Name: Takeshi Sendo
Age: 20 (Looks 15)
True Age: 60
Sex: Male
Personality: Sendo is...hot blooded. Everything he thinks or does is either impulsive or reactionary. He never fully thinks, he only does. His mind transitions from one idea to the next in a flash and he's easily bored. To combat said boredom he asks questions. LOTS of questions.

Perhaps the trait that gets on everyone's nerves though, is that fact that Sendo quits. He either quits because he's bored or, even worse, because he's losing. He is the epitome of a sore loser.

The only thing that gets Sendo determined (A miracle) is if the opponent is either stronger than him( Which would pique his interest) or if the person ridiculed him (which he can't stand). He has very sensitive feelings and as such, doesn't take criticsm very well even if it is well deserved.

Likes: Being unique, Doing things, Asking Questions
Fears: Becoming boring, Dying, Becoming Bored

Character Appearance

Height: 5'5
Weight: 135
Physical Traits:

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Clothing: Sendo wears the tradional shinigami garb appropiate of his station.
Accessories: None

Fighting Style

General Fighting Style: Sendo fights instinctively whenever possible. He doesn't like to burden his mind with plans and usually settles on full out frontal assualts with multiple kido spells. He can make plans, but prefers not too unless the opponent is his equal, and even then, he likes to keep them as simple and as rapid as possible.

Strengths: Sendo's greatest strength would be first and foremost, Shunpo. Sendo also has an affinity for Kido despite his scattered mind. His skill in Hakuda is almost equivalent to his shunpo, being that his technique is near flawless(Though against users bigger and stronger he has difficulty against),. Sendo's foremost strength( after shunpo and Hakuda) is his stamina. It's monstrous. He literally never tires. He either quits because he's bored, or quits because he's losing.

Weaknesses: Sendo's lone and greatest weakness is his zanjustu skills. Give him a sword, and he'll find someway to stab himself.

Sendo is, perhaps, the perfect definition of a glass cannon. His durability is not the best; partly due to the fact that when Sendo feels he's had enough, he up and quits. His physical strength is laughable compared to a regular shinigami. Even lifting his own zanpakuto is a strain.

However, in Hand to hand combat (Hakuda) Sendo is able to overcome is lack of strength by using the opponent's own momentum against them, thus, him being able to overpower opponents much stronger than him despite his size. It's all in the technique.

Sendo cannot, I repeat, cannot go toe to toe with anyone in zanjutsu. At ALL. If he should so find himself in that position, he'll retreat using shunpo, or he'll quit before he embarresses himself.

Zanpakuto & Kidou

Sealed Appearance:

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Spirit’s Name: Kaji (Conflagaration)
Spirit’s Appearance:

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Spirit’s Personality: Kaji...is not in the least enamored with Sendo. She often berates his lack of sense and whines constantly about why he doesn't use her more.

Inner World:

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Kidou:

•Bakudo #8
Seki ("Repulse")

The caster forms a small ball of energy at the point desired (that is near the casters body anyways) and that ball is able of absorbing and redirecting an opponents physical force back at them. Making them go flying should they try a melee attack.

•Bakudo #29
Kyakko ("Curving Light")

Hides the target from sight by bending light

•Hadou #1
Sho ("Thrust")

Pushes the target away from the caster with spirit energy.

•Hadou #4
Byakurai ("White Lightning")

Fires a bolt of white lightning from the caster's finger, piercing the target.

Shikai

Call Out Command: "Natsu, Kaji" (Summer Conflagaration)

Appearance:

Abilities:

Disintegrate: The main ability granted by Sendo's shikia is that it produces a shield of flames around his body that disintegrates most attacks, whether spiritual or physical. The ability is completely dependant on whether the opponent is stronger than Sendo(In Tier) or whether the opponent puts enough force into the blow.

The "downside" of this shikia is that the sword disintegrates, basically becoming the shield itself. As such, Sendo cannot use zanjutsu in this state(L.O.L).

The actual downside of this shikia is that it is only lasts for 1 post and can block succesive attacks(upwards of 3 ,including Kido) before extinguishing, leaving Sendo wide open to attacks.

Extinguish: One of Sendo's offensive shikia abilities is that he can control the flames around his body (instead of defending) to attack the opponent with a wave of heat(By waving his arm or by grabbing the opponent), capable of damaging the opponent's limbs to the point where the limb no longer works for a set period of time.

