know them well, and they came to know him. Some thought of him as an abomination, but others saw his amicable demeanor and simply accepted it. In the Living World he has many human friends and one day when he was confronted by a number of Shinigami, those humans stood in their way to help protect him. He was genuinely touched, something that did not happen often.
That was the day that he struck a deal with the Shinigami realm that so long as he did not hunt Humans, they would not hunt him with their full force. It is a separate peace that has been kept for twenty-six years, and oftentimes Lampero was on the scene to save a human soul and make a meal out of the unfortunate hollows that meant to transgress.

Side Note:
Special Notes:
Bargain with the Gotei 13 when they found that Spiritually Aware Humans actually rallied against the Shinigami to protect an Arrancar. The only provision for this is if he is attacked by a Shinigami, at which time he is allowed to protect himself with reasonable retaliation.
His scales in resurreccion form that are naturally harder than most, if not all, hierro-users.

RP Sample: [Show us what you're made of.]




Arrancar (140)
Strength: 13
Speed: 13
Hollow Power Control: 10
Endurance: 17
Dexterity: 20
Intelligence: 30
Ressurection control: 37


Resurrecion
Strength: 26
Speed: 26
Hollow Power Control: 0*
Endurance: 34
Dexterity: 40
Intelligence: 60
Ressurection control: 94 (74+20)

*(No normal hollow powers - All points go to Ressurecion control to enable negation of rei-based or rei-enhanced attacks/defenses/maneuvers)

Approved

Double Approved. This chara fits into the rules of the forum. Moved into Accepted.