Stage 1 (1 Post after using Extinguish) = The opponent is unable to use the limb.
Stage 2 = The opponent is now able to move the limb, though limited.
Stage 3 = The opponent is now able to move the limb unhindered.

Subsequent uses of Extinguish after the first use only damages the opponent's limbs to the point of Stage 2, where it only limits the mobility of the limb.

Flare: Sendo last shikia ability grants him the ability to, for lack of a better word, flare his shikia flames for a short period of time to increase his speed beyond that of shunpo. It grants him multiple movements in a single post to dodge or attack an opponent or even multiple opponents. The number of movements is 8 before the ability shuts off for 3 posts.

Boosts: None

Bankai

New Name: [What's your zanpakuto's new name? Ex: Tensa Zangetsu, Senbonzakura Kageyoshi, etc.]
Appearance: [What does your bankai look like? Character appearance changes, weapon changes, etc.]
Abilities: [What abilities does your character gain]
Boosts: [Increases in your character's physical capabilities. Speed, Strength, Stamina, etc.]

Back Drop

Background: Sendo was born in Soul Soceity in one of the poorests sections of the Rukongai district. With few friends, Sendo was mostly on his own throughout most of his life. Things started to get interesting when he began expereincing hunger pains. He had never had them before, and was quite surprised. He knew what it meant. It meant he had soul reaper potential. He would've cried out for joy had his stomach not decided to force him to the nearest toilet.

As Sendo went through the Academy it became readily apparent that he was a prodigy...of some sort. He was a genuis...kinda. He was the worst kind of genuis. A non-motivated one. Oh, he would ask questions and show of amazing skills, but his attention span was atrocious. He couldn't sit still for more than ten seconds and even though he showed off amazing skills he would quickly grow bored of it and forget them.

As such, Sendo took extra long to graduate the academy. Not because he grew bored and decided to pass, but that the teachers were tired of seeing him. And so, ten years after joining the academy, he was scheduled to pass. And the first thing he would do after he passed was apply for captaincy...even if he didn't know his shikia. It would be laughable if he didn't have the innate potential to do so...

Side Notes: Sendo seems to have a perpetual wide grin on his face. The grin instantly vanishes into a comical frown when he's bored. Sendo also carries his zanpakuto on his back. He's too short to carry it at his waist.

RP Sample: Sendo looked around at the devastation. Hollows were ambushing his teachers. It was supposed to have been a routine soul burial. But, it had gone wrong. Horribly horribly wrong. Sendo aimed a byakurai at one of the attacking hollows. It didn't do much damage and the hollow merely howled with raged. It moved to attack and Sendo was thrown backwards at the force of the blow. He flew through the air and collided with a nearby building. His head hit, and his vision began to swim. His eyes started to close involuntarily...

Sendo screamed awake. His pulse was racing and his hands were sweating. It was all a dream. Relief washed through him. He wasn't dead. He had to smile at himself. Technically he was dead. Sendo stared at his hands. He had to get stronger. He must get stronger. No one would ever kill him. Ever. Not if he had any say in the matter.

First, more personality please. On fighting style, for the strengths and weaknesses, also please address physical strength, stamina, and/or durability (being able to take hits). You don't have to address all three, but preferably physical strength and one of the other two. Otherwise they'll just be average.

Dakouraiku is a custom kido, please post it on the custom kido board. I can already tell you I want more specifics on it, more specifically the stun part. Like how long it lasts. A full post, just a few seconds, something like that.

Background, I want more. Even those born in Soul Society have more background than that, especially someone that is over a century old.

Your shikai is pretty iffy. We don't particularly like draining abilities, but yours have some downsides to you as well. Oh, and the part under the boosts needs to be in the abilities part. Boosts mean a boost in speed, strength, you can take more hits, etc. I will ask for a second opinion on your shikai ability.

Edit: Shikai ability is a no. Absorbtion is iffy, drain is a no. No matter how fast or slow or side effects, no.

Sorry but reiatsu drain is a no go. it makes it too easy for someone to auto win a fight. We do not allow reiatsu draining abilities on the forum. You'll have to come up with a different ability.

Understood. I'll change it

Done.

Personality is on that edge where I would accept it, but a little bit more wouldn't hurt. Shikai ability is still a no. Abilities that can block everything and surrounds you for an extended period of time, even if it does weaken during that time, still makes it overpowered in my opinion. No attack will reach you, and physical attacks will only backfire and hurt the opponent as well, since it is fire. Even with the limited time it has. Unless Rena doesn't have a problem with it, but do you see my point? If you're going to have it, limit it down to a one post one use type of thing, just long enough to block one or two attacks in the post and then disappear so that you can counter attack or take hits etc. Obviously, that will also get rid of the downside that it will return to its sealed form.

This one is only a suggestion, but you are able to have up to four abilities. I recommend having at least one offensive ability for your shikai. It can suck like hell, but I do recommend one.

Oh, and please don't double post. Just post whenever you are done, not that you're going to make the changes. We don't like double posts, just don't make that mistake again.

@Jun

Alrighty, my mistake, I won't double post again. Would it be fine(In regards to my shikia ability) if I stipulated that those equal or in a higher tier than Sendo can pierce it?

Edit: Never mind. That's what I had in the first place. My bad T_T

DEdit: Finished.

One of my characters have a similar defensive ability where it blocks everything and lasts a short time, and I don't have a cooldown on it. But the difference is, your's surrounds you completely.......nah, you don't have to have a cooldown with it.

But again, I would like to see one offensive ability on your shikai as well. That is highly recommended. Even if you have the offensive ability suck, it is still something and is highly recommended. If you really don't want to, I can't force ya.

But yeah, you're almost done. Get rid of the cooldown at least and I will approve you and tier you.

Hrm.. Like Jun said.. it's highly recommended you have some kind of offensive power.. I mean.. by the looks of this.. unless you are a hand to hand master.. and/or a kidou expert.. you are gonna get slammed pretty hard by anyone who can outlast your shielding ability..which..I can tell ya right now..with that cool down on it..would be damn near anyone.

I don't see any other problems.. So.. I'll second approve when Jun approves and tiers you. Just think of having some kinda fighting ability.

Done. Instead of the cooldown I put how many attacks it can block in succesion before "breaking". That way, while though it blocks everything, it can't block too many attacks within a single post. You can still overwhelm it.

Edit: I would just like to point out, I can only use my shikia(In it's entirety) 5 times before I lose it. Or once if I use the flare ability.

Extinguish, I'm iffy on. Some opponents are very mobile, others, not so much. But here is where I will accept it:

1. For everyone, if it hits a limb, they lose its use for 1 post, regains some mobility the post after, regains full use at the third post.

2. It doesn't do any damage, and if it hits more than one limb, mobility in that second limb will be halved, if it hits a third, nothing will happen to that third.

3. Naturally, the stronger the opponent they are compared to him, the less it will affect them. For those weaker, it doesn't affect them anymore than if they're even with you in power. Also, a one post cooldown.

My reasoning is this: You won't always be fighting those that are far stronger than you (ex: you are 3-5 and fighting a 3-2. General rule of thumb, without help, a difference of more than two, good luck surviving, if it is two, you at least have a slight chance of winning). Likewise, you won't always be fighting someone weaker than you.

On the Flare ability, a part of me says it is underpowered, and another part of me says it's good. I have pmed Rena to take a look at it.

Take the con off the flare ability. I'm perfectly fine with him being able to do that say.. 8 times before needing to cooldown for 3? I'm honestly wondering why you keep wanting to re-seal your zanpaktou through this abilities. It's never been noted to have happened in canon.

if you want. Take the re-seal con off Flare and add the cooldown i mentioned. you don't have to. Accept or don't this has my second approval. when jun's done he can tier and move you.

Done.

I edited out the re-sealing thing completely from my shikia since that didn't make sense upon further reflection.

I changed my strengths from Kido to Hakuda. Hakuda is now my second best strength while I'm mrely competent in Kido. I'm still atrocouis with zanjutsu.

I edited the Extinguish ability to what Jun said and Edited the Flare to what Rena said.

Kyokko/kyakko is Bakudo 26, not 29. But don't worry about it. Approved.

Off to the Shinigami Academy you go. That is where you are to start posting. After that thread, where ever you wish.

Tier: 2-5